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15-4548·CRIMINAL

United States v. Paul Chance

Status
  1. Scheduled
  2. Argued (current)
  3. Opinion Issued
Question Presented

Whether Chance's sentence for robbery and firearm convictions imposed after a significant upward variance is reasonable; other issues. 15 mins.

Argument Date
December 5, 2023
Argument Time
9:30 a.m.
Panel
V
Courtroom
Tweed Courtroom (Room 414-D)
Lower Court Judge
Russell

Panel

Judge Gregory
Judge Richardson
Judge Rushing

Citation

CaseUnited States v. Paul Chance, No. 15-4548 (4th Cir. argued Dec. 5, 2023)
PanelGregory, Richardson & Rushing, JJ.

Arguing Counsel

Panel That Day

3 of 4 cases argued December 5, 2023 before this panel have been decided.

Authorship Outlook

With the 3 decided siblings already credited to Judge Rushing and Judge Richardson, the remaining opinion is most likely Judge Gregory's — they wrote at least one opinion in 92 of their 119 prior multi-case days.

3 of the 4 opinions from this panel have been decided. Decided opinions have been authored by Judge Rushing and Judge Richardson.

This is a statistical guess based on prior sittings in this dataset, not a prediction of the ruling.

Predicted Opinion Release

Likely between November 28, 2026 and April 25, 2030, with June 16, 2027 the most likely date.

Argued 1058 days ago. The case has now outlasted nearly every comparable prior case (99% of mass consumed); a separate writing or a contentious majority is likely in progress.

■ ■ ■Calibrated from a deep history (438 prior subject cases + 10 prior panel cases)

80% predictive interval from a log-logistic accelerated-failure-time model fit on 2,134 prior decided cases plus 111 currently-pending cases as right-censored evidence. Updates as days pass with no opinion. How this is calculated →