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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF MAINE

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA  )  
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v.  )  NO. 2:08-CR-94-DBH  
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CAMERON CAMIRE,  )  
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DEFENDANT  )  


ORDER ON MOTION TO REDUCE SENTENCE
The defendant Cameron Camire has filed a motion to reduce sentence on account of the new crack cocaine penalties. First, because he was sentenced in 2008, before the Fair Sentencing Act was enacted, he cannot benefit from the reduction of the statutory minimums. See United States v. Goncalves, 642 F.3d 245, 252 (1st Cir. 2011). As for the new and more lenient crack cocaine Guideline calculation, which is retroactive, although I said in denying a premature motion that Camire could reapply when and if the United States Sentencing Commission made the new Guideline retroactive, Order of Feb. 7, 2011 (Docket Item 36), it turns out that the retroactive amendment does not in fact benefit Camire. At sentencing in 2008, Camire was found responsible for
120.8 grams of crack cocaine, 2,336 grams of marijuana and 19.41 grams of Ecstasy, which were then converted into a total drug quantity of 2,428 kilograms of marijuana equivalent. At that time, that drug quantity would have resulted in a Base Offense Level of 32 (1,000 to 3,000 kilograms of
marijuana) but, pursuant to

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