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16-2877-cr
U.S. v. Greene
16-2877-cr
U.S. v. Greene

                             UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                                FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT

                                    SUMMARY ORDER
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Procedure 32.1 and this Court’s Local Rule 32.1.1. When citing a summary order in a
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       At a stated term of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, held at
the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse, 40 Foley Square, in the City of New York,
on the 6th day of June, two thousand seventeen.

PRESENT:         JON O. NEWMAN,
                 JOSÉ A. CABRANES,
                 GERARD E. LYNCH,
                              Circuit Judges.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

                        Appellee,

                        v.                                         16-2877-cr

GREGORY GREENE,

                        Defendant-Appellant.

FOR APPELLEE:                                           Amy Busa and Peter Baldwin, Assistant
                                                        United States Attorneys, for Robert L.
                                                        Capers, United States Attorney for the
                                                        Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn,
                                                        NY.

FOR DEFENDANT-APPELLANT:                                Anthony Ricco, New York, NY.

       Appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New
York (Carol Bagley Amon, Judge).

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16-2877-cr
U.S. v. Greene
     UPON DUE CONSIDERATION WHEREOF, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED,
ADJUDGED, AND DECREED that Greene’s appeal is DISMISSED.

        Defendant-appellant Gregory Greene appeals from an August 18, 2016 judgment of
conviction entered by the District Court, sentencing him to concurrent terms of 66 months’ and 60
months’ imprisonment. Greene contends that his sentence is substantively unreasonable because the
District Court failed to account for factors in his individual background and history that influenced
his upbringing. The government argues that, because Greene knowingly and voluntarily signed a
valid and enforceable appellate waiver as part of his written plea agreement, he has waived his right
to appeal his sentence. We agree.

         In paragraph four of his plea agreement, Greene agreed not to file an appeal challenging his
sentence “in the event that the Court imposes a term of imprisonment of 97 months or below.” A
57. The District Court sentenced Greene to concurrent terms of 66 months’ and 60 months’
imprisonment, a sentence well below the 97-month term set forth in Greene’s plea agreement.
Because “a defendant’s knowing and voluntary waiver of his right to appeal a sentence within an
agreed-upon Guidelines range is enforceable,” United States v. Johnson, 347 F.3d 412, 414 (2d Cir.
2003), and because none of the limited exceptions to the enforcement of waivers is applicable here,
see United States v. Arevalo, 628 F.3d 93, 98 (2d Cir. 2010) (explaining that courts will “find waivers
unenforceable only in very limited situations”), we conclude that Greene waived his right to appeal
his sentence.

                                          CONCLUSION

       We have considered all of the arguments raised by Greene on appeal and find them to be
without merit. For the foregoing reasons, Greene’s appeal is hereby DISMISSED.

                                                        FOR THE COURT:
                                                        Catherine O’Hagan Wolfe, Clerk

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