Legal Opinion
United States v. Andrew Kennedy
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided July 12, 2013No. 12-3003PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge GRIFFITH.
GRIFFITH, Circuit Judge:
More than twenty years after his conviction for trafficking crack cocaine, Andrew Kennedy now claims, for the first time, that the judge who sentenced him failed to determine the quantity of drugs he possessed. Kennedy raises this claim in a proceeding to reduce his sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2). We conclude that the district court did not err when it refused to revisit this settled factual finding.
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Kennedy directed a crack cocaine trafficking ring in Washington, D.C., in the late 1980s. A jury convicted him…
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- United States v. WoodsCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2009
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