No. 24-7429

Randy Torres v. United States

Lower Court: Second Circuit
Docketed: 2025-06-16
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: apprendi-standard circuit-split constructive-amendment racketeering-conspiracy sentencing-enhancement special-sentencing-factor
Key Terms:
DueProcess Privacy
Latest Conference: 2025-09-29
Related Cases: 24-7451 (Vide)
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the district court's final jury instruction for the Special Sentencing Factor violated Apprendi v. New Jersey and constructively amended the indictment, and whether Apprendi and 18 U.S.C. §1963(a) require a racketeering act with a life imprisonment maximum to apply sentencing enhancement in a racketeering conspiracy case

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

No question identified. : i QUESTIONS P RESENTED 1. A writ of certiorari is requested to determine whether the district court’s final instruction to the jury for the indictment’s Special Sentencing Factor violated this Court’s decision in Apprendi v. New Jersey , 530 U.S. 466 (2000) which resulted in the constructive amendment of the indictment. 2. A writ of certiorari is requested to address what appears to be a split among the Circuit Courts of Appeals as to whether Apprendi v. New Jersey , 530 U.S. 466 (2000) and 18 U.S.C. §1963(a) require that the defendant must have committed a racketeering act that has a maximum sentence of life imprisonment in order to apply the sentencing enhancement in a racketeer ing conspiracy case. PARTIES TO THE P ROCEEDING The

Docket Entries

2025-10-06
Petition DENIED.
2025-07-24
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2025.
2025-07-16
Waiver of United States of right to respond submitted.
2025-07-16
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2025-06-09
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due July 16, 2025)

Attorneys

Randy Torres
Jillian Spitzer HarringtonJillian S. Harrington, Attorney at Law, Petitioner
United States
D. John SauerSolicitor General, Respondent
Moez Mansoor KabaHueston Hennigan LLP, Respondent