Legal Opinion

United States v. Joshua Barrow

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Decided March 3, 2014No. 12-50668UnpublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

PER CURIAM: *

At the time appellant Joshua Barrow pleaded guilty to a drug offense, the district court advised him that he faced a twenty-year minimum sentence, in accordance with the statutory minimum then in effect. By the time Barrow was sentenced, the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 (“FSA”) had lowered the mandatory minimum for Barrow’s crime, which now required a ten-year minimum sentence. Barrow was sentenced to ten years as per the revised statute. Barrow seeks resen-tencing on the grounds that his plea was not knowing and voluntary because it was made pursuant to misinformation that a…

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