Legal Opinion

United States v. Dwight Turlington

Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

Decided September 21, 2012No. 11-2586UnpublishedCited by 32 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION OF THE COURT

RENDELL, Circuit Judge.

Defendant Dwight Turlington appeals the District Court’s judgment of sentence imposed for his having violated the terms of his supervised release. Turlington contends that the District Court erred in sentencing him to a term of five years’ imprisonment. He also challenges the substantive reasonableness of the sentence. For the following reasons, we will affirm.

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In 2002, Turlington pled guilty to conspiring to distribute more than fifty grams of cocaine base, in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1), 841(b)(1)(A), and 846. In 2004, the District Court…

2Cases cited7 opinions

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3Cited by32 opinions

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