Legal Opinion
United States v. Waldrip
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 12, 2017No. 16-2294PublishedCited by 46 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KANNE, Circuit Judge.
A jury convicted Steven Waldrip of distributing heroin under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1). Because death resulted from the use of that heroin, Waldrip faced a twenty-year mandatory-minimum sentence. § 841(b)(1)(C). The district court sentenced him to 280 months. On appeal, Waldrip argues that the government provided insufficient evidence to prove that the heroin was a but-for cause of the victim’s death, that § 841(b)(1)(C) is unconstitutionally vague, and that his 280-month sentence violates the Eighth Amendment’s proportionality requirement. We…
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