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25-7151 Abid Naseer v. United States Second Circuit 2026-04-07 Pending Response WaivedIFP appellate-review due-process habeas-corpus resentencing section-2255 sentencing After succeeding in vacating a 40 year sentence on §2255, Naseer had the remainder of his terms restructured to increase his term of incarceration. Th…
25-7155 Lonnie Eugene Lillard v. United States Ninth Circuit 2026-04-07 Pending IFP appellate-jurisdiction ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-error resentencing sentence-package-doctrine supervised-release-violations Did the ninth circuit ruled erroneously when it failed to find that District Gourt had the authority and jurisdiction at the resenting hearing to exer…
25-6796 Carlos Martinez v. California California 2026-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP california-law constitutional-rights criminal-law judicial-interpretation resentencing sentencing-discretion Whether or not vwsf te * j w heVh tr net f Ae s'^.rioi/s h>w <JC A v ^5 'A. jjirvK^, f cdM^cdVon fh<ff Q&pofe$ F&l'* bi&Trt&r i~o a. ter-rn <?r b bt …
25A390 John Elwood Tyrone Martin v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-10-03 Presumed Complete appellate-review guilty-plea ineffective-counsel mandate-rule resentencing withdrawal Question not identified.
25-5669 Stanislav Steven Yelizarov v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence appeal-waiver ineffective-counsel miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement resentencing When a criminal defendant is resentenced after a conviction is vacated because he is actually innocent of the charge, does an appeal waiver in the ple…
24-7396 Arturo Garza, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-06-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure mandate-rule resentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the mandate rule precludes a district court from recalculating a defendant's Sentencing Guidelines range at resentencing based on convictions …
24-6106 In Re Freeman William Stanton 2024-12-10 Denied IFP concurrent-sentences guilty-plea ineffective-counsel mental-disability plea-agreement resentencing 1. WHETHER OR NOT THE PETITIONER IS ENTITLED TO BE RESENTENCED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TERMS OF THE PLEA AGREEMENT THAT IN VOLVES A "QUID PRO QUO" AND …
24-594 Arthur Seale v. United States Third Circuit 2024-12-03 Denied appellate-jurisdiction certificate-of-appealability criminal-judgment post-conviction-relief resentencing section-2255 Can 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) bar courts of appeals from exercising jurisdiction over cases like Dr. Seale's?
24A479 Von Clark Davis v. Charlotte Jenkins, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-11-13 Presumed Complete constitutional-claims death-penalty habeas-corpus resentencing sixth-circuit supreme-court-precedent Question not identified.
24-5468 Dennis L. Flint v. Florida Florida 2024-09-05 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy precedent resentencing sentence-enhancement Can petitioner cl 3errfence cx\[ curbed during r£S£n4-epcin^ \mf-Photdr running afoui c*P double jeopardy principles and curren+ precedent Conrtroltin…
24-5048 Bernard Celestine v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-right criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process first-step-act resentencing sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether Congress incorporated a Constitutional right under the Due Process Clause to a plenary resentencing for an eligible Defendant under Section 40…
24-5016 Michael Medina v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-08 GVR Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-justice-reform first-step-act mandatory-minimum post-conviction-relief resentencing retroactivity sentencing-reduction sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation The First Step Act (FSA) significantly reduced the mandatory minimum sentences for several federal drug and firearm offenses. First Step Act of 2018, …
23-7600 Keith Anthony Rosario v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2024-05-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process minimum-sentence north-carolina-v-pearce pearce-presumption presumption-of-vindictiveness resentencing sentencing-vindictiveness Whether increases in minimum sentences upon resentencing, when no new objective information since the previous sentencing exists to justify the increa…
23-6994 Donald M. Reynolds v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review direct-appeal federal-prisoner guidelines-range resentencing retroactive-amendment sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-modification While a federal prisoner's direct appeal is pending for sentencing issues, and retroactive Amendment 821 is enacted which now lowers the appellant's g…
23-6960 Tasha Mercedez Shelby v. Mississippi Mississippi 2024-03-11 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment cause-of-death death-certificate due-process fourteenth-amendment homicide-conviction medical-examiner recantation resentencing shaken-baby-syndrome May a State, consistent with the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, refuse to resentence petitioner, who was sentenced to life in prison …
23-6097 Montrez Duncan v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-vindictiveness conviction criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion resentencing sentencing unconstitutional Is a court constitutionally vindictive in violation of due process when, after it vacates the conviction and mandatory-consecutive sentence on a count…
23-5758 Jimmy Jay Strayhorn, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 3553(a)-factors constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial pepper-v-united-states resentencing sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation unconstitutional WHETHER OR NOT/WHEN ONE HAS EXCERSIZED HIS RIGHT TO TRIAL AND RF. FOUND GUILTY OF A COUNT IN HIS INDICTMENT THAT WOULD LATER RF. FOUND UNCONSTITUTIONA…
23-312 Lee E. Stephens, Jr. v. Carolyn J. Scruggs, Secretary, Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-09-26 Denied Response Waived constitutional-challenge due-process habeas-relief impeachment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel prior-convictions resentencing right-to-testify sentencing unconstitutional-convictions 1. Whether reasonable jurists could debate whether habeas relief and re sentencing is required when a defendant's sentence was premised on prior convi…
23-5569 Francisco Gutierrez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure criminal-procedure de-novo-resentencing de-novo-review judicial-discretion law-of-case law-of-the-case open-record resentencing sentencing Does law of the case apply to an appeal from a de novo resentencing on an open record?
23-5462 Victor Manuel Solorzano v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split first-step-act intervening-law mandate-rule resentencing sentencing sentencing-package 1. Does Section 403 of the First Step Act, Pub. L. No. 115-391, 132 Stat. 5194 apply to a defendant at a post-Act resentencing hearing following vacat…
23-88 Jerry L. Brown v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-07-31 Denied Response Waived circuit-split compassionate-release extraordinary-compelling-reasons first-step-act mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence resentencing sentencing-commission sentencing-reduction Whether non-retroactive changes in law can be "extraordinary and compelling reasons" warranting resentencing under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A).
23-5148 Bernard Edmond v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-factors first-step-act resentencing retroactive-application sentencing-disparity WHETHER THIS COURT SHOULD GRANT THIS APPLICATION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI AND RESOLVE A SPLIT BETWEEN THE FEDERAL CIRCUIT COURTS AND APPLY RETROACTIVELY…
22-7768 Nidal Ayyad v. United States Second Circuit 2023-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure direct-appeal double-jeopardy habeas-corpus resentencing section-2255 sentencing sentencing-review vacatur Whether, following the vacatur of a count of conviction (either on direct appeal or via a § 2255 motion), the district court must resentence the defen…
22-7734 Christopher Alexander v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act resentencing sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Reduction of Sentence, Pursuant to Section 404 of the First Step Act of 2018, requires a Plenary Resentencing to provide procedural and substantial Du…
22-7735 Vivian R. Woodstock v. Florida Florida 2023-06-08 Denied IFP constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection resentencing restitution sentencing sentencing-discretion Whether a court may impose a harsher sentence upon resentencing after it was determined the initial sentence violated equal protection and due process…
22-7582 Rodolfo A. Cuellar, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-law drug-convictions federal-prisoner first-step-act resentencing sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-retroactivity statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum MoTioN For Reduction Pursuan To 404 Senience of OF thE First ACT And Pre-Booker Issues. Stop Drug CORRECDION OF IDCORLOCT CAlCUlATION f CORRECTiON ofa…
22-7121 Christopher Barret v. United States Second Circuit 2023-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure de-novo-resentencing de-novo-review direct-appeal resentencing sentencing sentencing-discretion vacatur 1. Whether, following the vacatur of one or more counts, either pursuant to a direct appeal or a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion, a district court must conduc…
22-6727 Kenneth Baldwin v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2244 constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure resentencing sentencing state-court statutory-interpretation The first question presented is one who 's being illegally detained pursuant to October 15, 2012 resentencing which authorize custody on new judgment …
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 1. Must a "more severe" sentence of incarceration be numerically longer than the sentences of incarceration previously imposed; and if not 2. Ata thi…
22-5782 Matthew Tassin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 circuit-court circuit-court-authority criminal-procedure district-court federal-prisoner ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel resentencing section-2255 sentencing-authority statutory-interpretation Whether a Circuit Court can limit the authority of a district court to resentence a federal criminal defendant or correct a criminal sentence "as may …
22-5127 Edward Brown v. United States First Circuit 2022-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP co-conspirators double-jeopardy fifth-amendment political-beliefs political-views procedural-reasonableness resentencing sentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines 1. Since the petitioner has been continuously in custody since October 4, 2007, he completely served the sentences of imprisonment imposed by the dist…
21-7591 Donald Morris Lee v. Washington Washington 2022-04-11 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus judicial-remedy judicial-review resentencing sentencing sentencing-error state-action Can the court void the illegally obtained J&S? Can the court reverse and dismiss the conviction? Can the court order Lee released? Can the court di…
21-7471 Jacques Hernes Telcy v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP district-court-authority first-step-act first-step-act-2018 habeas-corpus new-judgment resentencing sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation In the course of a "New Judgment " under the First Step Act of 2018 (FSA2018) new imposed sentence, what truly excess the reset clock for habeas corpu…
21-7318 Abraham A. Augustin v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process federal-court mandatory-sentence resentencing right-to-counsel section-2255 section-3553a sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-requirements SENTENCING IN FEDERAL COURT IS GUIDED BY STATUTE AND CONSTITUTIONAL CONSIDERATIONS. STATUTORY REQUIREMENTS INCLUDE CONSIDERATION OF THE FACTORS IN 18 …
21-7152 Jeremy Heath Barney v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2022-02-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process post-conviction-relief resentencing undisturbed-conviction I. DOES A DEFENDANT HAVE A UNITED STATES CONSTITUTIONAL 14TH AMENDMENT RIGHT UNDER DUE PROCESS - TO ATTACK HIS UNDISTURBED CONVICTION AFTER BEING RESE…
21-6466 Ernest Romond Gibbs, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure direct-appeal judicial-discretion pepper-v-united-states post-sentencing-rehabilitation resentencing sentencing sentencing-evidence In Pepper v. United States, 562 U.S. 476 (2011), this Court held that a district court, in resentencing a defendant, may consider evidence of post-sen…
21-6376 Antonio Soul Gonzalez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-23 GVR Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-resentencing eligibility first-step-act judicial-discretion resentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation The question presented here is analogous to the question presented in Concepcion v. United States, No. 20-1650, on which this Court recently granted c…
21-555 Benjamin A. Appleby v. Kansas Kansas 2021-10-15 Denied Response Waived alleyne due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-trial legislative-directive liberty-interest procedural-due-process resentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment 1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of procedural due process is violated when a State supreme court refuses to enforce its legislature's …
21-5956 Nolan Nathaniel Edwards v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act incarceration notice resentencing sentencing-modification supervised-release I. Whether § 404 of the First Step Act allows a district court to impose a term of supervised release not previously imposed, as it was not a componen…
21-5900 Justin Anderson v. Arkansas Arkansas 2021-10-05 Denied IFP 8th-amendment capital-case constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment prior-offense resentencing sentencing victim-impact victim-impact-evidence 1. Whether the Eighth Amendment permits a State to present victim-impact evidence arising from a crime other than the murder for which the defendant i…
21-5879 Dheadry Powell v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion first-step-act guidelines justification money-laundering resentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines I. UNDER THE FIRST STEP ACT, DID THE DISTRICT COURT FAIL TO PROVIDE A SUFFICIENTLY COMPELLING JUSTIFICATION THAT THOROUGHLY EXPLAINS IT'S ABOVE THE GU…
21-5647 Adolphus Symonette v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-proceeding certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court-discretion habeas-corpus post-offense-rehabilitation reasonable-jurists resentencing sentencing Whether reasonable jurists would find the district court's decision to vacate Count 3 of the second superseding indictment while simultaneously denyin…
21-5474 Antwoyn Terrell Spencer v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-step-act jurisdiction resentencing standing 1. Whether Petitioner is being deprived of his civil right to due process of law against law (without due process of law) in violation of the Fifth Am…
20-8333 Carman Deck v. Paul Blair, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-06-17 Denied IFP delay eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mitigation resentencing sixth-amendment This Court is familiar with Mr. Deck, having reversed his second death sentences due to state action that occurred over Mr. Deck's objection. Three ye…
20-8342 John Willie Johnson, aka Dewayne Henderson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-06-17 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit-review post-borden post-conviction-relief post-johnson resentencing sentencing-enhancement violent-felony The overall issue is whether the Fifth Circuit erred by denying Mr. Johnson a Certificate of Appealability. The underlying issue is whether Mr. Johnso…
20-8347 Terron McAllister v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-resentencing discretion first-step-act guidelines guidelines-range judicial-discretion resentencing sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-discretion Whether a District Court adjudicating a motion for a reduced sentence under the First Step Act abuses its discretion when a defendant would have a sig…
20-8329 Ines Colleen Robinson v. Florida Florida 2021-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-of-appeal criminal-sentencing disqualification due-process florida-court-of-appeal florida-law judicial-bias resentencing writ-of-prohibition WAS ROBINSON DENIED DUE PROCESS WHEN THE FLORIDA COURT OF APPEAL REFUSED TO GRANT HER A RESENTENCING AFTER THE SAME FLORIDA COURT HAD GRANTED A WRIT O…
20-1653 Lazelle Maxwell v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-05-27 Denied Relisted (2) circuit-split criminal-sentencing first-step-act legal-developments procedural-history resentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether, when deciding if it should "impose a reduced sentence" on an individual under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, 21 U.S.C. § 841 n…
20-1650 Carlos Concepcion v. United States First Circuit 2021-05-26 Judgment Issued Amici (10) circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-resentencing factual-developments first-step-act legal-developments resentencing sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether, when deciding if it should "impose a reduced sentence" on an individual under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, 21 U.S.C. § 841 n…
20-7890 Antwoyn Terrell Spencer and Derrick Jerome Spencer v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment first-step-act resentencing standing Whether Petitioners are being deprived of their right to due process of law against law (without due process of law) in violation of the Fifth Amendme…
20-1464 Rahul Ramesh Joshi v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-04-20 Denied Response Waived constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process government-breach government-misconduct judicial-review plea-agreement resentencing sentencing WHETHER THE GOVERNMENT'S BREACH OF THE PLEA AGREEMENT CONSTITUTED A DUE PROCESS VIOLATION, WHICH REQUIRED REMAND FOR A DE NOVO RESENTENCING?
20-7767 Zonta Tavarus Ellison v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-rights due-process enactment-of-2255 fair-trial resentencing ThIS CASE pRESENMPRtANt NATONWI SUESCONCERNiNg WhAtCONSESA UNDER 28 U.S. C.$2AS5. THEQUESTION, Of WhAT CONSTiTUTES "FUNCAMENTAL FAiRNESS" hAS GONE UN…
20-7474 Ezralee J. Kelley v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-03-17 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP as four circuits hold as three circuits hold or whether a resentencing court must correct a Gu career-offender circuit-split fair-sentencing-act first-step-act judicial-interpretation resentencing sentencing-guidelines Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018 permits district courts to "impose a reduced sentence" on defendants who committed offenses for which the…
20-6969 Barto Edward Usry, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP acca armed-career-criminal-act armed-robbery business-burglary johnson-ruling mississippi-state-convictions resentencing robbery section-2255 sentencing violent-felony Whether Mr. Usry is entitled to resentencing without applying the ACCA because post-Johnson (2015), he no longer has three prior qualifying "violent f…
20-6953 Dwyne Byron Deruise, aka Duke v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied IFP career-offender circuit-split criminal-justice-reform discretion discretionary-review first-step-act resentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether a district court that chooses to conduct a resentencing under § 404 of the First Step Act is prohibited from considering a defendant's current…
20-6832 Shannon Keith Harris v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-11 Denied IFP cocaine-sentencing criminal-sentencing drug-trafficking fair-sentencing-act first-step-act mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums resentencing retroactivity sentencing-guidelines When deciding whether to impose a reduced sentence under Section 404 of the First Step Act, are district courts required to apply the current, legally…
20-6759 Bernard Weiters, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 3582(c)(2) criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing first-step-act resentencing section-404(b) sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-mandatory-minimum statutory-maximum Whether the Court Committed error by declining to resentence the petitioner under Section 3582 of the First Step Act, when the Court earlier reduced t…
20-6417 Edwin Omar Almonte-Nunez v. United States First Circuit 2020-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2112 abuse-of-discretion counsel-substitution crime-of-violence double-jeopardy due-process party-presentation resentencing sentencing-review Did the district court adequately vet Mr. Almonte-Nuñez's dissatisfaction with his counsel? Was the denial of his request for substitution an abuse of…
20-535 Drew Samuel Bates v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-10-22 Denied circuit-split criminal-procedure first-step-act judicial-discretion resentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether a district court that chooses to conduct a resentencing under § 404 of the First Step Act is prohibited from considering a defendant's current…
20-490 Damien Freeman v. Lyneal Wainwright, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied aedpa circuit-split federal-habeas final-judgment habeas-corpus habeas-petition resentencing state-court-judgment statute-of-limitations A state prisoner has one year from the time that "the judgment" becomes final to file a habeas petition. 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1)(A). Applying this stat…
20-5976 Dean Reynolds v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing obstruction-of-justice procedural-unreasonableness profit-calculation remand resentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure IS DEFENDANT'S SENTENCE PROCEDURALLY UNREASONABLE BECAUSE THE DISTRICTCOURT INCORRECTLY SCORED THESENTENCING GUIDELINES, ERRONEOUSLYCALCULATING THE PR…
20-5945 Shelby Clarmont v. Willis Chapman, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process people-v-lockridge people-v-milbourn proportionality resentencing sentencing-guidelines Is The Imposing Of A Sentence Which Was Based On Incorrectly Scored Sentencing Guidelines And Was A Departure From Applicable Advisory Guidelines Wher…
20-5564 Antonio U. Akel v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP brown-opinion Brown-v-Board due-process Eleventh-Circuit fair-trial recusal recusal-statute resentencing sentencing WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT'S DECISION AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S REFUSAL TO CONDUCT A FULL RESENTENCING WITH THE DEFENDANT PRESENT RENDERS THE P…
20-5411 Kwame Anderson v. United States Second Circuit 2020-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-law presentence-report resentencing sentencing-procedure sentencing-proceeding 1. Whether the Court must settle an important question of federal law that has not been, but should be, regarding Petitioner's resentence that was imp…
20-5355 Eddie David Cox v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-08-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP appeal circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process resentencing sentencing Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause bars resentencing on counts for sentences a defendant has already served?
20-5264 Lakento Brian Smith v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-08-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP crack-cocaine criminal-sentencing first-step-act guideline-range mandatory-minimum post-sentencing-conduct resentencing sentence-reduction sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation The First Step Act changed the penalty for petitioner's crack cocaine crimes from life in prison to 10 years to life and changed petitioner's guidelin…
20-5176 Nicholas Harris v. California California 2020-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment penal-consequences resentencing serious-felony three-strikes-law witness-dissuasion Does California's Three Strikes Reform Act of 2012 ("the Reform Act"), as interpreted by California's Supreme Court, violate the Ex Post Facto Clause …
19-8890 Richard Antonio Hodge, Jr. v. United States Third Circuit 2020-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-sentencing first-step-act resentencing retroactivity rule-of-lenity sentence-enhancement sentencing-provisions statutory-interpretation Whether the ameliorative sentencing provisions of the First Step Act apply to defendants who were initially sentenced pre-First Step Act, but whose se…
19-8646 Leonard Griffin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-assault armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure due-process johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states resentencing section-2255 sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony Whether, under the law established by this Court in Johnson v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015), Mr. Griffin should be resentenced without applyin…
19-8540 Antwoyn Spencer and Derrick Jerome Spencer v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-05-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment first-step-act resentencing statutory-interpretation Whether Petitioners are being deprived of their right to due process of law against law (without due process of law) in violation of the Fifth Amendme…
19-1303 Earnest Cassell Woods, II v. California California 2020-05-20 Denied criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process mens-rea murder-conviction natural-probable-consequences resentencing retroactive retroactivity self-defense senate-bill-1437 sentencing statutory-interpretation 1. DOES SENATE BILL 1437 ADDED SECTION 1170.95, WHICH PERMITS PERSONS CONVICTED OF MURDER UNDER THE NATURAL AND PROBABLE CONSEQUENCES THEORY TO PETITI…
19-7683 Marlon Blacher v. California California 2020-02-18 Denied IFP access-to-courts appeal arbitrarily-denied civil-rights due-process federal-remedy habeas-corpus judicial-discretion resentencing standing state-court-proceedings statutory-interpretation carse /evidantiary haaring af a fetition fon a writ of habaas corpus wherein the prasanted faets include : Marlon Blacher, hereinafter "Patitioner ", …
19-7677 Sandchase Cody v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-U.S.C.-2255 28-usc-2255 acca district-court due-process resentencing resentencing-hearing sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether Mr. Cody was denied due process when after the removal of his unlawful ACCA sentencing enhancement, following a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion, the d…
19-7564 In Re Michael Dewayne Seibert 2020-02-06 Denied IFP criminal-procedure death-penalty-case due-process fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge pro-se-representation resentencing resentencing-hearing void-judgment When a defendant is represented by counsel, who refuses to raise a substantial meritorious claim of fraud on the court, and therefore defendant's conv…
19-7418 Jody Gifford v. Florida Florida 2020-01-27 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-sentence parole proportionality resentencing Whether the courts below decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decisions of this Honorable Court when they d…
19-7243 Joshua Wolf v. Cindy Griffith, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment juvenile-offenders mandatory-life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing resentencing sentencing-procedures sixth-amendment Joshua Wolf has been serving an unconstitutional sentence since he was sentenced to mandatory life without parole for a homicide offense committed whe…
19-7132 Ric Thomason, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure defendant-presence defendant-rights district-court-discretion due-process judicial-procedure modified-sentence resentencing sentencing WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION IN FAILING TO HOLD A RESENTENCING HEARING, WITH THE DEFENDANT, PRESENT PRIOR TO IMPOSING A MODIFIED S…
19-6858 David Lamont Liddell v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aggravated-assault armed-career-criminal-act armed-robbery constitutional-law criminal-procedure johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states mississippi-state-law prior-conviction resentencing section-2255 sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony Whether, under the law established by this Court in Johnson v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015), Mr. Liddell should be resentenced without applyin…
19-6209 John Hudson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-appellate-procedure johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states prior-convictions resentencing section-2255 sentencing sentencing-review violent-felony The specific question presented for review is whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred by denying Mr. Hudson a Certifica…
19-6102 Roosevelt Brian Moore v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge court-review due-process graham-v-florida habeas-corpus juvenile-offenders legal-standards prisoner-rights resentencing sentencing sentencing-procedure standing state-court-decision GRANTED PETITSONER A CERTI FICATE of APPEAlAbIty PORSUANT TO MILlER -EL V.COCKER, 537 U.S.3a2 ON. QUESTIONS OF HIS THE U.S. CONSTITUIONAl RIGHTS? PERT…
19-5629 Al-Malik Fruitkwan Shabazz v. United States Second Circuit 2019-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act armed-career-criminal-act-1984 categorical-approach connecticut-general-statutes-53a-133 connecticut-robbery florida-robbery force-clause resentencing sentencing statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states stokeling-vs-united-states supervised-release violent-felony I. Whether robbery under Connecticut General Statutes § 53a‐133 categorically qualifies as a "violent felony" under the force clause of the Armed Care…
19-5128 Robert Vincent Salcedo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split direct-appeal discretionary-sentencing discretionary-sentencing-authority non-retroactive-amendment nonretroactive-amendment remand-for-resentencing resentencing retroactivity sentencing-guidelines When a non-retroactive amendment to the United States Sentencing Guidelines takes effect after a defendant is sentenced but while his direct appeal is…
19-38 Malcolm McGee v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Response Waived california-law federal-sentence-enhancement felony-drug-offense recidivist-sentence-enhancement recidivist-sentencing resentencing retroactive-reduction sentence-enhancement state-post-conviction state-post-conviction-remedy state-prison-sentence successful-attack When does a state post-conviction remedy qualify as a "successful attack" on a state prison sentence, such that a subsequent federal sentence enhancem…
19-5027 Eddie David Cox v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-07-01 GVR IFP criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rehaif-v-united-states,sentenci double-jeopardy eighth-circuit guidelines-calculation procedural-error rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states resentencing section-2241 sentencing sentencing-review 1. Should the Court GVR the judgment of the Eighth Circuit so the appeals court may consider, in the first instance, whether Cox is entitled to relief…
18-9782 Carlous Lindell Daily v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-USC-924(c)(3)(B) 18-usc-924c constitutional-rights crime-of-violence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Johnson johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states resentencing sentencing sentencing-error statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum USSG-4B1.2 (1). Whether The Lower Court(s) Erred In Concluding That Petitioner Did Not Suffer Ineffective Assistance Of Counsel At His Resentencing On Appeal …
18-9740 Myron Gregory Jessie v. Michigan Michigan 2019-06-21 Denied IFP appeal appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission judicial-error life-imprisonment prior-misconduct resentencing sentencing 1. Was the evidence insufficient to convict defendant - Appelart MyRon JEssle as an aider and abetter to armed bery and ist degree home invasion?Did h…
18-1550 Gilberto Ramos v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-06-19 Denied Response Waived due-process federal-sentence-enhancement federal-sentencing habeas judicial-review legal-remedy post-conviction-remedy prior-state-sentence proposition-64 resentencing retroactive-relief sentence-enhancement state-conviction state-post-conviction-remedy state-sentence successful-attack When does a state post-conviction remedy qualify as a "successful attack" on a prior state sentence, such that a subsequent federal sentence enhanceme…
18-9536 Shawn J. Gieswein v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel resentencing second-amendment sentencing-guidelines upward-variance witness-tampering Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit erroneously denied Certificate of Appealability in Mr. Gieswein's case. Was Mr. Gies…
18-9431 William Maurice Smith v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-05-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-retroactivity,sentencing-reform drug-distribution due-process first-step-act griffith-v-kentucky ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review resentencing retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation Does Griffith v. Kentucky, 479 U.S. 314, (1987) apply to First Step Act of 2018? If so did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals fail to apply Griffith …
18-9199 Peter Alfred Perez v. Michigan Michigan 2019-05-09 Denied IFP brady-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure crosby-hearing due-process impartial-jury ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel jury-impartiality mistrial resentencing DID THE TRIAL COURT ABUSE ITS DISCRETION IN DENYING MR. PEREZ RELIEF FROM JUDGMENT WHERE HE WAS DENIED HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO AN IMPARTIAL JURY B…
18-8599 Antwon D. Jenkins v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP bail bail-reform-act due-process habeas-corpus liberty-interest post-verdict-bail resentencing sentencing stare-decisis statutory-right statutory-rights DOES A PETITIONER, AFTER BEING FOUND GUILTY BY A JURY, HAVE A STATUTORY DUE PROCESS RIGHT TO POST-VERDICT BAIL, AND TO BE TREATED AS A DEFENDANT BEING…
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 On a Crosby remand, the district court decided not to resentence the defendants. On a Jacobson remand, the district court again decided not to resente…
18-8148 Johnathan Hawthorne v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-interpretation due-process first-step-act new-law pipeline resentencing retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether the "New Law" of the First Step Act, sign into law on Dec. 18, 2018 made this an appeal "Pipeline" case, that fall under the First Step Act ne…
18-1109 James Erin McKinney v. Arizona Arizona 2019-02-26 Judgment Issued Amici (14)Relisted (2) aggravating-evidence arizona-supreme-court criminal-procedure death-penalty eddings-precedent eddings-v-oklahoma mitigating-evidence resentencing sentencing sentencing-review 1. Whether the Arizona Supreme Court was required to apply current law when weighing mitigating and aggravating evidence to determine whether a death …
18-8010 Alimamy Barrie v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment-retroactivity criminal-sentencing direct-appeal resentencing sentence-reduction sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation A. Whether Under 18 U.S.C. S3582 (C) (2) should the Petitioner be eligible for a resentencing when two clariying amendments relevent to his case was e…
18-8016 James Goff v. Ohio Ohio 2019-02-19 Denied IFP capital-punishment death-penalty hurst-v-florida judicial-fact-finding jury-trial mitigation-evidence resentencing sentencing sixth-amendment Is a trial judge's independent weighing of new mitigation evidence and imposition of the death penalty at a resentencing hearing unconstitutional unde…
18-7558 Brandon Lamar Hawkins v. Florida Florida 2019-01-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP competency-hearing criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-competency criminal-sentencing due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-procedure mental-competency mental-health resentencing sentencing trial-court trial-court-discretion WHETHER PETITIONER IS ENTITLED TO DISCHARGE, NEW TRIAL, AND/OR RESENTENCING BASED ON THE TRIAL COURT FAILING TO CONDUCT A COMPETENCY HEARING AFTER IT …
18-7478 Lloyd Michael Blair v. Michigan Michigan 2019-01-17 Denied IFP constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect jury-trial post-conviction-relief relief resentencing sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment 1. Are the sentencino proceedinos that was found to be urconstitutionel made to be invalid? 2. Did the 'trial court ebuse its discretion by refusinn …
18-7249 John Doe v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3582 circuit-court-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing dillon-v-united-states federal-criminal-procedure federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion resentencing sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation Whether the holding in Dillon v. United States, 560 U. S. 817 (2010) applies to 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(B) in the same manner it applies to 18 U.S.C. §…
18-6956 Jason Dirk Walton v. Florida, et al. Florida 2018-12-07 Denied IFP capital-murder criminal-law due-process eighth-amendment first-degree-murder jury-unanimity resentencing retrospective-application retrospective-law sentencing-elements substantive-criminal-law 1. When changes in a state's substantive criminal set out the elements of capital murder which the prosecution must prove to the satisfaction of a una…
18-6469 Tyrone D. Morant v. Jason Lewis, Superintendent, Southeast Correctional Center Missouri 2018-10-30 Denied IFP eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-montgomery miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana parole parole-hearing resentencing resentencing-proceeding 1. Does the Eighth Amendment, as interpreted in Miller and Montgomery, require juvenile defendants, who had previously been illegally sentenced to man…
18-6377 Rashad Woodside v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-10-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights counsel-presence criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process limited-remand open-court resentencing right-to-be-present right-to-counsel sentencing Whether a defendant has the right to be present with counsel at a resentencing hearing where the reasons for the sentence are stated in open court aft…
18-6226 Roderick K. Forest v. Jason Lewis, Superintendent, Southeast Correctional Center Missouri 2018-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP eighth-amendment habeas-corpus juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-montgomery miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana parole-hearing resentencing 1. Does the Eighth Amendment, as interpreted in Miller and Montgomery, require juvenile defendants, who had previously been illegally sentenced to man…
18-6178 Joseph A. Clark v. Eileen Ramey, Superintendent, Jefferson City Correctional Center Missouri 2018-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP eighth-amendment habeas-corpus juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-montgomery miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana parole-hearing resentencing 1. Does the Eighth Amendment, as interpreted in Miller and Montgomery, require juvenile defendants, who had previously been illegally sentenced to man…
18-6149 Christopher Polk v. Jason Lewis, Superintendent, Southeast Correctional Center Missouri 2018-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-montgomery miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana parole parole-hearing resentencing resentencing-proceeding 1. Does the Eighth Amendment, as interpreted in Miller and Montgomery, require juvenile defendants, who had previously been illegally sentenced to man…
18-6113 Frank J. Ballesteros v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines criminal-procedure fairness fairness-doctrine integrity judicial-proceedings judicial-review post-conviction-relief pro-se-applicant public-reputation resentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines 1. Should this Court grant review of the court of appeals' decision based on this Court's subsequent decision in Rosales-Mireles v. United States that…
18-6088 Joseph Burris v. Eileen Ramey, Superintendent, Jefferson City Correctional Center Missouri 2018-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-montgomery miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana parole parole-hearing resentencing resentencing-proceeding 1. Does the Eighth Amendment, as interpreted in Miller and Montgomery, require juvenile defendants, who had previously been illegally sentenced to man…
18-5986 Damon L. Caldwell v. Stanley Payne, Superintendent, Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center Missouri 2018-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole meaningful-opportunity miller-montgomery miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana parole parole-hearing realistic-opportunity resentencing resentencing-proceeding 1. Does the Eighth Amendment, as interpreted in Miller and Montgomery, require juvenile defendants who had previously been illegally sentenced to mand…
18-5968 In Re Jose Prisciliano Gracia-Cantu 2018-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-sentencing federal-appeals-court federal-courts federal-prisoner judicial-discretion mandamus mandate mandate-stay resentencing sentencing-guidelines unreasonable-sentence vacated-sentence writ-of-mandamus After it has issued a decision holding that a federal prisoner is entitled to resentencing due to a Sentencing Guidelines calculation error, can a fed…
18-5614 Alexander Jesus Santiago v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission probable-cause probation prosecutorial-burden resentencing sentencing supervised-release supervised-release-revocation Did the district court improperly revoke Mr. Santiago's supervised release and resentence him despite a lack of evidence that he violated supervised r…
18-5484 William N. Washington v. California California 2018-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-sentencing custody-credits due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus original-sentence penal-code penal-code-1170.18 proposition-47 resentencing safe-neighborhoods-act sentencing sentencing-discretion WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT ERRED IN FAILING TO RECALCULATE ALL DAYS OF CUSTODY FROM THE DATE OF ORIGINAL JUDGMENT, AND ONLY AWARDED CUSTODY CREDITS FROM …
18-5496 Alfredo Perez, Jr. v. California California 2018-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-doctrine apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-fact-finding judicial-findings jury-trial resentencing sentencing sixth-amendment three-strikes-law Does the federal constitution, as construed in Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 120 S.Ct. 2348, 147 L.Ed.2d 435 (2000), permit a court charged wi…
18-5434 Troy Victorino v. Florida Florida 2018-08-02 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment capital-punishment criminal-punishment death-penalty double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto fifth-amendment florida-supreme-court fourteenth-amendment jury-sentencing resentencing statutory-interpretation 1. Does the Florida Supreme Court ruling that the automatic-resentencing-tolife provision of Florida Statutes Section 775.082(2) applies only if death…
18-5222 Corvain T. Cooper, aka CV v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-12 Denied IFP collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing federal-statute habeas-corpus invalidated-convictions life-without-parole resentencing sentencing state-convictions 1. Whether a Petitioner Who Was Sentenced to Life Without the Possibility of Parole, Which was Enhanced By Two Later Invalidated State Convictions, Ma…
18-5168 Jose Palacios, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-09 Denied IFP appeal appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing de-novo-resentencing due-process remand remand-rule resentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines The Fifth Circuit, and two other circuits, have interpreted the mandate rule in a "restrictive" or "waiver" approach, meaning that when a case is rema…