U.S. v. CERRO

No. 85-1112.

775 F.2d 908 (1985)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Samuel B. CERRO, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided November 4, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James J. Ewers, Ewers Law Office, Madison, Wis., for defendant-appellant.

John W. Vaudreuil, Asst. U.S. Atty., Madison, Wis., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before CUDAHY and POSNER, Circuit Judges, and SWYGERT, Senior Circuit Judge.


POSNER, Circuit Judge.

A jury convicted Samuel Cerro of five counts of conspiracy to distribute cocaine and three counts of filing false income tax returns. The judge gave him concurrent 15-year sentences on the first three conspiracy counts and consecutive 15-year sentences on the fourth and fifth conspiracy counts, for a total of 45 years. (Sentences of 3 years on each of the tax counts were made concurrent with the conspiracy sentences.) Cerro had also been charged...

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