No. 22-5137
Clifford Raymond Salas v. United States
Tags: appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process factual-errors plain-error prosecutorial-argument sentencing sentencing-variance tenth-circuit-review
Latest Conference:
2022-09-28
Question Presented (from Petition)
Did the Tenth Circuit wrongly hold that the district court did not plainly err, where (a) the prosecutor argued that a factually untrue reason supported a variant sentence, and (b) the district court said it imposed that variant sentence in part for the reasons given by the government?
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Did the Tenth Circuit wrongly hold that the district court did not plainly err, where (a) the prosecutor argued that a factually untrue reason supported a variant sentence, and (b) the district court said it imposed that variant sentence in part for the reasons given by the government?
Docket Entries
2022-10-03
Petition DENIED. Justice Gorsuch took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition.
2022-07-28
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2022.
2022-07-26
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2022-07-13
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due August 18, 2022)
2022-06-10
Application (21A790) granted by Justice Gorsuch extending the time to file until July 13, 2022.
2022-06-02
Application (21A790) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from June 13, 2022 to July 13, 2022, submitted to Justice Gorsuch.
Attorneys
Clifford Salas
Howard A. Pincus — Fed Pub. Def. for Dist. CO &WY, Petitioner
United States
Elizabeth B. Prelogar — Solicitor General, Respondent