Legal Opinion
United States v. Whitley
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided June 16, 2008No. Docket 06-0131-crPublishedCited by 78 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JON O. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge.
This criminal appeal presents the unusual situation in which the literal meaning of a sentencing statute has been disregarded to the detriment of a defendant. Latie Whitley appeals from the December 30, 2005, judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Richard Conway Casey, District Judge), following a four-day trial. He was sentenced principally to concurrent terms of 282 months for a Hobbs Act robbery and a career criminal firearms possession violation, plus a consecutive mandatory minimum term of 120 months for…
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