United States v. Williams

HALL, Circuit Judge:

Defendant-Appellant Saquan Lewis appeals from an order of the District Court for the Northern District of New York (Mordue, J.) denying Lewis’s February 15, 2008 motion for resentencing, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2), under the amendment to Section 2Dl.l(e) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines (“Guidelines”) for offenses involving crack cocaine. The district court found that since Lewis’s original sentence was a non-Guidelines sentence resulting from a departure from the statutory minimum pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3553(e), he was not eligible for a reduced…