Legal Opinion
United States v. Caraballo
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided December 22, 2008No. 08-1555PublishedCited by 79 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
This single-issue criminal appeal raises a question of first impression in this circuit: Does the Sentencing Commission’s recent amendment to the drug quantity table, USSG App. C, Amend. 706 (2007), offer a potential remedy to a defendant who, although convicted of a drug-trafficking offense involving crack cocaine, was ultimately sentenced as a career offender? The district court answered that question in the negative, concluding that the amendment does not benefit the defendant in the circumstances of this case. We affirm the denial of the defendant’s motion for a…
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