guidelines-error

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
22-5028 Damien Dre Gonzales v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP adam-walsh-act appeals commerce-clause criminal-procedure district-court federal-kidnapping federal-sentencing guidelines-error harmless-error sentencing-guidelines Is a district court's Guidelines error always harmless when the court states that it would have imposed the same sentence regardless of the Guidelines…
21-6240 Michael Roger Clemons, aka Chinaman v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review district-court guidelines-error harmless-error sentencing-error standard-of-review Whether any procedural sentencing error can be deemed harmless if the district court announces, without further explanation, that it would have impose…
20-6631 Aaron Sebastian Redmond v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-sentencing constitutional-law district-court-discretion due-process federal-sentencing fifth-circuit guidelines-error harmless-error sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines Whether the Fifth Circuit's rule that a Guidelines error is harmless if the district court states it would have imposed the same sentence regardless o…