2024 term · Roberts Court · vote not recorded
Hewitt v. United States
606 U.S. 419
The record
- Term
- 2024
- Decided
- Issue area
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- Vote split
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- Winning party
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- Decision direction
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- Chief Justice
- Roberts Court
- Disposition
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- Docket
- 23-1002
- U.S. Reports
- 606 U.S. 419
- S. Ct. citation
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- LEXIS citation
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- Opinion by
- Ketanji Brown Jackson
Holding
Because a sentence “has . . . been imposed” for purposes of §403(b) of the First Step Act only if the sentence is extant (i.e., has not been vacated), the Act’s more lenient penalties apply to defendants whose previous 18 U. S. C. §924(c) sentences have been vacated and who need to be resentenced following the Act’s enactment; the judgment of the Fifth Circuit is reversed and the case is remanded.
How the bench divided
No per-justice vote lineup was available for this case.
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