No. 20-8247
Marcus Darwyn Jones v. United States
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-misrepresentation sentencing-consequences sorna waiver
Key Terms:
Environmental SocialSecurity Securities Immigration
Environmental SocialSecurity Securities Immigration
Latest Conference:
2021-09-27
Question Presented (from Petition)
1. Whether reliance on a prosecutor's legal misstatements regarding the consequences of a guilty plea renders that plea involuntary and unknowing.
2. Whether a judge or prosecutor can waive SORNA provisions so that individuals pleading guilty based on assurances SORNA will not apply are protected against SORNA's application.
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether reliance on a prosecutor's legal misstatements regarding the consequences of a guilty plea renders that plea involuntary and unknowing
Docket Entries
2021-10-04
Petition DENIED.
2021-06-17
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/27/2021.
2021-06-11
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2021-06-02
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due July 9, 2021)
Attorneys
Marcus Jones
Mary Margaret Penrose — Texas A&M University School of Law, Petitioner
United States
Brian H. Fletcher — Acting Solicitor General, Respondent