Tabb v. United States
Petition for certiorari denied on June 21, 2021
Issue: (1) Whether courts may defer to Sentencing Guidelines commentary without first determining that the underlying guideline is genuinely ambiguous; and (2) whether the U.S. Sentencing Commission can use commentary to rewrite a guideline that applies to "prohibit[ions]" on the "distribution" of drugs to apply to conspiracies and attempts to distribute drugs.
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