By: Derek Hawkins//February 13, 2017//
7th Circuit Court of Appeals
Case Name: United States of America v. Tyran Patton
Case No.: 16-1319
Officials: MANION, KANNE, and HAMILTON, Circuit Judges.
Focus: Sentencing
Tyran Patton was a high‐level drug dealer who, after being arrested for an unrelated firearms offense, agreed to cooperate with the government. Patton acted as an informant in the government’s investigation of illegal firearm sales but then disappeared for several months. After he reemerged, he pleaded guilty to the drug charges and was sentenced. At sentencing the government refused to move for a sentencing reduction for substantial cooperation. The district court then sentenced Patton to a below‐guidelines prison sentence of 244 months’ imprisonment. Patton appeals, claiming the district court should have forced the government to file a motion for a sentencing reduction. We affirm.
Affirmed