Legal Opinion
United States v. Douglas L. Nitch and Curtis Patterson
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 21, 2007No. 05-2603, 05-2604PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOOD, Circuit Judge.
Douglas Nitch and Curtis Patterson were convicted by a jury of conspiracy to manufacture with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine, in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) and 846 and 18 U.S.C. § 2. Nitch was sentenced to a term of 168 months in prison, and Patterson was sentenced to 120 months. Nitch appeals both his conviction and his sentence, claiming that there was an impermissible variance between the single conspiracy charged in the indictment and the multiple conspiracies proven at the trial, and that his sentence is unreasonable. Patterson…
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