Legal Opinion
United States v. Kenneth F. Boula, and Earl Dean Gordon
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 14, 1991No. 90-2399, 90-2400PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Circuit Judge.
Defendants Kenneth Boula and Earl Dean Gordon pleaded guilty to three counts of mail fraud. 18 U.S.C. § 1341. The district court sentenced defendants to 108 months’ incarceration. The defendants appeal this sentencing determination, arguing that the district court’s application of sections 2F1.1(b)(2) and 3B1.1 of the United States Sentencing Guidelines (“Guidelines”) constituted impermissible “double counting” — inappropriate sentence enhancement through the application of two Guidelines provisions to the same conduct — and that the district court’s upward…
2Cases cited7 opinions
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3Cited by61 opinions
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