court denied the motion on grounds other than the lack of “extraordinary and compelling reasons,” the defendants’ medical conditions oftentimes were more serious than are Thompson’s.[1] Fear of COVID doesn’t automatically entitle a prisoner to release. Thompson can point to no case in which a court, on account of the pandemic, has granted compassionate release to an otherwise healthy defendant with two, well-controlled, chronic medical conditions and who had completed less than half of his sentence.
Affirmed.
- ↑ See, e.g., Ruffin, 978 F.3d at 1002, 1008 (describing a defendant’s health conditions, which included a blood disorder, heart problems, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and blood clots, before determining that the district court did not abuse its discretion in balancing the § 3553(a) factors); United States v. Jones, No. 20-3701, 2020 WL 6817488, at *2 (6th Cir. Nov. 20, 2020) (affirming denial on § 3553(a) factors after district court assumed that the defendant, who was over 40, obese, and had had tuberculosis, presented an extraordinary and compelling reason for compassionate release); Pawlowski, 967 F.3d at 328–29, 331 (affirming denial on § 3553(a) factors after the government conceded that the defendant, who had heart disease, COPD, dyspnea, and only one lung, presented extraordinary and compelling reasons for release in light of COVID); United States v. Spencer, No. 20-3721, 2020 WL 5498932, at *1, *3 (6th Cir. Sept. 2, 2020) (unpublished) (affirming a district court’s denial on § 3553(a) factors after assuming that the defendant, who was obese and suffered from a heart condition, demonstrated extraordinary and compelling circumstances).
(granting compassionate release for COVID for a defendant who had served over 80% of his reduced sentence and suffered from end stage renal disease, diabetes, and hypertension).
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