Legal Opinion
United States v. Lavell Dean
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 7, 2005No. 04-3172PublishedCited by 367 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
A federal jury convicted Lavell Dean of being a felon in possession of a firearm, and the district judge sentenced him to 120 months in prison. The appeal, which challenges only the sentence, presents an important issue — the role of 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) in sentencing — that was presented, but left unresolved, by United States v. Booker, - U.S. -, 125 S.Ct. 738, 160 L.Ed.2d 621 (2005).
The Presentence Investigation (PSI) report on Dean recounted the following facts. A squad car rolled .up in front of a house in Milwaukee that the police suspected of being the site of…
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