No. 20-5958
Jimmy Kit Fields v. United States
Tags: alcohol-abuse criminal-sentencing due-process liberty-deprivation plain-error statutory-reasonableness supervised-release
Latest Conference:
2020-11-13
Question Presented (from Petition)
I. Whether this Court should grant certiorari to determine if it was plain error for a court to impose, without explanation, a condition of supervised release that orders a defendant to abstain from consuming alcohol when neither the defendant's history nor the offense of conviction implicated that the defendant had ever abused alcohol, thus making the condition statutorily unreasonable, a violation of Due Process, and a greater deprivation of liberty than is reasonably necessary.
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether a court can impose a condition of supervised release to abstain from alcohol without explanation
Docket Entries
2020-11-16
Petition DENIED.
2020-10-29
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/13/2020.
2020-10-20
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2020-10-02
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due November 9, 2020)
Attorneys
Jimmy Kit Fields
Christopher A. Curtis — Federal Public Defender's Office, Petitioner
United States
Jeffrey B. Wall — Acting Solicitor General, Respondent