United States v. Tanner

Robert Clifton Tanner was charged with four counts of mail fraud. He entered into a plea agreement with the United States pursuant to Fed.R.Crim.P. 11(c)(1)(C) in which he agreed to plead guilty to one count of mail fraud for which he would receive a stipulated sentence of 30 months’ imprisonment. The district court accepted Tanner’s guilty plea and sentenced him to the agreed 30 months’ imprisonment.

As part of his plea agreement, Tanner waived his right to appeal unless the punishment imposed was greater than the parties had agreed. Despite this waiver and the imposition of the agreed…