Sheffield v. US Crack Cocaine Fair Sentencing Act

• Court: District Court, District of Columbia
• Decided: September 26, 2012
• Docket: Civil Action No. 2012-1602
• Status: Published

Opinion

FILED UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SEP 2 6 2012 FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Clerk, U.S. District & Bankruptcy Courts for the District of Columbia STEPHEN SHEFFIELD, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) Civil Action No. 12 1602 ) UNITED STATES CRACK COCAINE ) FAIR SENTENCING ACT, ETC., ALL ) DEFENDANTS, ) ) Defendants. )

MEMORANDUM OPINION

This matter is before the Court on consideration of the plaintiffs application to proceed

in forma pauperis and her prose complaint. The application will be granted, and the complaint

will be dismissed.

Plaintiff, who is serving a four-year sentence of imprisonment imposed by the Superior

Court of the District of Columbia on his conviction of possession of crack cocaine, seeks a

reduction in the sentence. The Court has no authority to review a Superior Court judge's ruling,

see Fleming v. United States, 847 F. Supp. 170, 172 (D.D.C. 1994), aff'd, 1994 WL 474995

(D.C. Cir. 1994), cert. denied, 513 U.S. 1150 (1995), and the Court will dismiss this action for

lack of subject matter jurisdiction.

An Order is issued separately.

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