Case Name: Williams v. United States
Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1992-01-27
Citations: 502 U.S. 1069
Docket Number: No. 90-6297
Parties: Williams v. United States.
Judges: 
Reporter: United States Reports
Volume: 502
Pages: 1069–1069

Head Matter:
No. 90-6297.
Williams v. United States.

Opinion:
C. A. 7th Cir. [Certiorari granted, 499 U. S. 918.] The parties are directed to file supplemental memoranda after argument addressing the following questions:
"1. When a district court departs from a properly constructed sentencing guideline range, and it relies on a factor disapproved by a policy statement that guides departures, has the district court for that reason or otherwise made an 'incorrect application of the sentencing guidelines' within the meaning of 18 U. S. C. § 3742(e)(2) and (f)(1)?
"2. Are the appellate 'decision and disposition' provisions, subsections (f)(1) and (f)(2) of 18 U. S. C. § 3742, which group the separate considerations of § 3742(e), mutually exclusive?
"3. When a district court bases a departure decision on an aggravating or mitigating circumstance that the court of appeals later determines is improper under 18 U. S. C. § 3553(b), has the district court imposed a sentence 'in violation of law' within the meaning of § 3742(e)(1) and (f)(1)?"
The briefs are to be filed simultaneously with the Clerk on or before Friday, February 14, 1992.