judicial-vindictiveness

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-5456 John E. Gilcrease v. Louisiana Louisiana 2023-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review consecutive-sentence constitutional-rights due-process judicial-vindictiveness north-carolina-v-pearce plea-bargaining remand sentencing-modification Were John Gilcrease's due process rights violated when the court imposed a more onerous, consecutive sentence after his original sentence was vacated …
21-1185 Rufino Valdez-Lopez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-02-28 Denied circuit-split collateral-attack criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judicial-vindictiveness sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment Whether the Pearce presumption of judicial vindictiveness applies when a second (new) sentencer imposes a harsher sentence following a successful coll…
20-7798 Christopher Williams v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-04-20 GVR Relisted (4)IFP armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance drug-transactions judicial-vindictiveness law-enforcement-officer occasions-different prosecutorial-vindictiveness sentencing sentencing-recommendation undercover-law-enforcement Are sequential drug transactions over a short time frame 'committed on occasions different from one another' for purposes of the Armed Career Criminal…
19-5987 Ronald Richard Brown v. Washington Washington 2019-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation double-jeopardy due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-vindictiveness north-carolina-v-pearce presumption-of-vindictiveness reversed-convictions sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act state-courts supreme-court washington-state Whether the Washington State Courts can refuse to adhere to the Supreme Court's holding in North Carolina v. Pearce
18-9570 Cody Joseph Morgan v. Texas Texas 2019-06-07 Denied IFP appeal double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-vindictiveness north-carolina-v-pearce retrial sentencing sentencing-package texas-v-mccullough Whether Texas v. McCullough created a bright-line rule that the presumption of judicial vindictiveness under North Carolina v. Pearce is inapplicable …
18-8778 Fred Huffman v. Dana Metzger, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-justice ex-post-facto-law judicial-vindictiveness redress-of-grievance retroactive-sentencing time-bar Retroactive amendment of U.S. Constitution's ex-post facto law
18-6674 Octavious Lamar Rhymes v. Texas Texas 2018-11-09 Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy due-process judicial-vindictiveness jurisdiction prosecutorial-vindictiveness same-criminal-episode venue-transfer Where Rhymes' due process rights violated by prosecutorial and judicial vindictiveness