No. 20-8254

Demario M. Peterson v. United States

Lower Court: Sixth Circuit
Docketed: 2021-06-08
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
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 EckesPinales Stachler Young & Burrell Co., LPA, Petitioner
United States
Brian H. FletcherActing Solicitor General, Respondent