United States DC Circuit

Sentence for wire fraud is affirmed, where Defendant's agreement to waive her right to appeal if the sentence was within the applicable Guidelines range was enforceable, because that waiver was knowing and intelligent.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/10/2008
• Decided 04/14/2009
• Published 04/14/2009

Judges

• Before:  GINSBURG, TATEL and BROWN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States DC Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Tony Axam Jr., Assistant Federal Public Defender, argued the cause for appellant.   With him on the briefs was A.J. Kramer, Federal Public Defender.


• For Appellees:
  
• Stratton C. Strand, Assistant U.S. Attorney, argued the cause for appellee.   With him on the brief were Jeffrey A. Taylor, U.S. Attorney, and Roy W. McLeese III, Florence Pan, and Ronald Wesley Sharpe, Assistant U.S. Attorneys.