United States v. Reginald Bland

GREER, District Judge.

Defendant, Reginald Bland (“Bland”), appeals his conviction, based upon his guilty plea, of a drug conspiracy involving over five kilograms of cocaine and over fifty grams of cocaine base in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 846, 841(a)(1) and (b)(l)(A)(ii) and (iii) and his sentence of 132 months, 192 months below the bottom of his advisory guidelines range. For the reasons which follow, we AFFIRM.

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This case has an unusual history. Bland was indicted by a federal grand jury in the Western District of Michigan in the latter part of 2007. On April 4, 2008, 2008 WL 907446, he…