Legal Opinion
Royce Brown v. John F. Caraway
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 10, 2013No. 12-1439PublishedCited by 257 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLAUM, Circuit Judge.
In 1996, a jury in the district court for the District of Delaware convicted Royce Brown of one count of possession with intent to distribute cocaine base and one count of possession of a firearm by a felon. At sentencing, the district court classified Brown as a “career offender” under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.1. Brown filed a timely 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion arguing that “counsel was ineffective for failure to object to his sentencing as a career offender which resulted in his sentence being a minimum of 360 months instead of between 262 and 327 months.” The district court rejected…
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