Brown v. United States

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586 U. S. ____

(2018) 1 SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES THILO BROWN v. UNITED STATES ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 17–9276. Decided October 15, 2018 The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied. JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, with whom JUSTICE GINSBURG joins, dissenting from denial of certiorari. Today this Court denies petitioners, and perhaps more than 1,000 like them, a chance to challenge the constitu­ tionality of their sentences.1 They were sentenced under a then-mandatory provision of the…