leadership-role

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-7205 Oscar Pliego-Pineda v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure evidence-standard federal-sentencing-guidelines leadership-role sentencing-enhancement Whether a Leadership Sentencing Enhancement Is Erroneous Without Evidence That a Defendant Supervised any Specific Individual
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
23-1078 Gregory Jamal Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-04-03 Denied Response Waived direct-appeal fifth-circuit gun-enhancement importation-guideline leadership-role methamphetamine-distinction sentencing-guidelines united-states-district-court united-states-sentencing-guidelines Whether the lower court should have remanded for the recalculation of sentencing
22-6658 Wade Bonk v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal circuit-court-ruling conviction criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion leadership-role retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement Did the District Court err by refusing to apply the Seventh Circuit's ruling in U.S. v. Carnell retroactively since Petitioner's conviction was not fi…
21-6208 Daliang Guo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP control-over-others criminal-procedure criminal-scheme criminal-sentencing leader-enhancement leadership-role ninth-circuit participant-control role-model sentencing-guidelines Whether a defendant who took part in a criminal scheme with multiple participants is properly subject to the leader/organizer enhancement at USSG § 3B…
20-5614 Derrick Anthony Felton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-activity defendant-status due-process judicial-determination leadership-role legal-error plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-enhancement trial-court vagueness Did the Trial Court error in finding that Mr. Felton was an organizer, leader, manager, or supervisor of the criminal activity?
20-5108 Salvador Ojeda-Amarillas v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure firearms-enhancement leadership-role necessity necessity-requirement sentencing-enhancement sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines waiver wiretap wiretap-application Whether the Court of Appeals erred in finding the July 2006 wiretap application met the necessity requirements and whether it erred in holding Mr. Oje…
19-7404 Joseph James Roe v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process enhancement-factors essential-factor guideline-interpretation guidelines judicial-discretion leadership-role lower-court-guidance sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-3b1.1(a) Whether a district court may impose a sentence enhancement under USSG § 3B1.1(a) for leadership role based on a factor not mentioned in the Sentencing…
19-6332 Walter Glenn v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment consent-to-search criminal-procedure fourth-amendment leadership-role obstruction-of-justice rental-vehicle search-and-seizure sentencing-guidelines standing standing-civil-procedure standing-doctrine traffic-stop Whether a relief driver of a rental vehicle had standing to challenge evidence seized from the car