Legal Opinion
United States v. Alan Masters and James D. Keating
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 9, 1992No. 91-2985 and 91-3814PublishedCited by 87 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
Judges and genies have this in common: by granting supplicants exactly what they wish for, they may produce misery and regret. Eakin v. Continental Illinois National Bank, 875 F.2d 114, 118 (7th Cir. 1989). Alan Masters, sentenced to 40 years in prison for racketeering activities that ran the gamut from protecting bookies to soliciting the murder of his wife, asked to be resentenced under the sentencing guidelines. He had received the maximum sentence for the crimes of which he had been convicted (consecutive 20-year terms) and believed that the guidelines required…
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