{"id":1751,"date":"2017-02-18T02:38:28","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T02:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sentencing.net\/?p=1751"},"modified":"2019-11-11T14:16:26","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T19:16:26","slug":"holloway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sentencing.net\/sentencing\/holloway","title":{"rendered":"What Is All This Holloway Stuff About?"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
Rumors can get around prison fast. A current hot topic is ” Holloway ” relief. But there are a lot of misconceptions about what \u201cHolloway\u201d is and how a federal prisoner may or may not be able to use it to get a sentence reduction<\/a>.In 1995 Francois Holloway was convicted\u00a0of three 18 U.S.C. \u00a7 924(c) counts. These sentences were stacked, totaling some 45 years. This was on top of the 12.5 years he received for carjacking.<\/p>\r\n Then U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Loretta Lynch, agreed to dismiss two of the 924(c) convictions which allowed the Court to refashion the sentence in the case to a total of 30 years. Holloway went home. You can read more in this opinion. United States v. Holloway<\/em><\/a>, 68 F. Supp. 3d 310 (E.D.N.Y. 2014).<\/p>\r\n A few other courts have agreed to allow the Government to dismiss charges, like what happened in Holloway<\/em>, to create a new, more lenient sentence for the defendant.<\/p>\r\n New York, Southern: United States v. Washington<\/em>, No. 11-cr-605 (RJS) (S.D.N.Y. July 31, 2014) (Sullivan, J.)<\/p>\r\n