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183408P.pdf 04/28/2020 United States v. Felicia Massey
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 18-3408
U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
[PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Wollman and Benton, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Sentencing. Where a district court reduces a sentence
below the statutory minimum on the basis of cooperation, it is
well-settled law that the court can only consider assistance-related
considerations in deciding the extent of the reduction; even assuming that
defendant's personal characteristics were relevant to the significance and
usefulness of her assistance, defendant has not established that the court
refused to consider any assistance-related consideration or that explicit
consideration of her preferred factor was reasonably likely to have
affected her sentence; defendant was not entitled to relief under the
First Step Act as her conviction was not entered on or after the date of
enactment of the Act.