Rutherford v. United States · ¶60

In 2003, when he was 25 years old, petitioner Daniel Rutherford committed two armed robberies in which no one was hurt and during which he took a watch and roughly $1,300 worth of other jewelry and cash. He was convicted of two violations of 18 U. S. C. § 924(c)(1). At the time, those violations together carried a mandatory minimum sentence of 32 years, to run consecutive to his sentence for the robberies. In total, Rutherford was sentenced to 42.5 years in prison. As two judges noted in Rutherford's direct appeal of his conviction, that sentence “would be unthinkable in many state systems.” 236 Fed. Appx. 835, 845 (CA3 2007) (Ambro, J., joined by McKee, J., concurring).

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