Legal Opinion
United States v. Terrence Brown
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 30, 2013No. 11-2737PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
A jury convicted the defendant of having attempted to possess cocaine with the intention of distributing it, 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1), 846, and having “possesse[dj” a firearm “in furtherance of any such crime,” 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A); see United States v. Castillo, 406 F.3d 806, 811-12 (7th Cir.2005) — that is, a drag crime. He was sentenced to 60 months for the gun crime, the sentence to run consecutively to a 175-month sentence for the drug crime. The appeal challenges only the gun conviction.
The drug offense was an attempt to buy 10 kilograms of cocaine from…
2Cases cited16 opinions
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- United States v. Ceballos-TorresCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2000
- United States v. Pedro L. Castillo and Frank RodriguezCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2005
- National Safe Deposit Co. v. SteadSupreme Court of the United States · 1914
- United States v. MorrisCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2009
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