| 25-6808 |
William Loggins, Jr. v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2026-02-13 |
Pending |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process ex-post-facto plea-agreement pro-se-pleading sentencing-guidelines |
1. Whether a state court judge must adhere to the principle that a pro se pleading must be construed liberally?
2. Whether the trial judge misconstru… |
| 25-6791 |
David Sano-Perez, aka David Sanot Perez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2026-02-11 |
Pending |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules harmless-error rule-60b sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a District Court's mere pronouncement at a criminal sentencing that it would have imposed the same sentence on a defendant without regard to t… |
| 25-6756 |
Jacklin Cheramy v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2026-02-09 |
Pending |
IFP |
criminal-procedure federal-statute predicate-offense recidivist-enhancement sentencing-guidelines state-conviction |
Whether, consistent with federal statute mandating the application of the United States Sentencing Guidelines in effect at the time of sentencing, a s… |
| 25-6748 |
John Edwin Corn, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2026-02-06 |
Pending |
IFP |
18-USC-3553a criminal-sentencing mitigating-factors sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness upward-variance |
Following this Court's decision s in United States v. Booker , 543 U.S. 220 (2005), and Gall v. United States , 552 U.S. 38 (2007), whether a district… |
| 25-6705 |
Chad B. Wolf v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-02-03 |
Pending |
IFP |
criminal-enterprise managerial-role procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit substantive-reasonableness |
Question I - Was Wolf's Sentence Substantively and Procedurally Unreasonable as Rendered Given The District Court Used a Sentencing Guidelines Calcula… |
| 25-6674 |
Justin K. Eaton v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2026-01-29 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-split commission-authority congressional-review due-process sentencing-guidelines |
I. Can U.S.S.G. §1B1.13(b)(6) be held to be an "excess of authority" by the Commission when Congress has reviewed and ratified that guideline pursuant… |
| 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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| 25-6622 |
Alante Martel Nelson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2026-01-20 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-law federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. To determine a controlled substance offense under USSG § 4B1.2(b) using the categorical approach, do courts compare the elements of the prior convi… |
| 25-6583 |
John Hotaling v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2026-01-14 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
breach-of-contract criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement santobello-standard sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the government breaches a plea agreement, and violates due process under Santobello v. New York, 404 U.S. 257 (1971), when it enters into an a… |
| 25-6577 |
Charles Denard Milbry v. Florida |
Florida |
2026-01-14 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-defect ex-post-facto habeas-corpus judicial-discretion plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines |
Petitioner played a relatively minor role in his acceptance of plea. A trial judge was assigned to petitioner's case when it was filed in 1996 and pre… |
| 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… |
| 25-6561 |
Joshua Demien Magee v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2026-01-13 |
Pending |
IFP |
collateral-relief criminal-sentencing due-process ex-post-facto mississippi-supreme-court procedural-standards |
1) Whether the Mississippi Supreme Court may ignore the ex post facto clause by applying new decision rendered in Howell v. State, 358 So. 3d 613, 615… |
| 25-6563 |
Gary Craig Stephens v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-01-13 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP |
court-of-appeals plain-error-review procedural-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-range supervised-release |
1. Whether a court of appeals may affirm a sentence when the district court never calculated or identified the applicable Sentencing Guidelines range,… |
| 25-6569 |
Jamarcus G. Jackson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-01-13 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing drug-purity evidence-standard methamphetamine preponderance-of-evidence sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a district court can infer that unseized methamphetamine has similar purity to seized methamphetamine. If so, what specific evidence must supp… |
| 25-6541 |
Lonzie Nichols v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2026-01-12 |
Pending |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process ex-post-facto liberty-interest procedural-bars sentencing-guidelines |
1. whether a state 's application ano enforcement of its Procedural
Bars via its highest appellate Court in Certain Cases resultin
annihilation Ano … |
| 25-796 |
Princewill Arinze Duru v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-01-07 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
bank-fraud criminal-statute identity-theft means-of-identification sentencing-guidelines victim-definition |
Title 18, United State Code, Section 1028A imposes a mandatory two-year consecutive sentence on anyone who "knowingly transfers, possesses, or uses, w… |
| 25-6499 |
Nycole Amaury Rosario Sanchez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2026-01-07 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-consideration circuit-split criminal-procedure juvenile-sentencing sentencing-guidelines youth-mitigating-factor |
Whether youth (minor age) at the time of the commission of a criminal offense, with its intrinsic characteristics, is inherently a mitigating factor t… |
| 25-6487 |
Derrick S. Lewis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2026-01-06 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-rule criminal-procedure fifth-amendment jury-determination sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
1. Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments are violated when a sentencing judge, rather than a jury, finds facts that otherwise alter the minimum and/o… |
| 25-6464 |
Djonibek Rahmankulov v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-12-31 |
Pending |
IFP |
bank-fraud co-conspirator-liability constructive-amendment criminal-procedure loss-calculation sentencing-guidelines |
1. A writ of certiorari is requested to determine whether the district court's loss
calculation which included intended losses under §2B1.1 Applicatio… |
| 25-6439 |
Marquis Melton v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-12-29 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split district-court district-court-discretion harmless-error procedural-error sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a district court's statement, asserting it would have imposed the same sentence regardless of any potential procedural error, renders that err… |
| 25-6433 |
Avis Coward v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-12-29 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-review constitutional-challenge constitutional-review criminal-law criminal-procedure role-enhancement second-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether this Honorable Court should grant certiorari to review whether the Sixth Circuit's determination that 18 U.S.C §922(g) is constitutional on… |
| 25-6410 |
Hunter Michael Hall v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-12-19 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing firearms-display glock-switches instagram-advertisement sentencing-enhancement u.s.s.g.-guidelines |
Whether the court properly applied a sentencing enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(b)(6)(B) based on Petitioner's display of firearms in advertisement… |
| 25-6406 |
Lawrence Joseph Florentine v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-12-18 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review judicial-discretion legal-error sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation variance-sentence |
Does a district court's announcement that it would have imposed the same sentence as an "alternate variance sentence" insulate an erroneous legal ruli… |
| 25-6342 |
Sergio Zamora-Rios v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres apprendi-rule constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing precedent-review sixth-amendment |
The Sixth Amendment guarantees the right "to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation." U.S. Const. amend. VI. "[F]act[s] that increase[]… |
| 25-6308 |
Johnny Joe Figueroa-Mangual v. United States |
First Circuit |
2025-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights eighth-amendment fifth-amendment plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Whether it was a violation to the Fifth, Sixth and Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the sentencing factors enshrined in 18 U.S.C. 3553 (a) a… |
| 25A660 |
Alante Martel Nelson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-12-04 |
Application |
|
acca brown-v-united-states career-offender procedural-error sentencing-guidelines time-of-conviction |
Whether this Court's decision in Brown v. United States, 602 U.S. 101 (2024) extends to the federal Sentencing Guidelines. |
| 25-6288 |
Christopher John Derting v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing fifth-amendment habitual-offender-statute preponderance-of-evidence sixth-amendment |
The State of Florida employs recidivism statute 775.084 known as "Habitual Offender Statute ". The statute has several factual determinations that nee… |
| 25-6212 |
Nicolas Mondragon-Gonzalez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-24 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP |
causation-standard circuit-split death-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness |
In the case of petitioner Nicolas Mondragon Gonzalez, he received a forty year sentence under the death enhancement in USSG § 2L1.1(b)(7)(D) based sol… |
| 25-6183 |
Stephen C. Crawford v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
fifth-amendment perjury reasonable-doubt self-defense sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
1. Whether this Court should adopt and encourage, when requested by a party, a definition of reasonable doubt to include "a doubt that would cause a r… |
| 25-6151 |
Christopher Lewis Tucker v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure medication-administration pretrial-custody sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Is a twenty-five year term of supervised release with stringent special conditions including the forced administration of medication "greater than nec… |
| 25-6141 |
Mark Abercrombie v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines |
Whether errors in calculating the Sentencing Guidelines are rendered categorically harmless by the district court's routine and boilerplate assertion … |
| 25-6138 |
Michael Chance v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split federal-sentencing life-expectancy parsimony-principle sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Where 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) mandates that federal courts "shall impose a sentence sufficient, but not greater than necessary, to comply with [its] purpo… |
| 25A552 |
Gregory Johnson, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-12 |
Application |
|
appeal-waiver career-offender circuit-split criminal-procedure plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a criminal defendant can knowingly and voluntarily waive the right to appeal a district court's sentencing errors as part of a plea agreement,… |
| 25-6079 |
James Anthony Brian Morelock v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-11-10 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-rights felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment sentencing-guidelines |
1. Is the lifetime ban on firearms possession by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), unconstitutional on its face, because it is permanent … |
| 25-6068 |
Eliezer Rosario-Ramos v. United States |
First Circuit |
2025-11-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing first-offender judicial-discretion reasonableness-review sentencing-guidelines upward-variance |
A. Whether first offender Rosario's 23-year prison sentence, that resulted from a 104.4% upward variance, is unreasonable because it was grounded on t… |
| 25-551 |
United States v. Shaheem Johnson |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-11-06 |
Pending |
|
criminal-procedure district-court extraordinary-reasons sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court permissibly found "extraordinary and compelling reasons" to allow reduction of respondent's sentence under 18 U.S.C. 3582(c… |
| 25A521 |
Thelonious Wayne Kirby v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-11-05 |
Application |
|
criminal-appeal criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction sentencing-guidelines writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit correctly applied federal sentencing guidelines or constitutional standards in affirming Mr. Kirby's criminal conviction |
| 25-6038 |
Daniel Stewart v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-11-05 |
Pending |
IFP |
administrative-law auer-deference circuit-split judicial-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction |
In Stinson v. United States , 508 U.S. 36 (1993), this Court held that commentary by the United States Sentencing Commission interpreting or explainin… |
| 25-6028 |
Elizabeth Mora Leyva v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
co-conspirator criminal-law fifth-amendment firearm-enhancement sentencing-guidelines substantive-due-process |
Whether the District Court denied the Petitioner's constitutional right to substantive due process under the Fifth Amendment by adding an enhancement … |
| 25-6023 |
Worldly Dieago Holstick v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-11-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-claims ineffective-assistance miller-el-precedent plea-voluntariness sentencing-guidelines threshold-inquiry |
Whether the lower courts violated this Court's precedent in Miller-El v. Cockrell, 537 U.S. 322 (2003), by collapsing the certificate-of-appealability… |
| 25-5986 |
Tovis Ation Richardson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-10-29 |
Pending |
IFP |
appeal-waiver circuit-split drug-conspiracy firearm-enhancement miscarriage-of-justice sentencing-guidelines |
I. The Fourth Circuit and several other circuits apply the U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1(b)(1) enhancement if a firearm is found in any place where a defendant's c… |
| 25-5964 |
Oladayo Oladokun v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-10-27 |
Pending |
IFP |
agency-deference judicial-review notice-and-comment sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the Sentencing Guidelines ' commentary promulgated
without notice-and-comment rulemaking retains binding
authority after Loper Light Ente… |
| 25-5963 |
Cesar Edgardo Castillo-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing-guidelines |
Whether, after Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, 589 U.S. 169 (2020), a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails to reference… |
| 25-5953 |
Christopher Matthew Henderson v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2025-10-24 |
Pending |
IFP |
adverse-inference capital-murder criminal-sentencing fifth-amendment prosecutorial-conduct right-to-silence |
In the sentencing phase of a capital trial, where the defendant exercises his right to remain silent and to plead not guilty, does the Fifth Amendment… |
| 25-5946 |
Antonio Montrail Anderson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. When does a record show "that the district court thought the sentence it chose was appropriate irrespective of the guidelines" within the meaning o… |
| 25-5921 |
Frederick L. Brewer v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquittal criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy fifth-amendment judicial-discretion sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury has acquitted … |
| 25A456 |
Marquis Melton v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-10-21 |
Application |
|
appellate-review circuit-split firearm-possession guidelines-calculation harmless-error sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Eighth Circuit's harmless error analysis in sentencing guidelines calculations improperly prevents meaningful appellate review and conflic… |
| 25-5924 |
Lennard Rashard Monroe v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure participant-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission |
Whether a customer can be counted as a participant for purposes of U.S.S.G. §3B1.1(b)? |
| 25-5878 |
Detrayous D. Curry v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-10-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance criminal-conviction drug-offense federal-schedule sentencing-guidelines state-law |
Whether the definition of a "Controlled Substance Offense" for purposes of U.S.S.G. §4B1.2 includes a prior state law conviction for a cocaine offense… |
| 25-5866 |
Davon Anthony Beckford v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-10-10 |
Pending |
IFP |
miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines substantial-assistance third-circuit waiver-of-appeal |
1. DOES ENFORCEMENT OF APPELLANT'S WAIVER OF APPEAL AND THE GOVERNMENT'S SUMMARY AFFIRMANCE MOTION OF MR. BECKFORD'S SENTENCE CONSITUTE A MISCARRIAGE … |
| 25-5861 |
Julius Rucks v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing drug-offense fentanyl misrepresentation sentencing-guidelines u-s-sentencing-commission |
Whether, under the U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1 (b)(13), a defendant's offense can be enhanced by four levels, when there is no evidence that the defendant misrep… |
| 25-5853 |
Clarence Santiago v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-conduct federal-procedure sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
In assessing whether two defendants are similarly situated for purposes of § 3553(a)(6), are courts required to consider their actual offense conduct? |
| 25-5830 |
Kortney Moore v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
agency-inaction career-offender controlled-substances federal-law sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Defendants who have at least two prior "controlled substance offense" convictions qualify as career offenders under the federal Sentencing Guidelines.… |
| 25-5811 |
Ricky Joe Bland v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing drug-testing federal-circuit-split probation-officer sentencing-procedure supervised-release |
Did the district court below err in imposing as a special condition of supervised release a requirement that "[t]he defendant… participate in a progra… |
| 25-5788 |
Kalup Allen Born v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure downward-departure harmless-error sentencing-guidelines |
A defendant who "demonstrates acceptance of responsibility" for the offense "shall" be awarded a deduction in the offense level. When a defendant's en… |
| 25-5769 |
Robert Scott Kennedy v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-09-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal burglary-statute criminal-procedure predicate-offense sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether Mr. Kennedy was erroneously sentenced as an armed career criminal and received sentencing guidelines enhancements based on two prior Georgi… |
| 25-5762 |
Muhammad Masood v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-09-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law government-conduct intimidation-coercion sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation terrorism-enhancement |
Whether the application of the "terrorism enhancement" under USSG § 3A1.4 requires the government to prove that a defendant's actions were "calculated… |
| 25-5743 |
Rico Lorodge Brown v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-doctrine charging-error criminal-sentencing harmless-error judicial-factfinding structural-error |
I. Does the type of error that occurred in this case —sentencing a criminal defendant for an uncharged and untried offense —qualify as structural erro… |
| 25-5650 |
Deangelus Thomas v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure harmless-error sentencing-guidelines shepard-documents sixth-amendment |
(1) Does the ACCA occasions-different inquiry, requiring a detailed, multi-factored analysis of the facts surrounding at least three prior offenses—fa… |
| 25-5652 |
Federico Jose Maldonado-Aleman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court conspiracy drug-distribution jury-trial sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's decision that a defendant may be sentenced for drugs that he was not shown to have agreed to distribute violates the Court… |
| 25-5619 |
Michael Garrick Denson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure dangerous-weapon evidence-sufficiency jury-verdict sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines |
1. Whether there was sufficient evidence to sustain the jury verdicts.
2. Whether the court erred in applying a two-level sentencing enhancement for … |
| 25-279 |
Matthew Wood v. New Mexico |
New Mexico |
2025-09-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment felony-murder fourteenth-amendment proportionality |
Where a defendant is not convicted of the predicate offense, does a conviction for first-degree felony murder comport with due process under the Fourt… |
| 25-227 |
Raymond Poore v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-08-27 |
Pending |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) |
administrative-law agency-deference circuit-split judicial-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction |
In Stinson v. United States, 508 U.S. 36 (1993), this Court held that Seminole Rock deference, now generally known as Auer deference, applies to inter… |
| 25-5446 |
Javier Perez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bodily-injury criminal-procedure enhancement-standard judicial-discretion legal-interpretation sentencing-guidelines |
Should application of the four-level sentencing enhancement for "permanent or life-threatening bodily injury" under U.S.S.G. § 2A2.1(b)(1)(A) require … |
| 25-5427 |
Rufus E. Dennis v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-08-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
base-offense-level criminal-procedure district-court hobbs-act sentencing-guidelines upward-variance |
1. Did the Defendant "possess" a handgun for the purposes of the
sentencing court assessing a 5 point level increase to his base offense level,
pursua… |
| 25-5405 |
Lamont Coleman v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-08-19 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy fifth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-acquittal sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury has acquitted … |
| 25-5404 |
Darren Smith v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure mitigation-arguments official-victim-enhancement procedural-error sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a district court commits procedural error under 18 U.S.C. § 3553, Rita v. United States, 551 U.S. 338 (2007), and Gall v. United States, 552 U… |
| 25-5390 |
Brandon Desmond Medford v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion federal-procedure judicial-interpretation policy-disagreement sentencing-guidelines |
Whether district courts must ever consider arguments for a lesser sentence based on a policy disagreement with the Guidelines? |
| 25-5389 |
Steven Pitts v. New York |
New York |
2025-08-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing factual-findings jury-trial prior-incarceration sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial applies to factual findings regarding the length of a defendant's prior incarceration and the date o… |
| 25-5381 |
Shameika Johnson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amendment-821 criminal-law judicial-discretion retroactive-application sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the lower courts erred by refusing to grant Ms. Johnson a sentence reduction under retroactively applicable Amendment 821 – Part A to the Unit… |
| 25-5357 |
Jessie Dejuan Sullivan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-law facial-challenge second-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
First, whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) facially violates the Second Amendment?
Second, some sentencing judges assert that they would have selected the … |
| 25-5342 |
Raymond Arthur Verrill v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-standard |
Some sentencing judges routinely assert that they would have selected the exact same sentence regardless of any error in applying the Sentencing Guide… |
| 25-5297 |
Christopher Jerome Ellis v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender controlled-substance federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether the term "controlled substance" in the career offender guideline refers exclusively to substances listed in the federal Controlled Substances … |
| 25-5279 |
Evan McCarrick Jerald v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2025-08-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole sentencing-guidelines |
Under Graham v. Florida, the Eighth Amendment "prohibits the imposition of a life without parole sentence on a juvenile offender who did not commit ho… |
| 25A121 |
James Taric Byrd v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-07-29 |
Presumed Complete |
|
criminal-conviction criminal-sentencing district-court life-imprisonment notice-of-appeal third-circuit |
Whether the district court's imposition of a life sentence for the charged criminal offenses was legally appropriate given the circumstances of the ca… |
| 25-5226 |
Nashaun Drake v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance criminal-law federal-sentencing prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
When defining a controlled substance offense under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) do courts look to the substances that were controlled on the date of the prior … |
| 25-5213 |
Cimeon Dion Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility constitutional-principles criminal-procedure mental-illness post-plea-misconduct sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a district court may deny a reduction for acceptance of responsibility under USSG § 3E1.1 based solely on uncorroborated allegations of post p… |
| 25-5205 |
Jesus Garcia, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-statistics sentencing-commission sentencing-disparity statutory-interpretation |
Whether the detailed Judiciary Sentencing Information (JSIN) statistics compiled by the United States Sentencing Commission are relevant to considerin… |
| 25-5194 |
Edward J. Zakrzewski, II v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-07-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing death-penalty florida-law judicial-override jury-recommendation |
Given that it is illegal to sentence an individual to death as the result of a bare majority jury vote or judicial override of a life sentence anywher… |
| 25-76 |
Carolyn Jackson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-07-22 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process post-release-punishment sentence-recall |
Carolyn Jackson fully completed her sentence of 40 months' incarceration plus supervised release. More than four and a half years after being released… |
| 25-5152 |
Zachary Charles Fowler v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a advisory-range appellate-review criminal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines unwarranted-disparities |
Is a sentence that falls within the advisory guideline range categorically one that does not create unwarranted disparities among defendants with simi… |
| 25-5050 |
Carlos Caraballo v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review case-law findings-of-fact sentencing-guidelines special-offense-characteristic standard-of-review |
Whether the circuit court applied the appropriate standard of review regarding a challenge to the imposition of a Sentencing Guideline Special Offense… |
| 25-5029 |
Damon D. Williams v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion attempted-robbery criminal-procedure fifth-amendment sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
I.
When imposing maximum , consecutive sentenc es for two convictions for
attempted interference with commerce by robbery (18 U.S.C. § 1951) —aris… |
| 25-5008 |
Stephen T. Aguiar v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-review coram-nobis due-process factual-innocence medical-evidence sentencing-guidelines |
1. DESPITE THE RECORD SHOWING THAT PETITIONER IS FACTUALLY
INNOCENT OF DISTRIBUTING MORPHINE, DID THE SECOND CIRCUIT
ERR IN AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT C… |
| 25A2 |
Maurice Farris v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-07-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
28-usc-1254 criminal-sentencing federal-public-defender supreme-court-rules tenth-circuit writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Tenth Circuit's affirmance of Maurice Farris's sentence was legally sound and consistent with applicable federal criminal law standards |
| 24-7508 |
Curtis Dwayne Medrano v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (6)IFP |
appellate-review felony-conviction firearms-possession judicial-discretion second-amendment sentencing-guidelines |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment as applied to a defendant with prior felony convictions, and whether appellate courts … |
| 24-7505 |
Donald Evans v. Jasen Bohinski, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-06-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy ex-post-facto sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether consecutive sentences for two alternative pleadings of the same aggravated assault statute violate double jeopardy principles, and whether the… |
| 24-7503 |
Bradley J. Harris v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-circuit amendment-821 judicial-discretion procedural-error sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of a sentence reduction under Amendment 821 despite procedural errors and all… |
| 24-7486 |
Bruce Stroud v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-sentencing fact-finding fifth-amendment jury-trial restitution-order sixth-amendment |
Whether a restitution order imposed as part of a federal criminal sentence and based on fact-findings made by the district court, rather than the jury… |
| 24A1266 |
Kyle Syphax v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-06-23 |
Presumed Complete |
|
application-note circuit-split criminal-law rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the rule of lenity requires courts to resolve inherent textual ambiguity when multiple circuits have reached conflicting interpretations of a … |
| 24-7479 |
Johnnie Franklin Wills v. Michael Reger, Superintendent, Northern Correctional Facility |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing due-process recidivist-statute residual-clause supreme-court-precedent |
Whether a judicially crafted residual clause allowing life sentences under a state recidivist statute is unconstitutional in light of recent Supreme C… |
| 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… |
| 24-7471 |
Quintin T. Ferguson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-06-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arson-statute criminal-law interstate-commerce overbreadth-doctrine sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Did the Seventh Circuit err by concluding Mr. Ferguson's § 844(i) arson conviction was not overbroad? |
| 24-7434 |
Ivan Gutierrez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
codefendant criminal-sentencing equal-protection leadership-enhancement sentencing-guidelines ussg-section |
Did imposing a leadership enhancement on Petitioner, pursuant to USSG § 3B1.1(b) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines, but not on his codefendan… |
| 24-1265 |
Glenn E. Diaz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure cross-examination judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent witness-bias |
Whether a district court can completely bar defense counsel from cross-examining a key government witness on an issue probative of bias and motive, an… |
| 24-7409 |
Pablo Jacobo Felix-Samaniego v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-sentencing judicial-discretion presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines |
Should the court of appeals indulge a presumption of reasonableness for a sentence where the Sentencing Commission has subsequently amended the releva… |
| 24-7396 |
Arturo Garza, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure mandate-rule resentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the mandate rule precludes or permits a district court from recalculating a defendant's Sentencing Guidelines range at resentencing based on i… |
| 24-7357 |
Christopher Scott Jones v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit obstruction-enhancement plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in accepting a plea agreement where the defendant was not adequately informed of material provisions, and whether the… |
| 24-7346 |
Seaga Edward Gillard v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2025-06-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment criminal-sentencing death-penalty felony-murder jury-instructions supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Supreme Court of North Carolina violated Supreme Court precedent regarding jury instructions for death sentences in felony murder cases in… |
| 24-7335 |
Curtis Harris v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-05-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance-offense federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-conviction |
Is the Seventh Circuit on the wrong side of a circuit split when it construes the term 'controlled substance offense' under § 4B1.2(b) of the Sentenci… |
| 24-7323 |
Jody D. Owens v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance-offense criminal-law federal-controlled-substances-act sentencing-guidelines state-drug-offenses united-states-sentencing-commission |
Whether the definition of a 'controlled substance offense' in United States Sentencing Guideline U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) only covers offenses involving su… |
| 24-7265 |
Myron Dreun Cook v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law federal-guidelines judicial-deference precedent-review sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Does Stinson v. United States still accurately state the level of deference due to the Commentary of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines? |
| 24-7208 |
Cornell Slater v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-05-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-interpretation judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether the Court of Appeals improperly allowed district courts to nullify sentencing guidelines through inoculating statements that latent errors wou… |
| 24-7172 |
Erick Alfredo Peralta v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-05-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-murder criminal-sentencing eighth-amendment life-without-parole proportionality texas-penal-code |
Does the Eighth Amendment prohibit disproportionate sentences, specifically Life Without Parole for capital murder under Texas law when intent is remo… |
| 24-1153 |
Corey Schirod Smith v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-05-09 |
Denied |
|
criminal-sentencing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mitigating-evidence postconviction-relief strickland-standard |
Did the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals misapply Strickland, and its progeny, by failing to consider in its 'prejudice inquiry' the unrebutted, nonc… |
| 24-7167 |
Derek Rogers v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance-offense ineffective-assistance section-2255 sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a conviction under Colorado Revised Statute for a controlled substance offense can serve as a predicate for career offender designation under … |
| 24-7149 |
Samuel James Weaver v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split federal-courts judicial-interpretation sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
What standard of review should apply when a district court applies a federal sentencing guideline to undisputed facts? |
| 24-7123 |
Carlos Edward Thurman, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court equal-protection firearm-enhancement second-amendment sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the district court's application of the USSG § 2D1.1(b)(1) firearm enhancement was clearly erroneous and whether such enhancement violates equ… |
| 24-7058 |
Todd Cannady v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-04-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Whether the Ninth Circuit violated the Petitioner's Fifth Amendment Due Process rights by denying a Certificate of Appealability without conducting th… |
| 24-7062 |
Damone D. Oakley v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-04-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-USC-2326 criminal-procedure double-counting sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the statutory enhancement under 18 U.S.C. § 2326(2) and Guideline enhancements implemented by the Sentencing Commission constitute double coun… |
| 24-7045 |
Margaret Ann Sutton v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-conviction drug-trafficking due-process evidence-sufficiency firearm-possession sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the evidence is legally sufficient to sustain multiple drug and firearm-related convictions and whether the imposed sentence violates due proc… |
| 24-7052 |
Michael Lynn Ashford v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Whether the District Court can utilize acquitted conduct in determining advisory Guidelines sentencing without violating constitutional due process an… |
| 24-7041 |
Javier A. Rodriguez v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-04-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion reasonableness-review sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines variance |
May the district court determine the extent of the appropriate variance without first correctly calculating the initial Guidelines range, and may the … |
| 24-7014 |
Scott Anthony Williams v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-04-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule federal-courts remand sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a federal court of appeals may apply the exclusionary rule exception in the first instance on appeal and whether a federal court of appeals sh… |
| 24-6976 |
Domingo Agustin-Simon, aka Pedro Sanchez-Mendez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alien-smuggling arms-length-agreement downward-departure sentencing-guidelines sua-sponte u-s-c-3553 |
Whether U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Section 2A4.1(b)(1) applies to an arms-length alien smuggling agreement and whether a district court must sua spont… |
| 24-6898 |
Avery Jamal Edwards v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-03-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
controlled-substance criminal-law federal-law sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether an offense must have involved a substance that was controlled under federal law to be considered a 'controlled substance offense' as that term… |
| 24-6879 |
Zachary Michael Linan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-03-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fifth-amendment judicial-fact-finding sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Did the Fifth Circuit err in affirming the district court's application of sentencing guidelines in a manner that expands judicial fact-finding beyond… |
| 24-6830 |
Khalid Alboushari v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Second Circuit erred in affirming a 92-month sentence without properly considering mitigating factors and procedural unreasonableness |
| 24-6793 |
Steve Dismore v. Kentucky Parole Board, et al. |
Kentucky |
2025-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing ex-post-facto garner-v-jones kentucky-law parole-eligibility |
Does the fact that Kentucky treats parole as 'a matter of grace or gift' exempt parole hearing rules from ex post facto challenges under Garner v. Jon… |
| 24-6761 |
Eric Vaughn v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-sentencing drug-testing probation-officer special-conditions supervised-release |
Whether a district court can delegate to a probation officer the determination of drug testing frequency during supervised release |
| 24-6752 |
Adonis Batista v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial methamphetamine-quantity sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Were Petitioner's Fifth Amendment due process rights and Sixth Amendment rights to jury trial violated when the jury found him accountable for less th… |
| 24-6753 |
John Martin v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-activity joint-enterprise reasonably-foreseeable relevant-conduct second-circuit sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit incorrectly interpreted the Sentencing Guidelines' relevant conduct provisions for j… |
| 24-6737 |
Carlsel Alexander v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process firearms-ban second-amendment sentencing-guidelines |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by persons previously convicted of a crime punishable by more than a year of imprisonment, codified at 1… |
| 24-6729 |
Justin Lang Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility drug-offense felon-in-possession firearms-possession second-amendment sentencing-guidelines |
Whether section 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban for possessing a firearm violates the Second Amendment as applied to Petitioner? |
| 24-6695 |
Edward Deloach v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-USC-1521 appellate-review criminal-law document-fraud false-document sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a district court errs in applying a sentencing enhancement under U.S.S.G. §2A6.1(b)(2) when the defendant's submitted document was not a lien … |
| 24-939 |
Kendall Streb v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-03-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining reasonable-jurists sentencing-guidelines |
Is the 'reasonable jurists' test being administered faithfully and consistently across federal circuits, and do Lafler, Frye, and Padilla precedents r… |
| 24-6678 |
Omari Howard Patton v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure drug-quantity extrapolation leadership-enhancement sentencing-guidelines uncharged-participants |
Whether a leadership enhancement under U.S. Sentencing Guidelines 3B1.1(a) is permissible when drug quantity is extrapolated without chemist testimony… |
| 24-6667 |
Luke John Scott, Sr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure false-testimony federal-question obstructing-justice sentencing-guidelines trial-testimony |
Does a criminal defendant's trial testimony constitute a willful intent to provide materially false testimony as required for a two-level increase for… |
| 24-6655 |
Raul Hiram Mata-Gardea v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres appellate-jurisdiction downward-departure indictment-requirement pre-removal-felony sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Fifth Circuit had appellate jurisdiction to review the district court's denial of a motion for downward departure under the Sentencing Gui… |
| 24-6657 |
Leopoldo Villareal v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-sentencing harmless-error judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing-guidelines |
Whether an appellate court should rely on a sentencing judge's routine assertions that they would have imposed the same sentence despite a Sentencing … |
| 24-6630 |
Amado De La Mora Cardenas v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-waiver criminal-defendant district-court legal-error plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a criminal defendant may prospectively waive the right to appeal the District Court's legal errors in applying the Use of a Minor Specific Off… |
| 24-6618 |
Dilesh Sharma v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
computer-offense due-process fifth-amendment image-enhancement sentencing-guidelines technological-changes |
Has 30 years of technological changes caused the offense enhancements for use of a computer under Sections 2G1.3(b)(3) and 2G2.2(b)(6) of the United S… |
| 24-6582 |
Dajuan Martin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-ban firearm-possession second-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face because it is per… |
| 24-6562 |
Derek Jones v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split due-process factual-basis guilty-plea sentencing-guidelines |
Whether an unconditional guilty plea admits surplus factual allegations not essential to proving an offense element, and what standard of appellate re… |
| 24A764 |
Rocco Americo Malanga v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-02-06 |
Presumed Complete |
|
agency-rules constitutional-issue due-process loss-calculation pro-se sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Sentencing Guidelines' agency-created rules for loss calculation violate due process when applied without judicial deference |
| 24-6482 |
In Re Petera Micale Carlton |
|
2025-02-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
career-offender criminal-law fourth-circuit sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether Petitioner remains a career offender under the Fourth Circuit's decision in United States v. Simmons |
| 24-6462 |
Ricky D. Ullman, Jr. v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2025-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-error statutory-interpretation |
Whether a trial judge operating under an erroneous belief about the nature of a defendant's crime violates the defendant's federal due process rights |
| 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… |
| 24-6431 |
Norman Seneka Bowers v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
direct-appeal judicial-discretion jurisdictional-delay retroactive-application sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
Whether Amendment 821 to the United States Sentencing Guidelines should be applied retroactively on direct appeal and whether a district court may rea… |
| 24-6402 |
Colby McCoggle v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-01-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-sentencing due-process hearing-rights judicial-procedure mandatory-sentence notice-requirement |
Is a criminal defendant denied due process when a court imposes a new mandatory sentence without affording notice or a hearing? |
| 24-6410 |
Antoine Wiggins v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-01-28 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7)IFP |
circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-procedure federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law |
Whether the term 'controlled substance' in the Sentencing Guidelines refers only to substances controlled under federal law or also includes substance… |
| 24-6366 |
Steven Douglas Freno, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
3553a-analysis appellate-review booker-standard gall-factors judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines |
Whether appellate courts can dispense with analyzing guideline issues when a district court would have reached the same result by varying under Booker… |
| 24-6334 |
John Fredenburgh v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law judicial-deference judicial-independence sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Does judicial deference to the Sentencing Commission's Commentary to the United States Sentencing Guidelines violate the principles of judicial indepe… |
| 24-6309 |
Timothy DeFoggi v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment direct-harm extraordinary-circumstances sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines u.s.c.-3582 |
Whether the lower court erred in denying a finding of 'extraordinary and compelling' under U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 1B1.13(b)(6) and in assessing d… |
| 24-6292 |
Shannon L. Cotton v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing fair-sentencing-act felony-classification first-step-act statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether the plain language of 18 U.S.C. § 3583(e)(3) requires a district court to determine the current classification of a defendant's felony by look… |
| 24-6298 |
Reyes Espinoza v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
criminal-activity criminal-leadership participant-threshold sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines upward-adjustment |
Whether a defendant who is part of a criminal activity can be counted towards the five-participant threshold for a leadership role enhancement under U… |
| 24-6271 |
Javier Francisco Perez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach criminal-procedure felony-offense probation-revocation sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
Does the policy statement's text require the categorical approach? |
| 24-6233 |
Dearick Smith v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-01-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
auer-deference circuit-split judicial-review kisor-standard sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Supreme Court's holding in Kisor v. Wilkie applies to the United States Sentencing Guidelines and whether a sentencing court errs in defer… |
| 24-6190 |
Jacobie Travinski Johnson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-interference criminal-law judicial-procedure perjury sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Does the three-level adjustment in U.S.S.G. §2J1.3(b)(2) require more than the initial perjury to constitute a 'substantial interference with the admi… |
| 24-6193 |
Ronald Robinson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing eighth-circuit rita-presumption section-3553a sentencing-guidelines substantive-unreasonableness |
Does a presumption of reasonableness of Guidelines sentences under Rita preclude a finding of substantive unreasonableness in a maximum guideline sent… |
| 24-6161 |
Leonard Hatten, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
co-defendant-comparison criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion reasonableness-review sentencing-disparity |
Was the sentence of the Defendant unreasonable due to unwarranted sentencing disparities among co-defendants? |
| 24A602 |
Zackery Terrell v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-12-18 |
Presumed Complete |
|
criminal-procedure eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance plea-bargain right-to-counsel sentencing-guidelines |
Whether ineffective assistance of counsel occurs when a criminal defense attorney provides misinformation about plea bargains, fails to appeal the suf… |
| 24-6156 |
Cenious Brewster v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-appeal judicial-discretion ninth-circuit presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in creating a 'presumption of reasonableness' for Judiciary Sentencing Information (JSIN) data from the United States … |
| 24-6104 |
Maurice Kerrick, Jr. v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2024-12-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process maximum-term sixth-amendment supervised-release |
Whether a defendant's due process rights are violated when he is never informed that he may be sentenced to an additional term of imprisonment for vio… |
| 24-6112 |
Dekeilon Marquel Johnson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-12-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender circuit-split federal-sentencing predicate-offense rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a career offender sentence should be determined based on predicate crimes at the time of sentencing or time of conviction given the current Ci… |
| 24-6072 |
John Rogers v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure defendant-conduct Does U.S.S.G. §3E1.1 apply when a defendant has vo plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction voluntary-termination |
Whether the two clauses in 18 U.S.C. §924(c) creates two separate crimes or a single crime and whether the conflation of the elements of the two disti… |
| 24-604 |
Xiaoqing Zheng v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-12-03 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law agency-deference judicial-interpretation kisor-standard sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction |
Whether the limits on agency deference articulated in Kisor limit the deference owed to the United States Sentencing Commission's commentary on intend… |
| 24-6052 |
Terius Thomas, aka Terius Brown, aka Terry Brown v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-12-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-conflict judicial-review plain-error prejudice-standard sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit has created a new exception to Molina-Martinez's plain error prejudice standard which conflicts with the general rule tha… |
| 24-581 |
Utah v. Douglas A. Lovell |
Utah |
2024-11-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
aggravating-factors criminal-sentencing death-penalty ineffective-assistance-counsel mitigation-evidence strickland-standard |
Did the Utah Supreme Court violate binding case law by improperly assessing Strickland deficient performance and prejudice in a death penalty case inv… |
| 24-6034 |
David Lee Hering v. Iowa District Court, Muscatine County |
Iowa |
2024-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legislative-mandate |
Does the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments' due process of law guarantee apply to criminal sentencing when a district court refuses to impose a legislat… |
| 24-6035 |
Jamel Muldrew v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
agency-rules circuit-split constitutional-amendments judicial-factfinding sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Supreme Court's Kisor v. Wilkie holding supports treating Sentencing Guidelines as agency rules requiring traditional statutory interpreta… |
| 24-6020 |
Justin Rivera v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-conviction federal-statute sentencing-guidelines sex-trafficking |
Whether the Second Circuit erred in affirming a sex trafficking conviction based on a sentencing guidelines interpretation that conflicts with the Nin… |
| 24-5996 |
Todd Norman v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance criminal-offense federal-law sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether an offense must have involved a substance that was controlled under federal law to be considered a 'controlled substance offense' under § 4B1.… |
| 24-5980 |
Vernell Moore v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
district-court-discretion eighth-amendment methamphetamine-enhancement proportionality-of-punishment sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the District Court and Sixth Circuit erred in applying the 10:1 methamphetamine enhancement under U.S.S.G. §2D1.1 given potential constitution… |
| 24A486 |
Jeremy Young Hutchinson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-11-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
ineffective-assistance plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct rule-11 sentencing-guidelines sentencing-recommendation |
Whether Rule 11(c)(1)(B) requires the government to either recommend or not oppose a defendant's sentencing recommendation, or permits the government … |
| 24-5957 |
Jeramy Davis v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-sentencing federal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Do district courts have subject matter jurisdiction to impose a criminal sentence in the absence of a showing that the defendant committed an offense … |
| 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… |
| 24-5943 |
Travyrus Jerard Stradford v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) violates the Fifth and Sixth Amendments |
| 24-5944 |
Nathan Reyes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) violates the Fifth and Sixth Amendments |
| 24-5919 |
Kent Booher v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing district-court judicial-discretion restitution sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the district court improperly calculated restitution in a criminal case |
| 24-5883 |
Charles Victor Flint v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-10-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-pornography circuit-split criminal-sentencing federal-offense recidivism-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether a state sexual offense that criminalizes conduct more broadly than federal offenses triggers a mandatory minimum sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 22… |
| 24-5869 |
Shawn Eric Durrah, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure dangerous-weapon-enhancement drug-distribution firearm-possession sentencing-guidelines |
Whether mere presence of a firearm and nexus to narcotic activity is sufficient to apply the dangerous weapon enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1(b)(1)… |
| 24-5836 |
Steven Hadley Hassan v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
congressional-authority due-process fifth-amendment sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
Does the U.S. Constitution authorize Congress to transfer lawmaking authority to the U.S. Sentencing Commission? |
| 24-5820 |
Tevon Ngomba v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure first-circuit obstruction-of-justice sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming a two-level sentencing enhancement for obstruction of justice and denying acceptance of responsibility… |
| 24-458 |
Laurie Weinlein v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-10-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
criminal-sentencing ex-post-facto legislative-extension restitution retroactive-application victim-compensation |
Whether the retroactive enlargement of a restitution liability period violates the Ex Post Facto Clause |
| 24A384 |
Ryan A. Fleming, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-10-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
criminal-appeal double-counting eighth-circuit firearm-possession high-speed-chase sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Eighth Circuit improperly applied the Sentencing Guidelines by double-counting a high-speed chase for both a firearm enhancement and a rec… |
| 24-5762 |
Angel Ayala-Vazquez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review concepcion-precedent first-step-act sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the First Circuit improperly refused to grant a sentence reduction under the First Step Act and failed to apply Concepcion v. United States pr… |
| 24-5748 |
LaVanzel Kerr v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affirmative-defense constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure firearms-statute sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
May a district court apply a U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(b)(6) enhancement without resolving a defendant's affirmative defense claim, and is 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) u… |
| 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,… |
| 24-395 |
William Edward Neilly v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2024-10-09 |
GVR |
Response RequestedRelisted (8) |
constitutional-law criminal-sentencing ex-post-facto legal-interpretation punishment restitution |
Whether restitution ordered as part of a criminal sentence constitutes punishment under the Ex Post Facto Clause |
| 24-5730 |
In Re Carlos Martinez |
|
2024-10-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review three-strikes-law |
Whether the California Three Strikes Law's sentencing provisions violate due process when applied to a defendant with prior convictions that may be co… |
| 24-376 |
Brennaris Marquis Johnson v. Washington |
Washington |
2024-10-02 |
Denied |
|
fourteenth-amendment jury-finding reasonable-doubt sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment upward-departure |
Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments require a jury to find beyond a reasonable doubt that aggravating facts amount to 'substantial and compell… |
| 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 |
| 24-5679 |
Christopher Michael Sevier v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure fifth-amendment sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 24-344 |
James T. Foster v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-09-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review criminal-sentencing eleventh-circuit federal-procedure obstruction-of-justice sentencing-guidelines |
Whether certiorari review should be granted where the Eleventh Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of Foster's objection to the enh… |
| 24-5621 |
Christopher Dallas Nelson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review clear-error-standard federal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether varied definitions of the clear error standard of review for Federal Sentencing Guidelines are permissible |
| 24-5624 |
Omar Jorge Valle Estrada v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-procedure federal-appeals fifth-circuit judicial-review sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 24-5599 |
David Martins v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-knowledge drug-prosecution federal-sentencing mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the government must prove a defendant's knowledge of drug type and quantity in a 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) prosecution when the drug type and quan… |
| 24-5580 |
Octavius Artis v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender criminal-procedure factual-basis plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines voluntary-plea |
Whether the district court erred in sentencing Artis as a career offender and whether the plea was voluntary and supported by a factual basis |
| 24-5565 |
In Re Francisco Nunez Carrillo |
|
2024-09-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy punishment-limits single-act-doctrine statutory-construction |
Whether a person convicted of a single act can be subjected to multiple punishments under congressional statutes and if such punishment violates const… |
| 24-5550 |
Jarrod Eugene Davis v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-U.S.C.-3553(a) criminal-sentencing juvenile-convictions sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation upward-departure |
Whether a sentencing court's upward departure based on juvenile convictions results in a sentence greater than necessary to achieve statutory sentenci… |
| 24-5533 |
Clint Monroe Utter v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abduction base-offense-level carjacking firearm-enhancement robbery sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the district court erred in denying Utter's objections to sentencing enhancements for brandishing a firearm, abducting a bank employee, and ca… |
| 24-5523 |
Calvin Carnell Edwards, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-deference constitutional-interpretation government-branches judicial-review sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Kisor three-part test applies to agencies beyond the Executive Branch, including the United States Sentencing Commission |
| 24-5481 |
Cody Mercure v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure eighth-amendment federal-sentencing judicial-review proportionality sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a 300-month sentence for a federal offense violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on grossly disproportionate sentences due to potential … |
| 24-5460 |
Troy L. Fields v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2024-09-05 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-sentencing fifth-amendment habitual-criminal prior-convictions sixth-amendment |
Whether Petitioner's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights were violated when he was subjected to an increased maximum sentence based on the trial court's … |
| 24A237 |
Andre Michael Dubois v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-09-04 |
Presumed Complete |
|
amendment-821 criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit federal-sentencing retroactive-relief sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the retroactive application of United States Sentencing Guidelines Amendment 821 requires resentencing or relief for federal criminal defendan… |
| 24-5429 |
Kemnorris Kinsey v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-interpretation judicial-deference sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction |
Whether the administrative law principles set forth in Kisor v. Wilkie limit the deference owed to the United States Sentencing Commission's commentar… |
| 24-5433 |
David Vargas v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-08-30 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split district-court judicial-discretion legal-interpretation procedural-error sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a district court's failure to follow the plain language of the Sentencing Guidelines constitutes an incorrect application of the Sentencing Gu… |
| 24-211 |
Al Dorsey v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-08-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
accessory-offense crime-of-violence criminal-career-act physical-force sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit-interpretation |
Whether an accessory offense qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under the United States Sentencing Guidelines when it lacks explicit physical force el… |
| 24-5405 |
Michael Edwin Harding v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining prejudice-standard sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the district court applied the incorrect prejudice standard in denying relief for ineffective assistance of counsel based on erroneous advice … |
| 24-5375 |
Michael Antrantrino Lee v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law due-process retroactive-application sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-interpretation |
Does retroactive application of sentencing guidelines violate due process as construed by the Supreme Court? |
| 24A196 |
Michael Scott Hoover v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review criminal-sentencing fourth-circuit ineffective-counsel procedural-due-process writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals improperly applied legal standards in reviewing the defendant's criminal sentence by refusing to address k… |
| 24A183 |
Paul Curtis Pemberton v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-08-19 |
Presumed Complete |
|
criminal-appeal federal-public-defender pro-se-pleadings sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines tenth-circuit |
Whether the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals correctly applied the United States Sentencing Guidelines in affirming the criminal defendant's sentence |
| 24-5306 |
William Newkirk v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-08-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process life-sentence robbery-firearm sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the natural life sentences imposed on robbery firearm counts were illegal due to lack of presentence investigation, sentencing hearing, and al… |
| 24-5313 |
Tony Carr, aka Tony Carnell, aka Tony Coronel Carr, aka T-Bone v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-general-memorandum crack-cocaine criminal-procedure fifth-amendment plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a defendant sentenced under pre-Garland memorandum crack cocaine sentencing guidelines is entitled to a remand for resentencing |
| 24-5264 |
Delgen Foye v. Scott S. Harris, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-law federal-procedure fourth-circuit judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals improperly affirmed a district court judgment in a case involving federal sentencing guidelines and judici… |
| 24-5224 |
Michael Paul Gianfrancesco v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review court-proceedings criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing jurisdiction sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
Sentencing-reasonableness |
| 24-5192 |
Matthew Nicholson v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2024-07-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
arbitrariness constitutional-proportionality county-geography criminal-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment equal-protection geographic-disparity gregg-v-georgia sentencing-disparities |
Is Ohio's death penalty being arbitrarily applied in violation of Gregg v. Georgia, when geography dictates whether a defendant will be subject to the… |
| 24A100 |
Brennaris Marquis Johnson v. Washington |
Washington |
2024-07-29 |
Presumed Complete |
|
aggravating-factors criminal-sentencing judicial-discretion jury-trial sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Whether a judge's finding of 'substantial and compelling reasons' to impose a sentence above the statutory presumptive range violates a defendant's Si… |
| 24-5144 |
Richard Villareal v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2d1.1(b)(1) criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process fifth-circuit firearm-enhancement sentencing-guidelines tools-of-the-trade-presumption |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's practice of applying a tools-of-the-trade presumption to the firearm enhancement of sentencing guidelines §2D1.1(b)(1) vio… |
| 24A85 |
David Vargas v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-07-23 |
Presumed Complete |
|
circuit-split criminal-law enhancement physical-restraint sentencing-guidelines tenth-circuit |
Whether the phrase 'physical restraint' in the United States Sentencing Guidelines requires actual physical confinement or can include psychological c… |
| 24-5116 |
Mohamad Jamal Khweis v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-history-category due-process federal-crime-of-terrorism offense-level sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-enhancement sentencing-paradigm terrorism-enhancement |
Whether the Terrorism Enhancement under U.S.S.G. §3A1.4 was properly applied when the evidence failed to prove the defendant's conduct met the statuto… |
| 24-5117 |
Terrance Nathaniel Brown, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
21-usc-841 acquitted-conduct due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-sentencing |
Whether counsel was ineffective for failing to argue that the statutory sentence be based on marijuana under 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(D) and that the sen… |
| 24-5105 |
Heclouis Nieves-Diaz v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
agreement circuit-split conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law overt-act sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the United States Sentencing Guidelines' definition of a 'controlled substance offense' is limited to only those state and federal crimes that… |
| 24-5095 |
Moises Gamboa v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-07-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution |
Did the lower courts improperly interpret United States Sentencing Guideline § 4C1.1 that violated the Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause of the Eigh… |
| 24-5060 |
Bert Hudson v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole |
Pennsylvania |
2024-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment eighth-amendment furman-v-georgia mandatory-minimum parole parole-review second-degree-murder sentencing-guidelines sentencing-statutes |
Whether Pennsylvania's sentencing statutes for second-degree murder, which provide for a mandatory maximum sentence of life imprisonment with a requir… |
| 24-5071 |
Dennis German v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance eighth-amendment fifth-amendment relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the government violated the petitioner's 8th Amendment and 5th Amendment constitutional rights by using separate incidents as relevant conduct… |
| 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… |
| 24-5048 |
Bernard Celestine v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-right criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process first-step-act resentencing sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether Congress incorporated a Constitutional right under the Due Process Clause to a plenary resentencing for an eligible Defendant under Section 40… |
| 24-5031 |
Keith White v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-u.s.c.-§-846 career-offender controlled-substance controlled-substance-offenses criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-criminal-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-§-4b1.2 |
Whether an offense under 21 U.S.C. § 846 may be included in the U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 definition of 'controlled substance offenses' for purposes of sentenc… |
| 24A19 |
Maxsony Coissy v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-07-09 |
Presumed Complete |
|
career-offender circuit-conflict controlled-substance-offense crime-of-violence federal-law sentencing-guidelines |
Whether Florida's aggravated assault statute and heroin possession statute qualify as predicate offenses for career offender enhancement under the Uni… |
| 23-7847 |
Matthew Gatrel v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
computer-crime criminal-procedure improper-venue insufficient-evidence jury-instruction jury-instruction-error protected-computers sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-error sophisticated-means-enhancement venue-challenge |
Whether petitioner Matthew Gatrel's convictions should be reversed due to insufficient evidence |
| 23-7817 |
Fernando Angel Puga v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-authority delegation-of-authority due-process judicial-authority judicial-delegation probation-officer sentencing-guidelines standard-conditions supervised-release |
Does Standard Condition 12 unconstitutionally delegate judicial authority to the probation officer? |
| 23-7823 |
Jyoti Agrawal v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-loss base-offense-level criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing fraud fraud-loss-calculation government-grant intended-loss loss-calculation sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the entire amount of a government grant should be used to calculate the amount of loss under U.S.S.G. § 2B1.1, even where there was a benefit … |
| 23-7812 |
Akohomen Ighedoise v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-06-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) abuse-of-discretion due-process judicial-discretion mitigating-factors plea-agreement post-sentencing-rehabilitation prosecutorial-conduct sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-departure substantive-rights |
Whether a Judge Abuses his/her discretion when there is a determination that post-sentencing rehabilitative efforts are evidence of an attempt to dece… |
| 23-7796 |
Stewart Bitman v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2422(b) actual-innocence criminal-statute enticement ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel minor minor-protection plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the petitioner is actually innocent of the counts of conviction |
| 23-7804 |
Juan Jesus Vargas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-procedure judicial-discretion open-court-statement reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-requirements statutory-interpretation |
Must district courts comply with the requirements of 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c) to state, in open court, the reasons for the sentence imposed? |
| 23-7783 |
Joseph James Conkling v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2024-06-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
apprendi-precedent apprendi-rule blakely-rule blakely-v-washington criminal-sentencing fact-finding jury-determination jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment unpled-facts |
Does this Court's decision in Blakely v. Washington establish an 'unpled but admitted facts' exception to the rule set forth in Apprendi v. New Jersey… |
| 23A1138 |
Mark Jordan v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-06-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
criminal-statute divisibility force-clause mens-rea section-924(c) sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a general intent crime under 18 U.S.C. 2113(a) satisfies the force clause definition of a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(A) |
| 23-7768 |
Leonard Williamson, Jr. v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-06-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit the district court from considering conduct of which Mr. Williamson was acquitted by the jury when cal… |
| 23-7746 |
Robert Brumfield, III v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct brady-prejudice criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-acquittal prosecution-evidence sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Whether courts evaluating Brady prejudice are permitted to ignore a jury's acquittal when evaluating the strength of the prosecution's evidence |
| 23-7705 |
Eric D. Johnson v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2024-06-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection judicial-relief retroactivity safety-valve sentencing-calculation statutory-interpretation |
Whether Sohnson's sentence was improperly calculated and should be reduced under the 'safety valve' (18 U.S.C. 3553(f)) sentencing law in effect at th… |
| 23-7707 |
Martin Ochoa-Perez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey common-law-history criminal-sentencing notice-clause prior-conviction-exception recidivism sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-notice-clause |
Whether the prior-conviction exception from Almendarez-Torres can be squared with the text of the Sixth Amendment's Notice Clause and the historical p… |
| 23-7676 |
Romone Raphael Jackson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender career-offender-enhancement circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances-act drug-distribution federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law |
Whether a state conviction for distributing a drug that includes substances not regulated under the federal Controlled Substances Act qualifies as a '… |
| 23-7587 |
Jondell Middlebrooks v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-05-31 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
career-offender crime-of-violence guidelines-manual inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses physical-force sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a crime that requires proof of bodily injury or death, but can be committed by omission, has as an element the use, attempted use, or threaten… |
| 23-7608 |
Carney Turner v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-05-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion life-sentence sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether, in federal criminal cases where the district court has imposed a discretionary life sentence, the courts of appeal should employ a de novo st… |
| 23-7595 |
Daniel Levi v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-waiver criminal-appeal due-process liberty-interest ninth-circuit plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines voluntary-consent |
Is an appellate waiver knowing and voluntary when the waiver's scope includes a sentence contrary to law and unauthorized by the United States Sentenc… |
| 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… |
| 23-7583 |
Shawn Hill v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure mental-health plea-bargaining remorse sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness supervised-release |
Was petitioner improperly denied credit for acceptance of responsibility? |
| 23-7564 |
Ricky T. Jackson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confidential-informant criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-hearsay due-process evidentiary-sufficiency sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment sixth-circuit |
Whether the Sixth Circuit's determination that uncorroborated and unreliable double hearsay statements of an unreliable confidential informant was suf… |
| 23-7566 |
Brendon Tyre Garner v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury has acquitted … |
| 23-7532 |
In Re Keith Hager |
|
2024-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
charging-instrument criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-authority mandamus mens-rea sentencing statutory-interpretation writ-of-mandamus |
Whether this court must issue a writ of mandamus where a federal court lacked authority to sentence petitioner upon an offense for which Congress did … |
| 23A1040 |
Al Dorsey v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-05-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
circuit-split crime-of-violence elements-clause facilitation-offense mens-rea sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a Tennessee facilitation offense qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under the federal sentencing guidelines' elements clause when the facilita… |
| 23-7522 |
Gonzalo Rodriguez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-05-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law circuit-split deference judicial-deference kisor-doctrine kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission |
Whether the administrative law principles articulated in Kisor v. Wilkie limit the deference owed to the United States Sentencing Commission's comment… |
| 23-7512 |
Dallas M. Acoff v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fifth-amendment guidelines harmless-error judicial-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the district court committed error and imposed a procedurally unreasonable sentence |
| 23-7513 |
Russell Foreman v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-interpretation circuit-split deference judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction united-states-sentencing-commission |
Whether the administrative law principles articulated in Kisor v. Wilkie limit the deference owed to the United States Sentencing Commission's comment… |
| 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 |
| 23-7508 |
Matias Zarate v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process guidelines reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines seventh-circuit supervised-release |
Whether a sentence within the guidelines range is unreasonable when the defendant has already served more time on supervised release than originally s… |
| 23-7471 |
Shauntavus Berklin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-appeal criminal-procedure district-court due-process eleventh-circuit evidence federal-sentencing-guidelines gun-accountability sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines |
Whether certiorari review should be granted where the Eleventh Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of Berklin's objection to the nu… |
| 23-7449 |
Jacob VanDyke v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law Auer-v-Robbins Chevron chevron-deference child-pornography commentary deference guideline-commentary judicial-review sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the 1 to 75 ratio for videos found in the commentary to U.S.S.G. § 2G2.2 is entitled to deference under Chevron, Federal-Express-Corporation-v… |
| 23-7453 |
William Garrido v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-05-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
10-20-life-statute criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-authority statutory-interpretation trial-court-authority |
What authority does the trial court have to sentence beyond the selected mandatory minimum of 25 years under § 775.087 (2), (the 10-20-life Statute)? |
| 23-7431 |
Avery Lans v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 abuse-of-discretion circuit-court-review criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing gall-v-united-states procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
Did the Eleventh Circuit abused its discretion by the affirmance of Petitioner's 240-month federal sentence |
| 23-7411 |
Larry Elwood Steptoe v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempt career-criminal controlled-substances criminal-attempt criminal-law federal-statute predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines u.s-sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841 of the U.S. Criminal Code which incorporates 'Attempt' crimes qualifies as a predicate offense for the Career C… |
| 23-7388 |
Michael Andrew Taylor v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-law federal-act federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the definition of 'controlled substance offense' in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines §4B1.2(b) is limited to substances defined and regulated… |
| 23-7355 |
Demario Barker v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-sentencing-guidelines guideline-calculation hearsay hearsay-statements reliability-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether presumptively unreliable hearsay statements should be permitted in sentencing hearings to substantially increase a Defendant's guideline calcu… |
| 23-7338 |
Damon Sean Bellis v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-04-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation circuit-split judicial-deference regulatory-ambiguity sentencing-guidelines stare-decisis statutory-interpretation |
Did Kisor abrogate Stinson's holding? |
| 23-7324 |
Danilo Velasquez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing deportation gang jury-trial-rights plea-bargaining rico rico-case section-2255 sentencing-disparity |
Whether the petitioner's continued life sentence represents an unwarranted sentencing disparity under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(6) |
| 23-7327 |
Zachariah Jay Histed v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-sentencing judicial-discretion plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a defendant who pleads guilty, admits the substantive elements of the criminal charge, and spares the government the time and expense of a tri… |
| 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 |
Whether the District Court abused its discretion or erred in denying Mr. Vasquez's request for a sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. 3582(c)(1)(A) and … |
| 23-7304 |
Michael Anthony Granado v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-04-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process firearms firearms-possession music-videos relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit uncharged-offenses |
Whether district courts are misapplying the 'relevant-conduct' section of the United States Sentencing Guidelines |
| 23-7297 |
Marcus Bennett v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-04-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review control controlled-substances criminal-procedure drug-house drug-house-enhancement federal-appellate-courts possessory-interest sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit |
Whether the drug-house sentencing enhancement applies with no evidence that the defendant maintained, held a possessory interest in, or otherwise cont… |
| 23-7292 |
Morris Fuller v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-04-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-sentencing drug-offense due-process equal-protection federal-district-court judicial-discretion maximum-penalty post-conviction-relief sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the district court erred in sentencing the petitioner to an above-guideline sentence based on factors that were already accounted for in the g… |
| 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… |
| 23-7256 |
John Pedelahore v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process eighth-amendment federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness supervised-release |
Whether the district court erred by ordering Mr. Pedelahore to serve 30 months in prison for nonviolent supervised release violations when the recomme… |
| 23-7221 |
Luke John Scott, Sr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
federal-law federal-perjury obstruction-of-justice perjury-rule sentencing-guidelines two-level-enhancement uncorroborated-testimony united-states |
Does the longstanding rule for federal perjury cases that a finding of perjury cannot rest on the uncorroborated testimony of one witness apply to the… |
| 23-7205 |
Luke Joselin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-deference circuit-split fraud fraud-loss intended-loss kisor-v-wilkie loss-calculation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Commentary to the Fraud Loss Table U.S.S.G. §2B1.1(b), Note 3(A) Defining Loss as Including 'Intended Loss,' Should Be Given Deference Aft… |
| 23-7190 |
Trivansky Swington v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-04-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-conviction criminal-sentencing decontrolled-substances eighth-circuit federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-enhancement |
Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem… |
| 23-7173 |
John Lee Barlow v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach criminal-law felony-classification georgia-law mens-rea recklessness sentencing sentencing-guidelines supreme-court |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in categorically ruling that Mr. Barlow's two 2013 counts of conviction for Georgia aggravated assault constituted … |
| 23-7184 |
Daniel Paul Sansone v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confinement confinement-period criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing detention-calculation juvenile-commitment legal-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.-sentencing-guidelines |
Whether an indeterminate juvenile commitment is properly counted as a period of confinement of at least sixty days under the U.S. Sentencing Guideline… |
| 23-7132 |
Thomas G. O'Lear v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-04-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
healthcare-fraud insurance-company medicaid medicare offense-level-enhancement sentencing-guidelines victim-definition vulnerable-victim |
Whether patients whose information was used in a healthcare fraud case, but who were not otherwise harmed, count as 'victims' for purposes of the vuln… |
| 23-7133 |
Garry Hines v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-04-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility appellate-review criminal-appeal criminal-sentencing due-process fourth-circuit sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred when determining that Petitioner's Sentence which exceeded the statutory maximum was proper and reasonable |
| 23-1078 |
Gregory Jamal Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
direct-appeal fifth-circuit gun-enhancement importation-guideline leadership-role methamphetamine-distinction sentencing-guidelines united-states-district-court united-states-sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the lower court should have remanded for the recalculation of sentencing |
| 23-7122 |
James Alexander v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
agency-interpretation circuit-split judicial-deference kisor-standard kisor-v-wilkie regulatory-ambiguity sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the standard for triggering judicial deference to an agency's interpretation of its own regulations, as clarified in Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. C… |
| 23-7126 |
Alberto Perez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arbitrary-sentences criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-offenses due-process judicial-discretion methamphetamine methamphetamine-distribution sentencing-guidelines sentencing-standards |
Does the district court's blind reliance upon United States Sentencing Guideline § 2D1.1(c)(1)'s draconian base offense level of 38 for distribution o… |
| 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) |
| 23-7107 |
Brock Melancon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing deference judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.-sentencing-commission |
Does this Court's decision in Kisor v. Wilkie govern the extent to which district courts may defer to the U.S. Sentencing Commission's commentary to t… |
| 23-7108 |
Efren Derma-Dominguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
aggravating-role application-note application-note-2 criminal-organization criminal-role fifth-circuit sentencing-guidelines supervision upward-departure |
Does an aggravating role adjustment under U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 3B1.1 apply, as Application Note 2 says, only if the defendant organized or supe… |
| 23-7094 |
Tyshawn Shepard v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2024-03-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-agency administrative-extension criminal-sentencing due-process incarceration incarceration-findings jury-trial post-conviction sentencing sixth-amendment |
Does the Sixth Amendment's guarantee of a right to trial by jury allow prison administrators to use their own post-conviction factual findings as the … |
| 23-7099 |
Keatron Walls v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-03-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law due-process eighth-amendment mental-health sentencing sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent variance-argument |
Whether the Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding that 18 U.S.C. § 2261A(1) is not an unconstitutional expansion of the Commerce Clause in light o… |
| 23A865 |
James Joseph Bryant v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-03-27 |
Presumed Complete |
|
criminal-appeal district-court eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction sentencing-guidelines statutory-review |
Whether the federal appellate court correctly applied sentencing guidelines in reviewing a criminal conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 3742 |
| 23-7071 |
Joseph Kelvin Aberant v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion advanced-age age-consideration criminal-sentencing fourth-circuit-review incarceration medical-conditions sentencing sentencing-variance variance |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by affirming the District Court's abuse of discretion by its failure to give Mr. Aberant a variance sentence and a sh… |
| 23-7044 |
Melanie A. Ogle v. Hocking County Common Pleas Court, et al. |
Ohio |
2024-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-authority criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process personal-jurisdiction right-to-counsel sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction void-conviction |
Absence-of-counsel,Sixth-Amendment,Sentencing,Personal-jurisdiction,Subject-matter-jurisdiction,Void-sentence |
| 23-7049 |
Daniel Arsenio Rodgers v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-03-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-lab criminal-procedure enhancement evidence-interpretation firearms naked-eye sentencing-guidelines serial-number visible |
Whether the district court erred in applying a four-level enhancement under the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines for 'altered or obliterated' serial number,… |
| 23-6989 |
Lenroy McLean v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion co-defendants compassionate-release criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection federal-procedure judicial-discretion post-conviction-relief sentencing-factors |
Whether the lower court properly applied the evaluation of the sect. 3553 factors among differently situated co-defendant to denied Petitioner's compa… |
| 23-6992 |
Reynaldo Avila-Gonzalez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-sentencing district-court due-process federal-courts harmless-error judicial-review legal-reasoning presentence-report sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether a federal court of appeals should vacate the sentence when the district adopts the invalid reasoning of a Presentence Report to resolve a fact… |
| 23-6994 |
Donald M. Reynolds v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review direct-appeal federal-prisoner guidelines-range resentencing retroactive-amendment sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-modification |
Whether a federal prisoner's direct appeal for sentencing issues must be remanded to the district court for resentencing when a retroactive amendment … |
| 23-6977 |
Dasmore T. Coleman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-appeal criminal-sentencing defendant-rights due-process federal-sentencing procedural-history sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether Coleman's sentence is substantively unreasonable |
| 23-6979 |
Kyston Ivory v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process mandatory-revocation sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation united-states-v-haymond |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 23-6950 |
Lawrence Guerain Fleming v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure felon-in-possession guideline-interpretation judicial-interpretation obstruction-of-justice pre-investigation-conduct sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines |
Can the sentencing guideline be applied to the defendant's conduct, which occurred before any justice was being administered and before any investigat… |
| 23-6953 |
Anthony Lamont Mason, II v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
federal-court federal-sentencing indian-major-crimes-act mandatory-minimum mcgirt-v-oklahoma sentencing-guidelines state-court state-sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether federal sentencing courts should treat a sentence that is optional in state court as mandatory in federal court under the Indian Major Crimes … |
| 23-6956 |
David Wilbanks v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
collateral-order-doctrine confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing due-process final-judgment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review jurisdiction sixth-amendment statutory-construction |
Did the Court of Appeals have jurisdiction over the collateral order doctrine when the district judge failed to issue a COA for the final judgment und… |
| 23-6943 |
Michael Lawrence Kerlin v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing cross-reference disproportionate-effect due-process evidence evidence-standard pro-se-petition sentencing-guidelines standard-of-proof |
Whether a cross reference which has a disproportionate effect on the sentence requires a higher standard of proof than mere preponderance |
| 23-6919 |
Raul Perez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility alford-plea criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing inter-circuit-split memory-defense memory-loss plea-bargaining sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guidelines |
Does a plea of guilty pursuant to North Carolina v. Alford, 400 U.S. 25 (1970), based on a complete loss of memory of the actions underlying the offen… |
| 23-6904 |
Chance Joseph Seneca v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review categorical criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion due-process guidelines harmless-error judicial-procedure sentencing-guidelines |
Whether errors in calculating the Sentencing Guidelines are rendered categorically harmless by the district court's routine assertion that the Guideli… |
| 23-6907 |
Tryton Alonzo Thomas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-deference judicial-review kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the standard for triggering judicial deference to an agency's interpretation of its own regulations, as clarified in Kisor v. Wilkie, governs … |
| 23-6900 |
Bryan Reshad Hill v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure federal-rules fifth-circuit jury-verdict plain-error presentence-report rosales-mireles sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Does a sentence twice that authorized by the jury's verdict constitute plain error? |
| 23-6871 |
Jeremy Glenn Powell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca attempted-hobbs-act-robbery categorical-approach civil-rights criminal-sentencing due-process elements-clause hobbs-act texas-robbery united-states-v-taylor |
Does placing another in fear qualify as a threatened use of force under the ACCA's elements clause? |
| 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 … |
| 23-6834 |
Jeremy Lee Sestak v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
as-applied-petition constitutional-protections criminal-procedure double-jeopardy sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release u.s.s.g.-§4b1.5 u.s.s.g.-§5d1.2 |
Can a defendant bring an as-applied petition for modification of the supervised conditions? |
| 23-6841 |
Ronald D. Houston v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-02-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review booker-standard circuit-split crime-of-violence gall-v-united-states procedural-error reasonableness-review resisting-arrest sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-booker |
whether-the-circuits-may-forego-appellate-review-of-significant-procedural-error-under-gall |
| 23-6824 |
Jeremiah James Lynch v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment parole proportionality sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the application of a 'grade A' violation for a local crime, which resulted in the peti… |
| 23-6827 |
Victor Leon-Moya v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy criminal-procedure drug-importation drug-trafficking enhancement-factors importation jurisdiction sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
whether-defendant-directed-codefendant |
| 23-6818 |
Romeo Kevante Pride v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by denying Mr. Pride's argument that the District Court committed reversible error by imposing a 110… |
| 23-6820 |
Marvin Carcamo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure gang-membership harmless-error ninth-circuit procedural-error racketeering rico-conspiracy sentencing-guidelines |
Did the Ninth Circuit incorrectly affirm the district court's procedural error determining racketeering conduct was reasonably foreseeable under the U… |
| 23A767 |
Emiliano Emmanuel Flores-González v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-02-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-procedure circuit-precedent criminal-sentencing en-banc-review procedural-reasonableness sentencing-review |
Whether a federal appellate court can affirm a criminal sentence by an equally divided en banc court when the original panel found the sentence proced… |
| 23-6799 |
Leon King v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion legal-reasoning sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c) requires a sentencing court which rejects a defendant's nonfrivilous arguments in favor of a lower sentence to explain its… |
| 23-884 |
Marco Antonio Perez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process grand-jury harmless-error judicial-interpretation release-violation sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum |
Does 18 USC § 3147 authorize a sentence exceeding the statutory maximum for the underlying offense? |
| 23-6757 |
Bryan Alan Kennert v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-02-15 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-loss deference economic-offenses guideline-interpretation intended-loss judicial-deference loss-calculation sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether Application Note 3(A)(ii) to U.S.S.G. § 2B1.1 is an impermissible addition to and/or modification of this guideline that is outside of the aut… |
| 23-6749 |
Craig Alan Morrison v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-sentencing judicial-interpretation physical-restraint plain-text recurring-issue sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines victim-definition |
Whether a defendant should receive an increased sentence under U.S.S.G. § 3A1.3 for having 'physically restrained' a victim, where the conduct at issu… |
| 23-6751 |
Delon Joseph Adams v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 concurrent-sentence concurrent-sentences criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure federal-statute firearm-offense sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. Section 924(c)(1)(D)Gi) precludes a sentencing court from imposing a sentence for a Section 924(c) firearm offense partially concurr… |
| 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? |
| 23-6722 |
Jeffrey Holland v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crack-cocaine criminal-sentencing due-process fair-trial first-step-act jury-trial sentence-enhancement sentencing-discretion sentencing-enhancements trial-transcript |
Whether a district court can refuse to review intervening changes in facts that contradict and undermine presentence report findings used to apply a s… |
| 23-6712 |
Abner Renato Natareno-Calderon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-presumption reasonableness-standard rita-precedent rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the Court should clarify how a defendant who challenges the substantive reasonableness of a within-Guidelines sentence may rebut an appellate … |
| 23-6707 |
Sean Robert Wathen v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure dangerous-weapon district-court drug-offense enhancement factual-findings findings-of-fact sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g-2d1.1(b)(1) weapon-enhancement |
Is the sentencing court required to make specific findings of fact, supported by the record, that a defendant possessed a dangerous weapon in connecti… |
| 23-6672 |
Christopher R. Williams, Jr. v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court drug-purity drug-quantity methamphetamine-case procedural-errors sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines |
whether-the-district-court-erred-by-sentencing-the-defendant |
| 23-6645 |
Arthur Johnson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 23-6647 |
Davaudrick Antron EtchisonBrown v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment bruen-standard criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce precedent second-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022) |
| 23-6634 |
Andres Colon-Miranda v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review due-process litigation-strategy package-doctrine sentencing-guidelines summary-dismissal ussg-3d1.2 |
Appropriate-standard-of-review |
| 23-6577 |
Vahe Dadyan and Artur Ayvazyan, aka Arthur Ayvazyan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy conspiracy-liability criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process mandatory-restitution proportional-punishment reasonably-foreseeable restitution sentencing statutory-interpretation victim-compensation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3663A permits a court to order the least culpable member of a conspiracy to pay the same amount of restitution as the most culpabl… |
| 23-6545 |
Stephen Christopher Plunkett v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability circuit-split civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-recusal sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment standing |
Did the Fifth Circuit flout SCOTUS precedent in Buck v. Davis? |
| 23-6555 |
Luis Aceves-Ramirez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law drug-offense drug-offenses enhancement importation knowledge-requirement mens-rea methamphetamine sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the two-level enhancement in U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1(b)(5) for a drug offense that involves imported methamphetamine requires that the defendant knew… |
| 23A686 |
Clifford Laines, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-01-24 |
Presumed Complete |
|
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-statute drug-trafficking firearm-possession sentencing-guidelines serious-drug-offense |
Whether the Armed Career Criminal Act's definition of 'serious drug offense' requires a maximum term of imprisonment of ten years or more for the unde… |
| 23-6531 |
Terrance Brown v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
borden-v-united-states career-offender crime-of-violence criminal-conviction criminal-sentencing district-court judicial-review mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the district court erred in finding that Brown is a career offender under U.S.S.G. §§4B1.1 and 4B1.2, where one of Brown's predicate convictio… |
| 23-6544 |
In Re Mo Savoy Hicks |
|
2024-01-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process emotional-harm enhancement-factor miscarriage-of-justice prejudicial-variance sentencing-guidelines third-party-harm |
Does the Minnesota sentencing guidelines enhancement factor particular cruelty in relying on emotional harm to third parties instead of conduct exacte… |
| 23-6526 |
Larry Coates v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-01-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation auer-deference judicial-review kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Sentencing Commission, when interpreting the Guidelines, should receive a more deferential version of Auer deference than all other federa… |
| 23A665 |
Tyshawn Shepard v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2024-01-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing factual-findings indeterminate-sentencing jury-trial sixth-amendment |
Whether Ohio's indeterminate sentencing scheme violates the Sixth Amendment by permitting judicial factual findings that increase a defendant's impris… |
| 23-6485 |
Keaton Lamar Shaw v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-deference kisor-standard kisor-v-wilkie policy-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the standard for triggering judicial deference to an agency's interpretation of its own regulations, as clarified in Kisor v. Wilkie, governs … |
| 23-6486 |
Schuyler Algernon Smith v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation criminal-sentencing federal-courts judicial-deference kisor-standard kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the standard for triggering judicial deference to an agency's interpretation of its own regulations, as clarified in Kisor v. Wilkie, governs … |
| 23-6492 |
Delondo Henderson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
complicity complicity-law controlled-substances criminal-law inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-4b1.2 |
Does the State of Kentucky's complicity law state an inchoate offense, such that a conviction for complicity cannot constitute a 'controlled substance… |
| 23-6493 |
Shannon Wilson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
application-note application-note-9 criminal-law drug-quantity judicial-interpretation methamphetamine pill-form sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the plain language of Application Note 9 to sentencing guidelines §2D1.1(c) requires a sentencing court to calculate the amount of pill-form m… |
| 23-6499 |
Pete Manning v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-procedure drug-schedules federal-law federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-law time-of-consequences time-of-conviction |
Whether the term 'controlled substance' is defined by the drug schedules that existed at the time of the prior predicate conviction, or the drug sched… |
| 23-6500 |
Jimmy Lee Smart v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-interpretation auer-deference circuit-conflict criminal-sentencing federal-agencies judicial-deference kisor-standard regulatory-interpretation sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the standard for triggering judicial deference to an agency's interpretation of its own regulations, as clarified in Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. C… |
| 23-6502 |
Marwan Lamar Lamb v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-finding preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence sentencing-guidelines trial-by-jury |
Does nearly doubling a defendant's Guidelines sentence range based on a judge's finding by a preponderance of the evidence that the defendant committe… |
| 23-6476 |
Phillip Thomas Green v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-01-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing presumption-of-reasonableness rebuttal sentencing-guidelines |
What is required of defendants to provide a genuine rebuttal of the presumption of reasonableness for federal sentences under due process? |
| 23-6477 |
Jamaile L. Huey v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-01-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
borden-v-united-states crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-jurisdiction fourth-circuit mens-rea robbery robbery-statute sentencing sentencing-guidelines violent-crime |
Whether a state robbery conviction, sustained under a statute without a specified mens rea for the element of violence or threat of violence, but with… |
| 23-6461 |
Luis Armando Jimenez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-justice federal-sentencing guidelines judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Under Rita v. United States, can a district court ignore a party's nonfrivolous arguments for a greater or lesser sentence |
| 23-6466 |
Edgar Lerma Flores, aka Carlos Alberto Penuelas Rodriguez, aka Carlos Alberto Pencelas Rodriguez v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-01-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 abuse-of-discretion extraordinary-compelling-reason extraordinary-reason guideline-ranges methamphetamine-disparity methamphetamine-purity sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction sixth-circuit |
Whether the disparity in Guideline ranges for offenses involving pure methamphetamine and those involving a mixture of methamphetamine can be consider… |
| 23-6454 |
Darwin Dwayne Hutchins v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender cocaine-definition controlled-substance federal-vs-state-law non-violent-drug-crimes sentence-length sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines state-federal-definition |
Did the district court err in counting Hutchins's Ohio cocaine conviction as a controlled substance offense for career offender under the Sentencing G… |
| 23-6440 |
Ismael De Jesus-Flores v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process notice-and-comment sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Can the U.S.S.G. commentary definition of a 'minor' in § 2L1.1 commentary note 1 be considered unconstitutionally vague when it was never subjected to… |
| 23-6445 |
Calvin Solomon v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey crack-cocaine-law crack-cocaine-sentencing discretionary-review eleventh-circuit first-step-act judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's unique interpretation of the First Step Act's eligibility and discretionary steps is correct |
| 23-736 |
Bernard Gadson v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-01-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-deference criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-review loss-calculation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Does deference to the Sentencing Commission's commentary to USSG § 2B1.1, cmt. n.3(A), expanding the meaning of 'loss' to include 'intended loss,' vio… |
| 23-6419 |
Anthony Harris v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-01-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-sentencing due-process free-speech jurisdiction recidivism standing state-law-offense statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Question not identified |
| 23-6421 |
Remberto Rivera v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-01-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-guidance circuit-split deference judicial-deference sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation stinson-v-united-states supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Court's decision in Kisor v. Wilkie prescribes the amount of deference to be paid to the United States Sentencing Commission's commentary … |
| 23-6424 |
Taquarius Kaream Ford v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1591 18-usc-1594 circuit-split criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy mandatory-minimum sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation |
When two Sex Trafficking statutes combine into a single Count, does the penalty for Sex Trafficking Conspiracy under 18 U.S.C. Section 1594(c) which h… |
| 23-6406 |
Jamal Eberhardt v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-01-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-standard criminal-procedure due-process excessive-sentence judicial-discretion reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review third-circuit |
Did the Third Circuit error by not finding Mr. Eberhardt's sentence was harsh and excessive? |
| 23A601 |
Shannon Donoho v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-01-02 |
Presumed Complete |
|
child-pornography federal-criminal-law photographic-evidence sentencing-guidelines sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation |
Whether the definition of 'sexually explicit conduct' in federal child pornography statutes turns on objective characteristics of the depicted images … |
| 23-6387 |
Montgomery Lebeau v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-12-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anticipated-imprisonment concurrent-sentence concurrent-sentences criminal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-interpretation same-incident sentencing-guidelines state-charges ussg-5g1.3(c) |
Whether a pending state charge arising out of the same incident as the federal case plainly qualifies as 'anticipated' under USSG § 5G1.3(c)? |
| 23-6361 |
Victor Grant v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-sentencing federal-drug-schedules serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation |
Whether the 'serious drug offense' definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(i), incorporates the federal drug schedules t… |
| 23-6347 |
Trayone Lefferio Bell v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-loss administrative-deference circuit-split federal-sentencing-guidelines fraud-guidelines intended-loss kisor-v-wilke loss-calculation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Does the intended loss commentary to the fraud guidelines § 2B1.1(b)(1) violate this court's decision Kisor v. Wilke, 189 S.Ct. 2400 (2019) |
| 23-6335 |
Devonne L. Walker v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-leadership criminal-organization criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing firearm-possession guideline-enhancement leadership sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review |
Whether the lower court erred in applying a 4-level increase pursuant to U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 3B1.1(a) in determining the Petitioner to be an o… |
| 23-6336 |
Javier Garibay Mendoza, aka Javier Garibay Mendoza-Romero, aka Jose Mendoza-Romero v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a circuit-split criminal-sentencing gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion procedural-obligations procedural-requirements sentencing-guidelines upward-variance |
When a court varies upward from the Guidelines, can the court fulfill its procedural obligations without explaining its disagreements with the Guideli… |
| 23-6325 |
James E. Downs v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2023-12-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection florida-statute habitual-offender sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether petitioner's 14th Amendment right to equal protection and proportionality of sentence has been violated |
| 23A571 |
Craig Alan Morrison v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-12-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
criminal-sentencing federal-appeal federal-public-defender supreme-court-review tenth-circuit writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Tenth Circuit's affirmance of the criminal sentence warrants Supreme Court review under standards for certiorari |
| 23-6312 |
Andre Reese v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie precedential-interpretation sentencing-guidelines stare-decisis statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether Kisor v. Wilkie applies to the commentary to the Sentencing Guidelines |
| 23-6314 |
Dana Jahmal Stevenson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review attempt attempt-offense controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a prior sentence for a violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) qualifies as a 'controlled-substance-offense' under U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(a)(4)(A) |
| 23-6278 |
Devontae Nykel Racliff v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
2nd-amendment bruen-standard criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022) |
| 23A544 |
Patrick Aboite v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-14 |
Presumed Complete |
|
18-U.S.C.-922(g) appellate-review criminal-sentencing felon-in-possession firearm-offense sentencing-enhancement |
Whether a federal sentencing enhancement for a felon in possession of a firearm was properly applied and whether the resulting sentence was reasonable… |
| 23-6244 |
Edmond Carl Warrington v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-12-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing federal-jurisdiction federal-offense judicial-review sentencing special-assessment statutory-interpretation |
Whether the $5,000 additional special assessment imposed under 18 U.S.C. § 3014 requires a non-indigent defendant to pay a single special assessment o… |
| 23-6249 |
Flenoid Greer v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2023-12-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
collateral-review due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest post-conviction post-conviction-relief sentencing-guidelines successive-motion |
Can a State's collateral review procedures deny a person from having an invalid sentence vacated, without violating the right to petition |
| 23A531 |
Jamaal A. Hameen v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review criminal-sentencing eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction sentence-revocation statutory-interpretation |
Whether a federal appellate court correctly applied sentencing guidelines and standards of review in a criminal case involving sentence revocation |
| 23-6199 |
Trayvon Hall v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge constitutional-rights court-procedure criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-pronouncement life-sentence plain-language sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Is a criminal defendant constitutionally entitled to have his sentence executed pursuant to the plain terms of the sentence orally pronounced in his p… |
| 23-6196 |
Boris Ward v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-representation cumulative-effect drug-transaction ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-offer prior-convictions reasonableness-of-sentence sentencing-guidelines |
whether-trial-counsel-provided-constitutionally-deficient-representation |
| 23A516 |
Ronald D. Houston, aka Hassan Blue, aka Ron Reezy v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-12-07 |
Presumed Complete |
|
borden-precedent crime-of-violence eighth-circuit force-clause resisting-arrest sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a state law criminalizing resisting arrest constitutes a 'crime of violence' under the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines when the statute encompasses… |
| 23-6169 |
Juan Carlos Soto v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-USC-3553 appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-sentencing ninth-circuit-court remand sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Why does the Yeh Circuit Court of appeals Remand (Wmost Cases Where all of the appeal ant's Non-Frivolous Sentencing arguments are Not addressed by th… |
| 23-6178 |
Decardo Moore v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
concurrent-sentencing criminal-sentencing fact-finding intent-finding mental-health mental-illness plea-colloquy procedural-reasonableness second-degree-murder sentencing-errors substantive-reasonableness venue-insufficiency |
Adequacy-of-sentencing-consideration-for-mental-illness |
| 23A510 |
Larry Coates v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-12-05 |
Presumed Complete |
|
auer-deference circuit-split kisor-deference sentencing-guidelines sentencing-uniformity stinson-precedent |
Whether the Supreme Court's decision in Kisor v. Wilkie modifies the deference standard for Sentencing Guidelines commentary previously established in… |
| 23-6157 |
Mario Alberto Netro-Perales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law circuit-split deference federal-courts federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation stinson-v-united-states |
Whether the circuits have split over the extent of deference that is to be given to the commentaries to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines after the de… |
| 23-6150 |
Quindell Tyree Maloid v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-12-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-interpretation administrative-law deference judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission |
Whether the administrative law principles articulated in Kisor v. Wilkie limit the deference owed to the United States Sentencing Commission's comment… |
| 23-6151 |
Urbano Torres-Giles v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split clearly-erroneous-facts criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fact-finding reliability reliability-standard sentencing-context sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the test for a clearly erroneous fact in the sentencing context should consider the reliability of the challenged fact |
| 23-578 |
Christopher Kinzy v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court-discretion gall-standard gall-v-united-states guidelines judicial-explanation rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a district court can insulate from vacatur a sentence based on an erroneously enhanced Guidelines range |
| 23-6129 |
Jarmaine Carter v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach crime-of-violence extortion federal-sentencing ohio-revised-code ohio-robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether Ohio robbery under Ohio Revised Code § 2911.02(A)(2) categorically matches the enumerated offense of 'extortion' under United States Sentencin… |
| 23-6131 |
Eliseo Vaquerano Canas v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-11-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-agency administrative-law congressional-directive sentencing-commission sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-authority statutory-interpretation use-of-a-minor use-of-minor-enhancement |
Whether the Sentencing Commission exceeded its authority when, contrary to a Congressional directive, it made the 'Use of a Minor' sentencing enhancem… |
| 23-6134 |
Rajon Jamison v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act armed-career-offender base-level base-level-calculation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process juvenile-conviction sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the trial court erred in applying a 26-point base level instead of the appropriate 24-point base level, and in sentencing the petitioner under… |
| 23-6135 |
Charles Kevin Agerton v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law federal-jurisdiction legal-interpretation offense-matching sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether an offense-matching categorical approach applies to the determination of a 'controlled substance offense' under the Sentencing Guidelines? |
| 23A483 |
Salvador Magluta v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-29 |
Presumed Complete |
|
acquitted-conduct circuit-split compassionate-release sentence-modification sentencing-guidelines solitary-confinement |
Whether a federal court may consider non-medical factors, such as prolonged solitary confinement and its psychological effects, when evaluating a moti… |
| 23A474 |
Xiaorong You, aka Shannon You v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-28 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-deference circuit-split economic-espionage intended-loss sentencing-guidelines trade-secrets |
Whether a sentencing court may defer to the Sentencing Commission's interpretation of 'loss' to include intended but unrealized economic harm under Ki… |
| 23-6097 |
Montrez Duncan v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-vindictiveness conviction criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion resentencing sentencing unconstitutional |
Is a court constitutionally vindictive in violation of due process when, after it vacates the conviction and sentence on a count that was deemed uncon… |
| 23-6068 |
Jermaine Deshan West v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment courts-of-appeals due-process empirical-evidence equal-protection fifth-amendment methamphetamine sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the U.S. Sentencing Commission abdicated its duties under 28 U.S.C. $994(2)(1)(B) when determining the appropriate amount of imprisonment Cour… |
| 23-6079 |
Santos David Ramirez-Ortega v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review conflict-with-other-courts criminal-procedure district-court guideline-range holguin-hernandez judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines substantial-arguments |
Whether a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails to reference or address substantial arguments for a sentence outside the Gui… |
| 23-6082 |
Cuedell Javon Henry v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
borden-precedent categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-sentencing fifth-circuit reckless-mental-state sentencing-guidelines taylor-descamps texas-robbery |
Whether the Fifth Circuit has continued to misapply Taylor and Descamps |
| 23-6085 |
Randall Gray Stoneman, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure district-court evidence evidence-seizure federal-sentencing-guidelines motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure sentencing sentencing-guidelines video-surveillance |
Was the district court in error in denying the motion to suppress the evidence? |
| 23-6087 |
Ronell Whitehead v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-11-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
21-usc-841 21-usc-846 circuit-split conspiracy-law controlled-substances drug-conspiracy drug-distribution mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
How is the quantity of controlled substances 'involved' determined for purposes of sentencing for conspiracy under 21 U.S.C. § 846, when the offense o… |
| 23A458 |
Tony Ford v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-jurisdiction sentencing-guidelines writ-of-certiorari |
Whether a federal appellate court correctly applied sentencing guidelines and standards of review in affirming a criminal defendant's sentence upon re… |
| 23-6054 |
In Re Christopher Thieme |
|
2023-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment constitutional-violation double-counting double-jeopardy due-process grouping multiple-punishment sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines |
Does the application of a four-level sentencing enhancement constitute impermissible double counting in violation of the 5th Amendment's Due Process a… |
| 23-6048 |
Elvis Redzepagic v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law federal-sentencing material-support offense-level sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation terrorism terrorist-organizations |
Whether the correct offense level should be used in sentencing violations of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2339B(a)(1), (d) |
| 23-6019 |
Luis Olivares v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion exceptional-circumstances fair-sentencing-act sentence-modification statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Fair Sentencing Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A), permits a district court to modify Mr. Olivares' unusually long sentence in this exception… |
| 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 |
| 23-6012 |
Rafael Espinal-Mieses v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(f) 21-usc-960(b) criminal-sentencing federal-statute maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act retroactivity safety-valve sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
Did the First Circuit correctly interpret the pre-amendment version of 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f) as excluding MDLEA offenses from safety-valve relief? |
| 23-6013 |
Calvin Cogdill v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-15 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-procedure criminal-sentencing fifth-amendment indictment jury reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Armed Career Criminal Act's 'occasions different' fact must be charged in the indictment and proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt |
| 23-6018 |
Calvin F. Currica v. Richard Miller, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-standard brady-vs-maryland criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit guidelines judicial-review plea-agreement plea-bargaining post-conviction-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the decision below should be summarily reversed because the Fourth Circuit substituted its judgment for an erroneous factual decision by the s… |
| 23-6025 |
Deunta Finch v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure guidelines plain-error-review preservation-of-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit |
Has the Sixth Circuit erred by creating a novel doctrine that says, to avoid plain-error review, a criminal defendant must object after the sentencing… |
| 23-6005 |
Ehab Sadeek v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process plain-error procedural-error sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-wooden |
Whether the appellate court erred in affirming the petitioner's sentence based on a pattern-of-activity enhancement and a cross-reference enhancement |
| 23-5995 |
Jake Messer v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion character-testimony commerce-clause federal-kidnapping-statute guidelines-calculation interstate-commerce noneconomic-violent-crime procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Sixth Circuit's interpretation of the Federal Kidnapping statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1201(a)(), as applied to Petitioner, exceeded Congressional … |
| 23A428 |
Charles States v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-11-13 |
Presumed Complete |
|
attempted-murder categorical-approach crime-of-violence sentencing-guidelines substantive-offense united-states-v-taylor |
Whether the categorical approach for determining a crime of violence requires a nuanced analysis of the specific elements of an attempt crime in light… |
| 23A414 |
Monterial Wesley v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-11-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review discretionary-authority extraordinary-circumstances federal-criminal-law sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a district court has discretionary authority to reduce a federal criminal sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A) when a defendant demonstrat… |
| 23-5979 |
Daniel Vargas-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sixth-amendment |
Whether the prior-conviction exception to the Apprendi rule can be squared with the historical practices codified in the Sixth Amendment, and if not, … |
| 23-5968 |
Richard Langston v. Connecticut |
Connecticut |
2023-11-07 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy fourteenth-amendment jury-acquittal jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States prohibit a state court from basing a criminal defendant's sentenc… |
| 23-5954 |
Arthur Picklo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c) consecutive-sentences consecutive-sentencing criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law rule-of-lenity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the rule of lenity requires a sentencing court to impose a § 924(c) sentence consecutive to only the predicate crime of violence or drug offen… |
| 23-5951 |
Rodney L. Love v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-3582 appellate-review compassionate-release criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-reasons federal-law retroactivity sentence-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether non-retroactive changes in federal law can serve as 'extraordinary and compelling reasons' warranting a sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3… |
| 23-5940 |
John Paul Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-authority delegation-of-authority due-process federal-sentencing judicial-authority judicial-delegation probation-officer sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
Does Standard Condition 12 unconstitutionally delegate judicial authority to the probation officer? |
| 23-5941 |
Gregory L. Randle v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
consecutive-sentence consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness supervised-release |
Whether the district court erred by ordering Mr. Randle to serve 12 months in prison for nonviolent supervised release violations, and by ordering the… |
| 23-5946 |
Dravion Sanchez Ware v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-02 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process identification identification-evidence law-enforcement physical-restraint sentencing-guidelines surveillance-evidence |
Whether the physical restraint enhancement in U.S.S.G. § 2B3.1(b)(4)(B) requires more than pointing a gun at someone |
| 23-5947 |
Kraig M. Trotter v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
controlled-substances criminal-procedure deterrence due-process federal-sentencing methamphetamine methamphetamines proportional-punishment sentencing-guidelines third-circuit |
Did the Third Circuit err in failing to consider the disparity in sentencing under U.S.S.G §2D1.1(c) of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for methamph… |
| 23-5933 |
Samuel Lee Lynch v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-battery constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process johnson-v-united-states residual-clause statutory-interpretation vagueness violent-felony |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3559(c)(1)'s residual clause is unconstitutional |
| 23A391 |
Bernard Gadson v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-10-31 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-law circuit-split kisor-deference loss-calculation plain-error sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Sentencing Guidelines' commentary defining 'loss' as intended loss, rather than actual loss, impermissibly conflicts with the plain text o… |
| 23-5908 |
Michael James Choulat v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
which expands the application of § 2K2.1(b)(6)(B) agency-deference criminal-law drug-trafficking firearm-possession firearms sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether Kisor's limits on courts' deference to an agency's interpretation of its own regulation permitted deference to Comment 14(B), which expands th… |
| 23-5893 |
Tigran Zmrukhtyan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure firearm-possession law-enforcement law-enforcement-interaction physical-struggle reckless-conduct risk-enhancement sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines |
Does mere possession of a firearm, even during a brief physical struggle with law enforcement, support a § 3C1.2 enhancement? |
| 23-5875 |
Andres Vargas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
agency-interpretation auer-deference circuit-split federal-criminal-sentencing judicial-deference kisor-standard kisor-v-wilkie regulatory-ambiguity sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the standard for triggering judicial deference to an agency's interpretation of its own regulations, as clarified in Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. C… |
| 23A375 |
Rico Lorodge Brown v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-10-25 |
Presumed Complete |
|
almendarez-torres apprendi-rule criminal-statute jury-finding prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the different-occasions element of a criminal statute is subject to the Apprendi rule requiring jury finding or indictment, or falls under the… |
| 23A363 |
Edmond Carl Warrington v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-10-23 |
Presumed Complete |
|
criminal-sentencing federal-public-defender supreme-court-extension tenth-circuit time-extension writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Tenth Circuit's affirmance of a criminal sentence warrants Supreme Court review based on counsel's workload and need for additional prepar… |
| 23-5851 |
Hector Sanchez-Torres v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-10-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-sentencing culpability death-penalty eighth-amendment equal-protection mitigation-evidence |
Whether sentencing a 19-year-old codefendant to death violates the Eighth Amendment or Equal Protection Clause when his similarly culpable 17-year-old… |
| 23-5812 |
Jurmaine A. Jeffries v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burrage-v-united-states criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offense due-process mens-rea proximate-causation racial-disparities sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether the 'death results' element in 21 U.S.C. 841(b) requires proof of mens rea |
| 23-5788 |
Roberto Buendia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review davis fifth-circuit intra-circuit-conflict molina-martinez plain-error plain-error-review rosales-mireles sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the standard the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals applied for determining if the sentencing Guidelines' error in Buendia's case was 'plain' conf… |
| 23-5791 |
John Sherman Jumper v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing disgorgement double-jeopardy fifth-amendment kokesh-precedent kokesh-v-sec sentencing-enhancement |
Whether the prior disgorgement punishment precludes a criminal sentence or sentencing enhancement based on the same misconduct under the Double Jeopar… |
| 23-5782 |
Tyrone Robinson, aka Tyrone R. Robinson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-10-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance federal-law grievous-ambiguity rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether the meaning of the term 'controlled substance' in the Sentencing Guidelines includes any substance prohibited by state law, or instead only th… |
| 23-5786 |
Mark Andre Green v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-court borden-precedent borden-v-united-states circuit-split crime-of-violence legal-analysis sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether Texas state law aggravated assault by injury can be considered a crime of violence under the Sentencing Guidelines |
| 23-5766 |
Richard Todd Haas v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) 3553a-factors appellate-review criminal-sentencing fourth-circuit procedural-error sentencing-guidelines variance-sentence |
Is the Fourth Circuit's plausibility test for evaluating a variance sentence under the 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) factors, because it is untethered from any … |
| 23-5773 |
Adrian De La Torre v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-authority delegation-of-authority due-process federal-sentencing judicial-authority judicial-delegation probation-officer sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
Does Standard Condition 12 unconstitutionally delegate judicial authority to the probation officer? |
| 23-5755 |
Dewayne Joseph v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-10-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split discretion discretionary-relief fair-sentencing-act first-step-act retroactive-application sentencing-guidelines |
Whether district courts have an obligation to calculate revised guidelines to reflect the retroactive effect of the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 as a b… |
| 23-370 |
Paul Erlinger v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-10-06 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (4)Relisted (2) |
armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing due-process jury-trial prior-convictions proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt sentencing-enhancement |
Whether the Constitution requires a jury trial and proof beyond a reasonable doubt to find that a defendant's prior convictions were 'committed on occ… |
| 23-5713 |
Delvarez Long v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-10-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process federal-courts rehabilitation rehabilitation-consideration sentencing-reform-act statutory-interpretation tapia-precedent tapia-v-united-states |
Does a sentencing court violate the Sentencing Reform Act when it relies on rehabilitation as a reason to impose prison time? |
| 23-354 |
Wolfgang Von Vader v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-10-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-3582 changes-in-law criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-circumstances federal-criminal-law judicial-discretion sentence-modification sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether courts may consider changes in the law in assessing whether 'extraordinary and compelling reasons' warrant a sentence reduction under section … |
| 23-5699 |
Jose J. Galiany-Cruz v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-procedure district-court district-court-authority extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guidelines |
Does a district court have the authority to determine what constitutes 'extraordinary and compelling reasons' warranting compassionate release or are … |
| 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… |
| 23-5665 |
Shajuan Orlando Johnson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substances criminal-sentencing decontrolled-substances drug-convictions eighth-circuit federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-enhancement |
Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem… |
| 23-310 |
Cory Ratzloff v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-09-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation guidelines-commentary judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines stinson-v-united-states supreme-court-precedent united-states-sentencing-commission |
Whether the administrative law principles articulated in Kisor limit the deference owed to the United States Sentencing Commission's commentary on the… |
| 23-5623 |
Patrick Medearis v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-846 conspiracy controlled-substance-offense crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law overt-act sentence-enhancement sentencing-guidelines ussg-4b1.2 |
Does conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance qualify as a 'controlled substance offense' under the Sentencing Guidelines? |
| 23-5631 |
Jason M. Moriarty v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consecutive-sentences criminal-law criminal-procedure imprisonment maximum-sentence revocation-of-release sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
When revoking multiple terms of supervised release, may the court run the service in prison on each term consecutively to exceed the maximum authorize… |
| 23-5636 |
Javon Montreal King v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal background criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum substantive-reasonableness youth youth-consideration |
Whether the district court erred, considering Mr. King's youth and background, when it sentenced him to the statutory maximum of 120 months' imprisonm… |
| 23-5619 |
Jordan Winczuk v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-09-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing mandatory-minimum rule-of-lenity sentencing sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation |
What is the proper definition of 'relating to the sexual exploitation of children' in 18 U.S.C. §2251(e)? |
| 23-5599 |
Juan Manuel Amaya-Castaneda v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion prior-conviction-exception prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Whether a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails to address substantial arguments for a sentence outside the Guideline range |
| 23-5591 |
Patrick Andrew Groves v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting attempted-distribution attempted-transfer controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-law drug-offenses sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation surplusage |
Whether an 'attempted transfer' of drugs, § 802(8), includes any conduct that would also constitute an 'attempted distribution' of drugs, § 846 |
| 23-5571 |
Deon Jefferson Johnson v. Mike Brown, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus habitual-offender jury-trial sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the petitioner was denied his constitutional rights to a fair and impartial jury trial, due process of law, and to be free from cruel and unus… |
| 23-226 |
Antonio Soul Gonzalez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-09-12 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
covered-offense criminal-sentencing discretion district-court-discretion fair-sentencing-act first-step-act recalculation sentence-reduction sentencing-range statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court must recalculate a movant's sentencing range as if Sections 2 and 3 of the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 were in effect at the … |
| 23-5546 |
Richard Sansbury v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abduction circuit-split criminal-law definitional-analysis location-change robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation victim-movement |
Does the Fifth Circuit's interpretation of the term 'abducted' conflict with the ordinary meaning of the term and with the Guidelines' definition's re… |
| 23-5539 |
Trezjuan Thompson v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-09-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-of-appeals circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing deficient-performance ineffective-assistance new-rule-doctrine new-rule-of-law sentencing-counsel supreme-court-precedents |
How far afield from prior criminal sentencing cases does a doctrinal opinion from a regional circuit court of appeals have to go before it qualifies a… |
| 23-5540 |
Michael Rinaldi v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-09-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment acquitted-conduct criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial ratio-decidendi sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the use of acquitted conduct sentencing violates the Due Process Clause and the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial |
| 23-5517 |
Kamar Laquan Cox v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquittal criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-acquittal jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury has acquitted … |
| 23-198 |
Jamar M. Lewis v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-09-05 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance federal-law predicate-conviction sentencing-guidelines state-law |
Whether the term 'controlled substance' in the Sentencing Guidelines is defined at the time of the predicate conviction or when federal consequences a… |
| 23-5512 |
Robinson Mendoza-Gomez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure double-counting due-process enhancement-application federal-sentencing governmental-officer obstruction-of-justice sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the guidelines' enhancement for obstruction of justice requires some conduct above and beyond the conduct comprising the offense of conviction |
| 23-5499 |
Manuel De Jesus Del Cid Bran v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583 abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing deportation discretionary-sentencing sentencing-commission supervised-release |
Does a district court abuse its discretion under 18 U.S.C. § 3583 by imposing a term of supervised release on a deportable noncitizen purely in order … |
| 23-5503 |
Roman Alvarado, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-authority delegation-of-authority due-process federal-sentencing judicial-authority judicial-delegation probation-officer sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
Does Standard Condition 12 unconstitutionally delegate judicial authority to the probation officer? |
| 23-5484 |
Dion Ray Wheeler v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 23-5469 |
Peonte Shamar Spencer v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-sentencing due-process fourth-circuit hobbs-act standing statutory-interpretation violent-conduct |
Question not identified |
| 23-5442 |
Wayne Jerome Johnson v. California |
California |
2023-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
constitutional-vagueness criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual double-jeopardy due-process felony-misdemeanor penal-code-interpretation three-strikes three-strikes-law vagueness |
Whether it is unconstitutional to impose two separate strikes on Petitioner for the same act under two separate statutes |
| 23-5449 |
Antonio Rojas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 23-5432 |
Kyle Vaughn v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-presumption presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-standard rita-precedent rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the Court should clarify how a defendant who challenges the substantive reasonableness of a within-Guidelines sentence may rebut an appellate … |
| 23-5437 |
Adedayo Hakeem Sanusi v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split due-process fundamental-fairness sentencing-guidelines sophisticated-means substantive-reasonableness upward-variance |
Whether the Appellant is deprived of Due Process |
| 23-5392 |
Angelo Joseph Fernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law domestic-violence mens-rea prior-conviction recklessness sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Does the petitioner's prior conviction for corporal injury to a spouse or cohabitant under California Penal Code § 273.5(a) qualify as a crime of viol… |
| 23-5363 |
Kyle Richard Bishop v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2023-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction mitigating-factors sentencing-guidelines standing |
Whether the U.S. Constitution allows the conviction of a U.S. citizen without an indictment |
| 23-5364 |
Christopher Alexander Nerius v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act career-offender-guideline controlled-substance-offense criminal-procedure federal-sentencing prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines timing-question united-states-sentencing-guidelines |
Whether, in determining if a prior offense is a 'controlled substance offense' for purposes of the career offender guideline, U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b), sen… |
| 23-5357 |
Carlos Edwin Smith, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a adult-sentencing adverse-childhood-experiences criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court judicial-discretion mitigation-factors relevancy sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a district court fully considers the factors set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) when sentencing a defendant if it questions the relevancy of adv… |
| 23-5358 |
Devin Jerrod Long v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-08-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law drug-conviction drug-offense federal-judge prior-felony prior-felony-convictions sentence-enhancement sentencing-guidelines |
Can a federal judge impose a sentence enhancement based on a prior drug conviction inclusive of a substance that is no longer controlled at the time o… |
| 23-5340 |
Lewis Gilmore Hurst v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit judicial-discretion sentencing-errors statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit may prohibit consideration of sentencing errors under 18 USC §3582(c)(1)(A) |
| 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 |
| 23-5296 |
Leonel Marin-Torres v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-justice-reform effective-assistance-of-counsel equitable-relief first-step-act guidelines-range ineffective-assistance pro-se-representation sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Whether a district court complies with Concepcion v. United States when deciding a First Step Act motion |
| 23-5290 |
Littleton William Clark v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-08-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law district-court double-jeopardy due-process felony-offense firearms guideline-application sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the District Court erred in interpreting Note 14(@) of §2K2.1(b)(6)(B) when it applied a four-level enhancement pursuant to §2K2.1(b)(6)(B) fo… |
| 23-5276 |
German Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court of appeals to reweigh the sentencing factors? |
| 23-92 |
James Edwin Hoganson v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2023-08-01 |
Denied |
|
aggravating-circumstances apprendi-v-new-jersey blakely-v-washington constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process jury-determination jury-trial reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth Amendment requires the existence of 'extraordinary aggravating circumstances' to be submitted to the jury and found beyond a reasona… |
| 23-5236 |
Marvas Aurelien v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-07-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-sentencing drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-law federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-drug-offenses |
Whether the 'controlled substance' definition in United States Sentencing Guideline § 4B1.2(b) incorporates the federal drug schedules in effect at th… |
| 23-5240 |
Alden Brent Cooper v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-conduct criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment presentence-investigation presentence-investigation-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Does denial of credit for alleged criminal conduct the defendant refuses to admit and denies in good faith he committed violate the Due Process Clause… |
| 23-5198 |
Richard Potts v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-justice-reform criminal-sentencing discretionary-authority district-court-discretion fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation statutory-penalty |
Whether the Fair Sentencing Act modified the statutory penalty for petitioner's offense, so that petitioner is eligible for a sentence reduction under… |
| 23-5207 |
Omar Alfonso Alas v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-07-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-16a categorical-approach crime-of-violence crimes-of-violence immigration mens-rea physical-force sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a crime with a mens rea of extreme recklessness has, 'as an element, the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the p… |
| 23-5213 |
Deangelo Devon Grant v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process indictment indictment-interpretation judicial-discretion methamphetamine methamphetamine-weight sentencing-guidelines |
Does utilizing a provision of the United States Sentencing Guidelines for 'actual' weight of methamphetamine, rather than the charged offense of 'mixt… |
| 23-5187 |
Juan Sepulveda-Arreola v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administration-of-justice criminal-procedure district-court federal-jurisdiction federal-law fifth-circuit minor-participant sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law when it conducted a cursory review of the facts related to the district court's erroneous refusal to de… |
| 23-5189 |
Tyree Steele v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing due-process federal-courts imprisonment judicial-discretion rehabilitation rehabilitative-purpose sentencing-reform-act statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court violates the Sentencing Reform Act's ban on imprisonment as a rehabilitative measure |
| 23-5159 |
Juan Jabari Hollis v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines appeal-waiver categorical-approach controlled-substance-offense controlled-substance-offenses criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing miscarriage-of-justice sentencing-guidelines waiver-of-appeal |
Whether the calculation of the defendant's advisory guideline range, which influenced the sentence imposed, constituted a miscarriage of justice when … |
| 23-5164 |
Ermin Adzemovic v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-07-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-sentencing decontrolled-substances drug-offense federal-sentencing-guidelines guideline-range prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines ussg-4b1.2 |
Does a prior drug conviction under a statute that included now decontrolled substances qualify as a 'controlled substance offense' to enhance a defend… |
| 23-5170 |
Peter Robert Jordan, aka Richard Mercer v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggregate-sentence covered-counts criminal-law criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing first-step-act judicial-discretion non-covered-counts sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether Section 404(b) of the First Step Act authorizes the lower courts to impose a reduced aggregate sentence on both covered and non-covered counts… |
| 23A57 |
Tyrone Robinson, aka Tyrone R. Robinson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-07-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
circuit-split controlled-substance-offense eighth-amendment-sentencing federal-standards jerome-presumption sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the definition of 'controlled substance offense' in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) should be interpreted according to federal standards or permits applic… |
| 23-5148 |
Bernard Edmond v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-factors first-step-act resentencing retroactive-application sentencing-disparity |
Whether sentencing-disparities-can-serve-as-basis-for-compassionate-release |
| 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… |
| 23-5130 |
Caleb Bryant Hickcox v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-procedure reasonableness reasonableness-review second-amendment sentencing sentencing-requirements statutory-interpretation |
Must district courts comply with 18-usc-3553(c) |
| 23-5137 |
Joshua Christopher Stockstill v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines section-3553a-factors sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness |
Whether the district court ordered a substantively unreasonable 30-year prison sentence |
| 23-5113 |
Charleton Maxwell v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-07-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-circuit conservative-estimate criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines walton-rule |
Whether a higher degree of protection is required by the due process clause when the sentencing judge uses a mere preponderance standard to determine … |
| 23-5114 |
Leroy C. Tate v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-07-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance eighth-circuit-interpretation federal-sentencing-guidelines mcneill-precedent mcneill-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines state-law |
Does McNeill require courts to define 'controlled substance' under § 4B1.2 of the federal sentencing guidelines by consulting superseded state schedul… |
| 23-5099 |
Dustin Jolly v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing deportation immigration immigration-law statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Should the Supreme Court use its supervisory authority to resolve the conflict between the Sixth Circuit and other circuits on applying the Supreme Co… |
| 23-5101 |
Christopher Wade v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure fifth-circuit gall-v-united-states harmless-error judicial-precedent sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-guzman-rendon |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's application of harmless error doctrine violates SCOTUS precedent |
| 23-5055 |
Erick De Jesus-Torres v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-07-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting appellate-review downward-variance gall-v-united-states kimbrough-v-united-states meaningful-explanation policy-considerations sentencing-court sentencing-enhancement sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a sentencing court must provide a reasonable explanation, on the record, as to why it is not considering a sentencing factor, particularly an … |
| 23-5002 |
Joseph Hauschild v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2023-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure eighth-amendment graham-v-florida juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole meaningful-opportunity meaningful-opportunity-for-release roper-v-simmons sentencing-guidelines term-of-years-sentence |
Whether, for a juvenile offender who committed multiple offenses during a single course of conduct, none of them homicide, the Eighth Amendment forbid… |
| 23-2 |
Gerald Spruell v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-06-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review conspiracy criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-quantities evidence evidence-sufficiency jury-verdict mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in concluding there was sufficient evidence to support the jury's verdict and drug quantities attributed to the con… |
| 22-7867 |
Nelson Alexander Polk v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-sentencing discovery due-process evidence free-speech judicial-procedure legal-standards |
Whether Poli biouee's Doe Peseoes Ricits Waser uiolated, When Ig tounge was not Present al TaCameva Wearing which Was conducted Lo assess the validity… |
| 22-7890 |
Christopher Ochoa v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3664 circuit-split criminal-restitution criminal-sentencing fraud joint-and-several-liability proline-precedent proline-v-united-states restitution-liability sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Is the discretion to order joint and several liability in restitution orders under 18 U.S.C. § 3664(h) limited by each defendant casual role in the ca… |
| 22-7898 |
Anthony Lamart Lawrence v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-sentencing decontrolled-substances drug-conviction eighth-circuit federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-enhancement |
Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem… |
| 22-7900 |
David Wright, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process equal-protection federal-sentencing-guidelines guideline-range prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing-guidelines state-statutes statutory-interpretation |
Whether the District Court erred by counting a prior conviction for violation of a state statute that had been changed to make the conduct not a crime… |
| 22-7903 |
Denvy Hoffman v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-sentencing decontrolled-substances drug-conviction eighth-circuit federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-enhancement |
Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem… |
| 22-7904 |
Andrew Ryan Demont v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review armed-career-criminal circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-law drug-convictions federal-guidelines federal-sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of decontrolled substances can be used for federal sentencing enhancements |
| 22-7875 |
J Reyes-Carrillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-procedure statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7831 |
Charles A. McRae v. Shannon N. Myers, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-06-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation legal-standard sentencing-guidelines standing summary-judgment |
Whether the Appellate Court erred by affirming the district court's decision to deny petitioner's constitutional claims |
| 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? |
| 22-7826 |
Ronell Watson v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment attempted-murder constitutional-rights fifth-amendment jury-instructions premeditation sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-maximum |
Is premeditation an element of attempted murder under the federal system? |
| 22-7833 |
Jeremy Randall Ezell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-presumption reasonableness-standard rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the Court should clarify how a defendant who challenges the substantive reasonableness of a within-Guidelines sentence may rebut an appellate … |
| 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 |
| 22-7823 |
Weston Ray Kubbe v. Utah |
Utah |
2023-06-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment criminal-defendants criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause |
Equal protection in sentencing for criminal defendants |
| 22-7806 |
Travis Charles Werkmeister v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-offense drug-trafficking federal-sentencing-guidelines mens-rea methamphetamine-importation scienter-requirement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the two-level enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1(b)(5) requires the government to establish the defendant's knowledge that the methamphetamine… |
| 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 |
| 22-7791 |
Clark Downs v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-06-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
15-year-old circuit-court-review criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-sentencing interstate-commerce safety-valve sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction sexual-exploitation visual-depiction |
WHETHER THE EVIDENCE WAS LEGALLY INSUFFICIENT AS TO THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE ELEMENT ON COUNT ONE, WHICH CHARGED SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF A FIFTEEN YEAR … |
| 22-7792 |
Diante Turman v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-06-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act circuit-court-review circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-conviction criminal-procedure district-court-discretion drug-offense drug-schedule drug-schedules federal-sentencing federal-sentencing federal-sentencing
22-7791" mcneill-precedent mcneill-v-united-states safety-valve sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction Whether the district court erred at sentencing in |
Does McNeill require courts to define 'controlled substance offenses' under Section 4B1.2(b) to include convictions under laws encompassing substances… |
| 22-7796 |
Jose Alfredo Perez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review case-specific-facts criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fifth-circuit sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance upward-variance |
Whether a district court's mere recitation of the sentencing statute absent any application of case-specific facts is sufficient to support a five-yea… |
| 22-7771 |
Jaden Rene Johnson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583 acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-sentencing due-process federal-procedure incarceration liberty liberty-deprivation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the District Court unreasonably sentenced Petitioner to a higher than necessary sentence by denying Petitioner's points for acceptance of resp… |
| 22-7772 |
Stanley Jackson, III v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process jury-factfinding jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Constitution requires an indictment, jury trial, and proof beyond a reasonable doubt to find a defendant's prior convictions were 'committ… |
| 22-1203 |
Alan Patrick Fowler v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-13 |
Denied |
|
confrontation-clause confrontation-right constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mens-rea mental-health sentencing specific-intent |
Whether there is insufficient evidence of specific intent to commit murder |
| 22-7755 |
Jerome Williams v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-06-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance federal-sentencing-guidelines mcneill-precedent mcneill-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines state-drug-laws |
Does McNeill require courts to define 'controlled substance' under §§ 4B1.1 and 4B1.2 of the federal sentencing guidelines by consulting superseded st… |
| 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' |
| 22-7740 |
Chelsea Shannon McIntyre v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion policy predicate-convictions sentencing-guidelines |
Did Ms. McIntyre receive due process of law where the district applied Career Offender Guidelines, lacking a sound basis in policy, and leading to a c… |
| 22-1195 |
Phillip Robinson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-06-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
acquitted-conduct criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury has acquitted … |
| 22-7733 |
Ahmad Salti v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-06-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apportioned-restitution apportionment-of-liability co-defendant-liability credits-for-payments criminal-procedure criminal-restitution criminal-sentencing joint-and-several-liability payment-credits |
Whether a defendant whose restitution obligation is apportioned is entitled to joint and several credits for payments made by a co-defendant who owes … |
| 22-7725 |
James Earl Green, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court of appeals to reweigh the sentencing factors? |
| 22-7716 |
Minnela Moore v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-06-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-law drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-offense sentencing-guidelines state-drug-offenses statutory-interpretation |
Whether the term 'controlled substance' from the 'controlled substance offense' definition in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) is limited to substances that are fe… |
| 22-7722 |
Félix Vega-La Torres v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ancestry constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing Does the State Court Decision to deny Petitioner's due-process economic-status equal-justice equal-protection
22-7721" ethnicity federal-prosecution federal-questions guidelines-interpretation judicial-bias national-origin petition-for-appeal puerto-rico-defendants race reversible-error sentencing-discrimination state-court-decision |
Does a federal judge's increased sentence targeting a Puerto Rico defendant for higher punishment violate constitutional, statutory, and guidelines pr… |
| 22-7723 |
Wesley Jorome Harris v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment parole sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 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 |
| 22-7703 |
Jacob Patrick Krafft v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness within-guidelines-sentence |
How does a court of appeals determine whether a defendant has rebutted the presumption of reasonableness when the defendant is challenging the substan… |
| 22-7690 |
Rodney Raphael Fluckes v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-law federal-act federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether 'controlled substance[s]' in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines §4B1.2(b) are limited to those substances defined and regulated under the feder… |
| 22-7683 |
Michael Dewayne Alfred v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2259 causal-role causation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing restitution sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum victim-compensation |
Whether the district court's restitution order exceeds the statutory maximum under 18 U.S.C. § 2259(b)(2) when it fails to consider the measure of los… |
| 22-7685 |
Satish Kartan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compelled-testimony-withdrawal court-precedent due-process forced-labor griffin-v-california prosecutor-comments right-to-testify rock-v-arkansas sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court violated Kastan's right to testify and the subsequent prosecutor's comments, 'The defendants don't like answering questions… |
| 22-7687 |
James Jones v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion retroactive-application self-defense statutory-interpretation verbal-threat |
Whether a defendant may assert self-defense against a verbal threat even if the victim did not act on the threat |
| 22-7670 |
Lonnie Burdette Porter v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency firearm-possession sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in finding sufficient evidence to convict the defendant under 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) based solely on the defendant's ack… |
| 22-7675 |
Quanathan Naiji Knox Ivery v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-05-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-sentencing decontrolled-substances drug-conviction eighth-circuit federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-enhancement |
Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem… |
| 22-7676 |
Rene Lugo-Barcenas v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-05-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights drug-purity due-process equal-protection methamphetamine methamphetamine-sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment ussg-2d1.1 |
Does the fifth amendment's due process and equal protection rights guard against disparate sentences created by the Methamphetamine Drug Table under U… |
| 22-7659 |
Darrien D. Johnson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing first-step-act judicial-discretion motion-to-reduce sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the District Court abused its discretion when it denied Petitioner's motion for a reduced sentence under the First Step Act of 2018 |
| 22-7650 |
Nolan Washington v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in its interpretation of 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f)(1) |
| 22-7618 |
Dennis Dewayne Jackson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-05-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment first-time-offender non-violent-offense non-violent-offenses procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines |
whether-the-sentence-of-138-months'-imprisonment-imposed-on-a-first-time-offender-violated-the-eighth-amendment-prohibition-against-cruel-and-unusual-… |
| 22-7606 |
Yvette Crystal Wade v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1951 18-usc-924 crime-of-violence elements-clause hobbs-act physical-force sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951 is a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A) |
| 22-7588 |
Eric Lee Coleman v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-05-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affirmative-defense categorical-approach criminal-law due-process judicial-interpretation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-analysis statutory-interpretation |
Whether a court must consider the availability (or non-availability) of an affirmative defense in the categorical approach |
| 22-7580 |
Victor Alfredo Bermudez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing notice-of-objection preservation-of-error preservation-of-objection procedural-error sentencing standard-of-review supervisory-powers trial-court-notice |
Whether a specific objection must be lodged to preserve a procedural error claim when the trial court was put on notice of the objection through defen… |
| 22-7585 |
Enrique Roberto Villarreal v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 22-7552 |
Jeffrey Christopher Anders v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-05-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense deference-to-agency-interpretation genuine-ambiguity guidelines-commentary inchoate-offenses judicial-deference sentencing-guidelines |
Whether courts may defer to guidelines commentary without first determining that the underlying Guideline is genuinely ambiguous |
| 22-7523 |
Samuel Caison v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-05-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment incarceration mental-health nature-of-crime personal-characteristics sentencing-court sentencing-guidelines |
Whether imposing a period of incarceration that is within the Sentencing Guidelines range can be considered cruel and unusual punishment when the offe… |
| 22-7518 |
John William Iron Road v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-05-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing proximate-causation proximate-cause restitution restitution-award sentencing statutory-interpretation unlawful-award |
Whether an appellate court should enforce an appeal waiver where the appeal challenges an unlawful restitution award? |
| 22-7498 |
Joel Armando Rodriguez v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cooperating-defendants cooperating-witnesses criminal-procedure drug-weight fourth-circuit methamphetamine offense-level plea-bargaining relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the district court improperly expanded Guideline § 1B1.3 by including as relevant drug weight uncorroborated statements of two cooperating def… |
| 22-7502 |
Anthony Gilbert-Brown v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment police-conduct seizure sentencing-guidelines standing supreme-court-review use-of-force |
Whether Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming Gilbert-Brown was seized |
| 22-7480 |
Elbert Silas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process index-of informed-consent procedural-rights reason-for-granting-the-writ sentencing-guidelines |
Whether Mr. Silas's due process rights were violated |
| 22-7439 |
Julio Osorio v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-law guideline-interpretation ransom-crime sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
whether-the-5th-circuit-erred-in-applying-a-6-point-enhancement-for-crimes-against-government-to-crimes-against-civilians |
| 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… |
| 22-7444 |
Julio Gonzalez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administration-of-justice base-offense-level cocaine-possession criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing culpability culpability-assessment drug-quantity fifth-circuit sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law when it conducted a cursory review of the facts |
| 22-1063 |
Tennessee v. Tyshon Booker |
Tennessee |
2023-05-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
8th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment graham-v-florida juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama sentencing-guidelines term-of-years-sentences |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits term-of-years sentences that effectively deny juvenile offenders a meaningful opportunity for release |
| 22-7418 |
Sammy Redi Araya v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-fraud government-failure judicial-discretion loss-amount loss-calculation plea-bargaining sentencing-courts sentencing-guidelines victim-losses |
Whether a sentencing court is required to verify actual or intended victim losses when applying a U.S. Sentencing Guidelines enhancement |
| 22-7432 |
Willie Glover, Jr. v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2023-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment executive-order human-rights recidivism sentencing-guidelines standing |
Whether the D.C. Court of Appeals erred in treating the case as subject to harmless error analysis when the error was structural in nature |
| 22-7385 |
Timothy Eugene Brown v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-04-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-offender controlled-substance controlled-substances eleventh-circuit federal-enhancement florida-priors sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-law state-priors |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in its decision in United States v. Jackson |
| 22-1043 |
Joshua Louis Rupp v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-04-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split due-process government-inducement plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the government's advocacy for higher sentencing guidelines at sentencing than estimated during plea negotiations renders the plea unknowing an… |
| 22-7379 |
Igor Grushko v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement loss-calculation probable-cause reasonableness reasonableness-standard search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the police entering a residence to execute a search warrant must possess probable cause that the person they are seeking is inside the residen… |
| 22-7359 |
Devin Baker v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-04-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-convictions drug-offense federal-sentencing prior-convictions sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Can a federal judge impose a sentence enhancement based on a prior drug conviction inclusive of a substance that is no longer controlled at the time o… |
| 22-7361 |
Demonte Tretion Kelly v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process intellectual-disability miscarriage-of-justice sentencing-guidelines |
Whether appellate waivers in federal criminal cases contain an implied exception for miscarriage-of-justice |
| 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 in denying petitioner's motion for a sentence reduction under the First Step Act |
| 22-7354 |
Rafael L. Beier v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining section-2255-motion sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Did the Ninth Circuit err in summarily denying a certificate of appealability that would allow an appeal from an order denying a motion to vacate, set… |
| 22-7308 |
Jose Alfredo Solis v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-appeals guidelines-range harmless-error sentencing-guidelines standard-of-proof |
What standard of proof must the government meet to prove a preserved Guidelines error is harmless? |
| 22-7288 |
Gilberto Gonzalez-Enriquez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process error-calculation harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review u.s-sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a sentencing court can insulate a substantial error in calculating the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines range from appellate review simply by assert… |
| 22-7289 |
Terrick Bishoff v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review application-notes circuit-court circuit-split criminal-intent deference firearms-trafficking gun-transfer sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the First Circuit erred in concluding that the enhancement for trafficking in firearms set out in U.S.S.G. §2K2.1(b)(5) applies to someone who… |
| 22-7290 |
Michael Kenneth Howard v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure district-court fourth-circuit right-to-appeal sentencing-guidelines waiver waiver-of-appeal |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by ruling that Mr. Howard waived his right to appeal whether the District Court erred by not applying Acceptance of R… |
| 22-7296 |
Nathan Karl Thomas v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process legal-review plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation substantive-review supreme-court-petition |
Did the Sentencing Court give Petitioner a Substantively Reasonable Sentence? |
| 22-7273 |
Fidelmar Hernandez-Jimenez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review conflict-with-other-courts criminal-procedure district-court district-court-error holguin-hernandez judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines substantial-argument substantial-arguments |
Whether a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails to reference or address substantial arguments for a sentence outside the Gui… |
| 22-7258 |
Brian Marc Fraser v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravated-robbery amendment commission-amendment criminal-classification due-process enumerated-offense robbery robbery-definition sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result if the court of appeals were permitted to consider the Commission's Proposed Amendment… |
| 22-7263 |
Christopher L. Ramirez v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances due-process equal-protection federal-law sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether 'controlled substance offenses' under United States Sentencing Guidelines §4B1.2(b) are limited to those offenses involving substances listed … |
| 22-7243 |
Mario Roberto Bonilla-Diaz v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-04-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment illegal-reentry immigration-law in-absentia removal-order sentencing-guideline sentencing-guidelines |
Whether Mr. Bonilla-Diaz's in absentia removal order, which issued when he was ten years old and forms the basis for his illegal reentry conviction, i… |
| 22-7231 |
James Sonny Alaniz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment gall-standard gall-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-due-process upward-departure |
Whether the Court of Appeals holding that a sentencing court is not required to use the incremental steps in Section 4A1 -3(a)(4)(B) in an upward depa… |
| 22-7233 |
Justin Heath Thomas v. California |
California |
2023-04-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-punishment constitutional-requirement criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process jury-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt ring-v-arizona statutory-maximum |
Whether California's death penalty scheme violates the constitutional requirement that any fact, other than a prior conviction, that serves to increas… |
| 22-7224 |
Trinidad Walter Encarnacion-Pascual v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-precedent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7192 |
Dan Pizarro v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consecutive-sentences criminal-sentencing district-court-authority district-court-discretion federal-criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction future-events future-sentence-commencement judicial-sentencing-power sentencing-authority setser-v-united-states |
Does a district court exceed its authority by expressly or effectively ordering its sentence to run consecutively to a sentence in another federal cas… |
| 22-7160 |
Daniel J. Rios v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2023-03-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-challenge court-rule criminal-sentencing due-process federal-case-law post-conviction-relief post-conviction-review rehabilitation rehabilitative-efforts sentencing state-court-decisions |
Whether Rule 3:21-10(b) authorizes a reviewing court to reconsider a sentence based upon post-conviction rehabilitative efforts |
| 22-947 |
Tyler G. Williams v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-03-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-requirements criminal-sentencing due-process jury-trial prior-convictions proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt sentencing-enhancement |
Whether the Constitution requires an indictment, jury trial, and proof beyond a reasonable doubt to find that a defendant's prior convictions were 'co… |
| 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 |
| 22-7096 |
Appellant 1 and Appellant 2 v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-discretion appellate-procedure breach constitutional contract-interpretation cooperation-agreement crime-of-violence judicial-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Was it unconstitutional and improper for the Fifth Circuit to rely on the government's newly argued application of an undefined contract provision to … |
| 22-7101 |
Charles Eugene Nolden v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 abuse-of-discretion compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-sentencing federal-statute sentence-reduction sentencing third-circuit |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit abused its discretion in denying Nolden's Motion for Compassionate Release/Reduction … |
| 22-7106 |
Brian Keith Wells, aka B. K. Wells v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
counsel-denial criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing ineffective-assistance procedural-review role-enhancement sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment sixth-circuit substantive-reasonableness ussg-3b1.1 |
Whether Mr. Wells' request for new counsel should have been granted |
| 22-7061 |
Lorenzo Elias Mendez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-statute first-amendment minor-exploitation sentencing-guidelines sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation |
Whether the statutory term 'lascivious exhibition' refers to the defendant's act of exhibiting a minor's genitals on film, or to a particular type of … |
| 22-7070 |
Kenneth Douglas Clark, III v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2023-03-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th and 8th Amendment rights by refusing to drop char and allowing a biased jury verdict excluding his self-defense claim constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-bias jury-exclusion prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense sentencing sentencing-guidelines trial-procedure |
Whether the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania violated the Petitioner's 5th and 6th Amendment rights by refusing to drop all charges against him, denying h… |
| 22-7055 |
Terrindez Xsidrick Bryant v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-03-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines booker-kimbrough-precedent district-court district-court-authority judicial-discretion kimbrough-v-united-states methamphetamine methamphetamine-sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance united-states-v-booker |
Whether a sentence imposed after a district court states it is not the proper forum for addressing flawed Guidelines, and essentially treating Sentenc… |
| 22-7059 |
Aaron M. Haynes v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-03-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-history-points criminal-justice federal-sentencing first-step-act mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation |
Whether the 'and' in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f)(1) means 'and' or 'or' |
| 22-7037 |
Mario Albert Villegas v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-851 advisory-sentencing-guidelines constitutional-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-procedure strickland-standard strickland-v-washington u-s-c-section-851 |
Whether defense counsel's failure to advise a client of increased sentencing exposure under 21 U.S.C. § 851, and failure to correctly calculate the ad… |
| 22-7014 |
Michael Hucks v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alternate-sentence appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-notice criminal-procedure fourth-circuit guideline-errors harmless-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit's reliance on an announced alternate variant sentence to assume as harmless all Guid… |
| 22-6973 |
Joseph Woloszyn v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-threat drug-addiction due-process preponderance-of-evidence probation-violation revocation-hearing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release uncorroborated-statements |
Did Woloszyn's Uncorroborated Statements to the Probation Officer Prove Woloszyn Violated the Terms of His Supervised Release? |
| 22-6936 |
Edson Gelin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-procedure first-step-act ineffective-assistance murder-conviction ninth-circuit sentencing-guidelines sentencing-policy state-court statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's holding in Bryant that the policy statement in USSG §1B1.13 applies to all motions under 18 U.S.C. §3582(c)(1)(A) confl… |
| 22-6940 |
Leon Little v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (9)IFP |
criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial preponderance-of-evidence sixth-amendment uncharged-conduct |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentencing on uncharged conduct |
| 22-6945 |
Derrick Owens v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
7th-circuit appellate-review career-offender circuit-court-split circuit-split cocaine-conviction cocaine-convictions federal-law sentencing-guidelines |
Did the district court err in finding Mr. Owens a Career Offender under the Sentencing Guidelines |
| 22-6927 |
Derrick Deshon Collins v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-presumption appellate-review certiorari criminal-procedure fifth-circuit presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness within-guidelines-sentence |
How does a court of appeals determine whether a defendant has rebutted the presumption of reasonableness when the defendant is challenging the substan… |
| 22-6908 |
Eduardo Guadalupe Melendrez-Soberanes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof case-agent-testimony criminal-procedure drug-quantity drug-trafficking due-process evidence fifth-circuit photographic-evidence sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming a district court's reliance on a case agent's approximation of the weight of unseized cocaine based prima… |
| 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 |
| 22-6853 |
Joshua Seekins v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-possession due-process federalism harmless-error interstate-commerce jurisdictional-issue second-amendment sentencing-guidelines |
Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate possession of ammunition solely because it crossed state lines at some point before it came into the defen… |
| 22-6838 |
Demetri D. Beachem, aka Demetrius D. Beachem v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (9)IFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-plea miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a court can consider dismissed or uncharged conduct in sentencing |
| 22-6839 |
Michael O. Brown v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender circuit-court-precedent conspiracy conspiracy-conviction criminal-career-offender prior-convictions sentence-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit state-convictions |
Whether the court erred in failing to grant appellant relief from his sentence enhancement based upon his prior state convictions |
| 22-6816 |
Montray Lorenzo Cato v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 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) |
| 22-6815 |
David E. Merry v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-02-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (7)IFP |
acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing (enhancing) a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury ha… |
| 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' |
| 22-6808 |
Erich Deolax Riker v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-02-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fact-finding federal-sentencing jury-finding jury-trial sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
Whether a factual finding that is necessary to render a federal sentence substantively reasonable must be found by a jury beyond a reasonable doubt |
| 22-6736 |
Justin D. Martin v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (8)IFP |
acquittal criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-acquittal jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury has acquitted … |
| 22-6732 |
David Alvarado-Rios v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-discretion presumption-of-reasonableness rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
How does a defendant who challenges the substantive reasonableness of a within-Guidelines sentence rebut an appellate presumption of reasonableness? |
| 22-6706 |
Darin M. Ogden v. Idaho |
Idaho |
2023-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquittal criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-acquittal lewd-conduct sentencing united-states-v-watts |
Whether the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits a state court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a … |
| 22-6717 |
Vontez Scales, aka Tez v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split civil-rights controlled-substance criminal-law delivery-definition due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether prior convictions for inchoate offenses involving 'delivery' of controlled substances, where the state statute includes 'attempted transfer' a… |
| 22-6718 |
Justin Stabler v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 abuse-of-discretion alcohol-consumption criminal-sentencing electronic-searches section-3553a sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness supervised-release |
Whether the 120-month sentence is substantively unreasonable |
| 22-6705 |
Charles Wesley Clearwater v. K. Bennett, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process inmate-rights rdap rdap-program residual-clause time-credit vagueness |
Is it a violation of an inmate's Constitutional Rights to due process to use the Residual Clause criteria to deny him from receiving the one-year time… |
| 22-6666 |
Leonel Ruiz-Lopez v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-statute hughey-v-united-states legal-definition restitution sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation title-18 victim-and-witness-protection-act victim-restitution |
What does an 'offense' mean for purposes of restitution awards under the VWPA? |
| 22-706 |
Timothy Howard Spriggs v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-01-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance private-property residence rv search sentencing-guidelines utilities warrantless-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment permits the warrantless search of an immobile RV |
| 22-707 |
Barry J. Cadden v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-01-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split criminal-sentencing objective-standard objective-test reckless-risk sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines subjective-test u.s.s.g.-3a1.1(b) vulnerable-victim vulnerable-victim-enhancement |
Did the District Court clearly err in applying a four-point 'vulnerable victim' enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 3A1.1(b) to defendant's sentence, absent … |
| 22-6651 |
Michael Vanous v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure guidelines ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion jury pretrial-proceedings sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Was defense counsel ineffective in the pretrial proceedings? |
| 22-6626 |
Jonathan Jefferson Ferris v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-authority due-process federal-sentencing judicial-authority judicial-delegation probation-officer sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers supervised-release |
Does Standard Condition 12 unconstitutionally delegate judicial authority to the probation officer? |
| 22-6627 |
Kenneth Mobley v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process jurisdiction loss-calculation restitution restitution-order sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness |
Was Mr. Mobley's sentence procedurally and substantively unreasonable |
| 22-6628 |
Johnell Lewis Britton, Sr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure fact-specific-reasons federal-sentencing judicial-discretion non-guidelines-sentences procedural-error reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether district courts are required to articulate fact-specific reasons for imposing non-guidelines sentences? |
| 22-6637 |
Roberto Francisco-Francisco v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-6616 |
Brian Cota v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process notice plea-bargaining plea-negotiation sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
Whether the court of appeals erred by concluding that Mr. Cota can be subject to a life time of supervised release, and thereby a lifetime of revocati… |
| 22-6591 |
Alecia Trapps v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance-offense federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law |
Whether federal law or state law governs what constitutes a 'controlled substance offense' under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.1(a) |
| 22-6571 |
Marcus Wayne Covington v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-01-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bond-hearing civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel public-defender sentencing-guidelines sentencing-report standing |
Whether the Court of Appeals failed to properly consider or address the Court's abuse of discretion |
| 22-6555 |
Steven Charles Hill v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-01-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process evidence-sufficiency jury-verdict life-sentence proportionality sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence |
Was the evidence sufficient to sustain the jury's guilty verdict? |
| 22-6558 |
Roshua Marquiston White v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-sentencing minimal-role minor-role sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of a minor or minimal role reduction under the Sentencing Guidelines without … |
| 22-6560 |
Candido Gomez-Santacruz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a district-court-discretion federal-sentencing gall-v-united-states imprisonment-duration prior-term-of-imprisonment sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness |
Whether a district court may, consistent with 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a), treat the duration of a prior term of imprisonment as a floor or baseline on its se… |
| 22-6564 |
Sohiel Omar Kabir v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split co-conspirator control-over-co-participants criminal-enhancement leader-organizer-enhancement leader-role ninth-circuit second-fourth-sixth-eleventh-dc-circuits sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines |
Does the aggravating role enhancement for 'leader[s]' or 'organizer[s]' of concerted criminal activity in section 3B1.1(c) of the United States Senten… |
| 22-653 |
Melvin Ray v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abduction abduction-definition circuit-split criminal-procedure different-location guideline-commentary judicial-interpretation sentencing-guidelines stinson-v-united-states |
Whether the failure to follow the commentary's abduction definition engendered a broad circuit split — and if so, do it show that the victims were 'ab… |
| 22-6545 |
Kamil Hakeem Johnson v. R. M. Wolfe, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge sentencing-discretion sentencing-options statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court had jurisdiction to impose a term-of-years sentence when the statute only provided for death or life imprisonment without p… |
| 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 |
| 22-6540 |
Brandon Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-case-requirement categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing gonzales-v-duenas-alvarez precedent sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states |
When the underlying state statute is plainly broader than the generic definition of a criminal sentencing enhancement provision, must the defendant al… |
| 22-644 |
Anthony Lomax v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-01-11 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
auer-deference career-offender career-offender-enhancement circuit-split crime-of-violence judicial-interpretation kisor-v-wilkie seminole-rock sentencing-guidelines |
Whether courts must determine if a sentencing guideline is ambiguous before deferring to the Sentencing Commission's commentary |
| 22-6520 |
Tiffany Franklin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-01-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-position-of-trust circuit-split criminal-sentencing fiduciary-duty position-of-trust sentencing-enhancement ussg-3b1.3 ussg-guideline vault-teller |
Whether a two-point enhancement for the abuse of position of trust under USSG § 3B1.3 should apply to a vault teller whose job duties do not rise to t… |
| 22-6502 |
Jerry Joseph Higdon, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge procedural-bar sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit is using its procedural bar rules in a manner inconsistent with the United States … |
| 22-6515 |
Christopher Raiche v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment disproportionate-sentence eighth-amendment first-time-offender grossly-disproportionate life-sentence non-violent-crime sentencing |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against grossly disproportionate prison sentences was triggered by the imposition of a de facto life senten… |
| 22-6443 |
Daquan Madrid Pridgen v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process rule-of-lenity sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation structural-error |
Whether the district court committed structural error by finding that the sentence for a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113(e) should be 10 years to life i… |
| 22-6407 |
Steven L. Haden v. California |
California |
2022-12-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
categorical-approach criminal-sentencing descamps-v-united-states elements-test mathis-v-united-states prior-conviction prior-conviction-enhancement retroactivity sixth-amendment teague-doctrine |
Are the Sixth Amendment holdings of Descamps v. United States and Mathis v. United States fully retroactive? |
| 22-6395 |
Bryan Wolfe v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process mental-condition mental-health multi-offense-adjustment notice racial-animus rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-guidelines upward-departure |
Was there adequate notice of a departure the night before sentencing, as to allow Wolfe a fair opportunity to rebut the claims that increased his sent… |
| 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… |
| 22-6376 |
Marcus Joseph v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2022-12-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
arbitrary-suspension civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus proportionality-review sentencing-guidelines state-court |
Whether the Respondent's arbitrary suspension of the writ of habeas corpus is constitutional |
| 22-6379 |
Leetavious Gaines v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-12-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release defendant-motion district-court-discretion first-step-act policy-statement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether Section 1B1.13 of the United States Sentencing Guidelines is an 'applicable' policy statement that binds the district court in considering a d… |
| 22-6364 |
Fairly W. Earls v. Federal Bureau of Prisons |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-12-21 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
concurrent-sentences consecutive-sentences constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process federal-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-sentence |
Whether Earls should have to serve the same Federal Sentence a Second Time |
| 22-6344 |
Bryshun Genard Furlow v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance-offense criminal-procedure drug-conviction fourth-circuit mandate-rule prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erroneously refused to apply its intervening case law to Furlow's case, incorrectly applying the mandate rule |
| 22-6329 |
Phosavan Khamnivong v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment bodily-injury due-process fifth-amendment firearm-enhancement jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth Amendment is violated when courts impose sentences that, but for a judge-found fact, would be reversed for substantive unreasonablen… |
| 22-6316 |
Kalvin Walker v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court guideline-range harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines |
Whether errors in calculating the Sentencing Guidelines are automatically rendered harmless by a district court's statement that the correctness of th… |
| 22-6307 |
John Homer Legros, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-law drug-offense federal-jurisdiction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether 'Conspiracy' to Commit a Crime is a Controlled Substance Offense as defined under the United States Sentencing Guidelines Section §4B1.2 |
| 22-542 |
Tavaris Betts v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-12-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary circuit-split criminal-sentencing generic-burglary intent-requirement specific-intent statutory-interpretation |
Whether a State's no-intent burglary statute qualifies as generic burglary under the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 22-6303 |
Steven Riad Jalloul v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit judicial-discretion plea-agreement plea-bargaining restitution sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the language in a defendant's plea agreement requiring the defendant to pay 'whatever restitution is ordered' is sufficiently specific to cons… |
| 22-6306 |
Marion Joseph Hare v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affirmative-force borden-v-united-states causation-of-injury circuit-split criminal-statute force-clause sentencing-guideline sentencing-guidelines violent-force |
Whether a statute that only requires causation-of-injury and not the affirmative application of force satisfies the violent-force requirement? |
| 22-6288 |
Mangwiro Sadiki-Yisrael v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
base-offense-level first-degree-murder guilty-plea mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states rico-conspiracy sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-max |
Whether the government must prove a defendant's mens rea and knowledge of first-degree murder to establish the statutory max and base offense level un… |
| 22-6264 |
Randall Eddie Mellon v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-12-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law agency-deference auer-deference circuit-split judicial-review relevant-conduct seminole-rock-deference sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether Kisor constrains the deference courts may accord to the commentary to the Sentencing Guidelines |
| 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 |
| 22-6255 |
Deonte Courtez Gates v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
blakely-v-washington circuit-court-conflict constitutional-interpretation eighth-amendment federal-law juvenile-defendant relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the relevant conduct sentencing guideline is unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment as applied to conduct committed by a juvenile defenda… |
| 22-6216 |
Jonny Shineflew v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure guideline-offense integrated-agreement plea-agreement prosecutor prosecutorial-discretion sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines |
Whether an integrated plea agreement allows the prosecutor to go outside that agreement and urge a sentencing enhancement not integrated into the Agre… |
| 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 |
| 22-6210 |
Aaron Michael Crick v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-12-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing downward-variance fourth-amendment fourth-circuit judicial-discretion motion-denial reversible-error sentencing |
Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by denying Mr. Crick's meritorious argument that the district court committed reversible error by de… |
| 22-6212 |
Eric Cain v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-12-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (9)IFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines fifth-amendment jury-trial-right sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth Amendment jury trial right or the Fifth Amendment Due Process Clause bars a court from imposing a more severe criminal sentence base… |
| 22-6214 |
Timothy Robert Gallion v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-12-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fourth-circuit sentence-credit sentencing-credit sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by dismissing Mr. Gallion's meritorious argument that the district court committed reversible error … |
| 22-6166 |
Raymond Mendez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-review criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-procedure sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervisory-power |
Whether the Ninth Circuit has sanctioned serial departures by the district court from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings |
| 22-6130 |
Darvill Jimmy Joseph Bragg v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-11-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing gonzales-v-duenas-alvarez mens-rea sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states |
Whether plainly overbroad statutory language is sufficient to establish a prior state conviction is broader than the generic definition of a criminal … |
| 22-6134 |
Eugene Riley III v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment constitutional-violation criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment de-facto-life-sentence due-process juvenile-justice juvenile-offenders miller-v-alabama mitigating-factors sentencing-guidelines |
Did the State Court violate the U.S. Constitution when it imposed a 32 year sentence when it disregarded the mitigating factors laid out in Miller v. … |
| 22-6137 |
Bryan Thornton v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court first-step-act intervening-legal-developments legal-developments retroactivity section-404(b) sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court must or may consider intervening legal developments when deciding to impose a reduced sentence under the First Step Act of 20… |
| 22-6138 |
Michael Lindell Teasley v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure district-court due-process eighth-circuit equal-protection judicial-discretion non-violent-offenses sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, South on Piswier of Iowa, abused its discretion by violating the Cera Feendeg guidelines, which t… |
| 22-6117 |
Tracy Lamont Miles v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-question sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the term 'controlled substance' from the 'controlled substance offense' definition in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) is limited to substances that are fe… |
| 22-6128 |
Christopher Erwin v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 circuit-split cooperation-agreement downward-departure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-colloquy section-2255-motion sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum |
Did the Circuit Court err in denying Petitioner's motion for ineffective-assistance-of-counsel without a hearing? |
| 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… |
| 22-6094 |
William Milton v. California |
California |
2022-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing descamps-v-united-states due-process mathis-v-united-states prior-conviction-enhancement retroactivity sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent |
Are the Sixth Amendment holdings of Descamps v. United States, 570 U.S. 254 (2013) and Mathis v. United States, 579 U.S. 500 (2016) fully retroactive |
| 22-6088 |
Tupoutoe Mataele v. California |
California |
2022-11-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment aggravating-circumstances constitutional-requirements criminal-sentencing death-penalty jury-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt |
Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement that every fact, other than a prior conviction, that serves to increase the statutory m… |
| 22-6063 |
Naomi Michelle Gutierrez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-circuit criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process fifth-circuit firearm-enhancement presumption sentencing-guidelines tools-of-the-trade |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's practice of applying a tools-of-the-trade presumption to the firearm enhancement of sentencing guidelines §2D1.1(b)(1) vio… |
| 22-6076 |
Joseph Rauber v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-11-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-offenses mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing-statute statutory-interpretation |
Whether 'and' means 'and' for the purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f)(1) |
| 22-5997 |
Tarence Kirkland v. New York |
New York |
2022-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing criminal-verdict cross-examination due-process evidence fair-trial identification legal-sufficiency second-degree-offense weight-of-evidence |
Was the trial court's decision on Rodriguez's identification and use of other crimes and bad acts on cross-examination result in the denial of a fair … |
| 22-5993 |
Malik Ross v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-11-04 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (10)IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment preponderance-of-evidence reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
Does a judge deny a defendant's Fifth Amendment rights by increasing a prison sentence based on disputed facts the Court did not find beyond a reasona… |
| 22-5983 |
Cordavia Daniels v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) age-consideration criminal-appeal criminal-sentencing fifth-circuit mitigating-factors sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by affirming the district court's consideration of Cordavia's age and mitigating factors |
| 22-5979 |
Demetrice R. Devine and Brandon Jowan Mangum v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-11-02 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
blockburger-test consecutive-sentences constitutional-review criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy modified-blockburger new-sentencing-hearings sentencing sentencing-enhancements substantive-reasonableness |
Should this Court adopt the predominant modified Blockburger approach and find the maximum consecutive sentences imposed on the Petitioners on all cou… |
| 22-5962 |
Marquis Donte Brown v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-review post-booker-hearing safety-valve sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court erred by imposing an unlawful sentence contrary to the mandates of § 3553(a) and §3553(f)(5) which preclude use of informat… |
| 22-5929 |
Juan Salvador Cordova-Briseno v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing immigration minor standard-of-review statutory-interpretation unaccompanied-minor |
Did the district court abuse its discretion in applying the 4-level enhancement for transporting an unaccompanied minor under U.S.S.G. § 2L1.1(b)(4)? |
| 22-5914 |
Dominique Lamar Johnson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583 administrative-violations criminal-procedure criminal-supervision district-court-discretion due-process liberty liberty-deprivation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the District Court acted excessively by sentencing Petitioner to a sentence two and half times above the supervision guideline range for admin… |
| 22-5893 |
Christopher Tavaris Dean v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-exception apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing jury-clause prior-record-exception prison-releasee-reoffender sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment state-prison |
Whether a sentencing court violates the Sixth Amendment's Jury Clause when it rather than the jury finds that the defendant committed the offense with… |
| 22-5897 |
Unises Chapotin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states section-2255 sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Whether the residual clause in Section 4B1.2 of the previously binding United States Sentencing Guidelines is void for vagueness pursuant to Johnson v… |
| 22-5877 |
Onterrail Remond Altman, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-10-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-sentencing decontrolled-substances drug-convictions eighth-circuit federal-sentencing prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement |
Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem… |
| 22-5879 |
Eugene Thurman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law appellate-review controlled-substance criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err in deferring to the Sentencing Commission's use of commentary to expand the definition of 'controlled subst… |
| 22-5870 |
Rodney Marshall v. Brian Williams, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fair-trial ninth-circuit sentencing |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred by denying a certificate of appealability on the question of whether Mr. Marshall's right to be free from double jeopa… |
| 22-5847 |
Lindsey Orr v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion judicial-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation term-of-imprisonment |
When are the 3553(c) factors satisfied? |
| 22-5828 |
DeShaun Bullock v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-10-14 |
Denied |
Relisted (10)IFP |
acquittal criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy fifth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-acquittal sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury has acquitted … |
| 22-5842 |
Lex Lugard Eugene v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-10-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-sentencing first-amendment fourteenth-amendment habitual-felony-offender-statute sixth-amendment unsubstantiated-allegations |
Whether unsubstantiated allegations of misconduct introduced in a criminal sentencing proceeding violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 22-5843 |
Clifton William Batts v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-10-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-protections criminal-sentencing custody-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law habeas-corpus post-conviction standing state-procedure |
What is the timeline for Ordeg_ habesS Corpys, Dy deadina, Judge. Assigued to hobers on liberty Bie Enterest oF STARS PUY sone 'Ni Custady LN A\\nolab… |
| 22-5832 |
Robert Joseph Schmitt v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-10-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
concurrent-sentences criminal-sentencing cumulation due-process legislative-intent sentence-cumulation statutory-interpretation texas-law texas-legislature trial-court |
Was respondent denied due process of law when the trial court cumulated respondent's two twenty year sentences when the law in effect enacted by the T… |
| 22-5833 |
Carlos Alejandro Zuniga-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administration-of-justice criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure federal-law fifth-circuit leader-organizer-role leader-role preponderance-of-evidence sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law in sentencing review |
| 22-348 |
Floyd Tayler v. Washington |
Washington |
2022-10-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
aggravating-factors criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing domestic-violence jury-instruction jury-instructions pattern-aggravator reasonable-doubt statutory-interpretation unanimity |
Must the jury be unanimously instructed to find each underlying domestic violence incident beyond a reasonable doubt? |
| 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 |
| 22-5816 |
Tony Lam v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-841 career-offender conspiracy conspiracy-offense controlled-substance ineffective-assistance legislative-authority legislative-delegation sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines |
Did trial counsel provide ineffective assistance to his client upon his failure to research, investigate, and object to his client's career offender c… |
| 22-336 |
Jason Reed v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-10-11 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-requirements criminal-sentencing due-process jury-trial prior-convictions proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt sentencing-enhancement |
Whether the Constitution requires an indictment, jury trial, and proof beyond a reasonable doubt to find that a defendant's prior convictions were 'co… |
| 22-5788 |
Martin Elliott Brooks v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-10-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split harmless-error judicial-discretion procedural-error rule-52 sentencing-courts sentencing-guidelines |
Whether errors in calculating the Sentencing Guidelines are rendered harmless by the district court's assertion that the Guidelines would make no diff… |
| 22-5769 |
Donovan Lemont Bookman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 22-5730 |
Quincy Campbell v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof coconspirator-testimony criminal-procedure due-process judicial-error relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the district court erred in sentencing the defendant |
| 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… |
| 22-5695 |
Christopher Eric Poore v. California |
California |
2022-09-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-6th-14th-amendments aggravating-circumstances constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process jury-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing |
Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement that every fact that increases the statutory maximum penalty must be found by a jury be… |
| 22-5665 |
Geoffrie Dill v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-09-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-offense federal-jurisdiction federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Does 'controlled substance offense' refer only to substances prohibited by the Controlled Substance Act? |
| 22-5627 |
Justin Tyrone Young v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-09-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion plea-bargaining sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum supreme-court-precedent |
Can a lawyer have his client plead guilty to 20 years on a statutory maximum of 15 years? |
| 22-5580 |
Derrick Dion Ingram v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearm-enhancement firearms guideline-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the commentary to U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(b)(6)(B) is inconsistent with the guideline |
| 22-242 |
Cyrano R. Irons v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-09-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court harmless-error judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure |
Whether errors in calculating the Sentencing Guidelines are rendered categorically harmless by the district court's assertion that the Guidelines woul… |
| 22-5569 |
Dylan Darelle Scott v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-sentencing decontrolled-substances drug-convictions federal-sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem… |
| 22-5576 |
Thoucharin Ruttanamongkongul v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-09-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility human-trafficking sentencing sentencing-guidelines sex-work sexual-offense statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether there was sufficient evidence to convict petitioner for conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking |
| 22-5534 |
Glenn A. Chin v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-forfeiture criminal-sentencing due-process mens-rea reckless-conduct sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation tax-withholding u.s.s.g.-2b1.1 |
Did the District Court clearly err in finding that the defendant's conduct involved a reckless risk of death or serious bodily injury, triggering a se… |
| 22-5507 |
Edward F. Swanson v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-09-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process felony-dismissal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-guidelines strickland-standard |
Whether a judge can dismiss the charges after finding the defendant guilty of a second-degree felony robbery charge |
| 22-5484 |
Erika Perez-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review conflict-with-other-courts criminal-procedure district-court holguin-hernandez judicial-discretion sentencing-argument sentencing-guidelines substantial-arguments |
Whether a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails to reference or address substantial arguments for a sentence outside the Gui… |
| 22-5469 |
Jeffrey Beard, II v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination hearsay hearsay-evidence obstruction-of-justice sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Whether the defendant should have the right to confront a witness whose testimony is offered to enhance the sentencing guidelines sentence for conduct… |
| 22-5474 |
Romney Christopher Ellis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
communication-offense criminal-sentencing harassment intent-to-carry-out overt-acts sentencing sentencing-guidelines threat-enhancement threatening-communications u-s-sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g.-§-2a6.1(b)(1) |
Whether the six-level offense level enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 2A6.1(b)(1) applies when the defendant commits no overt acts in furtherance of the th… |
| 22-5477 |
Tracey L. Brown v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender case-law circuit-split criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process hobbs-act jurisdiction ninth-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Should the Ninth Circuit's decision be vacated due to vacated case law? |
| 22-5466 |
Leonard Andrew v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
significant intellectual deficit and reduced ment criminal-sentencing downward-departure intellectual-deficit judicial-discretion mental-capacity reduced-mental-capacity sentencing sentencing-guidelines USSG-5H1.3 USSG-5K2.13 |
Whether a sentencing court must meaningfully address a defendant's request for a downward departure pursuant to USSG §§ 5H1.3 and 5K2.13 when he has a… |
| 22-5454 |
Jesus Carreon-Grimaldo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction court-of-appeals discretionary-decision discretionary-decisions downward-departure jurisdictional-label sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Does the court of appeals have jurisdiction to review the district court's discretionary decision not to depart below the advisory Sentencing Guidelin… |
| 22-5461 |
James Keith Russey v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance federal-jurisdiction judicial-interpretation legal-uniformity sentencing-guidelines state-law |
Whether the categorical approach requires courts to define Sentencing Guidelines terms like 'controlled substance' uniformly |
| 22-5449 |
Antonio Rodriguez, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-conflict controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense drug-trafficking federal-conviction federal-drug-trafficking federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Is it obvious error to find a prior federal drug trafficking conviction is a 'controlled substance offense' under the Sentencing Guidelines when the s… |
| 22-5427 |
Jade Christian Nichols v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance criminal-procedure federal-law federal-sentencing preemption sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation |
Does a state definition of 'controlled substance' control a federal sentencing enhancement under the Sentencing Guidelines, when the state lists subst… |
| 22-163 |
Lenair Moses v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-08-23 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law agency-deference auer-deference criminal-law judicial-interpretation kisor-v-wilkie precedential-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the limits on agency deference announced in Kisor constrain the deference that courts may accord to the commentary to the Sentencing Guideline… |
| 22-161 |
Robert Nieto and Darrick R. Vallodolid v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-08-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky constitutional-rights equal-protection jury-selection prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the prosecutor's peremptory striking of Hispanic prospective jurors violated the Equal Protection Clause |
| 22-5418 |
Miguel Jesus Rodriguez-Villanueva v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split criminal-sentencing discretionary-decision downward-departure fifth-circuit sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals had appellate jurisdiction to review the district court's discretionary decision not to depart below the ad… |
| 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 |
| 22-5394 |
Eric Christopher Falkowski v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance-act controlled-substances criminal-law due-process enhancement-clause overbreadth sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Whether USSG § 1B1.1's enhancement clause is impermissibly overbroad or void for vagueness |
| 22-5404 |
Charles Anthony Walker, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-08-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
abduction abduction-definition circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure fourth-circuit hobbs-act robbery sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-guidelines |
Whether movement of an employee within the confines of a store qualifies as abduction under U.S.S.G. § 2B3.1(b)(4)(A) |
| 22-5345 |
Gary Paul Karr v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (11)IFP |
acquitted-conduct criminal-sentencing cross-examination due-process fifth-amendment hearsay-statement sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct underlying a charge for which t… |
| 22-5341 |
Ted Amparan v. M. Eliot Spearman, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
alleyene-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-sentencing due-process exhaustion habeas-corpus jury jury-determination sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment |
Should CERTIORARI be granted to review the issues of whether the State violated Supreme Court precedent by having a sentencing judge, not the jury, ma… |
| 22-5342 |
Patrick LaJuan Jones, Jr. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance criminal-procedure federal-law federal-sentencing preemption sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation |
Does a state definition of 'controlled substance' control a federal sentencing enhancement under the Sentencing Guidelines, when the state lists subst… |
| 22-5326 |
Juan Samuel Rodriguez-Huitron v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
clear-error criminal-procedure judicial-review limited-remand plain-error remand sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum substantial-rights |
Whether a limited remand to assess the impact of a plain error on a defendant's substantial rights extends to miscalculations of the statutory maximum |
| 22-5331 |
Mark Anthony Williams v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2022-08-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-sexual-conduct cross-examination cumulative-error due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Insufficient-evidence-to-support-conviction |
| 22-5305 |
Aileen Kogera Njoroge v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-conviction criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fraud identity-theft legal-appeal probation restitution sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence trial-court-discretion |
Whether the district court erred in denying Kogera's motion for judgment of acquittal on the basis of insufficient evidence to support the jury's verd… |
| 22-5313 |
Jesse Rondale Bailey v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a)(6) career-offender criminal-procedure empirical-evidence evidence-based judicial-discretion presumption sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines unwarranted-disparity within-range-sentences |
Whether a court may categorically refuse to consider empirical evidence showing that other judges impose sentences below the guideline range in the va… |
| 22-5314 |
Daniel Ray v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion legal-reasoning rita-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines |
Whether sentencing judges must explain why they have rejected a nonfrivolous argument made by a defendant in favor of a lower sentence |
| 22-118 |
Marquis Shaw v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (12) |
acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process issue-preclusion jury-trial sentencing united-states-v-watts |
Whether the use of acquitted conduct at sentencing violates the Jury Clauses or Due Process Clause |
| 22-5303 |
George Daniel McGavitt v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing minor-sexual-conduct minors sentencing-guidelines sexual-offense-definition sexual-offenses statutory-interpretation |
Whether self-penetration by a minor (not prepubescent) using a benign household item is 'sadistic or masochistic' under USSG § 2G2.1(b)(4)(A) |
| 22-5288 |
Kendale Welborn v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-decision alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-sentencing drug-offenses methamphetamine-actual methamphetamine-mixture plea-bargaining sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Whether the use of Methamphetamine Actual to determine the Guideline Offense Level and potential sentence, when the Defendant was charged with and ple… |
| 22-5253 |
Dennis Charles Helmer v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-08-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release covid-19 criminal-justice-reform first-step-act medical-care sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the District Court erred in denying relief to Petitioner's 18 U.S.C. 3582(c)(1)(A)(i) motion based on the applicability of 18 U.S.C. 3553(a)(2… |
| 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 |
| 22-5265 |
Preston Hester, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-08-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines advisory-range criminal-procedure district-court due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines SORNA SORNA-tier tier-level |
Whether the district court's failure to determine Mr. Hester's correct SORNA tier level in calculating the correct advisory Guideline sentencing range… |
| 22-5237 |
Heather Marie Newhouse v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law controlled-substance-offense criminal-law guideline-commentary inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the United States Sentencing Commission exceeded its authority by adding inchoate offenses to the definition of 'controlled substance offense'… |
| 22-5232 |
Jesus Javier Cruz-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-presumption reasonableness-standard rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the Court should clarify how a defendant who challenges the substantive reasonableness of a within-Guidelines sentence may rebut an appellate … |
| 22-5217 |
Ramell Markus v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-sentencing extreme-physical-pain kidnapping objective-standard sentencing-guidelines serious-bodily-injury subjective-vs-objective |
Is a determination of 'serious bodily injury' based on 'extreme physical pain' a subjective test based on the victim's level of pain tolerance or an o… |
| 22-5204 |
Ramon Belducea-Mancinas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender circuit-conflict controlled-substance drug-trafficking federal-drug-conviction fifth-circuit plain-error sentencing-guidelines |
Is it obvious error to find a prior federal drug trafficking conviction is a 'controlled substance offense' under the Sentencing Guidelines when the s… |
| 22-5185 |
Thomas Creighton Shrader v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583 18-usc-3742 double-jeopardy federal-bureau-of-prisons fifth-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
When the Federal Bureau of Prisons is misapplying 18 U.S.C. 3583(a) [Supervised Release] not only to Petitioner, but to thousands (1000's) of Federal … |
| 22-5156 |
Wilbert McKreith v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compassionate-release criminal-justice-reform criminal-sentencing district-court-authority first-step-act judicial-authority sentencing sentencing-commission statutory-interpretation |
Do district courts have authority to grant compassionate release under 18 U.S.C. 3582(c)(1)(A) |
| 22-5167 |
Regis Storm Ervin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583g constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment mandatory-revocation sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation united-states-v-haymond |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 22-5127 |
Edward Brown v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
co-conspirators double-jeopardy fifth-amendment political-beliefs political-views procedural-reasonableness resentencing sentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines |
Did the district court violate the petitioner's rights under the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment? |
| 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 |
| 22-5105 |
Tanner Lance King v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness within-guidelines-sentence |
How does a court of appeals determine whether a defendant has rebutted the presumption of reasonableness when the defendant is challenging on appeal t… |
| 22-5107 |
Marcus Dwayne Pemberton v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-07-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appeal-waivers brady-standard brady-v-united-states circuit-split criminal-procedure miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement plea-agreements sentencing-guideline sentencing-guidelines |
Should standards other than the knowing and voluntary waiver standard of Brady v. United States govern the enforcement of appeal waivers in plea agree… |
| 22-5097 |
Hidey Diaz, aka Silvio Manuel Amador, aka Celio Alvarez-Carrasco v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
10th-circuit circuit-court-review criminal-sentencing federal-prosecution government-action guideline-range sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statutory-directive substantive-reasonableness unwarranted-disparity |
Did the Tenth Circuit err in concluding that it was barred from considering, on review for the substantive reasonableness of Mr. Diaz's sentence, the … |
| 22-5073 |
Leroy McGill v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-07-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
arizona constitutional-law criminal-punishment criminal-sentencing death-penalty ex-post-facto ninth-circuit retroactive-increase retroactive-law |
Did the Ninth Circuit err in holding that Arizona did not violate the Ex Post Facto Clause by sentencing Mr. McGill to death under the later-enacted s… |
| 22-5028 |
Damien Dre Gonzales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adam-walsh-act appeals commerce-clause criminal-procedure district-court federal-kidnapping federal-sentencing guidelines-error harmless-error sentencing-guidelines |
Is a district court's Guidelines error always harmless when the court states that it would have imposed the same sentence regardless of the Guidelines… |
| 22-5017 |
Travaris Devon Bishop v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-USC-3553(a) criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the district court ordered a substantively unreasonable statutory maximum sentence |
| 22-5006 |
David Cadena v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum upward-variance |
Did the district court impose a substantively unreasonable sentence when it varied upward from the advisory sentencing range to the statutory maximum … |
| 22-5012 |
Kielan Brett Franklin v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence due-process fifth-amendment guideline-range hearsay hearsay-statements hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reliability |
Is substantive reliability required under the due process clause when a district court relies on hearsay statements to enhance a person's sentencing G… |
| 21-8269 |
James Paris Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines advisory-range criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness upward-variance |
Did the district court impose a substantively unreasonable sentence when it varied upward from the advisory sentencing range? |
| 21-8277 |
Matthew Michael Cimino v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court of appeals to reweigh the sentencing factors? |
| 21-8247 |
Johnathan Carter v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
abduction abduction-enhancement bank-robbery circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a person is 'abducted' within the meaning of § 2B1.3(b)(4)(A) if he is moved or ordered to move only a short distance within the same building… |
| 21-8236 |
Edward Toliver v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appeal-waivers circuit-split criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fairness-doctrine plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines |
Are plea agreement appeal waivers that forfeit a criminal defendant's right to challenge errors in the district court's interpretation and application… |
| 21-8238 |
James Seeley v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-06-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2252a constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment proportionality sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-authority statutory-interpretation |
What is the correct United States Sentencing Guideline for a conviction under 18 U.S.C. 2252A? |
| 21-8229 |
Juan Jesus Barrieta-Barrera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split collateral-estoppel criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process immigration immigration-law judicial-precedent prior-conviction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Does a district court's finding that the defendant should be punished under Subsection (b)(2) bind future decision-makers on the question of whether h… |
| 21-8230 |
David Matthews v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach civil-rights criminal-law criminal-sentencing divisibility due-process physical-force sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether Texas simple robbery 'has as an element the ... threatened use of physical force against the person of another' |
| 21-8232 |
Stephon Ellis v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing eighth-amendment judicial-discretion mitigating-factors mitigation-factors proportionality proportionality-principle sentencing-guidelines traumatic-background traumatic-childhood |
Whether the 90-month sentence imposed on Mr. Ellis was 'greater than necessary' considering his extraordinarily traumatic childhood |
| 21-8233 |
Barkley Gardner v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-USC-1959 criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process federal-criminal-law punishment-alternatives racketeering sentencing sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether a court may punish a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1959(a) by a fine instead of death or life imprisonment |
| 21-8195 |
Arthur Lee Robinson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-06-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act borden-v-united-states criminal-sentencing firearm-discharge illinois-law mens-rea statutory-interpretation use-of-force violent-felony |
Whether the Illinois offense of aggravated discharge of a firearm qualifies as a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act after Borden v. Un… |
| 21-8191 |
Michael Christian Tinlin, et al. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-06-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
case-specific-example categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-context criminal-sentencing gonzales-v-duenas-alvarez overbroad-language realistic-probability-test sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether plainly overbroad statutory language is sufficient to establish a prior conviction is broader than the generic definition of a criminal senten… |
| 21-8171 |
Lamar Keith Garvin v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing defendant-characteristics due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines sentencing-range sentencing-variance |
Whether the district court abused its discretion in not granting the defendant a variance sentence |
| 21-8181 |
Joshua Hayes v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-vagueness delegation-of-authority due-process judicial-delegation probation-conditions probation-officer sentencing-guidelines supervised-release vagueness |
Whether the imposition of Standard Condition (12), U.S.S.G. § 5D1.3(c)(12), violates a defendant's right to Due Process because the condition unconsti… |
| 21-8149 |
Jesus Rodriguez-Castro v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres constitutional-law criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit overruling-precedent rodriguez-castro statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent united-states writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8152 |
Filiberto Chavez, aka Big Boy, aka Freeway Beto v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion lesser-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum |
Can a sentencing court use the elements of a lesser offense to increase a defendant's sentence in a different, legally unrelated, offense beyond the o… |
| 21-8159 |
Danny Leon Lynch, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 21-8127 |
Russell Kimble Jackson, aka Russell Kimble Jackson, V v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-sentencing decontrolled-substances drug-convictions federal-sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem… |
| 21-8129 |
Radu Miclaus v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-06-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review application-note-2 circuit-split criminal-law identification-trafficking means-of-identification sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation trafficking transferring |
Did the Sixth Circuit err in holding that 'trafficking' a means of identification does not also constitute 'transferring' such identification under Se… |
| 21-8133 |
Gary L. Boyle v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-precedent course-of-conduct criminal-acts criminal-sentencing discretionary-sentencing federal-guidelines guidelines judicial-interpretation same-course-of-conduct sentencing-discretion separate-course-of-conduct united-states-v-booker |
What constitutes a 'separate course of conduct' in the discretionary sentencing context? |
| 21-1557 |
Dayonta McClinton v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-06-14 |
Denied |
Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (14) |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy fifth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-acquittal sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury has acquitted … |
| 21-8111 |
Leo Contrera v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-06-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
covered-offense discretionary-modification discretionary-review first-step-act non-covered-offense sentencing-guidelines sentencing-modification sentencing-package u-s-code-3553a |
Whether the First Step Act (FSA) of 2018 allows a district court to review non-covered offenses in an aggregate sentencing package |
| 21-8117 |
Xavier Jamaal Orange v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2022-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
counsel-error criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel molina-martinez molina-martinez-v-united-states prejudice sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a defendant claiming ineffective assistance of counsel at sentencing can establish prejudice from a Sentencing Guidelines error despite the se… |
| 21-8097 |
Thomas Randall Ainsworth v. Robert Powell, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-laws due-process equal-protection sentencing statutory-interpretation utah |
Whether the differing penalties established by Utah's drug and measurable substance provisions violate due process or equal protection |
| 21-8099 |
Darnell McConnell, II v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-law federal-act federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether 'controlled substance[s]' in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines § 4B1.2(b) are limited to those substances defined and regulated under the fede… |
| 21-8092 |
Nicole R. Bramwell v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-06-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-U.S.C.-3553a 18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3661 abuse-of-discretion appellate-review below-guideline-sentence collateral-consequences downward-variance sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review |
When can a court of appeals reverse a below-guideline sentence based on its own view that a different, more severe sentence is appropriate? |
| 21-8093 |
Albert Aiad-Toss v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-06-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-USC-3553a abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure district-court-discretion procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness supervised-release |
Whether Mr. Aiad-Toss's lifetime supervised release term was procedurally unreasonable |
| 21-8074 |
Juan Jesus Barrieta-Barrera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment parole sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 21-8075 |
Ricky Bagola v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-801 advisory-range controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense controlled-substances-act criminal-law federal-sentencing-guidelines federal-statute prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-4b1.2(b) |
Is the term 'controlled substance' in § 4B1.2(b) limited to those substances defined and regulated under the federal Controlled Substances Act, 21 U.S… |
| 21-8079 |
Kenyad Laquan Kelly v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process federal-sentencing gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion legal-standard sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether the District Court Erred in Applying a Different Starting Point for Defendant's Sentence than the United States Sentencing Guidelines? |
| 21-8062 |
Bryant Love v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing modified-categorical-approach sentencing-enhancement state-supreme-court statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
When applying the categorical and modified categorical approach sentencing courts are instructed to use a state's statutory definition to determine if… |
| 21-8034 |
Robert Lawrence v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-procedure defendant-motion first-step-act sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Is the Eleventh Circuit's decision in United States v. Bryant correct in determining that Section 1B1.13 of the United States Sentencing Guidelines is… |
| 21-8014 |
Reginald Woods v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 district-court district-court-discretion first-step-act policy-statement sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether U.S.S.G. § 1B1.13 is an 'applicable' policy statement that binds a district court in considering a defendant-filed motion for sentence reducti… |
| 21-7975 |
Amir Karim Beigali v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-05-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924-c consecutive-sentences constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment mandatory-minimum section-924c sixth-amendment supervised-release |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendment prohibit a consecutive mandatory penalty under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(C)(i) when the second § 924(c) offense was … |
| 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 |
Is Jason Halda entitled to a resentencing? |
| 21-7967 |
Jairo Hernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction procedural-default retroactivity statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court-precedent unconstitutional-statute |
Can a defendant procedurally default a claim that the court lacked jurisdiction to imprison him under an unconstitutional statute? |
| 21-7970 |
Oscar Geovanny Campos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court guideline-range holguin-hernandez judicial-discretion sentencing-arguments sentencing-guidelines substantial-arguments |
Whether a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails to reference or address substantial arguments for a sentence outside the Gui… |
| 21-7951 |
Omar Sierre Folk v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-05-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 3582-motion community-safety compassionate-release criminal-sentencing danger-to-community district-court due-process sentence-reduction sentencing-factors third-circuit |
Whether the Third Circuit or District Court Erred in Denying Petitioner § 3582(c)(1)(A) Release or Reduction of Sentence |
| 21-7959 |
Salito Marques Good v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-05-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fourth-circuit johnson-precedent sentencing-maximum statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum supervised-release |
Whether a defendant can be required to serve more than the statutory maximum sentence for his offense of conviction |
| 21-7910 |
Kendrick Dwight Marshall v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 21-7878 |
Jermaine Alonzo Mitchell v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender categorical-analysis criminal-sentencing divisibility due-process first-step-act retroactivity sentencing-enhancement |
Whether the Ninth Circuit violated the petitioner's due process rights by misapplying the categorical analysis and relying on a non-retroactive state … |
| 21-7867 |
Jasper B. Mackey, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing due-process fourth-circuit government-discretion mandatory-minimum plea-agreement sentencing substantial-assistance |
Whether the United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's judgment which did not depart below the mandatory mi… |
| 21-7852 |
Fernando Salazar-Figueroa v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administration-of-justice appellate-review criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law fifth-circuit mitigating-role sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law when it conducted a cursory review of the facts related to a warranted mitigating role adjustment under… |
| 21-7841 |
Danny Jewell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law drug-offense due-process importation-enhancement knowledge-requirement sentencing-guidelines strict-liability |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's strict liability approach to the importation enhancement under the United States Sentencing Guidelines is correct |
| 21-7822 |
Christopher Patrick Lovings v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure enhancement fleeing fleeing-offense judicial-discretion knowledge knowledge-standard law-enforcement sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg-3c1.2 |
Whether a sentencing court may apply an enhancement pursuant to USSG § 3C1.2 when the record fails to establish the defendant knew or had reason to kn… |
| 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… |
| 21-7773 |
Eric Middlebrook v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consecutive-sentences constitutional-challenge constitutional-law double-jeopardy drug-crimes drug-offense guideline-range mandatory-consecutive-term mandatory-minimum sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines |
Does punishing an individual with both a statutory penalty that requires a mandatory consecutive prison term and a Guideline Range enhancement for the… |
| 21-7784 |
Idania Renteria Madrid v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583 consecutive-incarceration consecutive-sentences criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines immigration-detention liberty-deprivation sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the District Court excessively sentenced Petitioner to consecutive incarceration and deprived the Petitioner of liberty within the terms of 18… |
| 21-7767 |
Michael Don Billups v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-opinions appellate-review district-court federal-sentencing judicial-discretion prejudice prejudicial-error sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether courts of appeals evaluating the prejudicial effect of a Guideline error must accept a district court's claim that the Guidelines exerted no i… |
| 21-7769 |
Lonnell Tucker v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2022-05-04 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review base-offense-level circuit-split drug-quantity narcotics-prosecution relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether the Court should resolve the circuit conflict by requiring de novo review for contested methodologies used to determine Base Offense Levels in… |
| 21-1414 |
Barton Ray Crandall v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-05-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-3582(c)(1)(A) 18-usc-924(c) criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-circumstances federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown … |
| 21-1418 |
Medardo Queg Santos v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-05-04 |
GVR |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
controlled-substances expert-testimony good-faith good-faith-defense medical-practice medical-purpose relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a physician's good faith is a complete defense to a prosecution for prescribing controlled substances without a legitimate medical purpose or … |
| 21-7748 |
Sonny Austin Ramdeo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split compassionate-release defendant-motion first-step-act sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act statutory-interpretation |
Whether the expanded compassionate release statute, 18 U.S.C. §3582(c)(1)(A), triggers the sentencing guideline policy statement U.S.S.G. § 1B1.13 whe… |
| 21-7735 |
Erskin Bernard Perryman v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-04-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-waiver base-offense-level criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review minor-participant plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit |
Whether the trial court calculated the petitioner's guideline range correctly |
| 21-7697 |
Michael Mirando, aka Michael John Mirando v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court loss-calculation sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
What standard of review applies to an appeal challenging a district court's methodology for calculating the loss amount under Section 2B1.1 of the Uni… |
| 21-7700 |
Ronald Hunter v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion extraordinary-and-compelling extraordinary-compelling-reasons rehabilitation sentencing-guidelines sentencing-law sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court may consider changes in sentencing law as a possible 'extraordinary and compelling' reason warranting a sentence reduction un… |
| 21-7701 |
Francisco Rosales Hernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines advisory-range criminal-procedure district-court extraordinary-compelling-reasons judicial-discretion molina-martinez-v-united-states ninth-circuit plain-error remand remand
21-7700" rosales-mireles-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines sentencing-law sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether a district court may consider nonretroacti |
When should a case be remanded for resentencing under the plain-error standard of review if the district court failed to announce its calculation of t… |
| 21-7707 |
Jerome Lamar Pitts v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process legal-remedy plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a miscalculated Sentencing Guideline violates Due Process enough to count as a 'sentence in violation of the Constitution or laws of the Unite… |
| 21-7666 |
Izell Delorean Grissett, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-04-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi apprendi-ruling collateral-review constitutional-claim criminal-procedure guidelines mandatory-guidelines miscarriage-of-justice section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth Amendment requires the fact of a first-degree murder cross reference under § 2A1.1 to be treated as an element when that finding is … |
| 21-7674 |
Jamie Allen v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-04-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fourth-circuit reversible-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by refusing to hear Mr. Allen's meritorious claims that the district court committed reversible erro… |
| 21-7662 |
Michael Wayne Cook v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-opinions appellate-review district-court district-court-discretion federal-sentencing judicial-standard prejudice prejudicial-error sentencing-guidelines |
Whether courts of appeals evaluating the prejudicial effect of a Guideline error must accept a district court's claim that the Guidelines exerted no i… |
| 21-7645 |
Alimamy Barrie v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure federal-appeals federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-review plain-error procedural-default re-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines successive-filing |
Whether an error should be corrected in a motion under Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure Rule 35(a) when the conditions of U.S. v. Olano are met, ev… |
| 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 … |
| 21-7625 |
Jonathan Scott May v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court enhancement federal-sentencing judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing-guidelines |
Did the district court plainly err when applying an enhancement under U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Manual § 2G2.2(b)(5)? |
| 21-7626 |
Joseph Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court guideline-range holguin-hernandez judicial-discretion sentencing-argument sentencing-guidelines substantial-arguments |
Whether a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails to reference or address substantial arguments for a sentence outside the Gui… |
| 21-7609 |
Desmond Deleon Carviel v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law career-offender-guideline district-court-discretion guideline-commentary inchoate-offenses judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
May a district court defer to the Sentencing Guideline commentary without first determining if the guideline is genuinely ambiguous |
| 21-7594 |
Orin Kristich v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-counsel attorney-misconduct court-discretion de-novo-review due-process judicial-misconduct judicial-procedure plea-bargaining plea-waiver sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
Whether appeal counsel can dismiss appeal without client consent |
| 21-7598 |
Irvin Garces v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administration-of-justice criminal-procedure drug-offense exceptional-importance federal-law fifth-circuit minor-role sentencing-guidelines |
whether-the-fifth-circuit-violated-federal-law |
| 21-7600 |
Christopher Hibshman v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-USC-3583 18-USC-3583(e) criminal-conduct criminal-sentencing reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-standards supervised-release |
Whether the imposition of a 24-month sentence consecutive to a 2-year Indiana prison term for violation of supervised release is unreasonable and at o… |
| 21-7586 |
Jaako Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-sentencing generic-offense robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation texas-penal-code texas-robbery violent-crime |
Whether Texas robbery is a crime of violence under the United States Sentencing Guideline § 4B1.2's generic, enumerated offenses clause |
| 21-7587 |
Jose Garcia Solorzano v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility appeal criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion reduction-in-sentence sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g.-§3e1.1 u.s.s.g.-interpretation |
Did the district court err in not granting Mr. Solorzano a reduction in sentence for his acceptance of responsibility under U.S.S.G. §3E1.1? |
| 21-7581 |
Ice Tee Hudson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines consecutive-sentences criminal-sentencing fourth-circuit reversible-error state-prosecution |
Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by denying Mr. Hudson's meritorious argument that the district court committed reversible error by i… |
| 21-7547 |
Gabriel Gonzalez v. John P. Yates, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights covid-19 cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment imprisonment prison-conditions sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Does continued imprisonment under unconstrained exposure to a lethal contagion violate Eighth Amendment rights? |
| 21-7510 |
Ramon Lopez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons compassionate-release criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing extraordinary-circumstances federal-corrections federal-sentencing-guidelines sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether Criminal Defendants may use the 'recently amended' Compassionate Release Statute to reduce or correct an excessive, and/or defective or illega… |
| 21-7520 |
Isaiah Wilson v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 2nd-amendment burglary-statute career-offender civil-rights crime-of-violence due-process federal-sentencing free-speech sentencing-guidelines standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the court should exercise its discretion under Romer v. Evans to resolve a circuit split amongst the sister circuits regarding New Jersey's th… |
| 21-7495 |
Terrol Debaun Travis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-sentencing delivery-definition drug-offense statutory-interpretation texas texas-controlled-substances united-states-supreme-court |
Does the definition of 'delivery' in the Texas controlled substances statute, which includes mere offers to sell, include conduct that does not qualif… |
| 21-7473 |
Antwoyn Terrell Spencer v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-03-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy due-process first-step-act habeas-corpus jury-trial sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Whether Weer Poltoner is being deprived of his Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial |
| 21-7445 |
Juniel B. Rios v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure procedural-due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness upward-variance |
Whether Constitutional Due Process requires that Irizarry-v-United-States be extended to Upward-Variances |
| 21-7441 |
Edgardo Maldonado-Arce v. Deanne Criswell, Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency |
First Circuit |
2022-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-interpretation sentencing-guidelines standing state-law statute-of-limitations |
whether-the-federal-district-court-erred-in-dismissing-the-case |
| 21-7443 |
Roberto Arenas-Tellez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court guideline-range holguin-hernandez-v-united-states judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines substantial-arguments |
Whether a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails to reference or address substantial arguments for a sentence outside the Gui… |
| 21-1282 |
Christopher Ryan Martin v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2022-03-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
6th-amendment apprendi-doctrine civil-rights criminal-sentencing due-process jury-trial prior-convictions sentence-enhancement sentencing-factors sixth-amendment |
Whether this Court should overrule AlmendarezTorres in light of Apprendi and its progeny |
| 21-1275 |
Abetubokun Adesioye v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-03-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal appeal-waiver court-of-appeals criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process plea-bargaining right-to-appeal rule-11-colloquy sentencing sentencing-guidelines waiver |
Did the Court of Appeals err in finding that the petitioner knowingly and intelligently waived his right of appeal |
| 21-7429 |
Damon Ramon Martinez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law auer-deference constitutional-law crime-of-violence judicial-interpretation seminole-rock seminole-rock-deference sentencing-guidelines |
Does the Sentencing Commission's commentary impermissibly expand the unambiguous definition of 'crime of violence' in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 to include atte… |
| 21-7430 |
Roberto Padilla Espinoza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection fifth-circuit-review judicial-discretion prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Fifth Circuit improperly approved the district court's decision to increase the petitioner's sentence based on unscored prior convictions |
| 21-7434 |
Darryl Williams v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender circuit-split crime-of-violence due-process equal-protection residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the residual clause in the then-mandatory Sentencing Guidelines is unconstitutionally vague under the Due Process Clause, resulting in unequal… |
| 21-7438 |
Tramone Horne v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion judicial-review preponderance-of-evidence sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Should the Court require proof by more than a preponderance of the evidence of facts that significantly increase the defendant's sentence range under … |
| 21-7405 |
Joshua Guity-Nunez v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-section-1594 appeal base-offense-level criminal-conviction criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-sentencing human-trafficking sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether Petitioner, who was convicted of 18 U.S.C. § 1594(c), is subject to a Base Offense Level of 34 or 14? |
| 21-7406 |
Marek Kozubal v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2022-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process fair-notice lenity lenity-rule mandated-reporter statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the Massachusetts courts' construction of the 'mandated reporter' statute violates due process by failing to provide fair notice and being unc… |
| 21-7386 |
Sandchase Cody v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 compassionate-release district-court district-court-discretion due-process federal-criminal-procedure first-step-act sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether Section 121.15 of the United States Sentencing Guidelines on 'Applicable Data Statement' binds a district court when considering a motion for … |
| 21-7390 |
Choya Dwayne Hailey v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5k1.1 5K1.1-motion breach-of-contract criminal-procedure downward-departure government-breach government-discretion plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the government breached the supplemental plea agreement |
| 21-7391 |
Isaiah Ramon Henderson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-03-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-procedure federal-law federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether 'controlled substance[s]' in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines § 4B1.2(b) are limited to those substances defined and regulated under the fede… |
| 21-7354 |
Joseph Patrick Keel v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-precedent apprendi-rule criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process identity judicial-interpretation prior-convictions prior-record-exception sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether courts have incorrectly applied a 'prior-record' exception to Apprendi and Alleyne |
| 21-7357 |
Joel Castro-Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing discretion district-court-discretion guidelines judicial-reasoning legal-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether a district court errs should reference or address substantial arguments for a sentence outside the Guideline range? |
| 21-7345 |
David Wayne Aring v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography circuit-split due-process eighth-amendment first-time-offender judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
Whether lifetime supervised release is appropriate for a first-time, non-violent offender convicted of receiving and watching child pornography |
| 21-7351 |
Miguel Angel Cruz-Polanco, aka Luis Hernandez v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure federal-sentencing plain-error plea-bargaining sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Federal Sentencing Guidelines Mandate a Plea of Guilty and Guarantee a Point Reduction on Acceptance of Responsibility |
| 21-7331 |
Darregus T. Robinson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split civil-rights compassionate-release constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus policy sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Can Permonee Ber Get Relief When USSG§1B1.13 Doesn't Align Rigarer Ged Compassionate Release Motions Because The Policy Maneres The FRG BCE? |
| 21-7332 |
Marlon Sisnero-Gil v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness substantive-unreasonableness supervisory-power |
Whether the Petition should be granted because the Court of Appeals' decision holding that Petitioner's sentence was not substantively unreasonable co… |
| 21-7323 |
Russell Hampton v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-03-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review conspiracy jury-instructions juvenile-delinquency juvenile-delinquency-act post-majority-misconduct presentence-report presumption-of-retaliation sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a jury must be instructed that it cannot convict unless it finds the defendant 'ratified' his participation in a charged conspiracy by post-ma… |
| 21-7301 |
Bogdan Nicolescu v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-devices congressional-intent criminal-enhancement criminal-sentencing guideline-commentary identity-theft sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation unauthorized-access-device wireless-telephone-protection-act |
Whether Application Note 2 bars the 2-level enhancement for trafficking of unauthorized access devices in Aggravated Identity Theft cases |
| 21-7314 |
William Jones v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence criminal-sentencing cumulation-order district-court double-jeopardy evolving-standards judgment juvenile-culpability neuroscience-mitigation newly-discovered-evidence subsequent-prosecution |
Is Petitioner actually innocent in a subsequent prosecution when in the previous prosecution another District Court in another county convicted, prono… |
| 21-7318 |
Abraham A. Augustin v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process federal-court mandatory-sentence resentencing right-to-counsel section-2255 section-3553a sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-requirements |
Whether the trial court erred by not complying with 18-U.S.C-3553(a) and conducting a plenary resentencing hearing after vacating a conviction and rem… |
| 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 |
| 21-1208 |
Eric Andrews v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-03-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-3582 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons first-step-act section-924(c) sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown … |
| 21-7230 |
Gemar Morgan v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-standard probation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether the words 'a house' in the Fourth Amendment apply both to the defendant's conduct as a renter of a house and to the defendant's period of 2 to… |
| 21-7236 |
Joseph Crocco v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-03-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
career-offender categorical-approach circuit-conflict circuit-split controlled-substance-offense plain-error sentencing-guidelines unsettled-law |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred when it held that the district court's erroneous determination that Petitioner was a career offender, based on Peti… |
| 21-7221 |
Alfred Lavoris Moody v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion juvenile-justice mitigating-factors mitigation-factors proportionality rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review |
Whether the 78-month sentence imposed on Mr. Moody was 'greater than necessary' considering his troubled childhood |
| 21-7222 |
Hugo Valencia Mendoza v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-guidelines vagueness-doctrine |
Is the term 'involved' under Section 2D1.1(b)(5) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines Unconstitutional under the Vagueness Doctrine through the … |
| 21-7195 |
James Leon Higgins v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law firearms firearms-possession interstate-commerce perjury-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 21-7163 |
Nathaniel Ruth v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-02-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-procedure federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation |
Does the phrase 'controlled substance' in U.S.S.C. § 4B1.2(b) include substances that are excluded from the Controlled Substances Act? |
| 21-7136 |
Gregory Nesbitt, aka Spooky v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release district-court first-step-act policy-statement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether Section 1B1.13 of the United States Sentencing Guidelines is an 'applicable' policy statement that binds the district court in considering a d… |
| 21-7139 |
Bradley Scott Williams v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-02-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
base-level-score criminal-procedure drug-offense judicial-discretion methamphetamine sentencing-guidelines USSG-Section-2D1.1(c)(2) USSG-Section-2D1.1(c)(4) |
Did the trial court commit error when it calculated the appellant's sentencing guideline base level score using the enhanced 'Ice' guideline value und… |
| 21-7126 |
Quincy Deshan Butler v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
aggravated-offense constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions plain-error-review procedural-due-process prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing-enhancement texas-law |
Whether Cortificate of APPEALABILETY SHOULD HAVE BREA GeenTen? |
| 21-7128 |
Cornelius Riley v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-02-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-offense due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Should the reasoning of Apprendi, Alleyne, and Peugh be extended to cases where a defendant's sentencing guideline range increases significantly due t… |
| 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… |
| 21-7097 |
Sinmyah Amera Ceasar v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-02-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3553(a) appellate-standard circuit-split criminal-sentencing gall-v-united-states sentencing-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness terrorism terrorism-cases |
Does the application of a stricter standard of review in assessing the substantive reasonableness of terrorism sentences contravene Gall and 18 U.S.C.… |
| 21-7079 |
Reginald Glenn v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-assault circuit-split criminal-law generic-offense mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g.-4b1.2 |
What is the mens rea of generic 'aggravated assault' — ordinary recklessness, extreme indifference recklessness, knowledge, or something else? |
| 21-7083 |
Michael Kenneth Rich v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-02-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
conspiracy criminal-sentencing due-process due-process-of-law future-tense-instruction individualized-responsibility individualized-sentencing panel-decision rico-conspiracy rico-enterprise |
Whether a RICO enterprise with legitimate and illegitimate purposes violates due process and individualized sentencing |
| 21-7086 |
William L. Whitefield v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-02-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582c1a 18-usc-924c compassionate-release criminal-law criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons mandatory-minimum sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown … |
| 21-7070 |
Anderson Curtel Duke v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
agency-deference agency-interpretation attempt-crimes circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines stare-decisis stinson-v-united-states |
Should courts defer to Sentencing-Guidelines-commentary when there is no ambiguity in the underlying-text? |
| 21-7065 |
Lori Majors v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing procedural-reasonableness ransom-demand sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness upward-adjustment vulnerable-victim |
Did the district court err in assigning a two-level upward adjustment and a six-level upward adjustment? |
| 21-7057 |
Victor Nava, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act borden-v-united-states career-offender-guideline crime-of-violence enumerated-offense-clause reckless-aggravated-assault reckless-assault sentencing-guidelines texas-law |
Does a reckless injury-causing robbery qualify as a 'crime of violence' under the Career Offender Guideline? |
| 21-7062 |
Michael Devell Smith v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
3553(a) criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion guidelines section-3553a sentence-disparity sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness unwarranted-disparities |
Whether the district court ordered an unreasonable 24-month sentence considering the facts of this case and the Guidelines sentence range of 12 to 18 … |
| 21-7054 |
Ervin Walker, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 abuse-of-discretion compassionate-release criminal-procedure district-court-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction ussg-1b1.13 |
Whether the District Court abused its discretion in denying Petitioner's Motion for Compassionate Release |
| 21-7031 |
Joseph D. Davis v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2022-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compassionate-release court-of-appeals criminal-sentencing district-of-columbia-court-of-appeals federal-procedure guidelines inconsistent-opinions judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-commission |
Whether the opinion of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals concerning the Petitioner's motion for Compassionate Release is inconsistent with oth… |
| 21-7032 |
Adrian Hunt v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2d1.1(b)(1) 5th-circuit criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit firearm-enhancement sentencing-guidelines tools-of-the-trade tools-of-the-trade-presumption |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's practice of applying a tools-of-the-trade presumption to the firearm enhancement of sentencing guidelines §2D1.1(b)(1) vio… |
| 21-7034 |
Jeriton Lavar Curry, aka Cheese v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender crime-of-violence criminal-procedure district-court-error due-process hobbs-act legal-analysis sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether a Conviction for Hobbs Act Robbery qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under the Sentencing Guidelines |
| 21-7035 |
Seville Williams v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582c1a1 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons first-step-act judicial-discretion sentence-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown … |
| 21-6974 |
Alfredo Gonzalez v. Angel Quiros, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction |
Connecticut |
2022-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accessory-liability burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process firearm-enhancement firearms jury-determination manslaughter sentencing |
Does Connecticut's statutory scheme of accessory to manslaughter in the first degree with a firearm violate Due Process? |
| 21-6969 |
Alton Jackson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines booker circuit-court-review criminal-sentencing guideline-enhancement lapsed-statute legal-interpretation mandatory-guidelines sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in upholding the district court's enhancement of the defendant's sentence under U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1 based on an expire… |
| 21-6972 |
Maria Haydee Luzula v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons circuit-split first-step-act non-delegation-doctrine sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether U.S.S.G. § 1B1.13 binds district courts in considering defendant-filed motions for sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A) |
| 21-6955 |
Erica Umbay v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interstate-commerce plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a Criminal Defendant Can Withdraw a Plea Under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(b)(8) if the Plea Lacked an Adequate Factual Basis? |
| 21-6956 |
Roman Enrique Delgado-Montoya v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons federal-prisoner-relief first-step-act sentencing-commission sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court is limited to the 'extraordinary and compelling reasons' given in application note 1 of the commentary to U.S.S.G. § 1B1.13 |
| 21-6937 |
Colin Michael v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-01-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review district-court district-court-discretion judicial-presumption rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness united-states-sentencing-commission |
Should an appellate court automatically presume that a within-or-below-guideline sentence is substantively reasonable when the underlying rationale fo… |
| 21-6940 |
Ferney Salas Torres v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-01-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-appeal criminal-procedure district-court-discretion minor-role-adjustment pilot-enhancement plea-agreement procedural-reasonableness second-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming Ferney Salas Torres' judgment of conviction and sentence which was procedurally unreaso… |
| 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 a district court must consider 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) sentencing factors in deciding to impose a reduced sentence for a crack cocaine offense und… |
| 21-6921 |
Sedale Pervis v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-01-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) criminal-law criminal-sentencing district-court family-impact judicial-discretion mitigating-factor procedural-background respect-for-law respect-for-the-law sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Did the District Court err in not finding that promoting respect for the law, in the context of this case is a mitigating factor? |
| 21-6924 |
John T. Veysey v. Louis Williams, II, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-01-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burrage-v-united-states controlled-substance-act habeas-corpus mandatory-guidelines pre-booker sentencing-guidelines |
Whether § 2255 (E) 'savings clause' conflicts with SCOTUS and other courts' decisions on bringing a Burrage-type argument |
| 21-1021 |
Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction v. Alvin Bernal Jackson |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-01-20 |
Denied |
Relisted (4) |
adaptive-skills constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process evidence intellectual-disability judicial-interpretation |
Whether courts may consider adaptive strengths in deciding whether a defendant is intellectually disabled and thus ineligible for the death penalty |
| 21-6888 |
Ryan Kenneth Richmond, aka Rich v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-review attempted-murder criminal-defendant criminal-procedure plea-agreement relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines |
Does a criminal defendant's waiver of his right to appeal a within guideline's sentence bar appellate review where the district court used a cross ref… |
| 21-6861 |
Piyarath S. Kayarath v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adolescent-brain compassionate-release extraordinary-circumstances mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-minimums neuroscience neuroscience-evidence procedural-error section-3553 section-3582 sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform |
Whether Booker's invalidation of the mandatory sentencing regime, and post-Booker neuroscience facts about the adolescent brain constitutes extraordin… |
| 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… |
| 21-6825 |
Diana Bustamante v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-01-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law modified-categorical-approach predicate-offenses sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Do statutes criminalizing simulated controlled substances count as predicate 'controlled substance offenses' for applicability of the career offender … |
| 21-6803 |
Javier Rosales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion amendment-782 discretion drug-conspiracy due-process fifth-amendment opportunity-to-be-heard retroactive-amendment sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in deciding that the District Court's order denying relief under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) did not comprise an abuse of d… |
| 21-6781 |
Matthew James Dury v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-law criminal-sentencing document-fraud due-process evidence-tampering federal-procedure fraud immigration judicial-misconduct release-conditions standing |
Whether a federal judge has the authority to order the use of fraudulent documents to circumvent federal, state, and local laws |
| 21-6762 |
Karina Lizett Juarez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administration-of-justice criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-criminal-law federal-law fifth-circuit mitigating-role sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's review of the facts related to a mitigating adjustment under U.S.S.G. § 3B1.2 violated federal law |
| 21-6758 |
Cameron Taevon Jones v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-law federal-law guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-law |
Does the term 'controlled substance offense' as defined in the Guidelines include offenses under state law that are not categorical matches under fede… |
| 21-6760 |
Deandre Spencer Cotton v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law divisibility-inquiry due-process federal-court-certification federalism sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines state-court-certification state-criminal-statute statutory-interpretation |
If a state criminal statute's divisibility is ambiguous when the defendant is convicted in state court, may a federal court later certify its divisibi… |
| 21-6738 |
Kadeem Willingham v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582c1a 924(c)-sentences 924c-sentences district-court-discretion extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons first-step-act nondelegation-doctrine sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines sub-delegation |
whether-us-sentencing-guidelines-1b1-13-binds-district-court |
| 21-6707 |
Antonio Turner v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
3553(a)-factors administrative-remedy bureau-of-prisons compassionate-release criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-compelling-reasons first-step-act sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the district court erred by denying Mr. Turner's Motion for Sentence Reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i) |
| 21-6685 |
Christopher Dominguez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-12-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel informed-consent mandatory-minimum plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-trial sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether Mr. Dominguez's decision to plead guilty was knowingly and intelligently made when he was grossly misinformed about the risks attendant to goi… |
| 21-6692 |
Alex D. Ramos v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582c1a 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing extraordinary-circumstances federal-procedure sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown … |
| 21-6671 |
Valente Arias-Avila v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion sentencing-factors standard-of-review |
Can appellate courts reweigh sentencing factors under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) |
| 21-6679 |
Juan Jarmon v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-conflict conspiracy conspiracy-law crack-cocaine criminal-law evidence evidentiary-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review united-states-v-pressler |
Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals entered a decision in conflict with the decision of United States v. Pressler |
| 21-905 |
Nathaniel Rimpson, III, Charles Scott, and Carl Buggs v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-12-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-3582c1a 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing extraordinary-circumstances federal-sentencing sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown … |
| 21-6658 |
Donald Ray Johnson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-courts federal-sentencing guideline-commentary judicial-deference judicial-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether federal sentencing courts are bound by the illustrations found in Guideline Commentary? |
| 21-6632 |
Charles Dalton Shoemake v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2021-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment exemplary-prison-record juvenile-sentencing life-with-parole proportionality rehabilitation |
Whether Charles Dalton Shoemake's life-with-parole sentence imposed for a crime he committed at the age of seventeen is disproportionate under the Eig… |
| 21-6642 |
Tre Reshawn Tate v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
application-note criminal-law dangerous-weapon judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie possession robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the application note defining 'dangerous weapon' is overly broad under Kisor v. Wilkie by defining 'possession' to include merely pretending t… |
| 21-6618 |
Jamie Matsuba and Takaharo Thomas Matsuba v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
27-year-old-opinion due-process judicial-interpretation legal-precedent loss-calculation mortgage-fraud rents-gained sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a loss calculation determined using 'rents gained' in a mortgage fraud case violates due process |
| 21-882 |
Esteban Gaspar-Felipe v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-15 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response Waived |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment acquitted-conduct criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment |
Whether acquitted-conduct sentencing violates the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause or the Sixth Amendment's right to jury trial |
| 21-6592 |
Donald Stanley v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law drug-statute mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums mens-rea ninth-circuit-precedent rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the knowingly mens rea in 21 U.S.C. § 841 applies to the elements of drug type and quantity that establish mandatory minimum and enhanced maxi… |
| 21-6609 |
Christopher Coffer v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing defendant-health due-process health-issues judicial-discretion medical-disadvantage mitigation-factors sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance variance |
What is the extent of medical disadvantage that a defendant must present in order to secure a variance based on ill health? |
| 21-877 |
Ross Thacker v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-12-14 |
Denied |
|
18-usc-3582c1a 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons federal-procedure first-step-act sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown … |
| 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 |
| 21-6584 |
Gregory Donell Eatmon v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-13 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-u.s.c.-3553(a) criminal-procedure district-court-discretion first-step-act section-404(b) sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.-sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a district court must or may consider the 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) sentencing factors, including the current sentencing range established by the U.… |
| 21-6566 |
Steven Craig Bethea v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion constitutional-review criminal-sentencing discretion eighth-amendment judicial-abuse sentencing sentencing-discretion substantive-reasonableness upward-variance |
Whether the district court erred in sentencing the appellant to a greater sentence than necessary |
| 21-6569 |
Jonathan Hilliam McDougal v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alcohol-treatment criminal-sentencing delegation-of-authority drug-treatment due-process judicial-discretion probation-terms sentencing sentencing-conditions supervised-release |
Whether the district court erred by ordering Mr. McDougal to undergo alcohol and drug treatment as a special condition of supervised release |
| 21-6555 |
Malik Saunders v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split crimes-of-violence criminal-offenses culpable-omission culpable-omissions injury-or-death intentional-causation physical-force sentencing-guidelines u.s.-sentencing-guidelines |
Whether all criminal offenses that require proof of an intentional causation of injury or death, including those which may be committed by way of culp… |
| 21-6560 |
Carlo Donato v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c) covered-offense criminal-sentencing deportation first-step-act retroactive-penalty retroactivity section-924(c) sentencing stacking statutory-interpretation |
Whether the First Step Act modifies the penalty for 'stacking' 924(c) convictions and whether such an offense is retroactive |
| 21-6540 |
Alfred E. Daking, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split compassionate-release first-step-act judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-1b1.13 |
Whether the expanded compassionate release statute, 18 U.S.C. §3582(c)(1)(A), triggers any sentencing guideline policy statements when defendants file… |
| 21-6530 |
Tyreese Thompson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process jury-determination jury-trial precedent-review reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether any facts that increase the penalty for a crime beyond the prescribed statutory maximum need to be submitted to a jury and proved beyond a rea… |
| 21-6454 |
Kyle Leroy Myers v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conversion criminal-sentencing fifth-circuit guidelines narcotics supervisory-powers |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit conflicts with decisions of this Court on an important matter and thu… |
| 21-6471 |
Jose Francisco Noesi v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection first-step-act retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
Whether Dottonr is eligible for a Tile IF U.S.0 Secton 3559) CAV), based on the moditiaben of Secbm 3589 COM MG, through the First Step Act of 901% |
| 21-6450 |
Steven Zinnel v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure gall-v-united-states jury-determination sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment substantive-reasonableness substantive-unreasonableness |
Whether any fact that increases the penalty to which a defendant is exposed constitutes an element of a crime that must be found by a jury, not a judg… |
| 21-6461 |
Andreea Dumitru, aka Andreea Dumitru Parcalaboiu v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-11-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1028a aggravated-identity-theft asylum asylum-application circuit-split criminal-sentencing felony-violation identity-theft lawful-authority lenity statutory-interpretation statutory-purpose |
Whether a defendant commits 'aggravated identity theft' under 18 U.S.C. § 1028A(a)(1) when she 'uses' a client's identifying information in submitting… |
| 21-6447 |
Logan Bailey Lawrence v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-sentencing due-process estoppel government-discretion waiver-of-appeal |
Whether the Government should be estopped from precluding appellate review of the District Court's refusal to impose a below-Guidelines sentence by in… |
| 21-6403 |
Garland Guillory v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
application-note commentary controlled-substance-offense district-court-discretion fifth-circuit inchoate-offenses kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines u.s.-sentencing-commission |
Whether a district court may rely on commentary in the U.S. Sentencing Commission's Guidelines Manual to determine a defendant's Guidelines range for … |
| 21-6418 |
Emmanuel Ashemuke v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law circuit-split due-process federal-courts federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-deference legal-interpretation plain-meaning plain-meaning-rule sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether federal courts should defer to the Commentary of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines when it expands the definition of a term used in the text o… |
| 21-6427 |
Antonio Lorensito Garrido v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-sentencing drug-crimes mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the two-level enhancement pursuant to U.S.S.G. §2D1.1(b)(5) for the importation of methamphetamine requires some level of intent or knowledge |
| 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 |
Whether a district court must calculate a defendant's sentencing range under current law when deciding whether to impose a reduced sentence under the … |
| 21-6390 |
Marcial Carrillo-Serna v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-error guidelines-calculation molina-martinez-v-united-states ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review plain-error plain-error-review prejudice sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights |
When the district court fails to calculate the guideline range at sentencing, whether the defendant may rely on the district court's error alone to sh… |
| 21-6355 |
Everett Earl Parker v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-conviction criminal-sentencing federal-jurisdiction johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement serious-violent-felony statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent violent-felony |
Whether Mr. Parker's life sentence for count 1 should be vacated due to lack of two prior qualifying 'serious violent felony' convictions |
| 21-6362 |
Rocky Krupa v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
booker booker-standard district-court-discretion due-process family-circumstances probabilistic-model procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness u.s.s.g.-§5h1.6 |
Procedural-and-substantive-reasonableness-of-sentence |
| 21-750 |
Jasper Knabb v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether petitioner received ineffective assistance of counsel |
| 21-6334 |
Christopher Jason Henry v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review booker-standard circuit-court harmless-error molina-martinez-v-united-states procedural-error procedural-reasonableness rosales-mireles-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-booker |
Whether the sentencing adjustment in U.S.S.G. § 5G1.3(b) is completely advisory |
| 21-6336 |
Darrin Lashaon Betts v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 21-usc-841(a)(1)-(b)(1)(a) amendment-782 criminal-procedure fed-r-crim-p-11(c)(1)(c) fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines statutory-law type-c-agreement |
Whether a defendant is eligible for 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(2) relief |
| 21-6286 |
Patrick Lawrence Henderson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-rule criminal-procedure due-process jury-determination jury-trial reasonable-doubt revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum |
Whether Henderson's revocation sentence violates Apprendi and its progeny |
| 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 |
| 21-6318 |
Michael Aaron Aldridge v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consecutive-sentences criminal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness supervised-release |
Whether the district court exceeded the statutory maximum sentence |
| 21-6294 |
Robert Michael Junkins v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure drug-evidence drug-sentencing illegal-search motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure sentencing sentencing-guidelines vehicle-search |
Whether the district court erred in denying Junkins' motion to suppress evidence |
| 21-6295 |
Jmarreon Mack v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law appellate-review attempt controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense deference fifth-circuit judicial-deference sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err in deferring to the Sentencing Commission's use of commentary to expand the definition of 'controlled subst… |
| 21-6297 |
Henry Cervantes and Jaime Cervantes v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-statute jury-trial obstruction-of-justice official-proceeding sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether the federal obstruction of justice statute, 18 U.S.C. §1512(c)(2) (obstruction of an official proceeding), can be applied to street level crim… |
| 21-6300 |
Ricky Cardenas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-procedure objection-standard presentence-report sentencing unjust-incarceration |
Whether the defendant bears a burden to disprove adverse conclusions of a Presentence Report? |
| 21-6268 |
Cesar Martinez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury-acquittal sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment trial-by-jury |
Whether basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct underlying a charge for which the jury acquitted him violates his rights to due process and … |
| 21-6273 |
Nathan R. Rollins, Jr. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-sentencing-guidelines booker-standard criminal-conduct criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment united-states-v-booker |
Whether the Tenth Circuit's holding perpetuates the error this Court sought to address in United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220 (2005) |
| 21-6280 |
Johnny Williams v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-sentencing drug-conspiracy drug-distribution-conspiracy due-process enhanced-sentence mens-rea statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
When the Government clearly defines the scope and object of a drug distribution conspiracy in a charging Indictment, do the lower courts err when they… |
| 21-6282 |
Tannous Fazah v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split criminal-sentencing drug-conspiracy due-process federal-sentencing mandatory-minimum misdemeanor-reclassification prior-conviction prior-convictions retroactive-reclassification sentence-enhancement |
Whether the sentence enhancements for prior felony drug convictions apply to state felony convictions that have been recalled and resentenced as misde… |
| 21-6284 |
Marc Blane Baccus v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
border-trafficking criminal-sentencing drug-importation drug-trafficking guideline-enhancement importation methamphetamine methamphetamine-offense mexico sentencing-guidelines |
Whether Appellant's Sentence should have been enhanced for methamphetamine Importation from Mexico under §2D1.1(B)(5) |
| 21-6256 |
Macario Andrew Gomez, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing jury-determination jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether facts that affect the minimum or maximum reasonable federal sentence must be proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt? |
| 21-6235 |
Brandon Marquis Jennings v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process eighth-amendment life-sentence miller-v-alabama presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the appellate review for reasonableness of a life sentence lacks sufficient scrutiny |
| 21-690 |
Rodney Earl Cannady, aka Camp Earl v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-09 |
Denied |
|
career-offender cocaine-base-offense criminal-sentencing fair-sentencing-act first-step-act plain-error retroactive-amendment retroactivity sentencing-reduction |
Did the district court err by denying defendant Cannady relief pursuant to the retroactive First Step Act of 2018 and Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 |
| 21-6208 |
Daliang Guo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
control-over-others criminal-procedure criminal-scheme criminal-sentencing leader-enhancement leadership-role ninth-circuit participant-control role-model sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a defendant who took part in a criminal scheme with multiple participants is properly subject to the leader/organizer enhancement at USSG § 3B… |
| 21-6185 |
Rodney Smith v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-11-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion downward-departure judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines |
Was the District Court's decision not to depart downward appropriate? |
| 21-6160 |
Dennis Dean Smith v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights criminal-justice-reform cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection first-step-act prior-convictions retroactive-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-changes |
Has the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment required the Supreme Court to remedy it in the case where persons similarly sit… |
| 21-6168 |
Vance L. White v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review blakely-v-washington constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion self-incrimination sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Did Judge Katsten M. Culney violate the strictures of Blakely v. Washington, 542 U.S. 296 (2004) self-incrimination? |
| 21-6144 |
Johnnie Sims v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-02 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3553a criminal-sentencing discretionary-review district-court-discretion first-step-act individualized-explanation sentence-reduction sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation |
Are district courts required to consider the sentencing factors listed in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) when deciding whether to impose a reduced sentence under… |
| 21-6146 |
Keenan Rollerson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether a sentencing judge increasing a criminal defendant's punishment for acts charged but acquitted by the jury violates the jury trial guarantee o… |
| 21-6148 |
Lonnie Earl Parlor v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing drug-trafficking enhancement-factors firearm-possession firearms relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines specific-offense-characteristics statutory-maximum uncharged-conduct |
Whether a defendant's uncharged possession of firearms is 'relevant conduct' for sentencing enhancement |
| 21-6130 |
Brett Allan Corrigan, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review clear-error criminal-procedure drug-offense firearm sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review weapon-enhancement |
Whether the district court's finding that a weapon was connected to the drug offense under §2D1.1(b)(1) was clear error |
| 21-6118 |
Kevin Folse v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-battery bodily-injury circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law new-mexico sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation unlawful-force violent-crime |
Does New Mexico's aggravated battery statute qualify as a 'crime of violence' under the United States Sentencing Guidelines? |
| 21-6121 |
Luis Enrique Lario-Rios v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
commentary crimes-of-violence criminal-enhancement guideline-commentary prior-convictions sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-4b1.2 |
Whether the Sentencing Commission can use commentary to expand an unambiguous Guideline that applies to enhancements for prior convictions for crimes … |
| 21-6105 |
Saul Hernandez-Serrano v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
courts-of-appeals federal-sentencing molina-martinez-v-united-states numerical-range-of-imprisonment presumption-of-prejudice sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the presumption of prejudice recognized in Molina-Martinez v. United States extends to Federal Sentencing Guideline errors that do not affect … |
| 21-6064 |
Robert William Knopping v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion downward-departure government-motion sentencing sentencing-guidelines third-level-reduction u.s.s.g. |
When can district court deny government's motion for 3rd-level reduction for acceptance of responsibility under U.S.S.G. § 8E1.1(b)? |
| 21-6078 |
Melvin Jackson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines ineffective-assistance-of-counsel statutory-interpretation |
whether application of USSG § 2A2.1(b)(1) requires a finding of specific intent to cause bodily injury |
| 21-6087 |
Maria Vargas-Luna v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy fact-finding judicial-fact-finding jury-trial-right reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Whether Petitioner's sentence violates the Sixth Amendment |
| 21-6067 |
Johnnie Franklin Wills v. Karen Pszczolkowski, Superintendent, Northern Correctional Facility |
West Virginia |
2021-10-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing due-process johnson-v-united-states recidivism recidivist-statute residual-clause sentencing sessions-v-dimaya supreme-court-precedent vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Is a judicially crafted residual clause unconstitutional? |
| 21-6068 |
Ronald Tingle v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-10-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-3582 district-court drug-offenses extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-compelling-reasons first-step-act sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district judge is categorically prohibited from considering the First Step Act's amendment to penalties for drug offenses when determining w… |
| 21-6062 |
Craig Schenvinsky James v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-review sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Sentencing Commission's comments take precedent over the plain, statutorily construed language of the United States Sentencing Guidelines |
| 21-6049 |
Aaron Christopher Pena v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law drug-offenses importation knowledge-standard mens-rea methamphetamine offense-level-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation strict-liability |
Whether an offense level enhancement under the Sentencing Guidelines applies when the defendant did not know that the drugs were imported |
| 21-6010 |
Robert D. Sutton v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-10-20 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-sentencing judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums retroactivity sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Can a district court consider a defendant's disproportionately long sentence under the earlier version of § 924(c) to find 'extraordinary and compelli… |
| 21-6020 |
Said Azzam Mohamad Rahim v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process sentencing-guidelines specific-intent statutory-interpretation terrorism-enhancement |
This Court should resolve the circuit split that has developed by finding that the twelve-level terrorism enhancement under U.S.S.G. §3A1.4 requires a… |
| 21-6028 |
Johnny Jasper Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-20 |
GVR |
IFP |
borden-v-united-states crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-sentencing intervening-development sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation texas-robbery ussg-4b1.2 |
Whether the Texas offense of simple robbery by injury, Tex. Penal Code §29.02(a)(1) constitutes a 'crime of violence' under USSG §4B1.2? |
| 21-5998 |
In Re Anthony Terry |
|
2021-10-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act career-offender circuit-precedent circuit-split criminal-procedure elements-clause mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether Borden's substantive interpretation of statute should be extended to Terry in light of the fact that Eleventh Circuit precedent prevents him f… |
| 21-5999 |
Steven Dewayne Gilbert v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure career-offender-guideline circuit-split criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion guideline-interpretation holguin-hernandez procedural-reasonableness sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the holding in Holguin-Hernandez that a defendant's argument in the district court for a lower sentence preserves appellate review of the subs… |
| 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 a district court must or may consider intervening legal and factual developments when deciding to impose a reduced sentence under the First St… |
| 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 sentenc… |
| 21-5982 |
Marcus Matthews v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-interpretation circuit-court-precedent controlled-substance-offense controlled-substances criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines georgia-criminal-code sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-guidelines |
Does a conviction under OCGA § 16-13-30 qualify as a 'controlled substance offense' for purposes of enhancing a defendant's sentence under USSG § 2K2.… |
| 21-5992 |
Jose Miguel Ramirez-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
COVID-19 criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection felony-convictions judicial-discretion medical-records procedural-error sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines time-served |
Whether the sentencing court erred in its application of the Sentencing Guidelines |
| 21-5985 |
DeCarlos Titington v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
concurrent-sentences constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing discharged-sentences due-process equal-protection relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines undischarged-sentences |
Equal protection and due process rights for discharged vs. undischarged sentences |
| 21-5973 |
Jesus Lopez-Mejia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
Whether Petitioner's sentence was substantively unreasonable? |
| 21-5942 |
Michael Woolen v. California |
California |
2021-10-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review appointment-of-counsel civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure dismissal due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion procedural-due-process sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the cumulative effect of deprivations of equal protection of laws, failure to appoint counsel, and procedural due process deficiency issues re… |
| 21-5929 |
Jean Lynn Lillie v. Iowa |
Iowa |
2021-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech jury-trial repeat-offender sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment standing takings |
Can a state violate the Constitution of the United States and arbitrarily trample on the constitutional rights of individual innocent American citizen… |
| 21-5899 |
Joseph Vasquez, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender guidelines individualized-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness substantive-review |
Whether a below guidelines sentence can still result in a substantively unreasonable sentence? |
| 21-5900 |
Justin Anderson v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2021-10-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment capital-case constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment prior-offense resentencing sentencing victim-impact victim-impact-evidence |
Whether the Eighth Amendment permits a State to present victim-impact evidence arising from a crime other than the murder for which the defendant is b… |
| 21-496 |
Martez L. Smith v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-10-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
categorical-approach conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure guideline-interpretation overt-act sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the categorical approach for generic offenses applies to the offense of conspiring under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 Application Note 1 and requires an o… |
| 21-5867 |
James Dean Kendrick v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-10-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting-liability criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure indian-reservation indian-reservations sentencing-guidelines title-21-usc title-21-usc-section-841(b)(1)(A) title-21-usc-section-848(e)(1)(A) title-21-usc-section-848(g)-(p) |
Can-the-Government's-alleged-motive-for-the-murder-of-a-non-Indian-committed-by-another-non-Indian-override-139-years-of-this-Court's-precedent-as-to-… |
| 21-5872 |
Antonio Donnel Johnson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-10-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense guideline-commentary inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses precursor-offense precursor-offenses sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the United States Sentencing Commission exceeded its authority by adding inchoate and precursor offenses to the definition of 'controlled subs… |
| 21-5874 |
Warren Lavell Jackson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-04 |
GVR |
Relisted (3)IFP |
apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-law constitutional-precedent covered-offense criminal-sentencing fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the 'as if' language in Section 404(b) of the First Step Act requires a sentencing court to disregard intervening, but well-established consti… |
| 21-5875 |
Kenneth J. Jackson, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-10-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924c criminal-sentencing de-novo-sentencing first-step-act retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
Whether the sentencing amendments to 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) apply to a defendant at a post-Act resentencing hearing |
| 21-5879 |
Dheadry Powell v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-10-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion first-step-act guidelines justification money-laundering resentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Under the First Step Act, did the district court fail to provide a sufficiently compelling justification that thoroughly explains its above the guidel… |
| 21-5805 |
Jean Leonard Teganya v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-09-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure false-statements obstruction-of-justice perjury sentencing-guidelines significant-further-obstruction |
Whether the obstruction-of-justice enhancement under the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines can apply when a defendant testifies at trial and repeats the fals… |
| 21-5825 |
Raqib Abdul Al-Amin v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2021-09-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
compulsory-process constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment drug-offense due-process eighth-amendment evidence expert-witness mandatory-minimum sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the South Carolina Supreme Court erred in concluding that the trial court's decision to exclude the testimony of the defendant's expert witnes… |
| 21-5800 |
Gerald Ross Pizzuto, Jr. v. Idaho |
Idaho |
2021-09-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-standard Atkins-v-Virginia clinical-assessment clinical-standards conflict-between-lower-courts constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing death-penalty intellectual-disability national-concern sub-average-intellectual-functioning |
Did Atkins v. Virginia require the use of clinical standards for the determination of sub-average intellectual functioning? |
| 21-5801 |
Carlos Benitez Penalosa v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-sentencing miscarriage-of-justice plain-error plea-agreement sentencing-error |
Did the Ninth Circuit err when it failed to find that a sentencing error can amount to a 'miscarriage of justice' allowing appellate review even if th… |
| 21-5776 |
Bobby John Kobito v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-09-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process federal-crime sentencing-guidelines silencer silencer-possession terrorism terrorism-enhancement trial-court-discretion |
Whether the trial court erred in finding that the defendant's possession of a silencer was intended to promote a federal crime of terrorism, pursuant … |
| 21-5731 |
Sheridan Sisk v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-09-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines federal-statute sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Does the phrase 'controlled substance' in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) include substances excluded from the Controlled Substances Act? |
| 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 |
| 21-5714 |
Jayren Jakar Wynn v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-09-21 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
agency-deference agency-interpretation circuit-precedent controlled-substance-offense guideline-commentary inchoate-offenses kisor-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a circuit court may properly rely on circuit precedent predating Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. Ct. 2400 (2019), to hold, contrary to Kisor, that the… |
| 21-5725 |
Sergio Amaya-Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-u.s.c.s.-991(b) 5th-circuit circuit-court-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing role-adjustment sentencing-fairness sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-3b1.2 |
Whether the 5th Circuit Court has qualified the minor and minimal role adjustment commentary under U.S.S.G. §3B1.2 such that the sentences in consider… |
| 21-5690 |
Pedro Zavala-Armendariz v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(f) appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court judicial-discretion safety-valve sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Did the District Court err by not adequately explaining its ruling in applying or not applying the safety valve in connection with 18 U.S.C. §3553(f)? |
| 21-5671 |
Vicente Corona v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-09-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 compassionate-release criminal-sentencing extraordinary-compelling-reasons sentencing-disparities sentencing-reduction sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation |
Whether 'Extraordinary and Compelling Reasons' to Reduce a Defendant's Sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i) may be based on any Factor a Court … |
| 21-5633 |
Roland J. McLain v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-09-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-law due-process federal-guidelines federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the phrase 'controlled substance' in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) includes substances excluded from the Controlled Substances Act |
| 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 |
Should the reasonableness standard apply on appellate review of a ruling on a motion under Section 404 of the First Step Act? |
| 21-5639 |
Siliaivaoese Fuimaona v. D. Hudson, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
concurrent-sentences criminal-appeal custody federal-bureau-of-prisons federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review ninth-circuit parole sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas erred in holding that the petitioner wa… |
| 21-5603 |
Alphonse Gainer v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appeal appellate-discretion criminal-justice criminal-sentencing eleventh-circuit first-step-act motion-for-reconsideration motion-reconsideration sentence-reduction sentencing |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit abused its discretion in denying Gainer's Motion for Reconsideration of Denial of … |
| 21-5615 |
Carlos Mora v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-preservation criminal-justice due-process importation mens-rea methamphetamine-importation plain-error plain-error-review sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines |
whether-defendant-failed-to-preserve-argument-by-not-raising-it-at-sentencing-hearing |
| 21-5583 |
Jordan Lee Bell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-sentencing due-process first-amendment pornographic-matter supervised-release unconstitutionally-vague |
Does a special condition of supervised release that prohibits possession or control of 'any pornographic matter' violate due process as unconstitution… |
| 21-5584 |
Guerly Alexis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing eleventh-circuit equal-protection fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant whose offense preceded the enactment of the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, and who was sentenced after its enactment, but not necess… |
| 21-5572 |
Kamau Alan Israel v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
competency competency-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insanity-defense mental-illness plea-bargain sentencing sentencing-guidelines strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether counsel for a person suffering severe mental illness throughout his entire life should have taken minimal steps to investigate his mental illn… |
| 21-5548 |
Brent Anderson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure double-counting firearm-possession plain-error reckless-endangerment sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines vehicular-flight |
Did the district court plainly err when it applied a 2-level enhancement for 'reckless endangerment during flight' after already applying a 4-level 'i… |
| 21-5532 |
Guy Harvey Spruhan, IV v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
equal-protection non-delegation-doctrine retroactive-relief retroactive-sentence-reduction sentence-reduction sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act separation-of-powers |
Is the limitation in U.S.S.G. § 1B1.10 consistent with the statutory directive to avoid unwarranted sentencing disparity? |
| 21-5513 |
Christopher Seckington v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
chapman-v-united-states constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment drug-trafficking eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment urine-testing |
Question not identified |
| 21-5518 |
John Perez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
atascosa-county base-offense-level criminal-procedure drug-distribution drug-quantity mass-marketing relevant-conduct sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines traffic-stop |
Was it improper for the Court to find the base offense level was 34 because Mr. Perez should only have been held accountable for the 15 pounds of 'bot… |
| 21-5530 |
Luis Gomez-Castro v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process judicial-findings obstruction-of-justice perjury plain-error-review sentencing-guidelines |
When a defendant objects to a sentencing enhancement for obstruction of justice based on perjury, must the court make specific findings on the element… |
| 21-5504 |
Eric Worley v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-08-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
base-offense-level burden-of-proof confrontation-clause criminal-procedure drug-quantity evidence preponderance-of-evidence presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the government failed to prove the drug quantity used to determine the defendant's base offense level by a preponderance of the evidence, in v… |
| 21-5480 |
Charles Bryant v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-08-25 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
circuit-split crack-cocaine fair-sentencing-act first-step-act judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a judge may impose a new sentence 'as if' only the change to the crack thresholds applies, ignoring other legal changes that have altered the … |
| 21-256 |
Bilal Hamid Love v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines strickland-standard |
Is defense counsel required to provide an estimate of potential guideline sentence when advising defendant on pleading guilty? |
| 21-5418 |
Sergio Bucio v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion mitigating-role money-laundering role-adjustment sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg-3b1.2 |
Whether the district court erred in calculating the amount of laundered funds attributable to Mr. Bucio |
| 21-5413 |
Antoine L. Wallace v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation |
Does the undefined term 'controlled substance' in the federal Sentencing Guidelines refer to substances controlled by federal law or state law? |
| 21-5397 |
Jesse Carey v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law enumerated-offense generic-robbery legal-interpretation robbery-definition sentencing-guidelines third-circuit third-degree-robbery |
Whether the Third Circuit misapplied the law and rendered a decision in conflict with other federal courts of appeals by holding that Petitioner's thi… |
| 21-5400 |
Maria Gonzalez Maldonado v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-trafficking federal-sentencing methamphetamine-possession minor-participant sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Did Maria Gonzalez Maldonado conspire to possess and/or actually and knowingly possess between 5kg-15kg kilograms of methamphetamine pursuant to U.S.S… |
| 21-5386 |
Michael Kenneth Young v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal criminal-classification district-court drug-offense fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-appeal prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines serious-drug-offenses |
Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal err in reversing the decision of the District Court which had determined that Petitioner Michael Young was not … |
| 21-5348 |
James H. Bates v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3553a criminal-sentencing discretionary-review district-court-discretion first-step-act individualized-explanation section-404 sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation |
Are district courts required to consider the sentencing factors listed in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) when deciding whether to impose a reduced sentence under… |
| 21-5336 |
Theodore Howard v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-08-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c)(1)(A) 924(c)(1)(C) constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process firearm-use fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether Mr. Theodore Howard was denied due-process rights, to fair notice of indictment charges |
| 21-5314 |
Thomas Brantley Jenkins, II v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 compassionate-release criminal-sentencing district-court-review judicial-discretion motion-analysis primary-contentions sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation written-findings |
Whether a district court fully considers the 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) factors when ruling on a compassionate release motion under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)… |
| 21-5302 |
Roosevelt Rico Dahda v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-v-united-states criminal-sentencing drug-quantity jury-determination mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence sixth-amendment statutory-maximum statutory-maximum-sentence |
Whether a finding on the issue of drug quantity that increases the statutory maximum sentence requires the jury to make an individualized determinatio… |
| 21-5307 |
Millard Jerome Strickland, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (4)IFP |
career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-conviction federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law |
Whether a prior conviction involving a substance that is not a controlled substance for the purposes of federal law can render a federal defendant a '… |
| 21-143 |
Raymond Rodriguez-Rivera v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-08-03 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response Waived |
agreement circuit-split conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law overt-act sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the United States Sentencing Guidelines' definition of a 'controlled substance offense' is limited to only those state and federal crimes that… |
| 21-5271 |
Paul Surine v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crack-cocaine drug-conviction drug-quantity first-step-act judicial-interpretation recidivism-probability retroactivity sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines |
Whether petitioner Paul Surine should receive a reduced sentence under the First Step Act |
| 21-5272 |
Gary Todd Smith v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-sentencing fraud fraudulent-investment-scheme investment-scheme loss-amount loss-calculation loss-to-losing-victims sentencing-guidelines uniformity |
When determining the United States Sentencing Guidelines loss amount attributable to a defendant in a case involving a fraudulent investment scheme, s… |
| 21-5250 |
Adalberto Martinez-Ramirez v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
§3Bl.1(a)-standard buyer-relationship circuit-court-review criminal-leadership criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing evidence precedent precedent-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation U.S.-v.-Miller |
Whether the Eighth Circuit overlooked binding precedent in U.S. v. Miller when determining if the facts established that Martinez did not coerce buyer… |
| 21-115 |
Ivan Rosario v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-07-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
6th-amendment criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment judicial-factfinding jury jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause and the Sixth Amendment's right to trial by jury protect criminal defendants from being sentenced bas… |
| 21-5229 |
Jevante Marcus Richmond and Arthur Gene Evans, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-sentencing district-court fourth-circuit procedural-reasonableness sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the Fourth Circuit failed to apply substantive reasonableness review of the sentences imposed by the district court? |
| 21-5196 |
Shalen Stoltz v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-waiver criminal-appeal due-process liberty-interest plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines |
Is an appellate waiver knowing and voluntary when the waiver's scope includes a sentence contrary to law and unauthorized by the United States Sentenc… |
| 21-5173 |
Vernon Montrell Webster v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
application-note attempt-offense auer-deference circuit-split controlled-substance-offense kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a District Court's use of Application note 1 to U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 is an improper exercise of Auer deference by adding 'attempt' offenses to § 4… |
| 21-5186 |
Mihran Melkonyan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law auer-deference circuit-split deference federal-courts judicial-interpretation regulatory-interpretation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether Auer deference applies to the Sentencing Guidelines |
| 21-5149 |
Leobardo Barraza v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
eighth-amendment irreparable-corruption juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama plain-error sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a federal court commits plain error by anchoring a sentence for a juvenile's crime resulting in death to a Sentencing Guidelines that recommen… |
| 21-5163 |
Gregory Scott Stephen v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography criminal-procedure eighth-circuit fourth-amendment government-agent private-citizen search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing-guidelines standing |
Was the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit's conclusion that a private citizen can never be established as a government agent absen… |
| 21-5164 |
Larry G. Coker v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2021-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment amendment-violation constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process illegal-indictment sentencing sex-offender-registration |
Whether the re-sentencing of the petitioner to 25 years, which exceeded the lawful sentence, violated the 8th Amendment prohibition on cruel and unusu… |
| 21-75 |
Ojin Kim v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review criminal-procedure deprivation-of-liberty due-process liberty-deprivation methodology-challenge restitution restitution-order sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a sentence should be reviewable on appeal if the restitution order is not barred from appellate review due to factually insufficient evidence |
| 21-5144 |
Tye Lanford Sarratt v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 circuit-split collateral-review due-process johnson-claim johnson-v-united-states post-conviction-motion retroactivity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Does a post-conviction motion asserting a claim that a sentence violates due process under Johnson v. United States because it was dictated by the res… |
| 21-5146 |
Antonio Dewayne Adams v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment preponderance-of-the-evidence preponderance-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum |
Whether the Tenth Circuit's decision sanctioning a preponderance of the evidence standard to find criminal acts that nearly doubled the advisory sente… |
| 21-68 |
Brendon Janis v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-07-19 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-delegation delegation-of-authority due-process probation-officer risk-notification sentencing-guidelines supervised-release vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Does Standard Condition 12 unconstitutionally delegate authority to the probation officer? |
| 21-5092 |
Dawn J. Bennett v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-07-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fourth-circuit judicial-discretion presumption-of-reasonableness presumptive-reasonableness procedural-error sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review summary-reversal |
Whether a district court applies an impermissible presumption of reasonableness to the Sentencing Guidelines range by referring to the range as 'presu… |
| 21-5110 |
Junior Jean Baptiste v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-U.S.C.-3553(a) advisory-guidelines appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion reasoned-decision sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Should the sentencing judge be required to address relevant sentencing factors and provide a reasoned basis for discounting valid grounds for variance… |
| 21-5111 |
Joenell L. Rice v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit time-served |
Whether the district court and court of appeals erred in imposing a harsh sentence on the petitioner without proper grounds |
| 21-5122 |
Juan Angel Velasquez-Canales v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion felony-enhancement guideline-interpretation immigration prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court erred in applying a six-level enhancement under Section 2L1.2(b)(2)(C) of the Sentencing Guidelines |
| 21-5099 |
Thomas Javion Guerrant v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-07-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP |
career-offender controlled-substance drug-trafficking federal-law predicate-offense sentencing-guidelines state-conviction |
Does a state conviction for distribution of a substance not defined as a 'controlled substance' by federal law qualify as a career offender predicate … |
| 21-5100 |
Matthew James Haymond, Sr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-07-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crack-cocaine criminal-sentencing drug-offenses fair-sentencing-act first-step-act mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-minimum plea-bargaining retroactive-application sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether Mr. Haymond was improperly denied First-Step-Act-relief |
| 21-5104 |
John G. Tomes, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-07-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3582 compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process extraordinary-circumstances judicial-discretion sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation |
Whether 'Extraordinary and Compelling Reasons' to Reduce a Defendant's Sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i) may be based on any Factor a Court … |
| 21-5077 |
Herbert Jonathan Castillo Juarez and Paola Valenzuela Arevalo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-crimes drug-type knowledge-requirement mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-2d1.1 |
Whether the government is required to prove a defendant's mens rea and knowledge with respect to the requisite drug type for penalties under Title 21 … |
| 21-5071 |
Gigi Fairchild Littlefield v. California |
California |
2021-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights covid-19 criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation prison-reform prosecutorial-discretion sentencing-guidelines standing systemic-injustice |
Whether the State of California's Department of Corrections has ignored a court ruling that jeopardized the lives and caused injuries and deaths of ma… |
| 21-5044 |
Ncholeion Kashana Hollie v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abduction abduction-definition change-in-location circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-sentencing robbery robbery-enhancement sentencing-guidelines ussg-2b3.1 |
Whether the Robbery guideline 'abduction' enhancement under USSG § 2B3.1(b)(4)(A) requires moving a person to a place separate from the site of the ro… |
| 21-5046 |
Ira Lee Wilkins v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-07-08 |
GVR |
IFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law reckless-conduct reckless-force sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review tenth-circuit violent-crime |
Whether Mr. Wilkins's conviction for Texas aggravated robbery is a crime of violence under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 in light of Borden v. United States |
| 21-5047 |
Michael Carter v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3553a criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing discretionary-review district-court-discretion first-step-act individualized-explanation sentence-reduction sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation |
Are district courts required to consider the sentencing factors listed in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) when deciding whether to impose a reduced sentence under… |
| 21-5053 |
Hernando Javier Vergara v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment amendment-challenge constitutional-scrutiny criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process jury-trial retroactive-application retroactivity supervised-release |
Should the Haymond ruling be considered retroactive? |
| 21-5030 |
Jonathan Mark Brinda v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-07-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process excessive-sentence sentencing sentencing-considerations statutory-considerations statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether the district court erred in sentencing the defendant excessively based on the statutory considerations in 18 U.S.C. §3553(a) and in imposing a… |
| 21-5011 |
Anthony Farmer v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 abuse-of-discretion criminal-justice criminal-law federal-sentencing judicial-discretion public-confidence racial-disparities racial-disparity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court can or should consider the need to avoid unwarranted racial disparities in sentencing |
| 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? |
| 21-5001 |
Ronald D. Smith v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-07-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-proportionality criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process firearm-enhancement firearms illinois-constitution legislative-revival sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the legislature revived the firearm enhancement in ~ section 720 ILCS 5/8-4 (B-D) (West 2000) |
| 20-8469 |
Lamont Benedict Nelson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1951 borden-standard borden-v-united-states crime-of-violence grant-vacate-remand hobbs-act sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether the Court should grant, vacate, and remand this case to permit the lower court to consider whether a conviction for Hobbs Act robbery under 18… |
| 20-8452 |
Keith Lamar Lott, aka Kevin Moore v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1951 borden-standard borden-v-united-states crime-of-violence grant-vacate-remand hobbs-act sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether the Court should grant, vacate, and remand this case to permit the lower court to consider whether a conviction for Hobbs Act robbery under 18… |
| 20-8460 |
Marcus Snipes v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-06-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
Apprendi-rule constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process jury-determination jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum |
Whether the state can avoid Apprendi's reach by writing its penal statutes so that a fact that increases the penalty for a crime instead becomes a fac… |
| 20-8453 |
Devonte Jaishun Tucker v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion mitigation preservation preservation-of-error sentencing sentencing-discretion |
Whether a defendant must object to sentencing court's failure to consider a nonfrivolous mitigation argument in order to preserve the issue for appeal |
| 20-8439 |
Francisco Coto-Mendoza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-review guideline-range judicial-discretion objection plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-arguments |
Whether a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails to address substantial arguments for a sentence outside the Guideline range,… |
| 20-1807 |
Dontour D. Drakes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
18-usc-3582 18-usc-3582c2 amendment-782 career-offender criminal-sentencing retroactive-amendment sentencing-guidelines substantial-assistance united-states-v-hughes |
Whether a career offender who provided substantial assistance is eligible for a sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) based on the judge's c… |
| 20-1808 |
Adam E. Billings v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-06-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-booker united-states-v-roach |
Whether the Sentencing Guidelines §2D1.1 Application Note 4 violates procedural due process |
| 20-8415 |
Demario Deshawn Simpson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-06-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
count-specific-plea criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-criminal-procedure jurisdiction partial-guilty-plea plea-bargaining plea-entry sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Whether a defendant has a right under the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure to enter a partial guilty plea (without a plea agreement or any plea bar… |
| 20-8416 |
Raul Ramos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process hearsay-evidence sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment united-states-v-haymond |
Whether the district court's reliance on hearsay evidence to impose a guideline sentence of life violates Ramos's right to confront and cross-examine … |
| 20-8422 |
Wayne Porter v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review conspiracy-conviction criminal-enterprise criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervisory-power |
Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals' sanctioning of the district court's refusal to correct errors and conclusions of facts from the Fourth Ci… |
| 20-8398 |
Jonathan Jerome Hills v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 criminal-justice criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection first-step-act judicial-discretion procedural-opportunity sentencing sentencing-disparity statutory-interpretation |
Whether differences in procedural opportunity arising from the fact that a defendant is statutorily eligible for relief under the First Step Act creat… |
| 20-8431 |
Brandon Kendale Dudley v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence-standard judicial-discretion preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the use of the preponderance of the evidence standard at sentencing to substantially enhance a criminal defendant's advisory guideline range c… |
| 20-8395 |
Luis Bernal-Villareal v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
average-participant criminal-procedure drug-importation lower-courts minor-role sentencing-guidelines ussg-3b1.2 ussg-analysis |
Whether managers and supervisors should be considered 'average participants' for USSG § 3B1.2 minor role analysis |
| 20-8402 |
Daniel Chica-Gutierrez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affirmative-defense collateral-attack criminal-procedure custis-rule federal-statutory-provision sentencing sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines state-court-conviction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a federal court is permitted to consider an argument that a prior state-court conviction does not satisfy a relevant federal statutory provisi… |
| 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… |
| 20-8364 |
David Gilmartin v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure criminal-sentencing earnings-definition economic-circumstances probation-conditions restitution restitution-order sentencing social-security social-security-benefits statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court erred in modifying the restitution order to require the defendant to pay 10% of all receipts of money, including Social Sec… |
| 20-8346 |
Juan Anibal Patrone v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-922 criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error immigration-status rehaif rehaif-standard sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court's violation of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019) entitles a defendant to relief, irrespective of whether the … |
| 20-8329 |
Ines Colleen Robinson v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-of-appeal criminal-sentencing disqualification due-process florida-court-of-appeal florida-law judicial-bias resentencing writ-of-prohibition |
ROBINSON WAS DENIED DUE PROCESS WHEN THE FLORIDA COURT OF APPEAL REFUSED TO GRANT HER A RESENTENCING AFTER THE SAME FLORIDA COURT HAD GRANTED A WRIT O… |
| 20-8316 |
Michael Lawrence Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-sentencing district-court first-step-act sentencing-reform substantive-reasonableness |
Whether a district court's denial of a motion for relief from under Section 404 of the First Step Act is subject to substantive reasonableness review? |
| 20-1732 |
Thomas Bryant, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-15 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-procedure district-court first-step-act policy-statement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether Section 1B1.13 of the United States Sentencing Guidelines is an 'applicable' policy statement that binds a district court in considering a def… |
| 20-1728 |
Rico Sanders v. Dylon Radtke, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-06-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing juvenile-status life-sentence mitigating-factor parole sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether this Court's Eighth Amendment precedent clearly establishes that a sentencing court must consider a defendant's juvenile status as a mitigatin… |
| 20-8282 |
Anthony Herman Lucio v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process factual-findings findings judicial-discretion presentence-report sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the presentence report's calculations on the quantity of drugs under U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Manual § 2D1.1 attributed to the defendant wer… |
| 20-8292 |
Pete Anthony Tyndale v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing divisibility due-process federal-prosecution reckless-conduct serious-violent-felony sovereign-authority state-prosecution statutory-interpretation three-strikes-statute Whether the life sentence imposed under the Federa |
Does the government have sovereign authority to dictate a particular state's choice in which federal law will be prosecuted other than the state accor… |
| 20-8264 |
Jeremy Hough v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process harmless-error judicial-procedure procedural-error sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether, through 'assumed error harmlessness review,' appellate courts may affirm a criminal sentence without addressing allegations of significant pr… |
| 20-8238 |
Martavis Hollis Samuel v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca controlled-substance-offense criminal-law elonis florida-drug-statute mcfadden mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Is a post-2002 conviction for sale of marijuana or cocaine or for possession of cocaine with intent to sell in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a 'con… |
| 20-1693 |
Erick Allen Osby v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-07 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response Waived |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy fifth-amendment jury-acquittal sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether basing a criminal defendant's sentence on charges of which the jury acquitted him violates the Fifth or Sixth Amendments |
| 20-8226 |
In Re Francis Boyd |
|
2021-06-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus judicial-error jury-instruction jury-instructions miscarriage-of-justice murder murder-degrees third-degree-murder trial-procedure |
Can a trial judge instruct a jury during a jury charge that they cannot find the petitioner guilty of a certain degree of murder after entertaining a … |
| 20-8211 |
Christian M. Allmendinger v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judicial-fact-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment witte-v-united-states |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments forbid sentencing guidelines from enhancing the presumed reasonable punishment for an offense, unless the facts… |
| 20-8213 |
James Atwood v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-06-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law |
Does the undefined term 'controlled substance' in the federal Sentencing Guidelines refer to substances controlled by federal law or state law? |
| 20-8215 |
Aaron Walton v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-06-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-law eighth-circuit guidelines inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals incorrectly found that an inchoate offense such as an attempt is included in the definition of a 'controll… |
| 20-8197 |
Samuel Earl Smith v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure defendant-role fifth-circuit leader-organizer leadership-enhancement sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's holding that Mr. Smith was a leader or organizer under the United States Sentencing Guidelines evidences a circuit split |
| 20-8202 |
Otis Hill v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split controlled-substance-offense crime-of-violence criminal-law eighth-circuit inchoate-offenses sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g-4b1.2 |
Whether inchoate offenses are included in the definition of a 'crime of violence' or 'controlled substance offense' under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 |
| 20-8181 |
Linwood Earl Stephens v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-jurisdiction clearly-erroneous-fact criminal-procedure due-process fact-finding fourth-circuit judicial-review jurisdiction sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding it did not have jurisdiction to review a decision to deny a departure under the United St… |
| 20-8182 |
Gilbert Sanchez v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-06-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the trial court's misdirection of the jury as to the applicable sentencing range constituted egregious harm |
| 20-1653 |
Lazelle Maxwell v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-05-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
circuit-split criminal-sentencing first-step-act legal-developments procedural-history resentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court must or may consider intervening legal and factual developments when deciding to impose a reduced sentence under the First St… |
| 20-8146 |
Edward Lee Smith v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-05-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compulsory district-court district-court-interpretation judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-booker |
Whether the District Court committed significant procedural error when it mistakenly interpreted section 7B1.3(f) of the United States Sentencing Guid… |
| 20-8084 |
Gregory Brown v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law federal-courts federal-procedure mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether 28 U.S.C. § 994(h)(2)(B) and the definition of a 'controlled substance offense' in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) require that a defendant's prior offens… |
| 20-8077 |
Kavoris Clayton v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-offense mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the drug conduct in the 'controlled substance offense' definition in U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 4B1.2(b) requires knowledge of the illicit na… |
| 20-8047 |
Cornelius R. Caple v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
acca assault career-offender controlled-substance criminal-law elements-clause mens-rea sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the drug conduct in the 'controlled substance offense' definition in U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 4B1.2(b) requires knowledge of the illicit na… |
| 20-8019 |
Roberto Torner v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-05-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravated-assault crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process equal-protection new-jersey-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a New Jersey conviction for Aggravated Assault, pursuant to N.J.S.A. 2C:12-1(b)(1), is a crime of violence for sentencing guideline purposes |
| 20-8020 |
Charleston Pierre Wiggins v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance-offense drug-distribution guideline-commentary sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation USSG-4B1.2(b) |
Whether an offense-matching categorical approach applies to the determination of a 'controlled substance offense' under the USSG § 4B1.2(b)? |
| 20-8021 |
Jason Scott Pedro v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-sentencing guidelines harmless-error procedural-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review statutory-maximum |
Can a significant procedural error be deemed harmless when the sentencing judge uses the statutory maximum as the baseline for imposition of sentence? |
| 20-8002 |
Jason Andrew Cavazos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-sentencing plain-error relevant-conduct sex-offense u.s.s.g.-§2g1.3(b)(4) |
Whether the court of appeals failed to properly apply the plain error analysis to the question of whether the sentencing court erred by including a tw… |
| 20-7972 |
Gregory L. Roberson, Charles Matthews, and Dorothy Robinson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-05-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split crack-cocaine fair-sentencing-act first-step-act retroactivity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-penalties |
Does the term 'covered offense' in the First Step Act include violations of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a) involving crack cocaine to which apply the penalties in… |
| 20-7973 |
Zavion Nunley v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split data-availability judicial-discretion nationwide-statistics reasonableness-of-sentence sentencing-disparities sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statistical-analysis unwarranted-disparities |
Whether statistics demonstrating that judges in the sentencing district impose sentences much more frequently than their peers in other district are r… |
| 20-1565 |
Michael Ryan Mitchan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines |
Should defendants in criminal cases be permitted to confront witnesses against them at sentencing when their uncorroborated hearsay statements are sol… |
| 20-7964 |
John Riley, aka P. J. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-justice criminal-sentencing district-court federal-jurisdiction first-step-act motion-denial motion-to-modify sentence-reduction sentencing |
Whether the district court erred by denying the Motion for Sentence Reduction under The First Step Act of 2018 |
| 20-7961 |
Antonio Olmeda v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consecutive-sentences consecutive-sentencing criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process firearm-possession jury-determination jury-trial multiplicitous-conviction sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a Judgment and Conviction on two counts, under U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1.(a), for unlawful 'receipt' of a firearm and 'Possession' of that firearm is m… |
| 20-7936 |
Jose Oribel Ponce-Ulloa v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-courts federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines temporal-connection ussg-2d1.1 weapon-possession |
Whether a sentencing court can add two offense levels for possession of a weapon under USSG § 2D1.1(b)(1) when the gun is not used nor present in the … |
| 20-7912 |
Jorge Gomez-Gomez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the court of appeals erred by concluding that Petitioner's 99-month sentence was substantively reasonable |
| 20-7878 |
Maci Denon Davis and Joe L. Franklin v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-04-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
congress congressional-intent discretion district-court eighth-circuit first-step-act sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines unwarranted-disparities |
Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals incorrectly found that the district court was permitted to tether itself to the United States Sentencing G… |
| 20-7856 |
Dennis Ayala v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-04-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review court-of-appeals district-court drug-quantity harmless-error judicial-discretion molina-martinez preponderance-standard sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in finding harmless error |
| 20-7829 |
Edmundo Bustamante-Muniz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-04-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment fifth-circuit precedent-overturning sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 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 |
| 20-1479 |
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… |
| 20-7797 |
Jorge Luis Rosa-Hernandez v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-decision due-process equal-protection sentencing sentencing-guidelines third-circuit unrelated-misconduct |
Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's Decision in allowing the Government to use unrelated, uncharged mis… |
| 20-7803 |
Jonathan S. Hall v. Delaware |
Delaware |
2021-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines standing supreme-court-review takings |
Whether the federal and state laws predicated on the Constitutionally-questionable Gun Control Act of 1968 are unconstitutional or illegal, and whethe… |
| 20-7742 |
Deandre Joseph Warren v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-04-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense guideline-commentary inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses precursor-offense precursor-offenses sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the United States Sentencing Commission exceeded its authority by adding inchoate and precursor offenses to the definition of 'controlled subs… |
| 20-7715 |
In Re Richard DeCaro |
|
2021-04-12 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
double-jeopardy ex-post-facto federal-statute first-degree-murder ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-life second-degree-murder sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Whether the Ex Post Facto Clause is violated |
| 20-7702 |
Covia Dzell Smith v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-errors fair-trial fourth-circuit-review ineffective-assistance right-to-present-defense sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether trial counsel's ineffective assistance deprived Mr. Smith of the right to offer evidence in his defense |
| 20-7703 |
Gary Lamont Robinson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court fourth-amendment fourth-circuit individualized-assessment judicial-discretion procedural-reasonableness sentencing-review |
Whether the Fourth Circuit's decision is in conflict with the Court's decision in Gall v. United States |
| 20-7705 |
Marco Antonio Serrano v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-waiver career-offender district-court-error due-process mandatory-application plea-agreement sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Can a plea agreement that includes an appellate waiver lawfully deprive a defendant of his right to appeal a sentence that was based on the district c… |
| 20-7708 |
Jose Noe Castro Orellana v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process fact-finding plain-error-review procedural-error sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights |
Whether the Fifth Circuit misapplied Rita v. United States and Gall v. United States by elevating the presumption of reasonableness over a reliance on… |
| 20-7667 |
Troy Kendrick, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-04-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-circuit falsified-evidence franks-standard franks-v-delaware judicial-review law-enforcement-misconduct probable-cause sentencing-guidelines wiretap wiretap-evidence |
When a law enforcement agent falsifies and misrepresents wiretap evidence to establish probable cause for a second wiretap, can a reviewing court rely… |
| 20-7655 |
Lisa Bershan v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure downward-departure judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines variances |
Should a sentencing judge be required to rule on downward departure requests before considering variances? |
| 20-7629 |
Robert Earl Martin v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-sentencing johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states legal-precedent residual-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether application of Johnson to the virtually identical residual clause in § 3559(c) does not require a new rule of constitutional law, but merely r… |
| 20-7580 |
Trinidad Jesus Garcia v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing individualized-circumstances judicial-discretion plain-error reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether formal objection to sentencing is necessary to invoke plain error review of the reasonableness of a sentence |
| 20-7547 |
Saloman Martinez v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-discretion kentucky-law sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment standard-of-proof supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the defendant's conviction and sentence are in conflict with the Supreme Court's precedents in (1) Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004),… |
| 20-7522 |
Joshua R. Jones v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender criminal-sentencing johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines void-for-vagueness |
Whether the new rule announced in Johnson v. United States applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidelines, U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 (200… |
| 20-7533 |
Preston James v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-03-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
career-offender career-offender-guideline controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense guideline-commentary inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether it is a misapplication of the Sentencing Guidelines for a sentencing court to defer to guideline commentary that expands the definition of a c… |
| 20-7516 |
Josue Portillo v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment incorrigibility juvenile-justice juvenile-offenders miller-rule miller-v-alabama proportionality sentencing |
Whether, absent proof of incorrigibility, a district court can sentence a defendant to fifty-five years imprisonment without parole for participating … |
| 20-7520 |
Shante Bruce Rice v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2021-03-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
age-of-defendant constitutional-law criminal-justice criminal-sentencing equal-protection equal-protection-clause life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Pennsylvania Superior Court's decision that the ban on mandatory sentences of life without parole applies to only those defendants who wer… |
| 20-7492 |
Justice Towan Roundtree v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alternative-sentence appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court-discretion guidelines harmless-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a Guidelines error is harmless when the district judge issues an alternative sentence |
| 20-7473 |
Ivan Dario Obregon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error plea-agreement sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines |
Are unforeseeable sentencing mistakes beyond the scope of federal appeal waivers? |
| 20-7474 |
Ezralee J. Kelley v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-17 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
as four circuits hold as three circuits hold or whether a resentencing court must correct a Gu career-offender circuit-split fair-sentencing-act first-step-act judicial-interpretation resentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a district court imposing a reduced sentence under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act is prohibited from correcting an erroneous Sentencing … |
| 20-7475 |
Corry Jessie v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conviction enhancement extraneous-offense felony relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines |
Did the district court err in applying a 4-level enhancement for 'in connection with another felony offense'? |
| 20-7465 |
Johnny Andres Asuncion, III v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
carachuri-rosendo-v-holder criminal-sentencing felony-drug-offense mandatory-minimum ninth-circuit-precedent predicate-offense recidivism sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Ninth Circuit ruling is inconsistent with prior rulings and ignores Supreme Court precedent |
| 20-7439 |
Michael Luis Suarez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) actual-innocence categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process plea-bargaining predicate-offense procedural-default sentencing-guidelines statutory-enhancement |
Whether a defendant may be enhanced under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) where he entered a plea of guilty to an offense that no longer qualifies as a predicate o… |
| 20-7446 |
Juan Luis Rivera Arreola v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split co-defendant-liability criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-offense federal-sentencing-guidelines firearm-enhancement reasonable-foreseeability sentencing-guidelines tools-of-the-trade U.S.S.G.-2D1.1(b)(1) |
Sentencing-enhancement-for-firearm-possession |
| 20-7387 |
Vaughn Lewis v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
agency-deference career-offender controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense deference inchoate-offenses sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
Whether the commentary can add conspiracy and other inchoate offenses not included in the guideline definition of 'controlled substance offense' |
| 20-7359 |
Karen Gagarin v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split consent criminal-law criminal-sentencing felony-violation identity-theft means-of-identification statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Does 'another person' in the aggravated identity theft statute include someone who consented to the felonious use of her identifying information? |
| 20-7327 |
Timothy A. Ward v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-03-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
career-offender categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law federal-guidelines federal-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-drug-schedules state-law |
Whether the term 'controlled substance' in the federal sentencing guidelines should be defined by federal law or the law of the state where the prior … |
| 20-7277 |
Niles O'Neil v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-03-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in holding that the U.S. Sentencing Commission acted within its authority by its commentary to § U.S. Sentencing Gu… |
| 20-7296 |
Dane Schrank v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-02 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
appellate-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum oral-argument reasoned-decision sentencing-guidelines standing |
Must Circuit Courts provide reasoned decisions to deny parties oral argument under Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 34(a)(2)? |
| 20-7299 |
Michael Dean Adkisson v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2021-03-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
consecutive-sentence criminal-sentencing custody due-process jury-trial jury-trial-rights prison-custody separate-offense separate-statute statutory-interpretation |
Whether state prison officials violate an inmate's due process and jury trial rights when they hold an inmate in custody pursuant to an additional con… |
| 20-7276 |
Russell Lawayne Montague v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance criminal-procedure due-process protective-order sentencing-disparities sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review supervised-release |
Whether the district court ordered an unreasonably long 114-month prison sentence |
| 20-7285 |
Cedric Durand Collins v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law drug-offense due-process knowledge-requirement mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the drug conduct in the 'controlled substance offense' definition in U.S. Sentencing Guideline. § 4B1.2(b) requires knowledge of the illicit n… |
| 20-7287 |
Viguens Cius v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law drug-offense due-process knowledge-requirement mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the drug conduct in the 'controlled substance offense' definition in U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 4B1.2(b) requires knowledge of the illicit na… |
| 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? |
| 20-1187 |
Leon Carmichael, Sr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-02-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights contemporaneous-evidence criminal-procedure due-process hill-v-lockhart ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prejudice-test sentencing-guidelines |
What additional objective and contemporaneous evidence is required to satisfy the prejudice test this Court articulated in Hill v. Lockhart and other … |
| 20-7216 |
Antwan Seawood v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing dismissed-charges fifth-amendment sentencing sentencing-discretion sixth-amendment |
Did the District Court abuse its discretion and violate Appellant's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights by sentencing him to a term of 240 months based u… |
| 20-7235 |
Michael Alvarez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-24 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process federal-criminal-law intent-standard mens-rea predicate-offense sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) can serve as a predicate offense for the substantial sentencing enhancements under § 924(c)(1) |
| 20-7215 |
Sunni Askari Newell v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment eighth-circuit federal-sentencing firearms firearms-possession sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eighth Circuit has misconstrued U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(b)(6)(B), contrary to every other circuit, resulting in defendants convicted of firearms … |
| 20-7218 |
Crystal Zuniga v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-856 congressional-intent double-counting drug-involved-premise drug-sentencing fair-sentencing-act precedent sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether Congress intended The Fair Sentencing Act to more severely punish persons sentenced under 21 U.S.C. §856 in what is a departure from over 20 y… |
| 20-7190 |
Erik Sanchez v. Terry Jacques, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause consecutive-sentences constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-review judicial-discretion plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the sentencing court must enter a factual basis to support a consecutive sentence when a defendant has never pled guilty to such facts, depriv… |
| 20-7206 |
Pedro Gonzalez-Mendoza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2015-amendment criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion extraneous-factors mitigating-role sentencing-adjustment sentencing-guidelines u-s-sentencing-commission unrelated-cases |
Did the district court err by denying Mr. Gonzalez-Mendoza a mitigating-role-adjustment |
| 20-7168 |
Loren Joel McReynolds v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review base-offense-level criminal-procedure firearms-offense reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review ussg-2k2.1 |
Whether the court's calculation of McReynolds' base offense level was erroneous? |
| 20-7186 |
Brian Dale Lee v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5k2.1-motion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court fourth-circuit judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Fourth Circuit court erred in finding that the district court's consideration of conduct raised in a 5k2.1 motion was appropriate? |
| 20-7188 |
Sedric Rashad Marion v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering burglary burglary-definition categorical-approach criminal-sentencing fourth-circuit north-carolina-law taylor-v-united-states violent-felony |
Whether North Carolina breaking or entering is categorically broader than generic burglary and thus cannot be a violent felony under the Armed Career … |
| 20-7172 |
Dakota Manucy Constantin v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-02-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment uncharged-conduct |
Was Constantin denied due process when the sentencing court relied upon uncharged conduct in imposing a sentence in excess of that recommended by the … |
| 20-7138 |
Patrick Begay v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 aggravated-assault criminal-procedure federal-sentencing guidelines judicial-discretion native-american native-american-defendants sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission |
Whether a district court may consider reports generated by the United States Sentencing Commission's advisory groups that concluded the Guidelines for… |
| 20-7121 |
Georges Michel v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-841 apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey drug-quantity due-process jury-trial sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-maximum |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's drug-quantity determination that exceeded the statutory-maximum based solely on t… |
| 20-7099 |
Brandon Lamonte Sorenson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-interpretation controlled-substance-offense inchoate-offenses promulgation-of-guidelines sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction |
Whether enabling the commentary to U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) to expand the guideline definition of 'controlled substance offense' to add inchoate offenses n… |
| 20-7101 |
Anthony Jerome Billings, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-02-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split controlled-substance-offense crime-of-violence Eleventh-Circuit florida-statute mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Is a conviction for sale of cocaine a 'controlled-substance-offense' under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) without proof of defendant's knowledge of the illicit n… |
| 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… |
| 20-7069 |
Martell Roberts v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-02-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense guideline-commentary inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses precursor-offense precursor-offenses sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the United States Sentencing Commission exceeded its authority by adding inchoate and precursor offenses to the definition of 'controlled subs… |
| 20-7085 |
Thomas Hoey, Jr. v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-client-privilege conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process harsher-punishment plain-text precedents sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines |
Should lower courts interpret sentencing commission provisions to impose harsher punishment? |
| 20-7052 |
Joshua Wright v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion mitigating-factors procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the 151-month sentence is procedurally and substantively reasonable |
| 20-7024 |
Randy Macario Ancheta v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c certificate-of-appealability circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-sentencing due-process hobbs-act mandatory-minimum statutory-interpretation |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) |
| 20-7034 |
Kelli Renee Bullard v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing defendant-rehabilitation district-court-discretion due-process judicial-review rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-reasonableness statutory-maximum |
Did the district court impose a substantively unreasonable sentence of 60 months imprisonment—the statutory maximum—when it did so with a blind eye to… |
| 20-7037 |
Elias Junior Rodriguez v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5K1.1-motion appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing downward-variance government-motion judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines U.S.S.G.-5K1.1 |
Does a court violate Gall v. United States by failing to adequately explain the basis for a below-guidelines sentence? |
| 20-7041 |
Bruce Kintrell Green v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment parole sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 20-7042 |
Ronald Morris Hoenig v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-sentencing due-process johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states merits-ruling section-2255 sentencing standing successive-2255-motion successive-motion |
Where an authorized successive § 2255 motion argues that an Armed Career Criminal Act sentence should be set aside under Johnson v. United States, 135… |
| 20-1062 |
Chad Bennett v. Washington |
Washington |
2021-02-04 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment aggravating-factors constitutional-challenge due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-finding jury-findings sentencing-guidelines vagueness |
Whether defendants may challenge aggravating factors as vague under the Due Process Clause |
| 20-7018 |
Lawrence Westbrook, III v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion enhancement firearm-enhancement firearms sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the district court erred by applying a six-level enhancement pursuant to USSG § 2K2.1(b)(1)(C) |
| 20-7020 |
Richie Wheeler v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bodily-injury criminal-law criminal-statute deadly-weapon intent jury-finding law-enforcement reckless-driving sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether intent to cause bodily injury is required for 18 U.S.C. §111(b) violation |
| 20-7032 |
Salvador Delrio v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
courier courier-status criminal-procedure due-process mitigating-role sentencing sentencing-guidelines speculative-inference speculative-inferences u.s.s.g.-3b1.2 |
What weight should a court give to a defendant's essential role as a mere courier when determining a mitigating-role adjustment? |
| 20-7033 |
Otto Edward Christofferson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing drug-offenses evidence judicial-review mandatory-minimums sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit conflicts with the decisions of this Court and other Circuits on an i… |
| 20-7010 |
Israel Santiago-Lugo v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-02-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ambiguity amendment-782 criminal-procedure federal-rules forfeiture molina-martinez-v-us peugh-v-us rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the sentence was imposed under U.S.S.G. §201.1(c) |
| 20-6992 |
Bobbie Lewis Mayes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
booker criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process johnson johnson-precedent mandatory-guidelines pre-booker pre-booker-era sentencing-challenge sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a defendant has a right under Johnson to challenge a sentence ordered pre-Booker, when applying the Sentencing Guidelines was mandatory |
| 20-7006 |
Jacquere Doran, aka Jacare Gorman v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
base-offense-level controlled-substance criminal-sentencing district-court-error enhancement felony-conviction felony-enhancement marijuana-conviction prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines |
Did the District Court err in treating Mr. Doran's prior California conviction for sale of marijuana as a felony conviction and using it to enhance hi… |
| 20-6973 |
Tommy Demond Fannin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
assault criminal-procedure cross-reference district-court due-process fifth-circuit firearm-possession sentencing-guidelines |
Did the district court err when it imposed a cross-reference under U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Manual § 2K2.1(c)(1) without a connection between the po… |
| 20-6977 |
Joshua Ryan Dorman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 20-6980 |
Michael Ray West v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states section-2255 sentencing standing successive-2255-motion successive-motion |
Where an authorized successive § 2255 motion argues that an Armed Career Criminal Act sentence should be set aside under Johnson v. United States, 135… |
| 20-6985 |
Zongli Chang v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-waiver constitutional-rights due-process fines plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-maximum |
Did the Sixth Circuit err in enforcing an unknowing, invalid plea agreement? |
| 20-6988 |
Antwone Lamont Creater v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors appellate-review criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion mitigating-factors sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the seriousness of the offense is the most important factor for a judge to consider in fashioning a defendant's sentence, or whether the serio… |
| 20-6954 |
Brenda Yadira Gamez-Castaneda v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alien-smuggling criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judge-found-facts judicial-fact-finding jury-trial jury-trial-rights sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Whether Petitioner's sentence violates the Sixth Amendment because its reasonableness depends upon facts found by the court that was not admitted by t… |
| 20-6921 |
Elier Isai Marquez-Gonzalez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure empirical-basis fifth-circuit illegal-reentry presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a presumption of reasonableness on appeal does not apply to a sentence produced by the illegal reentry guideline, §2L1.2, because that guideli… |
| 20-6931 |
Christopher Shawn Landreneau v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a district court may require a defendant to present his own evidence refuting a presentence investigation report's factual claims leading to a… |
| 20-6933 |
Seledonio Martinez v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-standard totality-of-the-circumstances |
Whether the 46-month sentence is reasonable given the totality of the circumstances |
| 20-6943 |
Ronald Lewis Coleman, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons first-step-act mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences sentence-reduction sentencing |
Whether the changes in applicable mandatory minimum sentences worked by the First Step Act can provide extraordinary and compelling reasons to support… |
| 20-6953 |
Dwyne Byron Deruise, aka Duke v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
career-offender circuit-split criminal-justice-reform discretion discretionary-review first-step-act resentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a district court that chooses to conduct a resentencing under § 404 of the First Step Act is prohibited from considering a defendant's current… |
| 20-6903 |
Francisco Villa v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-visitation children constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process mexico parental-contact personal-contact personal-liberty supervised-release |
Whether and to what extent supervised release conditions may intrude on the Constitutional right to personal contact with one's children, by prohibiti… |
| 20-6910 |
El-Asad Alsaedi v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum sentencing-authority sentencing-guidelines standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in dismissing Petitioner's civil rights claims against Defendant for lack of standing |
| 20-6888 |
Christina Elizabeth Pandey v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 20-6894 |
Macho Joe Williams v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-interpretation criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the trial court abused its discretion when it denied Appellant's motion to review a 2019 order |
| 20-6854 |
Jose Armando Bazan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-sentencing fact-question plain-error-review role-adjustment sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in holding that a defendant's claim for a minor or mitigating role downward adjustment under the Sentencing Guidelines… |
| 20-6870 |
Antonio Harris v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crack-cocaine criminal-justice-reform first-step-act judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums retroactive-sentencing sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines |
Can federal judges ignore the current United States Sentencing Guidelines calculation when considering whether to reduce a sentence for a 'covered off… |
| 20-6837 |
Jacob Ray Owens v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure drug-crimes fact-finding judicial-fact-finding methamphetamine-distribution plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Whether Petitioner's sentence violates the Sixth Amendment |
| 20-6819 |
Frantz Sterlin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-justice criminal-sentencing eligibility fair-sentencing-act first-step-act section-404 sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction u.s.-senate-bill-756 |
Whether Petitioner was eligible for a First Step Act reduction of his sentence |
| 20-6832 |
Shannon Keith Harris v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
cocaine-sentencing criminal-sentencing drug-trafficking fair-sentencing-act first-step-act mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums resentencing retroactivity sentencing-guidelines |
Whether district courts are required to apply the current, legally correct Sentencing Guideline range or the old Sentencing Guideline range that appli… |
| 20-6787 |
Matthew Lee Pryor v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-sentencing direct-appeal direct-review first-step-act retroactive-application retroactivity section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Does Congress' express 'Clarification of Section 924(c) of Title 18, United States Code' in Section 403 of the First Step Act apply to a defendant con… |
| 20-6789 |
Lilia Abril Olmedo-Perez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administration-of-justice appellate-review criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-law fifth-circuit minor-role sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law when it conducted a cursory review of the facts related to a warranted two-level adjustment under U.S.S… |
| 20-6807 |
Jamal Clinton, aka Moreless v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-01-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
bostock-precedent bostock-v-clayton-county career-offender career-offender-guideline controlled-substance-offense drug-conspiracy fair-and-not-arbitrary sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation title-18-usc-3553a6 |
Whether sentencing courts are required to consider the need to avoid unwarranted sentencing disparities |
| 20-6811 |
Jesus Eder Moreno Ornelas v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
attempted-murder due-process felon-in-possession firearms jury plain-error-review rehaif-standard sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Whether a sentence may be enhanced for an offense tried to but not found by the jury |
| 20-6777 |
James Baxton v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-01-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy criminal-evidence criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidence fourth-circuit rico rico-conspiracy sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Government produced sufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the Petitioner's actions were part of a Rico Conspiracy |
| 20-6783 |
Jaelon David Harris v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abduction administration-of-justice circuit-split federal-criminal-procedure federal-sentencing-guidelines location-definition room-or-area sentencing-guidelines victim-movement |
Whether the forced movement of victims from one room or area to another room or area within the same building constitutes an abduction for purposes of… |
| 20-6754 |
Alford Donta Tarpley v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
borden-v-united-states burris-v-united-states crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-sentencing precedent robbery sentencing sentencing-guidelines texas-law ussg-4b1.2 |
Whether the Texas offense of robbery by injury constitutes a 'crime of violence' under USSG §4B1.2? |
| 20-6757 |
Phillip Jazir Thompson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fugitive fugitive-status probation-law sentencing sentencing-conditions supervised-release tolling tolling-period |
Whether a term of supervised release is tolled during the time in which the person on supervised release is a fugitive |
| 20-6759 |
Bernard Weiters, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
3582(c)(2) criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing first-step-act resentencing section-404(b) sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-mandatory-minimum statutory-maximum |
Whether the court committed error by declining to resentence the petitioner under Section 3582(c)(2) when the court earlier reduced the petitioner's '… |
| 20-6734 |
John S. Mobasseri v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2259 child-pornography criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process restitution retroactive-application statutory-amendment |
Whether it violates due process to retroactively apply the 2018 amendments to 18 U.S.C. § 2259 to offense conduct occurring prior to the effective dat… |
| 20-6745 |
Demetrius Elishakim Jefferson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3742 404b-evidence attempt-offenses auer-deference circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-procedure expert-testimony sentencing-guidelines |
Whether this Court should resolve a Split among the Circuits and find a District Court's use of Application note 1 to U.S.8.G. § 4B1.2, which purports… |
| 20-6724 |
Kaseem Alexander v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-30 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment abuse-of-discretion civil-rights criminal-procedure downward-variance due-process gun-range property-rights search-and-seizure sentencing-guidelines standing target-shooting |
Whether the government's warrantless search of a person's home and seizure of their property violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreas… |
| 20-6726 |
Jamie Betances v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure factual-objections guilty-plea legal-arguments plea-agreement sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines |
Did the lower court err in denying Jamie Betances acceptance of responsibility, under U.S.S.G. § 3E1.1, after Mr. Betances pleaded guilty, accepted th… |
| 20-6729 |
Michael Allen Bullock v. Erik A. Hooks, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-12-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection evidence-tampering fraud-on-the-court ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-fraud prior-record sentencing |
Whether the petitioner's attorney deliberately and flagrantly violated the petitioner's constitutional rights, and why the courts have avoided address… |
| 20-6715 |
Michael Adair Mankin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 20-6702 |
Tomas Moreno-Turrubiates v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 appellate-review mitigation-arguments plain-error-review procedural-reasonableness procedural-unreasonableness sentence-explanation sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights |
whether-district-court-must-address-mitigation-arguments |
| 20-836 |
Marcus Broadway v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-12-22 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
agency-deference due-process judicial-interpretation kisor-v-wilkie rule-of-lenity sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines stinson-deference |
Whether courts owe deference to the Sentencing Commission's commentary when it expands the scope of the Sentencing Guidelines |
| 20-830 |
Washington v. Said Omer Ali |
Washington |
2020-12-21 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
8th-amendment criminal-procedure eighth-amendment graham-v-florida individual-proportionality juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama proportionality-determination sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Graham and Miller require an individual proportionality determination before imposing any sentence on a juvenile offender convicted in adult c… |
| 20-831 |
Washington v. Endy Domingo-Cornelio |
Washington |
2020-12-21 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
8th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment graham-v-florida individual-proportionality juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama proportionality-review sentencing-guidelines |
Whether Graham and Miller require an individual proportionality determination before imposing any sentence on a juvenile offender convicted in adult c… |
| 20-833 |
William Todd Coontz v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-12-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure criminal-tax-prosecution expert-testimony expert-witness-exclusion foundation sentencing-guidelines state-of-mind tax-knowledge tax-prosecution willfulness willfulness-standard witness-testimony |
Was it reversable error for the trial court to exclude the Petitioner's/Coontz's key witness — the CPA expert — from testifying in a criminal tax pros… |
| 20-6655 |
Alonso Sanchez Ochoa v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consecutive-sentence criminal-sentencing defense-counsel district-court pre-sentence-report probation-officer relevant-conduct sentencing |
Is it reasonable for a District Court to order a consecutive sentence despite an agreement among Probation Officer, Pre-Sentence Report Addendum, and … |
| 20-6674 |
Tony Chevallier v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-acts criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process judicial-discretion jury-conviction sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines statutory-range uncharged-conduct |
When are trial judges prohibited from considering as sentencing factors criminal acts that a defendant was neither charged nor convicted of? |
| 20-6657 |
Ezer Rosembel Barrientos-Osorio v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutes plain error affecting substantial rig for a defendant likely to be deported criminal-procedure deportation plain-error sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights supervised-release |
Where a district court commits plain error by failing to follow Section 5D1.1(c) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines by imposing, without expla… |
| 20-6631 |
Aaron Sebastian Redmond v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-sentencing constitutional-law district-court-discretion due-process federal-sentencing fifth-circuit guidelines-error harmless-error sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's rule that a Guidelines error is harmless if the district court states it would have imposed the same sentence regardless o… |
| 20-6633 |
Eduardo David Vargas v. California |
California |
2020-12-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-circumstances constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment jury-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment |
Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact, other than a prior c… |
| 20-6596 |
Kevin S. Abney v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-12-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal due-process legislative-history rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the legislative history dealing with 18 USC § 924(e)(1) supports all the lower courts' rulings concerning offenses committed on different occa… |
| 20-6577 |
Victor Mondragon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility appellate-review criminal-sentencing district-court downward-adjustment federal-jurisdiction panel-review standard-of-review |
Did the district court err by denying Mr. Mondragon a three-level downward adjustment for acceptance of responsibility? |
| 20-6590 |
Jimmy Pike v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review clear-error conspiracy criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy methamphetamine mitigating-role sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the district court's denial of a mitigating role adjustment was clear error |
| 20-6556 |
Harvey Bass v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether certiorari review should be granted where the Eleventh Circuit affirmed Bass' sentence where Bass' sentence was unreasonable in light of the s… |
| 20-6566 |
Anilou Beltran Del Rio v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 20-6571 |
Antonio W. Smith v. M. Brecken, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender habeas-corpus judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum miscarriage-of-justice sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Did the Fourth Circuit Appeals Court err by not hearing Petitioner's 28 U.S.C. §2241 petition on the merits |
| 20-6517 |
Elvis Basic v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure drug-quantity federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether a federal district court must use the 'err on the side of caution' principle when approximating the drug quantity? |
| 20-6516 |
Eric Dynell McGadney v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit judicial-discretion molina-martinez per-se-rule prejudice prejudicial-error sentencing-error sentencing-framework sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a sentencing court's statement that it would have imposed the same sentence regardless of the Guidelines creates a per se rule that a miscalcu… |
| 20-6529 |
Wesley Wayne Wakeford v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2d1.1(b)(5) circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense drug-offenses methamphetamine-importation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Sentencing Guidelines section 2D1.1(b)(5) 'offense that involved the importation' of methamphetamine should be interpreted to include cert… |
| 20-6508 |
Jesse Harris v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law drug-offense methamphetamine scienter sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether scienter is required for the two-level increase under USSG § 2D1.1(b)(5) for the importation or manufacture of methamphetamine from unlawfully… |
| 20-6478 |
Barry Addison Gray v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-U.S.C.-§-2255 career-offender career-offender-sentencing-guideline due-process johnson-ruling Johnson-v-United-States residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines vagueness |
Are 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motions raising due-process-vagueness challenges to fixed sentences imposed through application of the pre-2005 mandatory career-… |
| 20-6463 |
Alex Murillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-6465 |
Damontaze Montrell Tillery v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
convicted-felon criminal-evidence criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process firearm-possession motion-for-acquittal sentencing sentencing-guidelines sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the evidence at trial was sufficient to convict Petitioner |
| 20-6435 |
Christopher Jones v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggregate-sentencing constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-appeals federal-courts judicial-precedent north-carolina-pearce north-carolina-v-pearce sentencing-doctrine |
Whether the aggregate sentencing doctrine violates the rule in North Carolina v. Pearce |
| 20-6436 |
Daniel Lovato v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-11-25 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law commission-commentary crime-of-violence guideline-interpretation judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie seminole-rock-deference sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether courts may defer to Sentencing Commission commentary without first determining that the underlying Guideline is genuinely ambiguous |
| 20-6437 |
Tommy Pena v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-11-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review upward-variance |
Whether the Tenth Circuit's toothless standard for reviewing the reasonableness of an upward variance is contrary to this Court's case law, United Sta… |
| 20-6409 |
Hugo Humberto Perez Rangel v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
advisory-opinions appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-sentencing guideline-error harmless-error incentive-to-object judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines |
Whether Guideline error is necessarily harmless if the district court is presented with the Guideline range later vindicated on appeal and disclaims a… |
| 20-6412 |
Robert St. Hilaire v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-11-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing firearm-possession sentencing-guidelines serial-number serial-number-alteration statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Second Circuit properly construed the meaning of U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(b)(4)(B) |
| 20-6402 |
Eric Treantos v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review booker-standard booker-v-united-states criminal-appeal criminal-sentencing first-circuit-court-of-appeals gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-eric-treantos |
Does the First Circuit Court of Appeals' decision in petitioner's case conflict with this Court's decisions in Booker v. United States and Gall v. Uni… |
| 20-6399 |
Duwayne Jones v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
career-offender controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense eleventh-circuit fifth-circuit florida-statute-§-893.13 mens-rea second-circuit sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-§-4b1.2(b) |
Is a post-2002 conviction for possession of cocaine with intent to deliver or sell, in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13, a 'controlled substance offen… |
| 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 … |
| 20-6330 |
Benjamin Macias v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-defense criminal-procedure defendant-autonomy due-process mccoy-v-louisiana reckless-endangerment sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment speedy-trial |
Whether the right to insist on a speedy trial is a choice that falls within the category of a criminal defendant's right to make his own choices about… |
| 20-6346 |
Demarcus D. Morris v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substances criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy drug-conspiracy due-process fifth-amendment indictment-vagueness rico rico-statute sentencing |
Whether the RICO and drug conspiracy counts in the indictment are unconstitutionally vague, whether the evidence supports the crack cocaine distributi… |
| 20-6356 |
Ryan Dennis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
acca criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus physical-force reckless-injury residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether an offense that can be committed by recklessly causing serious injury has 'the use of physical force against the person of another' as an elem… |
| 20-6326 |
Adam Donald Bennett v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2251 child-exposure criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing deferred-adjudication prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement sexual-abuse statutory-interpretation texas-law |
Is a Texas deferred adjudication a 'prior conviction' for purposes of the sentencing enhancement in 18 U.S.C. § 2251(e)? |
| 20-6335 |
Duane Allen Sikes v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment uncharged-conduct |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments preclude a district court from increasing a defendant's sentence based on conduct, uncharged and unrelated to t… |
| 20-6336 |
Eric Troy Snell v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing fourth-circuit gall-standard gall-v-united-states harmless-error harmlessness-standard sentencing-guidelines |
Does the Fourth Circuit's practice of not addressing erroneous Sentencing Guidelines calculations but affirming a sentence under 'assumed error harmle… |
| 20-6281 |
Kevin Lamar Ratliff v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amendment-782 career-offender criminal-law criminal-procedure discretion federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines guideline-amendment judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Lower Courts have discretion to reduce Petitioner's sentence under U.S.S. Guideline Amendment 782, regardless of Petitioner's career offen… |
| 20-6282 |
Darius Tirrell Thomas v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation u.s.-code |
Whether the Trial Court Erred in Finding the Defendant to Be a 'Career Offender' and Sentencing Him Accordingly |
| 20-6285 |
Brittany Shanice Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 20-6290 |
Orlando Sanchez v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act career-offender constitutional-vagueness johnson-v-united-states postconviction-motion residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a postconviction motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, challenging a sentence imposed under the pre-2005 mandatory version of the Sentencing Guidelin… |
| 20-6291 |
Christopher Stacy v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure felon-in-possession firearm-statute guilty-plea mens-rea plain-error plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a defendant who pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a felon is automatically entitled to plain error relief if the district court did no… |
| 20-6292 |
Alonte Deshavion Richey v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 20-6274 |
Fernando Juarez, aka Fernando Perez-Juarez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a appellate-review criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing judicial-discretion overarching-goal presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-standard rita-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the presumption of reasonableness for within-guidelines sentences approved in Rita v. United States, 551 U.S. 338 (2007) has proved incompatib… |
| 20-6255 |
John Dubor v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-review loss-calculation medicare-fraud restitution restitution-award sentencing-guidelines |
Did the Fifth Circuit's cursory review of the district court's record lead to an illegal, unreasonable sentence |
| 20-6240 |
Kyle Brandon Richards v. Kristopher Taskila, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
aspergers-syndrome cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process mental-health self-representation sentencing-guidelines sentencing-proportionality |
Question not identified |
| 20-6246 |
Adam Joseph Bogema v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 advisory-guidelines appellate-review criminal-sentencing mental-illness sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness unwarranted-disparity |
Whether this Court should provide some guidance to the appellate courts on the proper evaluation of a within guidelines sentence vis-a-vis 18 U.S.C. §… |
| 20-6221 |
Miguel Nunez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-challenge federal-law johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 challenging the constitutionality of the residual clause of the mandatory U.S. Sentencing Guidelines is timely… |
| 20-6230 |
Ulis Howard Alexander v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
corpus-delicti criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-procedure fifth-circuit legal-error punishment-phase sentencing |
Did the Fifth Circuit err in holding that the concept of corpus delicti should not apply in the punishment phase? |
| 20-6238 |
Demon O'Neil Parker v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion cell-site-location-information constitutional-review criminal-sentencing first-step-act fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation reasonable-expectation-of-privacy rehabilitation search-and-seizure sentence-reduction standing |
Whether the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures applies to the government's acquisition of historical cell-site locat… |
| 20-6206 |
Travis Johnson v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing eighth-amendment proportionality proportionate-penalties sentencing solem-v-helm state-courts supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Illinois Appellant Courts must be required to follow the United States Supreme Court's opinion in Solem v. Helm, 463 U.S. 277 (1983), when ana… |
| 20-579 |
Zimmian Tabb v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-11-02 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
administrative-law agency-deference criminal-law guidelines-commentary judicial-interpretation regulatory-ambiguity sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
Whether courts may defer to Sentencing Guidelines commentary without first determining that the underlying Guideline is genuinely ambiguous |
| 20-6180 |
Naquan Reyes v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 court-of-appeals criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court federal-sentencing procedural-reasonableness procedural-unreasonableness sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in rejecting Reyes's contention that the sentence was procedurally unreasonable based on the district court's failu… |
| 20-6155 |
Jordan Sandoval v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split congress-intent judicial-discretion proportional-sentencing reasonableness-standard reckless-conduct sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act substantive-reasonableness |
Does the substantial deference afforded to within-Guidelines sentences permit appellate courts to permit a flawed Guideline to anchor the sentencing a… |
| 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,… |
| 20-6124 |
Jose Maria Loaiza-Gaspar v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process guideline-sentence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-withdraw reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit abused its discretion when it granted appointed counsel's motion to withdraw and dism… |
| 20-535 |
Drew Samuel Bates v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-10-22 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split criminal-procedure first-step-act judicial-discretion resentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court that chooses to conduct a resentencing under § 404 of the First Step Act is prohibited from considering a defendant's current… |
| 20-6074 |
Timothy Jarred Paige v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-20 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights criminal-charge criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines standing statutory-interpretation |
When charged with violating 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), does the district court retain jurisdiction to charge an offense that is not a 'crime of violence' as … |
| 20-6075 |
Deshawn McCarter v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
california-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-statute generic-extortion generic-robbery property-threat sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Does the California robbery statute criminalize a broader swath of conduct than generic robbery or generic extortion? |
| 20-6085 |
Celso Yanez v. California |
California |
2020-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment first-time-offender mandatory-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines sexual-abuse |
Whether a mandatory sentence of 45 years to life, imposed on a 56-year-old first-time offender in a sexual abuse case involving no violence, no force,… |
| 20-6058 |
Lacey Renee Baxter Moore, aka Lacey Kittrell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process liberty-deprivation probation probation-condition sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-purposes supervised-release |
Whether a standard condition of supervised release requiring a person to permit a probation officer to visit at any time at home or elsewhere is too b… |
| 20-6041 |
Raymond Lewis Perry v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection first-stage-proceeding robbery sentencing sentencing-hearing statutory-interpretation |
Whether Vekimoner Peseuy's sentence was properly corrected under the First Step Act |
| 20-5983 |
Omar Sierre Folk v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-10-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines career-offender criminal-procedure guidelines habeas-corpus pre-beckles section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines statute-of-limitations third-circuit |
Whether the Third Circuit erred in not addressing Erroneous Career Offender Designation under the Advisory Sentencing Guidelines Cognizable under 28 U… |
| 20-6001 |
Antranette Canady v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
3583(d)(2) civil-rights criminal-procedure liberty-deprivation probation probation-condition sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-purposes supervised-release |
Is a standard condition of supervised release which requires a person to 'permit a probation officer to visit [her] at any time at home or elsewhere' … |
| 20-5976 |
Dean Reynolds v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing obstruction-of-justice procedural-unreasonableness profit-calculation remand resentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure |
Is defendant's sentence procedurally unreasonable due to errors in sentencing guidelines calculation and enhancement? |
| 20-5985 |
Derrick Kennedy Crumpton v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bad-faith-review circuit-court-split criminal-procedure government-discretion government-motion judicial-review plea-agreement proffer-agreement sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
What is the scope of judicial review when the defendant and the government have entered in a Plea Agreement and/or a Proffer Agreement in which the go… |
| 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 |
| 20-447 |
Francisco Rodriguez-Castro v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 career-offender criminal-sentencing miscarriage-of-justice petition-for-certiorari post-conviction-relief procedural-error section-2255 sentence-enhancement |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in holding that Rodriguez's erroneous sentence enhancement as a career offender was not a miscarriage of justice entit… |
| 20-5948 |
Christopher Michael Sevier v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-assault borden-precedent crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-sentencing guidelines remand sentencing sentencing-guidelines supreme-court texas-law violent-crime |
Whether the Texas offense of aggravated assault by threat constitutes a 'crime of violence' under USSG §4B1.2? |
| 20-5951 |
Joshua Scott Richards v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness u.s.-sentencing-commission u.s.s.g.-§-2g2.2 |
Whether a sentence imposed pursuant to the United States Sentencing Guidelines covering the crimes of accessing or possessing child pornography, U.S.S… |
| 20-5958 |
Jimmy Kit Fields v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alcohol-abuse criminal-sentencing due-process liberty-deprivation plain-error statutory-reasonableness supervised-release |
Whether a court can impose a condition of supervised release to abstain from alcohol without explanation |
| 20-5936 |
Mark Phillip Carter, II v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-conflict circuit-split factual-objections judicial-discretion presentence-report sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure undue-influence |
Whether the undue influence enhancement in USSG § 2G1.3(b)(2)(B) should be expanded |
| 20-5937 |
Rosa Enedia Pazos Cingari v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law authority commentary federal-sentencing guideline-commentary inconsistency judicial-interpretation legal-authority sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether United States Sentencing Guideline Commentary which adds to a sentencing guideline is necessarily inconsistent with the guideline such that th… |
| 20-5945 |
Shelby Clarmont v. Willis Chapman, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process people-v-lockridge people-v-milbourn proportionality resentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Is the imposing of a sentence which was based on incorrectly scored sentencing guidelines and was a departure from applicable advisory guidelines wher… |
| 20-5927 |
Gene Michael Diulio v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 circuit-split due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states mandatory-sentencing mandatory-sentencing-guidelines residual-clause sentencing-guidelines vagueness |
Are 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motions filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), raising due-process, vagueness, mandatory-sent… |
| 20-5928 |
Rick Lee Archer v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause sentencing-guidelines vagueness |
Are 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petitions filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), raising due process vagueness challenges to … |
| 20-5929 |
Tommy Lee Jones v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2g2.2(b)(5) burden-of-proof criminal-procedure offense-conduct police-report restitution sentencing-guidelines shepard-standard shepard-v-united-states unreliable-evidence |
Can the government utilize an unreliable nearly thirty (30) year old police report to satisfy its burden the sentencing guideline five (5) level enhan… |
| 20-5930 |
Diego Palacios-Villalon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure culpability drug-trafficking judicial-discretion mitigating-role sentencing-guidelines |
Does a defendant have the sole obligation in the establishment of these elements or does the trial judge have a duty to inquire into them? |
| 20-5903 |
Christopher Younger v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process federal-sentencing-law prison-sentence reasonableness-review sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the district court ordered an unreasonable 120-month prison sentence |
| 20-5909 |
David Conerly v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court evidence evidence-review judicial-review ninth-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Did the Ninth Circuit err by mining the district record to uphold an upward adjustment to petitioner's offense level under the Sentencing Guidelines? |
| 20-5894 |
Jorge Eduardo Nava v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-liability criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment preponderance-of-evidence relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines standard-of-proof unrelated-offense |
Does the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause require a heightened standard of proof to dramatically increase a criminal defendant's prison sentence f… |
| 20-5868 |
Manuel Acosta-Lopez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
in a run-of-the-mill drug smuggling case between is a participant who had a managerial role in the criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-smuggling drug-trafficking managerial-role mexico-united-states-border mexico-us-relations minor-role participant-classification role-adjustment role-in-offense sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a participant with a managerial role is excluded from being considered an 'average participant' for USSG § 3B1.2 minor role comparison |
| 20-5853 |
Ubaldo Gabriel Acosta-Leyva v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-guidelines drug-offense due-process empirical-basis fifth-circuit presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a sentence produced by the drug guideline, §2D1.1, is not entitled to a presumption of reasonableness on appeal |
| 20-5805 |
Ian Resnick v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process fraud-loss overview-testimony sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment testimonial-statements |
Whether the Confrontation Clause permits the admission of an accuser's statement against a criminal defendant under the guise of 'overview testimony' |
| 20-5809 |
Albert Martinez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary-statute criminal-sentencing force reasonable-fear robbery robbery-force statutory-interpretation stokeling stokeling-definition |
Whether the definition of force adopted in Stokeling for robbery eschews a requirement that any fear produced by a threat of force be reasonable? |
| 20-5812 |
Jason Andrew Dunlap v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure defendant-responsibility federal-sentencing guilty-plea offense-level plea-bargaining sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the sentencing Guidelines limit the maximum offense level to 43, so that, there is a reduction when a defendant accepts responsibility by ente… |
| 20-5791 |
Anthony Moreno v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights due-process firearms-possession home-defense interest-balancing risk-assessment second-amendment sentencing-guidelines standing |
Does the use of an interest-balancing test to evaluate the Second Amendment rights of a person to keep and bear arms in his home (or vehicle where pos… |
| 20-5799 |
Lorenzo Davis v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a criminal defendant's sentence should be based upon acquitted conduct |
| 20-5770 |
David A. Bridgewater v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-09-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-rule dismissed-conduct due-process fifth-amendment judicial-fact-finding sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a court from relying solely on dismissed conduct to impose an otherwise substantively unreasonable sen… |
| 20-5753 |
Kunta Kenta Redd v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crack-cocaine-sentencing due-process first-step-act retroactive-sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-retroactivity |
Whether the petitioner is entitled to relief from denial of a 404 motion at the district court level in light of the First Step Act |
| 20-5757 |
Jerrieus Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process firearms-offense plea-agreement plea-bargaining residual-clause sentencing void-for-vagueness |
Whether the petitioner's convictions for aiding and abetting interference with commerce by robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1951(a) and 2, and ai… |
| 20-5758 |
Damon Woodard v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924c1c congressional-amendment congressional-amendments first-time-offender first-time-offenders mandatory-minimum-sentences recidivism sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether this Court should revisit and recede from its decision in Deal v. United States, 508 U.S. 129 (1993) |
| 20-5759 |
Charles C. Williamson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accomplice-liability criminal-procedure drug-quantity drug-weight judicial-interpretation relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court and circuit court misinterpreted and misapplied the 'relevant conduct' provisions of United States Sentencing Commission, G… |
| 20-5730 |
Jimmie Butler v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review career-offender criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing-enhancement standard-of-review |
Whether the district court's improper designation of the petitioner as a career offender was harmless error and whether the court of appeals improperl… |
| 20-5734 |
Alfred Flores, III v. California |
California |
2020-09-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment constitutional-requirements criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process jury-findings jury-trial reasonable-doubt ring-v-arizona sentencing |
whether-california's-death-penalty-scheme-violates-the-constitutional-requirement-that-any-fact-that-increases-the-penalty-for-a-crime-must-be-found-b… |
| 20-5739 |
David Rothenberg v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography circuit-split criminal-sentencing paroline-v-united-states physical-abuse restitution restitution-calculation statutory-interpretation victim-losses |
When calculating restitution for a possessor of child pornography, must the victim's losses caused by the initial physical abuse be disaggregated from… |
| 20-5740 |
Edward Mahan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-USC-3553a appeal criminal-procedure downward-adjustment drug-offense due-process government-misconduct plea-agreement safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Did the district court err by allowing the government to violate the plea agreement? |
| 20-5715 |
Martin Rogelio Longoria v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
at sentencing may withhold a motion for a third-level reduction acceptance-of-responsibility circuit-split criminal-procedure government-discretion motion-to-suppress plea-bargaining sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the government, at sentencing, may withhold a motion for a third-level reduction for acceptance of responsibility under USSG § 3E1.1(b) on the… |
| 20-5704 |
Leonard Borden v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof co-conspirator-testimony criminal-procedure due-process factual-statements guideline-application preponderance-of-evidence presentence-report sentencing-guidelines sentencing-hearing |
does a defendant have an obligation to prove the facts in the PSR are inaccurate or untrue after the defendant objects to the factual statements and t… |
| 20-5709 |
Rickey Cole v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
and proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt? placed in the indictment burden-of-proof constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing grand-jury indictment jury-trial sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether facts that affect the minimum or maximum reasonable federal sentence must be found by a grand jury, placed in the indictment, and proven to a … |
| 20-5655 |
Casye Necole Richardson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors? |
| 20-5666 |
Cristian Mendoza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility advisory-sentencing criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-range |
Whether a defendant who enters a guilty plea pursuant to a plea agreement that includes a purported inducement that he will receive an acceptance of r… |
| 20-5670 |
Henry Horace Givins v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender-enhancement circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-law eleventh-circuit mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Is a post-2002 conviction for sale of cocaine or possession with intent to sell cocaine, in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13, a 'controlled-substance-… |
| 20-5648 |
Damien Guidry v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines imprisonment-aggregation probation-modification probation-revocation rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Federal Sentencing Guidelines permit the aggregation of a prior sentence of imprisonment with a subsequent probation modification imposed … |
| 20-5612 |
Anthony Roy Brown v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment charging-instrument criminal-procedure due-process felony-sentencing intervening-arrest prior-sentences same-charging-instrument sentencing-guidelines |
Whether prior sentences imposed on the same day or in the same charging instrument should be counted separately or treated as a single sentence |
| 20-5596 |
Kevin Dean Green v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
beckles-v-united-states constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process judicial-review legal-interpretation sentencing-guideline sentencing-guidelines vagueness-challenge vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
Does Beckles v. United States foreclose a vagueness challenge to a sentencing guideline when the operative term in that guideline is defined by a crim… |
| 20-291 |
Jamell Birt v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-09-04 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Relisted (3) |
circuit-split crack-cocaine criminal-sentencing fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing-penalties statutory-interpretation |
Does the term 'covered offense' in the First Step Act of 2018 include violations of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a) involving crack cocaine to which apply the pena… |
| 20-280 |
George Georgiou v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-09-03 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
28-usc-1651 all-writs-act criminal-financial-penalty criminal-sentencing final-conviction post-conviction-remedy retroactive-decision unauthorized-penalty unauthorized-sentence |
Does the All Writs Act afford a post-conviction remedy for the correction of an unauthorized criminal financial penalty? |
| 20-5586 |
Jose Zamudio-Silva v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-sentencing sentencing-departures sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
When considering guidelines rulings, should appellate courts review the decision to depart from the guideline range in the same way as other guideline… |
| 20-5576 |
Sarina Ann Williams v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-09-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split congressional-intent conspiracy federal-law sentencing-guidelines sex-trafficking |
Whether the crime of Conspiracy to Engage in Sex Trafficking by Force, Fraud, and Coercion carries a base offense level of 34 or 14 |
| 20-5577 |
Malik Timbers v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea minor-role-reduction plea-bargaining sentence-appeal-waiver sentencing sentencing-guidelines violence-enhancement weapon-enhancement |
Whether the guilty plea was voluntary and the sentence-appeal waiver enforceable |
| 20-5458 |
Fidel Alain Martin-Sosa v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review clear-error criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-conspiracy methamphetamine mitigating-role role-adjustment sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Did the court of appeals err in holding that the district court's guidelines calculations did not constitute clear error where it denied a mitigating … |
| 20-5513 |
Timothy Allen McWilliams v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender circuit-split conspiracy controlled-substance due-process methamphetamine sentencing-guidelines |
Whether courts must give deference to the commentary to U.S. Sentencing Guidelines § 4B1.1(b)(2) in determining career offender status |
| 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? |
| 20-5535 |
Randy Platt v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act career-offender common-law common-law-definition elements-clause physical-force robbery robbery-statute sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-commission |
Whether robbery convictions for purposes of the career offender provision of the United States Sentencing Guidelines should be limited to only those t… |
| 20-5507 |
Laci Landers v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure discretionary-review drug-offense guidelines judicial-review reasonableness reasonableness-standard revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines totality-of-circumstances |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial pr… |
| 20-5489 |
Rodney Lavalais v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-25 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
2k2.1(b)(4)(a) appellate-review due-process guilty-plea plain-error-review plea-voluntariness prejudice sentencing-guidelines stolen structural-error |
When a defendant's plea was not knowingly and intelligently made, is automatic reversal required? |
| 20-5491 |
M. C. v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2020-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment delinquent-acts due-process eighth-amendment imprisonment juvenile-detention juvenile-justice punishment |
Is a child imprisoned for delinquent acts 'punished' within the meaning of the Eighth Amendment? |
| 20-221 |
Franqui Francisco Flores de Freitas v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-08-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
aircraft-transportation conscious-avoidance controlled-substances criminal-defendant criminal-intent deliberate-steps evidence jury-instruction knowledge sentencing-guidelines |
Can a jury be instructed on conscious-avoidance,criminal-defendant,knowledge,evidence,deliberate-steps |
| 20-5424 |
Alfred Lee Hanzy, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing fourth-circuit gall-precedent gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the Fourth Circuit's decision is in conflict with the Court's decision in Gall v. United States, 552 U.S. 38 (2007) |
| 20-5434 |
Treshun Devonte Bates v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-20 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
borden-case borden-v-united-states crime-of-violence grant-vacate-remand reckless-conduct sentencing-guidelines supreme-court use-of-force |
Whether reckless conduct can constitute a 'crime of violence' under the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines |
| 20-5436 |
Christy Santiago v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process jury-trial sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Does the Sixth Amendment's right to a jury trial prohibit courts from using acquitted conduct to vary significantly upward from a Sentencing Guideline… |
| 20-5408 |
Robert Richard Jodoin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process eighth-amendment federal-sentencing military-veteran non-violent-offense reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines veteran-status |
Whether a 130-month prison sentence for a non-violent, drug dealing, 50-year-old, military veteran is unreasonable |
| 20-5409 |
Johnathan Scott Keen v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender constitutional-law criminal-law drug-offenses due-process felony-enhancement mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether Mr. Keen's prior Florida drug convictions qualified as 'felony drug offenses' under 21 U.S.C. 851 |
| 20-5394 |
Eugene Mona, aka Gino v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amendment-782 criminal-sentencing district-court drug-guidelines drug-sentencing-guidelines first-degree-murder motion-denial motion-for-sentence-reduction rico-conspiracy sentence-reduction |
Whether the District Court erred in denying Petitioner's Motion For Sentence Reduction |
| 20-5373 |
Don Nell Hawkins v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
16-usc-3582 18-usc-3582 criminal-sentencing first-step-act sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the District Court erred by relying on the strictures of 16 U.S.C. § 3582(b) and U.S.S.G. § 1B1.10, as opposed to 18 U.S.C. § 3582(a), in deci… |
| 20-5380 |
Antonio Deshawn Pitt v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-discretion mental-health proportionality proportionality-principle sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court's statutory obligation to consider the 'history and circumstances' of a criminal defendant and to refrain from imposing a sen… |
| 20-5348 |
Chazdin Miller v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-law ploseny-case sentencing sentencing-guidelines taylor-decision |
Whether an offense-matching categorical approach applies to the determination of a 'controlled substance offense' under the Sentencing Guidelines? |
| 20-5356 |
Jabarr Ryeheine Rudolph v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-08-14 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility appeal cocaine-base criminal-appeal criminal-procedure drug-weight due-process obstruction-of-justice sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether the circuit court of appeals erred in the assessment of a two point enhancement against the appellant for obstruction of justice |
| 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 … |
| 20-5361 |
Luis Torres-Marquez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-sentencing discretion gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether the sentencing court meaningfully exercised its discretion in applying the guidelines |
| 20-5333 |
Norman Paul Blanco v. Ralph Diaz, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law california-penal-code civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment felony-convictions judicial-review legal-procedure sentencing-enhancements statutory-interpretation |
Whether California's sentencing enhancement scheme for certain felony convictions violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual pun… |
| 20-5349 |
In Re Daryl L. Zimmer |
|
2020-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-counsel due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum plea-agreement plea-bargain sentencing-guidelines |
Did the trial court deny the petitioner due process and equal protection rights by disregarding the plea agreement and imposing a mandatory minimum se… |
| 20-5326 |
Jose Alonso Garcia v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-08-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment career-offender categorical-approach due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Were Mr. Garcia's Due Process Rights violated under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment |
| 20-5335 |
Dustin Johnson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment methamphetamine methamphetamine-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the District Court erred in sentencing the Defendant based on ice (\'actual\' methamphetamine) rather than a mixture and substance containing … |
| 20-5302 |
Edwin Daniel Gongora-Baltan v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-interpretation criminal-law due-process extraterritorial-application judicial-construction rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines statutory-analysis statutory-interpretation |
Whether a court must employ the presumption against extraterritorial application and the rule of lenity in interpreting a sentencing guideline enhance… |
| 20-133 |
Joseph Michael Diaz v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-pornography criminal-appeal eleventh-circuit evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines sexual-contact |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding that counsel was not ineffective assistance |
| 20-5267 |
Kolongi Richardson v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-sentencing federal-conspiracy inchoate-offenses sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the inclusion of inchoate offenses within the commentary is inconsistent with the text of U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2, rendering the commentary not legal… |
| 20-5284 |
Tony Lam v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law constitutional-authority controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law drug-conspiracy sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Does the U.S. Sentencing Commission's use of the Sentencing Guideline commentary in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 to capture drug conspiracy offenses within the me… |
| 20-5293 |
Stanley P. Bates v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion circuit-split criminal-sentencing position-of-trust position-of-trust-enhancement procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
When reviewing the interpretation of the 'position of trust' enhancement under Sentencing Guideline §3B1.3, does a court of appeals apply a de novo st… |
| 20-5264 |
Lakento Brian Smith v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
crack-cocaine criminal-sentencing first-step-act guideline-range mandatory-minimum post-sentencing-conduct resentencing sentence-reduction sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Should the district court have held a hearing to consider petitioner's post-sentencing conduct and any other arguments before ruling on the motion? |
| 20-5280 |
Rahim Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure cross-reference district-court error federal-jurisdiction homicide sentencing-guidelines u-s-sentencing-commission u.s.s.g.-§-2k2.1(c)(1)(b) |
Whether the district court erred by applying the Sentencing Guidelines cross reference under U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(c)(1)(B) |
| 20-5253 |
Douglas Farrar, Sr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process false-testimony findings judicial-findings obstruction-of-justice perjury presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the generic adoption of a Presentence Report is sufficient to discharge the court's duties to make express and independent findings for an obs… |
| 20-5244 |
David Lopez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
application-note base-offense-level criminal-procedure judicial-discretion leadership-enhancement rico rico-violation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court and the First Circuit erred by declining to apply Application Note One as written |
| 20-5227 |
Jesus Hernandez-Medrano v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process empirical-basis fifth-circuit illegal-reentry presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a presumption of reasonableness on appeal does not apply to a sentence produced by the illegal reentry guideline, §2L1.2, because that guideli… |
| 20-5202 |
Jerome Collins v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-07-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
attempted-assault categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-prisoners mental-state plea-bargaining plea-of-guilty reckless-endangerment sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the New York crime of attempt to commit a crime qualifies as a 'crime of violence |
| 20-5170 |
William Russell Williams v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2020-07-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
actus-reus criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance jury-instructions mens-rea mitigation mitigation-instruction prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-present-defense sentencing-guidelines |
Was William Williams denied his right to due process, to present a defense, and to a properly instructed jury? |
| 20-5172 |
Darrell Henry Williams v. Joe Coakley, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-07-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
career-offender criminal-statutes due-process federal-procedure mandatory-minimums physical-force reckless-conduct sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether reckless-conduct-resulting-in-injury satisfies the 'use-of-physical-force' element of the career-offender-sentencing-guideline |
| 20-5153 |
Jamiell Sims v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1594 conspiracy criminal-conspiracy criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-statute force-fraud-coercion offense-level sentencing sentencing-guidelines sex-trafficking |
What is the base offense level for conspiracy to commit sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion in violation of 18 U.S.C. §1594(c)? |
| 20-51 |
Pedro Pete Benevides v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-forfeiture eighth-amendment excessive-fine forfeiture ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the forfeiture of over $44 million constitutes an excessive fine under the Eighth Amendment |
| 20-5108 |
Salvador Ojeda-Amarillas v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure firearms-enhancement leadership-role necessity necessity-requirement sentencing-enhancement sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines waiver wiretap wiretap-application |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in finding the July 2006 wiretap application met the necessity requirements and whether it erred in holding Mr. Oje… |
| 20-5090 |
Ronald Lynn Thomas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law district-court-discretion due-process federal-sentencing guidelines harmless-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether Guideline error is necessarily harmless if the district court is presented with the Guideline range later vindicated on appeal and disclaims a… |
| 20-5093 |
Dion Clayborn v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender congressional-intent deference-to-agency drug-trafficking guideline-commentary recidivism sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eighth Circuit's interpretation of 28 U.S.C. § 994(h) and the Sentencing Commission's use of commentary to expand the definition of 'contr… |
| 20-5053 |
Deandre Lornell Brown v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines appellate-review criminal-sentencing departure judicial-discretion presumptively-reasonable procedural-error sentencing-guidelines variance variance-standard |
Whether the district court's decision when imposing sentence improperly treated the sentencing guidelines |
| 20-5054 |
Michael Lance Davis, aka Michael Scott Davis v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-sentencing distribution manufacturing ninth-circuit possession-with-intent-to-distribute serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation |
Whether Shular v. United States, 140 S. Ct. 779 (2020), abrogates the 'related to' test for whether a state crime qualifies as a serious drug offense |
| 20-5041 |
Justin L. Sain v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-standard Alleyne-v-United-States burden-of-proof criminal-sentencing drug-statute federal-drug-statute mandatory-minimum Mullaney-v-Wilbur safety-valve |
Whether the government, instead of the individual, is required to prove at least one safety-valve fact beyond a reasonable doubt pursuant to Alleyne-v… |
| 20-5019 |
Raul Barrera-Velasquez, aka Raul V. Barrera, aka Raul Velasquez Barrera, aka Raul Velasquez-Barrera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing due-process enhancement equal-protection fifth-circuit parole sentencing sentencing-enhancement u.s.s.g-2l1.2 |
Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in rejecting Barrera's claim that the District Court's sentence violated constitutional principles of… |
| 20-5031 |
Artemio Ramirez-Arroyo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582(c)(2) due-process equal-protection hughes-v-united-states retroactive-amendment retroactive-guideline-amendments sentence-reduction sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Is the Sentencing Commission's policy statement implementing retroactive guideline amendments invalid? |
| 20-5001 |
Mark Norris v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act attempted-burglary burglary-statute criminal-sentencing entry-definition generic-burglary sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation tennessee-burglary-statute violent-felony |
Does Tennessee's burglary statute qualify as a 'generic burglary' under the Armed Career Criminal Act? |
| 20-5006 |
Manuel Olivas-Guevara v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abduction appeal appeal-timeliness base-offense-level civil-procedure dismissal district-court jurisdiction robbery sentencing-guidelines standing timeliness |
Did the panel err by dismissing the appeal for timeliness? |
| 20-5015 |
James Latron Sumter v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment first-step-act guilty-plea mandatory-minimum plea-bargaining sentencing |
Whether the appellate court erred in affirming the district court's ruling not allowing Sumter to withdraw his guilty plea |
| 19-8923 |
Bryant Okeff Leggett v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure drug-activity drug-house evidence judicial-discretion sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines trial-court-error |
Whether the district court improperly applied a two-level enhancement for maintaining a drug house where there was no evidence that the defendant's pr… |
| 19-8924 |
William R. Jenkins v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-vagueness due-process liberty post-conviction-motion residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Whether a post-conviction motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 challenging a sentence under the pre-2005 mandatory U.S. Sentencing Guidelines is timely when … |
| 19-8928 |
Oscar Campos-Lagunas, aka Jose Lopez-Lomali, aka Carlos Ortiz, aka Orbelin Lagunas Campos, aka Carlos Laguna Campos, aka Oscar Laguan Campos, aka Norbelio Campos-Lagunas, aka Carlo Garcia, aka Orbelin Campos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-rule constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment judicial-interpretation precedent-review sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 19-8912 |
Giezi Arce-Calderon v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-07-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process guideline-range guideline-sentence judicial-discretion plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the sentence imposed on Mr. Arce is substantively unreasonable |
| 19-8890 |
Richard Antonio Hodge, Jr. v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-sentencing first-step-act resentencing retroactivity rule-of-lenity sentence-enhancement sentencing-provisions statutory-interpretation |
Whether the ameliorative sentencing provisions of the First Step Act apply to defendants who were initially sentenced pre-First Step Act, but whose se… |
| 19-8893 |
Darryl Henry v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-rights appeal-waiver circuit-split collateral-relief criminal-sentencing involuntary-waiver judicial-integrity judicial-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing-rights statutory-entitlement |
Are broad waivers of appellate rights lawful and, if so, what are the limits on their validity and enforcement? |
| 19-1453 |
Michigan v. Gerald Raynard Fuller |
Michigan |
2020-07-02 |
Denied |
|
acquittal acquittal-consideration acquitted-conduct conflict-of-authority criminal-procedure due-process federal-circuits judicial-discretion preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-standards state-courts |
Should this Court grant certiorari to settle the conflict of authority between state courts and the federal circuits, and among state courts themselve… |
| 19-8874 |
Robert Warren Scully v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing fact-finding fifth-amendment jury-trial restitution restitution-order sixth-amendment |
Whether a restitution order imposed as part of a federal criminal sentence and based on fact-findings made by the district court, rather than the jury… |
| 19-8876 |
Solomon Jalloh v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi apprendi-rule common-law common-law-tradition criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing jury-findings loss-calculation restitution sentencing |
Whether under Apprendi, the maximum restitution that can be imposed without additional jury findings as to any amount of loss is zero, consistent with… |
| 19-8885 |
Juan Leonardo Cadenas-Urena v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance criminal-procedure drug-manufacturing due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency jury-verdict premises-liability sentencing-guidelines sufficiency-of-evidence |
Did the panel err by holding that the evidence is sufficient to sustain the jury's guilty verdict? |
| 19-8868 |
Rodrecas Tims v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing judicial-discretion prison-sentence reasonableness-review sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-range sentencing-reasonableness |
Whether the district court ordered an unreasonable 108-month prison sentence under the facts of this case, and under the recommended Sentencing Guidel… |
| 19-8830 |
Justin Michael Oxendine v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-06-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion legal-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines upward-variance |
Whether the district court abused its discretion by varying upward |
| 19-8820 |
Cesar Velazquez v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act career-offender constitutional-vagueness due-process liberty post-conviction-relief residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Whether a post-conviction motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 challenging a sentence under the pre-2005 mandatory U.S. Sentencing Guidelines is timely when … |
| 19-8810 |
Jonathan Monterio Davidson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering criminal-law criminal-sentencing felonious-breaking-and-entering north-carolina north-carolina-law statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Does North Carolina's offense of felonious breaking and/or entering qualify as a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act? |
| 19-1407 |
Mercy O. Ainabe v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
corporate-entities health-care-claims health-care-fraud loss-calculation medicare medicare-fraud relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines victim-definition |
Whether Medicare beneficiaries are 'victims' for purposes of sentencing enhancements |
| 19-8788 |
Travis Job v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-rule constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-review prior-conviction prior-criminal-conduct sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum statutory-minimum |
Whether the Court should overrule the holding of Almendarez-Torres v. United States |
| 19-8771 |
Michael A. Risenhoover v. William Muniz, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-years-to-life criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-murder first-time-offender judicial-discretion murder prior-criminal-history proportionality public-message sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Does sentencing a first-time offender who has no prior criminal history to 28 years to life send a dangerous message to the public and future offender… |
| 19-8778 |
John Michael Allen v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2020-06-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
accomplice capital-punishment criminal-sentencing eighth-amendment felony innocent-life nontriggerman |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits capital punishment for a 'nontriggerman' accomplice to a felony that is not likely to result in the loss of inn… |
| 19-8741 |
Kelly David Ankeny, Sr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-sentencing dangerous-weapon force-requirement oregon-robbery physical-force second-degree statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether Oregon Robbery in the Second Degree (Or. Rev. Stat. § 164.405(1)(a)) is a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 19-8744 |
April Castro v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing dissimilar-activities fraud-calculation fraud-offenses intended-loss judicial-discretion loss-amounts loss-determination sentencing-guidelines stolen-checks |
Where a person is convicted of fraud offenses arising from conduct consisting of two similar, yet distinct types of fraudulent activities that resulte… |
| 19-8745 |
Bernard Scott, Jr. v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act career-offender constitutional-vagueness due-process liberty post-conviction-relief residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Whether a post-conviction motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 challenging a sentence under the pre-2005 mandatory U.S. Sentencing Guidelines is timely when … |
| 19-8735 |
Michael A. Jackson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-vagueness due-process liberty post-conviction-relief residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a post-conviction motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 challenging a sentence under the pre-2005 mandatory U.S. Sentencing Guidelines is timely when … |
| 19-8702 |
Billy Edward Sedberry v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
base-offense-level criminal-procedure drug-quantity judicial-fact-finding jury-trial methamphetamine sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Whether the district court procedurally erred in miscalculating Sedberry's drug quantity base offense level |
| 19-8703 |
David Sosa-Baladron, et ux. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-06-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-instructions obstruction-of-justice sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the evidence was sufficient to support the jury's verdict on the substantive counts against Sosa, and whether the district court erred in appl… |
| 19-8649 |
Angelo Johnson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure due-process guidelines guilty-plea plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines u-s-sentencing-commission |
Should a defendant be denied a three-level reduction for acceptance of responsibility under U.S.S.G. § 3E1.1 when the defendant enters a timely guilty… |
| 19-8681 |
Sung Hong, et ux. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affinity-fraud aggravating-factors civil-rights constitutional-law due-process establishment-clause free-exercise holguin-hernandez-v-united-states plain-error-review religious-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
whether-courts-can-consider-religion-as-aggravating-factor-in-sentencing |
| 19-8693 |
Nathan Thomas Trujillo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-procedure judicial-discretion kimbrough-v-united-states kimbrough-variance policy-grounds sentencing sentencing-guidelines variance |
Whether the district court abused its discretion in sentencing |
| 19-8675 |
Issac Oral Chandler v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial reasonable-doubt revocation sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Should this Court grant review to determine whether the mandatory provision for revocation of supervised release set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) viol… |
| 19-8680 |
Adrian Zitalpopoca-Hernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 circuit-split comparative-sentencing criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion sentencing-disparities sentencing-disparity statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(6) requires federal judges to compare a defendant's sentence to the sentences of his codefendants, the sentences of defend… |
| 19-1358 |
Michigan v. William Larenzo Shoulders |
Michigan |
2020-06-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
alleyne-v-us criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing indeterminate-sentencing jury-determination jury-trial michigan-law michigan-supreme-court parole parole-eligibility sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a state to impanel a jury to determine the offense-related facts which establish a criminal defendant's earliest … |
| 19-8640 |
Paul N. Littles v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-06-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-U.S.C-2255 career-offender constitutional-vagueness Johnson-v-United-States mandatory-sentencing-guidelines postconviction-motion residual-clause sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent unconstitutionally-vague |
Whether a postconviction motion under 28-U.S.C-2255 challenging a sentence under the pre-2005 mandatory U.S-Sentencing-Guidelines is timely when filed… |
| 19-8605 |
Courtland Barnes v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-06-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography criminal-sentencing district-court federal-appeals federal-sentencing-guidelines fourth-circuit mitigating-evidence sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the district court's reliance on the child pornography guideline and the mitigating evidence Petitioner offered to the court require the vacat… |
| 19-8592 |
Maria Soly Almonte, aka Soly Almonte, aka Soly La Fuerte, aka SoSo, aka SoSo Wavy, aka Soly Montana v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-06-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-of-consent appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process obstruction-of-justice procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness |
Whether Almonte's sentence was procedurally unreasonable |
| 19-8586 |
Roy Ramirez v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempt circuit-split conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-law inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the United States Sentencing Commission has properly defined a 'controlled-substance-offense' |
| 19-8561 |
Jesus Julian Corona-Perez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-05-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-procedure indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 19-8566 |
John Charles Thompson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggregate-imprisonment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process imprisonment plain-error revocation sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
Was it plain error for the Western District of North Carolina to not aggregate Mr. Thompson's multiple revocation active imprisonment sentences then r… |
| 19-8572 |
Roland Chambers, aka Troy Chambers v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-rights appellate-waiver collateral-relief criminal-sentencing judicial-integrity judicial-process plea-agreement plea-agreements sentencing-rights statutory-entitlement |
Are broad waivers of appellate rights lawful and, if so, what are the limits on their validity and enforcement? |
| 19-8543 |
Carl L. Burdick v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-05-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 advisory-guidelines criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plea-agreement rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-range united-states-v-booker |
Whether the District Court accorded the advisory sentencing guidelines a presumption of reasonableness |
| 19-8540 |
Antwoyn Spencer and Derrick Jerome Spencer v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-05-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment first-step-act resentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether Petitioners are being deprived of their right to due process of law |
| 19-8523 |
Christian James v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split due-process fifth-circuit government-promise obstruction-of-justice sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-justice united-states-sentencing-guidelines writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals opinion rejecting James's claim that the Government made an implied promise that any obstruction of justice… |
| 19-8525 |
Julio Gabriel Diaz v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substances conversion criminal-defendant drug-conversion due-process fifth-amendment lsd self-incrimination sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a criminal defendant's Fifth Amendment rights are implicated by the conversion required by U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1 |
| 19-8503 |
Darieus Malik Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administration-of-justice criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court fact-intensive-inquiry federal-criminal-cases fifth-circuit prostitution-enhancement review-standard sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Did the Fifth Circuit's cursory review of the district court's record lead to an illegal, unreasonable sentence |
| 19-8453 |
John Christopher Dobbs v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure cross-reference district-court federal-rules firearm-possession judicial-findings presentence-report rule-32 sentencing-guidelines |
When a defendant disputes that he has committed a Cross Reference crime, does Rule 32(i)(3)(B) require the district court to make specific findings ab… |
| 19-8444 |
Clarence Zacke v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2020-05-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process federal-court-decisions judicial-precedent legal-exemption plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing-guidelines state-courts |
Whether the integrity of the court requires enforcement of Rule 3.172(a) Fla. R. Criminal P. where the state has knowingly and intentionally violated … |
| 19-8426 |
Shawn M. Twitty v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2020-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amelioration-doctrine criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing doctrine-of-amelioration due-process fundamental-fairness res-judicata sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a sentence is manifestly erroneous because the Doctrine of Amelioration allows for that sentence to be controlled by a newly amended version o… |
| 19-8412 |
Lenroy McLean v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure discretion discretionary-review forfeiture plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights |
Should the Second Circuit Court of Appeals exercise its discretion to correct the forfeited error of Petitioner's miscalculated guideline sentence tha… |
| 19-8414 |
Ashford James Simmons v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-05-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance-offense fourth-circuit prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing-guidelines serious-drug-offense |
Whether the Fourth Circuit should be required to properly apply the categorical approach to determine if a prior conviction is a 'serious drug offense… |
| 19-8403 |
Juan Miguel Lopez v. Stuart Sherman, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-05-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-review criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection judicial-oversight jurisdictional-challenge retroactivity sentencing-review |
Whether the Court can exercise its encompassing jurisdiction to redress the imposition of a disproportionate amount of time added to a primary base te… |
| 19-8387 |
Robert C. Caldwell v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-05-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
carjacking constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy enhanced-penalty evidentiary-finding firearm public-choice-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation two-strike-statute |
Whether sentencing defendants under both the Carjacking Statute and the Firearm Statute violates the Double Jeopardy Clause |
| 19-8385 |
Enrique Lopez Quintero v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure hughes-v-united-states plea-agreement sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines type-c-agreement |
Is a sentence imposed pursuant to a Type-C agreement, Fed. R. Crim. P. 11(c)(1)(C), based on the defendant's United States Sentencing Guidelines range… |
| 19-1260 |
Andrew Demma v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-04-30 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
18-usc-3553a appeals-court child-pornography circuit-split discretion gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion kimbrough-v-united-states policy-disagreement sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the discretion recognized under Kimbrough v. United States for a district court to vary based on a policy disagreement applies to the child po… |
| 19-8333 |
Nekhent Supreme Ali, aka William Sean Perry, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-841 criminal-procedure criminal-statute currency-conversion drug-proceeds drug-weight due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether federal courts are required to use the lowest drug present in the defendant's instant offense when converting currency drug proceeds into drug… |
| 19-8339 |
Juan M. Santiago v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver booker booker-error criminal-procedure federal-sentencing mandatory-guidelines miscarriage-of-justice sentencing sentencing-guidelines waiver |
Whether an established Booker error (mandatory application of the USSG) can be considered per se a miscarriage of justice/exception that is not waived… |
| 19-8340 |
Christopher Scruggs v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law distribution distribution-intent file-sharing knowledge knowledge-standard mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether 'knowingly engaged in distribution' in sentencing guideline 2G2.2(b)(3)(F) requires knowledge that files are accessible online or only general… |
| 19-8325 |
Qais Hussein v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-04-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Is it reasonably debatable that Qais Hussein was deprived the effective assistance of counsel where his defense attorney failed to object to any insin… |
| 19-8303 |
Wadress Metoyer, Jr. v. Delynn Fudge, in Her Individual and Official Capacity as Executive Director of the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-04-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process liberty-interest parole parole-eligibility sentencing-guidelines sentencing-range truth-in-sentencing |
Did the Oklahoma legislature mandate a truth-in-sentencing act to provide a meaningful opportunity for parole release |
| 19-8273 |
Deonday Evans v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-04-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-922 18-usc-924 commerce-clause commerce-nexus criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule federalism federalism-principles fourth-amendment search-warrant sentencing-guidelines standing |
Whether federalism principles require reinterpretation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) and 18 U.S.C. § 924 to require a more meaningful commerce nexus |
| 19-8263 |
Larry Wesley Brown v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-possession drug-trafficking felony-enhancement guidelines gun-possession sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit conflicts with the decisions of other Circuits on an important matter… |
| 19-8235 |
Justin K. Eaton v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
beckles-v-us braxton-v-us constitutional-challenge dillon-v-us judicial-review retroactive-effect sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Sentencing Commission's interpretations of the sentencing guidelines must be given retroactive effect |
| 19-8215 |
Victor Rivera-Munoz v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing manager-enhancement sanctions sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines subordinate-authority subordinates supervisor-enhancement supervisor-role |
Can a defendant receive a manager or supervisor enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 3B1.1 when the evidence establishes that his alleged subordinates felt fr… |
| 19-8221 |
Feuu Fagatele v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-04-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process risk-of-injury sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a statute that criminalizes creating a risk of injury categorically satisfies the definition of a crime of violence? |
| 19-8199 |
Dwight Bullard v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-04-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 advisory-guidelines career-offender collateral-attack collateral-review criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing section-2255 sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a defendant erroneously sentenced as a career offender under the advisory Guidelines can collaterally attack his enhanced sentence under 28 U.… |
| 19-8187 |
Kahwahnas Nucumbhi Potts v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-04-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1028a circuit-split consecutive-sentencing criminal-law criminal-sentencing district-court federal-procedure inter-circuit-conflict sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether this honorable Court should grant certiorari to resolve inter-Circuit disharmony regarding a District Court's consideration of consecutive sen… |
| 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 |
| 19-8158 |
Lucas Heindenstrom v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 causation causation-standard fentanyl fentanyl-death harmless-error sentencing-guidelines statutory-sentencing upward-departure |
Is applying the wrong causation standard when upwardly departing under the sentencing guidelines or upwardly varying under the statutory sentencing fa… |
| 19-8132 |
Antoine T. Chest v. Michael P. Bald, Judge, Circuit Court of Illinois, Stephenson County |
Illinois |
2020-03-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
bodily-harm consecutive-sentences criminal-law criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-discretion legal-ambiguity sentence-enhancement sentencing-interpretation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether concurrent sentences are mandated by statute when the petitioner was found to have caused bodily harm, not severe bodily injury |
| 19-8137 |
Rafael Posadas-Gonzalez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing procedural-reasonableness sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness upward-departure |
Whether the District Court and Court of Appeals misapplied the law under U.S.S.G § 4A1.3 and 18 U.S.C. § 3553 (a) sentencing factors |
| 19-8100 |
Jorge Rodriguez-Luca v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-03-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
Whether the new rule announced in Johnson v. United States applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidelines, U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 (200… |
| 19-8065 |
Reinaldo Vasquez-Rivera v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review district-court-discretion guidelines-range procedural-reasonableness sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness supervised-release |
Whether the district court abused its discretion in imposing an above-Guidelines sentence without adequately addressing the defendant's arguments for … |
| 19-8071 |
Curtis Dion Earley v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-law due-process mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation stolen-firearm |
Does the commentary at U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1, Application Note 8, which does not require a mens rea to impose the stolen firearm enhancement at U.S.S.G. § … |
| 19-8041 |
Stanley Edward Jamison, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity section-2255 sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-right timely-motion |
Whether Mr. Jamison's § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), claiming that Johnson invalidates the p… |
| 19-8044 |
Brian Vidrine v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
924(c) career-offender criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states mandatory-enhancement section-924c sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Are Vidrine's § 924(c) convictions invalid in light of this Court's decision in Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), and its progeny? |
| 19-8016 |
Jaime Vega, aka Jimmy Johnson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeals criminal-procedure district-court due-process revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
To what extent does 18 U.S.C. § 3553 require a district court to specifically state the reasons for imposing a revocation sentence above the guideline… |
| 19-8027 |
Javier Gomez-Carrasquillo v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) circuit-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing individualized-assessment plea-agreement procedural-reasonableness puerto-rico-crime sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the district court erred in imposing a sentence that was procedurally and substantively unreasonable by failing to adequately consider the 18 … |
| 19-8038 |
Jermaine James v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempt circuit-split commentary conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the United States Sentencing Commission has properly defined a 'controlled substance offense' under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) |
| 19-8013 |
Keith Alexander v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2020-03-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns criminal-sentencing due-process federal-appellate-review firearms ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-interpretation mandatory-minimum mental-capacity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction |
whether-the-court-erred-by-denying-defendant's-petition-for-writ-of-coram-nobis |
| 19-8019 |
Efrain Sifuentes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
resulting in an unreasonable sentence appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court fifth-circuit sentencing-guidelines unreasonable-sentence |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit improperly condone the District Court's error in applying the United States Sentencing Gu… |
| 19-7998 |
Paul Anthony Montanez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Did the district court impose a plainly unreasonable sentence upon Mr. Montanez? |
| 19-8005 |
Harrison Garcia v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing direct-appeal edwards-v-arizona first-step-act mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
Whether Section 403 of the First Step Act of 2018 applies where Petitioner's sentence is not final and he would no longer be subject to multiple, mand… |
| 19-1133 |
Melvin Hodges, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act due-process johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states post-conviction-relief sentencing-guidelines vague-laws vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson can assert a timely, valid claim that the residual clause of the mandatory Guidelin… |
| 19-7984 |
Danny Pereda v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law due-process government-discretion government-procedures jury-trial sentencing-guidelines |
Whether it is unconstitutional to provide such discretion to courts to deny defendants their Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial and instead impose … |
| 19-7972 |
Javier Brown v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4b1.1 career-offender categorical-approach drug-offense fourth-circuit modified-categorical-approach predicate-drug-offense prior-conviction records-of-conviction sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-4b1.1 south-carolina-code |
Whether the Fourth Circuit violated the parameters set forth by this Court by using the modified categorical approach instead of the categorical appro… |
| 19-7981 |
Marcos Robert Castaneda v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender career-offender-guideline criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 johnson-v-united-states mandatory-sentencing-guidelines ninth-circuit residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines timeliness void-for-vagueness |
Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker car… |
| 19-7961 |
Randall Duane Throneberry v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2020-03-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process fourteenth-amendment oklahoma-law oklahoma-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether Petitioner's enhanced sentence under Oklahoma Statute Title 21, § 51.1A is invalid |
| 19-7965 |
Cedric Edney v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach controlled-substance-offense controlled-substances criminal-law fifth-circuit-interpretation mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states modified-categorical-approach sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation taylor-precedent taylor-v-united-states u-s-s-g-section-4b1-2-b |
Did the Fifth Circuit Err in deciding as an issue of first impression, that Texas offenses of Distribution of controlled substances and possession wit… |
| 19-7918 |
Patrick Harris v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a child-pornography criminal-sentencing district-court enhancement-factors excessive-sentence sentencing-discretion sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines statutory-considerations |
Did the district court err in applying sentencing enhancements under U.S.S.G. §2G2.2(b)(2), (b)(3), (b)(4), (b)(6) and (b)(7)(D) to Mr. Harris' case? |
| 19-7930 |
Roderick Pearson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-procedure criminal-justice-reform criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process finality first-step-act judicial-review retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether certiorari should be granted to vacate the decision below and remand to the Eleventh Circuit to consider whether § 403 of the First Step Act o… |
| 19-7931 |
Nancy Arlene Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-appeal criminal-procedure-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment fifth-circuit government-misconduct methamphetamine-conspiracy miranda-rights sentencing-guidelines substantial-assistance supreme-court unconstitutional-motive |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the defendant's sentence by concluding there was no unconstitutional motive for the government's failure … |
| 19-7878 |
Joseph Ramon Santillan v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conviction-classification criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offense drug-offenses due-process equal-protection federal-sentencing felony-conviction mandatory-minimum misdemeanor-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-federal-interaction state-federal-law statutory-interpretation |
Did defendant's State of California marijuana conviction constitute a 'prior conviction for a felony drug offense,' increasing defendant's mandatory m… |
| 19-7883 |
Tyrone Harris, Sr. v. Arkansas |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-sentencing criminal-statute-conflict due-process habitual-offender judicial-review prejudice prejudice-standard sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Did the District Court err in deferring to the lower court's finding, that Mr. Harris was not prejudice during his guilty plea sentencing hearing |
| 19-7832 |
Sean Wayne Pierce v. California |
California |
2020-03-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
actually-innocent constitutional-review conviction criminal-sentencing habeas-corpus miller-v-alabama mitigating-factor sentence standard-of-review-under-miller-v-alabama status-rather-than-criminal-conduct validity-of-conviction youth-offender |
Whether habeas corpus under Miller v. Alabama was necessary when a significant mitigating factor calls into question the validity of the conviction or… |
| 19-7869 |
Raymond David Wilson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender common-scheme criminal-scheme criminal-sentencing felony-disposition judicial-discretion misdemeanor-conviction misrepresentation-of-felony prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Why Did The District Court Erroneously Classify Mr. Wilson As A Career Offender |
| 19-7876 |
Aaron Richardson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection judicial-bias judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Did an unconstitutional 'objective risk of bias' or 'probability of actual bias on the part of the judge' manifest itself during the sentencing hearin… |
| 19-7838 |
Anthony Shockey v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-03-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
addiction-treatment criminal-justice criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-addiction drug-test due-process parole probation sentencing-guidelines supervised-release violation-classification |
When an addict on supervised release fails a drug test, should the failure be treated as a crime or a manifestation of a disease? |
| 19-7839 |
Christopher Sanchez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure deterrence due-process imprisonment plain-error-review policy-statement policy-statement-range sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines |
Is a single-sentence explanation of 'I believe this addresses the issues of adequate deterrence and protection of the public' procedurally reasonable … |
| 19-7851 |
Lenin Martinez-Alvarado v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 concurrent-sentences criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court downward-departure eleventh-circuit jurisdiction substantive-reasonableness u.s.s.g-§4a1.3 |
Whether certiorari review should be granted where the Eleventh Circuit held that it did not have jurisdiction to review the district court's denial to… |
| 19-7854 |
Howronda Overstreet v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure Did Ms. Overstreet's waiver of appeal unenforceabl Did the district court commit plain error when it due-process guidelines guidelines-calculation plain-error plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines waiver |
Did Ms. Overstreet preserve her right to appeal the district court's inapplicable guidelines calculation? |
| 19-7855 |
Jeremy T. Walker v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari criminal-procedure district-court-discretion federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession material-facts obstruction offense-level-enhancement sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines serial-number serial-number-obliteration |
Whether the district court erred at sentencing by increasing Mr. Walker's Sentencing Guidelines offense level for possessing a gun with an obliterated… |
| 19-7863 |
Delores L. Knight v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-03-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
35-usc-101 civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-statute due-process federal-appellate-review judicial-review ninth-circuit patent sentencing-guidelines standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the lower court upheld the government's denial of her patent application |
| 19-7864 |
Derek Crosby v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-03-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process indictment jury jury-determination legislative-power sentencing separation-of-powers statutory-maximum |
Whether The Legislature Can Remove The Facts From The Jury That Increase The Statutory Maximum? |
| 19-7815 |
Robert Grimsley v. Oregon, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights contractual-leniency custody due-process fraud fraud-in-the-facts habeas-corpus prison prison-contracts prisoner-rights sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-court state-court-judgment statutory-interpretation takings |
Can a state commit the crimes of fraud in the facts of its own sentencing guidelines to renege on prison contracts on behalf of a person in custody pu… |
| 19-7812 |
Lajbar Lajaward Khan v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
clearly-erroneous criminal-procedure declaration district-court drug-quantity drug-weight fatico-hearing objections probation-office role-enhancement sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether the District Court's findings as to drug weight and role were clearly erroneous |
| 19-7820 |
Marcus Derby v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split conspiracy conspiracy-involvement criminal-procedure drug-trafficking essential-participant minor-participant minor-role reduction sentencing-guidelines supplier |
Does being a supplier to a drug trafficking organization categorically bar a defendant from receiving the 'minor participant' reduction under the Sent… |
| 19-7811 |
Marcus Scott Crum v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting attempt conspiracy controlled-substance-offense inchoate-offenses judicial-deference sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u-s-sentencing-commission |
Whether the Sentencing Commission's commentary to its definition of 'controlled substance offense' in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) to include inchoate offenses… |
| 19-7755 |
Scott Michael Patrick v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender criminal-sentencing johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states mandatory-sentencing-guidelines residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines void-for-vagueness |
Whether the right recognized in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory Guidelines |
| 19-7780 |
Frank Harper v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-USC-924(c) 18-usc-924c carjacking-by-intimidation collateral-review consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure dean-v-united-states ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Predicate-Offense retroactivity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether Harper was denied effective assistance of counsel |
| 19-7781 |
John Charles Fortner v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-sentencing federal-crimes felony-offense minor minor-involvement minors sentencing sentencing-enhancement sex-offender-registration sorna statutory-interpretation |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 2260A require the underlying listed offense to involve an actual minor? |
| 19-7760 |
Jeremy Achey v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substance-analogue criminal-sentencing drug-conspiracy due-process federal-drug-law mandatory-minimum sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-penalties |
Whether the government must prove that a defendant conspired to distribute the specific controlled substance analogues charged in the indictment |
| 19-7764 |
Michael Tyrone Simpson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP |
18-usc-924(c) bank-robbery carter-v-united-states crime-of-violence criminal-intent federal-bank-robbery force-clause general-intent-crime sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
Is federal bank robbery a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) |
| 19-7776 |
Mickel L. Marzouk v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c) crime-of-violence criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process elements-clause fair-sentencing-act fourth-circuit hobbs-act rule-of-lenity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether Petitioner's sentence on the second § 924(c) conviction and twenty-five year sentence enhancement was incorrectly affirmed |
| 19-7646 |
Davion Fitzgerald v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach criminal-law due-deference federalism federalism-principles judicial-deference judicial-interpretation judicial-subjectivity sentencing-guidelines state-court-deference state-courts state-criminal-statutes state-statute statutory-interpretation |
May a federal court dismiss state precedent interpreting the state's own criminal statute as an 'odd hypothetical' based on 'legal imagination' to sub… |
| 19-7699 |
Anthony Carr v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2020-02-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
adaptive-functioning atkins atkins-standard criminal-sentencing diagnostic-criteria due-process intellectual-disability medical-expert-criteria medical-experts supreme-court supreme-court-interpretation |
Did the Mississippi Supreme Court establish an erroneous legal standard when it held that proof of intellectual disability in Atkins cases requires a … |
| 19-7706 |
Tommy Adams, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
career-offender career-offender-guideline controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense controlled-substances criminal-law fourth-circuit modified-categorical-approach sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation taylor-descamps-mathis-precedent taylor-v-united-states |
Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals incorrectly apply the line of authority from this Court beginning with Taylor v. United States, 495 U.S. 575 (… |
| 19-7707 |
Elijah Loren Arthur v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-fines criminal-restitution due-process jury-determination jury-trial sentencing-guidelines southern-union-co-v-united-states statutory-maximum |
Should the Court extend the rule of Apprendi to the award of criminal restitution? |
| 19-7681 |
Howard Aron Washington, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines appellate-review criminal-sentencing gall-v-new-jersey guideline-departure procedural-error procedural-reasonableness reasonableness rosales-mireles Rosales-Mireles-v-United-States sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether the district court's methodology in imposing a substantial guideline departure was inconsistent with this Court's decision in Gall v. New Jers… |
| 19-7695 |
Arturo Delacruz v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-02-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brandishing criminal-procedure group-one-robbery ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel otherwise-used plea-negotiation robbery-offense sentencing-guidelines weapon-enhancement |
Was trial counsel ineffective for failing to negotiate a five-level, rather than a six-level increase for Group One? |
| 19-1020 |
Florence Bikundi v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2020-02-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
burden-of-proof continuance district-court-discretion due-process ends-of-justice ends-of-justice-continuance forfeiture fraud fraud-conduct restitution sentencing sentencing-guidelines speedy-trial-act |
Whether a district court granting an ends-of-justice continuance under the Speedy Trial Act violates the requirement to set forth reasons |
| 19-7625 |
Robert L. Swinton, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-02-12 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-errors sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment structural-error |
Whether sentencing errors were corrected by appeals court on direct appeal without defense counsel, and whether there was a constitutional denial of c… |
| 19-7649 |
Socorro Susan Caro v. California |
California |
2020-02-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-circumstances constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-finding jury-trial mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment |
Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact, other than a prior c… |
| 19-7654 |
Jean Roussel Eloi v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-process appeal-stages closing-arguments conviction defenses government-misconduct ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection relationship-evidence sealed-records sentencing-guidelines |
Whether counsel was ineffective for not pursuing all the way through the appeal stages, the government's statement during closing arguments that it sh… |
| 19-7638 |
Rodrigo Cruz Perez v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing fifth-amendment sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment split-among-circuits |
Can a court count a defendant's constitutionally-protected-conduct against the defendant when determining whether the defendant qualifies for a 2-poin… |
| 19-7622 |
Samuel Elliott v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment appellate-review child-pornography criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness substantive-unreasonableness |
Whether a sentence imposed pursuant to the United States Sentencing Guidelines covering child pornography offenses, U.S.S.G. §§ 2G2.1 and 2G2.2, is su… |
| 19-7598 |
Ramon Valencia-Cruz v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 appellate-review circuit-split closer-review judicial-review kimbrough-discretion kimbrough-v-united-states policy-disagreement policy-statement sentencing-guidelines |
When conducting 'closer review' of a sentencing decision that was based on the district court's decision to vary from the United States Sentencing Gui… |
| 19-7604 |
Richard Allen Lumpkin v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender criminal-sentencing johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
Whether the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidelines |
| 19-7561 |
Ramiro D. Ramirez, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
application-note-3(c) application-note-3c court-of-appeals criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing criminal-sentencing district-court federal-sentencing-guidelines mitigating-role mitigating-role-adjustment paid-tasks proprietary-interest sentencing-guidelines supervisory-authority united-states-sentencing-guidelines ussg-3b1.2 |
Whether the Court of Appeals inappropriately affirmed the district court's denial of a mitigating role adjustment |
| 19-7531 |
Joey D. Wiseman, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-justice criminal-law criminal-sentencing direct-appeal due-process federal-sentencing first-step-act retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether the First Step Act Must be Applied To Cases Pending on Direct Appeal? |
| 19-7515 |
Andy Nguyen v. California |
California |
2020-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey consecutive-sentences consecutive-sentencing criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing judicial-fact-finding preponderance-of-evidence sentencing stare-decisis |
Should the Court reconsider its majority opinion in Oregon v. Ice |
| 19-7516 |
Mary Mosley v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct alleyne-v-united-states criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-acquitted-conduct double-jeopardy due-process fifth-circuit jury-verdict nelson-v-colorado sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines |
Did the panel err by upholding the application of an enhancement for brandishing or possessing a firearm when Miss Mosley was acquitted by a jury of t… |
| 19-7470 |
Agustin Martinez-Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a appellate-review appellate-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing criminal-sentencing,appellate-review,18-usc-3553(a federal-sentencing gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-review statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness |
Can appellate courts reweigh the sentencing factors in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) |
| 19-7479 |
Brian Price v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-01-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-courts federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a defendant's constitutional rights are abridged when a district court bases its sentence solely on acquitted conduct |
| 19-7454 |
Kenneth James Barfield v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-32 due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-circuit gall-v-united-states guidelines preponderance-of-evidence presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-watts |
Where the Government offers no evidence at sentencing in response to an objection to a factual assertion in the presentence report that increases a se… |
| 19-7446 |
Enrique A. Echeverria-Benitez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-circuit illegal-reentry plain-error retribution sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
Whether the imposition of consecutive sentences for illegal reentry and revocation of supervised release was unreasonable and constituted reversible e… |
| 19-7387 |
Travis Miles v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act attempted-burglary burglary burglary-statute criminal-sentencing entry entry-definition generic-burglary statutory-interpretation tennessee-burglary-statute violent-felony |
Does Tennessee's burglary statute qualify as a 'generic burglary' under the Armed Career Criminal Act? |
| 19-7404 |
Joseph James Roe v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process enhancement-factors essential-factor guideline-interpretation guidelines judicial-discretion leadership-role lower-court-guidance sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-3b1.1(a) |
Whether a district court may impose a sentence enhancement under USSG § 3B1.1(a) for leadership role based on a factor not mentioned in the Sentencing… |
| 19-7412 |
Alford D. Embry, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender criminal-sentencing habeas-corpus johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Whether the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidelines, U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 (2000) |
| 19-7363 |
Richard Grady Romans v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-sentencing drug-conspiracy drug-distribution felony-enhancement occasions-different predicate-offense serious-drug-offense substantive-offense violent-felony |
Whether a drug conspiracy committed on an occasion different from the drug distribution offenses committed during and in furtherance of that same cons… |
| 19-7382 |
Tyrone Jemane Johnson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
aggravated-assault criminal-law federal-jurisdiction force-clause mens-rea sentencing-guidelines uniformity |
Whether a generic aggravated assault requires a mens rea greater than mere recklessness |
| 19-7379 |
Lee Samuel Capers v. California |
California |
2020-01-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-requirement criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-maximum |
Whether California's death penalty scheme violates the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact other than a prior… |
| 19-7331 |
Lavorice Dondrell Cunningham v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion legal-standard pending-resolution remand sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
What is the appropriate standard for the determination of substantive reasonableness claim? |
| 19-7337 |
Kinney Lee Palmer v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
aggravated-assault assault crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-sentencing guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation texas-law threat |
Whether the Texas offense of aggravated assault by threat is a 'crime of violence' under USSG §4B1.2? |
| 19-7338 |
David P. Moran v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
concurrent-sentences consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-interpretation prosecutorial-charging same-conduct same-victim sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines |
Should two charges for the same episode of conduct and the same victim with no temporal break whatsoever be sentenced to consecutive prison terms even… |
| 19-7305 |
William James Springer v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-possession constructive-possession criminal-procedure drug-trafficking firearm-possession foreseeability jointly-undertaken-activity sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a defendant's sentence can be enhanced under U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1(b)(1) for possession of a firearm in connection with a drug trafficking offense … |
| 19-7289 |
Willis Shane Gordon v. Sam Cline, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey apprendi-violation brady-evidence Brady-Violation burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy doyle-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial kansas-sentencing-guidelines post-arrest-silence prior-convictions procedural-bar prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing-guidelines |
Issues being raised |
| 19-7284 |
Bobby Y. Wallace, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-14 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa aedpa-deference certificate-of-appealability criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment federalism gross-disproportionality habitual-offender insufficient-evidence jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia judicial-review no-evidence proportionality-review sentencing state-court-decisions |
Could reasonable jurists debate whether the state court decision to affirm Petitioner's sentence is contrary to or an unreasonable application of the … |
| 19-7248 |
Christopher Omar Hinton v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-robbery crime-of-violence dangerous-weapon federal-sentencing north-carolina north-carolina-law sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-commission united-states-sentencing-guidelines |
Whether North Carolina attempted robbery with a dangerous weapon qualifies as a crime of violence under Section 4B1.2 of the United States Sentencing … |
| 19-7253 |
Fabrizio DeFrancisci v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-60(b)(6) due-process post-conviction-relief rule-60b-motion second-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg |
Was the district court and appeals court wrong to deny the Rule 60(b)(6) motion and certificate of appealability, respectively, when this court has sp… |
| 19-7234 |
Denzel Chisholm, aka Den, aka Din v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anti-drug-abuse-act anti-drug-abuse-act-1986 anti-drug-abuse-act-of-1986 congressional-intent criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offense proportionality retail-level-manager sentencing sentencing-reasonableness statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness |
Whether a 342-month sentence for a retail-level manager is substantively reasonable where it far exceeds a sentence that properly accounts for Congres… |
| 19-7188 |
John Jay Powers v. M. L. Stancil |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-01-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3584 18-usc-3584a administrative-deference administrative-law bureau-of-prisons criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing deference federal-bureau-of-prisons federal-courts federal-sentencing sentencing-interpretation statutory-ambiguity statutory-interpretation |
Is the language of 18 U.S.C. 3584(a)'s phrase 'at the same time' ambiguous? |
| 19-7207 |
Mohamed Elshinawy, aka Mojoe, aka Mo Jo v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa due-process rule-of-lenity sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-construction statutory-interpretation vcclea |
Did the Court violate the Separation of Powers and Due Process when the enhancement § 3A1.4 was applied without examining Congress' explicit directive… |
| 19-7217 |
Rickey Thompson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process elements-clause firearms johnson-davis-doctrine johnson-v-united-states mandatory-minimum second-degree-murder statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8) is unconstitutionally vague |
| 19-7182 |
Cirilo Mancilla Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process legal-objection preservation-of-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-unreasonableness |
Whether claims of substantive unreasonableness must be preserved by specific objection? |
| 19-7123 |
Sean Gregory Mitchell v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act bodily-injury criminal-sentencing intentional-causation omission physical-force sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether a criminal statute that prohibits the intentional causation of bodily injury to another 'by any means,' including omissions, is a violent felo… |
| 19-7118 |
Calvin Buffington v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process judicial-fact-finding section-3582 section-3582(c)(2) sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-3582(c)(2) statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court's failure to find a drug quantity when adopting PSR in its entirety authorized it to select a new quantity as a basis for t… |
| 19-7130 |
Fabio Morel v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review case-law circuit-court-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing judicial-precedent plea-agreement plea-bargaining precedent retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the lower court's decision is in conflict with Freeman v. United States, 564 U.S. 522 (2011) and Hughes v. United States, 138 S. Ct. 1765 (201… |
| 19-7083 |
Leroy L. Perdue v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
851-enhancement criminal-procedure due-process enhancement federal-statute notice role-adjustment sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-compliance statutory-interpretation |
Whether the sentence should be vacated for failure comply with the requirements of 21 U.S.C. § 851(b) |
| 19-7102 |
Ruben Mendez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-review constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-precedent legal-procedure precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 19-7103 |
Edward Merritt v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law controlled-substance-offense criminal-law deference guideline-commentary inchoate-offenses judicial-deference sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Is the definition of 'controlled substance offense' in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) genuinely ambiguous such that the guideline commentary can be used to reaso… |
| 19-7105 |
Miguel Jilberto Vazquez-Chavarria v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion remand sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness |
whether-substantive-reasonableness-review-requires-or-permits-the-courts-of-appeals-to-reweigh-the-18-usc-3553a-factors |
| 19-7107 |
Joseph Thor Perkins v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a 3553(a)-factors abuse-of-discretion booker-v-united-states criminal-sentencing downward-variance federal-sentencing-procedure gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a sentencing court can abuse its discretion by not varying downward further |
| 19-7074 |
Victor J. Stitt, II v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary criminal-sentencing generic-burglary rehaif rehaif-standard sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent tennessee-law |
Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States |
| 19-7059 |
John Kenneth Schiefer v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion legal-reasoning plain-error procedural-error respect-for-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure |
Did the district court plainly procedurally err when it selected and imposed sentence based on its desire to promote the defendant's respect for the l… |
| 19-7062 |
Florentino Villanueva, Jr. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-12-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act common-law common-law-principles criminal-law criminal-sentencing force force-element predicate-conviction robbery robbery-statute statutory-interpretation |
Does a robbery statute qualify as a predicate conviction under the Armed Career Criminal Act when the force can be employed after the taking of the pr… |
| 19-7034 |
Charley Joe, Jr. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split constitutional-vagueness eighth-amendment sentencing-guidelines unusual-vulnerability vagueness victim-exploitation victim-vulnerability vulnerable-victim |
Does the vulnerable victim enhancement apply when the defendant did not exploit the victim's unusual vulnerability? |
| 19-7038 |
Angela Maxine Lee v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-922 18-usc-924 3553-a-factors 3553a-factors appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the above-Guidelines 84-month sentence ordered by the district court is substantively unreasonable under the § 3553(a) factors |
| 19-7042 |
Christian Rosado v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-law guidelines judicial-interpretation judicial-opinions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines state-law state-law-offense statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
Whether a state-law offense qualifies as a 'crime of violence' for purposes of the career-offender enhancement of the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines even … |
| 19-7044 |
Darmarcus Fisher v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-assault appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fifth-circuit procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the district court imposed a substantively unreasonable sentence and erred by imposing a 4-level enhancement for aggravated assault |
| 19-7007 |
Bryshun Genard Furlow v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-19 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach collateral-challenge controlled-substance-offense due-process fourth-circuit prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines serious-drug-offense state-conviction u.s.s.g.-4b1.1 |
Whether the Fourth Circuit should be required to use the categorical approach, applying the parameters set by this Court, to its determination that a … |
| 19-7022 |
Jesus D. Cruz v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment constitutional-violation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rehaif-v-united-states search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing toxicology-report |
Whether Counsel was ineffective for not showing the Petitioner and or verifying to the Petitioner, that the officers never producted a valid search wa… |
| 19-7006 |
Alvin Andrae Drummond v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment armed-career-criminal-act criminal-sentencing misdemeanor-crime-of-violence physical-force predicate-offense probable-cause search-warrant statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether a misdemeanor crime of violence, not aggravated by any additional force, can properly meet the elements of an Armed Career Criminal Act predic… |
| 19-6965 |
Vondale Lamar Kincaide v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-12-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-sentencing gvr-order sentencing serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether the determination of a 'serious drug offense' under the Armed Career Criminal Act requires the same categorical approach used in the determina… |
| 19-6968 |
Brian David Brumbach v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary categorical-approach criminal-sentencing entry-by-instrument entry-requirement generic-burglary sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation tennessee-law |
Whether Tennessee aggravated burglary qualifies as generic burglary under the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 19-774 |
Marcus Terrelle Marsh v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3) |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-sentencing drug-distribution drug-statute federal-sentencing predicate-offense state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether a state drug statute that lists a variety of means by which it can be violated, including purchasing, which does not meet the definition of a … |
| 19-6948 |
Michael Eugene Spry v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-USC-3553 criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness supervised-release |
Whether the appellant Michael Eugene Spry's sentence was unreasonable as it was greater than necessary and as such, fails to comply with Title 18, Uni… |
| 19-6953 |
Donovan G. Davis, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-proceeding critical-stage direct-appeal new-trial new-trial-motion right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure |
Question not identified |
| 19-6933 |
Elmuiz Abdu v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-general-opinion criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection good-time-credit habeas-corpus jail-credit legislative-intent sentencing statutory-interpretation time-calculation time-served |
Whether the petitioner's jail good time credit and ESC Level have been calculated incorrectly |
| 19-6939 |
Anthony Scott Hunt v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
base-offense-level categorical-approach controlled-substance-offense divisibility drug-statute modified-categorical-approach predicate-offense sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g-§-4b1.2(b) u.s.s.g.-§-2k2.1(a)(4)(a) u.s.s.g.-§-4b1.2(b) |
Whether a state drug statute that is either (1) completely indivisible or (2) at most only generally divisible into no more than three separate offens… |
| 19-6941 |
Michael Collins v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process first-circuit massachusetts-law statutory-interpretation supreme-court-rulings violent-felony |
Whether the First Circuit holding that assault with a dangerous weapon as defined by Massachusetts law is a violent felony under the Armed Career Crim… |
| 19-6926 |
Roger William Campbell, II, aka Roger William Campbell v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
concurrent-sentences consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure federal-sentencing revocation sentence-revocation sentencing-guidelines supervised-release united-states-sentencing-commission |
Is the 'stacking' of multiple consecutive sentences, upon revocation of multiple concurrent terms of supervised release, consistent with the United St… |
| 19-719 |
Dami Hospitality, LLC v. Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, Division of Workers' Compensation |
Colorado |
2019-12-06 |
Denied |
|
ability-to-pay civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-fines criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-fines-clause proportionality sentencing |
Whether an offender's ability to pay is relevant in determining whether a fine is unconstitutional under the Excessive Fines Clause of the Eighth Amen… |
| 19-6864 |
Cedis R. Martin v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach categorical-review crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process offense-of-violence sentencing-guidelines sentencing-predicate state-court-conviction statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-§4a1.1(e) vagueness vagueness-analysis vagueness-doctrine |
Does a state court conviction qualify as an 'offense of violence' for sentencing purposes if the state offense can be committed without physical harm? |
| 19-6865 |
Delante L. Lunn v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
but-for-causation but-for-test causation criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-distribution drug-offenses drug-overdose mandatory-minimum overdose-causation sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the but-for test in Burrage v. United States should be re-evaluated for mixed drug overdoses that result in death where no drug distributed by… |
| 19-6838 |
Joshua Smith v. Sandra Butler, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 appellate-review caselaw federal-procedure guideline-range habeas-corpus incorrect-guideline-range mandatory-guidelines savings-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Courts of Appeals have incorrectly interpreted the 'savings clause' found in 28 USC 2255(e) |
| 19-6806 |
Anthony J. Stokes v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy due-process felony jurisdictional-conflict military-law predicate-felony sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation trial-modification |
Whether the underlying felony is part of the crime charged to create a predicate felony that charge, cannot stand |
| 19-6818 |
John D. Ward v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Whether the new rule announced in Johnson v. United States applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidelines |
| 19-6828 |
Reginald Jerry Shaw v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review application-notes certificate-of-appealability commentary district-court-discretion ineffective-assistance legal-interpretation sentencing-guidelines strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Are the commentary and application notes in the Sentencing Guideline manual authoritative or left to the District Court's discretion? |
| 19-6830 |
Don Emmery Wilson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment ambiguous-plea constitutional-rights criminal-matter cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus hearsay illegal-sentence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel obstruction-of-justice plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief profiling sentencing-guidelines |
Was petitioner subject to ineffective or deficient assistance of counsel in a criminal matter? |
| 19-6832 |
James Henry Lacy, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery career-offender career-offender-guideline categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-bank-robbery habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines timeliness |
Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker car… |
| 19-6793 |
Quentin Herndon v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-12-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute federal-court federal-courts physical-force sentencing-guidelines state-court state-court-interpretation state-courts statutory-interpretation USSG-4B1.2(a) |
Whether a federal court must defer to a state court's interpretation of the elements of a state criminal statute to determine if that offense requires… |
| 19-6774 |
Albert Allen, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal due-process fair-sentencing-act ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum mens-rea prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Court of Appeals Erred in Denying Petitioner's Application for a Certificate of Appealability |
| 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? |
| 19-6791 |
Bryan Lamon Burnett v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-circuit 8th-circuit appellate-review circuit-court-conflict circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing felon-in-possession firearm-possession firearms sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-guidelines |
Should this court grant certiorari to resolve the conflict between the circuit courts of appeal in the application of United States Sentencing Guideli… |
| 19-6748 |
Steven A. Adams v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting ambiguity attempt conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law deference deference-doctrine sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-manual-4b1.2b statutory-interpretation |
Whether the term 'controlled substance offense' defined by UNITED STATES SENTENCING GUIDELINES MANUAL § 4B1.2(b) is ambiguous |
| 19-6755 |
Frederick Garcia-Cruz v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure debatable-among-jurists-of-reason due-process habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason mandatory-sentencing ninth-circuit residual-clause sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Whether the Ninth Circuit misapplied this Court's 'debatable among jurists of reason' standard for a certificate of appealability |
| 19-6759 |
James A. Lackey v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-deference jurists-of-reason mandatory-sentencing-guidelines ninth-circuit residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Whether the Ninth Circuit misapplied this Court's 'debatable among jurists of reason' standard for a certificate of appealability |
| 19-6769 |
Steven Hicks v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure debatable-among-jurists-of-reason johnson-v-united-states jurists-of-reason mandatory-guidelines mandatory-sentencing ninth-circuit sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g.-4b1.2(a)(2) vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Whether the Ninth Circuit misapplied this Court's 'debatable among jurists of reason' standard for a certificate of appealability |
| 19-6704 |
JB Foster McAfee v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court circuit-court-rejection civil-procedure-mail-box-rule due-process federal-rules-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure habeas-corpus houston-v-lack mail-box-rule obstruction-of-justice prison-mail prisoner-appeals prisoner-petition sentencing-guidelines timeliness timely-filing |
Whether a prisoner's petition for rehearing is timely filed under the mail box rule |
| 19-6675 |
Michael Ray Bishop v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-20 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance-offense enumerated-offense-clause sentencing-guidelines serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation |
Whether an offense-matching categorical approach applies to the determination of a 'controlled substance offense' under the Sentencing Guidelines? |
| 19-6692 |
Kenneth Robert Simpson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-discretion parole revocation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction supervised-release |
Whether the revocation of supervised release and imposition of additional imprisonment for a violation of the conditions of supervised release violate… |
| 19-6667 |
James Anthony Brown v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection gender-discrimination habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation |
Whether a United States citizen shall be held in prison for an enhanced sentence that is constitutionally wrong, and whether there shall be a gross di… |
| 19-6670 |
Michael Bridge v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 appellate-procedure brief-formatting career-offender constitutional-rights due-process johnson-v-united-states judicial-discretion mandatory-guidelines procedural-fairness residual-clause sentencing-guidelines timeliness Whether Pennsylvania Superior Court can dismiss an |
Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker car… |
| 19-6677 |
Justin Scott Vasey v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing eighth-amendment eighth-circuit legal-interpretation lowest-level-of-conduct state-law statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the 'lowest level of conduct' as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach, an… |
| 19-6656 |
Fernando Quintela-Galindo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review chapter-7-policy chapter-7-policy-statements criminal-procedure due-process presumption-of-reasonableness revocation-sentence sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a presumption of reasonableness should be applied to a revocation sentence produced by Chapter 7 policy statements |
| 19-6647 |
Michael J. Baxter v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
acquitted-conduct batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-selection racial-discrimination reasonable-doubt sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment united-states-v-watts |
Whether the striking of two out of three black veniremembers demonstrates a 'pattern of discrimination' as necessary to satisfy the first step of the … |
| 19-6650 |
Fidel Rios, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a 8th-circuit criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court downward-variance guidelines judicial-discretion life-circumstances sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines u-s-code |
Whether the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals and District Court for the Southern District of Iowa failed to adequately consider the sentencing factors set… |
| 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 … |
| 19-6632 |
Samier Patrick Clark v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adam-walsh-act civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing-guidelines |
Was petitioner subjected to violations of his Constitutional rights throughout the criminal prosecution? |
| 19-6634 |
Kathryn Woodin Markle v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-production burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process evidence government-burden pre-sentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-objection |
Does the defendant bear the burden of production to rebut information found in a pre-sentence report after objecting to that information, or instead, … |
| 19-6589 |
Alicia Norman, Kendra Brantley, and Deenvaughn Rowe v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-client-relationship criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-11 due-process federal-rules judicial-interference plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Was the D.C. Circuit's affirmance of Petitioner Brantley's convictions erroneous and in conflict with other federal jurisdictions on the requirements … |
| 19-6606 |
Ryan T. Root v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation criminal-procedure cumulative-errors double-prosecution due-process ineffective-counsel law-and-fact merger-doctrine miscarriage-of-justice money-laundering plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether cumulative errors led to a miscarriage of justice |
| 19-6615 |
Jayvonne Johnson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-rights appellate-rights appellate-waiver collateral-relief criminal-sentencing due-process involuntary-waiver judicial-integrity judicial-process plea-agreement plea-agreements statutory-entitlement statutory-rights |
Are broad waivers of appellate rights lawful and, if so, what are the limits on their validity and enforcement? |
| 19-6619 |
Genesis Lee Whitted v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
base-offense-level criminal-procedure drug-quantity drug-weight fourth-circuit indictment relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-1b1.3 time-interval |
Whether the district court improperly expanded Guideline § 1B1.3 by including drug amounts associated with conduct occurring significantly outside the… |
| 19-6620 |
John Kevin Waldrip v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure federal-law federal-sentencing-guidelines federal-statute fifth-circuit judicial-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines special-assessments statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law when it refused to vacate the $15,000 special assessments |
| 19-6551 |
Neil Timothy Aho v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure discovery guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel obstruction-of-justice plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing-guidelines withdrawal-of-plea |
Whether the appellate court erred in not finding that the district court abused its discretion by denying Petitioner's motion to withdraw his guilty p… |
| 19-6557 |
Steven Nygren v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cognitive-impairment competency-to-stand-trial forensic-evaluation malingering material-evidence obstruction-of-justice rehabilitation sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g-3c1.1 u.s.s.g.-3c1.1 |
Whether a defendant's purported malingering during forensic evaluations to assess competency to stand trial, when the defendant had a medically docume… |
| 19-6497 |
David Morillo-Cruz v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the sentence imposed by the Court was reasonable? |
| 19-6509 |
William Gaudet v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2423(a) appeals-court appellate-review conviction criminal-sentencing district-court evidence-exclusion evidence-rule-403 federal-rules-of-evidence federal-sentencing-guidelines judgment-of-acquittal motion-in-limine prior-testimony sentencing standard-of-review whether-the-appeals-court-erred-in-upholding-the-d |
Whether the appeals court erred in upholding the district court's denial of the petitioner's motion in limine |
| 19-6510 |
Timothy L. Douglas v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255f3 career-offender criminal-law criminal-sentencing-guidelines-4b1.1-4b1.2 due-process guidelines johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Whether the new rule announced in Johnson v. United States applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidelines, U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 (200… |
| 19-6521 |
Marcus T. Simmons v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
career-offender criminal-justice criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 guidelines johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Whether the new rule announced in Johnson v. United States applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidelines, U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 (200… |
| 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 |
| 19-6496 |
David Elijah Smith v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-05 |
GVR |
IFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey blakely-v-washington criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearm-statute haymond-v-united-states mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum |
Did the petitioner's sentence for 18 U.S.C. 922(g) violate the statutory maximum? |
| 19-6489 |
Clifford Gene Wallace v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-assault aggravated-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines texas-criminal-law texas-law threat ussg-4b1.2 |
Whether the Texas offense of aggravated assault by threat is a 'crime of violence' under USSG §4B1.2 |
| 19-6492 |
Tylan Tremaine Autrey v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity section-2255 sentencing-guidelines vagueness |
Does a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the mandatory career offender guidelin… |
| 19-6454 |
Corey Morris v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-10-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel extended-sentences federal-review multiple-indictments plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether defendants have a Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel when contemplating plea offers |
| 19-6431 |
Jose Armando Bazan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-29 |
GVR |
Relisted (4)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure fact-question guidelines plain-error role-adjustment sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in holding that a district court's failure to apply a minor or mitigating role adjustment under the Sentencing Guideli… |
| 19-6360 |
George C. Pugh v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process felony florida-law habitual-felony-offender habitual-offender precedent release-date sentencing statutory-interpretation time-calculation |
Is it lawful for the Petitioner to be deemed an Habitual felony offender whereas the Petitioner was one day outside of the time period of conviction o… |
| 19-6383 |
Nelli Kesoyan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-appeals federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure legal-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Did the Court of Appeals adopt an erroneous interpretation of U.S.S.G. § 251.3(b)(3)? |
| 19-6389 |
Quincy Dennis v. J. A. Terris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 categorical-approach drug-offense federal-procedure habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-relief-28-usc-2241 intervening-change mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence presidential-commutation presidential-pardon retroactive-application retroactively-applicable-decision sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether petitioner Dennis is entitled to seek federal habeas corpus relief |
| 19-6370 |
Troy Bennett v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offense elements-clause florida-statute-843.01 florida-statutes resisting-with-violence violent-felony |
Whether a Florida conviction for resisting with violence is a 'violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 19-6379 |
Timothy Edward Holz v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-10-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
career-offender collateral-review crime-of-violence johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states mandatory-sentence-enhancement mandatory-sentencing pre-booker pre-booker-mandatory residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-4b1.2a |
Whether Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), invalidated U.S. Sentencing Guidelines § 4B1.2(a)---the career offender guideline's residual… |
| 19-6332 |
Walter Glenn v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment consent-to-search criminal-procedure fourth-amendment leadership-role obstruction-of-justice rental-vehicle search-and-seizure sentencing-guidelines standing standing-civil-procedure standing-doctrine traffic-stop |
Whether a relief driver of a rental vehicle had standing to challenge evidence seized from the car |
| 19-6357 |
James Alton Turner, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 acca-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process,criminal-procedure,sentencing,acca,joh elements-clause habeas-relief johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing-court sentencing-guidelines violent-felonies |
Whether a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petitioner must affirmatively prove the sentencing court relied on the residual clause |
| 19-6328 |
Antonio Leonard Brown v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection federalism habeas-corpus jurisdictional-issue jury-selection mandatory-minimum state-criminal-procedure |
Whether the same conduct can constitute both a state constitutional violation and a United States Constitutional violation |
| 19-6336 |
Eddie Jennings v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-10-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review criminal-law johnson-ruling mandatory-sentencing new-right retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether this Court's rulings in Johnson and Welch apply to the residual clause of the career-offender provision of the former mandatory Sentencing Gui… |
| 19-6313 |
Mario Ronrico Smith v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ACCA-enhanced-sentence armed-career-criminal-act concurrent-sentence-doctrine criminal-sentencing de-novo-resentencing multi-count-conviction post-conviction-review sentencing-package-doctrine unconstitutional-sentence |
Whether the sentencing package doctrine, rather than the concurrent sentence doctrine, must be applied on post-conviction review of a meritorious chal… |
| 19-6318 |
Damon Tracy Locke v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-sentencing drug-statute drug-statutes mathis-precedent mathis-v-united-states plain-error sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Is the Eighth Circuit interpretation and application of drug statutes as qualifying offenses for career offender status in opposition to Mathis v. Uni… |
| 19-6308 |
Ronald Detro Winder v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca armed-career-criminal-act crime-of-violence curtis-johnson elements-clause injury injury-definition physical-force sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a state offense that includes as an element causing injury, but which also defines 'injury' broadly to include more than the 'physical pain or… |
| 19-6287 |
Seferino Martinez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-10-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act career-offender criminal-sentencing-guidelines johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines void-for-vagueness |
Whether the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the analogous residual clause in the mandatory guidelines |
| 19-6288 |
Ron Christopher Whitley v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-case drug-offense drug-offenses judicial-discretion proportionality-review sentencing-departure sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the 156-month sentence is greater than necessary to comply with the purposes of sentencing under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) |
| 19-6297 |
Aleisha O. Gray v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alien-transportation conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure evidence immigration immigration-law obstruction-of-justice sentencing-guidelines sufficiency-of-evidence |
Is there insufficient evidence to warrant a finding of guilty for conspiracy to transport undocumented aliens and for transporting undocumented aliens… |
| 19-6255 |
Kunta Kenta Redd v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crack-cocaine crack-cocaine-sentencing criminal-justice-reform due-process first-step-act retroactivity section-404 sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether the petitioner is entitled to relief from denial of a 404 motion at the district court level in light of the First Step Act |
| 19-6260 |
Craig Cross v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process juvenile-sentencing precedent retroactivity state-supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Did the Florida Supreme Court violate Graham v. Florida, Miller v. Alabama, and Montgomery v. Louisiana when deciding Franklin v. State and State v. M… |
| 19-6205 |
Ruben Navarrete-Felix v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-policy recidivism sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors |
Is it an abuse of discretion to sentence a recidivist pursuant to a blanket policy of always imposing a longer sentence than the defendant previously … |
| 19-6164 |
Marchello Dsaun McCain v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey due-process false-statement guideline-calculation sentencing-guidelines statutory-maxima statutory-maximum terrorism-enhancement |
Does Apprendi v. New Jersey prohibit the calculation of a guideline range longer than the statutory maximum for the offense of conviction and achieved… |
| 19-6144 |
Tom Smith, III v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting alternative-elements career-offender conspiracy controlled-substance-offense criminal-attempt divisible-statute sentencing-commission sentencing-commission-mandate sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-mandate |
Whether the Sentencing Commission exceeded its statutory mandate |
| 19-6128 |
Bacari McCarthren v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
aggravated-battery categorical-approach crime-of-violence deadly-weapon descamps descamps-v-united-states mathis physical-force sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation turner |
Whether the Florida crime of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon categorically requires the use, threatened use, or attempted use of physical forc… |
| 19-6107 |
Robert B. Ledbetter v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy conspiracy-charges criminal-law criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment insufficient-evidence murder murder-conviction sufficiency-of-evidence |
Where the evidence is insufficient to convict on conspiracy and murder charges, can the defendant be convicted on those charges? |
| 19-6113 |
Jose Armando Bazan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
GVR |
Relisted (4)IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review cocaine-conspiracy criminal-appeal criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing downward-adjustment fact-question guidelines plain-error plain-error-review role-adjustment sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in holding that a defendant's claim for a minor or mitigating role downward adjustment under the Sentencing Guidelines… |
| 19-6115 |
Jose Manuel Aguirre-Ganceda v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence collateral-attack criminal-justice criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-conviction due-process federal-law federal-state-comity mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-minimum prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-court-reduction state-law |
Whether a defendant is actually innocent of a mandatory life sentence once a prior state drug conviction relied upon by the District Court is set asid… |
| 19-6119 |
Masnik Sainmelus v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-sentencing district-court firearm-possession firearms guideline-enhancement guideline-range sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-2k2.1 |
Whether the district court erred in increasing the appellant's guideline range by finding the offense involved 8-24 firearms under U.S.S.G. 2K2.1(b)(1… |
| 19-6054 |
John Hemby v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review constitutional-vagueness criminal-sentencing johnson-ruling mandatory-sentencing new-right retroactivity sentencing-guidelines vagueness vagueness-doctrine welch-precedent |
Whether this Court's rulings in Johnson and Welch apply to the residual clause of the career-offender provision of the former mandatory Sentencing Gui… |
| 19-6067 |
Francisco Suarez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-conflict codefendant-comparison criminal-procedure-error eighth-circuit intra-circuit-conflict legal-standard public-safety sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-darden united-states-v-smith |
Whether the circuit and district court committed constitutional procedural error by failing to weigh the mandated public safety concern, violating the… |
| 19-6033 |
Christopher Johnson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-24 |
GVR |
IFP |
claim-preservation claim-preservation-yee-v-city-of-escondido crime-of-violence federal-rule-criminal-procedure federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure-32 federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure moncrieffe-v-holder ninth-circuit rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines yee-v-city-of-escondido |
Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously find Johnson forfeited his sentencing claim, disregarding this Court's claim preservation holding i… |
| 19-6036 |
Arturo Eduardo Dominguez-Calderon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review courts-of-appeals criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process holguin-hernandez-v-united-states judicial-discretion remand sentencing-factors sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review requires or permits the courts of appeals to 'reweigh the sentencing factors' |
| 19-6049 |
Lawrence T. Tyler v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-consequences coram-nobis criminal-sentencing deportation fact-finding fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-fact-finding jury-trial loss-amount reasonable-doubt search-and-seizure sixth-amendment |
Whether a Certificate-Of-Appealability should be granted |
| 19-6018 |
Joey Little v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-authority congressional-oversight criminal-law judicial-review magazine-based-enhancement regulatory-interpretation sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-2k2.1 statutory-construction statutory-interpretation u.s-sentencing-commission unlawful-exercise |
Whether Application Note 2 of the commentary to U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 2K2.1 represents an unlawful exercise of agency authority by the U.S. Sent… |
| 19-6020 |
Jose Romeu v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 amendment-599 amendment-782 drug-amount presentence-investigation-report sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals committed error in its affirmance of the District Court's denial of Petitioner Jose Romeu's 18 U.S.C. § … |
| 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? |
| 19-5987 |
Ronald Richard Brown v. Washington |
Washington |
2019-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation double-jeopardy due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-vindictiveness north-carolina-v-pearce presumption-of-vindictiveness reversed-convictions sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act state-courts supreme-court washington-state |
Whether the Washington State Courts can refuse to adhere to the Supreme Court's holding in North Carolina v. Pearce |
| 19-5996 |
Michael J. W. Potter v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment life-imprisonment mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentencing sentencing |
Whether entry of a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment violated Appellant's rights under the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution |
| 19-5946 |
Anthony Carl Spence v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process extraterritorial-application extraterritorial-jurisdiction extraterritoriality federal-sentencing foreign-conduct guidelines offense-level sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a federal sentencing court can enhance a defendant's offense level based on conduct occurring entirely in a foreign country and not a crime ag… |
| 19-5963 |
Jesus Yugopicio-Rojas v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-consistency criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing judicial-review molina-martinez non-calculation plain-error sentencing-guidelines |
Does failure to calculate the applicable Sentencing Guidelines attract the same protocol for plain error as set out in Molina-Martinez v. United State… |
| 19-5977 |
Kerry Lyn Dalton v. California |
California |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-requirement criminal-sentencing death-penalty fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-finding reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment statutory-maximum |
Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact other than a prior con… |
| 19-5982 |
Alcadio Caballero De La Torre v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing data-analysis due-process judicial-discretion reasonableness-review sentencing-commission sentencing-data sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness statistical-analysis |
When, if ever, Sentencing Commission statistical data may be used to evaluate the reasonableness of a defendant's sentence |
| 19-5929 |
Abisai Ramirez-Anguiano v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense drug-offenses mens-rea methamphetamine scienter sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether scienter is required before the two-level increase under Section 2D1.1(b)(5) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines may be applied |
| 19-5926 |
Refugio Quintanar v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process presentence-report procedural-unreasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines timely-objection |
Whether the defendant has the burden to deny and discredit the factual allegations of a Presentence Report that increase his or her sentence? |
| 19-5927 |
Cuitlahuac Tahua Rivera v. California |
California |
2019-09-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-requirement criminal-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment fact-finding fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-finding reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment |
Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact that serves to… |
| 19-5933 |
Julian Alejandro Mendez v. California |
California |
2019-09-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors constitutional-amendments criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment trier-of-fact |
Whether the California death penalty scheme violates the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments by permitting the trier of fact to impose a sentence o… |
| 19-5861 |
Louise K. Saine v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-denial appeals career-offender court-of-appeal crime-of-violence criminal-procedure drug-law due-process federal-case federal-classification federal-court federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure prior-convictions rehabilitation-programs rule-35 sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act state-officer |
When can Rule 35 be used error? |
| 19-5905 |
Ricky Davis v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
fairness-integrity federal-sentencing guideline-calculation judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-proportionality sentencing-uniformity statutory-maximum substantial-rights uniformity-proportionality USSG-5G1.1(a) |
When this Court held in Rosales-Mireles v. United States, 138 S. Ct. 1897 (2018) that a failure to correctly calculate the guideline range, which anch… |
| 19-5871 |
Patrick Jones v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempt controlled-substance controlled-substances federal-crime federal-law guidelines-interpretation mandatory-minimum offer-to-sell preparatory-action sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation substantial-step tenth-circuit-precedent |
Did the district court err in increasing the defendant's sentence based on the Guidelines definition of 'controlled substance offense'? |
| 19-5878 |
Darries Leon Jackson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-reasonableness criminal-justice criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection grand-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel racial-bias racial-discrimination sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether sentences imposed upon Petitioner are unconstitutionally unreasonable or greater than necessary to satisfy the ends of justice |
| 19-5891 |
Donte Island v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process imprisonment release-conditions split-circuit statutory-interpretation supervised-release tolling |
Whether a term of supervised release may be tolled for periods of noncompliance with release conditions |
| 19-5877 |
Damion D. Faulkner v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment judicial-discretion proportionality proportionality-review sentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness sex-offense sex-offenses substantive-due-process |
is-it-substantively-unreasonable-to-impose-an-effective-sentence-of-life |
| 19-5856 |
Amando Villarreal Heredia v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 18-usc-3582c2 drug-quantity fed-r-crim-p-11 federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guidelines-range modification-proceeding plea-agreement sentence-recalculation sentencing-guidelines sentencing-modification |
In a Modification Proceeding pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2), may a district court make new findings of fact to recalculate drug-quantity beyond th… |
| 19-5812 |
Mitchum Pastor v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) bank robbery qualify as a 'crime of violence' under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(a)(1)'s elements clause? |
| 19-5778 |
Hosam Maher Husein Smadi v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a constitutional-rights due-process effective-counsel equal-protection manifest-injustice plea-agreement right-to-effective-counsel rule-11 sentencing sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Smadi in this Case would suffer a manifest injustice and an extreme hardship by serving several extra years in prison |
| 19-5788 |
James Nunley, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-sentencing guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation texas-criminal-law ussg-4b1.2 violent-crime |
Whether the Texas offense of aggravated robbery constitutes a 'crime of violence' under USSG §4B1.2? |
| 19-5789 |
Jamar Lynn McMillan v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-09-03 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
career-offender career-offender-enhancement categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense pennsylvania-law predicate-offense rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines third-circuit |
Does the categorical approach apply in determining whether an offense qualifies as a predicate for the career-offender enhancement under the Sentencin… |
| 19-265 |
Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary v. Laycelle Tornee White |
Oregon |
2019-08-29 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedRelisted (4) |
8th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing mandatory-sentences miller-v-alabama non-mandatory-sentence non-mandatory-sentences sentencing |
Does the Eighth Amendment, under Miller v. Alabama, require invalidation of respondent's sentence? |
| 19-5727 |
Trayvon Smith v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP |
against-the-person-of-another crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-court federal-law federal-recidivism intentional-conduct mens-rea negligence recidivism recidivism-enhancement sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-court-interpretation state-law |
Whether a state offense qualifies as a crime of violence |
| 19-5738 |
Carlos Manuel Perez-Crisostomo v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure due-process identity name obstruction-of-justice plea-agreement puerto-rico sentencing sentencing-court sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g.-3c1.1 |
Whether the Sentencing Court erred in finding Petitioner obstructed justice, pursuant to U.S.S.G. § 3C1.1, when Petitioner did not correct the name un… |
| 19-5742 |
Robert Gene Rand v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion factual-findings ninth-circuit plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-application sentencing-reductions standard-of-review |
Whether a circuit court errs by affirming a district court's decision regarding the applicability of the United States Sentencing Guidelines based on … |
| 19-5749 |
Juan Manuel Perez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP |
against-the-person-of-another crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-court federal-law federal-recidivism intentional-conduct mens-rea negligence recidivism recidivism-enhancement sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether a state offense qualifies as a crime of violence |
| 19-5754 |
Charmar Brown v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines collateral-attack constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure cross-reference double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus magwood magwood-precedent sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether Magwood extended to challenges to the original undisturbed conviction, following a new judgment? |
| 19-5757 |
Fulvio Flete-Garcia v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-identity-theft conspiracy conversion-of-government-property evidentiary-hearing government-as-victim government-property identity-theft loss-calculation sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-enhancement tax-fraud tax-fraud-conspiracy victim-enhancement |
Whether the court may apply a two-level enhancement for crimes involving ten or more victims when the victim is the Government |
| 19-5723 |
Melvin Bernard Thompson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
Almendarez-Torres Apprendi-v-New-Jersey criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment stare-decisis |
Can a Florida Law permit a judicial discretion-upward-departure sentence beyond sentencing-guidelines without violating Sixth-Amendment Fourteenth-Ame… |
| 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 |
| 19-5718 |
Alexander Lee Salazar v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility appeal criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion mitigating-factors mitigating-role offense-level role-adjustment sentencing-guidelines |
Did the district court err when it declined to grant Mr. Salazar a mitigating role adjustment under the Guidelines? |
| 19-5681 |
Raphael Person, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process federal-courts harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether, when a district court imposes a sentence based on several factors, one of which is improper, the court of appeals should affirm the sentence … |
| 19-5673 |
Dennis Calo v. Annette Chambers-Smith, Director, Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, et al. |
Ohio |
2019-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection fairness-doctrine judicial-discretion judicial-review ohio-constitution parole parole-board standing state-constitution state-courts |
Are Ohio's courts performing a 'front operation to shield Ohio's parole board and department of rehabilitation and correction from exposure for corrup… |
| 19-5675 |
Stephen Jason Whitaker v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability due-process exhaustion-of-state-remedies habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction-counsel procedural-default sentencing-guidelines state-court-proceedings vasquez-v-hillery |
Whether a Court of Appeals' denial of a certificate of appealability conflicts with this Court's rulings in Vasquez v. Hillery |
| 19-5652 |
Anthony Wayne Bettcher v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-08-21 |
GVR |
Relisted (4)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act career-offender-guideline circuit-split force-clause reckless-conduct sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether reckless crimes qualify categorically as crimes of violence under the force clause of these statutes and guidelines |
| 19-5630 |
Roosevelt Stolden v. California |
California |
2019-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey consecutive-sentencing criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-fact-finding preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-guidelines stare-decisis |
Should the Court reconsider its majority opinion in Oregon v. Ice |
| 19-5634 |
Daniel Marquez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
9th-circuit appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing downward-adjustment minor-role ninth-circuit sentencing sentencing-adjustment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-rule-10 ussg-3b1.2 |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit erred in affirming the lower court's decision to deny a minor-role adjustment |
| 19-5647 |
Kenneth Randale Door v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting crimes-of-violence criminal-statutory-provisions force-clause sentencing-guidelines state-criminal-offenses statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions substantive-criminal-offenses washington |
Whether a state aiding and abetting statute that is broader than generic aiding and abetting and incorporated within the state's substantive criminal … |
| 19-203 |
David Greenberg v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-08-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review circuit-court-review cooperation-agreement criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing reasonableness reasonableness-of-sentence reasonableness-standard second-circuit sentence-disparity sentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines unwarranted-disparity |
Did the Second Circuit err in affirming Petitioner David Greenberg's sentence without addressing the sentencing court's failure to consider the proper… |
| 19-5624 |
Zachary William Hicks v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process hicks-factors ineffective-assistance judicial-review sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review sixth-amendment trial-court-discretion |
Whether the Trial Court Imposed an Unreasonable Sentence by Failing to Adequately Consider Hicks' Factors and Whether Trial Counsel Rendered Ineffecti… |
| 19-5574 |
Anthony Ray Welch v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law drug-importation drug-offenses fifth-circuit listed-chemicals mens-rea methamphetamine methamphetamine-offense scienter scienter-requirement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether scienter is required for the two-level increase under USSG §2D1.1(b)(5) for the importation or manufacture of methamphetamine from imported ch… |
| 19-5575 |
Antwaine Enta Yarbrough v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus precedent sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should hold the instant petition in light of Shular v. United States |
| 19-5540 |
Thomas Edward Wright v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process eighth-amendment judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines special-assessment standing statutory-interpretation |
Did the Fourth Circuit err in dismissing petitioner's constitutional, statutory, and other legal claims? |
| 19-5505 |
Jose Hernandez-Carbajal v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Whether Petitioner's Sixth Amendment Rights to the Effective Assistance of Counsel Was Violated |
| 19-5528 |
Robert Anthony Chester v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
co-defendant co-defendants constitutional-proportionality criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment disparate-sentencing disproportionate-sentencing eighth-amendment equal-protection first-degree-robbery sentencing sentencing-disparity |
Was Petitioner's One Hundred Eighty Year Sentence For His Conviction Of Two Counts Of First Degree Robbery Disparate To The Twenty Year Sentence Impos… |
| 19-5529 |
Kendrick Ledelle Dotstry v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing dismissed-charges district-court-discretion divisible-elements divisible-offenses felony-enhancement felony-offense misdemeanor-elements sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-misdemeanor |
Whether the district court can enhance a sentence pursuant to U.S.S.G. provisions under Section 2K2.1(b)(6)(B) when the concomitant felony offense con… |
| 19-5472 |
Martin Avalos-Rico, aka Rolando Blanco-Garcia, aka Oscar Cruz-Tulum, aka Alejandro Tamayo v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split deportable-offender due-process geographic-disparity immigration immigration-sentencing reentry-offense sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act supervised-release |
Whether a district court that imposes supervised release on a deportable offender must specifically tie it to a need for deterrence or protection |
| 19-5478 |
Wilfredo Roy Madrigal v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
acca career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance-offense eleventh-circuit mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Is a post-2002 conviction for sale of cocaine or possession with intent to sell cocaine in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a 'controlled substance of… |
| 19-5448 |
Antolin Torres Abonza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing deference due-process federal-courts judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness-review |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors? |
| 19-5465 |
Isela Alejandra Campos v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court district-court-error guideline-range guidelines molina-martinez plain-error plain-error-review prejudice prejudice-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the defendant may rely on the district court's error alone to show prejudice under plain error review |
| 19-5434 |
Juan Fletcher Gordillo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-requirements constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit first-impression judicial-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether this Court should review the decision of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals to determine whether the decision in this case of apparent firs… |
| 19-5425 |
Damien Riley v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review career-offender criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process residual-clause sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness united-states-code united-states-v-booker |
Whether the district court's sentence is substantively unreasonable in reliance on the career offender guidelines residual clause |
| 19-5410 |
Charles Borden, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-31 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (7)Relisted (4)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act due-process mens-rea recklessness retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
Does the 'use of force' clause in the Armed Career Criminal Act (the 'ACCA'), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i) encompass crimes with a mens rea of mere rec… |
| 19-5412 |
Jean Claude Phillip McKenzie v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a 6th-circuit appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court history-and-characteristics judicial-discretion nature-and-circumstances sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance |
Whether the district court's upward variance in sentencing was proper |
| 19-5420 |
Kendrick Terrell v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error prior-charges sentence-enhancement sentencing sentencing-calculation sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Whether the Petitioner's Sixth Amendment Rights were violated |
| 19-5422 |
Michael A. Webb v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adam-walsh-act adam-walsh-child-protection-and-safety-act constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy ineffective-assistance plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel |
| 19-5372 |
Mary Katherine Day-Petrano v. Charles D. Hall, et al. |
Florida |
2019-07-29 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
ada-violation americans-with-disabilities-act attorney-fees bankruptcy-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing due-process florida-supreme-court judicial-amendment retroactive-application standing statutory-construction takings |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's order requiring the petitioner to write a longer brief and award attorney's fees to the respondent violates the pe… |
| 19-5350 |
Stevie Elbert Jones v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
career-offender crime-of-violence federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states texas-robbery ussg-4b1.1 ussg-4b1.2 |
Whether the Texas offense of robbery satisfies the definition of 'crime of violence' under USSG §4B1.2 |
| 19-109 |
Giovanni Montijo-Dominguez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-25 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
18-usc-3553 circuit-split criminal-sentencing drug-trafficking fact-finding judicial-discretion jury-findings jury-verdict mandatory-minimum preponderance-of-evidence sentencing-discretion standard-of-proof |
Whether a district court's findings of fact under 18 U.S.C. 3553(f) are constrained by the findings of fact implied by the jury's verdict |
| 19-124 |
Barry J. Smith, Sr. v. United States, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-07-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
13th-amendment civil-rights criminal-sentence criminal-sentencing dred-scott due-process emancipation involuntary-servitude judicial-relief thirteenth-amendment |
Does duly convicted include duly sentenced, and did petitioner's Thirteenth Amendment enslavement end when he discharged from his Thirteenth Amendment… |
| 19-5300 |
Fremo Santana v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination guideline-range ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-proceedings |
Whether defense counsel's performance was constitutionally ineffective for erroneously miscalculating petitioner's guideline range which was the decid… |
| 19-5346 |
Jose Martinez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-07-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
acquitted-conduct burden-of-proof buyer-seller-defense criminal-conviction cross-examination drug-conspiracy due-process jury-instructions jury-trial sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Whether this Court's decisions to allow district courts to use acquitted conduct in imposing sentence violate the Constitution |
| 19-5307 |
James D. Brigman v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-justice criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Whether the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidelines |
| 19-5316 |
Abelee Bronson v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing criminal-sentencing-guidelines-mandatory habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-guidelines sessions-v-dimaya void-for-vagueness |
Whether the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the analogous residual clause in the mandatory guidelines |
| 19-5272 |
Pereneal Kizzee v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-appeals criminal-procedure-error-correction criminal-sentencing federal-appeals federal-law felony-offense fifth-circuit firearm-possession guidelines-enhancement judicial-discretion judicial-integrity plain-error plain-error-review sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law when it refused to exercise its discretion to correct the forfeited error that seriously affected the f… |
| 19-5289 |
Pharoah Brazell v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process evidence forged-guilty-plea guilty-plea habitual-offender miranda-rights plea-bargaining right-to-attorney-during-questioning right-to-counsel right-to-remain-silent sentence-enhancement sentencing |
Can the State use a forged Guilty Plea form from a Florida predicate offense and used it to enhance his sentence as a Habitual Offender? |
| 19-107 |
Vincent Asaro v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-07-22 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial-right sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct underlying a charge for which t… |
| 19-5262 |
Eulos Ceasar Knight v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-error criminal-record due-process guidelines johnson-v-united-states ninth-circuit residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-tucker welch-v-united-states |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in requiring more than evidence that the sentence 'might have been different' to establish a due process violation und… |
| 19-5268 |
Thomas Bois v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
assault-with-dangerous-weapon crime-of-violence enumerated-offenses federal-sentencing force-clause massachusetts-assault massachusetts-assault-with-dangerous-weapon massachusetts-law sentence-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a prior conviction for Massachusetts Assault with a Dangerous Weapon qualifies as a crime of violence for sentence enhancement purposes under … |
| 19-5274 |
Anthony James Hill v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act collateral-relief constitutional-error criminal-record due-process misinformation ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-tucker |
Where sentencing is imposed based on misinformation of constitutional magnitude regarding the import of the defendant's criminal record, did the Ninth… |
| 19-5251 |
Thomas Cascio v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
below-guidelines below-guidelines-sentence criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion due-process prison-time rehabilitation rehabilitative-needs sentencing sentencing-guidelines tapia-error tapia-v-united-states |
Should certiorari be granted to find that a Tapia error occurs anytime a district court considers rehabilitative needs in imposing prison time, even f… |
| 19-5259 |
Edgar Armand Hernandez-Castillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion jury-trial sentencing-determination sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-18-usc-3553 statutory-minimum |
Whether district courts may determine without the aid of a jury that a sentence above the statutory minimum is 'not greater than necessary' to achieve… |
| 19-5219 |
Bobby G. Pullen v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 circuit-split criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 criminal-sentencing guidelines-interpretation habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-guidelines successive-habeas-petitions successive-motion vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
Whether the residual clause of the mandatory guidelines, USSG §4B1.2(a)(2) (2004), is void for vagueness |
| 19-5182 |
Geovanny Antonio Loyola-Villegas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review empirical-basis federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plain-error presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a formal objection after pronouncement of sentence is necessary to invoke appellate reasonableness review of the length of a defendant's sente… |
| 19-5197 |
Eric T. Roden v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal article-iii-judge criminal-defendant criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion ninth-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines waiver |
Whether a criminal defendant can ever waive a correctly calculated guidelines range for use at a federal sentencing hearing |
| 19-5201 |
Kenneth Medenbach v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3561 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing criminal-sentencing-authority district-court-jurisdiction due-process jurisdiction probation probation-term sentencing-authority statutory-interpretation substantial-rights supervised-release |
Did the District Court err in finding that it has authority under 18 USC §3561(a)(3) to impose a sentence of six months imprisonment and a 5 year term… |
| 19-5202 |
Doroteo Zambrano-Ruiz v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-authority circuit-split federal-sentencing guidelines judicial-review molina-martinez molina-martinez-v-united-states plain-error-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Should the Court address the division of circuit authority over the Court's application of plain-error review in Molina-Martinez v. United States when… |
| 19-5159 |
Quinetta Grant v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
should this Court vacate and remand for reconside was Ms Grant denied her rights under U.S.S.G. § 1 binding-authority criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-plain-error-sentencing-right-to criminal-procedure-supervisory-power-conviction-se due-process judicial-discretion mail-fraud plain-error right-to-be-present sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-relevant-conduct-scope-of-cr sentencing-procedure Where Ms Grant's sentence was enhanced by attribut Where multiple additional errors affected petition |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in failing to consider binding authority on a defendant's right to be present at a material sentencing proceeding |
| 19-5128 |
Robert Vincent Salcedo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split direct-appeal discretionary-sentencing discretionary-sentencing-authority non-retroactive-amendment nonretroactive-amendment remand-for-resentencing resentencing retroactivity sentencing-guidelines |
When a non-retroactive amendment to the United States Sentencing Guidelines takes effect after a defendant is sentenced but while his direct appeal is… |
| 19-5096 |
Nicholas Rivera v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender career-offender-enhancement categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law federal-law pennsylvania-law predicate-offense sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the categorical approach applies in determining a predicate offense for career-offender enhancement |
| 19-5108 |
Donald Covington v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourth-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines special-assessments standing statutory-claims |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err in denying the Petitioner the ability to have his substantive constitutional, statut… |
| 19-5112 |
Rafael Jacob Stoffel v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-victim mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines sexual-assault sexual-offense sexual-offenses |
Whether a minimum mandatory sentence of twenty-five years' imprisonment imposed for the offense of touching a minor's breast violates the prohibition … |
| 19-5102 |
Dan Pizaro v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offense drug-offenses due-process federal-sentencing first-step-act mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the life sentence imposed on 21 U.S.C. § 846 and § 841(a)(1) pursuant to 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(A) and § 851 must be reduced to twenty-five (25… |
| 19-5043 |
Justin Panus v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-07-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-enhancement double-jeopardy due-process elemental-fact equal-protection offense-enhancement sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether it violates the 14th Amendment for the same elemental fact to be used as an element of an offense and also to enhance that offense to a greate… |
| 19-5083 |
Aaron Clayton McVea v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-sentencing empirical-basis fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-vs-second-circuit judicial-review methamphetamine-sentencing presumption-of-reasonableness second-circuit sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines |
Is a sentence imposed under the methamphetamine sentencing guideline-a guideline crafted without benefit of Sentencing Commission expertise or empiric… |
| 19-5087 |
Willie Johnson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3559 categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing enumerated-list-of-offenses enumerated-offenses essential-nature federal-jurisdiction federal-statute federal-three-strikes-law prior-state-crime sentencing statutory-interpretation three-strikes-law |
Whether the categorical approach permits a court to compare 'the essence' of a prior state crime of conviction to the 'essential nature' of a specific… |
| 19-5089 |
Clifford B. Gandy, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
categorical-approach crime-of-violence divisible-offense divisible-statute modified-categorical-approach nolo-contendere physical-force plea-bargaining sentencing-guidelines shepard-documents |
Where a divisible offense may be committed two ways, one of which satisfies the 'crime of violence' element of physical force, and one of which does n… |
| 19-5071 |
Erwin Burley v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion eleventh-circuit judicial-discretion sentencing-explanation sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines supervisory-power upward-variance |
Whether this Court should exercise its supervisory power and grant review because the Eleventh Circuit has permitted an upward variance sentence almos… |
| 19-5036 |
Craig Alan Toaz v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
concurrent-sentences concurrent-sentencing criminal-conduct criminal-procedure federal-convictions habeas-corpus habeas-petition judicial-review procedural-grounds sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg-5g1.3 |
Whether the district and circuit courts erroneously dismissed petitioner's habeas petition under procedural grounds |
| 19-5026 |
Melvin Lewis Andrews v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court crime-of-violence criminal-law guidelines johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervisory-powers |
Should this Court exercise its supervisory powers where a circuit court of appeals continues to allow trial courts to apply 'crime of violence' analys… |
| 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… |
| 19-5003 |
Roberto Cruz-Olavarria v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process heightened-scrutiny judicial-discretion offense-seriousness sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review statutory-maximum supervised-release |
Whether there is a need for extensive justification and heightened scrutiny when imposing and reviewing sentences at the statutory maximum |
| 18-9803 |
Salvador Galvan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a appeal criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process guidelines procedural-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg-2b1.1 victim victim-definition victim-impact |
Whether the district court committed procedural error by considering every resident of the City of Compton as a victim for purposes of its 18 U.S.C. §… |
| 18-9830 |
Michael Franklin Einfeldt v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2255-petition burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines violent-felonies violent-felony |
Whether a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petitioner should be required to affirmatively prove the sentencing court relied on the residual clause |
| 18A1368 |
Ibrahim McCants v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-06-27 |
Presumed Complete |
|
controlled-substance crime-of-violence felon-in-possession motion-to-suppress sentencing-guidelines third-circuit |
Whether a prior state robbery conviction qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under the United States Sentencing Guidelines for purposes of sentence enh… |
| 18-1593 |
Jose Gracia-Cantu v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
aggravated-felony circuit-split collateral-consequences crime-of-violence criminal-law-sentencing criminal-sentencing due-process immigration immigration-consequences mootness retroactivity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a conviction for assault under a state statute that does not require physical force is categorically a crime of violence under 8 U.S.C. § 16(a… |
| 18-9805 |
Keith Wayne Carver, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-device circuit-split criminal-law legislative-intent loss-amount sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation usability |
Whether the statutory phrase 'can be used' contained in the definition of 'access device' at 29 U.S.C. § 1029(e)(1) requires the Government prove usab… |
| 18-9807 |
Robert Wilson, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 acca-enumerated-offense-clause acca-statute criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 due-process habeas-corpus johnson-relief johnson-v-united-states procedural-default residual-clause sentencing sentencing-court sentencing-guidelines violent-felonies violent-felony |
Whether a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petitioner must affirmatively prove sentencing court relied on residual clause |
| 18-9819 |
Jose Francisco Rodriguez-Reyes v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-06-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion arrest-consideration arrests-without-convictions criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process excessive-sentence procedural-error sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-methodology substantive-error substantive-review |
Whether the district court's sentencing methodology was procedurally and substantively sound and that the district court did not abuse its discretion … |
| 18A1365 |
Juaquene Solomon v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-06-26 |
Presumed Complete |
|
career-offender controlled-substance judicial-discretion plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit |
Whether a district court's career offender determination under the United States Sentencing Guidelines constitutes an improper judicial enhancement of… |
| 18-9789 |
Dan Pizarro v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing direct-appeal drug-offenses drug-trafficking first-step-act prior-convictions prior-felony-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-minimum |
Whether Pizarro is entitled to the application of the First Step Act amendments to the statutory minimum sentences applicable to his drug trafficking … |
| 18-9790 |
Alexander Monzoni v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-sentencing guideline-calculation guidelines judicial-review molina-martinez plain-error plain-error-review prejudice prejudice-prong sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Should the Court address the division of circuit authority over application of the prejudice prong of plain-error review for Guideline error as set ou… |
| 18-9796 |
Anthony Bernard Jimerson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
acca career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance-offense mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Is a post-2002 conviction for sale of cocaine in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a 'controlled substance offense' as defined in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) i… |
| 18-1572 |
Matthew D. Priset v. Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
8th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment life-sentence mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence mental-illness sentencing |
Does a mandatory minimum life sentence for one convicted under the guilty-but-mentally-ill designation constitute cruel and unusual punishment? |
| 18-9763 |
Stirling Michael Heaton v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
concurrent-sentences concurrent-sentencing criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing discretion federal-guidelines federal-jurisdiction federal-plea-agreement judicial-discretion modification retroactive-amendment retroactive-guidelines-amendment sentence-concurrency sentencing-guidelines sentencing-modification sentencing-reform-act |
Whether a sentencing court has discretion to adjust a federal sentence to achieve concurrency with another criminal sentence in § 3582(c)(2) proceedin… |
| 18-9772 |
William Jerome Howard, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-24 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
21-usc-841 cocaine-possession controlled-substance-offense criminal-law drug-offenses federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines felony-drug-offense florida florida-drug-law mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-4b1.2 |
Whether the Florida offenses of sale of cocaine under Fla. Stat. § 893.13(1)(a)(1) and possession of cocaine under Fla. Stat. § 893.13(6)(a) are 'felo… |
| 18A1355 |
Richard Johnson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-24 |
Presumed Complete |
|
crack-cocaine drug-distribution eleventh-circuit intent-to-distribute school-zone sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the sentencing guidelines for drug offenses near schools violate due process or constitute disproportionate punishment for crack cocaine posse… |
| 18-9739 |
Timothy Paul Malone v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility application-note application-note-2 chapter-5 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing judicial-interpretation offense-level sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the lower court has misconstrued and misapplied U.S.S.G. Chapter 5, Part A, Application Note 2 by failing to limit the offense level to a leve… |
| 18-9742 |
Mikle Anthony Butler v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-evaluation ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-discretion mental-health mental-illness sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Issues being raised |
| 18-9729 |
Odell Lameche Overby v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 3553(c) appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-obligation due-process judicial-discretion judicial-reasoning nonfrivolous-arguments sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the district court fulfilled its obligation under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c) to announce the reasons for its sentencing decision |
| 18-9734 |
Hector Dominguez-Gabriel, aka Kinko, aka John Richard Bellefleur v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-06-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion compassionate-release criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-courts federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentence-modification sentencing-guidelines sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
Whether the lower court(s) abused its discretion when it denied appellant Section 3582(c)(2) relief? |
| 18-9735 |
Carlton Darden v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 criminal-sentencing dillion-v-united-states district-court-authority due-process evidence judicial-discretion judicial-review new-evidence offense-conduct sentencing-guidelines sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-adams ussg-1b1.10 |
Does 18 USC 3582(c)(2) after Dillion give a district court authority to make additional finding as to offense conduct attributable to a defendant base… |
| 18A1332 |
Norge Manduley v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-19 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-violation due-process fair-trial lesser-included-offense post-conviction-relief sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the trial court's failure to offer a lesser included offense and departure from sentencing guidelines violated the defendant's constitutional … |
| 18-9696 |
Jerry Louis Hughes v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-bank-robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) or U.S.S.G. § … |
| 18-9700 |
Daniel Gatson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2518 aggrieved-person cell-phone-records criminal-procedure Does the District Court have the authority to sent electronic-interception electronic-surveillance expert-testimony expert-testimony-federal-rule-of-evidence-702-scie fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-cell-phone-records-probable-cause sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-upward-departure-district-co standing standing-aggrieved-person-electronic-interception- Whether acquiring a person's past movements throug Whether an expert's testimony that has never been |
Whether the 'target' of an electronic interception, whom voice was heard in intercepted conversations have 'standing' as an 'aggrieved person' under 1… |
| 18-9703 |
Milton Terry Kelton v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
base-offense-level criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plain-error sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Honorable Judge Brian C. Wimes and the U.S. Attorney James Bohling utilized two inapplicable statutory enhancements enacted after the offe… |
| 18-9658 |
Eric Daniel Doyle v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing grouping guidelines judicial-discretion legal-calculation procedural-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum total-punishment |
Whether due process requires the correct calculation of Doyle's Guidelines sentencing range |
| 18-9691 |
Dwayne Lee Stallings v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-32-violations criminal-rule false-statement false-statements federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure obstruction-of-justice plain-error plain-error-analysis sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure standard-of-review structural-error |
Whether the Court's plain error analysis is properly applied to violations of Fed. R. Crim. P. 32(i)(1)(A), and, if so, whether such violations are st… |
| 18-9692 |
Jody Lanardo White v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error preservation-of-error reasonableness-of-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness standard-of-review |
Whether challenges to the reasonableness of a sentence must be preserved by specific objection? |
| 18-9672 |
Jill Andras LeBlanc v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-rights appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process involuntary-waiver judicial-integrity judicial-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing-procedure statutory-rights |
Are broad waivers of appellate rights lawful and, if so, what are the limits on their validity and enforcement? |
| 18-9677 |
Martin Arreola Zavala v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility contested-cases criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process evidence evidence-determination federal-courts federal-sentencing legal-sufficiency quantity-determinations sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether this court should grant certiorari to address the proper application of law to fact relating to sufficiency of the evidence for quantity deter… |
| 18-9684 |
David Prien-Pinto v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process federal-statute mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation stolen-firearm |
Does the commentary at U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1, Application Note 8, which does not require a mens rea to impose the stolen firearm enhancement at U.S.S.G. § … |
| 18-9638 |
Jose Luis Barboza, Jr. v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-06-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence-tampering free-speech gang-membership patent prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing-guidelines standing trial-fairness |
Whether the defendant was improperly called a 'n****r lover' by the victim's attorney, resulting in a violation of due-process, free-speech, civil-rig… |
| 18-9639 |
Dustin E. Ash v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-06-12 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP |
circuit-split crimes-of-violence criminal-conviction criminal-law-sentencing criminal-sentencing due-process federal-firearms-law federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines reckless-crime reckless-crimes sentencing-guidelines ussg-4b1.2 violent-crimes |
Whether reckless crimes, like Mr. Ash's Kansas reckless aggravated battery conviction, qualify as crimes of violence under USSG § 4B1.2 |
| 18-9641 |
Clifford Brigham v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum substantive-reasonableness |
Whether imposition of the statutory maximum, 60-month term was substantively unreasonable |
| 18-9604 |
Reitilly Fuentes Ramos v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance criminal-procedure dangerous-weapon enhancement pellet-gun sentencing-guidelines ussg-2d1.1 |
Whether the District Court calculated Mr. Fuentes-Ramos's Sentencing Guidelines when it applied a two-level enhancement pursuant to USSG §2D1.1(b)(1) … |
| 18-9568 |
Roderick Mullins v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process imprisonment indefinite-imprisonment life-imprisonment life-sentence sentencing sentencing-scheme state-constitution |
Does the Florida 'Life Means Life' sentence scheme violate the State Constitution's ban on indefinite imprisonment and the 14th Amendment Due Process … |
| 18-9578 |
James Jacob Parrish, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process firearm-enhancement ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-conviction procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-departure sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure sentencing-reasonableness sentencing-variance sixth-amendment substantive-reasonableness |
Whether Parrish's sentence was procedurally and substantively unreasonable |
| 18-9589 |
Nicholas Bradley Gilbert v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-07 |
GVR |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-penalties criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion felon-possession interstate-commerce sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review requires or permits the courts of appeals to 'substantively second guess' the district court and/or to 'rewe… |
| 18-9563 |
Cody Shane Sorrels v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-sentencing judicial-discretion jury-trial sentencing sentencing-determination sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-18-usc-3553 statutory-interpretation statutory-minimum |
Whether district courts may determine without the aid of a jury that a sentence above the statutory minimum is 'not greater than necessary' to achieve… |
| 18A1277 |
Anthony Wayne Bettcher v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-06-06 |
Presumed Complete |
|
circuit-split crime-of-violence force-clause mens-rea reckless-offense sentencing-guidelines |
Whether reckless offenses categorically qualify as 'crimes of violence' under the force clause of federal sentencing guidelines and criminal statutes |
| 18-9536 |
Shawn J. Gieswein v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-06-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel resentencing second-amendment sentencing-guidelines upward-variance witness-tampering |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit erroneously denied Certificate of Appealability |
| 18-9549 |
Mauricio Lucas-Lopez v. Tony Trierweiler, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-06-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment disproportionate-sentence eighth-amendment federal-court-decisions federal-courts guidance-needed mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence proportionality sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Is petitioner's twenty-five year mandatory minimum sentence disproportionate to the offense committed violating the Eighth Amendment prohibition again… |
| 18-9506 |
Kenyon Raheen Gadsden v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness |
Whether a motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 is timely under 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3) when it claims that Johnson v. United States invalidates the residual c… |
| 18-9493 |
Jose Santillan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether factual findings in a Presentence Report must be proven by the government or disproven by the defendant |
| 18-9432 |
Joseph Frank Rowe v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-bank-robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) or U.S.S.G. § … |
| 18-9459 |
Trinidad Nanez-Rivera v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-common-law mitigating-circumstances sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness tenth-circuit within-guideline-sentences within-range-sentence |
Have the length of within-guideline sentences become effectively unreviewable in practice, and is Mr. Nanez-Rivera's sentence near the top of the rang… |
| 18-9466 |
Paulito Govea-San Roman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law disability senior-victim sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-2l1.2 statutory-interpretation stokeling-precedent stokeling-v-united-states texas-robbery ussg-2l1.2 |
Whether the Texas offense of robbery by inflicting injury against a senior or disabled victim satisfies the definition of 'crime of violence' under US… |
| 18-9467 |
Koran McKinley Allen v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-2113a-d 18-usc-924 18-usc-924c3a bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-bank-robbery physical-force sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) or U.S.S.G. § … |
| 18-9469 |
Paul Melvin Watson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-4a1.2 18-usc-924 bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-bank-robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u-s-s-g-4a1-2 |
Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A) or U.S.S.G. § … |
| 18-1476 |
Randy Lee Carney v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
alternative-sentence alternative-sentencing appellate-review career-offender circuit-split collateral-consequences criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion guidelines harmless-error judicial-discretion judicial-error legal-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-error united-states-v-vonn |
When sentencing defendants, some district courts announce that they would impose the same length of imprisonment even if their conclusions of law and … |
| 18-9367 |
Michael F. Ramsey v. New York |
New York |
2019-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consecutive-punishment consecutive-sentences criminal-possession criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy firearm-law intent-of-legislature johnson-v-morgenthau judicial-precedent legislative-intent misapplied-decisions penal-law single-continuous-possession weapon-possession |
Whether New York, by allowing consecutive sentences for the single continuous possession of the same firearm, ignored its own precedent in Johnson v. … |
| 18-9379 |
Paul A. Light v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography criminal-sentencing ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-bias non-contact-offenders reasonableness recusal second-circuit sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a sentence imposed pursuant to the child pornography Sentencing Guidelines can be deemed reasonable when the Sentencing Commission has deemed … |
| 18-9354 |
Donald Reddick v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-05-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-2113(a) alamendarez-torres-apprendi apprendi categorical-approach constitutional-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-bank-robbery mathis mathis-doctrine prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines |
Whether federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. §2113(a) is categorically a crime of violence |
| 18-9364 |
Javontae Tyree Street v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary criminal-sentencing mobile-structure nonpermanent-structure overnight-accommodation predicate-offense statutory-interpretation |
Whether breaking or entering a nonpermanent or mobile structure that is not adapted or used for overnight accommodation qualifies as the predicate off… |
| 18-9344 |
Samuel J. Yarber v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-922g 18-usc-924c 21-usc-841a conviction-grouping criminal-statute federal-courts federal-law grouping judicial-interpretation sentencing-guidelines united-states-code |
Whether counts of conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) and 21 U.S.C. § 841(a) should be grouped under the United States Sentencing Guidelines, U.S.S.G.… |
| 18-9322 |
Edward Ray Crosby v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law disability judicial-review senior-victim sentencing sentencing-guidelines stokeling-precedent stokeling-v-united-states united-states-sentencing-commission ussg-4b1.2 |
Whether the Texas offense of aggravated robbery by inflicting injury against a senior or disabled victim satisfies the definition of 'crime of violenc… |
| 18-9336 |
Saul Elias Camilo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 appellate-review district-court due-process fair-administration-of-justice ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain plea-bargaining section-2255 sentencing-guidelines |
Where a plea deal has opposing clauses, is such confusion sufficient to reach the bar for appellate review in a §2255 process when ineffective-assista… |
| 18-9300 |
Devon Waters, aka Devon Jones v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-review career-offender crime-of-violence criminal-defendant-appeal-waiver criminal-procedure drug-distribution drug-distribution-offense sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Does a criminal defendant's waiver of his right to appeal a within guidelines sentence bar appellate review where the district court improperly senten… |
| 18-9303 |
Larry Ray Lincks v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver booker booker-remedy constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process guidelines-interpretation plea-agreement plea-bargaining public-policy sentence-appeal-waiver sentencing sentencing-guidelines sufficiency-of-evidence |
Does a sentence-appeal waiver that purportedly precludes a challenge to the sufficiency of enhancement evidence and the district court's interpretatio… |
| 18-9306 |
Shawn Sayer v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-05-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process maximum-sentence probation-report procedural-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness upward-variance |
Whether the district court erred by imposing a sentence without adequate explanation pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c), and the length of which sentence… |
| 18-9289 |
In Re Michael Leon Haley, Sr. |
|
2019-05-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection false-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing third-strike |
Whether petitioner is actually innocent of being eligible for a third-strike sentence under 42 PA. C. S. §9714(g) |
| 18-9255 |
Santosh Ram v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-05-14 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-plea mental-competency mental-disease-defect plea-agreement plea-bargaining search-and-seizure sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether there was violation of due process of law by the failure of the trial court to order the mental competency evaluation and/or conduct mental co… |
| 18-9266 |
Daniel Rodriguez v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-05-14 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924(c)(3)(B) categorical-approach conduct-based-approach constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process johnson-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
Whether the residual clause in Section 924(c)(3)(B) is void for vagueness |
| 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? |
| 18-9233 |
Michael Perales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-appeals criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process plain-error procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-explanation sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure |
Is a district court's gross failure to explain an above-range sentence or to respond to arguments for a lesser sentence reversible on plain error? |
| 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… |
| 18-9217 |
Kirk Lurton Grummitt, et al. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act career-offender-guidelines collateral-review criminal-procedure federal-habeas-corpus johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statute-of-limitations |
Whether the 'right' in Johnson, which invalidated the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act, triggers this statute of limitations for a pet… |
| 18-9167 |
Michael J. Pendleton v. Melissa Hainsworth, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset |
Pennsylvania |
2019-05-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment amendment-violation constitutional-rights contract-clause conviction-resentencing criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process ex-post-facto non-existent-crime state-federal-government state-legislation state-legislature substantive-due-process |
Whether the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania violated the petitioner's substantive due process rights by convicting and resentencing him for a non-existen… |
| 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… |
| 18-9205 |
Antonio Ballesteros v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause confrontation-clause-6th-amendment criminal-procedure importation machine-generated-data sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment strict-liability |
Whether GPS Data prepared specifically for an ongoing investigation and culled from several databases is machine-generated data that implicates the Si… |
| 18-9154 |
Jeffrey William Smith v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure-criminal constitutional-rights criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jury-instructions life-imprisonment life-sentence mitigating-factors sentencing sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
Whether the circuit court erred in failing to correct a defective jury instruction |
| 18-9161 |
Robert Leonard Wood v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review beckles-precedent beckles-v-united-states criminal-law johnson johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Whether the Court should resolve the question left open by Beckles v. United States, 137 S. Ct. 886 (2017), that continues to divide the courts of app… |
| 18-9160 |
Radomysl Twardowski v. Bismarck Police Department, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-05-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process jury-trial mental-health right-to-counsel statute-of-limitations civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-sentencing defendant-rights due-process judicial-discretion mental-health psychological-treatment right-to-counsel statute-of-limitations |
Whether the civil commitment of a person based solely on a mental health evaluation violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 18-9069 |
Hector Rengifo v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-split civil-procedure controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment standing supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-winstead |
Whether two United States Court of Appeals has entered a decision in conflict with relevant decision of this Court |
| 18-9135 |
Joseph Malcomb v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing felony-classification judicial-discretion judicial-review legislative-amendment legislative-changes offense-gravity-score sentence-modification sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Was the Petitioner entitled to a sentence Modification / Reduction |
| 18-9085 |
Juan Antonio Hunter v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility base-offense-level criminal-appeal criminal-procedure-sentencing criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion federal-sentencing-guidelines first-step-act sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum u.s.s.g.-5g1.1(a) |
Whether the district court abused its discretion by deducting the three points awarded the petitioner for his acceptance of responsibility when those … |
| 18-9086 |
Roel Daniel Galvan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
carachuri-rosendo-v-holder criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process felon-in-possession felony firearm-possession hypothetical-facts misdemeanor misdemeanor-predicate predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-enhancement sixth-amendment united-states-sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the four-level enhancement for possessing a firearm in connection with another felony offense pursuant to U.S.S.G. §2K2.1(b)(6)(B) applies whe… |
| 18-9106 |
Daqone Lentell Williams v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender career-offender-predicate felony-complaints modified-categorical-analysis modified-categorical-approach prior-conviction sentencing-court sentencing-court-consideration sentencing-guidelines shepard-analysis shepard-v-united-states sixth-amendment unadopted-assertions |
Whether a sentencing court may consider felony complaints, with unadopted assertions, under Shepard v. United States, 544 U.S. 13 (2005), when that co… |
| 18-9060 |
Bruce Wayne Harrison v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amendment-599 criminal-law due-process ex-post-facto higher-sentence judicial-discretion pre-2011-sentence retroactivity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g-1b1.10 |
Ex Post Facto Clause-application |
| 18-9026 |
Arrez Meliton-Salto v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court guidelines-range molina-martinez-v-united-states plain-error prejudice record-silence sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the defendant may rely on the district court's error alone to show prejudice under plain error review when the record is silent as to what the… |
| 18-9029 |
Tyron James v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2019-04-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal apprendi civil-rights constitutional-challenge conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment unconstitutional-error upward-departure |
Whether a conviction based on an unconstitutional sentencing enhancement can be overturned under this Court's decisions in Apprendi and Alleyne |
| 18-9006 |
Donald Ray Boles v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-fact-finding judicial-precedent prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sixth-amendment |
Whether the holding of Almendarez-Torres v. United States should be reconsidered |
| 18-9010 |
Joel Augutuk Mayokok v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-error re-sentencing sentence-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness unsupported-enhancement |
Did the District Court's decision at re-sentencing to re-impose the same 240-month sentence it initially imposed, where the Court had erred in its ini… |
| 18-8985 |
Michael Johnson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-04-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split eighth-circuit extraordinary-circumstances extraordinary-variance gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion major-departure minor-departure sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-review sentencing-variances standard-of-review |
Whether the Eighth Circuit's test that 'extraordinary variances do not require extraordinary circumstances' conflicts with this Court's mandate 'that … |
| 18-8996 |
Zack Zafer Dyab v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-04-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amount-of-loss appellate-review court-discretion criminal-sentencing illegal-sentence judicial-discretion legal-error loss-calculation plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-limitation statutory-limitations |
Does the miscalculation of the amount of loss as applied to the sentencing guidelines represent an illegal sentence, and plain error that the Court sh… |
| 18-8978 |
Rico Montell Reid v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-11 defendant-rights district-court due-process judicial-coercion judicial-discretion plea-agreement plea-bargaining presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines withdrawal-of-plea |
Whether Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11 prohibits a district court from discussing sentencing options with a defendant at the sentencing hearing |
| 18-8957 |
Scott Matthew Goss v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process federal-courts sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines weapon-possession |
May a court accept a mere allegation of possession of a weapon as satisfaction of the Government's initial burden of proof requirement supporting the … |
| 18-8885 |
Jose Roman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-activity criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-offense fifth-circuit-interpretation firearm-enhancement firearms foreseeability presumption presumption-of-use sentencing-guidelines tools-of-the-trade |
WHETHER THE GUIDELINES ARE MISAPPLIED UNER 2D1.1 (b)(1) BY MAKING A GENERAL PRESUMPTION THAT FIREARMS ARE 'TOOLS OF THE TRADE' AND THAT ALWAYS IS FORS… |
| 18-8846 |
Silvio Lopez Cuellar v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-appeal sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation waiver-of-rights |
Does a defendant's plea agreement waiver of the statutory right of a sentencing appeal preclude appellate review of the sentence even where the distri… |
| 18-8854 |
Steve Zinnel v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bankruptcy-fraud bankruptcy-schedules constructive-amendment due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-fact-finding sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment stirone-v-united-states wamu-personal-checking-account |
Whether there was an unconstitutional constructive amendment or prejudicial variance |
| 18-8855 |
Eric A. Hicks v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2019-04-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-error criminal-procedure guidelines molina-martinez molina-martinez-standard molina-martinez-v-united-states prejudice prejudice-standard procedural-default sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the court of appeals' decision conflicts with this Court's decision in Molina-Martinez v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 1338 (2016), in concluding… |
| 18-8821 |
Sealed Appellant v. Sealed Appellee |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3582 18-usc-3582c2 5k1.1-motion criminal-sentencing judicial-discretion koons-v-united-states mandatory-minimum sentence-reduction sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines substantial-assistance |
Can a defendant receive a 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) sentence reduction when the district court discarded the mandatory minimum because of a substantial-a… |
| 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? |
| 18-8829 |
Leonid Djuga, aka Leonid Dzhuga v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-rights appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process involuntary-waiver judicial-integrity judicial-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining statutory-rights |
Are broad waivers of appellate rights lawful and, if so, what are the limits on their validity and enforcement? |
| 18-8831 |
Javier Contreras Vargas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver booker booker-remedy constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement public-policy sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines |
Does a sentence-appeal waiver frustrate the remedy fashioned by this Court in U.S. v. Booker, thereby rendering the waiver unconstitutional or void as… |
| 18-8810 |
Pedro Martinez-Negrete v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guideline-range clear-error criminal-defendant criminal-procedure defendant-appellant government-response plain-error-review sentencing-guidelines |
Where a criminal defendant shows that the district court made a clear legal error when applying the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, but the government res… |
| 18-8792 |
Mario Devant Cheers v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-robbery career-offender constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-precedent mandatory-guidelines mandatory-minimum residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the Fifth Circuit misapplied Beckles to Mr. Cheers's pre-Booker sentence in light of Supreme Court precedent |
| 18-8793 |
Larry Burstein v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-proportionality constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing drug-crimes drug-dealing drug-offense due-process eighth-amendment elderly-defendant elderly-offenders non-violent-crime non-violent-offense sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent |
Whether a forty-eight (48) month prison sentence for a first time non-violent, drug dealing, sixty-nine (69) year old grandfather is unreasonable, vio… |
| 18-8779 |
Yamura D. Hudson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing curtilage ex-post-facto exclusionary-rule fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree illegal-warrant jurisdiction-violation search-and-seizure standing warrant |
Whether the 11th Circuit courts must suppress the fruits of the admitted to illegal search and seizure |
| 18-8749 |
Marvin Earl Blanks, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-reasoning sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court fulfilled its obligation under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c) to announce the reasons for its sentencing decision |
| 18-8759 |
Cuauhtemoc Juarez-Aquino v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing discretion district-court-authority due-process judicial-discretion majority-circuits ninth-circuit sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors |
Whether a federal district court is permitted boundless discretion to weigh established factors at sentencing |
| 18-8725 |
Saiydin Abdullan Muhammad v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender common-law-robbery criminal-law north-carolina north-carolina-law predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether North Carolina common law robbery qualifies as a predicate offense to support a designation of career offender |
| 18-8675 |
Joshua Sedillo v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-precedent criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process gall-v-united-states judicial-review rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance variance |
Is the Tenth Circuit precedent allowing a district court to say nothing when a reasonable request for a variance is made at sentencing consistent with… |
| 18-8654 |
Karyea Williams v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach collateral-review descamps mathis Mathis-retroactivity mathis-v-united-states modified-categorical-approach retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines teague Teague-exception |
Did the Court of Appeals err in dismissing the appeal on Mathis applicability to Karyea Williams on collateral review? |
| 18-8660 |
Tyree Mansell v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial jury-trial-right sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Whether the use of acquitted conduct to increase Mr. Mansell's Sentencing guideline range violated his Fifth Amendment right to due process and his Si… |
| 18-8601 |
Tommy Nelson, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-intent criminal-sentencing criminal-sentencing-guidelines firearm-enhancement intent robbery security-guard sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-gordon united-states-v-hill weapon-discharge |
Whether the 7-level sentencing enhancement for the discharge of a weapon applies when the defendant never intended the weapon to discharge |
| 18-8619 |
In Re Derrell L. Gilchrist |
|
2019-03-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924 criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process first-step-act habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice section-2241 section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Can petitioner seek relief pursuant to 28 U.S.C § 2241 to address clarification of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(C) in the First Step Act of 2018? |
| 18-8632 |
Marcos Lopez-Guzman v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 appellate-review criminal-sentencing judicial-discretion plain-error retroactivity sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-reduction,18-usc-3582,amendm sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals committed a clear error in denying Appellant's two-level reduction pursuant to § 3582(C)(2) and Amendment 7… |
| 18-8634 |
Andrew A. Chavis v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-robbery attempted-armed-robbery career-offender crime-of-violence johnson-ruling mandatory-guidelines post-Johnson pre-Booker sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether prior conviction in Illinois for attempted armed robbery categorically qualifies as a crime of violence under the 4B1.1 career offender pre-Bo… |
| 18-8558 |
Jorge Edwin Rivera v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guidelines judicial-discretion plain-error plain-error-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights supervised-release |
Whether a district court's imposition of a term of supervised release double the Guidelines range without first calculating the range or providing an … |
| 18-8521 |
Angel Galan v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearm-offense ineffective-assistance obstruction-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance substantive-reasonableness upward-variance |
Whether the sentencing court's upward variance from 71 months to 84 months for felon in possession of a firearm was substantively unreasonable |
| 18-8531 |
Omar Sharif Beasley v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review assistance-evaluation court-of-appeals fair-sentencing judicial-discretion reasonableness-of-sentence record-of-reasons record-of-sentencing-reasons sentence-reasonableness sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-and-policies statutory-factors statutory-sentencing-factors |
Did the District Court and Court of Appeals properly consider sentencing guidelines and factors? |
| 18-8504 |
John Whaley v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process imprisonment procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
Whether the imposition of the same twenty-five year term of imprisonment and maximum term of supervised release was both procedurally and substantivel… |
| 18-8476 |
Anthony Grandison v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
capital-sentencing collateral-consequences constitutional-due-process criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process harmless-error jury-instructions mitigating-factors sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-proof |
Whether the Maryland Court of Appeals erred in finding that Grandison failed to prove he suffered significant collateral consequences from his unconst… |
| 18-8498 |
Oryan Yazzie v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process guideline-range mental-health sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness supervised-release |
Is a supervised release revocation sentence of a length more than double the top of the advisory Guideline range substantively unreasonable if the dis… |
| 18-8451 |
Luciano Garcia v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process gall-v-united-states judicial-review rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance tenth-circuit variance |
Is the Tenth Circuit precedent allowing a district court to say nothing when a reasonable request for a variance is made at sentencing consistent with… |
| 18-8404 |
Adrian Laroy Seymore v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process evidence evidentiary-standard government-evidence presentence-investigation-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether a District Court erred in applying a guideline enhancement based solely on allegations contained in the Presentence Investigation Report after… |
| 18-8395 |
Janet Sonja Schonewolf v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 circuit-split criminal-sentencing prison-sentence prison-term rehabilitation sentencing-discretion sentencing-reform-act statutory-interpretation tapia-v-united-states |
Whether § 3582(a) prohibits sentencing courts from taking rehabilitation into consideration at all in selecting a prison sentence, or whether it merel… |
| 18-8435 |
Roy Allen Green v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review constitutional-vagueness due-process mandatory-sentencing residual-clause retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing-guidelines vagueness |
Whether this Court's rulings in Johnson and Welch, retroactively invalidating the residual clause of the ACCA because it was unconstitutionally vague,… |
| 18-8424 |
Keith Jenkins v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process excessive-punishment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel multiple-offender sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Is the trial court in error by denying the motion to quash based on errors in the multiple offender charging, pleading and proof? |
| 18-8390 |
Jose Salvador Lantigua v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-U.S.C.-455(a) 28-usc-455 court-victim criminal-procedure due-process judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal sentencing sentencing-guidelines victim-of-crime |
Whether a sentencing judge should recuse himself when he expressly views his own court as a 'victim' of the offense in deciding to sentence a defendan… |
| 18-8400 |
Travis Demond Johnson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure sentencing-reasonableness statutory-purposes-of-sentencing upward-departure |
Whether the district court erred in departing upward under the United States Sentencing Guidelines §4A1.3 |
| 18-8359 |
Jarrett Terrell Edwards v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review career-offender criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fourth-circuit guideline-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g-4b1.1 u.s.s.g.-4b1.1(a) |
Whether the United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals committed error by sentencing the Petitioner as a career offender pursuant to U.S.S.G. § 4B1… |
| 18-8362 |
Pedro Rodriguez-Cortez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 9th-circuit appellate-review criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines immigration-offense sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness supervised-release |
Whether a combined 70-month sentence on an immigration offense and the underlying supervised release violation was substantively unreasonable? |
| 18-8349 |
Daverne Michael Foy v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeal-waiver civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-proceedings plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights waiver |
Whether the trial court's consideration of non-charged offenses with significantly higher sentencing guidelines constitutes plain error affecting the … |
| 18-8352 |
Lino Hernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a 18-usc-3582(c)(2) 3553(a)-factors 3582(c)(2)-motion amendment-782 amendment-782-788 criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion procedural-reasonableness sentence-disparity sentence-reduction sentencing-disparities sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the District Court committed substantive error in sentencing |
| 18-8355 |
Mario Chester Tabron v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burglary burglary-element criminal-enhancement criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction fourth-amendment fourth-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Did the Fourth Circuit and the Middle district Of North Carolina (Greensboro) err in affirming the USSG 2K2.1(b)(6)(B) | 4-Level enhancement without p… |
| 18-8325 |
Amaury Villa v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance sentencing sentencing-calculation sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment standard-of-review trial-procedure u-s-sentencing-guidelines |
Whether appellant received the effective assistance of counsel? |
| 18-8328 |
Maritza Burgueno-Gonzalez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) 18-USC-3553a criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion federal-sentencing sentencing-considerations sentencing-disparities smuggling smuggling-scheme unwarranted-sentences |
Whether the district court violated 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)'s rule that a district court must consider unwarranted sentencing disparities |
| 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? |
| 18-8299 |
Walter Raynard Lingard v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
allocution-rights appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing downward-departure due-process judicial-discretion probation-revocation right-to-allocution sentencing-review |
Did the court of appeals err in its determination that the district court did not err in declining to vary downward based upon Lingard's state probati… |
| 18-8306 |
Billy Gene Howard v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca acca-clause armed-career-criminal-act concurrent-sentencing criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus johnson-relief johnson-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines violent-felony |
Whether a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petitioner must affirmatively prove the sentencing court relied on the residual clause |
| 18-8309 |
Darwin Zoch v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
acca-interpretation armed-career-criminal-act due-process due-process,sentencing,acca,johnson-v-united-state habeas-corpus johnson-relief johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petitioner must affirmatively prove the sentencing court relied on the residual clause to be entitled to relief under Johns… |
| 18-8311 |
Ademolla Wahhed Adeyemi, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924c bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-bank-robbery general-intent-crime sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation violent-physical-force |
Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A) or U.S.S.G. § … |
| 18-8314 |
Jose Nino-Carreon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion guidelines plain-error sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights |
Whether a court of appeals that finds a plain Guideline error should ordinarily find an effect on the defendant's substantial rights if the district c… |
| 18-8234 |
Jeremy Snider v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 advisory-guidelines advisory-sentencing-guidelines circuit-court-decision circuit-split cognizable-claims criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 federal-law federal-statute non-constitutional-claims post-conviction-relief sentencing-guidelines sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
Whether non-constitutional claims for sentencing relief grounded on the advisory Sentencing Guidelines can ever be cognizable under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 |
| 18-8274 |
Avniel Awan Anthony v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue obstruction-of-justice probation-department reckless-endangerment sentencing sentencing-enhancement Sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines unproven-conduct Upward-variance |
Does the U.S. Probation Department have authority to apply enhancements for conduct alleged to have happened outside the jurisdiction of the United St… |
| 18-8294 |
Demetrius Fitzgerald v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca armed-career-criminal-act crime-of-violence criminal-law deadly-weapon federal-sentencing-guidelines florida-law florida-statute sentencing sentencing-guidelines violent-crime violent-felony |
Whether the Florida offense of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon is a violent felony under the ACCA and a crime of violence under the Federal Se… |
| 18-8261 |
Cordell Berry v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender career-offender-enhancement certificate-of-appealability collateral-review federal-rules-civil-procedure legal-error mathis-retroactivity mathis-v-united-states procedural-reasonableness rule-59-motion sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-4b1.1 sentencing-guidelines-enhancement sentencing-guidelines-miscalculation |
Whether the court of appeals committed clear legal error when it denied a certificate of appealability (COA), on my challenge to the application of a … |
| 18-8264 |
Guadalupe Avendano-Vasquez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure deportation due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
Whether an appeal waiver precludes review of the sentence of supervised release when the defendant has been deported |
| 18-8265 |
Bradford D Vol Allen v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-843b administrative-law auer-deference categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense notice-and-comment sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Sentencing Commission may add a crime to the Sentencing Guideline definition of a 'controlled substance offense' without Congressional app… |
| 18-8181 |
Feliciano Soto-Lugo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure defendant-leniency district-court-discretion due-process judicial-response preservation-of-error reasonableness reasonableness-objection sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review |
Must challenges to the district court's failure to respond to a defendant's non-frivolous grounds for leniency be preserved by a separate 'reasonablen… |
| 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… |
| 18-8161 |
Kali Lord v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
above-guidelines-sentence appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion plain-error preservation-of-error procedural-error procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-arguments sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness |
Is a district court's gross failure to explain an above-range sentence or to respond to arguments for a lesser sentence reversible on plain error? |
| 18-8107 |
Dheadry Loyd Powell v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-error drug-quantity due-process grouping grouping-of-counts judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg-1b1 ussg-calculation |
Did the District Court err with its finding of a new inaccurate drug quantity? |
| 18-8117 |
Brandon Pete v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof constitutional-proportionality juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana offense-level-43 sentencing-guidelines title-18 |
May a juvenile convicted as an adult of a non-premeditated homicide be sentenced to life-without-parole under Offense Level 43 and bear the burden to … |
| 18-8131 |
Adelfo Pamatmat v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights drug-quantity evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment sixth-circuit strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel |
whether-petitioner-received-effective-assistance-of-counsel |
| 18-8063 |
Shaun Mark Lawler v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravated-assault constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-sentencing deadly-weapon due-process equal-protection family-violence guilty-plea heat-of-passion ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel murder sentencing statutory-punishment |
Is it unconstitutional for the Texas Legislature to authorize a greater punishment range and maximum punishment for aggravated assault - family violen… |
| 18-8053 |
Malcolm Roland Allen v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3006a 6th-amendment career-offender due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel judicial-proceedings notice-of-appeal prejudice sentencing-guideline sentencing-guidelines |
Whether ineffective counsel failed to file a notice of appeal and object to career offender sentencing guideline |
| 18-8079 |
Christopher Loran Bentley v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-sentencing judicial-discretion notice-requirement relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness statutory-maximum substantive-reasonableness upward-departure |
Whether the district court erred in sentencing Mr. Bentley |
| 18-8095 |
Enrique Gamino-Perez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a criminal defendant should receive retroactive application of sentencing guidelines under 18 USC 3582(c) |
| 18-8115 |
Kenny Daniel Barrios v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment type-c-plea |
Whether the failure of counsel to object to inaccurately calculated Sentencing Guidelines is ineffective assistance of counsel |
| 18-8049 |
Ramon Montero v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-circuit harmless-error harmlessness-standard molina-martinez molina-martinez-precedent molina-martinez-v-united-states preserved-error preserved-errors rule-52a sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Is the Fifth Circuit correctly conducting its harmlessness inquiry when reviewing preserved Guidelines-calculation errors arising under Rule 52(a) of … |
| 18-8010 |
Alimamy Barrie v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amendment-retroactivity criminal-sentencing direct-appeal resentencing sentence-reduction sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the petitioner is eligible for resentencing under 18 U.S.C. §3582(c)(2) when amendments relevant to the case were enacted by the Sentencing Co… |
| 18-7995 |
Rodney Martin v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion procedural-error reasonableness-of-sentence section-3553a sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines |
Did the trial court improperly sentence Mr. Martin and did the appellate court improperly affirm the trial court? |
| 18-7964 |
Rafael Santos v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy criminal-sentencing drug-trafficking federal-officer firearms motion-for-reduction-of-sentence sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the district court erred when it denied petitioner's section 3582(c)(2) motion? |
| 18-7974 |
Carlos Cruz-Rivera, aka Chiqui, aka Cano, aka Cano Llorens v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing direct-appeal federal-statute first-step-act pending-cases retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(C), as amended and clarified by the First Step Act of 2018, should apply to this case on direct review |
| 18-7978 |
Raymond Amerson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
all-writs-act audita-querela clarification criminal-procedure jurisdictional-review relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-morgan |
Whether an All Writs Act petition pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1651 (Audita Querela) fills the gap where a defendant has no other appropriate vehicle to pu… |
| 18-7896 |
Ricardo Montanez-Quinones v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography distribution evidence knowingly-distributed knowledge plea-agreement prosecutorial-discretion sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines |
What constitutes sufficient evidence of knowledge to support two-level enhancement for 'knowingly engaging in distribution' of child-pornography under… |
| 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… |
| 18-7918 |
Rutilio Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a 18-usc-924 abuse-of-discretion constitutional-law criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion sentence-reduction sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines statutory-directive statutory-interpretation substantive-error sufficient-but-not-greater-than-necessary |
Whether the District Court Committed substantive error when failed to impose a sentence that was sufficient but not greater than necessary to comply w… |
| 18-7920 |
Harold A. Habeck, II v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure criminal-procedure,sentencing,mandatory-minimums,d criminal-sentencing discretion drug-offense drug-offenses firearms mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums predicate-crime sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court has discretion to consider less than the mandatory sixty month consecutive sentence for a predicate drug offense under 21 U… |
| 18-7927 |
Tyrone Anderson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender career-offender-enhancement criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington townsend-v-burke |
Whether trial counsel provided ineffective assistance of counsel as required by the Sixth Amendment |
| 18-7751 |
Brian Bolton v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender career-offender-guideline collateral-review constitutional-law due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-guidelines welch-v-united-states |
Whether the government's arguments are incorrectly that the Supreme Court's ruling in Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), is 'procedural… |
| 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 … |
| 18-7863 |
Jeffrey Burris v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a abuse-of-discretion criminal-sentencing due-process firearms firearms-possession reasonableness reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation unregistered |
Whether a sixty-month sentence for the simple possession of unregistered firearms, without any evidence suggesting the defendant was doing anything il… |
| 18-7872 |
Steven Torres v. Randee Rewerts, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights guidelines habeas-corpus judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit upward-departure |
Did the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan and the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erroneously den… |
| 18-7789 |
Ashley Richards v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus retroactivity sentencing-enhancement state-jail-felony statutory-enhancement statutory-interpretation texas-court-of-criminal-appeals |
Whether the Eighth Amendment requires retroactive application of a court decision finding a sentencing enhancement inapplicable, thereby decreasing th… |
| 18-7818 |
Marcos Castaneda v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-v-united-states criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process judicial-finding jury-trial mandatory-minimum preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a district court commits procedural error by basing its sentencing guideline calculation on a discretionary judicial finding by a preponderanc… |
| 18-7827 |
Roger L. Kaufman v. Paul S. Kemper, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation due-process ex-post-facto federal-guidelines parole parole-eligibility sentencing sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers state-prisoner |
Whether a state prisoner is entitled to a parole hearing under the Due Process Clause and Separation of Powers Doctrine when a court disposes of feder… |
| 18-7832 |
Jason Lee Harris v. Karen A. Mullins, Judge, Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process federal-law first-amendment in-forma-pauperis ninth-circuit sentencing-guidelines service-of-process standing |
Did the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit err in barring the grant of in forma paupe… |
| 18-7783 |
Todd Eugene Cannady v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
california-penal-code california-penal-code-211 categorical-approach commentary crime-of-violence johnson johnson-ruling residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-4b1.2 |
Can California robbery under California Penal Code § 211 be a crime of violence under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2, where Johnson invalidated the residual clause … |
| 18-7750 |
Ronald Morrobel v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-assault categorical-approach firearms-trafficking possession-of-firearm sentencing-guidelines armed-career-criminal categorical-approach crime-of-violence due-process felony-possession firearm-trafficking florida-aggravated-assault sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the district court erred in finding the petitioner was an armed career criminal |
| 18-7735 |
Michael Kenta Davis v. Justin Andrews, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split constitutional-analysis criminal-law due-process mathis-v-united-states retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE S$. C. CODE ANN 44-53-370 TS OVERLYBRO&D AND INDIVISBLE AND NO LONGER QUALIFIES IN LIGHT OF BOTH MATHIS V US AND DESCAMPS? |
| 18-7616 |
Rodrigo Tovar Pupo v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal constitutional-issue constitutional-issues criminal-appeal criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal district-court due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel offense-enhancement plea-bargaining sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines |
If Appeals Court erred by not considering the grounds raised by Appellant and denying his appeal disregarding the Constitutional issues raised by Appe… |
| 18-7715 |
Jose Flores v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court-discretion drug-quantity due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure minor-role minor-role-reduction plea-bargaining plea-colloquy rule-11 sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review ussg-3b1.2 |
Was the District Court's failure to determine a factual basis, and to insure that defendant understood the nature of the charges, in violation of Rule… |
| 18-7716 |
Jesse Ingram, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
3553(a)-factors 5th-amendment appeal appellate-counsel constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactive-review retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Is it a Fifth Amendment violation when Petitioners are sentenced to a higher guideline sentence when 18 U.S.C. statute 3553(A) warrants a below guidel… |
| 18-7717 |
Byrion Demeco Ferguson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
1B1.3 amendment appellate-review constitutional criminal-procedure evidence judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing-guidelines u.s-sentencing-commission u.s.-sentencing-commission |
Whether the trial court committed plain error by admitting insufficient evidence applied by the pre-amendment 1B1.3 version of the U.S. Sentencing Gui… |
| 18-7726 |
Carlton Williams v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender categorical-approach criminal-law federal-criminal-law pattern-of-racketeering predicate-crime racketeering racketeering-activity rico rico-conviction sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Is a sentencing court limited to applying a categorical approach when determining whether a conviction for violating the Federal Racketeer Influence a… |
| 18-7621 |
Jacoby Burns v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act career-offender categorical-analysis criminal-law elements-clause physical-force sentencing sentencing-guideline sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Does a conviction under Georgia's felony obstruction-of-an-officer statute qualify as a 'crime of violence' or 'violent felony'? |
| 18-7692 |
Byron Anthony Horn v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction indictment plea-bargaining pleading reasonable-doubt reasonable-sentence sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether facts that alter the range of 'reasonable' federal sentences must be pleaded in the indictment in federal cases? |
| 18-7622 |
Kendrick Bernard Demus v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
accomplice-witness accomplice-witness-rule criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing |
Whether the prosecutor engaged in prosecutorial misconduct by having the petitioner's codefendant testify that he was not promised any leniency in exc… |
| 18-7666 |
Rowy De Jesus Vasquez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 advisory-guidelines criminal-sentencing departure district-court-discretion due-process notice notice-requirement sentencing-departures sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-1b1.1 ussg-5k2.0 |
Whether the district court must have provided defendant notice for the grounds for a sentence above the range recommended by the advisory guidelines r… |
| 18-7623 |
James Goolsby v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582-c-2 appellate-procedure dillion-v-united-states exceptional-circumstances judicial-discretion mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentencing misapplication-of-guidelines miscarriage-of-justice official-victim-enhancement recall-of-mandate retroactive-amendment sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals abused its discretion in refusing to recall the mandate on the direct appeal to prevent a miscarriage of j… |
| 18-7645 |
Alhan Sanchez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-guidelines due-process mcmillan-v-pennsylvania meacham-v-fano minor-role-adjustment mitigating-role preponderance-of-evidence sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-watts vulnerable-victim |
Whether the government must prove facts necessary for a vulnerable-victim sentencing enhancement by a preponderance of the evidence |
| 18-7646 |
Jesse Sawyer v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process federal-procedure judicial-mandate judicial-power mandate sentencing standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the powers of federal appellate courts are diminished and whether a defendant is deprived of his fundamental right to appellate review |
| 18-7593 |
Richard Michael Sanchez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-waiver consecutive-sentence criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process legal-interpretation plea-agreement sentencing |
Does a plea agreement's limited appellate waiver preclude a defendant's challenge of a decision to impose a consecutive sentence where the appellate w… |
| 18-7609 |
Merlin Alston v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c 18-usc-926b criminal-law-enforcement-officer-exemption criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process firearm-possession firearms law-enforcement sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Is the conviction of a local police officer, required to carry a service pistol when off duty, excluded from prosecution for violating 18 U.S.C. 924(c… |
| 18-7572 |
Vernon Montrell Webster v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-25 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
alternative-means armed-career-criminal-act burglary burglary-statute criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process generic-burglary generic-offenses prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether Wisconsin's burglary statute defines alternative means, making it broader than generic burglary and not a qualifying prior conviction under th… |
| 18-7585 |
Lemuel Gay v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-court appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court guideline-enhancement guidelines judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing-court sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Can the sentencing court's statement—that it would impose the same sentence irrespective of any error in its application of a guideline enhancement—ab… |
| 18-7511 |
Edwin J. Ortiz-Fagot v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-3582-c-2 criminal-statute due-process non-delegation retroactive-application sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court's modification of a sentence via 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) to include deciding whether to retroactively apply the plain language … |
| 18-7538 |
Jeffrey Russo v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review habeas-corpus johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statute-of-limitations suspension-clause |
Whether the 'right' recognized in Johnson v. United States triggers the statute of limitations under 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3) for a petitioner seeking t… |
| 18-7557 |
Terveus Hyppolite v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 career-offender constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing due-process rule-of-lenity sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether Title 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) is unconstitutional |
| 18-7558 |
Brandon Lamar Hawkins v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
competency-hearing criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-competency criminal-sentencing due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-procedure mental-competency mental-health resentencing sentencing trial-court trial-court-discretion |
Whether petitioner is entitled to discharge, new trial, and/or resentencing based on the trial court failing to conduct a competency hearing |
| 18-7566 |
Pedro Goris, aka Pedro Goriz, aka Pedro Abreu v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appeals appellate-review constitutional-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion reasonableness sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness |
Whether Petitioner's sentence was both procedurally and substantively unreasonable |
| 18-7567 |
Ron Collins v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment fair-sentencing-act ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the court of appeals erred in denying petitioner's application for a certificate of appealability |
| 18-7516 |
Joseph Adam Mora v. California |
California |
2019-01-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-amendments criminal-sentencing death-penalty jury-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt statutory-maximum |
Does the California death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments that any fact, other than a prior co… |
| 18-7456 |
Jonathan Sebert v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process erotica first-amendment free-speech free-speech
18-7455" overbreadth overbroad overbroad-condition Question not identified. supervised-release vague vagueness |
Whether the special condition of supervised release imposed upon Mr. Sebert, which (for example) would prevent him from shopping at Wal-Mart because i… |
| 18-7417 |
Omari Robinson v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process illinois illinois-law mandatory-minimum sentencing statutory-vagueness vagueness weapon-enhancement |
Is the mandatory 25-year-to-life weapon enhancement imposed by Illinois courts unconstitutionally vague? |
| 18-7440 |
Christopher Whitman v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-circuit appeal appellate-procedure conflict-of-interest disqualification due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion juror-bribery plain-error-review sentencing-guidelines standing |
Should the appeals court have appointed an attorney who did not have a conflict of interest? |
| 18-7448 |
Charles Foxx v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act beckles-v-united-states career-offender collateral-review constitutional-law mandatory-guidelines pre-booker retroactive-effect retroactivity sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-vagueness vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(a)(2)'s residual clause is void for vagueness vis-a-vis defendants sentenced under the pre-Booker mandatory Guidelines |
| 18-7453 |
Corey Kirkpatrick Sterling v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-law due-process mandatory-guidelines pre-booker retroactive-effect retroactivity sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-vagueness sentencing-review vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(a)(2)'s residual clause is void for vagueness vis-a-vis defendants sentenced under the pre-Booker mandatory Guidelines |
| 18-7454 |
Tyshaun St. Vallier v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 18-usc-3582(c)(2) constitutional-statutory-provisions district-court district-court-discretion lodestone lodestone-principle sentence-reduction sentence-reductions sentencing sentencing-decisions sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation third-circuit |
Are district courts required to maintain the Sentencing Guidelines as the lodestone of the sentencing decision when ruling on motions for sentence red… |
| 18-7457 |
Charles Edward Case v. California |
California |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment constitutional-amendment criminal-sentencing death-penalty fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury jury-finding reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment |
Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact other than a prior con… |
| 18-919 |
Robert R. Davies v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion guidelines-range interest-of-justice presumption-of-reasonableness public-perception sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-intent sentencing-procedures sentencing-reliability unjust-procedures |
Whether a sentence that lacks reliability because of unjust procedures satisfies the 'interest of justice' prong of 18 U.S.C. §3583(e)(1) |
| 18-7418 |
Derrick T. Seals v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
851-enhancement ambiguous-plea contract criminal-procedure due-process enhancement government-breach ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
Did government breach plea agreement/contract when defendant never agreed to enhancement? |
| 18-7419 |
Fausto Becerra v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accountability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure drug-offenses drug-quantity due-process maximum-punishment plea-agreement plea-bargain prosecutorial-discretion sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the district court erred in sentencing the petitioner beyond the maximum punishment for the conduct he was 'accountable' for under the plea ba… |
| 18-7420 |
Joe Ray Alires v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary criminal-sentencing federal-criminal-law generic-burglary generic-crime residential-burglary sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether a conviction for residential burglary under N.M. Stat. Ann. § 30-16-3(A) falls within the generic crime of burglary in the Armed Career Crimin… |
| 18-7421 |
Torrence Allen v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-provision certificate-of-appealability constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure habeas-corpus johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines mandatory-sentencing-guidelines retroactivity retroactivity-of-supreme-court-decisions sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness |
Whether Johnson v. United States applies retroactively to a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion |
| 18-7391 |
Gadiel Romero v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment kidnapping kidnapping-offense offense-level ransom-demand sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines |
Is it proper to apply a 6-level increase for a ransom demand in a kidnapping offense when not communicated? |
| 18-7393 |
Rodrigo Roman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process firearm-enhancement firearm-possession guidelines-interpretation sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-enhancement stare-decisis |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's application of the firearm enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1(b)(1) without requirin… |
| 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… |
| 18-7348 |
Edgar Arnold Garcia v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 18-USC-3582c2 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing dillon-v-united-states district-court-discretion due-process legal-error sentence-modification sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-methodology statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum |
Whether Dillon v. United States requires reevaluation of original sentencing methodology in sentence modification proceedings under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c… |
| 18-7351 |
Rahmad Lashad Geddes v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne appellate-review apprendi civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Can a court of appeals sanction a lower court's departure from this court's well-established precedents that effectively conflates the standard of rev… |
| 18-7340 |
Eric Dillon v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split consecutive-sentences criminal-law criminal-procedure-sentencing due-process federal-statute mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-v-battle |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(j) requires a minimum 10-year consecutive sentence |
| 18-7304 |
Juan Rodriguez-Mantos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-law federal-sentencing-guidelines fifth-circuit judicial-review reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness supervisory-power |
Whether the imposition of an outside Guidelines sentence is reasonable |
| 18-7249 |
John Doe v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3582 circuit-court-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing dillon-v-united-states federal-criminal-procedure federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion resentencing sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation |
Whether the holding in Dillon v. United States, 560 U.S. 817 (2010) applies to 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(B) in the same manner it applies to 18 U.S.C. § … |
| 18-7262 |
Artak Ovsepian and Kenneth Wayne Johnson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-u.s.c.-1028a 18-usc-1028a apprendi apprendi-rule criminal-fines criminal-restitution double-counting identity-theft sentencing-guidelines u-s-code u.s.s.g.-2b1.6 |
Should the rule of Apprendi apply to the imposition of criminal restitution? |
| 18-7263 |
Gerald Patmon v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-sentencing deadly-weapon eleventh-circuit enumerated-offenses georgia-assault-statute gonzales-v-duenas-alvarez overbreadth sentencing-guidelines state-statute statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erroneously affirmed Mr. Patmon's sentence under USSG § 2K2.1 based on its determination that Ge… |
| 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? |
| 18-851 |
Bryan Christopher Marshall v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-sentencing drug-distribution drug-statute due-process federal-law first-amendment law-enforcement predicate-offense sentencing speech-protection statutory-interpretation |
Whether a state drug statute that lists a variety of means by which it can be violated, including one which does not meet the definition of a drug dis… |
| 18-7197 |
Johnnie O'Neil Lewis v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender crime-of-violence generic-robbery minimal-force no-threat-of-violence no-violence robbery sentencing-guidelines split-among-circuits statutory-interpretation |
Whether theft offenses requiring no more than minimal force and no violence or threat of violence categorically constitute generic 'robbery' for purpo… |
| 18-7138 |
Antonio Alvarez-Moreno v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process firearms law-enforcement-notification sentencing-guidelines supervised-release vagueness weapon-possession |
Are these conditions unconstitutionally vague? |
| 18-7101 |
John Samuel Ghobrial v. California |
California |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-maximum |
Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact that serves to increa… |
| 18-7102 |
Curtis D. Huling v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-assault controlled-substance-offense crime-of-violence mens-rea mental-state physical-force recklessness sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-4b1.1 voisine-v-united-states |
What is the least culpable mental state that qualifies a state aggravated assault offense as generic? |
| 18-7126 |
Ishmael Abdullah v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-assault court-of-appeals crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-guidelines federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-criminal-statute state-statute statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's holding that New Jersey Statute §2C:12-1(b)(2) satisfies the elements clause of t… |
| 18-7077 |
JC Christopher Pulham v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review district-court legal-standard plain-error plain-error-review presumption presumption-of-correctness presumption-of-knowledge sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
When a district court does not articulate the legal standard it is applying, may an appellate court presume that the district court knew and correctly… |
| 18-7079 |
Franklyn Morillo v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-waiver certiorari controlled-substances criminal-procedure district-court due-process first-impression first-impression' 'Should certiorari be granted i judicial-discretion knowing-intelligent-voluntary legal-standard plea-bargaining procedural-rights role-enhancement sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review' 'Should certiorari be granted |
Should certiorari be granted to decide whether a district court can only ask a Petitioner a single question about an appellate waiver, even though tha… |
| 18-7084 |
Anthony Steven Young v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion child-pornography close-scrutiny criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion internet-access relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review ussg-2g2.2 |
What standard of review applies to the district court's decision to use the guideline for receiving or distributing child pornography to sentence a ch… |
| 18-7067 |
Derrick Christopher Johnson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender criminal-law divisible-statute drug-offense modified-categorical-approach plain-error prior-state-convictions sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether petitioner's prior state drug offenses qualified as enumerated offenses under the career criminal provision of the United States Sentencing Gu… |
| 18-7068 |
Nelson Figueroa v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres apprendi apprendi-rule constitutional-protections due-process due-process-clause federal-sentencing-guidelines jury-trial prior-conviction prior-conviction-exception sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Whether the rule of Apprendi must apply to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines to comport with the constitutional protections of due process and jury tr… |
| 18-7072 |
Kenneth Harper v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea harmless-error judicial-error plea-bargaining plea-colloquy rule-11 sentencing-guidelines |
Has United States v. Vonn, 535 U.S. 55 (2005), and its progeny stripped the Courts of Appeal of the ability to meaningfully supervise the plea colloqu… |
| 18-7034 |
Shawn Sadik v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2018-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment culpability death-penalty developmental-disability eighth-amendment intellectual-disability life-without-parole mandatory-life-imprisonment mandatory-sentencing parole |
Does the Eighth Amendment bar individuals with intellectual-and-developmental-disabilities from receiving mandatory-life-imprisonment-without-parole s… |
| 18-7057 |
Marcus Jermaine Royston v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
3582-motion 3582(c)(2) amendments-750-782 career-offender criminal-sentencing drug-offense guidelines-2d1.1 guidelines-amendment hughes-v-us sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction |
Does this Court's ruling in the case of Hughes v. U.S., apply to a career offender seeking reduction in his sentence by way of a 3582(c)(2) motion pur… |
| 18-759 |
Matthew D. Sample v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-12-14 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-authority district-court-discretion imprisonment income-earning probation restitution sentencing-discretion victim-compensation |
Whether a district court may reduce a prison sentence, or impose a probationary term in lieu of imprisonment, to enable a defendant to earn income to … |
| 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… |
| 18-7000 |
Luis Rolando Bueno Jimenez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-3553(f) circuit-split criminal-law drug-enforcement mandatory-minimum maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant convicted of violating the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act is eligible for relief from a mandatory minimum sentence under the 's… |
| 18-6972 |
Manuel Pereira-Gomez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause force-clause physical-force robbery sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the New York State offense of robbery is a 'crime of violence' |
| 18-6980 |
Traveon Shaquille Martin v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility clear-error criminal-procedure district-court offense-level sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g-3e1.1 |
Whether the district court clearly erred in denying a three-level reduction in Petitioner's offense level for acceptance of responsibility under U.S.S… |
| 18-6982 |
Jerry Walden v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 28-usc-994 career-offender district-court due-process federal-sentencing guideline-application harmless-error johnson-v-united-states molina-martinez molina-martinez-precedent molina-martinez-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-error |
Whether the petitioner is entitled to resentencing due to Guideline application error |
| 18-6993 |
Jamie Todd Bjerke v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
court-of-appeals criminal-law force-clause gvr-order light-resistance petition-for-writ-of-certiorari predicate-conviction predicate-offense procedural-thesis robbery sentencing-determinations sentencing-guidelines state-robbery-offense statutory-interpretation substantive-thesis united-states-sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a state robbery offense that permits a conviction for use of force sufficient to overcome light resistance qualifies as a predicate conviction… |
| 18-6996 |
Jonathan R. Curshen v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
access-to-courts certificate-of-appealability due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines |
Was the petitioner denied his substantial rights to access to the courts, due process, and equal protection, when the United States Court of Appeals f… |
| 18-6971 |
Zachery Joseph Cooley, aka Red v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-sentencing gall-v-united-states guideline-calculation harmless-error judicial-discretion procedural-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
When a defendant appeals his sentence on the grounds that his Guideline range was miscalculated, may an appellate court disregard any error in the gui… |
| 18-6900 |
Jacob Scott Watters v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography commerce-clause constitutional-limits criminal-law predicate-offense relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-law visual-depictions |
Is 18 U.S.C. §2251(a) unconstitutional under the Commerce Clause? |
| 18-6920 |
Clyde Retiz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction indictment plea-bargaining reasonable-sentence sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether facts that alter the range of 'reasonable' federal sentences must be pleaded in the indictment in federal cases? |
| 18-6926 |
James Valentine v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-court-conflict circuit-court-review circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-sentencing criminal-sentencing-enhancement drug-conviction due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-convictions sentence-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Did the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals commit error in applying 21 U.S.C. §851 sentence enhancement? |
| 18-6927 |
In Re Jerry Urbina |
|
2018-12-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-courts judicial-discretion plea-agreement plea-bargaining retroactivity rule-11 sentencing-amendment sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation |
Whether the lower courts abused their discretion by denying petitioner Urbina relief under the 782 Amendment due to his being the beneficiary of a Rul… |
| 18-6934 |
Bobby Evans v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-treatment federal-procedure purposes-of-supervised-release revocation sentencing supervised-release |
Whether revoking the supervised release term of a defendant who is in need of drug treatment, after he initially failed in a drug treatment program, i… |
| 18-6917 |
Rodolfo Portela v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal competency-hearing conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing drug-conspiracy drug-trafficking evidence-suppression firearm-possession sentencing sentencing-guidelines sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the district court erred in finding sufficient evidence of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance |
| 18-6916 |
Troy Lincoln Powell v. California |
California |
2018-12-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mental-illness sixth-amendment |
Does the imposition of the death penalty on a severely mentally ill defendant violate the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments? |
| 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 |
| 18-6897 |
Victor Solorzano Tavia v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
blakely-rule consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure double-jeopardy grade-c-violation illegal-reentry sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum supervised-release |
Whether sentence for illegal reentry and sentence for violation of supervised release should have run concurrent to avoid double jeopardy |
| 18-6904 |
Oree Roberson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-proof chavez-meza chavez-meza-v-united-states circuit-conflict due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review mitigation presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure standard-of-review |
Whether the defendant bears the burden to establish that objected to information in the Presentence Report is materially untrue, or whether the govern… |
| 18-6851 |
Steven Gomez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-sentencing appeal-waiver constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing-guidelines |
Can an appeal waiver executed at the time of a defendant's plea waive the right to appeal constitutional error occurring at sentencing months after ex… |
| 18-6853 |
Noe Garcia-Lima v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure-52(b) federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure molina-martinez molina-martinez-v-united-states plain-error-review sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights |
Whether an appellate court should presume that a district court's error in calculating the applicable Sentencing Guidelines range affected the defenda… |
| 18-6858 |
Micah G. Pritchett v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-11-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-law distribution drug-distribution federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation virginia virginia-law |
Whether the Virginia offense of distribution of a controlled substance categorically qualifies as a 'controlled substance offense' under the U.S. Sent… |
| 18-6859 |
James Myers v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-11-28 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-sentencing divisibility enumerated-offenses force-clause mathis-principles mathis-v-united-states statutory-divisibility statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether the principles regarding a statute's divisibility announced in Mathis v. United States apply to offenses analyzed under the 'force clause' and… |
| 18-6833 |
Jose Ramon Zuniga, aka Josue Ararel Zuniga-Zaragoza, aka Jose Ramon Zuniga-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure discretion due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion offense-level residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-standards statutory-interpretation |
Whether a Guideline which incorporates by reference § 16(b)'s residual clause may serve as the basis for increasing the defendant's offense level unde… |
| 18-6812 |
Jack Ferranti v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 criminal-sentencing federal-bureau-of-prisons federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-sentencing-guidelines good-time-credits life-expectancy post-conviction-relief rule-60(b) rule-60b sentencing |
Whether the district court imposed a defacto life sentence not authorized by the statute of conviction |
| 18-6816 |
Vicente Garcia v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-battery constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in its holding that Garcia had failed to show a denial of his constitutional Sixth Amendment rights |
| 18-6830 |
Francisco Heredia-Silva v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
california-penal-code circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-law-sentencing due-process federal-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation terrorist-threats violent-crime |
Whether California terrorist threats convictions under California Penal Code Section 422 are crimes of violence |
| 18-6747 |
Gibran Richardo Figueroa-Beltran v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure divisibility-analysis divisibility-inquiry due-process federal-courts federal-divisibility-doctrine federalism mathis-doctrine mathis-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-court-certification state-courts state-statutes three-part-test |
When applying the federal divisibility doctrine to state statutes, may federal courts terminate the three-part test set forth in Mathis v. United Stat… |
| 18-6748 |
Malachi M. Glass v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law criminal-statute drug-offense federal-law federal-sentencing pennsylvania pennsylvania-law sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the broader Pennsylvania delivery of a controlled substance statute, 35 Pa. C.S.A. § 780-113(a)(30), qualifies as a 'controlled-substance-offe… |
| 18-6774 |
Jimmy L. Thompson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process felon-in-possession firearm-charges predicate-felony sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation void-ab-initio void-statute |
Whether a conviction based on a void statute can be used to increase punishment |
| 18-650 |
Miguel Cabrera-Rangel v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-20 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response Waived |
acquittal-impact acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth Amendment right to jury trial prohibits a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on a charge for which the jury a… |
| 18-6760 |
David Junior Upshaw v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca-sentencing armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review criminal-procedure mandatory-guidelines post-sentencing-law pre-booker-mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Whether a defendant can prove his ACCA-enhanced sentence was based on the residual clause through a process of elimination and rely on post-sentencing… |
| 18-6761 |
Tellis T. Williams v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-sentencing-guidelines beckles-v-united-states career-offender-enhancement certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-appealability-coa due-process johnson-claim johnson-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit vagueness-challenge |
Whether the Sixth Circuit's denial of Petitioner's COA was based on the merits of the appeal rather than whether reasonable jurists could debate the d… |
| 18-6763 |
Luis Antonio Bonilla, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appeal-waivers brady-standard brady-v-united-states circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement plea-agreements sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-uniformity |
What standards should govern the enforcement of appeal waivers in plea agreements? |
| 18-642 |
Morris E. Zukerman v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-11-19 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
18-usc-3742 appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion sentencing-explanation sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure sentencing-reasonableness sentencing-variance shocks-the-conscience substantive-reasonableness substantive-unreasonableness |
Whether a court of appeals that finds that a district court has failed adequately to explain a sentence can simply request further elaboration without… |
| 18-6729 |
Jesus Santiago v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure district-court due-process guidelines-calculation guidelines-range judicial-discretion sentencing-determination sentencing-guidelines upward-variance |
Whether a circuit court can competently conclude that the Sentencing Guidelines were immaterial to a district court's sentencing determination |
| 18-6732 |
Myron Gerald Stevens v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines criminal-sentencing discretion-to-vary downward-variance judicial-discretion procedural-reasonableness sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
Did the trial court impose a procedurally unreasonable sentence of life imprisonment upon conviction of a first offense, where it applied an incorrect… |
| 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 |
| 18-6707 |
Alberto Jair Proa-Dominguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-v-united-states criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offenses drug-statute due-process flores-figueroa-v-united-states mens-rea statutory-interpretation strict-liability |
Whether the knowingly or intentionally' mens rea in 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a) and 960(a) applies to the drug type and quantity elements in 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(… |
| 18-6711 |
Ricardo Deleon Colon v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act bodily-harm criminal-sentencing curtis-johnson eleventh-circuit johnson-standard predicate-offense united-states-v-castleman united-states-v-vail-bailon violent-force |
Does the causation of bodily harm necessarily entail the use of 'violent force'? |
| 18-6692 |
Richard D. Waterson, II v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing double-counting fairness justice procedural-reasonableness reasonableness recidivism recidivism-risk sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the sentence imposed on the petitioner was procedurally unreasonable |
| 18-6693 |
Victor M. Mangual-Rosado v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split conclusions-of-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court findings-of-fact opportunity-to-object procedural-error role-behavior role-in-crime sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-error |
whether-the-district-court-erred-in-sentencing |
| 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… |
| 18-6677 |
Clarence Darnell Marshall v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment appeal booker-standard career-offender certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit rule-of-lenity sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit applied a heightened standard to the Defendant's request for Certificate of Appealability |
| 18-6590 |
Salah Mohamed v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion aggravating-factor due-process escape flight-risk immigration naturalization naturalized-defendant sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum |
Does a court abuse its discretion under the United States Sentencing Guidelines by sentencing a naturalized defendant more than three times above his … |
| 18-6599 |
Horace Vonche Jordan v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability collateral-review criminal-sentencing due-process mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-guidelines vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether USSG § 4B1.2(a)(2)'s residual clause is void for vagueness with respect to defendants sentenced under the pre-Booker mandatory Guidelines |
| 18-6600 |
Ringo Recto Labrador v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-sentencing empirical-basis fifth-circuit judicial-review methamphetamine-sentencing presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-standard second-circuit sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines |
Is a sentence imposed under the methamphetamine sentencing guideline entitled to a presumption of reasonableness? |
| 18-596 |
Marie Neba v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion judicial-review presumption-of-reasonableness proportionality rita-v-united-states sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines |
Should the Court overrule or refine Rita v. United States (2007) 551 U.S. 338, such that an irregular and disproportionate within-Guidelines sentence … |
| 18-6581 |
Larry Hailey v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-enhancement crimes-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-appeal prior-convictions section-2255-motion sentencing sentencing-guidelines virginia-prior-convictions |
Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals Erred in Denying Petitioner's Appeal from Denial of His Motion Under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 Wherein Petitioner's… |
| 18-6583 |
Dionysius Fiumano v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1343 criminal-law due-process due-process-notice federal-communications-commission fifth-amendment fraud johnson-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines skilling-v-united-states statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine welch-v-united-states |
Does the undefined element 'scheme to defraud' in 18 U.S.C. § 1343 satisfy Fifth Amendment due process notice requirements? |
| 18-6561 |
In Re Jesus Denova Lopez |
|
2018-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-court-discretion guidelines-range section-3553(a) section-3553a sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals abused its discretion by the rubberstamp of the erroneous and impermissible conclusion of erst… |
| 18-6567 |
Luis Delprado v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari-petition criminal-history-enhancement generic-offense herrold-v-united-states quarles-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines statute-of-conviction statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states supreme-court-review united-states-v-stitt |
Whether the required fit between a defendant's prior statute of conviction and a 'generic' offense for the purposes of a criminal history enhancement |
| 18-6518 |
Gregory Crum v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure district-court-discretion drug-crimes drug-offense drug-offenses foreign-origin leadership-enhancement methamphetamine relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether the district court abused its discretion in determining relevant conduct |
| 18-6519 |
Mariano Alvarez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion life-sentence mistrial plea-bargaining plea-negotiation recusal sentencing-guidelines |
Can doubts in granting a Certificate of Appealability (COA) be resolved in favor of the appellant when considering the severity of his life sentence? |
| 18-6498 |
Gildardo Majalca-Aguilar v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 amendment-782 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion drug-conspiracy drug-quantity due-process equal-protection sentence-reduction sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the district court erred in denying the motion for sentence reduction under Amendment 782 §3582(c)(2) despite the minimal quantities of drugs … |
| 18-6481 |
Jeremy Fontanez v. Joseph Coakley, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2241 bureau-of-prisons circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process due-process-clause fifth-amendment inmate-financial-responsibility-program mandatory-victims-restitution-act restitution restitution-order voluntary |
Does the sentencing court violate the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act (MVRA) when it delegates its restitution payments to the BOP? |
| 18-6482 |
Roger Alfred Anchundia-Espinoza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-3553(f) criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-enforcement mandatory-minimum maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law safety-valve sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-safety-valve united-states-v-mosquera-murillo |
Whether a criminal defendant convicted of violating the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act, 46 U.S.C. § 70501 et seq., and subject to a mandatory minim… |
| 18-6483 |
Armando Chavez, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-sentencing indictment indictment-requirements judicial-discretion plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether facts that alter the range of reasonable' federal sentences must be pleaded in the indictment in federal cases? |
| 18-6447 |
Eullis Monroe Goodwin v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance rule-11 sentencing sentencing-guidelines strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Did Counsel's Failure to properly develope and present Objections to Petitioner's designation as an career offender, render Ineffective Assistance und… |
| 18-6451 |
Randolph Johnson Spain v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-principles apprendi-v-new-jersey cross-reference fourth-circuit-court-of-appeals fourth-circuit-mandate multiple-count-adjustment sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-application statutory-maximum |
Whether the application of the cross-reference to Count 2 of the indictment pursuant to Guidelines § 2G1.1 and § 2A3.1, and the subsequent application… |
| 18-6461 |
Gerren K. Love v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines causation-element circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-classification criminal-law force-definition sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-v-castleman violent-crime violent-force |
If a statute has a causation-of-harm element, does it also necessarily have an element of violent force for purposes of classifying the crime as a vio… |
| 18-6424 |
Walter Lee Deiter v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(e) aiding-and-abetting armed-career-criminal-act bank-robbery criminal-sentencing force mens-rea violent-felony |
Whether aiding and abetting an unarmed bank robbery qualifies as a 'violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 18-6404 |
Tomas Ramirez-Cruz v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-review non-frivolous-arguments procedural-due-process procedural-reasonableness reasonableness rita-v-united-states sentencing-policy sentencing-procedure sentencing-reasonableness |
Whether an appellate court may affirm as procedurally reasonable a sentence imposed where the record contains no indication the sentencing judge consi… |
| 18-6398 |
Deon Pittman v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-statute drug-offense element-of-offense federal-law means-of-offense michigan-law sentencing-guidelines state-law state-statute |
Whether the specific type of controlled substance is an element of the offense or one of many means to commit the offense under a state statute that p… |
| 18-6408 |
Tiffany A. Prince v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law drug-offenses drug-overdose federal-courts federal-law physical-injury sentencing-guidelines significant-physical-injury sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation |
Whether a non-fatal drug overdose is a 'significant physical injury' under U.S.S.G. § 5K2.2 |
| 18-6395 |
Alex D. Ramos v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process firearm-offense sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Did the lower Court err, and concomitantly violate the United States Constitution, Amendments V and VI, where it determined that Petitioner's prior co… |
| 18-6375 |
Michael Whisby v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act career-offender-provision collateral-review mandatory-guidelines pre-booker-mandatory-guidelines pre-booker-sentencing retroactivity sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-vagueness stokeling-v-united-states vagueness-doctrine violent-felony |
Whether U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(a)(2)'s residual clause is void for vagueness vis-à-vis defendants sentenced under the pre-Booker mandatory Guidelines |
| 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… |
| 18-6359 |
Uriel Gomez-Saavedra v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3661-3553 5th-amendment 5th-circuit-law constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the mandatory five-year minimum sentence under which Mr. Gomez-Saavedra was sentenced is unconstitutional and contravenes 18 U.S.C. 3661 and 3… |
| 18-6387 |
Spencer Bowens v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) 28 U.S.C. §2255(£)(3) 28 U.S.C. §2255(f)(3) extend to pre-Booker mandatory career-offender gu that has been newly recognized by the United Stat career-offender career-offender-guidelines collateral-review criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure,sentencing,retroactivity,collat Johnson-right johnson-v-united-states mandatory-sentencing retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines Supreme-Court-precedent |
Whether the right in Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) that has been newly recognized by the United States Supreme Court and made retro… |
| 18-6327 |
Rolando Humphrey v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3553a criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing judicial-determination judicial-discretion jury-role jury-trial sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-18-usc-3553 statutory-minimum |
Whether district courts may determine without the aid of a jury that a sentence above the statutory minimum is 'not greater than necessary' to achieve… |
| 18-6335 |
George Jenkins v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment drug-offense due-process first-time-offender non-violent-crime proportionality reasonableness-review sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the sentence imposed is unreasonable |
| 18-6346 |
Mark A. Dubarry v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1951(b) 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) 18-usc-924c circuit-split crime-of-violence economic-harm federal-criminal-law force-clause hobbs-act robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery is categorically a 'crime of violence' under the 'force clause' of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) |
| 18-6347 |
Adam Brake v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burglary criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-counting firearm-enhancement firearm-theft guideline-enhancements guideline-range sentencing-considerations sentencing-guidelines stolen-firearm u.s.s.g-2k2.1 |
Whether the district court erred in applying impermissible double counting when calculating the guideline range |
| 18-6349 |
Daniel Israel Palomino v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-review due-process guideline-commentary judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-interpretation sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court abuses its discretion in misapplying a sentencing guideline when it refuses to consider a factor expressly provided for in th… |
| 18-6352 |
Joseph Kelvin Aberant v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-murder cross-reference firearm firearm-offense fourth-circuit imperfect-self-defense indictment self-defense sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in finding that the cross reference under Section 2K2.1(c)(1) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines was applicab… |
| 18-6319 |
William Shane Reid v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3582 appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split criminal-sentencing discretionary-denial discretionary-review procedural-reasonableness review-standard sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a court of appeals has jurisdiction to review a district court's discretionary denial of a sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) |
| 18-6322 |
Gabino Medina Osorio v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8-usc-1101 criminal-law due-process illegal-reentry immigration immigration-law sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Can a statute that this Court has held to be unconstitutionally void for vagueness nevertheless still be applied when incorporated by reference into t… |
| 18-6289 |
Bruce L. Small v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-10-12 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
and justice from incarceration civil-rights due-process ex-post-facto incarceration justice liberty civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-law incarceration justice-system legal-application sentencing |
Whether the retroactive application of an ex post facto law that enhances a criminal sentence violates the constitutional rights to freedom, liberty, … |
| 18-6266 |
Ivan Rivera-Solis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing gall-standard gall-v-united-states sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Can appellate courts reweigh sentencing factors under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) |
| 18-6281 |
Terry E. Callins v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split collateral-review habeas-corpus mandatory-sentencing-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-retroactivity teague-v-lane timeliness |
Whether Mr. Callins filed his § 2255 motion within one year of the date on which the right asserted was initially recognized by the Supreme Court |
| 18-6284 |
Alphonso Churchwell, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender collateral-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing eleventh-circuit mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Whether U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(a)(2)'s residual clause is void for vagueness with respect to defendants sentenced under the pre-Booker mandatory Guidelines |
| 18-6229 |
Josh A. Wairi v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review booker-standard booker-v-united-states criminal-appeal criminal-sentencing first-circuit-court-of-appeals gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-josh-wairi |
Does the First Circuit Court of Appeals' decision in petitioner's case conflict with this Court's decisions in Booker v. United States and Gall v. Uni… |
| 18-6241 |
Edward Jewell v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
class-precedent constitutional-challenge controlled-substance-offense criminal-law direct-appeal due-process mathis-precedent mathis-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission |
Does this Court's holding in Mathis v United States apply to determinations under the United States Sentencing Guidelines of whether a prior convictio… |
| 18-6248 |
Antonio Mercedes-Rijo v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
congressional-power criminal-procedure define-and-punish-clause drug-trafficking due-process federal-jurisdiction high-seas mitigating-role sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-3b1.2 statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission |
Whether the Petitioner's Mitigating Role Should of Been Adjusted In Accordance With The United States Sentencing Guidelines § 3B1.2 |
| 18-6256 |
William Wise Mock v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender categorical-approach criminal-sentencing presentence-investigation-report sentencing separate-occasions shepard-documents statutory-interpretation |
Whether a presentence investigation report can be used as a Shepard document in the categorical approach to determine career offender status |
| 18-6257 |
Edward Dean McCranie v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
career-offender colorado-robbery common-law common-law-robbery crime-of-violence force force-clause generic-robbery sentencing-guidelines stokeling-v-united-states tenth-circuit violence |
Is Colorado robbery, which follows the common-law definition of the amount of force required, a crime of violence for purposes of the career-offender … |
| 18-6262 |
Richard Penunuri v. California |
California |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-requirement criminal-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment fact-finding fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-finding reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment |
Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact that serves to… |
| 18-6215 |
Leonard Nathaniel Peragine, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion child-enticement child-pornography congressional-intent criminal-sentencing empirical-evidence guideline-calculation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court's utilization of the child pornography guideline in Section 2G2.2 to determine the sentence for a defendant whose primary o… |
| 18-6206 |
Jason Randall Howard v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness variance-sentence |
Is Howard's 457% above-guideline variance sentence procedurally unreasonable because the District Court failed to consider the need to avoid unwarrant… |
| 18-6208 |
Nicholas Ryan Hemsher v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 8th-circuit appellate-review circuit-split co-conspirators criminal-enhancement criminal-procedure sentencing-disparities sentencing-disparities-18-usc-3553-a-6 sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in finding that the statutory direction to avoid unwarranted disparities among defendants does not a… |
| 18-6165 |
Paul E. Rinehart v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2018-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process judicial-fact-finding jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment trial-by-jury |
Can a trial court enhance a defendant's sentence(s) to more than the minimum sentence upon judicial fact finding from a judge rather than the findings… |
| 18-6173 |
Carlos Tiznado-Valenzuela v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split federal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-interpretation molina-martinez molina-martinez-standard plain-error-review prejudice prejudice-prong sentencing-guidelines |
Should the Court address the division of circuit authority over the Court's application of the prejudice prong of plain-error review in Molina-Martine… |
| 18-6184 |
Robert Demetrius Barnes v. B. Masters, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split concurrent-sentence criminal-procedure federal-appellate-courts federal-sentencing prior-undischarged-term prior-undischarged-term-of-imprisonment sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-manual-5g1.3(c) statutory-interpretation |
Whether the word concurrently' in Section 5G1.3(c) authorizes a sentencing court to run a sentence concurrently from the start of the pre-existing sen… |
| 18-6150 |
Noel Aquino-Florenciani v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion child-pornography criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process internet-access internet-access-ban sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
Whether the court's imposition of a total ban of internet access as a condition of supervised release is an overly broad and restrictive and without a… |
| 18-6111 |
Thompson Christopher Kyle Mandrell v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3553a6 appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentence-disparity sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the federal sentencing court failed to properly consider and apply 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(6) regarding unwarranted sentence disparities |
| 18-6112 |
Opherro G. Jones v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines beckles-v-united-states certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process misinformation sentencing sentencing-guidelines townsend-v-burke void-for-vagueness |
Due process-precludes-reliance-on-misinformation-at-sentencing |
| 18-6138 |
Lance Fox v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines beckles-v-united-states certificate-of-appealability criminal-defendant due-process misinformation sentencing sentencing-guidelines townsend-v-burke void-for-vagueness |
whether due process precludes relying on misinformation when sentencing a criminal defendant |
| 18-6141 |
Damian O'Neil Towne v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-waiver criminal-procedure government-objection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review notice-of-appeal sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-miscalculation untimely-notice-of-appeal |
Whether a gross miscalculation of the sentencing guideline range should be corrected where a defendant's appellate waiver does not preclude an appeal … |
| 18-6113 |
Frank J. Ballesteros v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines criminal-procedure fairness fairness-doctrine integrity judicial-proceedings judicial-review post-conviction-relief pro-se-applicant public-reputation resentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Should this Court grant review of the court of appeals' decision based on this Court's subsequent decision in Rosales-Mireles v. United States that re… |
| 18-6115 |
Jose Antonio Jimenez v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-09-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-murder criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process elements-of-offense hurst-v-state jury-unanimity retrospective-application |
Whether Petitioner's death sentence can remain intact even though his jury was not instructed that the State had to prove all of the elements of capit… |
| 18-6119 |
Gary Long, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-09-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-sentencing de-facto-life-sentence due-process eighth-amendment federal-court-split federal-courts life-sentence sentencing-analysis sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent term-of-years |
Whether the district and appellate court failed to conduct the proper analysis of imposing a de facto life sentence on the petitioner? |
| 18-6120 |
Jose Ramon Pulido-Nolazco v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-justice criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-procedure prior-conviction sentencing sex-offender sex-offender-treatment supervised-release |
Whether the age of a prior sex offense conviction is a factor the court must consider when determining whether to impose sex offender treatment as a c… |
| 18-6092 |
Robert Dion Ables v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-appeals criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-plain-error-review empirical-analysis empirical-foundation-of-guidelines guideline-2g2.2 judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-policy substantive-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness-of-sentences |
Whether factual error is categorically immune from plain error review? |
| 18-6100 |
Hugo Pliego-Hernandez v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-16 administrative-law attempted-robbery circuit-court-review criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process federal-jurisdiction guideline-commentary sentencing-guidelines seventh-circuit stare-decisis statutory-interpretation stinson-v-united-states |
Whether the Seventh Circuit contravened Stinson v. United States when it relied on guideline commentary inconsistent with 18 U.S.C. § 16 |
| 18-6083 |
Jesus Manuel Laureano-Perez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process government-prosecution plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review uncharged-conduct |
Whether the district court erred in enhancing Laureano's sentence based on uncharged conduct |
| 18-374 |
Wuilson Estuardo Lemus Castillo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-21 |
Denied |
|
18-usc-3553(f) 21-usc-960 circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-enforcement mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act safety-valve sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a criminal defendant convicted of violating the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act is eligible for relief from a mandatory minimum sentence und… |
| 18-6066 |
Melvin Noel Vasquez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure de-novo-review downward-adjustment due-process federal-sentencing fifth-circuit minimal-role mitigating-role sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-3b1.2 standard-of-review |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's cursory review rather than the proper de novo review resulted in a misapplication of the provision of U.S.S.G. § 3B1.2 den… |
| 18-370 |
Marlon Haight v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2018-09-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
armed-career-criminal-act assault-with-dangerous-weapon circuit-split criminal-sentencing mens-rea reckless statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether a criminal offense with a reckless mens rea qualifies as a 'violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e) |
| 18-6049 |
Robert Wallace Smith v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography criminal-sentencing due-process first-offender internet-crime sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the district court's statutory maximum, 240-month sentence is substantively unreasonable for a first offender convicted of one count of receiv… |
| 18-6061 |
Rogelio Ortiz-Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
change-in-law criminal-appeal divisible-statute fifth-circuit intervening-change-in-law judicial-proceedings mandate mandate-rule recall-of-mandate rehearing-petition sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines texas-burglary-statute |
Whether it is a serious departure from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings when a federal court of appeals refuses to consider an in… |
| 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… |
| 18-6041 |
Robert Burse v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure cross-reference district-court error firearms-offense review sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g.-§-2k2.1(c)(1)(a) u.s.s.g.-2k2.1(c)(1)(a) |
Whether the district court erred by applying the Sentencing Guidelines cross reference under U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(c)(1)(A) |
| 18-6042 |
Ronald Eric Ary v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing deferred-adjudication due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum |
Whether a Texas deferred adjudication qualifies as a prior conviction for sentencing enhancement |
| 18-5978 |
John Robert Register, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender civil-rights criminal-procedure drug-possession due-process plain-error prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Did the court commit a plain error by applying a career offender enhancement to petitioner, even though his prior convictions neither of which had the… |
| 18-6016 |
Fabian Sandoval-Ramos v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy controlled-substances criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-offense due-process enhancement-factor mandatory-minimum-sentence mandatory-minimum-sentences sentencing sentencing-enhancements statutory-interpretation |
In order to trigger a mandatory minimum sentence, must the government allege and prove that an enhancement factor was the object of the conspiracy, or… |
| 18-6007 |
Valerie Louise Williams v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines appellate-review criminal-procedure downward-variance federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the Court Should Grant Certiorari to Provide Further Clarification as to the Presumption of Substantive Reasonableness for Downward Variances … |
| 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… |
| 18-5967 |
Matthew Wade Howard v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-courts federal-criminal-law federal-guideline guideline-application sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit |
Whether the Tenth Circuit and other circuits have broadened the application of U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(b)(6)(B) beyond the plain language of the guideline's … |
| 18-5968 |
In Re Jose Prisciliano Gracia-Cantu |
|
2018-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-sentencing federal-appeals-court federal-courts federal-prisoner judicial-discretion mandamus mandate mandate-stay resentencing sentencing-guidelines unreasonable-sentence vacated-sentence writ-of-mandamus |
Whether a federal court of appeals can stay its mandate for more than five months, thereby keeping a federal prisoner in jail under an unreasonable se… |
| 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… |
| 18-5970 |
Allen D. Gorion v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform |
Whether certiorari should be granted to set forth some guidelines in determining when a sentence is unreasonable? |
| 18-5973 |
Alvin Ramirez-De Jesus v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) booker-standard criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause probation-revocation procedural-reasonableness reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness supervised-release |
Whether the First Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of the petitioner's motion to suppress evidence obtained in violation of the … |
| 18-5930 |
Timothy Walker v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender double-jeopardy drug-offense due-process guideline-amendments guideline-range post-sentencing-litigation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g. |
Does it comport with the Due Process Clause and the prohibition against Double Jeopardy to simultaneously impose two sentences for a drug offense and … |
| 18-5944 |
Rafael Tanco-Pizarro v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3583 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing discovery due-process revocation revocation-hearing sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervised-release title-18-usc |
Whether the punishment factor of the federal sentencing statute, Title 18 U.S.C §3553(a)(2)(A), is a permissible or prohibited factor in sentencing a … |
| 18-5913 |
Alfonso Escobedo Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure empirical-basis fifth-circuit judicial-review methamphetamine-sentencing presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-review second-circuit sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines |
Is a sentence imposed under the methamphetamine sentencing guideline entitled to a presumption of reasonableness? |
| 18-5917 |
John Doe v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-09-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review connected-conduct criminal-procedure federal-offense nexus obstruction obstructive-act reckless-endangerment relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred by affirming the judgment of the District Court, which incorrectly applied the Sentencing Guidelines |
| 18-5904 |
Donavan Cross v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause constructive-delivery constructive-possession controlled-substance-offense controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-delivery due-process intent sentencing sentencing-guidelines testimonial-evidence |
Whether a statute that criminalizes a constructive delivery of drugs without bona fide intent to transfer possession is a felony 'controlled substance… |
| 18-5893 |
Dan Wayne Streetman v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
booker-precedent booker-v-united-states child-pornography gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion kimbrough-v-united-states policy-disagreement sentencing-commission sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines sentencing-uniformity separation-of-powers |
Whether a district court can refuse to apply a sentencing guideline on policy grounds where the guideline is not based on the Sentencing Commission's … |
| 18-5896 |
Beverly Allen Baker v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights confrontation-clause conspiracy criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel multiple-conspiracies sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Whether the government committed a Kotteakos violation by using evidence of multiple conspiracies to support an indictment for a single conspiracy |
| 18-5898 |
Armando Castillo Valerio v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-09-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review booker circuit-split criminal-sentencing downward-departure gall judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether a district court's denial of a motion for downward departure is reviewable and the appropriate standard to apply for such review |
| 18-274 |
Michael Jay Stewart v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-04 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
criminal-fraud jury-instructions kokesh-v-sec mail-fraud materiality materiality-standard naive-and-careless omissions-theory reasonably-prudent-victim sentencing-guidelines statute-of-limitations |
Whether the federal criminal fraud statutes maintain a reasonably prudent victim requirement |
| 18-5839 |
James Frederick Rebmann v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law drug-offense drug-offenses federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines felony-classification plain-reading possession-offenses prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation |
Whether the plain reading of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines requires that the prior offense be more than simple possession |
| 18-5811 |
Eusebio Escobar De Jesus v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appeals-court criminal-procedure district-court due-process gall-v-united-states guideline-range guidelines molina-martinez-v-united-states offense-level procedural-error rosales-mireles-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Appeals Court erroneously concluded Petitioner failed to state a claim, reasoning for want of a substantial question |
| 18-5828 |
Adolfo Lopez-Garcia v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a 18-usc-3582(c)(2) 3582c-motion amendment-782 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court procedural-reasonableness sentence-reduction sentencing-discretion sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines statutory-directive statutory-interpretation substantive-error substantive-reasonableness sufficient-but-not-greater-than-necessary |
Whether the District Court Committed substantive error when failed to impose a sentence that was sufficient but not greater than necessary to comply w… |
| 18-5754 |
Ivan Rodrigo Campillo Restrepo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-precedent criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing habeas-corpus jurisdiction mandate-recall penal-term retroactivity sentencing statutory-maximum supreme-court-ruling writ-of-certiorari |
whether-recall-of-mandate-should-issue |
| 18-5764 |
Richard Joseph Crane v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus life-sentence parole parole-consideration sentencing supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Supreme Court intended for the opinion of California Department of Corrections v. Morales (1995) and Garner v. Jones (2000) to apply to in… |
| 18-5725 |
Alfred Thomas v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alternative-calculations circuit-split criminal-sentencing double-counting firearms-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-2k2.1(b)(6)(b) u.s.s.g.-2k2.1(c) u.s.s.g.-5k2.6 upward-departure |
Whether the Second Circuit correctly held that it is permissible to upwardly depart for the severity of the underlying offense when a defendant has al… |
| 18-5735 |
Harry Lonzo-Bolton Ervin v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
apprendi-alleyne-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-rule criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing habeas-corpus montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity sentencing sentencing-range sixth-amendment teague-v-lane |
Whether the Apprendi-Alleyne rule should be applied retroactively |
| 18-5693 |
Arlow Antone Kay v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
making robust appellate review unnecessary appellate-review constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-booker |
Have the departure provisions of the United States Sentencing Guidelines been rendered 'obsolete' and 'superfluous' by this Court's opinion in United … |
| 18-5699 |
Chuck Wayne Boyd v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 3553-factors 3582-modification criminal-sentencing discretion inmate-progress judicial-discretion post-sentence-history pre-sentence-history sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines usg-amendment-782 |
Whether the court abused its discretion in denying a sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3582 and U.S.S.G. Amendment 782 without adequately explainin… |
| 18-5707 |
Anthony Curtis Flowers v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-08-22 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
3-strikes armed-career-criminal-act career-offender due-process due-process,johnson-v-united-states,18-usc-924,18- habeas-corpus johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the district court deprived Flowers due process |
| 18-5674 |
Roger Clay Swain v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act career-offender collateral-review due-process federal-sentencing habeas-corpus johnson-ruling mandatory-sentencing-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity section-2255-motion sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-retroactivity timeliness |
Whether federal prisoners who were sentenced under the mandatory career-offender guideline filed timely § 2255 motions within one year of Johnson v. U… |
| 18-5644 |
Gesner Delva, aka Ti Blan v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 appellate-review circuit-court-precedent court-of-appeals criminal-sentencing district-court due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion precedent sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Contrary to Its Own Precedent Affirmed the District Court's Judgment Order Whereby Denying the Pet… |
| 18-5586 |
William Knight v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-08-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-authority appellate-procedure criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habitual-offender illegal-sentence judicial-abuse judicial-authority jurisdiction sentencing sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum |
Whether trial court abused their authority by allowing the state attorney office to impose a sentence contrary to the requirements of the law on doubl… |
| 18-5605 |
Robert S. Beyer, II v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
admissibility appellate-procedure bad-character-evidence character-evidence criminal-procedure de-novo-review due-process evidence-rules federal-rules-of-evidence presumption-of-admissibility rule-403 rule-404 sentencing-guidelines victim-vulnerability |
Do Fed R. Evid. Rules 403 and 404 create a presumption favoring admissibility of bad character evidence? |
| 18-194 |
Craig Robert Nunn v. Tennessee Department of Correction, et al. |
Tennessee |
2018-08-14 |
Denied |
|
community-supervision-for-life constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process ex-post-facto parole-conditions retroactive-application retroactive-punishment sex-offender-directives sex-offender-registration |
Does the retroactive application of the Sex Offender Directives to Mr. Nunn violate the Ex Post Facto Clause of the United States Constitution? |
| 18-5532 |
Galindo Jose Ruiz-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alien-smuggling bodily-injury causation causation-standard criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process foreseeability immigration mens-rea reasonable-foreseeability sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the application of sentencing enhancements under U.S.S.G. § 2L1.1(b)(6) and § 2L1.1(b)(7) without requiri… |
| 18-5533 |
Brandon Maurice Shannon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review certiorari-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit harmless-error judicial-remand plain-error post-conviction-relief retroactivity rosales-mireles sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Should this Court grant certiorari, vacate the judgment, and remand in light of Rosales-Mireles v. United States |
| 18-5552 |
Victoriano Vega-Jimenez, aka Jose Raul Hernandez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-circuit 18-usc-3582 18-usc-3582(c)(2) circuit-split conflict-with-precedent criminal-sentencing drug-amount drug-quantity drug-sentencing eligibility sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-amendment-782 |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has entered a decision that is in conflict with its own precedent and the decision… |
| 18-5554 |
Carlos Troche-Alvarado v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-U.S.C-3553 18-usc-3553 above-guidelines-sentence adequate-explanation appellate-review criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion erroneous-factual-basis judicial-discretion procedural-reasonableness prosecution-recommended-sentence sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a sentencing court violates 18 U.S.C. § 3553 when it imposes an above-Guidelines sentence, which also exceeds the prosecution's recommended se… |
| 18-5559 |
Travis Michael Easter v. Brigitte Amsberry, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing criminal-sentencing-enhancement due-process factual-innocence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel legal-innocence miscarriage-of-justice recidivism recidivist-enhancement recidivist-statute sentencing-error three-strikes three-strikes-law |
Whether the state of Oregon's imposition of a true life sentence under a three strikes sentencing recidivist enhancement statute is a miscarriage of j… |
| 18-188 |
Ivy T. Tucker v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-08-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split constitutional-deficiency constitutional-law criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum offense-of-conviction out-of-circuit-precedent procedural-default sentencing sentencing-guidelines trial-counsel |
Whether trial counsel's failure to make an argument that courts of appeals outside the circuit have accepted amounts to constitutionally deficient ass… |
| 18-5547 |
Jose Estrada-Corrales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 appeal certiorari criminal-procedure due-process federal-appeals remand retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines supreme-court |
Should this Court grant certiorari, vacate the judgment, and remand in light of Chavez-Meza v. United States |
| 18-5538 |
Shawn J. Gieswein v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing guidelines molina-martinez-v-united-states peugh-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-errors sentencing-guidelines tenth-circuit volina-martinez-v-united-states |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit erroneously speculated that the District Court would have imposed the same sentence o… |
| 18-5484 |
William N. Washington v. California |
California |
2018-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-sentencing custody-credits due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus original-sentence penal-code penal-code-1170.18 proposition-47 resentencing safe-neighborhoods-act sentencing sentencing-discretion |
Whether the trial court erred in failing to recalculate all days of custody from the date of original judgment, and only awarded custody credits from … |
| 18-5504 |
William Lem Posey, II v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing descamps-approach divisibility element-analysis element-based-approach grammar-based-approach mandatory-guidelines non-generic-offense sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a non-generic offense is divisible under Descamps v. United States |
| 18-5510 |
Quincy Andre Jones v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
allocution appeal-waiver direct-appeal due-process fundamental-error fundamental-errors mandatory-guidelines plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines |
Whether an appeal waiver in a plea agreement can prohibit a defendant from challenging on direct appeal unforeseeable fundamental errors committed by … |
| 18-5516 |
Isaiah Galbreath v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-sentencing empirical-basis fifth-circuit judicial-review methamphetamine methamphetamine-sentencing presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-standard second-circuit sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a sentence imposed under the methamphetamine sentencing guideline, which was crafted without benefit of Sentencing Commission expertise or emp… |
| 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… |
| 18-5483 |
Martin R. Vandemerwe v. Steve Langford, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice retroactive-decision savings-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Is the Circuit Split between the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and other listed Circuits sufficient given it denies defendant's in all the other Ci… |
| 18-5496 |
Alfredo Perez, Jr. v. California |
California |
2018-08-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-doctrine apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-fact-finding judicial-findings jury-trial resentencing sentencing sixth-amendment three-strikes-law |
Does the federal constitution, as construed in Apprendi v. New Jersey, permit a court to find a defendant ineligible for resentencing based on judicia… |
| 18-5468 |
Raul Villarreal and Fidel Villarreal v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
acquitted-conduct appellate-review constitutional-rights dismissed-conduct fifth-amendment sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-review sixth-amendment statutory-law statutory-maximum |
Whether an upward departure from the advisory Sentencing Guidelines is subject to appellate review |
| 18-5469 |
Chad Allen Dorton v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion obstruction-of-justice offense-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment standard-of-review |
Did the district court err in applying the sentencing guidelines offense enhancement for obstruction of justice? |
| 18-5422 |
Dedrick T. Garrett v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
career-offender circuit-split collateral-review constitutional-law mandatory-guidelines pre-booker retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-vagueness vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(a)(2)'s residual clause is void for vagueness with respect to defendants sentenced under the pre-Booker mandatory Guidelines |
| 18-5390 |
Khalil Abu Rayyan v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment uncharged-conduct upward-variance |
Whether the district court violated Khalil Abu Rayyan's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights by imposing an upward variance of almost three times the top … |
| 18-5391 |
Daniel Sexton v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-981 circuit-split criminal-forfeiture-liability criminal-procedure dismissed-charges due-process forfeiture-liability honeycutt-v-united-states joint-and-several-liability sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Does this Court's reasoning in Honeycutt v. United States, 137 S. Ct. 1626 (2017), limiting joint and several forfeiture liability to what a defendant… |
| 18-5397 |
Alejandro Parra-Ramos v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure defendant-prejudice due-process government-misconduct judicial-discretion plain-error plea-agreement plea-agreement-breach prejudice prosecutorial-breach sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-recommendation sentencing-variance upward-variance |
whether a defendant suffers prejudice when the government breaches a plea agreement by calling its agreed-upon recommendation irrational, and the cour… |
| 18-5373 |
Otis Sykes v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process guidelines guidelines-range harmless-error judicial-error molina-martinez-v-us rosales-mireles-v-us sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights |
Whether the defendant's substantial rights were affected by the district court's use of 'additional evidence' in imposing a guidelines sentence within… |
| 18-5375 |
Christopher Henriquez v. California |
California |
2018-07-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors burden-of-proof capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process equal-protection jury-trial mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt |
Whether the California death penalty scheme violates the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 18-5336 |
Ventron Vaneke Lott v. Patrick Warren, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion michigan-law sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Whether the trial court erred in sentencing the petitioner under the restrictions of OV-1 and OV-2 of the Michigan Sentencing Guidelines in violation … |
| 18-5313 |
Joseph Steele v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-sentencing elements-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erroneously determined that the statutory definition of a 'violent felony' under the 'elements cla… |
| 18-5308 |
O'Neil Anthony Harris v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines congressional-intent guideline-amendment judicial-discretion sentence-enhancement sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform upward-variance |
Whether a district court disregards congressional intent and imposes an unreasonable sentence when it applies an upward variance to the advisory sente… |
| 18-5247 |
James McCray v. S. L. Burt, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jury-trial minimum-sentence plea-bargaining reasonable-doubt sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth Circuit decision is objectively unreasonable as a matter of due process, because McCray's sentencing guidelines offense variable(s) … |
| 18-5258 |
Howell Miller v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure criminal-procedure due-process en-banc-review judge-found-facts judicial-fact-finding sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment uniformity-of-decisions united-states-v-booker |
whether-a-drastically-increased-sentence-violates-the-sixth-amendment |
| 18-5266 |
Michael Ferguson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines arrest-records bare-arrest-records dismissed-charges due-process evidence-reliability hearsay hearsay-evidence reliability-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
What standard of scrutiny does Due Process require courts to use when evaluating the reliability of evidence courts rely on to impose a sentence? |
| 18-5245 |
Jesus M. Rios-Ramos v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-07-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act beckles-precedent beckles-v-united-states career-offender career-offender-guideline criminal-law due-process johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness |
Whether the Supreme Court should address the application and contours of the residual clause of the Career Offender guideline, U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2, in li… |
| 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… |
| 18-5241 |
Victor Maturino v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law commentary-amendments destructive-devices double-jeopardy due-process firearms firearms-possession guideline-commentary offense-level-increases rulemaking-authority sentence-enhancement sentencing-commission-process sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Sentencing Commission may amend the commentary to the Sentencing Guidelines to create new categories of conduct that increase sentences wi… |
| 18-5204 |
Jose Luis Morales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure due-process enhancement evidence fact-finding immigration immigration-law judicial-error sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation undocumented-aliens |
Whether the lower court erred in applying the enhancement under section 2L1.1(b)(2)(B) for transporting aliens |
| 18-5207 |
Omar Montoya v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 circumstances-beyond-control criminal-sentencing,sentencing-guidelines,abuse-of criminal-sentencing,sentencing-guidelines,sentenci discretion sentencing-guidelines sentencing-range timeliness |
Whether the district court erred in denying petitioner's request for resentencing under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) due to a subsequent lowering of the sen… |
| 18-5187 |
Verissimo Tavares v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
beckles-v-united-states career-offender congressional-directive crime-of-violence criminal-sentencing-guidelines due-process johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states procedural-error residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether application of the residual clause of the definition of crime of violence' in U.S.S.G. §4B1.2(a)(2) constitutes procedural error in light of J… |
| 18-5193 |
William Brown v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion beckles-precedent beckles-v-united-states crime-of-violence due-process federal-sentencing-law johnson-v-united-states procedural-error residual-clause sentencing-guidelines void-for-vagueness |
Whether reliance on the 'residual clause' of the 'crime of violence' definition in the United States Sentencing Guidelines, U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(a)(2), is… |
| 18-5168 |
Jose Palacios, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing de-novo-resentencing due-process remand remand-rule resentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Should this Court resolve the conflict among the circuits concerning whether the remand rule should be interpreted restrictively, as held by three cir… |
| 18-5171 |
Erick Rolando Lopez-Mendez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process empirical-basis federal-sentencing illegal-reentry immigration presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a sentence produced by the former illegal-reentry guideline, §2L1.2, is entitled to a presumption of reasonableness on appeal |
| 18-5176 |
In Re Winex Eugene |
|
2018-07-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence article-iii career-offender case-or-controversy categorical-approach constitutional-review redressability residual-clause sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers standing standing-civil-procedure |
Whether Mr. Eugene's incarceration constitutes a case involving substantial injury and satisfies the Article III case or controversy requirement |
| 18-5107 |
Willard Quinn v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bodily-injury crime-of-violence criminal-law force-clause injury sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-requirement violent-force |
Whether the force clause of the Sentencing Guidelines' definition of 'crime of violence' can be satisfied by a statutory requirement that a defendant'… |
| 18-5112 |
Benjamin Fredrick Charles Robinson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
base-offense-level criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing dismissed-count due-process mandatory-minimum restitution sentencing-guidelines statutory-minimum upward-departure |
Whether a four-level upward departure for conduct underlying a dismissed count is reasonable when the conduct was already accounted for in the base of… |
| 18-5129 |
Rodolfo Trejo v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-counting due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection immigration sentencing sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness |
Whether Petitioner's Sentence Constitutes Impermissible Double Counting |
| 18-5155 |
Omar Qazi v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bail-reform bail-reform-act constitutional-rights dangerousness due-process pre-trial-detention pretrial-detention sentencing-guidelines speedy-trial speedy-trial-act |
Whether the excessive prolonged detention of the petitioner has become punitive in violation of the Due Process Clause |
| 18-5114 |
Nigel L. Faison v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Whether the district court erred in accepting the petitioner's guilty plea without a sufficient factual basis, in violation of due process |
| 18-5115 |
Stanley Lee Hayward v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-assault crime-of-violence due-process equal-protection essential-elements habeas-corpus sentencing-guidelines statute |
Whether the lower tribunal abused its discretion in denying petitioner the right to due process and equal protection of law in holding that his prior … |
| 18-5116 |
Benjamin A. Gibbs v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure due-process jurisdiction life-sentence murder patent retroactive-application sentencing-guidelines standing takings uncharge-offense |
Whether the petitioner's life sentence for an uncharged offense of murder violates due process, retroactive application of law, and sentencing guideli… |
| 18-5144 |
Julio Gutierrez-Jaramillo v. Warden, FCI Gilmer |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3585 bureau-of-prisons bureau-of-prisons-program-statement criminal-procedure due-process extradition federal-bureau-of-prisons foreign-detention judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-credit sentencing-guidelines time-credit time-served united-states-v-wilson |
Whether prior credit for time held in foreign detention can only be given by the Federal Bureau of Prisons and not by the district court at sentencing |
| 18-20 |
Arkadiy Bangiyev v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability counsel-stipulation criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain plea-bargaining sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment writ-of-certiorari |
Did the court of appeals err in denying petitioner's motion for a certificate of appealability to review the denial of an evidentiary hearing on petit… |
| 18-5080 |
Derrick Pittman v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
carachuri-rosendo-v-holder career-offender career-offender-enhancement criminal-sentencing north-carolina-justice-reinvestment-act north-carolina-law post-release-supervision predicate-felonies sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guideline united-states-sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the period of post-release supervision mandated for offenders punished under the North Carolina Justice Reinvestment Act is part of the term o… |
| 18-5097 |
Antonio Torres v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-activity defendant-role mitigating-role paid-tasks proprietary-interest rebuttable-presumption sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction |
Whether U.S.S.G. § 3B1.2 now contains a rebuttable presumption that a mitigating role reduction should be granted upon a showing by the defendant that… |
| 18-5108 |
Jaime Davila-Reyes, aka Peluche, aka Pai, aka Jaime, aka Chezina v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-sentencing dismissed-charges due-process judicial-discretion preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness unproven-allegations |
Whether Petitioner's sentence was substantively unreasonable because the district court violated due process when it enhanced Petitioner's sentence ba… |
| 18-16 |
Larone Frederick Elijah v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-02 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing-guidelines-harmless- district-court federal-sentencing harmless-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness variance-sentence |
When a criminal defendant argues that a district court made an error in calculating his United States Sentencing Guidelines range resulting in a sente… |
| 18-5072 |
Jill M. Evans v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility burden-on-court-system criminal-procedure due-process efficient-punishment federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines guilty-plea plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines unrelated-offenses |
Should a defendant receive credit under the acceptance of responsibility guideline for entering a guilty plea, even if alleged to have committed unrel… |
| 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… |
| 18-5033 |
Johnny L. Dawson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-sentencing due-process eleventh-circuit modified-categorical-approach prior-convictions prior-offenses sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing,criminal-law,statutory-interpretation statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding Petitioner's prior offenses qualified him under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 1… |
| 18-5056 |
Joshua D. Bouziden v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924e armed-career-criminal-act criminal-sentencing divisibility juror-unanimity modified-categorical-approach predicate-conviction prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether a predicate prior conviction under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), is divisible for purposes of the modified categorical ap… |
| 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… |
| 18-5011 |
Xavier Cardona v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-review asset-seizure burden-of-proof civil-forfeiture currency-seizure drug-trafficking drug-transaction due-process evidence-standard judicial-conversion procedural-due-process property-rights sentencing-guidelines |
Was the court of appeals correct in affirming the district court's conversion of the petitioner's seized cash into cocaine when there was no evidence … |