Rutherford v. United States · ¶61

In 2007, petitioner Johnnie Markel Carter and others robbed several banks and stole about $250,000. As with Rutherford's robberies, no one fred a gun and no one was hurt. Carter, who opted to go to trial, was convicted of three violations of § 924(c) and later sentenced to a term of 70 years in prison, 57 of which were from mandatory minimums for the § 924(c) violations. (Carter's co-conspirators, by contrast, took plea deals and received sentences ranging from 10 to 23 years.) For Carter, who was 29 years old at the time, the 70-year sentence was a de facto life sentence.

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