Legal Opinion
United States v. Vickie Sanders
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 3, 2018No. 18-2165PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Flaum, Circuit Judge.
Vickie Sanders pleaded guilty to a federal drug offense. About twenty years earlier, she was convicted of a felony drug offense in California, and therefore, the government sought to impose a ten-year mandatory minimum term of imprisonment pursuant to a recidivist enhancement provision, 21 U.S.C. § 841 (b)(1)(B). After her guilty plea, but before sentencing, a California state court reclassified Sanders's state drug offense as a misdemeanor pursuant to Proposition 47, Cal. Penal Code § 1170.18 . Nevertheless, the district court still imposed the ten-year mandatory…
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