Charles Kinnard v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that \the fact that one defendant received a benefit to which he was not entitled\ usually \does not entitle another defendant to the benefit of the same mistake\ in the ineffective-assistance-of- counsel context
• “The fact that one defendant received a benefit to which he was not entitled (i.e., a lower sentence based on a weight that was not properly relied on by the sentencing court), does not entitle another defendant to the benefit of the same mistake.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).