U.S. v. PITTMAN

No. 94-5793.

55 F.3d 1136 (1995)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Lanell PITTMAN, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided June 1, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frederick H. Godwin, Asst. U.S. Atty. (argued), Amy E. Spain, Asst. U.S. Atty. (briefed), Office of the U.S. Atty., Memphis, TN, for plaintiff-appellee.

T. Clifton Harviel, Jr., Fed. Public Defender (argued and briefed), Office of the Federal Public Defender, Memphis, TN, for defendant-appellant.

Before: MILBURN and NORRIS, Circuit Judges; MILES, District Judge.


MILES, District Judge.

Lanell Pittman appeals his sentence imposed following his guilty plea to charges of solicitation to commit murder and use of an interstate commerce facility in the commission of a murder for hire. Pittman argues that the district court erred in departing upward from the guideline range sentence. For the reasons to follow, we AFFIRM.

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On July 20, 1993, a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Lanell Pittman...

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