United States v. Edwina Bigesby

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that the “gap between [a] conviction and the [offense conduct] limited the conviction’s probative value”
• explaining that the “gap between [a] conviction and the [offense conduct] limited the conviction’s probative value”
• noting that every circuit has held that the FSA does not apply to defendants who were sentenced before the date of enactment
• noting that every circuit has held that the FSA does not apply to defendants who were sentenced before the date of enactment
• noting that a trial court should consider excluding evidence if it risks “‘creating a sideshow and sending the trial off track’” (quoting Duran v. Town of Cicero, 653 F.3d 632, 635 (7th Cir. 2011)
• applying Bigesby to deny motion to reduce sentence based on Fair Sentencing Act where defendant was sentenced in 2004

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).