| 23-890 |
In Re Batia Zareh |
|
2024-02-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bilingual-election bilingual-requirements circuit-split compassionate-release constitutional-discrimination constitutional-law due-process election-law election-requirements equal-protection equal-protection
23-88" extraordinary-compelling-reasons first-step-act language-minority mandatory-minimum-sentence national-origin sentencing-reduction voting-rights Whether non-retroactive changes in law can be 'ext |
Whether the Bilingual Election Requirements
(52 U.S.C. §10503) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965
(52 U.S.C. §10301, et. sec.) by authorizing coverage
a… |
| 23-6091 |
Valentino Bernard Lee v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process firearm-possession jury-instructions legal-principles mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence possession-of-firearm sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the trial court erred in sentencing defendant to a mandatory 11 year sentence under the 10-20-Life statute for possession of a firearm when th… |
| 23-6014 |
Curtis Conway Bailey v. Bryan Morrison, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sexual-conduct direct-appeal due-process immutable-fact ineffective-assistance-counsel judicial-notice mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence michigan-law sentencing |
1. Whether a trial court can find the fact of a defendant's age as an element of the offense of first-degree criminal sexual conduct under Michigan la… |
| 23A227 |
Calvin Cogdill v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-09-11 |
Presumed Complete |
|
armed-career-criminal-act felon-in-possession-of-firearm mandatory-minimum-sentence predicate-offense preponderance-of-evidence sixth-amendment |
Question not identified. |
| 23-88 |
Jerry L. Brown v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-07-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split compassionate-release extraordinary-compelling-reasons first-step-act mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence resentencing sentencing-commission sentencing-reduction |
Whether non-retroactive changes in law can be "extraordinary and compelling reasons" warranting resentencing under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A). |
| 22-1000 |
William Casiano v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-04-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
certificate-of-appealability contemporaneous-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum-sentence plea-bargaining strickland-prejudice |
1. Does the rule in Lee v. United States, 137 S. Ct. 1958, 1967 (2017), that directs courts to credit contemporaneous evidence, and not "post hoc asse… |
| 21-6332 |
Daeron Johnson Merrett, aka Reez v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals-court-split buyer-seller-instruction circuit-split conspiracy-distribution controlled-substance drug-conspiracy federal-drug-offenses mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-felony |
A SPLIT EXISTS IN THE COURTS OF APPEALS REGARDING THE GRANTING BUYER-SELLER INSTRUCTION IN THE TRIAL OF FEDERAL CONSPIRACY AND DISTRIBUTION CASES.
PE… |
| 21-6283 |
Jamie Joe Dulus v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-113a3 assault-with-dangerous-weapon certificate-of-appealability circuit-split collateral-review federal-assault-with-dangerous-weapon jurisdictional-claim mandatory-minimum-sentence procedural-default violent-physical-force |
1. Federal assault with a dangerous weapon does not require as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use, of violent physical force. Rather… |
| 21-5302 |
Roosevelt Rico Dahda v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-v-united-states criminal-sentencing drug-quantity jury-determination mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence sixth-amendment statutory-maximum statutory-maximum-sentence |
1. Whether a finding on the issue of drug quantity that increases the statutory maximum sentence requires the jury to make an individualized determina… |
| 20-6557 |
Richard Cruz v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process felony-drug-offense fifth-amendment jury-verdict mandatory-minimum-sentence sentencing sixth-amendment vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
I. Whether the definition of "felony drug offense" for the pur poses of 21 U.S.C. §851 is void for vaguene ss after Johnson, Dimaya, and Da vis.
II. … |
| 19-7951 |
Rashad Taylor v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence miller-v-alabama |
1. Does imposition of a mandatory sentence of forty years on a juvenile convicted of a homicide -a sentence imposed pursuant to a statutory scheme tha… |
| 19-6727 |
Tyrone Marvin Andrews v. Noah Nagy, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alibi-defense civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum-sentence plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-review strickland-v-washington trial-counsel |
DID THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT SANCTION DECISIONS OF THE MICHIGAN COURT OF APPEALS AND FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT THAT CONFL… |
| 19-6389 |
Quincy Dennis v. J. A. Terris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 categorical-approach drug-offense federal-procedure habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-relief-28-usc-2241 intervening-change mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence presidential-commutation presidential-pardon retroactive-application retroactively-applicable-decision sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
QUESTION # ONE: Whether petitioner Dennis is entitled to seek
federal habeas corpus relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 on the ground
that 28 U.S.C. § 225… |
| 19-5112 |
Rafael Jacob Stoffel v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-victim mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines sexual-assault sexual-offense sexual-offenses |
Whether a minimum mandatory sentence of twenty-five years' imprisonment imposed for the offense of touching a minor's breast violates the prohibition … |
| 18-1572 |
Matthew D. Priset v. Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
8th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment life-sentence mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence mental-illness sentencing |
Does a mandatory minimum Life Sentence for one who is convicted under The Guilty-But-Mentally-Ill designation constitute cruel and unusual punishment? |
| 18-9549 |
Mauricio Lucas-Lopez v. Tony Trierweiler, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-06-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment disproportionate-sentence eighth-amendment federal-court-decisions federal-courts guidance-needed mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence proportionality sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
A. IS PETITIONER'S TWENTY-FIVE YEAR MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCE DISPROPORTIONATE TO THE OFFENSE COMMITTED VIOLATING THE EIGHTH AMENDMENT OF THE UNITED … |
| 18-9495 |
Jason Jones v. Martha Underwood, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-31 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 federal-habeas-corpus federal-jurisdiction federal-statute habeas-corpus ineffective-remedy intervening-decision mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence post-conviction-relief retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing statutory-construction |
Whether petitioner is entitled to seek federal habeas corpus relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 on the ground that 28 U.S.C. § 2255 is "inadequate or ineff… |
| 18-8900 |
Juan Garcia Herrera v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-v-united-states almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process judicial-factfinding jury-trial mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
1. The enhanced-penalty provisions of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(b) and 851 expressly require that the district court, not a jury, make factual findings which i… |
| 18-7795 |
Markus D. Lanieux v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Blakely Blakely-v-Washington Booker Booker-v-United-States criminal-procedure due-process habitual-offender habitual-offender-law jury-trial mandatory-minimum-sentence reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Reasonable jurists would determine that the sentencing scheme by the State of Louisiana's Habitual Offender Law, LSA-R.S. 15:529.1 A(3)(b) [formally e… |
| 18-7767 |
Joshua Sanchez v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-02-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-interpretation court-of-appeals due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-precedents texas-court-of-appeals |
Whether the interpretation of the Due Process Clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments by the Texas Court of Appeals is in conflict with preceden… |
| 18-7098 |
Amos Junior Scott v. Heriberto H. Tellez, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 federal-habeas-corpus federal-statute habeas-corpus inadequate-or-ineffective ineffective-assistance ineffective-remedy mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence nonexistent-prior-conviction prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement |
Whether Petitioner is Entitled to Seek Federal Habeas Corpus Relief Under 28 U.S.C. § 2241, From an Erroneous Mandatory Minimum Sentence, That Was Bas… |
| 18-6016 |
Fabian Sandoval-Ramos v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy controlled-substances criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-offense due-process enhancement-factor mandatory-minimum-sentence mandatory-minimum-sentences sentencing sentencing-enhancements statutory-interpretation |
In order to trigger a mandatory minimum sentence, must the government allege and prove that an enhancement factor was the object of the conspiracy, or… |
| 18-5680 |
Reginald McGee v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-assault armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act commerce-clause criminal-procedure indictment mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence plea-colloquy sentencing-enhancement violent-felony |
I. The district court reverisbly erred when it determined that the defendant's prior conviction for aggravated assault was a violent felony qual ifyin… |