TERENCE T. EVANS, Circuit Judge.
There's truth to the old adage that it's best to leave sleeping dogs lie. And so it is that defendants, who benefit from favorable calls under the federal sentencing guidelines, should think more than twice about appealing their cases when their appeals have little likelihood of success. This is so because a defendant's appeal may draw a guidelines cross-appeal when the government would not (probably not, at least) appeal on its own...
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