mandatory-minimum-sentences
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6964 | Jovan Rivera Rodriguez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-03-05 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | cooperation-agreements federal-sentencing mandatory-minimum-sentences parsimony-clause sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3553(e) bars a district court from considering § 3553(a)'s parsimony clause and sentencing factors in imposing a sentence below a … |
| 23-7650 | Samuel Cuellar v. Jeff Tanner, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2024-06-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure constitutional-violation criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel informed-decision mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences plea-bargaining plea-negotiations sentencing | I. PETITIONER IS ENTITLED TO REINSTATEMENT OF PLEA OFFER WHERE COUNSEL FAILED TO INFORM HIM DURING PLEA NEGOTIATIONS THAT IF HE WAS CONVICTED UNDER MC… |
| 23-7283 | Hector Manuel Gomez Rodriguez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-04-22 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 21-usc-841 constitutional-scrutiny criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences non-capital-sentences proportionality-review sentencing | Did the Ninth Circuit contravene Harmelin's plurality and Ewing by essentially exempting all sentences that a district court imposes under 21 U.S.C. §… |
| 22-5638 | Hector Martinez-Robos v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-09-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substances criminal-procedure jury-instructions mandatory-minimum-sentences mens-rea plain-error sentencing statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether an instructional error is "plain" for purposes of Fed. R. Crim. P. 52(b) when the charge to the jury is erroneous under an opinion of this … |
| 22-5584 | Emru Kebede v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2022-09-15 | Denied | IFP | 8th-amendment age-discrimination due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences roper-v-simmons | 1.) DO THE DECISIONS OF THIS COURT IN ROPER V. SIMMONS AND MILLER V. ALABAMA ESTABLISH A FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT FOR OFFENDERS UNDER 18 YEARS OF AGE AS IT R… |
| 21-5319 | John Louis Devencenzi v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-08-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | carjacking circuit-split crime-of-violence intimidation mandatory-minimum-sentences physical-force residual-clause statutory-interpretation | By its plain language, federal carjacking can be committed by "intimidation." 18 U.S.C. § 2119. This Court recognizes carjacking by intimidation is sa… |
| 20-8383 | Franklin Antonio Rios v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-06-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-history criminal-history-category drug-conspiracy firearm-charges first-step-act fourth-amendment mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences offense-level sentencing-guidelines | I. WHETHER, AFTER THE PETITIONER PLED GUILTY TO A DRUG CONSPIRACY AND TWO FIREARM CHARGES UNDER 18 U.S.C. § 924(0), RESULTING IN MANDATORY MINIMUM SEN… |
| 20-8285 | Enrique Hurtado v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-06-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bank-robbery crime-of-violence federal-armed-bank-robbery hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences physical-force statutory-interpretation | L. By its plain language, Hobbs Act robbery does not require as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use, of violent physical force. The p… |
| 20-6943 | Ronald Lewis Coleman, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-01-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons first-step-act mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences sentence-reduction sentencing | Whether the changes in applicable mandatory minimum sentences worked by the First Step Act can provide extraordinary and compelling reasons to support… |
| 20-6519 | Julian Mondragon-Hernandez, aka David Rojas, et al. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alternative-elements conviction criminal-procedure factual-findings judicial-fact-finding judicial-review jury-instructions jury-verdict mandatory-minimum-sentences mandatory-minimums sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence | When a jury verdict allows for alternative elements of conviction, may courts review the evidence and make factual findings to uphold the conviction a… |
| 20-5758 | Damon Woodard v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-09-18 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924c1c congressional-amendment congressional-amendments first-time-offender first-time-offenders mandatory-minimum-sentences recidivism sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether this Court should revisit and recede from its decision in Deal v. United States, 508 U.S. 129 (1993), which permits the "stacking" of mandator… |
| 19-5622 | Cairo Lopez, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-amendment booker cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process executive-power mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences sentencing separation-of-powers standing | 1. This Court should consider whether combining in the Executive Branch the power to charge and the power to control sentences in statutory mandatory … |
| 18-7032 | Reginald L. Lomax v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-12-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substances criminal-law drug-offense federal-drug-law federal-preemption mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences state-criminal-law statutory-interpretation | The question presented in this case is whether, as the circuit court held, a state statute criminalizing possession of "counterfeit" controlled substa… |
| 18-374 | Wuilson Estuardo Lemus Castillo v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-09-21 | Denied | 18-usc-3553(f) 21-usc-960 circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-enforcement mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act safety-valve sentencing statutory-interpretation | Whether a criminal defendant convicted of violating the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act, 46 U.S.C. § 70501 et seq., and subject to a mandatory minim… | |
| 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… |