Sentencing — criminal history category, bearing

Posted November 24, 2015 2:51 PM

Where the government’s use of the word “several” in describing a defendant’s history of convictions, it did not factor in to the selection of the criminal history category.The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed as modified a decision by U.S. District Judge Virginia M. Kendall.In December 2012, a grand jury indicted Martise Chatman on six counts of distributing heroin. Chatman pleaded guilty to Count 6 of the indictment. The plea was Chatman’s 16th criminal conviction since 1996 and his …

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