Sentencing: After Third Circuit Decision, USSC Policy Statement Faces Uncertain Future

The U.S. Sentencing Commission’s Policy Statement allowing sentence reductions for defendants who received an “unusually long sentence” faces an uncertain future after the 2024 Third Circuit decision in United States v. Rutherford.

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