United States Ninth Circuit

The district court's order lowering the defendant's sentence for a crack cocaine offense by only one month, to the mandatory minimum under the law in effect at the time of the defendant's sentencing, is affirmed, where the lower mandatory minimums in the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 (FSA), which addressed the inequitable disparity between the sentences prescribed for crack and powder cocaine offenses, do not apply to defendants sentenced before the FSA was enacted.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/03/2013
• Published 04/03/2013

Judges

• HURWITZ

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel