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UNITED STATES v. JEAN

No. 23-40463.

108 F.4th 275 (2024)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Joel Francois JEAN, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 15, 2024.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bradley Elliot Visosky, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office, Plano, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Jeanne Marie Heffernan, Nadia E. Haghighatian, Kirkland & Ellis, L.L.P., Austin, TX, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before Smith, Wiener, and Douglas, Circuit Judges.

The United States appeals the grant of compassionate release to Joel Francois Jean. Because Jean exhibited extraordinary rehabilitation and because his sentence, if imposed today, would have been nearly a decade shorter, the district court held compassionate release was warranted. Finding no abuse of discretion, we...

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