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U.S. v. STERLING

No. 07-30001.

555 F.3d 452 (2009)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Justin Paul STERLING, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

January 15, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Camille Ann Domingue, Asst. U.S. Atty. (argued), Lafayette, LA, for U.S.

Christopher Albert Aberle (argued), Mandeville, LA, for Sterling.

Before JONES, Chief Judge, and OWEN and SOUTHWICK, Circuit Judges.

EDITH H. JONES, Chief Judge:

We are required to affirm a conviction for offenses that led inexorably to a 99-year sentence of imprisonment for a young, addicted drug dealer. This sentence exceeds, in this court's experience, what has been meted out to some drug trafficking kingpins. Why the Government chose to pile on its indictment against Sterling, especially after he pled guilty to the Mullins incident, is not ascertainable from the Pre-Sentence Report ("PSR")...

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