Legal Opinion

United States v. Douglas

Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

Decided July 29, 2009No. 09-10818PublishedCited by 16 opinions

Non-Argument Calendar.

1Per curiam

Christopher Douglas, a federal prisoner convicted of a crack cocaine offense, appeals the district court’s ruling on his 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) motion to reduce his sentence. After review, we affirm in part and vacate and remand for further consideration and explanation by the district court. 1

I. BACKGROUND FACTS

Douglas’s § 3582(c)(2) motion was based on Amendment 706 to the Sentencing Guidelines, which lowered the offense levels in U.S.S.G. § 2Dl.l(c) for most crack cocaine offenses. Douglas’s original sentence was 188 months’ imprisonment, at the high end of the original guidelines range of…

2Cases cited10 opinions

  1. United States v. BookerSupreme Court of the United States · 2004
  2. Kimbrough v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 2007
  3. United States v. BravoCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2000
  4. United States v. Vega-CastilloCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2008
  5. United States v. MelvinCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2009

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3Cited by16 opinions

  1. United States v. Jerry Jerome AndersonCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2014
  2. United States v. Anthony Tyrone JohnsonCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2017
  3. United States v. HarrisDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 2017
  4. United States v. Darrell GreenCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2014
  5. United States v. Horace CookCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2021

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