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TERRANCE C. KIMBROUGH v. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Posted by: Tanja Trezise on Jun 22, 2023

Court: 6th Circuit Court (Published Opinions)

Attorneys 1: ARGUED: Jared M. Hirsch, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, New York, New York, Daniel S. Harawa, WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, St. Louis, Missouri, for Appellant.

Attorneys 2: ARGUED: Andrew C. Noll, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Washington, D.C., for Appellee.

Attorneys 3: ON BRIEF: Jared M. Hirsch, Pooja Goel, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, New York, New York, Daniel S. Harawa, WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, St. Louis, Missouri, for Appellant.

Attorneys 4: ON BRIEF: Andrew C. Noll, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Washington, D.C., Monica Morrison, UNITED STATES ATTORNEY’S OFFICE, Nashville, Tennessee, for Appellee.

Judge(s): SUTTON, Chief Judge; LARSEN and MURPHY, Circuit Judges

Court Appealed: Appeal from the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee at Nashville

SUTTON, Chief Judge. Terrance Kimbrough murdered a rival drug dealer. When he learned that a witness might cooperate with law enforcement, Kimbrough murdered him too. Federal charges followed. His lawyers negotiated a plea deal under which the government would drop many of the charges and he would serve 480 to 520 months in prison. Kimbrough agreed to the plea deal, and the district court imposed a 504-month sentence. Kimbrough had second thoughts. He moved to vacate his sentence, claiming that his counsel provided constitutionally ineffective assistance in advising him to accept the plea deal. The district court rejected this contention. So do we.

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