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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
Conference history
Distributed for 4 conferences
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)