U.S. v. HAVENER

No. 89-1484.

905 F.2d 3 (1990)

UNITED STATES, Appellee, v. Larry C. HAVENER, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided June 5, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Judith Mizner, Newburyport, Mass., for defendant, appellant.

Margaret D. McGaughey, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Richard S. Cohen, U.S. Atty., and Nicholas M. Gess, Asst. U.S. Atty., Portland, Me., were on brief, for appellee.

Before BREYER, ALDRICH and TORRUELLA, Circuit Judges.


BREYER, Circuit Judge.

This appeal raises a narrow issue about the applicability of a change that the Sentencing Commission recently made in one of its guidelines. The guideline in question governs the sentencing of a "career offender," a person convicted for a third time of an offense involving drugs or violence. See United States Sentencing Commission, Guidelines Manual [hereinafter U.S.S.G.; all citations are to the latest edition of the Manual (November...

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