Legal Opinion
United States v. Horn
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided May 8, 2012No. 11-5470PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
ROGERS, Circuit Judge.
Once again in this matter, the district court has declined to follow a non-retroactivity determination of the United States Sentencing Commission. In 2001, Defendant Gregory Horn was sentenced as a career offender under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.1 following his guilty plea to bank robbery. Six years later, in 2007, the Sentencing Commission promulgated Amendment 709, which changed the method by which a district court calculated prior offenses. After public comment, the Commission declined to give Amendment 709 retroactive application. Had Amendment 709 been in effect when…
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