Legal Opinion
United States v. Brown
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 14, 2016No. 15-2243PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HAMILTON, Circuit Judge.
Appellant Anthony Brown pled guilty to conspiring to distribute drugs. He appeals his sentence, challenging the application of a two-level Sentencing Guideline enhancement for obstruction of justice. The unusual process that led to this enhancement persuades us that we should remand; The judge who sentenced Brown imposed the enhancement based on Brown’s responses to three questions in testimony in a hearing on a motion to suppress in another case against another defendant and before another judge. The other defendant ultimately pled guilty and withdrew his motion to…
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