Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Dennis C. EICHELBERGER, Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2005-07-18
Citations: 139 F. App'x 742
Docket Number: No. 04-2709
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Dennis C. EICHELBERGER, Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: Before COFFEY, MANION, and KANNE, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 139
Pages: 742–743

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Dennis C. EICHELBERGER, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 04-2709.
United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.
Submitted July 15, 2005.
Decided July 18, 2005.
Monica Mallory, Office of the United States Attorney, Rockford, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
Richard H. Parsons, Andrew J. McGowan, Office of the Federal Public Defender, Peoria, IL, for Defendant-Appellant.
Before COFFEY, MANION, and KANNE, Circuit Judges.
After an examination of the briefs and the record, we have concluded that oral argument is unnecessary. Thus, the appeal is submitted on the briefs and the record. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).

Opinion:
ORDER
Dennis Eichelberger used the internet to trade images of minors — including prepubescent children — engaged in sexually explicit conduct. He was indicted for possessing 242 depictions of child pornography, see 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(5)(B), and for transporting the images in interstate commerce by computer, see id. § 2252A(a)(l). He pleaded guilty to the transportation count after executing a written plea agreement that waived his rights to appeal his conviction or sentence in exchange for concessions by the government.
Now Eichelberger argues that the district court erred by sentencing him under the formerly mandatory guidelines regime, see United States v. Booker, — U.S.-, 125 S.Ct. 738, 160 L.Ed.2d 621 (2005), and contends that a limited remand under United States v. Paladino, 401 F.3d 471 (7th Cir.2005) is warranted. We cannot reach that issue, however, because he waived his rights to appeal. Nothing in his plea agreement provides an "escape hatch" in the event the guidelines were declared illegal, and, as we recently held, Booker does not invalidate the parties' bargain where there is no such express provision. United States v. Bownes, 405 F.3d 634, 636 — 37 (7th Cir.2005). Our opinion in United States v. Loutos, 383 F.3d 615 (7th Cir.2004), which does not discuss the effect of the appeal waiver in that case, cannot be read as inconsistent with Bownes. Therefore, this appeal is DISMISSED.