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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. CORTEZ BLAKE

Posted by: Azya Thornton on Feb 5, 2026

Court: 6th Circuit Court (Published Opinions)

Attorneys 1: ARGUED: William C. Livingston, BERKMAN, GORDON, MURRAY & DEVAN, Cleveland, Ohio, for Appellant.

Attorneys 2: ARGUED: Sarah Alsaden, UNITED STATES ATTORNEY’S OFFICE, Detroit, Michigan, for Appellee.

Attorneys 3: ON BRIEF: William C. Livingston, BERKMAN, GORDON, MURRAY & DEVAN, Cleveland, Ohio, for Appellant.

Attorneys 4: ON BRIEF: Sarah Alsaden, UNITED STATES ATTORNEY’S OFFICE, Detroit, Michigan, for Appellee.

Judge(s): United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan at Detroit

Court Appealed: SUTTON, Chief Judge; MURPHY and BLOOMEKATZ, Circuit Judges

BLOOMEKATZ, Circuit Judge. Cortez Blake was convicted by a jury of aiding and abetting kidnapping. On appeal, Blake challenges his conviction and sentence on five grounds, spanning pre-trial motions, evidentiary objections, sufficiency of the evidence, and conditions of supervised release. We affirm the district court on four of the five grounds, but we remand this matter for the district court to resolve the discrepancy between the oral pronouncement of sentence and the written judgment.

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