Lots of details on the new SCOTUS sentencing cases
Via SCOTUSblog at this post, I can provide here more information and links to key documents in the exciting new sentencing cases taken up by the Supreme Court this morning:
[T]he Court had been holding one of today’s granted petitions, Hill v. United States, to be considered alongside several other petitions that raise the same issue: whether the Fair Sentencing Act (which reduced the crack-powder sentencing differential) applies in an initial sentencing proceeding that takes place on or after the statute’s effective date if the offense occurred before that date…. Hill has been consolidated with Dorsey v. United States (case page forthcoming), for a total of one hour of argument….
Hill v. United States (Granted)
Docket: 11-5721
Issue(s): Whether the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 applies in an initial sentencing proceeding that takes place on or after the statute’s effective date if the offense occurred before that date.Certiorari stage documents:
- Opinion below (7th Cir.)
- Petition for certiorari
- Brief for the United States
- Petitioner’s reply (forthcoming)
Southern Union Company v. United States (Granted)
Docket: 11-94
Issue(s): Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendment principles that this Court established in Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466 (2000), and its progeny, apply to the imposition of criminal fines.Certiorari stage documents:
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