No. 20-5549
Javier Lopez-Garcia v. United States
Tags: appellate-review credibility-determination credibility-determinations fact-finding factual-issues federal-sentencing judicial-standard precedent reasonableness-review standard-of-review wrongful-incarceration
Key Terms:
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Latest Conference:
2020-10-09
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether review for reasonableness in federal sentencing requires a separate, more deferential, standard of review for credibility determinations than it does for other questions of fact?
Question Presented (OCR Extract)
QUESTION PRESENTED Whether review for reasonableness in federal sentencing requires a separate, more deferential, standard of review for credibility determinations than it does for other questions of fact? i
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.
2020-08-27
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due October 1, 2020)
Attorneys
Javier Lopez-Garcia
United States of America
Jeffrey B. Wall — Acting Solicitor General, Respondent