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Parties Involved:
Abdelhamid Sedrati
Appellant
United States of America
Appellee

Document Text:

United States Court of Appeals

For the Seventh Circuit

Chicago, Illinois 60604

 Submitted February 11, 2010∗

Decided February 17, 2010

Before

FRANK H. EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge

DANIEL A. MANION, Circuit Judge

TERENCE T. EVANS, Circuit Judge

No. 09-2778

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 

Plaintiff-Appellee,

v.

ABDELHAMID SEDRATI,

Defendant-Appellant.

Appeal from the United 

States District Court for the 

Northern District of Illinois, 

Eastern Division.

No. 00 CR 1043

Matthew F. Kennelly, Judge.

Order

Appellant’s brief presents a single contention: that United States v. Demaree, 459 

F.3d 791 (7th Cir. 2006), should be overruled. Demaree holds that a district judge must 

use the sentencing manual that is in force on the date of sentencing, and that doing so 

does not violate the Ex Post Facto Clause. We have been asked many times to 

reconsider Demaree and have just as often declined. Appellant does not present a new 

argument, so there is no reason for this court to give this issue further consideration. 

Appellant has preserved his contentions for presentation to the Supreme Court. Given

Demaree, appellant’s sentence is unexceptionable. The judgment therefore is affirmed.

 

∗ After examining the briefs and the record, we have concluded that oral argument is unnecessary. 

See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a); Cir. R. 34(f).

NONPRECEDENTIAL DISPOSITION

To be cited only in accordance with 

Fed. R. App. P. 32.1

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