Court Opinion

ID: 9414482
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 00:28:12.165701+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:16:53.657665
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TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge, specially
concurring.
United States v. Ardley and its progeny require that we treat appellant as having waived/abandoned his Booker claim because his lawyer failed to raise it in his initial brief on appeal. I therefore concur in the court’s judgment. Were we writing on a clean slate, I would, for the reasons I have previously expressed, entertain appellant’s claim. See United States v. Higdon, 418 F.3d 1136, 1142 (11th Cir.2005) (Tjoflat, J., dissenting from the denial of rehearing en banc).