Legal Opinion
United States v. Joe Long
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 1, 2014No. 11-3888, 12-1538, 12-1048, 12-2665, 12-1267PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SYKES, Circuit Judge.
The five defendants in this appeal were part of a conspiracy to distribute cocaine on the South Side of Chicago. Ahmad Williams pleaded guilty, but the other four — Joe Long, Daniel Coprich, Glenn Island, and Isaiah Hicks — went to trial and were convicted by a jury. On appeal each defendant raises a number of different challenges to his conviction and sentence. Only one has merit: Island must be resen-tenced under the Fair Sentencing Act, which after Dorsey v. United States, — U.S.—, 132 S.Ct. 2321, 183 L.Ed.2d 250 (2012), applies to defendants sentenced after the Act…
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