United States v. Tommy Lee Carter, Jr.

Tommy Lee Carter, Jr., appeals the district court’s denial of his 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) motion for a sentence reduction based on Amendment 750 to the federal sentencing guidelines, which retroactively reduced the base offense levels associated with various amounts of crack cocaine effective November 1, 2011. See U.S.S.G.App. C. Amends. 750, 759. Carter contends that the district court abused its discretion in refusing to grant a sentence reduction, despite his undisputed eligibility for such relief, by affording significant weight to his prior criminal history, a factor already accounted for…