Legal Opinion
United States v. Rios
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided September 2, 2014No. 11-2624-cr (L)PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN M. WALKER, JR., Circuit Judge:
Defendants Raul Rios and Miguel Bau-tista pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine base. Following sentencing by the district court (Rakoff, J.), each defendant twice moved pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) for a reduced sentence in light of amendments made in 2007 and 2011 to the Sentencing Guidelines that lowered the base offense levels applicable to crimes involving certain quantities of cocaine base. After holding an evidentiary hearing as to Rios’s first motion, at which Bautista was neither…
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