Legal Opinion
United States v. Reginald Sinclair Buckner
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided January 22, 1990No. 89-1438PublishedCited by 125 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SNEED, Senior Circuit Judge:
Reginald S. Buckner was convicted of possession with intent to distribute 53 grams of cocaine base 1 or “crack” in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(A)(iii) and was sentenced under the United States Sentencing Guidelines to 250 months in federal prison. He appeals his sentence, claiming that the “100 to 1 ratio” of cocaine to cocaine base in the Guidelines, see Section 2D1.1(a)(3), violates the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment and the cruel and unusual punishment clause of the Eighth Amendment. We affirm.
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