United States v. Randolph Edgar Davenport

CHAPMAN, Circuit Judge:

Randolph Davenport entered a plea of guilty to one count of a ten count indictment. His plea was to Count 8, which charged violation of 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1) and 845a(a), by distributing 0.9 grams of “crack” within 1,000 feet of the real property comprising a public elementary school. This violation occurred on March 17, 1988, and the district court applied the Sentencing Guidelines in setting an appropriate sentence. In determining the sentence, the court used appellant’s conviction of March 27, 1973 in the Criminal Court of Baltimore as a factor in computing his…