United States v. Thompson

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER RE: RE-SENTENCING

GORTON, District Judge.

This case involves the re-sentencing of the defendant, John Thompson, in the light of the First Circuit’s decision in United States v. Thompson, 234 F.3d 74 (1st Cir.2000) (“Thompson II”). Mr. Thompson pled guilty to Count Five of a multi-count indictment, charging him with the distribution of cocaine base on February 11, 1997 in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1). 1 The charges grew out of a joint federal-state investigation of crack cocaine trafficking at the Bromley Heath Housing Development in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.

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