Legal Opinion
United States v. Evelio Pinto
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 19, 1989No. 88-2896PublishedCited by 77 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
The Sentencing Guidelines apply to this case, in which Evelio Pinto was convicted of possessing cocaine with intent to distribute it, and of conspiring to do so. Because Pinto has other felony convictions on his record, the district judge treated him as a “career offender” under Guideline § 4B1.1, yielding a sentence of 264 months in prison, without possibility of parole (abolished for all sentences under the Guidelines). This sentence, 22 years in custody, is much greater than the 12 years the district judge established as an alternative sentence under prior law…
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