Legal Opinion
United States v. Terry Smith
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 19, 2017No. 16-2035PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROVNER, Circuit Judge.
A jury convicted Terry Joe Smith, a police officer, of violating 18 U.S.C. § 242, by subjecting two men to the intentional use of unreasonable and excessive force, and violating their civil right to be free of such abuse. The district court sentenced Smith to fourteen months’ imprisonment, less than half the low end of the applicable guidelines range. In the first appeal of the case, we affirmed Smith’s conviction but vacated the sentence and remanded for full resentencing, concluding that the court had failed to justify the below-guidelines sentence. United States v.…
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