Category: Appeals

Gardner filed a motion for plea withdrawal and was denied without a hearing. The Fifth Circuit held a hearing was required.

The Fourth Circuit reversed the denial of a compassionate release after the district court failed to consider the applicant’s obesity.

Some Cares Act recipients have received a request from the Justice Department to complete a clemency petition.

The Law of the Case doctrine prevents reconsidering an issue that has already been decided by the same court or a higher court in the same case.

In Simmons, the Fourth Circuit Held that a RICO conspiracy was not a "crime of violence" for purposes of 924(c)

Over a year into the COVID-19 pandemic and several months into the spread of the Delta variant of the virus, public health conversations seemingly shifted focus. While 2020 conversations centered primarily on social distancing, masking, and isolation protocols, the rollout of several effective vaccines redirected conversations towards vaccination rates. However, the CDC’s recent adjustment to […]

Glover:  Conflict of Interest Case in Fourth Circuit, 19-4801 Glover was charged with conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute drugs.  He tried to hire an attorney and sent that attorney thousands of dollars in advance for his services.  The attorney sent the money to the DEA believing that they were drug proceeds.  The […]

Saccoccia was sentenced to 660 years (!) for “a panoply of criminal offenses connected to his role in laundering more than $136,000,000 for a Colombian drug cartel.”  The district court sentenced him to the statutory maximum on his charges and then ran them consecutively.  Saccoccia filed a compassionate release motion in May of 2020.  He […]

The District Court is required to rule on all aspects of a 2255 motion even when granting relief based on one claim.

The Program Statement Explains How Inmates Will Be Rewarded for Taking Evidence Based Recidivism Reduction Classes