United States v. Jose Navarro-Botello

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• concluding a defendant may waive constitutional and statutory rights as part of a plea bargain
• explaining that the defendant “knew he was giving up possible appeals, even if he did not know exactly what the nature of those appeals might be”
• rejecting the argument that an appellate waiver is “involuntary because it is logically impossible to make a knowing and intelligent waiver of unknown rights.”
• rejecting the argument that an appellate waiver is “involuntary because it is logically impossible to make a knowing and intelligent waiver of unknown rights.”
• upholding an appeal waiver as, knowing and voluntary because the defendant “knew he was giving up possible appeals, even if he did not know exactly what the nature of those appeals might be”
• providing that “if it is not a due 26 process violation for a defendant to waive constitutional rights as part of a plea bargain, 27 then a defendant’s waiver of a nonconstitutional right, such as the statutory right to appeal 28 a sentence, is also waivable”

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