United States Seventh Circuit

Conviction and sentence on drug and firearm charges is affirmed where: 1) various challenged evidentiary rulings were proper; and 2) a sentence entered under the career-offender guideline raises no Kimbrough problem because, to the extent that it treats crack cocaine differently from powder cocaine, the disparity arises from a statute, not from the advisory guidelines.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/08/2008
• Decided 08/06/2008
• Published 08/06/2008

Judges

• KANNE, Circuit Judge., Before KANNE, WILLIAMS, and TINDER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Linda L. Mullen (argued), Office of the United States Attorney, Rock Island, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Arthur J. Rooney (argued), Seyfarth Shaw, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellant.