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UNITED STATES v. KING

No. 21-3196.

40 F.4th 594 (2022)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. William D. KING, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 11, 2022.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Katherine Virginia Boyle , Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Urbana, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Thomas Drysdale , Attorney, Office of the Federal Public Defender, Urbana, IL, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before Easterbrook, Wood, and Kirsch, Circuit Judges.

When deciding whether "extraordinary and compelling reasons", 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i), justify a prisoner's compassionate release, judges must not rely on non-retroactive statutory changes or new judicial decisions. That's the holding of United States v. Thacker, 4 F.4th 569 (7th Cir. 2021), and United...

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