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Date Created: 2023-08-09 00:00:34.511823+00
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Case: 22-60654        Document: 00516850666             Page: 1      Date Filed: 08/08/2023

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

                                      No. 22-60654
                                                                                      FILED
                                                                                 August 8, 2023
                                    Summary Calendar
                                    ____________                                 Lyle W. Cayce
                                                                                      Clerk
   United States of America,

                                                                      Plaintiff—Appellee,

                                            versus

   Kelli Jo Amacker-Owen,

                                              Defendant—Appellant.
                     ______________________________

                     Appeal from the United States District Court
                       for the Southern District of Mississippi
                              USDC No. 1:21-CR-104-2
                     ______________________________

   Before Smith, Higginson, and Engelhardt, Circuit Judges.
   Per Curiam: *
         Kelli Jo Amacker-Owen appeals the 210-month sentence she received
   after she pleaded guilty to conspiring to possess with intent to distribute a
   mixture or substance containing heroin, a mixture or substance containing
   methamphetamine,           and      a    mixture      or     substance       containing
   methylenedioxymethamphetamine. Amacker-Owen challenges the district

         _____________________
         *
             This opinion is not designated for publication. See 5th Cir. R. 47.5.
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                                    No. 22-60654

   court’s two-level enhancement for possession of a firearm during the offense
   and the drug quantity calculation. The Government moves to dismiss the
   appeal or, alternatively, for summary affirmance based on the appeal waiver
   in Amacker-Owen’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 Amacker-Owen’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, her arguments challenging
   her 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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