⚖ Oral Arguments, with Context

We hear United States v. King in the Second Circuit. Gregory King's case arose from his admitted possession of a gun. He accepted a plea agreement with a prison-sentence cap of forty-six months. The judge calculated a higher sentencing-guidelines range after adding four levels for using a gun in connection with another felony, but still sentenced him to forty-six months. King says the added levels wrongly influenced the sentence. His plea agreement also waived appeals within the agreed range. He contends that the waiver bars challenges to the sentence's length, not to the process used to calculate it. The government says it bars both. The parties also agree that the case should return to the district court to address his conditions of supervision after prison. In this circuit, optional supervision conditions must be announced at sentencing, or expressly incorporated from written conditions made available to the defendant. They cannot simply be added to the written judgment later.

United States of America v. King (No. 25-1491) — U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, argued September 14, 2026.