How judges should set the starting point for lowering a defendant's sentencing range when prior convictions overstate the severity of a defendant's criminal record is in dispute at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

On Friday, the circuit issued a short per curiam opinion affirming Dwayne Ingram's 12-year prison sentence for selling less than a gram of crack cocaine in the Western District of New York.

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