presidential-commutation

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
21-6107 Thomas Johnson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-27 Denied Relisted (3)IFP criminal-procedure criminal-resentencing district-court-discretion factual-developments fair-sentencing-act first-step-act legal-developments presidential-commutation sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether a district court must or may consider intervening legal and factual developments when deciding to impose a reduced sentence under the First St…
19-6389 Quincy Dennis v. J. A. Terris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-10-25 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 categorical-approach drug-offense federal-procedure habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-relief-28-usc-2241 intervening-change mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence presidential-commutation presidential-pardon retroactive-application retroactively-applicable-decision sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether petitioner Dennis is entitled to seek federal habeas corpus relief
18-6095 Jose Luis Buenrostro v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 habeas-corpus magwood-rule magwood-v-patterson motion-to-vacate new-judgment presidential-commutation sentence-reduction successive-motion Whether a prisoner whose sentence has been reduced from life to 30 years imprisonment through a presidential commutation may file a new motion to vaca…