judicial-response

Case	Title	Lower Court	Docketed	Status	Flags	Tags	Question Presented
23-5389	Wilfredo Rodriguez v. United States	Eleventh Circuit	2023-08-18	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	appellate-review circuit-split colorable-claim criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process federal-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion judicial-response sentencing sentencing-argument	Where a federal criminal defendant raises a colorable sentencing argument, must the district court acknowledge and respond to it?
18-8181	Feliciano Soto-Lugo v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2019-02-28	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure defendant-leniency district-court-discretion due-process judicial-response preservation-of-error reasonableness reasonableness-objection sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review	Must challenges to the district court's failure to respond to a defendant's non-frivolous grounds for leniency be preserved by a separate 'reasonablen…