No. 20-6313
Kevin Merritt v. United States
Tags: burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review presentence-report procedural-objection sentencing sentencing-unreasonableness
Key Terms:
DueProcess
DueProcess
Latest Conference:
2021-01-08
Question Presented (AI Summary)
whether-holguin-hernandez-v-united-states-is-relevant-to-preserving-claims-of-procedural-unreasonableness
Question Presented (OCR Extract)
QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Whether Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, _U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), is relevant to the objections necessary to preserve claims of procedural unreasonableness? 2. Whether the defendant bears a burden of production to disprove allegations made in a Presentence Report? ii
Docket Entries
2021-01-11
Petition DENIED.
2020-12-10
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/8/2021.
2020-12-02
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2020-11-09
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due December 14, 2020)
Attorneys
Kevin Merritt
Kevin Joel Page — Office of the Federal Public Defender, Petitioner
United States
Jeffrey B. Wall — Acting Solicitor General, Respondent