U.S. v. COLEMAN

No. 94-1428.

38 F.3d 856 (1994)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Lewellis COLEMAN, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided October 26, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barry Rand Elden, Asst. U.S. Atty., John J. Tharp (argued), Office of the U.S. Atty., Crim. Receiving, Appellate Div., Chicago, IL, for plaintiff-appellee.

Michael B. Brohman (argued), Stuart M. Gimbel, Kamensky & Rubinstein, Lincolnwood, IL, for defendant-appellant.

Before BAUER and FLAUM, Circuit Judges, and FOREMAN, District Judge.


FLAUM, Circuit Judge.

Lewellis Coleman ("Defendant") argues that he was wrongly sentenced as a career offender under the United States Sentencing Guidelines following a guilty plea to residential burglary on federal land. He contends that the burglary was not a crime of violence and that he did not have two prior felony convictions, as required by the Guidelines. The defendant further argues that his sentence violates his Fifth and Eighth Amendment rights under the...

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