No. 18-6677

Clarence Darnell Marshall v. United States

Lower Court: Eleventh Circuit
Docketed: 2018-11-13
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: 5th-amendment appeal booker-standard career-offender certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit rule-of-lenity sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness
Key Terms:
DueProcess HabeasCorpus
Latest Conference: 2019-01-04
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Eleventh Circuit applied a heightened standard to the Defendant's request for Certificate of Appealability

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION(S) PRESENTED : 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit applied a heightened standard to the Defendant's request for Certificate of Appealability in violation of the Supreme Court's decision in Buck v. Davis, 137 S. Ct. 759, 773, 197 , L. Ed. 2d 1 (2017) ? . 2. Whether the Eleventh Circuit in conjunction with the district court violated Petitiner's Due Process under the Fifth Amendment by treating the career .. offender Guideline under ยง 4B1.1 post-Booker as โ€”โ€” mandatory ? 3. Whether the rule of lenity should appy to post-Booker Sentencing Giudelines that are hopelessly vague ? .

Docket Entries

2019-01-07
Petition DENIED.
2018-12-06
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/4/2019.
2018-11-23
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2018-10-29
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due December 13, 2018)

Attorneys

Clarence Darnell Marshall
Clarence Darnell Marshall — Petitioner
United States
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent