Legal Opinion
United States v. Forman
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 22, 2009No. 08-2177, 08-2192, 08-2248, 08-2629, 08-3063PublishedCited by 133 opinions
1Per curiam
Late last year the Sentencing Commission reduced the base-offense levels for crack-cocaine offenses and made the changes retroactive. See U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1(c); U.S.S.G., Supp. to App. C 226-31 (2008) (Amendment 706). Since then scores of convicted crack offenders have returned to the district courts to request sentence reductions under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2). But not everyone is eligible; we have consolidated for decision five appeals, each from a denial of a motion under § 3582(c)(2), that illustrate several common barriers to sentence modification.
Section 3582(c)(2) permits a court to reduce…
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