Rodriguez, Rene v. United States

In the United States Court of Appeals For the Seventh Circuit No. 00-3242 Rene Rodriguez, Petitioner-Appellant, v. United States of America, Respondent-Appellee. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. No. 97 C 426--Thomas J. Curran, Judge. Argued September 26, 2001--Decided April 11, 2002 Before Flaum, Chief Judge, and Coffey and Manion, Circuit Judges. Manion, Circuit Judge. In 1994, Rene Rodriguez received a life sentence after being convicted of conspiring to import and distribute over 1,000 kilograms of marijuana from Mexico to the United…