UNITED STATES v. JACKSON

No. 20-2680.

991 F.3d 851 (2021)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Dwight E. JACKSON, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided March 23, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward Anthony Liva, Jr. , Attorney, OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff Appellee.

William Banks Hardwicke , Daniel J. Hesler , John F. Murphy , Attorneys, OFFICE OF THE FEDERAL DEFENDER PROGRAM, Chicago, IL, for Defendant Appellant.

Before Easterbrook, Wood, and Kirsch, Circuit Judges.


Dwight Jackson made a career of armed bank robbery. Thirty minutes after being released from prison for two of his robberies, Jackson committed another. The district judge who sentenced Jackson concluded that nothing short of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole would bring his criminality to a close. We...

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