Legal Opinion
United States v. Ronald Fisher
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided November 13, 2000No. 2000PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JON O. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge.
This criminal appeal warrants a brief opinion to make it clear that in cases where a defendant has executed a valid waiver of the right to appeal as part of a plea agreement, a district judge’s statement after sentencing concerning a right to appeal does not alter the binding force of the waiver of appellate rights. Ronald Fisher endeavors to appeal from the June 8, 1998, judgment of the District Court for the Southern District of New York (Sonia Sotomayor, then-District Judge) imposing a sentence that included 63 months’ imprisonment, after he entered a plea of…
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