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19-6849·SENTENCING

United States v. William Slate

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

To what extent should the district court consider Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466 (2000) when resentencing under the First Step Act; related issues.

Argument Date
September 21, 2021
Panel
III
Lower Court Judge
Smith

Panel

Judge Wilkinson
Judge King
Judge Diaz

Citation

CaseUnited States v. William Slate, No. 19-6849 (4th Cir. argued Sept. 21, 2021)
PanelWilkinson, King & Diaz, JJ.

Arguing Counsel

Panel That Day

1 of 2 cases argued September 21, 2021 before this panel have been decided.

Authorship Outlook

Between the uncredited panelists, Judge Wilkinson and Judge Diaz are a coin flip — 102 of 114 vs. 102 of 121 prior multi-case days with at least one opinion.

1 of the 2 opinions from this panel has been decided.

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

Predicted Opinion Release

Likely between December 21, 2026 and December 4, 2032, with December 5, 2027 the most likely date.

Argued 1863 days ago. The case has now outlasted nearly every comparable prior case (100% of mass consumed); a separate writing or a contentious majority is likely in progress.

■ ■ ■Calibrated from a deep history (127 prior subject cases + 8 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 →