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UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Danny GREEN, Defendant-Appellant.
    No. 11-16177
    Non-Argument Calendar.
    United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.
    June 22, 2012.
    Michael J. Moore, U.S. Attorney, Michelle Lee Schieber, Michael Taylor Solis, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Macon, GA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
    Danny Green, Texarkana, TX, pro se.
    Before TJOFLAT, JORDAN and KRAVITCH, Circuit Judges.
   PER CURIAM:

The district court, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 8582(c)(2), reduced Danny Green’s sentence from 292 months to 285 months. The district court found that Amendment 750 to the Sentencing Guidelines — which lowered offense levels in USSG § 2D1.1 applicable to crack cocaine offenses — had been made retroactive by the Sentencing Commission, and that the reduction in Mr. Green’s sentence was consistent with the policy statement set forth in USSG § 1B1.10 and the applicable factors contained in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a). See D.E. 452.

Though the district court granted his motion for reduction of sentence, Mr. Green now appeals. He argues that the district court, before reducing his sentence pursuant to Amendment 750, should have lowered the amount of crack cocaine for which he was held responsible when he was originally sentenced. Finding no error, we affirm.

Mr. Green is essentially asking that we require the district court to revisit the factual determination it made as to drug quantity at the initial sentencing hearing. But § 3582(c) is limited in scope, and “does not authorize a sentencing or resen-tencing hearing.” Dillon v. United States, — U.S. -, -, 130 S.Ct. 2683, 2690, 177 L.Ed.2d 271 (2010). Moreover, USSG § 1B1.10(b)(1) provides that the district court shall substitute only the retroactive amendment “for the corresponding guideline provisions that were applied when the defendant was sentenced, and shall leave all other guideline application decisions unaffected.” Thus, we have held that “all original sentencing determinations remain unchanged with the sole exception of the guideline range that has been amended since the original sentencing.” United States v. Bravo, 203 F.3d 778, 781 (11th Cir.2000) (emphasis in original). In short, Mr. Green’s motion under § 3582(c) did not authorize the district court to change its initial relevant conduct determination.

To the extent that Mr. Green is arguing that we recognized a constitutional error in his original sentence on direct appeal, and that this error allowed the district court to revisit the issue of relevant conduct under § 3582(c)(2), we disagree. On direct appeal, we vacated the life imprisonment sentence imposed on Clarence Clark, Mr. Green’s co-defendant, holding that the sentence violated Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 120 S.Ct. 2348, 147 L.Ed.2d 435 (2000). See United States v. Green, Slip. Op. at 4-5, 253 F.3d 708 (11th Cir.2001) (Table). With respect to Mr. Green, however, we said that he did not have a viable Apprendi claim:

We note that, unlike defendant Clark, defendant Green was not in a position to raise an issue under Apprendi [,] since his 360-month sentence is within the statutory maximum for an enhanced penalty under the catch-all provision of [21] Ü.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(C). See United States v. Rogers, 228 F.3d 1318, 1327 (11th Cir.2000).

Id. at 4 n. 4. Because we never ruled that Mr. Green’s sentence was unconstitutional, there is no basis for allowing the district court to revisit its initial sentencing determination with respect to drug quantity.

The district court’s order reducing Mr. Green’s sentence is affirmed.

AFFIRMED.