No. 18-6049

Robert Wallace Smith v. United States

Lower Court: Ninth Circuit
Docketed: 2018-09-20
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: child-pornography criminal-sentencing due-process first-offender internet-crime sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum substantive-reasonableness
Key Terms:
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Latest Conference: 2018-10-12
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the district court's statutory maximum, 240-month sentence is substantively unreasonable for a first offender convicted of one count of receiving or distributing child pornography through the internet

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED Whether the district court’s statutory maximum, 240-month sentence is substantively unreasonable for a first offender convicted of one count of receiving or distributing child pornography through the internet. i

Docket Entries

2018-10-15
Petition DENIED.
2018-09-27
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/12/2018.
2018-09-25
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2018-09-17
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due October 22, 2018)

Attorneys

Robert Smith
John Paul BalazsAttorney at Law, Petitioner
John Paul BalazsAttorney at Law, Petitioner
United States
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent