Orlanda Travon Sloan v. United States

Whether the Sentencing Guidelines’ static Criminal History Categories and excessive offense levels for methamphetamine actual/Ice fail to propose a reasonable and individualized range of imprisonment for defendants, such as Mr. Orlanda Travon Sloan, whose crimes have been driven by youth, mental health issues, and resulting drug addictions? To impose a reasonable and individualized sentence on defendants such as Mr. Sloan, the Criminal History Categories and excessive offense levels for methamphetamine actual/Ice proposed by the Sentencing Guidelines must be adjusted to avoid punishing an individual defendant too severely for crimes driven by youth, mental health issues, and resulting drug addictions. A decision by this Court could further the purposes of the Sentencing Guidelines, assuring district courts impose uniform reasonable and individualized sentences regardless of the location of the federal courthouse in which a defendant is prosecuted. This Court should grant a writ of certiorari, address this error, and provide guidance for a situation (1) likely to recur and to further unduly burden some defendants with constitutionally excessive sentences; and (2) that will unduly burden all citizens by imposing unnecessary costs related to excessive incarceration. -i-