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Pleas & Sentencing – Error

By: Derek Hawkins//September 8, 2015//

Pleas & Sentencing – Error

By: Derek Hawkins//September 8, 2015//

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Criminal

7th Circuit Court of Appeals

Officials: KANNE and SYKES, Circuit Judges, and GILBERT, District Judge

Pleas &  Sentencing – Error

No. 13-1731 United States of America v. Darryl Rollins

District court judge imposition of 4 year term of supervised release where sentencing guidelines called for 3 years called for remand.

“The judge imposed a four-year term of supervised release. The parties agree that although the judge had been alerted to the reduction in the statutory minimum term of supervised release occasioned by the Fair Sentencing Act, he was probably unaware that the range recommended by the Guidelines also had been reduced. We agree that a remand is appropriate limited only to this issue.”

Vacated and remanded

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Attorney Derek A. Hawkins is the managing partner at Hawkins Law Offices LLC, where he heads up the firm’s startup law practice. He specializes in business formation, corporate governance, intellectual property protection, private equity and venture capital funding and mergers & acquisitions. Check out the website at www.hawkins-lawoffices.com or contact them at 262-737-8825.

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