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USCA11 Case: 23-11330    Document: 20-1     Date Filed: 12/06/2023   Page: 1 of 2

                                                [DO NOT PUBLISH]
                                   In the
                United States Court of Appeals
                         For the Eleventh Circuit

                          ____________________

                                 No. 23-11330
                           Non-Argument Calendar
                          ____________________

       UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
                                                      Plaintiﬀ-Appellee,
       versus
       RICHARD A. KIRKENDALL,
       a.k.a. Richard Andrew Kirkendall,

                                                   Defendant-Appellant.

                          ____________________

                 Appeal from the United States District Court
                       for the Middle District of Florida
                  D.C. Docket No. 6:21-cr-00087-CEM-EJK-1
USCA11 Case: 23-11330      Document: 20-1       Date Filed: 12/06/2023     Page: 2 of 2

       2                       Opinion of the Court                  23-11330

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       Before ROSENBAUM, GRANT, and LAGOA, Circuit Judges.
       PER CURIAM:
               The Government’s motion to dismiss this appeal pursuant
       to the appeal waiver in Appellant’s plea agreement is GRANTED.
       See United States v. Bushert, 997 F.2d 1343, 1351 (11th Cir. 1993) (sen-
       tence appeal waiver will be enforced if it was made knowingly and
       voluntarily); United States v. Boyd, 975 F.3d 1185, 1192 (11th Cir.
       2020) (sentence appeal waiver will be enforced where “it was
       clearly conveyed to the defendant that he was giving up his right
       to appeal under most circumstances” (quotation marks and brackets
       omitted)); Thomas v. United States, 572 F.3d 1300, 1303 (11th Cir.
       2009) (the law-of-the-case doctrine bars appellate courts from revis-
       iting issues that were decided in a prior appeal); United States v.
       Stein, 964 F.3d 1313, 1322-24 (11th Cir. 2020) (the law-of-the-case
       doctrine applies to a legal decision made at one stage of the litiga-
       tion that is unchallenged in a subsequent appeal when the oppor-
       tunity existed).