United States v. Martin, No. 17-6199 (4th Cir. 2019)
Annotate this CaseThe Fourth Circuit vacated the district court's denial of defendants' motions for sentence reductions under 18 U.S.C. 3582(c)(2). Although there is no right to a sentence reduction under section 582(c)(2), a district court cannot ignore a host of mitigation evidence and summarily deny a motion to reduce a sentence and leave both the defendant and the appellate court in the dark as to the reasons for its decision. In this case, the court held that the district court failed to provide defendants with individualized explanations for its rulings on their respective motions. Accordingly, the court remanded for further proceedings.
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