United States v. Conley

Conley pled guilty to bank robbery, 18 U.S.C. 2113(a) and was held in custody in Chicago’s Metropolitan Correctional Center while awaiting sentencing. During the early morning hours of December 18, 2012, Conley and his cellmate, Banks, escaped from the MCC. The men sawed through the bars in their narrow cell window and removed a section of concrete from the wall surrounding it. They fashioned a rope out of bed sheets, crawled through the opening, and scaled 17 floors down the side of the building to the ground. Conley was at large for 17 days before he was captured after an exhaustive manhunt for Conley. When officers found and approached him, Conley provided a false name and ran from the officers. Conley pled guilty to the escape and was given a 41-month sentence, to be served consecutively to his sentence for bank robbery. The Seventh Circuit affirmed, rejecting arguments that the district court relied on the wrong provision of U.S.S.G. 5G1.3 in imposing a consecutive, as opposed to a concurrent, sentence and that even if the court applied the proper provision, the 41-month consecutive sentence was substantively unreasonable. View "United States v. Conley" on Justia Law