Legal Opinion
Jones v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided October 14, 2014No. 13-10026Relating-toCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.
2DissentJustice Scalia, joined by Justice THOMASand Justice GINSBURGjoin
A jury convicted petitioners Joseph Jones, Desmond Thurston, and Antwuan Ball of distributing very small amounts of crack cocaine, and acquitted them of conspiring to distribute drugs. The sentencing judge, however, found that they had engaged in the charged conspiracy and, relying largely on that finding, imposed sentences that petitioners say were many times longer than those the Guidelines would otherwise have recommended.
Petitioners present a strong case that, but for the judge's finding of fact, their sentences would have been…
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