minor-role
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22-6558 | Roshua Marquiston White v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-01-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-sentencing minimal-role minor-role sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review | Petitioner, ROSHUA MARQUISTON WHITE, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 500 or more grams of methamphetamine. He object… |
| 21-7598 | Irvin Garces v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-04-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administration-of-justice criminal-procedure drug-offense exceptional-importance federal-law fifth-circuit minor-role sentencing-guidelines | I. Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law when it conducted a cursory review of the facts related to a warranted two-level adjustment under U.… |
| 20-8395 | Luis Bernal-Villareal v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-06-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | average-participant criminal-procedure drug-importation lower-courts minor-role sentencing-guidelines ussg-3b1.2 ussg-analysis | Whether, in a drug importation offense, managers and supervisors of the offense should be considered "average participants" for purposes of a USSG § 3… |
| 20-6789 | Lilia Abril Olmedo-Perez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administration-of-justice appellate-review criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-law fifth-circuit minor-role sentencing-guidelines | Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law when it conducted a cursory review of the facts related to a warranted two-level adjustment under U.S.S… |
| 20-5868 | Manuel Acosta-Lopez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | in a run-of-the-mill drug smuggling case between is a participant who had a managerial role in the criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-smuggling drug-trafficking managerial-role mexico-united-states-border mexico-us-relations minor-role participant-classification role-adjustment role-in-offense sentencing-guidelines | Whether, in a run-of-the-mill drug smuggling case between Mexico and the United States, is a participant who had a managerial role in the offense excl… |
| 19-7820 | Marcus Derby v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-02-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split conspiracy conspiracy-involvement criminal-procedure drug-trafficking essential-participant minor-participant minor-role reduction sentencing-guidelines supplier | In 2015, the United States Sentencing Guidelines were amended to clarify that defendants are entitled to the "minor role" reduction, even if they are … |
| 19-5634 | Daniel Marquez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 9th-circuit appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing downward-adjustment minor-role ninth-circuit sentencing sentencing-adjustment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-rule-10 ussg-3b1.2 | Petitioner contends that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit erred in affirming the lower Court decision deny minor role after failing to pr… |
| 18-7715 | Jose Flores v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure district-court-discretion drug-quantity due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure minor-role minor-role-reduction plea-bargaining plea-colloquy rule-11 sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review ussg-3b1.2 | Was the District Court's failure to determine a factual basis, and to insure that defendant understood the nature of the charges, in violation of Rule… |