Legal Opinion
United States v. Smith
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 8, 2010No. 10-1623PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
Troy Smith pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute cocaine. See 21 U.S.C. §§ 846 and 841(a)(1). The district court found that Smith was a career offender, see U.S.S.G. § 4B1.1, and refused to award *97Smith a downward adjustment for acceptance of responsibility, id. § 3E1.1. Smith challenges both findings on appeal. We uphold the district court’s determination that Smith is a career offender, but vacate his sentence and remand for resentencing because the court injected extraneous comments into the sentencing proceeding and did not adequately explain its basis for denying an adjustment…
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