Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Norman Oliver GRANT, Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2013-02-01
Citations: 508 F. App'x 914
Docket Number: No. 12-10927
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Norman Oliver GRANT, Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: Before TJOFLAT, PRYOR and KRAVITCH, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 508
Pages: 914–915

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Norman Oliver GRANT, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 12-10927
Non-Argument Calendar.
United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.
Feb. 1, 2013.
Ramona Albin, Michael B. Billingsley, William R. Hankins, Jr., Alice H. Martin, William G. Simpson, Jenny Lynn Smith, Joyce White Vance, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Birmingham, AL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
Norman Oliver Grant, Montgomery, AL, pro se.
Before TJOFLAT, PRYOR and KRAVITCH, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Norman Grant, proceeding pro se, appeals the district court's denial of his 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) motion for a sentence reduction. Because the district court correctly concluded it lacked authority to reduce Grant's sentence, we affirm.
A jury convicted Grant of possessing marijuana, powder cocaine, and crack cocaine with intent to distribute, along with two other charges, in 2006. At sentencing, the district court found Grant's sentencing guidelines range was 87 to 108 months' imprisonment. Because Grant was responsible for 12.63 grams of crack cocaine, however, he was subject to a statutory mandatory minimum sentence of 120 months, and the district court sentenced him to 120 months' imprisonment. Subsequently, Grant filed a motion to reduce that sentence based upon the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010(FSA), Pub.L. No. Ill— 220, 124 Stat. 2372, and amendments to the sentencing guidelines. The district court denied that motion and this is Grant's appeal.
We review de novo the district court's conclusions about its authority to modify a defendant's sentence under § 3582. United States v. Liberse, 688 F.3d 1198, 1200 n. 1 (11th Cir.2012). A court may modify an inmate's term of imprisonment under § 3582 only in limited circumstances. None of those circumstances are present here.
Grant contends Amendment 750 to the sentencing guidelines authorized the district court to reduce his sentence. But the district court could not have reduced Grant's sentence based upon Amendment 750 because he received a statutory mandatory minimum sentence, rather than one based upon the guidelines calculation for his offenses. See United States v. Glover, 686 F.3d 1203, 1207 (11th Cir.2012). And Grant's contention that he is eligible for a sentence reduction based upon the FSA's alteration of what drug quantities correspond to which statutory minimum penalties is, likewise, squarely foreclosed by our precedent. The changes in the FSA to the statutory mandatory minimum sentences provide no foundation for a § 3582(c)(2) motion and do not permit a district court to reduce the sentence of a defendant sentenced before the FSA's effective date. United States v. Berry, 701 F.3d 374, 377-78 (11th Cir.2012).
Accordingly, the district court's denial of Grant's § 3582(c)(2) motion is
AFFIRMED.