United States Seventh Circuit

Appeal of a sentence imposed by the district court for defendant's drug possession is dismissed where the district court did not nullify defendant's plea agreement when it rejected the drug-quantity stipulations in the agreement and independently quantified the amount of drugs attributable to defendant based on information in the presentence report, and thus the appeal waiver in the plea agreement is enforceable.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/03/2008
• Decided 06/30/2009
• Published 06/30/2009

Judges

• SYKES, Circuit Judge., Before KANNE, SYKES, and TINDER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Daniel L. Bella, David J. Nozick, Attorney (argued), Office of the United States Attorney, Hammond, IN, Plaintiff-Appellee., Santo J. Volpe, Attorney (argued), Volpe & Associates, Northbrook, IL, for Defendant-Appellant.