United States v. Baylor

The government appeals the district court’s order granting Herman Sean Baylor’s motion to reduce his sentence pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) based on Amendment 706 to the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Manual (“U.S.S.G”), which reduced the base offense levels for certain cocaine base (crack) offenses. We reverse.

I

Baylor pleaded guilty to possessing five grams or more of crack with the intent to deliver in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1). His initial advisory Guidelines range was seventy-eight to ninety-seven months. However, because this was his second felony drug conviction, he was…