Legal Opinion
Russell Prevatte v. Steven Merlak
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 1, 2017No. 15-2378PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge.
Russell Prevatte was convicted of detonating a pipe bomb in an alley that destroyed property and resulted in the death of an innocent bystander, Emily Antkow-icz, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 844(i). If the pipe bomb had not caused a death, at the time of his conviction, the maximum sentence Prevatte could have received for the violation of § 844(i) would have been ten years. However, because the judge found at sentencing that the bomb did cause the death of Ms. Antkowicz, Prevatte was ultimately sentenced to forty-four years’ imprisonment on that count.
Prevatte filed a…
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