United States Eleventh Circuit

Defendant's drug distribution sentence is affirmed in part where defendant's original sentence was within the then-applicable guidelines range, and thus the district court was not authorized to impose a new sentence below the amended Guidelines range; but vacated in part where the record did not reflect that the district court considered the 18 U.S.C. section 3553(a) factors in deciding to reduce defendant's sentence.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/29/2009
• Published 07/29/2009

Judges

• PER CURIAM:, Before CARNES, HULL and WILSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Thomas Jake Waldrop, Stephanie Kearns, Fed. Pub. Defenders, Fed. Defender Program, Inc., Atlanta, GA, for Defendant-Appellant., Jill E. Steinberg, William H. Thomas, Jr., Thomas Aloysius Devlin, Jr., John Andrew Horn, Atlanta, GA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.