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23-4287·CRIMINAL

United States v. Rebecca Barker

Status
  1. Scheduled
  2. Argued (current)
  3. Opinion Issued
Question Presented

Whether conditional guilty plea is valid when defendant waived appellate review by failing to file timely objections to magistrate judge's recommendation; other issues.

Argument Date
May 8, 2026
Argument Time
8:30 a.m.
Panel
I
Courtroom
Red Courtroom (Room 412)
Lower Court Judge
Reidinger

Panel

Judge Gregory
Judge Harris
Judge Richardson

Citation

CaseUnited States v. Rebecca Barker, No. 23-4287 (4th Cir. argued May 8, 2026)
PanelGregory, Harris & Richardson, JJ.

Arguing Counsel

Panel That Day

2 of 3 cases argued May 8, 2026 before this panel have been decided.

Authorship Outlook

Between the uncredited panelists, Judge Richardson and Judge Gregory are a coin flip — 98 of 122 vs. 92 of 119 prior multi-case days with at least one opinion.

2 of the 3 opinions from this panel have been decided.

This is a statistical guess based on prior sittings in this dataset, not a prediction of the ruling.

Predicted Opinion Release

Likely between November 3, 2026 and July 5, 2027, with December 16, 2026 the most likely date.

Argued 173 days ago. About 81% of comparable cases would have an opinion by now — this one is trending late.

■ ■ ■Calibrated from a deep history (438 prior subject cases + 8 prior panel cases)

80% predictive interval from a log-logistic accelerated-failure-time model fit on 2,134 prior decided cases plus 111 currently-pending cases as right-censored evidence. Updates as days pass with no opinion. How this is calculated →

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