United States v. Calton, No. 15-10874 (5th Cir. 2018)
Annotate this CaseThe Fifth Circuit reversed the district court's denial of defendant's motion for two sentence reductions under 18 U.S.C. 3582(c)(2) based on Amendment 782 of the Sentencing Guidelines. The court held that no jurisdictional or procedural hurdle barred defendant's consolidated appeal, and the district court erred in determining that it lacked authority to reduce her sentence pursuant to Amendment 782. In this case, the district court erred in concluding that defendant was ineligible for a sentence reduction because of its incorrect determination that defendant was sentenced under the career offender provisions rather than under the drug-quantity provisions. Accordingly, the court remanded for resentencing.
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