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· 6/23/2015

United States v. Paul Kaufman

Citations

  • 416 U.S. App. D.C. 263
  • 791 F.3d 86
  • 2015 U.S. App. LEXIS 10546
  • 2015 WL 3852003

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that “the district court made two problematic statements in explaining the waiver provision in the plea agreement” that “transformed the nature” of the written appeal waiver
  • vitiating plea waiver where the court initially told the defendant that he “would still have the right to appeal the sentence if [he] believe[d] the sentence is illegal,” and later told him that he “might have the right to appeal, under some circumstances, if he did not ‘like’ the sentence”

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Judges: Garland, Rogers, Pillard

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