Legal Opinion
Randy Horton v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 28, 2001No. 98-3481PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CUDAHY, Circuit Judge.
Randy Horton was a leader of a 19-person drug ring active between 1989 and 1993 in Rockford, Illinois. In 1994, a federal jury convicted Horton of conspiring to distribute cocaine or cocaine base, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846, and of distributing 62.6 grams of cocaine base in two transactions, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1). The court sentenced Horton to life imprisonment for the § 846 conviction and 40 years imprisonment, to run concurrently, for the § 841 convictions. Horton did not take a direct appeal from his conviction, instead appealing only his…
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