Who will NOT get the benefit of the retroactive crack amendment?
Those sentenced under the federal career offender guideline (4B1.1), or the armed career offender guideline (4B1.4), and those serving only the five-year or ten-year mandatory minimum (i.e. they did not benefit from the safety valve or a downward departure for substantial assistance) CANNON benefit from the amendment. Also, those with base offense levels of less than 12 or greater than 43 and those whose offense(s) involved more than 4.5 kilograms of crack cocaine will not be eligible to receive a sentence reduction.
Related Questions
- Now that the U.S. Sentencing Commission has passed the "crack" amendment and made it retroactive, will it automatically apply to all FEDERAL crack cocaine offenders sentenced before 11/1/07?
- How much of a time reduction can be expected now that the crack amendment has been made retroactive?
- Who will NOT get the benefit of the retroactive crack amendment?
