Detailed Instructions: In this task, you will be shown a prompt from a judicial decision and multiple holding statements derived from citations following text in a legal decision. Holdings represent the governing legal rule when the law is applied to a particular set of facts. There are five answer choices for each citing text. The correct answer is the holding statement that corresponds to the citing text. You should write an incorrect option. Even though there exist multiple wrong answers, we only need a single wrong answer. There is a <HOLDING> token in the position of the citing text prompt where the holding statement was extracted.
Problem:at twelve after a two-point reduction for acceptance of responsibility. With a criminal history category of III, Scirotto's sentencing guideline range was fifteen to twenty-one months' imprisonment. The court rejected Scirotto's plea for a noncustodial sentence and sentenced him to the guideline minimum term of fifteen months' imprisonment and a $100 assessment. Scirotto filed a timely notice of appeal with a new attorney. He urges us not to enforce the appellate waiver, contending former counsel was ineffective during the guilty plea for failing to preserve for appeal the issue of sentencing guideline selection. II. The District Court had jurisdiction under 18 U.S.C. 3231. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. 1291. See United States v. Gwinnett, 483 F.3d 200, 203 (3d Cir.2007) (<HOLDING>). Our review of the validity and applicability
Holding statements: (A) holding that a waiver of right to appeal contained in a plea agreement is enforceable (B) holding that a plea agreement with a waiver of direct appeal rights does not include a waiver of collateral remedies because the government could have included a waiver of collateral rights in the plea agreement and chose not to do so (C) holding that the court had no jurisdiction over an alleged breach of a plea agreement (D) holding the court of appeals had subject matter jurisdiction notwithstanding a defendants waiver of appellate rights in a plea agreement (E) holding that a lack of a waiver of sovereign immunity deprives federal courts of subject matter jurisdiction
Solution:
holding that a waiver of right to appeal contained in a plea agreement is enforceable