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USCA11 Case: 23-11957    Document: 29-1     Date Filed: 02/15/2024   Page: 1 of 2

                                                  [DO NOT PUBLISH]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

                          ____________________

                                No. 23-11957
                          Non-Argument Calendar
                          ____________________

       UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
                                                      Plaintiﬀ-Appellee,
       versus
       BRITTANY LYN DURKIN,

                                                  Defendant-Appellant.

                          ____________________

                 Appeal from the United States District Court
                     for the Southern District of Florida
                   D.C. Docket No. 2:22-cr-14068-AMC-2
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USCA11 Case: 23-11957      Document: 29-1     Date Filed: 02/15/2024    Page: 2 of 2

       2                      Opinion of the Court                23-11957

       Before NEWSOM, GRANT, and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges.
       PER CURIAM:
                The Government’s motion to dismiss this appeal pursuant
       to the appeal waiver in Appellant’s plea agreement is GRANTED.
       We will enforce a defendant’s waiver of the right to appeal if the
       waiver was made knowingly and voluntarily. United States v. Bush-
       ert, 997 F.2d 1343, 1351 (11th Cir. 1993). The “touchstone” for our
       determination on this issue is “whether it was clearly convey[ed]”
       to the defendant that she was giving up her right to appeal “under
       most circumstances.” United States v. Boyd, 975 F.3d 1185, 1192 (11th
       Cir. 2020) (alteration and emphasis in the original) (quotation omit-
       ted). The lower court satisﬁed this requirement at the change-of-
       plea hearing by referring to the plea agreement, reading key por-
       tions of the appeal waiver aloud and conﬁrming with the defendant
       that she had read and understood the entire agreement, including
       the appeal waiver, and that she freely agreed to waive her right to
       appeal. See United States v. Weaver, 275 F.3d 1320, 1333 (11th Cir.
       2001).