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359. Best shot

By Joel Jacobsen

The Sixth Circuit recently issued a routine little opinion, U.S. v. Mayberry.  I'm not sure why they bothered to publish it.  I guess it says something new about federal sentencing (all I know about the subject is that it would be unconstitutional if any state did the same).After an introductory first paragraph, the opinion reads:Although Defendants James Peoples and Shawn Mayberry were charged only as felons inpossession of a firearm, not with armed robbery, both Defendants allegedly participated in a stringof such robberies prior to their December 24, 2005 arrest. On October 30, 2005, the night of the firstrobbery, three men wearing dark clothes and ski masks entered a D & W Food Store in GrandRapids, Michigan at just before midnight...continue to full post

Full post as published by Judging Crimes on September 26, 2008 (boomark / email).