United States v. Keith Pickett

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• holding that there exists an \affirmative duty on the defendant to preserve all potential collateral challenges through the preservation mechanism of Rule 11(a)(2)\
• holding that Speedy Trial Act violations are waivable
• addressing district court's denial of motion to compel discovery because defendants had preserved the issue in their conditional guilty pleas
• applying this reasoning to the different treatment of crack and powder cocaine
• finding jurisdiction over the entire appeal where the notice of appeal stated that the defendant appealed “from the final judgment” but also stated that the appeal “is based on the trial ' court’s application of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines”
• addressing the sentencing challenges of No. 04-6428 United States v. Martin Page 5 a defendant who failed to raise the issues below where “[b]oth parties have extensively briefed the issues at stake, and . . . the issues are wholly legal”

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