respect-for-law
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21-6921 | Sedale Pervis v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-01-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553(a) criminal-law criminal-sentencing district-court family-impact judicial-discretion mitigating-factor procedural-background respect-for-law respect-for-the-law sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Did the District Court err in not finding that promoting respect for the law, in the context of this case is a mitigating factor? |
| 19-7059 | John Kenneth Schiefer v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-12-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion legal-reasoning plain-error procedural-error respect-for-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure | Did the district court plainly procedurally err when it selected and imposed sentence based on its desire to promote the defendant's respect for the l… |