United States Seventh Circuit

Defendant's sentence for distribution of cocaine is vacated pursuant to a Booker challenge where the district court failed to make the findings of fact necessary to support a sentence accepting the recommendation in defendant-s pre-sentence report.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/06/2005
• Decided 01/17/2006
• Published 01/17/2006

Judges

• WOOD, Circuit Judge., Before ROVNER, WOOD, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• John W. Vaudreuil, Stephen P. Sinnott, Peter M. Jarosz (argued), Office of the United States Attorney, Madison, WI, for Plaintiff-Appellee., David R. Karpe (argued), Madison, WI, for Defendant-Appellant.