No. 19-5877

Damion D. Faulkner v. United States

Lower Court: Sixth Circuit
Docketed: 2019-09-09
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP Experienced Counsel
Tags: criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment judicial-discretion proportionality proportionality-review sentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness sex-offense sex-offenses substantive-due-process
Key Terms:
SocialSecurity Securities Immigration
Latest Conference: 2019-10-11
Question Presented (AI Summary)

is-it-substantively-unreasonable-to-impose-an-effective-sentence-of-life

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED Is it substantively unreasonable to impose an effective sentence of life on a 30-year-old defendant who committed a “reprehensible” sex offense that cannot be judged one of the “worst of the worst”? Is it unreasonable that this defendant received such a harsh sentence while many defendants who remorselessly committed the worst type of sex offense received sentences of 30 years or less? ii

Docket Entries

2019-10-15
Petition DENIED.
2019-09-26
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/11/2019.
2019-09-17
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2019-09-05
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due October 9, 2019)

Attorneys

Damion Faulkner
Michael Clark HolleyOffice of the Federal Public Defender, Petitioner
Michael Clark HolleyOffice of the Federal Public Defender, Petitioner
United States
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent