Legal Opinion
United States v. Mendoza
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 20, 2007No. 06-2999PublishedCited by 81 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROVNER, Circuit Judge.
A jury found José Mendoza guilty of distributing amphetamine in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1). Mendoza challenges the sufficiency of the government’s evidence against him and the district court’s procedure for identifying alternate jurors. He also argues that the district court erroneously presumed that a sentence within the guidelines range would be reasonable. We affirm.
I
The evidence presented by the government, viewed in the light most favorable to it, demonstrated the following: In early 2004 the head of the drug unit of the Goshen, Indiana Police Department…
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