Legal Opinion
Greenlaw v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 23, 2008No. 07-330PublishedCited by 873 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Ginsburg
This case concerns the role of courts in our adversarial system. The specific question presented: May a United States Court of Appeals, acting on its own initiative, order an increase in a defendant’s sentence? Petitioner Michael J. Greenlaw was convicted of various offenses relating to drugs and firearms, and was sentenced to imprisonment for 442 months. He appealed urging, inter alia, that his sentence was unreasonably long. After rejecting all of Greenlaw’s arguments, the Court of Appeals determined, without Government invitation, that the applicable law plainly required a prison sentence…
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