Legal Opinion
United States v. Dorothy Jefferson
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 26, 1985No. 84-1667PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CUDAHY, Circuit Judge.
In a prior appeal, we found that the district court had improperly sentenced appellant Jefferson under 21 U.S.C. §§ 841 and 846, as well as under 21 U.S.C. § 848. We vacated all sentences, directing the district court to resentence under § 848; in a footnote to our opinion we proposed that if the district judge wanted to fulfill his original intention of sentencing to thirty years of imprisonment, he could do so under § 848. On remand, Jefferson was sentenced to thirty years under that section of the statute. Jefferson appeals the resentencing, arguing that increasing…
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