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Favion Lara v. Nebraska
Paid petition · Supreme Court of Nebraska, No. S-23-167 · judgment February 2, 2024
Before the decision, about 1.5× the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for counsel with five or more prior petitions here, a circuit split argued in the petition, and a petition filed soon after the judgment below, and down for a state or local-government respondent.
Question presented
Where a plea agreement includes the prosecutor’s promise that the State will recommend a particular sentence, does a police officer’s recommendation of a longer sentence violate the Due Process Clause by breaching the plea agreement?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Stuart Banner
UCLA School of Law Supreme Court Clinic
For respondent
Eric James Hamilton
Office of the Attorney General of Nebraska
Case
Subject area
Criminal Procedure (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Order
Order list, June 3, 2024 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- Jun 03 2024Petition DENIED.
- May 14 2024DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/30/2024.
- May 07 2024Waiver of right of respondent Nebraska to respond filed.
- May 01 2024Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due June 5, 2024)