United States v. Molton, No. 13-2525 (7th Cir. 2014)
Annotate this CaseConvicted of unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, 18 U.S.C. 922(g), Molton was sentenced to 108 months’ imprisonment, which is substantially higher than the advisory guidelines range of 63 to 78 months. The judge determined that a guideline sentence was insufficient punishment for a 23-year-old convicted of his third firearm offense. The Seventh Circuit affirmed the conviction and the sentence, rejecting arguments that the district court should have excluded evidence of Molton’s gang affiliation, and that his above‐guidelines sentence was substantively unreasonable.
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