U.S. v. RUTH

No. 20-1034.

966 F.3d 642 (2020)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Nathaniel RUTH, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 20, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Katherine Virginia Boyle , Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Urbana Division, Urbana, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Johanes Maliza , Attorney, Office of the Federal Public Defender, Springfield, IL, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before Sykes, Chief Judge, and Bauer and St. Eve, Circuit Judges.


In what is becoming an all-too-familiar subject, this appeal raises a question about whether a state drug statute sweeps more broadly than its federal counterpart because the former includes a particular isomer of a substance that the latter does not. Nathaniel Ruth pleaded guilty to federal

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