New Cert. Petition

By Kevin Russell
on Sep 10, 2007 at 10:32 am

On Friday, we filed a cert. petition in Greenlaw v. United States, a case out of the Eighth Circuit. The petition raises the question whether a court of appeals may order an increase in a criminal defendant’s sentence sua sponte, absent an appeal or cross-appeal by the Government. Now-former Stanford student Lindsey Powell worked on the case with us over the summer.