| 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… |
| 24-5454 |
Jesse Alaniz Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal felony-classification fifth-amendment sentencing-enhancement substantive-due-process texas-robbery |
Whether the Court of Appeals and District Court erred in construing a 1987 Texas robbery conviction as a felony for Armed Career sentencing, violating… |
| 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 … |
| 22-6992 |
Samuel Reaves v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process felony-classification involuntary-plea parole parole-revocation plea-agreement plea-bargaining prison-sentence rehabilitation sentencing street-time |
Whether it is legal to start a prison sentence, then stop it and then restart it by adding more time, is it legal to revoke street time on parole when… |
| 22-6468 |
Herbert Isaac Perkins v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-01-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act crime-of-violence criminal-law felony-classification hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 21-6525 |
George Patrick v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
class-of-felony criminal-procedure error-correction felony-classification judicial-authority revocation-hearing sentencing sentencing-correction statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether a district court has the authority to correct an error in its original determination of the class of felony at a revocation hearing |
| 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 |
| 18-5839 |
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 |
| 18-5127 |
Martinez Orlando Black v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process felony-classification habitual-offender ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-delinquency prior-conviction recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Did the failure of defense counsel to object to the increase in Petitioner's sentence into the 'aggravated range' at Felony Class C, by use of a prior… |