Setser v. United States

·2012

What the Court Decided

Addressed a federal court's authority to order that a federal sentence run consecutively to an anticipated state sentence, with discussion of compassionate release as a potential safety valve.

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Cited In

Fernandez v. United States

2025 Term · 24-556

The petitioner cited Justice Scalia's suggestion that compassionate release might address unusually long sentences, demonstrating that the statute was not understood as limited to personal circumstances.