Legal Opinion

Bell v. United States

District Court, N.D. Illinois

Decided July 23, 2015No. 12 C 9968PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

REBECCA R. PALLMEYER, United States District Judge

Eddie Bell was convicted by a jury on crack cocaine distribution charges and sentenced to 300 months in custody. The Court of Appeals affirmed the convictions of Bell and three codefendants, but ordered a limited remand to give this.court an opportunity to consider re-sentencing them in the wake of Kimbrough v. United States, 552 U.S. 85, 128 S.Ct. 558, 169 L.Ed.2d 481 (2007). United States v. Martin, 618 F.3d 705, 739 (7th Cir.2010). This court declined to re-sentence any of the four, and the Court- of Appeals…

2Cases cited16 opinions

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