guideline-interpretation

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-6950 Lawrence Guerain Fleming v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure felon-in-possession guideline-interpretation judicial-interpretation obstruction-of-justice pre-investigation-conduct sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines Can the sentencing guideline be applied to the defendant's conduct, which occurred before any justice was being administered and before any investigat…
23-6757 Bryan Alan Kennert v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-02-15 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP actual-loss deference economic-offenses guideline-interpretation intended-loss judicial-deference loss-calculation sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether Application Note 3(A)(ii) to U.S.S.G. § 2B1.1 is an impermissible addition to and/or modification of this guideline that is outside of the aut…
22-7439 Julio Osorio v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-law guideline-interpretation ransom-crime sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation whether-the-5th-circuit-erred-in-applying-a-6-point-enhancement-for-crimes-against-government-to-crimes-against-civilians
22-5580 Derrick Dion Ingram v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearm-enhancement firearms guideline-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether the commentary to U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(b)(6)(B) is inconsistent with the guideline
21-5999 Steven Dewayne Gilbert v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-10-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure career-offender-guideline circuit-split criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion guideline-interpretation holguin-hernandez procedural-reasonableness sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness Whether the holding in Holguin-Hernandez that a defendant's argument in the district court for a lower sentence preserves appellate review of the subs…
21-496 Martez L. Smith v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) categorical-approach conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure guideline-interpretation overt-act sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the categorical approach for generic offenses applies to the offense of conspiring under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 Application Note 1 and requires an o…
21-5122 Juan Angel Velasquez-Canales v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion felony-enhancement guideline-interpretation immigration prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the district court erred in applying a six-level enhancement under Section 2L1.2(b)(2)(C) of the Sentencing Guidelines
20-6436 Daniel Lovato v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law commission-commentary crime-of-violence guideline-interpretation judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie seminole-rock-deference sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether courts may defer to Sentencing Commission commentary without first determining that the underlying Guideline is genuinely ambiguous
19-7404 Joseph James Roe v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process enhancement-factors essential-factor guideline-interpretation guidelines judicial-discretion leadership-role lower-court-guidance sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-3b1.1(a) Whether a district court may impose a sentence enhancement under USSG § 3B1.1(a) for leadership role based on a factor not mentioned in the Sentencing…
18-8359 Jarrett Terrell Edwards v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review career-offender criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fourth-circuit guideline-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g-4b1.1 u.s.s.g.-4b1.1(a) Whether the United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals committed error by sentencing the Petitioner as a career offender pursuant to U.S.S.G. § 4B1…