[Opinion] Additional opinions from Thursday, June 26

Additional opinions from Thursday, June 26

On Thursday, June 26, the Supreme Court also released the following opinions: — In Hewitt v. United States, the justices considered whether the First Step Act’s sentencing reduction guidelines apply to someone who was originally sentenced before the FSA was enacted but whose sentence was later vacated.   In a 5-4 decision by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the court held that the act’s more lenient penalties apply to such defendants. “Under the i…