fair-sentencing

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23A572 Darrell Wayne Frederick v. Christe Quick, Warden Tenth Circuit 2023-12-21 Presumed Complete capital-case constitutional-error death-penalty eighth-amendment fair-sentencing habeas-corpus Whether the Eighth Amendment permits the imposition of a death sentence in a manner that potentially violates fundamental principles of fair and relia…
22-5704 Ronald Buzzard, Jr. v. Washington Washington 2022-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-sentencing judicial-misconduct procedural-fairness sentencing sentencing-modification Whether the sentencing judge's handwritten 'fraudulent interlineations' on the face of the judgment, which changed the defendant's determinate sentenc…
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?