The Supreme Court issued a decision on June 26 that made it easier for some convicts to obtain more lenient sentencing under the First Step Act.
In a 5–4 decision, the justices said that a prior sentence could only be considered as such under the law if it hadn’t been vacated.
That’s important because the act allows lighter sentences if defendants hadn’t already been sentenced before the law’s enactment.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote the majority opinion, which was partially joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Neil Gorsuch.
Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan joined more of Jackson’s opinion….