Opinion ID: 2977508
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 6

Heading: Crack/Powder Cocaine Ratio

Text: White claims that he is entitled to resentencing due to the recent amendment to the advisory sentencing guidelines reducing the 100 to 1 ratio of crack/powder cocaine to a 20 to 1 ratio for purposes of computing relevant conduct. §2D1.1 U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Manual, app. C. amendment 706 (2007). The amendment was made retroactive effective March 3, 2008. Remand is unnecessary here because White already received the benefit of the amendment. After determining that White’s base offense level was 38, the district court held that it had discretion -15- to consider the crack/powder cocaine disparity and set White’s base offense level at 36.4 Under the amended guidelines, more than 500 grams but less than 1.5 kilograms of cocaine base is now an offense level 34. § 2D1.1(c)(3) U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Manual (Nov. 2007). The two-level enhancement under § 3B1.1 results in an overall offense level of 36, which is the level the district court used when it imposed White’s sentence of 293 months. Thus, because the sentence imposed has already taken into account the reduction authorized by the recent guideline amendment, no further reduction is warranted.