U.S. v. DUKE

No. 18-1371.

932 F.3d 1056 (2019)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Ralph Chavous DUKE, also known as Plookie, also known as Plukey, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: July 31, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lisa D. Kirkpatrick , Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, Saint Paul, MN, Jeffrey S. Paulsen , Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, District of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Ralph Chavous Duke, Pro Se.

Robert D. Richman , Saint Louis Park, MN, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before LOKEN, COLLOTON, and KELLY, Circuit Judges.


Ralph Duke was sentenced in 1990 to a term of life imprisonment plus forty years for committing several serious drug trafficking and firearms offenses. A district court later vacated his convictions on the firearms counts in light of an intervening judicial decision, and the case was returned to the District of Minnesota...

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