United States v. Robert Salter

PER CURIAM: *

Robert Barry Salter, federal prisoner # 53001-280, has moved for leave to pro ceed in forma pauperis (IFP) on appeal from the district court’s denial of his 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) motion for a sentence reduction based on Amendment 782 to the Sentencing Guidelines. Under § 3582(c)(2), a district court may reduce a defendant’s sentence if he was sentenced to a term of imprisonment based on a sentencing range that subsequently was lowered by the Sentencing Commission. Amendment 782 did not reduce Salter’s guidelines sentencing range, and so he was ineligible for a sentencing…