Statutory eligibility map
Separate Section 3582(c)(1)(A), amended-guideline, and other sentence-reduction paths before any case-specific screen is drafted.
Research pack — in review
Compassionate Release Research Pack
The USSC publishes compassionate-release grant rates by district and by asserted ground — most § 3582 motions never cite them. Enter your court, judgment date, guideline posture, and asserted ground; the pack returns the district grant rate against the national baseline (with the case count behind each rate, so a 30% rate can't hide whether it's 3 grants or 300), the statutory hook for your posture (§ 3582(c)(1)(A) or the Rule 35 boundary), Amendment 821 retroactivity screening if your client is eligible, and the gaps between what the record shows and what a strong § 3582 motion needs. Every data row is sourced to the USSC vintage it came from.
“limited research pertaining to the processes associated with compassionate release policies, including specific eligibility requirements.”
The four hooks a § 3582 motion has to clear.
USSC compassionate-release data table
Use Commission-published data vintages for district, circuit, reason-category, and disposition context without turning aggregate rates into outcome forecasts.
Policy-statement source table
Map the applicable policy-statement category and quoted language only when the source section and quote context are available.
Amendment 821 retroactivity screen
Screen criminal-history amendment issues separately from compassionate-release grounds, with retroactivity report source and data vintage labels.
Rule 35 boundary note
Keep Rule 35 substantial-assistance research distinct from court-filed compassionate-release and amended-guideline screens.
Documentation checklist
Convert the source-backed eligibility screen into a document-request checklist without asserting that any factor satisfies the standard.
What we verify before a paid release
Every row you receive carries its source URL, source record, data vintage, denominator caveat, and quote-context status — nothing ships until each field is complete.
Every row is tied to a public source URL. Here's what's behind the research.
Each row is tied to a public source URL. Rows are held until source verification and coverage review are complete.
Statutory eligibility map
- Source record
- benchrecon-source:statutory-eligibility-map
- Acquisition
- public-statute; Legal Information Institute / public federal source; structured
- Statutory source
- 18 U.S.C. Section 3582(c)(1)(A)
- Data vintage
- Sentence-reduction statutes public source vintage
- Denominator note
- Public source-record denominator only; not a case-specific outcome denominator and never a forecast for an individual matter.
USSC compassionate-release data table
- Source record
- benchrecon-source:ussc-compassionate-release-data
- Acquisition
- public-data-report; United States Sentencing Commission; needs-review
- Statutory source
- https://www.ussc.gov/research/data-reports/compassionate-release-data-reports
- Data vintage
- USSC data reports public source vintage
- Denominator note
- Public source-record denominator only; not a case-specific outcome denominator and never a forecast for an individual matter.
Policy-statement source table
- Source record
- benchrecon-source:policy-statement-source-table
- Acquisition
- public-guideline; United States Sentencing Commission; needs-review
- Statutory source
- U.S.S.G. Section 1B1.13
- Data vintage
- Guideline policy statement public source vintage
- Denominator note
- Public source-record denominator only; not a case-specific outcome denominator and never a forecast for an individual matter.
Amendment 821 retroactivity screen
- Source record
- benchrecon-source:amendment-821-retroactivity-screen
- Acquisition
- public-guideline; United States Sentencing Commission; needs-review
- Statutory source
- https://www.ussc.gov/guidelines/amendment/821
- Data vintage
- Retroactivity reports public source vintage
- Denominator note
- Public source-record denominator only; not a case-specific outcome denominator and never a forecast for an individual matter.
Rule 35 boundary note
- Source record
- benchrecon-source:rule-35-boundary
- Acquisition
- public-statute; Legal Information Institute / public federal source; structured
- Statutory source
- Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 35
- Data vintage
- Post-sentencing procedure public source vintage
- Denominator note
- Public source-record denominator only; not a case-specific outcome denominator and never a forecast for an individual matter.
Documentation checklist
- Source record
- benchrecon-source:documentation-checklist
- Acquisition
- court-form; Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts; structured
- Statutory source
- 18 U.S.C. Section 3582(c)(1)(A)
- Data vintage
- Record assembly public source vintage
- Denominator note
- Public source-record denominator only; not a case-specific outcome denominator and never a forecast for an individual matter.
What we verify before a paid release
- Source record
- benchrecon-source:release-validation-gates
- Acquisition
- counsel-review; BenchRecon manual review ledger; needs-review
- Statutory source
- https://www.ussc.gov/research/data-reports/compassionate-release-data-reports
- Data vintage
- How it's verified public source vintage
- Denominator note
- Public source-record denominator only; not a case-specific outcome denominator and never a forecast for an individual matter.
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