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U.S. v. BELTON

No. 89-1649.

890 F.2d 9 (1989)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Raymond Bruce BELTON, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided November 20, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Jeffrey Wagner, Asst. U.S. Atty., Office of the U.S. Atty., Milwaukee, Wis., Stephen J. Liccione, for plaintiff-appellee.

Peter O. Bockhorst, Bockhorst & Bockhorst, Milwaukee, Wis., on appeal, Roosevelt Thomas, Martin & Thomas, Chicago, Ill., at trial, for defendant-appellant.

Before WOOD, Jr., POSNER, and COFFEY, Circuit Judges.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

A jury convicted the defendant of conspiracy to possess more than five kilograms of cocaine, intending to distribute it in the Milwaukee area, and the judge sentenced him to thirty years in prison as a "career offender." The appeal is from the sentence and raises a novel interpretive question under the sentencing guidelines.

So far as is relevant to this case, a "career offender" is a convicted...

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