No. 22-5023

Sam Jones, Jr. v. United States

Lower Court: Eleventh Circuit
Docketed: 2022-07-05
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit judicial-discretion less-culpable-defendant mandatory-minimum sentencing-entrapment supervisory-jurisdiction
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Latest Conference: 2022-09-28
Question Presented (from Petition)

Whether in the exercise of its supervisory jurisdiction over the United States Courts, this Court should correct the correctable injustice, and violation of essential requirements of law that occurred when the Eleventh Circuit affirmed the district court's clear error and abuse of discretion by denying the motion for judgment of acquittal made after the government closed its case on August 3, 2020; and in denying the written post-trial motion for new trial on grounds of sentencing entrapment when the agents put not one, but two one-pound packages into the suitcase that Lieba rolled into Jones' home?

Whether in the the exercise of its supervisory jurisdiction over the United States Courts, this Court should correct the correctable injustice and violation of essential requirements of law that occurred when the Eleventh Circuit erred in affirming the district court's clear error and abuse of discretion by imposing a sentence of fifteen mandatory years on this less-culpable defendant?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of a motion for judgment of acquittal and a motion for new trial on grounds of sentencing entrapment

Docket Entries

2022-10-03
Petition DENIED.
2022-07-14
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2022.
2022-07-07
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2022-06-28
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due August 4, 2022)

Attorneys

Sam Jones, Jr.
Sheryl Joyce LowenthalSheryl J. Lowenthal, Attorney at Law, Petitioner
United States
Elizabeth B. PrelogarSolicitor General, Respondent