COVID-19, But Not 1st Circuit, Keeps Opioid Execs From Starting Jail For 83 Days

(July 2, 2020, 2:28 PM EDT) -- BOSTON — The First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on July 1 denied a motion by five former top employees of opioids maker Insys Therapeutics Inc. to delay the start of their sentences pending their appeals, but on July 2 the sentencing judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts granted the defendants’ assented motion for an 83-day reprieve due to the COVID-19 pandemic (United States v. John Kapoor, No. 1325, United States v. Sunrise Lee, No. 1326, United States v. Richard M. Simon, No. 20-1335, United States v. Michael J. Gurry, No. 20-1335, United States v. Joseph A. Rowan, No. 20-1336, 1st Cir., United States v. Michael L. Babich, et al., No. 16-cr-10343, D. Mass.)....

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