United States v. Howle

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the district court’s encouragement of the defendant to appeal was dicta and “had no effect on the terms of a previously approved plea agreement”
• concluding that district court’s encouragement of defendant, who had waived right to appeal, to file an appeal “had no effect on the terms of a previously approved plea agreement”
• stating that a district court’s acceptance or rejection of a plea agreement is not final until after the court has had the opportunity to consider the PSI
• suggesting that “extreme circumstances”—e.g., a “public flogging” sentence—might justify overlooking an appeal waiver
• explaining that “[m]odification of the terms of a plea agreement is . . . beyond the power of the district court,” as “[s]uch a modification would impermissibly alter the bargain at the heart of the agreement”
• explaining that “[m]odification of the terms of a plea agreement is . . . beyond the power of the district court,” as “[s]uch a modification would impermissibly alter the bargain at the heart of the agreement”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).