Scudder, Circuit Judge.
Seven years into his 15-year sentence for heroin dealing, Tony Brock sought early discharge under the compassionate release statute, 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A). Receiving that relief depended on Brock first identifying a legally cognizable "extraordinary and compelling" reason for
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