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Criminal Law: Attempted Kidnapping-Appeal Waiver-Substantive Reasonableness of Sentence
Staff Report//July 9, 2026//
Defendant appealed the sentence imposed following his guilty plea to attempted kidnapping, robbery and a firearm offense pursuant to a plea agreement containing an appeal waiver, challenging a condition of supervised release and the substantive reasonableness of the sentence.
Where the appeal waiver was valid and enforceable, the court was constrained to dismiss the appeal.
Appeal is dismissed.
U.S. v. Williams (MLW No. 85060/Case No. 25-2941 – 2 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, per curiam) Appealed from U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri, Schelp, J.
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