United States First Circuit

Defendant successfully challenged his sentence for possession of a firearm by a felon because USSG App. C Amendment 660 consituted a substantive change, and could not be applied retroactively.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/07/2004
• Published 07/07/2004

Judges

• CYR, Senior Circuit Judge., Before BOUDIN, Chief Judge, CYR, Senior Circuit Judge, and HOWARD, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Edward C. Roy, Jr., Assistant Federal Public Defender, Office of the Federal Public Defender, on brief for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Donald C. Lockhart, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Craig N. Moore, Acting United States Attorney, and Zechariah Chafee, Assistant United States Attorney, were on brief for appellee.