Law360, New York ( September 2, 2014, 1:05 PM EDT) -- Appealing a sentence based on procedural error just got harder in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. That en banc court in United States v. Flores-Mejia (No. 12-3149) (July 16, 2014) ruled 8-6 to impose a new requirement on defendants to challenge an alleged procedural error on appeal without being subject to the onerous strictures of plain-error review. Going forward, a "party must object to the procedural error complained of after sentence is imposed [by the district court] in order to avoid plain error review on appeal."...
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