| 24-6972 |
Michael John Stitts v. Brian Eller, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure drug-quantity guidelines-interpretation indictment leadership-role sentencing-enhancement |
Whether a federal sentencing enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 3B1.1(a) is permissible when leadership participants are charged in a separate indictment |
| 22-7722 |
Félix Vega-La Torres v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ancestry constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing Does the State Court Decision to deny Petitioner's due-process economic-status equal-justice equal-protection
22-7721" ethnicity federal-prosecution federal-questions guidelines-interpretation judicial-bias national-origin petition-for-appeal puerto-rico-defendants race reversible-error sentencing-discrimination state-court-decision |
Does a federal judge's increased sentence targeting a Puerto Rico defendant for higher punishment violate constitutional, statutory, and guidelines pr… |
| 21-6946 |
Gregory Lozado v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
borden-decision circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law felony-menacing force-clause general-intent guidelines guidelines-interpretation sentencing |
Does Colorado felony menacing qualify as a crime of violence under the Guidelines force clause after Borden v. United States? |
| 20-6337 |
Tramaine Standberry v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct crime-of-violence criminal-law district-court-discretion due-process guidelines-interpretation jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement unconstitutional upward-variance |
Did the jury convict Mr. Standberry for a crime of violence that this Court has held is unconstitutional? |
| 19-5871 |
Patrick Jones v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempt controlled-substance controlled-substances federal-crime federal-law guidelines-interpretation mandatory-minimum offer-to-sell preparatory-action sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation substantial-step tenth-circuit-precedent |
Did the district court err in increasing the defendant's sentence based on the Guidelines definition of 'controlled substance offense'? |
| 19-5219 |
Bobby G. Pullen v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 circuit-split criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 criminal-sentencing guidelines-interpretation habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-guidelines successive-habeas-petitions successive-motion vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
Whether the residual clause of the mandatory guidelines, USSG §4B1.2(a)(2) (2004), is void for vagueness |
| 18-9581 |
Marcus Arenell Evans v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-rights booker booker-remedy booker-v-us constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure guidelines-interpretation plea-agreement plea-bargaining public-policy sentence-appeal-waiver sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines-interpretation |
Does a sentence-appeal waiver frustrate the remedy fashioned by this Court in U.S. v. Booker, thereby rendering the waiver unconstitutional or void as… |
| 18-9303 |
Larry Ray Lincks v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver booker booker-remedy constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process guidelines-interpretation plea-agreement plea-bargaining public-policy sentence-appeal-waiver sentencing sentencing-guidelines sufficiency-of-evidence |
Does a sentence-appeal waiver that purportedly precludes a challenge to the sufficiency of enhancement evidence and the district court's interpretatio… |
| 18-7773 |
Jose Jorge Espinoza-Mendoza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alien-smuggling appellate-review criminal-appeal criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-review guidelines-interpretation immigration risk-assessment sentencing-enhancement standard-of-review stare-decisis statutory-interpretation |
whether-the-sentencing-enhancement-under-u.s.s.g.-§-2l1.1(b)(6)-was-properly-applied |
| 18-7393 |
Rodrigo Roman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process firearm-enhancement firearm-possession guidelines-interpretation sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-enhancement stare-decisis |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's application of the firearm enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1(b)(1) without requirin… |