United States v. Jason Leatch

GREGG COSTA, Circuit Judge:

From time to time, the Sentencing Commission decides to lower the guideline range applicable to an offense and gives retroactive effect to that reduction for those sentenced before the change. Amendment 782 to the Guidelines was one such change. It lowered by two the offense level for most drug crimes. 1 As a result of this change, Jason Dejuan Leatch, had his 262-month sentence for trafficking in crack cocaine reduced to 235 months. His appeal contends that he should have received a greater reduction to account for the downward departure based on overrepresented…