No. 24-55
Montana v. Robert Murray Gibbons
Tags: eighth-amendment excessive-fines-clause financial-burden financial-circumstances mandatory-fine mandatory-fines proportionality proportionality-factors sentencing sentencing-discretion
Latest Conference:
2024-09-30
Question Presented (from Petition)
Whether the Excessive Fines Clause requires the sentencing judge to consider a defendant's personal financial circumstances and the nature of the burden that payment of the fine will impose before imposing a mandatory fine.
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether the Excessive Fines Clause requires the sentencing judge to consider a defendant's personal financial circumstances and the nature of the burden that payment of the fine will impose before imposing a mandatory fine
Docket Entries
2024-10-07
Motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed by respondent GRANTED.
2024-10-07
Petition DENIED.
2024-09-11
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/30/2024.
2024-09-09
Reply of Montana submitted.
2024-09-09
Reply of petitioner Montana filed. (Distributed)
2024-08-28
Motion of Robert Murray Gibbons for leave to proceed in forma pauperis submitted.
2024-08-28
Brief of Robert Murray Gibbons in opposition submitted.
2024-08-28
Brief of respondent Robert Murray Gibbons in opposition filed.
2024-08-28
Motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed by respondent Robert Murray Gibbons.
2024-07-23
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including August 28, 2024.
2024-07-22
Motion of Robert Murray Gibbons for an extension of time submitted.
2024-07-22
Motion to extend the time to file a response from August 19, 2024 to August 28, 2024, submitted to The Clerk.
2024-07-15
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due August 19, 2024)
2024-05-07
Application (23A989) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from June 18, 2024 to July 17, 2024, submitted to Justice Kagan.
2024-05-03
Application (23A989) granted by Justice Kagan extending the time to file until July 17, 2024.
Attorneys
Montana
Peter Martin Torstensen Jr. — Montana Attorney General's Office, Petitioner
Robert Murray Gibbons
Jeffrey L. Fisher — O'Melveny & Myers LLP, Respondent