No. 20-5549

Javier Lopez-Garcia v. United States

Lower Court: Fifth Circuit
Docketed: 2020-09-01
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP Experienced Counsel
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:
Environmental SocialSecurity Securities Immigration
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
Kevin Joel PageFederal Public Defender for the Northern District of Texas, Petitioner
United States of America
Jeffrey B. WallActing Solicitor General, Respondent