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Parties Involved:
Quontavius Markeese Hill
Appellant
United States of America
Appellee

Document Text:

[DO NOT PUBLISH]

In the

United States Court of Appeals

For the Eleventh Circuit

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No. 23-13881

Non-Argument Calendar

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 

Plaintiff-Appellee,

versus

QUONTAVIUS MARKEESE HILL, 

Defendant-Appellant.

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Appeal from the United States District Court

for the Middle District of Georgia

D.C. Docket No. 1:23-cr-00006-LAG-TQL-3

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2 Opinion of the Court 23-13881

Before JORDAN, LUCK, and BRASHER, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

The Government’s motion to dismiss this appeal pursuant 

to the appeal waiver in Hill’s plea agreement is GRANTED, and 

we DISMISS with prejudice his challenges to his sentence. See 

United States v. Bushert, 997 F.2d 1343, 1350-51 (11th Cir. 1993) (sentence appeal waiver will be enforced if it was made knowingly and 

voluntarily); United States v. Grinard-Henry, 399 F.3d 1294, 1296 

(11th Cir. 2005) (waiver of the right to appeal includes waiver of 

the right to appeal difficult or debatable legal issues or even blatant 

error). We DISMISS without prejudice his claim of ineffective assistance of counsel so that, pursuant to an exception in his appeal 

waiver provision, he may further develop a factual record as to this 

issue in a motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, if he so chooses. See United 

States v. Patterson, 595 F.3d 1324, 1328-29 (11th Cir. 2010) (holding 

that, although a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel may be 

raised on direct appeal, we will rarely consider such a claim unless 

the record is sufficiently developed, meaning that the district court 

had an opportunity to entertain the claim and develop a factual record).

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