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US vs. Bucci shows compassionate release for relief for a federal inmate as the sole parental caregiver for his mother.

In most cases, compassionate release appeals are difficult since the First Step Act gives district courts full discretion.

The goal of this interim step is to ensure that decisions about charging, plea agreements, and advocacy at sentencing are based on the merits of each case.

In January 2021, The United States Sentencing Commission published a study on Fentanyl and Fentanyl Analogues and their trends.

Extending home confinement past the COVID-19 pandemic is a blurry legal line.

BOP regulations will affect how individuals are able to earn time credits for the evidence-based recidivism reduction classes.

Through most of 2020, politicians and advocates across the country pushed for more widespread releases of inmates amidst COVID-19 threats.

In July of this year, the United States Sentencing Commission issued their Retroactivity and Recidivism Report for the Drug Minus Two Amendment. While many of you may not have a case that is implicated by the two-level reduction, the information may still be important to you as you seek either a compassionate release or whatever […]

Was the pat-down a legal stop and did the officers have reasonable suspicion to perform it? The 5th circuit decided not in US vs McKinney.

In December of 2020, the U.S. Sentencing Commission issued a report examining the level of influence guideline ranges imposed in United States v. Booker (2005) still have on sentencing today.