Legal Opinion
United States v. Spells
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 8, 2008No. 07-1185PublishedCited by 93 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLAUM, Circuit Judge.
Defendant Melvin Spells was convicted by a jury on three counts stemming from a robbery of a Papa Johns Pizza restaurant. While Spells challenges the sufficiency of the evidence on appeal, the main thrust of this appeal involves Spells’s sentencing. The district court, in sentencing Spells, found that he was an armed career criminal under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(1), based on what it deemed to be prior “violent felonies,” as well as a career offender under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.1. Spells was then sentenced to 346 months’ imprisonment — 262 months, concurrent, on Counts 1 and 3, with a…
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