United States v. Thomas McCoy

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “district courts permissibly treat[] as ‘extraordinary and compelling reasons’ for compassionate release the severity of the defendants’ § 924(c
• holding that “district courts are empowered to consider any extraordinary and compelling reason for release that a defendant might raise” (cleaned up)
• holding that U.S.S.G. § 1B1.13 is not an “applicable policy statement” for compassionate release motions filed by a defendant in the wake of the First Step Act
• holding that U.S.S.G. § 1B1.13 is not an “applicable policy statement” for compassionate release motions filed by a defendant in the wake of the First Step Act
• holding that, because “[t]here is as of now no applicable policy statement [issued by the United States Sentencing Commission] governing compassionate-release motions filed by defendants under the recently amended § 3582(c)(1)(A
• noting that the First Step Act “remove[d] the Bureau of Prisons from its former role as a gatekeeper over compassionate-release petitions”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).