No. 22-6303
Steven Riad Jalloul v. United States
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit judicial-discretion plea-agreement plea-bargaining restitution sentencing statutory-interpretation
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Latest Conference:
2023-02-17
Question Presented (from Petition)
This Court should grant this petition to address the degree of specificity re-quired for the language in a defendant's plea agreement to be construed as an agreement to pay restitution. Here, the Fifth Circuit found an admon-ishment about restitution coupled with an agreement to pay whatever was ordered was an agreement by Jalloul to pay restitution not otherwise autho-rized by statute. Is this sufficiently specific to support an agreement by Jal-loul to pay restitution?
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether the language in a defendant's plea agreement requiring the defendant to pay 'whatever restitution is ordered' is sufficiently specific to constitute an agreement to pay restitution not otherwise authorized by statute
Docket Entries
2023-02-21
Petition DENIED.
2023-01-12
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/17/2023.
2023-01-09
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2022-12-05
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due January 13, 2023)
Attorneys
Steven Jalloul
Leigh Warren Davis — Leigh Warren Davis, Petitioner
United States of America
Elizabeth B. Prelogar — Solicitor General, Respondent