No. 19-5877
Damion D. Faulkner v. United States
Tags: criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment judicial-discretion proportionality proportionality-review sentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness sex-offense sex-offenses substantive-due-process
Latest Conference:
2019-10-11
Question Presented (from Petition)
Is it substantively unreasonable to impose an effective sentence of life on a 30-year-old defendant who committed a "reprehensible" sex offense that cannot be judged one of the "worst of the worst"? Is it unreasonable that this defendant received such a harsh sentence while many defendants who remorselessly committed the worst type of sex offense received sentences of 30 years or less?
Question Presented (AI Summary)
is-it-substantively-unreasonable-to-impose-an-effective-sentence-of-life
Docket Entries
2019-10-15
Petition DENIED.
2019-09-26
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/11/2019.
2019-09-17
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2019-09-05
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due October 9, 2019)
Attorneys
Damion Faulkner
Michael Clark Holley — Office of the Federal Public Defender, Petitioner
United States
Noel J. Francisco — Solicitor General, Respondent