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U.S. v. WICKS

No. 96-2465.

132 F.3d 383 (1997)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Benny R. WICKS, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided December 22, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman R. Smith (argued), Office of the United States Attorney, Criminal Division, Fairview Heights, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Mary Wiggins and Mary Endres, Law Students (argued), Robert J. Palmer, May, Oberfell & Lorber, South Bend, IN, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before CUDAHY, DIANE P. WOOD, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.

DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judge.

Benny Wicks, no stranger to the criminal justice system, raises in this appeal a potpourri of challenges to the federal "Three Strikes" statute, 18 U.S.C. § 3559(c), under which Congress has prescribed a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment for certain recidivist "violent felons." Wicks was declared "out" under the statute when he was convicted for violating the federal armed bank robbery statute, 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a), and...

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