Sentencing – Court Error

By: Derek Hawkins//February 6, 2017//

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7^th Circuit Court of Appeals

Case Name: United States of America v. Sylvia Hollins

Case No.: 16-1442

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

Focus: Sentencing – Court Error

This case comes to us for the second time after a district court revoked Sylvia Hollins’s supervised release stemming from her 2007 federal conviction. In the first appeal, we granted a joint motion for summary reversal and remand for resentencing. See United States v. Hollins, No. 15‐3750 (7th Cir. Jan. 27, 2016). The district court obliged with a resentencing hearing held on February 25, 2016. Hollins has appealed from the new sentence, which she asserts is tainted by several procedural flaws. We find no error, however, and so we affirm the district court’s judgment.

Affirmed

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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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