first-offender

Case	Title	Lower Court	Docketed	Status	Flags	Tags	Question Presented
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	Whether a first-time offender's 23-year prison sentence, resulting from a 104.4% upward variance, is unreasonable due to sentencing factors and judici…
24A634	Royhem Deeds v. Kevin Sprayberry, Warden	Georgia	2024-12-27	Presumed Complete		aggravated-assault alford-plea constitutional-challenge first-offender habeas-corpus post-conviction	Whether an Alford plea to aggravated assault can be constitutionally challenged in a post-conviction habeas proceeding when the petitioner was sentenc…
22-750	Nathan D. Crisp v. Georgia, et al.	Eleventh Circuit	2023-02-09	Denied	Response Waived	criminal-procedure due-process first-offender forgery jury-trial perjury void-judgment	Can the State of Georgia use a perjury and forgery guilty plea and perjury First Offender to bypass Petitioner Sgt. Crisp's jury trial and due process…
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…