recidivist-enhancement

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6756 Jacklin Cheramy v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2026-02-09 Pending IFP criminal-procedure federal-statute predicate-offense recidivist-enhancement sentencing-guidelines state-conviction Whether, consistent with federal statute mandating the application of the United States Sentencing Guidelines in effect at the time of sentencing, a s…
23-7166 Charles Edward Jones v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-09 GVR IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-law habeas-corpus recidivism recidivist-enhancement residual-clause retroactivity second-successive-motion sentencing three-strikes-statute vagueness Whether a constitutional challenge to 18 U.S.C. §3559(c)'s residual clause predicated on Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. 591 (2015), is cognizable …
23-7114 Richard Marschall v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP drug-mislabeling due-process felony fifth-amendment food-and-drug-administration mens-rea recidivist recidivist-enhancement strict-liability Whether the Due Process clause of the Fifth Amendment mandates a mens rea term for the felony recidivist enhancement, 21 U.S.C. § 333(a)(2), of the mi…
23-5429 Tywan Sykes v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-08-24 Denied IFP 18-usc-2251 4th-amendment child-exploitation civil-rights fourth-amendment governmental-entity internet-service-provider private-search-doctrine recidivist-enhancement standing statutory-interpretation Whether the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children is a Governmental Entity
22-7814 Joshua E. Preece v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-06-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP chapter-four criminal-history criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines recidivism recidivist-enhancement relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission Whether the relevant conduct principles of USSG § 1B1.3 govern application of Chapter Four recidivist enhancements
22-5951 Cavon C. Clark v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal concurrent-sentence consecutive-sentence criminal-appeal due-process recidivism recidivist-enhancement resentencing sentencing vindictiveness Whether a more severe sentence of incarceration must be numerically longer than previous sentences, and whether a consecutive sentence is considered m…
18-7388 David Romo v. Ray Ormond, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-802(44) 21-usc-841 categorical-analysis categorical-approach congressional-intent due-process felony-drug-offense recidivist-clause recidivist-enhancement statutory-interpretation vagueness Whether the intent of Congress was to restrict the application of 21 U.S.C. § 841's recidivist enhancement to prior drug trafficking crimes that quali…
18-6665 Maurice T. Smith v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-analysis categorical-approach criminal-law drug-offenses drug-trafficking due-process felony-drug-offense recidivism recidivist-enhancement statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether the intent of Congress was to restrict the application of 21 U.S.C. § 841's recidivist enhancement to prior drug trafficking crimes that quali…
18-5559 Travis Michael Easter v. Brigitte Amsberry, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing criminal-sentencing-enhancement due-process factual-innocence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel legal-innocence miscarriage-of-justice recidivism recidivist-enhancement recidivist-statute sentencing-error three-strikes three-strikes-law Whether the state of Oregon's imposition of a true life sentence under a three strikes sentencing recidivist enhancement statute is a miscarriage of j…