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Ferrell Walker v. United States

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, No. 21-12471 · judgment January 6, 2023


Certiorari denied · May 15, 2023
Pre-decision estimate: 2% cert probability

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

Questions presented

  1. Whether the subsequent imposition of a sentence to a term of imprisonment of 168 months on a charge of possession of child pornography, to run consecutive to the previously-imposed sentence of 60 months (now corrected to 24 months) imprisonment for revocation of supervision based on the same conduct, possession of child pornography, violated Defendant’s right under the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution not to be twice put in jeopardy for the same offense and is therefore, due to be vacated.

  2. Alternatively, and without waiving Defendant’s assertion of former jeopardy, whether pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3583(e)(3), U.S.S.G. § 7B1.4, United States v. Haymond, 139 S.Ct. 2369 (2019), and United States v. Walker, 849 Fed. App’x. 822 (11th Cir. 2021), the defendant should be sentenced to a reasonable term of months (concurrent on all violations) not to exceed two years, followed by termination of his supervised release?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Barbara Hamlin Agricola
Agricola Law

For respondent
Elizabeth B. Prelogar
Solicitor General

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. May 15 2023
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Apr 25 2023
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/11/2023.
  3. Apr 20 2023
    Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
  4. Apr 06 2023
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due May 11, 2023)