United States v. Miller, No. 10-5432 (6th Cir. 2012)
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An alleged methamphetamine manufacturing and distribution conspiracy in eastern Tennessee involved 49 indicted defendants, 21 U.S.C. 841(a), 846. Miller pleaded guilty and challenged her sentence. Beals and Ambrose were convicted and appealed, arguing insufficient evidence and that the district court improperly denied a pretrial suppression motion and mid-trial request for the government to disclose the identity of a confidential informant. The government challenged Ambrose’s 168-month sentence as unlawful in light of Abbott v.United States, 131 S. Ct. 18 (2010). The Seventh Circuit dismissed Miller’s appeal as waived by the plea agreement; affirmed Beals’s convictions; but vacated Ambrose’s sentence. Abbott covers Ambrose’s conviction under 18 U.S.C. 924(c) and the district court erred in declining to impose a consecutive minimum sentence of five years for the conviction.
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