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Supreme Court rules against prison sentence reductions
The justices said federal law did not support sentence cuts in either case, including a 6-3 ruling in Rutherford and an 8-1 ruling in Fernandez.
- On Thursday, the Supreme Court rejected petitions from convicted individuals Daniel Rutherford, Johnnie Carter, and Joe Fernandez to reduce their prison sentences in two separate cases.
- In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court ruled the First Step Act of 2018 did not allow sentence reductions for Rutherford and Carter, who received 42 and 70 years for stacked armed bank robberies.
- Fernandez's petition for early release failed in an 8-1 ruling; the court held that challenging a conviction does not justify such relief. "Extraordinary and compelling reasons," Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote, do not include conviction challenges.
- Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan disagreed with the majority. Jackson argued compassionate release is designed to provide relief from harsh sentences under federal law.
- Under the statutory scheme Congress created, Sotomayor wrote that the Sentencing Commission holds the leading role in defining the scope of compassionate release as the court's term rapidly closes.
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Supreme Court rules against prison sentence reductions
(The Center Square) — The U.S. Supreme Court, in two separate cases on Thursday, ruled against convicted individuals seeking to reduce their prison sentences.
·Cherokee County, United States
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