No. 19-7876

Aaron Richardson v. United States

Lower Court: Fourth Circuit
Docketed: 2020-03-04
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: 8th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection judicial-bias judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines
Key Terms:
DueProcess
Latest Conference: 2020-04-03
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Did an unconstitutional 'objective risk of bias' or 'probability of actual bias on the part of the judge' manifest itself during the sentencing hearing?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED I. Did an unconstitutional “objective risk of bias,” Williams v. Pennsylvania, 136 S. Ct. 1899, 1905 (2016), or “probability of actual bias on the part of the judge,” Rippo v. Baker, 137 S. Ct. 905, 907 (2017), manifest itself during the sentencing hearing, in which the judge said someone like petitioner should “be eliminated from the world” and the guideline range “shock[ed] the conscience,” and then imposed a sentence almost five times longer than the guideline maximum?

Docket Entries

2020-04-06
Petition DENIED.
2020-03-19
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/3/2020.
2020-03-12
Waiver of right of respondent United States of America to respond filed.
2020-03-04
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due April 3, 2020)

Attorneys

Aaron Richardson
Milton Gordon Widenhouse Jr.Rudolf Widenhouse, Petitioner
Milton Gordon Widenhouse Jr.Rudolf Widenhouse, Petitioner
United States of America
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent