No. 20-5771

Taveon Nixon v. United States

Lower Court: Fourth Circuit
Docketed: 2020-09-24
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: appeal-waiver due-process miscarriage-of-justice procedural-reasonableness sentencing statutory-maximum substantive-reasonableness
Key Terms:
DueProcess
Latest Conference: 2020-10-30
Question Presented (AI Summary)

whether-the-trial-court's-overt-consideration-of-the-existence-and-nature-of-an-appeal-waiver-prior-to-varying-upward-to-the-statutory-maximum-sentence-resulted-in-a-miscarriage-of-justice-and-a-procedurally-and-substantively-unreasonable-sentence?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT’S OVERT CONSIDERATION OF THE EXISTENCE AND NATURE OF AN APPEAL WAIVER PRIOR TO VARYING UPWARD TO THE STATUTORY MAXIMUM SENTENCE RESULTED IN A MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE AND A PROCEDURALLY AND SUBSTANTIVELY UNREASONABLE SENTENCE? 1

Docket Entries

2020-11-02
Petition DENIED. Justice Barrett took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition.
2020-10-08
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/30/2020.
2020-09-30
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2020-09-15
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due October 26, 2020)

Attorneys

Taveon Nixon
Thomas Reston WilsonGreene, Wilson & Crow P.A., Petitioner
Thomas Reston WilsonGreene, Wilson & Crow P.A., Petitioner
United States
Jeffrey B. WallActing Solicitor General, Respondent
Jeffrey B. WallActing Solicitor General, Respondent