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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 24-7078 | Guillermo Vasquez-Landaver v. United States | First Circuit | 2025-04-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | drug-quantity federal-crime possession-with-intent schedule-drug standard-of-review state-offense | Did the drug quantity determination and its application to either the federal crime of possession with intent to distribute or the state offense of fu… |
| 24-6972 | Michael John Stitts v. Brian Eller, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2025-04-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure drug-quantity guidelines-interpretation indictment leadership-role sentencing-enhancement | WHEN FEDERAL DEFENDANTS ARE ATTRIBUTED A DRUG QUANTITY FAILS TO TESTIFY - CONDUCTED AND THERES NO REQUIRE REVERSAL BASED ON EXTRAPOLATION AND THE CH… |
| 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 | WHEN FEDERAL DEFENDANTS ARE ATTRIBUTED A DRUG QUANTITY BASED ON EXTRAPOLATION AND THE CHEMIST FAILS TO TESTIFY AS TO HOW THE EXTRAPOLATION WAS CONDUCT… |
| 24-6344 | Tamir Abdullah v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-01-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure drug-quantity fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing-range statutory-interpretation | Section 404 of the First Step Act made retroactive the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010's changes to the cocaine-base drug-quantity thresholds in 21 U.S.C.… |
| 24-6114 | Davis Ennis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-12-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy-statute drug-quantity judicial-fact-finding mandatory-minimum rule-of-lenity sixth-amendment | This case presents a question whether judicial fact-finding of a greater type and quantity of a controlled substance, an element of the offense, requi… |
| 23-7616 | Jacob Ray Owens v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof co-conspirator-evidence criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-purity drug-quantity ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel methamphetamine-purity sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Whether the purity of outside-the-conspiracy methamphetamine, linked to Owens's conspiracy solely by personnel, permitted an inference that Owens's me… |
| 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 | I. Whether the district court erred by sentencing the Defendant to three hundred sixty (360) months in light of the circumstances of the case? II. Wh… |
| 23-6589 | Reginald L. McCoy v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-01-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-resentencing drug-quantity first-step-act judicial-discretion prior-finding sentencing sentencing-review statutory-threshold | Whether a First Step Act movant's entitlement to review hinges on the statutory sentencing threshold for his offense, or may be foreclosed by a prior … |
| 23-6524 | Lynn Richard Norton v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-01-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal crack-cocaine criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance obstruction-of-justice sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington | (1) Whether Defense Counsel Jessica McAfee Performance Was Ineffective Assistance Under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 104 S.Ct. 2052, 80 L.E… |
| 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… |
| 23-6148 | Lawrence Jeffrey Brooks v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-12-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure civil-procedure district-court drug-quantity due-process judicial-discretion judicial-transfer motion-to-dismiss sentencing sentencing-enhancement standard-of-review transfer-of-venue | I. Whether the District Court erred by transferring the case back to the original District Court Judge after the case was reassigned to another Distri… |
| 23-341 | Bobby Lee Ingram v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-10-02 | Denied | Relisted (2) | apprendi-v-new-jersey concepcion-v-united-states drug-quantity eleventh-circuit fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-penalty terry-v-united-states | 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit has violated Terry in holding that, at step one, district courts should disregard the "elements" of a defendant's offe… |
| 23-5605 | Alfred John McDonald v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-09-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-history drug-quantity due-process evidence-standard hemp marijuana procedural-fairness relevant-conduct | 1. Whether McDonald's right to due process was violated when the drug quantity attributed to McDonald was based in part on vague ledgers, unrebutted e… |
| 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 | Issue 1. In the case at bar the sentencing judge refused to a apply a higher standard than a mere preponderance when the issue was, based on a drug… |
| 23-27 | Michael Harper v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-07-10 | Denied | apprendi-v-new-jersey circuit-split criminal-resentencing drug-quantity fair-sentencing-act first-step-act judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-penalty terry-v-united-states | Under the First Step Act of 2018, courts may reduce certain previously imposed sentences to match the penalties in the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010. Th… | |
| 22-7783 | Pinkney Clowers, III v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-06-14 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | apprendi circuit-split concepcion-v-united-states criminal-enterprise drug-quantity fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation terry-v-united-states | When a jury convicted Pinkney Clowers of continuing a criminal enterprise, 21 U.S.C. § 484(b) mandated a life sentence because his offense involved at… |
| 22-7444 | 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 | I. Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law when it conducted a cursory review of the facts related to the district courts erroneous decision to… |
| 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's practice of shifting the burden of production and proof to the defendant at sentencing violates a defendant's Due Process … |
| 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 | 1. Whether certiorari review should be granted where the Eleventh Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of Rodriguez' objection to th… |
| 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 | Throughout three cycles of 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) proceedings, the district court has denied Raymond Mendez a reduction to his life sentence based on … |
| 22-5183 | Douglas Emmanuel Carey, III v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-07-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constructive-possession drug-distribution drug-quantity evidence-reliability expert-testimony opinion-witness sentencing-determination voice-identification wiretap-evidence wiretap-necessity | I. Numerous lay witnesses were allowed to "identify" Mr. Carey's voice on recorded telephone calls despite a lack of reliability in the identification… |
| 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 | 1. Who bears the burden of proving or disproving "personal use" quantities when making drug quantity determinations for purposes of the narcotics guid… |
| 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… |
| 21-7638 | Carlos Jimenez v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-04-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-defendant criminal-law drug-offenses drug-quantity mandatory-minimums mens-rea scienter sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court | Whether the government can subject a criminal defendant to the escalating mandatory minimums and maximums under 18 U.S.C. § 841(b), without proving th… |
| 21-7623 | Mary Ann Lara v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-04-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | Section 841 burden-of-proof controlled-substances criminal-intent criminal-law drug-quantity drug-trafficking federal-prosecution mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | Whether, in prosecutions brought under Title 21, Section 841, the Government must prove a defendant's knowledge of drug type and quantity? |
| 21-6966 | Juan Sampel v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-01-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review drug-quantity due-process evidence evidence-withholding government-misconduct judicial-discretion sentencing | Does an appellate court violate principles of Due Process when it disregards substantial evidence, which questions a district court's drug quantity fi… |
| 21-6901 | Wilbert Mathes v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-01-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-counsel certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure drug-quantity drug-quantity-enhancement evidentiary-hearing fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel leadership-enhancement sentencing sentencing-errors | Whether the Fifth Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability, where the district court erred or alternatively abused its discretion by conclud… |
| 21-5715 | Ronald George Whitehouse v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-09-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review burden-of-proof co-defendant criminal-procedure drug-offenses drug-quantity due-process fifth-circuit probation-officer reversible-error sentencing | 1. THE PETITIONER OBJECTED TO THE PROBATION OFFICER'S CONCLUSION THAT THIS DEFENDANT WAS RESPONSIBLE TO 10 KILOS OF METHAMPHETAMINE AS A RESULT OF GIV… |
| 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 | I. 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 "… |
| 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 | The Appellant's Appeal was denied on June 1, 2021 by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. In this case, the Appellant raised one (1) issue for determin… |
| 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 | 1. Whether a finding on the issue of drug quantity that increases the statutory maximum sentence requires the jury to make an individualized determina… |
| 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 | The most important question to be resolve by the US Supreme Court is if Petitioner Paul Surine and others in his own situation should be given a reduc… |
| 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 | WAS PRESENTENCE REPORT'S CALCULATIONS ON QUANTITY O'F DRUGS UNDER U.S. SENTENCING GUIDELINES MANUAL § 2D1.1 ATTRIBUTED TO DEFENDANT PROPER BASED ON FA… |
| 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 when it held, contrary to this Court's holding in Molina-Martinez, that any error in the District Court's choice be… |
| 20-7461 | David Kendrick v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-03-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggregation alleyne-precedent alleyne-v-united-states criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-quantity mandatory-sentence mandatory-sentencing rowe-interpretation threshold-quantity united-states-v-rowe | In applying a mandatory sentence in a drug conspiracy case, does Alleyne v. United States, 570 U.S. 99, 133 S.Ct. 2151 186 L.Ed.2d 314 (2013), when re… |
| 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, reversibly, in affirming the district court's decision—making a drug quantity determination, after the Remand—wher… |
| 20-6841 | Steven Jones v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-01-12 | Denied | IFP | apprendi apprendi-standard circuit-split covered-offense drug-quantity federal-criminal-statute first-step-act sentencing sentencing-range statutory-penalties | I. Whether "statutory penalties" in § 404(a) of the First Step Act modifies the entire phrase – "a violation of a Federal criminal statute" – as the E… |
| 20-6802 | Noel Jones v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | automatic-reversal constitutional-defect criminal-liability criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-quantity due-process guilty-plea sentencing-enhancement structural-error | (1) If a criminal defendant pleading guilty to a drug conspiracy is required to admit to an enhancing drug quantity as part of his guilty plea but has… |
| 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 | 1. Whether a federal district court must use the "err on the side of caution" principle when approximating the drug quantity? |
| 20-6468 | Kinzey Shaw v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-11-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure drug-quantity evidence sentencing standard-of-review | 1. Whether there was sufficient foundation to support the District Court's drug quantity approximation? 2. Whether the Eighth Circuit's decision to a… |
| 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… |
| 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 | 1. Whether the district court procedurally erred in miscalculating Sedberry's drug quantity base offense level. 2. Alternatively, whether the distric… |
| 19-8445 | Freddie Lee Curry, aka King of da Hood, aka Rat v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-05-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 alleyne alleyne-ruling criminal-procedure drug-quantity fair-sentencing-act first-step-act mandatory-minimum sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation | Did the District Court abused its discretion when it failed to to apply Alleyne to Appellant's sentence reduction under Section 404(b) of the First St… |
| 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. |
| 19-7804 | Ramon F. Flores v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-02-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 appeal criminal-procedure drug-quantity guideline-range guidelines procedural-bar sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-amendment | In a sentence reduction application matter pursuant to 1 8 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) under Amendment 782,to the Sentencing Guidelines, if a defendant object… |
| 19-7735 | Ronnie Kearby v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-02-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | base-offense-level burden-of-proof drug-conspiracy drug-quantities drug-quantity due-process evidence federal-courts non-testifying-coconspirator non-testifying-informant preponderance-of-evidence | 1. In a federal drug conspiracy case where there is no drug seizure, may a court accept a mere allegation of estimated drug quantities from a non-test… |
| 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 | 1. 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 f… |
| 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… |
| 19-6005 | 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 | 1.) Did the lower courts err when they imposed and affirmed Mr. Malone's sentence based on overreliance on his Criminal History? 2.) Is Mr. Malone's … |
| 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 | QUESTION #1: In a " Modification Proceeding pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2)," as to a retroactively applicable amendment to the U.S. Sentencing Gu… |
| 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 | 1. WHETHER THIS COURT SHOULD GRANT CERTIORARI TO ADDRESS THE PROPER APPLIATION OF LAW TO FACT RELATING TO SUFFICIENCY OF THE EVIDENCE FOR QUANTITY DET… |
| 18-9608 | Trinidad Jesus Garcia v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-06-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process judicial-interpretation plain-error procedural-error sentencing standard-of-review | Does the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals decision conflict with decisions of the Supreme Court in United States v. Molina-Martinez, United States v. R… |
| 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 | The Court of Appeals erred by not requiring the District Court to correctly apply the Federal Sentencing Guidelines. Specifically, the sentencing cour… |
| 18-8843 | John Leroy Milne v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-04-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure drug-identity drug-quantity due-process evidence reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence | Mr. Milne was convicted, in separate counts, of conspiracy to possess and knowingly possessing with intent to distribute more than 100 kilograms of ma… |
| 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 | I. WHETHER PETITIONER RECEIVED THE EFFECTIVE REPRESENTATION OF TRIAL COUNSEL WHEN COUNSEL FAILED TO PROPERLY INVESTIGATE THE CASE AND THE SIXTH CIRCUI… |
| 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? Did the District Court err by not performing separate calculations und… |
| 18-7814 | William E. Brown v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights drug-quantity due-process eighth-circuit equal-protection ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining standing strickland-standard takings | I. (i) WHETHER COUNSEL. RENDERED INEFFECTIVENESS FOR FAILING TO OBJECT TO THE DRUG QUANTITY CALCULATION IN THE PSR, USED THREATS TO CORCE PETITIONER T… |
| 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… |
| 18-7419 | 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 | Because the stipulation in the plea bargain which limited the amount and type of drugs was not followed or advocated by the Government, Mr. Becerra wa… |
| 18-7282 | Benjamin Edward Henry Bradley v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process factual-findings objection presentence-report sentencing sixth-circuit | Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals errer in affirming the district court's sentencing judgment where the district court adopted the Presentence Re… |
| 18-614 | In Re George Houston | 2018-11-09 | Denied | alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey collateral-review conspiracy conspiracy-liability criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-quantity jurisdictional-error mandatory-minimum retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Whether it is the individualized drug quantity that is a fact that increases the mandatory minimum sentence or whether the amount of drugs attributabl… | ||
| 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 | The United States District Court of New Mexico denied the motion for reduction the sentence, Amendment 782 §3582(c)(2) spite the quantity of drugs inv… |
| 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 | I. Despite the dismissal of Anthony Lomax's conspiracy charge, during sentencing the district court assigned 16.8 kilograms of heroin to him. While a … |
| 18-5770 | John Denton Rouse, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-08-28 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | but no text of a SCOTUS petition was provided in I cannot generate a question presented or identif please include the full text of the petition. chapman-v-united-states criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process mandatory-minimum market-oriented-approach sentencing statutory-interpretation | Whether the government may commingle substances that pose an identifiable danger of misidentification to produce an aggregate mixture or substance con… |
| 18-5663 | Curtis Lee Dale v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne-precedent alleyne-v-united-states criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing,mandatory-minimum,ju drug-quantity due-process eighth-circuit-error fourth-amendment,search-and-seizure,drug-sniffing- fourth-amendment,search-and-seizure,reasonable-exp jury-findings jury-rejection mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Did the U.S. Court of Appeals For The Eighth Circuit err when it increased the Defendant's mandatory minimum sentence on the basis of a drug quantity … |
| 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 Decisio… |
| 18-5177 | Herman Majors v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-07-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | concurrent-sentence criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-quantity due-process foreseeable-drug-quantity ineffective-assistance sentencing sentencing-prejudice sixth-amendment | I. Whether a defendant in a drug conspiracy case suffers prejudice when his attorney fails to argue at sentencing that foreseeable drug quantity is li… |
| 18-5121 | Leslie Dominic Musgrove v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-07-05 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | acquitted-conduct drug-quantity due-process jury-verdict nelson-v-colorado preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence relevant-conduct sentencing sixth-amendment | Question # 1 Whether it is a Sixth Amendment and Due Process violation for a judge at sentencing to attribute acquitted and relevant conduct by a pr… |