U.S. v. JOHNSON

Docket No. 12-2313-cr.

732 F.3d 109 (2013)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Matthew F. JOHNSON, Defendant-Appellant, Monae Davis, Barrett B. Johnson, Shawn S. Johnson, Corey J. Rivers, Raheim Howell, Jennifer M. Gourley, Andrea Perkins, Kevin L. Glowacki, Richard D. Farnham, Sr., John A. Lee, Mark L. Burdick, David J. Thompson, Leroy W. Nupp, Jr., Mark W. Decker, Anna M. Benjamin, Scott Peters, Jimi Lin Gourley, Ryan V. Potter, Lori A. Carrow, Beth L. Saifakas, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided October 15, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph J. Karaszewski , United States Attorney's Office, Buffalo, N.Y. ( William J. Hochul, Jr. , United States Attorney's Office, Buffalo, N.Y., on the brief), for Appellee.

Jonathan I. Edelstein , Edelstein & Grossman, New York, N.Y., for Defendant-Appellant.

Before: NEWMAN, KEARSE, and POOLER, Circuit Judges.


JON O. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge:

Under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2), a federal court may, in certain circumstances, reduce a defendant's term of imprisonment because of amendments to the United States Sentencing Guidelines (the "Guidelines"). This sentencing appeal concerns the application of section 3582(c)(2) in the unusual context of a combination of Guidelines amendments, an amended statutory mandatory minimum, and a substantial assistance departure from a mandatory...

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