Brief filed: 12/18/2006
Documents
Claiborne v. United States & Rita v. United States
United States Supreme Court; Case No. 06-5618 & 06-5754
Question Presented
Is it consistent with the Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Booker (2005), either to require that a sentence which constitutes a substantial variance from the sentencing guidelines be justified by extraordinary circumstances or to presume that a within-the-guidelines sentence is “reasonable”?
Argument(s)
Author(s)
Miguel A. Estrada and David Debold, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Washington, DC.