Legal Opinion
United States v. Vaughn
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 30, 2010No. 09-3789PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Per curiam
While incarcerated at the federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, Anthony Vaughn repeatedly stabbed a prison guard with an eight-inch shank. He pleaded guilty to committing aggravated assault on a federal officer, see 18 U.S.C. § 111(a), (b), and the district court sentenced him to 180 months’ imprisonment, 45 months above the top of the guidelines range. Vaughn’s sole argument on appeal is that the sentence is substantively unreasonable. We disagree and affirm the judgment.
The events that precipitated Vaughn’s assault began the morning of April 23, 2009, when he and two other inmates…
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