Legal Opinion
Leonardo R. Santana-Madera v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 3, 2001No. Docket 99-2125PublishedCited by 78 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judge:
In this case, a convicted drug dealer invokes two recent Supreme Court decisions, Richardson v. United States, 526 U.S. 813, 119 S.Ct. 1707, 143 L.Ed.2d 985 (1999), and Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 120 S.Ct. 2348, 147 L.Ed.2d 435 (2000) — both of which were decided long after his convictions became final — in the hope of reversing his conviction for engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise (“CCE”) and reducing his sentence of 324 months’ imprisonment. Even though we conclude that the new rule announced in Richardson has retroactive application to the…
2Cases cited28 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Apprendi v. New JerseySupreme Court of the United States · 2000
- Chapman v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Kotteakos v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1946
- Brecht v. AbrahamsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1993
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3Cited by78 opinions
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- Warren Wesley Summerlin v. Terry L. Stewart, Director of Arizona Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2003
- William T. Coleman v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2003
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