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[DO NOT PUBLISH]
IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT
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No. 17-15479
Non-Argument Calendar
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D.C. Docket No. 8:16-cr-00517-VMC-AEP-1
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff-Appellee,
versus
RICHMOND JOSEPH MCDONALD,
Defendant-Appellant.
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Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Middle District of Florida
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(September 6, 2018)
Before MARCUS, MARTIN and JILL PRYOR, 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,
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997 F.2d 1343, 1350-51 (11th Cir. 1993) (sentence appeal waiver will be enforced
if it was made knowingly and voluntarily); United States v. Bascomb, 451 F.3d
1292, 1297 (11th Cir. 2006) (a defendant is “free to bargain away his right to raise
constitutional issues as well as non-constitutional ones”); 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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