3553(a)-factors

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6699 Martin Gutierrez-Barba v. United States Ninth Circuit 2026-02-03 Pending Response WaivedIFP 3553(a)-factors appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing Is urging a sentence recommendation lower than is ultimately imposed and grounding that recommendation in the 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) factors, sufficient …
25-6367 Luis Daniel Fuentes v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 3553(a)-factors appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion mitigating-evidence sentencing Whether a sentencing court must address mitigating evidence and arguments offered by defense counsel regarding factors set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a…
23-5758 Jimmy Jay Strayhorn, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 3553(a)-factors constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial pepper-v-united-states resentencing sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation unconstitutional WHETHER OR NOT/WHEN ONE HAS EXCERSIZED HIS RIGHT TO TRIAL AND RF. FOUND GUILTY OF A COUNT IN HIS INDICTMENT THAT WOULD LATER RF. FOUND UNCONSTITUTIONA…
22-5625 Orville Tucker v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 3553(a)-factors circuit-split compassionate-release guideline-range non-delegation-doctrine sentencing-commission sentencing-law statutory-interpretation 1. Did Congress, in 28 U.S.C. § 994(t), delegate complete authority to the U.S. Sentencing Commission to "define" an exclusive list of "extraordinary …
21-7238 Holli Wrice v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 3553(a)-factors compassionate-release congressional-intent criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure extraordinary-and-compelling extraordinary-circumstances retroactive-sentencing sentencing-reduction sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i) allows district courts to reduce a defendant's sentence, based on a finding of extraordinary and compelling reasons, afte…
21-6707 Antonio Turner v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 3553(a)-factors administrative-remedy bureau-of-prisons compassionate-release criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-compelling-reasons first-step-act sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines Whether the district court erred by denying Mr. Turner's Motion for Sentence Reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i).
19-7107 Joseph Thor Perkins v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553a 3553(a)-factors abuse-of-discretion booker-v-united-states criminal-sentencing downward-variance federal-sentencing-procedure gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether a sentencing court can abuse its discretion by not varying downward further based on this Court's decisions mandating that a sentencing court …
19-5125 Francisco Gallegos-Lopez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3553a 3553(a)-factors abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion preservation-of-error procedural-error sentencing sentencing-recommendation statutory-factors Does urging a sentencing recommendation lower than that ultimately imposed, and grounded in the statutory factors in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a), suffice to p…
18-8352 Lino Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a 18-usc-3582(c)(2) 3553(a)-factors 3582(c)(2)-motion amendment-782 amendment-782-788 criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion procedural-reasonableness sentence-disparity sentence-reduction sentencing-disparities sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the District Court Committed substantive error when failed to impose a sentence that was sufficient but not greater than necessary to comply w…
18-7716 Jesse Ingram, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 3553(a)-factors 5th-amendment appeal appellate-counsel constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactive-review retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation 1). Is it a Fifth Amendment violation when Petitioners are sentenced to a higher guidline sentence when 18 U.S.C. statute 3553(A) warrants a below gui…
18-5872 Miguel Medina-Reyes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 3553(a) drug-trafficking federal-criminal-justice-system pre-sentence-report sentencing 3553(a) 3553(a)-factors 3553a-factors abuse-of-discretion amendment-782 criminal-procedure drug-amount drug-quantity-attribution drug-trafficking-conspiracy due-process pre-sentence-report sentencing sentencing-discretion threshold Whether Petitioner's due process rights were violated where the district court erred by failing to determine whether, at sentencing, Petitioner was in…