United States Ninth Circuit

Defendants' crack cocaine distribution sentences are affirmed where defendants' sentences were not "based on a sentencing range that had subsequently been lowered by the Sentencing Commission" under 18 U.S.C. section 3582(c)(2).

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/14/2009
• Decided 11/24/2009
• Published 11/24/2009

Judges

• BEEZER, Circuit Judge:, Before:  ROBERT R. BEEZER, SUSAN P. GRABER and RAYMOND C. FISHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Alexander Silvert, First Assistant Federal Defender, Honolulu, HI, for the defendants-appellants., Beverly Wee Sameshima and Michael K. Kawahara, Assistant United States Attorneys, Honolulu, HI, for the plaintiff-appellee.