 Because of disagreement among the courts of appeals on how to decide errors in sentencing reports, the Supreme Court granted certiorari.Arguing for Molina-Martinez, Timothy Crooks relied on the court's decision in "Peugh v. United States" which noted the importance of federal sentencing guidelines in the sentencing of defendants.Crooks argued that "the natural effect of an erroneously high Guideline range is to skew a defendant’s sentence higher than it would have been under the correct range."