Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2020-03-17 17:00:39.823979+00
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Case: 18-14714   Date Filed: 03/17/2020   Page: 1 of 2

                                                            [DO NOT PUBLISH]

               IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

                       FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT
                         ________________________

                               No. 18-14714
                           Non-Argument Calendar
                         ________________________

                  D.C. Docket No. 5:18-cr-00031-TES-CHW-1

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

                                                                 Plaintiff-Appellee,

                                    versus

NATHANIEL GORDY,

                                                           Defendant-Appellant.
                         ________________________

                  Appeal from the United States District Court
                      for the Middle District of Georgia
                        ________________________

                                (March 17, 2020)

Before WILLIAM PRYOR, GRANT, and LUCK, 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
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if it was made knowingly and voluntarily); United States v. Bascomb, 451 F.3d

1292, 1297 (11th Cir. 2006) (appeal waiver “cannot be vitiated or altered by

comments the court makes during sentencing”); United States v. Grinard-Henry,

399 F.3d 1294, 1296 (11th Cir. 2005) (waiver of the right to appeal includes

waiver of the right to appeal difficult or debatable legal issues or even blatant

error).

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