United States v. Frederick C. Keppler

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• finding that defendant’s substantial rights were not affected and noting that failure to object at sentencing hearing may have been strategic decision
• concluding that there was no plain error where court determined range to be 21 to 27 months and sentenced defendant to 23 months, even though correct application of challenged sentencing provision would have resulted in lower range of 18 to 24 months
• noting that plain errors “affect . . . substantial rights . . . the violation of which would result in manifest injustice.” (citations and internal quotation marks omitted)
• if defendant could have received same sentence without error, error does not amount to “plain error”
• “To meet [the] standard [of plain error], the alleged errors 5 or defects must affect a defendant’s substantial rights, the violation of which would result in 6 manifest injustice.” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)

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