Legal Opinion
United States v. Riggi
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 10, 2011No. Docket 09-4391-crPublishedCited by 58 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DENNIS JACOBS, Chief Judge:
Defendant-Appellant Philip Abramo appeals from a judgment of conviction and sentence of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Rakoff, J.), arguing that his rights under the Ex Post Facto Clause were violated by the application of the 2008 Sentencing Manual to a murder conspiracy that concluded in 1989. He contends that this alleged violation and his ignorance of his ex post facto rights render the appeal-waiver provision in his plea agreement unenforceable.
Abramo returns to this Court several years after we vacated his conviction…
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