No. 19-5421October Term 2019Decided Mar 23, 2020Updated Mar 23, 2020
Davis v. United States
This case concerns whether a federal judge could make Charles Davis’s federal prison sentence run consecutively to a state sentence that had not yet been imposed for related conduct.
Case status
Decided · March 23, 2020
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- Decided
- Latest event
- Decision released Mar 23, 2020
- What it's about
This case concerns whether a federal judge could make Charles Davis’s federal prison sentence run consecutively to a state sentence that had not yet been imposed for related conduct. The dispute turned on whether the Sentencing Guidelines required the federal sentence to run at the same time as that anticipated state sentence instead.
Question presented
Whether factual error is categorically immune from plain error review?
- Case path
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit / Decision released Mar 23, 2020
- Area
Criminal Procedure
Timing
Decided March 23, 2020
The Court released its decision on March 23, 2020 without hearing oral argument.
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Activity
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Opinion added: opinion
Mar 23, 2020 | Court records
Brief added: Petition
Jul 29, 2019 | Court records
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- Note
- Plain-English explainer. Official filings and opinions remain authoritative.
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