advisory-opinions

Case	Title	Lower Court	Docketed	Status	Flags	Tags	Question Presented
21-7767	Michael Don Billups v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2022-05-04	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	advisory-opinions appellate-review district-court federal-sentencing judicial-discretion prejudice prejudicial-error sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review	Whether courts of appeals evaluating the prejudicial effect of a Guideline error must accept a district court's claim that the Guidelines exerted no i…
21-7662	Michael Wayne Cook v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2022-04-20	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	advisory-opinions appellate-review district-court district-court-discretion federal-sentencing judicial-standard prejudice prejudicial-error sentencing-guidelines	Whether courts of appeals evaluating the prejudicial effect of a Guideline error must accept a district court's claim that the Guidelines exerted no i…
20-6409	Hugo Humberto Perez Rangel v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2020-11-24	Denied	IFP	advisory-opinions appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-sentencing guideline-error harmless-error incentive-to-object judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines	Whether Guideline error is necessarily harmless if the district court is presented with the Guideline range later vindicated on appeal and disclaims a…