Legal Opinion
United States v. Kenneth Lewis
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 24, 1997No. 96-2972PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FAIRCHILD, Circuit Judge.
A jury convicted Kenneth Lewis of conspiring with his cousin Tiawan Lewis and others to possess with intent to distribute cocaine base in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1), and being a felon in possession of a firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). He was sentenced to a mandatory term of life imprisonment under 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(l)(A)(iii), and appeals. We affirm.
BACKGROUND
When Kenneth Lewis paged Crystal Davenport, a drug runner, on the evening of August 9, 1995, his timing could not have been worse. Davenport had been arrested only moments earlier for…
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