No. 24-5588

Deven L. Smith v. United States

Lower Court: Sixth Circuit
Docketed: 2024-09-20
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: abuse-of-discretion career-offender criminal-history downward-departure sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines
Key Terms:
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Latest Conference: 2024-10-18
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Did the district court abuse its discretion by not granting a downward departure under U.S.S.G. § 4A1.3 and imposing an unreasonably long sentence based on improper weighing of 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) factors?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED QUESTION NO. I: Whether the Sixth Circuit’s decision affirming the judgment of the district court was error, where one of predicate convictions for the careeroffender enhancement falls just within the 15-year window of consideration and his criminal-history category overrepresented his criminal record, did the district court err and abuse its discretion by not granting a downward departure under U.S.S.G. § 4A1.3? QUESTION NO. II: : Whether the Sixth Circuit’s decision affirming the judgment of the district court was : error, where the district court placed too much weight on some of the 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) factors and too little on others, did the court err and abuse its discretion by imposing a sentence is unreasonably long? i LIST OF ALL PARTIES The caption of the case contains the names of all the

Docket Entries

2024-10-21
Petition DENIED.
2024-10-03
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/18/2024.
2024-09-27
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2024-07-05
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due October 21, 2024)

Attorneys

Deven L. Smith
Deven L. Smith — Petitioner
Deven L. Smith — Petitioner
United States
Elizabeth B. Prelogar — Respondent
Elizabeth B. PrelogarSolicitor General, Respondent