Legal Opinion
United States v. Kenneth Karl Kimler
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided February 11, 1999No. 97-20320PublishedCited by 170 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KING, Chief Judge:
Kenneth Kimler was convicted by a federal jury for violations of federal mail fraud and counterfeiting statutes. After his sentencing, Kimler filed a motion to correct his sentence in federal district court. He alleged, inter alia, that he received ineffective assistance of counsel in violation of the Sixth Amendment because his attorney failed to argue that the sentencing court’s application of the then-current version of the sentencing guidelines, including sections made effective after his mail fraud offenses were completed, violated the Ex Post Facto Clause of the…
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