United States v. Robinson

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

In 1997 the defendant was indicted for possessing cocaine and cocaine base with the intent to distribute (count 1), distributing cocaine base (count 2), and possessing just cocaine base with intent to distribute (count 3), all in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1). A jury convicted the defendant on all three counts, and in 1998 the district court sentenced him to consecutive prison sentences of 40 years on counts 1 and 3 and 20 years on count 2, for a total of 100 years — effectively a life sentence, which we upheld in United States v. Robinson, 250 F.3d 527 (7th…