No. 20-5958

Jimmy Kit Fields v. United States

Lower Court: Fifth Circuit
Docketed: 2020-10-08
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP Experienced Counsel
Tags: alcohol-abuse criminal-sentencing due-process liberty-deprivation plain-error statutory-reasonableness supervised-release
Key Terms:
DueProcess
Latest Conference: 2020-11-13
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a court can impose a condition of supervised release to abstain from alcohol without explanation

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED L. Whether this Court should grant certiorari to determine if it was plain error for a court to impose, without explanation, a condition of supervised release that orders a defendant to abstain from consuming alcohol when neither the defendant’s history nor the offense of conviction implicated that the defendant had ever abused alcohol, thus making the condition statutorily unreasonable, a violation of Due Process, and a greater deprivation of liberty than is reasonably necessary. ii

Docket Entries

2020-11-16
Petition DENIED.
2020-10-29
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/13/2020.
2020-10-20
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2020-10-02
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due November 9, 2020)

Attorneys

Jimmy Kit Fields
Christopher A. CurtisFederal Public Defender's Office, Petitioner
United States
Jeffrey B. WallActing Solicitor General, Respondent