United States v. Melton, No. 15-15738 (11th Cir. 2017)
Annotate this CaseDefendants were not eligible for relief under 18 U.S.C. 3582(c)(2) where they were sentenced to the statutory mandatory minimum applicable to their offenses at their original sentencing. The Eleventh Circuit held that the district court had no authority to compel the government to file 18 U.S.C. 3553(e) motions and thus had no authority to sentence defendants below that mandatory minimum. Accordingly, the court reversed the district court's decisions and vacated the orders granting relief under section 3582(c)(2), remanding with instructions to deny the motions and to reimpose their original sentences.
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