Legal Opinion
United States v. Barry Jordan
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided December 30, 1998No. 98-1113PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
This case raises an issue of first impression about one aspect of the scope of a sentencing court’s statutory jurisdiction to re-sentence when an amendment to the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines applies retroactively.
In 1991, Barry Jordan was sentenced to thirty years’ imprisonment because he pled guilty to a conspiracy (and related crimes) to manufacture and distribute methamphetamine. His sentence was based on the quantity of the drugs involved, 29.5 kilograms, which the guidelines then translated into a base offense level of 40, the top of the range.
Thereafter, on November…
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