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Timestamp: 2020-04-05 20:38:32
Document Index: 655607877

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 2255', '§ 286', '§ 1028', '§ 2255', '§ 3', '§ 2255', '§ 3']

DEVON LYNTRELL TUCKER, Petitioner,
Before the court is Devon Lyntrell Tucker's pro se motion for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255. Doc. # 1.[1]
On March 5, 2015, Tucker pleaded guilty under a plea agreement to one count of conspiring to defraud the United States with respect to claims, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 286, and one count of aggravated identity theft, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1028A(a)(1). Tucker's convictions stemmed from his participation in a scheme to obtain tax refunds by filing fraudulent tax returns using stolen identities. As part of the scheme, Tucker, who worked as a jailer for the Troy, Alabama Police Department, stole the personal identification information of nearly 100 inmates and provided this information to a co-conspirator, “a female in Florida, ” who used it to file fraudulent tax returns through her tax preparation business. Doc. # 4-1 at 5. Arrangements were made between Tucker and the female for Tucker to get a portion of each tax refund generated through the scheme. Id. The IRS identified 19 false tax returns filed in the scheme, claiming over $100, 000 in refunds, with approximately $13, 000 in refunds actually being paid out by the IRS. Id. at 6.
Following a sentencing hearing on August 3, 2015, the district court sentenced Tucker to 32 months in prison, consisting of 8 months on the conspiracy count and 24 months on the identity theft count, the terms to run consecutively. Doc. # 1-2 at 2. The district court entered its judgment on August 6, 2015. Id. at 1. Tucker did not appeal.
On August 29, 2106, Tucker filed this § 2255 motion claiming he should receive a mitigating role reduction to his sentence based on Amendment 794 to § 3B1.2 of the United States Sentencing Guidelines. See Docs. # 1 & 2. For the reasons that follow, the Court concludes that Tucker's § 2255 motion be denied without an evidentiary hearing and that this case be dismissed with prejudice.[2]
Tucker maintains that he should receive a retroactive mitigating role reduction to his sentence based on the November 1, 2015 amendment (Amendment 794) to U.S.S.G. § 3B1.2. Doc. # 1 at 4; Doc. # 2 at 2-6.
Section 3B1.2 of the Sentencing Guidelines provides that a defendant's offense level should be decreased
(a) If the defendant was a minimal participant in any criminal activity, ...