United States v. Slone

Danny C. Reeves, United States District Judge

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This case presents an issue regarding application of the First Step Act of 2018 (hereafter, "the 2018 Act") to a subset of defendants who entered guilty pleas prior to the effective date of the 2018 Act but were not sentenced until after December 21, 2018. More specifically, the precise legal question concerns the date on which a conviction is deemed to be "entered" under Section 402(b) of the 2018 Act. For the reasons that follow, the undersigned concludes that, in this case, the defendant's conviction was "entered" on the date she acknowledged…