United States v. Denroy Gayle

How courts have described this case

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• noting that this is the only situation when a reduction below the bottom of a prisoner’s amended range is allowed
• “Congress contemplated that the Commission would have the power to impose limits on … sentence reductions, by making the Commission’s policy statements binding.”
• “18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A) … requires that sentence reductions for extraordinary and compelling reasons be consistent with applicable policy statements of the Commission … thereby restricting district courts[.]”
• “Congress decided that the … Commission would not be an ‘agency’ under [that Act] when it established the Commission as an independent entity in the judicial branch.” (internal quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).