No. 20-5488
Franklin Rafael Lopez Toala v. United States
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: 5th-Amendment appellate-record due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment Gardner-v-Florida judicial-procedure presentence-investigation sentencing sentencing-review
Latest Conference:
2020-09-29
Question Presented (from Petition)
1. In reviewing a sentencing judgment, may the Eleventh Circuit consider new materials that were never introduced to the sentencing judge? (A 9-2 split).
2. Whether the holding of Gardner v. Florida, 430 U.S. 349 (1977), should extend to Toala whose sentence was reviewed at least in part, on the basis of information that he had no opportunity to deny or explain at his sentencing, in violation of the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution.
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether the Eleventh Circuit may consider new materials not presented to the sentencing court
Docket Entries
2020-10-05
Petition DENIED.
2020-09-03
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2020.
2020-08-27
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2020-08-20
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due September 24, 2020)
Attorneys
Franklin Rafael Lopez Toala
Brian Peter Battaglia — Bleakley, Bavol, Denman & Grace, Petitioner
United States
Jeffrey B. Wall — Acting Solicitor General, Respondent