Despite a short work week, still another long list of new COVID-influenced federal sentence reductions using § 3582(c)(1)(A)
Another (too) busy work week for me meant that I needed this weekend to catch up on last week's COVID-influenced grants of sentence reductions using § 3582(c)(1)(A). As readers may recall, my last post with a list of recent grants (covering grants mostly from May 16 to 21) was quite lengthy. Perhaps due in part of a shorter work-week, this listing is not quite as long, but it still represents lots of uplifting news for certain defendants and their loved ones during a time when I think we can all benefit from some positivity. So:
United States v. Somerville, No. 2:12-CR-225-NR, 2020 WL 2781585 (WD Pa. May 29, 2020)
United States v. Chester, No. 6:17-CR-06151 EAW, 2020 WL 2771077 (WDNY May 29, 2020)
United States v. Acoff, No. 3:15cr157 (MPS), 2020 WL 2781798 (D Conn. May 29, 2020)
Harrell v. United States, No. 13-20198, 2020 WL 2768883 (ED Mich. May 28, 2020)
United States v. Gonzalez, No. 12-CR-326 (JMF), 2020 WL 2766048 (SDNY May 28, 2020)
United States v. Feucht, No. 11-CR-60025-MIDDLEBROOKS, 2020 WL 2781600 (SD Fla. May 28, 2020)
United States v. Silkeutsabay, No. 2:13-CR-0140-TOR-3, 2020 WL 2747401 (ED Wash. May 27, 2020)
United States v. Whyte, No. 4:12cr00021-002, 2020 WL 2754761 (WD Va. May 27, 2020)
United States v. Body, No. 18 CR 503-1, 2020 WL 2745972 (ND Ill. May 27, 2020)
United States v. Jackson, No. 5:02-cr-30020, 2020 WL 2735724 (WD Va. May 26, 2020)
United States v. Morris, No. 12-154 (BAH), 2020 WL 2735651 (DDC May 24, 2020)
Nearly a dozen grants in a short week is still remarkable, and this group can be rounded up to an even dozen with McCoy v. United States, No. 2:03-cr-197, 2020 WL 2738225 (ED Va. May 26, 2020). McCoy grants a sentence reduction, without any mention of COVID, to redress an old excessive sentence imposed on a young offender and inflated by stacking mandatory 924(c) counts. Here is the closing section from McCoy court: "Petitioner was sentenced at just 20 years old to a mandatory 421 month term for crimes that he would face an advisory guidelines range of 205–214 months if sentenced today.... Petitioner's relative youth at the time of the sentence, the overall length of the sentence, the disparity between his sentence and those sentenced for similar crimes after the FIRST STEP Act, and his rehabilitative efforts form an extraordinary and compelling basis for relief. Accordingly, .... Petitioner's total sentence is reduced to a cumulative term of 205 months."
As I have mentioned before, a lot of late week rulings do not appear on Westlaw right away, so there might still be some additional late May grants that could show up on the service later this week. Moreover, as I have mentioned in a number of prior posts, I am quite certain that these Westlaw listings do not represent all sentence reductions being granted by federal courts these days. The data in the Marshall Project article flagged here have led me to believe that Westlaw is picking up only about half or even less of all federal sentence reduction grants.
Prior recent related posts since lockdowns:
- Notable recent (pre-COVID) grants of sentence reductions from coast to coast using 3582(c)(1)(A) ... as FAMM urges thousand more filings in response to coronavirus
- Documenting early federal court COVID jurisprudence in response to various release requests from federal defendants and inmates
- A few (too few) recent COVID-influenced grants of sentence reductions using 3582(c)(1)(A)
- Pleased to see growing number of COVID-influenced grants of sentence reductions using 3582(c)(1)(A)
- A few more COVID-influenced grants of sentence reductions using 3582(c)(1)(A)
- Still more COVID-influenced grants of sentence reductions using 3582(c)(1)(A), with waivers of exhaustion/waiting period
- Additional COVID-influenced grants of federal sentence reductions using 3582(c)(1)(A)
- Another round of recent COVID-influenced grants of federal sentence reductions using 3582(c)(1)(A)
- A dozen new grants of federal sentence reductions using § 3582(c)(1)(A), including another based on stacking/disparity/trial penalty concerns
- Still more of the ever-growing number of COVID-influenced federal sentence reductions using 3582(c)(1)(A)
- Another robust week for COVID-influenced federal sentence reductions using 3582(c)(1)(A)
- With lots more new grants, time for another timely review of the latest COVID-influenced federal sentence reductions using § 3582(c)(1)(A)
- A big list for a whole week's worth of COVID-influenced federal sentence reductions using § 3582(c)(1)(A)
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