Legal Opinion
United States v. Baptist
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 2, 2011No. 09-50315PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
2Per curiam
Lyndon Baptist appeals his statutorily mandated, five-year minimum sentence following his guilty plea to conspiracy to possess crack cocaine with intent to distribute, and distribution of at least five grams of crack cocaine, under 21 U.S.C. §§ 846 and 841(a)(1). The district judge, expressing his intention to “make as stable a record as [he could] for any other court that might look at this [case],” stated that he “did not believe [that the statutorily mandated minimum] is a just sentence” because its imposition was “too much,” “disproportionate,” “wrong from a moral sense,” and “an…
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