Legal Opinion
Gatewood v. Outlaw
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided March 26, 2009No. 08-2197PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LOKEN, Chief Judge.
Kennard Gatewood was convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm, violating 18 U.S.C. § 922(g). While serving his sentence, he successfully completed a 500-hour Bureau of Prisons (“BOP”) residential drug abuse program and sought the discretionary sentence reduction BOP may grant under 18 U.S.C. § 3621(e)(2)(B). BOP did not reduce his sentence, instead applying its regulation declaring an inmate convicted of a felony firearm possession offense ineligible for that relief, 28 C.F.R. § 550.58(a)(l)(vi)(B), a regulation the Supreme Court held to be a reasonable…
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