| 25-6633 |
Leihinahina Sullivan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-01-21 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-history district-court plea-agreement sentence-adjustment sentencing-guidelines status-points |
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| 25-6570 |
Orlanda Travon Sloan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-01-13 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-history individualized-sentencing mental-health-considerations methamphetamine-offense sentencing-guidelines youth-mitigation |
Whether the Sentencing Guidelines' static Criminal History Categories and excessive offense levels for methamphetamine actual/ice fail to propose a re… |
| 24-1295 |
Brandon Phillips v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-06-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split criminal-history expungement harmless-error procedural-error sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a sentencing court should apply the plain meaning of 'expunged' when calculating a defendant's criminal history under the Sentencing Guideline… |
| 24-1255 |
Malcom Anwar Williams v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-06-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
18-usc-3582 compassionate-release criminal-history rehabilitation-evidence sentence-reduction sentencing-discretion |
Whether a district court errs when it denies a motion for reduction of sentence or compassionate release under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A) on the ground… |
| 24-6441 |
David Joseph Bunevacz v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-history due-process government-breach plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines upward-variance |
Whether the government's breach of a plea agreement by requesting legally invalid sentencing enhancements and advocating for an upward departure warra… |
| 24-6306 |
Willems Calixte, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal criminal-history judicial-fact-finding sentencing-enhancement shepard-documents supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Petitioner Calixte was properly sentenced as an armed career criminal under Erlinger v. United States when the district court relied on Shepar… |
| 24-5941 |
Santos Cuevas v. Josh Highberger, Acting Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary |
Oregon |
2024-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-rule constitutional-rights criminal-history habeas-corpus jury-fact-finding sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a defendant can challenge sentencing guidelines rules that increase criminal history score and sentence length without jury fact-finding under… |
| 24-5882 |
Tyrone Greenfield v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-10-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-history judicial-discretion miscalculation procedural-error relevant-conduct sentencing |
Whether a sentence may be sustained if it relies upon an obvious and gross miscalculation pertaining to alleged wrongdoing that results in incorrect r… |
| 24A345 |
Ronald Robinson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-10-11 |
Presumed Complete |
|
18-usc-3553a criminal-history eighth-circuit mitigating-factors sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a district court may impose an unusually harsh sentence without meaningfully considering a defendant's mitigating factors of childhood trauma,… |
| 24-5672 |
Mark Leon Andrews v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-court-review criminal-history prior-convictions sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in determining the scope of prior convictions under the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 24-5588 |
Deven L. Smith v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion career-offender criminal-history downward-departure sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines |
Did the district court abuse its discretion by not granting a downward departure under U.S.S.G. § 4A1.3 and imposing an unreasonably long sentence bas… |
| 24-5058 |
Joseph Curtis Hubman v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a)(2) 18-usc-3553a child-pornography criminal-history sentencing-guidelines sentencing-purposes upward-variance |
Whether an upward variance sentence nearly two years higher than recommended by the Sentencing Guidelines is greater than necessary to comply with the… |
| 23-7502 |
Kevin Day v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4a1.3(b) criminal-history district-court-discretion downward-departure fourth-circuit motion-to-dismiss sentencing-guidelines variance-sentence |
Whether the District Court abused its discretion by failing to give a variance sentence and shorter incarceration period |
| 23-7106 |
Gemar Morgan v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-history guideline-commentary sentence-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation stinson-v-united-states supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-havis |
Whether the U.S. Sentencing Commission's guideline application note 4B1.4 cmt.n.(1) is valid under 18 U.S.C. 924(e) |
| 23A803 |
Khan Mohammed v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2024-02-29 |
Presumed Complete |
|
circuit-split criminal-history due-process ineffective-counsel sentencing-guidelines terrorism-enhancement |
Whether the Due Process Clause requires a heightened standard of proof for sentencing enhancements that substantially increase a defendant's sentence … |
| 23-6739 |
John Richard Brinson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment child-pornography criminal-history criminal-sentencing due-process life-without-parole rehabilitation sentencing-reasonableness substantive-due-process substantive-reasonableness |
Whether a life without parole sentence for a 24 year old with no prior criminal record for producing child pornography is substantively unreasonable? |
| 23-6257 |
Randall Scott Jordan v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-12-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady brady-violation criminal-history due-process impeachment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment suppression-of-evidence witness-credibility witness-impeachment |
Did the prosecution's suppression or withholding of state's key witness' prior violent criminal history that was favorable to accused for impeachment … |
| 23-6164 |
Albert Carrasco, v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process liberty-interest liberty-restriction rehabilitation sentencing sex-offender supervised-release |
Whether a supervised-release condition prohibiting a low-level sex offender from living in most urban and suburban areas is substantively unreasonable… |
| 23-6029 |
Brianna Irene Bustam v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-history drug-offenses first-step-act rule-of-lenity safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the 'and' in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f)(1) means 'and' or 'or' for determining eligibility for the 'safety valve' provision |
| 23-5678 |
Jasper Michael Wagner v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-history criminal-procedure descamps-v-united-states gall-v-united-states judicial-fact-finding sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment united-states-v-hernandez |
Whether judicial fact-finding as to past offenses during sentencing violates precedent and the Sixth Amendment |
| 23-5691 |
Ricardo Garcia, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-history due-process mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant is ineligible for relief from a mandatory minimum sentence if his criminal history runs afoul of any one of the disqualifying crit… |
| 23-5672 |
Michael Lee Mac Cleary v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-09-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-history criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process judicial-accuracy sentencing townsend-v-burke uncounseled-defendants |
Whether the due process right to be sentenced based on accurate information that the Court recognized in Townsend v. Burke, 334 U.S. 736 (1948), is li… |
| 23-329 |
Chong Yim, et al. v. City of Seattle, Washington |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-09-28 |
Denied |
Amici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-penalties criminal-history due-process fourteenth-amendment housing-ordinance landlord-tenant property-rights public-housing tenant-screening |
Does Seattle's restriction on private owners' right to exclude potentially dangerous tenants from their property violate the Fourteenth Amendment's Du… |
| 23-5605 |
Alfred John McDonald v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-history drug-quantity due-process evidence-standard hemp marijuana procedural-fairness relevant-conduct |
Whether McDonald's right to due process was violated |
| 23-5304 |
Jaquantious Hutchison v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-history federal-sentencing mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the 'and' in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f)(1) is conjunctive or disjunctive |
| 23-5188 |
Mark Anthony Roy v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-history criminal-law due-process firearms firearms-prohibition second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Second Amendment forbids application of 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) to persons who have no conviction for violent conduct |
| 23-5149 |
Javier Escalera, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-20 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-history fifth-circuit mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant is ineligible for relief from a mandatory minimum sentence if his criminal history runs afoul of any one of the disqualifying crit… |
| 23-46 |
United States v. Cassity Danielle Jones |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-07-17 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant must meet certain criminal history criteria to qualify for 'safety-valve' sentencing relief under 18 U.S.C. 3553(f)(1) |
| 22-7843 |
George John Maslovar v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography civil-procedure criminal-history paroline-v-united-states proximate-cause restitution statutory-interpretation victim-impact |
Whether a defendant's criminal history, the nature of images typically trafficked of a child pornography victim, or the amount of restitution collecte… |
| 22-7814 |
Joshua E. Preece v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-06-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
chapter-four criminal-history criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines recidivism recidivist-enhancement relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission |
Whether the relevant conduct principles of USSG § 1B1.3 govern application of Chapter Four recidivist enhancements |
| 22-7807 |
Chayna Holguin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-history federal-sentencing first-step-act rule-of-lenity safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the 'and' in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f)(1) means 'and' or 'or' for determining eligibility for the 'safety valve' provision |
| 22-7756 |
Andre Zeno v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-history criminal-history-points criminal-procedure safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-minimum |
Whether the 'and' in § 3553(f)(1) means 'and' or 'or' |
| 22-7702 |
Antonio Montero v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3553(f) criminal-history criminal-procedure federal-sentencing safety-valve sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
whether-the-trial-judge-must-find-montero-violated-all-conditions-to-be-eligible-for-sentence-reduction |
| 22-7709 |
Ashley Latreece Thackerson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-history first-step-act safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err by finding that Petitioner did not qualify for safety valve relief under the First Step Act 18 U.S.C. § 355… |
| 22-7631 |
Terrell McGee v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compassionate-release constitutional-rights criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion murder-degrees retroactivity sentencing sentencing-disparities |
Whether a Clromye wa daw mas/ be A Cwlaorclea and Compelling veasah for Compasslonate Celease |
| 22-7436 |
Chad Robert Kolkman v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-05-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-history criminal-sentencing legal-interpretation mandatory-minimum sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation statutory-text |
Whether the 'and' in 18 U.S.C. §3553(f)(1) means 'and' consistent with the ordinary meaning of the word, so that the person remains eligible unless th… |
| 22-7312 |
Jackie Mitchell v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-04-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-panel criminal-history domestic-violence federal-circuit-court federal-court-interpretation federal-implications panel-decision sixth-circuit-rule state-court-interpretation state-law state-law-interpretation |
Question Presented To resolve a federal defendant's criminal history, must a circuit court panel use the current state court interpretations of state … |
| 22-851 |
United States v. Julian Garcon |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-03-08 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
criminal-history criminal-history-points criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines jurisdiction safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
Whether the defendant satisfies the prerequisites for 'safety-valve' sentencing relief under 18 U.S.C. 3553(f)(1) |
| 22-828 |
Roger E. Pace v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-03-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
circuit-split criminal-history federal-sentencing mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the 'and' in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f)(1) means 'and' or 'or' for safety-valve relief from mandatory-minimum sentences |
| 22-6825 |
Richie Lee Edmonds, III v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-history criminal-law drug-distribution due-process federal-sentencing federalism sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a prior state conviction for drug distribution qualifies as a 'controlled substance offense' under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) |
| 22-6803 |
Mario C. Thomas v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-02-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-history criminal-history-points criminal-procedure federal-sentencing mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the 'and' in 18 U.S.C. §3553(f)(1) means 'and' or 'or' |
| 22-6536 |
Antoine D. Jackson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-01-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-history due-process safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the word 'and' in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f)(1) should be interpreted in the disjunctive or conjunctive |
| 22-6429 |
Robert McKenna v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3553a appellate-review criminal-history district-court-discretion due-process public-safety sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-reasonableness |
Whether the First Circuit Court of Appeals erred in finding that the defendant's sentence was procedurally and substantively reasonable under 18 USC §… |
| 22-6391 |
Nonami Palomares v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-23 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3)IFP |
criminal-history drug-crimes drug-offense federal-sentencing mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant is ineligible for relief from a mandatory minimum sentence if her criminal history runs afoul of any one of the disqualifying crit… |
| 22-6266 |
Earl Moore v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender civil-rights criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act recidivism sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the defendant's arrest for resisting arrest constitutes a 'crime of violence' under federal sentencing guidelines |
| 22-514 |
Edwar Rodriguez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
advisory-sentencing-guidelines criminal-history criminal-sentencing dangerous-weapon dangerous-weapon-enhancement drug-quantity eleventh-circuit sentence-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines statutory-sentencing-factors |
Whether certiorari review should be granted |
| 22-6092 |
Joshua Lewis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) 3553a-factors criminal-history departures guidelines-departure procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g.-4a1.3 upward-variance |
Whether a district court can vary upward from the advisory sentencing range under the factors in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) based on the inadequacy of a defe… |
| 22-6006 |
Justin Richard Testani v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography criminal-history cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment mental-capacity sentencing sentencing-disparity |
Whether a 720-month sentence violates the Eighth Amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual sentences |
| 22-340 |
Mark E. Pulsifer v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-10-12 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (4)Relisted (3) |
circuit-conflict circuit-split criminal-history criminal-justice-reform first-step-act mandatory-minimum rule-of-lenity safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the 'and' in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f)(1) means 'and' or 'or' for determining eligibility for the federal sentencing 'safety valve |
| 22-5741 |
Anthony Delano Hylton, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-history criminal-procedure detention-duration fourth-amendment law-enforcement-inquiry prolonged-detention rodriguez-precedent rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop |
Does This Court's Decision in Rodriguez v. United States permit any criminal history inquiry at any traffic stop no matter how long the inquiry takes? |
| 22-5729 |
Jose Madrid-Becerra v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-09-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-history criminal-procedure deportation early-release federal-criminal-defendants immigration immigration-law sentencing-guidelines state-statutes |
Whether U.S.S.G. § 4A1.1(d) applies to federal criminal defendants who were previously released from prison pursuant to state statutes authorizing the… |
| 22-5655 |
Robert Frank Miller v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2022-09-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compassionate-release criminal-history equal-protection procedural-fairness rehabilitation sentence-reduction sentencing-objectives standing waiver |
Whether the district and appellate court erred in denying the appellant's motion for a sentence reduction |
| 22-5421 |
Henry Wilke Eilders v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy criminal-history drug-conspiracy drug-offenses federal-sentencing-guidelines methamphetamine methamphetamine-distribution relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines |
Whether Petitioner's prior methamphetamine related convictions should have been classified as relevant conduct |
| 22-5262 |
David D. Major v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-08-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion acceptance-of-responsibility appeal-denial career-offender criminal-history drug-related-offense obstruction-of-justice reliable-evidence sentencing-guidelines |
Question not identified |
| 22-5139 |
Carol Johnene Morris v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
2nd-amendment armed-career-criminal-act civil-rights criminal-history criminal-procedure double-jeopardy drug-possession due-process felony-enhancement prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the district court erred in failing to vacate the federal convictions for felon in possession of a firearm and a related acquittal |
| 22-5090 |
Michelle C. Cantatore v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-history district-court-discretion evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel section-2255 sentencing sentencing-counsel sentencing-disparity |
Whether the Third Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability |
| 21-7828 |
Kimberly Jones v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-history criminal-sentencing drug-quantity drug-quantity-determination intervening-arrest narcotics-guidelines personal-use sentencing-guidelines |
Who bears the burden of proving or disproving 'personal use' quantities when making drug quantity determinations for purposes of the narcotics guideli… |
| 21-7632 |
Carlos Gotay-Guzman v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
application-note criminal-history criminal-history-points federal-jurisdiction first-circuit-decision plain-error plain-error-standard puerto-rico puerto-rico-convictions sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Did the First Circuit err when it held Mr. Gotay-Guzman could not establish plain-error regarding the assessment of 2 criminal-history points for his … |
| 21-7269 |
Joseph Peter Clarke v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion covid-19 criminal-history downward-variance drug-offenses juvenile-offenses sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines stash-house-robbery |
Whether the appellate court erred in affirming the district court's abuse of discretion |
| 21-1118 |
Duianete Moore v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-02-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
career-offender criminal-history criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines juvenile-conviction juvenile-offenses predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Is a conviction committed 24 years ago, when Petitioner was 16 years old, a proper predicate offense for classification of Career Offender status purs… |
| 21-6578 |
Gregory Leri v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-history downward-adjustment drug-trafficking first-step-act safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-minimum |
Whether the safety valve criteria under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f)(1) are conjunctive or disjunctive |
| 21-6287 |
Mario Hernandez-Galarza v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-history discrimination due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment immigration-law liberty noncitizen-rights sentencing-guidelines |
Whether U.S.S.G. § 2L1.2(b)(3) is unconstitutional |
| 21-5747 |
Juan Carlos Osorto v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-history due-process equal-protection federal-agencies immigration-law noncitizen-rights noncitizens sentencing-guidelines |
Whether USSG § 2L1.2(b)(3) is unconstitutional |
| 21-5540 |
Guadalupe Urbina-Rodriguez v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-922g1 18-usc-924a2 8th-amendment 8th-circuit carachuri-rosendo-v-holder criminal-firearm-possession criminal-history eighth-circuit-precedent felony-enhancement second-amendment-rights sentencing-interpretation statutory-construction |
whether-prior-offenses-constitute-felony-for-enhanced-sentence |
| 21-5014 |
John Bruce Fifield, Jr. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-history criminal-procedure judicial-notice plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether a court of appeals may consider judicially noticeable facts presented for the first time on appeal in deciding whether an error is plain? |
| 20-8421 |
Braulio Perez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 911-call armed-career-criminal body-camera body-camera-footage constitutional-rights'\n'Issue 4 criminal-history criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure'\n'Issue 2 criminal-procedure'\n'Issue 3 criminal-procedure'\n'Issue 4 enhancement evidence fair-trial fifth-amendment firearm fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure self-incrimination sentencing sentencing-enhancement statements statutory-interpretation witness witness-testimony |
Issue 1 |
| 20-8354 |
Lewis Wesley Hickman, III v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process evidence-challenge felony-conviction judicial-review mandatory-minimum plea-bargaining sentencing-disparities sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the sentencing enhancements were properly applied |
| 20-8383 |
Franklin Antonio Rios v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-history criminal-history-category drug-conspiracy firearm-charges first-step-act fourth-amendment mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences offense-level sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the district court erred in raising the petitioner's criminal-history-category and offense-level to achieve a comparable sentence after the Fi… |
| 20-8230 |
Jorge De Los Santos v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process liberty-interest liberty-restriction rehabilitation sentencing-conditions sex-offender substantive-reasonableness supervised-release |
Whether a supervised-release condition prohibiting a low-level sex offender from living in most urban and suburban areas is substantively unreasonable… |
| 20-8219 |
Clark D. Young v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-06-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conflict-of-interest counsel-failure criminal-history due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Whether the defendant was deprived of his Sixth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights when counsel failed to investigate his criminal history |
| 20-7825 |
Carlon McGinn v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2021-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-vagueness criminal-history criminal-sentencing due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-determination jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Whether the subsection-specific definition of 'PERSON FELONY' in Kansas Statutes is unconstitutionally vague |
| 20-7323 |
Salvatore J. Moretti v. Borough of Paramus, New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2021-03-05 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-history due-process judicial-misconduct military-control political-economics standing state-court-procedure surveillance takings veterans-exemption |
issue-being-raised |
| 20-7246 |
Renaldo Demarquis Metcalf v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender criminal-history judicial-doctrine legal-departure sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines sentencing-process |
Does the use of the 'de facto career offender' doctrine distort the sentencing process and lead to unwarranted sentencing disparity? |
| 20-7109 |
Raul Flores-Villalvaso v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process illegal-reentry mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines specific-intent |
Whether the 8 U.S.C. § 1326 Attempted Illegal Reentry mens rea element of 'specific intent' can be restated as simply 'a conscious desire' with no ref… |
| 20-902 |
Kenneth E. Flick v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-05 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
2nd-amendment as-applied-challenges circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-copyright criminal-history felony-conviction felony-convictions firearm-possession second-amendment |
Whether the Second Amendment secures Ken Flick's right to keep and bear arms, notwithstanding his convictions for importing and selling counterfeit ca… |
| 20-6486 |
Rakeem Asaad Davis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-history firearm-possession jury-instructions rehaif-error rehaif-v-united-states second-amendment sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation substantial-rights |
Whether a reviewing court may consider a defendant's criminal history facts not admitted at trial when determining if an omission of an essential elem… |
| 20-6376 |
Sean Jason Harstine v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-of-defendant appeal breaking-and-entering criminal-history due-process juvenile-offender juvenile-offenses point-calculation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether it was error to count criminal history points for four 2004 breaking-and-entering convictions when the defendant was only 17 years old at the … |
| 20-6237 |
Jamar Parker v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-history district-court mitigating-factors mitigation-arguments procedural-reasonableness sentencing substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the 168-month sentence is procedurally and substantively reasonable |
| 20-6134 |
Adam Alfredo Flores v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment criminal-history cruel-and-unusual-punishment disproportionate-sentence eighth-amendment felon-in-possession sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
Was a maximum ten year sentence above the guidelines of 70 to 87 months' imprisonment for Felon in Possession of a Firearm substantively unreasonable,… |
| 20-5533 |
Gayle McNamara v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-history district-court-error downward-variance judicial-discretion offense-level sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Should the petitioner's appeal be reinstated? |
| 20-5359 |
Brandon Shane Eustice v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-history diversionary-disposition due-process imprisonment judicial-procedure probation-revocation revocation sentencing-calculation sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a diversionary disposition that results in a later revocation and imprisonment should be counted as a sentence under § 4A1.1(b) rather than a … |
| 20-5321 |
Michael Wayne Wadena v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights controlled-substance criminal-history due-process eighth-amendment firearm-possession related-cases sentencing sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals have jurisdiction to hear a certificate of appealability |
| 19-8468 |
Janice M. Shufford v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy-charges criminal-history due-process evidence evidentiary-exclusion fair-trial indictment-defects judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility |
Did the court of appeals properly affirm the trial court's prohibition of the defense from adducing evidence of prosecution witnesses' criminal histor… |
| 19-7720 |
Lamont Jones v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-circuit-court abuse-of-discretion co-conspirator-hearsay co-conspirator-hearsay-exception criminal-association criminal-history district-court-conviction hearsay-exception mental-health racketeering-conspiracy racketeering-conspiracy-18-usc-1962(d) sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-mental-health-treatment sufficient-evidence uncorroborated-confession |
Did the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals abuse its discretion in upholding the District Court's conviction? |
| 19-7417 |
Corey Michael Edwards v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering constitutional-challenge criminal-history effective-counsel predicate-offense predicate-offenses prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Can a conviction in North Carolina state court involving the breaking and entering of outbuildings (storage sheds) that were visibly and actually padl… |
| 19-6775 |
James Marione Butchee v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender controlled-substance criminal-history due-process federal-sentencing ineffective-counsel sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Do having one violent felony and one controlled substance conviction qualify citizens to be a career offender? |
| 19-6597 |
Thiodore Igorovich Galitsa v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
credibility criminal-history criminal-procedure-due-process cross-examination dismissed-case dismissed-charges due-process fair-trial false-statements illegal-reentry prior-arrests prior-convictions prosecutorial-misconduct trial-fairness |
Was Mr. Galitsa denied his right to a fair trial? |
| 19-6527 |
Ruben Patrick Valdes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim criminal-history evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error sentencing-guidelines |
was-trial-counsel-constitutionally-ineffective |
| 19-6005 |
Robert L. Malone v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-history drug-quantity due-process jury-instructions mandatory-minimum methamphetamine-distribution prosecutorial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervisory-power |
Did the lower courts err when they imposed and affirmed Mr. Malone's sentence based on overreliance on his Criminal-History? |
| 19-5809 |
Lloyde Dubry v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2019-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-history descamps-v-united-states discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sixth-amendment state-v-wetrich |
Whether the petitioner was denied his remedy by due course of law due to disparate conclusions by Kansas courts on the retroactive application of Stat… |
| 19-5747 |
Jamall Gibson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights criminal-history criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment speedy-trial |
Whether Petitioner Gibson's counsel provided him with ineffective assistance of counsel |
| 19-5730 |
Lawrence Michael Lynde v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sex-offender-treatment sixth-circuit-appeal standing statutory-interpretation victim-restitution |
Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in holding that the petitioner lacks standing to challenge the constitutionality of the statute at issue |
| 19-5032 |
Tyrone Felder v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adjudication adult-conviction adult-convictions career-offender criminal-history criminal-procedure federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation youthful-offender |
Whether New York youthful offender adjudications qualify as adult convictions for purposes of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines career offender provis… |
| 18-9291 |
Adrian Green v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment career-offender criminal-history due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error plea-agreement prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-error |
Was defense counsel ineffective or deficient in their representation of the defendant? |
| 18-9245 |
Martin Paul De-La-Rosa v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-history drug-quantity due-process federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines guideline-calculation judicial-review methamphetamine section-2d1.1 section-4a1.1 section-4a1.2 sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Does a sentencing court have to get its math correct when calculating the applicable federal sentencing guidelines? |
| 18-9213 |
James Paine v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conviction-analysis criminal-history criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation perceived-seriousness point-calculation sentencing-guidelines seriousness similar-offenses u.s.s.g.-§4a1.2(c) united-states-sentencing-guidelines |
Should the court analyze whether a conviction is similar to the offenses listed in U.S.S.G. §4A1.2(c) as a group or solely for perceived seriousness w… |
| 18-9168 |
Melissa Owens v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights controlled-substances criminal-history drug-trafficking due-process equal-protection plea-agreement racial-discrimination school-desegregation sentencing sentencing-guidelines voting-rights |
Whether the district court erred in calculating the defendant's criminal history score and sentencing range under the United States Sentencing Guideli… |
| 18-9174 |
Warren Myles v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2019-05-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights concealed-carry criminal-history due-process federalism law-enforcement marijuana-search probable-cause reciprocity state-reciprocity state-rights welfare-check |
Does the State of Nebraska have the option to respect some but not other states' concealed carry permits? |
| 18-8941 |
Sheldon Lamont Jackson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-history elements-clause florida-statute johnson-v-united-states leocal-v-ashcroft mens-rea possession-with-intent-to-sell sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense violent-felony |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously affirmed Mr. Jackson's sentence under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) |
| 18-8825 |
Timeiki Hedspeth v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-history criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process evidentiary-rulings fair-trial federal-sentencing-guidelines offense-level reasonable-doubt restitution sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Did the District Court use an incorrect criminal history category to sentence Ms. Hedspeth? |
| 18-8380 |
Woodrow Pressey, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
924(e)(2)(A)(ii) acca acca-predicate armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substances criminal-enhancement criminal-history drug-conviction drug-offenses florida-statute florida-statute-893.13 predicate-offense prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense serious-drug-offenses |
Whether prior convictions under Fla. Stat. §893.13 qualify as 'serious drug offenses' for purposes of the ACCA, §924(e)(2)(A)(ii) |
| 18-8320 |
Darius Andre Holmes v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
buford-v-united-states career-offender categorical-approach circuit-court-review criminal-history de-novo-review eleventh-circuit federal-enhancement predicate-offense serious-drug-offense taylor-v-united-states |
Whether the circuit court departed from the established rule of Taylor v. United States, 495 US 575(1990), requiring a categorical approach to determi… |
| 18-8268 |
Alandis D. Patterson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-history criminal-procedure drug-possession due-process presentence-investigation sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance sexual-abuse |
Did the trial court err in overruling the Petitioner's objection to the Application of a two-level increase pursuant to U.S.S.G. Section 2G1.1(c)(1), … |
| 18-8269 |
Alejandro Casillas Prieto v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amendment-782 chapter-5-part-a criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process guideline-range guidelines life-imprisonment notice offense-level sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Does the sentencing judge's oral pronouncement of the offense level 43 control? |
| 18-8145 |
Desmond Farmer v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amendment-782 assault criminal-classification criminal-history drug-abuse drug-offense drug-offenses due-process equal-protection family-member judicial-discretion non-violent-offense sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction violent-offender |
Whether the court erred in deeming the petitioner as a 'violent offender' instead of a 'drug abuser' and using that as a reason to deny a sentence red… |
| 18-8048 |
Darnell D. Owens v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation criminal-history due-process federal-law historical-practice judicial-discretion propensity-evidence sixth-amendment sixth-circuit supervised-release |
Whether the Due Process Clause permits a judge or factfinder to rely on a person's criminal history to conclude that he or she likely committed anothe… |
| 18-7938 |
Alex Quintana-Torres v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-history criminal-sentencing drug-addiction drug-offense presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether Rifa's presumption of reasonableness is, in practice, effectively binding and not rebuttable, and whether the 15-year, within-Guidelines sente… |
| 18-7862 |
Vincent Beatty, aka Jamaal Beatty, aka Vincent Daward Beatty, aka Mozzi v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion advisory-guidelines criminal-history criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing felon-in-possession reasonableness reasonableness-review sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance sua-sponte upward-variance |
Whether a sua sponte upward variance sentence is reasonable where the advisory Guideline range accurately reflected the defendant's conduct and prior … |
| 18-7240 |
Charles Jermaine King, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender constitutional-rights criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process guidelines habeas-corpus recidivism recidivist sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant was properly treated as a recidivist? |
| 18-7012 |
Anthony Jerome Addison v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims constitutional-rights criminal-history due-process eighth-amendment origination-clause sentencing-guidelines special-assessment standing statutory-claims |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err in granting the government's motion to dismiss by denying the Petitioner the ability… |
| 18-6895 |
Michael Clark v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons circuit-court classification criminal-history habeas-corpus judicial-review relief revocation sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-relief seventh-circuit |
Whether being placed in too high a criminal history category is a cognizable harm for which a defendant can obtain relief |
| 18-6698 |
Shawn Aluiso v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
backpage computer-crime computer-use criminal-history fifth-circuit-appeal minor-victim probation-revocation revoked-probation sentencing-guidelines texas-conviction undue-influence use-of-computer |
Whether the District Court erred in calculating the Guideline range by applying two-point enhancements for undue-influence and use-of-computer, and in… |
| 18-6389 |
Anthony Lomax v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-10-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-murder buyer-seller career-offender conspiracy crime-of-violence criminal-history drug-quantity heroin-attribution relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the district court properly attributed 16.8 kilograms of heroin to Anthony Lomax during sentencing despite the dismissal of his conspiracy cha… |
| 18-6358 |
Alj Hilton v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
and Are Plain and Affect Petitioner's Substantial -and-Are-Plain-and-Affect-Petitioner's-Substantial 18-usc-3661 5th-amendment appeal-waiver appeal-waiver,sentencing-guidelines,criminal-histo criminal-history criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum plain-error sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights trial-court-error Whether the mandatory five-year minimum sentence u |
Whether Petitioner's Appeal Waiver Is Inapplicable to Issues of Trial Court Error in Applying Sentencing Guidelines' Enhancements or in Calculating Cr… |
| 18-6063 |
Craig Alexander v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals criminal-history criminal-procedure disciplinary-infractions due-process judicial-discretion judicial-interpretation section-3582 sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Supreme Court should resolve split decisions in the lower court as to how far a Judge must explain and/or elaborate on a decision to grant… |
| 18-5969 |
Carlos Alberto Fuentes-Canales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burglary burglary-offense crime-of-violence criminal-history plain-error-review sentencing-disparities sentencing-enhancement sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines unwarranted-disparities |
Did the Fifth Circuit err—to the point of warranting summary reversal—when it denied Petitioner relief under the fourth prong of plain-error review ba… |
| 18-5914 |
Jeffrey Scott Finney v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 acca acca-sentencing armed-career-criminal-act criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states post-conviction-relief sentencing violent-felony |
Whether the District Court erred in denying Jeffrey Finney's post-Johason motion for relief pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 |
| 18-5775 |
William Christopher Hogan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split conflict-of-circuits criminal-history fifth-circuit ninth-circuit sentencing shop-lifting shoplifting texas-state texas-state-law u.s.-supreme-court-rule-10 |
Whether the District Court erred in sentencing Petitioner by adding one point to his criminal history score based on a Texas State shop lifting convic… |
| 18-5491 |
Glen Hughie Lovin, Jr. v. Joe M. Allbaugh, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-08-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-hearing fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudicial-evidence sentencing |
Whether the trial court erred in admitting prejudicial evidence of the defendant's prior criminal history, resulting in an unfair trial and requiring … |
| 18-5480 |
Bjorn Christian Luster v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-08-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burglary burglary-enhancement criminal-conviction criminal-history due-process evidence-interpretation fifth-amendment-due-process juvenile-offenses points-scoring prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment-effective-assistance-of-counsel ussg-2k2.1(b)(3) ussg-4a1.1 victim-testimony |
Whether the court erred in applying a sentencing enhancement for a prior crime of violence conviction when the prior conviction was for Iowa third-deg… |
| 18-5497 |
Timothy Edmun Johnson v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-08-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substances criminal-history double-jeopardy drug-distribution federal-sentencing felony-possession occasions-different sentencing-enhancement separate-occasions serious-drug-offense |
Whether Oklahoma's crime of drug distribution is a 'serious drug offense' under the Armed Career Criminal Act when state law defines 'distribution' to… |
| 18-5380 |
Luis Lopez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act carachuri-rosendo circuit-court-split criminal-history drug-offense massachusetts-state-court massachusetts-state-district-court maximum-imprisonment maximum-term-of-imprisonment moncrieffe sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense state-court-conviction |
Whether a prior conviction in a Massachusetts state district court for which the defendant was actually exposed by law to a maximum term of imprisonme… |
| 18-5238 |
Hassanh Bey Wright, aka Hassanh Bay Wright v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-history criminal-law culpable-negligence force-clause intent mens-rea residual-clause sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
Whether a crime with a mens rea of culpable negligence meets the definition of a 'crime of violence' under either the force clause or the residual cla… |
| 18-5089 |
Kevin Khaaliq Beamon v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) criminal-history criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines sentencing-upon-revocation sentencing-variance substance-addiction supervised-release upward-variance |
Whether a district court may impose a significant upward variance at sentencing upon revocation of supervised release on an individual who had never b… |
| 18-5062 |
Norman L. Hunter v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aged-offenses appellate-review career-offender civil-procedure criminal-history district-court-error due-process guideline-determination sentencing-enhancement sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines standing writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the district court erred in sentencing the petitioner as a career offender when the offenses used to enhance the sentence were aged and not co… |