The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of a sentence reduction motion. The court found no abuse of discretion in the lower court's decision regarding the appellant's request under the Sentencing Guidelines.
Background
Marcus Antonio Blanks appealed the district court’s order denying his motion for a sentence reduction. The motion was filed pursuant to Section thirty-five eighty-two of Title eighteen of the United States Code and Amendment eight hundred twenty-one to the Sentencing Guidelines.
The court’s reasoning
The court reviewed the record and discerned no abuse of discretion in the denial of Blanks’s motion. The court cited United States v. Spruhan for the applicable standard of review.
What it means going forward
The district court’s order denying the sentence reduction remains in effect.
