Legal Opinion
United States v. Wyatt
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 6, 2012No. 10-3792PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROVNER, Circuit Judge.
John M. Wyatt is caught in a procedural mess from which we cannot extricate him. Wyatt was convicted of a drug offense in the Southern District of Illinois, a court sitting within the Seventh Circuit. He is incarcerated in the Western District of Texas, which sits in the Fifth Circuit. The district court that sentenced him concluded that he was a career offender under section 4B1.1 of the Sentencing Guidelines, based, in part, on an erroneous assumption that it should treat his prior conviction for a walkaway escape from a halfway house as a qualifying felony for the…
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