Legal Opinion
United States v. Ralph Chavous Duke
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided July 31, 2019No. 18-1371PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COLLOTON, Circuit Judge.
Ralph Duke was sentenced in 1990 to a term of life imprisonment plus forty years for committing several serious drug trafficking and firearms offenses. A district court later vacated his convictions on the firearms counts in light of an intervening judicial decision, and the case was returned to the District of Minnesota for resentencing. After considering the matter anew, the district court 1 determined an advisory guideline range of 360 months to life and sentenced Duke to a term of life imprisonment. Duke argues that the district court made procedural errors and…
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