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Before Torruella, Circuit Judge, Souter, *fn1 Associate Justice, and Boudin, Circuit Judge.

TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge. Defendant-appellant Alvin Raos-Hernandez entered into a plea agreement with the government and pled guilty to one count of taking, by force and “with the intent to cause death or serious bodily harm . . . a motor vehicle that has been transported, shipped, or received in interstate or foreign commerce” in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2119. He now challenges (1) the validity of the waiver-of-appeal provision in the plea agreement, and (2) the enhanced sentence he received because he was designated as a career offender. Although we do not consider the appeal foreclosed by the waiver-of-appeal provision, we find that his appeal does not withstand the onerous burden of plain error review and we therefore affirm the district court’s sentence.

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