booker-decision

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23A1071 Marlo Helmstetter v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-30 Presumed Complete booker-decision compassionate-release juvenile-offender miller-v-alabama section-3582 sentencing-guidelines Whether a federal district court may consider a defendant's youth at the time of offense and post-sentencing rehabilitation as mitigating factors when…
22-7130 Timothy Fletcher v. United States First Circuit 2023-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP booker-decision criminal-procedure district-court-notice federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion mandatory-guidelines notice-requirement sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-booker Whether the elimination of mandatory sentencing guidelines pursuant to United States v. Booker has rendered Fed. R. Crim. P. 32(h) a nullity
21-996 Yonell Allums v. United States Second Circuit 2022-01-13 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived as-applied-challenge booker-decision criminal-sentencing judicial-discretion reasonable-sentence rita-decision sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-violation Whether a criminal sentence violates the Sixth Amendment when the sentencing court relies on its factual findings about a criminal defendant's conduct…
20-466 Larry Williams v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-10-09 Denied Response Waived booker-decision departure-or-variance discretionary-guidelines First-Step-Act judicial-discretion rational-basis sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction U.S.-v.-Booker Scope-and-limits-of-district-court-discretion-in-denying-unopposed-motion-for-sentence-reduction-under-First-Step-Act
19-8193 John Purifoy v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review booker booker-decision criminal-procedure downward-departure jurisdiction sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-assistance Whether the courts of appeal have jurisdiction under Booker to review a district court's denial of a motion for downward departure under 5K1.1
19-6652 Douglas Akira Hirano v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-15 Denied IFP booker-decision circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure johnson-doctrine johnson-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-booker vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness Whether the void-for-vagueness doctrine and Johnson v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015), apply to the mandatory, pre-United States v. Booker, 543 …
18-7346 Mark Raymond Ford, aka Dred, aka Benjamin Lee Green, aka Donald Wray v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP booker-decision criminal-sentencing due-process retroactive-rule retroactivity sentence-modification sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act statutory-interpretation united-states-v-booker Whether the lower court denial of modification of sentence under 18 U.S.C. §3582(c)(2) based on a mandatory guidelines range departure's sentence viol…
18-6737 Jose Lopez-Castillo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP booker booker-decision constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent title-21 Whether the mandatory-sentencing regime of Title 21 has been abrogated by United States v. Booker and its progeny