Legal Opinion
United States v. Steven Gibson
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided January 4, 2006No. 04-14776PublishedCited by 80 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:
In this appeal, the United States challenges the decision of the District Court for the Southern District of Florida not to designate Steven Gibson a career offender pursuant to section 4B1.1 of the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines. 1 The district court concluded that under Blakely v. Washington, 542 U.S. 296, 124 S.Ct. 2531, 159 L.Ed.2d 403 (2004), it could not classify Gibson as a career offender because the Government did not prove to a jury the nature of Gibson’s prior convictions (i.e., that those prior convictions were felonies involving controlled substances) or the…
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