Legal Opinion
United States v. Frederick C. Rezin
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 4, 2003No. 02-2010PublishedCited by 130 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The defendant, Frederick Rezin, pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography, 18 U.S.C. § 2252(a)(4)(B), and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. He filed a notice of appeal but later dismissed it and filed a motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 to vacate his sentence on the ground that he had received ineffective assistance of counsel at .the sentencing hearing because the lawyer had failed to argue against a statutory interpretation that authorized the sentence. The motion was denied, precipitating this appeal.
A claim of-ineffective assistance of counsel, we have said…
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