preservation-of-error
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6923 | Marco Antonio Naranjo-Aguilar v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2026-02-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review harmless-error legal-standard preservation-of-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-resentencing | 1. Is remand for resentencing required when it is unclear whether the district court applied the correct legal standard in making a factual finding es… |
| 25A526 | Martin Gutierrez-Barba v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-11-06 | Presumed Complete | 18-usc-3553a appellate-review circuit-split federal-sentencing preservation-of-error sentencing-error | Question not identified. | |
| 25-5631 | Brian Goorahoo v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-09-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-appeal federal-sentencing preservation-of-error procedural-error sentencing-procedure | Whether, to preserve for appeal a claim that the sentencing court committed procedural error by failing to explain its sentence adequately or relying … |
| 24-6218 | Anthony McCarary v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-12-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules judicial-explanation preservation-of-error sentencing-reasonableness | To determine whether a sentencing issue is preserved, "The question is simply whether the claimed error was 'brought to the court's attention." Holgui… |
| 23-7398 | Jamaal Parker v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-05-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion new-trial new-trial-standard preservation-of-error reversible-error sentencing sentencing-explanation | This Petition implicates two splits in the Circuits. First, a district judge can grant a new criminal trial "if the interest of justice so requires."… |
| 23A579 | Deonte Marques Curry v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-12-22 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review final-judgment plain-error preservation-of-error rule-52b sua-sponte | Does the exception to the contemporaneous-objection rule in Fed. R. Crim. P. 52(b) apply to claimed errors arising from a district court sua sponte am… | |
| 23-6025 | Deunta Finch v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-11-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure guidelines plain-error-review preservation-of-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit | Has the Sixth Circuit erred by creating a novel doctrine that says, to avoid plain-error review, a criminal defendant must object after the sentencing… |
| 23-5604 | Ernesto Ordunez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-09-18 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | career-offender controlled-substance crime-of-violence elements-clause preservation-of-error prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement | (1) Whether an objection that a prior conviction is not a crime of violence and a district court's subsequent analysis of whether it meets the element… |
| 23-5345 | Henry Robledo v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-08-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules holguin-hernandez-v-united-states preservation-of-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-preservation statutory-interpretation | Is an argument for a sentence based on specific statutory sentencing factors sufficient to preserve a procedural reasonableness claim? |
| 22-7580 | Victor Alfredo Bermudez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-05-17 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing notice-of-objection preservation-of-error preservation-of-objection procedural-error sentencing standard-of-review supervisory-powers trial-court-notice | Whether a specific objection must be lodged to preserve a procedural error claim when the trial court was put on notice of the objection through defen… |
| 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 | When a district court rejects a party's nonfrivolous sentencing argument, the court is required to explain why. Rita v. United States, 551 U.S. 338, 3… |
| 22-5400 | Maurice D. Bell v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-08-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error-review preservation-of-error procedural-error sentencing sentencing-procedure | Whether an appellate court errs under Fed. R. Crim. P. 51 by applying plain error review to a claim of procedural error brought to the sentencing judg… |
| 22-5029 | Christopher Michael Fairley v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-07-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review court-ruling criminal-procedure due-process error-preservation judicial-discretion legal-objection preservation-of-error standard-of-review | Whether parties to a criminal proceeding sufficiently preserve error by informing the court —when the court ruling or order is made or sought —of the … |
| 21-8106 | Jay Jurdi v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-06-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure government-misconduct ineffective-assistance jurisdictional-issue legal-standard preservation-of-error procedural-question self-incrimination sentencing statutory-provisions writ-of-certiorari | Was Jurdi's counsel ineffective for failing to object to, and thereby preserve for appeal, the fact that the government intended to use a non-qualifyi… |
| 21-6384 | Kimani I. Sterling v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-11-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-review criminal-appeal eighth-circuit judicial-procedure preservation-of-error procedural-due-process sentencing sentencing-objections standard-of-review waiver waiver-doctrine | Has the Eighth Circuit imposed upon Mr. Sterling an unlawful burden by finding Sterling waived his argument that the District Court violated procedura… |
| 20-8451 | J. P. v. Arkansas | Arkansas | 2021-06-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure directed-verdict due-process motion-for-directed-verdict preservation-of-error procedural-due-process state-criminal-procedure trial-preservation | Does the State of Arkansas's strict interpretation and enforcement of a procedural rule which requires criminal defendants to identify the specific fl… |
| 20-8453 | Devonte Jaishun Tucker v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-06-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion mitigation preservation preservation-of-error sentencing sentencing-discretion | Whether a defendant must object to sentencing court's failure to consider a nonfrivolous mitigation argument in order to preserve the issue for appeal… |
| 20-7306 | Agustin Madrid, aka Augustin Madrid v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-03-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure case-preservation circuit-split criminal-procedure holguin-hernandez-v-united-states judicial-interpretation legal-objection preservation-of-error procedural-unreasonableness sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review | 1. Whether Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, __U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), is relevant to the objections necessary to preserve claims of procedura… |
| 20-6406 | Jeffrey Neal Cuddington v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split history-and-characteristics preservation-of-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-procedure substantive-reasonableness | I. In Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, this Court reserved whether a formal objection at the time of sentencing is required to preserve abuseof-dis… |
| 20-5692 | Johnathon Nico Wise v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-09-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure error-preservation federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-circuit judgment-of-acquittal legal-motion preservation-of-error rule-29 standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether specific grounds must be identified in a Rule 29 motion for judgment of acquittal to preserve error? |
| 20-175 | Jinil Steel Company, Limited v. ValuePart, Incorporated, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2020-08-17 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure forfeiture judicial-discretion legal-forfeiture oral-argument pleadings preservation-of-error procedural-preservation | Does a litigant forfeit an argument by raising it thoroughly in an oral proceeding in bankruptcy court or other court of first instance, but not in a … |
| 20-5071 | David P. Moran v. Florida | Florida | 2020-07-20 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process fourteenth-amendment motion-preservation preservation-of-error standing trial-procedure | 1. Is Fla. Stat. 924.05l(l)(b) unconstitutional on it's face due to it's conflict with the due process clause of the U.S. Const. 14th Amend.? 2. Shou… |
| 19-7182 | Cirilo Mancilla Lopez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-01-06 | Denied | IFP | appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process legal-objection preservation-of-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-unreasonableness | 1. Whether claims of substantive unreasonableness must be preserved by specific objection? SUB SIDIARY QUESTI ON: Whether the Court should hold the c… |
| 19-7056 | Robert Keith Kinsey v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-12-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court judicial-objection objection preservation-of-error procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-procedure | I. Must challenges to the procedural reasonableness of a sentence be preserved by a separate "reasonableness" objection in district court? |
| 19-6935 | Rickie James King v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-12-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review certiorari criminal-procedure district-court due-process fifth-circuit leniency-arguments preservation-of-error procedural-reasonableness reasonableness remand sentencing sentencing-procedure united-states-v-haymond | I. Must challenges to the procedural reasonableness of a sentence be preserved by a separate "reasonableness" objection in district court? II. Whethe… |
| 19-6932 | Dustin Larmon McDonald v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-12-13 | Dismissed | Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP | appellate-review certiorari criminal-procedure district-court due-process fifth-circuit leniency-arguments preservation-of-error procedural-objection reasonableness sentencing-procedure sentencing-reasonableness united-states-v-haymond | I. Must challenges to the procedural reasonableness of a sentence be preserved by a separate "reasonableness" objection in district court? II. Whethe… |
| 19-5125 | Francisco Gallegos-Lopez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-09 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-3553a 3553(a)-factors abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion preservation-of-error procedural-error sentencing sentencing-recommendation statutory-factors | Does urging a sentencing recommendation lower than that ultimately imposed, and grounded in the statutory factors in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a), suffice to p… |
| 18-9791 | Luis David Moreno-Pena v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-27 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion leniency preservation-of-error sentencing-argument sentencing-reasonableness sentencing-review | Whether challenges to the reasonableness of a sentence rooted in a court's |
| 18-9776 | Irineo Ponce-Recendiz v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | allocution allocution-error appellate-review criminal-procedure defendant-objection defendant-rights due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-procedure legal-error plain-error preservation-of-error rule-51b sentencing | 1. Whether allocution error deprives the defendant of an opportunity to object to that error within the meaning of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure … |
| 18-9692 | Jody Lanardo White v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-17 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error preservation-of-error reasonableness-of-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness standard-of-review | Whether challenges to the reasonableness of a sentence must be preserved by specific objection? |
| 18-8814 | Michael Perales v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-04-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal criminal-procedure district-court due-process objection preservation-of-error sentencing substantial-arguments | I. Whether parties to a criminal action must lodge a separate objection to the failure of a district court to address substantial arguments for a diff… |
| 18-8181 | Feliciano Soto-Lugo v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-02-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure defendant-leniency district-court-discretion due-process judicial-response preservation-of-error reasonableness reasonableness-objection sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review | Must challenges to the district court's failure to respond to a defendant's non-frivolous grounds for leniency be preserved by a separate "reasonablen… |
| 18-8161 | Kali Lord v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-02-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | above-guidelines-sentence appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion plain-error preservation-of-error procedural-error procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-arguments sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness | Is a district court's gross failure to explain an above-range sentence or to respond to arguments for a lesser sentence reversible on plain error? Mu… |
| 18-1021 | Travis Hawkins v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-02-05 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-court federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review preservation-of-error public-trial state-court state-court-decision state-courts | I. WHETHER AN OBJECTION IS REQUIRED TO PRESERVE APPELLATE REVIEW FOR AN ALLEGED PUBLIC TRIAL VIOLATION. II. WHETHER A FEDERAL COURT CAN RELY UPON A S… |
| 18-7265 | Rodney Scot Armstrong, Jr. v. Michigan | Michigan | 2019-01-07 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure closing-argument de-novo-review directed-verdict legal-preservation motion objection preservation-of-error preservation-of-issues prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review trial-procedure | I. Is a motion for a directed verdict an objection that preserves an issue for and mandates de novo review? Petitioner answers, "Yes." Respondent has … |
| 18-6804 | Shane Roach v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-11-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-conflict confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process legal-objection preservation-of-error sixth-amendment standard-of-review | Does a defendant preserve a confrontation issue for review by clearly articulating Confrontation Clause concerns as the basis for his objection withou… |
| 18-6473 | Jeremy Bernard Harrison v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | allocution allocution-error appellate-review criminal-procedure defendant-objection defendant-rights due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-error plain-error preservation-of-error rule-51b sentencing | 1. Whether allocution error deprives the defendant of an opportunity to object to that error within the meaning of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure … |
| 18-6237 | Jacob L. Smith v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-10-09 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-3553 appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal due-process gall-v-united-states plain-error plain-error-review preservation-of-error sentencing sentencing-variance | In order to preserve a § 3553(c) challenge to the adequacy of the district court's sentencing explanation, must a party, who is given no opportunity t… |
| 18-5797 | Carlos Gutierrez-Torres v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error preservation-of-error sentencing sentencing-review | The Circuits are split on whether a defendant has to re-object to the district court's explanation of its sentencing rationale in order to preserve th… |
| 18-5618 | Tae H. Chon v. Barack H. Obama, former President of the United States, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2018-08-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure fairness integrity judicial-proceedings plain-error preservation-of-error remand substantial-rights tenth-circuit | Where the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit leaves open the question of whether or not a plain error affects the petitioner's subst… |
| 18-5094 | Jerry Wayne Sherry v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-06 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance motion-to-suppress preservation-of-error retroactive-precedent retroactivity | Whether defense counsel has a duty to object to inadmissible evidence, and, or file a motion to suppress evidence under the Fourth Amendment to preser… |