United States v. Sherwin Archie

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing narrow class of errors that fall automatically outside scope of valid appeal waiver
• ‘‘[A]lthough the law changed after [the defendant] [pleaded] guilty, his expectations (as reflected in the plea agreement
• “When called upon to determine the existence of a prior conviction for sentencing purposes, a district court can engage in permitted fact-finding in a routine and conscientious sense even if inconsistences and clerical mistakes exist in state records”
• “[W]e . . . decline[] to enforce a valid appeal waiver only where the sentencing court violated a 16 fundamental constitutional or statutory right that was firmly established at the time of sentencing.” (emphasis supplied)
• “If we declined to enforce [the defendant’s] appeal waiver because of a subsequent change in the law, we would deprive the Government of the benefit of its bargain and frustrate the purpose underlying such contracts.”
• listing errors that automatically fall outside scope of appellate waiver

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).