U.S. v. PINTO

No. 88-2896.

875 F.2d 143 (1989)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Evelio PINTO, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided May 19, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold Stein, Bahcall Stein & Sullivan, Milwaukee, Wis., for defendant-appellant.

R. Jeffrey Wagner, Asst. U.S. Atty., Milwaukee, Wis., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before BAUER, Chief Judge, EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge, and WILL, Senior District Judge.


EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

The Sentencing Guidelines apply to this case, in which Evelio Pinto was convicted of possessing cocaine with intent to distribute it, and of conspiring to do so. Because Pinto has other felony convictions on his record, the district judge treated him as a "career offender" under Guideline § 4B1.1, yielding a sentence of 264 months in prison, without possibility of parole (abolished for all sentences under the Guidelines). This sentence...

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