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USCA11 Case: 22-12786   Document: 23-1     Date Filed: 01/12/2023   Page: 1 of 2

                                                 [DO NOT PUBLISH]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

                         ____________________

                               No. 22-12786
                         Non-Argument Calendar
                         ____________________

       UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
                                                     Plaintiff-Appellee,
                                  versus
       JOHNATHAN RANDALL TOWNSEND,

                                                 Defendant-Appellant.

                         ____________________

                Appeal from the United States District Court
                   for the Southern District of Alabama
                   D.C. Docket No. 1:20-cr-00158-JB-B-1
                         ____________________
USCA11 Case: 22-12786     Document: 23-1      Date Filed: 01/12/2023    Page: 2 of 2

       2                      Opinion of the Court                22-12786

       Before ROSENBAUM, LAGOA, and BRASHER, 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, 1350–51 (11th Cir.
       1993) (sentence appeal waiver will be enforced if it was made
       knowingly and voluntarily); United States v. Bascomb, 451 F.3d
       1292, 1297 (11th Cir. 2006) (holding that the defendant knowingly
       and voluntarily waived his right to appeal a sentence on the ground
       that its length, which was below the statutory maximum, was cruel
       and unusual under the Eighth Amendment); 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 most circumstances” (quotation
       marks and brackets omitted)); United States v. Grinard-Henry, 399
       F.3d 1294, 1296 (11th Cir. 2005) (waiver of the right to appeal in-
       cludes waiver of the right to appeal difficult or debatable legal is-
       sues or even blatant error).