advisory-sentencing

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
20-6631 Aaron Sebastian Redmond v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-sentencing constitutional-law district-court-discretion due-process federal-sentencing fifth-circuit guidelines-error harmless-error sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines Whether the Fifth Circuit's rule that a Guidelines error is harmless if the district court states it would have imposed the same sentence regardless o…
20-5666 Cristian Mendoza v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility advisory-sentencing criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-range Whether a defendant who enters a guilty plea pursuant to a plea agreement that includes a purported inducement that he will receive an acceptance of r…
18-6851 Steven Gomez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-sentencing appeal-waiver constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing-guidelines Can an appeal waiver executed at the time of a defendant's plea waive the right to appeal constitutional error occurring at sentencing months after ex…