Legal Opinion
United States v. Moore
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided March 6, 2008No. 05-4146, 05-4156PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LOKEN, Chief Judge.
A jury convicted James Eric Moore of possession of crack cocaine with intent to distribute. The district court 1 declined to grant a downward departure or variance from the advisory guidelines sentencing range and sentenced Moore to 188 months in prison, the top of that range, followed by six years of supervised release. We affirmed the conviction and sentence, rejecting Moore’s contention that his sentence is unreasonable because the district court “refused to take into account the great disparity” in the penalties imposed on crack and powder cocaine offenders under the…
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