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Date Created: 2023-05-04 18:00:25.947855+00
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Case: 22-60354        Document: 00516738117             Page: 1      Date Filed: 05/04/2023

             United States Court of Appeals
                  for the Fifth Circuit
                                     ____________                              United States Court of Appeals
                                                                                        Fifth Circuit

                                                                                       FILED
                                      No. 22-60354                                   May 4, 2023
                                    Summary Calendar
                                    ____________                                     Lyle W. Cayce
                                                                                          Clerk
   United States of America,

                                                                      Plaintiff—Appellee,

                                            versus

   Marvin Temple Brown,

                                              Defendant—Appellant.
                     ______________________________

                     Appeal from the United States District Court
                       for the Southern District of Mississippi
                               USDC No. 1:21-CR-50-4
                     ______________________________

   Before Jones, Haynes, and Oldham, Circuit Judges.
   Per Curiam: *
         Marvin Temple Brown appeals the 240-month sentence he received
   after he pleaded guilty to conspiring to possess with intent to distribute a
   mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of heroin and a mixture
   or substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine. Brown
   challenges the district court’s sentence enhancements for possession of

         _____________________
         *
             This opinion is not designated for publication. See 5th Cir. R. 47.5.
Case: 22-60354       Document: 00516738117         Page: 2   Date Filed: 05/04/2023

                                    No. 22-60354

   firearms during the offense and for his role as a manager or supervisor, the
   drug quantity calculation, and the denial of a reduction for acceptance of
   responsibility.    The Government moves to dismiss the appeal or,
   alternatively, for summary affirmance based on the appeal waiver in Brown’s
   plea agreement.
          We review whether an appeal waiver bars an appeal de novo. United
   States v. Winchel, 896 F.3d 387, 388 (5th Cir. 2018).            The record
   demonstrates that Brown’s appeal waiver was knowing and voluntary. See
   United States v. McKinney, 406 F.3d 744, 746 n.2 (5th Cir. 2005). Under the
   plain language of the waiver, his arguments challenging his sentence have
   been waived. See United States v. Bond, 414 F.3d 542, 544 (5th Cir. 2005); see
   also United States v. Alvarado-Casas, 715 F.3d 945, 955-56 (5th Cir. 2013).
          Accordingly, the Government’s motion to dismiss the appeal is
   GRANTED, and its alternative motion for summary affirmance is
   DENIED.

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