United States v. Sharkey

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• holding that Amendment 706 to the Guidelines, which reduced the drug-quantity offense levels for crack cocaine, did not lower the defendant’s sentence where his Guidelines range was calculated under the career-criminal provision
• holding that Amendment 706 to the Guidelines, which reduced the drug-quantity offense levels 5 for crack cocaine, did not lower the defendant’s sentence where his Guidelines range was calculated under the career-criminal provision
• declining to consider similar arguments where defendant was not eligible for sentencing reduction
• sentence reduction unavailable in crack cocaine case because amendment had no effect on career offender Guidelines in § 4B1.1, which the court used in sentencing
• “Amendment 706 had no effect on the career offender guidelines in § 4B1.1, which were the guidelines used by the district court in sentencing [the defendant].”
• “Amendment 706 had no effect on the career offender guidelines in § 4B1.1.”

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