U.S. v. Jackson

Federal 7th Circuit Court
Criminal Court
Sentencing
Citation
Case Number: 
No. 13-1496
Decision Date: 
February 3, 2014
Federal District: 
N.D. Ind., S. Bend Div.
Holding: 
Affirmed
Dist. Ct. did not err in sentencing defendant to 60-month term of incarceration on charge of unlawful possession of firearm, where said sentence was based in part on enhancement under section 2K2.1(b)(6)(B) of USSG, where defendant had transferred said gun to another individual whom defendant had reason to believe was felon, whose possession of said firearm was prohibited under 18 USC section 922(g)(1). Ct. rejected defendant’s argument that said enhancement could not apply where defendant had transferred firearm to another person, who, like defendant, was precluded by statute from possessing said firearm, since, according to defendant, third-party’s possession of same firearm was not “another felony offense” separate and distinct from defendant’s charged offense.