Opinion
HEATHER E. WILLIAMS, Federal Defender, HANNAH R. LABAREE, Assistant Federal Defender, Counsel Designated for Service Sacramento, California, Attorneys for Defendant SULAIMEN SAFI.
BENJAMIN B. WAGNER, United States Attorney, JASON HITT, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Attorney for Plaintiff UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
STIPULATED MOTION AND ORDER TO REDUCE SENTENCE PURSUANT TO 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) RETROACTIVE DRUGS-MINUS-TWO REDUCTION CASE
WILLIAM B. SHUBB, District Judge.
Defendant, SULAIMEN SAFI, by and through his attorney, Assistant Federal Defender Hannah R. Labaree, and plaintiff, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, by and through its counsel, Assistant U.S. Attorney Jason Hitt, hereby stipulate as follows:
1. Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2), this Court may reduce the term of imprisonment in the case of a defendant who has been sentenced to a term of imprisonment based on a sentencing range that has subsequently been lowered by the Sentencing Commission pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 994(o);
2. On February 11, 2013, this Court sentenced Mr. Safi to a term of 81 months imprisonment;
3. His total offense level was 33, his criminal history category was I, and the resulting guideline range was 135 to 168 months. He received a reduction from the low end of the range on the government's motion;
4. The sentencing range applicable to Mr. Safi was subsequently lowered by the United States Sentencing Commission in Amendment 782, made retroactive on July 18, 2014, see 79 Fed. Reg. 44, 973;
5. Mr. Safi's total offense level has been reduced from 33 to 31, and his amended guideline range is 108 to 135 months. A reduction comparable to the one he received initially produces a sentence of 64 months. See USSG § 1B1.10(b), comment. (n.3 (2014));
6. Accordingly, the parties request the Court enter the order lodged herewith reducing Mr. Safi's term of imprisonment to a total term of 64 months. The parties agree that the requested sentence is fair and appropriate pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a).
ORDER
This matter came before the Court on the stipulated motion of the defendant for reduction of sentence pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2).
The parties agree, and the Court finds, that Mr. Safi is entitled to the benefit Amendment 782, which reduces the total offense level from 33 to 31, resulting in an amended guideline range of 108 to 135 months. A reduction comparable to the one he received initially produces a term of closer to 65 months than 64 months. This sentence is fair and reasonable pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a).
IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that the term of imprisonment imposed in February 2013 is reduced to a term of 65 months.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that all other terms and provisions of the original judgment remain in effect. The clerk shall forthwith prepare an amended judgment reflecting the above reduction in sentence, and shall serve certified copies of the amended judgment on the United States Bureau of Prisons and the United States Probation Office.
Unless otherwise ordered, Mr. Safi shall report to the United States Probation Office within seventy-two hours after his release.