Jermaine Deshan West v. United States
DueProcess
Whether the U.S. Sentencing Commission abdicated its duties under 28 U.S.C. $994(2)(1)(B) when determining the appropriate amount of imprisonment Courts should impose utilizing the 10-1 actual to mixture ratio under the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines without any empirical data to support this ratio, resulting in unwarranted sentencing disparities of those convicted of Methamaphetamine crimes, contrary to the Equal Protection of the 5th Amendment Due Process Clause?
QUESTION(S) PRESENTED There is a conflict aronest the Circuit Courts of Appeals regartting the applicability of the Sentencing Commission's Guidelines because of lack of empirical data to support its Sentencing Guidelines. Wherefore, Petitioner Jermaine Deshan West, (‘West"), raises the following question: "Whether the U.S. Sentencing Commission abdicated its duties under 28 U.S.C. $994(2)(1)(B) when detemmining the appropriate amount of imprisonment Courts should impose utilizing the 10-1 actual to mixture ratio under the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines without any empirical data to support this ratio, resulting in unwarranted sentencing disparities of those convicted of Methamaphetamine crimes, contrary to the Equal Protection of the 5th Amendment Due Process Clause?" ; Petitioner West raises this question according to Rule 10 (a) of the Rules.of The Suprane Court of the . United States because "a United States court of appeals has entered a decision in conflict with the decison of another United States court of appeals on the sane important matter”. : .