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Reduced Crack Guidelines Do Not Apply to Defendants Sentenced as Career Offenders

United States v. Anderson, No. 08-41314 (5th Cir. Dec. 21, 2009) (per curiam)Are defendants who were convicted of crack offenses and sentenced as career offenders eligible for a sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) and U.S.S.G. §1B1.10 in the wake of the Sentencing Commission's lowering of the crack guidelines?No, says Anderson. Such a defendant was sentenced under the career offender

Full post as published by Fifth Circuit Blog on December 24, 2009 (boomark / email).