Enhanced-sentence

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
22-7310 Antonio Minnis v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure enhanced-sentence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prejudice-prong sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the court's prejudice prong in Strickland v. Washington is satisfied when an attorney admits to ineffective assistance and the defendant rejec…
21-6280 Johnny Williams v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-sentencing drug-conspiracy drug-distribution-conspiracy due-process enhanced-sentence mens-rea statutory-construction statutory-interpretation When the Government clearly defines the scope and object of a drug distribution conspiracy in a charging Indictment, do the lower courts err when they…
20-7076 Michael Javier Ottogalli v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-02-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process enhanced-sentence factual-contestation government-sentencing-memorandum ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presentence-report sentencing sentencing-enhancement Is due process violated when a defendant receives an enhanced sentence based on erroneous factual conclusions without adequate advance notice?
20-5892 Russell A. Stoddard v. Florida Florida 2020-10-05 Denied IFP appellate-review cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment enhanced-sentence fourteenth-amendment sentencing state-law Does the Eighth Amendment protection against cruel and unusual punishment prohibit a state from imposing a prison sentence that exceeds the maximum pr…
19-7877 Tyrone Rogers v. Josie Gastelo, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-03-05 Denied IFP Conflict-counsel Enhanced-sentence In-custody in-custody-determination ineffective-assistance Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel new-trial ninth-circuit-conflict procedural-default Procedural-defaults sentencing-error Sexual-elements Sentencing-error
18-5206 Gary Dewayne Oatman v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-07-11 Denied IFP 6th-amendment actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability double-jeopardy due-process enhanced-sentence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-mistrial sentencing Whether a defendant can be actually innocent of a sentence in a non-capital case, whether a prior mistrial renders nugatory all prior proceedings, and…