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U.S. v. LOMAX

No. 11-2468.

712 F.3d 1087 (2013)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Mario Victor LOMAX, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided April 2, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew F. Madden (submitted), Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Beau B. Brindley (submitted), Attorney, Law Offices of Beau B. Brindley, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before POSNER, WILLIAMS, and SYKES, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM.

Mario Victor Lomax pleaded guilty in 2008 to one count of distributing crack cocaine. See 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1). By the time he was sentenced in 2011, Congress had enacted the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 ("FSA"), Pub L. No. 111-220, 124 Stat. 2372, which increased the threshold amounts of crack that will trigger enhanced statutory penalties under § 841(b)(1). (The parties do not say, and neither does the record disclose, why this prosecution...

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