Federal judges will be pounding the Federal Sentence Guidelines as the result of two significant decisions in the last couple of weeks. Why? Two reasons. The first is the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Freeman v. United States , and the second is the decision by the U.S. Sentencing Commission regarding retroactivity of the sentence guideline amendment related to the crack/powder cocaine sentencing disparity.
In 2005, William Freeman pled guilty to a federal drug offense and was sentenced to 106 months in prison based on a plea agreement that referred to, and was consistent with, the federal sentence guideline of 46 to 57 months plus a 60-month gun enhancement.
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