Defendants may waive statutory appeal rights via plea agreements

Evidence

The right to appeal is a statutory right, not a constitutional right. The Supreme Court has repeatedly recognized that a defendant may waive constitutional rights as part of a plea bargaining agreement. It follows that a defendant may also waive statutory rights, including the right to appeal. — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 1120

Categorization

• DEFINE: lays out the syllogistic reasoning chain underlying appellate waiver doctrine.
• XREF: Connects to my antitrust/IRAC training on syllogism as the canonical legal reasoning form. — connects to: Appellate courts inconsistently apply procedural waiver rules to different parties — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 1011
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 1120