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U.S. Sentencing Commission Greenlights Retroactive Sentence Reductions
Loaded on March 1, 2024
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2024, page 11
Filed under:
U.S. Sentencing Guidelines,
Guideline Amendment/Variances and Retroactivity.
Location:
United States of America.
A vote by the U.S. Sentencing Commission (USSC) on August 24, 2023, potentially makes thousands of prisoners eligible for reduced sentences who were sentenced as first-time offenders.
That’s because USSC members voted for retroactive application of an amendment to U.S. Sentencing guidelines that significantly reduced the offense level assigned to ...
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