section-3582
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25A355 | United States v. Shaheem Johnson | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-26 | Presumed Complete | co-conspirators extraordinary-and-compelling section-3553 section-3582 sentence-reduction sentencing-disparities | Whether sentencing disparities between co-conspirators can constitute 'extraordinary and compelling reasons' for a sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. … | |
| 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… | |
| 23A1071 | Marlo Helmstetter v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-30 | Presumed Complete | booker-decision compassionate-release juvenile-offender miller-v-alabama section-3582 sentencing-guidelines | Whether a federal district court may consider a defendant's youth at the time of offense and post-sentencing rehabilitation as mitigating factors when… | |
| 23-5669 | Steven Grimm v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-09-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 2255-petition compassionate-release compassionate-relief district-court federal-prisoner first-amendment habeas-corpus religious-beliefs religious-exemption rluipa section-3582 | Where a federal prisoner's religious beliefs prevented him from getting vaccinated, was it error for the district court to deny his motion for compass… |
| 23-5675 | Brandon A. House v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-09-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 appellate-court appellate-court-interpretation concepcion-precedent concepcion-v-united-states district-court district-court-discretion extraordinary-and-compelling extraordinary-compelling-reasons section-3582 sentencing-modification | When does the power to modify a sentence based on 'extraordinary and compelling' reasons rest with the district court that imposed the sentence? |
| 21-6861 | Piyarath S. Kayarath v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | adolescent-brain compassionate-release extraordinary-circumstances mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-minimums neuroscience neuroscience-evidence procedural-error section-3553 section-3582 sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform | Whether Booker's invalidation of the mandatory sentencing regime, and post-Booker neuroscience facts about the adolescent brain constitutes extraordin… |
| 20-8284 | Harold Gashe v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-06-14 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-court-split appellate-review criminal-justice due-process equal-protection extraordinary-reasons judicial-discretion section-3582 sentencing sentencing-disparity statutory-interpretation | Is the application of 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i) for relief from 924(c) stacking sentences being applied inconsistently across appellate courts? |
| 19-7118 | Calvin Buffington v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-12-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process judicial-fact-finding section-3582 section-3582(c)(2) sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-3582(c)(2) statutory-interpretation | Whether the district court's failure to find a drug quantity when adopting PSR in its entirety authorized it to select a new quantity as a basis for t… |
| 18-6063 | Craig Alexander v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-09-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals criminal-history criminal-procedure disciplinary-infractions due-process judicial-discretion judicial-interpretation section-3582 sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the Supreme Court should resolve split decisions in the lower court as to how far a Judge must explain and/or elaborate on a decision to grant… |
| 18-5606 | Hagop Demirjian v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2018-08-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 amendment-782 circuit-split civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion section-3582 sentence-disparity sentencing sentencing-disparity statutory-interpretation | Whether there is a statutory preclusion for successive §3582 motions |