United States v. David, No. 10-3024 (D.C. Cir. 2011)
Annotate this CaseIn this case, defendant invoked the Sentencing Commission's reductions in the offense level for certain crack cocaine offenses. The district court denied defendant's motion, noting on the record a host of facts about defendant's criminal record and his disciplinary infractions in prison. Defendant appealed, arguing that the district court failed to determine the extent of the reduction for which he was eligible before denying his motion. In particular, defendant believed that the court could have underestimated the permissible reduction in the sentencing range, and that this hypothetical underestimate could have played a role in the court's refusal to make any reduction at all. Although the court agreed with defendant that a motion under 18 U.S.C. 3582(c)(2) required the court first to compute the sentence reduction available, the court found that the record established that it did so.
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