| 25-6451 |
Thomas Steven Sanders v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-30 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP |
appellate-review case-or-controversy commutation death-penalty federal-sentencing mootness |
Following commutation of a death sentence to life in prison without the possibility of release, does a case or controversy regarding the death penalty… |
| 24-5179 |
Forrest Hammond v. Tim Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-30 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-liberties commutation criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review pardon state-court |
Whether the commutation of Petitioner's sentence to time-served ending his state custody before his pending federal habeas corpus application was adju… |
| 20-285 |
Herman Tracy Clark v. Jerold Braggs, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-09-03 |
Denied |
|
aedpa-restriction commutation due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus impartiality liberty-interest pardon pardon-and-parole parole statutory-interpretation |
Whether the word 'shall' binds the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board decision |
| 19-8258 |
Denver Maxwell Goree, Jr. v. Michigan Parole Board |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commutation constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto parole parole-board punishment |
Whether Petitioner's parole process was unconstitutional |
| 18-7714 |
Anthony Grandison v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
blockburger-test common-law-murder commutation cumulative-punishment double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause due-process felony-murder handgun-use jury-instructions legislative-intent merger-of-offenses non-merger-rule prosecutorial-discretion required-evidence-test sentencing statutory-construction statutory-offenses |
Whether the Maryland Court of Appeals erred in holding... |
| 18-5992 |
Amilcar C. Butler v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amendment-782 commutation criminal-resentencing criminal-sentencing executive-branch executive-commutation judicial-branch judicial-discretion judicial-executive-branch-interaction mandatory-minimum sentencing-guidelines |
Does Butler's statutory mandatory minimum sentence initially imposed by the judicial branch and later commuted by the executive branch bar him from se… |