United States v. Vaughn, No. 15-1416 (1st Cir. 2015)
Annotate this CaseIn 2002, Defendant pleaded guilty to possession of cocaine with intent to distribute and was sentenced to 168 months imprisonment. In 2012, while he was serving his 2002 sentence, Defendant pleaded guilty to a separate charge of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and heroin. Defendant was sentenced as a career offender to 120 months of imprisonment, to run consecutively to the 168-month term he was already serving. In 2014, Defendant filed a pro se motion for reduction of his sentence. Defendant’s motion was based on amendments to the Sentencing Guidelines, which retroactively reduced by two levels the base offense level for many drug offenses. The district court denied the motion. The First Circuit affirmed, holding that Defendant was ineligible for relief under the amendments because he had already served the entirety of his otherwise eligible sentence.
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