| 25-5404 |
Darren Smith v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure mitigation-arguments official-victim-enhancement procedural-error sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a district court commits procedural error when imposing a within-Guidelines sentence without addressing a defendant's mitigation arguments or … |
| 23-7565 |
Juan Aguiera-Guzman v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-reasoning mitigation-arguments plain-error sentencing sentencing-discretion silent-record |
Whether the holding in Molina-Martinez applies to sentencing-errors, such as the clear Rule 32 violation here |
| 22-7517 |
Phillip Daniel Love v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split district-court-explanation holguin-hernandez-v-united-states mitigating-arguments mitigation-arguments preservation-of-error rita-v-united-states sentencing-arguments sentencing-procedure standard-of-review |
Whether a party is required to specifically object to the district court's failure to explain its rejection of nonfrivolous sentencing arguments after… |
| 20-6702 |
Tomas Moreno-Turrubiates v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 appellate-review mitigation-arguments plain-error-review procedural-reasonableness procedural-unreasonableness sentence-explanation sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights |
whether-district-court-must-address-mitigation-arguments |
| 20-6237 |
Jamar Parker v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-history district-court mitigating-factors mitigation-arguments procedural-reasonableness sentencing substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the 168-month sentence is procedurally and substantively reasonable |
| 20-5825 |
Larry Lamar Nance v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review central-thesis circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion mitigation mitigation-arguments sentencing sentencing-review |
Whether a sentencing court must address all material, non-frivolous arguments in mitigation |
| 18-7588 |
Frank Odom, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver district-court due-process fourth-circuit mitigation mitigation-arguments plea-agreement remand sentencing |
Does a plea agreement with an appeal waiver waive the right to obtain a remand requiring the district court to actually consider the defendant's mitig… |
| 18-7140 |
Tommy Ray Hull, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
chavez-meza-precedent chavez-meza-v-united-states circuit-split district-court district-court-discretion due-process fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-standard mitigation mitigation-arguments sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in its standard of review when a district court fails to address arguments of counsel in mitigation of sentencing |