Sentencing Law and Policy: Fascinating compassionate release

Sentencing Law and Policy: Fascinating compassionate release ruling based on clear sentencing error without other means of remedy


Fascinating compassionate release ruling based on clear sentencing error without other means of remedy
Regular readers are likely familiar with many of my (pre-COVID) prior posts making much of the provision of the FIRST STEP Act allowing federal courts to directly reduce sentences under the (so-called compassionate release) statutory provisions of 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A) without awaiting a motion by the Bureau of Prisons.  I have long considered this provision a big deal because, if applied appropriately and robustly, it could and should enable many hundreds (and perhaps many thousands) of federal prisoners to have excessive prison sentences reduced on a variety of grounds.  A helpful reader alerted me to an especially interesting example of the granting of a sentencing reduction in

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