United States v. Blackwell

BALDOCK, Circuit Judge.

The district court sentenced Defendant Donald Keith Blackwell to fifteen months imprisonment for conspiring to distribute eight ounces of cocaine. Shortly thereafter, the court learned that Defendant’s co-conspirator and supplier pleaded guilty to distributing fifty-five ounces of cocaine and the United States District Court for the District of Utah sentenced her to five-years probation. Concerned with the apparent disparity, the court, on Defendant’s motion, convened a hearing seventy-two days after the initial sentence date and resentenced Defendant to three-years…