Legal Opinion
United States v. Chaney
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 15, 2009No. 08-10298PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MICHAEL DALY HAWKINS, Circuit Judge:
Linda Ann Chaney (“Chaney”) appeals the denial of her 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) motion for a reduced sentence. Chaney was caught in a sting operation distributing large amounts of cocaine base (“crack”) and charged with seven related counts. She agreed to cooperate with federal authorities and signed a plea agreement in exchange for a lower sentence. Some time after Chaney was sentenced to 103 months pursuant to the plea agreement, the Sentencing Commission passed Amendment 706 to the Sentencing Guidelines (the “Guidelines”), retroactively reducing by two…
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