Legal Opinion
Jack R. Prewitt v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 3, 1996No. 95-3125PublishedCited by 320 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANION, Circuit Judge.
Jack Prewitt, a convicted insurance-scam artist, appeals from the denial of his habeas corpus challenge to his federal sentence for mail fraud. He asserts among other things that he received ineffective assistance of counsel because his attorney failed to argue for the application of a sentencing guideline provision. Because the provision under which Prewitt seeks a reduction in his sen*815tence does not apply to him, and his other arguments are not well-founded, we affirm his sentence.
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In the early 1980’s Jack Prewitt and two other men concocted a scheme to sell stock in a…
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