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Motion (April 23, 2021)
Response (may 21, 2021)
Reply (June 3, 2021)
Order (June 23, 2021)
Memorandum and Order granting compassionate release.
Attorney-client communications federal caselaw and state-specific anecdotal data in South Dakota
Attorney-client communications federal caselaw and state-specific anecdotal data in North Dakota
Attorney-client communications federal caselaw and state-specific anecdotal data in Nebraska
Attorney-client communications federal caselaw and state-specific anecdotal data in Missouri
Attorney-client communications federal caselaw and state-specific anecdotal data in Minnesota
Attorney-client communications federal caselaw and state-specific anecdotal data in Iowa
Attorney-client communications federal caselaw and state-specific anecdotal data in Arkansas
Order granting compassionate release: pre-COVID grant where defendant’s sentence of 848 months “is forty years longer than the sentence he likely would have received (368 months) if he were sentenced under the law (18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(C)) as it now exists.
United States Court of Appeals for The Eighth Circuit: Wilkins v. Bowersox; on appeal from the US District Court for the District of Missouri.
Brief Amici Curiae Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center, National Association of Public Defense, National Legal Aid and Defender Association, and National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in Support of Petitioner.
Brief of National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers as Amicus Curiae in Support of Appellant Randell G. Shelton, Jr., Reversal, and Remand.
Amicus curiae brief of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and Eight Law Professors in support of appellant.
Brief of Juvenile Law Center, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, et al. as amici curiae on Behalf of Appellant (full list of amici in appendix to attached brief).
