| 25A742 |
Shameek J. Halls v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-12-23 |
Application |
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bureau-of-prisons criminal-procedure judicial-review plea-agreement second-circuit summary-order |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6415 |
Juan Viana-Hernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-22 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons criminal-procedure custodial-sentence judicial-modification rule-36 sentencing |
Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 36 is titled "Clerical Error" and states, "[a]fter giving any notice it considers appropriate, the court may at any… |
| 25-5105 |
Anthony Michael Laporte v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons extraordinary-compelling-reason mental-health-treatment rehabilitation sentence-reduction sentencing-disparity |
1. Can rehabilitation efforts, when combined with other issues, constitute an extraordinary and compelling reason to reduce a sentence?
2. Can the di… |
| 24-6464 |
Zachary Stinson v. Felipe Martinez, Jr., Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons first-step-act prerelease-custody recidivism-reduction sentencing-credits time-credits |
Whether the Bureau of Prisons must consider future First Step Act time credits when determining prerelease custody placement and when prisoners begin … |
| 24-6131 |
Kristopher Jacob Freda v. Oregon |
Oregon |
2024-12-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons compassionate-release discretionary-relief extraordinary-circumstances first-step-act sentencing-reduction |
Whether a district court may reduce a defendant's sentence under the First Step Act's compassionate release provision based on extraordinary and compe… |
| 24-6069 |
In Re Christian D. Womack |
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2024-12-04 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
bureau-of-prisons constitutional-rights due-process federal-commitment judicial-order personal-liberty |
Does the Federal Bureau of Prisons' commitment order violate an individual's constitutional right to personal liberty when imprisonment is based on of… |
| 24A439 |
John Xavier Portillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-11-01 |
Presumed Complete |
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appellate-counsel bureau-of-prisons constitutional-standard ineffective-assistance prejudice writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the standard for evaluating prejudice in claims of ineffective assistance of appellate counsel requires a showing of a reasonable probability … |
| 24A375 |
Atif B. Malik v. Warden, Federal Correctional Institution, Loretto |
Third Circuit |
2024-10-21 |
Presumed Complete |
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28-usc-2241 bureau-of-prisons earned-time-credits first-step-act mootness pro-se-petition |
Whether the lower courts erred in dismissing a 28 U.S.C. § 2241 petition as moot when the Bureau of Prisons failed to apply Earned Time Credits under … |
| 24-5625 |
Sheng-Wen Cheng v. Steve Kallis, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alien-prisoners bureau-of-prisons due-process equal-protection removal-policy residential-reentry-center |
Does the Bureau of Prisons' policy barring federal alien prisoners with a final order of removal from Residential Reentry Center eligibility violate t… |
| 24-5222 |
Darrell D. Smith v. B. Eischen, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Bureau-of-Prisons Equal-Protection First-Step-Act first-time-credits FTC-Earnings imposed-term Liberty-Interest sentence-computation |
Imposed-Term |
| 23-7440 |
Michael Paul Puzey v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons compassionate-release criminal-justice-reform federal-sentencing first-step-act judicial-review rehabilitation sentence-modification sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the First Step Act's compassionate release provision should be interpreted to allow for the consideration of a defendant's rehabilitation and … |
| 23A963 |
Jovan Marquis Harris v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-04-26 |
Presumed Complete |
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bureau-of-prisons criminal-procedure eighth-circuit federal-inmate petition-for-certiorari pro-se |
Whether the Eighth Circuit's judgment in a criminal case involving a pro se federal inmate improperly applied legal standards in reviewing the petitio… |
| 23-6889 |
Richard Wayne Barton v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals bureau-of-prisons certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus obstruction-of-justice record-on-appeal |
Whether the Bureau of Prisons' failure and refusal to tender to Barton his Record on Appeal, provided by the Fifth Circuit to enable Barton to prepare… |
| 23A398 |
Jeriah Scott Budder v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-11-01 |
Presumed Complete |
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bureau-of-prisons criminal-appeal sentencing standard-of-review tenth-circuit voluntary-manslaughter |
Whether the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals applied the correct standard of review in affirming a criminal conviction and sentence for voluntary mansla… |
| 23-5074 |
Juan Carlos Valles, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons federal-prosecution fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment selective-enforcement selective-prosecution statutory-obligations |
Is the Federal Bureau of Prisons a statutory corporation governed by federal laws, and are federal prosecutors obligated to prosecute all federal inma… |
| 22-7336 |
Shawn Kaleb Drake v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons credit criminal-procedure duty-to-determine federal-sentence federal-sentencing judicial-discretion presentence-detention sentencing |
Whether a district court has a duty to determine on its own whether the Bureau of Prisons will give credit for presentence detention time when a defen… |
| 22-6324 |
Matthew Ruben Hernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion Bureau-of-Prisons civil-procedure discretionary-review extraordinary-and-compelling-reason medical-conditions pandemic pandemic-impact sentence-modification statutory-interpretation |
Sentence-modification-under-3582(c)(1)(A) |
| 22-6102 |
Samuel Turner v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons civil-procedure court-deadline covid-19-lockdown due-process equity excusable-neglect judicial-discretion pandemic prisoner-rights |
whether-certiorari-should-be-granted |
| 22-5998 |
Jeffrey Wingate v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3553 bureau-of-prisons criminal-procedure due-process mitigating-evidence rule-35 rule-35-resentencing sentencing sentencing-factors |
Whether due process is violated in a Rule 35(b) resentencing |
| 22-5710 |
Lisa A. Biron v. Colette S. Peters, Director, Federal Bureau of Prisons, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-09-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accardi-doctrine administrative-procedure-act bureau-of-prisons discretionary-actions judicial-review prisoner-rights regulatory-compliance |
Are the discretionary actions of the federal Bureau of Prisons exempt from judicial scrutiny when sued for regulatory noncompliance under the Administ… |
| 21-8234 |
Bithomas Ceasar, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
bureau-of-prisons commitment competency competency-hearing criminal-procedure district-court judicial-authority mental-health-commitment restoration statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court lacks authority to order additional competency restoration commitment under 18 U.S.C. § 4241(d)(2) |
| 21-7510 |
Ramon Lopez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons compassionate-release criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing extraordinary-circumstances federal-corrections federal-sentencing-guidelines sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether Criminal Defendants may use the 'recently amended' Compassionate Release Statute to reduce or correct an excessive, and/or defective or illega… |
| 21-6972 |
Maria Haydee Luzula v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons circuit-split first-step-act non-delegation-doctrine sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether U.S.S.G. § 1B1.13 binds district courts in considering defendant-filed motions for sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A) |
| 21-6956 |
Roman Enrique Delgado-Montoya v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons federal-prisoner-relief first-step-act sentencing-commission sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court is limited to the 'extraordinary and compelling reasons' given in application note 1 of the commentary to U.S.S.G. § 1B1.13 |
| 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) |
| 21-6022 |
In Re Robert L. Hedrick |
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2021-10-21 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
access-to-courts bureau-of-prisons civil-procedure deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment frivolous plausible-claim rule-8 standing |
Did the Court Error in ruling that the complaint failed to comply with Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 8(a)? |
| 21-5632 |
Eliseo Carrillo, III v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons criminal-law district-court due-process liberty liberty-interest mental-health sentencing supervised-release upward-departure |
Whether the District Court deprived the Petitioner of liberty within the terms of 18 U.S.C. 3583 (c) and (d) by upward departing in re-sentencing Peti… |
| 21-5297 |
Kurzie Lee Curtis v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment bureau-of-prisons civil-rights compassionate-release due-process first-step-act |
Whether the Bureau of Prisons' policy of denying compassionate release to inmates who have not served at least 50% of their sentence violates the Firs… |
| 20-8194 |
Irvin Moreno v. DeWayne Hendrix, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure-act bureau-of-prisons drug-trafficking nonviolent-offense sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether the BOP violated the plain meaning of the relevant sentencing statutes and regulations by categorically disqualifying a prisoner convicted of … |
| 20-6666 |
Sebastian L. Eccleston v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons concurrent-sentences consecutive-sentences criminal-justice due-process federal-prisoner federal-sentencing sentencing-statutes state-judiciary |
Whether federal sentencing statutes and the Constitution require the Bureau of Prisons to execute the sentence of a federal prisoner to effectuate the… |
| 19-7843 |
Tony Buck v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons constitutional-law constitutional-rights conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review punishment punishment-clause sentencing |
Whether the Judgment of Conviction should be vacated as a violation of the Double Jeopardy Clause |
| 19-7763 |
Jean Bernier v. J. C. Holland, Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3585 18-usc-3621 18-usc-3621b administrative-discretion barden-determination bureau-of-prisons custody-credit federal-custody federal-sentencing sentence-commencement state-custody statutory-authority statutory-interpretation |
Does the federal bureau of prisons exceed statutory authority when it commences a sentence in 1992, decides 11 years later in 2003 that it was state e… |
| 19-7428 |
Timothy O'Laughlin v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons civil-commitment civil-rights civil-rights-deprivation due-process personal-liberty pro-se pro-se-litigation pro-se-petition sixth-amendment standing standing-to-file |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 4247(h) unconstitutionally deprives individuals of the right to litigate their personal liberty interests pro se |
| 19-7188 |
John Jay Powers v. M. L. Stancil |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-01-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3584 18-usc-3584a administrative-deference administrative-law bureau-of-prisons criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing deference federal-bureau-of-prisons federal-courts federal-sentencing sentencing-interpretation statutory-ambiguity statutory-interpretation |
Is the language of 18 U.S.C. 3584(a)'s phrase 'at the same time' ambiguous? |
| 19-6434 |
Lawrence T. Tyler v. Federal Bureau of Prisons, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure administrative-procedures-act adverse-determination agency bureau-of-prisons civil-rights due-process human-trafficking national-origin-discrimination privacy-act record-accuracy standing |
Whether the challenged records used to make an adverse determination against me are indeed inaccurate and/or incomplete as a matter of this U.S. Supre… |
| 19-6416 |
Jurijus Kadamovas v. John F. Caraway, Warden, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment administrative-discretion administrative-law bureau-of-prisons civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process medical-care medical-conditions prison-conditions prisoner-rights standing torture-prevention |
Whether the Federal Bureau of Prisons can torture an inmate diagnosed with asthma by exposing them to oleoresin capsicum spray, toxic smoke, and tear … |
| 18-9662 |
Mark Alan Lane v. Josias Salazar, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons due-process first-amendment penological-interests prisoner-speech prisoners-rights procunier-v-martinez prohibited-act-code-203 true-threats void-for-vagueness |
Whether the Bureau of Prisons' broad construction of Prohibited Act Code 203 to punish statements in outgoing mail that are not true threats violates … |
| 18-9499 |
Chad Austin v. Timothy Stewart, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal bureau-of-prisons civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-review retroactive-application sentencing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation time-bar |
How can the Bureau of Prisons make petitioner's federal sentence, where petitioner was sentenced of violating 18 USC 3581(b), 18 USC 3553, USSG § 5G1.… |
| 18-9456 |
Gary Giovon Lynn v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons constitutional-law federal-bureau-of-prisons federal-sentencing nunc-pro-tunc procedural-error sentencing sentencing-authority sentencing-procedure-error separation-of-powers setser-v-united-states ussg-5g1-3c |
When the district court failed to follow the Court's ruling in Setser v. United States, 566 U.S. 231 (2012) at sentencing did it engage in an impermis… |
| 18-7994 |
Daniel H. King v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons civil-commitment civil-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure custody-transfer district-of-columbia due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether someone serving a sentence imposed by the District of Columbia whose physical custody was transferred to the Bureau of Prisons is 'in the cust… |
| 18-7122 |
Jeffrey Thomas Gola v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ability-to-pay Ability-to-pay-restitution BOP-jurisdiction-over-payment-plan bureau-of-prisons Consideration-of-18-USC-3664-factors constitutional-liberties Delegation-of-authority-to-BOP financial-responsibility mandatory-victims-restitution-act payment-schedule plain-error Plain-error-in-restitution-order restitution restitution-payment |
Is the BOP's Financial Responsibility Program voluntary when constitutional liberties are taken for non-participation? |
| 18-6895 |
Michael Clark v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons circuit-court classification criminal-history habeas-corpus judicial-review relief revocation sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-relief seventh-circuit |
Whether being placed in too high a criminal history category is a cognizable harm for which a defendant can obtain relief |
| 18-6868 |
In Re Peter T. Roukis |
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2018-11-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Article-12 bureau-of-prisons civil-rights custody discharged-prisoners due-process legal-custody military-prisoners uniform-code-of-military-justice |
Are discharged military prisoners confined within the Bureau Of Prisons subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ)? |
| 18-6481 |
Jeremy Fontanez v. Joseph Coakley, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2241 bureau-of-prisons circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process due-process-clause fifth-amendment inmate-financial-responsibility-program mandatory-victims-restitution-act restitution restitution-order voluntary |
Does the sentencing court violate the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act (MVRA) when it delegates its restitution payments to the BOP? |
| 18-5319 |
Timothy Galen Tolbert v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583 bureau-of-prisons drug-treatment due-process liberty liberty-deprivation post-release-conditions revocation sentencing statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether the District Court deprived the Petitioner of liberty within the terms of 18 U.S.C. 3583 (c) and (d) by re-sentencing Petitioner to incarcerat… |
| 18-5144 |
Julio Gutierrez-Jaramillo v. Warden, FCI Gilmer |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3585 bureau-of-prisons bureau-of-prisons-program-statement criminal-procedure due-process extradition federal-bureau-of-prisons foreign-detention judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-credit sentencing-guidelines time-credit time-served united-states-v-wilson |
Whether prior credit for time held in foreign detention can only be given by the Federal Bureau of Prisons and not by the district court at sentencing |