Opinion ID: 2718562
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Heading: Jones – Fair Sentencing Act

Text: Following his conviction, the district court sentenced Jones to life on Count Eleven and 120 months on Count Twelve, to be served concurrently. Jones maintains that the district court’s denial of his request to be sentenced under the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 (FSA), 124 Stat 2372, was error because the Act applied to him at the time of sentencing. See United States v. Dorsey, 132 S. Ct. 2321, 2331 (2012) (holding that the FSA’s more lenient penalties apply to defendants who committed their crimes before the Act’s effective date but were sentenced after that date). The government has admitted error. We agree that the court erred and will vacate Jones’s sentence and remand for resentencing consistent with Dorsey and the FSA.