| 24-50 |
Marlo Helmstetter v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-3553a 18-usc-3582 compassionate-release concepcion-v-united-states district-court-discretion extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-reasons sentencing-commission sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Under 18 U.S.C. §3582(c)(1)(A), a defendant who has exhausted his administrative remedies is allowed to file his own motion to reduce his prison sente… |
| 23-7309 |
Jessie Vasquez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 3553a-factors abuse-of-discretion concepcion-v-united-states crack-cocaine criminal-sentencing discretionary-review first-step-act sentence-reduction sentencing-factors |
1. The question presented here is whether the District Court abused its discretion or erred when Mr. Vasquez qualified for a sentence reduction, he as… |
| 23-6403 |
Tony L. Ford v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-01-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
concepcion-precedent concepcion-v-united-states criminal-resentencing eleventh-circuit eleventh-circuit-interpretation fair-sentencing-act first-step-act intervening-law-changes sentencing sentencing-discretion statutory-penalty |
Previously, the courts of appeals were divided over whether a district court could consider intervening changes to the law during First Step Act proce… |
| 23-555 |
Louis A. Wilson v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
|
18-usc-3582 circuit-split concepcion-v-united-states extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-reasons habeas habeas-corpus non-retroactive-law sentencing-commission sentencing-reduction u-s-sentencing-commission |
Under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A), can non-retroactive changes in the law constitute "extraordinary and compelling reasons" authorizing a district court… |
| 23-5698 |
Roy Christopher West v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-10-02 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split compassionate-release concepcion-v-united-states district-court-discretion equal-protection extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons first-step-act judicial-discretion sentencing-disparity |
1) Whether the Sixth Circuit's Threshold Determination of No Compelling Reasons Under the First Step Act of 2018 for Compassionate Release is Erroneou… |
| 23-341 |
Bobby Lee Ingram v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-10-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
apprendi-v-new-jersey concepcion-v-united-states drug-quantity eleventh-circuit fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-penalty terry-v-united-states |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit has violated Terry in holding that, at step one, district courts should disregard the "elements" of a defendant's offe… |
| 23-5675 |
Brandon A. House v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-09-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 appellate-court appellate-court-interpretation concepcion-precedent concepcion-v-united-states district-court district-court-discretion extraordinary-and-compelling extraordinary-compelling-reasons section-3582 sentencing-modification |
This Court said in no uncertain terms that a district court, when considering a sentence-modification motion, may consider not only changes in law mad… |
| 22-7794 |
Leoncio Perez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-06-15 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey concepcion-v-united-states crack-cocaine-sentencing discretionary-relief eleventh-circuit first-step-act first-step-act-2018 sentence-reduction terry-v-united-states |
Section 404 of the First Step Act of 2018 sets out two steps to determine whether the imposition of a reduced sentence is warranted for a defendant pr… |
| 22-7783 |
Pinkney Clowers, III v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-06-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
apprendi circuit-split concepcion-v-united-states criminal-enterprise drug-quantity fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation terry-v-united-states |
When a jury convicted Pinkney Clowers of continuing a criminal enterprise, 21 U.S.C. § 484(b) mandated a life sentence because his offense involved at… |
| 22-7728 |
Warren Lavell Jackson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-06-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey concepcion-v-united-states crack-cocaine-law crack-cocaine-sentencing discretionary-relief eleventh-circuit first-step-act sentencing-reduction terry-v-united-states |
Do this Court's First Step Act precedents admit of the uniquely Eleventh Circuit's intermediate step whereby, for the discrete group of individuals st… |
| 22-7367 |
Christopher J. Bailey v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-04-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 abuse-of-discretion concepcion-precedent concepcion-v-united-states criminal-justice-reform criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion first-step-act precedent sentence-reduction sentencing |
WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION
WHEN IT ARBITRARILY IGNORED PRECEDENT FROM ITS OWN
CIRCUIT, AND THE SUPREME COURT, IN DENYING PETIT… |
| 22-7279 |
Robert J. Thomas v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-04-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure compassionate-release compassionate-relief concepcion-v-united-states due-process first-step-act in-forma-pauperis judicial-review prisoner-rights statutory-interpretation |
In forma pauperis status and review his request for compassionate relief under the First Step Act based on its decision in Concepcion v. United States… |
| 22-7223 |
Raymond Charles Lee v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
142-s-ct-2389-2022 case-compliance civil-procedure concepcion-v-united-states due-process judicial-review legal-remand remand standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
WHETHER THIS CASE SHOULD BE REMANDED FOR COMPLIANCE WITH CONCEPCION V UNITED STATES, 142 S.T. 2389 (2022) |
| 22-783 |
Victor J. Orena v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-02-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 concepcion-v-united-states district-court-authority extraordinary-and-compelling-circumstances extraordinary-circumstances first-step-act sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation |
In Concepcion v. United States, — U.S. -, 142 S. Ct. 2389, 2404 213 L. Ed. 2d 731 (June 27, 2022), this Court held that the First Step Act "allows dis… |
| 22-6141 |
Eric Lamont Wade v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion concepcion-ruling concepcion-v-united-states criminal-justice-reform district-court-discretion due-process first-step-act section-404(c) sentence-reduction sentencing |
QUESTON NUMBER ONE:
Whether the district court abused its discretion by failing to comply
with Section 404 (c) of the First Step Act of 2018, ensurin… |
| 22-6103 |
Serdar Tatar v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582-c-1-a abuse-of-discretion actual-innocence brady-claims concepcion-v-united-states evidentiary-hearing judicial-error legal-standard motion-for-relief rule-60 rule-60-b |
I. Whether or not the district court's denial of Mr. Tatar's. Motion
for relief under Rule 60(d)$3) , (b)(3), and (b)(6), for fraud, and
or fraud upo… |
| 22-5470 |
Larry Marlowe Chambers v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-08-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review concepcion-v-united-states criminal-resentencing district-court first-step-act judicial-discretion remand sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court commits reversible error by issuing contradictory analyses for reductions under § 404 of the First Step Act without clear exp… |
| 22-5435 |
Rahsaan Johnson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-23 |
GVR |
IFP |
concepcion-precedent concepcion-v-united-states district-court-denial district-court-discretion first-step-act judicial-review mitigating-information post-sentencing-conduct sentencing-mitigation vacatur |
Whether the district court's denial of Mr. Johnson's First Step Act motion must be vacated in light of Concepcion v. United States because the court d… |
| 22-5061 |
Dewayne Joseph v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-07-11 |
GVR |
IFP |
concepcion-ruling concepcion-v-united-states crack-cocaine crack-penalties criminal-resentencing discretion eleventh-circuit fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing sentencing-modification |
Whether this case should be reversed and remanded in light of Concepcion? |