New District Court ruling confirms that “any extraordinary and compelling reasons” can now provide basis for reducing imprisonment under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)
As regular readers know, even since the passage of the FIRST STEP Act, I have been talking up 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A) as a critical and valuable new mechanism to reduce problematic prison sentences in any and every case in which the defendant presents “extraordinary and compelling reasons” for the reductions. To date, it seemed that the imprisonment reduction authority granted by 3582(c)(1)(A) had been used almost only for so-called compassionate release situations in which…
