Sentencing – Supervised Release

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7^th Circuit Court of Appeals

Case Name: United States of America v. Dexter Fisher

Case No.: 18-2765

Officials: WOOD, Chief Judge, and KANNE and BRENNAN, Circuit Judges.

Focus: Sentencing – Supervised Release

In the late summer and fall of 2014, multiple pharmacies in Indianapolis were robbed at gun point. Police eventually arrested Dexter Fisher, who was later charged with nine offenses for his involvement in three of the robberies. A jury found Fisher guilty of Hobbs Act robbery, brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence, and being a felon in possession of a firearm. The district court then imposed a sentence, which included conditions of supervised release and an order that Fisher forfeit the firearm used in his offenses.

Fisher appealed his convictions for brandishing a firearm, the forfeiture of his firearm, and parts of his sentence relating to supervised release. Only one alleged error needs correction: an inconsistency between the oral sentence and the written judgment, regarding whether terms of supervised release attach to certain counts. We remand with specific instructions to correct that portion of the written judgment.

Affirmed in part. Remanded in part.

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