United States v. Dees

PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:

Janet Dees pled guilty to a bank fraud charge and now appeals her sentence. By our own motion, we raise but ultimately reject a jurisdictional challenge to Dees’s conviction based on the fact that a magistrate judge conducted her plea proceeding. We dismiss Dees’s appeal on the issue that she does press, a miscalculation of her sentence, because Dees in her plea agreement waived her right to an appeal.

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Dees participated in a scheme to fraudulently obtain bank loans for the financing of mobile-home sales. The government filed a single count information…