Hunter v. United States · ¶109

The Court does not dispute these principles; it just creates an exception to them. Although Hunter's briefng in this Court primarily argued that various contract-law principles excused him from his waiver, the Court wisely does not endorse that theory; it does not even mention it.Instead of importing contract-law defenses, the Court creates a free- foating “miscarriage-of-justice” exception, which permits appeals despite valid appeal waivers when any of at least four different factual scenarios arise at sentencing. Ante, at 727–728.

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