No. 18-5397

Alejandro Parra-Ramos v. United States

Lower Court: Ninth Circuit
Docketed: 2018-07-30
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: criminal-procedure defendant-prejudice due-process government-misconduct judicial-discretion plain-error plea-agreement plea-agreement-breach prejudice prosecutorial-breach sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-recommendation sentencing-variance upward-variance
Key Terms:
Immigration
Latest Conference: 2018-09-24
Question Presented (AI Summary)

whether a defendant suffers prejudice when the government breaches a plea agreement by calling its agreed-upon recommendation irrational, and the court accordingly varies upward after agreeing that the recommendation is zany' and improvident

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED Whether a defendant suffers prejudice when the government breaches a plea agreement by calling its agreed-upon recommendation irrational, and the court accordingly varies upward after agreeing that the recommendation is “zany” and improvident. prefix

Docket Entries

2018-10-01
Petition DENIED.
2018-08-09
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/24/2018.
2018-08-03
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2018-07-23
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due August 29, 2018)

Attorneys

United States
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent
Alejandro Parra-Ramos
Michael MarksFederal Defenders of San Diego, Inc., Petitioner
Michael MarksFederal Defenders of San Diego, Inc., Petitioner