Legal Opinion
United States v. Welton
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 2, 2009No. 08-3799PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BAUER, Circuit Judge.
After pleading guilty to distributing crack cocaine, Marcus L. Welton was sentenced as a career offender to 188 months’ imprisonment. On appeal, Welton contends that resentencing is necessary in light of the Supreme Court’s decision in Kimbrough v. United States, 552 U.S. 85, 128 S.Ct. 558, 564, 169 L.Ed.2d 481 (2007), which recognized a district court’s authority to consider the sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine offenses in fashioning a sentence. We affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
On two separate occasions in the Summer of 2007, Welton sold crack cocaine totaling…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- Gall v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 2007
- Kimbrough v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 2007
- United States v. Karl CunninghamCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2005
- United States v. MartinCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2008
- United States v. TaylorCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2008
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