United States v. Damon Rucker

ROVNER, Circuit Judge.

After Damon Rucker physically attacked a co-who had testified against him at his sentencing on a narcotics conviction, Ruck-er was charged with and convicted of witness retaliation, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1513(b). The district court ordered him to serve a prison term of twenty years (the statutory maximum), consecutive to the term imposed on his narcotics conviction. Rucker appeals, contending that the evidence was not sufficient to support his conviction, that his sentence is substantively unreasonable, and that he was deprived of the effective assistance of trial…