United States v. Creadell Burns

GARWOOD, Circuit Judge:

Creadell Burns seeks to appeal his sentence on the ground that the district court erred by treating the Federal Sentencing Guidelines as mandatory. Finding that Burns entered into a valid appeal waiver that encompasses this appeal, we dismiss Burns’s appeal.

Proceedings Below

On November 13, 2002, Burns and six co-defendants were indicted in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The twenty-two count indictment charged Bums with one count of devising and participating with others in a scheme to defraud banks (count one) and four counts of…