A federal appeals court judge has sent a message to more than 100 prisoners who could be eligible to go free sooner because they were sentenced under a law that the U.S. Supreme Court has declared unconstitutional—but only if they hurry.
In a concurrence to an opinion that turns down a resentencing application for one inmate, Judge Beverly Martin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit listed 110 others—and there could be more—who may possibly be released under the same type of request. But they have a deadline of June 16, 2016, “as best I can tell,” wrote Martin.
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