Plea & Sentencing – Collateral-attack Waivers

By: Derek Hawkins//December 5, 2021//

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7^th Circuit Court of Appeals

Case Name: Jamar E. Plunkett v. Dan Sproul

Case No.: 20-2461

Officials: SYKES, Chief Judge, and FLAUM, and KIRSCH, Circuit Judges.

Focus: Plea & Sentencing – Collateral-attack Waivers

A grand jury indicted petitioner-appellant Jamar Plunkett on a charge of distributing crack cocaine. Plunkett pleaded guilty after the government established that his prior Illinois drug conviction subjected him to an enhanced statutory maximum sentence. Plunkett now appeals the district court’s decision to deny his § 2241 collateral attack on his sentence. Plunkett, however, waived his appellate rights, subject only to limited exceptions not presently applicable. Given this waiver, we now dismiss his appeal.

Dismissed

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Derek A Hawkins is Corporate Counsel, at Salesforce.

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