United States Second Circuit

District court order granting in part and denying in part defendant's motion for a reduction in sentence is affirmed where: 1) the district court lacked the authority when reducing a sentence pursuant to 18 U.S.C. sec. 3582(c)(2) to reduce that sentence below the amended Sentencing Guidelines range; and 2) the original sentence fell within the applicable pre-amendment Guidelines range.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/27/2009
• Published 05/27/2009

Judges

• PER CURIAM:, Before:  SOTOMAYOR, KATZMANN, and B.D. PARKER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Susan J. Walsh (M. Todd Parker, on the brief), Moskowitz, Book & Walsh, LLP, New York, N.Y., for Defendant-Appellant., Michael M. Rosensaft, Assistant United States Attorney (Katherine Polk Failla, Assistant United States Attorney, on the brief), for Lev L. Dassin, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, New York, N.Y., for Appellee.