criminal-resentencing
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6599 | Harry Whitman v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2026-01-15 | Pending | IFP | criminal-resentencing extraordinary-compelling-reasons first-step-act mandatory-minimum sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether the fact that a prisoner is serving a sentence that is significantly longer than the law would now permit, in light of the First Step Act's no… |
| 24-6098 | Timothy R. Brown v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2024-12-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-resentencing double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment reasonable-doubt | 1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires a State to apply to the resentencing of a criminal defendant, a rule of law defining… |
| 24A540 | Timothy R. Brown v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2024-12-04 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-resentencing due-process fourteenth-amendment retroactive-rule | Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires a State to apply to the resentencing of a criminal defendant, a rule of law defining an… | |
| 23-1150 | Corey Deyon Duffey and Jarvis Dupree Ross v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-04-23 | Judgment Issued | Relisted (2) | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-resentencing criminal-sentencing first-step-act judicial-resentencing judicial-vacatur retroactivity sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether the First Step Act's sentencing reduction provisions apply to a defendant originally sentenced before the First Step Act's enactment when that… |
| 23-6589 | Reginald L. McCoy v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-01-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-resentencing drug-quantity first-step-act judicial-discretion prior-finding sentencing sentencing-review statutory-threshold | Whether a First Step Act movant's entitlement to review hinges on the statutory sentencing threshold for his offense, or may be foreclosed by a prior … |
| 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… |
| 23-27 | Michael Harper v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-07-10 | Denied | apprendi-v-new-jersey circuit-split criminal-resentencing drug-quantity fair-sentencing-act first-step-act judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-penalty terry-v-united-states | Under the First Step Act of 2018, courts may reduce certain previously imposed sentences to match the penalties in the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010. Th… | |
| 22-7832 | David Troy, III v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-06-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court circuit-precedent criminal-resentencing fair-sentencing-act first-step-act fourth-circuit retroactive-changes retroactive-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether retroactive changes in the law unrelated to the Fair Sentencing Act must be corrected in a First Step Act proceeding? |
| 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… |
| 22-5061 | 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? |
| 21-7977 | Jason Albert Halda v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2022-05-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-resentencing criminal-sentencing disproportionality eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing miller-montgomery-rule miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana proportionality-review sentencing-guidelines | 1. Is Jason Halda entitled to a resentencing because the judge imposed sentences long before the Court's rulings in Miller and Montgomery. Therefore,… |
| 21-6941 | Tracy Vaughn v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-01-21 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | 18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a crack-cocaine criminal-resentencing criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion first-step-act sentencing-factors sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether, in deciding whether to impose a reduced sentence for a crack cocaine offense under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act, a district court mus… |
| 21-6575 | Nathaniel Fields v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-12-10 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-resentencing district-court-discretion first-step-act intervening-legal-developments legal-developments reduced-sentence sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether, when deciding if it should "impose a reduced sentence" on an individual under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, a district court … |
| 21-6376 | Antonio Soul Gonzalez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-11-23 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-resentencing eligibility first-step-act judicial-discretion resentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | The question presented here is analogous to the question presented in Concepcion v. United States, No. 20-1650, on which this Court recently granted c… |
| 21-6224 | Tony Ford v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-11-10 | GVR | Relisted (3)IFP | criminal-justice-reform criminal-resentencing district-court-discretion first-step-act intervening-legal-developments legal-developments retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether, when deciding if it should "impose a reduced sentence" on an individual under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, a district court … |
| 21-6107 | Thomas Johnson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-10-27 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | criminal-procedure criminal-resentencing district-court-discretion factual-developments fair-sentencing-act first-step-act legal-developments presidential-commutation sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether, when deciding if it should "impose a reduced sentence" on an eligible defendant under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, a distric… |
| 21-6009 | Jose Moyhernandez, aka Yindo v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-10-19 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split crack-cocaine criminal-resentencing criminal-sentencing first-step-act sentence-reduction sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation | Whether a sentencing court must consider applicable sentencing factors codified in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) when deciding whether to "impose a reduced sent… |
| 21-6007 | Carlton Potts, aka Pep v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-10-19 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | appellate-review criminal-resentencing criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion factual-developments fair-sentencing-act first-step-act legal-developments sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether, when deciding if it should "impose a reduced sentence" on an eligible defendant under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, a distric… |
| 21-546 | Michael G. Harper, aka Cuban Mike v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-10-13 | GVR | Relisted (2) | criminal-justice-reform criminal-resentencing district-court district-court-discretion first-step-act intervening-legal-developments legal-developments reduced-sentence sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether, when deciding if it should "impose a reduced sentence" on an individual under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, a district court … |
| 21-5634 | Michael D. Forbes v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-09-09 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review criminal-resentencing criminal-sentencing first-step-act guideline-range reasonableness-standard section-404 sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review | Appellate court s review criminal sentence s for reasonableness . And major variances or departures from the advisory guideline range must be supporte… |
| 21-5475 | Derrick Jerome Spencer v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-08-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-resentencing due-process fifth-amendment first-step-act sentencing-review standing | 1. Whether Petitioner is being deprived of his civil right to due process of law against law (without due process of law) in violation of the Fifth Am… |
| 20-8347 | Terron McAllister v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-06-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion criminal-resentencing discretion first-step-act guidelines guidelines-range judicial-discretion resentencing sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-discretion | Whether a District Court adjudicating a motion for a reduced sentence under the First Step Act abuses its discretion when a defendant would have a sig… |
| 20-1650 | Carlos Concepcion v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-05-26 | Judgment Issued | Amici (10) | circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-resentencing factual-developments first-step-act legal-developments resentencing sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether, when deciding if it should "impose a reduced sentence" on an individual under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, 21 U.S.C. § 841 n… |
| 20-1479 | Eddie Houston, Jr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-04-21 | GVR | Amici (2)Relisted (2) | 18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a criminal-resentencing criminal-sentencing first-step-act judicial-discretion reduced-sentence retroactive-sentencing sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation | Whether a sentencing court must consider applicable sentencing factors codified in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) when deciding whether to impose a reduced sente… |
| 20-7421 | Jefferson Levine v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553(a) circuit-conflict criminal-resentencing first-step-act judicial-discretion post-sentencing-conduct section-404(b) sentencing sentencing-discretion | 1. Whether, in order to properly exercise its discretion under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018 to impose a reduced sentence for an eligib… |
| 20-6949 | Neally Cunningham v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-01-26 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | cocaine-base criminal-law criminal-resentencing drug-offenses federal-drug-offense first-step-act retroactivity sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation | Whether Appellant's offense of conviction, a violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(C) occurring before August 3, 2010, and involving cocaine base, is a "… |
| 20-6316 | Mickey Pubien v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-justice-reform criminal-resentencing discretion first-step-act penalty-reduction sentencing sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation | What the district court may appropriately consider when imposing a reduced sentence pursuant to § 404 of the First Step Act of 2018 remains an unsettl… |
| 19-8036 | Odis Lee Jackson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-03-18 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-justice-reform criminal-resentencing district-court-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction first-step-act judicial-review mandatory-minimum post-sentencing-conduct sentencing sentencing-modification sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation | I. What procedures does Section 404 of the First Step Act require a district court to follow when conducting its statutorily required "complete review… |
| 19-5743 | Michael Dewayne Hegwood v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 binding-precedent career-offender criminal-procedure criminal-resentencing federal-jurisdiction first-step-act jurisdiction sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | 1. Does the First Step Act authorize a court to "impose" a reduced sentence in accordance with such statutes as 18 U.S.C. §§ 3553(a) and 3582(a), or d… |
| 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… |