No. 20-8230

Jorge De Los Santos v. United States

Lower Court: Ninth Circuit
Docketed: 2021-06-04
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process liberty-interest liberty-restriction rehabilitation sentencing-conditions sex-offender substantive-reasonableness supervised-release
Key Terms:
AdministrativeLaw Environmental SocialSecurity Securities Immigration
Latest Conference: 2021-09-27
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a supervised-release condition prohibiting a low-level sex offender from living in most urban and suburban areas is substantively unreasonable, failing to reasonably relate to the goals of supervised release and involving greater deprivation of liberty than necessary

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

Question Presented For a low-level sex offender (like a mere possessor of child pornography with no prior criminal history), is a supervised-release condition prohibiting him from living in most urban and suburban areas substantively unreasonable, that is, does it fail to both reasonably relate to the goals of supervised release (deterrence, public protection, and rehabilitation) and involve no greater deprivation of liberty than is reasonably necessary to serve those goals? ii

Docket Entries

2021-10-04
Petition DENIED.
2021-06-17
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/27/2021.
2021-06-11
Waiver of right of respondent United States of America to respond filed.
2021-06-02
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due July 6, 2021)

Attorneys

Jorge De Los Santos
James H. LocklinFederal Public Defender, Petitioner
James H. LocklinFederal Public Defender, Petitioner
United States of America
Brian H. FletcherActing Solicitor General, Respondent
Brian H. FletcherActing Solicitor General, Respondent