Statutory eligibility map
Separate Section 3582(c)(1)(A), amended-guideline, and other sentence-reduction paths before any case-specific screen is drafted.
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Compassionate Release Research Pack
The USSC FY2025 report tabulates, for the compassionate-release motions courts granted, which § 1B1.13(b) grounds those grants cited, most § 3582 motions never read them. Enter your court, judgment date, guideline posture, and asserted ground; the pack returns the national by-§ 1B1.13(b)-ground granted-reason shares (each ground's share of the granted-reason citations, with the count behind each, so a share can't hide whether it stands on a handful of grants or hundreds), the § 3553(a)/§ 3142(g) factor checklist, the statutory hook for your posture (the § 3582(c)(1)(A) exhaustion gate or the Rule 35 boundary), Amendment 821 retroactivity screening if your client is eligible, and the gaps between what the record shows and what a strong § 3582 motion needs, wired into a filing-structure scaffold you complete. It is national aggregate context, never a district-specific or case-specific forecast. Every data row is sourced to the USSC vintage it came from.
“limited research pertaining to the processes associated with compassionate release policies, including specific eligibility requirements.”
The four hooks a § 3582 motion has to clear.
USSC compassionate-release data table
Use Commission-published data vintages for district, circuit, reason-category, and disposition context without turning aggregate rates into outcome forecasts.
Policy-statement source table
Map the applicable policy-statement category and quoted language only when the source section and quote context are available.
Amendment 821 retroactivity screen
Screen criminal-history amendment issues separately from compassionate-release grounds, with retroactivity report source and data vintage labels.
Rule 35 boundary note
Keep Rule 35 substantial-assistance research distinct from court-filed compassionate-release and amended-guideline screens.
Documentation checklist
Convert the source-backed eligibility screen into a document-request checklist without asserting that any factor satisfies the standard.
Source-and-vintage verification ledger
Every row you receive carries its source URL, source record, data vintage, denominator caveat, and quote-context status — nothing ships until each field is complete.
§ 1B1.13(b) extraordinary-and-compelling ground taxonomy
Frame the § 1B1.13(b)(1)-(6) grounds as a decision tree and map counsel's asserted ground to the applicable branch; the product frames the taxonomy and never decides which ground applies. § 1B1.13(b)(6) change-in-law is caveated as foreclosed for nonretroactive changes per Rutherford v. United States, No. 24-820.
USSC by-§1B1.13-ground granted-reason rates
Present the USSC FY2025 granted-reason rates broken down by § 1B1.13(b) ground as aggregate national context (each cell human-reviewed against Table 10); never a case-specific forecast, and the (b)(6) row is labeled Rutherford-foreclosed for nonretroactive changes in law.
§ 3553(a) and § 3142(g) factor checklist
Enumerate the § 3553(a)(1)-(7) sentencing factors and the § 3142(g)(1)-(4) danger factors (incorporated via § 1B1.13(a)(2)) as counsel-application prompts; the product frames each factor and never argues it — post-sentencing conduct and disparity figures stay attorney-supplied.
§ 3582(c)(1)(A) exhaustion gate
Present the § 3582(c)(1)(A) exhaustion threshold as a decision checklist with the verbatim statutory clause; counsel confirms the warden-request date and whether the 30-day lapse or BOP denial applies before asserting the threshold is met — the product never asserts exhaustion is satisfied.
Every row is tied to a public source URL. Here's what's behind the research.
Each row is tied to a public source URL. Rows are held until source verification and coverage review are complete.
Statutory eligibility map
- Source record
- benchrecon-source:statutory-eligibility-map
- Acquisition
- public-statute; Legal Information Institute / public federal source; structured
- Statutory source
- 18 U.S.C. Section 3582(c)(1)(A)
- Data vintage
- Sentence-reduction statutes public source vintage
- Denominator note
- Public source-record denominator only; not a case-specific outcome denominator and never a forecast for an individual matter.
USSC compassionate-release data table
- Source record
- benchrecon-source:ussc-compassionate-release-data
- Acquisition
- public-data-report; United States Sentencing Commission; needs-review
- Statutory source
- https://www.ussc.gov/research/data-reports/compassionate-release-data-reports
- Data vintage
- USSC data reports public source vintage
- Denominator note
- Public source-record denominator only; not a case-specific outcome denominator and never a forecast for an individual matter.
Policy-statement source table
- Source record
- benchrecon-source:policy-statement-source-table
- Acquisition
- public-guideline; United States Sentencing Commission; needs-review
- Statutory source
- U.S.S.G. Section 1B1.13
- Data vintage
- Guideline policy statement public source vintage
- Denominator note
- Public source-record denominator only; not a case-specific outcome denominator and never a forecast for an individual matter.
Amendment 821 retroactivity screen
- Source record
- benchrecon-source:amendment-821-retroactivity-screen
- Acquisition
- public-guideline; United States Sentencing Commission; needs-review
- Statutory source
- https://www.ussc.gov/guidelines/amendment/821
- Data vintage
- Retroactivity reports public source vintage
- Denominator note
- Public source-record denominator only; not a case-specific outcome denominator and never a forecast for an individual matter.
Rule 35 boundary note
- Source record
- benchrecon-source:rule-35-boundary
- Acquisition
- public-statute; Legal Information Institute / public federal source; structured
- Statutory source
- Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 35
- Data vintage
- Post-sentencing procedure public source vintage
- Denominator note
- Public source-record denominator only; not a case-specific outcome denominator and never a forecast for an individual matter.
Documentation checklist
- Source record
- benchrecon-source:documentation-checklist
- Acquisition
- court-form; Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts; structured
- Statutory source
- 18 U.S.C. Section 3582(c)(1)(A)
- Data vintage
- Record assembly public source vintage
- Denominator note
- Public source-record denominator only; not a case-specific outcome denominator and never a forecast for an individual matter.
Source-and-vintage verification ledger
- Source record
- benchrecon-source:release-validation-gates
- Acquisition
- counsel-review; BenchRecon manual review ledger; needs-review
- Statutory source
- https://www.ussc.gov/research/data-reports/compassionate-release-data-reports
- Data vintage
- Verification ledger public source vintage
- Denominator note
- Public source-record denominator only; not a case-specific outcome denominator and never a forecast for an individual matter.
§ 1B1.13(b) extraordinary-and-compelling ground taxonomy
- Source record
- benchrecon-source:ground-taxonomy-decision-tree
- Acquisition
- public-statute; Legal Information Institute / public federal source; structured
- Statutory source
- https://www.ussc.gov/guidelines/2023-guidelines-manual-annotated
- Data vintage
- Guideline policy statement public source vintage
- Denominator note
- Public source-record denominator only; not a case-specific outcome denominator and never a forecast for an individual matter.
USSC by-§1B1.13-ground granted-reason rates
- Source record
- benchrecon-source:grant-base-rates-by-ground
- Acquisition
- public-statute; Legal Information Institute / public federal source; structured
- Statutory source
- https://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/research-and-publications/federal-sentencing-statistics/compassionate-release/FY25-Compassionate-Release.pdf
- Data vintage
- USSC data reports public source vintage
- Denominator note
- Public source-record denominator only; not a case-specific outcome denominator and never a forecast for an individual matter.
§ 3553(a) and § 3142(g) factor checklist
- Source record
- benchrecon-source:section-3553a-3142g-checklist
- Acquisition
- public-statute; Legal Information Institute / public federal source; structured
- Statutory source
- https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/3553
- Data vintage
- Sentence-reduction statutes public source vintage
- Denominator note
- Public source-record denominator only; not a case-specific outcome denominator and never a forecast for an individual matter.
§ 3582(c)(1)(A) exhaustion gate
- Source record
- benchrecon-source:exhaustion-gate
- Acquisition
- public-statute; Legal Information Institute / public federal source; structured
- Statutory source
- https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/3582
- Data vintage
- Sentence-reduction statutes public source vintage
- Denominator note
- Public source-record denominator only; not a case-specific outcome denominator and never a forecast for an individual matter.
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