United States v. Ferguson

Manion, Circuit Judge.

When Grover Ferguson was 17 years old he shot a woman three times during a carjacking, causing significant permanent injury. Ferguson pleaded guilty to vehicular robbery by force and discharging a gun. The sentencing guidelines range was 198 to 217 months' imprisonment (16.5 to 18 years), but the district judge sentenced Ferguson to 600 months in prison (50 years). He appealed, and in United States v. Ferguson , 831 F.3d 850 (7th Cir. 2016), we vacated his sentence and remanded the case to a new judge, who imposed a 35-year sentence. Now Ferguson argues that the district…