individualized-sentencing

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6570 Orlanda Travon Sloan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-01-13 Pending Response WaivedIFP criminal-history individualized-sentencing mental-health-considerations methamphetamine-offense sentencing-guidelines youth-mitigation Whether the Sentencing Guidelines' static Criminal History Categories and excessive offense levels for methamphetamine actual/ice fail to propose a re…
24-5248 Jason Wade Grant v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process individualized-sentencing mitigating-factors sentencing-discretion Whether a sentencing court's failure to consider mitigating factors and individual circumstances violates a defendant's constitutional rights to indiv…
21-7083 Michael Kenneth Rich v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-02-09 Denied IFP conspiracy criminal-sentencing due-process due-process-of-law future-tense-instruction individualized-responsibility individualized-sentencing panel-decision rico-conspiracy rico-enterprise Whether a RICO enterprise with legitimate and illegitimate purposes violates due process and individualized sentencing
21-5899 Joseph Vasquez, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender guidelines individualized-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness substantive-review Whether a below guidelines sentence can still result in a substantively unreasonable sentence?
20-7988 Robert Allen Poyson v. Arizona Arizona 2021-05-11 Denied IFP aggravating-factors capital-sentencing causal-nexus constitutional-review death-penalty eighth-amendment individualized-sentencing mitigation-evidence non-statutory-mitigation Is the individualized capital sentencing requirement guaranteed by the Eighth Amendment violated when a State predetermines that in all cases only min…
20-7851 Luis Noel Cruz, aka Noel v. United States Second Circuit 2021-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment contemporary-standards-of-decency criminal-procedure due-process individualized-sentencing juvenile-sentencing legislative-trends life-sentence mandatory-minimum miller-rule sentencing-discretion Should the protections of Miller v. Alabama be extended to 18-year-olds?
20-5887 Charles Kunta Lewis, Jr. v. Michigan Michigan 2020-10-02 Denied IFP age-consideration brain-development constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment individualized-sentencing juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing mandatory-minimum sentencing Whether the sentence given to Mr. Lewis was unconstitutional because it violated the prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment when his youthfu…
19-8667 Diamante Alfred v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process individualized-sentencing judicial-bias judicial-discretion plea-bargaining recusal sentencing supervised-release supervision-violation Does a district court fail to appropriately individualize a sentence where the sentence imposed is based on a 'promise' made by the judge, long before…
19-5191 Kenneth Byron Davenport v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP age-determination criminal-procedure individualized-sentencing juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing mental-disability mental-health mental-health-and-mental-retardation-act mental-illness miller-v-alabama post-conviction-relief post-conviction-relief-act schizophrenia Does the legal 'right' recognized in Miller v. Alabama include all substantive components necessary to its creation, including the well-established ra…
18A1229 Sam Newman v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-05-29 Presumed Complete eighth-amendment individualized-sentencing juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama second-degree-murder Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits sentencing a juvenile offender to life without parole for multiple second-degree murder convictions without ind…
18-5246 Warren Darrell Rivers v. Texas Texas 2018-07-17 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-punishment-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment individualized-sentencing sentencing sentencing-determination Whether prosecution evidence that a capital defendant has been sentenced to death once before in the same case impermissibly undermines the sentencing…