discretionary-relief
12 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-363 | Victor Manuel Castro-Aleman, aka Alfredo Quinones Olmo v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-26 | Denied | Amici (2) | discretionary-relief due-process fundamental-unfairness immigration-law judicial-procedure removal-proceedings | Whether an immigration judge's failure to inform an alien of the right to seek discretionary relief from removal violates due process and thus can con… |
| 24-6131 | Kristopher Jacob Freda v. Oregon | Oregon | 2024-12-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bureau-of-prisons compassionate-release discretionary-relief extraordinary-circumstances first-step-act sentencing-reduction | Whether a district court may reduce a defendant's sentence under the First Step Act's compassionate release provision based on extraordinary and compe… |
| 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… |
| 23-5014 | Jamie Williams v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-07-03 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | apprendi apprendi-rule crack-cocaine-law crack-cocaine-sentencing discretionary-relief eleventh-circuit first-step-act judicial-discretion sentencing-facts sentencing-reduction | Do this Court's First Step Act precedents admit of the uniquely Eleventh Circuit's intermediate step whereby, for the discrete group of individuals st… |
| 22-7794 | Leoncio Perez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-06-15 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey concepcion-v-united-states crack-cocaine-sentencing discretionary-relief eleventh-circuit first-step-act first-step-act-2018 sentence-reduction terry-v-united-states | Whether the Eleventh Circuit's unique rule that precludes certain defendants from receiving relief under the First Step Act's discretionary sentencing… |
| 22-7728 | Warren Lavell Jackson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-06-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey concepcion-v-united-states crack-cocaine-law crack-cocaine-sentencing discretionary-relief eleventh-circuit first-step-act sentencing-reduction terry-v-united-states | Whether the Eleventh Circuit's unique interpretation of the First Step Act conflicts with Supreme Court precedents |
| 22-7533 | Terence Crawley v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-05-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 civil-rights compassionate-release criminal-procedure discretionary-relief district-court-discretion due-process first-step-act non-frivolous-arguments sentencing sentencing-relief supreme-court-ruling | Whether the district court is obligated to consider a defendant's non-frivolous arguments when exercising its discretion to grant or deny relief under… |
| 21-7553 | Larry David Davis v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction | Eighth Circuit | 2022-04-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment administrative-procedure civil-rights discretionary-relief due-process immigration-law ineffective-assistance judicial-review motion-to-reopen speedy-trial | Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the delayed issuance of an arrest warrant and probable cause affidavits |
| 20-979 | Pankajkumar S. Patel, et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-01-22 | Judgment Issued | Amici (6)Relisted (2) | administrative-law citizenship citizenship-misrepresentation discretionary-relief due-process federal-jurisdiction immigration-law inadmissibility judicial-review statutory-interpretation | Whether 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(2)(B)(i) preserves the jurisdiction of federal courts to review a nondiscretionary determination that a noncitizen is ineli… |
| 19-5791 | Marcus Jackson v. Vance Laughlin, Warden, et al. | Georgia | 2019-09-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-counsel appellate-review discretionary-relief discretionary-review error-of-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel irrational-strategy legal-sufficiency sixth-amendment state-appeals sufficiency-of-evidence thirteenth-juror thirteenth-juror-review | Did the Georgia courts err by refusing to remedy appellate counsel's professionally deficient, and prejudicial, waiver of a claim for discretionary re… |
| 18-5322 | Santiago Hum Rodriguez-Aparicio v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-25 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure discretionary-relief due-process fundamental-fairness illegal-reentry immigration immigration-law mendoza-lopez removal-order removal-proceeding uniformity | Whether the failure to inform an alien of his eligibility for discretionary relief in a removal proceeding is a due process violation that can make th… |
| 18-5190 | Marco Antonio Garcia-Echaverria v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-10 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split constitutional-rights deportation discretionary-relief due-process immigration-law removal-proceedings right-to-counsel | Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit—that a non-citizen has no constitutional right to be informed of the … |