Legal Opinion
United States v. Shaw
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided March 3, 2009No. 07-14693PublishedCited by 164 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARNES, Circuit Judge:
When Robert Shaw was thirteen years old he hurled a rock through a car windshield, sending shards of glass into his victim’s face. Fifteen years later Shaw was speeding through Miami, with a cocked and loaded pistol and ski masks, on his way to burglarize a “drug hole.” His rap sheet during the intervening years is long enough to require extra postage. It shows 27 arrests involving 62 counts, and sentences totaling at least 105 months in spite of receiving one break after another from the system. Indeed, from Shawls criminal record it seems as though he is determined to…
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