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18-4215·CRIMINAL

United States v. Charles Wright

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

Whether Wright has established that plain error under Erlinger v. United States, 602 U.S. 821 (2024), affected his substantial rights.

Argument Date
September 17, 2026
Argument Time
8:30 a.m.
Panel
IV
Courtroom
Gold Courtroom (Room 348)
Lower Court Judge
Cogburn

Panel

Judge Wynn
Judge Harris
Judge Benjamin

Citation

CaseUnited States v. Charles Wright, No. 18-4215 (4th Cir. argued Sept. 17, 2026)
PanelWynn, Harris & Benjamin, JJ.

Arguing Counsel

Panel That Day

0 of 3 cases argued September 17, 2026 before this panel have been decided.

Authorship Outlook

No opinions from this panel have been decided yet, so authorship can't be narrowed — the 3 pending opinions could come from any of the panelists.

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

Predicted Opinion Release

Likely between November 11, 2026 and July 8, 2027, with December 31, 2026 the most likely date.

Argued 41 days ago. Comparable cases at this stage almost always still pending — there's no useful tightening yet.

■ ■ □Calibrated (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 →

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