Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Stephanie JOHNSON, Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2012-12-05
Citations: 499 F. App'x 953
Docket Number: No. 12-11670
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Stephanie JOHNSON, Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: Before HULL, PRYOR and MARTIN, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 499
Pages: 953–954

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Stephanie JOHNSON, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 12-11670
Non-Argument Calendar.
United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.
Dec. 5, 2012.
Jonathan Colan, Amit Agarwal, Wifredo A. Ferrer, Carol Herman, Kathleen Mary Salyer, Anne Ruth Schultz, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Miami, FL, for Plaintiff-Ap-pellee.
Michael Caruso, Tracy Michele Dreispul, Federal Public Defenders, Federal Public Defender’s Office, Miami, FL, for Defendant-Appellant.
Before HULL, PRYOR and MARTIN, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Stephanie Johnson appeals her sentence of 120 months of imprisonment, which was imposed after the district court reduced for the second time Johnson's original sentence of 168 months of imprisonment. 18 U.S.C. § 8582(c)(2). On Johnson's motion, the district court sentenced her to the statutory minimum sentence in effect when she was first sentenced, but Johnson requested a greater reduction based on the lower minimum sentence under the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010. We affirm.
Johnson's argument for a further reduction of her sentence is foreclosed by our recent decision in United States v. Berry, 701 F.3d 374 (11th Cir.2012), that a defendant sentenced before the effective date of the Act is ineligible to have her sentence reduced. We held that the Act "is not a guidelines amendment by the Sentencing Commission, but rather a statutory change by Congress, and . does not serve as a basis for a . sentence reduction" under section 3582(c)(2). Id., 701 F.3d at 377. Even if the Act could serve as a basis to reduce a sentence, we held in Berry that the lower mandatory minimum sentences did not apply retroactively to offenders sentenced before the effective date of the Act. Id. at 377. As explained by the Supreme Court in Dorsey v. United States, 567 U.S. -, 132 S.Ct. 2321, 183 L.Ed.2d 250 (2012), "application of the new minimums to pre-Act offenders sentenced after August 3 create[d] a new set of disparities," that was an inevitable consequence of any "new law changing sentences" and was consistent with "the ordinary practice . to apply new penalties to defendants not yet sentenced, while withholding that change from defendants already sentenced." Id. at 2335. The district court did not err in denying Johnson's motion to reduce her sentence below the statutory minimum in effect at her original sentencing.
We AFFIRM the denial of Johnson's motion to reduce her sentence below the statutory minimum in effect at her original sentencing.
AFFIRMED.