Court Opinion

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USCA1 Opinion

	

          November 18, 1993                                [NOT FOR PUBLICATION]                            UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                                FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT                                 ___________________        No. 93-1469                                     UNITED STATES,                                      Appellee,                                          v.                                LUIS EDUARDO NARANJO,                                Defendant, Appellant.                                 ____________________                     APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT                           FOR THE DISTRICT OF RHODE ISLAND                     [Hon. Ernest C. Torres, U.S. District Judge]                                             ___________________                                 ____________________                                        Before                                 Breyer, Chief Judge,                                         ___________                         Torruella and Selya, Circuit Judges.                                              ______________                                 ____________________            Luis Eduardo Naranjo on brief pro se.            ____________________            Edwin J.  Gale, United  States  Attorney,  and Zechariah  Chaffee,            ______________                                 __________________        Assistant United States Attorney, on brief for appellee.                                 ____________________                                 ____________________                      Per  Curiam.   On April  12,  1991, appellant  Luis                      ___________            Eduardo Naranjo was sentenced to 63 months in prison for drug            offenses.    At  sentencing,  Naranjo  received  a  two-level            reduction   in  base   offense   level  for   acceptance   of            responsibility.   Effective  November  1,  1992,  the  United            States Sentencing Commission  amended sentencing guideline               3E1.1 to  permit an  additional one-level  reduction in  base            offense  level   for  persons  eligible  for   the  two-level            reduction for acceptance  of responsibility.  Naranjo  sought            to reduce  his sentence  pursuant to  the amended  guideline,            claiming that the amendment should be applied  retroactively.            The  district  court denied  his  request.   Because  we have            decided  that the amendment  in question is  not retroactive,            see DeSouza  v. United  States, 995 F.2d  323, 324  (1st Cir.            ___________     ______________            1993) (per curiam),  we affirm the district court's denial of            Naranjo's  request for a  sentence reduction under  amended              3E1.1.                      Affirmed.                      _________