U.S. v. Sparkman

Dist. Ct. did not err in sentencing defendant to 40-year term of incarceration on drug, racketeering and firearm charges, even though defendant maintained that First Step Act applied to require lower sentence on his firearm charges. Text of First Step Act indicated that it applied to offenses committed prior to its enactment if sentence for said offenses had not been imposed as of date of Act’s enactment, and record showed that defendant had been sentenced for his relevant firearm offenses prior to Act’s enactment date. As such, First Step Act did not apply to defendant. Ct. rejected defendant’s argument that his sentence had not been imposed until all direct appeals of said sentence had been completed.