6th Circuit judges trade barbs over references to Marshall Project, Grateful Dead in compassionate release request
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Appeals judges ruling on a federal prisoner’s compassionate release request agreed that it should be denied but disagreed over sourcing in a dispute played out in a concurring opinion and a footnote.
Judges on the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Cincinnati differed over a reference to reporting on COVID-19 prison cases by the Marshall Project, a nonprofit that reports on criminal justice issues.
On the one side was Judge Chad A. Readler, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, who had been a lawyer with the U.S. Department of Justice and a former partner with Jones Day. On the other was Judge Karen Nelson Moore, an appointee of former President Bill Clinton.
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