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7^th Circuit Court of Appeals

Case Name: United States of America v. Edward Dorsey, Sr.

Case No.: 15-3341

Officials: WOOD, Chief Judge, and EASTERBROOK and KANNE, Circuit Judges.

Focus: Sentencing

Court did not err in considering his revocation case sentence, the district court stated the influential factors affecting his final sentence.

“Here, at resentencing, the district court stated which factors influenced the final sentence, including an extensive discussion of its reasons for increasing Dorsey’s sentence by 51 months based on the concurrent nature of Dorsey’s revocation case sentence. (Sent. Tr. 34–35, Oct. 16, 2015.) The district court explained that at Dorsey’s first sentencing, it had wanted to impose a 327‐month sentence, but Dorsey had persuaded the court to impose a 276‐month sentence be‐ cause he expected to receive a 51‐month consecutive sentence in his revocation case. (Id.) Dorsey, however, received a 51‐ month concurrent sentence in his revocation case. As a result, at resentencing, the district court increased Dorsey’s sentence to “correct … a misunderstanding on my part that the 51 months was definitely going to be consecutive.” (Id. at 35.) The district court’s reasoning more than adequately justifies Dorsey’s final sentence. Therefore, there was no procedural error.”

Affirmed

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