Whitcomb v. City of Waterville

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the district court did not err by denying compassionate release to an inmate with high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and coronary artery disease despite the in- creased risk of death or severe medical complications from COVID-19
• holding that the district court did not err in denying compassionate release to an inmate with high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and coronary artery disease even though inmate was at increased risk from COVID-19 because his conditions were manageable in prison
• holding that the district court did not err in denying compassionate release to an inmate with high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and coronary artery disease even though inmate was at increased risk from COVID-19 because his conditions were manageable in prison
• explaining that a defendant who doesn’t meet each of Tinker’s three requirements is not entitled to compassion- ate release
• noting that the reason- ing for the district court’s finding of no extraordinary and compel- ling reason for early release was “apparent in the record”
• stating that “[i]f any one of the necessary find- ings cannot be made,” including that the § 3553(a) factors favor early release, “then compassionate release is not permissible”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).