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By: Derek Hawkins//February 13, 2017//
Listen to this article7th 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
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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