pre-existing medical conditions<\/a> combined with the COVID-19 situation provided extraordinary and compelling grounds for compassionate release. The judge ultimately agreed with Roper, finding that his medical concerns, “when coupled with [his] outstanding rehabilitative efforts,” warranted a further reduction. In addition to suffering from obesity, Roper has been diagnosed with hepatitis B, pre-diabetes, and osteoarthritis. Additionally, Roper has a plan upon release; he intends to live with his grandmother in Richmond, Virginia. Roper\u2019s request was granted and his sentence was reduced to time served (Rehabilitation Efforts ).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rehabilitation Efforts lead to successful release April 20, 2021 United States Crim. Action No. v. Roper United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, Harrisonburg Division 2021 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 74820 Judge grants compassionate release based on rehabilitation efforts and health conditions On August 26, 2009, a jury convicted Delante […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1416],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/compassionaterelease.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89057"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/compassionaterelease.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/compassionaterelease.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/compassionaterelease.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/compassionaterelease.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/compassionaterelease.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/compassionaterelease.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/compassionaterelease.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/compassionaterelease.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}