guideline-amendment

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-6784 Jose Sanchez Adame v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 due-process equal-protection guideline-amendment pro-se-petition sentencing-reduction Whether a district court may deny a Retroactive Amendment Reduction under 18 USC § 3582(c)(2) based solely on documents on the record that the defenda…
20-6281 Kevin Lamar Ratliff v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment-782 career-offender criminal-law criminal-procedure discretion federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines guideline-amendment judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the Lower Courts have discretion to reduce Petitioner's sentence under U.S.S. Guideline Amendment 782, regardless of Petitioner's career offen…
18-5308 O'Neil Anthony Harris v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines congressional-intent guideline-amendment judicial-discretion sentence-enhancement sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform upward-variance Whether a district court disregards congressional intent and imposes an unreasonable sentence when it applies an upward variance to the advisory sente…