United States Seventh Circuit

Defendant's sentence for being a felon in possession of a firearm is vacated where the district judge erred as a matter of law by failing to resolve a disputed sentencing fact essential to a properly calculated guidelines range.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/13/2006
• Published 01/13/2006

Judges

• SYKES, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, KANNE, and SYKES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lesley J. Miller-Lowery (aubmitted a brief), Office of the United States Attorney, South Bend, IN, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert D. Truitt (submitted a brief), Indiana Federal Community Defenders, Inc., South Bend, IN, for Defendant-Appellee.