No. 23-7512

Dallas M. Acoff v. United States

Lower Court: Fourth Circuit
Docketed: 2024-05-20
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: appeal criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fifth-amendment guidelines harmless-error judicial-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines
Key Terms:
DueProcess
Latest Conference: 2024-06-13
Question Presented (from Petition)

Whether the district court committed error and imposed a procedurally unreasonable sentence on Mr. Acoff that exceeded the upper end of his United States Sentencing Guidelines ("USSG") range by one hundred and forty-four (144) months when it expressly relied on a clearly erroneous fact in its statement of reasons at sentencing, intimating, falsely, that Mr. Acoff had gotten away with murder and thereby violating his right to due process of law.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the district court committed error and imposed a procedurally unreasonable sentence

Docket Entries

2024-06-17
Petition DENIED.
2024-05-29
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/13/2024.
2024-05-23
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2024-05-16
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due June 20, 2024)

Attorneys

Dallas Acoff
Robert Gerard McCoidMcCoid Law Offices, PLLC, Petitioner
United States
Elizabeth B. PrelogarSolicitor General, Respondent