Opinion

United States v. Brown

  • 35 F. App'x 616
Court
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Filed
May 24, 2002
Status
Published
On the bench
Fernandez, Fletcher, Wardlaw
Cited by
0 cases
Authority
More cited than 20.5%

The opinion

MEMORANDUM **

Sharon Denise Brown, a federal prisoner, appeals the denial of her motion to reduce her 147-month sentence imposed *617 following her guilty plea conviction for multiple armed bank robberies, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2113 (a), (d), and 924(c). We lack jurisdiction, and dismiss.

Brown contends that Amendment 591 to the Sentencing Guidelines retroactively invalidated all upward adjustments to her base offense level. She is mistaken. Amendment 591 requires reference to the statutory index for the offense of conviction in order to determine the defendant’s base offense level, and does not forbid adjustments based on relevant conduct. See U.S.S.G. Amendment 591 (2000) (deleting § IB 1.2, comment, (n.3) and moving consideration of “actual conduct” to U.S.S.G. § 1B1.3 (Relevant Conduct)). Brown was sentenced based on the proper base offense level for armed robbery.

The district court ruled that even if Amendment 591 applied and made Brown’s sentence subject to modification, in an exercise of its discretion, it would decline to reduce her sentence. We lack jurisdiction to review this discretionary denial of a sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3582 (c)(2). See United States v. Lowe, 136 F.3d 1231, 1233 (9th Cir.1998).

DISMISSED.

This disposition is not appropriate for publication and may not be cited to or by the courts of this circuit except as may be provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.

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