Sentencing Guidelines

By: Derek Hawkins//May 14, 2018//

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7^th Circuit Court of Appeals

Case Name: United States of America v. Grover Coleman Ferguson

Case No.: 16-3979

Officials: WOOD, Chief Judge, and MANION and HAMILTON, Circuit Judges.

Focus: Sentencing Guidelines

When Grover Ferguson was 17 years old he shot a woman three times during a carjacking, causing significant permanent injury. Ferguson pleaded guilty to vehicular robbery by force and discharging a gun. The sentencing guidelines range was 198 to 217 months’ imprisonment (16.5 to 18 years), but the district judge sentenced Ferguson to 600 months in prison (50 years). He appealed, and in United States v. Ferguson, 831 F.3d 850 (7th Cir. 2016), we vacated his sentence and remanded the case to a new judge, who imposed a 35‐year sentence. Now Ferguson argues that the district court failed to adequately consider his youth as a mitigating factor and to properly explain the above‐guidelines sentence. We affirm the 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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