judicial-findings

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22-574 Tiffany Lay, et vir v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-21 Denied Response Waived appellate-review bench-trial bench-trials circuit-court-review civil-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure findings-of-fact judicial-findings obiter-dictum standard-of-review stare-decisis 1. Whether Federal District Court judges in conducting complex bench trials, by issuing ostensible "findings" which fail to specially and specifically…
21-5530 Luis Gomez-Castro v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process judicial-findings obstruction-of-justice perjury plain-error-review sentencing-guidelines I. Sentencing Guideline §3C1.1 provides a 2-level enhancement for obstruction of justice and applies if a defendant testifies untruthfully about a mat…
20-7320 Zbigniew Laskowski v. Washington State Department of Labor and Industries Washington 2021-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights de-novo-review due-process evidence judicial-findings prosecutorial-discretion standing statutory-interpretation Whether in reviewing a claim, appellate court must 1) apply de novo review where a superior court trial judge failed to make specific findings on the …
20-5253 Douglas Farrar, Sr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process false-testimony findings judicial-findings obstruction-of-justice perjury presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the generic adoption of a Presentence Report is sufficient to discharge the court's duties to make express and independent findings for an obs…
19-8453 John Christopher Dobbs v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure cross-reference district-court federal-rules firearm-possession judicial-findings presentence-report rule-32 sentencing-guidelines When a defendant disputes that he has committed a Cross Reference crime, does Rule 32(i)(3)(B) require the district court to make specific findings ab…
19-6558 Antonio Lebaron Melton v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-07 Denied IFP due-process federal-court-review federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-findings state-court state-court-deference strickland-v-washington trial-strategy wilson-v-sellers witness-investigation 1. Whether Wilson v. Sellers requires faithful adherence to the last reasoned decision of a state court, or may federal courts bolster such a decision…
19-5889 Jonathan Torres-Arroyo v. New Jersey New Jersey 2019-09-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP alleyne-precedent alleyne-v-united-states criminal-procedure judicial-findings jury-trial mandatory-minimum ring-v-arizona sentencing sentencing-court state-v-kiriakakis Did the New Jersey Courts make an invalid distinction from Alleyne v. United States, 570 U.S. 99 (2013), in holding that the defendant's right to a ju…
18-5837 David Lee Roberts v. Alabama Alabama 2018-08-30 Denied IFP capital-sentencing criminal-procedure death-penalty federal-law hurst-v-florida judicial-findings jury-sentencing jury-verdict retroactivity ring-v-arizona Did Hurst invalidate Alabama's capital sentencing scheme?
18-5496 Alfredo Perez, Jr. v. California California 2018-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-doctrine apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-fact-finding judicial-findings jury-trial resentencing sentencing sixth-amendment three-strikes-law Does the federal constitution, as construed in Apprendi v. New Jersey, permit a court to find a defendant ineligible for resentencing based on judicia…