United States v. Tingle

Marshall Tingle appeals the district court’s 1 denial of his motion for a reduction of his sentence pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) based on Amendment 706 to the United States Sentencing Guidelines Manual (USSG), which reduced the base offense levels in USSG § 2Dl.l(c) based on the quantity of cocaine base (crack).

In accordance with Congress’s directive to the United States Sentencing Commission to assure that the guidelines specify a sentence for career offenders “to a term of imprisonment at or near the maximum authorized,” 28 U.S.C. § 994(h), the career offender guideline requires an…