Legal Opinion
United States v. Willie Johnson
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided January 16, 2013No. 12-1226PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RILEY, Chief Judge.
A jury convicted Willie Johnson of three federal narcotics crimes. Johnson appeals the district court’s 1 partial denial of his 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) motion for a sentence modification. The district court reduced Johnson’s prison sentence from 324 to 210 months because the United States Sentencing Commission (Commission) retroactively amended the crack cocaine sentencing guidelines. The district court refused to reduce Johnson’s sentence further based on an earlier, non-retroactive amendment to the United States Sentencing Guidelines (U.S.S.G. or Guidelines). Johnson…
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