Supreme Court hears arguments in sentence reduction, patent infringement cases

[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website] heard oral arguments [day call, PDF; merit briefs] in two cases: one determining whether a court may modify a sentence when the US Sentencing Commission [official website] has subsequently lowered the sentence range and the other examining the state of mind necessary for finding inducement of patent infringement. In Freeman v. United States [oral arguments transcript, PDF], the court will determine whether 18 USC 3582(c)(2) [text] permits adjustment of a sentence when…