Legal Opinion
United States v. Docampo
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided June 15, 2009No. 08-10698PublishedCited by 167 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PRYOR, Circuit Judge:
The main question presented by this appeal involves the reasonableness of the sentence of a young adult who was arrested in a sting operation that involved the armed robbery of a fictional stash house of cocaine and who later threatened a witness who testified against him. The question is whether the district court abused its discretion when it sentenced John Andrew Docampo Jr. to a term of imprisonment of 270 months, instead of the mandatory minimum term of 180 months that he requested, even though some conspirators pleaded guilty and received less severe federal…
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