United States v. Melendez, No. 20-1575 (1st Cir. 2021)
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The First Circuit affirmed the judgment of the district court denying Defendant's motion under the First Step Act (codified as amended in scattered sections of 18 U.S.C., 21 U.S.C., and 34 U.S.C.) to reduce his sentence for a more than decade-old federal drug offense, holding that the motion was moot.
In 2000, Defendant received a sentence for his convictions and was sentenced to a term of imprisonment followed by supervised release. While Defendant's supervised release from prison began in 2007, Defendant thrice violated the terms of his supervised release and was sentenced in 2010 to six months' imprisonment. In 2019, Defendant moved to have his fully-served sentence reduced under the First Step Act. The district court denied the motion as moot. The First Circuit affirmed, holding that the district court did not err in dismissing Defendant's First Step Act motion as moot.
The court issued a subsequent related opinion or order on October 29, 2021.
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