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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-6453 James David Welton v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus maximum-sentence petition-review procedural-challenge sentencing state-court-conviction supervised-release supreme-court-review Whether the sentence of supervised release must be counted within the maximum sentence of imprisonment under 18 U.S.C. 3583(a) and 3583(e)(3)
23-5631 Jason M. Moriarty v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP consecutive-sentences criminal-law criminal-procedure imprisonment maximum-sentence revocation-of-release sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervised-release When revoking multiple terms of supervised release, may the court run the service in prison on each term consecutively to exceed the maximum authorize…
21-6573 Michael Roy Sharpe v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-guarantees criminal-law due-process judicial-factfinding jury-trial maximum-sentence sentencing sentencing-procedure supervised-release trial-by-jury Does § 3583(e)(8) as applied here violate the Fifth and Sixth Amendments by authorizing punishment beyond the maximum for a conviction, based solely o…
21-5694 Shawn Travis Paschal v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights elements-of-offense federal-sentencing maximum-sentence minimum-sentence sentencing Whether facts that affect the minimum or maximum reasonable federal sentence must be treated as elements of the defendant's offense for constitutional…
20-423 LaQuanda Gilmore Garrott v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-02 Denied charge-bargain judicial-review maximum-sentence plea-agreement prosecutorial-discretion sentencing sentencing-discretion separation-of-powers Whether a district judge violates the separation-of-powers by rejecting a plea-agreement containing a charge-bargain based solely on the judge's view …
19-8088 Antonio Rodrigues v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2020-03-24 Denied IFP constitutional-due-process criminal-element due-process felony-murder judicial-determination judicial-fact-finding maximum-sentence predicate-felony sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence trial-evidence Does the Constitution prohibit a State to define a crime to include an element that is to be decided by a judge without evidence; and where the State …
19-5589 Marlon Leroy Porch v. T. Watson, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fundamental-defect maximum-sentence saving-clause sentence-review sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum Whether a fundamental defect is sufficient to satisfy the saving clause where petitioner's erroneous sentence fell beneath the statutory maximum
18-9306 Shawn Sayer v. United States First Circuit 2019-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process maximum-sentence probation-report procedural-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness upward-variance Whether the district court erred by imposing a sentence without adequate explanation pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c), and the length of which sentence…
18-7910 Richard Fuentes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act johnson-v-united-states maximum-imprisonment maximum-sentence revocation-sentence sentencing statutory-maximum substantive-reasonableness supervised-release Can a prison sentence imposed upon revocation of supervised release ever be substantively reasonable when certain conditions are met?
18-6366 John A. Barbosa v. United States First Circuit 2018-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act carachuri-rosendo carachuri-rosendo-v-holder charging-decision charging-document circuit-split judgment maximum-sentence plea-colloquy prosecutorial-discretion record-of-conviction rodriguez-precedent serious-drug-offense state-drug-offense Whether a prior Massachusetts state drug offense that carried a maximum term of imprisonment of two and a half years as charged can constitute a serio…
18-5994 Ricky Wayne White v. Arkansas Arkansas 2018-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-error legal-relief maximum-sentence misdemeanor-enhancement sentencing sentencing-error state-court-jurisdiction state-courts Is an error of a lower State Court in exceeding the maximum sentence legally allowed, cognizable for relief at any time?