Legal Opinion

United States v. Davis

Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Decided October 21, 2016No. 16-1879Published

1Opinion of the Court

ORDER

An amendment to the Sentencing Guidelines in 2014 has produced this successive appeal regarding a term of imprisonment imposed on the defendant/appellant, Maurice Davis. Although the history of this case is somewhat complicated, the effect of the Guidelines amendment is straightforward, and we affirm the decision of the district court to deny reconsideration of the reduced sentence imposed on July 20, 2015.

Maurice Davis pled guilty on October 19, 2011 to a one-count superseding information charging him under 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1), 841(b)(1)(B) and 846 with conspiring to distribute at…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Weaver v. GrahamSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
  2. Dillon v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 2010
  3. United States v. CunninghamCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2009
  4. United States v. Kevyn TaylorCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2015
  5. United States v. Willie DiggsCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2014

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