United States Seventh Circuit

Booker challenge to a sentence for possession of child pornography is remanded to the district court where the sentencing limitations contained in the Feeney Amendment to 18 U.S.C. 3553(b) violate the Sixth Amendment, and the sentencing judge's statements regarding the limitations' effect on the defendant's sentence were unclear.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/24/2006
• Decided 03/24/2006
• Published 03/24/2006

Judges

• RIPPLE, Circuit Judge., Before RIPPLE, ROVNER and EVANS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Brian E. Pawlak (argued), Michelle L. Jacobs, Office of the United States Attorney, Milwaukee, WI, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Gerald P. Boyle (argued), Bridget E. Boyle, Boyle, Boyle & Smith, Milwaukee, WI, for Defendant-Appellant.