United States v. Pressley
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
469 F.3d 63 (2006)
- Written by Carolyn Strutton, JD
Facts
Eddie Pressley participated in a heroin-distribution conspiracy around a large public-housing complex in Brooklyn for over a decade. The drug ring distributed several kilograms of heroin annually, consisting of many smaller sales of street-level amounts of the drug. Neither Pressley nor anyone else in the conspiracy ever sold an amount greater than a kilogram in a single transaction. Pressley was arrested, charged with conspiracy to distribute heroin under 21 U.S.C. § 841(b), and pleaded guilty. Pressley was sentenced under § 841(b)(1)(A)(i), for conspiracy to distribute at least one kilogram of heroin, to 24 years imprisonment. Pressley appealed, claiming that he should have been sentenced under § 841(b)(1)(C) for heroin crimes involving less that one kilogram. Sentencing under that section would have resulted in a much shorter sentence. Pressley claimed that subsection applied because he had never participated in a single transaction that involved more than one kilogram of heroin.
Rule of Law
Issue
Holding and Reasoning (Per curiam)
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