No. 21-5142
Michael Angelo Williams v. United States
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea harmless-error ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment sixth-circuit withdrawal-of-plea
Latest Conference:
2021-09-27
Question Presented (from Petition)
Whether this honorable Court should grant certiorari to review whether Mr. Williams should have been permitted to withdraw his guilty plea, which request was filed less than three weeks after Mr. Williams received new counsel?
Whether this honorable Court should grant certiorari to review the Sixth Circuit's determination that harmless error subsumed Mr. Williams' arguments regarding his U.S.S.G. §2D1.1(b)(1) sentencing enhancement?
Whether this honorable Court should grant certiorari to review the substantive reasonableness of Mr. Williams' sentence?
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether Mr. Williams should have been permitted to withdraw his guilty plea
Docket Entries
2021-10-04
Petition DENIED.
2021-07-29
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/27/2021.
2021-07-23
Waiver of right of respondent United States of America to respond filed.
2021-07-16
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due August 19, 2021)
Attorneys
Michael Williams
Blake P. Somers — Blake P. Somers, LLC, Petitioner
United States of America
Brian H. Fletcher — Acting Solicitor General, Respondent