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[DO NOT PUBLISH]
IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT
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No. 18-12560
Non-Argument Calendar
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D.C. Docket No. 8:17-cr-00227-JDW-JSS-2
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff-Appellee,
versus
SKYLER CHRISTOPHER SANDERS,
Defendant-Appellant.
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Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Middle District of Florida
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(March 20, 2019)
Before JORDAN, BRANCH, and JULIE CARNES, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM:
The Government’s motion to dismiss this appeal pursuant to the appeal
waiver in Skyler Sanders’s plea agreement is GRANTED. As Sanders
acknowledges in his initial brief, this Court has repeatedly upheld the
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constitutionality of appeal waivers in valid plea agreements. United States v.
Bascomb,
451 F.3d 1292, 1295 (11th Cir. 2006); United States v. Howle,
166 F.3d
1166, 1169 (11th Cir. 1999). Here, Sanders’s appeal waiver is plainly enforceable.
See United States v. Bushert,
997 F.2d 1343, 1350–51 (11th Cir. 1993) (sentence
appeal waiver will be enforced if it was made knowingly and voluntarily); United
States v. Buchanan,
131 F.3d 1005, 1008 (11th Cir. 1997) (“[W]here it is clear
from the plea agreement and the [plea] colloquy . . . that the defendant knowingly
and voluntarily entered into a sentence appeal waiver, that waiver should be
enforced without requiring the government to brief the merits of the appeal.”).
APPEAL DISMISSED.
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