No. 18-8558

Jorge Edwin Rivera v. United States

Lower Court: Ninth Circuit
Docketed: 2019-03-26
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guidelines judicial-discretion plain-error plain-error-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights supervised-release
Key Terms:
Environmental Immigration
Latest Conference: 2019-04-26
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a district court's imposition of a term of supervised release double the Guidelines range without first calculating the range or providing an explanation for the variance should be presumed to affect the defendant's substantial rights under plain-error review

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED FOR REVIEW When a district court imposes a term of supervised release double that of the Guidelines range without first calculating the range or providing an explanation for the variance, should an appellate court presume for purposes of plain-error review under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52(b) that the error affected the defendant's substantial rights. prefix

Docket Entries

2019-04-29
Petition DENIED.
2019-04-11
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/26/2019.
2019-04-04
Waiver of right of respondent United States of America to respond filed.
2019-03-21
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due April 25, 2019)

Attorneys

Jorge Rivera
Zandra LopezFederal Defenders of San Diego, Inc., Petitioner
Zandra LopezFederal Defenders of San Diego, Inc., Petitioner
United States of America
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent