United States v. Gordon Morgan

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the “inability to foresee that subsequently decided cases [ (i.e., Booker) ] would create new appeal issues does not supply a basis for failing to enforce an appeal waiver”
• noting that defendant received “considerable value” from plea agreement by “learn[ing] the sentencing range sought by the government,” as well as “avoid[ing] exposure to additional . . 4 . counts”
• deeming an argument waived where it was raised for the first time in response to a request for supplemental briefing on a different issue
• “[T]he possibility of a favorable change in the law after a plea is simply one of the risks that accompanies pleas and plea agreements.”
• \[T]he possibility of a favorable change in the law after a plea is simply one of the risks that accompanies pleas and plea agreements.\
• “The possibility of a favorable change in the law after a plea is simply one of the risks that accompanies pleas and plea agreements.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).