Good shit > -----Original Message----- > From: Gruss Gott [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 3:26 PM > To: cf-community > Subject: [scotus] Gun Conviction Overturned > > My wife's team just won this Supreme Court case. Pretty cool! > -- > > January 16, 2009 > Chicago Daily Law Bulletin > > A 9-0 WIN AT THE SUPREME COURT > > The students in the Supreme Court Clinic at the Northwestern > University School of Law were on the victorious side in a recent U.S. > Supreme Court decision. > Last week, the high court threw out a mandatory 15-year > prison term given to Deondery Chambers, who pleaded guilty to > being a felon in possession of a gun. > > Chambers was eligible for such a long sentence because of the > Armed Career Criminal Act. The act imposes a 15-year term on > an individual convicted of being a felon in possession of a > firearm if he or she has three prior convictions "for a > violent felony or serious drug offense or both" on different > occasions. > > The government said one of those three priors for Chambers > took place when he failed to report for his weekend jail confinement. > > Ultimately the justices ruled that failure to report for > weekend jail confinement did not constitute a violent crime. > > Chambers v. U.S., No. 06-11206, was argued on Nov. 10 by Robert N. > Hochman, a partner in Sidley's Chicago office. > > Hawkins said several groups of students worked on the case > since 2007, including the students who helped put together > the original petition for a writ of certiorari in May 2007 > asking the high court to review the case. > >
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