United States v. Timothy Koons

LOKEN, Circuit Judge.

In these consolidated appeals, five defendants convicted of methamphetamine conspiracy offenses appeal denial of their motions for sentence reductions under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2). For all five, the initial advisory guidelines range was entirely below the statutory mandatory minimum, and each was sentenced below that minimum after the district court granted government motions for § 3553(e) substantial assistance departures. The question is. whether §• 3582(c)(2) relief is now available because Amendment 782 to the Guidelines retroactively reduced by two levels the base…