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U.S. v. WILLIAMS

Docket No. 07-2436-cr.

558 F.3d 166 (2009)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Leon WILLIAMS, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Reargued: December 2, 2008.

Decided: March 5, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anjan Sahni and William J. Harrington, Assistant United States Attorneys (Jonathan S. Kolodner and Daniel Braun, Assistant United States Attorneys, of counsel), for Michael J. Garcia, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, New York, NY, for Appellee.

B. Alan Seidler, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellant.

Lewis J. Liman (Michael J. Byars, of counsel), Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, New York, NY, Amicus Curiae in Support of Defendant-Appellant.*

Before: POOLER and HALL, Circuit Judges, and TRAGER, District Judge.

POOLER, Circuit Judge:

Leon Williams appeals from a June 1, 2007, judgment of conviction and sentence of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Sand, J.). Williams was convicted of a drug trafficking crime which carried a ten-year mandatory minimum sentence under 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(A), and possession of a firearm in furtherance of that drug trafficking crime, an offense which carried a five-year mandatory minimum consecutive...

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