Legal Opinion
United States v. James F. Lewis
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 9, 1995No. 94-1317PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CUDAHY, Circuit Judge.
James Lewis pleaded gudty to three charges involving stolen goods. The charges arose from a truck stop theft of some $70,000 worth of Oscar Mayer hot dogs. The district court sentenced Lewis to three concurrent twenty-seven month terms under the Sentencing Guidelines. The trial judge enhanced Lewis’s sentence in two respects. First, he found that Lewis had employed “more than minimal planning” in the theft, thus requiring a two-level enhancement. U.S.S.G. § 2B1.1(b)(5)(A). Second, he determined that Lewis’s truck driving acumen was a “special skill,” warranting an…
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