Legal Opinion
United States v. Dean A. Evans and Eric K. Johnson
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 11, 1991No. 90-1491, 90-1492PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Before CUMMINGS, POSNER, and FLAUM, Circuit Judges.
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The defendants were convicted of federal drug violations by a jury, and sentenced to 97 months (Evans) and 51 months (Johnson) in prison. Johnson’s only challenge is to his sentence, which he argues was disproportionately long, compared to Evans’s. It is true that he received the shorter sentence, but he was acquitted of two counts of which Evans was convicted; on the one count of which they were both convicted he received 51 months and Evans only 37. The government points out correctly that Johnson does not contend that…
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