Legal Opinion
United States v. Keith L. Walker
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 3, 2013No. 10-2173, 10-2176, 10-2355, 11-1024, 11-1510PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge.
Joshua Carroll, Andrew Goetzke, David Knuth, Valerie Luszak, and Jeffrey Top-czewski died after using heroin distributed by a large-scale narcotics trafficking organization. The five defendants in this case each pled guilty to possession with intent to distribute and conspiracy to distribute in excess of one kilogram of heroin in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1), 846. Because five people died, the government requested that the district court impose a mandatory minimum penalty of twenty years’ imprisonment to each defendant’s sentence under 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(A).…
2Cases cited24 opinions
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- United States v. Steven Curtis McIntoshCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2001
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