Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Ira Vincent SPEARMAN, Defendant-Appellant.
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2019-01-18
Citations: 913 F.3d 958
Docket Number: No. 16-55177
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee,
v.
Ira Vincent SPEARMAN, Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Reporter 3d Series
Volume: 913
Pages: 958–959

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee,
v.
Ira Vincent SPEARMAN, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 16-55177
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Filed January 18, 2019
Michael Romano (argued) and Sophie Wood, Three Strikes Project, Stanford Law School, Stanford, California, for Defendant-Appellant.
Elana Shavit Artson (argued), Assistant United States Attorney, Criminal Appeals Section; L. Ashley Aull, Chief, Criminal Division; Nicola T. Hanna, United States Attorney; United States Attorney's Office, Los Angeles, California; for Plaintiff-Appellee.
D.C. No. 2:93-cr-01027-TJH-1
Before: Sidney R. Thomas, Chief Judge, and Kim McLane Wardlaw and Marsha S. Berzon, Circuit Judges.
ORDER

Opinion:
This case is remanded with instructions that the district court proceed with re-sentencing in light of, and in accordance with, the First Step Act of 2018, S. 756, 115th Cong. (2018) (enacted but not yet codified). Under the Act, "[a] court that imposed a sentence for a covered offense may, on motion of . the court, impose a reduced sentence as if sections 2 and 3 of the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 ( Public Law 111-220 ; 124 Stat. 2372) were in effect at the time the covered offense was committed." First Step Act § 404(b). Had section 2 of the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 been in effect at the time Spearman committed his offense, he would have been subject to "a term of imprisonment which may not be less than 10 years and not more than life imprisonment...." 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(B).
This case is remanded for this limited purpose only and without prejudice to the arguments made on appeal. We retain jurisdiction over the certified claims in the 28 U.S.C. § 2255 appeal. The parties shall bear their own costs of appeal.
REMANDED.