U.S. v. Campbell

Dist. Ct. did not err in sentencing defendant to 120-month term of incarceration on drug distribution charges, even though said sentence was based in part on finding that defendant was career offender under section 4B1.1 of USSG based on existence of two prior controlled substance convictions. While defendant argued that his 1998 conviction in which he was released in 2001 did not qualify as predicate offense for purposes of obtaining career offender status because his release in 2001 for said offense was more than 15 years beyond commencement of instant 2017 offense, Dist. Ct. could properly find that commencement of instant occurred prior to November of 2016 due to certain uncharged drug sales that occurred prior to November of 2016 that constituted relevant conduct for purposes of instant offense. Moreover, instant below-Guidelines sentence was substantively reasonable where Dist. Court adequately considered relevant 3553(a) factors, as well as need for sentence to reflect seriousness of charged offense.