| 25-6636 |
Donnie Bryant v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-01-21 |
Pending |
IFP |
18-usc-3582 924c-convictions extraordinary-compelling-reasons first-step-act juvenile-sentencing sentence-modification |
Whether a defendant's juvenile status, multiple 924(c) convictions, and a codefendant's sentence reduction qualify as extraordinary and compelling rea… |
| 25-5880 |
Derrick Gregory James v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-10-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-review sentence-modification |
Whether a change in a criminal sentence years after initial imposition constitutes a double jeopardy or due process violation |
| 25A225 |
Terrance Douglas Baker v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-08-26 |
Presumed Complete |
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appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process mandate-compliance sentence-modification sentencing-enhancement |
Whether a district court may impose a substantially equivalent sentence through alternative sentencing enhancements after a partial reversal and reman… |
| 23-7440 |
Michael Paul Puzey v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons compassionate-release criminal-justice-reform federal-sentencing first-step-act judicial-review rehabilitation sentence-modification sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the First Step Act's compassionate release provision should be interpreted to allow for the consideration of a defendant's rehabilitation and … |
| 23A483 |
Salvador Magluta v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-29 |
Presumed Complete |
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acquitted-conduct circuit-split compassionate-release sentence-modification sentencing-guidelines solitary-confinement |
Whether a federal court may consider non-medical factors, such as prolonged solitary confinement and its psychological effects, when evaluating a moti… |
| 23-6019 |
Luis Olivares v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion exceptional-circumstances fair-sentencing-act sentence-modification statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Fair Sentencing Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A), permits a district court to modify Mr. Olivares' unusually long sentence in this exception… |
| 23-354 |
Wolfgang Von Vader v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-10-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-3582 changes-in-law criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-circumstances federal-criminal-law judicial-discretion sentence-modification sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether courts may consider changes in the law in assessing whether 'extraordinary and compelling reasons' warrant a sentence reduction under section … |
| 22-6324 |
Matthew Ruben Hernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion Bureau-of-Prisons civil-procedure discretionary-review extraordinary-and-compelling-reason medical-conditions pandemic pandemic-impact sentence-modification statutory-interpretation |
Sentence-modification-under-3582(c)(1)(A) |
| 22-5934 |
Gemar Morgan v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compassionate-release constitutional-due-process covid-19 criminal-justice-reform first-step-act health-conditions judicial-discretion retroactive-application sentence-modification sentencing-reform sentencing-reform-act statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court erred in denying the petitioner's motion for compassionate release under the First Step Act, in light of the petitioner's h… |
| 22-5878 |
William D. King v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-10-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3582 circuit-split extraordinary-and-compelling extraordinary-compelling-reason judicial-decisions judicial-discretion legal-developments sentence-modification statutory-interpretation |
When district courts may consider intervening judicial decisions and legal developments in determining 'extraordinary and compelling' reasons for sent… |
| 21-8198 |
Ruben Cabrera Saucedo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure davis-precedent district-court-discretion double-jeopardy motion-to-vacate sentence-modification sentencing unconstitutional unconstitutional-conviction united-states-v-davis |
Whether, after a motion to vacate sentence is granted on a conviction that is unconstitutional under United States v. Davis, 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), a… |
| 21-7389 |
John Peyton Alexander, II v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2022-03-16 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process federal-prisoner habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis parole post-conviction-relief sentence-computation sentence-modification standing supreme-court-precedent unconstitutional-statute |
Whether a financially solvent prisoner has a constitutional right to receive in forma pauperis status to file a meritorious petition for writ of certi… |
| 21-5508 |
Marc Norfleet v. John R. Baldwin, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-08-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-U.S.C.-3582 access-to-courts civil-rights compassionate-release due-process equal-protection federal-sentencing indigent-status prisoner-rights sanctions sentence-modification statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court's imposition of a 2-year ban on Petitioner from filing any civil actions in the district court, and the denial of Petitione… |
| 20-7637 |
Derrick Gregory James v. Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2021-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
corrections-department cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto fifth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-discretion sentence-modification sentencing |
Can a state corrections arbitrarily change a defendant's prison sentence, nearly two decades later, even after having initially structured said court-… |
| 19-7940 |
Luis Fernandez Morales v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 28-usc-1915 appeals appellate-procedure criminal-appeal criminal-procedure federal-courts in-forma-pauperis merits-determination sentence-modification sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether defendant in a federal criminal case is entitled to appeal the district court's judgment denying motion to modify sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 3… |
| 18-9734 |
Hector Dominguez-Gabriel, aka Kinko, aka John Richard Bellefleur v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-06-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion compassionate-release criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-courts federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentence-modification sentencing-guidelines sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
Whether the lower court(s) abused its discretion when it denied appellant Section 3582(c)(2) relief? |
| 18-9407 |
Humberto Verduzco-Magana v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appellate-waiver circuit-court conformity judgment-correction oral-pronouncement sentence-modification sentencing written-judgment |
Whether a written appellate waiver giving up the right to appeal any portion of the sentence waive the right to ask the Circuit to conform the written… |
| 18-9135 |
Joseph Malcomb v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing felony-classification judicial-discretion judicial-review legislative-amendment legislative-changes offense-gravity-score sentence-modification sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Was the Petitioner entitled to a sentence Modification / Reduction |
| 18-8604 |
Ivan Vazquez-Gonzalez v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-03-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 appeals criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel rule-35 sentence-modification sentencing statute-of-limitations |
Whether a district court's modification of sentence under Rule 35, Fed. R. Crim. P., resets the one-year clock under 28 U.S.C. §2255(f)(1) for a timel… |
| 18-8322 |
In Re Richard Madkins |
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2019-03-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process false-imprisonment federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jurisdiction sentence-modification sentencing-modification state-jurisdiction unlawful-detention |
Whether it would result in a fundamental miscarriage of justice if failure to entertain petitioner constitutional claims |
| 18-7346 |
Mark Raymond Ford, aka Dred, aka Benjamin Lee Green, aka Donald Wray v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
booker-decision criminal-sentencing due-process retroactive-rule retroactivity sentence-modification sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act statutory-interpretation united-states-v-booker |
Whether the lower court denial of modification of sentence under 18 U.S.C. §3582(c)(2) based on a mandatory guidelines range departure's sentence viol… |
| 18-7348 |
Edgar Arnold Garcia v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 18-USC-3582c2 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing dillon-v-united-states district-court-discretion due-process legal-error sentence-modification sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-methodology statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum |
Whether Dillon v. United States requires reevaluation of original sentencing methodology in sentence modification proceedings under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c… |