United States v. Craig Grimes

OPINION

HARDIMAN, Circuit Judge.

In United States v. Khattak, 273 F.3d 557 (3d Cir.2001), we upheld the validity of a defendant’s waiver of appellate rights following his guilty plea. This appeal presents the novel question of whether a waiver of certain post-conviction rights nullifies an appellate waiver. We hold that it does not.

I

In January 2012, Craig A. Grimes, a former professor of materials science and engineering at Pennsylvania State University and the sole owner of three research companies, agreed to plead guilty to a three-count information charging him with: wire fraud, in violation…