--- title: "United States v. Gadsden" citation: "982 F.3d 106 (2d Cir. 2020)" authority_id: "AUTH-CA2-GADSDEN-982-F3D-106" authority_type: "case" jurisdiction: "federal_second_circuit" precedential_status: "binding_in_ca2" official_url: "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-ca2-19-03139/pdf/USCOURTS-ca2-19-03139-0.pdf" url: "https://jason93.com/legal/federal-process/authorities/AUTH-CA2-GADSDEN-982-F3D-106/" legal_review: "2026-08-25" links_checked: "2026-10-15" links_available: 1 links_checked_count: 1 license: "CC BY 4.0" --- # United States v. Gadsden ## Holdings used - A district court is not categorically required to hold a hearing at which the defendant is present before denying a § 404 sentence-reduction motion. ## Material limitation Binding only in the Second Circuit and only for the bounded procedural postures in the linked claims. Official GovInfo court-opinion copy reviewed. Only the no-categorical-hearing-and-presence holding is used; Concepcion supplies the later nationwide explanation and intervening-information rules. A comprehensive commercial citator was not run. ## Official source and pinpoints 982 F.3d 106 (2d Cir. 2020), 982 F.3d 112–15: ## Linked claims - `CLM-CIR2-002` ## Used in - [Second Circuit Overlay](https://jason93.com/legal/federal-process/modules/95-circuit-overlays/second-circuit.md)