non-violent-offense
9 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6427 | Devin Joe Smith v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-12-23 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession non-violent-offense second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been convicted of 'a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exce… |
| 25-425 | Steven Duarte v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-10-08 | Denied | Amici (2)Response WaivedRelisted (5) | circuit-split constitutional-challenge felony-ban firearms-possession non-violent-offense second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1)'s categorical ban on the possession of firearms by felons is unconstitutional as applied to a defendant with non-violent … |
| 25-269 | Selim Zherka v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General | Second Circuit | 2025-09-09 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (3) | constitutional-rights criminal-conviction disarmament firearms-possession non-violent-offense second-amendment | Whether the Second Amendment permits the government to disarm an American citizen because he has been convicted of a non-violent fraud offense |
| 22-7618 | Dennis Dewayne Jackson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-05-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment first-time-offender non-violent-offense non-violent-offenses procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines | whether-the-sentence-of-138-months'-imprisonment-imposed-on-a-first-time-offender-violated-the-eighth-amendment-prohibition-against-cruel-and-unusual-… |
| 20-5408 | Robert Richard Jodoin v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-08-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process eighth-amendment federal-sentencing military-veteran non-violent-offense reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines veteran-status | Whether a 130-month prison sentence for a non-violent, drug dealing, 50-year-old, military veteran is unreasonable |
| 19-7626 | Lonnie Rarden v. Ohio | Ohio | 2020-02-12 | Dismissed | IFP | cruel-and-unusual-punishment disproportionate-sentences due-process eighth-amendment non-violent-offense non-violent-offenses proportionality-review sentencing sentencing-disparity | Is sentencing a defendant to a de facto life sentence for non-violent offenses a violation of the Eighth Amendment right against cruel and unusual pun… |
| 18-8793 | Larry Burstein v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-04-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-proportionality constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing drug-crimes drug-dealing drug-offense due-process eighth-amendment elderly-defendant elderly-offenders non-violent-crime non-violent-offense sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent | Whether a forty-eight (48) month prison sentence for a first time non-violent, drug dealing, sixty-nine (69) year old grandfather is unreasonable, vio… |
| 18-8441 | Gaetan Dinelle, aka Gates v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-03-18 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-justice cruel-and-unusual-punishment disproportionate-sentence eighth-amendment first-time-offender marijuana-trafficking non-violent-offender non-violent-offense proportionality sentencing | Whether a life-sentence for a non-violent, first-time offender, who trafficked in marijuana, is unreasonable, disproportionate, and amounts to cruel a… |
| 18-8145 | Desmond Farmer v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | amendment-782 assault criminal-classification criminal-history drug-abuse drug-offense drug-offenses due-process equal-protection family-member judicial-discretion non-violent-offense sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction violent-offender | Whether the court erred in deeming the petitioner as a 'violent offender' instead of a 'drug abuser' and using that as a reason to deny a sentence red… |