Legal Opinion
Robinson v. United States
District Court, E.D. Michigan
Decided July 22, 2009No. Civil No. 06-15381. Criminal No. 99-20011Published
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO VACATE SENTENCE
DAVID M. LAWSON, District Judge.
The petitioner, Rex Robinson, was convicted by a jury of one count of conspiracy to violate the Controlled Substances Act and one count of violating the Travel Act and sentenced to 121 months in prison. He filed a post-trial motion for judgment of acquittal under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 29, but his attorney never filed a motion for new trial under Rule 33. The Court harbored grave doubt about the propriety of Robinson’s conviction, but applying the standard that the law requires, for Rule 29…
2Cases cited42 opinions
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- Kimmelman v. MorrisonSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Paul W. Greer v. Betty Mitchell, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2001
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