Welch v. United States

U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit · Decided 2010-05-04

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POSNER, Circuit Judge, dissenting. The defendant pleaded guilty to a charge of illegal possession of a gun by a felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922 (g)(1), for which the maximum prison sentence ordinarily would have been 120 months. 18 U.S.C. § 924 (a)(2). But the judge, because he found that the defendant had prior convictions for th…

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