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Randy Lee Carney v. United States

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, No. 18-4081 · judgment January 30, 2019

Certiorari denied · October 7, 2019
Pre-decision estimate: 2% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Question presented

When sentencing defendants, some district courts announce that they would impose the same length of imprisonment even if their conclusions of law and calculation of the Sentencing Guidelines range are later found to be in error. Does that alternative sentence render any such error harmless, even though the error had serious consequences collateral to the length of imprisonment?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Mark R. Sigmon
Sigmon Law, PLLC

For respondent
Noel John Francisco
Jones Day

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Oct 07 2019
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Jun 12 2019
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/1/2019.
  3. Jun 03 2019
    Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
  4. May 28 2019
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due June 27, 2019)