Per Curiam
Brooks pleaded guilty, in 2010, to possessing with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of crack cocaine. In October 2012 district court—applying the 2008 edition of the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines in effect at the time Brooks committed the offense—sentenced Brooks to 300 months in prison. The court found Brooks’ total offense level and Guidelines range lower under the 2008 edition of the Guidelines than under the then-current 2011 edition, and that Amendments 748 and 750 were inapplicable to reduce Brooks’ base offense level calculation because they were substantive rather than clarifying under U.S. Sentencing Guidelines §1B1.11(b)(2). Second Circuit affirmed. Given that the 2008 edition of the Guidelines yielded a lower range than the 2011 edition in effect at sentencing, district court correctly applied the 2008 edition in its entirety without giving Brooks the benefit of Amendments 748 and 750, which were substantive, not clarifying. By reducing the base offense levels for certain crack cocaine offenses, Amendments 748 and 750 effected a substantive change in the law rather than merely clarified the U.S. Sentencing Commission’s prior intent.
