Fernandez v. United States · ¶64

What, then, explains the new categorical rule that the Court adopts today? The answer appears to be the majority's intuition that the District Court's grant of petitioner Joe Fernandez's compassionate-release motion qualifes as an abuse of discretion under the circumstances presented here. That may well be true—but not because of an implicit, habeas-based limitation on the reach of § 3582(c)(1)(A).

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