Legal Opinion
United States v. Moore
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 10, 2008No. 17-1336PublishedCited by 137 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TINDER, Circuit Judge.
Raymell Moore pled guilty to federal drug charges and was sentenced to a statutory mandatory minimum term of 10 years’ imprisonment. On appeal, he raises a “class of one” equal protection challenge to his sentence. He contends that he was similarly situated to a group of defendants charged in a state-court drug conspiracy case and that the imposition of the statutory mandatory minimum sentence was irrational in light of its non-application to the state-court defendants.
I. Background
On two occasions in April and June of 2005, Moore and Curtis Jones sold crack cocaine to…
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