Legal Opinion
United States v. Roosevelt Sims, III
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided May 18, 1999No. 98-2287PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MORRIS S. ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.
Roosevelt Sims, III, was convicted and sentenced in 1993 on charges of possession with intent to distribute cocaine in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1), § 841(b)(1)(A), and use of a firearm in relation to a drug trafficking crime in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c). He was sentenced to 324 months imprisonment. In 1998, in response to a motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, the district court 1 dismissed Mr. Sims’s § 924(c) conviction in light of Bailey v. United States, 516 U.S. 137, 116 S.Ct. 501, 133 L.Ed,2d 472 (1995), vacated Mr. Sims’s original sentence, and…
2Cases cited9 opinions
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- Harry Halloway v. Milwaukee County, Frank Liska, Patrick T. SheedyCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1999
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