Legal Opinion

United States v. Edward Dorsey, Sr.

Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Decided July 21, 2016No. 15-3341PublishedCited by 12 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

KANNE, Circuit Judge.

Defendant Edward Dorsey is best known, in legal circles, as the convicted drug trafficker in Dorsey v. United States, — U.S. -, 132 S.Ct. 2821, 183 L.Ed.2d 250 (2012), whose sentence was vacated by the Supreme Court and reduced on remand to time served and an eight-year term of supervised release. Unfortunately, Dorsey returned to criminal activity and two years later, he was charged with three new counts of drug trafficking, resulting in two proceedings against him.

In the first, the present case, Dorsey pled guilty to the three new counts of drug trafficking, and the…

2Cases cited14 opinions

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