No. 19-5878

Darries Leon Jackson v. United States

Lower Court: Sixth Circuit
Docketed: 2019-09-10
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: constitutional-reasonableness criminal-justice criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection grand-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel racial-bias racial-discrimination sentencing sentencing-guidelines
Latest Conference: 2019-10-11
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. Whether sentences imposed upon Petitioner Constitutionally Unreasonable & greater than necessary to satisfy the ends of Justice?

2. Whether Petitioner's confession was impermissibly compelled?

3. Whether Petitioner, an African-American, is indicted by a grand jury from which members of his racial group were unconstitutionally underrepresented, violating the Fifth and Sixth Amendments of the United States?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether sentences imposed upon Petitioner are unconstitutionally unreasonable or greater than necessary to satisfy the ends of justice

Docket Entries

2019-10-15
Petition DENIED.
2019-09-26
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/11/2019.
2019-09-20
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2019-08-26
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due October 10, 2019)

Attorneys

Darries Jackson
Darries Leon Jackson — Petitioner
United States
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent