U.S. v. ALEXANDER

No. 07-3420.

553 F.3d 591 (2009)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Randy J. ALEXANDER, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided January 22, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jason Yonan (argued), Office of the United States Attorney, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Terence F. MacCarthy, Office of the Federal Defender Program, Chicago, IL, Richard H. Parsons, Johanna M. Christiansen (argued), Office of the Federal Public Defender, Peoria, IL, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before BAUER, POSNER, and MANION, Circuit Judges.


POSNER, Circuit Judge.

The defendant was sentenced to 151 months in prison for bank robbery, a sentence within the guidelines range of 151 to 189 months for a career offender, which the judge correctly determined him to be. At the time sentence was imposed, Amendment 709 to the sentencing guidelines, proposed by the Sentencing Commission, was pending. Had the amendment been in effect, the defendant's guidelines range would have been only 63 to 78 months.

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