Defendant pleaded guilty to a two-count indictment charging him with distribution of cocaine. He was serving a term of supervised release for an earlier conviction at the time of the new charges and his guilty plea led to the revocation of his supervised release. The district court held a combined sentencing hearing on both the new offenses and the violation of supervised release and imposed a sentence of 180 months for each new count and a sentence of 24 months for the revocation, to be served concurrently. On appeal, defendant argued that his 24-month sentence should be reduced under the First Step Act. The Seventh Circuit agreed that defendant was eligible for reduction under the First Step Act, but that the error was harmless. (SYKES and KOLAR, concurring)
Federal 7th Circuit Court
Criminal Court
First Step Act