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Supreme Court Clarifies Applicability of First Step Act to Vacated Sentences

In Hewitt v. United States (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the First Step Act’s sentencing reductions apply to defendants whose prior sentences were vacated and who must be resentenced after the Act’s enactment.