Fernandez v. United States · ¶67

The majority holds that the District Court erred in granting Fernandez's compassionate-release motion because § 3582(c)(1)(A) contains an implicit habeas-based limitation: Sentence reductions that derive from purported “[c]ollateral attacks on federal convictions” are not authorized. Ante, at 419. It is not clear whether the majority believes, on the one hand, that conviction-related concerns can never be sufficiently “extraordinary and compelling” or, on the other, that even if there are “extraordinary and compelling” reasons to doubt the defendant's conviction, a sentence reduction is nevertheless unavailable.

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