United States Fourth Circuit

District court's decision treating defendant's request for a sentence reduction as a motion for reconsideration, thereby reducing defendant's sentence by two years for the second time in less than eight months, is reversed as the district court lacked the authority to grant the motion for reconsideration.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/26/2010
• Decided 02/26/2010
• Published 02/26/2010

Judges

• Before MOTZ, KING, and AGEE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:Richard Daniel Cooke, Office of the United States Attorney, Richmond, Virginia, for Appellant. James Brian Donnelly, Price, Perkins, Larken & Donnelly, Virginia Beach, Virginia, for Appellee. ON BRIEF:Neil H. MacBride, United States Attorney, Alexandria, Virginia, for Appellant.