Detailed Instructions: In this task, you will be shown a prompt from a judicial decision and multiple holding statements derived from citations following text in a legal decision. Holdings represent the governing legal rule when the law is applied to a particular set of facts. There are five answer choices for each citing text. The correct answer is the holding statement that corresponds to the citing text. You should write an incorrect option. Even though there exist multiple wrong answers, we only need a single wrong answer. There is a <HOLDING> token in the position of the citing text prompt where the holding statement was extracted.
Q: 2Dl.l(c). U.S.S.G.App. C, Amend. 706 (2007). The effect of Amendment 706 is to provide a two-level reduction in base offense levels for certain crack cocaine offenses. See id. The Commission made this amendment retroactively applicable, effective as of March 3, 2008. See TJ.S.S.G.App. C, Amend. 713 (Supp. May 1, 2008) (listing Amendment 706 under U.S.S.G. lB1.10(c) as a retroactively applicable amendment). In United States v. Moore, 541 F.3d 1323 (11th Cir.2008), petition for cert. filed, (U.S. Nov. 26, 2008) (No. 08-7610), we stated that "[w]here a retroactively applicable guideline amendment reduces a defendant's base offense level, but does not alter the sentencing range upon which his or her sentence was based, 3582(c)(2) does not authorize a reduction in sentence." Id. at 1330 (<HOLDING>). Further, we have affirmed a district court's
Holding statements: (A) holding that while amendment 706 was applica ble to the defendants in question because it reduced their base offense levels a reduction was not authorized because the amendment did not have the effect of lowering their applicable guideline ranges because of the application of the career offender guideline (B) holding that while amendment 706 was applicable to the defendants in question because it reduced their base offense levels a reduction was not authorized because the amendment did not have the effect of lowering their applicable guideline ranges because of the application of the career offender guideline (C) holding that the district court lacked authority under 3582c2 to grant a sentencing reduction to defendants who were career offenders sentenced under ussg 4b11 because amendment 706 would not ultimately affect their guideline ranges (D) holding that amendment 706 would not affect the guideline ranges for career offenders sentenced under 4b11 (E) holding that a defendant whose sentence is based on his status as a career offender under 4b11 is not entitled to 3582c2 relief because amendments 706 and 713 do not lower the applicable guideline range for a career offender
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holding that while amendment 706 was applica ble to the defendants in question because it reduced their base offense levels a reduction was not authorized because the amendment did not have the effect of lowering their applicable guideline ranges because of the application of the career offender guideline