United States v. Michael Quoc Anh Nguyen

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• holding that a defendant who explicitly and voluntarily exposes himself to a specific sentence may not challenge it on appeal
• holding that defendant who voluntarily and explicitly acknowledges that specific guidelines provision applies may not challenge punishment on appeal
• concluding that the defendant could not “argue[] that he was sentenced under the wrong guideline” when he “acknowledged in the plea agreement that [the guideline] would apply at sentencing”
• finding that, where a defendant “explicitly and voluntarily” exposed himself to a specific sentence, a direct challenge to the sentence was foreclosed
• affirming wiretap where defendants were believed to be a tight-knit group, which would be difficult for an undercover officer to penetrate, and the government had tried using pen registers, confidential informants, surveillance, and garbage searches before applying for a wiretap
• \A defendant who explicitly and voluntarily exposes himself to a specific sentence may not challenge that punishment on appeal.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).