Legal Opinion

United States v. Cole

Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Decided June 30, 2009No. 06-2547PublishedCited by 39 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

SYKES, Circuit Judge.

Parrish Cole entered into a written plea agreement with the government in which he acknowledged distributing less than 400 grams of heroin and less than a kilogram of marijuana. The district court accepted the plea agreement but found, based on information in the presentence report, that Cole should be held responsible for a greater quantity of drugs than the amounts he had admitted in the agreement. The court increased Cole’s guidelines range accordingly and sentenced Cole to 97 months in prison, which was nearly double the sentence Cole expected if the court had…

2Cases cited12 opinions

  1. United States v. Dennis L. WengerCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1995
  2. United States v. Tyrone HareCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2001
  3. United States v. Victor M. Rivera and Mario Heredia, AKA "Nacho,"Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1993
  4. United States v. Douglas Martin, Melvin Alicea, Hector Carrasco, Victor Alicea, and Victor Matias, Jr.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2002
  5. United States v. FranklinCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2008

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3Cited by39 opinions

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  4. United States v. AlcalaCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2012
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