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Joel S. Elliott v. United States
IFP petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, No. 24-8019 · judgment September 6, 2024
Question presented
This case presents an important question of statutory interpretation involving a frequently litigated provision of federal criminal sentencing law, and on which the circuits have intractably split, namely: Whether a combination of “extraordinary and compelling reasons” that may warrant a discretionary sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A) can include reasons that may also be alleged as grounds for vacatur of a sentence under 28 U.S.C. § 2255?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
John Carl Arceci
Office of the Federal Public Defender
For respondent
D. John Sauer
Solicitor General
Case
Subject area
Criminal Procedure (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 4 conferences
Order
Order list, June 8, 2026 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- Jun 08 2026Petition DENIED.
- Jun 01 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/4/2026.
- May 19 2025DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/22/2025.
- May 08 2025Reply of petitioner Joel Elliott filed. (Distributed)
- Apr 23 2025DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/15/2025.
- Apr 09 2025Brief of respondent United States in opposition filed.
- Mar 04 2025Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including April 9, 2025.
- Mar 03 2025Motion to extend the time to file a response from March 10, 2025 to April 9, 2025, submitted to The Clerk.
- Jan 30 2025Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including March 10, 2025.
- Jan 29 2025Motion to extend the time to file a response from February 7, 2025 to March 10, 2025, submitted to The Clerk.
- Jan 08 2025Response Requested. (Due February 7, 2025)
- Jan 02 2025DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/17/2025.
- Dec 30 2024Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
- Dec 05 2024Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due January 10, 2025)