USA v. Michael Jerome Files, No. 19-11074 (11th Cir. 2021)
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USCA11 Case: 19-11074 Date Filed: 05/21/2021 Page: 1 of 2 [DO NOT PUBLISH] IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ________________________ No. 19-11074 Non-Argument Calendar ________________________ D.C. Docket No. 2:97-cr-00099-WS-B-10 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff-Appellee, versus MICHAEL JEROME FILES, Defendant-Appellant. ________________________ Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama ________________________ (May 21, 2021) Before JORDAN, JILL PRYOR and GRANT, Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM: USCA11 Case: 19-11074 Date Filed: 05/21/2021 Page: 2 of 2 In the district court, Michael Jerome Files requested a sentence reduction under § 404 of the First Step Act of 2018, Pub. L. No. 115-391, 132 Stat. 5194, 5222. The district court denied the motion, concluding that he was ineligible for a sentence reduction. Files has appealed. When the district court denied Files’s motion, it did not have the benefit of our decision in United States v. Jones, 962 F.3d 1290 (11th Cir. 2020). We do, and now that we do, the government has conceded that Files is eligible for a sentence reduction under § 404 of the First Step Act. Having reviewed Jones and the record in this case, we accept the government’s concession, vacate the district court’s orders denying a sentence reduction, and remand for further proceedings so that the district court may decide whether to exercise its discretion under § 404 to award Files a sentence reduction. See id. at 1304. VACATED and REMANDED. 2
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