United States Eighth Circuit

An order granting a 10-month reduction to defendant's sentence for a drug-related offense pursuant to Amendment 706 of the Sentencing Guidelines is affirmed where: 1) the district court correctly determined that it could not reduce defendant's sentence below the Congressionally-mandated statutory minimum sentence; and 2) in determining the amended guidelines range, the district court properly set the bottom of the amended guidelines range at 60 months.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/29/2008
• Published 04/29/2008

Judges

• Before:  WOLLMAN, HANSEN, and MURPHY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Appellant represented himself.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jennifer J. Roy, Assistant U.S. Attorney, argued, St. Louis, MO, for Appellee.