No. 21-7626

Joseph Martinez v. United States

Lower Court: Fifth Circuit
Docketed: 2022-04-14
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP Experienced Counsel
Tags: appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court guideline-range holguin-hernandez judicial-discretion sentencing-argument sentencing-guidelines substantial-arguments
Key Terms:
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Latest Conference: 2022-06-02
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails to reference or address substantial arguments for a sentence outside the Guideline range

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED Whether, after Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, _U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails to reference or address substantial arguments for a sentence outside the Guideline range, even if the party had not lodged a specific objection to the court’s failure to do so? Whether a district court errs should reference or address substantial arguments for a sentence outside the Guideline range? i

Docket Entries

2022-06-06
Petition DENIED.
2022-05-18
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/2/2022.
2022-05-12
Waiver of right of respondent United States of America to respond filed.
2022-04-12
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due May 16, 2022)

Attorneys

Joseph Martinez
Kevin Joel Page — Petitioner
United States of America
Elizabeth B. PrelogarSolicitor General, Respondent