United States v. Hicks

ORDER

Charnell Hicks pleaded guilty to distributing crack cocaine, see 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1), and was sentenced to 132 months in prison — 56 months below the calculated guidelines range. Two years later the government moved to reduce Hicks’s sentence to 84 months based on his substantial assistance to law enforcement. See Fed.R.CrimP. 35(b)(2). In response Hicks sought a deeper reduction to 45 months based on additional assistance not included in the government’s motion. The district court conducted a hearing on the motion and reduced Hicks’s sentence to 77 months, the bottom of the newly…