Court Opinion

ID: 9438569
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 05:48:00.821028+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:25:44.939766
License: Public Domain

BRIGHT, Circuit Judge,
concurring.
I concur but write separately to again note the disparity in sentences for offenses relating to crack cocaine between the federal judges who preside and serve in the Northern District of Iowa. See United States v. Brewer, 624 F.3d 900 (8th Cir.2010).
If the district court had applied a 1 to 1 ratio between crack cocaine and powder cocaine, rather than the 25 to 1 ratio actually applied here, the sentencing guideline range would have been 41-51 months (3 years, 5 months — 4 years, 3 months) instead of the sentencing guideline range utilized here of 130-162 months (10 years, 10 months — 13 years, 6 months).