Legal Opinion
Benjamin B. Kramer v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 17, 2015No. 14-3049PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KANNE, Circuit Judge.
I. Background
In 1988, Appellant Benjamin Barry Kramer was convicted of two offenses: (1) conspiring to distribute marijuana, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846; and (2) engaging in a Continuing Criminal Enterprise (“CCE”), in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 848(b). As the result of a motion filed under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, Kramer’s section 846 conviction and sentence were vacated in 1998. His section 848 conviction and sentence were affirmed. In June of 2014, Kramer filed another motion under section 2255 in the Southern District of Illinois, this time challenging his CCE conviction.
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