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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. NASHAUN DRAKE

Posted by: Azya Thornton on Jan 28, 2025

Court: 6th Circuit Court (Published Opinions)

Attorneys 1: ON BRIEF: Catherine Adinaro Shusky, OFFICE OF THE FEDERAL PUBLIC DEFENDER, Cleveland, Ohio, for Appellant.

Attorneys 2: ON BRIEF: Daniel R. Ranke, UNITED STATES ATTORNEY’S OFFICE, Cleveland, Ohio, for Appellee.

Judge(s): United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio at Cleveland

Court Appealed: SUTTON, Chief Judge; KETHLEDGE and MURPHY, Circuit Judges

MURPHY, Circuit Judge. Nashaun Drake pleaded guilty to several drug offenses. At Drake’s sentencing, the district court treated him as a “career offender” based, in part, on a prior marijuana conviction. The court sentenced Drake to a within-guidelines sentence of 200 months’ imprisonment. Drake now argues that his prior marijuana conviction did not qualify as the type of drug offense that can trigger the career-offender sentencing enhancement. And he argues that his 200-month sentence was unreasonable. But our binding precedent requires us to reject his first claim, and our deferential standard of review requires us to reject his second one. We affirm.

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