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25A644 Markhel D'John Harris-Franklin v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-12-02 Application circuit-split continuance criminal-procedure ends-of-justice reasonableness speedy-trial-act Whether open-ended ends-of-justice continuances under the Speedy Trial Act are permissible when district courts find them reasonable
25-5795 Jordan Jysae Pulido v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP border-search electronic-device fourth-amendment privacy-rights reasonableness search-and-seizure What limits does the Fourth Amendment's reasonableness requirement impose on searches of electronic devices performed at the border?
25-5149 Jerrell Sims v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure imprisonment reasonableness sentencing-review supervised-release Whether sentences of imprisonment following the revocation of supervised release should be reviewed for reasonableness or plain unreasonableness?
24-870 AMN Distribution, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, et al. v. Athena Cosmetics, Inc., a Delaware Corporation Ninth Circuit 2025-02-13 Denied attorney-fees fraud legal-standard misconduct prevailing-party reasonableness Should attorney time spent due to a prevailing party's fraud and misconduct be presumed unreasonable as a matter of law and excluded from prevailing p…
24-6284 Christopher Duncan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure imprisonment reasonableness sentencing-review supervised-release Whether sentences of imprisonment following the revocation of supervised release should be reviewed for reasonableness or plain unreasonableness?
23-7508 Matias Zarate v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process guidelines reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines seventh-circuit supervised-release Whether a sentence within the guidelines range is unreasonable when the defendant has already served more time on supervised release than originally s…
23-1098 Thomas Cole v. Foxmar, Inc., dba Education and Training Resources Second Circuit 2024-04-09 Denied Response Waived bmw-of-n-am-inc-v-gore civil-procedure due-process harm-to-others jury-award potential-harm punitive-damages reasonableness remittitur tx-production-corp-v-alliance-resources-corp Should the potential harm to others be considered when reviewing the reasonableness of a punitive-damages award under the Due-Process-Clause
23-6837 David Carbonaro v. United States Third Circuit 2024-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review computer-crime computer-use criminal-procedure image-quantity judicial-discretion number-of-images reasonableness sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements Whether the Court erred in its application of the sentencing enhancements and the reasonableness of the sentence imposed
23-901 John C. Frank v. Debra Lee, in Her Official Capacity as Laramie County Clerk, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-02-21 Denied Response Waived buffer-zone burson-v-freeman election-buffer-zone election-day electioneering first-amendment free-speech polling-place polling-place-restrictions reasonableness voter-intimidation Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in upholding Wyoming's 300-foot election-day-buffer-zone without requiring the state to meet any burden to support the…
23-5776 Andrea Lamont Medlock v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure federal-authority imprisonment-review judicial-discretion plain-error reasonableness revocation sentencing-review sentencing-standards standard-of-review supervised-release Whether sentences of imprisonment following the revocation of supervised release should be reviewed for reasonableness or plain unreasonableness?
23-5130 Caleb Bryant Hickcox v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruen circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-procedure reasonableness reasonableness-review second-amendment sentencing sentencing-requirements statutory-interpretation Must district courts comply with 18-usc-3553(c)
23-45 Ethan R. Shields v. United States Armed Forces 2023-07-14 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion digital-forensics fourth-amendment military-justice reasonableness search-and-seizure Whether the Tenth Circuit framework for assessing the reasonableness of digital forensic searches under the Fourth Amendment is appropriate
23-24 Grist Mill Capital, LLC v. Universitas Education, LLC, et al. Second Circuit 2023-07-07 Denied civil-procedure due-process forum-state general-jurisdiction minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction reasonableness rule-60-motion specific-jurisdiction void-judgment Whether the Panel was correct in not following major decisions of both this Court including Daimler v. Baumann and International Shoe and its progeny …
22-7379 Igor Grushko v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement loss-calculation probable-cause reasonableness reasonableness-standard search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing-guidelines Whether the police entering a residence to execute a search warrant must possess probable cause that the person they are seeking is inside the residen…
22-768 Angie Waller, et al. v. Richard Hoeppner, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-02-15 Denied Response Waived civil-rights-act fourth-amendment graham-v-connor municipal-liability reasonableness reasonableness-standard search-and-seizure tennessee-v-garner totality-of-circumstances totality-of-the-circumstances Does the Fifth Circuit's 'narrowed' test of reasonableness of a search or seizure under the Fourth Amendment conflict with the Supreme Court's decisio…
22-5811 Matthew Poulin v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP alcohol-consumption alcohol-prohibition appeal criminal-procedure district-court due-process reasonableness sentencing supervised-release unreasonable-sentence Whether the district court erred in sentencing Mr. Poulin to twelve months considering the circumstances of the case
22-5744 Warne Keahi Young v. Hawaii Island Humane Society, et al. Hawaii 2022-10-03 Denied IFP animal-seizure collateral-estoppel fourth-amendment hawaii-state-court intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress law-enforcement negligence reasonableness reasonableness-standard search-and-seizure Is the standard of reasonableness under the Fourth Amendment the same as the standard of reasonableness under negligence such that a finding of reason…
22-5212 Jonita Desirrae Brown v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review booker-standard criminal-procedure fifth-circuit plain-error plain-unreasonableness reasonableness sentencing supervised-release Whether appellate review of a sentence imposed after the revocation of a defendant's supervised-release term is for reasonableness or merely to see if…
21-8197 Michael James Bosman v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP alternatives criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement-conduct police-conduct precedent probable-cause reasonableness reasonableness-standard search-and-seizure seizure Did the Tenth Circuit misapply this Court's precedent, and wrongly reject Mr. Bosman's Fourth-Amendment-claim, when it dismissed the availability of a…
21-8196 Cody Andrew Anderson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review booker-standard criminal-procedure fifth-circuit plain-error plain-unreasonable reasonableness sentencing supervised-release Whether appellate review of a sentence imposed after the revocation of a defendant's supervised-release term is for reasonableness or merely to see if…
21-8093 Albert Aiad-Toss v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-06-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 18-USC-3553a abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure district-court-discretion procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness supervised-release Whether Mr. Aiad-Toss's lifetime supervised release term was procedurally unreasonable
21-8030 Andre Marcus Buchanan v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a career-offender criminal-procedure due-process plain-error plain-error-review reasonableness sentencing Whether Mr. Buchanan's sentence is unreasonable because it is greater than necessary to accomplish the goals of 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)
21-7891 William Ramirez-Frechel v. United States First Circuit 2022-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-review sentencing Whether the sentence imposed is unreasonable
21-7734 Bruce Mitchell Nicholson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonableness search-warrant time-limit Does a violation of a time-limit prescribed in a search warrant render a search unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment?
20-7655 Lisa Bershan v. United States Second Circuit 2021-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure downward-departure judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines variances Should a sentencing judge be required to rule on downward departure requests before considering variances?
20-7580 Trinidad Jesus Garcia v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing individualized-circumstances judicial-discretion plain-error reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether formal objection to sentencing is necessary to invoke plain error review of the reasonableness of a sentence
20-7052 Joshua Wright v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion mitigating-factors procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing substantive-reasonableness Whether the 151-month sentence is procedurally and substantively reasonable
20-6991 Edwin Jurado-Nazario v. United States First Circuit 2021-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process first-circuit judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-review sentencing Whether the sentence imposed is unreasonable
20-6933 Seledonio Martinez v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-standard totality-of-the-circumstances Whether the 46-month sentence is reasonable given the totality of the circumstances
20-6437 Tommy Pena v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review upward-variance Whether the Tenth Circuit's toothless standard for reviewing the reasonableness of an upward variance is contrary to this Court's case law, United Sta…
20-6213 J. Santos Mondragon-Benitez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-authority imprisonment-revocation plain-error reasonableness reasonableness-standard revocation sentencing-review standard-of-review supervised-release Whether sentences of imprisonment following the revocation of supervised release should be reviewed for reasonableness or plain unreasonableness?
20-6124 Jose Maria Loaiza-Gaspar v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process guideline-sentence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-withdraw reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit abused its discretion when it granted appointed counsel's motion to withdraw and dism…
20-5507 Laci Landers v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure discretionary-review drug-offense guidelines judicial-review reasonableness reasonableness-standard revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines totality-of-circumstances Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial pr…
20-5227 Jesus Hernandez-Medrano v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review due-process empirical-basis fifth-circuit illegal-reentry presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing-guidelines Whether a presumption of reasonableness on appeal does not apply to a sentence produced by the illegal reentry guideline, §2L1.2, because that guideli…
19-8515 Michael Munday v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP disparate-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fairness fifth-amendment judicial-review reasonableness sentencing sentencing-disparity sixth-amendment Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming a 12-year upward departure sentence that violates due-process, double-jeopardy, reaso…
19-7998 Paul Anthony Montanez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines Did the district court impose a plainly unreasonable sentence upon Mr. Montanez?
19-7950 Daejerron L. Valentine v. Nebraska Nebraska 2020-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment ambiguity automobile-exception conjunctive consistency criminal-procedure Did the removal of 'or' create ambiguity? disjunctive fourth-amendment Is a defendant entitled to consistent jury instruc jury-instructions jury-trial legislative-history possession probable-cause reasonableness reasonableness-standard scope-of-search search search-and-seizure search-scope statutory-interpretation warrant-requirement warrantless-search Did the warrantless search of an automobile exceed the scope of the automobile exception?
19-7681 Howard Aron Washington, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-02-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines appellate-review criminal-sentencing gall-v-new-jersey guideline-departure procedural-error procedural-reasonableness reasonableness rosales-mireles Rosales-Mireles-v-United-States sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether the district court's methodology in imposing a substantial guideline departure was inconsistent with this Court's decision in Gall v. New Jers…
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 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 whether-challenges-to-procedural-reasonableness-of-sentence-must-be-preserved
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 Must challenges to the procedural reasonableness of a sentence be preserved by a separate 'reasonableness' objection in district court?
19-6881 April Torres v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion parole probation reasonableness revocation sentencing supervised-release Did the district court impose a plainly unreasonable revocation sentence upon Ms. Torres?
19-6497 David Morillo-Cruz v. United States Third Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the sentence imposed by the Court was reasonable?
19-530 James Kerr Schlosser v. United States Third Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-denial judicial-misconduct mens-rea reasonableness religious-beliefs restitution right-to-a-complete-defense state-of-mind statutory-authority willfulness Whether the lower courts erred regarding the denied evidence, violating the defendant's constitutional right to a complete defense
19-6082 Chase Matheny v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights fourth-amendment home-search liberty liberty-interest overbreadth overbroad probation probation-supervision reasonableness reasonableness-standard supervised-release supervision vagueness Whether a condition of supervision requiring the Petitioner to permit a probation officer to visit him at any time at home or elsewhere is unreasonabl…
19-6059 Serrah Arnold, aka Kristen v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights fourth-amendment home-search liberty-deprivation liberty-interest overbreadth probation probation-supervision reasonableness reasonableness-standard supervised-release vagueness Whether a condition of supervision requiring the Petitioner to permit a probation officer to visit her at any time at home or elsewhere is unreasonabl…
19-5741 Jose Marin Saldana-Reyes v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-consideration non-frivolous-arguments procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-procedure sentencing-standard Whether an appellate court may affirm as procedurally reasonable a sentence imposed where the record contains no indication the sentencing judge consi…
19-203 David Greenberg v. United States Second Circuit 2019-08-16 Denied Response Waived appellate-review circuit-court-review cooperation-agreement criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing reasonableness reasonableness-of-sentence reasonableness-standard second-circuit sentence-disparity sentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines unwarranted-disparity Did the Second Circuit err in affirming Petitioner David Greenberg's sentence without addressing the sentencing court's failure to consider the proper…
19-5269 Reginald Christopher Gilbert v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-22 Denied IFP appellate-procedure appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-review jurisdiction objection reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-review Whether a formal objection after pronouncement of sentence is necessary to invoke appellate reasonableness review of the length of a defendant's sente…
19-5182 Geovanny Antonio Loyola-Villegas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-16 Denied IFP appellate-review empirical-basis federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plain-error presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether a formal objection after pronouncement of sentence is necessary to invoke appellate reasonableness review of the length of a defendant's sente…
18-9379 Paul A. Light v. United States Second Circuit 2019-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography criminal-sentencing ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-bias non-contact-offenders reasonableness recusal second-circuit sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines Whether a sentence imposed pursuant to the child pornography Sentencing Guidelines can be deemed reasonable when the Sentencing Commission has deemed …
18-9233 Michael Perales v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-appeals criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process plain-error procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-explanation sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure 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?
18-9164 Antonio Muro, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-06 GVR Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction objection procedural-requirement reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing Whether a formal objection after pronouncement of sentence is necessary to invoke appellate reasonableness review of the length of a defendant's sente…
18-9131 Ryan Canfield v. United States Second Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights community-caretaking due-process fourth-amendment impoundment inventory law-enforcement probable-cause public-safety reasonableness standardized-procedures vehicle-impoundment Must impoundment be reasonable under the Fourth Amendment, or conducted pursuant to standardized procedures, or both?
18-8834 José Amaya-Vasquez v. United States Third Circuit 2019-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion prior-bad-acts reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-review Whether the Court erred by considering the prior bad acts in the determination of the appropriate sentence?
18-1252 Rev. Barry D. Bilder v. Rev. Beth Mathers, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied civil-rights dna dna-collection due-process fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights reasonableness right-to-counsel search-warrant seizure sixth-amendment Is a Search Warrant (for DNA) reasonable under the Fourth (4th) Amendment?
18-8504 John Whaley v. United States Second Circuit 2019-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process imprisonment procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines supervised-release Whether the imposition of the same twenty-five year term of imprisonment and maximum term of supervised release was both procedurally and substantivel…
18-8405 Mohammed Suleiman Roble v. United States District of Columbia 2019-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-defense criminal-defense-attorney-ineffectiveness due-process exculpatory-evidence government-evidence ineffective-assistance pre-trial-proceedings reasonableness sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington Does Strickland v. Washington require the government's evidence to be weak to find a criminal defense attorney ineffective under the Sixth Amendment?
18-8239 Negus Thomas v. United States Second Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure crosby-remand district-court intervening-change-in-law jacobson-remand law-of-the-case law-of-the-case-doctrine manifest-injustice new-evidence reasonableness reasonableness-review resentencing sentencing Whether the district court erred in declining to resentence the defendant-Petitioner on remand
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?
18-7863 Jeffrey Burris v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553a abuse-of-discretion criminal-sentencing due-process firearms firearms-possession reasonableness reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation unregistered Whether a sixty-month sentence for the simple possession of unregistered firearms, without any evidence suggesting the defendant was doing anything il…
18-7862 Vincent Beatty, aka Jamaal Beatty, aka Vincent Daward Beatty, aka Mozzi v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion advisory-guidelines criminal-history criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing felon-in-possession reasonableness reasonableness-review sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance sua-sponte upward-variance Whether a sua sponte upward variance sentence is reasonable where the advisory Guideline range accurately reflected the defendant's conduct and prior …
18-7739 Gonzalo Holguin-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-04 Judgment Issued Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction objection procedural-requirement reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing Whether a formal objection after pronouncement of sentence is necessary to invoke appellate reasonableness review of the length of a defendant's sente…
18-7566 Pedro Goris, aka Pedro Goriz, aka Pedro Abreu v. United States Second Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appeals appellate-review constitutional-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion reasonableness sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness Whether Petitioner's sentence was both procedurally and substantively unreasonable
18-695 Christopher Chung, et al. v. Gulstan E. Silva, Jr., as Personal Representative of the Estate of Sheldon Paul Haleck, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-27 Denied Amici (1) civil-rights clearly-established-law community-caretaking due-process excessive-force law-enforcement ninth-circuit qualified-immunity reasonableness use-of-force Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in denying the officers qualified immunity
18-6692 Richard D. Waterson, II v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing double-counting fairness justice procedural-reasonableness reasonableness recidivism recidivism-risk sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines Whether the sentence imposed on the petitioner was procedurally unreasonable
18-6404 Tomas Ramirez-Cruz v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-review non-frivolous-arguments procedural-due-process procedural-reasonableness reasonableness rita-v-united-states sentencing-policy sentencing-procedure sentencing-reasonableness Whether an appellate court may affirm as procedurally reasonable a sentence imposed where the record contains no indication the sentencing judge consi…
18-6067 Edward Lee Lewis v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act booker-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process overserved-sentence plainly-unreasonable reasonableness revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-standard standard-of-review supervised-release Whether the appropriate standard of review for a sentence following the revocation of supervised release is the plainly unreasonable' standard or the …
18-6001 Demario Carman v. Georgia Georgia 2018-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment manifest-necessity mistrial-exception reasonableness trial-court trial-court-discretion Whether the protection against Double Jeopardy contained in the Fifth Amendment is an empty promise
18-5970 Allen D. Gorion v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform Whether certiorari should be granted to set forth some guidelines in determining when a sentence is unreasonable?
18-5847 Jaime Shakur Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari-petition chavez-meza circuit-split criminal-procedure en-banc en-banc-review plain-error reasonableness remand sentencing sentencing-reasonableness Should this Court hold this Petition until the court below renders its forthcoming en banc decision in United States v. Reyes-Contreras?