Legal Opinion
United States v. Darnell Black
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided December 6, 2013No. 13-6228PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*282Affirmed by published opinion. Judge NIEMEYER wrote the opinion, in which Judge KING and Judge DUNCAN joined. Judge KING wrote a separate concurring opinion.
NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge:
Darnell Black was sentenced in January 2007 to the statutory minimum of 120 months’ imprisonment for conspiracy to traffic in more than 50 grams of crack cocaine. See 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1). The Fair Sentencing Act, which was enacted in 2010, more than three years after Black was sentenced, reduced the statutory minimum sentence applicable to his circumstances from 120 months’ imprisonment to 60 months’…
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