Fraud losses at sentencing
Gnahore v. United States
In brief
- Where it stands
- Petition Pending
Awaiting an order on the petition
- What it’s about
- Sylvain Gnahore asks the Supreme Court to review the Second Circuit’s decision upholding a sentencing calculation that counted losses he intended to cause under federal sentencing rules.
- What's at stake
- The dispute concerns Gnahore’s own sentence calculation, which included intended losses; the Supreme Court has not yet decided whether to review it.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
His petition was distributed for a conference; that step is not a grant of Supreme Court review.
Gnahore’s petition asks whether the Supreme Court’s decision in Kisor affects the use of commentary to the federal Sentencing Guidelines when calculating intended losses.
Question presented
Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred, in light of this Court’s decision in Kisor v. Wilkie , 588 U.S. 558 (2019), when it affirmed the district court’s loss calculation at sentencing which included intended losses under §2B1.1 Application Note 3 of the Sentencing Guidelines.
What happens next
The Court must decide whether to hear the case. The petition was distributed for the Court’s Nov. 6, 2026 conference, but that does not guarantee an order or decision that day.
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Sources
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