Caleb Robert Wien v. United States
In brief
- Where it stands
- Dismissed
Petition denied.
- What it’s about
- Caleb Robert Wien asked the Supreme Court to review whether a jury must find the facts that trigger a mandatory minimum restitution award, and whether a sentencing judge must separate losses from the original abuse from later losses tied to images before deciding what his offense caused.
- Who it affects
- Wien’s request for Supreme Court review ends, but the Court’s order does not resolve either restitution question in this case.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
The Court refused to hear the case (denied the petition) and did not decide either question.
The dispute concerns how § 2259 calculates restitution for losses linked to a victim’s abuse and later possession or distribution of images.
Question presented
1. Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a jury, rather than a judge, to find beyond a reasonable doubt the facts that trigger § 2259(b)(2)’s mandatory minimum restitution award. 2. Whether § 2259 requires a sentencing court to first disaggregate the losses caused by a victim’s initial abuse from losses caused by the later possession or distribution of the victim’s images before determining the portion of the latter losses proximately caused by the defendant.
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