Legal Opinion
United States v. Billups
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 29, 2008No. 07-2037PublishedCited by 51 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TINDER, Circuit Judge.
Brian Billups was convicted of a drug crime and sentenced as a career offender under U.S.S.G. § 4Bl.l(a), based in part on a prior Wisconsin felony conviction for false imprisonment. The career offender designation increased Billups’s total offense level and resulted in an advisory guidelines imprisonment range of 151-188 months. The district court sentenced Bill-ups to 151 months of imprisonment and three years of supervised release. On appeal, Billups challenges his career offender designation, arguing that his false imprisonment conviction was not a “crime of…
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