United States v. Michael Hegwood

LESLIE H. SOUTHWICK, Circuit Judge:

*415 This appeal concerns the First Step Act, in which Congress permitted a sentencing court to "impose a reduced sentence as if ... the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 ... were in effect at the time the covered offense was committed." The issue is whether district courts are authorized to conduct a plenary resentencing, which would include recalculating the Sentencing Guidelines range as if the defendant were being sentenced for the first time under present law, or whether courts are limited to reductions resulting from the Fair Sentencing Act. Concluding that the…