Legal Opinion
United States v. Vitrano
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 19, 2007No. 06-1512PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOOD, Circuit Judge.
On August 8, 2003, Thomas Vitrano pleaded guilty to one count of possessing a firearm as a felon and one count of possessing a firearm while subject to a domestic abuse injunction, both in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g). The firearm at issue was a Remington 870 shotgun that Vitrano had taken with him to go duck hunting. He was initially sentenced to 120 months’ imprisonment — the term that the district judge believed was the statutory maximum — but the United States appealed the sentence claiming that Vitrano should have been classified a career offender under the Armed…
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