Legal Opinion
Herminio Cortorreal v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided May 3, 2007No. Docket 06-5193-crPublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Per curiam
In May 2006, Herminio Cortorreal, pro se, filed in the District Court a motion for resentencing in which he argued that he was entitled to resentencing under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2), and the Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220, 125 S.Ct. 738, 160 L.Ed.2d 621 (2005). Specifically, Cortor-real argued that, because Booker had constituted both an implicit lowering of the United States Sentencing Guidelines (“Guidelines”) and a new rule of law that was retroactive to cases on collateral review, he was entitled to a new sentence. In July 2006, the District Court issued…
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