United States v. Albanese

[NOT FOR PUBLICATION] UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT No. 97-1869 UNITED STATES, Appellee, v. ARTHUR J. ALBANESE, Defendant, Appellant. APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF RHODE ISLAND [Hon. Francis J. Boyle, Senior U.S. District Judge] Before Selya, Circuit Judge, Cyr, Senior Circuit Judge, and Boudin, Circuit Judge. Robert G. Levitt on brief for appellant. Sheldon Whitehouse, United States Attorney, and Margaret E. Curran, Assistant United States Attorney, on brief for appellee. December 10, 1997 Per Curiam. Upon careful review, we find no merit in any of defendant's counseled or pro se arguments. As the district court concluded, there were no grounds for resentencing defendant under 18 U.S.C. 3582(c)(2). Defendant's 10-year mandatory minimum sentence under 21 U.S.C. 841(b)(1)(B) was proper considering the entire 8.98 grams of the cocaine base mixture in his possession, whether that mixture was "cut or uncut, pure or impure." Chapman v. United States, 500 U.S. 453, 461 (1991). The amended commentary to U.S.S.G. 2D1.1 made no difference here. Affirmed. See 1st Cir. Loc. R. 27.1. -2-