Opinion ID: 44069
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Heading: Byron Pitts’s Sentencing

Text: During Byron Pitts’s sentencing hearing, the district court attributed to him at least 150 kilograms of cocaine, yielding a base offense level of 38 under the Sentencing Guidelines. The district court based its drug quantity finding on the trial testimony regarding the amount of cocaine involved in the sting and other previous transactions. The district court granted a two-level reduction for -5- acceptance of responsibility under U.S.S.G. § 3E1.1 because Byron’s post-arrest confession had led to the arrest of several other participants, including Eddie Myrick. The district court denied Byron’s request for a minor-role reduction. With a total adjusted offense level of 36 and criminal history category of II, the district court calculated a Guidelines range of 210-262 months’ imprisonment for the drug counts, with an additional statutory mandatory minimum of 60 months’s imprisonment on the firearms charge. The district court sentenced Byron Pitts to the low end of the Guidelines range, imposing 210 months’ imprisonment on the two drug counts to be served concurrently, and the statutory mandatory minimum 60 months’ imprisonment on the firearm count, to be served consecutively.