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UNITED STATES v. BASS

No. 21-1094.

17 F.4th 629 (2021)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. John BASS, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: November 3, 2021.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Andrew Goetz, UNITED STATES ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, Detroit, Michigan, for Appellant. Douglas R. Mullkoff, Ann Arbor, Michigan, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Andrew Goetz, UNITED STATES ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, Detroit, Michigan, for Appellant. Douglas R. Mullkoff, Ann Arbor, Michigan, for Appellee. Stephanie Franxman Kessler, PINALES STACHLER YOUNG & BURRELL CO., LPA, Cincinnati, Ohio, Barry J. Pollack, Courtney L. Millian, ROBBINS, RUSSELL, ENGLERT, ORSECK, UNTEREINER & SAUBER, LLP, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae.

ROGERS, Circuit Judge, delivered the opinion of the court in which MURPHY, Circuit Judge, joined. WHITE, Circuit Judge (pp. 642-44), delivered a separate dissenting opinion.

OPINION

In 2003, John Bass, a local drug kingpin in the state of Michigan, was convicted of murdering a hitman whom Bass had hired to kill Bass's half-brother. Though the Government sought the death penalty, Bass was ultimately sentenced to two concurrent terms of...

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