Legal Opinion
Jennifer Krieger v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 22, 2016No. 15-2481PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROVNER, Circuit Judge.
The first time this appeal was before us, on direct review, Jennifer Krieger was seeking to vacate the twenty-year sentence she received when her friend died after chewing a fentanyl pain patch provided by Krieger. At that time, she objected to the manner in which the government proved that “death resulted” from the distribution of the drugs—as a sentencing factor by a preponderance of the evidence, rather than as an element proved beyond a reasonable doubt—and also argued that the evidence was insufficient to support a finding that the victim’s death had occurred…
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