Opinion ID: 216187
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 6

Heading: Experience with the Criminal Justice System

Text: The district court found that Fitzmorris’s lengthy record, which included eleven adult convictions in state court, rendered him intimately familiar with the workings of the criminal-justice system. Nevertheless, Fitzmorris submits that he had no experience in federal court before his drug and firearms cases. This Court rejected a similar argument in United States v. Ford, 15 F. App’x 303, 309-10 (6th Cir. 2001), where the defendant’s prior criminal-justice experience consisted of two state-court convictions. The district court did not abuse its discretion in weighing this factor against -10- Nos. 08-4140/09-3207 United States v. Fitzmorris Fitzmorris.