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In a unanimous 9-0 ruling, the Supreme Court found that individuals convicted of gun crimes may receive reduced prison sentences, allowing for concurrent sentences in certain cases.
The case involved conflicting subsections of 18 U.S.C. 924, with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson writing the ruling.
The decision vacated a prison sentence and remanded the case for resentencing, restoring courts’ discretion in imposing concurrent or consecutive sentences. (Trending: Joe Biden Impeachment Formalized As Republicans Unite)
Justice Jackson wrote in her ruling, “Congress could certainly have designed the penalty scheme at issue here differently.”
“But Congress did not do any of these things,” she continued.
Adding, “And we must implement the design Congress chose.”
Two subsections of 18 U.S.C. 924. Subsection (c) outlines offenses and penalties and states that no term of imprisonment imposed on a person under this subsection shall run concurrently with any other term of imprisonment imposed on the person. Subsection (j), is a recent addition that outlined different offenses and their corresponding penalties. It reportedly does not include language on forbidding concurrent sentences.
