No. 20-8254
Demario M. Peterson v. United States
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: acquitted-conduct due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-variance sixth-amendment substantive-reasonableness
Latest Conference:
2021-09-27
Question Presented (from Petition)
Whether the Sixth Amendment, Fifth Amendment, and this Court's jurisprudence on the procedural and substantive reasonableness of sentences are implicated when a sentencing court bases a significant upward variance on acquitted conduct?
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether the Sixth Amendment, Fifth Amendment, and this Court's jurisprudence on the procedural and substantive reasonableness of sentences are implicated when a sentencing court bases a significant upward variance on acquitted conduct?
Docket Entries
2021-10-04
Petition DENIED.
2021-07-08
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/27/2021.
2021-07-01
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2021-06-03
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due July 8, 2021)
Attorneys
Demario Peterson
Eric George Eckes — Pinales Stachler Young & Burrell Co., LPA, Petitioner
United States
Brian H. Fletcher — Acting Solicitor General, Respondent