United States v. Ricky Hatch

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• affirming an above-guidelines sentence where the court “situated [the defendant’s] offense against . . . observations about widespread gun violence in Chicago”
• citing, inter alia, Spears v. United States, 555 U.S. 261, 265–66 (2009); United States v. Corner, 598 F.3d 411, 415 (7th Cir. 2010) (en banc)
• affirming sentence and concluding district court did not commit procedural error by “merely situat[ing] [defendant’s] offense against the back‐ drop of statistics and observations about widespread gun vi‐ olence in Chicago”
• affirming above-guidelines sentence for firearm trafficking where judge commented on the “gun violence that plagues this city” and “[c]hildren [being] shot while playing in front of their own homes”

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Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. Cavera
  Second Circuit· 2008-12-04· cited 1,656×
• Spears v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2009-01-21· cited 508×
• United States v. Flores-Machicote
  First Circuit· 2013-01-23· cited 211×
• United States v. Corner
  Seventh Circuit· 2010-03-17· cited 185×
• United States v. H. Ty Warner
  Seventh Circuit· 2015-07-10· cited 90×
• United States v. Reyes-Hernandez
  Seventh Circuit· 2010-10-07· cited 60×
• United States v. Figueroa
  Seventh Circuit· 2010-09-13· cited 54×
• United States v. Olayinka Sunmola
  Seventh Circuit· 2018-04-16· cited 33×
• United States v. Lemuel Tyra
  Seventh Circuit· 2006-07-20· cited 30×
• United States v. Terry Smith
  Seventh Circuit· 2017-06-19· cited 23×
• United States v. Billy Robinson, Jr.
  Seventh Circuit· 2016-07-22· cited 16×
• United States v. Guadalupe Mejia, Jr.
  Seventh Circuit· 2017-06-13· cited 15×

Other cases named United States v. Ricky Hatch

1 other CourtListener record shares this case name.

• United States v. Ricky Hatch
  Seventh Circuit· 2018-11-29