Legal Opinion
United States v. Morris
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 20, 2007No. 05-4679PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOOD, Circuit Judge.
Denard Morris was convicted on various drug charges, for which he received a typically severe sentence of 262 months’ incarceration. His appeal centers on alleged governmental misconduct at the trial. Morris’s cousin, Tramayne Peterson, pleaded guilty to Count I of the indictment and testified against Morris as part of a plea bargain with the government. When questioned about his plea deal at trial, Peterson asserted that the mandatory minimum sentence for his plea was 10 years; the prosecutor reinforced this by arguing to the jury on multiple occasions that Peterson could…
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