Cintron-Boglio v. United States

OPINION AND ORDER

JUSTO ARENAS, United States Magistrate Judge.

“The quality of mercy is not strain’d, ... it blesseth him that gives and him that takes.” William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, act IV, sc. 1 (1596). Not satisfied with the quality of the court’s mercy in modifying his sentence under the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, petitioner, a convicted drug trafficker, now seeks federal habeas corpus relief to which he is ultimately not entitled.

I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

On May 27, 2008, petitioner Justo L. Cintron-Boglio and 110 other defendants were charged in a seven-count…