Legal Opinion
United States v. Harold A. Ebbole
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 18, 1990No. 89-3672PublishedCited by 58 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLAUM, Circuit Judge.
Harold Ebbole was sentenced to seven years and eight months in federal prison after pleading guilty to distributing a gram of cocaine to an undercover police officer. Ebbole’s stiff — some, including the trial judge, would say draconian — sentence resulted from application of § 1B1.3(a)(2) of the Sentencing Guidelines, which requires courts to increase a defendant’s base offense level if it finds that during the “same course of conduct” the defendant possessed additional quantities of the drug, regardless of whether the defendant was convicted of offenses relating to…
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