A man facing 300 years in prison made a deal with the government: plead guilty to one crime, drop nine others, and give up the right to appeal. But the Supreme Court just said there are limits to how far that deal can go. In a decision that affects thousands of criminal cases every year, the justices ruled that defendants cannot be forced to accept sentences that are so fundamentally unfair they shake public confidence in the courts, even if they signed away their appeal rights.

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