United States v. Harms
United States v. Harms
Opinion
IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT
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No. 97-10154 Summary Calendar _____________________
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff-Appellee,
versus
ALFRED PETER HARMS,
Defendant-Appellant. _________________________________________________________________
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas USDC No. 3-96-CR-280-R _________________________________________________________________ January 7, 1998 Before JOLLY, BENAVIDES, and PARKER, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM:*
The appellant, Alfred Peter Harms, appeals his sentence for
conspiracy to export and divert goods to Iran from the United
States. He argues that his guilty plea was not knowing and
voluntary, that the government breached the plea agreement, and
that the district court erred: 1) in refusing to give him a 3-point
adjustment for failing to complete the offense pursuant to U.S.
Sentencing Guideline § 2X1.1(b)(2); and 2) in imposing a four-level
upward adjustment for a leadership role in the offense.
* Pursuant to 5TH CIR. R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5TH CIR. R. 47.5.4. Harms has waived his right to appeal his sentence on the
grounds raised with the exception of his claim that the government
breached his plea agreement. See United States v. Portillo,
18 F.3d 290, 292(5th Cir. 1994).
Harms’s plea agreement informed him that he was waiving the
right to appeal his sentence on any ground. We may review Harms’s
claim that the government breached his plea agreement because Harms
challenges the government’s conduct under the plea agreement, not
directly attacking his sentence. Harms argues that since the
government agreed not to contest a three-level adjustment of his
sentence, it violated the plea agreement when, by filing no
objections, it adopted the Presentence Report (“PSR”), which
indicated that such an adjustment was inapplicable. Because there
is no indication that the government intended to contest Harms’s
adjustment by adopting the PSR, it did not breach Harms’s plea
agreement. See United States v. Wilder,
15 F.3d 1292, 1301(5th
Cir. 1994).
A F F I R M E D.
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Reference
- Status
- Unpublished