United States v. Clayton Harris

Defendant Clayton Harris pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him with being a felon in possession of a firearm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §1922(g)(1). At the sentencing hearing, the district court calculated the applicable Guidelines range as 37 to 46 months. Harris asked the court to take into account the sentence that he would have received had he been charged in Ohio state court rather than federal court. Harris’s attorney cited 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(6), which requires the sentencing court to consider “the need to avoid unwarranted sentence disparities among defendants with similar…