United States v. Fields, No. 09-3137 (D.C. Cir. 2012)
Annotate this CaseDefendant was convicted of drug related offenses and sentenced before Congress passed the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 (FSA), Pub. L. No. 111-220, section 2, 124 Stat. 2372, which reduced the disparity between the treatment of crack and powder cocaine. The court rejected defendant's argument that the FSA applied to him because his case was on appeal when the Act was passed; that the district court abused its discretion in refusing to postpone sentencing until after passage of the Act; and that the district court erred substantively and procedurally by adding the additional sentence for perjury to the mandatory minimum. Accordingly, the court affirmed the judgment.
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