Steven A. Wuthrich, Sandy, Utah, for Defendant-Appellee. The district court sentenced Defendant Donald Keith Blackwell to fifteen months imprisonment for conspiring to distribute eight ounces of cocaine.
Federal courts are courts of limited jurisdiction.
Congress has authorized the federal courts to modify a sentence only in limited circumstances. Because no congressional enactment authorized the court to modify Defendant's sentence in the instant case, the court lacked jurisdiction to do so. We therefore reverse. In February 1995, Defendant pleaded guilty to Count I of the indictment. Below the Guideline Range to reflect Defendant's substantial assistance to authorities.