Gordon v. United States

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF INDIANA HAMMOND DIVISION UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) Cause No. 2:19-CR-135-PPS-JPK ) LAVELLE A. GORDON, ) ) Defendant. ) OPINION AND ORDER Lavelle A. Gordon sold a load of crack cocaine five times to a confidential informant and on one occasion accepted guns instead of money as the means of exchange. Gordon was a three-time convicted felon, and this put him a difficult situation of facing the dreaded Armed Career Criminal Act and its 15-year mandatory minimum. The case wasn’t particularly defensible (everything was on…