By: Derek Hawkins//December 31, 2018//
7th Circuit Court of Appeals
Case Name: United States of America v. Vickie L. Sanders
Case No.: 18-2165
Officials: FLAUM, MANION, and ST. EVE, Circuit Judges
Focus: Sentencing Guidelines – Enhancement
Vickie Sanders pleaded guilty to a federal drug offense. About twenty years earlier, she was convicted of a felony drug offense in California, and therefore, the government sought to impose a ten-year mandatory minimum term of imprisonment pursuant to a recidivist enhancement provision, 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(B). After her guilty plea, but before sentencing, a California state court reclassified Sanders’s state drug offense as a misdemeanor pursuant to Proposition 47, Cal. Penal Code § 1170.18. Nevertheless, the district court still imposed the ten-year mandatory minimum. We affirm.
Affirmed