Rutherford v. United States · ¶108

Take petitioners as examples. Neither is seeking relief based solely on Congress's nonretroactive changes to § 924(c). Instead, they argue that they are entitled to a reduction because of the change in law in addition to their remarkable changed personal circumstances. To be clear, it may well be that neither Rutherford nor Carter would be found by a district court to be entitled to compassionate release even after taking account of sentencing disparities. Nevertheless, they are at least entitled to full consideration of their cases in view of all relevant information. Affording them that individualized analysis is fully consistent with Congress's judgment that a change in law does not automatically entitle them to relief.

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