Still more of the ever-growing number of COVID-influenced federal sentence reductions using § 3582(c)(1)(A)

In recent posts (examples here and here and here and here and here and more linked below), I have highlighted more than four dozen rulings involving COVID-influenced grants of sentence reductions using § 3582(c)(1)(A) that I have found via Westlaw.  (And, as I keep mentioning, these Westlaw listings likely do not represent all sentence reductions being granted these days).  before the start of a new work week, I figured I would do yet another round-up of new grants of sentence reductions that emerged on Westlaw from the end of last week.  It is heartening to again see these types of rulings from coast-to-coast and lots of places in-between:

United States v. Etzel, No. 6:17-cr-00001-AA, 2020 WL 2096423 (D Ore. May 1, 2020)

United States v. Lacy, No. 15-cr-30038, 2020 WL 2093363 (CD Ill. May 1, 2020)

United States v. Rivera, No. 86 Cr. 1124 (JFK), 2020 WL 2094094 (SDNY May 1, 2020)

United States v. Peters, No.3:18-cr-188 (VAB), 2020 WL 2092617 (D Conn. May 1, 2020)

United States v. Pinkerton, No. 15-cr-30045-3, 2020 WL 2083968 (CD Ill. Apr. 30, 2020)

United States v. Lucas, No. 15-CR-143, 2020 WL 2059735 (WDNY Apr. 29, 2020)

United States v. Dunlap, No. 1:02cr165-1, 2020 WL 2062311 (MD NC Apr. 29, 2020)

United States v. Saad, No. No. 16-20197, 2020 WL 2065476 (ED Mich. Apr. 29, 2020)

United States v. Harper, No. 7:18-cr-00025, 2020 WL 2046381 (D Conn. Apr. 28, 2020)

United States v. Mel, No. TDC-18-0571, 2020 WL 2041674 (D Md. Apr. 28, 2020)

In addition to this encouraging additional set of sentence-reductions grants using § 3582(c)(1)(A) accelerated by COVID concerns, there have also been a few grants based primarily on other factors that I hope to find time to cover in future posts.  In the meantime, I continue to be pleased to see (some) judges recognizing that 3582(c)(1)(A) motions can and should provide a means to correct (some) past unjust federal sentences.  The COVID crisis and the threat it poses to vulnerable prisoners is surely increasing the willingness of judges to review swiftly those past sentences that may no longer serve any sentencing purpose.  

Prior recent related posts since lockdowns:

• Notable recent (pre-COVID) grants of sentence reductions from coast to coast using 3582(c)(1)(A) ... as FAMM urges thousand more filings in response to coronavirus
• Documenting early federal court COVID jurisprudence in response to various release requests from federal defendants and inmates 
• A few (too few) recent COVID-influenced grants of sentence reductions using 3582(c)(1)(A)
• Pleased to see growing number of COVID-influenced grants of sentence reductions using 3582(c)(1)(A)
• A few more COVID-influenced grants of sentence reductions using 3582(c)(1)(A)
• Still more COVID-influenced grants of sentence reductions using 3582(c)(1)(A), with waivers of exhaustion/waiting period 
• Additional COVID-influenced grants of federal sentence reductions using 3582(c)(1)(A) 
• Another round of recent COVID-influenced grants of federal sentence reductions using 3582(c)(1)(A)
• A dozen new grants of federal sentence reductions using § 3582(c)(1)(A), including another based on stacking/disparity/trial penalty concerns