United States v. Gul Khan Khattak

How courts have described this case

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• ruling that a criminal defendant’s waiver of appeal is valid if it is entered into voluntarily and knowingly and would not work a miscarriage of justice
• noting that this Court chose “not to earmark specific situations” in which to relieve the defendant of a waiver
• holding that a waiver of the right to appeal is knowing and voluntary where the sentencing judge inquired under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11 and as to whether the defendant received a sentence within the terms of his plea agreement
• observing that “[w]aivers of the legal consequences of unknown future events are commonplace” and that their “prospective nature” does not “render a defendant’s act unknowing”
• stating that a miscarriage of justice generally results only where there is grave error or error that has a significant effect on the defendant
• discussing circumstances where other circuits have found appeal waivers to be invalid

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).