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Timestamp: 2017-02-26 19:14:45
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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 2', '§ 2', '§ 2', '§2', '§ 3582', '§ 1', '§ 1', '§ 848', '§ 3582', '§ 3582']

| United States v. Van Nguyen
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff,v.PHIEU VAN NGUYEN, Defendant.
The United States Sentencing Commission recently revised the United States Sentencing Guidelines ("USSG") applicable to drug trafficking offenses by changing how the base offense levels in the drug quantity tables incorporate the statutory mandatory minimum penalties for such offenses. Specifically, Amendment 782 (subject to subsection (e)(1)) generally reduces by two levels the offense levels assigned to the quantities that trigger the statutory mandatory minimum penalties in USSG § 2D1.1 and made parallel changes to USSG § 2D1.11. Because Amendment 782 (subject to subsection (e)(1)) alters the threshold amounts in the drug quantity tables in USSG § 2D1.1 and USSG §2D1.11, many, but not all, drug quantities will have a base offense level that is two levels lower than before Amendment 782 (subject to subsection (e)(1)).
Here, the court is unable to rely on Amendment 782 (subject to subsection (e)(1)) to reduce the defendant's sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) and USSG § 1B1.10. See generally United States v. Curry, 584 F.3d 1102, 1104 (8th Cir. 2009) (discussing United States v. Wyatt, 115 F.3d 606, 608-09 (8th Cir. 1997)) (explaining requirements under USSG § 1B1.10(b)). Because the defendant is subject to a statutorily required mandatory minimum sentence, see 21 U.S.C. § 848, the defendant is not entitled to a reduction of his sentence. Cf. United States v. Bowman, 507 F.Appx. 623, 624 (8th Cir. 2013) (concluding that statutory mandatory minimum applied and, consequently, defendant could not rely on Amendment 750 to reduce his sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2)); United States v. Peters, 524 F.3d 905, 906-07 (8th Cir. 2008) (concluding that statutory mandatory minimum applied, and, consequently, defendant could not rely on Amendment 706 to reduce his sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2)); United States v. Jones, 523 F.3d 881, 882 (8th Cir. 2008) (same); see also United States v. Byers, 561 F.3d 825, 829-32 (8th Cir. 2009) (making clear that statutory mandatory minimum sentence must be taken into consideration).