United States v. Allen

Robert N. Chatigny, United States District Judge

Michael Allen moves pursuant to the First Step Act of 2018, Pub. L. No. 115-391, § 404, 132 Stat. 5194, 5222 (2018), for a reduction in his sentence of 322 months' imprisonment. The sentence was imposed in 1998 based on the then-mandatory sentencing guidelines for offenses involving crack cocaine committed by a person who qualified as a career offender under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.1. The First Step Act is a remedial statute that serves to extend reductions in crack cocaine statutory penalties provided by the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 to persons…