Legal Opinion
United States v. Jesse Pennington
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 5, 2018No. 18-1375PublishedCited by 59 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Hamilton, Circuit Judge.
Jesse Pennington pleaded guilty to distributing a Schedule I controlled substance in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841 (a)(1). The district court sentenced her to one year and one day in prison, within the Sentencing Guidelines range of ten to sixteen months in prison. Pennington does not argue that her sentence was substantively unreasonable, but she argues that the district court made procedural errors in sentencing her. She first argues that the district court should not have compared her to one of her co-defendants when determining her sentence because the two were not…
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