Legal Opinion
Cortez C. Guyton v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 30, 2006No. 06-1056PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RIPPLE, Circuit Judge.
Cortez Guyton is serving a life sentence for conspiring to distribute powder and crack cocaine. See 18 U.S.C. §§ 846 & 841(a)(i). We affirmed his conviction and sentence on direct review. See United States v. Guyton, No. 94-3924, 1995 WL 364232 (7th Cir. May 16, 1995). Mr. Guy-ton’s first motion to vacate his sentence, 28 U.S.C. § 2255, was denied as untimely after the district court refused to apply the mailbox rule to Mr. Guyton’s pleadings. See Guyton v. United States, No. 3:97-cv-370, slip op. (S.D.Ill. May 23, 1997). Mr. Guyton did not appeal the district court’s…
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