Legal Opinion
United States v. Woods
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 5, 2009No. 07-3851PublishedCited by 159 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOOD, Circuit Judge.
Vernon Woods was convicted of two counts of distributing ecstasy, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1), and one count of possession of a weapon by a felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g). The district court found that Woods was a career offender and thus was subject to an enhanced sentence under § 4B1.1 of the United States Sentencing Guidelines (“U.S.S.G.”). The court imposed a sentence of 192 months, well above the 84-month sentence Woods might have received without the career offender enhancement. Woods now appeals his sentence, challenging whether, following the…
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