Legal Opinion
United States v. Marcus A. Hicks
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 22, 1997No. 96-4186PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
The district judge upped Hicks’s sentence for drug trafficking upon finding that three Illinois convictions of Hicks for burglary were crimes of violence within the meaning of the sentencing guidelines. U.S.S.G. §§ 4B1.1-.2. A burglary “of a dwelling” is expressly made a crime of violence by the guidelines, § 4B1.2(l)(ii), and the informations under which Hicks had been charged alleged that he had committed “residential burglary” by entering a “dwelling place” with intent to commit a theft. But they were amended, pursuant to a plea agreement, to strike the word…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Taylor v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1990
- United States v. Defabian C. ShannonCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1997
- United States v. Anthony FioreCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1992
- United States v. Richard Eugene SmithCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1993
- United States v. Barry Lawrence SpellCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1995
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3Cited by15 opinions
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