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U.S. v. Perez, No. Crim. 98-CR-10389-NG (D.Mass.) (46 F.Supp.2d 59) (April 8, 1999) (Judge Nancy Gertner)

Loaded on July 1, 1999 published in Punch and Jurists July 26, 1999
Filed under: Punch And Jurists, Waiver of Appeal Rights.

In this case, Judge Gertner held that even limited appeal waiver provisions are against public policy and unenforceable; and she methodically rejected each of the five main arguments normally used to justify appeal waiver provisions.

This powerful decision is another tour de force by one of America's most forthright judges, ...

 

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