United States v. Tamaica Hoskins

• Court: Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
• Decided: November 21, 2019
• Docket: 19-12803
• Status: Unpublished

Opinion

Case: 19-12803 Date Filed: 11/21/2019 Page: 1 of 2

[DO NOT PUBLISH]

IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ________________________

No. 19-12803 Non-Argument Calendar ________________________

D.C. Docket No. 3:14-cr-00507-MHT-WC-1

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Plaintiff-Appellee,

versus

TAMAICA HOSKINS,

Defendant-Appellant. ________________________

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

(November 21, 2019)

Before WILSON, MARTIN and ROSENBAUM, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

The Government’s motion to dismiss this appeal pursuant to the appeal

waiver in Hoskins’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 Case: 19-12803 Date Filed: 11/21/2019 Page: 2 of 2

if it was made knowingly and voluntarily); see also 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).