mandatory-minimum-sentences

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
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 Whether petitioner is entitled to reinstatement of plea offer due to counsel's failure to inform him of mandatory minimum sentence
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 Whether the Ninth Circuit contravened Harmelin's plurality and Ewing by exempting all sentences imposed under 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(A)(vii) from Eight…
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 whether-instructional-error-is-plain
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 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 relat…
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 Whether the Circuits have interpreted the actus reus of federal carjacking too narrowly by requiring the threat of violent physical force as an elemen…
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 Whether the district court erred in raising the petitioner's criminal-history-category and offense-level to achieve a comparable sentence after the Fi…
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 Whether the Circuits have interpreted the actus reus of Hobbs Act robbery too narrowly by requiring violent physical force as an element of the offens…
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)
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 Whether combining in the Executive Branch the power to charge and the power to control sentences in statutory mandatory minimum cases violates the Fif…
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 Whether a state statute criminalizing possession of 'counterfeit' controlled substances qualifies as a 'serious drug offense' under the Armed Career C…
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 is eligible for relief from a mandatory minimum sentence und…
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…