Read US v. Morris, 04-7889

The rule announced in United States v. Booker, 125 S. Ct. 738 (2005) does not apply retroactively to cases on collateral review; thus, defendant's conviction and sentence is affirmed.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/07/2005
• Published 11/07/2005

Judges

• Before NIEMEYER and SHEDD, Circuit Judges, and James C. DEVER, III, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of North Carolina, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Charles Ethan Luftig, Dickstein, Shapiro, Morin & Oshinsky, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Appellant.  Kevin Frank McDonald, Assistant United States Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Elaine Metlin, Laura H. Hamilton, Bernard F. Sheehan, Dickstein, Shapiro, Morin & Oshinsky, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Appellant.  Jonathan S. Gasser, United States Attorney, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellee.