United States v. Dimeo

CYR, Circuit Judge.

After the district court, acting sua sponte, reduced its original sentence in response to a recent amendment to the Sentencing Guidelines, see United States Sentencing Commission, Guidelines Manual, § 2D1.1, comment, (backg’d.) (Nov.1993), defendant Paul Dimeo appealed the revised sentence on the ground that the district court erred in not reducing the prison term below the minimum mandated by statute. Finding no error, we affirm.

Appellant Dimeo pled guilty to conspiring to distribute more than one gram of lysergic acid diethylamide (“LSD’’). See 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) and…