United States v. Rene Jaimes-Jaimes

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• holding that the defendant did not waive his right to appeal an eight-level enhancement even though defense counsel failed to object to the Guidelines calculation in the PSR
• concluding that defendant’s acquiescence to upward adjustment under the sentencing guidelines had not waived appellate challenge to that increase because appellate court could not conceive of strategic reason for, not objecting
• concluding that the court plainly erred in imposing an unwarranted 16-level increase
• concluding that argument is forfeited, not waived, when it is not timely asserted
• holding that a defendant’s confirmation of a PSR’s find- ings does not waive a challenge on appeal where there is no conceivable strategic reason for not objecting to a sentence at a higher offense level
• concluding that the court plainly erred in imposing an unwarranted 16-level increase

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