No. 19-8605

Courtland Barnes v. United States

Lower Court: Fourth Circuit
Docketed: 2020-06-04
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: child-pornography criminal-sentencing district-court federal-appeals federal-sentencing-guidelines fourth-circuit mitigating-evidence sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness
Key Terms:
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Latest Conference: 2020-09-29
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the district court's reliance on the child pornography guideline and the mitigating evidence Petitioner offered to the court require the vacating of the court's system as substantively unreasonable

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED Whether the district court’s reliance on the child pornography guideline and the mitigating evidence Petitioner offered to the court require the vacating of the court’s system as substantively unreasonable.

Docket Entries

2020-10-05
Petition DENIED.
2020-06-18
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2020.
2020-06-11
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2020-05-28
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due July 6, 2020)

Attorneys

Courtland Barnes
Stephen Clayton GordonFederal Public Defender, Petitioner
Stephen Clayton GordonFederal Public Defender, Petitioner
United States
Jeffrey B. WallActing Solicitor General, Respondent
Jeffrey B. WallActing Solicitor General, Respondent