Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jeremy STOUT, Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2017-04-14
Citations: 686 F. App'x 334
Docket Number: No. 16-5223
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jeremy STOUT, Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: BEFORE: BOGGS, McKEAGUE, and GRIFFIN, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 686
Pages: 334–335

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jeremy STOUT, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 16-5223
United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.
Filed April 14, 2017
Terra L. Bay, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Office of the U.S. Attorney, Chattanooga, TN, for Plaintiff-Appellee
Paul L. Nelson, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Federal Public Defender’s Office, Western District of Michigan, Grand Rapids, MI, for Defendant-Appellant
Jeremy Stout, Pro Se
BEFORE: BOGGS, McKEAGUE, and GRIFFIN, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Jeremy Stout appeals the district court's restitution order.
Stout pleaded guilty to receiving child pornography, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252(a)(2). The district court sentenced him to 142 months in prison and ordered him to pay $2,000 in restitution to one of the victims.
On appeal, Stout argues that the restitution order is improper because, rather than determining the appropriate restitution amount based on the facts of his case, the district court relied on a grid that it had created in a previous case to promote uniformity when determining restitution awards in child pornography cases. We generally review for an abuse of discretion the specific amount of restitution awarded by a district court. United States v. Har grove, 714 F.3d 371, 373 (6th Cir. 2013). But Stout has waived his right to challenge the restitution amount, given his counsel's statements during the sentencing hearing that Stout would "be fine with" a $2,000 award and that such an award "is agreeable." See United States v. Priddy, 808 F.3d 676, 681-82 (6th Cir. 2015) (recognizing that, by agreeing in open court with a judge's proposed course of conduct, a defendant waives the right to challenge that conduct on appeal); United States v. Kennedy, 499 F.3d 547, 552-53 (6th Cir. 2007) (same).
Accordingly, we AFFIRM the district court's judgment of sentence.
. We note that Stout's first appointed counsel filed an Anders brief, asserting a different claim of error (i.e., a substantive unreasonableness challenge to the term of imprisonment) and moving for leave to withdraw as counsel. See Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738, 87 S.Ct. 1396, 18 L.Ed.2d 493 (1967). The motion to withdraw was granted. Second appointed counsel then filed an appellate brief challenging only the restitution order, without even mentioning the substantive unreasonableness claim. Because Stout's current counsel of record appears to have abandoned the challenge to the term of imprisonment, and because we find it to be meritless anyway, this opinion focuses on Stout's challenge to the restitution order.