3553a-factors

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-7309 Jessie Vasquez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 3553a-factors abuse-of-discretion concepcion-v-united-states crack-cocaine criminal-sentencing discretionary-review first-step-act sentence-reduction sentencing-factors Whether the District Court abused its discretion or erred in denying Mr. Vasquez's request for a sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. 3582(c)(1)(A) and …
23-5766 Richard Todd Haas v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553(a) 3553a-factors appellate-review criminal-sentencing fourth-circuit procedural-error sentencing-guidelines variance-sentence Is the Fourth Circuit's plausibility test for evaluating a variance sentence under the 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) factors, because it is untethered from any …
22-6092 Joshua Lewis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553(a) 3553a-factors criminal-history departures guidelines-departure procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g.-4a1.3 upward-variance Whether a district court can vary upward from the advisory sentencing range under the factors in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) based on the inadequacy of a defe…
22-5990 Leroy Brooks v. United States Third Circuit 2022-11-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 3553a-factors abuse-of-discretion compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion extraordinary-reasons judicial-review sentence-reduction sentencing Whether the district court abused its discretion in denying Petitioner's motion for compassionate release/reduction in sentence
20-7449 Michael Nunez, aka Gordo v. United States Second Circuit 2021-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 3553(a) 3553a-factors appellate-review appellate-waiver constitutional-review due-process judicial-bias judicial-discretion plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-bias Whether a sentence imposed by an apparently biased judge, based on material falsehood, disregard of the 3553(a) factors, legally unfounded fixed polic…
19-7038 Angela Maxine Lee v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 18-usc-922 18-usc-924 3553-a-factors 3553a-factors appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether the above-Guidelines 84-month sentence ordered by the district court is substantively unreasonable under the § 3553(a) factors
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