Filed: Feb. 20, 2020
Latest Update: Feb. 20, 2020
Summary: MEMORANDUM AND ORDER RICHARD G. KOPF , Senior District Judge . Pending before me is a request that I reduce the defendant's sentence under the First Step Act. After careful consideration, including a review of the Act, the presentence report, the briefs, the revised 2019 worksheet from the probation office, filing no. 410, and the statutory goals of sentencing, I will deny the pending motion in the exercise of my discretion, although the defendant is eligible for a reduction. I am info
Summary: MEMORANDUM AND ORDER RICHARD G. KOPF , Senior District Judge . Pending before me is a request that I reduce the defendant's sentence under the First Step Act. After careful consideration, including a review of the Act, the presentence report, the briefs, the revised 2019 worksheet from the probation office, filing no. 410, and the statutory goals of sentencing, I will deny the pending motion in the exercise of my discretion, although the defendant is eligible for a reduction. I am infor..
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MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
RICHARD G. KOPF, Senior District Judge.
Pending before me is a request that I reduce the defendant's sentence under the First Step Act. After careful consideration, including a review of the Act, the presentence report, the briefs, the revised 2019 worksheet from the probation office, filing no. 410, and the statutory goals of sentencing, I will deny the pending motion in the exercise of my discretion, although the defendant is eligible for a reduction.
I am informed by the probation officer that the defendant will shortly be released from custody1 and begin to serve her five-year term of supervised release. I could reduce that term at this time, but I think it is unwise to do so. However, as I have done in the past, I am not averse to terminating supervised release early in appropriate cases once the defendant has proven that she has complied with supervised release conditions and is no longer in need of supervision. But that time has not yet come.
IT IS ORDERED that the motion to revise the sentencing worksheet, Filing no. 405, is denied as moot since the worksheet was revised at Filing no. 410. The motion to reduce sentence under the First Step Act, filing no. 406, is denied in the exercise of my discretion.
FootNotes
1. A supervisory probation officer has informed me that her release date is February 26, 2020. In Filing no. 407 at CM/ECF p. 10, her counsel advises me that she was placed at a residential reentry center on July 19, 2019.
