No. 20-5507

Laci Landers v. United States

Lower Court: Fifth Circuit
Docketed: 2020-08-26
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP Experienced Counsel
Tags: appellate-review criminal-procedure discretionary-review drug-offense guidelines judicial-review reasonableness reasonableness-standard revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines totality-of-circumstances
Key Terms:
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Latest Conference: 2020-10-09
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED FOR REVIEW Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (“Fifth Circuit”) has so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings on important matters and, therefore, the decision by the Fifth Circuit calls for an exercise of this Court’s supervisory powers such that a compelling reason is presented in support of discretionary review by this Honorable Court. More specifically, the Fifth Circuit held the 48-month revocation sentence was not unreasonable despite the fact it was substantially greater than the 12 to 18 month range under the Guidelines policy considerations. As argued below, the sentence was unreasonable because the Fifth Circuit failed to address the totality of the circumstances, which included a total of 117 months in custody for the underlying low-level, single drug offense in this case. Ms. Landers submits that her sentence was unreasonable and therefore respectfully requests that this Court grant this petition.

Docket Entries

2020-10-13
Petition DENIED.
2020-09-24
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/9/2020.
2020-09-16
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2020-08-17
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due September 25, 2020)

Attorneys

Laci Landers
James Scott SullivanLaw Offices of J. Scott Sullivan, Petitioner
The United States of America
Jeffrey B. WallActing Solicitor General, Respondent