Summary
granting certiorari on the following question: "May a district court give a defendant a longer prison sentence to promote rehabilitation, as the Eighth and Ninth Circuits have held, or is such a factor prohibited, as the Second, Third, Eleventh, and D.C. Circuits have held?"
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No. 10–5400.
12-10-2010
Alejandra TAPIA, petitioner, v. UNITED STATES.
Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis granted. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit granted.