U.S. v. DERRY

No. 15-1829 August Term, 2015.

824 F.3d 299 (2016)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Leroy DERRY, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: June 1, 2016.

Amended: June 2, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

DAVID S. KEENAN , Assistant Federal Defender, for Terence S. Ward , Federal Public Defender for the District of Connecticut, New Haven, Connecticut, for Defendant-Appellant.

AVI PERRY , Assistant United States Attorney ( Michael E. Runowicz & Marc H. Silverman , Assistant United States Attorneys, on the brief), for Deirdre M. Daly , United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, for Appellee.

Before: Pooler, Parker, and Livingston, Circuit Judges.


A federal sentence ordinarily may not be modified once it has been imposed. 18 U.S.C. § 3582(b). An exception to this rule of finality arises when a defendant has been sentenced to a term of imprisonment "based on" a sentencing range that has "subsequently been lowered by" a retroactive amendment to the...

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