SCOTUS Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson authored a unanimous opinion on Friday that judges can be more lenient in the sentencing process for certain crimes involving firearms.
In the unanimous opinion in Lora v. United States, the justices said a ban on concurrent sentences in one section of the criminal code for drug-related gun crimes does not govern a sentence for a conviction under another section of the law.
A federal district judge sentenced Lora to 25 years in prison for a distribution charge and five years for his aiding and abetting. Lora requested that they run concurrently to serve 25 only, but the judge said the law required a consecutive sentence, meaning he would serve 30 years.Larry Rosenberg of Jones Day law firm had argued for Lora that there was “nothing in the text” of the statute in question to support consecutive sentencing in this case.
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