United States v. Michael Ray Ward

RICHARD S. ARNOLD, Chief Judge.

Michael Ward pleaded guilty in 1991 to manufacturing methamphetamine, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841, and conspiring to manufacture methamphetamine, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846. Ward received a sentence of nine years and seven months in prison. The sentence was based on a finding that he was responsible for 989 grams of D-methamphetamine. In this collateral attack on his sentence under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, Ward now claims that the drug in fact was L-methamphetamine,- a substance that would carry a lesser penalty. He did not make this argument at the time of…