extraordinary-and-compelling

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A355 United States v. Shaheem Johnson Fourth Circuit 2025-09-26 Presumed Complete co-conspirators extraordinary-and-compelling section-3553 section-3582 sentence-reduction sentencing-disparities Question not identified.
24-860 Johnnie Markel Carter v. United States Third Circuit 2025-02-11 Granted Amici (6)Relisted (2) district-courts extraordinary-and-compelling federal-prisoners nonretroactive-law sentence-reduction sentencing-commission Whether the Sentencing Commission acted within its expressly delegated authority by permitting district courts to consider, in narrowly cabined circum…
23-5675 Brandon A. House v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 appellate-court appellate-court-interpretation concepcion-precedent concepcion-v-united-states district-court district-court-discretion extraordinary-and-compelling extraordinary-compelling-reasons section-3582 sentencing-modification This Court said in no uncertain terms that a district court, when considering a sentence-modification motion, may consider not only changes in law mad…
22-7567 Enrique Infante, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 compassionate-release extraordinary-and-compelling extraordinary-compelling-reasons judicial-discretion medical-care sentencing sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation (1) Whether inadequate medical care for a treatable illness is a categorically insufficient basis to qualify as an extraordinary and compelling reason…
22-7303 Patrick Dewayne Smith v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP compassionate-release extraordinary-and-compelling extraordinary-circumstances federal-law-change first-step-act mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-minimum retroactivity sentencing-reduction sentencing-reform Whether non-retroactive changes in federal law can serve as "extraordinary and compelling reasons" warranting a sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3…
22-5894 Terrence Gibbs v. United States Third Circuit 2022-10-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3582 compassionate-release criminal-justice extraordinary-and-compelling extraordinary-circumstances federal-sentencing-law federal-statute judicial-discretion retroactivity sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-law Whether non-retroactive changes in federal sentencing law, which dramatically altered sentencing exposure for those later sentenced, comprise "extraor…
22-5878 William D. King v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-10-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3582 circuit-split extraordinary-and-compelling extraordinary-compelling-reason judicial-decisions judicial-discretion legal-developments sentence-modification statutory-interpretation When, whether deciding if a defendant has presented an "extraordinary and compelling" reason for a sentence modification under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(…
21-7700 Ronald Hunter v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion extraordinary-and-compelling extraordinary-compelling-reasons rehabilitation sentencing-guidelines sentencing-law sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i), a district court may "reduce [a] term of imprisonment" upon "motion of the defendant" if it finds that "extraordin…
21-7238 Holli Wrice v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 3553(a)-factors compassionate-release congressional-intent criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure extraordinary-and-compelling extraordinary-circumstances retroactive-sentencing sentencing-reduction sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i) allows district courts to reduce a defendant's sentence, based on a finding of extraordinary and compelling reasons, afte…
21-6687 Rory Lee Zirkelbach v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 career-offender district-court-discretion extraordinary-and-compelling extraordinary-reasons sentence-reduction sentencing-disparity sentencing-error sentencing-guideline statutory-interpretation Did the district court err when it imposed an extratextual limitation on its statutory authority to determine what amounts to an "extraordinary and co…