Legal Opinion
United States v. Hakeem Smith
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 15, 2013No. 13-1401PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Per curiam
Hakeem Smith pleaded guilty to distributing, and possessing with intent to distribute, crack cocaine. See 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1). The district court sentenced Smith as a career offender, see U.S.S.G. § 4B1.1, to 151 months’ imprisonment, the bottom of the guidelines range. On appeal Smith offers two reasons that he has rebutted the presumption that his within-guidelines sentence is reasonable: First, the Sentencing Commission did not develop the career-offender guidelines using its standard empirical approach; rather it followed congressional mandate. Second, the nature of his offense and his…
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