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Sentencing Guidelines – Enhancement

By: Derek Hawkins//December 31, 2018//

Sentencing Guidelines – Enhancement

By: Derek Hawkins//December 31, 2018//

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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

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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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