Juan White v. United States

EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

A jury convicted Juan White of distributing more than 50 grams of cocaine base, 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1), and a judge sentenced him to 360 months’ imprisonment. He filed and lost a collateral attack under 28 U.S.C. § 2255. After the Sentencing Commission adopted Amendment 750, which retroactively cut the offense levels for crack-cocaine offenses, White asked the judge to reduce his sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c). The judge calculated the newly applicable range under Amendment 750 and in June 2012 reduced White’s sentence to 292 months.

Nine months later White filed…