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202216P.pdf   06/29/2021  United States  v.  Thomas Houck
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  20-2216
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Joplin   
   [PUBLISHED] [[Gruender, Author, with Benton and Shepherd, Circuit Judges] 
   Criminal case - Sentencing. The district court provided a sufficient 
   explanation for its decision to deny defendant's request for compassionate 
   release; defendant failed to exhaust his administrative remedies prior to 
   filing his motion for compassionate release; defendant's arguments for 
   creating an equitable exception to the mandatory claim-processing rule are 
   rejected; under the language of 18 U.S.C. Sec. 3624(c)(2), the district 
   court correctly determined that it did not have authority to change 
   defendant's place of imprisonment to home confinement as such authority is 
   delegated solely to the Bureau of Prisons.