UNITED STATES v. FIELDS

No. 19-2012.

13 F.4th 37 (2021)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Blake FIELDS, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

September 13, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Max D. Stern , with whom Michael R. DiStefano and Todd & Weld, LLP were on brief, for appellant.

Jennifer H. Zacks , Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Andrew E. Lelling , United States Attorney, was on brief, for appellee.

Before Thompson and Kayatta, Circuit Judges.


In 2008, a jury convicted Blake Fields of distributing more than five grams of cocaine base, 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1), and the district court sentenced Fields to 18 years in prison. In the decade that followed, Congress passed two pieces of legislation relevant to Fields's case, the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, Pub. L...

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