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Sentencing Guidelines

By: Rick Benedict//January 10, 2017//

Sentencing Guidelines

By: Rick Benedict//January 10, 2017//

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7th Circuit Court of Appeals

Case Name: United States of America v. Ryan L. Gibbs

Case No.: 16-1747

Officials: POSNER, KANNE, and SYKES, Circuit Judges.

Focus: Sentencing Guidelines

The defendant pleaded guilty to possessing cocaine with intent to distribute it, in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) and (b)(1)(C). Because of the quantity of the cocaine that he possessed and his history of drug and other criminal offenses, his guideline sentencing range was 151 to 188 months and his statutory maximum 240 months. The government recommended a 216‐month sentence (i.e., 18 years, compared to the 15 and two‐thirds years that would be the length in years of a sentence of 188 months, the top of the guideline range), and that was the sentence that the district judge imposed and that the defendant’s appeal challenges.

Affirmed

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