Crawford

Antonio Feliciano Crawford raises a number of sentencing issues that have now been answered by the spate of recent sentencing decisions by the Supreme Court and this court. We affirm his 210-month sentence for distribution of heroin and crack cocaine.

Factual And Procedural Background

Crawford was convicted by a jury of two counts of distribution of heroin and distribution of crack cocaine, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841 (a)(1). He was sentenced to 210 months’ imprisonment, six years of supervised release, a $1,000 fine and a $100 special penalty assessment. The district court found that he was a “career offender” under United States Sentencing Guidelines § 4B1.1. The court calculated Crawford’s original offense level as 34 and applied a two-level reduction for acceptance of responsibility. The sentence was at the bottom of the applicable Guidelines range of 210 to 262 months.

Crawford’s conviction was affirmed on direct appeal in June 2004. See United States v. Crawford, 102 Fed.Appx. 91 (9th Cir.2004) (unpublished). Several weeks later, and before our mandate issued, the Supreme Court decided Blakely v. Washington, 542 U.S. 296 , 124 S.Ct. 2531 , 159 L.Ed.2d 403…