UNITED STATES v. FOWOWE

No. 20-3197.

1 F.4th 522 (2021)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Olaitan FOWOWE, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided June 16, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Timothy A. Bass , Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Springfield, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Thomas Drysdale , Peter W. Henderson , Attorneys, Office of the Federal Public Defender, Urbana, IL, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before Sykes, Chief Judge, and Flaum and Easterbrook, Circuit Judges.


In 2009, defendant-appellant Olaitan Fowowe was sentenced for a conviction for conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine. The following year, Congress passed the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, Pub. L. No. 111-220, 124 Stat. 2372, which prospectively reduced the amount and kind of punishment for crack cocaine convictions like Fowowe...

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