Legal Opinion
Joe Alfred Thomas, Jr. v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided July 19, 1994No. 93-3283PublishedCited by 49 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FRIEDMAN, Senior Circuit Judge.
For the second time, the appellant Thomas challenges the sentence he received following his guilty plea to a drug charge. In the previous appeal, we rejected a number of his attacks upon his sentence. United States v. Thomas, 894 F.2d 996, cert. denied, 495 U.S. 909, 110 S.Ct. 1935, 109 L.Ed.2d 298 (1990). In this appeal, he contends that he was improperly sentenced under the Sentencing Guidelines as a career offender, because he was not informed either by the district court or by his counsel that he could be so sentenced. He further contends that his counsel’s…
2Cases cited11 opinions
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- United States v. Peter Arvanitis, Stanley Peters, John Yannakis, Perikles Panagiotaros, and Robert RichardsCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1990
- United States v. Melvin SweeneyCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1989
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3Cited by49 opinions
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