Legal Opinion
United States v. Guyton
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 22, 2011No. 09-3866PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HAMILTON, Circuit Judge.
Appellant James Guyton was sentenced for a crack cocaine offense before the Supreme Court held that the Sentencing Guidelines were advisory in United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220, 125 S.Ct. 738, 160 L.Ed.2d 621 (2005). Guyton’s guideline range was based on the career offender guideline, U.S.S.G. § 4B1.1, but the district court granted a downward departure under section 5K1.1 based on his assistance to the government. The court departed downward to a sentence within the range for crack cocaine offenses that would have applied to Guyton absent the career offender…
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