Sentencing – Mandatory Minimum

By: Derek Hawkins//November 7, 2016//

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7^th Circuit Court of Appeals

Case Name: United States of America v. Deandre Armour

Case No.: 15-2170

Officials: ROVNER, SYKES, and HAMILTON, Circuit Judges.

Focus: Sentencing – Mandatory Minimum

This appeal stems from an attempted bank robbery. It presents issues concerning the defendant’s sentence and the definition of a “crime of violence” in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c), which provides extra punishment for use of a firearm in committing a crime of violence. We affirm the district court’s judgment for the most part, but we must remand for re-sentencing on one count of conviction because the court imposed a mandatory minimum sentence under § 924(c) without a jury finding on the key fact.

Affirmed in part

Vacated and remanded in part

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