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U.S. v. CLANTON

Nos. 07-1773, 07-2358, 07-2924.

538 F.3d 652 (2008)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Nathan J. CLANTON, Ibn A. Williams, and Carlton Embry, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 14, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Timothy M. O'Shea (argued), David Reinhard, Office of the United States Attorney, Madison, WI, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Richard H. Parsons, Jonathan E. Hawley, Kent V. Anderson (argued), Office of the Federal Public Defender, Peoria, IL, Robert T. Ruth (argued), Anthony C. Delyea (argued), Delyea & Cornia, Madison, WI, for Defendants-Appellants.

Before MANION, KANNE, and TINDER, Circuit Judges.

TINDER, Circuit Judge.

This opinion consolidates for decision three cases argued before this panel on February 19, 2007. All three cases present a similar question—an appeal of a crack sentencing and an argument about the crack/powder cocaine sentencing disparity. We will first address the other, for the most part meritless, issues raised in the individual cases and then move into the discussion of the crack sentencing ratio, which impacts all three cases....

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