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WASHINGTON – An elderly woman who was recently arrested after she missed phone calls from officials while attending a computer class – a possible violation of her home detention – is headed back home following a federal judge's decision to grant her request for compassionate release.
In a four-page ruling Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Deborah C. Chasanow said "it would do little" to force Gwen Levi – a 76-year-old who's in remission from lung cancer and whom the Justice Department had deemed nonviolent – to serve the entirety of her sentence.
"During her incarceration, she took many courses, worked, and completed drug education," Chasanow wrote, noting Levi's age, medical conditions and lack of major disciplinary problems.