Hewitt v. United States

Decided June 26, 2025. Ketanji Brown Jackson delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 23-1002 · 606 U.S. 419 · Cited 30 times

Because a sentence “has . . . been imposed” for purposes of §403(b) of the First Step Act only if the sentence is extant (i.e., has not been vacated), the Act’s more lenient penalties apply to defendants whose previous 18 U. S. C. §924(c) sentences have been vacated and who need to be resentenced following the Act’s enactment; the judgment of the Fifth Circuit is reversed and the case is remanded.

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