United States Seventh Circuit

Sentence for possession with intent to distribute cocaine and cocaine base is affirmed where the district court did not fail to consider Section 3353(a) factors or fail to adequately explain the chosen sentence, and the sentence was not substantively unreasonable even though it exceeded the sentence defendant would have received had his crime involved powder cocaine.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/11/2009
• Published 02/11/2009

Judges

• RIPPLE, Circuit Judge., Before COFFEY, RIPPLE and SYKES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Timothy M. O'Shea, Office of the United States Attorney, Madison, WI, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Anthony C. Delyea, Delyea & Cornia, Madison, WI, for Defendant-Appellant.