No. 19-5681

Raphael Person, Jr. v. United States

Lower Court: Sixth Circuit
Docketed: 2019-08-23
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: appeals appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process federal-courts harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines
Key Terms:
SocialSecurity Securities Immigration
Latest Conference: 2019-10-11
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether, when a district court imposes a sentence based on several factors, one of which is improper, the court of appeals should affirm the sentence unless the district court relied exclusively on that factor, or whether it should remand for resentencing unless the appellee shows that the error is harmless

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

Questions Presented Whether, when a district court imposes a sentence based on several factors, one of which is improper, the court of appeals should affirm the sentence unless the district court relied exclusively on that factor, or whether it should remand for resentencing unless the appellee shows that the error is harmless. i

Docket Entries

2019-10-15
Petition DENIED.
2019-09-19
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/11/2019.
2019-09-03
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2019-08-21
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due September 23, 2019)
2019-07-17
Application (19A68) granted by Justice Sotomayor extending the time to file until August 21, 2019.
2019-07-11
Application (19A68) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from July 22, 2019 to August 21, 2019, submitted to Justice Sotomayor.

Attorneys

Raphael Person
Stephen Paul HardwickOhio Public Defender's Office, Petitioner
United States
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent