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191753P.pdf 11/26/2019 United States v. Eric Williams
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 19-1753
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Little Rock
[PUBLISHED] [Benton, Author, with Gruender and Shepherd, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - First Step Act. Section 404 of the First Step Act did not
require a hearing on Williams' motion to reduce his sentence; the court
did not abuse its discretion as it considered Williams' post-sentence
rehabilitation and decided not reduce to reduce his sentence on that
basis; the court did not abuse its discretion in denying the motion, as it
considered Williams' arguments for a sentence reduction and had a reasoned
basis for rejecting them.