Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Mitchell v. United States

Mitchell v. United States, 555 U.S. 1050 (2008)

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
2008-12-01
Topic
general

How later courts describe this case

  • reviewing within-guidelines sentence and holding that explanation was sufficient where district court stated that the sentence would “adequately address the objectives of punishment and deterrence”
  • to establish outrageous government conduct based on an intrusion into the attorney client relationship, defendant must show actual and substantial prejudice
  • declining to deter mine standard of review under similar circumstances

Citator

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Cited by
57 opinions

Case below, 528 F.3d 1034.

Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit denied.