Lynette Gregory v. United States
DueProcess JusticiabilityDoctri
1. Is a question of the legality of a federal criminal sentence subject to waiver by plea agreement? In avoidance of this question, should an agreement generally waiving the right to appeal but exempting any challenge to a forfeiture "as set forth in" the Information and allowing claims that the sentence "exceeds the statutory maximum" be construed to allow an appeal questioning whether the criminal forfeiture imposed as part of the sentence was unauthorized by any statute?
2. Does a criminal forfeiture in a federal drug case in the form of a "money judgment" constitute an illegal sentence, because it is unauthorized by any statute?
Whether a criminal forfeiture in the form of a 'money judgment' is an illegal sentence unauthorized by statute