Legal Opinion
United States v. David Henry Dullen
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided January 21, 1994No. 93-5209PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOGGS, Circuit Judge.
This appeal raises the question whether a defendant who obtains a reduced sentencing-guidelines offense level for accepting responsibility may benefit retroactively from an amendment to those guidelines, enacted ten weeks after he was sentenced. The amendment would have permitted a further reduction in his offense level had it been effective when he was sentenced. The district court refused to grant the further reduction on the grounds that the amendment was not retroactive. For the reasons set forth below, we affirm.
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Dullen was charged with possession of an unregistered…
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