Jay Williams v. R. Marques, No. 19-1784 (8th Cir. 2019)
Annotate this CaseCourt Description: Per Curiam - Before Colloton, Benton and Grasz, Circuit Judges] Prisoner case - Habeas. Administrative Procedures Act and First Step Act challenges to the Bureau of Prison's regulation barring inmates convicted of certain nonviolent offenses from receiving a sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. Sec. 3621(e)(2)(B) after successful completion of a residential drug abuse treatment program rejected without comment.
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United States Court of Appeals For the Eighth Circuit ___________________________ No. 19-1784 ___________________________ Jay Michael Williams, lllllllllllllllllllllPlaintiff - Appellant, v. R. Marques, Warden, lllllllllllllllllllllDefendant - Appellee. ____________ Appeal from United States District Court for the District of Minnesota ____________ Submitted: November 25, 2019 Filed: December 2, 2019 [Unpublished] ____________ Before COLLOTON, BENTON, and GRASZ, Circuit Judges. ____________ PER CURIAM. Jay Williams filed a petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 for a writ of habeas corpus. He challenged a Bureau of Prisons regulation barring inmates convicted of certain nonviolent offenses from receiving a sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3621(e)(2)(B) after successful completion of a residential drug abuse treatment program. Williams initially challenged the regulation under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) and later added a challenge under the Fair Sentencing Act (FSA) of 2018. The district court1 denied relief on both grounds. We agree with the district court that Williams’s APA challenge was foreclosed by controlling precedent, and that the FSA did not alter the validity or applicability of the regulation at issue. The judgment is affirmed for the reasons stated by the district court. See 8th Cir. R. 47B. ______________________________ 1 The Honorable John R. Tunheim, Chief Judge, United States District Court for the District of Minnesota, adopting the report and recommendations of Magistrate Elizabeth C. Wright, United States Magistrate Judge for the District of Minnesota. -2-
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