Thomas Edward Wright v. United States
DueProcess Punishment
Did the Fourth Circuit err in dismissing petitioner's constitutional, statutory, and other legal claims?
QUESTIONS PRESENTED Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err in granting the government’s motion to dismiss by denying the Petitioner the ability to have his substantive constitutional, statutory, and other legal claims addressed, such constitutional, statutory, and other legal claims being of such a fundamental nature that grave injustice will result to Petitioner and similarly situated incarcerated persons if these claims are not addressed? Whether the district court erred in sentencing Petitioner by improperly utilizing the commentary to United States Sentencing Guideline §2K2.1 to enhance the base offense level of Petitioner’s offense. Whether the law should be extended and/or modified to hold that the district court abused its discretion in finding that a sentence of one hundred three (108) months was reasonable under the circumstances pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 35538(a). Whether the district court’s imposition of a mandatory “special assessment” pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3013 violated the Petitioner’s Eighth Amendment right against excessive fines.