United States Second Circuit

Under the Sentencing Guidelines, a defendant's criminal history category may be reduced because the prior convictions on which the category was determined involved so-called "street-level" sales of narcotics if the criminal history category overstates the seriousness of the criminal record.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/06/2000
• Decided 02/23/2001
• Published 02/23/2001

Judges

• JON O. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge., Before JON O. NEWMAN, CABRANES, and STRAUB, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Andrew L. Fish, Asst. U.S. Atty., New York, N.Y., (Mary Jo White, U.S. Atty., James J. Benjamin, Jr., Asst. U.S. Atty., on the brief), for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Tracy W. Young, Madison, N.J., (Lisa Scolari, New York, N.Y., on the brief), for defendant-appellee.