Hunter v. United States · ¶93

For over 100 years after the founding, federal criminal defendants had no right to appeal their sentences. Although Congress has now authorized such appeals, defendants remain free to decline to exercise that statutory right or to affrmatively waive it, just like many other procedural rights. Hunter's knowing and voluntary waiver of his statutory appeal rights in his valid plea agreement required dismissal of his appeal.

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