No. 22-6303

Steven Riad Jalloul v. United States

Lower Court: Fifth Circuit
Docketed: 2022-12-14
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit judicial-discretion plea-agreement plea-bargaining restitution sentencing statutory-interpretation
Key Terms:
JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2023-02-17
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the language in a defendant's plea agreement requiring the defendant to pay 'whatever restitution is ordered' is sufficiently specific to constitute an agreement to pay restitution not otherwise authorized by statute

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED This Court should grant this petition to address the degree of specificity required for the language in a defendant’s plea agreement to be construed as an agreement to pay restitution. Here, the Fifth Circuit found an admonishment about restitution coupled with an agreement to pay whatever was ordered was an agreement by Jalloul to pay restitution not otherwise authorized by statute. Is this sufficiently specific to support an agreement by Jalloul to pay restitution? i

Docket Entries

2023-02-21
Petition DENIED.
2023-01-12
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/17/2023.
2023-01-09
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2022-12-05
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due January 13, 2023)

Attorneys

Steven Jalloul
Leigh Warren DavisLeigh Warren Davis, Petitioner
Leigh Warren DavisLeigh Warren Davis, Petitioner
United States of America
Elizabeth B. PrelogarSolicitor General, Respondent
Elizabeth B. PrelogarSolicitor General, Respondent