section-3553a

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A345 Dennis Michael Hogan v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-09-25 Presumed Complete administrative-remedies extraordinary-circumstances pro-se-filing section-3553a section-3582 sentence-reduction Whether a federal prisoner can obtain a sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A) when the district court finds no extraordinary and compelli…
24-6193 Ronald Robinson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing eighth-circuit rita-presumption section-3553a sentencing-guidelines substantive-unreasonableness Does a presumption of reasonableness of Guidelines sentences under Rita preclude a finding of substantive unreasonableness in a maximum guideline sent…
22-6718 Justin Stabler v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 abuse-of-discretion alcohol-consumption criminal-sentencing electronic-searches section-3553a sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness supervised-release Whether the 120-month sentence is substantively unreasonable
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 Whether the trial court erred by not complying with 18-U.S.C-3553(a) and conducting a plenary resentencing hearing after vacating a conviction and rem…
21-7062 Michael Devell Smith v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 3553(a) criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion guidelines section-3553a sentence-disparity sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness unwarranted-disparities Whether the district court ordered an unreasonable 24-month sentence considering the facts of this case and the Guidelines sentence range of 12 to 18 …
21-5782 Cenobio Humberto Herrera, Sr., aka Bert Herrera, aka Cenobio Herrera Lanz, aka Cenobio Humberto Lanz v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure custodial-status district-court methamphetamine methamphetamine-production ninth-circuit pseudoephedrine section-3553a sentencing sentencing-discretion Did the Ninth Circuit err in failing to vacate the district court's order based on clearly erroneous facts?
18-7995 Rodney Martin v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion procedural-error reasonableness-of-sentence section-3553a sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines Did the trial court improperly sentence Mr. Martin and did the appellate court improperly affirm the trial court?
18-6561 In Re Jesus Denova Lopez 2018-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-court-discretion guidelines-range section-3553(a) section-3553a sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether the panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals abused its discretion by the rubberstamp of the erroneous and impermissible conclusion of erst…