Legal Opinion
United States v. Horace Joseph Big Medicine
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided December 29, 1995No. 95-8001PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SEYMOUR, Chief Judge.
Horace Joseph Big Medicine pled guilty to one count of sexual abuse of a minor in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2243(a) and 1153. In sentencing Big Medicine, the district court upwardly departed from the Sentencing Guidelines, and Big Medicine challenges the departure on appeal. Because we conclude that one of the bases for the upward departure was improper, we vacate the sentence and remand for resentencing. 1
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In May 1994, Big Medicine’s stepdaughter disclosed that Big Medicine and she had engaged in sexual intercourse and that she was pregnant. At the time, the stepdaughter…
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