| 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… |
| 25-6699 |
Martin Gutierrez-Barba v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-02-03 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
3553(a)-factors appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing |
Is urging a sentence recommendation lower than is ultimately imposed and grounding that recommendation in the 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) factors, sufficient … |
| 25-6678 |
Isaac Ramirez Rodriguez v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2026-01-30 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment mandatory-minimum proportionality sentencing |
Are the mandatory minimum life sentence provisions of Virginia Code §§ 18.2-61(B)(2) and 18.2-67.2(B)(2) unconstitutional as constituting Cruel and Un… |
| 25-6557 |
David Calhoun v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-01-13 |
Pending |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
contempt-of-court government-waiver habeas-corpus judicial-review section-2255 sentencing |
I. Should the § 2255 Court's denial of Petitioner's claim under Santobello v. New York, 404 U.S. 257 (1971) be construed as barring said claim from re… |
| 25-6494 |
River William Smith v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2026-01-06 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
conduct-dismissal criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion political-beliefs sentencing |
1) Whether a Defendant can be held accountable at sentencing for conduct that was dismissed?
2) Whether a Defendant's sentence can be enhanced becaus… |
| 25-6477 |
Warren Harold Brown v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2026-01-05 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-conspiracy double-jeopardy hobbs-act judicial-precedent sentencing |
Whether Callanan v. United States, 364 U.S. 587 (1961), should be overruled or limited as violative of the Double Jeopardy Clause where petitioner was… |
| 25-6470 |
Jose Ferrer-Sosa v. United States |
First Circuit |
2026-01-02 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-violation fair-trial mental-health-evidence prosecutorial-disclosure sentencing witness-competency |
1. Whether the right to a fair trial is violated when a judge tells the jury that the only witness to a conspiracy was competent, after the witness ha… |
| 25-6431 |
Edin Anael Solis-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-12-23 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure guilty-plea plain-error-standard rule-11 sentencing |
Does a defendant's failure to object to a Rule 11(b)(1)(H)-(I) error count against him twice, not only by subjecting him to the rigorous plain-error s… |
| 25-6415 |
Juan Viana-Hernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-22 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons criminal-procedure custodial-sentence judicial-modification rule-36 sentencing |
Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 36 is titled "Clerical Error" and states, "[a]fter giving any notice it considers appropriate, the court may at any… |
| 25-6367 |
Luis Daniel Fuentes v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
3553(a)-factors appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion mitigating-evidence sentencing |
Whether a sentencing court must address mitigating evidence and arguments offered by defense counsel regarding factors set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a… |
| 25-6354 |
Osric Tyrone Daise v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-12-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure plain-error punishment revocation sentencing supervised-release |
Whether the district court committed plain error in revoking Mr. Daise's supervised release pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3583(e) when the court's expressed… |
| 25-6341 |
Selvin Edgardo Molina-Guzman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion presentence-report sentencing |
If a federal criminal defendant fails to present rebuttal evidence, is the district court is free to adopt the Presentence Report's findings without f… |
| 25-6316 |
Kyle Ray Campbell v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-08 |
Pending |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure ninth-circuit sentence-reasonableness sentencing waiver |
Whether the district court erred and imposed a substantively unreasonable sentence of three hundred months?
Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal… |
| 25A660 |
Alante Martel Nelson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-12-04 |
Application |
|
acca brown-v-united-states career-offender procedural-error sentencing-guidelines time-of-conviction |
Whether this Court's decision in Brown v. United States, 602 U.S. 101 (2024) extends to the federal Sentencing Guidelines. |
| 25-619 |
Zhe Zhang, aka Zack v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-12-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-penalty disjunctive-language federal-criminal-law murder-for-hire sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the disjunctive language at 18 U.S.C. § 1958(a) providing "if death results, [the offender] shall be punished by death or life imprisonment, o… |
| 25-6239 |
Elijah D. Brown v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adversarial-testing circuit-split due-process evidence-standard fifth-amendment sentencing |
Whether the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause permits a district court to base a sentencing determination on technical and factual assertions that … |
| 25-6190 |
Steven Dale Bradley v. Iowa |
Iowa |
2025-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus sentencing |
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| 25-6180 |
David Craig Milam v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court guilty-plea judicial-discretion plea-withdrawal sentencing |
Whether the district court erred by denying Petitioner's motion to withdraw his guilty plea. |
| 25A580 |
Tony Phillips v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-11-17 |
Application |
|
appellate-review criminal-trial due-process judicial-discretion life-imprisonment sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6116 |
Frank Iglesias v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure discretion early-termination ninth-circuit sentencing supervised-release |
Did the Ninth Circuit abused it's discretion in finding that Petitioner is not entitled to shortening or terminating supervised release of his sentenc… |
| 25-6109 |
Dion Marsh v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-defendant due-process fifth-amendment remorselessness self-incrimination sentencing |
Whether the Fifth Amendment prohibits a sentencing court from inferring remorselessness from a criminal defendant's silence. |
| 25A552 |
Gregory Johnson, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-12 |
Application |
|
appeal-waiver career-offender circuit-split criminal-procedure plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6080 |
Warren Ellwood Shelton, Jr. v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Virginia |
2025-11-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals-process constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing |
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| 25-5981 |
Erick Pizarro-Mercado v. United States |
First Circuit |
2025-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure evidence-sufficiency federal-rules procedural-error rule-29 sentencing |
Whether evidence was sufficient to justify the district court denial of Rule 29 of the Fed. R. Crim. P.
Whether the district court committed reversib… |
| 25-5974 |
Terrance Douglas Baker v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion rule-32 sentencing |
Does a district court violate Fed. R. Crim. P. 32(i)(C)(1) when it relies upon news stories or other information outside the record in determining a d… |
| 25-5972 |
Ramiro Gomez-Reyes v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach criminal-statute federal-definition realistic-probability sentencing statutory-interpretation |
To establish that a "realistic probability" exists that a state statute applies to conduct not covered by a federal "crime of violence" definition for… |
| 25-519 |
Efrain Lora v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-10-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process government-concession preponderance-of-evidence sentencing |
After remand from this Court, Petitioner Efrain Lora was resentenced to thirty years in confinement because he supposedly directed a murder. But the G… |
| 25-5922 |
Victor M. Hernandez-Carrasquillo v. United States |
First Circuit |
2025-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court evidence-sufficiency rule-29 sentencing |
Whether evidence was sufficient to justify the district court denial of Rule 29 of the Fed. R. Crim. P.
Whether the district court committed reversib… |
| 25-5857 |
Russell Kimble Jackson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-10-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender criminal-procedure drug-felony first-step-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
1. After the First Step Act enactment date of December 21, 2018.
Is it true it now takes two or more "serious drug felonies" or two or more prior "ser… |
| 25-5830 |
Kortney Moore v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
agency-inaction career-offender controlled-substances federal-law sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Defendants who have at least two prior "controlled substance offense" convictions qualify as career offenders under the federal Sentencing Guidelines.… |
| 25-5797 |
Leigha Page Ackerson v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2025-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure felony-murder legislative-amendment life-without-parole proportionality-review sentencing |
1. Whether the procedure to affirm an LWOP
sentence for felony murder once the Felony Murder
bill 21-124 became effective is in the interest of
jus… |
| 25-5769 |
Robert Scott Kennedy v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-09-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal burglary-statute criminal-procedure predicate-offense sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether Mr. Kennedy was erroneously sentenced as an armed career criminal and received sentencing guidelines enhancements based on two prior Georgi… |
| 25-5720 |
Gregory Bartunek v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-fact-finding jury-trial sentencing |
Whether the rights of due process and to a jury trial are violated when courts impose sentences that, but for a judge-found fact, including, but not l… |
| 25-5696 |
Anatole Mbe v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-09-22 |
Pending |
IFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-procedure legal-error plea-agreement restitution sentencing |
Did petitioner's appeal waiver as part of his plea agreement preclude an appeal challenging the amount imposed for restitution on grounds that the gov… |
| 25-5620 |
Terry Duane Qualls v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-09-12 |
Pending |
IFP |
appeal-waiver categorical-approach controlled-substances-act due-process plea-agreement sentencing |
Whether an appeal waiver applies when the sentencing judge advises the defendant that he has the right to appeal and the government does not object. |
| 25-5618 |
Jamil Jones v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure fifth-amendment mitchell-precedent right-to-silence self-incrimination sentencing |
Whether the failure to apologize or express remorse violates the
Fifth Amendment right to remain silent at sentencing, a question left open by
Mitchel… |
| 25-5609 |
Jackie Kavaskia McMillan v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-09-11 |
Pending |
IFP |
appeal-waiver district-court illegal-sentence jurisdictional-challenge plea-agreement sentencing |
While "jurisdictions appear to treat at least some claims as unwaivable" via an appeal waiver in a plea agreement, this Court has not yet decided "wha… |
| 25A278 |
Shadon Demetric Edwards v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-09-10 |
Presumed Complete |
|
armed-career-criminal-act eleventh-circuit felon-in-possession firearm-possession predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5580 |
Moises Moreno v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
chemical-compound constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process forensic-analysis sentencing |
Did David L. Rallens' (act) of sending a Private Investigator Coteban Hearnandez to MEXICO Violate my Constitutional Rights and Due Process law Under … |
| 25-5563 |
Joseph Lee Smith v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2025-09-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-review manslaughter post-trial-motions sentencing specific-intent writ-application |
WHETHER THE LOUISIANA SUPREME COURT ERRED WHEN IT DENIED
PETITIONER'S WRIT APPLICATION FILED ON DIRECT APPEAL AND
THE CLAIM THAT PETITIONER POSSESSE… |
| 25-5520 |
Dennis Wilson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-09-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-trial due-process fundamental-rights plea-agreement rights-to-counsel sentencing |
Whether the predicted outcome and the potential sentence faced by Mr. Wilson, should he be convicted at trial, is to be compared to the plea agreement… |
| 25-5493 |
Joshua Devon Barrow v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law first-step-act revocation sentencing statutory-maximum supervised-release |
When determining the statutory maximum sentence on revocation, should courts consult current law or only the law at the time of the underlying offense… |
| 25-5399 |
Neda Mehrabani v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights discovery-violation fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance medicare-billing sentencing |
Whether a Certificate of Appealability ("COA") should have been issued because I was denied a constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel … |
| 25-5376 |
Wesley Swick v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-15 |
Pending |
IFP |
criminal-procedure federal-law fugitive-tolling habeas-corpus sentencing supervised-release |
I. Whether the fugitive-tolling doctrine applies in the context of supervised release. Rico v. United States, No. 24-1056, presents the same question. |
| 25-5297 |
Christopher Jerome Ellis v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender controlled-substance federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether the term "controlled substance" in the career offender guideline refers exclusively to substances listed in the federal Controlled Substances … |
| 25-5269 |
Michael D. Miller v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-of-appeals due-process habitual-offender legal-violation sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Did the Fiesk Digkeict Court of Appeals Violate Ane Pet isioner's tight Yo due process of Vaw by Imposing a habitual oe , Sentence in violation of& sp… |
| 25-5225 |
Manuel Vega v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure multiple-violations prison-term sentencing statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
A court, in imposing sentence upon a criminal
defendant, may include as part of the sentence a term of
supervised release. If the defendant violates t… |
| 25-5200 |
Isaias Lopez Nunez v. Martin Gamboa, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit procedural-default sentencing |
(1) Whether the California courts' and Ninth Circuit's rejection of an Ex Post Facto Clause claim—where a more punitive law was applied at sentencing,… |
| 25-5168 |
John E. Jackson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-07-22 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process punishment sentencing |
John Jackson fully completed his sentence while the government's second appeal was still pending. He argued at the third and fourth sentencings that t… |
| 25-5112 |
Brian Lee Corbett v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court judicial-discretion rule-35 sentencing supervised-release |
In this case, the district court held a hearing at which it revoked Corbett's term of supervised release and imposed a term of imprisonment as a resul… |
| 25-5061 |
Ronald Johnson v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2025-07-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law due-process judicial-discretion mitigating-evidence prisoner-rights sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5013 |
Tawhyne M. Patterson, Sr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-review firearms-conspiracy jury-instruction plain-error predicate-offense substantial-rights |
A jury returned a general verdict finding Tawhyne M. Patterson, Sr., "guilty" of violating 18 U.S.C. §924(o) where only one of the two predicate offen… |
| 24-7529 |
Matthew Carter v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
conviction-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-interpretation |
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| 24A1239 |
Robert Keith Woodall v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2025-06-13 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-case constitutional-error death-penalty fair-trial sentencing supreme-court-review |
Question not identified. |
| 24-7410 |
Nicholas Craig Woozencroft v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-06-12 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction criminal-procedure federal-courts final-judgment multi-count-indictment sentencing |
Whether a judgment which convicts and sentences a defendant on a count of a multi-count indictment is appealable under § 1291 where, although others c… |
| 24-7379 |
Andra G. Green v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law firearms-offense hobbs-act jurisdictional-elements sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Green is serving a life sentence for pleading to a single count of murder with all the facts in relation to a crime of violence, under 18 U.S.C § 924(… |
| 24-7360 |
Daniel David Strader v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-06-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence sentencing |
Question (1)
In light of Mitchell v. United States, 526 U.S. 314,119 S.Ct. 1307,
143 L. Ed. 2d 424 (1999) and Erlinger v. United States, 144 S.Ct.
1… |
| 24-7335 |
Curtis Harris v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-05-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance-offense federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-conviction |
Defendants who have two prior felony convictions for "controlled substance offense[s]" qualify as career offenders under the federal Sentencing Guidel… |
| 24-7303 |
Donterrian M. Lavender v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-appeal defendant-rights federal-sentencing sentencing substantive-reasonableness |
Whether Lavender's sentence is substantively unreasonable. |
| 24-7278 |
Malik J. Moss v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof constitutional-rights due-process fact-finding fifth-amendment sentencing |
Was Petitioner's Fifth Amendment due process right violated when the Sentencing Court relieved the Government of its constitutionally mandated burden … |
| 24-7255 |
Jarred Adams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process legal-analysis sentence-length sentencing vindictive-prosecution |
Whether sentence length is the exclusive means to determine if a subsequent sentence is more severe for vindictive sentencing analysis? |
| 24-7254 |
Legarius Deshawn Bonner v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-05-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process PROTECT-Act revocation sentencing supervised-release |
DOES THE COURT VIOLATE A DEFENDANT'S RIGHTS TO DUE PROCESS OF LAW WHEN IMPOSING A SENTENCE UPON REVOCATION OF SUPERVISED RELEASE, WHEN THE COURT EMPLO… |
| 24-1183 |
Antonio Lamont Lightfoot v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-05-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
categorical-approach circuit-split federal-criminal-law predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement three-strikes-law |
Whether there is a categorical mis match whe n the elements of the predicate state offense, by their plain language , criminalize conduct outside the … |
| 24-7194 |
Neil Aaron Carver v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-05-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sentencing |
1. This Honorable Court has declared that Counsel renders ineffective assistance
in failing to investigate and present mitigating evidence ina capita… |
| 24-7183 |
James Little v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2025-05-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
appellate-review double-jeopardy executive-order january-6-offense presidential-pardon sentencing |
James Little pled guilty to a single petty offense arising from the events at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. After a successful appeal challengi… |
| 24-7167 |
Derek Rogers v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance-offense ineffective-assistance section-2255 sentencing-guidelines |
1. Whether a conviction under Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-18-406(2)(b)(I), (D(C) can serve as a predicate "controlled substance offense" for career offender… |
| 24-1148 |
Dominic Michael Mason v. Catherine S. Bauman, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-05-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus self-incrimination sentencing |
WHETHER DOMINIC MASON IS ENTITLED TO HABEAS CORPUS RELIEF AND RESENTENCING WHERE HIS FIFTH AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS UNDER THE UNITED STATES CON… |
| 24-7122 |
Michael Samuel Dekelbaum v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process miscarriage-of-justice plea-bargain sentencing |
1. Should the U.S. Supreme Court recognize a "miscarriage of justice" exception to a waiver of appeal provision in a plea bargain for due process sent… |
| 24-7082 |
Edgar Llausas-Silva v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-04-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure judicial-review prosecutorial-discretion safety-valve sentencing |
1. Whether the district court improperly relied upon the subjective belief of the prosecutor without support in the record that petitioner lied when h… |
| 24-7057 |
Earl B. Penn v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-04-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-challenge criminal-law judicial-discretion sentencing statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. Section 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment either facially, or as applied to individuals who have not been convicted of a vi… |
| 24-6990 |
Abdul Kilgore v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause hearsay-evidence procedural-reasonableness sentencing sixth-amendment supervised-release |
1. Whether the district court's reliance on hearsay evidence, including a complaining
witness's video statement and photographic evidence, in a superv… |
| 24-1056 |
Isabel Rico v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-04-07 |
Granted |
Amici (4) |
criminal-procedure federal-law fugitive-tolling sentencing supervised-release tolling-doctrine |
Whether the fugitive-tolling doctrine applies in the context of supervised release. |
| 24-6922 |
Lorenzo Vazquez-Alba v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-04-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
federal-criminal-law illegal-entry immigration-law judicial-procedure sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Did the district court properly enter judgment under both 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a) and (b)(2)? |
| 24-6852 |
Eric William Diaz v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2025-03-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
double-jeopardy legal-counsel plea-negotiation sentencing sexual-offense sixth-amendment |
1. - Whether the Pennsylvania State Courts violated the Double Jeopardy Clause
of the Fifth Amendment by sentencing the Petitioner in accordance with… |
| 24-6847 |
Richard Darren Emery v. Missouri |
Missouri |
2025-03-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment impartiality religious-consideration sentencing |
Does a sentencing court violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when it invokes a defendant's lack of spirituality—while crediting … |
| 24-6836 |
Christian Genao v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-03-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sentencing supervised-release |
Federal criminal defendants have a right to be present at sentencing, grounded in the Fifth Amendment Due Process Clause and codified in Federal Rule … |
| 24-6766 |
David Lynn Griffith v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure drug-evidence drug-purity evidence-reliability methamphetamine sentencing |
WHETHER HISTORICAL DRUGS PURCHASED BY SOMEONE OTHER THAN THE DEFENDANT CONSTITUTES RELIABLE EVIDENCE AT SENTENCING TO SUPPORT THE PURITY OF METHAMPHET… |
| 24-6748 |
Clifford Charles Galley, II v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2025-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consecutive-sentences constitutional-proportionality cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment life-without-parole sentencing |
1) Under the ever evolving standards that mark the progress of a maturing society, does the Eighth Amendments prohibition against cruel and unusual pu… |
| 24-6694 |
Emilio Santiago v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-decision career-offender criminal-procedure judicial-review retroactive-application sentencing-enhancement |
Should A Intervening Decision By A United States Court Of Appeals Invalidating A Defendant's Career Offender Enhancement Be Applied Retroactive? |
| 24-6659 |
Ronnie Lee Seward v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review career-criminal criminal-procedure drug-trafficking florida-law sentencing |
Did the District Court erroneously sentence Petitioner as a career criminal based on prior convictions for Florida trafficking in amphetamine?
Did th… |
| 24-6638 |
Raquel Delgado Chavez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
causal-connection criminal-law depraved-heart federal-murder second-degree-murder sentencing |
1. Does the "depraved heart" theory of federal second-degree murder require a causal connection between the defendant's "depraved" conduct and the vic… |
| 24-6628 |
Adrin Smack v. Bernadette Mason, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof disputed-facts due-process fourteenth-amendment preponderance-of-evidence sentencing |
Was Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment due process right violated when a Delaware State Sentencing Court applied a minimal indicia of reliability burde… |
| 24-6572 |
Victor Rivera v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review breach-of-agreement plain-error plea-agreement second-circuit sentencing |
1. Did the Second Circuit err by requiring Petitioner to object with specificity at sentencing and identify a particular provision of the plea agreeme… |
| 24-6575 |
Marshall Ray Scarborough v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit plea-agreement sentencing |
Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(b)(1)(N) requires that, before a district court accepts a plea of guilty, it must first "inform the defendant of… |
| 24-6545 |
Rangsey Arundech Pich v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation sentencing written-order |
In federal criminal proceedings, circuit courts agree that an unambiguous oral pronouncement overrides a subsequent inconsistent written order. Courts… |
| 24-6474 |
Leonard Morrison v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca-enhancement armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure jury-determination predicate-offense |
Does the recent Supreme Court ruling in *Erlinger v. United States*, 602 U.S. (2024), render unconstitutional the enhancements imposed under the Armed… |
| 24-6482 |
In Re Petera Micale Carlton |
|
2025-02-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
career-offender criminal-law fourth-circuit sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Is Petitioner still a career offender based upon the Decision of the Fourth Circuit in United States v. Simmons, 649 F.3d 247 (4th Cir. 2011?I. |
| 24-788 |
Jeremy Young Hutchinson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-01-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
defendant-request federal-rule-criminal-procedure government-obligation legal-interpretation plea-bargain sentencing |
1. Does the plain language of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(c)(1)(B) require that the government either to join in the defendant's sentencing … |
| 24-6341 |
Zonta Tavaras Ellison aka Zonta Tavarus Ellison v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-01-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alford-plea career-offender circuit-court en-banc sixth-amendment trial-by-jury |
1. The Circuit Courts Three Judge panel created a conflict of grave importance warranting this court's discretionary judicial power when it denied pet… |
| 24-6270 |
Timothy Edward Peterson v. James Salmonsen, Warden |
Montana |
2025-01-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection montana-statute sentencing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. The validity of Montana Statute MCA (46-22-101 (1) and MCA (46-22-101) (2) is drawn in question under 28 U.S.C. § 1257(a) on the ground of its bein… |
| 24-6287 |
Sean J. Trahan v. United States |
First Circuit |
2025-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography federal-law mandatory-minimum predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement state-conviction |
Whether a district court may impose an enhanced mandatory minimum sentence under 18 U.S.C. 2252A(b)(2) based on a prior state conviction "relating to"… |
| 24A669 |
Dajuan Martin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
criminal-statute fifth-circuit firearm-possession plea-agreement prohibited-person sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 24-6235 |
Joseph Furey Lusk v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-01-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights jury-trial predicate-offense proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt sentencing sex-offender-registration |
Whether the Constitution requires a jury trial and proof beyond a reasonable doubt to find that a defendant committed a felony off ense involving a n … |
| 24-706 |
Andrew Thomas Cowhy v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2025-01-02 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-law criminal-procedure judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment |
Should the Court reexamine its holding in Oregon v. Ice, 555 U.S. 160 (2009), which exempts factual findings necessary to increase a defendant's punis… |
| 24A644 |
Shedrick Thornton v. Tina Y. Clinton, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-12-30 |
Presumed Complete |
|
due-process incarceration judicial-representation plea-proceedings sentencing time-served-credit |
Question not identified. |
| 24-6192 |
Ladonta A. Tucker v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-statute firearm-use mandatory-minimum predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether a person uses or carries a firearm "during and in relation to" a predicate offense anytime the firearm has "the potential to facilitate" the c… |
| 24A614 |
Wanda L. Edwards v. South Dakota |
South Dakota |
2024-12-20 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-rights criminal-conviction due-process sentencing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 24-6140 |
Terrance L. Lavoll v. Jerry Howell, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-12-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Whether Petitioner's Writ of Habeas Corpus was denied in violation of the Fifth Amendment when the state denied his right to appeal and his sentenc… |
| 24-6112 |
Dekeilon Marquel Johnson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-12-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender circuit-split federal-sentencing predicate-offense rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines |
I. Should Mr. Johnson be sentenced as a career offender under the United States Sentencing Guidelines based upon the current Circuit split of whether … |
| 24-6081 |
Christopher Zamarripa v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement sentencing sixth-amendment |
WHETHER ZAMARRIPA WAS DENIED EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL GUARANTEED BY THE SIXTH AMENDMENT AS A RESULT OF HIS COUNSEL'S ADVICE THAT HE ACCEPT THE … |
| 24-6047 |
Rodney Tyrone Henry v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a accomplice-liability circuit-court-review criminal-procedure premeditation sentencing |
The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit's decision misapplied the established precedent regarding circumstances that could support a… |
| 24-6003 |
Sydni Frazier v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-defendant first-degree-murder jury-trial predicate-offense sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict |
Whether a criminal defendant's right to a jury trial under the Sixth Amendment is violated when the trial judge does not instruct the jury that it mus… |
| 24A471 |
Kayne Russell Donath v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-11-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certiorari conviction eighth-circuit federal-judiciary sentencing supreme-court-rules |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5930 |
Anthony Tawon Williams v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2024-11-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment merger-errors sentencing |
1. Whether a defendant indicted, tried, and found guilty of multiple counts of felony murder for the death of a single victim and later finds out that… |
| 24-5926 |
Glenn Thomas v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-discretion sentencing |
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| 24-5905 |
Huosheng Xian v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-11-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure jury-verdict mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing |
Do the findings embodied in a jury's verdict constrain a sentencing judge's ability to find that a defendant has provided full and truthful informatio… |
| 24A442 |
Dale Scott Heineman v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-11-04 |
Presumed Complete |
|
criminal-procedure due-process incarceration peonage restitution sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5882 |
Tyrone Greenfield v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-10-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-history judicial-discretion miscalculation procedural-error relevant-conduct sentencing |
Whether a sentence may be sustained if it relies upon an obvious and gross miscalculation pertaining to alleged wrongdoing that results in incorrect r… |
| 24-5819 |
Oscar Robinson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure plain-error plea-agreement sentencing substantial-rights |
When a criminal defendant demonstrates that, but for the plain error raised on appeal, his sentence as to each of two separate counts would be differe… |
| 24A392 |
Rhobashi Holmes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review criminal-statute felon-in-possession firearm-possession mens-rea sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5780 |
Alex Ryle v. Brian Emig, Warden, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-10-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment habeas-corpus sentencing |
Was Petitioner's Fifth Amendment protections against multiple punishments for the same offense violated by several convictions and sentences for posse… |
| 24A371 |
Benjamin Tyree Townsel v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-10-18 |
Presumed Complete |
|
criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit federal-appeal jurisdiction sentencing standard-of-review |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5774 |
Dwayne Barrett v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-10-17 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (3)Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split crime-of-violence double-jeopardy hobbs-act sentencing statutory-interpretation |
L. Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause permits two sentences for an act that violates 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) and § 924(j), a question that divides seven ci… |
| 24-5776 |
Richard Allen Harris, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-10-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement state-court-decisions |
To determine the elements of a prior state conviction for purposes of applying ACCA's categorical approach, should federal courts consult the most rec… |
| 24A363 |
Terius Thomas, aka Terius Brown, aka Terry Brown v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-10-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
attempted-robbery criminal-intent eleventh-circuit hobbs-act sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5751 |
Nicolas Dominique v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion sentencing victim-impact-statement |
IS IT EVER DEEMED UNCONSTITUTIONAL WHEN A JUDGE USE THE VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENT AS AN AGGRAVATING FACTOR OR AS FACT FINDING TO INCREASE DEFENDANT'S PU… |
| 24-5695 |
Deandre Johnson v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus sentencing |
Whether Reasonable Doubt Find Defandgue Coonsacg Refzetiweness Foe. Cocinte To Argue Pentres Spe Mars Did Not Consrinue Theoms As Befined By Eloms.
O… |
| 24-5588 |
Deven L. Smith v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion career-offender criminal-history downward-departure sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines |
QUESTION NO. I:
Whether the Sixth Circuit 's decision affirming the judgment of the district court was
error, where one of Defendant-Appellant 's pre… |
| 24-5596 |
Oren Snowden v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compassionate-release district-court-discretion kidney-disease medical-conditions prisoner-rights sentencing |
1. Did the district court abuse its discretion in denying Oren Snowden motion for compassionate release when Oren Snowden suffered from and continues … |
| 24-5580 |
Octavius Artis v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender criminal-procedure factual-basis plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines voluntary-plea |
Whether the district court erred in sentencing Artis as a career offender where he did not have two prior controlled substance offenses required for a… |
| 24-5558 |
Bryant D. Aron v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
fairness-doctrine federal-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plea-agreement review-standard sentencing |
1) Plea agreements under Fed. R. Crim. P. 11(c)(1)(C) bind a district court if the court accepts the agreement. A district court can also reject the a… |
| 24-5514 |
Christopher Jensen v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure evidence-law jury-instructions sentencing trial-court |
1) When for A Whit of Cerbirar To decide which leecrd es tle altinse attihat al
2) do tu< dide_rihal Kecard 2 atturabe ac Cortect wtep.
3) When ted … |
| 24A250 |
Thomas John Boukamp v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-10 |
Presumed Complete |
|
criminal-statute cyber-stalking federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit sentencing sexual-enticement |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5420 |
Jerry E. Russell, Sr. v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2024-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
atkins-v-virginia criminal-punishment eighth-amendment intellectual-disability life-without-parole sentencing |
Should the Eighth Amendment prohibition, against sentencing intellectually disabled individuals to death, announced in Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 30… |
| 24-5322 |
Richard Tipton v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence mens-rea physical-force predicate-offense |
Section 924(c) of Title 18 of the United States Code criminalizes carrying a firearm in furtherance of a "crime of violence." Per this Court's precede… |
| 24-5314 |
Martin L. Hunt and Xavier Greene v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
bodily-injury circuit-split crime-of-violence mandatory-consecutive physical-force sentencing |
1. Under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A), a felony qualifies as a "crime of violence"
if it "has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of p… |
| 24-5271 |
Claude P. Lacombe v. Brian Emig, Warden, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
guilty-plea habeas-relief ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining sentencing strickland-prejudice |
1. Under Puckett v. United States , 556 U.S. 129 (2009) and Brecht v. Abrahamson, 507 U.S. 619 (1993), a petitioner seeking habeas relief from a sente… |
| 24-5282 |
Darrell Gunn v. New York |
New York |
2024-08-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure guilty-plea ineffective-assistance plea-withdrawal sentencing |
WHETHER APPELLANT COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE FOR STRONG APPELLATE CLAIM THAT A WITHDRAWAL OF GUILTY PLEA WAS MADE PRIOR TO SENTENCING? |
| 24-5255 |
Benjamin Burciaga-Herrera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-08-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 24-5237 |
Warren Alexander v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process presentence-report sentencing supervised-release |
Should the Court grant the petition in order to resolve a conflict among the circuits as to whether a district court in imposing sentence is required … |
| 24A132 |
Kyle Trevor Flack v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2024-08-06 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-punishment eighth-amendment kansas-supreme-court mitigating-factors murder sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5231 |
Dean Terry v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances-act drug-conviction federal-drug-crimes federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Statutory directives to administrative agencies have one permissible interpretation: "[T]he one the court, after applying all relevant interpretive to… |
| 24-5219 |
Bobbie Ray Edwards v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-U.S.C.-2254 armed-career-criminal-act civil-procedure criminal-conviction due-process federal-review habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief pro-se-petition sentencing statutory-limitation |
1) Whether the DisTReT COusTs dewial For sLaelh of Sues diCNow awd dew er sene of debewdauits Timely fled 2255 (1G) mation OTe SUa spoule Rechoradlarz… |
| 24-5210 |
Jason William Dittmer v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel obstruction-of-justice plea-bargaining sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5194 |
George Henry Purdy, III v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-31 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
2nd-amendment burden-of-proof constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process presentence-report second-amendment sentencing standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment?
Whether factual findings of a Presentence Report (PSR) that result in a higher sente… |
| 24-5195 |
Maalik Alim Jones v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collective-punishment constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process guilt-by-association organizational-liability sentencing |
Whether the District Court denied the Petitioner Due Process by
impermissibly relying on the principle of collective punishment, and sentencing the
De… |
| 24-5164 |
Joel Miles v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-appeal judicial-review miscarriage-of-justice sentencing waiver |
Whether appellate waivers in federal criminal cases contain an implied exception for judgments that represent a miscarriage of justice? |
| 24-5128 |
Selvyn Gustavo Mejia-Marroquin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation legal-precedent recidivism sentencing statutory-analysis supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998) should be overruled. |
| 24A71 |
Travis Adam Brown v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
ammunition-charge criminal-conviction felon-in-possession fifth-circuit plea-agreement sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 24A77 |
Joseph Miller v. Thomas Lillard |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-07-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
career-offender collateral-review ex-post-facto habeas-corpus jones-v-hendrix sentencing-enhancement |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5119 |
Stacey Williams, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-sentencing sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether Mr. Williams's Count 1 conviction and corresponding life sentence violate his right to due process?
II. Whether application of a 21 U.S.C.… |
| 24-5110 |
Cristobal Castillo-Velasquez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres case-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion legal-precedent precedent-overruling sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 24-55 |
Montana v. Robert Murray Gibbons |
Montana |
2024-07-18 |
Denied |
|
eighth-amendment excessive-fines-clause financial-burden financial-circumstances mandatory-fine mandatory-fines proportionality proportionality-factors sentencing sentencing-discretion |
Whether the Excessive Fines Clause requires the sentencing judge to consider a defendant's personal financial circumstances and the nature of the burd… |
| 24-5098 |
Gerald Smith v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2024-07-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
actus-reus crime-of-violence criminal-law mens-rea rule-of-lenity sentencing statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether this Court should grant a writ of certiorari to determine whether 21 U.S.C. § 848(e)(1)(A) represents a qualifying "crime of violence" unde… |
| 24-5082 |
Adam Sprenger v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
change-in-law criminal-law due-process federal-statute legal-interpretation plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation |
[Brief explanation of question] A defendant who him
or herself alone engages in sexually explicit
conduct without a minor's engagement is indicted
… |
| 24-5065 |
Damon John Broussard v. Lousiana |
Louisiana |
2024-07-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment proportionality sentencing |
Does Petitioner's, harsh and unprecendented, sentence of
fourty years, without benefits, constitute cruel and unusual
punishment, in violation of th… |
| 24-5070 |
Javaris Marquez Tubbs v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment birth-certificate citizenship-status civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction legal-classification national-identity sentencing state-jurisdiction |
as the sentence imposed in violation of the constitution or laws of the United States?
2. Is the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Loui… |
| 24-5071 |
Dennis German v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance eighth-amendment fifth-amendment relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
(1). Weather the Government violated the
Petitioner's 8th Amendment. Constitutional
Rights (To be free from infliction of Cruel
and Unusual Punishm… |
| 24-5054 |
Amir Aqeel v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bias culpability due-process equal-justice fairness Involuntary-Plea-Agreement mandatory-guidelines nationality nationality-bias plea-agreement religion sentencing sentencing-disparity Violation-of-Policy-5H1.10 |
1. **Sentencing Disparity:** Whether a significant disparity in the sentencing of co-defendants violates the principle of equal justice under the law,… |
| 24-5024 |
Timothy John Miers v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-interpretation double-jeopardy eleventh-circuit fifth-amendment miller-el-v-cockrell sentencing sentencing-authority separation-of-powers |
I. Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has so far departed from established Federal Law [28 U.S.C, 2253(c)(2)] and the legal standards set o… |
| 24-5034 |
Ralph Loren Barenz, II v. Alaska |
Alaska |
2024-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
bill-of-attainder constitutional-challenge due-process irrebuttable-presumption irrebuttable-presumptions judicial-review legislative-sentencing sentencing sexual-offender sexual-offenders unconstitutional |
Has the Alaskan Legislature created an Unconstitutional Bill of ,
Attainder when it raised the presumptive sentencing ranges for
sexual offenders fo… |
| 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… |
| 24-5022 |
Angela J. Wells v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-07-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure domestic-violence due-process plea-agreement plea-bargain post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation victim-rights |
1. SHOULD THE PETITIONER BE ELIGIBLE FOR RELIEF SET FORTH IN 735 ILCS 5/2£-1401( (B-5) 2016 REGARDING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIM EVEN IF SHE AGREES TO A… |
| 24-5030 |
Lani Lucas Limane, aka Lukasz Chad Limane v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-identity-theft criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error identity-theft indictment indictment-variance plain-error plea-bargaining plea-colloquy predicate-offense rule-11 |
Was it plain error for a District Court to convict Petitioner on his plea of guilty to a crime never charged in the governing Indictment?
When the su… |
| 24-5031 |
Keith White v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-u.s.c.-§-846 career-offender controlled-substance controlled-substance-offenses criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-criminal-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-§-4b1.2 |
Whether an offense under 21 U.S.C. § 846 may be included in the U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 definition of "controlled substance offenses" for purposes of sentenc… |
| 24-5033 |
Jose Domingo Carranza-Rubio v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres case-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion legal-precedent precedent-overruling sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 24A19 |
Maxsony Coissy v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-07-09 |
Presumed Complete |
|
career-offender circuit-conflict controlled-substance-offense crime-of-violence federal-law sentencing-guidelines |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5008 |
Glynzo Clark v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burglary circuit-split criminal-law generic-burglary sentencing statutory-interpretation taylor-precedent taylor-v-united-states trespass |
I. Whether Texas burglary, defined to include a trespass followed
by the commission of a reckless crime, constitutes generic
"burglary" under 18 U.S.C… |
| 24-5012 |
Miguel Angel Ibarra-Mora v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit precedent-overturning sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-7843 |
Luis Alfredo Nanez-Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari-petition constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent precedent precedent-overruling sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-7844 |
Marcus Orlando Armstrong v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-jurisdiction forfeiture forfeiture-doctrine judicial-discretion objection sentencing sentencing-procedure standard-of-review |
Does a defendant forfeit a challenge to the manner in which the district court imposed sentence by failing to object after the sentence is pronounced,… |
| 23-7836 |
Thomas Joseph Brewer v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c criminal-law criminal-statute federal-criminal-law force-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether federal voluntary manslaughter in violation of
18 U.S.C. § 1112(a) qualifies as a "crime of violence"
under the force clause in 18 U.S.C. § 92… |
| 23-7841 |
Richard Schorovsky v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-01 |
GVR |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act burglary-statute fifth-circuit-interpretation jury-determination robbery-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement separate-occasions shepard-documents |
1. In light of Erlinger v. United States, No. 23-370, 602 U.S._ (June 21, 2024), was Petitioner Schorovsky properly sentenced as an armed career crimi… |
| 23A1170 |
Bryant D. Aron v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-07-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
criminal-conviction criminal-justice-act federal-case sentencing seventh-circuit writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 23A1167 |
Jay A. Liestman v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-06-27 |
Presumed Complete |
|
child-pornography federal-criminal-law mandatory-minimum predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7814 |
James Harmon, III v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-06-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction juvenile-justice parole sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7802 |
Festus O. Ohan v. Axos Bank, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-06-26 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-banking habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance investment property-rights sentencing standing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7795 |
Marc Pierre Hall, aka Marc Valeriano, aka Fella v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure sentencing statutory-interpretation |
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| 23-7804 |
Juan Jesus Vargas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-procedure judicial-discretion open-court-statement reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-requirements statutory-interpretation |
1) Must district courts comply with the requirements of 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c) to state, in open court, the reasons for the sentence imposed?
2) Should … |
| 23-7783 |
Joseph James Conkling v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2024-06-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
apprendi-precedent apprendi-rule blakely-rule blakely-v-washington criminal-sentencing fact-finding jury-determination jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment unpled-facts |
Does this Court's decision in Blakely v. Washington, 542 U.S. 296 (2004) establish an "unpled but admitted facts" exception to the rule set forth in A… |
| 23-7788 |
Francisco Valtierra-Zuniga v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari-petition constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial precedent precedent-overruling sentencing supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-7762 |
Christopher McPherson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-06-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure-appeal drug-trafficking felon-in-possession firearm-possession fourth-circuit-review plain-error-standard rehaif-test sentencing sentencing-discretion sufficiency-of-evidence |
I. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by failing to reverse the
conviction on Count V of the Superseding Indictment - Possession of
a Firearm in Further… |
| 23-7745 |
Gustavo Galindez v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2024-06-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment appeal due-process michigan-constitution sentencing |
I. DOES MCL 769.34(10) VIOLATE THE DEFENDANTS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS AS GUARANTEED BY THE SIXTH AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS TO THE UNITED S… |
| 23-7746 |
Robert Brumfield, III v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct brady-prejudice criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-acquittal prosecution-evidence sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
1. Whether courts evaluating Brady prejudice are permitted to ignore a jury's acquittal when evaluating the strength of the prosecution's evidence.
I… |
| 23-7747 |
Keith Hager v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rule-60b6 conviction conviction-review criminal-law criminal-statute due-process judicial-correction legal-procedure sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1. Does Federal Civil Rule 60(b)(6) empower the judiciary to correct a conviction and ensuing sentence for conduct not criminalized by the statute in … |
| 23-7738 |
Terrill Goods v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure in-absentia presence sentencing waiver |
1. Whether a defendant who does not clearly and expressly waive his presence at his sentencing hearing may be sentenced in absentia under Fed. R. Crim… |
| 23-7683 |
Keon Lamont Lee v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-rights circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea guilty-plea-withdrawal plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing sixth-circuit |
Should a district court grant a pre-sentencing motion to withdraw a guilty plea if that plea was made without full knowledge of its consequences? |
| 23-7676 |
Romone Raphael Jackson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender career-offender-enhancement circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances-act drug-distribution federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law |
Whether a state conviction for distributing a drug that includes substances not regulated under the federal Controlled Substances Act qualifies as a "… |
| 23-7650 |
Samuel Cuellar v. Jeff Tanner, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-violation criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel informed-decision mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences plea-bargaining plea-negotiations sentencing |
I. PETITIONER IS ENTITLED TO REINSTATEMENT OF PLEA OFFER WHERE COUNSEL FAILED TO INFORM HIM DURING PLEA NEGOTIATIONS THAT IF HE WAS CONVICTED UNDER MC… |
| 23-7643 |
Thomas Antonio Stuart v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alien-smuggling criminal-penalty criminal-procedure legislative-history mandatory-minimum sentencing statutory-interpretation textualism |
Whether the five-year mandatory minimum penalty of 8 U.S.C. § 1324(a)(2), which applies to a defendant's third "violation" of subsection (a)(2)(B)(Gi)… |
| 23-7646 |
Rogaciano Demetrio-Jimenez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres case-precedent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-7616 |
Jacob Ray Owens v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof co-conspirator-evidence criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-purity drug-quantity ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel methamphetamine-purity sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether the purity of outside-the-conspiracy methamphetamine, linked to Owens's conspiracy solely by personnel, permitted an inference that Owens's me… |
| 23-7622 |
Angel Luis Concepcion-Rosario v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-06-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure district-court-error due-process exclusionary-rule impeachment judgment-of-acquittal miranda-rights motion-for-mistrial physical-evidence sentencing suppression-of-evidence |
1. Did the district court error in not suppressing the physical evidence and the statement?
2. Did the district court error in not granting the petit… |
| 23-7587 |
Jondell Middlebrooks v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-05-31 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
career-offender crime-of-violence guidelines-manual inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses physical-force sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a crime that requires proof of bodily injury or death, but can be committed by omission, has as an element the use, attempted use, or threaten… |
| 23-7599 |
Jorge Ortiz-Juarez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law certiorari-petition constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure overruling precedent-overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-7608 |
Carney Turner v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-05-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion life-sentence sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether, in federal criminal cases where the district court has imposed a discretionary life sentence, the courts of appeal should employ a de novo st… |
| 23-7594 |
Felipe Matias-Miguel v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-7583 |
Shawn Hill v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure mental-health plea-bargaining remorse sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness supervised-release |
1. Was petitioner improperly denied credit for acceptance of responsibility based on an incident in a Hartford jail that appeared to be a mental healt… |
| 23-7584 |
Quentin M. Salmond v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2024-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-claim conspiracy criminal-law due-process newly-discovered-evidence pcra-time-bar retroactivity sentencing third-degree-murder |
1. Is Conspiracy to Commit Third Degree Murder a Non-Cognizable Offense?
2. Can a defendnat be convicted of Conspiracy to commit third degree murder … |
| 23-7564 |
Ricky T. Jackson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confidential-informant criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-hearsay due-process evidentiary-sufficiency sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment sixth-circuit |
1. Whether this Honorable Court should grant certiorari to review whether the Sixth Circuit's determination that the uncorroborated and unreliable dou… |
| 23-7565 |
Juan Aguiera-Guzman v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-reasoning mitigation-arguments plain-error sentencing sentencing-discretion silent-record |
Does the holding in Molina -Martinez apply to non -Guidelines calculation sentencing errors, such as the clear Rule 32 violation here? If not, how doe… |
| 23-7566 |
Brendon Tyre Garner v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury has acquitted … |
| 23-7568 |
Malek Lassiter v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-conviction criminal-procedure federal-statute section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court united-states-v-taylor |
Whether The Court Of Appeals Erred By Holding Lassiter's Convictions Under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) On Counts 25 And 28 Remain Lawful After United States v.… |
| 23-7571 |
Corey Goings v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-rights appeal-waiver constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining racial-discrimination sentencing |
I. Whether the Plea Agreement's general waiver of appeal rights included a waiver of appealing a sentence based on the impermissible factor of race. |
| 23-7553 |
Francisco Joseph Arcila Ramirez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2339b criminal-procedure foreign-terrorist-organization material-support sentencing terrorism-enhancement |
When a defendant has entered a plea of guilty to the offense of providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization, in violation of 18 U.S… |
| 23-7532 |
In Re Keith Hager |
|
2024-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
charging-instrument criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-authority mandamus mens-rea sentencing statutory-interpretation writ-of-mandamus |
WHETHER THIS COURT MUST ISSUE A WRIT OF MANDAMUS WHERE A FEDERAL COURT LACKED AUTHORITY TO SENTENCE PETITIONER UPON AN OFFENSE FOR WHICH CONGRESS DID … |
| 23-7540 |
Oscar Catalan Ruiz v. California |
California |
2024-05-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
abstract-statutes appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendants-rights due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-interpretation procedural-due-process sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7504 |
Sergio Antonio Hood v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-20 |
GVR |
IFP |
6th-amendment civil-rights due-process jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7512 |
Dallas M. Acoff v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fifth-amendment guidelines harmless-error judicial-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the district court committed error and imposed a procedurally unreasonable sentence on Mr. Acoff that exceeded the upper end of his United Sta… |
| 23-7505 |
Daniel Lynn Goering-Runyan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-provisions criminal-justice cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment judicial-review legal-petition parole procedural-document sentencing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7508 |
Matias Zarate v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process guidelines reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines seventh-circuit supervised-release |
Whether a sentence within the guidelines range is unreasonable when the defendant has already served more time on supervised release than originally s… |
| 23-7477 |
Joseph Ira Patterson, III v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-05-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-jurisdiction criminal-appeal criminal-procedure drug-possession due-process plea-agreement plea-bargain sentencing sentencing-enhancement waiver waiver-of-rights |
Whether a provision in a plea agreement which bars a defendant from appealing "any sentence of imprisonment" can be knowingly entered into well before… |
| 23-7483 |
Edgardo Esteras v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-05-15 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3583 circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Even though Congress excluded section 3553(a)(2)(A) from section 3583(e)'s list of factors to consider when revoking supervised release, may a distric… |
| 23-7471 |
Shauntavus Berklin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-appeal criminal-procedure district-court due-process eleventh-circuit evidence federal-sentencing-guidelines gun-accountability sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines |
1. WHETHER CERTIORARI REVIEW SHOULD BE GRANTED WHERE THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S DENIAL OF BERKLIN'S OBJECTION TO THE… |
| 23-7458 |
In Re Michael David Hower |
|
2024-05-13 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-charge acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus jury-trial section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Did the Courts below commit reversible err denying petitioners 2255 motion
without conducting an evidentiary hearing to resolve factual disputes?
Di… |
| 23-7461 |
Shane A. Fox v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender criminal-law drug-conspiracy due-process evidentiary-hearing inchoate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum statutory-maximum-penalty |
I. WHETHER THE INCHOATE OFFENSE OF ENGAGING IN A
ILLEGAL DRUG CONSPIRACY CONSTITUTES A SERIOUS
DRUG OFFENSE FOR PURPOSES OF INCREASING A
DEFENDANT"… |
| 23-7453 |
William Garrido v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-05-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
10-20-life-statute criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-authority statutory-interpretation trial-court-authority |
What authority does the trial court have to sentence beyond the selected mandatory minimum of 25 years under § 775.087 (2), (the 10-20-life Statute)? |
| 23-7439 |
Basil Loud Hawk v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute federal-crimes federal-criminal-law force-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime violent-crimes |
Whether federal second-degree murder in violation of
18 U.S.C. § 1(a) qualifies as a "crime of violence"
under the force clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(… |
| 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 |
"Balancing Justice and Compassion: A Case for Revisiting Compassionate Release under the First Step Act" |
| 23-7443 |
Irvin Thomas v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-05-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-rights due-process excessive-sentence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review procedural-errors provocation sentencing trial-procedure video-evidence |
why_did_qppelate.deteader (Manuela Hetniade2) lnttdlnd Lior pry case.._when Several avguable ments cpply (2
why wae, petiionee (luni Themis pose —gve… |
| 23-7411 |
Larry Elwood Steptoe v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempt career-criminal controlled-substances criminal-attempt criminal-law federal-statute predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines u.s-sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a violation of 21 U.S-C. § 841 of the U. S Criminal Code which incorporates "Attempt" crimes qualifies as a predicate offense for the Career C… |
| 23-7415 |
Carlos Gomez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-05-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions pinkerton-liability predicate-offense rosemond-v-united-states statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis vicarious-liability |
1. Whether, following this Court's decision in United States v. Davis, 588 U.S. 445 (2019), a jury instruction permitting a finding of guilt on an 18 … |
| 23-7398 |
Jamaal Parker v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion new-trial new-trial-standard preservation-of-error reversible-error sentencing sentencing-explanation |
This Petition implicates two splits in the Circuits.
First, a district judge can grant a new criminal trial "if the interest of justice so requires."… |
| 23-7405 |
In Re Patrick Christian |
|
2024-05-07 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights civil-rights-conspiracy completed-sentence court-interpretation double-jeopardy legal-precedent lower-court-errors probation recidivism retroactive-punishment sentencing |
1. In the eyes of the Court when is Punishment Retroactive?
2. Is the Legal Definition of Double Jeopardy described here?
3. In considering the reco… |
| 23-7388 |
Michael Andrew Taylor v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-law federal-act federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether "controlled substance[s]" in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines §4B1.2(b) are limited to those substances defined and regulated under the feder… |
| 23-1193 |
Favion Lara v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2024-05-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
breach-of-agreement criminal-procedure due-process government-breach plea-agreement police prosecutor prosecutorial-promise sentencing |
Where a plea agreement includes the prosecutor's promise that the State will recommend a particular sentence, does a police officer's recommendation o… |
| 23-1188 |
Jonathon Owen Shroyer v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2024-05-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal-waiver first-amendment free-speech protected-speech relevant-conduct relevant-offense-conduct sentencing substantive-reasonableness |
1. Whether a prison sentence imposed as a result of the consideration of protected speech as "relevant offense conduct" violates the First Amendment a… |
| 23-7354 |
Warren Baker v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1951(b) 18-usc-924(c) crime-of-violence criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law hobbs-act predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether Hobbs Act Robbery in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1951(b) is a predicate "crime of violence" for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c). |
| 23-7366 |
Carlos Enrique Navarro-Trevino v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres appellate-procedure case-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23A979 |
Juan Alberto Ortiz-Orellana v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-05-02 |
Presumed Complete |
|
crime-of-violence firearms-statute predicate-offense racketeering rico sentencing-enhancement |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7355 |
Demario Barker v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-sentencing-guidelines guideline-calculation hearsay hearsay-statements reliability-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether presumptively unreliable hearsay statements should be permitted in sentencing hearings to substantially increase a Defendant's guideline calcu… |
| 23-7357 |
Jesus Robledo Aguilar v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split constructive-possession criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense drugs firearms safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
Does simultaneous constructive possession of drugs and firearms disqualify a defendant for safety valve relief? |
| 23-7343 |
Dalevonte D. Hearn v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-04-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process first-degree-murder ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial mistrial sentencing trial-rights |
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| 23-1168 |
Dearnta Lavon Thomas v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-04-30 |
Denied |
|
18-usc-1959 18-usc-924c categorical-approach crime-of-violence mens-rea predicate-offense racketeering-enterprise vicar VICAR-statute |
The question presented is whether, when a defendant's § 924(c) conviction is predicated on a VICAR offense, a court must apply the categorical approac… |
| 23-7327 |
Zachariah Jay Histed v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-sentencing judicial-discretion plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a defendant who plea ds guilty, admits the substantive elements of the
criminal charge, and spares the government the time and expense of a tr… |
| 23-7328 |
Leslie Hood v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment employment probation-requirements sentencing sentencing-discretion supervision supervision-conditions |
1. Was the district court's imposition of supervision conditions requiring Mr. Hood to obtain some form of work/employment violated the Eighth Amendme… |
| 23-7312 |
James Bennett v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether consideration of acquitted conduct by the District Court in consideration of Bennett's ultimate sentence violates the Due Process Clause of th… |
| 23-7303 |
Demetriaus L. Blaylock v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-04-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-justice cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment emerging-adults juvenile-justice miller-v-alabama sentencing |
WHETHER THE EIGHT AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATES CONS I TUT I ON11S PROHIBITION AGAINST CRUEL/ AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT REQUIRE THE PROTECTION GRANTED U… |
| 23-7307 |
Silvano Marroquin-Bravo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-7300 |
Juan Francisco Turcios v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-04-24 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeals constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion plea-bargain sentencing |
(1). In accordance with Judicial Discretion ,once the trial Judge accepted and approved the plea bargain agreement for the maximum of the trial court … |
| 23-7283 |
Hector Manuel Gomez Rodriguez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
21-usc-841 constitutional-scrutiny criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences non-capital-sentences proportionality-review sentencing |
Did the Ninth Circuit contravene Harmelin's plurality and Ewing by essentially exempting all sentences that a district court imposes under 21 U.S.C. §… |
| 23-7284 |
Neal Merrell Walker v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-intent due-process ex-post-facto money-laundering sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
(1).Does the fatal Variance from the indictment violate Mr.Walkers' Due process rights, v ;i*. i
when he is convicted of and imprisonment for "Contro… |
| 23-7265 |
Nicholas Stewart Hines v. South Dakota |
South Dakota |
2024-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-considerations sixth-amendment |
1.) WHETHER THE SIXTH AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS PERMIT
GREATER INCLUDED OFFENSES AND CONDUCT THAT HAS BEEN
ACQUITTED BY A JURY, OR DISMISSED PURSUANT … |
| 23-7256 |
John Pedelahore v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process eighth-amendment federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness supervised-release |
Whether the district court erred by ordering Mr. Pedelahore to serve 30 months in prison for nonviolent supervised release violations when the recomme… |
| 23-7223 |
Daquan Doral Carter v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver arraignment criminal-procedure district-court due-process merits-review plea-agreement plea-bargaining rule-11 sentencing |
Can the Government invoke an appeal waiver to preclude merits review of an appeal when the district court failed to specifically question the defendan… |
| 23-7217 |
Julio Ruiz Chuta v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-penalties de-minimis de-minimis-exception family-friend financial-gain human-smuggling immigration immigration-law sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a prosecution under the enhanced penalties of 8 U.S.C. § 1324(a)(2)(B)(ii) can be sustained where the "private financial gain" involved is a d… |
| 23-7200 |
Willie Johnson v. Kenneth Nelson, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-rights constitutional-provision criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jurisdiction legal-review petition sentencing statutory-provision writ |
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| 23-7204 |
Sean L. Hagins v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation court-discretion criminal-procedure defense-counsel-ineffectiveness habeas-corpus illegal-sentence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error plain-error-review pro-se pro-se-litigation sentencing |
Did the lower court have the obligation to correct an
illegal sentence, brought to its attention, regardless
of the passage of time?
Did the lower … |
| 23-7207 |
Dwayne K. Taylor v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-defect criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus jury-instructions necessity self-defense sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
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| 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 … |
| 23-7173 |
John Lee Barlow v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach criminal-law felony-classification georgia-law mens-rea recklessness sentencing sentencing-guidelines supreme-court |
Did the Court of Appeals err when it categorically ruled that Mr. Barlow's two 2013 counts of conviction for Georgia aggravated assault constituted "c… |
| 23-7182 |
Jonathan Wray v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi apprendi-rule civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-determination predicate-act rico rico-conspiracy sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Does this Court's decision in Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466 (2000), require that the Government prove beyond a reasonable doubt to a jury that … |
| 23-7161 |
James E. Homan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
district-court due-process facts judicial-discretion record revocation revocation-proceeding sentencing supervised-release |
Whether the district court violated Mr. Homan's right to due process during the sentencing phase of this supervised release revocation proceeding when… |
| 23-7165 |
Emiliano Emmanuel Flores-González v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-04-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
article-iii article-iii-jurisdiction circuit-court-procedure criminal-procedure due-process en-banc en-banc-procedure judicial-review sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation |
1. Did the court's fealty to ministerial en banc procedures justify abdication of its constitutional and statutory obligations to adjudicate an as-of-… |
| 23-7146 |
Antonio Ochoa-Leyva v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 23-7147 |
Margarito Cruz-Ramirez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-7149 |
Deterrius Wilson v. Randy F. Philhours, Circuit Judge, 2nd Judicial Circuit, Crittenden County, Arkansas, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-04-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights compensation cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process retaliation sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7143 |
Armando Ordonez-Dominguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 23-7144 |
Dricko Dashon Huskey v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-04-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-conspiracy criminal-enterprise due-process jury-finding jury-findings racketeering racketeering-activity rico-act rico-conspiracy sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
A conspiracy to violate The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1962(d), is punishable by a maximum of 20 years, but… |
| 23-7145 |
Richard Dewayne Lewis v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-04-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583 appellate-review circuit-split extra-statutory-factors revocation-sentences sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
L. What is the proper standard of review for evaluating supervised release revocation sentences on appeal?
I. May a district court imposing sentence … |
| 23-7120 |
Chaviz Wofford v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-04-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-statement constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction opinions plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing statutory-provisions writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7100 |
Robert Merritt v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Apprendi apprendi-rule constitutional-review criminal-law due-process life-sentence plain-error RICO rico-statute sentencing |
Whether Merritt's life sentence under RICO statutes violated Apprendi, and is plain-error reverse warranted. |
| 23-7109 |
Edgar Garcia-Heredia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure jury-trial precedent-overruling recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-7093 |
Jeremy J. Quinn, Jr. v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2024-03-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment sentencing sentencing-statute state-courts |
When a state court carelessly or negligently enters a cause claim, to enhance a criminal sentence, does it violate a person's due process rights and c… |
| 23-7094 |
Tyshawn Shepard v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2024-03-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-agency administrative-extension criminal-sentencing due-process incarceration incarceration-findings jury-trial post-conviction sentencing sixth-amendment |
Does the Sixth Amendment's guarantee of a right to trial by jury allow prison administrators to use their own post-conviction factual findings as the … |
| 23-7097 |
Travis C. Crosby v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-03-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit evidence fraud fraud-charges ppp-loans relevant-conduct rule-404b sentencing |
(1) Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in finding that the district court did not abuse its discretion by admitting Rule 404 (b) evidence of fraudulen… |
| 23-7099 |
Keatron Walls v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-03-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law due-process eighth-amendment mental-health sentencing sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent variance-argument |
1.) Whether the Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding that 18 U.S.C. § 2261A(1) is not an unconstitutional expansion of the Commerce Clause in lig… |
| 23-7071 |
Joseph Kelvin Aberant v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion advanced-age age-consideration criminal-sentencing fourth-circuit-review incarceration medical-conditions sentencing sentencing-variance variance |
I. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by affirming the District Court's abuse of discretion by its failure to give Mr. Aberant a variance sentence and a… |
| 23-7067 |
In Re Timothy Stratton |
|
2024-03-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-documents plea-bargaining post-conviction-review sentencing |
1. CAN A MAN BE CHARGED TO FIND GUILTY WHERE ALL OF THE NECESSARY ELEMENTS OF A CRIME ARE NOT INVOLVED IN THE JURY'S CHARGE?
2. IS THERE ANY POSSIBLE… |
| 23A861 |
Larry Elwood Steptoe v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-03-25 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appeal-dismissal fourth-circuit habeas-corpus legal-access prisoner-rights sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7055 |
Jacob Lyon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-922g constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure second-amendment sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-v-rahimi waiver |
1. Whether an objection to a sentencing enhancement, urged with a specific argument supporting the non-application of that enhancement, waives all oth… |
| 23-7035 |
Anderson Garcia v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure dominguez-benitez due-process guilty-plea plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing |
Whether a defendant who pleads guilty and appeals his sentence, challenging his appeal waiver as unknowing, must show both that the waiver was unknowi… |
| 23-7022 |
Elvis Edgardo Molina v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burns-v-united-states due-process evidence-disclosure fifth-amendment guidelines guidelines-range judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-variance upward-variance |
Whether the district court's failure to disclose gun statistics from unknown sources of questionable validity to justify an unpre cedented 30-month up… |
| 23-7033 |
Donte Taylor v. California |
California |
2024-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus sentencing |
1) WHy was my 8th amendment denied?
2) Why was my sentence not considered cruel or unusual? |
| 23-7002 |
Ayoob Wali v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-courts federal-criminal-law miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing waiver-of-appeal |
Should the court of appeals below recognize a fundamental-miscarriage of-justice exception to a waiver-of-appeal provision of a federal criminal defen… |
| 23-7003 |
Kenneth Malik Wise v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit knowingly-waived plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-argument |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err by concluding that Appellant Kenneth Malik Wise knowingly and voluntarily waived his… |
| 23-6988 |
Anthony Shief v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-03-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mitigating-factors sentencing sentencing-procedure |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's protections under Miller v. Alabama require certain sentencing procedures for defendants convicted of crimes committed … |
| 23-6992 |
Reynaldo Avila-Gonzalez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-sentencing district-court due-process federal-courts harmless-error judicial-review legal-reasoning presentence-report sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether a federal court of appeals should vacate the sentence when the district adopts the invalid reasoning of a Presentence Report to resolve a fact… |
| 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… |
| 23-6969 |
James Paul Antonio v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
assault criminal-law dangerous-weapon due-process federal-jurisdiction predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether an assault with a dangerous weapon, with intent to do bodily harm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 113(a)(3), categorically qualifies as a predica… |
| 23-6974 |
Bartolo Damaso-Sixtos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-overruling precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-6977 |
Dasmore T. Coleman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-appeal criminal-sentencing defendant-rights due-process federal-sentencing procedural-history sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether Coleman's sentence is substantively unreasonable. |
| 23-6978 |
Jose Salome Gallardo Granados v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 23-6979 |
Kyston Ivory v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process mandatory-revocation sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation united-states-v-haymond |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 23-1002 |
Tony R. Hewitt v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-12 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
circuit-split criminal-law first-step-act judicial-vacatur mandatory-minimum post-enactment-sentencing retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the First Step Act's sentencing reduction provisions apply to a defendant originally sentenced before the FSA's enactment when that original s… |
| 23-6951 |
Jesus Barron-Bautista v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial precedent-overruling sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-6954 |
Charles B. Thomas v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review case-law circuit-court-conflict criminal-procedure double-jeopardy judicial-interpretation sentencing statutory-analysis supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-blackwell united-states-v-phipps witte-v-united-states |
WHETHER THE 7TH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS DECISION IN THE CASE AT BAR IS IN CONFLICT WITH THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT'S DECISION IN WITTE V. UNITED… |
| 23-6936 |
Jose Eulalio Aguillen-Servin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 23-6942 |
Paulino Granda v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-minimum predicate-conviction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a Petitioner demonstrates that he has made "a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right " warranting the issuance of a certi… |
| 23-6902 |
Jeffrey Akard v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-error plea-bargain procedural-due-process retroactivity sentencing statutory-provisions |
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| 23-6899 |
James Earl Robinson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-851 career-offender categorical-approach drug-offense federal-statute sentencing-enhancement state-conviction state-convictions ussg-4b1.1 |
1. Whether this honorable Court should grant certiorari to review whether the Sixth Circuit's determination that Mr. Robinson's prior state conviction… |
| 23-6900 |
Bryan Reshad Hill v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure federal-rules fifth-circuit jury-verdict plain-error presentence-report rosales-mireles sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Does a sentence twice that authorized by the jury's verdict constitute plain error? This Court's decision in Rosales-Mireles suggests so, but recent F… |
| 23-6878 |
Jose Luis Avalos-Sanchez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-6870 |
Ariel Perez-Lainez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 23-6845 |
Milton Martin Biester-Villeda v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-procedure sentencing sixth-amendment stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-6849 |
Juan Salazar-Grimaldo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-procedure criminal-indictment criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 23-6834 |
Jeremy Lee Sestak v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
as-applied-petition constitutional-protections criminal-procedure double-jeopardy sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release u.s.s.g.-§4b1.5 u.s.s.g.-§5d1.2 |
Can a defendant bring an as-applied petition for modification of the supervised conditions?
Does supervised release conditions as applied invoke Doub… |
| 23-6837 |
David Carbonaro v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review computer-crime computer-use criminal-procedure image-quantity judicial-discretion number-of-images reasonableness sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements |
I. Whether the Court erred when it overruled the objections to the enhancements for the use of a computer and the number of images?
II. Whether the C… |
| 23-6824 |
Jeremiah James Lynch v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment parole proportionality sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
Is it a Constitutional Violation to a grade A, naoUTk>iT\
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| 23A770 |
Dearnta Lavon Thomas v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-02-23 |
Presumed Complete |
|
circuit-split crime-of-violence firearms-charge predicate-offense statutory-interpretation vicar-statute |
Question not identified. |
| 23-905 |
John William Hanson, III v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-02-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arrest-time civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process excessive-force false-testimony jury-instructions search-and-seizure sentencing |
1. The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has already established that the Petitioner did not Resist Arrest on February 3, 2018. "Hanson did not threaten … |
| 23-6808 |
Joseph Michael King, aka Joey King v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process non-indigent sentencing sentencing-enhancement special-assessment statutory-interpretation |
Under 18 U.S.C. § 3014(a), defendants convicted of certain sexual offenses must be assessed a $5000 special assessment if one other condition is met —… |
| 23-6786 |
Carl Ray McNeil, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-02-21 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment indictment sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
The Armed Career Criminal Act imposes heightened statutory penalties if a defendant convicted of an offense under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) has three prior c… |
| 23-6788 |
Terrance Fowler v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2024-02-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions maximum-penalty sentencing uncharged-crime |
Can a State deny a defendant due process of law by convicting and sentencing him to the maximum penalty for a crime that he was not charged with, nor … |
| 23-6768 |
Vidal Garza-Morin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 23-6759 |
Hia-Keem Don'ae Rice v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-02-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing supervised-release written-judgment |
Whether Rule 43(a)(3) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, which requires a defendant to be present at sentencing, permits the sentencing judge… |
| 23-6748 |
Eric Lavell Minter v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof circuit-court-review civil-rights clear-error-standard criminal-enterprise criminal-procedure due-process evidence fact-based-enhancement managerial-role sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Must a district court find that a defendant exercised control over another participant in a criminal enterprise before considering a managerial role s… |
| 23-6751 |
Delon Joseph Adams v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 concurrent-sentence concurrent-sentences criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure federal-statute firearm-offense sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. Section 924(c)(1)(D)(ii) precludes a sentencing court from imposing a sentence for a Section 924(c) firearm offense partially concur… |
| 23-6754 |
Rodwick F. Abadam v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment appellate-review appellate-waiver constitutional-violation miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement second-amendment sentencing sentencing-error |
1. Did the Ninth Circuit err when it failed to find that sentencing errors that violated Mr. Abadam's Second Amendment rights can amount to a "miscarr… |
| 23-6725 |
Deonte Marques Curry v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process electronic-filing forfeiture notice restitution sentencing sentencing-error |
1. In Dolan v. United States, 560 U.S. 605 (2010), the Court held that compliance with the statutory deadline for determining restitution was unnecess… |
| 23-6712 |
Abner Renato Natareno-Calderon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-presumption reasonableness-standard rita-precedent rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the Court should clarify how a defendant who challenges
the substantive reasonableness of a within-Guidelines sentence may
rebut an appellate … |
| 23-6714 |
Ramon Umberto Cortez-Rodriguez, aka Ramon Humberto Cortez-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres certiorari-petition constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-appeal judicial-review jury-trial precedent-overruling sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-859 |
Zachary S. Spiegel v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attempted-enticement circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute free-speech mandatory-sentencing obscene-speech obscenity sentencing statutory-interpretation substantial-step |
Does speech alone (even obscene speech or "explicit sex talk") constitute the "substantial step" for a charge of attempted enticement of a minor to en… |
| 23-6707 |
Sean Robert Wathen v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure dangerous-weapon district-court drug-offense enhancement factual-findings findings-of-fact sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g-2d1.1(b)(1) weapon-enhancement |
1. Is the sentencing court required to make specific findings of fact, supported by the record, that a defendant possessed a dangerous weapon in conne… |
| 23-6690 |
Lamark Armond Combs, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process record-expansion remand sentencing |
I. May a district court expand the record on remand to allow the government to present additional evidence even though the government's burden was cle… |
| 23A720 |
Jeremy Lee Sestak v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-02-05 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-challenge double-jeopardy fifth-amendment modification-of-conditions sentencing supervised-release |
Question not identified. |
| 23-831 |
Constance Eileen Caswell v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2024-02-02 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
almendarez-torres apprendi-rule criminal-procedure due-process felony-enhancement jury-determination jury-trial misdemeanor-elevation prior-conviction sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Whether a prior misdemeanor conviction that elevates a subsequent offense from a misdemeanor to a felony is an element of the subsequent offense th… |
| 23-6663 |
Emmanuel Gil v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 23-6645 |
Arthur Johnson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 23-6627 |
In Re Reginald Bernard Hatton |
|
2024-01-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sentencing time-served unconstitutional |
QUESTION No. 1.
WHETHER THE PETITIONER HAS BEEN DEPRIVED OF HIS CONSTITUTIONAL
RIGHTS UNDER THE 8TH AND 14TH AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATES
CONSTITU… |
| 23-6632 |
Jasen Randhawa v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2024-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional constitutional-rights criminal-procedure deterrence due-process general-deterrence sentencing sentencing-discretion social-science social-science-evidence |
I. Does a court violate a defendant's right to due process when a lengthy sentence is based upon mistaken information that a severe sentence will dete… |
| 23-6612 |
Cornelius R. Caple v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
borden-precedent career-offender case-law criminal-law due-process jackson-case sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Lower Court's erred in declaring the Petitioner a career offender in violation of Borden -v- United States, 141 S. Ct. 1817 (2021); Jackso… |
| 23-6619 |
Edward Lee Smith v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent guideline-commentary habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel section-2255 total-exhaustion-rule |
I. Whether the "total exhaustion rule" applies to Motions under 28 U.S.C. §2255; and if so, was the district court in error to rule Smith's §2255 as u… |
| 23-6621 |
Adrian Ayala-Garcia, et al. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-01-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-client-communications collateral-attack guilty-plea pre-plea-claims prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing tollett-preclusion tollett-v-henderson |
I. Does Tollett v. Henderson, 411 U.S. 258 (1973), preclude the government and
a defendant from conditioning a guilty plea on the defendant's right to… |
| 23-6590 |
Johnny Eugene Holton v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2024-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction mandatory-minimum res-judicata sentencing statutory-interpretation void-sentence |
1) Was Petitioner Deprived of His Due Process Clause of His Fourteenth Amendment fights and Equal Protection of the Law in Violation of His Rights Pro… |
| 23-6606 |
In Re Jose Alonso Jimenez |
|
2024-01-29 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
article-iii civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-interpretation jurisdictional-issue juvenile-justice legal-standards sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
I.HOW DOES-ONE NOT HAVE A CONSTITUTIONAL
SAME FREEDOMS AS A JUVENILE WHOSE STANDARDS
-ULTS ARE LESS IN THIS GREAT COUNTRY?RIGHT TO THE
FOR ADII.WHE… |
| 23-6589 |
Reginald L. McCoy v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-resentencing drug-quantity first-step-act judicial-discretion prior-finding sentencing sentencing-review statutory-threshold |
Whether a First Step Act movant's entitlement to review hinges on the statutory sentencing threshold for his offense, or may be foreclosed by a prior … |
| 23-6592 |
Bernardito Carvajal, aka Christian Mendez-Acevedo v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquittal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-verdict sentencing sentencing-discretion unreasonable-sentence |
May a sentencing judge disregard the jury's verdict acquitting the defendant of causing the decedent's death and use facts the jury rejected to justif… |
| 23-6594 |
Noemy Ramirez-Gomez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-6596 |
Kenneth Roshaun Reid v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-01-26 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
board-of-immigration-appeals child-status-protection-act criminal-procedure discretion discretionary-review fair-sentencing-act immigration-law plain-error priority-date retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6577 |
Vahe Dadyan and Artur Ayvazyan, aka Arthur Ayvazyan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy conspiracy-liability criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process mandatory-restitution proportional-punishment reasonably-foreseeable restitution sentencing statutory-interpretation victim-compensation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3663A (Mandatory restitution to victims of certain crimes) which imposes restitution for losses "directly and proximately" caused … |
| 23-6560 |
Cole A. Wolak v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography criminal-conviction district-court-error double-jeopardy possession procedural-reasonableness receipt-and-distribution sentencing |
WHEIHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN CONVICTING PETITIONER FOR BOTH POSSESSION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY AND FOR RECEIPT AND DISTRIBUTION OF CHILD PORNOGRAP… |
| 23-6531 |
Terrance Brown v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
borden-v-united-states career-offender crime-of-violence criminal-conviction criminal-sentencing district-court judicial-review mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
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| 23-6546 |
Paul R. Hansmeier v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus rule-of-lenity sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-jurisdiction |
Whether an indictment that alleges only a non-offense or that accepts a plea to conduct falling outside the scope of a federal mail or wire fraud stat… |
| 23-6512 |
Douglas Wayne Sokell v. David Pedro, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-review life-sentence prisoner-detention recidivism sentencing three-strikes-law |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6484 |
Miguel Angel Sanchez-Delgado v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 23-6488 |
Juan Garcia-Bertadillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 23-6492 |
Delondo Henderson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
complicity complicity-law controlled-substances criminal-law inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-4b1.2 |
Does the State of Kentucky's complicity law state an inchoate offense, such that a conviction for complicity cannot constitute a "controlled substance… |
| 23-6495 |
Peter Burno v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights conspiracy conspiracy-law controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-statute drug-trafficking drug-transfer due-process intent-to-distribute ninth-circuit sentencing |
Is the mere transfer of drugs from one person to another sufficient to prove a conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute controlled substanc… |
| 23-6498 |
Kevin Clayton v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy due-process fifth-amendment jury-instructions jury-trial murder racketeering racketeering-conspiracy sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment, and the Jury Trial guarantees contained in the Sixth Amendment were violated when the District … |
| 23A658 |
Pedro Rodriguez v. Jeff Macomber, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
aggregate-sentence constitutional-proportionality federal-intervention habeas-review sentencing state-court-discretion |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6477 |
Jamaile L. Huey v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-01-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
borden-v-united-states crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-jurisdiction fourth-circuit mens-rea robbery robbery-statute sentencing sentencing-guidelines violent-crime |
Whether a state robbery conviction, sustained under a statute without a specified mens rea for the element of violence or threat of violence, but with… |
| 23-6458 |
Mario Astudillo-Herrera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-6461 |
Luis Armando Jimenez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-justice federal-sentencing guidelines judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Under Rita v. United States, 551 U.S. 338 (2007), can a district court at sentencing ignore a party's nonfrivolous arguments for a greater or lesser s… |
| 23-6470 |
Richard L. Gathercole v. United States, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-01-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-motion jurisdiction section-2255 sentencing unconstitutional |
(1) US 38 U.S.C. Section 2255 Whether petitioner has subjected to any substantial or procedural defects that ended his life, thereby violating section… |
| 23-6452 |
Shannon R. Thomas v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
compassionate-release criminal-procedure federal-sentencing first-step-act jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation |
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| 23-6453 |
James David Welton v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus maximum-sentence petition-review procedural-challenge sentencing state-court-conviction supervised-release supreme-court-review |
Whether the court should grant the writ to resolve a circuit split as to whether the sentence of supervised release must be counted with a 10 year max… |
| 23-6454 |
Darwin Dwayne Hutchins v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender cocaine-definition controlled-substance federal-vs-state-law non-violent-drug-crimes sentence-length sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines state-federal-definition |
1. Did the district court err when it counted Hutchins's
Ohio cocaine conviction as a controlled substance
offense to make him a career offender under… |
| 23-6425 |
Christopher Daniel Taylor v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-waiver criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings direct-appeal due-process fifth-amendment plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-phase |
Whether the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause permits courts to find a plea agreement waiver that is silent as to Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1… |
| 23-6432 |
Carlos Martinez v. California |
California |
2024-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law due-process ex-post-facto first-step-act prior-conviction retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation takings |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6433 |
Rico Lorodge Brown v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-01-08 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-amendment criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment indictment jury-finding sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation statutory-penalty |
The Armed Career Criminal Act imposes heightened statutory penalties if a defendant convicted of an offense under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) has three prior c… |
| 23-6415 |
Christian Cruz v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-01-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-case capital-punishment criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process equal-protection first-degree-murder pulley-v-harris relative-culpability sentencing supreme-court-review |
WHETHER THE AFFIRMANCE BY THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA OF DEFENDANT'S CONVICTION FOR FIRST DEGREE MURDER AND SENTENCE OF DEATH WAS CLEARL… |
| 23-6417 |
Ralph Hall v. New York |
New York |
2024-01-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights compelled-speech constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment free-speech government-speech prosecutorial-discretion sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6421 |
Remberto Rivera v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-01-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-guidance circuit-split deference judicial-deference sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation stinson-v-united-states supreme-court-precedent |
Whether this Court's decision in Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. Ct. 2400 (2019), now prescribes the amount of deference to be paid to the United States Sente… |
| 23-6422 |
Raymond J. Kraynak v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-01-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure due-process fair-and-just-reason guilty-plea judicial-review plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing trial-court-discretion withdrawal-of-plea |
I. Whether Petitioner has sufficiently shown a fair and just reason for requesting withdrawal of his guilty plea such that the trial court shall grant… |
| 23-6410 |
Pedro Pena-Talamantes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 23-6411 |
Gilberto Salvador Cortez-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-indictment criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process jury-determination jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 23-6412 |
Jose Eugenio Pavon-Rivera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 23-6402 |
Vidal Orellana-Sibrian v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 23-6403 |
Tony L. Ford v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-01-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
concepcion-precedent concepcion-v-united-states criminal-resentencing eleventh-circuit eleventh-circuit-interpretation fair-sentencing-act first-step-act intervening-law-changes sentencing sentencing-discretion statutory-penalty |
Previously, the courts of appeals were divided over whether a district court could consider intervening changes to the law during First Step Act proce… |
| 23-6405 |
Brian K. Allen v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-01-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-circuit fundamental-rights plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-procedure |
1. Whether the near consensus Federal Circuit Courts of Appeals'
application of plea agreement appeal waivers as to subsequent
sentencing proceedings,… |
| 23-6406 |
Jamal Eberhardt v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-01-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-standard criminal-procedure due-process excessive-sentence judicial-discretion reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review third-circuit |
1. Did the Third Circuit error by not finding Mr. Eberhardt's sentence was harsh and excessive. |
| 23-6408 |
Jade LaRoche v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-01-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the use of acquitted conduct to determine a
defendant's sentence violates the Fifth and Sixth
Amendments. |
| 23-6396 |
Eleuterio Covarrubias-Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-analysis constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent precedent precedent-overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether the Court should overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998). |
| 23-6399 |
Michael Salinas v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-intent criminal-law drug-conspiracy mandatory-minimum mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether, to prove conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance triggering mandatory-minimum and increased-maximum penalties, the government must pr… |
| 23-6377 |
Ryan F. Duncan v. Florida Commission on Offender Review |
Florida |
2023-12-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
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| 23-6382 |
Francisco Batista-Reyes v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-12-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law due-process equal-protection first-time-offenders mdlea-offenses safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
Do the MDLEA first time offenders charged for the violation of both the MDLEA as well as §§ 960 (b) and 963 statutes have a right to safety valve reli… |
| 23-6384 |
Monterial Wesley v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-12-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-conflict criminal-justice-system due-process extraordinary-reasons prosecutorial-misconduct sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a combination of "extraordinary and compelling reasons" that may warrant a discretionary sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A) ca… |
| 23-6385 |
Alfonso Garcia-Vela v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 23-6390 |
Jose Guadalupe Ramirez v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2023-12-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adolescent-brain-development due-process expert-assistance indigent-defendant mandatory-life-sentence right-to-present-defense sentencing |
Does a trial court deprive an indigent defendant of due process and the right to present a defense by failing to appoint an adolescent brain developme… |
| 23-6357 |
Dalton Laquane Smith v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compassionate-release criminal-justice due-process federal-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion motion-for-relief sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
1. Whether the denial of the Petitioner's 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A) Motion is contrary to this Court's ruling in CONCEPCION? see infra. |
| 23-6359 |
Davin Chaz Nevins v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process sentencing sixth-amendment supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 23-6364 |
Luis Guridi v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2023-12-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6346 |
Walter Freeman Jordan, III v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-appeal habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-petition sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6351 |
Jerome Terry, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect ninth-circuit notice sentencing sentencing-departure upward-departure waiver |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in dismissing the appeal when the district court failed to give notice of its intent to depart upwards 147 months and … |
| 23-6332 |
Antonio Misael Rivera-Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure case-law circuit-split criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-review legal-precedent precedent procedural-error sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, __U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), applies to claims of procedural error? |
| 23-6320 |
Santiago Salazar-Ramirez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 23-6323 |
Ryan F. Duncan v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-12-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process identification-evidence mandatory-minimum parole photo-array plea-bargaining sentencing witness-testimony |
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| 23-6325 |
James E. Downs v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2023-12-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection florida-statute habitual-offender sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
UNDER THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTIONS (4) (0), (¢ )e 14 AMENDMENTS) CAN THE CLNEMS BEING PRESENTED HEREIN DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT MANIFEST WSUSTSECCE… |
| 23-6314 |
Dana Jahmal Stevenson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review attempt attempt-offense controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the court of appeal s erred in ruling that a prior sentence for a
violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841 (a)(1) qualified as a "controlled substance … |
| 23-666 |
James T. Cunningham v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2023-12-20 |
Denied |
|
court-martial criminal-procedure due-process military-justice non-unanimous-verdict prejudice-test sentencing unanimous-verdict victim-impact-statement |
I.
Whether Senior Airman James T. Cunningham was
entitled to a unanimous verdict in his court-martial
when the Government convicted him of murder—a
se… |
| 23-6301 |
Delbert Leroy Oldham v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2023-12-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-error cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines res-judicata sentencing |
(1). Whether the Court of Appeals erred by applying the doctrine of res judicata to "Petition In Error" because Petitioner raised Constitutional error… |
| 23-6275 |
Samuel Trelawney Hughes v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6278 |
Devontae Nykel Racliff v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
2nd-amendment bruen-standard criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022).… |
| 23-6279 |
Ismael Robles-Perez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres almendarez-torres-precedent constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-6242 |
Francisco Mora-Carrillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial precedent-overturning sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-6244 |
Edmond Carl Warrington v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-12-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing federal-jurisdiction federal-offense judicial-review sentencing special-assessment statutory-interpretation |
Whether the $5,000 additional special assessment imposed under 18 U.S.C. § 3014, which applies upon conviction of certain enumerated federal offenses,… |
| 23-6245 |
Donato Lopez-Arellano v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-precedent constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-6250 |
Matthew C. Spaeth v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-12-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
attorney-client-confidentiality collateral-attack plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sixth-amendment tollett-precedent |
I. Does Tollett v. Henderson, 411 U.S. 258 (1973), preclude the government and a defendant from conditioning a guilty plea on the defendant's right to… |
| 23-6251 |
Jonathan Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct confrontation-clause due-process fifth-amendment preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-standard sixth-amendment suppression-motion |
I. Whether the use of a preponderance of the evidence standard at sentencing violated Rodriguez's Fifth Amendment and Sixth Amendment rights?
II. Whe… |
| 23-6252 |
Juan Antonio Guerrero-Lazaro v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-precedent precedent-overruling sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-6240 |
Jesus Salvador Gonzalez-Lunar v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-12-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation covered-vessel criminal-procedure due-process jurisdictional-determination jury-trial maritime-law proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Constitution requires a jury trial and proof beyond a reasonable doubt, or an adequate factual basis during a guilty plea, to find that a … |
| 23-6199 |
Trayvon Hall v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge constitutional-rights court-procedure criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-pronouncement life-sentence plain-language sentencing statutory-interpretation |
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| 23-6182 |
Joshua Anthony Peterman v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2023-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure due-process habitual-offender indictment ineffective-assistance judicial-bias jury-indictment prosecutorial-bias sentencing speedy-trial |
(1) Whether the trial Court erred in amending Judgment and hate Sentencing to not* dual in violation of fllx, ft-Crim. P, Rule ti&lH,i (h)
(d) Whethe… |
| 23-6187 |
Jamar Green v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-07 |
Rehearing |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-validity criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plea-bargaining pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sentencing waiver-of-counsel waiver-of-rights |
1. Whether an uncounseled felony guilty plea is Constitutionally valid when
the defendant was not properly warned by the trial court of the perils of
… |
| 23-6197 |
Daniel Joseph Teed v. Warden, Allenwood FCI Low |
Third Circuit |
2023-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-aggregation due-process equal-protection first-step-act sentencing statutory-interpretation time-credits |
Is the ineligibility provision of 18 USC §3632(d)(4)(D) First Step Act Time Credits constitutional?
II. Can the Federal Bureau of Prisons determine F… |
| 23-6169 |
Juan Carlos Soto v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-USC-3553 appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-sentencing ninth-circuit-court remand sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
A. Selective Remand
Petitioner asks: Why does the 4th Circuit Court of appeals Remand (Almost Cases Where Not all of the appellant's Non-Frivolous Pa… |
| 23-6176 |
Faustino Garcia-Sanchez, aka Miguel Garcia-Sanchez, aka Miguel Zamora-Sanchez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 23-6164 |
Albert Carrasco, v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process liberty-interest liberty-restriction rehabilitation sentencing sex-offender supervised-release |
For a low-level sex offender (like a mere possessor of child pornography with no prior criminal history), is a supervised-release condition prohibitin… |
| 23-6148 |
Lawrence Jeffrey Brooks v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure district-court drug-quantity due-process judicial-discretion judicial-transfer motion-to-dismiss sentencing sentencing-enhancement standard-of-review transfer-of-venue |
I. Whether the District Court erred by transferring the case back to the original District Court Judge after the case was reassigned to another Distri… |
| 23-578 |
Christopher Kinzy v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court-discretion gall-standard gall-v-united-states guidelines judicial-explanation rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a district court can insulate from vacatur a sentence based on an erroneously enhanced Guidelines range simply by stating, without explanation… |
| 23-6111 |
Lawrence Remsen, et al. v. Jennifer Shaffer, et al. |
California |
2023-11-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-principles criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion legislative-intent sentencing sentencing-law |
Did the States Highest Court abuse its discretion when it failed to acknowledge the State's Legislature had repealed its indeterminate Sentencing Law … |
| 23-6121 |
Jemare Ray McNair, aka Head v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-11-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appeal-waivers career-offender criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
WHETHER CAREER OFFENDER STATUS SHOULD BE SUBJECT TO APPEAL WAIVERS IN PLEA AGREEMENTS WHERE A DEFENDANT HAS A LEGITIMATE ARGUMENT THAT HE WAS NOT A CA… |
| 23A478 |
Rufus E. Dennis v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-11-28 |
Presumed Complete |
|
circuit-split criminal-attempt jurisdiction pro-se sentencing united-states-v-taylor |
Question not identified. |
| 23-554 |
Michael O'Bannon v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-11-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
acquitted-conduct constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Constitution permits a criminal defendant to be sentenced based on conduct for which he or she was acquitted. |
| 23-6074 |
Sylvester Onyejiaka, Jr. v. Missouri |
Missouri |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance criminal-law double-jeopardy fifth-amendment missouri-opinion possession-of-controlled-substance sentencing unlawful-use-of-weapon weapon-possession |
Is a defendant's Fifth Amendment right against double jeopardy violated when a conviction and sentence is entered and imposed for unlawful use of a we… |
| 23-6091 |
Valentino Bernard Lee v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process firearm-possession jury-instructions legal-principles mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence possession-of-firearm sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the trial court erred in sentencing defendant to a mandatory 11 year sentence under the 10-20-Life statute for possession of a firearm when th… |
| 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… |
| 23-6104 |
Michael Venetez McRae v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent jurisdiction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
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| 23-6070 |
Eric V. Bartoli v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure ex-post-facto habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-error statutory-maximum |
Whether a guilty plea should be vacated when the underlying plea bargain contains an error of law (an illegal sentence) at its core. |
| 23-6081 |
Jacobo Fuentes-Salgado v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 23-6085 |
Randall Gray Stoneman, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure district-court evidence evidence-seizure federal-sentencing-guidelines motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure sentencing sentencing-guidelines video-surveillance |
A. WAS THE DISTRICT COURT IN ERROR IN DENYING THE MOTION TO SUPPRESS THE EVIDENCE SEIZED PURSUANT TO THE APRIL 19, 2020 VIDEO?
B. WAS THE SIX LEVEL E… |
| 23-6087 |
Ronell Whitehead v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-11-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
21-usc-841 21-usc-846 circuit-split conspiracy-law controlled-substances drug-conspiracy drug-distribution mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Section 846 of title 21 provides that the available penalties for a controlled
substances conspiracy violation are "the same ... as those prescribe… |
| 23A462 |
Zachary S. Spiegel v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-procedure criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit judicial-review sentencing writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6057 |
Juan J. Zuniga-Bruno v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy first-circuit issue-preclusion predicate-felonies sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vacatur |
1. Whether the Court of Appeals of the First Circuit's affirming opinion in Zuniga-Bruno is case is conflicting with First Circuit precedents United S… |
| 23-6041 |
Luis Alberto Hernandez-Perez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-6048 |
Elvis Redzepagic v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law federal-sentencing material-support offense-level sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation terrorism terrorist-organizations |
Whether this Court should grant certiorari to resolve the circuit split regarding the correct offense level that is to be used in sentencing violation… |
| 23-6014 |
Curtis Conway Bailey v. Bryan Morrison, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sexual-conduct direct-appeal due-process immutable-fact ineffective-assistance-counsel judicial-notice mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence michigan-law sentencing |
1. Whether a trial court can find the fact of a defendant's age as an element of the offense of first-degree criminal sexual conduct under Michigan la… |
| 23-6018 |
Calvin F. Currica v. Richard Miller, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-standard brady-vs-maryland criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit guidelines judicial-review plea-agreement plea-bargaining post-conviction-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the decision below should be summarily reversed because the Fourth Circuit substituted its judgment for an erroneous factual decision by the s… |
| 23-6025 |
Deunta Finch v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure guidelines plain-error-review preservation-of-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit |
Has the Sixth Circuit erred by creating a novel doctrine that says, to avoid plain-error review, a criminal defendant must object after the sentencing… |
| 23-5992 |
In Re John Bailey |
|
2023-11-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection habitual-offender judicial-discretion jury-selection legal-interpretation sentencing state-law trial-procedure unconstitutional |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5995 |
Jake Messer v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion character-testimony commerce-clause federal-kidnapping-statute guidelines-calculation interstate-commerce noneconomic-violent-crime procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
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Whether the Sixth Circuit's interpretation of the Federal Kidnapping statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1201(a)(), as applied to Petitioner, exceeded Congressiona… |
| 23-5977 |
Sean Overstreet v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-11-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights counsel-waiver criminal-defendant-rights criminal-procedure due-process right-to-be-present sentencing supervised-release waiver |
May counsel waive a criminal defendant's right to be present during the portion of his sentence in which special conditions of supervised release are … |
| 23-5980 |
Edgar Arellano v. California |
California |
2023-11-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial senate-bill-567 sentencing sentencing-disposition sixth-amendment |
The Court Should Grant A Review To Settle The Weather The California Courts Were Correct.
Question: In Stating That The Petitioner's Case Was Finally… |
| 23-5968 |
Richard Langston v. Connecticut |
Connecticut |
2023-11-07 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy fourteenth-amendment jury-acquittal jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States prohibit a state court from basing a criminal defendant's sentenc… |
| 23-483 |
Mauricio Gonzalez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure district-court eleventh-circuit predicate-offense rule-29 rule-29-motion standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether the District Court applied the proper standard of review to find guilt and issue their judgment on Petitioner's Rule 29 motion.
Whether the E… |
| 23-5954 |
Arthur Picklo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c) consecutive-sentences consecutive-sentencing criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law rule-of-lenity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the rule of lenity requires a sentencing court to impose a § 924(c) sentence consecutive to only the predicate crime of violence or drug offen… |
| 23A406 |
Sylvester Cunningham v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-11-06 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review certiorari conviction eighth-circuit federal-public-defender sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5941 |
Gregory L. Randle v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
consecutive-sentence consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness supervised-release |
Whether the district court erred by ordering Mr. Randle to serve 12 months in prison for nonviolent supervised release violations, and by ordering the… |
| 23-469 |
Andrew P. Witt v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2023-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fundamental-fairness judicial-ethics military-justice military-sentencing prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing |
The prosecutor repeatedly exhorted the panel members to consider how their sentence would reflect on them personally and professional and suggested th… |
| 23-5929 |
Anthony Andrews v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-11-01 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions due-process judicial-procedure jurisdiction parole sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5936 |
Hector Francisco Santos-Flores v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 23A398 |
Jeriah Scott Budder v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-11-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
bureau-of-prisons criminal-appeal sentencing standard-of-review tenth-circuit voluntary-manslaughter |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5917 |
Salvador Diaz-Diaz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
certiorari-petition constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent precedent-overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5919 |
Wilkinson Oloyede Thomas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals criminal-law drug-enforcement federal-courts sentencing standard-of-review |
Petitioner, WILKINSON OLOYEDE THOMAS, submits the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ("Fifth Circuit") failed to use the standard of review for pill mill … |
| 23-5925 |
Isaac Johnson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-10-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
21-u.s.c.-§-851(c)(2) criminal-defendant criminal-procedure plain-error plain-error-review predicate-offense prior-conviction rule-52(b) rule-52b sentencing-enhancement waiver |
Does a criminal defendant waive Rule 52(b) plain error review pursuant to 21 U.S.C. § 851(c)(2) by failing to argue before the trial court that a cons… |
| 23-5896 |
Frank Richardson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-10-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
§2255-motion 924(c) civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process indictment ineffective-assistance jury-instructions plain-error sentencing sentencing-jurisdiction |
Did both the District Court and Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals violate Petitioner's constitutional rights by denying his motion to Vacate, Set aside, … |
| 23-5904 |
Hazhar A. Sayed v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2023-10-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure excusable-neglect ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction-motion sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether the Colorado Court of Appeals misapplied the standard of review applicable to assertion of justifiable excuse or excusable neglect for belated… |
| 23-5879 |
Richard Wayne Johnson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge sentencing standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. In a Federal criminal case, whether a motion pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 2255(e) is a petition in the Mitigation in the Residual can challenge the subj… |
| 23-5880 |
Jose Fernando Martinez-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 23-5860 |
John Carl Ferrell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
boykin-v-alabama constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review plea-bargaining sentencing supreme-court voluntary-plea |
Does a decision by the Supreme Court, after a plea is entered but before sentencing, present sufficient cause to consider if the plea was entered know… |
| 23-5845 |
In Re Kennedy Wright |
|
2023-10-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction sentencing supreme-court |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5839 |
Cesar Humberto Valencia-Terrazas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion legal-precedent precedent-overruling sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5806 |
Jason Wayne Oien v. Chad Pringle, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-10-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process jury-instructions marijuana prejudicial-evidence retroactivity sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5812 |
Jurmaine A. Jeffries v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burrage-v-united-states criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offense due-process mens-rea proximate-causation racial-disparities sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
After this Court's decision in Burrage v. United States, 571 U.S. 204 (2014), the Circuit Courts have accepted that "death results" in 21 U.S.C. 841(b… |
| 23-5817 |
Cordarius Lawrence v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2023-10-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction sentencing standard-of-proof |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5790 |
Brock Brian Beeman v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit notice-requirements plea-agreement rule-32 sentencing sentencing-notice |
Did the Fourth Circuit err in upholding the Petitioner's appeal waiver to preclude his claim that the trial court violated the notice provisions of Ru… |
| 23-5777 |
Iker Fabricio Mendez-Alfaro v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure legal-standard precedent-overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5779 |
Donovan Romo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture-doctrine judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing sentencing-procedure standard-of-review |
Does a defendant forfeit a challenge to the manner in which the district court imposed sentence by failing to object after the sentence is pronounced,… |
| 23-5753 |
Ben J. Latham v. Alaska |
Alaska |
2023-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment punishment punitive-law retroactivity right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Is AS 12 72 020CK BMA) Punitive EV Pest forp,
2. IS AS 12 72 626(W@ Punitive E¥ Post Lavy Prok- bi ted Stylo te
2. Wes Lottan dened of the Swovin… |
| 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… |
| 23-5764 |
Kevin Lynn Tucker v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process nolle-prosequi nolle-prossed plea-agreement pretrial-detention sentencing sentencing-credit substantive-reasonableness waiver |
1. Whether the District Court's failure to give credit in sentencing for
state pretrial detention on subsequently nolle prossed "related" charges
crea… |
| 23-5735 |
Michael James French v. Bobbi Jo Salamon, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview |
Third Circuit |
2023-10-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
aggravated-assault constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process exculpatory-evidence plea-bargaining plea-deal probable-cause sentencing serious-bodily-injury wrongful-conviction |
(1) What ; "Definitive Actions Committed" , [Constitutes] the violent felony of the first degree ;
("Aggravated Assault With Serious Bodily Injury") -… |
| 23-5739 |
Daniel Ray Metsinger v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jurisdiction plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing waiver |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Metsinger's appeal based on the waiver of appeal provision in his Plea Agreement. |
| 23-5730 |
Blaise Caroleo v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-10-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment sentencing sentencing-scheme statutory-interpretation waiver-of-rights |
1. Whether a waiver of the protections against cruel and unusual punishment afforded to a defendant under the Eighth Amendment is valid and enforceabl… |
| 23-5722 |
Armando Orozco-Calderon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5725 |
Edward Troup v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
antiracketeering-statute criminal-jurisdiction due-process federal-law federal-statute murder-prosecution predicate-offense racketeering state-law statute-of-limitations |
Does a federal antiracketeering statute, conviction for which is predicated on the commission of a murder "in violation of the laws of any State," rea… |
| 23-5699 |
Jose J. Galiany-Cruz v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-procedure district-court district-court-authority extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guidelines |
Does a district court have the authority to determine what constitutes "extra ordinary and compelling reasons " warranting compassionate release or ar… |
| 23-5678 |
Jasper Michael Wagner v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-history criminal-procedure descamps-v-united-states gall-v-united-states judicial-fact-finding sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment united-states-v-hernandez |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's holding that that judicial fact-finding as to past offenses is permissible during sentencing pursuant to United States v. … |
| 23-5684 |
William J. Dahl v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2023-10-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-robbery civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process felony judicial-review legal-procedure precedent sentencing statutory-analysis |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5692 |
Jose Ramon Andino-Morales v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial jury-trial-right sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury has acquitted … |
| 23-341 |
Bobby Lee Ingram v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-10-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
apprendi-v-new-jersey concepcion-v-united-states drug-quantity eleventh-circuit fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-penalty terry-v-united-states |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit has violated Terry in holding that, at step one, district courts should disregard the "elements" of a defendant's offe… |
| 23-5671 |
Oscar Hernandez Maldonado v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-09-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure cultural-assimilation downward-departure expert-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presentence-report sentencing waiver-of-rights |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals properly affirmed the trial court's determination that the defendant was denied effective assistance of cou… |
| 23-5672 |
Michael Lee Mac Cleary v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-09-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-history criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process judicial-accuracy sentencing townsend-v-burke uncounseled-defendants |
Whether the due process right to be sentenced based on accurate information that the Court recognized in Townsend v. Burke, 334 U.S. 736 (1948), is li… |
| 23-5666 |
Jeremy Aswegan v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure government-objection plain-error sentencing sentencing-enhancement standard-of-review |
I.WHETHER PLAIN ERROR REVIEW APPLIES WHEN A
DEFENDANT OPPOSES A GOVERNMENT' OBJECTION
TO A SENTENCING ENHANCEMENT?
II.WHETHER THERE WAS INSUFFICIEN… |
| 23-5655 |
Christopher T. Mallett v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-09-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arkansas-robbery-statute armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach elements-clause predicate-offense robbery-statute statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether the Arkansas robbery statute categorically qualifies as a predicate violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act's elements clause. |
| 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… |
| 23-5631 |
Jason M. Moriarty v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consecutive-sentences criminal-law criminal-procedure imprisonment maximum-sentence revocation-of-release sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
When revoking multiple terms of supervised release and requiring a defendant "to serve in prison all or part of the term of supervised release," may t… |
| 23-5632 |
Mario Rolando Cadenas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-appeal judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent-overruling sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5619 |
Jordan Winczuk v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-09-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing mandatory-minimum rule-of-lenity sentencing sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation |
The federal criminal statute entitled Sexual Exploitation of Children provides a series of mandatory-minimum penalties. 18 U.S.C. §2251(e). The penalt… |
| 23-5621 |
Amado Alvarez-Alvarado v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-interpretation precedent precedent-overruling sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5626 |
Arun Dhavamani v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process evidentiary-hearing factual-finding federal-jurisdiction manufactured-jurisdiction sentencing |
Whether a defendant's right to due process is violated when a Court of Appeals remands a case for additional factfinding after the district court has … |
| 23-5627 |
Ronald Rene Deleon, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure mandatory-minimum plain-error revocation sentencing sentencing-procedure supervised-release |
Whether application of a mandatory minimum term of supervised release following a revocation amounts to plain error? |
| 23-5599 |
Juan Manuel Amaya-Castaneda v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion prior-conviction-exception prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Whether, after Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, _U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails to… |
| 23-5604 |
Ernesto Ordunez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
career-offender controlled-substance crime-of-violence elements-clause preservation-of-error prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
(1) Whether an objection that a prior conviction is not a crime of violence and a district court's subsequent analysis of whether it meets the element… |
| 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? |
| 23-5583 |
Fernando Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence double-counting felon-in-possession fifth-amendment preponderance-of-the-evidence preponderance-standard relevant-conduct sentencing sixth-amendment |
L. Whether alleged possession of a different gun 17 months after Mr. Lopez's charged felon-in-possession offense constituted relevant conduct?
I. Whe… |
| 23-5555 |
Alfredo Garcia-Aleman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5556 |
William L. Gladney v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-09-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split crack-cocaine federal-sentencing first-step-act offense-grouping rico sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
May district courts reduce the sentence of those convicted of covered and non-covered offenses under the First Step Act, when the offenses intertwined… |
| 23A227 |
Calvin Cogdill v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-09-11 |
Presumed Complete |
|
armed-career-criminal-act felon-in-possession-of-firearm mandatory-minimum-sentence predicate-offense preponderance-of-evidence sixth-amendment |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5547 |
Timothy James Hahn v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment sentencing |
Whether a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole on a defendant who was under the age of twenty-five at the time of the offen… |
| 23-5550 |
Joseph Jones v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver circuit-court civil-procedure contractual-law due-process plea-agreement sentence-appeal-waiver sentencing standing |
Whether the Appellant's rights were violated when the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals enforced a sentence appeal waiver in a plea agreement that was… |
| 23-219 |
Sherman Moore v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-08 |
Denied |
|
child-pornography circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether, for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 2251(e), a state offense relates to the "sexual exploitation of children" only when it relates to child pornograp… |
| 23-5540 |
Michael Rinaldi v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-09-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment acquitted-conduct criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial ratio-decidendi sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. ) Whether the fifth and sixth amendments prohitbit a ferderal court from basing a criminal
defendants sentence on conduct for which a jury has acq… |
| 23-5526 |
Adelfo Rodriguez-Mendez v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-standard constitutional-violation criminal-procedure drug-attribution evidence fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment post-conviction-sentencing sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Whether attributing drugs , post-conviction , in an amount greater than what is charged in an indictment and greater than what the jury found is in… |
| 23-5531 |
Shawn Andrew Crabtree v. Oregon Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision |
Oregon |
2023-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process ex-post-facto oregon-board-of-parole parole retroactive-laws sentencing |
1. Is the Ex Post Facto Clause of Article 6 of the United States Constitution violated when prison officials take away a determinate release date impo… |
| 23-5514 |
Rodger William Dillard v. Wyoming |
Wyoming |
2023-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion alford-plea appeal court-rules criminal-procedure due-process judicial-abuse judicial-discretion plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentence-correction sentencing |
1. Did the District in and for Natrona County 7th Judicial Abuse its power when it accepted the Petitioner alford plea because the the statue reads as… |
| 23-5516 |
Angela Jane Johnson, et al. v. Victoria Fire and Casualty Company |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-09-05 |
Rehearing |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process judicial-process legal-review petition public-trial right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5517 |
Kamar Laquan Cox v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquittal criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-acquittal jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury has acquitted … |
| 23-5504 |
Jabriel Fitzgerald Lakes v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
classification criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-criminal-procedure incarceration-classification judicial-error presentence-report recidivism right-to-appeal sentencing sentencing-procedure |
Did the District Court commit "error" that substantively
—violated Lakes' right when it failed to enclude the disputes
of the objection to the PRS w… |
| 23-5483 |
Dontavious Blake v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence-prejudice ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias plea-bargaining prejudice sentencing |
ISSUE 1: The Appellate Court erred in denying relief for
IOC concerning the advice that petitioner would receive a
life sentence after either a guilty… |
| 23-5484 |
Dion Ray Wheeler v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 23-5487 |
Jose Humberto Hernandez-Mendez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-rule almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi-rule constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-analysis sentencing supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 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… |
| 23-5466 |
Toddell Alexander v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment non-physical-harm prisoner-treatment sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
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| 23-5457 |
Deangelus Thomas v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-08-28 |
GVR |
Relisted (3)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof constitutional-fact-finding criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial predicate-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-penalty |
May a district court judge properly find, by a preponderance of the evidence, the uncharged, non-elemental fact that a person committed three prior of… |
| 23-5449 |
Antonio Rojas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 23-5450 |
Hermenegildo Garcia-Gutierrez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5451 |
Raul Omar Rios-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-appeal judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent-overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5426 |
Christopher Robertson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-robbery constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-law federal-criminal-procedure hobbs-act jury-instructions misstatement-of-law residual-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
1) CAN A DEFENDANT BE CONVICTED OF A 4(c) OFFENSE IF DEFENDANT WAS CONVICTED OF ATTEMPTED HOBBS ACT ROBBERY?
2) CAN A DEFENDANT BE CONVICTED OF A OFF… |
| 23-5432 |
Kyle Vaughn v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-presumption presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-standard rita-precedent rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the Court should clarify how a defendant who challenges
the substantive reasonableness of a within-Guidelines sentence may
rebut an appellate … |
| 23-5438 |
Fox Joseph Salerno v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-24 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
apprendi apprendi-rule blakely blakely-retroactivity certificate-of-appealability due-process jurisdiction retroactivity rule-of-finality rule-of-lenity sentencing sentencing-jurisdiction |
ONE
Does Apprendi decision apply to Arizona Defendants on the date that the
U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Apprendi (June 26, 2000), or on the date that… |
| 23-5413 |
Christopher Ray Lipska, aka Christopher Ray Hare v. Oregon |
Oregon |
2023-08-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-abuse child-sexual-abuse criminal-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility judicial-discretion prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-proportionality sexual-abuse |
1) In an ECSA and unlawful contact with a trial, does a trial court abuse its OEC 401, 402, 403 discretion by allowing the state to present evidence t… |
| 23-5419 |
Seth Williams v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-authority mandatory-minimum rehaif-doctrine sentencing sentencing-modification |
Does the District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania have the authority and jurisdiction to change a sentence after 12 years that was ORALL… |
| 23-5397 |
Emanuel Beach v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act career-offender circuit-split drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules plain-error-doctrine rule-of-lenity sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether the "serious drug offense" definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), and the Career Offender enhancement s… |
| 23-5387 |
James Frank Noel, Jr. v. Indiana Metro Police Department, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5389 |
Wilfredo Rodriguez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split colorable-claim criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process federal-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion judicial-response sentencing sentencing-argument |
Where a federal criminal defendant raises a colorable sentencing argument, must the district court acknowledge and respond to it? |
| 23-5392 |
Angelo Joseph Fernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law domestic-violence mens-rea prior-conviction recklessness sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
1. Does the petitioner's prior conviction for corporal injury to a spouse or cohabitant under California Penal Code § 273.5(a) qualify as a crime of v… |
| 23A135 |
Richard Langston v. Connecticut |
Connecticut |
2023-08-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
acquitted-conduct-sentencing due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether a state sentencing judge's explicit consideration of acquitted conduct, standing alone, violates a defendant's rights under the Sixth and Four… |
| 23-5349 |
Elbert Johnson v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-08-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
conflict-of-interest due-process illegal-sentence judicial-bias judicial-conflict legal-error manifest-injustice sentencing trial-court witness-testimony |
When a circuit court judge is called upon, to be a witness against a defendant in a case, and then later on, sentence the defendant in the same case r… |
| 23-5338 |
Keith A. Penn v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
attempt circuit-split criminal-law distribution distribution-definition drug-offense elements-test sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the legal test announced in Shular v. United States — a state "serious drug offense" is an offense with elements that "necessarily entail one … |
| 23-5345 |
Henry Robledo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules holguin-hernandez-v-united-states preservation-of-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-preservation statutory-interpretation |
Is an argument for a sentence based on specific statutory sentencing factors sufficient to preserve a procedural reasonableness claim? |
| 23-5309 |
Jerome Stanley Carlos, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-review criminal-law criminal-statute due-process force-clause habeas-corpus sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
1. By denying Petitioner's defacto motion to expand the Certificate of Appealability, did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in holding that 18 U.… |
| 23-5298 |
Edgar Sandoval Catarino v. California |
California |
2023-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial mandatory-minimum sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Do the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments confer a right to a
jury trial with respect to a fact that has the dual effect of (1) increasing
the mandato… |
| 23A106 |
Patrick Andrew Groves v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-08-07 |
Presumed Complete |
|
aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach controlled-substances drug-distribution predicate-offense statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5273 |
Cory Joe Barton v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit procedural-due-process rule-32 sentencing statutory-construction |
Did the Fifth Circuit err in holding that the determination of Mr. Barton's sentence did not violate his procedural due process rights? |
| 23-5276 |
German Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court of appeals to reweigh the sentencing factors? |
| 23-5266 |
Mantell Alabi Stevens v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-08-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-conviction criminal-law drug-distribution due-process jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement sufficiency-of-evidence |
1. Can a court send a case to the jury when the evidence is
only sufficient to give them a choice between probabilities
instead of being sufficient to… |
| 23-5253 |
Youssef Hoballah v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2023-08-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment structural-error trial-procedure |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5254 |
David Serrano-Munoz v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process legal-definition sentence-enhancement sentencing sexual-abuse statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Should certiorari be should granted to determine whether the sentence enhancement provided by 18 U.S.C. § 2251(e) is void for vagueness for lack of de… |
| 23-5261 |
Everado Joe Flores-Salcido v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres case-precedent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5264 |
Julio Cesar De La Rosa-De La Cerda v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 23-5245 |
Juan Leonardo Aparicio-Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5232 |
In Re Marcus Antone Peterson |
|
2023-07-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process illegal-imprisonment jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect mandamus mandamus-relief sentencing |
1. The lower court acted outside its jurisdiction.
2. A quite bee ath lower court record jurisdiction
3. Peterson is illegally in-prison.
(An amets… |
| 23-5235 |
Hector Lares-Nunez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-precedent certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-overruling precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5237 |
Jordan Cole Laws v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-discretion criminal-procedure factual-findings indigent indigent-defendant justice-for-victims-of-trafficking-act sentencing special-assessment statutory-interpretation |
Did the district court err when it imposed a $5,000 special assessment, pursuant to the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015, 18 U.S.C. § 30… |
| 23-5240 |
Alden Brent Cooper v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-conduct criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment presentence-investigation presentence-investigation-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Section 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(1) can be violated by either knowingly receiving or distributing child pornography. A defendant accused of a violation of… |
| 23-5221 |
Gilberto Betero-Carrillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-rule almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi-rule constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation precedent-analysis sentencing supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 23-5226 |
Cornelius Michael Turner v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure judicial-factfinding occasions-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment wooden-v-united-states |
I. Whether a defendant's Armed Career Criminal Act sentence may be affirmed when the lower court fails to properly apply this Court's occasions clause… |
| 23-5229 |
Rodolfo Hernandez Roman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5198 |
Richard Potts v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-justice-reform criminal-sentencing discretionary-authority district-court-discretion fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation statutory-penalty |
First Question
Whether the Fair Sentencing Act modified the
statutory penalty for petitioner's offense,
so that petitioner is eligible for a sentenc… |
| 23-5208 |
Jason Boudreau v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment fourth-amendment plea-agreement search-and-seizure search-condition sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
1. Whether the District Court's decision to subject the Petitioner to a lifetime
suspicionless search condition that lacks any limitations at all vio… |
| 23-5210 |
Andres Zapata-Reyes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5218 |
In Re Jerome Curry |
|
2023-07-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process indictment material-facts non-response sentencing standing summary-judgment waiver |
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| 23-5194 |
Andra Green v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-offense firearms hobbs-act predicate-crime sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Mr. Green is serving a life sentence after pleading guilty to a single count of using a firearm during a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c). H… |
| 23-5177 |
Kenneth Ragan-Armstrong v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion plain-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-conditions supervised-release |
Whether the district court plainly erred in imposing special conditions of
supervision without explaining why such conditions were necessary or approp… |
| 23-5178 |
Bobby Dean Robey v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender conspiracy criminal-procedure drug-crimes evidence sentencing |
I.WHETHER THERE WAS INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE THAT MR. ROBEY WAS INVOLVED IN THE "IMPORTATION" OF METHAMPHETAMINE?
II.WHETHER MR. ROBEY'S CRIMINAL HISTOR… |
| 23-5181 |
Rudy Alexander Ventura-Recinos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-precedent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial legal-standard sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5172 |
Jose Antonio Deleon-Juarez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split plain-error plain-error-review plea-agreement prosecutor-breach prosecutorial-breach sentencing substantial-rights |
Under plain error review, does a prosecutor's breach of a plea agreement affect a defendant's substantial rights unless the record contains evidence t… |
| 23-5150 |
Augustus Quintrell Light v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-due-process criminal-procedure government-misconduct illegal-sentence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion sentencing sentencing-error |
WHETHER ON ONE'S, DID THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS COMMIT ERROR IN FINDING THAT THE DISTRICT COURT DID NOT ABUSE ITS DISCRETION IN DENYING PETI… |
| 23-5154 |
Justin Christopher Smith v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-convictions sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-sentencing violent-felony violent-offense |
1. Whether an appeal waiver can bar an attack on an enhanced statutory sentence?
2. Whether Petitioner's prior convictions for robbery and resisting … |
| 23-5130 |
Caleb Bryant Hickcox v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-procedure reasonableness reasonableness-review second-amendment sentencing sentencing-requirements statutory-interpretation |
1) Must district courts comply with the requirements of 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c) to state, in open court, the reasons for the sentence imposed?
2) Should … |
| 23-5137 |
Joshua Christopher Stockstill v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines section-3553a-factors sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness |
Whether the district court ordered a substantively unreasonable 30-year
prison sentence. |
| 23-5141 |
Alejandro Holguin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5121 |
Kyle Ross Rivers v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentence-appeal sentencing waiver waiver-of-rights |
1. Whether a defendant, consistent with the Due Process Clause, can waive the right to appeal his sentence knowingly when his purported waiver occurs … |
| 23-5127 |
Edward R. Brown v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2023-07-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-analysis dna-evidence due-process habeas-corpus laboratory-evidence sentencing trial-procedure |
(1). Did the trial court Error based on false and misleading DNA Laboratory Analysis reports in the Petitioner's trial proceeding which violated the P… |
| 23-5113 |
Charleton Maxwell v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-07-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-circuit conservative-estimate criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines walton-rule |
Issue 1.
In the case at bar the sentencing judge refused to a apply a higher
standard than a mere preponderance when the issue was, based
on a drug… |
| 23-5114 |
Leroy C. Tate v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-07-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance eighth-circuit-interpretation federal-sentencing-guidelines mcneill-precedent mcneill-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines state-law |
Does McNeill require courts to define "controlled substance" under § 4B1.2 of the federal sentencing guidelines by consulting superseded state schedul… |
| 23-46 |
United States v. Cassity Danielle Jones |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-07-17 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
Whether, in order for a defendant to satisfy the prerequisite for "safety-valve" sentencing relief in 18 U.S.C. 3553(f)(1), a court must find that the… |
| 23-5107 |
Malcolm A. Jordan v. Jordan Fly |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-07-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-challenge court-of-appeals criminal-law due-process federal-agency federal-jurisdiction sentencing standing statutory-interpretation writ-of-certiorari |
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| 23-5079 |
Genaro Perchez-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5088 |
Quinton Troy Hall v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process jury jury-finding methamphetamine methamphetamine-distribution preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sixth-amendment |
WAS IT A VIOLATION OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, SIXTH AMENDMENT WHEN THE TRIAL COURT SENTENCED THE PETITIONER TO A TERM OF 360 MONTHS. THE JURY … |
| 23-5097 |
Allen Auten v. California |
California |
2023-07-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedIFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion legislative-intent parole sentencing sentencing-structure standing |
1. Has the California Supreme* Court (CSCC) prejudicially abused its dis
cretion by repudiating United States Supreme Court (USSC) controlling
author… |
| 23-5101 |
Christopher Wade v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure fifth-circuit gall-v-united-states harmless-error judicial-precedent sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-guzman-rendon |
I. Whether the Fifth Circuit's application of harmless error doctrine
pursuant to United States v. Guzman-Rendon, 864 F.3d 409 (5th Cir. 2017) violate… |
| 23-5085 |
Andre Rene Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial non-elemental-facts preponderance-standard sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-jury-trial |
Whether the Constitution permits a sentencing judge to find non-elemental facts by a preponderance of the evidence and then rely on those facts to imp… |
| 23-5062 |
Alfredo Martinez-Rubio v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 23-27 |
Michael Harper v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-07-10 |
Denied |
|
apprendi-v-new-jersey circuit-split criminal-resentencing drug-quantity fair-sentencing-act first-step-act judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-penalty terry-v-united-states |
Under the First Step Act of 2018, courts may reduce certain previously imposed sentences to match the penalties in the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010. Th… |
| 23-5058 |
Gabriel Simental-Murillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5059 |
Savon Hardaway v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-07-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender criminal-procedure felon-in-possession guilty-plea harmless-error mens-rea plea-agreement rehaif-advisement rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-error |
I. Mr. Hardaway pleaded guilty to a felon in possession charge. The district court arraigned Mr. Hardaway after this Court's decision in Rehaif v. Uni… |
| 23-5054 |
Vitaly Burleovitsch Kolosha v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2023-07-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence-access exculpatory-evidence grand-jury multiple-prosecutions post-conviction sentencing state-prison |
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| 23-5031 |
Marc Anthony Hill v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
advance-knowledge apprendi-precedent circuit-court-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process essential-elements fifth-amendment four-corner-rule jury-findings sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Is Apprendi v. New Jersey still good law?
If yes, are the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and other circuits applying Apprendi incorrectly which viola… |
| 23-5034 |
Omar Francisco Orduno-Ramirez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-07-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-client-privilege confidential-communications due-process prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-phase sixth-amendment structural-error |
When prosecutors intentionally and without any legitimate law-enforcement
justification access confidential attorney-client communications before sent… |
| 23-5035 |
Miguel Lux-Tum v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-doctrine precedent-overruling sentencing supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5036 |
Brandon Mason v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-07-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
federal firearm sentencing federal sentencing or prior state drug offense armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-statute drug-offense drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense federal-sentencing jackson-v-united-states prior-state-drug-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-drug-offense statutory-interpretation |
Whether the "serious drug offense" definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), incorporates the federal drug schedules … |
| 23-5017 |
Jerry A. Smith v. Indiana Parole Board, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-07-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process government-misconduct parole public-importance sentencing |
Withholding of a Parole decision lasting in Several years sFunlewful Tacarce rab ©.
A. hy sohin Hais jushce bons brought te his supener's aad govecam… |
| 23-5025 |
Kelly Sundberg v. California |
California |
2023-07-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5027 |
Gabriel Gonzalez Perez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-2 |
Gerald Spruell v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-06-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review conspiracy criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-quantities evidence evidence-sufficiency jury-verdict mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
1. Whether the Court of Appeals erred in concluding
there was sufficient evidence to support the jury's
verdict and drug quantities attributed to the … |
| 22-7890 |
Christopher Ochoa v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3664 circuit-split criminal-restitution criminal-sentencing fraud joint-and-several-liability proline-precedent proline-v-united-states restitution-liability sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1. Is the discretion to order joint and several liability in restitution orders under 18 U.S.C. § 3664(h) limited by each defendant casual role in th … |
| 22-7896 |
Marcelino Mendoza-Najera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-precedent constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7899 |
Enrique Lopez-Cristobal v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit legal-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7906 |
Lamar McDonald v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-standard criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence void-for-vagueness |
1)Is Apprendi v. New Jersey Still Good Caselaw?
Are the Lower Courts (Appeals Courts included)
misapplying Apprendi and Mr. McDonald Fifth and Sixth … |
| 22-7852 |
Juan Victor Quezada-Lara v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 22-7882 |
Sergio Delgado-Perez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 22-7863 |
Osvaldo Castelan-Saucedo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-precedent court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-review sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7868 |
Lawrence Broviak v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-06-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection expungement judicial-bias judicial-discretion legal-remedy sentence-commutation sentencing vindictive-sentencing |
CAN A VINDICTIVE SENTENCE BE EXPUNGED DUE TO PERSONAL BIAS BEING COMMUTED BT A JUDGE? |
| 22-7869 |
Kendall Demarko Wysinger, aka Demarko, aka D v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-06-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals conspiracy court-of-appeals criminal-appeal criminal-law drug-statute human-trafficking life-imprisonment mandatory-sentencing sentencing statutory-interpretation |
L. Whether The Court Of Appeals Erred By Refusing To Reverse Wysinger's
Conviction On Count One For Conspiracy To Violate 18 U.S.C. § 1591(a)(1)
(Lawy… |
| 22-1239 |
Michael Jerome Files v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-06-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
concurrent-sentences crack-cocaine crack-cocaine-offenses district-court-discretion first-step-act powder-cocaine sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Does § 404 of the First Step Act authorize district courts to impose a reduced sentence for both crack-cocaine offenses and related offenses that are … |
| 22-7854 |
Edgar Ivan Armenta-Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-law-review certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-overruling sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7858 |
Wayne Anthony Aviles v. Captain Jason Kowalski |
Montana |
2023-06-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
double-jeopardy due-process guardian-ad-litem ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias sentencing |
1. Is the Montana, Tenth Judicial District court, Fergus Connty, at fault for Double Jeopardy by giving Mr. Aviles 4 seperate Sentences?
2. Is the ju… |
| 22-7832 |
David Troy, III v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-06-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court circuit-precedent criminal-resentencing fair-sentencing-act first-step-act fourth-circuit retroactive-changes retroactive-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether retroactive changes in the law unrelated to the Fair Sentencing Act must be corrected in a First Step Act proceeding? |
| 22-7822 |
Darwin Powell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plea-bargaining rule-11 sentencing standard-of-review withdrawal withdrawal-of-guilty-plea |
Whether the courts of appeals, by creating checklists of considerations for the district courts to follow, have improperly narrowed the "fair and just… |
| 22-7833 |
Jeremy Randall Ezell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-presumption reasonableness-standard rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the Court should clarify how a defendant who challenges
the substantive reasonableness of a within-Guidelines sentence may
rebut an appellate … |
| 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 |
Do the relevant conduct principles of USSG § 1B1.3 govern application of Chapter Four recidivist enhancements? |
| 22-7820 |
Annamalai Annamalai v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-06-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion due-process fair-trial impartiality judicial-bias judicial-discretion judicial-recusal recusal sentencing |
I. Whether the district court abused its discretion by failing to recuse itself due to the appearance of impartiality when the court's remarks at sent… |
| 22-7802 |
James B. Norris, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-06-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process internet-access judicial-explanation pro-se-motion revocation-hearing sentencing sentencing-discretion supervised-release |
Whether the Eighth Circuit erred – contrary to the holdings of the Second, Fourth, Seventh, Ninth, Eleventh, and D.C. Circuit Courts of Appeals, which… |
| 22-7804 |
Ricky Simmonds v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
breach-of-contract constitutional-law contract-law criminal-procedure district-court due-process offense-level plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-hearing |
Whether the United States of America breaches a negotiated plea agreement when it fails to affirmatively state at the Sentencing hearing that the stip… |
| 22-1216 |
Dwayne Ferguson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-06-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court-discretion extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-reasons first-step-act habeas-corpus legal-error sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2255 limits a district court's discretion to consider—among other circumstancespecific factors—legal errors in prior proceedings a… |
| 22-1203 |
Alan Patrick Fowler v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-13 |
Denied |
|
confrontation-clause confrontation-right constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mens-rea mental-health sentencing specific-intent |
1) Could reasonable jurists disagree on whether there is insufficient evidence of specific intent to commit murder where Fowler never shot at a person… |
| 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… |
| 22-7771 |
Jaden Rene Johnson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583 acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-sentencing due-process federal-procedure incarceration liberty liberty-deprivation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the District Court unreasonably sentenced Petitioner to a higher than necessary sentence by denying Petitioner's points for acceptance of resp… |
| 22-7772 |
Stanley Jackson, III v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process jury-factfinding jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Whether the Constitution requires an indictment, jury trial, and proof beyond a reasonable doubt to find a defendant's prior convictions were "comm… |
| 22-7775 |
David Elijah Smith v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-rights constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial procedural-requirements sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did yo… |
| 22-7755 |
Jerome Williams v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-06-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance federal-sentencing-guidelines mcneill-precedent mcneill-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines state-drug-laws |
Does McNeill require courts to define "controlled substance" under §§ 4B1.1 and 4B1.2 of the federal sentencing guidelines by consulting superseded st… |
| 22-7756 |
Andre Zeno v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-history criminal-history-points criminal-procedure safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-minimum |
Whether the "and" in § 3553(f)(1) means "and," so that a defendant satisfies the provision so long as he does not have (A) more than 4 criminal histor… |
| 22-7740 |
Chelsea Shannon McIntyre v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion policy predicate-convictions sentencing-guidelines |
Did Ms. McIntyre receive due process of law where the district
applie d Care er Offender Guide lines, lacking a sound basis in policy,
and leading to … |
| 22-7750 |
Jessie Traylor v. Stevie Knight, Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-06-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights clemency constitutional-law criminal-justice-reform due-process equal-protection expressive-conduct first-amendment free-speech hate-crime sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-1195 |
Phillip Robinson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-06-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
acquitted-conduct criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury has acquitted … |
| 22-7731 |
Roy Lee Jones, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof controlled-substances criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy due-process essential-elements evidence fifth-circuit-precedent jury-instructions sentencing sentencing-issue standard-of-proof |
In addressing Roy Lee Jones, Jr.'s claim that the evidence in this methampethamine prosecution supported only a conviction for conspiracy to possess w… |
| 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… |
| 22-7736 |
Brandon Ross Williams v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-06-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-law drug-offense federal-jurisdiction predicate-offense sentencing |
Whether, under the categorical approach established by this Court for
determining whether a previous state conviction can qualify as a predicate "seri… |
| 22-7725 |
James Earl Green, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court of appeals to reweigh the sentencing factors? |
| 22-7717 |
Christopher A. Bernard v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review below-guidelines-sentence circuit-split district-court-discretion holguin-hernandez procedural-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness |
This Court in Holguin-Hernandez held that a defendant's argument in the district court for
a lower sentence preserves appella te review to the substan… |
| 22-7723 |
Wesley Jorome Harris v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment parole sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 22-7701 |
Jose Pena v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review criminal-procedure de-novo-review double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus section-2255 sentencing 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… |
| 22-7709 |
Ashley Latreece Thackerson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-history first-step-act safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err by finding that Petitioner did not qualify for safety valve relief under the First Step Act 18 U.S.C. § 355… |
| 22-7682 |
Tyrin Gayle v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment circuit-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure disjunctive-theories due-process firearms-statute predicate-offense sentencing statutory-interpretation verdict-ambiguity |
I. Whether the Second Circuit conflicted with its own precedent in Capers when it denied Gayle relief?
II. Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeal… |
| 22-7697 |
Kenneth Brown, Jr. v. Pennsylvania, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2023-06-02 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
act-84 civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea sentencing separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation void-ab-initio |
I. Whether Act B4, 42 Pa.C.S. § 9728(b)(5) is Unconstitutional
on its Face as Violative of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Constitution and/or the … |
| 22-7698 |
Tristan Kareem Davis v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appointments-clause civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process executive-power senate-confirmation sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-maximum tenth-amendment territorial-governance |
Did the Court exceed its authority in not having a jury at the sentencing hearing to sentence Davis beyond the Statutory Maximum?
Is the United State… |
| 22-7683 |
Michael Dewayne Alfred v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2259 causal-role causation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing restitution sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum victim-compensation |
When imposing restitution under 18 U.S.C. § 2259(b)(2), does the district court's restitution order exceed the statutory maximum when that court fails… |
| 22-7686 |
Daniel Dorado v. California |
California |
2023-06-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment miranda-rights rape-cases sentencing sixth-amendment |
For the Court's consideration and determination regarding issues involved in my criminal case, and consideration for adults in rape cases:
1. That th… |
| 22-7659 |
Darrien D. Johnson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing first-step-act judicial-discretion motion-to-reduce sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Did the District Court abuse its discretion when it imposed a sentence of 360 months when the applicable guideline range was 235-293 months?
2. Di… |
| 22-7647 |
Nicasio Nevarez-Zamudio v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7650 |
Nolan Washington v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Whether the Di strict Court erred when i t (1) fel t constrai ned to i mpose the
mandatory mi nimum sentence, 120 months of i mpri sonment; (2) di d … |
| 22-7653 |
Jose Carlos Gallegos-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7631 |
Terrell McGee v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compassionate-release constitutional-rights criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion murder-degrees retroactivity sentencing sentencing-disparities |
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| 22-7636 |
Jose Luis Manriquez-Gutierrez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7626 |
Tynan Anthony Checchi v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-05-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cross-examination fifth-amendment miranda-v-arizona self-incrimination sentencing unsworn-allocution |
1) Was Mr. Checchi's Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination violated when a district court cross-examined him during his unsworn allocution … |
| 22-7630 |
Daniel Nathaniel McCall v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-05-24 |
GVR |
Relisted (3)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense mandatory-minimum prior-state-drug-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense |
1. This Court has granted certiorari in Jackson v. United States, No. 22-6640, and Brown v. United States, No. 22-6389, and consolidated the cases. Th… |
| 22-7605 |
Sealed Appellant v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
bad-faith cooperation cooperation-agreement criminal-procedure due-process government-misconduct guilty-plea plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion section-3553e sentencing sentencing-relief |
Did the government act in bad faith by denying 18 U.S.C. § 3553(e) relief to Petitioner when, after securing his guilty plea with the promise that it … |
| 22-7588 |
Eric Lee Coleman v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-05-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affirmative-defense categorical-approach criminal-law due-process judicial-interpretation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-analysis statutory-interpretation |
The question presented is whether a court must consider the availability (or non-availability) of an affirmative defense in the categorical approach. |
| 22-7580 |
Victor Alfredo Bermudez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing notice-of-objection preservation-of-error preservation-of-objection procedural-error sentencing standard-of-review supervisory-powers trial-court-notice |
Whether a specific objection must be lodged to preserve a procedural error claim when the trial court was put on notice of the objection through defen… |
| 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 |
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| 22-7585 |
Enrique Roberto Villarreal v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 22-7561 |
In Re Christopher Vigliotti |
|
2023-05-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process multiple-punishment plea-bargain probation probation-violation sentencing sentencing-scheme statutory-authority |
Petitioner humbly calls upon this Court to test the legality of his present 15 year state prison sentence which stemmed from violating probation, a pr… |
| 22-7567 |
Enrique Infante, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 compassionate-release extraordinary-and-compelling extraordinary-compelling-reasons judicial-discretion medical-care sentencing sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether inadequate medical care for a treatable illness
is a categorically insufficient basis to qualify as an
extraordinary and compelling reason… |
| 22-7552 |
Jeffrey Christopher Anders v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-05-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense deference-to-agency-interpretation genuine-ambiguity guidelines-commentary inchoate-offenses judicial-deference sentencing-guidelines |
1. Whether courts may defer to guidelines commentary without first determining that the underlying Guideline is genuinely ambiguous.
2. Whether the S… |
| 22-7527 |
Adam Garcia v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-05-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction force-clause predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
I. The definition of "crime of violence" for 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) requires immediacy and physical force. Hobbs Act robbery, 18 U.S.C. § 1951(b)(1), requ… |
| 22-7532 |
In Re Rex Gard |
|
2023-05-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-justice cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Is Petitioner actually innocent and has a miscarriage of justice occurred?
2. Is the South Dakota Supreme Court's overturning of their own precede… |
| 22-7533 |
Terence Crawley v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-05-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 civil-rights compassionate-release criminal-procedure discretionary-relief district-court-discretion due-process first-step-act non-frivolous-arguments sentencing sentencing-relief supreme-court-ruling |
Whether the district court is obligated to consider a defendant's non-frivolous arguments in exercising its discretion to grant relief in a motion for… |
| 22-7516 |
Adam Dean Brown v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bodily-injury controlled-substance criminal-intent drug-offense due-process felony-statute jury-determination prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
21 U.S.C. § 841(A)(1) makes is a crime to "knowingly or intentionally .. . manufacture, distribute, or dispense, or possess with intent to manufacture… |
| 22-7518 |
John William Iron Road v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-05-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing proximate-causation proximate-cause restitution restitution-award sentencing statutory-interpretation unlawful-award |
Whether an appellate court should enforce an appeal waiver where the appeal challenges an unlawful restitution award? |
| 22-7494 |
Floyd Ellis Wyche v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver conviction conviction-appeal criminal-procedure due-process plea-bargaining plea-colloquy rule-11 sentencing |
Rule 11(b)(1)(N) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure requires that a
district court conducting a plea colloquy inquire into the defendant's kno… |
| 22-7479 |
Mario Rodolfo Chairez-Avila v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-law certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7485 |
Daniel Isaiah Thody v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process jury-trial sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release united-states-v-haymond |
As a case of first impression, whether the current implementation of Supervised Release, (18 U.S.C. §3583), as a "separate sentence " in addition to t… |
| 22-7458 |
Roger Wayne Battle v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-05-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process murder-by-omission physical-force sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether the crime of murder by omission, such as letting one's child starve to death,
"has as an element the use . . . of physical force" such that it… |
| 22-7459 |
Joseph Church v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit guilty-plea involuntary-plea notice plea-withdrawal sentencing |
I. Whether it is harmless error when a guilty plea is obtained in violation of due process of law when a judgment of conviction is entered without pro… |
| 22-7461 |
Detrick Devone Daye, aka Carter v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-05-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender categorical-approach constitutional-rights drug-felony first-step-act ineffective-assistance sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-felony |
I
Whether the new statutory definition of the term "serious drug felony" set
forth in Section 401(a)(1) of the First Step Act of 2018, and codified i… |
| 22-7462 |
Ronnie Bowman v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-05-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 22-7451 |
Bennie C. Rivera v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-justice criminal-procedure fair-sentence-act first-step-act judicial-discretion judicial-review motion-denial sentencing sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation |
DID JUDGE JOHN ANTON II, UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT JUDGE ABUSE HIS DISCRETION WHEN HE DENIED THE PETITIONER'S MOTION IN PURSUANT TO THE FIRST STEP … |
| 22-7452 |
Lashawna Lashae Stewart v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery criminal-law criminal-statute divisible-offense double-jeopardy federal-sentencing sentencing statutory-interpretation uniform-administration united-states-code |
In Prince v. United States, 352 U.S. 322 (1957), this Court construed the first and second paragraphs of 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) —bank robbery and entry i… |
| 22-7436 |
Chad Robert Kolkman v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-05-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-history criminal-sentencing legal-interpretation mandatory-minimum sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation statutory-text |
When the terms of a statute are unambiguous, "it's no contest" what a court should do—apply the law as written. Bostock v. Clayton County, 140 S. Ct. … |
| 22-7417 |
Keanan Dequez Bond v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compassionate-release criminal-procedure district-court due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment plea-agreement sentencing |
Whether the court of appeals violated the defendant's Fourteenth Amendment right to equal protection where the district court in a motion for compassi… |
| 22-7420 |
Jose Angel Morquecho-Sanchez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7423 |
Gilberto Marquez-Calzadilla v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7396 |
Richard Anthony Wilford v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-04-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cocaine-quantity criminal-procedure district-court due-process equal-protection false-declaration pro-se pro-se-petition sentencing sentencing-memorandum supervised-release supremacy-clause |
Whether to grant the petition for a writ of certiorari, vacate the judgment, and remand for reconsideration in light of Concepcion V. United States, 1… |
| 22-7404 |
Tomas Jaramillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-rights attorney-client-communication attorney-consultation consultation-duty criminal-appeals criminal-defendant criminal-procedure flores-ortega-standard ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-appeal sentencing |
Whether, when a criminal defendant expresses interest in an appeal and concern over the length of his sentence, an attorney who fails to hold a follow… |
| 22-7413 |
Nathan G. Flemming v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2023-04-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure defendant-rights delay due-process judicial-process presence-of-defendant pronouncement-of-sentence sentencing sentencing-delay |
1. DOES A THIRTEEN MONTH DELAY BETWEEN SENTENCING HEARING AND THE PRONOUNCEMENT OF SENTENCE VIOLATE DUE PROCESS?
2. DOES THE ABSENCE OF A DEFENDANT F… |
| 22-7385 |
Timothy Eugene Brown v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-04-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-offender controlled-substance controlled-substances eleventh-circuit federal-enhancement florida-priors sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-law state-priors |
Whether United States v. Jackson, 36 F.4th 1294 (11th Cir. 2022) was wrongly decided by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, when it stated that App… |
| 22-7373 |
Victor M. Miranda-Guerrero v. California |
California |
2023-04-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-circumstances apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process jury-determination jury-trial mitigating-circumstances sentencing sentencing-procedure |
Does the mandatory weighing of aggravating and mitigating circumstances under the California death penalty statute—a factfinding determination that se… |
| 22-7377 |
Jose Isabel Mora-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 22-7367 |
Christopher J. Bailey v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-04-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 abuse-of-discretion concepcion-precedent concepcion-v-united-states criminal-justice-reform criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion first-step-act precedent sentence-reduction sentencing |
WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION
WHEN IT ARBITRARILY IGNORED PRECEDENT FROM ITS OWN
CIRCUIT, AND THE SUPREME COURT, IN DENYING PETIT… |
| 22-7354 |
Rafael L. Beier v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining section-2255-motion sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
1. Did the Ninth Circuit err in summarily denying a certificate of appealabililty that would allow an appeal from an order denying a motion to vacate,… |
| 22-7326 |
Quandraiko Hayes v. Mike Brown, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-04-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ex-post-facto sentencing |
COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT THE U S
UNREASONABLY DENIED PETITIONER, DUE PROCESS OF
DUE PROCESS CLAUSE RIGHTS OF THE U.S.
AMENDS V AND XIV… |
| 22-7330 |
Pedro Perez-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
citizenship citizenship-status civil-rights constitutional-violations criminal-procedure deportation due-process habeas-corpus immigration ineffective-counsel sentencing |
guilty of offense of "reentry" into United States, which was for Sixth Constitutional Amendment (Effective Assistance of Counsel). Where defense Trial… |
| 22-7336 |
Shawn Kaleb Drake v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons credit criminal-procedure duty-to-determine federal-sentence federal-sentencing judicial-discretion presentence-detention sentencing |
1. If a defendant requests that he be given credit towards his federal sentence for presentence detention time, is a district court – knowing that the… |
| 22-7338 |
Robert Lemke v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-04-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
autonomy criminal-autonomy criminal-defendant defendant-rights due-process legal-representation liberty liberty-interests mental-health mental-health-considerations sentencing sentencing-procedure |
1. Whether a criminal defendant's right to autonomy with respect to his defense applies to his sentencing?
2. Whether questions of a criminal defenda… |
| 22-7316 |
Hugo Perez-Mendoza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent precedent-overturning recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should overrule its decision in Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998). |
| 22-7319 |
Jose Manuel Salazar-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7307 |
Darek Lathan v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-04-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affidavits appeal appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process federal-courts judicial-discretion legal-procedure sentencing standing |
Did the appeadl court abuse its discretion by failing to comply
withthe consttution which guarartee me due process of law
which compel the rebuttal of… |
| 22-7288 |
Gilberto Gonzalez-Enriquez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process error-calculation harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review u.s-sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a sentencing court can insulate a substantial error in calculating the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines range from appellate review simply by assert… |
| 22-7296 |
Nathan Karl Thomas v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process legal-review plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation substantive-review supreme-court-petition |
Did the government breach the plea agreement by giving Petitioner a substantive sentence that was inconsistent with the plea agreement?
Double Jeopar… |
| 22-7280 |
Richard Ralph Martinez v. Michelle Lujan Grisham, Governor of New Mexico, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-04-13 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
criminal-procedure determinate-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus indeterminate-sentencing judicial-review life-sentence new-mexico parole parole-eligibility sentencing |
1. Whether Petitioner's allegations of violation, abridgment and denial of his constitutional rights by the named defendants' ignoring and violating t… |
| 22-7257 |
Santos Cuevas v. Tina Kotek, Governor of Oregon, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-review double-jeopardy due-process federal-law judicial-discretion jury-trial sentence-enhancement sentencing sixth-amendment |
Has Oregon's Judiciary and legislature failed to incorporate landmark cases relevant for how and-when to enhance a sentence, and to comport with the r… |
| 22-7259 |
Jose Manuel Cejudo-Mancinas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7260 |
Luis Alberto Escobedo-Duenas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
almendarez-torres-precedent certiorari constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review overrule sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7261 |
Susan Elise Prophet v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 abuse-of-discretion appellate-review compassionate-release criminal-procedure eighth-circuit federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit abused its discretion in denying Prophet's Motion for Compassionate Release/Reductio… |
| 22-7263 |
Christopher L. Ramirez v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances due-process equal-protection federal-law sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether "controlled substance offenses" under United States Sentencing Guidelines §4B1.2(b) are limited to those offenses involving substances list… |
| 22-985 |
Ferrell Walker v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-04-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-pornography double-jeopardy fifth-amendment revocation sentencing supervised-release |
1. Whether the subsequent imposition of a sentence to a term of imprisonment of 168 months on a charge of possession of child pornography, to run cons… |
| 22-7245 |
Paul DiBiase v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-04-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal due-process plea-agreement post-conviction post-conviction-review sentencing sentencing-enhancement violent-felony waiver-of-rights |
Petitioner was sentenced as an Armed Career Criminal (ACC) over his protests that he did not have three prior violent felony convictions as required f… |
| 22-7247 |
Claudia Castillo Guzman v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process government-conduct judicial-discretion mitigating-factors sentence-manipulation sentencing |
Whether the Due Process Clause is violated when a sentencing court refuses to consider, as a mitigating factor, whether the government has engaged in … |
| 22-7242 |
In Re Henry Jones |
|
2023-04-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights collateral-attack constitutional-violations constructive-amendment denial-of-counsel due-process extraordinary-writ fraud jurisdiction sentencing trial-record-falsification |
WHETHER BY REASON OF THE NUMEROUS CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATIONS COMMITTED BY THE DISTRICT COURT, SUCH AS FALSIFYING THE RECORD OF JONES' TRIAL PROCEEDINGS… |
| 22-7229 |
Manuel Ovante, Jr. v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2023-04-06 |
GVR |
IFP |
capital-murder due-process guilty-plea judicial-misrepresentation lynch-v-arizona parole parole-eligibility sentencing simmons-v-south-carolina |
1. Should this Court grant certiorari, vacate the decision below, and remand this case, as it did with six similarly situated petitioners in Burns v. … |
| 22-7231 |
James Sonny Alaniz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment gall-standard gall-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-due-process upward-departure |
Whether the Court of Appeals holding that a sentencing court is not required to use the incremental steps in Section 4A1 -3(a)(4)(B) in an upward depa… |
| 22-7235 |
Adam Chism v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2023-04-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process illegal-sentence interest-of-justice plain-error sentencing trial-court |
WHETHER CHISM WAS DENIED DUE PROCESS OF LAW WHEN PLAIN ERROR WAS COMMITTED BY THE TRIAL COURT IN IMPOSING AN ILLEGAL SENTENCE AS A MATTER OF LAW AND/O… |
| 22-7218 |
Jaime Tomas-Antonio v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit legal-precedent precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7220 |
Geronimo Juarez-Medellin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure Apprendi-v-New-Jersey certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7205 |
Miguel Valdivia-Gonzalez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-precedent precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7207 |
Ignacio Martinez-Saucedo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure legal-precedent overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7209 |
Dylan Brando Ervey Macias-Torres v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-963 |
John Doe v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Second Circuit |
2023-04-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-action criminal-conduct criminal-violation dodd-frank enforcement-action judicial-action pleaded-guilty sec-interpretation sentencing whistleblower whistleblower-award |
In denying a whistleblower award to Petitioner, the SEC interpreted key provisions of the statutory whistleblower program created by Congress in the D… |
| 22-7172 |
Henry A. Harmon v. Kayla Noel-Emsweller, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-04-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment en-banc-review equal-protection good-time judicial-review sentencing time-served |
Did petitioner have a complete fair denovo review of his legal findings that Kayla Noel- Emsweller, et.al., and defendants deny him his constitutional… |
| 22-7178 |
David Frazier v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2023-04-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-review court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-error procedural-due-process sentencing sentencing-procedure state-courts |
Whether Supreme Court for Tennessee ignored facts and procedure for correction of illegal sentence.
Whether Criminal Appeals Court for Tennessee also… |
| 22-7179 |
Andres Ajualip-Pablo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7180 |
Tyshon Booker v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2023-04-03 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment juvenile-court juvenile-transfer probable-cause reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment transfer-hearing |
The defendant in this case was sixteen when the alleged crime was committed. He was initially charged in Juvenile Court. He was transferred from Juven… |
| 22-7182 |
Azizjon Rakhmatov v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-04-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-46c 2nd-circuit circuit-conflict criminal-procedure due-process en-banc en-banc-review inter-panel-conflict judicial-bias racial-bias sentencing |
1. Whether the unresolved conflict between the Second Circuit panels in this case, and the conflict among the circuits on whether 28 U.S.C. §46 can an… |
| 22-7183 |
Manuel Camilo Ordonez-Mendoza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-law constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7167 |
Quentin Truley v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-03-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process hobbs-act ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining probable-cause sentencing |
(1) Under categorical approach, is 18 USC § 924(c)'s residual clause held as unconstitutionally vague, and predicated by Conspiracy to Commit Hobbs Ac… |
| 22-7142 |
William Matthew Plump v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-03-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process fraud legal-ethics legal-misrepresentation mail-fraud misrepresentation sentencing wire-fraud |
The law of the Eighth Circit is that an attomey volates the federal mail andwi frand stattes 18 U.5.8 134 and 343, if thy Make Mat Misstatements or am… |
| 22-7160 |
Daniel J. Rios v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2023-03-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-challenge court-rule criminal-sentencing due-process federal-case-law post-conviction-relief post-conviction-review rehabilitation rehabilitative-efforts sentencing state-court-decisions |
1. Whether Rule 3:21-10(b) authorizes a reviewing court to reconsider a sentence based upon post-conviction rehabilitative efforts pursuant to establi… |
| 22-7138 |
Muzammil Ali v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure downward-variance due-process fifth-amendment jail-phone-calls motion-for-continuance sentencing sixth-amendment speedy-trial speedy-trial-act |
1. WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN AFFIRMING THAT ALI'S FIFTH AND SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS WERE NOT VIOLATED UNDER THE SPEEDY TRIAL ACT.
2. WHETH… |
| 22-7141 |
Donald McDonald v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2023-03-29 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habitual-criminal-act life-sentence non-violent-felony proportionate-penalties proportionate-penalties-clause sentencing solem-v-helm |
Whether the decision of the first District Appellate court of Illinois denying Petitioner's proportionate penalty clausd claim conflicts with the deci… |
| 22-7148 |
Karteu Omar Jenkins v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (9)IFP |
acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure drug-weight-calculation due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment |
I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN NOT APPOINTING NEW
COUNSEL AFTER THE SECOND HEARING ON THIS MATTER?
II. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN NO… |
| 22-945 |
Jonathan Dean Davis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
criminal-procedure criminal-statute misrepresentation money-laundering restitution sentencing statutory-interpretation victim-loss wire-fraud |
1. Is proof of misrepresentations by a defendant in 2014 alone sufficient to establish that wire transfers occurring years later in 2016 and 2017 were… |
| 22-7130 |
Timothy Fletcher v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-03-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
booker-decision criminal-procedure district-court-notice federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion mandatory-guidelines notice-requirement sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-booker |
Whether this Court's elimination of the mandatory sentencing guidelines pursuant to United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220 (2005) has rendered Fed. R. … |
| 22-7114 |
Miguel Ortiz-Castillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation precedent-analysis sentencing supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 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… |
| 22-7096 |
Appellant 1 and Appellant 2 v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-discretion appellate-procedure breach constitutional contract-interpretation cooperation-agreement crime-of-violence judicial-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Was it unconstitutional and improper for the Fifth Circuit to rely on the government's newly argued application of an undefined contract provision to … |
| 22-7101 |
Charles Eugene Nolden v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 abuse-of-discretion compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-sentencing federal-statute sentence-reduction sentencing third-circuit |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit abused its discretion in denying Nolden's Motion for Compassionate Release/Reduction … |
| 22-7106 |
Brian Keith Wells, aka B. K. Wells v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
counsel-denial criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing ineffective-assistance procedural-review role-enhancement sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment sixth-circuit substantive-reasonableness ussg-3b1.1 |
Whether this honorable Court should grant certiorari to review whether Mr. Wells request for new counsel should have been granted?
Whether this honor… |
| 22-7076 |
Servando Pineda-Valdez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility constitutional-claims counsel-performance criminal-procedure guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing writ-of-certiorari |
Should a writ of certiorari be granted since Servando-Pineda 's title 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion sufficiently alleged constitutional claims violations du… |
| 22-7084 |
Christopher Daniel Lutker v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2023-03-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process guilty-plea involuntary-confession knowingly-voluntarily mental-competency plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing trial-court-discretion |
x, £>lP C-HHT^TOpHEM DAHTTT ZHTHE& KNOWTMZZYj I NTT/LLX&TNTIy AND YOIUNTARILYMADE WHEN
H E WAS 5J3aK AND SOJU-TN&HIMEJTLF ANDPZMZEP
A fiESrACOM uMTL… |
| 22-7065 |
Ahmed Abu Khatallah v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2023-03-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process extraterritorial-application extraterritorial-jurisdiction sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
i.
Does 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) apply extraterritorially?
ii.
Do the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a court from basing a criminal defendant's senten… |
| 22-7070 |
Kenneth Douglas Clark, III v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2023-03-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th and 8th Amendment rights by refusing to drop char and allowing a biased jury verdict excluding his self-defense claim constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-bias jury-exclusion prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense sentencing sentencing-guidelines trial-procedure |
1. Is the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in violation of the Petitioner's 5th and 8th amendment by refusing not to drop all charges against the Petition… |
| 22-7051 |
William Todd Lewallen v. Scott Crow |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-03-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-testimony due-process evidence jury-trial right-to-testify rock-v-arkansas sentencing sentencing-procedure state-evidence-law |
Oklahoma has jury sentencing in all felony cases, and those proceedings may be bifurcated. The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals (the "OCCA") has the… |
| 22-7053 |
Jose Luis Ramirez-Dorantes v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-statute duplicitous duplicitous-charge firearm-use sentencing statutory-interpretation underlying-offense |
Whether a count charging the use of a firearm to further a "crime of violence" under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) that rests on multiple underlying offenses is … |
| 22-7035 |
Brian Keith Person, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
fourth-circuit harmless-error mitigating-arguments procedural-error sentencing standard-of-review supervised-release |
I. Whether the Fourth Circuit Erred By Applying a "Plainly Unreasonable" Standard of Review for Mr. Person's Supervised Release Violation Sentence ins… |
| 22-7027 |
Lester Barnett v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2023-03-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
10th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment pre-trial-detention sentencing state-prisoner |
The OCR text provided is too degraded and illegible to accurately extract the "Question(s) Presented" section verbatim. While a "QUESTION(S) PRESENTED… |
| 22-7030 |
John Gabriel Trevino v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review court-compliance criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-discretion presentence-report sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether non-compliance with Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 32(i)(1)(A) may be excused where the defendant fails to show that he or she would have … |
| 22-7016 |
Guadalupe Onate-Herrera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 22-6998 |
David Arroyo-Ramon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent legal-standard precedent-overturning recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should overrule its decision in Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998). |
| 22-6983 |
Bernardino Berrun-Torres v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 22-6986 |
Paulo Bernal-Ceto v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-precedent recidivism sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-6992 |
Samuel Reaves v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process felony-classification involuntary-plea parole parole-revocation plea-agreement plea-bargaining prison-sentence rehabilitation sentencing street-time |
IS IT LEGAL TO START A PRISON SENTENCE, THEN STOP IT AND THEN RE START IT BY ADDING MORE YEARS?
IS IT LEGAL TO REVOKE STREET TIME ON PAROLE WHEN IT C… |
| 22-6977 |
Sharif Talib v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2023-03-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights due-process evidence sentencing |
Did the lower court violate Appellant Constitutional Rights for never reviewing the conviction prohibition he received because the operation lied on s… |
| 22-6968 |
Thomas Marmolejos v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence crimes-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-error predicate-offense section-924(c) section-924(j) sentencing |
Can a section 924(c) and 924(j) charge that alleges multiple predicates stand when one or more of the predicates no longer qualifies as a crime of vio… |
| 22-6972 |
Deandre Earp v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourth-circuit judicial-interpretation mental-illness sentencing |
Whether a General Act violating the Constitution of the United States presents a "question" within the meaning of the Judiciary Act.
Whether the peti… |
| 22-849 |
Rickie Foy v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-03-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
bank-theft criminal-intent criminal-law felony-bank-theft mens-rea sentencing statutory-interpretation substantive-element valuation-requirement |
Whether a conviction for conspiring to commit felony bank theft, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 371 and 2113(b), requires the government to prove that t… |
| 22-851 |
United States v. Julian Garcon |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-03-08 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
criminal-history criminal-history-points criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines jurisdiction safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
Whether, in order for a defendant to satisfy the prerequisite for "safety-valve" sentencing relief in 18 U.S.C. 3553(f)(1), a court must find that the… |
| 22-6953 |
Curtis Bradley v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion sentencing substantive-reasonableness |
Was the sentence imposed on Petitioner substantively reasonable? |
| 22-6945 |
Derrick Owens v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
7th-circuit appellate-review career-offender circuit-court-split circuit-split cocaine-conviction cocaine-convictions federal-law sentencing-guidelines |
Did the district court err by finding that Mr. Owens is a Career Offender pursuant to the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines because the Indiana cocaine convi… |
| 22-6929 |
Forrest Thomas III v. Brandon M. Smith, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-disparity sex-offender-registration |
Whether a sex offender registry statute, when applied to predators convicted of rape without any sexual motivation to the offense, bears a reasonable … |
| 22-6902 |
Roger Bryant Harbin v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-03-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
controlled-substances criminal-law decontrol drug-convictions drug-policy due-process equal-protection federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem… |
| 22-6905 |
Francisco Nunez Carrillo v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6907 |
Jeremy Jermaine Cumbie v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-03-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-unusual-punishment due-process evidence evidence-outside-record outside-the-record record sentencing trial-court-discretion |
I. WAS MR. CUMBIE DENIED DUE PROCESS OF THE LAW WHEN THE COURT CONSIDERED EVIDENCE OUTSIDE THE RECORD IN ASSESSING THE SENTENCE?
II. DID THE TRIAL CO… |
| 22-6908 |
Eduardo Guadalupe Melendrez-Soberanes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof case-agent-testimony criminal-procedure drug-quantity drug-trafficking due-process evidence fifth-circuit photographic-evidence sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's practice of shifting the burden of production and proof to the defendant at sentencing violates a defendant's Due Process … |
| 22-6895 |
Heather Leavell-Keaton v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2023-03-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (4)IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process evidence prison-behavior sentencing skipper-precedent skipper-v-south-carolina |
When a capital defendant's death sentence is vacated and the case is remanded for a new sentencing at which the death penalty is an available sentence… |
| 22-6897 |
Ruben Hernandez-Correa v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi certiorari constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation precedent sentencing supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-6880 |
Roosevelt Washington v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2023-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-review justice-standard legal-interpretation sentencing |
Whether Washington's sentence is illegally imposed as a matter of law and/or in the interest of justice. |
| 22-6881 |
James Clark, III v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
controlled-substances criminal-law drug-convictions drug-policy due-process federal-sentencing retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem… |
| 22-6871 |
Ahmed Khalil v. New York |
New York |
2023-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing speedy-trial |
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| 22-6873 |
Jesus Ivan Dominguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-6844 |
Eladio Loya-Palma v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court of appeals to reweigh the sentencing factors? |
| 22-6846 |
Christopher L. Corn v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure invited-error judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum |
Can an appellate court use the invited error doctrine to preclude review of a plainly erroneous sentence that exceeds the statutory maximum sentence a… |
| 22-6847 |
Philip M. Close v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-USC-2251 18-USC-2252A child-pornography circuit-split criminal-statute federal-law genital-exposure sentencing sexual-conduct sexually-explicit-conduct |
The question presented is whether Mr. Close's convictions under 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a), for producing child pornography, and 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(5)(B), … |
| 22-6829 |
Quinton Birdinground, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law mens-rea recklessness second-degree-murder sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crimes |
In Borden v. United States, 141 S.Ct. 1817, 1825 (2021), this Court held that, in order to qualify as a crime of violence, an offense must require pro… |
| 22-6839 |
Michael O. Brown v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender circuit-court-precedent conspiracy conspiracy-conviction criminal-career-offender prior-convictions sentence-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit state-convictions |
Whether the court erred in failing to grant appellant relief from his sentence enhancement based upon his prior state convictions after Mathis and whe… |
| 22-6843 |
Edgar Barrera v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction mandatory-minimum mens-rea non-elemental-facts plea-bargaining preponderance-standard sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether the Constitution permits a sentencing judge to find non-elemental facts by a preponderance of the evidence and then rely on those facts to … |
| 22-797 |
Marquay Quamaine Sheppard v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-02-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal circuit-court-precedent criminal-appeal criminal-procedure district-court due-process fourth-circuit precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-decisions |
Did the Fourth Circuit err by dismissing the Petitioner's appeal and affirming the 188 month sentence imposed by the trial court, inasmuch as this dec… |
| 22-6816 |
Montray Lorenzo Cato v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 22-6823 |
Abraham Conde-Herrera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure fifth-circuit judicial-precedent recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-6824 |
Daniel Dietz v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process gall-v-united-states johnson-v-united-states ninth-circuit revocation sentencing supervised-release |
The Ninth Circuit failed to apply this Court's decisions delineating the purpose of supervised release as set forth in Johnson v. United States, 529 U… |
| 22-6825 |
Richie Lee Edmonds, III v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-history criminal-law drug-distribution due-process federal-sentencing federalism sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a prior state conviction for drug distribution qualifies as a "controlled substance offense" under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b), when the state statute… |
| 22-6826 |
Marcos Juan Martin-Andres v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-review recidivism sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-6813 |
Joshua Glowacki v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography criminal-procedure due-process jury-determination jury-trial probable-cause restitution restitution-order search-warrant sentencing victim-rights |
After Petitioner pled guilty to a child pornography offense the district court awarded restitution of $10,000 to one victim, over Petitioner's objecti… |
| 22-6815 |
David E. Merry v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-02-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (7)IFP |
acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing (enhancing) a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury ha… |
| 22-783 |
Victor J. Orena v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-02-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 concepcion-v-united-states district-court-authority extraordinary-and-compelling-circumstances extraordinary-circumstances first-step-act sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation |
In Concepcion v. United States, — U.S. -, 142 S. Ct. 2389, 2404 213 L. Ed. 2d 731 (June 27, 2022), this Court held that the First Step Act "allows dis… |
| 22-6803 |
Mario C. Thomas v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-02-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-history criminal-history-points criminal-procedure federal-sentencing mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Section 3553(f) of Title 18, U.S. Code, is the "safety valve" which can allow a defendant to receive a sentence less than the statutory mandatory mini… |
| 22-6807 |
Antonio McGhee v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2023-02-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-standard civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance juvenile-justice post-conviction prejudicial-error retroactivity sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6808 |
Erich Deolax Riker v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-02-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fact-finding federal-sentencing jury-finding jury-trial sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
Whether a factual finding that is necessary to render a federal sentence substantively reasonable must be found by a jury beyond a reasonable doubt. |
| 22-6784 |
Jerry Don South v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split due-process open-court reasonableness-review sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1) Must District Courts actually comply with the requirements of 18
U.S.C. § 3553 (c) to state, in open court, the reasons for the sentence
imposed?
… |
| 22-6789 |
Juan Francisco Turcios v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-02-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
compensation criminal-procedure due-process illegal-confinement judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct plea-agreement plea-bargain sentencing sentencing-error |
(1) On A April 9,2012 after all parties approved and signed
the plea bargain agreement documents ,and Hon.Judge Teresa
Hawthorne approved and. accep… |
| 22-6793 |
Robert Loya, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-possession drug-trafficking evidence felon-in-possession gang-affiliation intent-to-distribute sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence |
I. Is there insufficient evidence to warrant a finding of guilty for Count 1: possessing with intent to distribute methamphetamine over 50 grams and C… |
| 22-6794 |
Anthony Suggs v. Tim McConahay, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency habeas-corpus legal-jurisdiction sentencing sixth-amendment standing |
WHY IS MR. OBEGS BEEN DENIES RELIEF ENENMIOUGH THE CONVICTIONS FOR KIESARRIN® BE NOT HAVE HE ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS TO SO?PORE 17 ¢ FIND ATERSON GOUTY BEF… |
| 22-6762 |
Ryan Galal Van Dyck v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2023-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment child-pornography cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment life-sentence mandatory-sentencing proportionality sentencing |
Does a mandatory de facto life sentence for mere possession of child pornography images, when the person has never directly abused or attempted to abu… |
| 22-6747 |
Jimmy Wayne Guinard v. Kris Mayes, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-02-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fair-trial jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing vouching |
The jury, whern he has never had charges of that nature and
was charged with drug offerses. violate petotioner's uis.c.lothand 14th
Amendment rights t… |
| 22-6750 |
Pascual Agustin-Basilio v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-procedure sentencing sixth-amendment stare-decisis supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-6756 |
Wissam Taysir Hammoud v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-murder civil-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process ninth-circuit-interpretation physical-force sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court united-states-v-taylor |
Whether, in light of this Court's recent decision in United States v. Taylor, 145 S. Ct. 2015 (2022), 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A)'s "crime of violence" d… |
| 22-6761 |
Joshua David Lambert v. Washington |
Washington |
2023-02-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure copyright-law criminal-procedure damages due-process jurisdiction legal-notice right-to-counsel sentencing statutory-interpretation waiver-of-counsel |
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| 22-6736 |
Justin D. Martin v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (8)IFP |
acquittal criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-acquittal jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury has acquitted … |
| 22-6737 |
John Edward Butler v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2023-02-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-justice due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection parole sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 22-746 |
Damion Kentrell White v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus plea-agreement sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether due process requires that a provision in a plea agreement waiving the right to file a motion to vacate sentence under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 be cons… |
| 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 … |
| 22-6730 |
Pabeel Narvaez-Gomez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres U. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-6732 |
David Alvarado-Rios v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-discretion presumption-of-reasonableness rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
How does a defendant who challenges the substantive reasonableness of a within-Guidelines sentence rebut an appellate presumption of reasonableness of… |
| 22-6706 |
Darin M. Ogden v. Idaho |
Idaho |
2023-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquittal criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-acquittal lewd-conduct sentencing united-states-v-watts |
Whether the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits a state court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a … |
| 22-6716 |
Conrado Olivo-Duron v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a
defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either
… |
| 22-6717 |
Vontez Scales, aka Tez v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split civil-rights controlled-substance criminal-law delivery-definition due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
The battle lines are clearly drawn, with the circuits split and without
this court's intervention the debate regarding inchoate offenses are controlle… |
| 22-736 |
Willie Lumarris Baxter v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-02-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-924(e) armed-career-criminal congressional-intent drug-offenses fourth-circuit predicate-offenses sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Was the Fourth Circuit's rejection of the Petitioner, Willie Baxter's argument that the prior offenses for serious drug offenses included in a prior i… |
| 22-738 |
Robert A. Mangine v. Shannon D. Withers, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-02-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
18-usc-3582 career-offender circuit-split habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice savings-clause sentence-reduction sentencing-error sentencing-errors statutory-rights |
Whether and under what circumstances relief is available under § 2255(e) for federal prisoners challenging errors in their sentences; and
Whether the… |
| 22-6704 |
Angel Vazquez-Figueroa v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure individualized-assessment judicial-discretion plain-error plain-error-review plea-agreement section-3553a-factors sentencing sentencing-discretion |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6708 |
Arturo Villalobos-Franco v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-6712 |
Ramone L. Wright v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ambiguous-sentence correction-of-record court-transcript criminal-case due-process judicial-confidence judicial-discretion miscarriage-of-justice oral-sentence rule-36-correction sentencing sentencing-ambiguity |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6699 |
Marquita Leigh Meredith v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compassionate-release criminal-procedure district-court federal-sentencing policy-statement sentencing statutory-interpretation |
The questions presented here is whether 2007 statement is an "applicable" policy Statement that binds a district court when deciding whether to grant … |
| 22-6682 |
Ricky Douglas Haynes, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-occasions due-process jury-trial mandatory-minimum non-elemental-facts sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
1. Whether a sentencing judge may rely on non-elemental facts to conclude that a defendant's prior offenses were "committed on occasions different fro… |
| 22-6658 |
Wade Bonk v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal circuit-court-ruling conviction criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion leadership-role retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Did the District Court err by refusing to apply the Seventh Circuit's ruling in U.S. v. Carnell retroactively since Petitioner's conviction was not fi… |
| 22-6651 |
Michael Vanous v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure guidelines ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion jury pretrial-proceedings sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Question 1: Was defense counsel ineffective in the pretrial proceedings?
Question 2: Was it a violation of the Sixth Amendment to sentence outside th… |
| 22-6628 |
Johnell Lewis Britton, Sr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure fact-specific-reasons federal-sentencing judicial-discretion non-guidelines-sentences procedural-error reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether district courts are required to articulate fact-specific reasons for imposing non-guidelines sentences? |
| 22-6615 |
Robert Jim v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility evidence-presentation fair-trial improper-evidence reasonable-doubt sentencing trial-fairness |
I. Whether The Court Violated Jim's Constitutional Rights To Due Process & A Fair Trial By Allowing Improper Evidence & Preventing Him From Presenting… |
| 22-6616 |
Brian Cota v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process notice plea-bargaining plea-negotiation sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
Whether the court of appeals erred by concluding that Mr. Cota can be subject to a life time of supervised release, and thereby a lifetime of revocati… |
| 22-6619 |
Reginald L. Dunahue v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6591 |
Alecia Trapps v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance-offense federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law |
Did the Ninth Circuit's disposition of Petitioner's claim under § 4B1.1(a) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines conflict with a rule that at lea… |
| 22-6592 |
James Stacey Harber v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining section-2255 sentencing |
1. Was Mr. Harber denied the effective assistance of counsel at the plea and sentencing phase of trial?
2. Did the district court err by denying Mr. … |
| 22-6597 |
Jeremiah S. Farmer v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-conflict civil-rights drug-conspiracy due-process jurisdictional-requirement racketeering sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-authority supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the district court lacked statutory authority under 15 U.S.C. § 1962(d) for RICO conspiracy to be complete when the agreement is reached, not … |
| 22-6599 |
Herman Harris, Jr. v. Ohio, et al. |
Ohio |
2023-01-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-statute due-process legislative-intent liberty-interest life-imprisonment parole parole-discretion sentencing sentencing-ambiguity statutory-interpretation vagueness |
1. When the State of Ohio Legislatures/The Ohio General Assembly had failed to drafted with reasonably clarity the precise number of years that equals… |
| 22-6602 |
Matthew C. Eisenmann v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights compassionate-release criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6603 |
Miguel Angel Valencia-Sandoval v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation precedent-interpretation sentencing supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998) , in light of the reasoning of … |
| 22-6586 |
Reginald Daushawn Earl Tate v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-01-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brandishing criminal-procedure firearm-brandishing fourth-circuit hobbs-act rule-11 sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals properly affirmed the trial court's improper sentencing of the defendant pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(1)(A… |
| 22-6572 |
Christian Dior Womack v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-01-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-offenses due-process fraud-on-the-court government-misrepresentation habeas-corpus judicial-error mandate-recall miscarriage-of-justice plea-bargaining sentencing |
The notion of miscarriage of justice prohibits a court from disregarding the fact that its opinion rest solely on criminal offenses that a defendant n… |
| 22-6555 |
Steven Charles Hill v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-01-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process evidence-sufficiency jury-verdict life-sentence proportionality sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence |
IS THE EVIDENCE SUFFICIENT TO SUSTAIN THE JURY'S GUILTY VERDICT?
WAS THE LIFE SENTENCE IMPOSED ON MR. HILL GROSSLY DISPROPORTIONATE? DOES THE LIFE SE… |
| 22-6560 |
Candido Gomez-Santacruz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a district-court-discretion federal-sentencing gall-v-united-states imprisonment-duration prior-term-of-imprisonment sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness |
In light of its nuanced, holistic approach to federal sentencing, whether a district court may, consistent with § 3553(a)'s plain text, treat the dura… |
| 22-6566 |
Rodney R. Ellis v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-doctrine apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure jury-clause jury-trial prior-record-exception sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Whether a sentencing court violates the Sixth Amendment's Jury Clause when the sentencing court —rather than the jury —finds that the defendant commit… |
| 22-656 |
Jeffrey A. Bentley v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-01-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof collateral-review due-process prior-convictions section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
When a defendant shows on Section 2255 collateral review that a prior conviction is no longer a valid predicate offense under the Armed Career Crimina… |
| 22-6536 |
Antoine D. Jackson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-01-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-history due-process safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether this Court should resolve a Circuit split and decide if the word "and" in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f)(1) should be interpreted in the disjunctive … |
| 22-644 |
Anthony Lomax v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-01-11 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
auer-deference career-offender career-offender-enhancement circuit-split crime-of-violence judicial-interpretation kisor-v-wilkie seminole-rock sentencing-guidelines |
In Stinson v. United States, 508 U.S. 36 (1993), this Court held that commentary by the United States Sentencing Commission interpreting or explaining… |
| 22-6527 |
William Langley, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-01-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c) constitutional-challenge conviction-reversal criminal-procedure due-process factual-innocence firearm-statute guilty-plea plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation |
SHOULD THE COURT FIND PETITIONER'S CONVICTION FOR '924(c) et al. UNCOUNSTITUTIONAL "use" and "carry" of 924(c) a due process violation that warrants a… |
| 22-6502 |
Jerry Joseph Higdon, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge procedural-bar sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
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| 22-6503 |
Patrick Emeka Ifediba v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-01-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
controlled-substances criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment intent medical-intent medical-practice sentencing sixth-amendment |
1.) Was Petitioner denied his rights under Ruan v. United States, 142 S. Ct. 2370, 213 L. Ed. 2d 706 (6-27-22) which was decided after briefing in Pet… |
| 22-6515 |
Christopher Raiche v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment disproportionate-sentence eighth-amendment first-time-offender grossly-disproportionate life-sentence non-violent-crime sentencing |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against grossly disproportionate prison sentences was triggered by the imposition of a de facto life senten… |
| 22-6487 |
Chasity Reanee Orellana v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court due-process jurisdiction post-release-conduct revocation sentencing supervised-release |
Whether the district court erred by revoking Ms. Orellana's supervised release because its revocation decision relied on conduct that occurred after h… |
| 22-6493 |
Robert Keith Kinsey v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights controlled-substance criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit preponderance-of-evidence sentencing supervised-release trial-by-jury |
Section 3583(g) of United States Code Title 18 requires a district court to revoke a defendant's term of supervised release and impose a term of impri… |
| 22-6497 |
Timothy Martin Kendrick v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender categorical-approach criminal-law due-process johnson-ruling residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
1) Does the struckdown 18 USc. g924 (e)(2)(B)(ii) residual under Johnson(2015) as applied to "ACCA equally apply to Mandatory Guideline USSGj4B1.2(a) … |
| 22-6466 |
Derrick Anthony Stewart v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-01-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split civil-case criminal-case eighth-circuit-appeal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-precedent predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supervisory-power |
Whether trial counsel's failure to utilize existing precedent to challenge the
application of a sentencing enhancement pursuant to 21 U.S.C. § 851 con… |
| 22-6468 |
Herbert Isaac Perkins v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-01-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act crime-of-violence criminal-law felony-classification hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6443 |
Daquan Madrid Pridgen v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process rule-of-lenity sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation structural-error |
I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT COMMITTED STRUCTURAL ERROR BY FINDING THAT THE SENTENCE FOR A VIOLATION OF 18 U.S.C. § 2113(e) SHOULD BE 10 YEARS TO LIF… |
| 22-6450 |
Dedrevionus C. Williams v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-fact-finding jury-trial preponderance-standard sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
1. Does Florida's Statute §775.082(9) Prison Releasee Reoffender sentence violate a defendant's U.S. Constitutional rights per this Court's holdings i… |
| 22-6452 |
Michael L. Ziliak v. James Key, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights claim-evaluation court-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-timeliness mental-health procedural-standards sentencing standing |
Why was my case denied due to being submitted after the timebar date when another court ruled that it was submitted in a timely manner?
why was I sen… |
| 22-6453 |
Mario Torres v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification habeas-corpus plea-agreement plea-bargain post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sentencing |
reneged on the plea bargain.
Whether the District Court is bound by the original plea-agreement. Petitioner was resentenced.
Whether a restitution h… |
| 22-6460 |
Davonte DeJean v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
6th-amendment constitutional-rights court-responsibility criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-trial right-to-jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment |
Was counsel ineffective for not enforcing the 6th Amendment right to a jury trial in the sentencing proceeding and is the court also responsible?
Was… |
| 22-6429 |
Robert McKenna v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3553a appellate-review criminal-history district-court-discretion due-process public-safety sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-reasonableness |
I. Whether it was procedurally and substantively reasonable for the
sentencing court to a) recite statutory sentencing rationale by rote
recitation wi… |
| 22-6431 |
Philip Johnson v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-12-30 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights eighth-amendment guilty-plea juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing miller-factors miller-v-alabama plea-bargaining proportionate-penalties sentencing sentencing-discretion |
(1) Whether a pre-Miller guilty plea bars a post-Miller sentencing challenge under the Eighth Amendment.
(2) Whether the sentencing process mandated … |
| 22-6436 |
Timothy D. Robertson v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-12-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-petition prior-conviction reversal sentencing sentencing-error sixth-amendment |
1). Did Petitioner Robertson Establish and Show "Cause" for filing a Successive Post Conviction Petition by Advancing an Overwhelmingly Substantial "M… |
| 22-6421 |
Sergio Garcia-Lara v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process presentence-report sentencing unreliable-evidence |
Whether, in cases where a party seeks appellate relief on the ground that a district court has considered unreliable information, the district court m… |
| 22-6408 |
Samuel Lawrence Wood v. Mike Brown, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-12-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
concurrent-sentences consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-review federal-sentencing habeas-corpus sentencing state-prisoner state-sentencing statutory-authority |
Is the state of Michigan in the Absence of Statutory Authority.
See 18 U.S.C. 9 3584 (a)
Petitioner was Already subject to the state sentences.
Petiti… |
| 22-6395 |
Bryan Wolfe v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process mental-condition mental-health multi-offense-adjustment notice racial-animus rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-guidelines upward-departure |
Was there adequate notice of a departure the night before sentencing, as to allow Wolfe a fair opportunity to rebut the claims that increased his sent… |
| 22-6389 |
Justin Rashaad Brown v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-12-23 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (1)Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach drug-offense federal-law sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-conviction state-law |
Which version of federal law should a sentencing court consult under ACCA's categorical approach? |
| 22-6392 |
Adam Tello v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect legal-correction sentencing sentencing-error standing strickland-standard |
Whether a jurisdictional defective sentence is "non-law" and cannot be adjudicated time or procedurally barred under U.S. Supreme Court law of United … |
| 22-6377 |
Thaddeus Chaylon Martin v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-12-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights corrections criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction prison-credits retroactive-application sentencing sentencing-credits |
①Dd Court hae tunisdieton to Amend are-charge
then
re- sentence again years Later to an expired sentence?
martin recieved (45) duy time serve April 29… |
| 22-6386 |
Frank Sanchez v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-12-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (9)IFP |
acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the use of acquitted conduct to determine a
defendant's sentence violates the Fifth and Sixth
Amendments. |
| 22-6359 |
Leonid Gershman v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review collateral-consequence conspiracy-charges criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy merger plain-error sentencing sentencing-multiplicity |
Isn't it plain error for a court to impose multiple punishments for multiple counts of conviction that for double jeopardy purposes amount to the same… |
| 22-6364 |
Fairly W. Earls v. Federal Bureau of Prisons |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-12-21 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
concurrent-sentences consecutive-sentences constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process federal-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-sentence |
I. Whether Earls should have to serve the same Federal Sentence a Second Time. The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit violated Ear… |
| 22-6372 |
Jose Felipe Cardenas-Ramirez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 22-6345 |
Jeffrey Johnson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-cfr-1308.11 career-offender controlled-substance controlled-substance-analogue drug-classification motion-to-suppress schedule-1 search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing seventh-circuit |
I. Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals incorrectly allowed the District Court's Determination that Furanyl fentanyl was a "controlled substan… |
| 22-6358 |
Bernard Thomas Edmond v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 924(c)(3) armed-career-criminal-act due-process hobbs-act johnson-v-united-states predicate-offense residual-clause sixth-circuit |
Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously decided that the petitioner's predicate offense for his Sec. 924© is the conspiracy charge and … |
| 22-6329 |
Phosavan Khamnivong v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment bodily-injury due-process fifth-amendment firearm-enhancement jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
In United States v. Jones, 574 U.S. 948 (2014), three justices urged the Court to grant certiorari to answer the question left open in Rita v. United … |
| 22-6317 |
Normando Eligio Esquivel-Ontiveros v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-jurisdiction constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit legal-precedent precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-6308 |
Alberto Mendoza-Espinoza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure legal-precedent overrule sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-6309 |
Uriel Mora-Mendez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-jurisdiction constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-6302 |
Selvin Omar Canales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 22-6303 |
Steven Riad Jalloul v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit judicial-discretion plea-agreement plea-bargaining restitution sentencing statutory-interpretation |
This Court should grant this petition to address the degree of specificity re-quired for the language in a defendant's plea agreement to be construed a… |
| 22-6266 |
Earl Moore v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender civil-rights criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act recidivism sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6261 |
Damar D. Ruffin v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-maximum |
This Court has made clear that any fact, other than prior conviction, that increases the statutory range of punishment, must be found by a jury to hav… |
| 22-6247 |
Denis Amilcar Munguia-Portales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-precedent constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial legal-challenge precedent sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-6253 |
Michael J. Moller, aka Michael Robinson v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-waiver certiorari criminal-procedure district-court due-process paycheck-protection-program plea-bargaining sentencing sophisticated-means-enhancement standard-of-review |
1. Should certiorari be granted to address the enforceability of an
appellate waiver where the District Court's entire inquiry consisted of
a single q… |
| 22-6231 |
William Dustin Poole v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment life-without-parole non-homicide-offense sentencing |
Whether a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole on an eighteen-year-old defendant convicted of a non-homicide offense violat… |
| 22-6228 |
Giovanny Sanchez-Juarez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-law criminal-procedure immigration-law indictment sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum |
Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998) was wrongly decided, allowing for the provisions of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b)(1) and (2) deal… |
| 22-6216 |
Jonny Shineflew v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure guideline-offense integrated-agreement plea-agreement prosecutor prosecutorial-discretion sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines |
Whether an integrated plea agreement that specifically identifies Guideline offense levels and specific offense characteristics on which the parties a… |
| 22-6217 |
Steven Wayne Keefe v. Montana |
Montana |
2022-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
adequate-defense ake-v-oklahoma constitutional-rights due-process expert-assistance juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing mental-health mental-health-expert miller-v-alabama sentencing |
This petition presents the following question: whether the "basic tools of an adequate defense" include expert assistance in "evaluation, preparation,… |
| 22-6218 |
Carlos Brito-Brito v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998) , in light of the reasoning of … |
| 22-6220 |
Martin Robert Moncada-Aguirre v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing supreme-court-precedent |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-6209 |
Mayeli Molina v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial dual-role-witnesses due-process expert-testimony jury-instructions sentencing sentencing-standards substantial-rights witness-testimony |
1. Whether Molina's substantial rights were affected when two-thirds of the Government's witnesses testified in dual roles as experts and fact witness… |
| 22-6210 |
Aaron Michael Crick v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-12-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing downward-variance fourth-amendment fourth-circuit judicial-discretion motion-denial reversible-error sentencing |
A. WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY DENYING MR. CRICK'S MERITORIOUS ARGUMENT THAT THE DISTRICT COURT COMMITTED REVERSIBLE ERROR BY… |
| 22-6194 |
Jordan Huff v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c aiding-and-abetting criminal-liability hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery pinkerton-liability predicate-offense statutory-interpretation violent-physical-force |
1. Where 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) is a double-barreled crime that, at least in the
context of aiding and abetting, requires proof both of a defendant's acti… |
| 22-6179 |
Brandon J. Office v. Marcus Myers |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
charging-document constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus illegal-sentence motion-to-correct sentencing |
1. Was the Petitioner entitled to Habeas Corpus Relief, where the Petitioner properly raised a Motion to Correct an Illegal Sentence ?
2. Was the Pet… |
| 22-6164 |
Calvin Gary Walker v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-11-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment judgment restitution sentencing |
1. Does the Fifth Amendment's double jeopardy clause bar a restitution order entered ninety-nine days after Petitioner's sentence began and after entr… |
| 22-6166 |
Raymond Mendez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-review criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-procedure sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervisory-power |
Throughout three cycles of 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) proceedings, the district court has denied Raymond Mendez a reduction to his life sentence based on … |
| 22-6168 |
Jose Santos Perez-Gonzalez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure judicial-precedent legal-review precedent-overturning recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should overrule its decision in Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998). |
| 22-6157 |
Carlton McKissic v. Shawn Emmons, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-11-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure legal-interpretation plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sentencing state-court-review |
WHy Have All other Courts ignored the Plea bargain
(1
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And Procedures Afforded to me, As my
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raiseing the issue earlier?
2.
Why wa… |
| 22-6149 |
Edgar Arellano v. California |
California |
2022-11-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
assistance-of-counsel constitutional-rights criminal-justice-reform effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment mitigating-evidence senate-bill-1333 sentencing sentencing-hearing sixth-amendment |
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| 22-6138 |
Michael Lindell Teasley v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure district-court due-process eighth-circuit equal-protection judicial-discretion non-violent-offenses sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
bh pid the Gort of pepeals fp the Eight Cikwuit, South cn Piswier oF Towa, abuse its diduetin by vhlizing the Cer wero Feendeg guidelines, whi dh phim… |
| 22-6141 |
Eric Lamont Wade v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion concepcion-ruling concepcion-v-united-states criminal-justice-reform district-court-discretion due-process first-step-act section-404(c) sentence-reduction sentencing |
QUESTON NUMBER ONE:
Whether the district court abused its discretion by failing to comply
with Section 404 (c) of the First Step Act of 2018, ensurin… |
| 22-6125 |
Carlos Bladimir Rodriguez-Juarez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-6095 |
Owen Garth Hinkson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-felony appellate-waiver constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process immigration immigration-law ineffective-assistance sentencing sentencing-enhancement vacated-conviction |
Whether the district court can sentence Mr. Owen Garth Hinkson, to a statute of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b)(2), 20 years imprisonment when his 1987 Massachuset… |
| 22-6104 |
Esteban Parra-Reyes v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion circuit-court-review compassionate-release criminal-justice federal-sentencing judicial-discretion ninth-circuit prisoner-rights sentencing summary-affirmance |
I.
Whether The Denial Of Esteban Para Reyes's Motion For Compassionate
Release Was An Abuse Of Discretion?
II.
Whether the Ninth Circuit's Summary Af… |
| 22-6066 |
Brent Stephens v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2244 28-usc-2254 appeal appeal'\n\n'Whether the Federal Court of Appeals f appeal'\n\n'Whether the U.S. District Court Magist appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process exhaustion exhaustion'\n\n'Whether the Federal Court of Appea federal-statute fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-deference jury-trial jury-verdict magistrate-bar procedural-bar sentencing standard-of-review standard-of-review'\n\n'Whether the U.S. District trial-court-authority |
QUESTION A: Whether the Trial Court had the authority to supplant
the verdict of the jury on punishment?
QUESTION B: Whether the U.S. District Court … |
| 22-6072 |
Randy Belcher v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act civil-rights criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction physical-force sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
without the use, attempted use or threatened use of physical force against the person of another |
| 22-6051 |
Arriba Lewis v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment career-offender criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance motion-to-suppress racial-profiling selective-enforcement sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
QUESTON NUMBER ONE:
Petitioner Lewis' ex-lawyer provided him with ineffective assistance of counsel by a Motion to Quash and Suppress and failing to c… |
| 22-6042 |
Ryan Hayes v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-11-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process equal-protection first-circuit sentencing |
I. Whether considerations of equal protection and due process required
the First Circuit to entertain Mr. Hayes' appeal where Mr. Hayes had
not challe… |
| 22-6043 |
Jose Rene Cante-Dondiego v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-reconsideration sentencing supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-6017 |
Reginald Eugene Grimes, Sr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-11-08 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit false-testimony perjury plain-error prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-hearing |
(1) DID THE HONORABLE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS IN ATLANTA, GEORGIA
COMMIT "PLAIN AND OBVIOUS ERROR" BY DENYING PETITIONER'S REQUEST FOR A
C… |
| 22-6022 |
Shimar Jamal Dean Thompkins v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-precedent criminal-law criminal-procedure diversionary-disposition due-process federal-charging federal-jurisdiction judicial-interpretation sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant's prior diversionary disposition in a felony case can be considered both an indictment and a conviction for federal charging and s… |
| 22-6025 |
Christopher Alan Mitchell v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review concurrent-sentences criminal-procedure district-court final-order finality habeas-corpus section-2255 sentencing sentencing-range statutory-interpretation |
(1) Is an order granting relief and resentencing under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 final when the order changes the statutory sentencing range such that the dist… |
| 22-5998 |
Jeffrey Wingate v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3553 bureau-of-prisons criminal-procedure due-process mitigating-evidence rule-35 rule-35-resentencing sentencing sentencing-factors |
1) Whether due process is violated when, in the event a defendant
submits mitigating evidence in a rule 35 (b) resentencing that has a
connection to… |
| 22-6006 |
Justin Richard Testani v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography criminal-history cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment mental-capacity sentencing sentencing-disparity |
1. Whether a 720-month sentence violates the Eighth Amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual sentences when Mr. Testani never had physical contact w… |
| 22-5990 |
Leroy Brooks v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-11-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
3553a-factors abuse-of-discretion compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion extraordinary-reasons judicial-review sentence-reduction sentencing |
1. Whether the district court abused its discretion in denying Petitioner's motion for compassionate release/reduction in sentence. |
| 22-5993 |
Malik Ross v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-11-04 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (10)IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment preponderance-of-evidence reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
Does a judge deny a defendant's Fifth Amendment rights by increasing a prison sentence based on disputed facts the Court did not find beyond a reasona… |
| 22-5981 |
Jose Refugio Nieto-Uribe v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation legal-precedent recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998)
should be overruled. |
| 22-5970 |
David Antoine Luster v. R. M. Wolfe, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113(d) 924(c)(3)(a) armed-bank-robbery borden-v-united-states categorical-approach criminal-procedure mens-rea plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question of Law : In light of Borden v. United States, 141 S.Ct. 1821 (2021), under the categorical approach the element narrow enough to be deemed a … |
| 22-5977 |
Bonerge Benitez-Marquez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 22-5979 |
Demetrice R. Devine and Brandon Jowan Mangum v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-11-02 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
blockburger-test consecutive-sentences constitutional-review criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy modified-blockburger new-sentencing-hearings sentencing sentencing-enhancements substantive-reasonableness |
1. Should this Court adopt the predominant modified Blockburger approach and find the maximum consecutive sentences imposed on the Petitioners on all … |
| 22-5936 |
Demetrius Troy Bradley v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2022-10-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
acquitted-conduct constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-trial-rights sentencing sentencing-discretion sixth-amendment |
1. Do the jury-trial and due process guarantees of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit judges from considering, at sentencing in a criminal c… |
| 22-5949 |
Oswaldo Omar Ramirez-Ortiz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5950 |
Antonio Ramirez-Juan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-review sentencing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 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… |
| 22-5940 |
Hugo Villarreal-Solis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-discretion motion sentencing |
WHETHER IT WAS ERROR FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT TO DENY SOLIS' MOTION FOR COMPASSIONATE RELEASE? |
| 22-5912 |
William Gonzalez-Ramirez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-5914 |
Dominique Lamar Johnson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583 administrative-violations criminal-procedure criminal-supervision district-court-discretion due-process liberty liberty-deprivation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the District Court acted excessively by sentencing Petitioner to a sentence two and half times above the supervision guideline range for admin… |
| 22-5920 |
Jesse Brewer v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process immigration judicial-review legal-procedure plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5902 |
Monica Rodriguez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-841 circuit-split controlled-substance drug-conspiracy mandatory-minimum mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
To prove conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance triggering mandatory-minimum and increased-maximum penalties, does the government need to est… |
| 22-5889 |
Michael Paul Jessup v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing parole-abolition sentencing |
When a state abolishes its parole system, does it create a mandatory life-without-parole sentence that, when imposed on a juvenile homicide offender, … |
| 22-5891 |
Kevin B. Burns v. Tony Mays, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-10-24 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (7)IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing felony-murder ineffective-assistance moral-culpability residual-doubt sentencing state-law strickland-v-washington |
1. Whether an ineffective assistance claim may be based on counsel's
failure to exercise a state-law right to introduce residual doubt evidence at a c… |
| 22-5894 |
Terrence Gibbs v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-10-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3582 compassionate-release criminal-justice extraordinary-and-compelling extraordinary-circumstances federal-sentencing-law federal-statute judicial-discretion retroactivity sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-law |
Whether non-retroactive changes in federal sentencing law, which dramatically altered sentencing exposure for those later sentenced, comprise "extraor… |
| 22-5881 |
Trencie V. Oliver v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law due-process eighth-amendment proportionality sentencing |
Whether Trencie Oliver's sentence imposed as to his offenses is disproportionate to the offense and violates due process or the Eighth Amendment of th… |
| 22-5882 |
Allen Calligan v. Frank Vanihel, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure habitual-offender ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel informal-plea-offer plea-bargaining prejudice sentencing sixth-amendment |
Mr. Calligan alleged that his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to inform him of an informal plea offer made by the prosecutor, which would ha… |
| 22-5869 |
Carlos Ivan Chavira-Montanez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres apprendi constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-construction supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-5870 |
Rodney Marshall v. Brian Williams, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fair-trial ninth-circuit sentencing |
1. Whether the Ninth Circuit erred by denying a certificate of appealability on the question of whether Mr. Marshall's right to be free from double je… |
| 22-5847 |
Lindsey Orr v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion judicial-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation term-of-imprisonment |
WHEN ARE THE SECTION 3553 (d) FACTORS SATISFIED?
THE 3553 OPINION JUSTIFIED BASED UPON?
THE COMPLETION OF THE TERM OF IMPLEMENTATION SPECIFIED FROM … |
| 22-5854 |
Willie Ricardo Gordon v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure drug-crimes drug-weights fourth-circuit obstruction-of-justice presentence-investigation presentence-investigation-report sentencing |
1. Did the trial court err in accepting the findings of the presentence investigation report, regarding the weights of the drugs attributable to Mr. G… |
| 22-5865 |
Charles Smith v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-procedure criminal-conviction criminal-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect ninth-circuit plea-agreement sentencing waiver |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in dismissing the appeal when Mr. Smith's plea agreement contains a count of conviction and resulting sentence that is… |
| 22-5825 |
Ahmed R. Morning v. Tim Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction ramos-v-louisiana retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-review |
1) Whether the State trial court erred by imposing an unconstitutionally harsh and excessive sentence?
2) Whether the holding in Ramos v. Louisiana, … |
| 22-5828 |
DeShaun Bullock v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-10-14 |
Denied |
Relisted (10)IFP |
acquittal criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy fifth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-acquittal sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury has acquitt… |
| 22-5835 |
Norman Alan Kerr v. Christopher Gomez, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-10-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process involuntary-confession plea-bargaining sentencing |
should the Cincuit Rehaif r U.s that allows split held in stipolatiow waiving all the elements 9922(1) 2 be held coutnolling a credible clain of despi… |
| 22-5810 |
Martin Perez-Barrios v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 22-5811 |
Matthew Poulin v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alcohol-consumption alcohol-prohibition appeal criminal-procedure district-court due-process reasonableness sentencing supervised-release unreasonable-sentence |
I. Whether the district court erred by sentencing Mr. Poulin to twelve (12) months considering the circumstances of the case?
II. Whether the special… |
| 22-5816 |
Tony Lam v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-841 career-offender conspiracy conspiracy-offense controlled-substance ineffective-assistance legislative-authority legislative-delegation sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines |
Did trial counsel provide ineffective assistance to his client upon his failure to research, investigate, and object to his client's career offender c… |
| 22-5780 |
James F. Snyder v. Washington |
Washington |
2022-10-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
ada civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure disability-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standing sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5769 |
Donovan Lemont Bookman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 22-5771 |
Shawn Canada v. Olmsted County Community Corrections, All Staff Members, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-10-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process proportionality prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing supreme-court-review |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5762 |
Jonathan Mattox v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2022-10-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal arizona-rule-criminal-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief sentencing standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
What i the coredtinter pretation that should be percieved
from A.R.5. 28-1383 (4)(2) T? |
| 22-5720 |
Mark Julian Edmonds v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge procedural-standard residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement unconstitutional |
Was Mr. Edmonds required to prove, in district court, that it is "more likely than not" that the sentencing judge "actually relied on" the ACCA's unco… |
| 22-5730 |
Quincy Campbell v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof coconspirator-testimony criminal-procedure due-process judicial-error relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
I. Whether the district court erred by sentencing the Defendant to one twenty (120) months in light of the circumstances of the case ?
II. Whether th… |
| 22-5740 |
Rony Alexander Granados-Ortez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-analysis sentencing supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-5743 |
Timothy Love v. California |
California |
2022-10-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-crimes |
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| 22-5695 |
Christopher Eric Poore v. California |
California |
2022-09-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-6th-14th-amendments aggravating-circumstances constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process jury-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing |
Does California's death penalty scheme, which permits the trier of fact to impose a sentence of death without finding beyond a reasonable doubt the ex… |
| 22-5704 |
Ronald Buzzard, Jr. v. Washington |
Washington |
2022-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-sentencing judicial-misconduct procedural-fairness sentencing sentencing-modification |
Is Buzzard's judgment and Sentence void and invalid on the face due to the handwritten "fraudulent interlineations" on the face by the sentencing Judg… |
| 22-5692 |
Kyle Brandon Rocha v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
2022-09-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
beyond-a-reasonable-doubt confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-hearing standard-of-proof |
Is it a violation of a defendant's rights to due process of law and confrontation for a Court to make a finding in a sentencing hearing based solely o… |
| 22-5693 |
Rosa Isela Acuna v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-09-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-conviction criminal-law drug-importation due-process mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether, under 21 U.S.C. § 960, a defendant who know ingly imports a
controlled substance can be convicted and subjected to an enhanced
punishment o… |
| 22-5701 |
Terry Wayne Cope v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-09-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 compassionate-release congress covid-19 criminal-procedure district-court judicial-discretion public-health sentencing |
A. Does the precedent that "a defendant's incarceration during the COVID-19 Pandemic when the defendant has access to the COVID-19 vaccine does not pr… |
| 22-5673 |
Juan Amaya Lozano v. Fredrick Entzel, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-09-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel interpreter-rights limited-english-proficiency sentencing sentencing-discretion sixth-amendment |
1) Whether the District Court abused it's discretion after ruling that Juan Lozano, (a limited English Proficiency defendant), required a Spanish Inte… |
| 22-5650 |
In Re Bobby D. Hathaway-Bey |
|
2022-09-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure first-amendment public-access public-trial sentencing sixth-amendment |
should this court isr s lowik toGrant alrit of Haks Corpus Jo a Moorish AMKican SovErig Man wHo has No wvaila forum to raiss his Comlilling clam of Di… |
| 22-5660 |
Jon Anthony Terry v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ability-to-pay criminal-procedure district-court due-process future-assessment hypothetical-means judicial-discretion sentencing special-assessment statutory-interpretation |
1. May a District Court at sentencing, find a defendant "non-indigent" for the purposes of 18 USC 3014(e), based upon past income and a hypothetical "… |
| 22-5638 |
Hector Martinez-Robos v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substances criminal-procedure jury-instructions mandatory-minimum-sentences mens-rea plain-error sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether an instructional error is "plain" for purposes of Fed. R. Crim. P. 52(b) when the charge to the jury is erroneous under an opinion of this … |
| 22-5641 |
Jay Eugene Reed v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
charging-instrument constitutional-rights conviction due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sentencing-reasonableness sixth-amendment |
Has the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit violated the Fifth and Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution by allowing an i… |
| 22-5643 |
Derek Lee Casey, Jr. v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-09-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing trial-counsel |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5603 |
Faustino Sanchez-Lugo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-rule almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi-rule constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-5606 |
Jesus Guadalupe Amparano-Torres v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-precedent constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review legal-challenge sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5610 |
Andre Thompson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach civil-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process elements-clause physical-force sentencing statutory-interpretation |
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Courts allowed or retired b look to the
J wlort it ordinarily invo
Jicab crime ad i/ioknce fpplymj jit Catz^ … |
| 22-5597 |
Bernardino Adrian Venzor-Ortega v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-precedent overrule sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5598 |
Ramiro Montoya-De La Cruz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998) , in light of the reasoning of … |
| 22-5586 |
Lori Ann Robles v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure discretionary-review mandatory-guidelines rita-v-united-states sentencing velson-v-united-states |
1. Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirming Petitioner's sentence of 360 months, based on an importa… |
| 22-5575 |
Ronald Mickel v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure domestic-violence due-process indictment sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum statutory-minimum violent-felony |
I. Whether all facts — including the fact of a prior conviction — that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and … |
| 22-5567 |
Lamar Harris v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error plain-error-review sentencing sentencing-waiver waiver |
1. The question presented is whethe r sentencing issue is waived where the
Defendant raises, but drops an issue as part of a sentencing or subject to… |
| 22-5576 |
Thoucharin Ruttanamongkongul v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-09-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility human-trafficking sentencing sentencing-guidelines sex-work sexual-offense statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
When state values v. evidence, to show that petitioner fired (unclear handwriting) to the United States to court completely e.g. a six footers; and th… |
| 22-5522 |
Fernando Cazares v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal certificate-of-appealability conspiracy crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process general-verdict pinkerton-conspiracy section-241 section-245 sentencing violent-crime |
Did the court of appeals err in failing to grant a certificate of appealability where the application presented three debatable questions: First, the … |
| 22-5551 |
Jose Carmen Barajas-Salvador v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-5562 |
Christopher Alexander v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process first-step-act government-response judicial-discretion misinformation reply section-404 sentencing sentencing-variance upward-variance |
Whether Petitioner was denied his due process rights when the district court granted his Section 404 of the First Step Act motion, but imposed upward … |
| 22-5540 |
David Villegas Pereznegron v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-proceedings plain-error-review right-to-allocution sentencing sentencing-allocution substantial-rights |
Whether the plain and prejudicial denial of the right to allocution is an error that ordinarily warrants correction under the fourth prong of plain-er… |
| 22-5533 |
Dario Pinson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 18-usc-3582c compassionate-release criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion sentencing |
WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT'S FAILURE TO PROPERLY CONSIDER THE APPROPRIATE FACTORS PURSUANT TO 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c) BEFORE DENYING MR. PINSON'S MOTION F… |
| 22-5507 |
Edward F. Swanson v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-09-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process felony-dismissal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-guidelines strickland-standard |
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| 22-5511 |
Edmundo Portillo-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-5514 |
Roland Scott, Jr. v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction sentencing standing statutory-interpretation |
Did the United States Supreme Cort overturn it's own precedent
in Rehaf v. United States 139 S. Ct 2191, 20t L. Ed 594
2o1g), where this Cort decided … |
| 22-5503 |
Jose Vargas-Soto v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge direct-appeal due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus johnson-decision procedural-default residual-clause sentencing vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the doctrine of procedural default bars a court from granting relief to a defendant whose conviction and sentence were predicated on an uncons… |
| 22-5483 |
In Re Frank Michael Monte |
|
2022-09-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus incarceration sentencing |
1. Constitutionality of Petitioner's incarceration. |
| 22-5492 |
William Wallace v. Florida Commission on Offender Review |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-09-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-sufficiency judicial-review reasonable-doubt sentencing standing witness-testimony |
(1) Is it abuse of false evidence to convict a petitioner for a crime, where there has never been any proof of deception that does use / in this case?… |
| 22-5496 |
Vance L. White v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-09-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
court-modification criminal-procedure grand-jury indictment-elements ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion plea-bargaining plea-colloquy sentencing statutory-maximum |
Can H)t Tudyz modipy the. essentiac elements set Qonth In the /'ndittment cn~ the. Plea CoUoquy?
Coin -the. Court Armnd M indictment- (oithout dAt te… |
| 22-5469 |
Jeffrey Beard, II v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination hearsay hearsay-evidence obstruction-of-justice sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
The Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution requires that the accused "shall enjoy the right ... to be confronted with the witnesses against him." Th… |
| 22-5474 |
Romney Christopher Ellis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
communication-offense criminal-sentencing harassment intent-to-carry-out overt-acts sentencing sentencing-guidelines threat-enhancement threatening-communications u-s-sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g.-§-2a6.1(b)(1) |
Whether, in sentencing in cases involving threatening or harassing communications, the six-level offense level enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 2A6.1(b)(1… |
| 22-5477 |
Tracey L. Brown v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender case-law circuit-split criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process hobbs-act jurisdiction ninth-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
1. Should the decision by the Ninth Circuit to deny Mr. Brown's appeal be vacated when said decision was based upon case law that was vacated by this … |
| 22-5480 |
Manuel Ralios-Chajal v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-fact-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing |
Whether facts that affect the minimum or maximum reasonable federal sentence must be proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt? |
| 22-5466 |
Leonard Andrew v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
significant intellectual deficit and reduced ment criminal-sentencing downward-departure intellectual-deficit judicial-discretion mental-capacity reduced-mental-capacity sentencing sentencing-guidelines USSG-5H1.3 USSG-5K2.13 |
Whether a sentencing court must meaningfully address a defendant's request for a downward departure pursuant to USSG §§ 5H1.3 and 5K2.13 when he has a… |
| 22-5459 |
Jose Socorro Gonzalez-Ruiz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation legal-precedent recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998)
should be overruled. |
| 22-5445 |
Ereby Lujan-Madrid v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5446 |
Jose Francisco Maldonado-Rosa v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure fifth-circuit plea-agreement sentencing waiver waiver-of-rights |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by ruling that Mr. Maldonado waived the
right to appeal his sentence because of the Waiver of Appeal provision in his … |
| 22-5430 |
Derrick Lakeith Brown v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights compassionate-release constitutional-interpretation due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure legal-review sentencing state-courts |
WHETHER THE LOWER COURTS ABUSED THEIR DISCRETION ERRED.
PEPPER V. UNITED STATES,
IN LIGHT OF THIS COURT'S PRECEDENT
PRECEDENT OF UNITED S
1108-111S(6T… |
| 22-5421 |
Henry Wilke Eilders v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy criminal-history drug-conspiracy drug-offenses federal-sentencing-guidelines methamphetamine methamphetamine-distribution relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines |
1. Whether Petitioner's prior methamphetamine related convictions occurring within two years of the conspiracy for distributing methamphetamine should… |
| 22-5422 |
Vohn Robert Cooper v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-08-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-maximum |
WHETHER THE SENTENCING JUDGE VIOLATED COOPER'S SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO HAVE A JURY DETERMINE ANY FACT THAT INCREASED THE STATUTORY MAXIMUM IN HIS CAS… |
| 22-161 |
Robert Nieto and Darrick R. Vallodolid v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-08-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky constitutional-rights equal-protection jury-selection prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether Mr. Nieto's and Mr. Vallodolid's convictions should be reversed because the Government's peremptory striking of qualified Hispanic prospect… |
| 22-5400 |
Maurice D. Bell v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error-review preservation-of-error procedural-error sentencing sentencing-procedure |
Whether an appellate court errs under Fed. R. Crim. P. 51 by applying plain error review to a claim of procedural error brought to the sentencing judg… |
| 22-5402 |
Ronnie Jones v. Deanna Brookhart, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction procedural-error sentencing standing |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5405 |
Perry Sawano v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2022-08-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment aggregate-sentence constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment proportionality-analysis proportionality-review sentencing sentencing-review |
1) Does the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits
the imposition of cruel and unusual punishment require that a sentencing
court… |
| 22-5354 |
Ricardo L. Noble v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2022-08-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing miller-rule rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-discretion |
The facts, issues, and eudeace relates to Lace A Juvenile Lifec*s DecertiFitarion(Jrunstec) deescrou ace celévaatto Said Juvenile Likees re sentencing… |
| 22-5383 |
Lynn M. Giovanni v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2022-08-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-defense diminished-capacity guilty-plea ineffective-assistance insanity-defense psychiatric-evaluation sentencing sentencing-mitigation strickland-standard strickland-v-washington withdrawal |
DOES THE ACTION/INACTION OF DEFENSE COUNSEL, IN FAILING TO UTILIZE OR UNDER-UTILIZING THE FAVORABLE PSYCHATRIC REPORTS COMPILED FOR THE DEFENSE IN ASS… |
| 22-5387 |
Ulises Ervey Islas-Macias v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5389 |
Antonio Molina-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit legal-review precedent recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5365 |
David Steve Elias v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure mandatory-minimum plain-error retroactivity rule-11 sentencing |
I. After Mr. Elias's plea but before his sentencing, the First Step Act amended § 924(c)(1) to clarify that the consecutive mandatory minimum sentence… |
| 22-5378 |
Robert Collazo, Lino Delgado-Vidaca, Julio Rodriguez, and Steven Amador v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-penalties drug-distribution due-process mandatory-minimum mens-rea sentencing |
Whether, to prove conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance triggering
mandatory-minimum and increased-maximum penalties, the Government must sh… |
| 22-5348 |
Clarence Lee v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process judicial-bias judicial-recusal motion-hearing prosecutorial-agreement recusal sentencing sentencing-discretion standing |
1) Whether the district court erred by denying defense counsel's oral motion for recusal of the district judge.
2) Whether the district court erred b… |
| 22-5349 |
Leopoldo Pacheco-Apodaca v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5353 |
Ricardo Salazar-Munoz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-139 |
Sari Alqsous v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-08-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
charge-conference confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process hobbs-act mens-rea public-official sentencing sixth-circuit |
Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in analyzing ruling that Petitioner was not entitled to be present during the Charge Conference under Fed. R. Crim. P.… |
| 22-5337 |
Carlos Vazquez-Tellez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 22-5338 |
Chikosi Legins v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1001 apprendi apprendi-rule criminal-law criminal-procedure evidence false-statement relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum sufficiency |
I. Whether the evidence was sufficient to support the conviction under 18 U.S.C. 1001.
II. Whether the defendant was improperly subjected to an enhan… |
| 22-5341 |
Ted Amparan v. M. Eliot Spearman, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
alleyene-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-sentencing due-process exhaustion habeas-corpus jury jury-determination sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment |
1) Did the State Violate Supreme Court precedent of Apprendi v. New Jersey and Alleyne v. United States by having a sentencing judge not the jury make… |
| 22-5326 |
Juan Samuel Rodriguez-Huitron v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
clear-error criminal-procedure judicial-review limited-remand plain-error remand sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum substantial-rights |
This Court in Molina-Martinez v. United States advised that courts of appeals may order a limited remand to assess the impact of clear error on the de… |
| 22-5305 |
Aileen Kogera Njoroge v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-conviction criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fraud identity-theft legal-appeal probation restitution sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence trial-court-discretion |
The Defendant, Aileen Kogera Njoroge, hereinafter "Kogera " appeals her conviction following a jury trial held on October 13th through October 16, 202… |
| 22-5312 |
Carl A. Nelson, Sr. v. Ohio Parole Board, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-08-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-agency administrative-jurisdiction aedpa due-process habeas-corpus liberty liberty-deprivation sentencing sentencing-judgment void-commitment |
(1) When a sentencing judgment entry of commitment is legally invalid, according to state and clearly
established federal law as determined by this co… |
| 22-5313 |
Jesse Rondale Bailey v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a)(6) career-offender criminal-procedure empirical-evidence evidence-based judicial-discretion presumption sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines unwarranted-disparity within-range-sentences |
When evaluating whether a sentence imposed within the applicable guideline range avoids unwarranted sentencing disparities under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(6… |
| 22-118 |
Marquis Shaw v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (12) |
acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process issue-preclusion jury-trial sentencing united-states-v-watts |
(1) Do either the Jury Clauses of Article III and
the Sixth Amendment or the Due Process Clause of
the Fifth Amendment bar a court from imposing a
mor… |
| 22-5281 |
Leonardo T. Morales v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2022-08-04 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
constitutional-review due-process fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice habeas-corpus res-judicata sentencing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Florida Supreme Court had subject matter jurisdiction to entertain Petitioner's Writ of Habeas Corpus as the issue was one of law instead it applied R… |
| 22-5294 |
Gary Wayne Warner v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction limitation-bar miscarriage-of-justice sentencing standing |
1 [QUESTION ONE]: DOES THIS COURT HAVE [JURISDICTION & POWER]-
TO GRANT CERTIORARI-EXCUSED LIMITION BAR AN CORRECT FUNDAMETAL
MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE… |
| 22-5260 |
David Perez v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-murder federal-sentencing racketeering-activity rico rico-sentencing sentencing state-law state-law-maximum statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum |
State sentencing law determines the statutory maximum sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 1963(a) for a RICO conviction based on a racketeering activity that i… |
| 22-5262 |
David D. Major v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-08-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion acceptance-of-responsibility appeal-denial career-offender criminal-history drug-related-offense obstruction-of-justice reliable-evidence sentencing-guidelines |
(1) Isnt Seventh Circuit's panel decision contrary with UNITED
STATES v. CHEEKS, 740 F.3d 440 (7thcir 2014),where district Court
abused it's discret… |
| 22-5264 |
Cody Gober v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-08-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
concurrent-sentence constitutional-scrutiny criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-sentence post-conviction-relief sentencing sixth-circuit state-sentence |
Whether the due process rights of the Petitioner were violated by the failure of the trial court to address, first at sentencing and then in a post-se… |
| 22-5265 |
Preston Hester, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-08-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines advisory-range criminal-procedure district-court due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines SORNA SORNA-tier tier-level |
Whether the district court's failure to determine Mr. Hester's correct SORNA tier level in calculating the correct advisory Guideline sentencing range… |
| 22-5269 |
Juan M. Cuellar v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-08-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus lesser-offense newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction sentencing |
Whether a Retnal ZT ano core Clain Apples bo fesser ob gale? he mcd es Se fhay one Can be Ae Fall va IeCenJd- RL Ps Segre e Murder Sach thal he- "ys G… |
| 22-5192 |
Jose Manuel Hernandez-Miranda v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compassionate-release court-review covid-19 criminal-justice due-process eighth-amendment extraordinary-reasons judicial-discretion petitioner-rights sentencing sentencing-relief |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5234 |
Victor Manuel Duarte-Munoz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-jurisdiction constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5235 |
Louis McIntosh v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-08-01 |
GVR |
IFP |
§924(c) criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction forfeiture hobbs-act interstate-commerce rule-32.2 sentencing |
1. Whether petitioner's §924(c) conviction based on an attempted Hobbs Act robbery should be vacated in light of United States v. Taylor?
2. Whether … |
| 22-5239 |
Edward Bishop v. Jonathan R. Hemingway, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute double-jeopardy due-process federal-criminal-law fifth-amendment legal-interpretation offense-definition sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether § 924(c) criminalizes two seperate roffenses to determine if the Petitioner was convicted of an offense § 924(c) does not criminalize? |
| 22-5241 |
Silvino Vasquez-Jacinto v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-jurisdiction constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5232 |
Jesus Javier Cruz-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-presumption reasonableness-standard rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the Court should clarify how a defendant who challenges the substantive reasonableness of a within-Guidelines sentence may rebut an appellate … |
| 22-5212 |
Jonita Desirrae Brown v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review booker-standard criminal-procedure fifth-circuit plain-error plain-unreasonableness reasonableness sentencing supervised-release |
Whether appellate review of a sentence imposed after the revocation of a defendant's supervised-release term is for reasonableness, as United States v… |
| 22-5214 |
Martin Rios-Galicia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-analysis criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent precedent-overturning recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether the Court should overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998). |
| 22-5204 |
Ramon Belducea-Mancinas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender circuit-conflict controlled-substance drug-trafficking federal-drug-conviction fifth-circuit plain-error sentencing-guidelines |
Ramon Belducea-Mancinas was sentenced as a career offender based on pre-2018 federal convictions for conspiracy to distribute marijuana. In December 2… |
| 22-5168 |
Rodney Mesquias v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-error jurisdiction legal-standard sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming Mesquias' convictions and sentences. |
| 22-5156 |
Wilbert McKreith v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compassionate-release criminal-justice-reform criminal-sentencing district-court-authority first-step-act judicial-authority sentencing sentencing-commission statutory-interpretation |
Do district courts have authority to grant compassionate release under 18 U.S.C. 3582(c)(1)(A), as amended by the First Step Act of 2018, based on a c… |
| 22-5158 |
Bernard J. Battle v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2022-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance legal-nullity plea-bargaining procedural-default sentencing state-law statutory-interpretation |
When guilty plea is entered without the defendant being informed of the consequences, the judgment of conviction is a nullity. |
| 22-5143 |
Malia Arciero v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 abuse-of-discretion appellate-discretion compassionate-release criminal-justice federal-statute judicial-review motion-reconsideration reconsideration sentencing sentencing-modification |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit abused its discretion in denying Arciero's Motion for Compassionate Release Under 18 … |
| 22-5138 |
Arthur Frank Cardenas v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process firearm-possession habeas-corpus knowledge-element ninth-circuit rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states right-to-counsel sentencing |
In light of this Court's decision in Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (2019) must show that the defendant knew he possessed the firearm and als… |
| 22-5139 |
Carol Johnene Morris v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
2nd-amendment armed-career-criminal-act civil-rights criminal-history criminal-procedure double-jeopardy drug-possession due-process felony-enhancement prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Question not identified. |
| 22-49 |
Efrain Lora v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-07-19 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
circuit-split concurrent-sentences consecutive-sentences criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law mandatory-minimums sentencing sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(D)(ii), which provides that "no term of imprisonment imposed … under this subsection shall run concurrently with any oth… |
| 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… |
| 22-5132 |
Joe Octavio Granado v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583 concurrent-sentences consecutive-sentences district-court incarceration liberty-deprivation liberty-interest revocation sentencing statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether the District Court, in revoking supervised release, excessively sentenced Petitioner with consecutive incarceration from an original concurren… |
| 22-5135 |
Joshua Jay Schroeder v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure federal-rules plea-agreement right-to-appeal sentencing |
Does a defendant retain the right to appeal a sentence if, after imposition of the sentence, the district court advises the defendant of the right to … |
| 22-5137 |
Clifford Raymond Salas v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process factual-errors plain-error prosecutorial-argument sentencing sentencing-variance tenth-circuit-review |
Did the Tenth Circuit wrongly hold that the district court did not plainly err, where (a) the prosecutor argued that a factually untrue reason support… |
| 22-5116 |
Michael Dewayne Vickers v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca actual-reliance armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure habeas-corpus johnson-standard johnson-v-united-states jurisdictional-requirement second-or-successive-motion sentencing sentencing-reliance |
After this Court struck down the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual cause in 2015, the Fifth Circuit granted Mr. Vickers permission to file a "secon… |
| 22-5112 |
Roberto Hernandez-Aldama v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-standard fifth-amendment judicial-interpretation methamphetamine sentencing |
Whether the court of appeals violated the defendant's Fifth Amendment right to due process where the government presented evidence regarding just one … |
| 22-5083 |
William Wellington Hooper, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial fourth-amendment search-and-seizure sentencing |
1. Were Mr. Hooper's cell phones seized in violation of his Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable search and seizure?
2. Did the District Court… |
| 22-5084 |
Luciano Felipe-Pascual v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-precedent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial legal-challenge recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5090 |
Michelle C. Cantatore v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-history district-court-discretion evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel section-2255 sentencing sentencing-counsel sentencing-disparity |
Whether the Third Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability, where the district court erred or alternatively abused its discretion by denying… |
| 22-5094 |
Garfield D. Campbell v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidence fourth-circuit marijuana-use reversible-error sentencing supervised-release |
WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY DENYING MR. CAMPBELL'S MERITORIOUS ARGUMENT THAT THE DISTRICT COURT COMMITTED REVERSIBLE ERROR BY… |
| 22-5103 |
Chico Jermell Carraway v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2255-motion 28-usc-2255 evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining rule-11 rule-11-procedure sentencing sentencing-hearing |
When a defendant alleges with supporting evidence that he pleaded guilty based on an unkept promise of counsel concerning sentencing, is he entitled t… |
| 22-5059 |
Rodolfo Oliva-Santos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation Supreme-Court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5061 |
Dewayne Joseph v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-07-11 |
GVR |
IFP |
concepcion-ruling concepcion-v-united-states crack-cocaine crack-penalties criminal-resentencing discretion eleventh-circuit fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing sentencing-modification |
Whether this case should be reversed and remanded in light of Concepcion? |
| 22-5062 |
Zachary Chambers v. R. Thompson, Warden |
Third Circuit |
2022-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law drug-trafficking due-process firearm-possession habeas-corpus retroactivity safety-valve-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), renders invalid the imposition of Petitioner's sentencing enhancement for possession of a … |
| 22-5053 |
Jesus Perez-Solis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 22-5047 |
Jermaine Blackwell v. Jeff Nines, Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-07-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargain plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sentencing trial-counsel trial-strategy |
1. Did the lower .Court error in Not finding that the Petitioner
Trial Counsel committed ineffective assistance of Counsel
when trial counsel misadv… |
| 22-10 |
David Fox Dubin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-05 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (4)Relisted (4) |
circuit-split criminal-law due-process identity-theft lawful-authority means-of-identification mens-rea predicate-offense statutory-interpretation |
The federal aggravated identity theft statute provides: "Whoever, during and in relation to any felony violation enumerated [elsewhere in the statute]… |
| 22-5033 |
Curtis Chewning v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
charging-information court-fraud due-process fraud jury jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing unlawful-seizure |
Question (1)
WHETHER DUE PROCESS OF LAW IS VIOLATED WHERE A SENTENCE IS
INCREASED BASED UPON FACTS NOT INHERENT IN THE CHARGING
INFORMATION OR PROVE… |
| 22-5003 |
Ernesto Villalobos-Marquez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5004 |
Eduardo Pena-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5005 |
Gerardo Olvera-Vitela v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent overrule sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5006 |
David Cadena v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum upward-variance |
1. Did the district court impose a substantively unreasonable sentence when it varied upward from the advisory sentencing range to the statutory maxim… |
| 22-5012 |
Kielan Brett Franklin v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence due-process fifth-amendment guideline-range hearsay hearsay-statements hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reliability |
(1) Is substantive reliability required under the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States when a district c… |
| 21-8261 |
Elgin Z. Haynie v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal conviction due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-representation sentencing |
own faulty pro se representation. |
| 21-8269 |
James Paris Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines advisory-range criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness upward-variance |
1. Did the district court impose a substantively unreasonable sentence when it varied upward from the advisory sentencing range? |
| 21-8271 |
Raul Garcia-Salazar v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 21-8273 |
Jesus Fernando Fierro-Renteria v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 21-8276 |
Isidoro Reyes-Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 21-8277 |
Matthew Michael Cimino v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court of appeals to reweigh the sentencing factors? |
| 21-8281 |
Jose Carreon-Gonzalez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 21-8286 |
Thomas Richie McBride v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process judicial-proceedings jury-trial repeat-offender sentencing sixth-amendment |
[ Illegal/Void 1984 Sentence And Judgment ]
The questions presented here for the Court ,respectfully ,are possi
bly of first impression upon judicial… |
| 21-8287 |
Michael D. Phillips v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
burglary civil-rights criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency jury-instructions prosecutorial-burden reasonable-doubt sentencing |
Did the prosecutor ever prove all prongs and elements of the crime being charged in a second degree murder?
Did the prosecutor ever prove that the al… |
| 21-8256 |
Ortaz Sharp v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-procedure due-process government-abandonment government-appeal judicial-discretion party-presentation sentencing sentencing-hearing sineneng-smith statutory-interpretation |
Whether a court of appeals violates the principle of party presentation announced in United States v. Sineneng Smith, 140 S. Ct. 1575 (2020), by permi… |
| 21-8227 |
Jose Fernando Ochoa-Fabian v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8229 |
Juan Jesus Barrieta-Barrera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split collateral-estoppel criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process immigration immigration-law judicial-precedent prior-conviction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Section 1326(b)(2) of Title 8 provides an elevated penalty for illegally re-entering the country following an "aggravated felony." Does a district cou… |
| 21-8230 |
David Matthews v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach civil-rights criminal-law criminal-sentencing divisibility due-process physical-force sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1. In Texas, a thief is guilty of robbery if he "intentionally or knowingly
threatens or places another in fear of imminent bodily injury or death." T… |
| 21-8231 |
Fidel Torres-Villanueva v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 21-8233 |
Barkley Gardner v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-USC-1959 criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process federal-criminal-law punishment-alternatives racketeering sentencing sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether a court may punish a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1959(a) by a fine instead of death or life imprisonment. |
| 21-8206 |
Noble Laverne Bennett v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing sentencing-review |
I. WHETHER IT WAS ERROR FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT TO DENY BENNETT'S APPEAL WITHOUT AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE HEARD?
II. WHETHER IT WAS ERROR FOR THE LOWER CO… |
| 21-8214 |
Miguel Andres-Tomas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Apprendi-v-New-Jersey constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial precedent-review recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8216 |
Roy Lee Dykes v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-instructions sentencing |
1. Did the Fourth Circuit err in affirming the District Court's abuse of its discretion in admitting evidence of weapons found in Mr. Dykes' residence… |
| 21-8221 |
Isiah Paul Mendez v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering criminal-law north-carolina north-carolina-criminal-law predicate-offense statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states united-states-supreme-court united-states-v-johnson |
WHETHER OR NOT THE NORTH CAROLINA CRIME OF BREAKING AND ENTERING (N.C. GEN STAT. §14-54), AS DEFINED BY THE NORTH CAROLINA SUPRME COURT, CAN BE UTILIZ… |
| 21-8225 |
Luis Adrian Carchi-Fernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8196 |
Cody Andrew Anderson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review booker-standard criminal-procedure fifth-circuit plain-error plain-unreasonable reasonableness sentencing supervised-release |
Whether appellate review of a sentence imposed after the revocation of a defendant's supervised-release term is for reasonableness, as United States v… |
| 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… |
| 21-8199 |
Yuri Chachanko, et al. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-22 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924 aiding-and-abetting crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery predicate-crime predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation vacatur |
Whether the Defendants' convictions for violating 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A) must be vacated because Hobbs Act robbery based on an aiding and abetting t… |
| 21-8201 |
Judel Espinoza-Gonzalez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-22 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-waiver constitutional-violation conviction-review criminal-procedure district-court-authority due-process jurisdictional-challenge mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentence sentencing unconstitutional-conviction |
L. A guilty plea that includes an appellate waiver does not bar jurisdictional challenges on appeal. Class v. United States, 138 S. Ct. 798 (2018). Th… |
| 21-8190 |
Thomas Luczak v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-06-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (13)IFP |
acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process sentencing united-states-v-watts |
Whether this Court should overturn its decision in United States v. Watts, 519 U.S. 148 (S.Ct. 1997), which holds that sentencing judges can consider … |
| 21-8171 |
Lamar Keith Garvin v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing defendant-characteristics due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines sentencing-range sentencing-variance |
I. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by affirming the District Court's imposing an unreasonable sentence under the totality of the circumstances, and w… |
| 21-8152 |
Filiberto Chavez, aka Big Boy, aka Freeway Beto v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion lesser-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum |
Can a sentencing court use the elements of a lesser offense to increase a defendant's sentence in a different, legally unrelated, offense beyond the o… |
| 21-8158 |
Larry Jose Torrez-Gutierrez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent sentencing sixth-amendment stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8159 |
Danny Leon Lynch, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 21-8163 |
Benjamin Perez-Jimenez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent legal-procedure sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8165 |
Darryl Keith Rolle v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-06-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection rule-of-lenity sentencing |
Whether this Honorable Court should grant Certiorari where Florida Statute section 775.021(1) concerning the rule of lenity is being unconstitutionall… |
| 21-8143 |
Marcus Branch v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2022-06-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-offense criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process parole parole-board sentencing separation-of-powers |
WAS THE "DOUBLE JEOPARDY ' CLAUSE VIOLATED WHEN I WAS SENTENCED THREE TIMES FOR THE EXACT SAME OFFENSE I'M HERE FOR NOW PURSUANT TO USCS CONSTITUTION,… |
| 21-8146 |
Gregory Thomas v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-06-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act judicial-procedure legal-standard sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
This Court should issue a GVR Order so that the lower court can determine whether it is an abuse of discretion when a court fails to follow the law by… |
| 21-1557 |
Dayonta McClinton v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-06-14 |
Denied |
Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (14) |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy fifth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-acquittal sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury has acquitted … |
| 21-8116 |
Demarco Tempo v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
but-for-causation causation criminal-law death-enhancement drug-statute due-process jury-instructions pinkerton-liability proximate-cause sentencing statutory-interpretation |
I. Should the government be required to prove proximate cause in addition
to but-for causation for the "death results" enhancement in 21 U.S.C.
§ 841?… |
| 21-8117 |
Xavier Jamaal Orange v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2022-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
counsel-error criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel molina-martinez molina-martinez-v-united-states prejudice sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Due to defense counsel's deficiency, petitioner was sentenced based on an incorrect Sentencing Guidelines range (57 months, using a range of 46-57 mon… |
| 21-8124 |
Kywon A. Datham v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2022-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights compassionate-release criminal-procedure danger-to-community due-process incarcerated-persons judicial-discretion rule-35b sentence-reduction sentencing time-bar |
Whether District of Colombia Court of Appeals errd when it denid petitioner's Request For summary reversal?
Did the Lower Courts abuse their discreti… |
| 21-8097 |
Thomas Randall Ainsworth v. Robert Powell, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-laws due-process equal-protection sentencing statutory-interpretation utah |
WHETHER THE TENTH CIRCUIT'S CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY (COA) ANALYSIS CONFLICTS WITH THE FIFTH CIRCUIT'S COA ANALYSIS.
WHETHER THE DIFFERING PENALT… |
| 21-8099 |
Darnell McConnell, II v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-law federal-act federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether "controlled substance[s]" in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines § 4B1.2(b) are limited to those substances defined and regulated under the fede… |
| 21-8100 |
Luis Antonio Molina-Rivas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-law constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8101 |
Marco Antonio Marin-Maldonado v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres certiorari constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8102 |
Rodrigo Jimenez-Ramirez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres certiorari constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8106 |
Jay Jurdi v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure government-misconduct ineffective-assistance jurisdictional-issue legal-standard preservation-of-error procedural-question self-incrimination sentencing statutory-provisions writ-of-certiorari |
Was Jurdi's counsel ineffective for failing to object to, and thereby preserve for appeal, the fact that the government intended to use a non-qualifyi… |
| 21-8108 |
Daniel Gallegos-Quirino v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8093 |
Albert Aiad-Toss v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-06-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-USC-3553a abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure district-court-discretion procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness supervised-release |
Whether Mr. Aiad-Toss's lifetime supervised release term was procedurally unreasonable because the district court failed to adequately explain its dec… |
| 21-8072 |
Erik Daniel Salgado-Castellano v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres appellate-procedure case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8074 |
Juan Jesus Barrieta-Barrera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment parole sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 21-8058 |
Alejandro Pascual-Miguel v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review legal-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8059 |
Jesus Morales-Agustin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8048 |
Michael Ray Kapp v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-court compassionate-release criminal-justice federal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing summary-affirmance |
I.
Whether The Denial Of Michael Kapp's Motion For Compassionate
Release Was An Abuse Of Discretion?
II.
Whether the Ninth Circuit's Summary Affirman… |
| 21-8051 |
Michael Rivera Delgado v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's rule in Villavicencio-Burruel, which requires that a prior conviction under California Penal Code § 245(a)(1) constitute a… |
| 21-8052 |
Rene Sanchez-Quintero v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8035 |
Charlie John Williams v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) conviction-review criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis |
Whether Petitioner's conviction under 18 U.S.C. section 924 (c) remains valid under the Supreme Court's holding in United States v. Davis. 139 S. Ct. … |
| 21-8019 |
Levelt Dewarren Musgraves v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2022-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-law-application juvenile-lifers parole sentencing sentencing-modification state-court-review |
1. The Wisconsin state courts did not conduct a complete round of the Public
Interest Justice Initiative (PIJI) sentencing issue presented before the… |
| 21-8021 |
Frank W. Coon v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 abuse-of-discretion compassionate-release criminal-justice district-court-discretion first-step-act sentence-reduction sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether the District Court Abused its Discretion by Denying Mr. Coon's Motion for Compassionate Release? |
| 21-8025 |
Christopher Thieme, aka John Thieme v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3664 all-writs-act criminal-law criminal-procedure illegal legal-relief restitution restitution-order sentencing sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation writ-of-audita-querela |
1.) Does 18 U.S.C. §3664(k) and (0). which allows a sentencing court to consider motions to "adjust" a restitution order without anv time limits. perm… |
| 21-8030 |
Andre Marcus Buchanan v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a career-offender criminal-procedure due-process plain-error plain-error-review reasonableness sentencing |
WHETHER MR. BUCHANAN'S SENTENCE IS UNREASONABLE BECAUSE
IT IS GREATER THAN NECESSARY TO ACCOMPLISH THE GOALS OF
18 U.S.C. § 3553(a).
WHETHER PLAIN … |
| 21-7988 |
Donald Tarnawa v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure financial-factors financial-resources restitution restitution-modification sentencing sentencing-procedure standard-of-review |
1. Whether the controlling standard of review for modification under 18 USCA § 3664(k) should be de novo or abuse of description. The Panel Opinion re… |
| 21-7992 |
Reginald Andre Molette v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-05-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary categorical-approach criminal-law federal-statute generic-burglary sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether North Carolina breaking and entering categorically qualifies as generic burglary under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(ii)? |
| 21-7974 |
Omero Rojas-Leal, aka Belarmino Lopez-Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7960 |
Jesus Antonio Montoya-Balderrama v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres-precedent certiorari constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7940 |
Jason P. Thomas v. Morris Houser, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Benner Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-05-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy evidentiary-hearing fabricated-evidence ineffective-assistance jury-instruction jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing |
I. Whether the District Court, without holding an evidentiary hearing erred in disposing of Petitioner 's trial icounsel 's ineffectiveness surroundin… |
| 21-7929 |
Johnny Joe Avalos v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
capital-murder cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment intellectual-disability life-without-parole mitigating-circumstances sentencing texas-penal-code |
Whether an ALWOP sentence on an intellectually disabled adult convicted of capital murder as provided by Texas Penal Code Section 12.31(a)(2) - a stat… |
| 21-7931 |
John Bailey v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2022-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review prolonged-detention sentencing standing trial-rights |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in holding that petitioner's constitutional claims were barred by the statute of limitations, and whether petitione… |
| 21-7933 |
John Armstrong, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-05-20 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
case-determination civil-rights criminal-adjudication criminal-procedure due-process legal-interpretation recidivism-calculation sentencing sentencing-containment statutory-interpretation supreme-court violent-offense |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7915 |
Amado Rodriguez-Navarrete v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit precedent-review recidivism sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7897 |
Barry Slakman v. Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-05-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto parole sentencing standing statutory-interpretation takings |
interpretation and application of an ex post facto violation within the context of parole eligibility statutes, such as in initial parole eligibility,… |
| 21-7910 |
Kendrick Dwight Marshall v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 21-7891 |
William Ramirez-Frechel v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-review sentencing |
Whether The Sentence Imposed is Unreasonable. |
| 21-7895 |
Antoine Mayes v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-court criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis |
I. WHETHER IT WAS ERROR FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT TO DENY MAYES THE RIGHT TO FILE AN APPEAL OR COAIN LIGHT OF THE SUPREME COURT 'S DECISION IN UNITED STA… |
| 21-7878 |
Jermaine Alonzo Mitchell v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender categorical-analysis criminal-sentencing divisibility due-process first-step-act retroactivity sentencing-enhancement |
When receiving a reduced sentence in 2020 for a crack-cocaine offense under the First Step Act, Petitioner Mitchell asked the district court to find h… |
| 21-7862 |
Mark DeWayne Hallcy v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus mootness ninth-circuit post-conviction-relief sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Does &4$aul4r Cw/Wiel^ i/uo erf W{\4, h'oHtflif % >9^4 r^oiric^ 6ttk^^ >kJjk&> ft ' ^e ot 0^ u*vW ■fa* ^ 'i^^tuuk, sWe. p^o^eiu^e *mi£ ifat' P^ft'K… |
| 21-7867 |
Jasper B. Mackey, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing due-process fourth-circuit government-discretion mandatory-minimum plea-agreement sentencing substantial-assistance |
I. The United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's judgment which did not depart below the mandatory minimum… |
| 21-7835 |
Michael Perryman v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-05-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process firearm-statute firearms legal-interpretation precedent precedential-reasoning sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether the mere possession reasoning in Bailey and Bousley retain precedential value in regard to "use" of a firearm under the amended Section 924(c)… |
| 21-7821 |
Mandrail Jamar Woodberry v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law digital-privacy due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining probable-cause sentencing unreasonable-search warrantless-search |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7822 |
Christopher Patrick Lovings v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure enhancement fleeing fleeing-offense judicial-discretion knowledge knowledge-standard law-enforcement sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg-3c1.2 |
Whether a sentencing court may apply an enhancement pursuant to USSG § 3C1.2 when the record fails to establish the defendant knew or had reason to kn… |
| 21-7824 |
Jerome Scott King v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-review criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing voluntary-waiver |
Whether a provision in a plea agreement that bars a defendant from appealing a sentence of imprisonment violates due process and whether it can be kno… |
| 21-7804 |
Charles Austin Alger, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
deprivation deprivation-of-liberty financial-conditions liberty policy-statements sentencing sentencing-commission sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether the district court violated 18 U.S.C. § 3583(d) when it imposed special financial conditions of supervised release that do not reasonably rela… |
| 21-7813 |
Hector Cervantes-Resendiz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit precedent-review sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7791 |
Aaron Ramirez-Almader v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure judicial-review legal-precedent recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7784 |
Idania Renteria Madrid v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583 consecutive-incarceration consecutive-sentences criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines immigration-detention liberty-deprivation sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the District Court excessively sentenced Petitioner to consecutive incarceration and deprived the Petitioner of liberty within the terms of 18… |
| 21-7786 |
Ignacio Trevizo-Cortez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-jurisdiction constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-1418 |
Medardo Queg Santos v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-05-04 |
GVR |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
controlled-substances expert-testimony good-faith good-faith-defense medical-practice medical-purpose relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
1. If a physician's good faith is a complete defense to a prosecution for prescribing controlled substances without a legitimate medical purpose or ou… |
| 21-7759 |
Mikkel McKinnie v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-841 8th-amendment burrage-precedent causation drug-offense drug-related-death due-process guideline-range sentencing sentencing-reasonableness upward-variance |
I.
Whether the Lower Courts Erred in Not Applying the Court's Precedent in
Burrage v. United States, 571 U.S. 204 (2014), to Upward Variances When a
D… |
| 21-7758 |
Donald W. Estell v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process false-testimony guilty-plea napue-rule napue-v-illinois narcotics-influence plea-bargaining right-to-testify sentencing witness-testimony |
Should this court apply the Napue Due Process for a defendant whom pleads guilty, in addition, apply the Napue Due Process to the Rule requirement?
W… |
| 21-7709 |
David C. Morris v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2022-04-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment direct-appeal ineffective-assistance-of-counsel res-judicata sentencing sentencing-error statutory-authority statutory-authorization |
"NATURAL LIFE"
THAT DOES
A SENTENCE
OF
NOT
EXIST
IS
NOT
AUTHOR IZED
BY
AND
STATUTE,
WHICH
CRUEL AND UNUSUAL
PUNI SHMENT
CONSTITUTES
BECAUSE
WAS
ASSIGN… |
| 21-7733 |
Rashod Lewis v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-04-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c) conviction-validity crime-of-violence criminal-procedure davis-precedent due-process sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-offense united-states-v-davis vagueness-doctrine |
1) Can a conviction and punishment stand on a non-existent stat utory offense, based on it being dismissed?
2) Was Petitioner's 18 U.S.C. 924(c) (1)(… |
| 21-7738 |
Guillermo Mata-Valerio v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent sentencing sixth-amendment stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7743 |
Matthew J. Kidder v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2022-04-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights counsel criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sentencing sixth-amendment state-court-jurisdiction |
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S'V+k. cxvdi ft)odee.r\Ui p£jM fs effective G S3'S^nce c? Cocosel cIcm S Tflue … |
| 21-7721 |
Juan Francisco Cruz-Mora v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres certiorari constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7731 |
Alonzo Bell v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-04-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence evidence-exclusion judicial-discretion proportionate-penalties sentencing |
Whether the Circuit Court erred in admitting Social Media evidence at trial.
Whether Defendant was Denied His Constitutional right to the effective a… |
| 21-7704 |
Kerry Vanderpool v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3742 appeals criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction sentencing |
1. Does the plain language of 18 U.S.C. § 3742(f) deprive the federal Courts of Appeals of jurisdiction to vacate a sentence when it is uncontested th… |
| 21-7706 |
Irving Ernesto Arias v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process fifth-circuit guilty-plea motion-to-withdraw plea-bargaining sentencing |
DID THE FIFTH CIRCUIT ERR BY FINDING THAT THE DISTRICT COURT'S DECISION TO DENY MR. ARIAS'S MOTION TO WITHDRAW HIS GUILTY PLEA DID NOT CONSTITUTE AN A… |
| 21-7714 |
Gurmeet Singh Dhinsa v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c categorical-analysis crime-of-violence federal-predicate federal-statute generic-definitions judicial-review predicate-offense state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether categorical analysis of the predicate crime of violence for a 18 U.S.C. Section 924(c) offense allows a reviewing court to "look through" the … |
| 21-7666 |
Izell Delorean Grissett, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-04-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi apprendi-ruling collateral-review constitutional-claim criminal-procedure guidelines mandatory-guidelines miscarriage-of-justice section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
1. Whether the Sixth Amendment requires the fact of a first-degree murder cross reference under § 2Al.l-to be treated as an element-when that finding … |
| 21-7676 |
Robert Christopher Jones v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-04-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-justice eighth-amendment juvenile-justice mandatory-sentencing miller-factors miller-v-alabama plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-challenge |
(1) Whether a pre- Miller guilty plea bars a post- Miller sentencing challenge
under the Eighth Amendment.
(2) Whether the sentencing process mandat… |
| 21-7638 |
Carlos Jimenez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-defendant criminal-law drug-offenses drug-quantity mandatory-minimums mens-rea scienter sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Whether the government can subject a criminal defendant to the escalating mandatory minimums and maximums under 18 U.S.C. § 841(b), without proving th… |
| 21-7645 |
Alimamy Barrie v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure federal-appeals federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-review plain-error procedural-default re-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines successive-filing |
Should an Error be Corrected in a Motion under Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure Rule 52b, when the Conditions of US v. Olano are met, even if the I… |
| 21-7619 |
Jarbarri Randale Wall v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-procedure federal-law plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-condition statutory-authority statutory-maximum supervised-release |
The district court imposed a special condition of supervised release that the defendant abstain from the use of alcoholic beverages, not associate wit… |
| 21-7621 |
Jose Miguel Perez-Vides v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7622 |
Alejandro Medina-Rios v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7624 |
Wilfredo Lee Lopez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split constructive-amendment criminal-enticement criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment indictment predicate-offense statutory-interpretation |
1. Does 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b), which criminalizes the attempted
enticement of a minor to engage in "sexual activity for which any
person can be charged … |
| 21-7612 |
Jose Luis Aldaba-Roman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial sentencing Supreme-Court writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7616 |
Andrew Ussery v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process guidelines methamphetamine sentencing supervisory-powers |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit")–which affirmed the decision of the District Court t… |
| 21-7600 |
Christopher Hibshman v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-USC-3583 18-USC-3583(e) criminal-conduct criminal-sentencing reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-standards supervised-release |
1. For violation of supervised release is the imposition of a 24 month sentence consecutive to a 2 year Indiana prison term unreasonable and at odds w… |
| 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… |
| 21-7575 |
Keith Morris v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-waiver criminal-procedure due-process knowing-waiver plea-agreement plea-bargaining right-to-appeal sentencing waiver |
Whether a provision in a plea agreement which bars a defendant from appealing "any sentence of imprisonment" can be knowingly entered into well before… |
| 21-7570 |
Vander Clayborne v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2022-04-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea juvenile-justice mental-capacity mental-competency miller-v-alabama parole sentencing |
In every jurisdiction of the United States - both federal and State - there is a balancing test for deciding whether a court's decision to deny a Crim… |
| 21-7560 |
Martin Andres-Tomas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres certiorari constitutional-interpretation court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7536 |
Ramonta Forte v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment counsel-of-choice discretion due-process federal-law habeas-corpus right-to-counsel sentencing |
1. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT CORRECTLY DETERMINED THAT THE RIGHT TO COUNSEL AT SENTENCING IS NOT CLEARLY ESTABLISHED FEDERAL LAW?
2. WHETHER THE DIS… |
| 21-7538 |
Clyde Otis Alston, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment sentencing |
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| 21-7547 |
Gabriel Gonzalez v. John P. Yates, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights covid-19 cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment imprisonment prison-conditions sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
I. Does continued imprisonment under unconstrained exposure to a lethal contagion, such as COVID-19, violate his Eighth Amendment right to be free fro… |
| 21-7549 |
Ernesto Palacios-Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-law criminal-procedure immigration-law indictment sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum |
Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998) was wrongly decided, allowing for the provisions of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b)(1) and (2) deal… |
| 21-7510 |
Ramon Lopez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons compassionate-release criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing extraordinary-circumstances federal-corrections federal-sentencing-guidelines sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether Criminal Defendants may use the "recently amended"
Compassionate Release Statute [18 U.S.C. Sec. 3582(c)(1)(A)]'to
reduce or correct an exce… |
| 21-7519 |
Nathan Lee Tamez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
discretionary-review due-process firearms guidelines sentencing supervisory-powers |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit")–which affirmed the decision of the District Court t… |
| 21-7520 |
Isaiah Wilson v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 2nd-amendment burglary-statute career-offender civil-rights crime-of-violence due-process federal-sentencing free-speech sentencing-guidelines standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Should the court exercise it's Power to resolve a
split amongst the sister Circuits regarding New Jersey
Third degree burglary designation as a cri… |
| 21-7503 |
Lucas Victorino-Tista v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7509 |
Jean Carlo Ferreira v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure criminal-statute davis-precedent due-process jury-instruction procedural-default sentencing standing vagueness |
Whether the Court should address the Circuit Split regarding whether, and under what circumstances, a movant's procedural default can be excused becau… |
| 21-7514 |
Sidney J. Clark, Jr. v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2022-03-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-withholding full-faith-and-credit habeas-corpus sentencing |
(1) THE SENTENCING OF S.J.C.JR., TO THE H.C.A. PURSUANT TO K.S.A. 21-4504 ,WITHOUT ANY
LEGAL PROOF OF THE ONE PRIOR JUDICIAL COURT PROCEEDING OF THE S… |
| 21-7516 |
Delroy T. Booth v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2022-03-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief sentencing standing |
1. Did the Georgia Supreme court Have Jurisdiction to Review Petitioner's appeal From the Denial of the Georgia Superior Court Denying Petitioners Mot… |
| 21-7482 |
Gregory Jean-Louis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-procedure circuit-split criminal-appeal criminal-defendant criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process judicial-review sentencing waiver-exception |
Should the United States Supreme Court grant certiorari in order the finally resolve the substantial circuit split regarding the "miscarriage—of—justi… |
| 21-7463 |
James Edward Sandford, III v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-03-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-justice criminal-justice-reform judicial-discretion post-conviction-relief prison-population rehabilitation sentencing supervisory-power supreme-court-power |
Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 21-7472 |
Earnest Eugene Walker, Jr. v. Kansas |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-03-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus illegal-sentence ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief sentencing |
Correction of Serterce And As the same the Habear Corpur
to be corstrned as the same to Correct an Illegal senterce
After senterced hos beer served; w… |
| 21-7445 |
Juniel B. Rios v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure procedural-due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness upward-variance |
1. Whether Constitutional Due Process requires that Irizarry v. United States, 553 U.S. 708 (2008) that limited the Notice requirement in Fed.R.Crim.P… |
| 21-7457 |
Gregory Wynn v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2022-03-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-rehabilitation cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders life-sentence life-without-parole rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-proportionality |
Whether, in light of the uncontroverted evidence of Gregory Wynn's potential for maturity and positive change as an adult, his sentence of life impris… |
| 21-7460 |
Eric Dean Smith v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 abuse-of-discretion compassionate-release criminal-procedure due-process sentencing |
1. Did thE CouRts AbUsE it's DiscletiOw AftR Derying Me. SMith COMPASSIONATE RELEASEUNDER IBL. 13 AFER COUR CoNCudEd DEENdANt sAtisfiEd thE ExteoRdiNA… |
| 21-7440 |
Norman Alan Kerr v. Christopher Gomez, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure document-suppression due-process evidence-rules government-misconduct judicial-discretion plea-bargaining sentencing trial-procedure |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7448 |
Edgar Garza-Limones v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 21-7434 |
Darryl Williams v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender circuit-split crime-of-violence due-process equal-protection residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines |
This Court holds various residual clauses are unconstitutionally vague under the Due Process Clause, but has not yet addressed the residual clause in … |
| 21-1275 |
Abetubokun Adesioye v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-03-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal appeal-waiver court-of-appeals criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process plea-bargaining right-to-appeal rule-11-colloquy sentencing sentencing-guidelines waiver |
Did the Court of Appeals err in finding that the petitioner knowingly and intelligently waived his right of appeal without having considered the exist… |
| 21-7428 |
Chad Eugene Caldwell v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence career-offender circuit-split criminal-procedure mandatory-guidelines section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Petitioner Chad Caldwell was sentenced to 272 months in prison based on the district court's conclusion that he was a career offender under USSG §4B1.… |
| 21-7418 |
James Roland L'Heureux v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
2022-03-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
contract-law contractual-breach due-process fourteenth-amendment mabry-v-johnson plea-agreement pre-sentence-investigation sentencing sentencing-arguments |
Under Mabry v. Johnson, the prosecution may not breach a term of a plea agreement that can be said to have induced a plea, although jurisdictions are … |
| 21-7423 |
Delbert Keyes v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2022-03-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 21-1274 |
Bobby Lee Ingram v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-21 |
GVR |
Relisted (4) |
criminal-justice-reform district-court-discretion first-step-act judicial-discretion legal-developments retroactivity 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, a district court … |
| 21-7414 |
Gregory M. Hawes v. Michael Pacheco, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process mandatory-minimum sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether this Court's decision in Patterson v. New York (1977), which permitted placing the burden on a criminal defendant to establish mitigating f… |
| 21-7404 |
Jose Antonio Barahona-Paz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 21-7405 |
Joshua Guity-Nunez v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-section-1594 appeal base-offense-level criminal-conviction criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-sentencing human-trafficking sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
I, Whether Petitioner, who was convicted of 18 U.S.C. § 1594(c), is subject to a Base Offense Level of 34 or 14? |
| 21-7368 |
Antwan Boyd v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-15 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-justice-reform district-court-discretion first-step-act intervening-legal-developments legal-developments retroactivity 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, a
district court … |
| 21-7353 |
Alejandro Chavarria v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-waiver criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure government-estoppel judicial-error plea-agreement rule-32 sentencing |
1. Whether a trial judge's erroneous FED. R. CRIM. P. 32(j)(1)(B) advice regarding the defendant's right to appeal his sentence, and the Government's … |
| 21-7354 |
Joseph Patrick Keel v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-precedent apprendi-rule criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process identity judicial-interpretation prior-convictions prior-record-exception sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Whether courts, including those in Florida, have been incorrectly applying
a "prior record" exception to the rule from Apprendi v. New Jersey 530 U… |
| 21-7356 |
Stacey Tremaine Johnson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process evidence firearm-possession guideline-calculation jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing sentencing-reasonableness standard-of-proof uncharged-conduct |
1. Whether there was sufficient evidence for the jury to find the petitioner guilty of drug trafficking and firearm possession.
2. Whether the jury i… |
| 21-7357 |
Joel Castro-Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing discretion district-court-discretion guidelines judicial-reasoning legal-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether a district court errs should reference or address substantial arguments for a sentence outside the Guideline range? |
| 21-7340 |
Joseph Louis Hall v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process judicial-review legislative-intent patent sentencing standing state-court-procedure statutory-interpretation |
1. WHETHER A DISTRICT COURT CAN RELY SOLELY ON A DEFENDANT'S ORIGINAL SENTENCING FACTORS SET FORTH IN 18 U.S.C.3553(A) AND WHETHER A DEFENDANT'S POST-… |
| 21-7345 |
David Wayne Aring v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography circuit-split due-process eighth-amendment first-time-offender judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
QUESTION ONE
Whether in the exercise of its supervisory jurisdiction over the United States
Courts, this Court should correct the correctable injustic… |
| 21-7346 |
Avian Brule v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error judicial-discretion revocation-standard sentencing supervised-release |
(1) What is the appellate standard of review applicable to sentences imposed following revocation of supervised release?
(2) Is a district court's er… |
| 21-7352 |
Pedro Intzin-Guzman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 21-7331 |
Darregus T. Robinson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split civil-rights compassionate-release constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus policy sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
USSG §1B1. B TO DENY RELIEF WHEN THE GUIDELINE DID NOT APPLY TO HIS MOTION?
5TH AND 8TH AMENDMENT CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATIONS!
CAN PETITIONER GET RELIE… |
| 21-7332 |
Marlon Sisnero-Gil v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness substantive-unreasonableness supervisory-power |
Whether the Petition should be granted because the Court of Appeals' decision holding that Petitioner's sentence was not substantively unreasonable co… |
| 21-7322 |
James Earl Harper v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-03-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
breach-of-agreement breach-of-contract criminal-procedure due-process government-contract government-motion incarceration plea-agreement sentencing |
1. Whether the Government should have been bound by the provisions of the Plea Agreement as the Petitioner did not breach the provisions contained the… |
| 21-7327 |
Tina Carol Ortega v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure delegation-of-authority district-court due-process judicial-discretion plain-error probation probation-officer sentencing separation-of-powers |
1. Did the district court plainly err when it delegated to a probation officer the authority to determine the duration of a residential treatment prog… |
| 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 … |
| 21-7321 |
Eric Labreece Mack v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-instructions sentencing standard-of-review |
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| 21-7291 |
Bonifacio Eduardo Trujillo-Gutierrez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres certiorari constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7292 |
James E. Walker v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-03-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability post-conviction post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing |
Was it prosecutorial misconduct ct during the state's opening vacnta hnee hodn his trial. Page 15,16
Is i inel e ng afilue tga e te was impasing acco… |
| 21-7293 |
Jose Rodriguez-Vasquez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 21-7295 |
Miguel Lerma-Reyes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 21-7270 |
Karo Brown v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-03-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure first-step-act legal-developments retroactivity 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, a district court … |
| 21-7230 |
Gemar Morgan v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-standard probation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7245 |
Julia Ann Poff v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights compassionate-release criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing habeas-corpus pro-se pro-se-filing sentence-reduction sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7252 |
Terrance Stinson, aka T-Rock v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment jury-guarantee jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether sentencing based on acquitted conduct violates the Sixth Amendment jury guarantee and the Fifth Amendment Due Process Clause. |
| 21-7256 |
Clemente Rosales-Sanchez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7258 |
Fernando Contreras-Rojas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres certiorari constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7236 |
Joseph Crocco v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-03-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
career-offender categorical-approach circuit-conflict circuit-split controlled-substance-offense plain-error sentencing-guidelines unsettled-law |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred when it held that the district court's erroneous determination that Petitioner was a career offender, based on Peti… |
| 21-7221 |
Alfred Lavoris Moody v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion juvenile-justice mitigating-factors mitigation-factors proportionality rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review |
Whether the 78-month sentence imposed on Mr. Moody was " greater than necessary " considering his troubled childhood. |
| 21-7223 |
Angel DeLara v. California |
California |
2022-02-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-determination jury-trial penal-code sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Whether California's Determinate Sentencing Law, by permitting sentencing Judges to impose enhanced sentences based on their determination of facts no… |
| 21-7226 |
Christopher Ronald Martin v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-sentencing generic-robbery mens-rea recklessness sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
() Whether generic robbery, as used in federal sentencing enhancement provisions, encompasses robbery offenses that only require a mens rea of mere re… |
| 21-7227 |
Daniel Isaiah Thody v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process jury-trial sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
As a case of first impression, whether the current implementation of Supervised Release, (18 U.S.C. §3583), as a "separate sentence " in addition to t… |
| 21-1185 |
Rufino Valdez-Lopez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-02-28 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split collateral-attack criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judicial-vindictiveness sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment |
This case turns on whether the Pearce presumption of judicial vindictiveness applies—for the Government to then rebut with new evidence—when a second … |
| 21-7191 |
Rosa Leija-Peralta v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 21-7196 |
Luis Alonso Ramirez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres certiorari criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7169 |
Latwon James v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-factors supervised-release waiver |
I. Whether the Fourth Circuit erroneously dismissed Mr. James's appeal based on a provision in Mr. James's plea agreement waiving his right to appeal … |
| 21-7174 |
Inocencio Gamboa-Rivera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-precedent constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit legal-review sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7163 |
Nathaniel Ruth v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-02-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-procedure federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation |
I Does the phrase "controlled substance" in U.S.S.C. § 4B1.2(b) include substances that are excluded from the Controlled Substances Act?
II. When def… |
| 21-7147 |
Sergio Alberto Arzate-Gameroz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-precedent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review overrule sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7149 |
Pedro Romero-Sandoval v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-law constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7151 |
Quentin Jackson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-02-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause mens-rea predicate-offense reasonable-person sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation threat-of-force |
QUESTION ONE:
The circuit courts agree that a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) will be sustained
even if the defendant was not aware that his cond… |
| 21-7134 |
Anthony Jerome Bell v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release district-court-discretion extraordinary-reasons first-step-act intervening-developments legal-developments sentencing sentencing-factors |
In denying a motion for compassionate release under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A) for "extraordinary and compelling reasons" after considering the factors… |
| 21-7137 |
Lonnel Porter v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-02-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law custody custody-escape eighth-circuit escape homelessness residential-reentry-center sentencing statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT MISCONSTRUED 18 U.S.C. § 751(a) TO FIND THAT AN ESCAPE FROM CUSTODY IMPOSED "BY VIRTUE OF . . . CONVICTION" INCLUDES PLACEM… |
| 21-7116 |
Victor Armando Acevedo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-02-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-procedure notice sentencing supervised-release |
Whether, under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 43(a)(3), a district court can lawfully impose the thirteen "standard" supervised-release conditions… |
| 21-7119 |
Victor Carlos Castano v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-02-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure enterprise fifth-amendment grand-jury jury-instructions proffer-agreement rico-conspiracy sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
A. Whether the government was impermissibly relieved of its burden to prove each element of RICO Conspiracy when the court instructed the jury that an… |
| 21-7122 |
Thomas Warner v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-02-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravated-battery criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-sufficiency firearm-discharge jury-instructions sentencing state-testimony witness-credibility |
Whether Thomas Warner's convictions for Aggravated Battery with Discharge of a Firearm should be reversed where they were not supported by credible te… |
| 21-7110 |
Jorge Alberto Funez-Zapata v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 21-7102 |
Elmer Josue Rivas-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 21-1118 |
Duianete Moore v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-02-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
career-offender criminal-history criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines juvenile-conviction juvenile-offenses predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Is a conviction committed 24 years ago, when Petitioner was 16 years old, a proper predicate offense for classification of Career Offender status purs… |
| 21-7094 |
Gustavo Guillermo Gutierrez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Apprendi-v-New-Jersey constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial precedent-review recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7079 |
Reginald Glenn v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-assault circuit-split criminal-law generic-offense mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g.-4b1.2 |
To be a "crime of violence" under the enumerated
clause of U.S.S.G. §4B1.2(a)(2), an offense must have
elements that match or are narrower than the el… |
| 21-7087 |
In Re Wesley Thompson |
|
2022-02-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus sentencing |
PRIOR COURTS DISPITE THE CONSTTTUTIONAL VIOLATIONS?
2) CAN MR. THOMPSON'S CONVICTIONS STAND WITHOOT VINDICATION OF THE VIOLATIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION… |
| 21-7069 |
Javar Dinsdale Clarke v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
May Bank robbery apply as a crime of violence for purposes of 18 U.S.C. 924(c) when Bank robbery does not match the elements of section 924(c)(3)(A). |
| 21-7061 |
John Lezell Balentine v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-defendant capital-sentencing circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-evidence schriro-v-landrigan sentencing trial-counsel |
Under Schriro v. Landrigan, 550 U.S. 465 (2007), does a capital defendant necessarily forfeit his right to allege trial counsel's ineffectiveness for … |
| 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 … |
| 21-7063 |
Salahudin Shaheed v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure drug-introduction due-process exculpatory-defense legal-standard plea-bargaining sentencing sexual-misconduct standing |
Has thousands of people been wrongfully convicted by Courts of law, facts (drug introduction into correctional institutions) and "illicit sex acts)" i… |
| 21-7047 |
In Re Daren Kareem Gadsden |
|
2022-02-03 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
constitutional-violation criminal-indictment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-indictment federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment sentencing sentencing-authority |
Whether or not the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland exceeded its authority and/or jurisdiction by punishing petitioner to a (23) twent… |
| 21-7052 |
Lewis Taylor, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
eighth-amendment graham-v-florida juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing meaningful-opportunity parole parole-eligibility rehabilitation-consideration sentencing solem-v-helm |
Whether, given the rarity of the grant of parole in Florida and Florida's failure to take a juvenile offender's maturity and rehabilitation adequately… |
| 21-7041 |
Anthony Andrews v. Bryan K. Dobbs, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-02-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process parole revocation sentencing supervised-release |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7022 |
Patrick Nilo Gil v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2022-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction public-defender sentencing suppression-hearing video-evidence |
Vehicle seized EASTERN Shore of VA comack CouNty Sheriff's chris Hargis offic IN the couNty of NOrthamPtON VA EASTERN Store him authority in having NO… |
| 21-7023 |
Toni Marie Rambo v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-02-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment sentencing |
DOES THE SENTENCE IMPOSED ON MRS. RAMBO CONSTITUTE CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT IN VIOLATION OF HIS EIGHTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS? |
| 21-7031 |
Joseph D. Davis v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2022-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compassionate-release court-of-appeals criminal-sentencing district-of-columbia-court-of-appeals federal-procedure guidelines inconsistent-opinions judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-commission |
I. Whether the opinion of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals concerning the Petitioner's motion for Compassionate Release is inconsistent with … |
| 21-7034 |
Jeriton Lavar Curry, aka Cheese v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender crime-of-violence criminal-procedure district-court-error due-process hobbs-act legal-analysis sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether a conviction for Hobbos Act Robbery qualifies as a "crime of violence" under the Sentencing Guidelines, U.S.S.G.3 4BI.2(a).?
2) Whether the D… |
| 21-6989 |
Jason Wayne Oien v. Chad Pringle, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-01-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
certiorari civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review lower-court-decision post-conviction-relief procedural-error prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing supreme-court-review |
Testinny y Exprt winses My lawer ad
1. Rule 702.
Police OFFicer. (14thAmendment)
2. Luminol testing.
DNA was never found on me or victim.
3. Rule 1… |
| 21-7000 |
Dominic Dean Adams v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review conviction conviction-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure legal-error sentencing standard-of-review |
Did the court of appeals err in affirming Mr. Adams' conviction? |
| 21-7006 |
Juan Jaime-Guzman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-rights criminal-procedure indictment prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
I. Can a court, consistent with the Sixth Amendment, impose a statutorily enhanced sentence based on the fact of a prior conviction never alleged in t… |
| 21-6974 |
Alfredo Gonzalez v. Angel Quiros, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction |
Connecticut |
2022-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accessory-liability burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process firearm-enhancement firearms jury-determination manslaughter sentencing |
Does Connecticut's statutory scheme of accessory to manslaughter in the first degree with a firearm violate Due Process, in that it allows for an incr… |
| 21-6987 |
Marcus Antonio Grubbs v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver contract-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process miscarriage-of-justice procedural-waiver sentencing |
Whether a defendant can "knowingly," "voluntarily," and/or "intelligently," execute an appeal waiver of conduct yet to occur in the proceedings, visa-… |
| 21-6992 |
Michael Rocky Lane v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing ninth-circuit sentencing summary-affirmance |
I. Whether The Denial Of Michael Lane's Motion For Compassionate Release Was An Abuse Of Discretion?
II. Whether the Ninth Circuit's Summary Affirman… |
| 21-6966 |
Juan Sampel v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review drug-quantity due-process evidence evidence-withholding government-misconduct judicial-discretion sentencing |
Does an appellate court violate principles of Due Process when it disregards substantial evidence, which questions a district court's drug quantity fi… |
| 21-6968 |
Jay Anthony Jones v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2022-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-protection criminal-procedure criminal-remand double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion north-carolina-v-pearce sentencing sentencing-enhancement twigg-v-state |
1. Is the State of Maryland's case Twigg v. State, 447 Md. 1 (2016), afoul of the long standing principal set forth in North Carolina v. Pearce, 395 U… |
| 21-1042 |
David Minnick v. Dan Winkleski, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-01-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure defense-counsel direct-appeal guilty-plea hill-v-lockhart ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonableness-inquiry sentencing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
1. Whether the "reasonableness" standard for assessing deficient performance of defense counsel under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), a… |
| 21-6948 |
Robert Earl Ramseur v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process grand-jury indictment prosecutorial-vindictiveness self-surrender sentencing superseding-indictment |
1. Is it prosecutorial vindictiveness to have a superseding indictment after completion of the trial proceedings and sentencing without resubmission t… |
| 21-6949 |
Reno Fuentes Rios v. Ken Clark, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus parole sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 21-6950 |
Stephen Rosa v. New York |
New York |
2022-01-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-law civil-rights constitutional-violation court-procedure criminal-procedure district-attorney due-process sentencing standing statutory-rights |
WAS THE COURTS IN VIOLATIONS FOR NOT FOLLOWING ITS OWN CASE LAWS ?
WAS PETITIONERS DUE PROCESS RIGHTS VIOLATED AND HIS RIGHTS UNDER D.L. § § 720.10 &… |
| 21-6946 |
Gregory Lozado v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
borden-decision circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law felony-menacing force-clause general-intent guidelines guidelines-interpretation sentencing |
Colorado felony menacing is a general intent crime that does not require proof that the defendant intended to harm a specific person. To qualify as a … |
| 21-6937 |
Colin Michael v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-01-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review district-court district-court-discretion judicial-presumption rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness united-states-sentencing-commission |
Should an appellate court automatically presume that a within - or below guideline sentence is substantively reasonable when the underlying rationale … |
| 21-6940 |
Ferney Salas Torres v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-01-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-appeal criminal-procedure district-court-discretion minor-role-adjustment pilot-enhancement plea-agreement procedural-reasonableness second-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
1. A writ of certiorari is requested to determine whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming Ferney Salas Torres' judgment of conv… |
| 21-6944 |
Juan Coreno-Garay v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 21-6915 |
Maxwell Gaffney v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof causation criminal-law criminal-statute drug-distribution drug-trafficking federal-law foreseeability judicial-review jury-instructions proximate-cause sentencing |
Kyle Rodriguez died after voluntarily using heroin. The government proved to a
jury he bought it from Petitioner Maxwell Gaffney. The Government also … |
| 21-6920 |
Perry Cousins, aka Pzo v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-01-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights due-process jury-trial sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 21-6930 |
Juan Rivera-George, aka Tio v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-01-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation cross-examination-limitation fair-trial hearsay-admission impartial-jury impeachment-evidence jury-bias jury-impartiality sentencing sentencing-disparity sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right |
1. Whether Juan Rivera-George ("Juan") was deprived of his Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial by an impartial jury when the District Court failed t… |
| 21-6905 |
Ramon Diaz-Quintana v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-6882 |
Alexi Lenin Argueta-Urbina v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-6884 |
Hermin Rodriguez-Monserrate, aka Cano, aka Canito v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
coronavirus-act coronavirus-aid-relief-and-economic-security-act criminal-procedure defendant-absence due-process educational-condition learning-disability sentencing sentencing-procedure supervised-release |
1. Should certiorari be granted because the district court
conducted Petitioner's sentence and revocation hearing in his physical
absence, even though… |
| 21-6887 |
Sergio Rodriguez-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-6901 |
Wilbert Mathes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-counsel certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure drug-quantity drug-quantity-enhancement evidentiary-hearing fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel leadership-enhancement sentencing sentencing-errors |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability, where the district court erred or alternatively abused its discretion by conclud… |
| 21-6858 |
Dalton Laquane Smith v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
851 922(g) 922(g)-conviction acca armed-career-criminal-act career-offender first-step-act government-concession rehaif sentencing-enhancement supreme-court-precedent |
1. In light of the Court& Government concessions(twice ) that
the petitioner never servedover a year,should the ACCA,851
removed in wake of theand Ca… |
| 21-6875 |
Dontaie Anderson v. Kyle Russell, Warden, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection evidence judicial-procedure sentencing supreme-court |
SECURIYOF PERSON, FROM, SEVER IINESS, MENTANY. PHYSICAHY, DEATH. DUE
PROCESS.AND.PUNISHMENT.
PERTICIPATING IN MIS OWN DEFFENCSE, DID VIOIATE THE SIXTH… |
| 21-6838 |
Bernard Steven Boyd v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment guideline-sentence guideline-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-variance upward-variance |
Did the Trial Court provide insufficient information or explanation to an upward variance in the Petitioner's Guideline Sentence, from a range of 51 t… |
| 21-6844 |
Pedro Rafael Caraballo-Martinez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instruction multiple-theory-error predicate-offense statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-vagueness united-states-v-davis vagueness |
Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A) may be sustained based on the reviewing court's finding that the jury relied equally on a valid pr… |
| 21-6825 |
Diana Bustamante v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-01-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law modified-categorical-approach predicate-offenses sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Do statutes criminalizing simulated controlled substances count as predicate "controlled substance offenses" for applicability of the career offender … |
| 21-6790 |
Timothy Ryan v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction child-pornography civil-rights constitutional-violations discretionary-review due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing |
1. DID THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT AND/OR DISTRICT OF INDIANA—SOUTH BEND DIVISION OF THE DISTRICT COURT ERR IN DENYING RYAN'S § 2255 HABEAS CORPUS PETITION WI… |
| 21-6803 |
Javier Rosales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion amendment-782 discretion drug-conspiracy due-process fifth-amendment opportunity-to-be-heard retroactive-amendment sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
1. Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in deciding that the District Court's order denying relief under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) did not comprise an abuse o… |
| 21-6807 |
Davis Salary v. California |
California |
2022-01-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief sentencing |
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| 21-6753 |
Trevin Nunnally, aka Rick v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-01-04 |
GVR |
Relisted (3)IFP |
apprendi cocaine-distribution constitutional-law constitutional-precedent criminal-justice-reform criminal-statute first-step-act intervening-developments 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 . . . a district … |
| 21-6758 |
Cameron Taevon Jones v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-law federal-law guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-law |
does the term "controlled substance offense" as defined in the Guidelines include offenses under state law that are not categorical matches under fede… |
| 21-6760 |
Deandre Spencer Cotton v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law divisibility-inquiry due-process federal-court-certification federalism sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines state-court-certification state-criminal-statute statutory-interpretation |
I. If a state criminal statute's divisibility is ambiguous when the defendant is convicted in state court, may a federal court later certify its divis… |
| 21-6739 |
Anthony Harris v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-12-29 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
covered-offense criminal-justice-reform district-court-discretion factual-developments first-step-act intervening-developments legal-developments retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court must or may consider intervening legal and factual developments before imposing a reduced sentence on an individual found eli… |
| 21-6746 |
Adan Ramirez-Rubio v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 21-6718 |
Gregory Chester and William Ford v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi apprendi-doctrine conspiracy-sentencing criminal-procedure grand-jury indictment presentment-clause sentencing statutory-sentencing superseding-indictment |
Whether, where Apprendi and its progeny requires the petit jury to return special findings as to individual conspiracy defendants to justify an increa… |
| 21-6730 |
Mehmet Fatih Biyikoglu v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-waiver breach-of-contract criminal-procedure district-court due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing |
Was petitioner's appellate waiver enforceable after the district court found him in breach of his plea? |
| 21-6706 |
Billy Dean Smith v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof due-process fifth-amendment hearsay judicial-discretion sentencing uncharged-felony |
Did the district court violate Mr. Smith's Fifth Amendment Due Process rights by relying on unreliable, unsupported hearsay to, first, find that Mr. S… |
| 21-6710 |
Prince Charles Nana Yaw Owusu Boateng v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy count-of-conviction court-of-appeals criminal-restitution loss-calculation mandatory-victims-restitution-act pattern-of-criminal-activity restitution scheme sentencing |
Under the Mandatory Victim s Restitution Act, when an offense does
not involve as an element a scheme, conspiracy, or pattern of criminal
activity, … |
| 21-920 |
Kalab D. Willman v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2021-12-22 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-procedure article-66-ucmj courts-martial due-process judicial-interpretation military-justice sentence-review sentencing statutory-interpretation uniform-code-military-justice |
Does the CAAF's decision prevent the CCAs from fulfilling their Congressionally imposed mandate pursuant to Article 66, UCMJ, 10 U.S.C. § 866, to dete… |
| 21-917 |
Abel Diaz v. Warden, Federal Correctional Institution, Bennettsville |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-12-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
drug-offense drug-offenses habeas-corpus jurisdiction jury-trial savings-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum |
WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT HAD JURISDICTION UNDER THE SAVINGS CLAUSE OF 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e) TO ADJUDICATE THE MERITS OF PETITIONER DIAZ'S § 2241 PETIT… |
| 21-6685 |
Christopher Dominguez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-12-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel informed-consent mandatory-minimum plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-trial sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
The prosecutor, defense counsel, and the district court all informed Mr. Dominguez that if he went to trial he would face a mandatory minimum sentence… |
| 21-6687 |
Rory Lee Zirkelbach v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 career-offender district-court-discretion extraordinary-and-compelling extraordinary-reasons sentence-reduction sentencing-disparity sentencing-error sentencing-guideline statutory-interpretation |
Did the district court err when it imposed an extratextual limitation on its statutory authority to determine what amounts to an "extraordinary and co… |
| 21-6693 |
Joey Rogers v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2021-12-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8)IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-capacity mental-competence plea-bargaining plea-coercion sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Were the Due Process rights of Joey Rogers ignored by the Louisiana Courts when they maintained a plea made by the vulnerable, illiterate, hearing … |
| 21-6679 |
Juan Jarmon v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-conflict conspiracy conspiracy-law crack-cocaine criminal-law evidence evidentiary-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review united-states-v-pressler |
Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals entered a decision in conflict with the decision of United States v. Pressler where the evidence presented … |
| 21-6657 |
Joshua Reshi Dudley v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure occasions-different occasions-test prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement shepard-v-united-states sixth-amendment |
I. Whether the Sixth Amendment limits a sentencing court, when determining whether a defendant's prior offenses were "committed on occasions different… |
| 21-6663 |
Asher Abid Khan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-deference remand sentencing |
Did the Court of Appeals fail to accord due deference to the district court's reasons for reimposing the same sentence after remand? |
| 21-6629 |
Jimmy Steele v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act judicial-interpretation retroactivity sentencing state-court statutory-interpretation |
The question for review is whether, under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) and the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984, Congress intended that reasons in the first insta… |
| 21-6640 |
Kennedy Terrell Walker v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
borden-standard carjacking criminal-procedure elements-clause first-time-motion florida-robbery habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states recidivism section-2255 sentencing violent-felony |
1. Whether a criminal defendant moving for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 for the first time should be subject to the statutory hurdles applicable to m… |
| 21-6644 |
Ashot Minasyan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing voluntary-plea |
Whether Minasyan's waiver of appeal is unenforceable for the following reasons: because it was not knowing, intelligent and voluntary, and because Min… |
| 21-6594 |
James A. Hald, et al. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-12-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
compassionate-release criminal-justice-system criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process extraordinary-reasons federal-prisoner-rights federal-prisons sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether, under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i), a district court must first determine whether "extraordinary and compelling reasons warrant such a reduct… |
| 21-6614 |
Mario Martell Spencer v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause criminal-law fifth-amendment hobbs-act interstate-commerce sentencing sentencing-enhancement witness-tampering |
1. For intrastate robberies that do not otherwise affect "commerce over which the United States has jurisdiction," 18 U.S.C. §1951(b)(3), does the Hob… |
| 21-6625 |
Derrick Harrell v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-procedure hobbs-act physical-force sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951(b) is a crime of violence for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), i.e., one that "has as an elem… |
| 21-6631 |
Jorge Ivan Vazquez-Medrano v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 21-6634 |
Roy Cornell Johnson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
assistance-of-counsel constitutional-right constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-standard ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-stage |
1. Was the Petitioner afforded his Constitutional Right to accurate assistance of Counsel in his sentencing stage.
2. Did Petitioner fail to prosecut… |
| 21-884 |
Blake Fields v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-12-15 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
criminal-procedure district-court factual-developments first-step-act intervening-factual-developments intervening-legal-developments legal-developments reduced-sentence 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… |
| 21-6579 |
Cesar Hidrogo-Marin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-rule almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi-rule constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998) , in light of the reasoning of … |
| 21-6602 |
Brandon Christian v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-12-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process factual-basis habeas-corpus plea-bargaining plea-validity sentencing statutory-interpretation |
In petitioner §2254 petition, Petitioner raises this question of error?
The plea was not entered knowingly and voluntarily because the trial court fa… |
| 21-6609 |
Christopher Coffer v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing defendant-health due-process health-issues judicial-discretion medical-disadvantage mitigation-factors sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance variance |
What is the extent of medical disadvantage that a
defendant must present in order to secure a variance
based on ill health? |
| 21-6570 |
Bo Jack Kelley v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-fact-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing |
Whether facts that affect the minimum or maximum reasonable federal sentence must be proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt? |
| 21-6572 |
Jose Luis Ramos-Ramos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-6573 |
Michael Roy Sharpe v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-guarantees criminal-law due-process judicial-factfinding jury-trial maximum-sentence sentencing sentencing-procedure supervised-release trial-by-jury |
When Congress created the novel system of supervised release for federal criminal defendants, it authorized district judges to act as factfinders and … |
| 21-6582 |
Genaro Alberto Nunez-Ugarte v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-precedent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-6583 |
Roger Edward Picard v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge mental-health-assessment rule-35 rule-35-motion sentencing sentencing-procedure |
i. Did the First Circuit err in denying a jurisdictionally sound motion filed pursuant to Fed.R.Crim.P. 35(a), where the district court simply ignored… |
| 21-6584 |
Gregory Donell Eatmon v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-13 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-u.s.c.-3553(a) criminal-procedure district-court-discretion first-step-act section-404(b) sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.-sentencing-guidelines |
This Court recently granted certiorari in Concepcion v. United States, No. 201650, on the question of whether, when deciding if it should "impose a re… |
| 21-872 |
Amoneo Lee v. Shannon Meyer, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-12-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
aedpa-tolling alleyne-rule collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus innocence retroactivity sentencing statute-of-limitations substantive-law |
1. Whether AEDPA's one-year statute of limitations should be equitably tolled because the Petitioner is innocent of the non-capital Hard 40 sentence?
… |
| 21-6575 |
Nathaniel Fields v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-10 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-resentencing district-court-discretion first-step-act intervening-legal-developments legal-developments reduced-sentence 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, a district court … |
| 21-6566 |
Steven Craig Bethea v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion constitutional-review criminal-sentencing discretion eighth-amendment judicial-abuse sentencing sentencing-discretion substantive-reasonableness upward-variance |
WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN SENTENCING THE APPELLANT STEVEN BETHEA TO A GREATER SENTENCE THAN NECESSARY AS THE COURT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION BY … |
| 21-6568 |
Manuel Nunez-Gonzalez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —
that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be
pleaded in the indictment and … |
| 21-6569 |
Jonathan Hilliam McDougal v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alcohol-treatment criminal-sentencing delegation-of-authority drug-treatment due-process judicial-discretion probation-terms sentencing sentencing-conditions supervised-release |
Whether the district court erred by ordering Mr. McDougal to undergo alcohol and drug treatment as a special condition of supervised release. |
| 21-6560 |
Carlo Donato v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c) covered-offense criminal-sentencing deportation first-step-act retroactive-penalty retroactivity section-924(c) sentencing stacking statutory-interpretation |
Whether, under the First Step Act, Act 403(a) Title 18 U.S.C. Section 924(c) modify penalty the covered offense Act, due to the fact that the statutor… |
| 21-6541 |
Jesus Corona v. James Hill, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure habeas-corpus preliminary-hearing presumption-of-vindictiveness prima-facie-case procedural-default prosecutorial-discretion sentencing vindictive-prosecution |
1. Does a criminal defendant state a prima facie case of vindictive
prosecution, trigging a presumption of vindictiveness, when the day after he
succe… |
| 21-6542 |
Juan Trujillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review clear-error criminal-procedure judicial-discretion limited-remand plain-error remand-standard sentencing sentencing-error statutory-maximum substantial-rights |
This Court in Molina-Martinez v. United States advised that courts of appeals may order a limited remand to assess the impact of clear error on the de… |
| 21-6514 |
Jorge Hernandez Rivera v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure elements-of-crime felon-in-possession firearm-offense information-defect second-amendment sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
WHETHER AN INFORMATION IS DEFECTIVE FOR FAILING TO STATE THE PROPER ELEMENTS FOR THE CRIME OF FELON IN POSSESSION OF A FIREARM
WHETHER THE ACCA BAN B… |
| 21-6518 |
Kassie Bond Carpenter v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional criminal-procedure federal-courts guideline sentencing statutory |
Whether application of 18 U.S.C. §3147 increases the total range of imprisonment to which the defendant may be subject? |
| 21-6524 |
Joshua James Mjoness v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
charging-language crime-of-violence criminal-law mathis-precedent modified-categorical-approach predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whet her, when applying the modified categorical approach under Mathis v. United States , 136 S. Ct. 2243 (2016) , a court may place determinative wei… |
| 21-6525 |
George Patrick v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
class-of-felony criminal-procedure error-correction felony-classification judicial-authority revocation-hearing sentencing sentencing-correction statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
A sentence imposed upon revocation of supervised release is governed by the class of felony determined at the time of the original sentence. 18 U.S.C.… |
| 21-6527 |
Ronald Johnson v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2021-12-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process jurisdiction mandatory-minimums sentencing statutory-interpretation |
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| 21-6530 |
Tyreese Thompson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process jury-determination jury-trial precedent-review reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-maximum |
Do any facts that increases the penalty for a crime beyond the prescribed statutory maximum need to be submitted to a jury, and proved beyond a reason… |
| 21-6489 |
Edward F. Swanson v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-12-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process indictment judicial-discretion jury-trial preponderance-standard sentencing statutory-scheme |
Question not identified. |
| 21-6491 |
Lucas Montagne v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-12-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure exception illegal-sentence invited-error judicial-procedure legal-error sentencing |
1. Should an exception to the doctrine of invited error be recognized in a case in which an illegal sentence is imposed?
2. Should an exception to th… |
| 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… |
| 21-6438 |
David Lee Smith v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2021-11-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process emergency-powers executive-order habitual-offenders incarceration pandemic-response public-health sentencing |
IS A CLASS OF CONVICTED HABITUAL FELONS, THAT HAVE COMPLETED THEIR LAWFUL MAXIMUM SENTENCES, ENTITLED TO IMMEDIATE UNCONDITIONAL RELEASES IN ORDER TO … |
| 21-6448 |
Joseph D. Brown v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-11-30 |
GVR |
Relisted (4)IFP |
acca career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-procedure occasions-different occasions-test sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation temporal-analysis |
1. Should the courts employ a purely temporal approach or a "totality of the circumstances" test when interpreting the Career Criminal Act's phrase, "… |
| 21-6450 |
Steven Zinnel v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure gall-v-united-states jury-determination sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment substantive-reasonableness substantive-unreasonableness |
Any fact that increases the penalty to which a defendant is exposed constitutes an element of a crime under and must be found by a jury, not a judge. … |
| 21-6457 |
Ervin Anibar Lopez-Ordonez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 21-6431 |
Vegas D. Smith v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appeals appellate-review career-offender criminal-procedure explanation judicial-discretion procedural-error record sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation |
Did the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit commit error when it affirmed the District Court's decision to deny petitioner's motion filed under 18… |
| 21-6402 |
Nyambui Joe Gipson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreements sentencing waivers-of-appeal |
Whether this Court should recognize a "miscarriage of justice" exception to waivers of appeal in plea agreements? |
| 21-6404 |
Ngoc Hong Nguyen v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment parole sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 21-6419 |
Roberto Aguilar-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 21-6426 |
Lee Dale White v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-justice-reform first-step-act section-404 sentencing substantive-reasonableness |
Whether a district court's denial of a motion for relief from under Section 404 of the First Step Act is subject to substantive reasonableness review? |
| 21-6378 |
Severo Garcia-Meza v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law board-of-immigration-appeals civil-rights compassionate-release cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process immigration-law incarceration ineffective-assistance judicial-review sentencing |
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| 21-6379 |
Keith R. Gomez v. Ron Haynes, Superintendent, Stafford Creek Corrections Center |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-remedy sentencing state-court substantive-rights |
Question not identified. |
| 21-6384 |
Kimani I. Sterling v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-review criminal-appeal eighth-circuit judicial-procedure preservation-of-error procedural-due-process sentencing sentencing-objections standard-of-review waiver waiver-doctrine |
Has the Eighth Circuit imposed upon Mr. Sterling an unlawful burden by finding Sterling waived his argument that the District Court violated procedura… |
| 21-763 |
John Forrest Ham, Jr. v. M. Breckon, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-23 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (4) |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent federal-prisoner habeas-corpus retroactivity section-2241 section-2255 sentence-review sentencing |
Whether a district court has jurisdiction under section 2241 to review a claim that a federal prisoner's sentence is invalid in light of an intervenin… |
| 21-6357 |
Kenneth Roshaun Reid v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fair-sentencing-act federal-sentencing habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel jurisdiction procedural-default retroactivity sentencing |
When the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals Vacated and Remanded case #19-7803 back to the District Court shouldn't the district Court have given Mr. Reid a… |
| 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… |
| 21-6366 |
Juan Alberto Ceron-Ortiz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial recidivism sentencing |
The Court Should Grant Certiorari to Consider Whether to Overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998). |
| 21-6350 |
Michael J. Greene v. Shelby Searls, Superintendent, Huttonsville Correctional Center |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure custody due-process plea-agreement sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 21-6361 |
Marcus Crawley, aka Holyfield v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure davis-v-united-states due-process judicial-review plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
If a defendant pleaded guilty to a § 924(c) charge and a predicate crime of violence that is no longer valid after Davis, may a reviewing court search… |
| 21-750 |
Jasper Knabb v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Where 28 U.S.C. § 2255 requires a prompt hearing unless the motion and the files and records of the case conclusively show that the prisoner is entitl… |
| 21-6321 |
Fernando Rodriguez-Macedo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 21-6328 |
Scottie D. Allen v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-11-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-sentencing criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing standard-of-proof |
I. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's rejection of Petitioner's claim of error based on the jury being affirmatively misinformed about its role in th… |
| 21-6335 |
Chi Mak v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 abuse-of-discretion compassionate-release criminal-procedure judicial-review sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors statutory-factors statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court abused its direction and acted unreasonably in denying Mak's motion for compassionate release under 18 U.S.C. §3582(c), by … |
| 21-6286 |
Patrick Lawrence Henderson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-rule criminal-procedure due-process jury-determination jury-trial reasonable-doubt revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum |
Whether Henderson's revocation sentence violates Apprendi and its progeny because he has been forced to serve a sentence beyond the statutory maximum … |
| 21-6319 |
Eric Martinez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-11-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
conviction crime federal-law probation sentencing state-law |
When federal law compels the use of state law to define and punish crime, and the state allows probation in lieu of a conviction, does federal law als… |
| 21-6322 |
Gustavo Trejo-Ramos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 21-6323 |
D'Arde Lee Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure escape halfway-house plain-error sentencing u.s.s.g.-2p1.1 |
Whether the court of appeals failed to properly apply the plain error analysis to the question of whether the sentencing court erred by failing to gra… |
| 21-6289 |
Norris Deshon Andrews v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-11-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act judicial-fact-finding jury-trial jury-trial-rights predicate-crimes predicate-crimes-of-violence sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the sentencing court violated Petitioner's Sixth Amendment jury trial rights by engaging in judicial fact-finding that two alleged assault con… |
| 21-6294 |
Robert Michael Junkins v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure drug-evidence drug-sentencing illegal-search motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure sentencing sentencing-guidelines vehicle-search |
1. Whether the district court erred in denying Junkins' Defendant's Motion to Suppress Evidence for the evidence discovered in Mr. Junkins' vehicle af… |
| 21-6297 |
Henry Cervantes and Jaime Cervantes v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-statute jury-trial obstruction-of-justice official-proceeding sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
As to both petitioners,
1. Whether the federal obstruction of justice statute, 18 U.S.C. §1512(c)(2) (obstruction of an official proceeding), can be … |
| 21-6298 |
Ronald David McCalister, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreements sentencing waivers-of-appeal |
I. Whether this Court should recognize a "miscarriage of justice" exception to waivers of appeal in plea agreements? |
| 21-6300 |
Ricky Cardenas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-procedure objection-standard presentence-report sentencing unjust-incarceration |
Whether the defendant bears a burden to disprove adverse conclusions of a Presentence Report? |
| 21-6279 |
Jquan Leearthur McInnis v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
2021-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama roper-v-simmons sentencing sentencing-discretion |
Whether sentencing a juvenile to two consecutive homicide sentences of life-with-the possibility-of-release after thirty years, the functional equival… |
| 21-6232 |
Jason Stallcup v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Does completed Hobbs Act robbery qualify as a "crime of violence" under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)? |
| 21-6234 |
Edward Stain v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting conviction crimes-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act-robbery modified-categorical-approach predicate-offense section-924c shepard-documents statutory-interpretation |
1. Petitioner Stain asks this Court to address whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) is unconstitutional when the Shepard documents do not cle… |
| 21-6253 |
Baltazar Aguirre-Rivera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial mandatory-minimum sentencing sixth-amendment special-interrogatory |
When a jury's answer to a special interrogatory negates an element of the charged offense, must a district court enter a judgment of acquittal when th… |
| 21-6255 |
Ofelio Arvizu-Loredo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 21-6256 |
Macario Andrew Gomez, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing jury-determination jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether facts that affect the minimum or maximum reasonable federal sentence must be proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt? |
| 21-6224 |
Tony Ford v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-10 |
GVR |
Relisted (3)IFP |
criminal-justice-reform criminal-resentencing district-court-discretion first-step-act intervening-legal-developments legal-developments retroactivity 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, a district court … |
| 21-6235 |
Brandon Marquis Jennings v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process eighth-amendment life-sentence miller-v-alabama presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
WHETHER THE APPELLATE REVIEW FOR REASONABLENESS OF A LIFE SENTENCE LACKS SUFFICIENT SCRUTINY. THE CIRCUIT COURT'S APPLICATION OF PRESUMED REASONABLENE… |
| 21-6200 |
Jesus Ruiz v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-11-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
collateral-review concurrent-sentence-doctrine criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-conviction harmless-error non-concurrent-sentence sentencing |
1. Whether a conviction carrying a non-concurrent prison sentence for an act the law does not make criminal can ever be considered harmless.
2. Wheth… |
| 21-6201 |
Reginald Kindle v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-11-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure jury-trial preponderance-of-evidence recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-maximum |
Whether a sentencing court violates a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial when it finds by a preponderance of the evidence that he commi… |
| 21-6215 |
Lawrence Oakie, aka LBJ v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-11-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the use of acquitted conduct to determine a defendant's sentence violates the Fifth and Sixth Amendments. |
| 21-690 |
Rodney Earl Cannady, aka Camp Earl v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-09 |
Denied |
|
career-offender cocaine-base-offense criminal-sentencing fair-sentencing-act first-step-act plain-error retroactive-amendment retroactivity sentencing-reduction |
Did the district court error by denying defendant Cannady relief pursuant to the "First Step Act of 2018" retroactive, which made the "Fair Sentencing… |
| 21-6178 |
Henry Baird v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-defense criminal-law drug-cases entrapment federal-drug-cases federal-sentencing judicial-doctrine manipulation sentencing sentencing-entrapment |
WHETHER THE COURT SHOULD RESOLVE THE CIRCUIT SPLIT ON RECOGNIZING SENTENCING ENTRAPMENT AND SENTENCING MANIPULATION DOCTRINES AS VIABLE DEFENSES AT SE… |
| 21-6210 |
Tony Bowen v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver armed-career-criminal-act conviction-counting felon-in-possession sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-maximum |
1. If a defendant convicted of felon-in-possession charges has
three qualifying convictions, the Armed Career Criminal Act
("ACCA") enhances the maxim… |
| 21-6217 |
Alberto Grajales v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process general-verdict harmless-error judicial-review residual-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a general verdict that was obtained in reliance on the
unconstitutionally vague residual clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(B)
may be sustained b… |
| 21-6179 |
Leoncio Perez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-04 |
GVR |
Relisted (3)IFP |
civil-rights criminal-justice due-process first-step-act sentencing statutory-interpretation |
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| 21-6182 |
Erick Argueta Larios v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-11-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
clear-and-convincing-evidence criminal-procedure due-process federal-district-court relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether a federal district court may use relevant conduct not proven by clear and convincing evidence to disproportionately raise a defendant's senten… |
| 21-6190 |
Joe Lewis Finley v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-justice-reform first-step-act section-404 sentencing substantive-reasonableness |
Whether a district court's denial of a motion for relief from under Section 404 of the First Step Act is subject to substantive reasonableness review? |
| 21-6192 |
Benjamin Joseph Langford v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-11-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process habeas-relief iowa-robbery-statute johnson-ruling predicate-conviction residual-clause sentencing serious-violent-felony statutory-interpretation three-strikes united-states-v-johnson |
Whether Mr. Langford was improperly denied 28 U.S.C. § 2255 relief from his "three strikes" mandatory life sentence, pursuant to United States v. John… |
| 21-6160 |
Dennis Dean Smith v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights criminal-justice-reform cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection first-step-act prior-convictions retroactive-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-changes |
1) Has the Eleventh Amendment barred the federal courts from exercising jurisdiction over this case where the state has been sued in federal court to … |
| 21-6166 |
Ángel De la Cruz v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law drug-offense due-process first-step-act maritime-drug-law safety-valve sentencing statutory-interpretation terry-v-united-states |
The Pre-First Step Act Safety Valve was widely applied to the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act (MDLEA), a statute whose punishment criteria and eleme… |
| 21-6168 |
Vance L. White v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review blakely-v-washington constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion self-incrimination sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Question not identified. |
| 21-6135 |
Jesus Ramirez-Barrera v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bail community-danger criminal-procedure detention district-court-review due-process extraordinary-reasons judicial-discretion public-safety relief-standard sentencing sentencing-review |
I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN DECIDING THAT PETITIONER HAS NOT SHOWN EXTRAORDINARY AND COMPELLING REASONS; AND THAT HE WAS A DANGER TO THE CO… |
| 21-6145 |
Omar Sanchez-Barrera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review certiorari constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent sentencing supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-6146 |
Keenan Rollerson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether a sentencing judge increasing a criminal defendant's punishment for acts charged but acquitted by the jury violates the jury trial guarantee o… |
| 21-6155 |
Jose Burciaga-Alcantar v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-6123 |
Antonio Rene Martinez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure harmless-error presentence-report rule-32 sentencing structural-error |
Did the Ninth Circuit's disposition of Petitioner's claim under Rule 32(i)(1)(A) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure conflict with the Sixth Ci… |
| 21-6137 |
Vassily Anthony Thompson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury indictment sentencing |
1. Does it offend the Fifth Amendment right to a grand jury for a court to ignore legally relevant elements of an offense charged by a grand jury in a… |
| 21-6124 |
Saul Contreras-Roman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-6130 |
Brett Allan Corrigan, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review clear-error criminal-procedure drug-offense firearm sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review weapon-enhancement |
WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT'S FINDING THAT A WEAPON WAS CONNECTED TO THE DRUG OFFENSE UNDER §2D1.1(b)(1) WAS CLEAR ERROR. |
| 21-6131 |
Jose Alfredo Gonzalez-Mares v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-633 |
Gustavo Placancia-Rosendo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
acceptance-of-responsibility burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement relevant-conduct sentencing standard-of-proof |
A defendant who pleads guilty will face a presentence investigation report, the results of which will guide the District Court in affixing sentence. A… |
| 21-6122 |
Malek Lassiter v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-of-appeals criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution motion-for-judgment-of-acquittal rico rico-conspiracy sentencing standard-of-review |
WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S DENIAL OF LASSITER'S MOTION FOR JUDGMENT OF ACQUITTAL ON THE RICO CONSPIRACY CHAR… |
| 21-6076 |
Lukeen Gerald v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-10-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) crime-of-violence elements-clause hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis |
Whether Hobbs Act Robbery, 18 U.S.C § 1951 (a) remains a predicate crime of violence for purposes of 18 U.S.C § 924(c) under the elements clause after… |
| 21-6099 |
Sandchase Cody v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-27 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability circuit-split collateral-review due-process federal-appellate-courts habeas-corpus remedy-selection section-2255 sentencing |
Whether an individual must obtain a certificate of appealability to appeal the district court's choice of remedy following the grant of relief under 2… |
| 21-6102 |
Anthony B. Williams v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-10-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment district-court double-jeopardy due-process grand-jury-indictment jury-instructions sentencing |
Does the absence of a specific unanimity instruction at trial require both distribution of Pcp and accompanying 924.lis count be vacated
Does a convi… |
| 21-6107 |
Thomas Johnson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-resentencing district-court-discretion factual-developments fair-sentencing-act first-step-act legal-developments presidential-commutation sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether, when deciding if it should "impose a reduced sentence" on an eligible defendant under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, a distric… |
| 21-6064 |
Robert William Knopping v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion downward-departure government-motion sentencing sentencing-guidelines third-level-reduction u.s.s.g. |
Under what circumstances can the district court at sentencing deny the government's motion for a third-level reduction for acceptance of responsibilit… |
| 21-6071 |
Aldridge Robinson, et al. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute federal-criminal-procedure hobbs-act section-1951 section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether Hobbs Act Robbery in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1951 is a "crime of violence" as defined by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3). |
| 21-6077 |
Torri McCray v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-10-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split due-process fact-finding fentanyl-analogue fifth-amendment sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum uncharged-conduct |
1. As every Federal Court of Appeals has now taken a position, should this Court resolve the Circuit split as to the proper fact-finding standard for … |
| 21-6087 |
Maria Vargas-Luna v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy fact-finding judicial-fact-finding jury-trial-right reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Petitioner pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance. She admitted to the district court that approxima… |
| 21-6067 |
Johnnie Franklin Wills v. Karen Pszczolkowski, Superintendent, Northern Correctional Facility |
West Virginia |
2021-10-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing due-process johnson-v-united-states recidivism recidivist-statute residual-clause sentencing sessions-v-dimaya supreme-court-precedent vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Is a judicially crafted residual clause, which allows a life sentence to be imposed via a state recidivist statute only when certain underlying crimes… |
| 21-6068 |
Ronald Tingle v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-10-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-3582 district-court drug-offenses extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-compelling-reasons first-step-act sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district judge is categorically prohibited from considering the First
Step Act's amendment to penalties for drug offenses when determining w… |
| 21-6060 |
Ance Payton v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 compassionate-release covid-19 criminal-procedure district-court federal-criminal-procedure health-conditions motion sentencing |
Whether the district court erred by denying Mr. Payton's Motion for Compassionate Release under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A). |
| 21-6010 |
Robert D. Sutton v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-10-20 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-sentencing judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums retroactivity sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A), a defendant may seek a sentence reduction based, in part, on "extraordinary and compelling reasons." In 2018, Congres… |
| 21-6028 |
Johnny Jasper Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-20 |
GVR |
IFP |
borden-v-united-states crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-sentencing intervening-development sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation texas-robbery ussg-4b1.2 |
Whether the Texas offense of simple robbery by injury, Tex. Penal Code §29.02(a)(1) constitutes a "crime of violence" under USSG §4B1.2? |
| 21-6029 |
Daronnie Thompkins v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery coercion criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency firearm-enhancement interrogation interrogation-tactics involuntary-statements self-incrimination sentencing |
Whether Thompkins' incriminating statements were involuntary and should have been suppressed, where the interrogating officer: suggested that Thompkin… |
| 21-568 |
Jason Jarvis v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-10-19 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
criminal-law criminal-procedure extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-circumstances federal-law federal-law-change judicial-discretion retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether non-retroactive changes in federal law can serve as "extraordinary and compelling reasons" warranting a sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3… |
| 21-5998 |
In Re Anthony Terry |
|
2021-10-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act career-offender circuit-precedent circuit-split criminal-procedure elements-clause mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
In a previous holding (Borden v United States, 141 S.Ct. 1817 (2021)), this Court determined that a mens rea element of "knowing and purposeful" is re… |
| 21-6002 |
Mario Bachiller v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-conviction jury-instructions predicate-offense statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis |
"It has long been settled that when a case is submitted to the jury on alternative theories the unconstitutionality of any of the theories requires th… |
| 21-6014 |
Yina Maria Castaneda Benavidez, aka La Reina, aka Ingeniera v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process evidence evidence-standard knowledge-element sentencing sentencing-disparity |
This petition arises from the affirm ance of a judgment of conviction and sentence to a term of 22 ½ years ' incarceration following a jury trial for … |
| 21-5973 |
Jesus Lopez-Mejia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
I. Whether Petitioner's sentence was substantively unreasonable? |
| 21-5975 |
Modesto Balderas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-14 |
GVR |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act borden-v-united-states criminal-procedure records-of-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement simple-robbery texas-penal-code violent-felony |
Whether the Texas offense of Simple Robbery, Tex. Penal Code §29.02(a) constitutes a "violent felony" under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. §… |
| 21-538 |
Dennis Reagle, Warden v. Roderick V. Lewis |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-10-13 |
Denied |
|
aedpa circuit-court federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel penson-v-ohio sentencing strickland-v-washington supreme-court united-states-v-cronic |
While Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 687 (1984), requires an ineffective-assistance claimant to prove both deficient performance and prejudic… |
| 21-546 |
Michael G. Harper, aka Cuban Mike v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-13 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
criminal-justice-reform criminal-resentencing district-court district-court-discretion first-step-act intervening-legal-developments legal-developments reduced-sentence 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, a district court … |
| 21-5933 |
Kevin Deon Loggins, Sr. v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2021-10-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection sentencing speedy-trial |
WHETHER THE KANSAS STATE COURT FINDING THAT PETITIONER SENT
ENCE IS NOT AN ILLEGAL SENTENCE, A ABUSE OF DISCRETION REPUGNANT TO
THE DUE PROCESS CLAU… |
| 21-5940 |
Jovani Jacobo v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
compassionate-release criminal-justice extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-reasons federal-courts federal-prisoners judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation |
The federal compassionate-release statute, 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A), permits sentencing courts to release federal prisoners for "extraordinary and co… |
| 21-5944 |
Casey Ray Culp v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-justice cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment reform sentencing |
1. Whether a guideline sentence of seventy-five months imprisonment violates the Eighth Amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment in the c… |
| 21-5915 |
Thomas D. Holmes v. Randy Gibbs, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-10-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-statute defendant-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure oral-verdict precedent sentencing |
Whether a Certificate of Appealability should have issued on the question of whether a Defendant can be imprisoned pursuant to an orally pronounced ve… |
| 21-5916 |
Ramiro Medina-Oliden v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 21-5899 |
Joseph Vasquez, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender guidelines individualized-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness substantive-review |
Whether a below guidelines sentence can still result in a
substantively unreasonable sentence? |
| 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… |
| 21-5845 |
Danny Collins v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals certiorari criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing service-of-process solicitor-general supreme-court-rule |
Question not identified. |
| 21-5846 |
Luke W. Cain v. California |
California |
2021-10-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-permissibility criminal-punishment double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion legislative-intent multiple-offenses multiple-punishments penal-code sentencing |
GENERALLY, A FEDERAL COURT MAY NOT REVIEW A STATE COURT SENTENCE THAT IS WITHIN THE STATUTORY LIMITS. IT MAY VACATE A SENTENCE, HOWEVER IF IT WAS IMPO… |
| 21-5849 |
Jason August Eisenach v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-standing plea-bargaining sentencing |
Why did may public defender help the prosecution by delaging the trial so the prosrcution could d
3.why Did my attorney at the last sicond ask me to … |
| 21-482 |
Hassan Sharif Ali, aka Big Hassan v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-09-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process jury-verdict modified-categorical-approach predicate-offense statutory-interpretation united-states-code united-states-v-davis |
Whether a court must apply the modified categorical approach to determine whether a verdict of conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) necessarily rests o… |
| 21-5808 |
In Re Tommy Rutledge |
|
2021-09-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy habeas-corpus judicial-discretion judicial-mandate mandate procedural-review res-judicata sentencing supreme-court-order vacatur |
When a District Court Judge has executed a mandate of the United States Supreme Court by vacating a charge and its sentence, can that same Judge reins… |
| 21-5810 |
Mandell Rhodes, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law constitutional-law criminal-justice double-jeopardy fifth-amendment good-conduct-time legislative-intent parole prisoner-rights sentencing |
1). Was petitioner written a Califia hcale Appralablly
Lo Meni Mthethsr Lhe EE ee don
REFUSED fo Conatrue 02 anabyge Led of une 11, 1185,
Li" Lag, RS,… |
| 21-5812 |
Carlos Velazquez-Fontanez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-09-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c)(1)(A) actual-innocence crime-of-violence davis-precedent davis-v-us first-step-act jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge sentencing sentencing-review |
"WHETHER THE U.S. FIRST CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN FAILING TO FIND THAT APPELLANT CARLOS VELAZQUEZ-FONTANEZ IS "ACTUALLY INNOCENT" OF VIOLATING… |
| 21-5822 |
Tahji Antonio Eley, et al. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-09-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act-robbery section-924(c) sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether Hobbs Act Robbery in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1951 is a "crime of violence" as defined by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3). |
| 21-5792 |
Karl Roye v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment 8th-amendment-violation constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mandatory-life-without-parole miller-v-alabama sentencing |
Whether the Second Circuit erred, in violation of the Eighth Amendment, when it concluded that Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460 (2012) condoned the imp… |
| 21-5797 |
George Verkler v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-misconduct plea-agreement presumption-of-innocence right-to-appeal right-to-counsel sentencing |
Does the presumption of innocence and due process mean that if a judge will not read what a defendant in a criminal case submits to the court, or if t… |
| 21-5775 |
Peter George Noe, aka Ghost v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
1. Did the Ninth Circuit err in failing to vacate the district court's order because the court based its analysis on two clearly erroneous facts—the a… |
| 21-5783 |
Brian D. Smith v. Montana |
Montana |
2021-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure critical-stage due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal post-conviction procedural-default right-to-counsel sentencing |
Is a motion to withdraw guilty plea considered a "critical Stage" requiring the assistance of counsel for a person "too poor" to hire one at the follo… |
| 21-5787 |
In Re Randall Thomas McArty |
|
2021-09-24 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-rights compassionate-release criminal-procedure due-process extraordinary-circumstances federal-procedure federal-sentencing habeas-corpus parole sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
1. Whethe the prima fai requiement in 28uss 2244() wud funtion
enn renen ennt f a sentn ot ld l dee etio
of nelease or paude.
2). Whether 28 usc 246 … |
| 21-5745 |
Juan Francisco Turcios v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-violation due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining right-to-appeal right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-stage trial-counsel |
(1) .Was reversible error, committed pursuant to; STRICKLAND
vs.WASHINGTON; MAPLE vsTHOMAS; UNITED STATE vs.HILLSMAN : ,
when trial counsel abandoned … |
| 21-5755 |
Kevin L. Frost v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2021-09-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment aggravating-factors constitutional-rights due-process mitigating-factors sentencing sentencing-procedure |
Petitioner contends that the sentencing court
did not follow the proper statutory procedure with
the improper weighing of mitigating and aggravating… |
| 21-5715 |
Ronald George Whitehouse v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof co-defendant criminal-procedure drug-offenses drug-quantity due-process fifth-circuit probation-officer reversible-error sentencing |
1.
THE PETITIONER OBJECTED TO THE PROBATION
OFFICER'S CONCLUSION THAT THIS DEFENDANT WAS
RESPONSIBLE TO 10 KILOS OF METHAMPHETAMINE AS
A RESULT OF GIV… |
| 21-5735 |
Juan Manuel Lira-Salinas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-production burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process fifth-circuit sentencing |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's practice of shifting the burden of
production and proof to the defendant at sentencing violates a defendant's
Due Process … |
| 21-5712 |
George Ferrer Sanchez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion right-to-appeal sentencing |
Across all federal circuits, the courts of appeals have held that, as part of a plea agreement with the government, a criminal defendant can waive his… |
| 21-5717 |
Brandon Demon Blackmon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
aggravated-assault criminal-law guidelines sentencing statutory-interpretation ussg-4b1.2 |
Whether the Texas offense of aggravated assault by threat constitutes a "crime of violence" under USSG §4B1.2? |
| 21-5723 |
Juan Manuel Pardo-Oseguera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure plain-error presentence-report safety-valve sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-minimum weapons-enhancement |
A defendant in a federal criminal case, under the appropriate circumstances, is eligible for a reduction of 2 offense levels and to be sentenced witho… |
| 21-5724 |
Devin Lee Rintye v. California |
California |
2021-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-counsel miller-v-alabama mitigating-evidence sentencing youth youth-mitigation |
Does a State Court Violate a defendant's due process rights, in light of U.S. Supreme Court rulings in Appendix: New Jersey and Miller YAUW the Court … |
| 21-5690 |
Pedro Zavala-Armendariz v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(f) appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court judicial-discretion safety-valve sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Did the District Court err by not adequately explaining its ruling in applying or not applying the safety valve in connection with 18 U.S.C. §3553(f)? |
| 21-5710 |
Charles L. Fieldgrove v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services, et al. |
Nebraska |
2021-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-interpretation |
A Criminal Defendant's initial Habeas Corpus action, filed for the purpose determining the validty of the statutes convicted and sentence under, as be… |
| 21-5693 |
Eleno Guillen-Morales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-5694 |
Shawn Travis Paschal v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights elements-of-offense federal-sentencing maximum-sentence minimum-sentence sentencing |
I. Whether facts that affect the minimum or maximum reasonable federal sentence must be treated as elements of the defendant's offense for constitutio… |
| 21-5666 |
William Marcellus Campbell v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-09-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment abuse-of-discretion appellate-review confrontation-clause cooperating-witness criminal-procedure de-novo-review sentencing |
1. There is a split in the federal courts of appeals and several state courts regarding the following question: Whether a Defendant's 6th Amendment Co… |
| 21-5675 |
Jayson Neil Sparks v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-protections criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection indigenous-rights jurisdiction native-american-law sentencing |
WAS PETITIONER NOT OWED THE MIMISTERIOL DUTY BU THE JS. DIBTRICT COURT OF A FOL AND FOIR HEARING OF TUE FIIED S ZZSY LOBEAS CRPUS?
ACCORDING TO US. C… |
| 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… |
| 21-5657 |
Chris Eugene Cosner v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-bank-robbery armed-robbery career-offender categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-criminal-law federal-sentencing statutory-interpretation |
This petition presents a straightforward case for certiorari review. The question presented is whether, under the categorical approach of the elements… |
| 21-5633 |
Roland J. McLain v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-09-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-law due-process federal-guidelines federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Does the phrase "controlled substance" in U.S.S.G. § 4Bl.2(b) , including as it is incorporated into U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1, include substances that are … |
| 21-5610 |
Willie M. Hardy, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender confession crime-of-violence criminal-law drug-trafficking due-process firearm-possession jury-instructions malicious-wounding sentencing sentencing-factor sufficiency-of-evidence |
1. Whether Virginia Code 18.2-51, malicious wounding, is a a crime of violence.
2. Whether acquitted conduct is a proper sentencing factor.
3. Wheth… |
| 21-5625 |
Phillip Shawn Horton v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-interpretation legal-conflict procedural-review remand remand-order sentencing stare-decisis supreme-court-precedent |
I. Should this Court should grant review to determine whether the opinion of the court below conflicts with this Court's decisions in Witte v. United … |
| 21-5632 |
Eliseo Carrillo, III v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons criminal-law district-court due-process liberty liberty-interest mental-health sentencing supervised-release upward-departure |
Whether the District Court deprived the Petitioner of liberty within the terms of 18 U.S.C. 3583 (c) and (d) by upward departing in re-sentencing Peti… |
| 21-5636 |
Peter Hurley v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2021-09-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process evidence-preservation government-misconduct plea-bargaining sentencing |
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| 21-5638 |
Davin Griffin v. J. A. Terris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights due-process factual-innocence first-step-act habeas-corpus sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether the lower court courts denial of relief in a habeas corpus petition pursuant to
28 U.S.C. 2241 ON THE QUESTION OF FACTUAL AND ACTUAL INNOCE… |
| 21-5639 |
Siliaivaoese Fuimaona v. D. Hudson, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
concurrent-sentences criminal-appeal custody federal-bureau-of-prisons federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review ninth-circuit parole sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
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| 21-386 |
Andre Barnaby, et al. v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-09-09 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
18-usc-924 attempted-robbery circuit-split crime-of-violence hobbs-act section-924c sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether attempted robbery under the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1951, qualifies as a "crime of violence," meaning that it "has as an element the use, attem… |
| 21-5589 |
Michael Lee Gordon v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-09-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation conviction-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel sentencing standing |
1. whether the United States District Court or not has jurisdiction to grant Habeas Corpus relief for WNH pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 2241
2. whether or no… |
| 21-5595 |
Jovan Marquis Harris v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burrage-standard burrage-v-united-states causation criminal-law criminal-statute drug-crimes drug-distribution due-process overdose proximate-cause sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
1.) WHETHER, FOR PURPOSES OF TITLE 21 U.S.C. §841(A)(1) AND
(B)(1) (C)'S ENHANCED PENALTY "IF DEATH RESULTS " FROM THE USE
OF A SUBSTANCE, REQUIRES P… |
| 21-5601 |
Abdullah Hamidullah v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
colloquy constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts guilty-plea motion-to-withdraw plea-bargaining rule-11 sentencing |
1. DID. THE DISTRICT'COURT VIOLATE THE DEFENDANT'S SUBSTANTIAL DUE
PROCESS RIGHTS DURING THE MANDATORY RULE 11 COLLOGUY?
2. DID THE COURT ERR WHEN TH… |
| 21-5603 |
Alphonse Gainer v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appeal appellate-discretion criminal-justice criminal-sentencing eleventh-circuit first-step-act motion-for-reconsideration motion-reconsideration sentence-reduction sentencing |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit abused its discretion in denying Gainer's Motion for Reconsideration of Denial of … |
| 21-5574 |
Walter Manuel Marques-Mejia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 21-5560 |
Gary Lamar Henry v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy criminal-law pinkerton-liability sentencing supreme-court violent-crimes |
1. Whether Pinkerton v. United States, 328 U.S. 640 (1946) liability, which only requires that a conspirator reasonably foresee the substantive crimes… |
| 21-5563 |
William Ferguson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-242 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-procedure davis-ruling due-process johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states predicate-offense section-924c statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis |
Whether a defendant's convictions for violating 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) should be vacated, where each § 924(c) charge had, as an underlying predicate, a vi… |
| 21-5565 |
Fortrell Latrae Sain v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights cross-examination discovery-violations due-process government-misconduct habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review procedural-violation sentencing |
I.
Whether delendant was the ^ deried the Oppurtunity to hry CRoss - examine the key Goveenment witness.
II. Whether remand is requrees to deteemines… |
| 21-5572 |
Kamau Alan Israel v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
competency competency-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insanity-defense mental-illness plea-bargain sentencing sentencing-guidelines strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Trial counsel in this case failed to investigate Mr. Israel's mental illness before his case was adjudicated. But Mr. Israel has been mentally ill for… |
| 21-332 |
William A. White v. Daniel Sproul, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-09-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-USC-1503 18-USC-373 28-USC-2241 28-USC-2255(e) federal-criminal-law habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge non-existent-offense post-conviction-relief sentencing statutory-interpretation |
When, if ever, is relief available under 28 USC §2241 and 28 USC. §2255 (e), where a person stands convicted and remains in custody for a non-existant… |
| 21-5511 |
Jose Cesar Sanchez, et al. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
alleyne circuit-split criminal-law drug-conspiracy foreseeability rehaif scienter sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Like most other circuits, the Ninth Circuit has long held that an individual coconspirator convicted under 21 U.S.C. § 846 is liable only for the type… |
| 21-5513 |
Christopher Seckington v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
chapman-v-united-states constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment drug-trafficking eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment urine-testing |
Question 1:
What must a Defendant show in order to demonstrate an Eighth Amendment violation where
Petitioner was sentenced to in essence life for pos… |
| 21-5494 |
In Re Eric W. Poirier |
|
2021-08-26 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
attempted-homicide court-of-appeals criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process indigent-counsel predicate-offenses sentencing |
Should this Court decide what crimes are predicate Attempted First Degree Intentional Homicide because the Law is not settled yet, nor has this Court … |
| 21-5503 |
Eric Henry Woodberry and Bradford Marselas Johnson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute firearm-length firearms mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums mens-rea prosecutorial-burden sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(B)(i) requires the government to prove that a defendant knew of the length of the firearm carried during the commission … |
| 21-5504 |
Eric Worley v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-08-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
base-offense-level burden-of-proof confrontation-clause criminal-procedure drug-quantity evidence preponderance-of-evidence presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
The Appellant's Appeal was denied on June 1, 2021 by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. In this case, the Appellant raised one (1) issue for determin… |
| 21-5481 |
James Earnest Watts v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2021-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus sentencing |
Whether Watts Sentence OF Petitioner Withut The Possibit OF Parores Life AI ETE, Loot Committed IAC1 the RAU ERROR Durins Gentecing When Phaud have Kn… |
| 21-273 |
Buck Gene Brune v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-25 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment finality-of-judgment plea-bargaining plea-of-guilty prosecutorial-overreach sentencing |
Under the Fifth Amendment's Double Jeopardy Clause, upon a defendant's plea of guilty, does jeopardy attach:
a. when the district court accepts the d… |
| 21-5463 |
Christopher Jonell Tyler v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process fourth-circuit government-breach judicial-review plain-error plea-agreement sentencing |
Whether the Fourth Circuit violated the "interests of justice" and this Court's ruling in Puckett v. United States, 556 U.S. 129, 143, 129 S. Ct. 1423… |
| 21-5467 |
Michael Denton v. Ron Haynes, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment habeas-corpus search-and-seizure sentencing |
Ceetificate of Appealalontith Sterting: AppEllant has Not Made A "SubstantiAl Shawing
PEtition andl HIS Habeas CoRAs PEtitin that His SixthAmendment C… |
| 21-5446 |
Robert Carter v. Bernadette Mason, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Retreat, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel maximum-penalty plea-bargaining sentencing third-degree-murder trial-counsel |
WHETHER TRIAL COUNSEL ADEQUATELY AND EFFECTIVELY ASSISTED PETITIONER IN DECIDING WHETHER TO ACCEPT A PLEA OFFER OF 15 TO 30 YEARS WHERE COUNSEL FAILED… |
| 21-256 |
Bilal Hamid Love v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines strickland-standard |
Is defense counsel required, in order to provide effective assistance
of counsel, to give the defendant an estimate of the potential guideline
sentenc… |
| 21-5418 |
Sergio Bucio v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion mitigating-role money-laundering role-adjustment sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg-3b1.2 |
I.
Whether the district court erred in calculating the amount of laundered funds
attributable to Mr. Bucio.
II.
Whether the district court erred by f… |
| 21-5425 |
Jay J. Sawatzky v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession first-amendment judicial-discretion racist-paraphernalia racist-views sentencing sentencing-variance upward-variance |
May a sentencing judge impose an upward variance on a defendant convicted of possessing firearms and ammunition as a felon, based on that defendant's … |
| 21-5431 |
Jereme Eugene Mackey v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-crimes due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel pre-trial-custody sentencing sentencing-reasonableness statutory-interpretation |
I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN FINDING THE APPELLANT JEREME EUGENE MACKEY GUILTY INASMUCH AS THE GOVERNMENT FAILED TO PROVE AT THE TIME OF ARR… |
| 21-5436 |
William D. Dickerson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-analysis civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-review court-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-standard legal-procedure procedural-error sentencing statutory-interpretation |
The OCR text provided is too degraded and illegible to accurately extract the "Question(s) Presented" section. While a "QUESTION(S) PRESENTED" header … |
| 21-5409 |
Antonyo Reece v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court judicial-discretion pepper-precedent pepper-v-united-states rehabilitation-evidence sentencing sentencing-variance upward-departure |
Whether imposing an upward departure of 200 months to a criminal defendant who has exemplary rehabilitation evidence is incongruous to this Court's ho… |
| 21-5382 |
Nickie Nathanial Rico v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-murder criminal-enhancement criminal-procedure defendant-objection district-court enhancement objection presentence-report sentencing |
Whether the District Court erred in overruling Defendant's Objection to the Attempted Murder Enhancement in the Presentence Report. |
| 21-5391 |
Jermontae Moss v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2021-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment family-violence felony-murder juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama mitigating-factors sentencing sentencing-discretion |
Does a court violate Miller when it refuses to consider childhood trauma as mitigating when sentencing a child to life without parole? |
| 21-5400 |
Maria Gonzalez Maldonado v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-trafficking federal-sentencing methamphetamine-possession minor-participant sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
1. Did Maria Gonzalez Maldonado conspire to possess and/or actually and knowingly possess between 5kg-15kg kilograms of methamphetamine pursuant to U.… |
| 21-5402 |
Ronald E. West v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2021-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-issue criminal-procedure due-process election-dispute election-procedure judicial-review legal-challenge recidivism rehabilitation sentencing supreme-court |
Question not identified. |
| 21-5404 |
Maria Teresa Duarte Godinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure disparities due-process judicial-discretion plea-bargaining sentence-disparity sentencing sentencing-waiver waiver |
Whether the appellate court erred when it enforced the waiver keeping the Defendant from appealing her sentence in violation of her due process rights… |
| 21-5407 |
Robin Rick Manning v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2021-08-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process first-amendment habeas-corpus juvenile-justice miller-v-alabama proportionality-review roper-v-simmons sentencing sentencing-discretion |
1. THE 4 TO 3 MAJORITY DECISION OF HE MICHIGAN SUPREME COURT FLOUTED U.S. SUPREME COURT PRECEDENT i .e. THE EVOLVING STANDARDS OF DECENCY ON PROPORTIO… |
| 21-5386 |
Michael Kenneth Young v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal criminal-classification district-court drug-offense fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-appeal prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines serious-drug-offenses |
Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal err in reversing the decision of the District Court which had determined that Petitioner Michael Young was not … |
| 21-222 |
Ferrell Walker v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-08-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-3583(k) constitutional-provision double-jeopardy fifth-amendment plain-error sentencing |
1. Whether, on plain error review, the defendant's right not to be twice put in jeopardy for the same offense under the Double Jeopardy Clause of the … |
| 21-5373 |
Bernard Hollomond v. Tracy Ray, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-08-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
confusion constitutional-rights due-process evidence-consideration jury-trial knowing-and-intelligent sentencing trial-procedure voluntariness waiver |
Question not identified. |
| 21-5350 |
Bobby Earl Keys v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review compassionate-release criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process prisoner-release sentencing sentencing-factors standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
DID THE FIFTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS APPLIED THE WRONGED APPELLATE
STANDARD OF REVIEW TO CLAIM THAT DISTRICT COURT COMMITTED STATUTORY ERROR
UNDER 1… |
| 21-5358 |
Leonel Rodriguez-Caraveo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 21-5340 |
Gerald Allen Hiler v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-procedure district-court factual-basis federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plea-agreement sentencing |
Does a federal criminal defendant's valid waiver of appeal in a plea agreement bar the defendant from an appeal that challenges the sufficiency of the… |
| 21-5346 |
Genard Alonzo Toney v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights criminal-law due-process sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 21-5324 |
Michael Dasean Robinson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process harmless-error rule-32 sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review |
At sentencing, Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 32(i)(3)(B) gives a district court two options for addressing any "controverted matter": "rule on th… |
| 21-5392 |
Jose Raymundo Rodriguez-Yanez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-5311 |
Thomas Morgan Soper, II v. Idaho |
Idaho |
2021-08-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
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| 21-5307 |
Millard Jerome Strickland, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (4)IFP |
career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-conviction federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law |
Can a prior conviction involving a substance that is not a controlled substance for the purposes of federal law render a federal defendant a "career o… |
| 21-171 |
Joel Zupnik v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-08-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
' 'entice ' 'induce ' or 'coerce' in 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) require more circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-state-balance federalism interstate-commerce mens-rea minor-protection sentencing sexual-offense statutory-interpretation |
Title 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) prohibits using a facility or means of interstate commerce to "persuad[e], induc[e], entic[e], or coerc[e]" a minor to engag… |
| 21-5279 |
Ernest Francis v. Connecticut |
Connecticut |
2021-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process good-time-credits habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-interpretation |
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| 21-5284 |
Albert Lamont Hector v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct due-process federal-appeals-courts fifth-amendment jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment state-high-courts |
Whether sentences based on acquitted conduct violate the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause or Sixth Amendment's jury-trial guarantee, a question th… |
| 21-5231 |
Shaun J. Salazar v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process federal-law imprisonment revocation sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum supervised-release united-states-v-haymond |
Whether a district court may impose a revocation imprisonment term under 18 U.S.C. § 3583(e)(3) that, when combined with a defendant's initial term of… |
| 21-5253 |
John David Wilson, Jr. v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-29 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief sentencing statutory-interpretation |
I ENTER THIS COURT WITH "CLEAN HAND" AS A HONORABLY DISCHARGED QUALIFIED SUBMARINER, WHO POSSESSED A QUALIFIED SUBMARINE INSIGNIA. (THIS MILITARY AWAR… |
| 21-115 |
Ivan Rosario v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-07-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
6th-amendment criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment judicial-factfinding jury jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause and the Sixth Amendment's right to trial by jury protect criminal defendants from being sentenced bas… |
| 21-5233 |
Abel Guillermo Godoy v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-v-united-states criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process elements-of-crime jury-determination legal-precedent prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-factors sixth-amendment |
In Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), the Court held that in a prosecution for 8 U.S.C. § 1326, the fact of a prior conviction n… |
| 21-5234 |
Melquiades Galvez-Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-5235 |
Vincent Holton v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy conviction criminal-procedure due-process entrapment jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing |
1. Whether t he District Court Wrongly Denied Petitioner's Request for a Jury Instruction on Entrapment ?
2. Whether t he Court Erred by Allowing the… |
| 21-5240 |
Carlos Elias Cruz-Bermudez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 21-5241 |
Jose Lazaro Venancio Mendoza-Batres v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-5198 |
Dustin Trevino Lawrence v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-07-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial impartial-judge judicial-bias manifest-weight manifest-weight-of-evidence proportionate-sentencing reasonable-doubt sentencing |
1. When a judge openly admits bias against an appellant in which he was not only the trial judge but also the sentencing, shouldn't the remedy afforde… |
| 21-5219 |
Bryan James Collins v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process evidence federal-statute fifth-circuit sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Fifth Circuit wrongly affirmed Collins's conviction where it determined that the evidence was sufficient to establish that Collins violate… |
| 21-5210 |
Trojan Hart v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-restrictions jury-instructions right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-review shackling |
(1) Whether the district court erred when it shackled Hart and co-defendant Sharpe?
(2) Whether the district court interfered with the right to couns… |
| 21-5211 |
Edwin Artis Pettaway v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confidential-informant confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure drug-possession due-process firearm-possession search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing |
1. Was Mr. Pettaway denied his constitutional right to present a complete defense?
2. Where multiple additional errors affected petitioner's convicti… |
| 21-5193 |
Vernon Collins v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2021-07-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-division appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-law illegal-sentence open-court procedural-claims sentencing |
DID THE NEW JERSEY SUPERIOR COURT APPELLATE DIVISION ERR IN CONCLUDING CONSECUTIVE SENTENCES IMPOSED OUTSIDE PETITIONER'S PRESENCE IN OPEN COURT SOME … |
| 21-5172 |
Mayra Vanessa Gandara Escarcega v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-procedure sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-5174 |
Domingo Cruz-Miguel v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-5175 |
Alfredo Jesus Chavez-Portillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-5177 |
Skyler Chiras v. Jill Marshall, Superintendent, Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights court-orders due-process habeas-corpus sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 21-5185 |
Lexton Pellew v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2021-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal conviction-count criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-review sentence-calculation sentencing sentencing-error |
The petitioner was not charged with aiding and abetting in counts 11-14 but the court allowed the jury verdict on those counts based upon an admittedl… |
| 21-5186 |
Mihran Melkonyan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law auer-deference circuit-split deference federal-courts judicial-interpretation regulatory-interpretation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1.)
Whether, as the Courts of Appeals for the Third' and Sixth² Circuits have held, in
conflict with the decision below³ and decisions of the Fifth* a… |
| 21-5158 |
Miguel Angel Berdeja-Medina v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent sentencing sixth-amendment stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-5160 |
Rodney Ledell Carter v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process parole sentencing sixth-amendment supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 21-5164 |
Larry G. Coker v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2021-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment amendment-violation constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process illegal-indictment sentencing sex-offender-registration |
(A) That Judge Hili re-sentenced Coker to 25 years on uct. 2008/ which was 5 tiroes the amount aiioweo dv iaw/ cruei and unusual punishment/ violated … |
| 21-5142 |
Michael Angelo Williams v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea harmless-error ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment sixth-circuit withdrawal-of-plea |
Whether this honorable Court should grant certiorari to review whether Mr. Williams should have been permitted to withdraw his guilty plea, which requ… |
| 21-5146 |
Antonio Dewayne Adams v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment preponderance-of-the-evidence preponderance-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum |
The Tenth Circuit's decision is in conflict with decisions from the
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The Tenth Circuit affirmed the district
court's us… |
| 21-5132 |
Michael Curtis Reynolds v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
arson-statute constitutional-law constitutional-voidness covid-19-risk criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-statutes predicate-offense statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
(1) Did Davis render 18 U.S.C. §2332b(a)(l)(B) equal to 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(3)(B)-, and thus equally make void and Unconstitutional both statute subsect… |
| 21-5136 |
Ledaniel Vernell Russell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
10-1-provision civil-rights drug-laws due-process equal-protection legal-interpretation markup-provision metric-calculation mixture-metric opportunity-gain sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 21-5110 |
Junior Jean Baptiste v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-U.S.C.-3553(a) advisory-guidelines appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion reasoned-decision sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
The district court, on remand for resentencing after failing or iginally to permit
allocution by petitioner, reimposed the original sentence witho ut … |
| 21-5111 |
Joenell L. Rice v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit time-served |
Question not identified. |
| 21-56 |
Timothy Muir v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-07-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
creditor-status criminal-law criminal-rico knowledge-of-law legal-element predicate-offense rico scienter statutory-definition truth-in-lending usury |
The Racketeer Influence and Corrupt Practices Act ("RICO") does not impose an explicit scienter requirement beyond that of a corresponding predicate o… |
| 21-5099 |
Thomas Javion Guerrant v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-07-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP |
career-offender controlled-substance drug-trafficking federal-law predicate-offense sentencing-guidelines state-conviction |
Does a state conviction for distribution of a substance not defined as a "controlled substance" by federal law qualify as a career offender predicate … |
| 21-5077 |
Herbert Jonathan Castillo Juarez and Paola Valenzuela Arevalo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-crimes drug-type knowledge-requirement mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-2d1.1 |
Whether the government is required to prove a defendant's mens rea and knowledge with respect to the requisite drug type for penalties under Title 21 … |
| 21-5089 |
Martin Thomas Lawrence v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-exposure sixth-amendment trial-counsel |
1. Whether, in light of trial counsel's express admission that he underestimated Petitioner's sentencing exposure if he went to trial, this Court shou… |
| 21-5096 |
Jaime Martinez-Rojas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-5072 |
Roque Saenz-Quintela v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-5063 |
Sammy Cano v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-07-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-seizure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-discretion witness-credibility witness-testimony |
1. Whether or not the State failed to prove Sammy Cano guilty beyond a reasonable doubt where the only witness to the crime directly contradicted her … |
| 21-5065 |
Blake Taylor v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-09 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute divisible-offense double-jeopardy sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
1. In Prince v. United States, 352 U.S. 322 (1957), this Court construed the first and second paragraphs of 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a)—bank robbery and entry… |
| 21-5068 |
Leonard Griffin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age compassionate-release covid-19 criminal-procedure district-court-discretion family-circumstances federal-statute health-conditions motion-for-relief race sentencing |
Whether the district court erred by denying Mr. Griffin's Motion for Compassionate Release under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A). |
| 21-5043 |
Carlos Amador Saragoza-Botello v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-5045 |
Colvis Jerrod Higgins v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alcohol-prohibition criminal-procedure drug-treatment due-process judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing sentencing-conditions special-conditions substance-abuse supervised-release |
I. Did the district court plainly err when it imposed a special condition of supervised release requiring Mr. Higgins to abstain from alcohol and to a… |
| 21-5046 |
Ira Lee Wilkins v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-07-08 |
GVR |
IFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law reckless-conduct reckless-force sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review tenth-circuit violent-crime |
Should this Court grant this petition, vacate the judgment below, and remand in order to allow the Tenth Circuit to determine in the first instance wh… |
| 21-5028 |
David Copes, aka David Henderson-Copes v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-07-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-criminal-law hobbs-act predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery is a predicate crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c). |
| 21-5029 |
Antonio Domingo-Morales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-5030 |
Jonathan Mark Brinda v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-07-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process excessive-sentence sentencing sentencing-considerations statutory-considerations statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
A. AFTER DETERMINING MR. BRINDA HAD VIOLATED THE TERMS OF HIS SUPERVISED RELEASE, THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED BY SENTENCING MR. BRINDA EXCESSIVELY BASED … |
| 21-5011 |
Anthony Farmer v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 abuse-of-discretion criminal-justice criminal-law federal-sentencing judicial-discretion public-confidence racial-disparities racial-disparity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether, under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(6), a district court can or should consider the need to avoid unwarranted racial disparities in sentencing among de… |
| 21-5012 |
Brian David Johnsen v. California |
California |
2021-07-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
death-penalty due-process jury reasonable-doubt ring-v-arizona sentencing |
Does California's death penalty scheme, which permits the trier of fact to impose a sentence of death without finding beyond a reasonable doubt the ex… |
| 21-5014 |
John Bruce Fifield, Jr. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-history criminal-procedure judicial-notice plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether a court of appeals may consider judicially noticeable facts presented for the first time on appeal in deciding whether an error is plain? |
| 21-5016 |
Salvador Acosta v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-knowledge criminal-law drug-statutes evidence harmless-error mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement testimony |
1. Whether a federal court of appeals can reject a defendant's testimony denying the requisite criminal knowledge as implausible in determining that a… |
| 21-5017 |
Angel Mondragon Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-06 |
GVR |
IFP |
aggravated-felony borden-decision certiorari crime-of-violence criminal-law immigration mens-rea sentencing statutory-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below and remand for further consideration in light of this Court's recent decision in … |
| 21-5021 |
Michael Ray Senn v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-07-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment marital-status sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Does a criminal law which provides for increased punishment based solely on an offender's status as married violate his or her right to equal protecti… |
| 21-5001 |
Ronald D. Smith v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-07-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-proportionality criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process firearm-enhancement firearms illinois-constitution legislative-revival sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the legislature revived the firearm enhancement in Section 720 ILCS 5/8-4 (B-D) (West 2000) amended by Public Act 91-404 that was declared unc… |
| 20-8477 |
Stephen Aguiar v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure article-three case-or-controversy civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing standing supervised-release |
1. WHETHER THE SECOND CIRCUIT WRONGLY DISMISSED PETITIONER'S PETITION AS MOOT BEFORE ALLOWING HIM THE OPPORTUNITY APPEAL TO SHOW THAT HIS APPEAL MEETS… |
| 20-8460 |
Marcus Snipes v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-06-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
Apprendi-rule constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process jury-determination jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum |
WHETHER THE STATE CAN AVOID APPRENDI'S REACH BY WRITING ITS PENAL STATUTES SO THAT A FACT THAT INCREASES THE PENALTY FOR A CRIME INSTEAD BECOMES A FAC… |
| 20-8453 |
Devonte Jaishun Tucker v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion mitigation preservation preservation-of-error sentencing sentencing-discretion |
Whether a defendant must object to sentencing court's failure to consider a nonfrivolous mitigation argument in order to preserve the issue for appeal… |
| 20-8439 |
Francisco Coto-Mendoza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-review guideline-range judicial-discretion objection plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-arguments |
Whether, after Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, __U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails t… |
| 20-1807 |
Dontour D. Drakes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
18-usc-3582 18-usc-3582c2 amendment-782 career-offender criminal-sentencing retroactive-amendment sentencing-guidelines substantial-assistance united-states-v-hughes |
1. WHETHER A CAREER OFFENDER WHO PROVIDED SUBSTANTIAL ASSISTANCE WHOSE SENTENCING JUDGE-VARIED FROM THE INITIAL INTRODUCED CAREER OFFENDERS IS THE JUD… |
| 20-8417 |
David Sutton v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2021-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-assault crime-of-violence due-process possession-of-firearm second-amendment sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 20-8421 |
Braulio Perez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 911-call armed-career-criminal body-camera body-camera-footage constitutional-rights'\n'Issue 4 criminal-history criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure'\n'Issue 2 criminal-procedure'\n'Issue 3 criminal-procedure'\n'Issue 4 enhancement evidence fair-trial fifth-amendment firearm fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure self-incrimination sentencing sentencing-enhancement statements statutory-interpretation witness witness-testimony |
1. Whether Mr. Perez's Fourth Amendment rights were violated when his motion to suppress the firearm was denied?
2. Whether Mr. Perez's Fifth Amendme… |
| 20-8422 |
Wayne Porter v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review conspiracy-conviction criminal-enterprise criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervisory-power |
Whether the Fourt Circuit Court of Appeal's sanctioning of the
district court's refusal to correct errors and omissions of facts from
the Fourth Circu… |
| 20-8398 |
Jonathan Jerome Hills v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 criminal-justice criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection first-step-act judicial-discretion procedural-opportunity sentencing sentencing-disparity statutory-interpretation |
Whether differences in procedural opportunity arising from the fact that a defendant is statutorily eligible for relief under the First Step Act, such… |
| 20-8399 |
Clarence O. Hopkins v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-06-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus habitual-criminal mandatory-supervised-release pre-trial-detention sentencing speedy-trial |
Wsappellate Coseieffective o ing incue
a ha hi iioe pentfo
speedy trial violation? |
| 20-8429 |
Christopher Forman v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2021-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment burglary conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment sentencing |
1. Did the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania defy the due process clause of the Fourteenth amendment to the United States Constitution by permitting a conv… |
| 20-8431 |
Brandon Kendale Dudley v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence-standard judicial-discretion preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the use of the preponderance of the evidence standard at sentencing to substantially enhance a criminal defendant's advisory guideline range c… |
| 20-8432 |
Robert L. Garza v. Donald Kleine, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process judicial-authority judicial-discretion preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-standard sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment speedy-trial |
Does a judge exceed his legal authority by making factual findings by a preponderance of the evidence which expose a defendant to the elevated upper t… |
| 20-8402 |
Daniel Chica-Gutierrez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affirmative-defense collateral-attack criminal-procedure custis-rule federal-statutory-provision sentencing sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines state-court-conviction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a federal court is permitted to consider an argument that a prior state-court conviction does not satisfy a relevant federal statutory provisi… |
| 20-8403 |
Daniel Jacob Craven, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-06-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment due-process elements-of-offense fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-determinations statutory-maximum unanimous-verdict |
Whether a defendant's right to due process as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment through requiring that every element of any offense to be proven … |
| 20-8407 |
Daniel Littlepage v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-murder criminal-procedure due-process orc-2945.06 plea-bargaining post-release-control sentencing three-judge-panel |
1. Is the Petitioner's Due Process Rights Violated Due to the
requiring a Three-Judge Panel Violation of O.R.C. ' 2945.06
for Aggravated Murder?
2. … |
| 20-8384 |
Pedro Rodriguez-Calderon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 20-8386 |
Cheddie Lamar Griffin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure davis-precedent due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus johnson-rule sentencing statutory-interpretation successive-petition supreme-court |
WHETHER THE CIRCUIT PANEL'S DECISION AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S DENIAL OF MR. GRIFFIN'S AUTHORIZED SUCCESSIVE 2255 (UNDER JOHNSON) SIMPLY BECAUSE … |
| 20-1765 |
Donald S. Harden v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-06-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
but-for-causation circuit-split controlled-substances-act death-results ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing |
For a death-results sentence under the Controlled Substances Act, must a jury be instructed as to but-for cause if the evidence of causation is confli… |
| 20-1772 |
Branden Edward Shumate v. California |
California |
2021-06-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-client-relationship attorney-of-choice criminal-defendant criminal-procedure motion-for-new-trial post-conviction-proceedings right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment trial-court |
I. Whether a Trial Court Deprives a Defendant of His Right to Counsel by Discharging a Defendant's Hired Attorney of Choice Just Before Trial Was to S… |
| 20-8364 |
David Gilmartin v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure criminal-sentencing earnings-definition economic-circumstances probation-conditions restitution restitution-order sentencing social-security social-security-benefits statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether an increase in a defendant's monthly receipts and revenue from $0 (zero) at time of sentencing to $3000 after release from prison and award… |
| 20-8367 |
Kiera Shanice Graham v. Brooks Benton, Warden |
Georgia |
2021-06-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights counsel-representation criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sentencing voluntary-decision |
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| 20-8369 |
Clarence Clark v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment guilty-plea plain-error plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in violation of U.S. Const. V and VI as well as this Court's precedent, when it denied Mr. Clark's c… |
| 20-8370 |
Loranzo Thomas v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether, in light of Borden v. United States, -- U.S. --, -- S. Ct. -, 2021 WL 2367312 (U.S. June 10, 2021), aiding and abetting Hobbs Act robbery by … |
| 20-8343 |
Joseph Jenkins v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appearance-of-impropriety appellate-procedure constitutional-review due-process judicial-bias laws-of-case mandate-rule panel-composition sentencing |
On third direct appeal, did the fractionally different appellate Panel plainly err by failing to force district court compliance (mandate rule) with t… |
| 20-8345 |
Ricky Parkerson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-production burden-of-proof confrontation-clause due-process sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Whether the Fifth Circuit's practice of shifting the burden of production and proof to the defendant at sentencing violates a defendant's Due Proce… |
| 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… |
| 20-8325 |
Francisco Javier Bermudez-Chavez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-8300 |
Lonnie Norton v. Utah |
Utah |
2021-06-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
(N) Do this Court's rulings in Apprend: v. New Jersey,530U.S. 466 (2000) and Alleyne v. United States 577 U.S.99 (2013) require that when a state stat… |
| 20-8310 |
Kenrick Brathwaite v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-06-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-rule circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-conspiracy jury-instructions jury-verdict sentencing sentencing-exposure statutory-interpretation statutory-penalties |
1. What is the statutory maximum sentence for a conspiracy conviction under 21 U.S.C. §§ 963 or 846, where the jury has declined to make any specific … |
| 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 it fair and equal justice for defendants who present under that the previously harsh 924(c) stacking is an extraordinary and compelling reason dese… |
| 20-8295 |
Jose Antonio Martinez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law rico rico-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether substantive RICO is a "crime of violence" under 18 U.S.C. §924(c)? |
| 20-1728 |
Rico Sanders v. Dylon Radtke, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-06-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing juvenile-status life-sentence mitigating-factor parole sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether this Court's Eighth Amendment precedent clearly establishes that a sentencing court must consider a defendant's juvenile status as a mitigatin… |
| 20-8280 |
Trent Slone v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquittal drug-possession due-process fifth-amendment firearms firearms-violation presumption-of-innocence sentencing |
1.Does the presumption of innocence and the due process clause of
the Fifth Amendment protect a defendant at a firearms violation
sentencing when th… |
| 20-8287 |
Kenneth Wayne Walker, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment parole sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 20-8272 |
Roberto Luis Rene Martinez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment constitutional-rights correction double-jeopardy due-process judgment-commitment judicial-correction life-liberty sentencing |
1. When a District Court vacates a sentence pursuant to the United States Supreme Court Decision in RUTLEDGE v. UNITED STATES, 116 S.Ct 1246 , 134 L.e… |
| 20-8273 |
Roger G. Babcock v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion mandatory-sentencing sentencing sentencing-discretion state-law statutory-interpretation |
My name is Roger G. Babcock, and, in 1997 a Florida jury found me guilty of the crime of sexual battery, a capital felony not punishable by death. At … |
| 20-1708 |
Jose Leonel Bonilla-Romero v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-10 |
Denied |
|
5th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment notice sentencing sentencing-range separation-of-powers |
Does the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment require notice of the sentencing range prior to sentencing?
Is it a violation of separation of pow… |
| 20-8259 |
Peter James Sorokaput v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2021-06-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights coerced-confession constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process law-enforcement plea-bargaining sentencing wrongful-conviction |
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| 20-8264 |
Jeremy Hough v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process harmless-error judicial-procedure procedural-error sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether, through "assumed error harmlessness review," appellate courts may affirm a criminal sentence without addressing allegations of significant pr… |
| 20-8268 |
Duprece Jett v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights compassionate-release constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review sentencing separation-of-powers |
Whether testimony identifying Agent Guy's identifying Def. Dyprece Jett, as one of the two robbers under the Open Door doctrine was harmless error alt… |
| 20-8254 |
Demario M. Peterson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-06-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-variance sixth-amendment substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the Sixth Amendment, Fifth Amendment, and this Court's jurisprudence on the procedural and substantive reasonableness of sentences are implica… |
| 20-8241 |
John Doe v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process sentencing statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
139 S.ct.2369 (2019) Abrogate crcnit precedest 1n U.5. v. Ward, 770 F.3d 1069 (4+h (i2.2014) Gupy +54 Supercised Belease under 18 USC Bevocation Procc… |
| 20-1693 |
Erick Allen Osby v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-07 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response Waived |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy fifth-amendment jury-acquittal sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether basing a criminal defendant's sentence on charges of which the jury acquitted him violates the Fifth or Sixth Amendments. |
| 20-8228 |
John Campbell v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal armed-bank-robbery bank-robbery count-severance criminal-procedure evidence evidence-suppression firearm-possession jury-instructions sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
1. Did the district court incorrectly decline to charge the jury on a key element of armed bank robbery?
2. Did the district court err in denying sup… |
| 20-8234 |
Arian Lamont Brown v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-06-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-criminal-guideline criminal-procedure en-banc en-banc-review judicial-discretion mandate mandate-recall precedent sentence-enhancement sentencing sixth-circuit |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit abuse its discretion and err by denying the Motion to Recall the Mandate, when The United… |
| 20-8213 |
James Atwood v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-06-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law |
Does the undefined term "controlled substance" in the federal Sentencing Guidelines mean substances controlled by federal law, the federal Controlled … |
| 20-8215 |
Aaron Walton v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-06-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-law eighth-circuit guidelines inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals incorrectly found that an inchoate offense such as an attempt is included in the definition of a "controll… |
| 20-8221 |
Terrence Lavaron Thomas v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2021-06-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-defense due-process ineffective-assistance plea-withdrawal right-to-counsel right-to-speedy-trial sentencing sentencing-error speedy-trial |
Was Defense counsel ineffective in failing to contest the sufficiency of evidence against Mr. Thomas, as he was charged with assault with a dangerous … |
| 20-8189 |
Heather Dawn Griffith v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-procedure drug-distribution federal-rule federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether, in a prosecution under 21 U.S.C. § 846, Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(b)(3) requires a statement sufficient to show an agreement to d… |
| 20-8202 |
Otis Hill v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split controlled-substance-offense crime-of-violence criminal-law eighth-circuit inchoate-offenses sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g-4b1.2 |
Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals incorrectly found that inchoate offenses such as attempts and conspiracy are included in the definition of… |
| 20-8204 |
Severiano Martinez-Rojas v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-review plea-bargaining restitution restitution-calculation sentencing sentencing-procedure vulnerable-victim-enhancement |
I. Whether the Second Circuit failed to follow Supreme Court precedent in Rosales-Mireles v. United States, 138 S. Ct. 1897, 1900 (2018) when it enfor… |
| 20-8206 |
Prentiss Morris v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2021-06-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-review legal-procedure mental-health sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Can Convicted of alleged Crime be petiticrer mentianed) from retarded (persan) mental a testmany Cbsence of a alane, in the ealuation Detenmine, If al… |
| 20-8182 |
Gilbert Sanchez v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-06-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
QUESTION NUMBER ONE
The trial court judge in this case states unequivocally that she misdirected the
jury as to the law in this case that changed Peti… |
| 20-8152 |
Miguel Martinez-Figueroa v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 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… |
| 20-8121 |
Andy Kejadi Onwuka v. California |
California |
2021-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process probation self-incrimination sentencing |
I. Whether the Trial Court Violated petitioner's 5th & Fourteenth Amendment Maximum Sentence Exposure while presenting and basing he him lenient Guilt… |
| 20-8124 |
Lance Mitchell Owens v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Arkansas |
2021-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment plea-agreement plea-agreements sentencing sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation |
1. Are courts violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution by excluding defendants who enter pl… |
| 20-8136 |
Ebone Jazmine McAfee, aka Jazzy v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines appellate-review circuit-split sentencing supervised-release supervisory-powers |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit")–which affirmed two revocation sentences for violati… |
| 20-8138 |
Eddy Pena v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-846 conspiracy conspiracy-liability controlled-substances pinkerton-doctrine reasonable-foreseeability sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Should the Court grant certiorari in order to determine whether under 21 U.S.C. § 846 (conspiracy to distribute controlled substances) it is proper to… |
| 20-8084 |
Gregory Brown v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law federal-courts federal-procedure mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether 28 U.S.C. § 994(h)(2)(B) and the definition of a "controlled substance offense" in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) require that a defendant's prior offens… |
| 20-8085 |
Michael James Barnes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 compassionate-release covid-19 covid-19-pandemic extraordinary-circumstances federal-statute health-conditions prisoner-relief sentencing sentencing-modification |
Whether the district court erred by denying Mr. Barnes' Motion for Compassionate Release under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A). |
| 20-8094 |
Corey L. Johnson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
covered-offense criminal-law drug-conspiracy federal-sentencing first-step-act multi-object-conspiracy rule-of-lenity sentencing sentencing-retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
Where there is ambiguity as to which penalty applies in a multi-object conspiracy that is a "covered offense" pursuant to the First Step Act of 2018, … |
| 20-8095 |
Pasqual Lozano v. Robert Legrand, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
confrontation-clause due-process fair-trial federal-prisoners habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit petition-for-review prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 20-8076 |
Tyrone Price v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-05-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights community-impact criminal-procedure due-process public-safety sentencing |
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| 20-1614 |
John D. Leontaritis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fact-determination jury-finding jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-discretion standard-of-proof |
This criminal case's questions concern the impact of jury findings on sentencing. Both recur frequently, especially in cases about drugs. Both are the… |
| 20-1593 |
Devon E. Sanders v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-05-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-pornography criminal-law disaggregation double-jeopardy federal-sentencing paroline-v-united-states restitution sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1. Petitioner pleaded guilty to two counts under federal statutes relating to possession of child pornography. One count charged knowing receipt of th… |
| 20-8053 |
William Leroy Sanders v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-05-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act iowa-interference-with-official-acts johnson-precedent mathis-analysis mathis-v-united-states modified-categorical-approach residual-clause section-2255 sentencing statutory-overbreadth violent-felony |
Whether Mr. Sanders was improperly denied 28 U.S.C. § 2255 relief from his fifteen-year Armed Career Criminal Sentence, pursuant to United States v. J… |
| 20-8062 |
Erold Martin Panopio v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-justice criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing sentencing sentencing-reform supervised-release youthful-offender youthful-offenders |
I. WHETHER A NEAR TWENTY YEAR PRISON SENTENCE FOLLOWED BY A FIFTEEN YEAR TERM OF SUPERVISED RELEASE FOR A YOUTHFUL OFFENDER SUCH AS PANOPIO VIOLATES T… |
| 20-8039 |
Matthew J. O'Neal v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
child-pornography criminal-law eighth-amendment mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-enhancement sexual-abuse statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Sixth Circuit erred by expanding the scope of the "relating to" language in 18 U.S.C. §2252A(b)(2) to include conduct under a state statut… |
| 20-8040 |
Michael N. Kelsey v. New York |
New York |
2021-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-counsel judicial-neutrality plea-bargaining procedural-default sentencing trial-rights |
1: Are New York State's procedural rules insufficiently hospitable to a Petitioner's constitutional claims such as here where the Petitioner was deeme… |
| 20-8047 |
Cornelius R. Caple v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
acca assault career-offender controlled-substance criminal-law elements-clause mens-rea sentencing-guidelines |
I. Whether the drug conduct in the "controlled substance offense" definition in U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 4B1.2(b) requires knowledge of the illicit… |
| 20-8030 |
Reginald Tremaine Wilson v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2021-05-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-asset-forfeiture civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-amendment property-rights seizure sentencing standing |
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| 20-8033 |
Ivan Ignacio Minjarez-Molina v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-1586 |
Artavis Desmond McGowan v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
conspiracy constructive-amendment criminal-procedure drug-conviction evidence first-step-act mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-relief wiretap wiretap-evidence |
I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERR IN DENYING McGOWAN'S MOTION FOR NEW TRIAL BASED ON CONSTRUCTIVE AMENDMENT OF THE INDICTMENT WHEN IT ALLOWED THE GOVE… |
| 20-7980 |
Takiese Naceer Bethea v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
2021-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
co-defendants criminal-procedure equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-fairness prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination sentencing |
Does it violate the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when the African-American co-defendants in a case receive vastly less favorabl… |
| 20-8013 |
Jesus Manuel Anchondo-Quezada v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 20-8019 |
Roberto Torner v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-05-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravated-assault crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process equal-protection new-jersey-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a New Jersey conviction for Aggravated Assault, pursuant to
N.J.S.A. 2C:12-1(b)(1), is a crime of violence for sentencing guideline
purposes. |
| 20-8021 |
Jason Scott Pedro v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-sentencing guidelines harmless-error procedural-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review statutory-maximum |
Can a significant procedural error be deemed harmless when the sentencing judge uses the statutory maximum as the baseline for imposition of sentence? |
| 20-7967 |
Nikolay Vladimirov Sloboda v. Mike Obenland, Superintendent, Monroe Correctional Complex |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process evidence jurisdiction racial-bias sentencing statutory-provisions writ |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7991 |
Bulmaro Contreras-Figueroa, aka Israel Contreras v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment conspiracy controlled-substances criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Is the Fifth Amendment right to a grand jury violated when a defendant enters a guilty plea to an indictment that alleges a conspiracy to commit an of… |
| 20-7963 |
Lugene L. Scott v. Neil Turner, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-05-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process felonious-assault fifth-amendment manslaughter sentencing time-served |
Is the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution violated when a defendant is denied credit for time served when… |
| 20-7964 |
John Riley, aka P. J. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-justice criminal-sentencing district-court federal-jurisdiction first-step-act motion-denial motion-to-modify sentence-reduction sentencing |
Whether the district court erred by denying the Motion for Sentence Reduction under The First Step Act of 2018. |
| 20-7977 |
Bobby Carl Terrick v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto sentence-enhancement sentencing |
CAN PLEADINGS FROM UNDISTURBED CONVICTION BE CHALLENGED POST ID TIME WITH "NEW JUDGMENT"?
CAN A TRIBUNAL DECISION MAKING TO RETROACTIVELY APPLY A STA… |
| 20-1556 |
Dawn Herndon v. Judy R. Upton, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
criminal-procedure equitable-considerations habeas-corpus mootness prison-release sentencing supervised-release |
A defendant in a federal criminal case receives a paradigmatic sentence -- a term of imprisonment, to be followed by a term of supervised release. Whi… |
| 20-7956 |
Bryan Montalvo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines appellate-jurisdiction criminal-procedure downward-departure federal-courts judicial-discretion motion-for-departure sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether a circuit court of appeals has jurisdiction to review the denial of a motion for downward departure? |
| 20-7958 |
Anderson Jean v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-07 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
aggravated-felon aggravated-felony criminal-statute mens-rea scienter sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
In the wake of Flores-Figueroa v. United States, 556 U.S. 646 (2009), and Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (2019), jurists continue to disagree… |
| 20-7950 |
Antonio Serrano-Perez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law due-process felony-offense illegal-reentry immigration-law prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
The default penalty range for ill egal reentry in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a) is a sentence of "n ot more than 2 years" in prison. Petitioner was … |
| 20-7931 |
Oscar Segura-Resendez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal constitutional-due-process due-process ex-post-facto fifth-circuit guidelines harmless-error post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-retroactivity |
Is vidlation of the ex past Lacte clause of the 0.5, _
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| 20-7936 |
Jose Oribel Ponce-Ulloa v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-courts federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines temporal-connection ussg-2d1.1 weapon-possession |
The question presented which has divided federal courts of appeal is whether a sentencing court can add two offense levels for possession of a weapon … |
| 20-7941 |
Kiandrick Onick v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process parole sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 20-7912 |
Jorge Gomez-Gomez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the court of appeals erred by concluding that Petitioner's 99-month sentence was substantively reasonable. |
| 20-7913 |
Dallas Jerome Wims v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance-act eighth-amendment first-step-act sentencing serious-drug-offense |
1. WHETHER THE FIRST STEP ACT'S AMENDMENT REDEFINING "SERIOUS DRUG OFFENSE" FOR PURPOSES OF AN ENHANCEMENT FOR VIOLATIONS OF THE CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE … |
| 20-7895 |
David Scott Franks v. Benjamin Ford, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-04-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-case capital-sentencing eleventh-circuit ineffective-assistance mitigating-evidence residual-doubt sentencing wiggins-standard wiggins-v-smith |
Question One
In Mr. Franks's case, the district court found that "the evidence …was so overwhelming that no competent lawyer could be expected to hav… |
| 20-7901 |
Chalin Merrihew v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-04-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief sentencing statutory-interpretation |
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| 20-7902 |
John Laponte v. California |
California |
2021-04-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights contract-law criminal-procedure due-process excessive-punishment incarceration plea-agreement plea-bargaining punishment sentencing |
Is petitioner entitled to enforce the terms of his plea agreement; 1 .
Is indefinite incarceration constitutional; 2 .
What constitutes excessive pu… |
| 20-1523 |
Rolando Cruz, Jr., Marc Hernandez, and Roscoe Villega v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-04-30 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-rights drug-conspiracy integrity-of-courts jury-selection plain-error-review public-interest sentencing structural-error substantial-rights |
1. The district court excluded the public, including family members, from the
courtroom for the entirety of jury selection. Petitioners' counsel faile… |
| 20-7884 |
Roel Gilberto Melendez-Davila v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-7886 |
Shirl A. Stephen v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2021-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment sentencing witness-impeachment |
D.C. Code § 14-305 establishes the method upon which a witness may be impeached by a criminal "conviction," which the District's case law defines as a… |
| 20-7887 |
Ronnie Spells v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crack-cocaine discretion first-step-act judicial-discretion mandatory-minimums racial-disparities sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation systemic-racism |
Whether District Court Judge Castel and the Second Circuit Appeals Court perpetuated continued systemic racism by contending that Congress left out th… |
| 20-7872 |
Jeremy Darnell Morton v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appeal attempt-offense career-offender controlled-substance criminal-procedure guideline-range harmless-error search-and-seizure sentencing |
I. Did the court of appeals err in using the harmless error rule to resolve the illegal search
and seizure of $8,300?
II. Was the career offender gui… |
| 20-7855 |
James Ayers v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-27 |
GVR |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-statute mens-rea recklessness sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
Question not identified. |
| 20-1498 |
Kory Alexander v. Alex Jones, Acting Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-04-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
alleyne-precedent appellate-review criminal-elements criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process firearm-discharge first-degree-murder jury-instructions lesser-included-offense sentencing sentencing-factor |
Kory Alexander was charged by indictment with first degree murder with the specific allegation that he personally discharged a firearm during the comm… |
| 20-7849 |
Ismael Lopez v. United States, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment accomplice-liability constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process factor-based-analysis mandatory-sentencing mens-rea nexus proportionality-test sentencing |
Whether mandatory sentences, as a whole or in part, are constitutional and should be replaced with factor-based analysis under §3553, in conjunction w… |
| 20-7829 |
Edmundo Bustamante-Muniz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-04-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment fifth-circuit precedent-overturning sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-7837 |
Sam Bradford v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2021-04-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process life-sentence miss-code-ann-47-314 murder plain-error sentencing trial-court |
WheTher PeTiTionER's (Sam Bradford), Due Process of Law when plain error CommiTTed by The Trial CourT in was imposing SenTence for The naToral life a … |
| 20-7839 |
Taquarius Kaream Ford v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process hearsay presentence-report rule-32 sentencing |
When the defendant personally objects at sentencing to a hearsay accusation in a presentence report that he raped a woman, even though his attorney ne… |
| 20-7826 |
Jimmie C. Johnson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights collateral-review crack-cocaine district-court due-process eighth-circuit first-step-act ineffective-assistance-of-counsel johnson-case legal-review motion-denial sentencing |
Whether the district court and Eighth cir. Erred when they determine that m. Joknson 2ass motion was not retroactive to cases on collateral review, Wh… |
| 20-7832 |
Chadwick Marvin Thompson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 compassionate-release criminal-procedure extraordinary-circumstances federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
What qualifies as 'extraordinary and compelling circumstances under a Motion for Compassionate release, 18 U.S.C. 3582(c)(1)(A)?
(2) Does the lower c… |
| 20-7798 |
Christopher Williams v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-04-20 |
GVR |
Relisted (4)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance drug-transactions judicial-vindictiveness law-enforcement-officer occasions-different prosecutorial-vindictiveness sentencing sentencing-recommendation undercover-law-enforcement |
I. Are sequential drug transactions over a short time frame "committed on occasions different from one another" for purposes of the Armed Career Crimi… |
| 20-7806 |
Zacharias Christopher Lee v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-04-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compulsory-process constitutional-rights discovery-manipulation due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment impartial-jury sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. THE FOURTH CIRCUIT'S DECISION FINDING
REASONABLENESS IN THE SENTENCE IMPOSED BY THE
DISTRICT COURT IS CONTRARY TO THE FIFTH AMENDMENT
DUE PROCESS C… |
| 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? |
| 20-7792 |
Ralph Stephen Gambina v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
career-offender criminal-procedure habeas-corpus johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause section-2255 statutory-interpretation timeliness timeliness-provision |
1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of
Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson
invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker
… |
| 20-7797 |
Jorge Luis Rosa-Hernandez v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-decision due-process equal-protection sentencing sentencing-guidelines third-circuit unrelated-misconduct |
Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's Decision in allowing the Government to use unrelated, uncharged mis… |
| 20-7801 |
Cody Lee Herman v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
and sentencing stages plea constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining plea-stage plea-stages pro-se-objections right-to-counsel sentence sentencing sentencing-stage |
A. Whether Petitioner's Right to the Effective Assistance of Counsel Was Violated During the Pretrial and Plea Stages of this Case Requiring That Peti… |
| 20-7790 |
Rolando Villarreal v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-04-16 |
GVR |
IFP |
assault-statute criminal-law force-against-person mens-rea reckless-mental-state sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-force violent-felony |
I. Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless … |
| 20-7793 |
Edgar Ivan Lira Estrada v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-04-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 20-1459 |
United States v. Justin Eugene Taylor |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-04-16 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (5)Relisted (2) |
attempted-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether 18 U.S.C. 924(¢)(3)(A)'s definition of "crime of violence" excludes attempted Hobbs Act robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1951(a). |
| 20-7784 |
Bryan Keith Goins v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process filing-deadline ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-interpretation legal-timeliness procedural-requirements sentencing writ-of-certiorari |
(1) Do my Prior Georgia Code ANN 3 16-3-30 lb Possessis
with inent to Dis Tribute methamphetanine 4 or my
TeNNeSSEe Code ANN. 339r 174 lsE PossEsSiON … |
| 20-7737 |
Marjuan Shondell Fleming v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split constitutional-rights crack-cocaine criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure first-step-act post-conviction right-to-counsel sentence-enhancement sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether the term "Covered offense" in the First Step Act of 2018, includes violations of Title 18 USC 924(c), involving crack cocaine, to which ACCA t… |
| 20-7744 |
Millard Price v. Delaware |
Delaware |
2021-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure disciplinary-actions due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel parole sentencing state-court |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7746 |
Miguel Angel Mendoza v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law drug-trafficking due-process fair-trial mens-rea sentencing |
1. Whether 21 U.S.C. § 960, which carries a ten-year mandatory-minimum sentence for "knowingly" importing a controlled substance if that substance is … |
| 20-7748 |
Cavin Burns Francis McKen v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto sentencing sex-offender-registration |
Whether the designation of Petitioner as a
Sexual offender
Persuant to Florida 8tatutes 3943.0435 is illegal as pertained
to this Petitioner. |
| 20-7761 |
Andrew Indelicato Peterson v. S. Butler, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
conviction-challenge criminal-procedure due-process essential-elements evidence-admissibility felon-in-possession knowledge-of-status plea-agreement prior-conviction prior-misconduct sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Can the distriet Court Use Post offenic conduct for crimes that a
defendant never Served Overa Year in Prison to assume ai defendant
knew his status P… |
| 20-7720 |
Corey Denard Thomas v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation procedural-rules sentencing standing state-court-procedure |
ARE FEDERAL COURTS ALLOWED TO INTERFERE WITH PENDING STATE COURT PROCEEDINGS?
DOES CONVICTION AND SENTENCES ON ALL COUNTS BECOME THE FINAL JUDGMENT O… |
| 20-7723 |
Dangelo Davis v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-endeavor criminal-procedure double-jeopardy drug-amount drug-charges due-process RICO sentencing sixth-circuit |
I. DID THE DECISION OF THE COURTS APPEALS THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERR WHEN CONCLUDING THAT DAVIS NOWAK'S GOAL OF FURTHERING OR FACILITATING THE CRIMINAL ENT… |
| 20-7726 |
James Ray Davis v. Gary Musselwhite, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure discovery due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-procedure motion-to-dismiss sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7701 |
Samuel Alex Gann v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary burglary-statute circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute sentencing specific-intent statutory-interpretation trespass |
An essential element of generic "burglary" is that the person formed the specific intent to commit a crime at some point during the commission of the … |
| 20-7702 |
Covia Dzell Smith v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-errors fair-trial fourth-circuit-review ineffective-assistance right-to-present-defense sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
I.
Whether trial counsel's ineffective assistance deprived Mr. Smith of the right to offer evidence in his defense.
II.
Whether the district court's … |
| 20-7705 |
Marco Antonio Serrano v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-waiver career-offender district-court-error due-process mandatory-application plea-agreement sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
1. Can a plea agreement that includes an appellate waiver lawfully deprive a defendant of his right to appeal a sentence that was based on the distric… |
| 20-7694 |
Eusebio Escobar de Jesus v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release due-process fifth-amendment first-step-act sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the First Circuit erred in affirming the denial of Petitioner's Motion for Compassionate Release under the First Step Act, which the Distri… |
| 20-7672 |
James Michael Garcia v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
assault child-abuse criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process guilty-plea plea-bargaining sentencing serious-bodily-injury |
WHETHER, AFTER A DEFENDANT PLEADS GUILTY TO FELONY CHILD ABUSE, THE GOVERNMENT MAY STILL PURSUE A CHARGE OF ASSAULT RESULTING IN SERIOUS BODILY INJURY… |
| 20-7656 |
James Robert Monson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver constitutional-rights due-process fundamental-rights intentional-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing united-states-attorney |
1. Whether the United States Attorney Offices' standard appeal waiver violates due process of law where, subsequent to the defendant signing the waive… |
| 20-7671 |
Ronald E. Johnson v. Derek Schmidt, Attorney General of Kansas, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-04-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process kansas-supreme-court mandatory-minimums mandatory-sentencing sentencing sentencing-modification sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation sua-sponte |
Was Astorga v. Kansas remanded back to the Kansas Supreme Court for the purpose of correcting with the Mandatory Sentence modification of Hard 40/50 p… |
| 20-7655 |
Lisa Bershan v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure downward-departure judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines variances |
Should this Court should grant certiorari in order to resolve the following conflict among the circuits: Is a sentencing judge required specifically t… |
| 20-7629 |
Robert Earl Martin v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-sentencing johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states legal-precedent residual-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether application of Johnson to the virtually identical residual clause in § 3559(c) does not require a new rule of constitutional law, but merely r… |
| 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 Stale Corrections Arbitrarily Change A Defendant 's Prison Sentence
Nearly Two Decades Later, Even After Having Initionaliy Structured Said Cou… |
| 20-7648 |
Kesner V. Joaseus, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age constitutional-law criminal-justice culpability due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-sentencing retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing |
Whether the proportionality principle & the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution has been violated by the sentencing court's failure to take into… |
| 20-7632 |
Shannon D. Hixon v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
causation criminal-law criminal-statute death-results drug-overdose drug-trafficking due-process foreseeable-result jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing |
WHETHER A DEFENDANT MAY BE CONVICTED UNDER THE "DEATH RESULTS" PROVISION OF 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(C) WITHOUT INSTRUCTING THE JURY THAT IT MUST DECIDE … |
| 20-7639 |
Joseph A. Harris v. Michael Pacheco, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation corrections department-of-corrections due-process inmate-rights judicial-authority judicial-review sentencing sentencing-authority separation-of-powers |
1.) Is the Department of Corrections above the Judicial Branch in such a way that it may increase a judicially given Maximum sentence without judicial… |
| 20-7640 |
Nicholas Corey Garner v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure email-search ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presentence-report restitution search-and-seizure sentencing sixth-circuit |
Was Counsel constitutionally ineffective when he failed to challenge the search of Petitioner's vehicle in violation of Petitioner's Fourth Amendment … |
| 20-7616 |
Deshun Thomas v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
constructive-denial cronic cronic-standard effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions sentencing sixth-amendment trial-counsel trial-strategy |
Is a defendant constructively denied the assistance of counsel under United States v. Cronic, 466 U.S. 648 (1984), when trial counsel tells the jury t… |
| 20-1369 |
Mohammed Jabateh v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-03-31 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure federal-criminal-rule federal-criminal-rule-52(b) plain-error plain-error-rule sentencing statutory-construction |
Does the plain error rule permit affirmance of a federal criminal conviction and sentence based on conduct that concededly does not violate the charge… |
| 20-7591 |
Herminio Perales-Perez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 20-7594 |
Rashawn Donnell Williams v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal conviction criminal-procedure due-process sentencing statutory-interpretation |
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| 20-7575 |
In Re Ivory Lee Robinson |
|
2021-03-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment due-process equal-protection mandatory-minimum sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7580 |
Trinidad Jesus Garcia v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing individualized-circumstances judicial-discretion plain-error reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
whether Formal objection after pronouncement of Sentence is necessary to invoke appellate review of Sentence (Ground Four) and Sentence Prejudice the … |
| 20-7585 |
Charles D. Bowser v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2021-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bias criminal-procedure due-process judicial-bias north-carolina-v-pearce plea-bargain prejudice sentencing |
Whether this Court should grant certiorari to resolve the issue if the Due Process Clause and North Carolina v. Pearce , 395 U.S. 711, 89 S. Ct. 2072,… |
| 20-7548 |
David Antoine Luster v. Bradley M. Trate, Warden |
Third Circuit |
2021-03-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law career-offender constitutional-law due-process judicial-review legal-precedent recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7545 |
Tyrone Robinson v. Christopher Buesgen, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
evidentiary-hearing fact-reduction hearing-standard legal-standing plea-withdrawal post-conviction-relief procedural-rule sentencing standard-of-review standing state-court-jurisdiction |
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| 20-7522 |
Joshua R. Jones v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender criminal-sentencing johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines void-for-vagueness |
I. Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidel… |
| 20-7533 |
Preston James v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-03-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
career-offender career-offender-guideline controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense guideline-commentary inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether it is a misapplication of the Sentencing Guidelines for a sentencing court to defer to guideline commentary that expands the definition of a c… |
| 20-7538 |
Frankie Lewis Jones v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2021-03-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment interstate-agreement personal-detention probable-cause search-and-seizure sentencing statute-of-limitations warrantless-search |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7516 |
Josue Portillo v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment incorrigibility juvenile-justice juvenile-offenders miller-rule miller-v-alabama proportionality sentencing |
Absent proof of incorrigibility, can a district court sentence a defendant to fifty-five years imprisonment without parole for participating in a exec… |
| 20-7520 |
Shante Bruce Rice v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2021-03-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
age-of-defendant constitutional-law criminal-justice criminal-sentencing equal-protection equal-protection-clause life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
WHETHER THE PENNSYLVANIA SUPERIOR COURT'S DECISION THAT THE BAN ON MANDATORY SENTENCES OF LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE APPLIES TO ONLY THOSE DEFENDANTS WHO WER… |
| 20-7528 |
Jonathan Figueroa-Serrano v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-03-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review conditional-plea criminal-procedure federal-courts federal-rules harmless-error plea-bargaining sentencing |
Under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(a)(2), a defendant may enter a guilty plea conditioned on the right to appeal an adverse pretrial ruling. … |
| 20-7509 |
Erik Santiago Leon Del Angel v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
continuance criminal-procedure defendant-rights district-court-discretion due-process immigration immigration-proceedings judicial-error jurisdiction procedural-fairness sentencing sentencing-continuance |
Did the District Court prejudicially err by denying petitioner's request to continue his sentencing so he may first appear in Immigration Court? |
| 20-7492 |
Justice Towan Roundtree v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alternative-sentence appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court-discretion guidelines harmless-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a Guidelines error is harmless when the district judge issues an alternative sentence by stating that she would impose the same sentence even … |
| 20-7495 |
Angel Santiago-Gonzalez v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-03-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-determinations statutory-maximum unanimous-verdict |
Whether a defendant's right to due process as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment through requiring that every element of any offense to be proven … |
| 20-7496 |
Maurice Spriggs v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-law due-process sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7497 |
Kevin Reid v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-18 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act negligence predicate-offense statutory-interpretation surplusage |
1. Whether attempted robbery under the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1951, qualifies as a "crime of violence," meaning that it "has as an element the use, at… |
| 20-7507 |
Christopher Faella v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2259 appellate-rights eighth-amendment plea-agreement restitution sentencing sentencing-appeal statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum waiver |
Whether a defendant's waiver in his plea agreement of the right to appeal his sentence -- unless it exceeds the statutory maximum penalty or violated … |
| 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… |
| 20-7476 |
Jose Armondo Ramos Cabrera v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-appeal criminal-procedure defendant-objection due-process firearm-possession firearms fourth-circuit sentencing sentencing-enhancement standard-of-review two-level-enhancement |
Whether the court erred when it denied defendant's objection to the two level enhancement for possession of a firearm |
| 20-7465 |
Johnny Andres Asuncion, III v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
carachuri-rosendo-v-holder criminal-sentencing felony-drug-offense mandatory-minimum ninth-circuit-precedent predicate-offense recidivism sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
The District Court Judge sentenced the Petitioner to life in prison for Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine , 21 U.S.C. Sect. 841(a)(… |
| 20-7449 |
Michael Nunez, aka Gordo v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
3553(a) 3553a-factors appellate-review appellate-waiver constitutional-review due-process judicial-bias judicial-discretion plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-bias |
Whether a sentence imposed by an apparently biased judge, based on material falsehood, disregard of the 3553(a) factors, legally unfounded fixed polic… |
| 20-7453 |
Douglas D. Jackson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process sentencing statutory-interpretation venue |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7456 |
Rafael Ayala-Solorio v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 20-7439 |
Michael Luis Suarez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) actual-innocence categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process plea-bargaining predicate-offense procedural-default sentencing-guidelines statutory-enhancement |
Whether a defendant may be enhanced under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) where he entered a plea of guilty to an offense that no longer qualifies as a predicate o… |
| 20-7410 |
Edward McCain v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-03-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
case-remand certiorari concurrent-sentences criminal-procedure eighth-amendment fourth-circuit-judgment jones-v-mississippi judicial-review juvenile-offenders plain-error sentencing supreme-court-procedure |
I. Whether an invalid conviction affects a criminal defendant's substantial rights and must be vacated on plain error review, irrespective of whether … |
| 20-7421 |
Jefferson Levine v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) circuit-conflict criminal-resentencing first-step-act judicial-discretion post-sentencing-conduct section-404(b) sentencing sentencing-discretion |
1. Whether, in order to properly exercise its discretion under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018 to impose a reduced sentence for an eligib… |
| 20-7428 |
Aldo Marones v. Aaron D. Ford, Attorney General of Nevada, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal civil-rights due-process evidence firearms sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7430 |
Carlos Torres v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act predicate-offense robbery-statute sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether a completed Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951 categorically qualifies as a predicate "crime of violence" under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)… |
| 20-7385 |
William F. Kaetz v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bail-conditions community-safety constitutional-rights covid-19 covid-19-considerations due-process pre-trial-detention pretrial-detention public-safety sentencing |
1. Whether Petitioner is entitled to release pending trial where the government has failed to establish, and the lower courts' findings are unsupporte… |
| 20-7386 |
Andrew Chapnick v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline criminal-procedure federal-habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing statutory-interpretation timeliness-provision |
1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of
Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson
invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker
… |
| 20-7387 |
Vaughn Lewis v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
agency-deference career-offender controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense deference inchoate-offenses sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
When "controlled substance offense" is defined in the text of the Career Offender Guideline, U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b), whether the commentary can add consp… |
| 20-7388 |
Alejandro De La Torre v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure discretionary-review downward-departure due-process sentencing |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit")–which affirmed the District Court's denial of Mr. D… |
| 20-7395 |
Antonio E. Wills v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 actual-innocence career-offender certificate-of-appealability ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement section-2255 statutory-maximum |
Did the appellate court err in denying a certificate of appealability on whether the district court erred or alternatively abuse its discretion by den… |
| 20-7352 |
In Re Henry Lee Rudolph |
|
2021-03-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
collateral-estoppel constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fraud-on-the-court judicial-discretion post-conviction-relief predicate-offense prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court-discretion |
Did the Utah Supreme Court commit fraud by stating The Framers rights were desired by and Rodelph requested, and by stating Three Tiered banner Violat… |
| 20-7363 |
Lerone Bernard Butler v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy controlled-substances criminal-procedure drug-offenses due-process law-enforcement-misconduct possession-with-intent sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence |
WHETHER THE VERDICT OF GUILT WAS SUPPORTED BY SUFFCIENT EVIDENCE TO SUSTAIN A CONVICTION, AND THE EVIDENCE, VIEWED IN A LIGHT MOST FAVORABLE TO THE GO… |
| 20-7369 |
Antonia Janai Hickmon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-fact-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing |
I. Whether facts that affect the minimum or maximum reasonable federal sentence must be proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt? |
| 20-7327 |
Timothy A. Ward v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-03-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
career-offender categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law federal-guidelines federal-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-drug-schedules state-law |
Under the provisions of the career offender enhancement in the United States Sentencing Guidelines, guideline ranges are dramatically increased for pe… |
| 20-7306 |
Agustin Madrid, aka Augustin Madrid v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure case-preservation circuit-split criminal-procedure holguin-hernandez-v-united-states judicial-interpretation legal-objection preservation-of-error procedural-unreasonableness sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review |
1. Whether Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, __U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), is relevant to the objections necessary to preserve claims of procedura… |
| 20-7313 |
Leonard Glen Overmyer, III v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel judicial-discretion post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-error supervised-release |
Whether a Defendant should be allowed to seek a reduction of, or discharge from, an imposed supervised release after being improperly sentenced, and r… |
| 20-7291 |
John L. Harris v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-03-02 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea non-consensual-reinstatement plea-bargaining plea-opportunity presumption-of-innocence sentencing trial-court |
Whether a trial court's non-consensual reinstatement of a defendant's guilty plea, without admonishments or the opportunity to plead anew, violates th… |
| 20-1209 |
In Re Raymond L. Rogers |
|
2021-03-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
all-writs-act appeals appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge sentencing statutory-authority statutory-interpretation |
Your Petitioner is [requesting] and [praying] for this United States Supreme Court to exercise its supervisory appellate powers pursuant-to 28 U.S.C. … |
| 20-7282 |
Earl Malloy v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-03-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-922g criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearms-offense guilty-plea rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether this petition should be held pending the decision in United States v. Gary, No. 20-444, given that both this petition and Gary present the sam… |
| 20-7273 |
Patrick Roger Brigaudin v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
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| 20-7246 |
Renaldo Demarquis Metcalf v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender criminal-history judicial-doctrine legal-departure sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines sentencing-process |
Does the use of the "de facto career offender" doctrine distort the sentencing process and lead to unwarranted sentencing disparity? |
| 20-7253 |
Nancy Cole v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-statutes due-process fifth-amendment mandatory-minimum mens-rea sentencing statutory-interpretation strict-liability |
1. Whether the knowingly mens rea in the federal drug statutes, 21 U.S.C. §§ 841, 960, applies to the elements of drug type and quantity that establis… |
| 20-7255 |
Samuel Zubia-Olivas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial precedent sentencing Supreme-Court writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-7216 |
Antwan Seawood v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing dismissed-charges fifth-amendment sentencing sentencing-discretion sixth-amendment |
Did the District Court abuse its discretion and violate Appellant's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights by sentencing him to a term of 240 months based u… |
| 20-7232 |
Raul Almanza-Portillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 20-7235 |
Michael Alvarez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-24 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process federal-criminal-law intent-standard mens-rea predicate-offense sentencing statutory-interpretation |
The circuit courts agree that a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) will be sustained even if the defendant was not aware that his conduct would be p… |
| 20-7197 |
Roberto Elias Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court due-process maximum-term plain-error plea-bargaining plea-colloquy sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether plain error resulted from the district court erroneously advising the client during plea colloquy that the maximum term of imprisonment was 10… |
| 20-7213 |
Nathan Ray Dent v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-bank-robbery armed-robbery circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing habeas-corpus predicate-offense statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis |
I. The government concedes that one of the possible predicate offenses used to convict Petitioners under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) —conspiracy—is not a § 924… |
| 20-7217 |
Felix Cisneros, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split conspiracy conspiracy-liability criminal-intent criminal-law due-process mens-rea sentencing statutory-elements statutory-interpretation waiver-doctrine |
1. Can a person be convicted of conspiracy to violate a statute containing an element increasing the offense's severity, where that element is not act… |
| 20-7220 |
Antonio Diaz-Agurcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 20-7190 |
Erik Sanchez v. Terry Jacques, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause consecutive-sentences constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-review judicial-discretion plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
IN ORCDER FOR THE SENTENCING COURT TO DEPART
FROM THE CONCURCENT SENTENCES REQUIREMENT
IN .R.S. S18-1-HOB(3) DOES COOVECNMENT
MUST ENTER FACTUAL BASIS… |
| 20-7202 |
Deon Anthony Romell Bailey v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel ninth-circuit plea-bargaining post-conviction sentencing sixth-amendment |
Did the Eighth Circuit improperly deny Petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel by failing to remand to the district cour… |
| 20-7204 |
Shane Faithful v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-distribution criminal-law federal-sentencing medical-care medical-prescription prescription-drugs sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a physician who prescribes a controlled substance to a patient for reasons other than medical care has unlawfully "dispensed" the substance… |
| 20-7168 |
Loren Joel McReynolds v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review base-offense-level criminal-procedure firearms-offense reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review ussg-2k2.1 |
I. Whether The Court's Calculation Of McReynolds' Base Offense Level Was Erroneous?
II. Whether The Court Erred In Denying A Reduction In The Offense… |
| 20-7177 |
Sandra Doyle v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure due-process post-arrest-interview prosecutorial-discretion relevant-conduct safety-valve sentencing witness-testimony |
1. Is it a denial of due process to sentence petitioner to additional imprisonment based on a finding that she lied or minimized in her safety-valve i… |
| 20-7186 |
Brian Dale Lee v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5k2.1-motion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court fourth-circuit judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Fourth Circuit court erred in finding that the district court's consideration of conduct raised in a 5k2.1 motion was appropriate? |
| 20-7172 |
Dakota Manucy Constantin v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-02-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment uncharged-conduct |
WAS CONSTANTIN DENIED DUE PROCESS WHEN THE SENTENCING COURT RELIED UPON UNCHARGED CONDUCT IN IMPOSING A SENTENCE IN EXCESS OF THAT RECOMMENDED BY THE … |
| 20-7148 |
Benjamin W. Fawley v. David Jablonski, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-02-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-violations contracts-clause criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus pro-se procedural-errors sentencing standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7150 |
Creadell Hubbard v. Charles Ratledge, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7152 |
Brian Hook v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2021-02-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea habitual-offender ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Indiana Courts erred denying Petitioner was deprived of effective assistance of counsel in violation of the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth A… |
| 20-7154 |
Robert Earl Ramseur v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-seizure government-surveillance judicial-misconduct mental-health privacy racial-discrimination sentencing veterans-rights |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7160 |
Emmett Garrison, IV v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2021-02-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole presumption sentencing sentencing-discretion |
If the Eighth Amendment forbids automatic life without parole sentences for juvenile offenders, does a sentencing court have the discretion to impose … |
| 20-7164 |
Marcelino Hernandez-Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals criminal-procedure drug-offenses due-process sentencing supervisory-powers |
Whether the decision of the United State s Cour t of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit")–whi ch affirmed the significant increase of the b… |
| 20-7128 |
Teodoro Reynosa-Denova v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-procedure sentencing stare-decisis supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-7138 |
Patrick Begay v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 aggravated-assault criminal-procedure federal-sentencing guidelines judicial-discretion native-american native-american-defendants sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission |
In carrying out the mandate of 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) to impose a sentence that is "sufficient but not greater than necessary on a defendant," may a dist… |
| 20-7112 |
Hector Miguel Martinez-Carrillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-7118 |
Terry Allen Miles v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment |
Did the trial court violate the 5th and 6th Amendments to the Constitution of the United States in overruling Petitioner's objection to the inclusion … |
| 20-7124 |
George Skylar Cloud v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court-discretion evidence evidence-admission federal-charges federal-criminal-law firearm-discharge guilty-plea sentencing separation-of-powers |
Did the district court error when it allowed the government to introduce into evidence the Petitioner's guilty plea, in a separate pending matter, to … |
| 20-7126 |
Dominic Anthony Davis, et al. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-11 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924c aiding-and-abetting armed-bank-robbery circuit-split fact-based-harmless-error-review harmless-error jury-verdict modified-categorical-approach predicate-offense section-924c shepard-documents |
I. Where an 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) conviction rests on more than one possible predicate offense, the Shepard documents must conclusively establish that a … |
| 20-7129 |
Tyreek Torrence v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2021-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7100 |
Ryan Detrell Robinson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure district-court-judgment due-process equal-protection sentencing sentencing-variance |
Whether the Circuit Court Erred Failing To Reverse District Court's Imposition of an "Alternate Variance Sentence" Which Was Designed To Insulate The … |
| 20-7107 |
Jimmy Richard Husband v. J. Ray Ormond, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-defect retroactive-effect retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation substantive-rule |
1. Whether NELSON V. COLORADO 137 S. Ct. 1249 (2018), announced a new substantive rule, narrowing the language and scope of 18 USC Sect. 3661, that ha… |
| 20-7109 |
Raul Flores-Villalvaso v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process illegal-reentry mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines specific-intent |
Whether the 8 U.S.C. § 1326 Attempted Illegal Reentry mens rea element of "specific intent" can be restated as simply "a conscious desire" with no ref… |
| 20-7076 |
Michael Javier Ottogalli v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process enhanced-sentence factual-contestation government-sentencing-memorandum ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presentence-report sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Is d ueprocess Violat&J dut ~h> i'neffe:f iVe assistance
of Counsel when defendant aWofney did oof qivc
defendant opportunity to review Peesenfence … |
| 20-7091 |
Ray Anthony Chaney v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states jurisdictional-challenge residual-clause section-2255 sentencing sentencing-review violent-felony |
The overall issue is whether, under law set forth in Johnson, Mr. Chaney should be resentenced without applying the armed career criminal provisions o… |
| 20-7079 |
Lorenzo Liwayne Barnes v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-rights criminal-appeal criminal-procedure drug-crimes due-process fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel narcotics-distribution perjury sentencing sentencing-factors |
Whether the United States Court of Appeal 4th Circuit violated the United States V McCarthy Rule.
Whether the United States Court of Appeal 4th Circu… |
| 20-7052 |
Joshua Wright v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion mitigating-factors procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing substantive-reasonableness |
Where the court failed to address Petitioner's mitigating arguments and failed to justify its sentence, whether the 151-month sentence is procedurally… |
| 20-7057 |
Romario Waller v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2021-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment aggravating-factors amendment-violation constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion mandatory-sentencing plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
1. Did the Trial Judge in case no 1995-CR-545 violate Petitioner 's 5th, 6th, 14th ,
Amendment rights when he sentenced Petitioner to a more than 20%… |
| 20-7068 |
Jerry Davis v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights conspiracy criminal-procedure discretionary-sentencing drug-convictions drug-crimes due-process first-step-act sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the 4thCircuit Court of Appeals created a Cirauit split by affiomingthe District
Courts reuson to ceny his motion for a sentence reduction und… |
| 20-7034 |
Kelli Renee Bullard v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing defendant-rehabilitation district-court-discretion due-process judicial-review rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-reasonableness statutory-maximum |
Did the district court impose a substantively unreasonable sentence of 60 months imprisonment —the statutory maximum—when it did so with a blind eye t… |
| 20-7037 |
Elias Junior Rodriguez v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5K1.1-motion appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing downward-variance government-motion judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines U.S.S.G.-5K1.1 |
1. DOES A COURT VIOLATE THIS COURT'S HOLDING IN GALL v. UNITED STATES, 552 U.S. 38 (2007) BY FAILING TO ADEQUATELY EXPLAIN TO WHAT EXTENT THE COURT'S … |
| 20-7041 |
Bruce Kintrell Green v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment parole sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 20-7042 |
Ronald Morris Hoenig v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-sentencing due-process johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states merits-ruling section-2255 sentencing standing successive-2255-motion successive-motion |
Where an authorized successive § 2255 motion argues that an Armed Career Criminal Act sentence should be set aside under Johnson v. United States, 135… |
| 20-7043 |
Kevin Hall v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-decision criminal-law due-process sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-dominguez |
1. Did the Ninth Circuit err by finding that Hobbs Act robbery is a "crime of violence" under United States v. Dominguez, 954 F.3d 1251 (9th Cir. 2020… |
| 20-7048 |
Roman Gabriel Gonzales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process plea-bargain sentencing supervisory-powers |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit")–which affirmed the significant increase of the base… |
| 20-7020 |
Richie Wheeler v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bodily-injury criminal-law criminal-statute deadly-weapon intent jury-finding law-enforcement reckless-driving sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
1. Whether to be guilty of a violation of 18 U.S.C. §111(b), which requires the use of a deadly weapon while forcibly assaulting, resisting, opposing,… |
| 20-7021 |
Martel Valencia-Cortez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
assault assault-charge criminal-law dangerous-weapon due-process federal-statute sentencing statutory-interpretation weapon-definition weapons |
Whether a "deadly or dangerous weapon" for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 111(b) includes a natural object that was not designed to be a weapon, such as a ro… |
| 20-7032 |
Salvador Delrio v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
courier courier-status criminal-procedure due-process mitigating-role sentencing sentencing-guidelines speculative-inference speculative-inferences u.s.s.g.-3b1.2 |
1. What weight should a court give to a defendant's essential role as a mere courier when determining a mitigating-role adjustment?
2. Does a distric… |
| 20-6991 |
Edwin Jurado-Nazario v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process first-circuit judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-review sentencing |
Whether The Sentence Imposed is Unreasonable. |
| 20-7007 |
Vernon Allen Collins v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
article-iii-standing civil-procedure constitutional-minimum coram-nobis due-process johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement standing |
I. WHETHER THE APPELLATE COURT ADOPTIONS OF THE DISTRICT COURT DISPOSITIVE PROCEDURAL CONCLUSIONS ERRED IN HOLDING COLONS HAD FAILED TO PROVE ARTICLE … |
| 20-6976 |
Timothy Tijwan Doctor v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure different-occasions federal-court non-elemental-facts plea-colloquy prior-offenses sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
1. Whether a federal court may increase a defendant's sentence under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) by relying on its own finding about non-elem… |
| 20-6977 |
Joshua Ryan Dorman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 20-6978 |
Chaka LeChar Castro v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute due-process ethnic-targeting evidence evidence-sufficiency hate-crime hate-crimes religious-discrimination sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
I.
Whether sufficient evidence supported Petitioner's convictions under 18 U.S.C.
§ 924(c) for counts three, five, seven and nine of the Second Supers… |
| 20-6980 |
Michael Ray West v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states section-2255 sentencing standing successive-2255-motion successive-motion |
Where an authorized successive § 2255 motion argues that an Armed Career Criminal Act sentence should be set aside under Johnson v. United States, 135… |
| 20-6982 |
Misty R. Weed v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conflict-of-laws constitutional-rights district-court-conflict due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel manifest-injustice plea-withdrawal sentencing sentencing-discretion |
I. DID THE FIRST DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL CREATE A MANIFEST
INJUSTICE WHEN IT EXPRESSLY AND DIRECTLY RULED IN
CONFLICT WITH DECISIONS OF FELLOW DISTRI… |
| 20-6985 |
Zongli Chang v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-waiver constitutional-rights due-process fines plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-maximum |
In a plea agreement that was tied to a fine guideline range, the Petitioner was never told his "maximal possible penalty" in terms of fine and forfeit… |
| 20-6986 |
Lorenzo Escudero v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fundamental-rights habeas-corpus legal-sufficiency sentencing trial-by-jury trial-rights |
Question not identified. |
| 20-6967 |
Justin Loper v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-procedure constitutional-challenge conviction crime-of-violence due-process hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery sentencing statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN DISMISSING THE
APPEAL WHERE THE CONVICTION AND SENTENCE WERE
UNCONSTITUTIONAL BECAUSE HOBBS ACT ROBBERY IS NOT A… |
| 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… |
| 20-6971 |
Jason Alfred Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure plain-reasonableness revocation-of-supervised-release revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
I. Did the court of appeals err when it reviewed the district court's sentence for plain reasonableness?
II. Did the district court impose a plainly … |
| 20-6954 |
Brenda Yadira Gamez-Castaneda v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alien-smuggling criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judge-found-facts judicial-fact-finding jury-trial jury-trial-rights sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Petitioner pleaded guilty to conspiracy to transport aliens within the United States and being found in the United States after a previous deportation… |
| 20-6930 |
Marco Antonio Lopez-Sanchez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure legal-precedent recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-6931 |
Christopher Shawn Landreneau v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a district court may, consistent with the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment and Rule 32 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, re… |
| 20-6932 |
Jorge Armando Jamaica-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 20-6933 |
Seledonio Martinez v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-standard totality-of-the-circumstances |
Where the totality of the circumstances of this case do not support a top-of-the-Guidelines sentence, whether the 46-month sentence is reasonable. |
| 20-6940 |
Ellery Dennis Thomas v. Raymond Madden, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus prisoner-rights remittitur sentencing standing |
Under the amendment of the U.S. Constitution, if there is a search seizure by prosecutor never mentioning it to the defendant and it was never mention… |
| 20-6943 |
Ronald Lewis Coleman, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons first-step-act mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences sentence-reduction sentencing |
Whether the changes in applicable mandatory minimum sentences worked by the First Step Act can provide extraordinary and compelling reasons to support… |
| 20-6946 |
Barry Cashin v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process procedural-reasonableness sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 3742(a) restrict appellate courts' authority to review the procedural and substantive reasonableness of a denial of a motion for a se… |
| 20-6949 |
Neally Cunningham v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
cocaine-base criminal-law criminal-resentencing drug-offenses federal-drug-offense first-step-act retroactivity sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation |
Whether Appellant's offense of conviction, a violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(C) occurring before August 3, 2010, and involving cocaine base, is a "… |
| 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… |
| 20-6924 |
Auturo Beltran v. Craig Koenig, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas habeas-corpus plea-agreement sentencing trial-court |
During a colloquy on a plea agreement to a 24-year sentence, petitioner said that he did not understand all of the rights and consequences of the plea… |
| 20-6925 |
Leonidas Iraheta and Eduardo Hernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judge-found-facts judicial-discretion jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit severe increases to the sentences of criminal defendants using judge-found facts rejected by the jury. |
| 20-6927 |
Anthony Freeney v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a audio-recordings criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency jail-phone-calls jury-instructions jury-verdict sentencing standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
GUILTY VERDICT?
DID THE DISTRICT COURT ERR IN ADMITTING AUDIO RECORDINGS OF MR. FREENEY'S JAIL PHONE CALLS?
DID THE SENTENCE IMPOSED BY THE DISTRICT… |
| 20-6909 |
Brian Gale v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law district-court due-process elements-clause hobbs-act residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
"WHETHER HOBBS ACT ROBBERY QUALIFIES AS A "CRIME OF VIOLENCE"?, WHERE THE DISTRICT
COURT FAILED TO ADVANCE ANY THEORY (i.e. "residual clause, force c… |
| 20-6911 |
Dimas Alfaro-Granados v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama rico-enterprise sentencing sixth-amendment vicar |
[1]- 1st Question Presented on Request and Application for COA
Did the appellate court err in denying a certificate of appealability on whether the di… |
| 20-6883 |
Christopher Brent Garner v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process federal-authority jury-trial legal-error sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review supervised-release trial-by-jury |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §3583(g) unconstitutionally deprives federal supervised releasees of the right to trial by jury?
Whether courts of appeals reviewin… |
| 20-6884 |
Luis Alberto Andrade-Salas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 20-6888 |
Christina Elizabeth Pandey v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 20-6894 |
Macho Joe Williams v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-interpretation criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
DiD The Trial court Abuse Its Disctetion when He Denied Apellant's Motions
To Sever
a. Dig The Trial couwst commit Reversible Ervor when He faile To … |
| 20-6867 |
Noel Romero-Espinal v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
continuing-offense criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute illegal-reentry immigration immigration-law sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-code |
Whether illegally reentering the United States in violation of 8 U.S.C. §1326 is a continuing offense. |
| 20-6837 |
Jacob Ray Owens v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure drug-crimes fact-finding judicial-fact-finding methamphetamine-distribution plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Petitioner pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine. He admitted to the district court only to possession of … |
| 20-6841 |
Steven Jones v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
apprendi apprendi-standard circuit-split covered-offense drug-quantity federal-criminal-statute first-step-act sentencing sentencing-range statutory-penalties |
I. Whether "statutory penalties" in § 404(a) of the First Step Act modifies the entire phrase – "a violation of a Federal criminal statute" – as the E… |
| 20-6848 |
Dana Sylvester Whitley v. R. Graham, Jr., Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-01-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review merger-of-sentences ohio-court-of-appeals post-conviction-relief second-degree-murder sentencing |
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| 20-6824 |
Raymond Bright v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-01-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment due-process elements-of-offense fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-determinations statutory-maximum unanimous-verdict |
Whether a defendant's right to due process as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment through requiring that every element of any offense to be proven … |
| 20-6787 |
Matthew Lee Pryor v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-sentencing direct-appeal direct-review first-step-act retroactive-application retroactivity section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Does Congress' express "Clarification of Section 924(c) of Title 18, United States Code" in Section 403 of the First Step Act apply to a defendant con… |
| 20-6807 |
Jamal Clinton, aka Moreless v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-01-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
bostock-precedent bostock-v-clayton-county career-offender career-offender-guideline controlled-substance-offense drug-conspiracy fair-and-not-arbitrary sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation title-18-usc-3553a6 |
1. Whether sentencing courts are required by Title 18, United States Code section 3553(a)(6) and Supreme Court precedent interpreting unambiguous stat… |
| 20-6777 |
James Baxton v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-01-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy criminal-evidence criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidence fourth-circuit rico rico-conspiracy sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
I. Whether the Government produced sufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the Petitioner's actions were part of a Rico Conspiracy… |
| 20-6781 |
Bernard Moore v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession felon-status jury-instructions rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states sentencing substantial-rights |
In Rehaif v. United States, this Court held that 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g) and 924(a)(2) require the government to prove that "the defendant knew he possess… |
| 20-6754 |
Alford Donta Tarpley v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
borden-v-united-states burris-v-united-states crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-sentencing precedent robbery sentencing sentencing-guidelines texas-law ussg-4b1.2 |
Whether the Texas offense of robbery by injury constitutes a "crime of violence" under USSG §4B1.2? |
| 20-6755 |
Alejandro Tovar-Regalado v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-rule almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi-rule constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation precedent-interpretation sentencing supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 20-6756 |
David Ray Wallace v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute due-process habeas-corpus physical-force reckless-conduct sentencing successive-motion texas-robbery violent-crime |
1. Whether Texas robbery—an offense that can be committed by recklessly causing injury or by placing the victim in fear of injury—has "the use of phys… |
| 20-6757 |
Phillip Jazir Thompson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fugitive fugitive-status probation-law sentencing sentencing-conditions supervised-release tolling tolling-period |
Whether a term of supervised release is tolled during the time in which
the person on supervised release is a fugitive. |
| 20-6761 |
Wayne Wells, Jr. v. Terrie Wallace, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-of-consent civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence-rules sentencing statutory-interpretation trial-procedure witness-testimony |
Does Module Code Ann. § 16-3-1055 (B)(c) has a constitutional requirement that a trial court must rule on the defendant's motion to suppress evidence … |
| 20-6764 |
James Ray Davis v. Christopher Morledge, Judge, Circuit Court of Arkansas, St. Francis County, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-01-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing |
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| 20-6767 |
Marlon Thomas v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-01-04 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process mental-competence pre-trial-evaluation right-to-counsel sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 20-6743 |
Neil Dussard v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction plain-error sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis |
Whether the Supreme Court should correct the Second Circuit's split from other Circuit Courts in addressing the recurring question of the validity of … |
| 20-6746 |
Jonathan Loyd v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment age-of-offender constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment mandatory-life-sentence sentencing |
Whether a mandatory term of life imprisonment imposed upon an offender under the age of 18 is per se lawful under the Eighth Amendment? |
| 20-6729 |
Michael Allen Bullock v. Erik A. Hooks, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-12-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection evidence-tampering fraud-on-the-court ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-fraud prior-record sentencing |
Petitioner's attorney deliberately and flagrantly violated my constitutional rights. Why has each court avoided my rights under the United States Cons… |
| 20-860 |
Ryan Randall Gilbertson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-12-30 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-restitution due-process jury jury-determination procedural-due-process reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth Amendment prohibits a court from imposing criminal restitution on a defendant based on facts not found by the jury beyond a reasonab… |
| 20-6715 |
Michael Adair Mankin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 20-6687 |
William James Jonas, III v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-appointed-counsel due-process fifth-circuit pro-se right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-hearing sixth-amendment substitute-counsel |
Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding that the district court did not violate Petitioner William James Jonas, III's right to cou… |
| 20-6699 |
Juan David Pineda-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-procedure sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-6702 |
Tomas Moreno-Turrubiates v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 appellate-review mitigation-arguments plain-error-review procedural-reasonableness procedural-unreasonableness sentence-explanation sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights |
1. Whether, when a defendant presents nonfrivolous mitigation arguments in favor of a lower sentence, a district court must address those arguments as… |
| 20-6692 |
Juan Manuel Lopez-Canales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-6694 |
Gerardo Flores-Riojas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-6655 |
Alonso Sanchez Ochoa v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consecutive-sentence criminal-sentencing defense-counsel district-court pre-sentence-report probation-officer relevant-conduct sentencing |
1. Is it reasonable for a District court to order a consecutive sentence despite an agreement among Probation Officer, Pre-Sentence Report Addendum, a… |
| 20-6656 |
Jose Armando Bazan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure davis-v-united-states fifth-circuit plain-error role-adjustment sentencing |
Whether the Fifth Circuit properly applied the plain error standard of review in determining that petitioner failed to establish plain error regarding… |
| 20-6644 |
David Santiago Renteria v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-sentencing certificate-of-appealability due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus investigative-funds sentencing |
1. Did the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit deny petitioner a full appeal of the district court's denial of funding under 18 U.S.C. § 3599(f), a… |
| 20-6623 |
Raymond Ka-Lun Pin v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-grievance civil-rights constitutional-rights discretionary-parole due-process equal-protection imprisonment parole sentencing takings |
VIOLATON COMHANT AND AFFIRMED BY THE COUAT OF APPEAS FOR THE FOUATH
CIRCUTT IS IN CENFHCT WITH DECISIONS OF THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT
WHEN TOE D… |
| 20-6630 |
Alejandro S. Estrada v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence administrative-law agency-decision certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-review jurisdictional-challenge procedural-default procedural-error sentencing |
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| 20-6609 |
Salvador Moreno Cervantes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-6552 |
Ignacio Arreola-Mendoza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-08 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law reckless-mental-state sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men… |
| 20-6557 |
Richard Cruz v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process felony-drug-offense fifth-amendment jury-verdict mandatory-minimum-sentence sentencing sixth-amendment vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
I. Whether the definition of "felony drug offense" for the pur poses of 21 U.S.C. §851 is void for vaguene ss after Johnson, Dimaya, and Da vis.
II. … |
| 20-6559 |
Jesus Villarreal-Ramirez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 20-6566 |
Anilou Beltran Del Rio v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 20-6571 |
Antonio W. Smith v. M. Brecken, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender habeas-corpus judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum miscarriage-of-justice sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Did the Fourth Circuit Appeals Court err by not hearing Petitioner's 28 U.S.C. §2241 petition on the merits where his misclassification as a career of… |
| 20-6541 |
Alejandro Pineda-Campuzano v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-07 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law reckless-mental-state sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men… |
| 20-6517 |
Elvis Basic v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure drug-quantity federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
1. Whether a federal district court must use the "err on the side of caution" principle when approximating the drug quantity? |
| 20-6539 |
Alfonso Lopez-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-04 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law physical-force reckless-mental-state sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Whether a statute has as an element the use of physical force against the person or property of another, for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 16(a), when a con… |
| 20-6540 |
Joshua N. Wright v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abduction acquitted-conduct constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-courts jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing sentencing-enhancement upward-variance |
1. Whether the district court erred in its "crime of violence" instruction to the jury.
2. Whether the district court erred in assessing an enhanceme… |
| 20-6511 |
Jose Antonio Lugo-Guerrero, aka Antonio Moraima, aka Fernando Rivera-Rodriguez, aka Alex v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment guilty-plea judicial-review plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Whether This Court Should Grant This Petition Because The First Circuit's Judgment Affirming The District Court's Judgment Violates Mr. Lugo-Guerre… |
| 20-6519 |
Julian Mondragon-Hernandez, aka David Rojas, et al. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alternative-elements conviction criminal-procedure factual-findings judicial-fact-finding judicial-review jury-instructions jury-verdict mandatory-minimum-sentences mandatory-minimums sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence |
When a jury verdict allows for alternative elements of conviction, may courts review the evidence and make factual findings to uphold the conviction a… |
| 20-6521 |
Hector Valdez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-review criminal-procedure first-step-act retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation waiver-of-rights |
If a defendant waives the right to appeal a sentence and the waiver takes place before the passage of the First Step Act and the defendant is sentence… |
| 20-6469 |
Hector Valentine v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-law criminal-innocence criminal-law double-jeopardy judicial-review plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation third-circuit |
Whether the Third Circuit's Erred
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| 20-6487 |
Andrew Johnston v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdictional-challenge sentencing suppression-of-evidence |
Question not identified. |
| 20-6492 |
Calvin James v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction firearms government-power interstate-commerce sentencing statutory-interpretation |
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| 20-745 |
Ismael Lechuga v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
abuse-of-discretion circuit-split due-process federal-procedure fifth-circuit impartiality judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal sentencing sentencing-procedure standard-of-review |
I. Whether a federal circuit court reviews the denial of a motion to recuse a district judge under 28 U.S.C. § 455(a) de novo or for an abuse of discr… |
| 20-752 |
Gavin B. Davis v. California |
California |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
appeal appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing totality-of-circumstances |
(1) Did the 4th Dist., Div. 1, Court of Appeal, California, err in its (a) inquiry and (b) application of Boykin / Tahl 1 analysis under its (c) "tota… |
| 20-6468 |
Kinzey Shaw v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-11-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure drug-quantity evidence sentencing standard-of-review |
1. Whether there was sufficient foundation to support the District Court's drug quantity approximation?
2. Whether the Eighth Circuit's decision to a… |
| 20-6473 |
Jessica Arnold v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review district-court failure-to-address judicial-discretion mitigation procedural-error sentencing sentencing-mitigation standard-of-review trial-counsel |
What standard applies to appellate review of the appeal of a district court's failure to address arguments of counsel in mitigation of sentencing, whe… |
| 20-6474 |
Pedro Fermin Barajas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors? |
| 20-6478 |
Barry Addison Gray v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-U.S.C.-§-2255 career-offender career-offender-sentencing-guideline due-process johnson-ruling Johnson-v-United-States residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines vagueness |
I. Are 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motions raising due process vagueness challenges to fixed sentences imposed through application of the pre-2005 mandatory care… |
| 20-6465 |
Damontaze Montrell Tillery v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
convicted-felon criminal-evidence criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process firearm-possession motion-for-acquittal sentencing sentencing-guidelines sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's decision to overrule Petitioner's motion for acquittal when the evidence at trial… |
| 20-6466 |
Louis Anthony Jackson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
924(c) 924(c)-sentence certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-procedure davis-decision due-process hobbs-act-robbery residual-clause sentencing |
[1] WHETHER A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY SHOULD HAVE BEEN GRANTED, WHERE MR. JACKSON ARGUED THAT IN LIGHT OF THIS COURT'S DECISION IN UNITED STATES … |
| 20-6449 |
Anthony Don Brown v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment waiver |
1. Under Class v. United States, 138 S.Ct. 798 (2018), when a defendant argues on appeal that his sentence was imposed in violation of his Fifth Amend… |
| 20-6451 |
Genesis Javon White v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act criminal-classification factual-finding occasions-different prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense serious-drug-offenses |
I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN CLASSIFYING MR. GRIFFIN AS AN ARMED CAREER CRIMINAL WHERE HIS PRIOR CONVICTIONS DID NOT QUALIFY AS "SERIOUS DRU… |
| 20-6452 |
Michael Deshawn Homer v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu case-remand certiorari constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond |
I. Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Ha… |
| 20-6458 |
Clayton Lee Waagner v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-11-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca armed-career-criminal-act burglary-definition collateral-estoppel indictment indictment-statute ohio-aggravated-burglary predicate-offense statute-of-conviction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the "statute of conviction" must be used for an ACC A predicate offense, or can the district court use the statute listed on the indictment in… |
| 20-6409 |
Hugo Humberto Perez Rangel v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
advisory-opinions appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-sentencing guideline-error harmless-error incentive-to-object judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines |
Whether Guideline error is necessarily harmless if the district court is presented with the Guideline range later vindicated on appeal and disclaims a… |
| 20-6418 |
Michael A. Harris v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-11-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting brandishing brandishing-firearm conspiracy crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act sentence-reduction sentencing supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the petitioner is entitled to a sentence reduction after pleading guilty to Conspiracy to Commit Hobbs Act Robbery and aiding and abetting bra… |
| 20-6419 |
Romell Broom v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-24 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
clearly-established-law constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment execution-attempt habeas-corpus robinson-v-california section-2254 sentencing supreme-court-precedent trop-v-dulles |
Is Louisiana ex rel. Francis v. Resweber, 329 U.S. 459 (1947) the clearly established United States Supreme Court precedent, for purposes of 28 U.S.C.… |
| 20-6427 |
Marquis Wilson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-11-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process first-step-act retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether Section 403 of the First Step Act of 2018, which is expressly titled a "clarification" of the penalty provisions of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) (1)(… |
| 20-6406 |
Jeffrey Neal Cuddington v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split history-and-characteristics preservation-of-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-procedure substantive-reasonableness |
I. In Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, this Court reserved whether a
formal objection at the time of sentencing is required to preserve abuseof-dis… |
| 20-6408 |
Jose Hilario Fernandez-Vargas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 20-6396 |
Michael John Bever v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2020-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-review jury-finding juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Whether a judge's decision to sentence a juvenile offender to consecutive terms is exempt from Eighth Amendment review.
2. Whether a judge's decis… |
| 20-6399 |
Duwayne Jones v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
career-offender controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense eleventh-circuit fifth-circuit florida-statute-§-893.13 mens-rea second-circuit sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-§-4b1.2(b) |
Is a post-2002 conviction for possession of cocaine with intent to deliver or sell, in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13, a "controlled substance offen… |
| 20-704 |
Cesar Santana v. California |
California |
2020-11-20 |
Denied |
|
age-appropriate-sentencing civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process habeas-corpus juvenile-sentencing liberty-interest miller-v-alabama sentencing youth-offender |
1. Does California Create a Liberty Interest to "Youthful-Offender's" when it Enacted
Legislation in Response/Remedy of a United States Supreme Court… |
| 20-6382 |
Randall Allen Eplion, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-practice plea-agreement sentencing standing waiver |
Whether a provision in a plea agreement which bars the defendant from appealing "the right to seek appellate review of . . . any sentence of imprisonm… |
| 20-6389 |
Tomas Martinez-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 20-6390 |
Rigoberto Cabrera v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel loss-amount prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-error witness-testimony |
1. Whether Cabrera made a sufficient showing that he received
ineffective assistance of counsel as a result of his counsel's
failure to challenge the … |
| 20-6374 |
Terrance Nathaniel Brown, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-18 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-law drug-conspiracy fourth-circuit harmless-error sentencing united-states-v-harchulik |
WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS MISAPPLIED THE HARMLESS ERROR DOCTRINE ANNOUNCED IN UNITED STATES v. HARDING WHEN IT AFFIRMED DEFENDANT'S SENTENCE FOR DR… |
| 20-6376 |
Sean Jason Harstine v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-of-defendant appeal breaking-and-entering criminal-history due-process juvenile-offender juvenile-offenses point-calculation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
I. WHETHER IT WAS ERROR TO COUNT CRIMINAL HISTORY POINTS FOR FOUR 2004 BREAKING AND ENTERING (B&E) CONVITIONS WHEN THE DEFENDANT WAS ONLY 17 YEARS OLD… |
| 20-6346 |
Demarcus D. Morris v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substances criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy drug-conspiracy due-process fifth-amendment indictment-vagueness rico rico-statute sentencing |
1) Count One (RICO) of the Indictment is unconstitutionally vague.
2) Count Two (Conspiracy to Distribute Controlled Substances) of the Indictment is… |
| 20-6356 |
Ryan Dennis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
acca criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus physical-force reckless-injury residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. Whether an offense that can be committed by recklessly causing serious injury has "the use of physical force against the person of another" as an e… |
| 20-6359 |
Andrew Rey Ybaben v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction child-pornography discretionary-conditions due-process federal-criminal-law interstate-commerce sentencing statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspecifie… |
| 20-6331 |
Raphael Dimenick Sam v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-11-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus sentencing |
WHETHER OR NOT THE LOWER COURT ERRED AND ABUSED HIS DISCRETION THE TRIAL COURT REVERSIBLY ERRED FOR ALLOWING "VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENT AND VICTIM IMPAC… |
| 20-6335 |
Duane Allen Sikes v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment uncharged-conduct |
The question presented by this case is whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments preclude a district court from increasing a defendant's sentence based o… |
| 20-6337 |
Tramaine Standberry v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct crime-of-violence criminal-law district-court-discretion due-process guidelines-interpretation jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement unconstitutional upward-variance |
1. Did the jury convict Mr. Standberry for a crime of violence that this Court has held is unconstitutional?
2. Was the district court's upward varia… |
| 20-6303 |
Lamar Whatley v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors constitutional-challenge de-novo eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion mitigating-factors sentencing sentencing-discretion separation-of-powers sixth-amendment |
1, The seperation of powers clause,as legislature has power to fix sentences.for mr.whatley crime and limit the scope of the judicial decsrition to im… |
| 20-6305 |
Roosevelt Leon Cooper v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearm-statute guilty-plea plain-error sentencing sentencing-error |
Whether a defendant who pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1) and 924(a), is automatically entitle… |
| 20-6311 |
Russell Davis v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accomplice-liability co-conspirator-liability controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-distribution due-process enhanced-penalty pinkerton-liability sentencing |
I. Whether the government must satisfy the evidentiary requirements for accomplice
liability under 18 U.S.C. §2 or co-conspirator liability under Pink… |
| 20-6313 |
Kevin Merritt v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review presentence-report procedural-objection sentencing sentencing-unreasonableness |
1. Whether Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, __U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), is relevant to the objections necessary to preserve claims of procedura… |
| 20-6316 |
Mickey Pubien v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-justice-reform criminal-resentencing discretion first-step-act penalty-reduction sentencing sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation |
What the district court may appropriately consider when imposing a reduced sentence pursuant to § 404 of the First Step Act of 2018 remains an unsettl… |
| 20-6317 |
Robert Petty v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review closing-arguments constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment trial-procedure |
1. Whether the Indiana Courts erred denying Appellant was deprived effective assistance of trial counsel during closing arguments and sentencing viola… |
| 20-6323 |
Lamont Andre Thomas v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction prosecutorial-discretion sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-code |
Does the Fifth Circuit have constitutional authority under Article III, Section 2, Clause 2 of the United States Constitution, to bring Criminal Charg… |
| 20-665 |
Damon B. Cook v. George M. Galaza, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
|
abuse-of-discretion civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process felony-murder habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-doubt rule-60(b)(6) sentencing |
1.) WhetheR The PetitioNeR DAMON COOk Has Made of A Substantial Showing The DeNial ConstitutioNAL RighT 28 USC 2253(C)(2) IN order To ObtaiN A CertiFi… |
| 20-6281 |
Kevin Lamar Ratliff v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amendment-782 career-offender criminal-law criminal-procedure discretion federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines guideline-amendment judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Lower Courts have discretion to reduce Whether the
Petitioner's sentence under U.S.S. Guideline Amendment 782,
regardless of Petitioner's career offen… |
| 20-6282 |
Darius Tirrell Thomas v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation u.s.-code |
Whether, the Trial Court Erred in Finding the Defendant to Be a "Career Offender" and Sentencing Him Accordingly? |
| 20-6285 |
Brittany Shanice Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 20-6290 |
Orlando Sanchez v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act career-offender constitutional-vagueness johnson-v-united-states postconviction-motion residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a postconviction motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, challenging a sentence imposed under the pre-2005 mandatory version of the Sentencing Guidelin… |
| 20-6291 |
Christopher Stacy v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure felon-in-possession firearm-statute guilty-plea mens-rea plain-error plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a defendant who pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1) and 924(a), is automatically entitle… |
| 20-6292 |
Alonte Deshavion Richey v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 20-6298 |
Carlton Butler v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus sentencing |
Does Fed.R. Crim. P. Rule 35(c)(4) provide the District Court with authority to increase a defendant's otherwise lawful sentence previously imposed on… |
| 20-6271 |
Cordarryl Antonio Betton v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process government-breach plea-agreement record-support sentencing sentencing-enhancements |
Is a Plea Agreement breached by the government when the prosecutor announces the government's agreed to recommendation to the sentencing court but the… |
| 20-6259 |
Angela de Jesus-Concepcion v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-11-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure district-court evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel misrepresentation sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Whether Petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel impermissibly violated, when the district court erred in failing … |
| 20-6261 |
Damien Edward Desjardins-Racine v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons first-step-act guidelines sentencing |
Does Asthnu Diagnosis o A OF Give − Rise EXTZADRDINATY OTD .3F TO AN compelling REASON DURSUANT the SeNtercing GUiDeliNeS?
DD The Rassabe oF oyf FIRS… |
| 20-6243 |
Okeiba Sadio v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights covered-offense criminal-procedure drug-distribution due-process first-step-act sentencing sentencing-reduction sixth-amendment statutory-penalties |
(1) Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals Wrongly dismiss Mr Sadio's Appeal with out no Briefs being filed or hearing any arguments, violating m… |
| 20-6230 |
Ulis Howard Alexander v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
corpus-delicti criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-procedure fifth-circuit legal-error punishment-phase sentencing |
Did the Fi fth Ci rcuit err i n hol ding that the concept of corpus del icti shoul d not
apply in the puni shment phase? |
| 20-6237 |
Jamar Parker v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-history district-court mitigating-factors mitigation-arguments procedural-reasonableness sentencing substantive-reasonableness |
Where the district court failed to consider or address Petitioner's mitigating arguments and focused exclusively on his criminal history, whether the … |
| 20-6242 |
Devontate Mauryce Davis v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-11-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
administrative-law controlled-substance-offense guideline-commentary inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing sentencing-commission statutory-interpretation ussg-4b1.2 |
Whether the United States Sentencing Commission exceeded its authority by adding inchoate offenses to the USSG § 4B1.2(b) definition of "controlled su… |
| 20-6198 |
Agustin Chavez v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process identity identity-verification post-conviction-information postconviction-information prior-record-exception sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Whether courts, including those in Florida, have been incorrectly applying a "prior record" exception to the rule from Apprendi v. New Jersey 530 U… |
| 20-6206 |
Travis Johnson v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing eighth-amendment proportionality proportionate-penalties sentencing solem-v-helm state-courts supreme-court-precedent |
1. IS Solem v. Helm, 463 U.S. 277 (1983) binding Case Law?
2. Must Illinois Appellant Courts be required to Follow the United States Supreme Court's … |
| 20-586 |
James T. Gersky v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
5th-amendment court-precedent criminal-procedure defendant-testimony due-process estelle-v-smith judicial-guidance mitchell-v-united-states sentencing |
I.
Should this Court provide guidance to district
courts regarding the forced testimony of
defendants at sentencing, in accordance with
this Court's p… |
| 20-577 |
Moaze Ibrahim v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-10-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 20-6170 |
Justin David Brown v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-action constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing sixth-amendment standing statutory-interpretation substantial-assistance |
Did the defendants Sixth Distnet Court violate the Amendment right Special Agent Nicole allowing ba Bailey Hecring the defendants Sentancing 4s2 24 at… |
| 20-6143 |
Saul Mangual-Corchado v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
carjacking-statute civil-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process force-clause johnson-standard residual-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
THE COURT SHOULD ISSUE A W.O.C. AND ADDRESS WHETHER THE FEDERAL CARJACKING OFFENSE DOES CONSTITUTE A "CRIME OF VIOLENCE" WITHIN THE MEANING OF 18 U.S.… |
| 20-6147 |
Shane Anthony Roberts v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-right waiver |
Whether the Court of Appeals improperly denied Mr. Roberts of the statutory right to appeal his 70-month sentence by summarily granting a government m… |
| 20-6148 |
Smith Merinord v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c 924(c)-statute brandishing criminal-justice-reform direct-appeal firearms-offense first-step-act hobbs-act sentencing statutory-interpretation |
I. WHETHER THE FIRST STEP ACT APPLIES TO CASES PENDING ON DIRECT APPEAL AT THE TIME OF ITS ENACTMENT, WHERE THE PETITIONER WAS CONVICTED OF THREE HOBB… |
| 20-6130 |
Desmond Howard Greer v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-26 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law criminal-offense elements-of-crime force legal-interpretation mens-rea personal-injury reckless-injury recklessness sentencing use-of-force violent-crime |
Whether an offense has as an element the use of force against the person of another if it may be committed by recklessly inflicting injury? |
| 20-6122 |
Jerome Capelton v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-liability first-circuit joint-venture mens-rea realistic-probability sentencing |
1. Whether the First Circuit's application of the "realistic probability" standard in Mr. Capelton's case, where the elements of Massachusetts "joint … |
| 20-6124 |
Jose Maria Loaiza-Gaspar v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process guideline-sentence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-withdraw reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
My Sentence of LIFE imprisonment was imposed without the trial court addressing my non-frivolous argument for a lower sentence. On appeal, the Court o… |
| 20-6095 |
Ray Anthony Chaney v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-USC-3582 compassionate-release covid-19 criminal-justice district-court federal-criminal-procedure health-conditions home-confinement motion sentencing |
Whether the district court erred by denying Mr. Chaney's Motion for Compassionate Release under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A). |
| 20-6099 |
Malcolm Moore v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure direct-review due-process first-step-act judicial-discretion retroactivity sentencing sentencing-retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
Whether Section 403 of the First Step Act of 2018, which is expressly titled a "clarification" of the penalty provisions of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(C), … |
| 20-6100 |
Carlos Meza-Cruz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial sentencing Supreme-Court |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-6103 |
Curtis Lee Dale v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery document-discovery due-process pro-se-defendant search-warrant search-warrants sentencing standing |
- Is a prose litigant due a merits determination or adjudication on every claim he presents in his 28usc.f22ssMotion?
-Is a defendant to be provided … |
| 20-6106 |
Rafael Cruz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights coerced-confession criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance mental-disability plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment voluntariness |
When the District Court denied to issue a Certificate of Appealability, then a jury picked Court abused its discretion when the Defendant was forced t… |
| 20-531 |
Derek Hutter v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2253 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-hearing |
Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his claim(s) that his counse… |
| 20-6067 |
Angeledith Saramaylene Smith v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-disparity |
Whether the District Court erred in rejecting petitioner's claim that her attorney provided ineffective assistance of counsel by failing to object to … |
| 20-6074 |
Timothy Jarred Paige v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-20 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights criminal-charge criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines standing statutory-interpretation |
WHEN CHARGED WITH VIOLATING 18.U.S.C § 922(9)(1) COUPLED WITH § 924(a)(2) DOES THE DISTRICT COURT RETAIN JURISDICTION TO CHARGE AN OFFENSE THAT ISN'T … |
| 20-6079 |
In Re Dale McKenzie |
|
2020-10-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-violation conviction-challenge criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice-standard sentencing sentencing-error trial-court-discretion unconstitutional-law void-conviction |
GROUND ONE
1. Has prejudice been shown where the trial court overruled
the defendant's motion for continuance to show that his prior
Georgia convict… |
| 20-6084 |
Laron J. Wainwright v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres-v-united-states armed-career-criminal-act judicial-records jury-trial modified-categorical-approach prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Most circuits agree that when increasing a defendant's sentence beyond the normal statutory maximum pursuant to the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), … |
| 20-6085 |
Celso Yanez v. California |
California |
2020-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment first-time-offender mandatory-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines sexual-abuse |
Whether a mandatory sentence of 45 years to life, imposed on a 56-year-old first-time offender in a sexual abuse case involving no violence, no force,… |
| 20-6087 |
Tana Chris Lawrence v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-disparity standard-of-review |
1. Whether the District Court erred in rejecting petitioner's claim that her attorney provided ineffective assistance of counsel by failing to object … |
| 20-6088 |
Miguel Angel Baez-Castillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-rights criminal-procedure indictment prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
I. Can a court, consistent with the Sixth Amendment, impose a statutorily enhanced sentence based on the fact of a prior conviction never alleged in t… |
| 20-6060 |
Benjamin Davis Smiley, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-10-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors capital-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-determination mitigating-circumstances sentencing |
1. Does the decision of the Florida Supreme Court in Smiley v. State , 295 So.3d 156 (2020), violate the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual pun… |
| 20-6073 |
Desmond Littlejohn v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c certiorari-review civil-rights crimes-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-law fourth-amendment ninth-circuit sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery is a crime of violence for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c). |
| 20-6047 |
Ramada Tajedeen Shabazz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit haymond-precedent remand sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond |
Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Haymo… |
| 20-6051 |
Jonathan Ortiz-Torres v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance plea-agreement sentencing sixth-amendment voluntariness |
Should a writ of certiorari should be granted to determine if trial counsel renders ineffective assistance when he fails to advise his client that the… |
| 20-6042 |
Barry Lynn Bailey v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit haymond-precedent sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond |
I. Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Ha… |
| 20-6017 |
Tracey Godfrey v. Lynn Guyer, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing |
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| 20-6041 |
Raymond Lewis Perry v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection first-stage-proceeding robbery sentencing sentencing-hearing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-6004 |
Jconcepcion Alonso-Tobar v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-5983 |
Omar Sierre Folk v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-10-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines career-offender criminal-procedure guidelines habeas-corpus pre-beckles section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines statute-of-limitations third-circuit |
1. Whether the Third Circuit's erred in not addressing Erroneous Career Offender Designation under the 5, 2016. |
| 20-5997 |
Zaira Franco v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 administrative-exhaustion administrative-remedies compassionate-release criminal-justice exhaustion federal-procedure judicial-review sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court erred by ruling that exhaustion of administrative remedies is required before a court can consider a motion for compassiona… |
| 20-6000 |
Sara G. Kielly v. New York |
New York |
2020-10-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-conditions conviction-challenge criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus plea-agreement plea-bargaining prison-treatment sentencing |
1.5 a defendant required, in light of well-established facts, to explicitly state a plea agreement's constitutional conditions, and treatment in priso… |
| 20-5974 |
Quordalis V. Sanders v. Brian Foster, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-10-09 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence sentencing |
ory trial and aepeal ?
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Did both Hhx Wiscousin … |
| 20-5975 |
Nathaniel Ruth v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-10-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance drug-offenses federal-sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Does the phrase "controlled substance" in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) include substances that are excluded from the CSA?
2. When defining an operative, bu… |
| 20-5979 |
Steven Dwayne Bailey v. Stuart Sherman, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-review compassionate-release criminal-justice district-court due-process early-release judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-standard parole procedural-error sentencing |
Assembly Bill 29u2 allows the Court to recall andlor
resentence the defendant upon recommendation
of the district Attorney of the Cownty in Which
the … |
| 20-5985 |
Derrick Kennedy Crumpton v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bad-faith-review circuit-court-split criminal-procedure government-discretion government-motion judicial-review plea-agreement proffer-agreement sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
What is the scope of judicial review when the defendant and the government have entered in a Plea Agreement and/or a Proffer Agreement in which the go… |
| 20-447 |
Francisco Rodriguez-Castro v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 career-offender criminal-sentencing miscarriage-of-justice petition-for-certiorari post-conviction-relief procedural-error section-2255 sentence-enhancement |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in holding that Rodriguez's erroneous sentence enhancement as a career offender, which increased his sentence from 135… |
| 20-5948 |
Christopher Michael Sevier v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-assault borden-precedent crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-sentencing guidelines remand sentencing sentencing-guidelines supreme-court texas-law violent-crime |
Whether the Texas offense of aggravated assault by threat constitutes a "crime of violence" under USSG §4B1.2?
Subsidiary question: whether the decis… |
| 20-5951 |
Joshua Scott Richards v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness u.s.-sentencing-commission u.s.s.g.-§-2g2.2 |
Whether a sentence imposed pursuant to the United States Sentencing Guidelines covering the crimes of accessing or possessing child pornography, U.S.S… |
| 20-5957 |
Darius Taurean Caldwell v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 20-5940 |
Sabrina Alexander Weightman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond writ-of-certiorari |
I. Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Ha… |
| 20-5892 |
Russell A. Stoddard v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment enhanced-sentence fourteenth-amendment sentencing state-law |
1. DOES THE EIGHT AMENDMENT PROTECTION AGAINST CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT PROHIBIT A STATE FROM IMPOSING A PRISON SENTENCE THAT EXCEEDS THE MAXIMUM … |
| 20-5893 |
Jonnie Ravon v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment habeas-corpus juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole manifest-injustice sentencing violent-offenses |
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… |
| 20-5902 |
Larry Burt Sexton v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment hearsay hearsay-evidence parole-consideration sentencing |
Error by the trial court in admitting hearsay evidence at the sentencing hearing and by finding that the petitioner was a career offender and sentenci… |
| 20-5904 |
Tarahrick Terry v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-05 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (9)IFP |
2010 crack offenders sentenced under 21 U.S.C. § circuit-split crack-cocaine fair-sentencing-act federal-criminal-statute first-step-act sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation statutory-penalties |
Whether pre-August 3, 2010 crack offenders sentenced under 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(C) have a "covered offense" under Section 404 of the First Step Act. |
| 20-5909 |
David Conerly v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court evidence evidence-review judicial-review ninth-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Did the Ninth Circuit err by mining the district record to uphold an upward adjustment to petitioner's offense level under the Sentencing Guidelines? … |
| 20-5910 |
Robert Coleman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
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Ad. \Nhen does teledant Conduck become Celevant Conduct do dhe inslant S¥Sense oF conuicheon Yo be used to enha… |
| 20-5914 |
Clifton Robinson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech interstate-commerce regulatory-authority sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
1) peTiTIoNer Obsects To The hower courrs deTenmiratio> ThAT peTiTIONER STIpUlUTEd ait Triul That The scheme wuolved c1 WIne COMMUNiCUTIONS aFFECTINg … |
| 20-5915 |
Perry Cortese v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals-court criminal-procedure district-court enhancement federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing |
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| 20-423 |
LaQuanda Gilmore Garrott v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-02 |
Denied |
|
charge-bargain judicial-review maximum-sentence plea-agreement prosecutorial-discretion sentencing sentencing-discretion separation-of-powers |
Whether a district judge violates the separation of powers by rejecting a plea agreement containing a "charge bargain"—a guilty plea to one or more co… |
| 20-5872 |
Jesus Sanchez-Chacon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 20-5887 |
Charles Kunta Lewis, Jr. v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2020-10-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
age-consideration brain-development constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment individualized-sentencing juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing mandatory-minimum sentencing |
I. The Constitution prohibits punishments that are cruel and unusual. In addition to the crime committed, the juvenile offender's age must also be tak… |
| 20-5890 |
Willie R. Benton, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy due-process mistake-of-fact relevant-conduct sentencing sixth-circuit |
Is a criminal defendant denied Due Process of Law when the sentencing Court in a drug conspiracy case determines that a quantity of a substance should… |
| 20-415 |
Pablo Javier Aleman v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-responsibility detainer-transfer interstate-agreement interstate-agreement-on-detainers jurisdictional-authority mental-health-adjudication not-criminally-responsible receiving-state sending-state sentencing sentencing-procedure treatment |
1. Under the Interstate Agreement on Detainers ("IAD"), MD. CODE
ANN., CORR. SERVS. § 8-401 et seq., does the receiving state have the
authority to co… |
| 20-5857 |
Alimamy Barrie v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-USC-3582 criminal-procedure discretion federal-sentencing guidelines judicial-discretion retroactivity sentencing sentencing-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-5865 |
John Doe #1 v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights due-process sentencing supervision-conditions vagueness |
Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred, in violation of U.S. Const. V, when it imposed the communication condition of supervision which is … |
| 20-5869 |
Michael Robert Everett v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process federal-law federal-preemption judgment-rendition reclassification sentencing state-law |
DURING THE CHARGE IS RECLASSIFIED FROM ONE VARYING DEGREE OFFENSE TO ANOTHER, DOES THIS FINDING RENEW THE BURTON V. STEWART, FERREIRA V. SEC'Y DEP'T O… |
| 20-5877 |
Demetrius Cherilus Morancy v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3013 criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-statute legal-procedure offenses-against-the-united-states sentencing special-assessment statutory-interpretation |
Whether the special assessment required by 18 U.S.C. Section 3013 for "an offense against the United States" is required to be imposed for all offense… |
| 20-5882 |
Omero Nino-Guerrero v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 20-5851 |
John Christopher Badgett v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness united-states-v-haymond |
I. Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Ha… |
| 20-5861 |
Alijah Jaquez Mitchell v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-09-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime weapons-offense |
IS A HOBBS ACT ROBBERY A CRIME OF VIOLENCE FOR PURPOSES OF 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)? |
| 20-5836 |
Rosie Diggles v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process external-document judicial-procedure mandatory-supervision oral-pronouncement pronouncement sentencing special-conditions |
Is the Court required to orally pronounce special conditions and give reasons for those special condition, as a condition of mandatory supervision, at… |
| 20-5825 |
Larry Lamar Nance v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review central-thesis circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion mitigation mitigation-arguments sentencing sentencing-review |
Whether it is sufficient for a sentencing court to address the "central
thesis" of a defendant's arguments in mitigation or whether, as a majority
of … |
| 20-5771 |
Taveon Nixon v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver due-process miscarriage-of-justice procedural-reasonableness sentencing statutory-maximum substantive-reasonableness |
WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT'S OVERT CONSIDERATION OF THE EXISTENCE AND NATURE OF AN APPEAL WAIVER PRIOR TO VARYING UPWARD TO THE STATUTORY MAXIMUM SENTENC… |
| 20-5787 |
Thomas Wayne Godard v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c) 924(c)-conviction due-process equal-protection first-step-act retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-relief |
Whether the Circuit Court Erred Failing to Apply First Step Act retroactively to multiple 924(c) convictions that were announced, but not final, at th… |
| 20-5799 |
Lorenzo Davis v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a criminal defendant's sentence should be based upon acquitted conduct. |
| 20-5770 |
David A. Bridgewater v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-09-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-rule dismissed-conduct due-process fifth-amendment judicial-fact-finding sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a court from relying solely on dismissed conduct to impose an otherwise substantively unreasonable sen… |
| 20-5775 |
Natalie Angeles v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure harm-analysis judicial-coercion presentence-report sentencing structural-error |
Does a district court coerce the Defendant to withdraw her objections to findings in the Presentence Report where the court informs the Defendant that… |
| 20-5751 |
Pedro Fernandez-de Campa v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law certiorari-petition criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-reconsideration precedent precedent-review sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), should be overruled. |
| 20-5757 |
Jerrieus Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process firearms-offense plea-agreement plea-bargaining residual-clause sentencing void-for-vagueness |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §§ 2 and 1951(a), aiding and abetting interference with commerce by robbery, falls under the residual clause found at 18 U.S.C. § 92… |
| 20-5730 |
Jimmie Butler v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review career-offender criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing-enhancement standard-of-review |
I. The district court improperly designated Mr. Butler as a career offender, and this was not harmless error. The district court made a rote, less tha… |
| 20-5734 |
Alfred Flores, III v. California |
California |
2020-09-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment constitutional-requirements criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process jury-findings jury-trial reasonable-doubt ring-v-arizona sentencing |
Whether California's death penalty scheme violates the constitutional requirement that any fact that increases the penalty for a crime must be found b… |
| 20-5738 |
Willie Hugh Washington v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu 139-S-Ct-2369 certiorari constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit sentence-vacatur sentencing united-states-v-haymond |
L. Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Ha… |
| 20-5740 |
Edward Mahan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-USC-3553a appeal criminal-procedure downward-adjustment drug-offense due-process government-misconduct plea-agreement safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
DID THE DISTRICT COURT ERR BY ALLOWING THE GOVERNMENT TO VIOLATE THE PLEA AGREEMENT?
DID THE DISTRICT COURT ERR BY DENYING MR. MAHAN'S OBJECTION TO T… |
| 20-5741 |
Juan Gabriel Sanchez-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial recidivism sentencing Sixth-Amendment |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States , 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-5743 |
Johnny Melendez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-criminal-act constitutional-rights ineffective-assistance narcotics-possession prior-conviction right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Should a writ of certiorari should be granted to determine if counsel rendered ineffective assistance when it allowed the court to rely on a prior con… |
| 20-5711 |
David Smith-Garcia, fka David Garwood Atwood, II v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure fifth-circuit plain-error-review sentencing supervised-release |
1. Whether the district court erred by ordering two terms of imprisonment to run consecutive in the subject third supervised release revocation procee… |
| 20-5717 |
William Bradner v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-justice-system due-process government-breach plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-level sixth-circuit |
Whether the government breaches the bargain of a plea agreement by requesting a minimum sentencing level fifteen years longer than what it had explici… |
| 20-348 |
Gregory Shawn Mercer v. E. A. Vega |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process guarantee-clause jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation summary-judgment supreme-clause |
SCOTUS Rule 10(a) - Whether or not a Circuit Split has arisen between the Fourth Circuit and other Circuits over the interpretation of whether crimes … |
| 20-5700 |
Antonio Moss v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-regulations civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-interpretation judicial-review sentencing statutory-construction |
Question not identified. |
| 20-5709 |
Rickey Cole v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
and proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt? placed in the indictment burden-of-proof constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing grand-jury indictment jury-trial sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
I. Whether facts that affect the minimum or maximum reasonable federal sentence must be found by a grand jury, placed in the indictment, and proven to… |
| 20-5710 |
Jaime E. Coca-Ortiz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 20-5689 |
Orlando Bell v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2020-09-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment jury sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a defendant's sentence on conduct for which the jury acquitted the defenda… |
| 20-5655 |
Casye Necole Richardson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors? |
| 20-5674 |
In Re James Ward |
|
2020-09-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance missouri-v-frye plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Consistent with the holding in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), which held that to prove prejudice on a claim of ineffective assistance … |
| 20-5677 |
In Re Jimmy Wren |
|
2020-09-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus motion-to-rehear sentencing sentencing-hearing successive-habeas-corpus |
1. Whether 28, §2244, U.S.C. deprives similar situated litigants of due process of law?
2. Whether the enforcement of 28, §2244, U.S.C., subjects sim… |
| 20-5636 |
Miguel Figueroa v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction gun-statute plea-bargaining plea-colloquy predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant's statement during a plea colloquy admitting conduct that could serve as a predicate for a conviction for use of a gun under 18 U.… |
| 20-5640 |
Michael Wayne Northcutt v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law due-process intentional-conduct mens-rea predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Where the circuit courts agree that a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) will be sustained even if the defendant was not aware that his conduct woul… |
| 20-5646 |
Sean Justin Owens v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act commerce-clause criminal-conviction firearm-possession jury prior-conviction prior-convictions rehaif-v-united-states sentencing serious-drug-offense |
1. Whether, in cases charged and tried to a jury before this Court decided Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), courts of appeals may affi… |
| 20-5650 |
Carlos Cruz-Rivera v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure firearms firearms-conviction first-step-act judicial-review retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(C), which as clarified and as amended by
the First Step Act of 2018, precludes aggravated punishment for
second firearms… |
| 20-5652 |
Daniel L. Lopez v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states motion-to-vacate sentencing statute-of-limitations |
Whether Lopez's 28 USC Section 2255(a) Motion was timely filed under Johnson v United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) as there is a split between the 8… |
| 20-5653 |
Hermenegildo Margarito Espinoza Espinoza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
1) Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eith… |
| 20-5622 |
Larry E. Starks, Jr. v. United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fifth-amendment judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation tenth-amendment |
A. WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT ERRED AND ABUSED ITS DISCRETION BY
TERMINATING THE INQUIRY AS TO WHETHER THE PETITIONER MET TH… |
| 20-5630 |
Mark Anthony Thacker v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2020-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment indiana-law jail-time-credit judicial-discretion miscarriage-of-justice sentencing sentencing-credit |
Whether Petitioner, Mark A. Thacker, has suffer a miscarriage of justice and has been denied the equal protection and due process of laws as guarantee… |
| 20-5642 |
Christopher Wooten v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony plea-bargaining sentencing |
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| 20-5610 |
Eric J. Brown v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2020-09-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure direct-appeal jury-unanimity juvenile-offenders retroactivity sentencing |
Under Griffith v. Kentucky, new rules apply to all defendants whose cases are "pending on direct review or not yet final." Petitioner was convicted in… |
| 20-5614 |
Derrick Anthony Felton v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-activity defendant-status due-process judicial-determination leadership-role legal-error plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-enhancement trial-court vagueness |
Did the Trial Court error in finding that Mr. Felton was an organizer, leader, manager, or supervisor of the criminal activity? |
| 20-5595 |
Joshua Glen Box v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-circuit categorical-approach child-pornography criminal-law eighth-circuit federal-criminal-law predicate-offense predicate-offenses sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit erred when it failed to properly apply the categorical approach to determine whether Mr. Box's pri… |
| 20-5561 |
Craig Edward Hunnicutt, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review discretion federal-sentencing first-step-act guidelines judicial-discretion motion-denial sentence-reduction sentencing |
1. A First Step Act (FSA) sentence reduction denial should come only after a
"complete review on the merits." Yet the Sixth Circuit held that it had n… |
| 20-5585 |
Denis Nikolla v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute duenas-alvarez federal-criminal-statute federal-definition generic-definition generic-offense predicate-offense realistic-probability realistic-probability-test |
In Gonzales v. Duenas-Alvarez, 549 U.S. 183 (2007), an immigration case, this Court held that when a federal court applies the categorical approach to… |
| 20-5590 |
Manuel Chacon-Lara v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process fast-track fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-court-of-appeals ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pre-trial-proceedings pre-trial-stage sentence-reduction sentencing |
Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err in determining there was no "Substantial Showing of Denial of a Constitutional Right" - When Chacon-Lara ar… |
| 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… |
| 20-5577 |
Malik Timbers v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea minor-role-reduction plea-bargaining sentence-appeal-waiver sentencing sentencing-guidelines violence-enhancement weapon-enhancement |
I.
WHETHER CERTIORARI REVIEW SHOULD BE GRANTED
WHERE THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN FINDING THAT
TIMBERS' GUILTY PLEA WAS VOLUNTARY AND THE
SENTENCE-AP… |
| 20-5578 |
Steven Gerard Walker v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure federal-state-courts felon-in-possession mens-rea preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-enhancement violent-felony |
1) Whether a sentencing judge can find facts in the first instance about whether
a defendant committed offenses on different occasions by a prepondera… |
| 20-272 |
Maryland, et al. v. Jimmie Rogers |
Maryland |
2020-09-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment sentencing sex-offender-registration sixth-amendment |
Did the Court of Appeals of Maryland depart from this Court's decisions in Smith v. Doe and Apprendi v. New Jersey in holding, contrary to the decisio… |
| 20-5543 |
Javier Galindo-Caballero v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-precedent sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-5537 |
Anderson Alexander v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravated-assault armed-career-criminal-act civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process johnson-decision mississippi-state-law sentencing sentencing-enhancement united-states-v-johnson violent-felony |
At issue is whether, under this Court's law established in United States v. Johnson, Mr. Alexander should be resentenced without application of the ar… |
| 20-5461 |
Jose Camilo v. New Jersey State Parole Board |
New Jersey |
2020-08-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process extended-term parole parole-board retaliation retaliatory-action sentencing |
THE PETITIONER, CONTENDS THAT His CASE IS
VERY SIMILAR. TO TRANTINO V. STATE OF N.S. _
PAROLE BOARD. AFTER HAVING SERVED THE PUNIT IVE ASPECTS OF HIS … |
| 20-5513 |
Timothy Allen McWilliams v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender circuit-split conspiracy controlled-substance due-process methamphetamine sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the courts must give deference to the commentary to United States Sentencing Guidelines (U.S.S.G.) § 4B1.1(b)(2) in determining whether a defe… |
| 20-5515 |
In Re Tracey A. Merrill |
|
2020-08-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction ninth-circuit pleadings predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement standing statutory-interpretation |
IS THIS A DISTORTION OF JUSTICE
WAS EXTREME MALICE DISPLAYED IN THIS CASE |
| 20-5530 |
Tony Gordon v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-justice-act due-process expert-services independent-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether a trial court violates the Sixth Amendment right to independent counsel in denying a defense application for necessary expert services pursuan… |
| 20-5535 |
Randy Platt v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act career-offender common-law common-law-definition elements-clause physical-force robbery robbery-statute sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-commission |
In Stokeling v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 544 (2029), this Court reviewed whether Florida's robbery statute required a level of force necessary to qual… |
| 20-5507 |
Laci Landers v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure discretionary-review drug-offense guidelines judicial-review reasonableness reasonableness-standard revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines totality-of-circumstances |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit") has so far departed from the accepted and usual cou… |
| 20-5478 |
Fernando Hernandez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure discretion domestic-violence drug-trafficking due-process sentencing sentencing-discretion |
Was Hernandez ' due process rights violated when the district court abused
its discretion in relying on Hernandez ' domestic violence past in sentenc… |
| 20-5479 |
Santos Mondragon Benitez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-indictment criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 20-5488 |
Franklin Rafael Lopez Toala v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-Amendment appellate-record due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment Gardner-v-Florida judicial-procedure presentence-investigation sentencing sentencing-review |
1. In reviewing a sentencing judgment, may the Eleventh Circuit consider new materials that were never introduced to the sentencing judge? (A 9-2 spli… |
| 20-5454 |
Mark Shields v. R. C. Smith, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-08-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto judicial-individualization parole parole-considerations sentencing sentencing-rights stage-1-calculation standing takings |
F Whhe specifeS.7-1steE Reveinnane
Consider a actuall produ of a Mandted litial Individulized Parle Considerdon
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ab a ubsuenb ProlCnsloheaing… |
| 20-5457 |
Dennis A. Smith v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender criminal-law drug-statute first-step-act predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court of Appeals incorrectly determined that the Ohio Revised Code §2925.03(A)(2) dealing with preparation for shipment or preparation for… |
| 20-5469 |
Alfonzo Traymayne Lee v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights discretion due-process equal-protection first-step-act judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether giving the District court discretion to grant or deny sentencing reduction pursuant to 18 USC 3553(a) and the First Step Act of 2018, Section … |
| 20-5470 |
German Milla-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-overturning precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-5472 |
Henry Dailey v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-authority criminal-procedure due-process federal-law jurisdictional-challenge restitution sentencing state-law statutory-interpretation |
The State of Missouri has a Statute that criminalizes the transfer of dee. Custody or @acontcol of ANY Corin +o aNatrer, or ko another place, when the… |
| 20-5473 |
Andres Chavez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing |
I. WHETHER CHAVEZ WAS DENIED DUE PROCESS WHEN HE WAS MISLEAD INTO ENTERING A GUILTY PLEA; BECAUSE COUNSEL FAILED TO REVIEW THE PSR WITH HIM AND FAILED… |
| 20-5474 |
Montez L. Clayton v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing |
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| 20-5428 |
Jose Ricardo Morales-Mercado v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres apprendi criminal-procedure due-process sentencing supreme-court |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998) , in light of the reasoning of … |
| 20-5429 |
Derrick T. Neville, Jr. v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne apprendi criminal-procedure jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment |
approacl does not apply to the texn "serious drvg
sffense pursuant to 92yle)(2lA)i). Tne tevm "requires an ly
that the state offsuse inuolue thecondu… |
| 20-5432 |
Michael James Barnes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court fifth-circuit habeas-corpus johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states plea-agreement plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief post-conviction-waiver section-2255-petition sentencing |
Whether the district court and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by finding that the post-conviction waiver in Mr. Barnes' Plea Agreement bars … |
| 20-5433 |
Gregory Wind v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-deference circuit-split deference district-court federal-courts-of-appeals federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Did the district court impose a substantively unreasonable sentence upon Mr. Wind? |
| 20-5437 |
Wendell Taylor v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court fifth-circuit habeas-corpus johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states plea-agreement plea-bargaining post-conviction-waiver section-2255-petition sentencing |
Whether the district court and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by finding that the post-conviction waiver in Mr. Taylor's Plea Agreement bars… |
| 20-5407 |
Dominique Mack v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-08-19 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process evidence jailhouse-informant mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentencing plain-error sentencing statements-against-interest |
1. Should the Court should grant certiorari in order to consider whether this
Court's jurisprudence concerning the admission of statements against int… |
| 20-5408 |
Robert Richard Jodoin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process eighth-amendment federal-sentencing military-veteran non-violent-offense reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines veteran-status |
WHETHER A ONE HUNDRED THIRTY MONTH PRISON SENTENCE FOR A NON-VIOLENT, DRUG DEALING, FIFTY (50) YEAR OLD, MILITARY VETERAN IS UNREASONABLE. |
| 20-5409 |
Johnathan Scott Keen v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender constitutional-law criminal-law drug-offenses due-process felony-enhancement mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether, as preserved, the District Court erred as a matter of (Constitutional) Law in finding Mr. Keen's prior Florida drug convictions qualified as … |
| 20-5386 |
Leon Hawkins v. Donnie Morgan, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion merger ohio-law sentencing sentencing-merger |
Does Ohio violate petitioner's constitutional right to be sentenced for sentences that merged (yet) the court sentenced separate sentences for the sam… |
| 20-5393 |
Timothy McCullough v. Jeff Dennison, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction sentencing void-for-vagueness |
1. Does the sentencing courthave Jurisdictionto Sentence a defen dant
to a statute void of judgment,un-enforceable undar the Constitution?
charging, s… |
| 20-5376 |
Alfredo Estrada-Eugenio, aka Alfredo Erasto Estrada-Eugenio, aka Juan Eugenio Medina, aka Alfredo Estarada, aka Alfredo Eugenio-Estrada, aka Alfredo Estrada, aka Gerardo Amezquita v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-5348 |
Chazdin Miller v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-law ploseny-case sentencing sentencing-guidelines taylor-decision |
Whether an offense-matching categorical approach applies to the determination of a "controlled substance offense" under the Sentencing Guidelines? |
| 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? |
| 20-5346 |
Jerry Lee Thompson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing substance-abuse-treatment supervised-release |
I. Does a district court commit reversible plain error when, in a sentence revoking supervised release, it imposes a condition of supervised release r… |
| 20-5326 |
Jose Alonso Garcia v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-08-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment career-offender categorical-approach due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Were Mr. Garcia Due Process Rights violated under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment when he was:
A.) Incorrectly sentenced under U.S.S.G. 4Bl-2(c) Te… |
| 20-143 |
Michael Harrison Lowman, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-08-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure disparate-treatment due-process judicial-discretion sentencing unreliable-facts |
SHOULD AN APPEAL WAIVER THAT DID NOT EXPRESSLY WAIVE A DUE PROCESS CHALLENGE BE ENFORCED WHERE THE SENTENCING COURT BASED ITS SENTENCE ON UNRELIABLE F… |
| 20-5321 |
Michael Wayne Wadena v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights controlled-substance criminal-history due-process eighth-amendment firearm-possession related-cases sentencing sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation |
Does 924(e)'s "serious drug offense" mandate that courts consider both statutes when sentencing
Could hypothetical aggravating sentencing factors be … |
| 20-5300 |
Victor Santana-Gonzalez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-error plain-error sentencing sentencing-procedure |
Does plain error apply to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure Rule 32(i)(4)(a)(ii) when the error is caused by the sentencing court |
| 20-5267 |
Kolongi Richardson v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-sentencing federal-conspiracy inchoate-offenses sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the inclusion of inchoate offenses within the commentary is inconsistent with the text of U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2, rendering the commentary not le… |
| 20-5283 |
Mauricio Lemus v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence revocation-hearing sentencing supervised-release |
Whether at a supervised-release revocation hearing the government must prove by a preponderance of the evidence its contention that a defendant's cond… |
| 20-5263 |
Patrick W. Schroeder v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2020-08-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mitigation mitigation-evidence pro-se pro-se-representation proportionality sentencing |
1) Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution are violated when a capital sentencing panel issues a death sentence… |
| 20-5248 |
Robert Bernal, Jr. v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-08-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-procedure plea-agreement restitution restitution-order sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-limits unlawful-sentence |
Whether a defendant's waiver of the right to appeal which explicitly permits appeal of a sentence that "exceeds the applicable statutory limits set fo… |
| 20-5253 |
Douglas Farrar, Sr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process false-testimony findings judicial-findings obstruction-of-justice perjury presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the generic adoption of a Presentence Report is sufficient to discharge the court's duties to make express and independent findings for an obs… |
| 20-5237 |
Kenneth Lee Manhard v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal collision-liability criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection license-suspension miranda-rights sentencing vehicular-manslaughter |
(1) Was he denied equal protection of the law ? |
| 20-5244 |
David Lopez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
application-note base-offense-level criminal-procedure judicial-discretion leadership-enhancement rico rico-violation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Did the district court and the First Circuit err by declining to apply Application Note One as written? |
| 20-5240 |
Cynthia Gilmore v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ambiguity ambiguous-verdict conspiracy criminal-procedure jury-instructions jury-verdict predicate-acts reasonable-doubt sentencing |
Whether the sentencing court is required to use the reasonable doubt standard to determine the predicate acts where the jury's verdict was purposefull… |
| 20-5219 |
Binh Nguyen v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review remand sentence-vacatur sentencing united-states-v-haymond |
L. Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Ha… |
| 20-5222 |
Travon Nikeith Johnson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-remand court-review criminal-procedure exceptions Holguin-Hernandez judicial-interpretation legal-precedent procedural-analysis remand reversal sentencing supreme-court-citation |
Whether the court below overlooked or disregarded Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, __U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), meriting remand or reversal? |
| 20-5223 |
Jorge Madrid-Uriarte v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-precedent court-decision criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-review legal-standard precedent reasonable-probability reconsideration remand sentencing standard-of-review |
I. Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light… |
| 20-5226 |
Jose Flores-Dominguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 20-5161 |
Roberto Gonzalez-Gatica v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 20-5184 |
Richard Brian Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act criminal-charging criminal-procedure indictment indictment-error prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-provision statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether sentencing Mr. Williams under the ACCA was error because the prosecutor specifically charged the sentencing provision of 18 U.S.C. § 924(a)… |
| 20-5172 |
Darrell Henry Williams v. Joe Coakley, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-07-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
career-offender criminal-statutes due-process federal-procedure mandatory-minimums physical-force reckless-conduct sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Do criminal statutes satisfied by reckless conduct resulting in injury require as an element "the use ... of physical force against the person of a… |
| 20-71 |
Stephen P. Brown v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-07-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal-waiver certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance section-2255 sentencing sentencing-review sixth-amendment |
Should this Court vacate and remand the Februar y 12, 2020 Order of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denying a certificate of appealab… |
| 20-5152 |
Joel Arredondo-Moreno v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process sentencing sixth-amendment stare-decisis supreme-court |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-5153 |
Jamiell Sims v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1594 conspiracy criminal-conspiracy criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-statute force-fraud-coercion offense-level sentencing sentencing-guidelines sex-trafficking |
What is the base offense level for conspiracy to commit sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion in violation of 18 U.S.C. §1594(c)? |
| 20-5156 |
Manuel Contreras Saucedo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fact-finding federal-sentencing jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing |
I. Whether facts that affect the minimum or maximum reasonable federal sentence must be proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt? |
| 20-5135 |
James Bowell v. State Bar of California |
California |
2020-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
6th-amendment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy habeas ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel parole-revocation parolee sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum |
1. Would it be considered a 6th Amendment deprivation violation ineffective assistance of counsel for a court appointed attorney refusing to present f… |
| 20-5113 |
Jeremias Robertson v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process fact-finding fifth-amendment guideline-sentencing self-incrimination sentencing sentencing-deliberations silence |
1. In United States v. Mitchell , 526 U.S. 314, 330 (1999), this Court held that a sentencing court may not draw adverse factual inferences from silen… |
| 20-5122 |
Maximo Flores-Lezama v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583(e) criminal-conduct criminal-punishment due-process precedents punishment revocation sentencing statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether a supervised release revocation sentence may be imposed to punish a defendant for his underlying criminal conduct, or whether a punitive revoc… |
| 20-5104 |
Justin Tapp v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-07-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 20-5084 |
Priscilla Ann Ellis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment brady-claim civil-rights due-process ineffective-counsel judicial-prejudice racial-bias sentencing sixth-amendment |
Was Ellis Prejudicied when NONE of her concerns were considered in her Initial Appeal 17-12737?
Was Ellis Prejudiced per 6th Amendment when Attorney … |
| 20-5088 |
Francisco Javier Ponce-Mares v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-below different-result holguin-hernandez Holguin-Hernandez-v-United-States lower-court-decision reasonable-probability reconsider-decision reconsideration sentencing supreme-court-precedent |
Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light of… |
| 20-5090 |
Ronald Lynn Thomas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law district-court-discretion due-process federal-sentencing guidelines harmless-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether Guideline error is necessarily harmless if the district court is presented with the Guideline range later vindicated on appeal and disclaims a… |
| 20-5093 |
Dion Clayborn v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender congressional-intent deference-to-agency drug-trafficking guideline-commentary recidivism sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Title 28 U.S.C. § 994(h) authorized the Sentencing Commission to promulgate guidelines that, based on legislative history, were intended harshly punis… |
| 20-34 |
Anthony Thomas Grimes v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2020-07-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-defense criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel parole-eligibility plea-bargaining plea-negotiation prejudice-standard sentencing sentencing-information sexual-offender-registration sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington |
Whether the Kentucky Court of Appeals has diminished and violated the federal constitutional guarantee of effective assistance of counsel in the pretr… |
| 20-5055 |
Juan Carlos Castellanos Muratella v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-07-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender circuit-conflict controlled-substance controlled-substances counterfeit-controlled-substances criminal-law drug-trafficking due-process imitation-controlled-substances simulated-substance statutory-interpretation |
Is a statute that includes simulated controlled substances, imitation controlled substances, and counterfeit controlled substances categorically a con… |
| 20-5056 |
George Cortez, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu certiorari constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit haymond-precedent remand sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Haymo… |
| 20-5058 |
Randy Estevez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-07-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process felony-enhancement firearm-possession jury-instructions jury-unanimity sentencing sentencing-reasonableness u-s-sentencing-guidelines unanimity |
1. Whether the district court erred in not instructing the jury that it
should be unanimous on the date and location of his alleged
possession of the … |
| 20-5040 |
In Re Antwoyn Terrell Spencer |
|
2020-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process eighth-circuit first-step-act mandamus personal-liberty sentence-reduction sentencing |
1. Petitioner is deprived of Due Process of Law Contrary to Law in violation of the Fifth Amendment and Section 404 of the First Step Act.
2. Because… |
| 20-5051 |
Andre Patrick Staggers v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-841(b) criminal-procedure drug-offense first-step-act retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-law statutory-minimums |
Does the First Step Act provision lowering the enhanced statutory minimums of 21 U.S.C. § 841(b) apply to persons who were sentenced before the provis… |
| 20-5016 |
Ashton Charles Butler v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery criminal-law divisible-offense double-jeopardy federal-sentencing sentencing statutory-interpretation uniform-administration-of-justice united-states-code |
In Prince v. United States, 352 U.S. 322 (1957), this Court
construed the first and second paragraphs of 18 U.S.C.
§ 2113(a)—bank robbery and entry in… |
| 20-5019 |
Raul Barrera-Velasquez, aka Raul V. Barrera, aka Raul Velasquez Barrera, aka Raul Velasquez-Barrera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing due-process enhancement equal-protection fifth-circuit parole sentencing sentencing-enhancement u.s.s.g-2l1.2 |
Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in rejecting Barrera's claim that the District Court's sentence violated constitutional principles of… |
| 20-5007 |
Anthony Ray Foley v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-standard booker-standard circuit-split due-process federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review supervised-release |
1. Is the "reasonableness" standard, under United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220 (2005), the proper standard for appellate review of a sentence impose… |
| 20-5015 |
James Latron Sumter v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment first-step-act guilty-plea mandatory-minimum plea-bargaining sentencing |
1. WHETHER THE APPELLATE COURT ERRED IN AFFIRMING THE
DISTRICT COURT'S RULING NOT ALLOWING SUMTER TO WITHDRAW
HIS GUILTY PLEA?
2. WHETHER THE APPELLA… |
| 19-8915 |
Robert Eugene Glassgow v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 acquittal aedpa court-of-appeals criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief presumption-of-innocence sentencing |
Whether prose defendants since file under 18 U.S.C. § 2255 and are paid back costs by the Court Judge if in be the onus ce oy tt permission of the app… |
| 19-8928 |
Oscar Campos-Lagunas, aka Jose Lopez-Lomali, aka Carlos Ortiz, aka Orbelin Lagunas Campos, aka Carlos Laguna Campos, aka Oscar Laguan Campos, aka Norbelio Campos-Lagunas, aka Carlo Garcia, aka Orbelin Campos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-rule constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment judicial-interpretation precedent-review sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 19-8911 |
Lee Montez Thompson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari criminal-procedure davis-v-united-states district-court due-process habeas-corpus plain-error pleading-defendant reasonable-probability rehaif-v-united-states sentencing |
I. Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light… |
| 19-8912 |
Giezi Arce-Calderon v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-07-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process guideline-range guideline-sentence judicial-discretion plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
A. Whether the sentence imposed on Mr. Arce is substantively unreasonable, despite being a guideline sentence of six months, where the parties agreed … |
| 19-8900 |
Jeffrey Chleo Brown v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-preservation circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court-procedure factual-dispute factual-objection legal-sufficiency preservation-of-appeal procedural-error sentencing sentencing-objection standard-of-review |
Is a factual objection at sentencing sufficient to preserve for appeal the district court's failure to resolve the ensuing dispute? |
| 19-8902 |
Rafael Antonio Patino-Villalobos v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acknowledgement criminal-procedure defense-counsel district-court federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure invited-error legal-doctrine procedural-waiver rule-52(b) sentencing |
Whether defense counsel's acknowledgement of the district court's statement during sentencing constitutes an affirmative, intentional, deliberate, and… |
| 19-8896 |
Melodio Reyes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 19-8897 |
David Lee Smith v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2020-07-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge covid-prison-conditions due-process emergency-relief fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prisoner-rights pro-se pro-se-petition sentencing sentencing-review |
ARE PRO-SE PETITIONER'S ENTITLED TO COURTS' LIBERAL CONSTRUCTION OF THEIR COURT PAPERS OR FAIR AMENDMENT?
IF PROSECUTOR PRESENT ED NO EVIDENCE PETITI… |
| 19-8849 |
Linda Pedroza v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing parole proportionality second-degree-homicide sentencing sentencing-disparity |
Where a juvenile offender is sentenced to a term of 40 years in prison for a second degree homicide, and that sentence places her in a worse position … |
| 19-8884 |
Samuel Gray v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3559 categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elemental-analysis georgia-robbery prior-convictions recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
I. THERE IS A LACK OF CLARITY AND UNANIMITY AMONG LOWER COURTS OF WHETHER A PRIOR GEORGIA ROBBERY CONVICTION CONSTITUTES A "CRIME OF VIOLENCE" FOR ENH… |
| 19-1453 |
Michigan v. Gerald Raynard Fuller |
Michigan |
2020-07-02 |
Denied |
|
acquittal acquittal-consideration acquitted-conduct conflict-of-authority criminal-procedure due-process federal-circuits judicial-discretion preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-standards state-courts |
The federal circuit courts have uniformly held that a sentencing judge may consider conduct for which the defendant has been acquitted, and this Court… |
| 19-8876 |
Solomon Jalloh v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi apprendi-rule common-law common-law-tradition criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing jury-findings loss-calculation restitution sentencing |
Whether under Apprendi, the maximum restitution that can be imposed without additional jury findings as to any amount of loss is zero, consistent with… |
| 19-8877 |
Patrick D. Lomas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure discretion fair-sentencing-act first-step-act judicial-discretion section-404 sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
i.
Did the District Court abuse it's Discretion when it denied Petitioner's
Motion seeking a reduction of Sentence under Section 404(b) of the First S… |
| 19-8878 |
Frank Richardson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c criminal-law first-step-act retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation |
On December 21, 2018, President Trump signed into law the First Step Act of 2018 which dramatically changes the penalties imposed for gun-related crim… |
| 19-8830 |
Justin Michael Oxendine v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-06-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion legal-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines upward-variance |
Whether the district court abused its discretion by varying upward when an applicable guideline provision addressed conduct that formed part of the ra… |
| 19-8837 |
Donnie Wayne Nipper v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-06-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal criminal-procedure double-jeopardy ex-post-facto jurisdictional-waiver sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution |
Should Mr. Nipper be resentenced without an armed career criminal enhancement to his guideline range where the government failed to allege prior convi… |
| 19-8799 |
James Johnman, Jr. v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-06-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals circuit-split criminal-assessment criminal-law judicial-review sentencing sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation victims-rights victims-trafficking-act |
Whether the "additional special assessment" in the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3014, imposes a per-offender or per-count asses… |
| 19-8800 |
Justice Jerrell Knight v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2020-06-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-prejudice prejudicial-evidence racial-bias sentencing |
In a capital case in which the defendant's jury observes him in shackles and jail clothing, and multiple members of the jury expressed the belief that… |
| 19-8815 |
Jose Armando Nunez-Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8-usc-1326 almendarez-torres apprendi criminal-procedure due-process sentencing |
1. Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of… |
| 19-8817 |
Barry Lalane Harrell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
above-range criminal-procedure district-court justification policy-statement sentencing |
I. Whether the district court erred when it sentenced Petitioner significantly above the policy statement range without adequate justification? |
| 19-8820 |
Cesar Velazquez v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act career-offender constitutional-vagueness due-process liberty post-conviction-relief residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness |
The question presented is whether a postconviction motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, challenging a sentence imposed under the pre-2005 mandatory version … |
| 19-8790 |
Christina Ann Whichard v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit haymond-precedent sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond |
Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Haymo… |
| 19-8791 |
Jose Angel Vasquez-Soto v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 19-1404 |
Michael Lieberman v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-06-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
all-writs-act amendment criminal-defendant district-court judicial-relief post-conviction-remedies relief restitution restitution-order sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1) What relief is available to a criminal defendant
under the All Writs Act?
2) How, and when, may a district court amend a
restitution order imposed… |
| 19-8771 |
Michael A. Risenhoover v. William Muniz, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-years-to-life criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-murder first-time-offender judicial-discretion murder prior-criminal-history proportionality public-message sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
1) Does SENTENCING A FIRST TIME OFFENDER WITHOUT HAS NO PRIOR CRIMINAL HISTORY TO 28 YEARS TO LIFE SEND A DANGEROUS MESSAGE TO THE PUBLIC AND FUTURE O… |
| 19-8775 |
Kirby Gardner v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-06-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure parole petition-timing sentencing statute-of-limitations statutory-maximum |
WHETHER PETITIONER WAS DEPRIVED DUE PROCESS OF LAW GUARANTEED BY THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT. |
| 19-8755 |
Levi West v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-06-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-doctrine armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-interpretation conviction-records criminal-procedure jury jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
The Armed Career Criminal Act enhances the statutory penalty for a firearms offense when the offender has three predicate convictions for crimes that … |
| 19-8764 |
James William Burney v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-06-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-provision due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactive-application sentencing sentencing-law state-constitution voter-intent |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process and Equal Protection protections requires enactment legislation for a state constitutional provision to b… |
| 19-8696 |
Frank DiTomasso v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial free-speech ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing standing |
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get any picturer or videos?
.There is a bold lie Tald to the grand jury in firs… |
| 19-8743 |
Jeremiah Lee Guerra v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-precedent court-decision criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-instruction legal-review precedent reasonable-probability reconsideration remand sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light of… |
| 19-8745 |
Bernard Scott, Jr. v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act career-offender constitutional-vagueness due-process liberty post-conviction-relief residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness |
The question presented is whether a postconviction motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, challenging a sentence imposed under the pre-2005 mandatory version … |
| 19-1390 |
Martin Johnson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-06-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law due-process elements-clause fair-notice sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Whether the "elements clause" of the Armed Career Criminal Act (18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i)) is void for vagueness. |
| 19-8732 |
Efrain Leyva Hernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion accurate-information criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion ninth-circuit record sentencing speculative-inference speculative-inferences |
Does a district court violate a defendant's due process right to be sentenced based on accurate information and abuse its discretion when it imposes a… |
| 19-8719 |
Brown Laster, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-conflict circuit-split court-of-appeals criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-precedent kotteakos-standard kotteakos-v-united-states sentencing uniformity |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit entered a decision that conflicts with this Court's precedent in Kotteakos v. United States, 328 U.S. 750, 66 S.Ct. 12… |
| 19-8702 |
Billy Edward Sedberry v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
base-offense-level criminal-procedure drug-quantity judicial-fact-finding jury-trial methamphetamine sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
1. Whether the district court procedurally erred in miscalculating Sedberry's drug quantity base offense level.
2. Alternatively, whether the distric… |
| 19-8649 |
Angelo Johnson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure due-process guidelines guilty-plea plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines u-s-sentencing-commission |
Should a defendant be denied a three-level reduction for acceptance of responsibility under U.S.S.G. § 3E1.1 when the defendant enters a timely guilty… |
| 19-8681 |
Sung Hong, et ux. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affinity-fraud aggravating-factors civil-rights constitutional-law due-process establishment-clause free-exercise holguin-hernandez-v-united-states plain-error-review religious-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
1. Is it permissible for courts to consider religion as an aggravating factor in determining sentences, or to favor a religion by sentencing defendant… |
| 19-8682 |
Charles Ray Fulmer v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review plea-agreement prosecutor prosecutorial-discretion sentencing upward-departure variance |
Whether due process requires remand for specific performance of a plea agreement or, in the alternative, remand for determination of the full terms of… |
| 19-8683 |
Edgardo Grande v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a appeal-waiver fairness-integrity-public-reputation judicial-proceedings plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-factors substantial-rights unconscionability unconscionable-contract |
1. Whether the waiver of appeal rights contained in the Plea Agreement is unenforceable since the Plea Agreement is invalid because it is an unconscio… |
| 19-8690 |
Jimmy Lee Wheeler v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2020-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection judicial-review sentencing statutory-interpretation structural-error |
The OCR text is too degraded and illegible to accurately extract the "Question(s) Presented" section verbatim. While a "QUESTION(S) PRESENTED" header … |
| 19-8691 |
Jardiel Infante-Caballero v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process sentencing supervised-release |
1. Whether imposing a supervised release term —which authorizes a court to send Petitioner to prison for an additional prison term beyond the custodia… |
| 19-8693 |
Nathan Thomas Trujillo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-procedure judicial-discretion kimbrough-v-united-states kimbrough-variance policy-grounds sentencing sentencing-guidelines variance |
A. WHETHER THE COURT ERRED IN HOLDING THE DISTRICT COURT DID NOT ABUSE ITS DISCRETION WITH ITS SENTENCE?
B. WHETHER THE COURT ERRED IN HOLDING THE DI… |
| 19-8694 |
Joseph D. Rouse v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-851 appeal-waiver appellate-review due-process mandatory-minimum notice-requirement plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Does the express language of 21 U.S.C. § 851 requiring prior written notice of the particular conviction the government seeks to use to enhance a mand… |
| 19-1365 |
Ramon Hueso v. J. A. Barnhart, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-06-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
28-usc-2255 circuit-law circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus mandatory-minimum post-conviction-relief retroactivity savings-clause sentence-enhancement sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Section 2255 of 28 U.S.C., which authorizes postconviction relief for federal prisoners, generally requires post-conviction motions be brought within … |
| 19-8655 |
Milton Barrios-Alvarado v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial overrule petition sentencing supreme-court writ |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 19-8667 |
Diamante Alfred v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process individualized-sentencing judicial-bias judicial-discretion plea-bargaining recusal sentencing supervised-release supervision-violation |
1. Does a district court fail to appropriately individualize a supervision-violation sentence where the sentence imposed is based on a "promise" made … |
| 19-8670 |
Rosalio Ramos Tapia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-precedent court-decision criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-review legal-standard precedent reasonable-probability reconsideration remand sentencing standard-of-review |
I. Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light… |
| 19-8672 |
Terry Bridges v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-06-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-rules murder-evidence prejudice prejudicial-testimony rehabilitation sentencing trial-court-discretion uncharged-crime |
whether the trial court erred in permitting the state to introduce excessive evidence relating to the murder of keith Slugg, of which Terry Bridges wa… |
| 19-8658 |
Garian King v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
__U.S.__ 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020). court-reconsideration criminal-procedure harmless-error holguin-hernandez judicial-review lower-court-decision precedent reasonable-probability reconsideration remand sentencing standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent |
I. Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light… |
| 19-8659 |
Steven Adam Segovia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fact-finding federal-sentencing jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing |
I. Whether facts that affect the minimum or maximum reasonable federal sentence must be proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt? |
| 19-8666 |
Louis Mayes v. Jonathan Lebo, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection life-without-parole sentencing |
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| 19-8645 |
Joe Cephus Ross v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography due-process mandatory-minimum prosecutorial-discretion sentencing separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 2252A violate the Due Process Clause and the separation-of-powers doctrine because the statute allows a prosecutor to unilaterally 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… |
| 19-8640 |
Paul N. Littles v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-06-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-U.S.C-2255 career-offender constitutional-vagueness Johnson-v-United-States mandatory-sentencing-guidelines postconviction-motion residual-clause sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent unconstitutionally-vague |
The question presented is whether a postconviction motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, challenging a sentence imposed under the pre-2005 mandatory version … |
| 19-8611 |
Adam Scott v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-circuit-split appellate-review assault crime-of-violence dangerous-weapon due-process federal-criminal-law sentencing statutory-interpretation |
At least five federal appellate courts, including the Ninth Circuit, have determined the use of a dangerous weapon automatically transforms assault in… |
| 19-8617 |
Homar Perez Chavez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres case-review criminal-law due-process judicial-review legal-precedent precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), should be overruled? |
| 19-1344 |
Lahkwinder Singh v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split criminal-forfeiture deprivation-of-livelihood eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-fines-clause livelihood-deprivation proportionality-analysis sentencing |
Whether this Court should resolve the conflict between the
circuits regarding whether the 'deprivation of livelihood'
should be included in the prop… |
| 19-8591 |
Frederick Pennington, Jr. v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-06-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
discovery-motions exonerating-evidence habeas-corpus juvenile-jurisdiction new-evidence post-conviction-relief post-conviction-remedies prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-hearing |
1. Does the improper waiver of Exclusive Juvenile Jurisdiction, (Title 47 Arkansas Code Annotated 45-413(1977)), allow for the dismissing of the previ… |
| 19-8604 |
Dontarius Marquis Hall v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-06-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure drug-sentencing due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing |
A. WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY DENYING MR. HALL'S MERITORIOUS ARGUMENT THAT THE DISTRICT COURT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION IN DENYI… |
| 19-8581 |
Marlon Deon Harmon v. Tommy Sharp, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-06-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation brecht-standard brecht-v-abrahamson confession confession-evidence constitutional-error death-penalty habeas-corpus mitigating-evidence sentencing |
Should this Court provide uniform guidance to federal courts in their analyses under Brecht v. Abrahamson when the harm caused in the admission of an … |
| 19-8573 |
David Konepachit v. California |
California |
2020-05-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
DOES THE SENATE BILL 1393 INHERENTLY DEPRIVE THE PETITIONER FROM EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAWS BECAUSE OF THE AMELIORATIVE STATUTE THAT 1893 AMENDS, LA… |
| 19-8559 |
Christopher Scott Jepsen v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review child-pornography criminal-law due-process federal-conviction prior-judgment sentencing sentencing-enhancement void-judgment |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit erred by concluding that Mr. Jepsen was subject to an enhanced sentence for his fede… |
| 19-8561 |
Jesus Julian Corona-Perez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-05-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-procedure indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 19-8563 |
Michael Lee v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review criminal-law criminal-review due-process first-time-offender life-sentence sentencing sentencing-review sex-crimes |
1. Should certiorari be granted to address whether a circuit court is presented with a substantial question, hence warranting full appellate review, r… |
| 19-8566 |
John Charles Thompson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggregate-imprisonment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process imprisonment plain-error revocation sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
Was it plain err for the Western District of North Carolina to not aggregate Mr. Thompson's multiple revocation active imprisonment sentences then red… |
| 19-8569 |
Brandon S. Wilson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process procedural-error sentencing sentencing-reasonableness supervised-release |
1. Is Mr. Wilson's sentence procedurally and substantively infirm because the district court failed to consider the factors under 18 USC §3553(a) or o… |
| 19-8551 |
Londro Emanuel Patterson, III v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2020-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing life-sentence parole sentencing |
Does a Life sentence., without right to parole, upon a Ninteen year old for killing committed by another cruel and unusual punishment, in violation of… |
| 19-8557 |
Kallen E. Dorsett, Jr. v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing strickland-standard |
1. Does a prosecutor's threat to prosecute a defendant if he withdraws from his guilty plea invalidate the knowing, voluntary and intelligent clause u… |
| 19-8560 |
Ricardo Noble v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2020-05-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure court-order criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion legal-appeal motion-correction self-representation sentencing transcript transcript-error |
DID COURT ERR AND ABUSE DISCRETION BY ERRONEOUSLY QUASHING AS UNTIMELY PETITIONER'S OWN MOTION (POCKETED OWN MOTION) APPEAL OF TRIAL COURT'S 08/8/2°/8… |
| 19-8543 |
Carl L. Burdick v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-05-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 advisory-guidelines criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plea-agreement rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-range united-states-v-booker |
Whether the District Court, contrary to precedents of this Court and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, accorded the advisory … |
| 19-8544 |
Hubert Carter v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-05-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure judicial-determination jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Does the judicial determination of crimes "committed on occasions different from one another" at sentencing under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.… |
| 19-8548 |
Shawndell Lee Harrison v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-05-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure federal-sentencing habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states retroactive-rule retroactivity sentencing |
A second or successive motion to vacate, set aside, or correct a federal sentence may be filed if it "contain[s] . . . a new rule of constitutional la… |
| 19-8537 |
Susan Xiao-Ping Su v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-05-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction legal-remedy procedural-error sentencing |
A. whether the Ninth Ciruit should sue sponte vacate or grant
Conviction/sentence becanse ind: ctment alleged certificuateont
of statnte scope aleordi… |
| 19-8523 |
Christian James v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split due-process fifth-circuit government-promise obstruction-of-justice sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-justice united-states-sentencing-guidelines writ-of-certiorari |
1. Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals opinion rejecting James's
claim that the Government made an implied promise that any
obstruction of just… |
| 19-8530 |
Sacorey L. Clark v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process government-duty government-liability judicial-remand legal-claims rehaif rehaif-precedent remand sentencing sentencing-review |
Whether CLARK's Affirmed Sentence & Judgment Must be Vacated in light of REHAIF, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (2019), Then Remanded, Where it is Warranted that CLAR… |
| 19-8515 |
Michael Munday v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-05-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
disparate-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fairness fifth-amendment judicial-review reasonableness sentencing sentencing-disparity sixth-amendment |
In affirming the 12-year upward departure sentence, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has so far departed from the accepted and usual course of ju… |
| 19-8504 |
Jose Antonio Garcia v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
admission-of-guilt constitutional-law criminal-procedure disposition-agreement due-process judicial-discretion plea-bargaining sentencing supervised-release |
Whether Mr. Garcia's admission to a violation of supervised release in this matter violated due process where the district court failed to clearly inf… |
| 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… |
| 19-8487 |
Jerrell Berger v. Robert Adams, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-05-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection multiple-charges murder-charge sentencing sentencing-decision sixth-amendment trial-court |
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MAKE COE Awe of Lwo chur ses ak he hzen/
Severed! iw My CHASE ana grated by rial unas,
his case Ase in… |
| 19-8489 |
Jason Mitchell Abbo v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-05-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca acca-enhancement burden-of-proof criminal-justice due-process equal-protection juvenile-conviction predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
#1. Does a Juvenile Conviction for "Possession" of a controlled substance qualify as a prior predicate conviction for an ACCA enhancement when 18 U.S.… |
| 19-8472 |
Wyte Young, Jr. v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2020-05-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-claims constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus post-conviction-review procedural-default sentencing state-court-procedure |
1. Did the tral Count vio late petitroverts 5thybthiand i4th arendnvent rights, When it made a Judieial chetermunation,as tothe dangerous nature eleme… |
| 19-8474 |
Brittany Dawn Thomas v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-05-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(e) 18-USC-3553e criminal-procedure district-court judicial-authority mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-discretion separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
i. DOES A DISTRICT COURTS INABILITY TO DEPART BELOW A MANDATORY MINIMUM UNDER 18 U.S.C. § 3553(e), FOR ANY FACTOR OTHER THAN DEFENDANT'S SUBSTANTIAL A… |
| 19-8478 |
John King v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2020-05-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-v-united-states criminal-procedure fact-finding judicial-discretion jury-determination jury-fact-finding mcmillan-v-pennsylvania preponderance-of-the-evidence preponderance-standard sentencing sentencing-enhancement united-states-v-watts |
I. BY A JURY TO ENHANCE A SENTENCE?
AFTER THIS COURT'S DECISION IN UNITED STATES V. ALLEYNE, 570 U.S. 99 (2013), NON-CONTROLLING, CAN THE PREPONDERAN… |
| 19-1293 |
Michael Ludwikowski v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-05-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury-acquittal sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from increasing a criminal defendant's sentence for conduct underlying a count on whic… |
| 19-8469 |
Viengxay Chantharath v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-851 career-offender collateral-review criminal-procedure drug-convictions first-step-act mandatory-minimum retroactive-application sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether the First Step Act (FSA-2018) "altered "the statutes:
21 U.S.C.§ 841(a) (1)(b)(1) (A)-(B) also (C) for the prior drugI.
con
victions that qua… |
| 19-8421 |
Gilbert Tello v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-05-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-sentencing mental-health mental-health-records public-trial sentencing speedy-trial |
whether the trial court violated petitioners right to a speedy and public trial, Where petitioner was held in Webb County Jail for almmost seven and a… |
| 19-8445 |
Freddie Lee Curry, aka King of da Hood, aka Rat v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-05-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-841 alleyne alleyne-ruling criminal-procedure drug-quantity fair-sentencing-act first-step-act mandatory-minimum sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Did the District Court abused its discretion when it failed to to apply Alleyne to Appellant's sentence reduction under Section 404(b) of the First St… |
| 19-8448 |
Lamont Dantzler v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-05-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-justice criminal-law de-facto-life-sentence due-process juvenile-justice proportionality proportionate-penalties sentencing |
I. In an action in which the sole claim is whether,in a case in which
an 18-year-old defendant who received a de facto life sentence does
that sente… |
| 19-1282 |
Avery Terry v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-05-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-924c appeal-waiver constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal-waiver due-process force-clause hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery residual-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-vagueness vagueness-doctrine violent-crime |
WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN DISMISSING THE APPEAL PURSUANT TO AN INVALID APPEAL WAIVER, AFTER MAKING ERRONEOUS FINDINGS, OVERLOOKING AND MIS… |
| 19-8426 |
Shawn M. Twitty v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2020-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amelioration-doctrine criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing doctrine-of-amelioration due-process fundamental-fairness res-judicata sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a sentence is manifestly erroneous because the Doctrine of Amelioration allows for that sentence to be controlled by a newly amended version o… |
| 19-8412 |
Lenroy McLean v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure discretion discretionary-review forfeiture plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights |
QUESTION I
Should the Second Circuit Court of Appeals exercise it's discretion
to correct the forfeited error of Petitioner's miscalculated guideline… |
| 19-8400 |
Roy Allen Nichols v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process factfinding fifth-amendment sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
1. Whether a Court of Appeals violates a criminal defendant's right to Due Process, guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitutio… |
| 19-8387 |
Robert C. Caldwell v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-05-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
carjacking constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy enhanced-penalty evidentiary-finding firearm public-choice-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation two-strike-statute |
The Government seehs to have defendants sentenced
under both the CarJacking
statute and the firearm statute.
The issue befire the Court is whether sen… |
| 19-8385 |
Enrique Lopez Quintero v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure hughes-v-united-states plea-agreement sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines type-c-agreement |
l.Is a sentence imposed pursuant to a Type-C agreement, Fed. R. Crim. P. 11(c)(1)(C), is based on the defendant's United States Sentencing Guidelines … |
| 19-8390 |
Do Kyun Kim v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors? |
| 19-8357 |
Jeffery J. Lout v. Montana |
Montana |
2020-04-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-claims death-penalty due-process ex-post-facto intellectual-disability mental-illness procedural-challenges psychological-evaluation sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 19-8361 |
Tyrone Price v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process firearms ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief racketeering sentencing sentencing-phase |
Does sy2uce) conretron smpport assault uith a dungerons weapon in aid of racketeering under 18 U.S.C19saca)c3).? Does the elements clause ofa 39luce) … |
| 19-8342 |
Dearieus Duheart v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-04-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit the use of acquitted conduct to enhance a defendant's sentence? |
| 19-8333 |
Nekhent Supreme Ali, aka William Sean Perry, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-841 criminal-procedure criminal-statute currency-conversion drug-proceeds drug-weight due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether in the conversion of currency drug proceeds into drug weight for purposes of sentencing criminal violations of 21 U.S.C. § 841, federal courts… |
| 19-8339 |
Juan M. Santiago v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver booker booker-error criminal-procedure federal-sentencing mandatory-guidelines miscarriage-of-justice sentencing sentencing-guidelines waiver |
WHETHER AN ESTABLISHED BOOKER ERROR (MANDATORY APPLICATION OF THE USSG) CAN BE CONSIDERED PER SE A MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE EXCEPTION THAT IS NOT WAIVED… |
| 19-8340 |
Christopher Scruggs v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law distribution distribution-intent file-sharing knowledge knowledge-standard mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
The Sentencing Commission promulgated Amendment 801, amending to only apply when a defendant 2G2.2(b) (3) (F) enhancement "knowingly engaged in distri… |
| 19-8321 |
Charlie Ray Carney v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2020-04-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights court-records due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sentencing state-courts |
WHETHER A STATE PRISONER'S RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS, SECURED BY THE FIFTH AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, AND MADE OBLIGATORY TO THE STATES T… |
| 19-8325 |
Qais Hussein v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-04-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Is it reasonably debatable that Qais Hussein was deprived the effective assistance of counsel where his defense attorney failed to object to any insin… |
| 19-8312 |
Lazaro Candelaria v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-04-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure first-step-act ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement shepard-documentation |
1) Whether the First Step Act of U.S. in his Title 21 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(1) motion.
2) Whether CounselSenate Bill 756, applies to the Petitioner, ineff… |
| 19-8285 |
In Re David L. Williams |
|
2020-04-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-claims due-process equal-protection federal-court-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge sentencing |
1. Was dismissal of Petitioner Appeal error by the Fifth Ciruit?
2. Does Appeal lie with Appeal court,when Petitioner claim he is in custody in viola… |
| 19-8260 |
Alvin Fulton v. New York |
New York |
2020-04-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto fundamental-miscarriage judicial-discretion post-release-supervision sentencing sentencing-error sex-offenses |
1. the usages and principles of law Whether the State of New York Court of Appeals has decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts w… |
| 19-8263 |
Larry Wesley Brown v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-possession drug-trafficking felony-enhancement guidelines gun-possession sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit")-which held Mr. Brown was involved with drug traffic… |
| 19-8264 |
Paul M. Gordon v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2020-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights constitutional-violation due-process fair-trial judicial-procedure legal-standard mental-competency mental-incompetency sentencing |
I. Mental Incompetency
The law states that no person with mental diseare or defect shall be sentenced
for commission of an offence as long as such inc… |
| 19-8255 |
Emilio Medina-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 19-8239 |
Robert Ybarra, Jr. v. William Gittere, Warden, et al. |
Nevada |
2020-04-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process jury-determination jury-trial mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-procedure |
Under Nevada law, a jury may consider imposing a death sentence only after finding at least one statutory aggravating factor beyond a reasonable doubt… |
| 19-8231 |
Juvenile Male v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence juvenile-justice juvenile-transfer prosecutorial-discretion rehabilitation sentencing transfer-hearing |
Whether the refusal of the United States Attorney to detail the defendants role in weighing his potential for rehabilitation in the interest of justic… |
| 19-8221 |
Feuu Fagatele v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-04-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process risk-of-injury sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a statute that criminalizes creating a risk of injury categorically satisfies the definition of a crime of violence? |
| 19-8199 |
Dwight Bullard v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-04-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 advisory-guidelines career-offender collateral-attack collateral-review criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing section-2255 sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a defendant erroneously sentenced as a career offender under the advisory Guidelines can collaterally attack his enhanced sentence under 28 U.… |
| 19-8203 |
Rashan J. Hunt v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2020-04-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement repeat-offender repeat-violent-offender sentencing sixth-amendment |
FIRST QUESTION PRESENTED FOR REVIEW: WAS PETITIONER'S PLEA AGREEMENT VIOLATED, AND HIS CONSTITUTIONAL DUE PROCESS PROTECTIONS VIOLATED, WHEN THE TRIAL… |
| 19-8190 |
George Lyle Cullett, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-04-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines pre-booker-sentencing residual-clause section-2255 timeliness timeliness-standard |
1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker … |
| 19-8191 |
Benjamin Velasquez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-04-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP |
career-offender career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness timeliness-standard |
1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one
year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that
Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-
Booker… |
| 19-8193 |
John Purifoy v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-04-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review booker booker-decision criminal-procedure downward-departure jurisdiction sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-assistance |
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has held that an appellate court does not have the jurisdiction to review the denial of a dow… |
| 19-8182 |
Edward Paul Moss v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2020-04-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights conviction-review criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury judicial-discretion sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 19-8183 |
Jose Nogales v. California |
California |
2020-04-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus juvenile-justice retroactive-legislation retroactivity sentencing |
The State of California recently passed legislation (Senate Bill
No. 1391) that effectively eliminated the practice of prosecuting 14 and 15
year ol… |
| 19-8170 |
Joe Robert Reynolds v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2020-04-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 19-8154 |
Jody Stamp v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure disabilities-act disability-accommodations due-process mental-health post-traumatic-stress sentencing sentencing-mitigation |
The question presented is should the District
Coust Judge forcloser of a down word
variance be based or the Judges Personal
interpcatation of the Defe… |
| 19-8111 |
Todd James Broxmeyer v. L. Ray Ormond, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct constitutional-protection due-process fifth-amendment preponderance-of-evidence presumption-of-innocence sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Is the use of the preponderance of evidence standard to enhance at sentencing deemed unconstitutional when the presumption of innocence is restored, i… |
| 19-8129 |
Charles Ben Bounds v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal bounds-case court-of-appeals criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jurisdiction legal-review sentence-enhancement sentencing statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the application of Obstruction-of-Justice Sentence Enhancement in United States of A… |
| 19-1174 |
John W. Kimbrough v. Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-03-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-relief strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
1. Is it an unreasonable application of federal law to
hold, for Strickland purposes, that there was no
reasonable probability that the state's appell… |
| 19-8088 |
Antonio Rodrigues v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2020-03-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-due-process criminal-element due-process felony-murder judicial-determination judicial-fact-finding maximum-sentence predicate-felony sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence trial-evidence |
Does the Constitution prohibit a State to define a crime to include an element that is to be decided by a judge without evidence; and where the State … |
| 19-8097 |
Jay Eugene Reed v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-rule-52(b) criminal-rule-52b evidence-rule-103 expert-testimony forfeiture plain-error plain-error-review sentencing sentencing-procedure |
Under Evidence Rule 103 and Criminal Rule 52(b), once a party informs the court of the substance of the evidence at issue, and the court rules, counse… |
| 19-8098 |
Juan Carlos Rodriguez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
concurrent-sentences due-process evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea ineffective-assistance motion-to-vacate plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-consequences |
This case concerns petitioner's claim that he was misled concerning the sentencing consequences of his guilty plea to a conspiracy charge.
The questi… |
| 19-8055 |
Corey Jones v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-review sentencing supervisory-power |
Petitioner was sentenced to 15 years in prison for biting a finger. The Court of Appeals found that "highly unjust, and little short of absurd," and t… |
| 19-8066 |
Silvestre Lara-Cervantes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-remand criminal-procedure harmless-error holguin-hernandez judicial-review precedent reasonable-probability reconsideration remand sentencing standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent |
Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light of… |
| 19-8076 |
Alfredo Galindo v. Brad Cain, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment federal-procedure habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-requirement |
Whether petitioner's claim that his 300-month sentence violates his Eighth Amendment right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment meets the stat… |
| 19-8080 |
Julio Solorzano v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence-exception civil-rights collateral-attack criminal-procedure davis-ruling due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus sentencing sentencing-challenge waiver-doctrine |
May a person who is actually innocent of a firearms offense under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) after United States v. Davis, 1389 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), seek habea… |
| 19-8081 |
Juan Isaac Flores v. California |
California |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
benefits constitutional-rights counsel-performance effective-counsel ineffective-assistance plea-agreement sentencing sixth-amendment |
(1) Was my Sixth Amendment right to effective counsel violated by Attorney Kovtun s ineffectiveness(2) Is the process that preceded the May 3, 2018 pl… |
| 19-8048 |
Collyer Goodman v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof circuit-court circuit-court-split conspiracy criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process narcotics narcotics-conspiracy sentencing shared-objective supreme-court |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred by affirming the judgment of conviction and sentence pronounced by the United … |
| 19-8044 |
Brian Vidrine v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
924(c) career-offender criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states mandatory-enhancement section-924c sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
1.
Are Vidrine's § 924(c) convictions invalid in light of this Court's decision in
Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), and its progeny?
… |
| 19-8016 |
Jaime Vega, aka Jimmy Johnson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeals criminal-procedure district-court due-process revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
To what extent does 18 U.S.C. § 3553 require a district court to specifically state the reasons for imposing a revocation sentence above the guideline… |
| 19-8036 |
Odis Lee Jackson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-justice-reform criminal-resentencing district-court-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction first-step-act judicial-review mandatory-minimum post-sentencing-conduct sentencing sentencing-modification sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation |
I. What procedures does Section 404 of the First Step Act require a district court to follow when conducting its statutorily required "complete review… |
| 19-8043 |
Christopher Lamont Steward v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-1951 18-usc-924 924(c)-conviction categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law hobbs-act predicate-offense statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
I. Whether Hobbs Act robbery, 18 U.S.C. § 1951(a), is categorically a "crime of
violence" that may serve as a predicate offense under 18 U.S.C. § 924(… |
| 19-8013 |
Keith Alexander v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2020-03-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns criminal-sentencing due-process federal-appellate-review firearms ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-interpretation mandatory-minimum mental-capacity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction |
Question not identified. |
| 19-7986 |
Wesley Scott Hamm v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bodily-injury conspiracy cooperation criminal-law-bodily-injury criminal-law-conspiracy criminal-law-cooperation criminal-law-sentencing criminal-law-withdrawal criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-acquittal drug-distribution due-process evidence judgment-of-acquittal law-enforcement-cooperation sentencing withdrawal |
Question I . Shouldn't a judgment of acquittal have been granted where the government failed to
prove that Hamm, arrested on August 25, 2016, in jail… |
| 19-7998 |
Paul Anthony Montanez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
I. Did the district court impose a plainly unreasonable sentence upon Mr. Montanez? |
| 19-8005 |
Harrison Garcia v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing direct-appeal edwards-v-arizona first-step-act mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
Whether Section 403 of the First Step Act of 2018, enacted while Petitioner's case was pending on direct appellate review, apply where his sentence is… |
| 19-7969 |
Embery J. McBride v. Walter Berry, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights conviction cruel-punishment due-process equal-protection fair-trial fraud fundamental-fairness indictment-challenge ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection presentment sentencing special-presentment standing |
WHETHER THE COURT SHOULD GRANT THE PETITION FOR A WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ON THE FOLLOWING Q… |
| 19-7957 |
Damar D. Ruffin v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence evidence-law jury-instruction jury-trial reversible-error sentencing standard-of-review |
1. Sheer le Sul, Circle Cocer oF Aopeals Tiling \s \n direct Contes cartlkwothe Laws othe Svupreme CoURT™ Rex er ding . Pleas Eaor tor Kel cation OF —… |
| 19-7958 |
Anthony Quinones v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness timeliness-standard vagueness |
1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one
year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that
Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-
Booker… |
| 19-7971 |
William L. Lewis v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bias burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process judicial-error prejudice prior-convictions reasonable-doubt robbery sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence |
1. Did the trial Code And The Appellate Court error within entering a finding of quilt On a Single count Robbery when the government Cid net Prove pet… |
| 19-7972 |
Javier Brown v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4b1.1 career-offender categorical-approach drug-offense fourth-circuit modified-categorical-approach predicate-drug-offense prior-conviction records-of-conviction sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-4b1.1 south-carolina-code |
Pursuant to Section 4B1.1 of the United States Sentencing Commission Guidelines, following a conviction for a narcotics offense, an offender who has a… |
| 19-7973 |
Quincy Chisolm v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2020-03-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal civil-rights conspiracy conviction criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-murder judicial-discretion mitigating-circumstances murder sentencing trial-court-error |
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6>/n/nf4- murder ir\ */Ae fiirs^ deyrc-e, '
cm^Un -b •lUyJ WWe./* -/-Ac- dnio.1 ^oo>rt err //… |
| 19-7974 |
Jesse Moreno v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness-standard |
1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one
year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that
Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-
Booker… |
| 19-7976 |
Lonnie Victor Fleming v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness timeliness-standard |
1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker … |
| 19-7977 |
Robert Morris Hoff v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness timeliness-standard vagueness |
1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one
year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that
Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-
Booker… |
| 19-7978 |
Ramon Delgado, aka Ramon Delgado-Pina v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law affection-influence civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process foreign-nationals foreign-relations security-clearance sentencing uncharged-conduct vagueness |
First, was it unconstitutionally vague to ask Petitioner in a security clearance questionnaire to name the foreign nationals with whom Petitioner had … |
| 19-7979 |
Leo Chadwick v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
animal-fighting animal-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-bias pre-sentence-report recusal sentencing |
I. Whether A Judge' Statements Demonstrating Extreme Bias Against Pit Bull Owners as a Class And Advocating the Elimination of Anyone Involved in Dogf… |
| 19-7981 |
Marcos Robert Castaneda v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender career-offender-guideline criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 johnson-v-united-states mandatory-sentencing-guidelines ninth-circuit residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines timeliness void-for-vagueness |
1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre Booker … |
| 19-7945 |
Zacharias Abab Aguedo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit insufficient-evidence judgment-of-acquittal sentencing sentencing-errors sufficiency-of-evidence |
I. CERTIORARI REVIEW SHOULD BE GRANTED WHERE THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT AFFIRMED AGUEDO'S CONVICTIONS WHERE THE EVIDENCE WAS INSUFFICIENT TO SUPPORT AGUEDO'… |
| 19-7961 |
Randall Duane Throneberry v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2020-03-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process fourteenth-amendment oklahoma-law oklahoma-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether under the clear language of Oklahoma Statute Title 21, § 1123, Petitioner's enhanced sentence under Oklahoma Statute Title 21, § 51.1A is i… |
| 19-7962 |
Rodney Jerome Womack v. James Robertson, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-convictions representation-by-counsel right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
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UUAS PETITIOMER REPRESENTED 6s? EQUNSEL X IVi
1*182. PRIOR… |
| 19-7914 |
Lucas James Moss v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit haymond-precedent remand sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond |
I. Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Ha… |
| 19-7927 |
Jay Allen Newcomb v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation confrontation-rights double-jeopardy due-process oral-pronouncement sentencing sentencing-conflict written-judgment |
1. Is the 11th Circuit's conclusion that "any error the sentencing court made in orally pronouncing [Petitioner's] sentence was corrected by the writt… |
| 19-7930 |
Roderick Pearson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-procedure criminal-justice-reform criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process finality first-step-act judicial-review retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether certiorari should be granted in order to vacate the decision below and remand to the Eleventh Circuit to consider whether § 403 of the First S… |
| 19-7933 |
Larry Donnell Bogard v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness due-process johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness |
1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of
Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson
invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker … |
| 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… |
| 19-7948 |
Omar N. Davis v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment trial-counsel |
The main question in this petition is whether a petitioner's due process rights were violated because he had ineffective assistance of counsel. Here, … |
| 19-7949 |
Kenneth Richard Devore v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-public-trust criminal-law criminal-law,evidence,sentencing,fraud,public-trus evidence jurisdiction sentencing sophisticated-means |
I. Does sufficient evidence exist to support Mr. Devore's convictions for mail fraud, theft of public money, and wire fraud.
II. Did the trial court … |
| 19-7952 |
Michael Deon Thompson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-841 criminal-law criminal-statute drug-distribution drug-trafficking proximate-cause sentencing serious-bodily-injury statutory-interpretation strict-liability |
1. Whether the language "death or serious bodily injury results from" in 21 U.S.C. § 841 creates a strict liability crime, without a foreseeability or… |
| 19-7903 |
Alfred Brown v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-09 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit haymond-precedent remand sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond |
I. Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Ha… |
| 19-7911 |
Thomas William Cornelius, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2255-motion 28-usc-2255 appeal criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process habeas-corpus physical-presence right-to-be-present sentencing |
With respect to a defendant who does not waive his right to be physically present during a re-sentencing hearing, held pursuant to a stipulated resolu… |
| 19-7900 |
Tanino Emon Miller v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2020-03-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure sentencing standing statutory-interpretation |
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| 19-7878 |
Joseph Ramon Santillan v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conviction-classification criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offense drug-offenses due-process equal-protection federal-sentencing felony-conviction mandatory-minimum misdemeanor-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-federal-interaction state-federal-law statutory-interpretation |
Did defendant's State of California marijuana conviction constitute a "prior conviction for a felony drug offense," increasing defendant's mandatory m… |
| 19-7883 |
Tyrone Harris, Sr. v. Arkansas |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-sentencing criminal-statute-conflict due-process habitual-offender judicial-review prejudice prejudice-standard sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Mr. Harris alleges an obvious conflict between the criminal 16-93-609(b), and the habitual offender statute 5-4-501(d)(2), that prohibits the two from… |
| 19-7887 |
Juvenile Female v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adult-status congress-intent delinquency-prevention district-court-discretion due-process juvenile-justice juvenile-justice-and-delinquency-prevention-act juvenile-offenders juvenile-transfer sentencing supreme-court-precedent transfer-to-adult-status |
Whether a district court errs when it gives too much weight to the seriousness of charged offenses in deciding whether to transfer a juvenile to adult… |
| 19-7868 |
Steven B. Turner v. Mike Kemna |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-negotiations post-conviction-relief right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment trial-fairness |
In Missouri, it is an ensuing plea of guilty that implicates the constitution. A criminal defendant cannot succeed on a post-conviction claim of ineff… |
| 19-7869 |
Raymond David Wilson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender common-scheme criminal-scheme criminal-sentencing felony-disposition judicial-discretion misdemeanor-conviction misrepresentation-of-felony prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Why Did The DiStRiCt CouRt ERRONeouSLY
CLASSIFEd MR.WiLSON AS A CAREER OFFENdER WhEN IN FACT BOth PRiORS
AN INtERVeNiNg ARRESt.
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| 19-7876 |
Aaron Richardson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection judicial-bias judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
I. Did an unconstitutional "objective risk of bias," Williams v. Pennsylvania, 136 S. Ct. 1899, 1905 (2016), or "probability of actual bias on the par… |
| 19-7835 |
Miguel Rodriguez v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-03-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-authorization constitutional-law constitutional-suspension due-process first-degree-murder habeas-corpus preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence sentencing |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit's decision in
McCarthan v. Dir. Goodwill Indus. Suncoast-Inc , 851
F.3d 1076 (11th Cir. 2017), is in violation of the … |
| 19-7839 |
Christopher Sanchez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure deterrence due-process imprisonment plain-error-review policy-statement policy-statement-range sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines |
I. Is a single-sentence explanation of "I believe this addresses the issues of adequate deterrence and protection of the public" procedurally reasonab… |
| 19-7854 |
Howronda Overstreet v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure Did Ms. Overstreet's waiver of appeal unenforceabl Did the district court commit plain error when it due-process guidelines guidelines-calculation plain-error plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines waiver |
QUESTION 1: DID MS. OVERSTREET PRESERVE HER RIGHT TO
APPEAL THE DISTRICT COURT'S INAPPLICABLE
GUIDELINES CALCULATION ?
QUESTION 2: WAS MS. OVERSTR… |
| 19-7864 |
Derek Crosby v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-03-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process indictment jury jury-determination legislative-power sentencing separation-of-powers statutory-maximum |
Whether The Legislature Can Remove The Facts From The Jury That Increase The Statutory Maximum ?
Whether Defendant Was Properly Found Death Eligible … |
| 19-7815 |
Robert Grimsley v. Oregon, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights contractual-leniency custody due-process fraud fraud-in-the-facts habeas-corpus prison prison-contracts prisoner-rights sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-court state-court-judgment statutory-interpretation takings |
Can a state commit the crimes of fraud in the facta of its own Sentencing guidelines to renege on prison contracts
How can there be Habas Corpus reli… |
| 19-7833 |
Inocente Rodriguez-Juarez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 19-7840 |
Victor Dewayne Jones v. Joe Errington |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights competency-hearing criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance judicial-review mental-competency mental-evaluation post-conviction psychiatric-evaluation public-defender sentencing sentencing-petition trial-counsel |
whather Petitioner was denied his right to bue Process of Law
where the pike counts Circuit court convicted Petitioner with out a Mental
Evaluation an… |
| 19-7843 |
Tony Buck v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons constitutional-law constitutional-rights conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review punishment punishment-clause sentencing |
Whether the Judgment of Conviction should be vacated as a violation of the Double Jeopardy Clause because the Judgment punishes Mr. Buck for the exact… |
| 19-7844 |
Buck Otto White, aka Timothy Joseph Hoffman v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus sentencing |
Was it an abuse of discretion to sentence Buck White when the Statutory Maximum is 10 years or 120 months?
Did the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals abuse… |
| 19-7848 |
Barton Joseph Adams v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
binding-plea-agreement criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-11-c-1-c criminal-procedure-rule-32-2-e-1-a district-court-misconduct due-process forfeiture plea-agreement property-forfeiture property-rights protective-order rule-11 rule-32.2 sealed-court-order sealing-orders sentencing sentencing-procedure |
Whether the lower court violated the mandatory requirements of Rule 32.2(e)(1)(A) and breached the Rule 11(c)(1)(C) binding sentence, when the distric… |
| 19-7812 |
Lajbar Lajaward Khan v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
clearly-erroneous criminal-procedure declaration district-court drug-quantity drug-weight fatico-hearing objections probation-office role-enhancement sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether the District Court's findings as to drug weight and role were clearly erroneous. |
| 19-7817 |
Maria de Lourdes Acosta v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court judicial-procedure plain-error pre-sentence-report prejudice procedural-error sentencing |
When the district court fails to either order a Pre-Sentence Report or make explicit on-the-record findings as to why a Pre-Sentence Report is unneces… |
| 19-7824 |
Dexter Fisher v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c) categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-procedure firearm-brandishing hobbs-act section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether Mr. Fisher's § 924(c) convictions for brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence must be vacated because the Hobbs Act robbery offenses … |
| 19-7794 |
Jeremy Shane Fogleman v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2020-02-27 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
1) Does the SUPREME COURT of the STATE of MISSISSIPPI'S DECISION REVERSING the COURT Of APPEALS of the STATE Of MISSISSIPPI'S, 9-0 UNANIMOUS DECISION … |
| 19-7804 |
Ramon F. Flores v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 appeal criminal-procedure drug-quantity guideline-range guidelines procedural-bar sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-amendment |
In a sentence reduction application matter pursuant to 1 8
U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) under Amendment 782,to the Sentencing
Guidelines, if a defendant object… |
| 19-7808 |
Richard Wayne Taylor v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-02-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-validity conviction criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure jurisdiction oath-of-office sentencing |
WHETHER THE TRIAL JUDGE'S FAILURE TO RETAKE AND REFILE A VALID OATH OF OFFICE BEFORE PRONOUNCING SENTENCE, RENDERS A JUDGEMENT, CONVICTION AND SENTENC… |
| 19-7755 |
Scott Michael Patrick v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender criminal-sentencing johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states mandatory-sentencing-guidelines residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines void-for-vagueness |
Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the right initially recognized in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory G… |
| 19-7771 |
Christopher Benjamin Blanton v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit haymond-precedent sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond |
Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Haymo… |
| 19-7780 |
Frank Harper v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-USC-924(c) 18-usc-924c carjacking-by-intimidation collateral-review consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure dean-v-united-states ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Predicate-Offense retroactivity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
I. A. Should certiorari be granted to determine whether Harper was denied the effective assistance of counsel for the failure to challenge on appeal a… |
| 19-7781 |
John Charles Fortner v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-sentencing federal-crimes felony-offense minor minor-involvement minors sentencing sentencing-enhancement sex-offender-registration sorna statutory-interpretation |
18 U.S.C. § 2260A is a penalty provision which provides for an additional 10 year consecutive sentence if the defendant is: (1) required to register u… |
| 19-7760 |
Jeremy Achey v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substance-analogue criminal-sentencing drug-conspiracy due-process federal-drug-law mandatory-minimum sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-penalties |
1. Whether, in cases where a drug conspiracy allegedly involves multiple substances, the government must prove that the defendant conspired to distrib… |
| 19-7776 |
Mickel L. Marzouk v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c) crime-of-violence criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process elements-clause fair-sentencing-act fourth-circuit hobbs-act rule-of-lenity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Petitioner Mickel L. Marzouk presents two questions for this Court's review:
1. Whether Petitioner's sentence on the second § 924(c) conviction and t… |
| 19-7759 |
Lyarron T. Emers v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment aggravating-factor constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment pre-sentence-investigation right-to-remain-silent right-to-silence sentencing sentencing-discretion |
Is People v. Emers IL App (4th) 170254-0 parallel to People v. Maggio IL App (4th) 150287?
How is it not unconstitutional, if comments are made on a … |
| 19-7720 |
Lamont Jones v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-circuit-court abuse-of-discretion co-conspirator-hearsay co-conspirator-hearsay-exception criminal-association criminal-history district-court-conviction hearsay-exception mental-health racketeering-conspiracy racketeering-conspiracy-18-usc-1962(d) sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-mental-health-treatment sufficient-evidence uncorroborated-confession |
I. Did the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals abuse.it's discretion in upholding
the District Court's conviction that the evidence against Jones was
suffi… |
| 19-7733 |
Gustavo Diaz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeal-dismissal civil-procedure constitutional-rights dismissal district-court-procedure due-process fifth-amendment pre-sentencing-waiver sentencing substantive-due-process waiver |
Whether the District Court denied the Petitioner's constitutional right to a substantive due process under the Fifth Amendment by the United States Co… |
| 19-7663 |
Ryan Douglas LaSalle v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review categorical-analysis congressional-definition criminal-procedure federal-regulations guidelines guidelines-miscalculation plain-error regulatory-definition sentencing statutory-interpretation taylor-categorical-analysis taylor-v-united-states |
Can a court of appeals successfully avoid undertaking plain error review of a Guidelines miscalculation by relying on a federal regulatory definition … |
| 19-7713 |
Ronelle Lamar Oudems v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof circuit-split confrontation-clause confrontation-right criminal-procedure due-process presentence-report sentencing |
Whether (as the D.C., Second, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuits hold, see United States U. Price, 409 F.3d 436, 444 (D.C. Cir. 2005; United … |
| 19-7703 |
Terry Antonio Lee v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-02-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-counsel jury-instructions sentencing |
Does the 5th Amendment Release from illegal detention Convicted Against Double Jeopardy 5TH Amendment Petitioner WAS Counse/ Ineffective in Violation … |
| 19-7706 |
Tommy Adams, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
career-offender career-offender-guideline controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense controlled-substances criminal-law fourth-circuit modified-categorical-approach sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation taylor-descamps-mathis-precedent taylor-v-united-states |
DID THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS INCORRECTLY APPLY THE LINE OF AUTHORITY FROM THIS COURT BEGINNING WITH TAYLOR V. UNITED STATES, 495 U.S. 575 (… |
| 19-7711 |
John Patrick Vescuso v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravating-factor apprendi apprendi-error circuit-split criminal-procedure indictment prejudice sentencing |
When assessing if a defendant was prejudiced by a district court's imposing a sentence greater than the maximum authorized by the charge in the indict… |
| 19-7681 |
Howard Aron Washington, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines appellate-review criminal-sentencing gall-v-new-jersey guideline-departure procedural-error procedural-reasonableness reasonableness rosales-mireles Rosales-Mireles-v-United-States sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
THE DECISION OF THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT IN UNITED STATES V. WASHINGTON IS INCONSISTENT WITH THIS COURT'S DECISION IN… |
| 19-7685 |
Dominic Lindsey v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-18 |
GVR |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure factual-determination factual-errors federal-rule-criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-error plain-error plain-error-review precedent sentencing standard-of-review |
Does plain-error review under Federal Rule of
Criminal Procedure 52(b) include factual errors? |
| 19-7688 |
Ricardo Noble v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2020-02-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-justice juvenile-transfer miller-standard miller-v-alabama rehabilitation rehabilitation-needs sentencing sentencing-discretion transfer |
The fact, issues, and evidence related to a juvenile lifer's decertification (Transfer) decision are relevant to said Juvenile Lifer's Resentencing. T… |
| 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… |
| 19-7679 |
Jonathan Brownlee v. Keith Hearns, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process probation-officer restitution sentencing supervised-release |
1th KNowINGLy fobricating and f/ing a FAKE Supervrsed Release violatron charge against
he Petthoner, which caused the Petitrorer's ijuries of loss of … |
| 19-7680 |
Samuel Howard v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2020-02-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review capital-punishment constitutional-law criminal-procedure death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process hurst-v-florida judicial-precedent retroactivity sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment |
1. Whether appellate reweighing is constitutional after Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016).
2. Whether Hurst is retroactive. |
| 19-1020 |
Florence Bikundi v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2020-02-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
burden-of-proof continuance district-court-discretion due-process ends-of-justice ends-of-justice-continuance forfeiture fraud fraud-conduct restitution sentencing sentencing-guidelines speedy-trial-act |
1. Whether a district court granting an ends-ofjustice continuance under the Speedy Trial Act of
1974, 18 U.S.C. § 3161(h)(7)(A), violates the require… |
| 19-7664 |
Yervin Keith Barnett v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-burglary burglary burglary-statute categorical-approach criminal-law entry entry-element generic generic-statute predicate-offense sentencing statutory-interpretation tennessee-law |
Whether Tennessee's burglary statutes are generic where the State can obtain a conviction by proving only attempted burglary because the element of "e… |
| 19-7624 |
Jerome Shaw v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-02-12 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-fines-clause fatico-hearing sentencing |
Whether the District Court violated Petitioner's Due Process
Rights when it erroneously found that the Government had
sustained its burden of proof … |
| 19-7625 |
Robert L. Swinton, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-02-12 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-errors sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment structural-error |
(1) Is it structural error when sentencing errors were corrected by appeals court on direct appeal without defense counsel, and a constitutional denia… |
| 19-7626 |
Lonnie Rarden v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2020-02-12 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment disproportionate-sentences due-process eighth-amendment non-violent-offense non-violent-offenses proportionality-review sentencing sentencing-disparity |
Is sentencing a defendant to a de facto life sentence for non-violent offenses fall within a violation of the eight amendment right of cruel and unusu… |
| 19-7648 |
Otis Renaldo Harris v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-justice criminal-procedure discretion discretionary-power district-court due-process equal-protection judicial-review sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION
WHEN IT FOUND THAT PETITIONER HARRIS WAS NOT ELIGIBLE
FOR A SENTENCE REDUCTION UNDER SECTION 404? |
| 19-7649 |
Socorro Susan Caro v. California |
California |
2020-02-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-circumstances constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-finding jury-trial mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment |
Does California's death penalty scheme, which permits the trier of fact to impose a sentence of death without finding beyond a reasonable doubt (1) th… |
| 19-7632 |
Joshua Allen Bolen v. Erik A. Hooks, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-interpretation sentencing standing statute-of-limitations takings |
can a person really sign away the U.S. constitution's guaranteed rights, and amendment 14 the U.S. cnstition, that in ladder part is a right, as well … |
| 19-7635 |
Timothy Courtney v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
1. Whether the holding in Almendarez-Torres creating an exception for not having to prove the existence of prior convictions when used to enhance a de… |
| 19-7615 |
William E. Vukich v. Unified Judicial System of Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
2020-02-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection incarceration judicial-interpretation mistrial probation sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 19-7616 |
Fred Blajos v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 bank-robbery career-offender career-offender-guideline crime-of-violence elements-clause habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause section-2255 timeliness |
1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of
Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson
invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker … |
| 19-7617 |
Donato Amaya-Rivas v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining right-against-self-incrimination right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
I. Whether a defendant who raises for the first time on appeal that his plea is unconstitutional because it was entered unknowingly and involuntarily … |
| 19-7622 |
Samuel Elliott v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment appellate-review child-pornography criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness substantive-unreasonableness |
Whether a sentence imposed pursuant to the United States Sentencing Guidelines covering child pornography offenses, U.S.S.G. §S 2G2.1 and 2G2.2, is su… |
| 19-7589 |
Michael M. Monzel v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2020-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography circuit-split criminal-restitution paroline-factors proximate-cause restitution-methodology sentencing statutory-interpretation victim-compensation |
1. Whether — in the context of a criminal restitution request on behalf of a victim of child pornography — § 2259/ Paroline requires disaggregation of… |
| 19-7604 |
Richard Allen Lumpkin v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender criminal-sentencing johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
I. Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidel… |
| 19-7608 |
Juan Perez-Roman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 19-7562 |
Dalton Laquane Smith v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act career-offender categorical-approach drug-offenses fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-categorical-approach mathis-v-united-states rehaif-v-united-states serious-drug-offense serious-drug-offenses shular-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
1. b18-6662 (January 2019)
2. United States, 136 S.Ct. 2243 (2016).
3. Did this Court's intervening decision in Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2… |
| 19-7553 |
Gerald Humbert v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
11th-circuit acca armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law federal-criminal-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction felon-in-possession mens-rea rehaif sentencing serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation summary-remand |
1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit should have granted COA as to whether Petitioner's Fla. Stat. § 893.13 drug off… |
| 19-7557 |
Lance Yarbough v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-activity double-jeopardy drug-conspiracy jointly-undertaken-criminal-activity relevant-conduct sentencing statutory-minimum substantive-offenses successive-prosecution |
1. Where a prosecution for drug conspiracy under 21 U.S.C. §846 is successive to separate sentences for substantive offenses that are included in the … |
| 19-7574 |
Luis Beltran v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment brain-development due-process due-process-clause eighth-amendment juvenile-defendants juvenile-sentencing mandatory-life-imprisonment proportionality proportionality-principle sentencing |
In Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460 (2012), and Montgomery v. Louisiana, 136 S. Ct. 718 (2016), this Court held that sentencing a juvenile defendant (i… |
| 19-7575 |
Rashaun Scott Carter v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-waiver controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining presentence-investigation sentencing |
Does an appellate waiver bar an appeal based upon a flawed, prejudicial presentence investigation report performed between the trial court's acceptanc… |
| 19-7548 |
Rudy Orlando Cabrera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8-usc-1326 Apprendi-v-New-Jersey criminal-procedure due-process indictment prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
1. Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of… |
| 19-7526 |
Gregorio Segura-Resendiz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent overrule precedent sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 19-7528 |
David Lee Smith v. Rick Jackson |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus incarceration innocence-claim legal-release parole recidivism rehabilitation sentencing |
IS APPELLANT ENITITLED TO
RELEASE ON HISWN
RECOGNANICES,AFTER DEMDNISTRATING NI.C.G.S.I4-7.I
IS PATENTLY UNCANLSTITUTI ONAL COLORABLY SHAINIING HIS IN… |
| 19-7531 |
Joey D. Wiseman, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-justice criminal-law criminal-sentencing direct-appeal due-process federal-sentencing first-step-act retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether the First Step Act Must be Applied To Cases Pending on Direct Appeal?
2) Whether there is An Inherent Disparity In Congress Amending the R… |
| 19-965 |
Kenin L. Edwards v. Michael L. Atterberry, et al. |
Illinois |
2020-02-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law appeal conviction criminal-jurisdiction due-process illinois-supreme-court jurisdictional-challenge sentencing |
Whether it is a violation of due process for the Illinois Supreme Court, after being fully advised in the premises, to abstain from addressing whether… |
| 19-967 |
Craig M. Wood v. Missouri |
Missouri |
2020-02-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment jury-determination jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Constitution requires that a jury, rather than a judge, weigh the aggravating and mitigating circumstances to determine whether a defendan… |
| 19-962 |
Travis Ray Norwood v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
2020-01-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-review criminal-justice criminal-punishment drug-policy due-process equal-protection opioid-crisis opioid-sentencing recidivist-statute sentencing |
Whether, and under what circumstances, can defendants charged with crimes involving Schedule I opioids such as heroin be constitutionally treated diff… |
| 19-7515 |
Andy Nguyen v. California |
California |
2020-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey consecutive-sentences consecutive-sentencing criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing judicial-fact-finding preponderance-of-evidence sentencing stare-decisis |
Should the Court reconsider its majority opinion in Oregon v. Ice, 555 U.S. 160, 167-168, 173-177, 129 S.Ct. 711, 172 L.Ed.2d 517 (2009) (Ice) which p… |
| 19-7516 |
Mary Mosley v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct alleyne-v-united-states criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-acquitted-conduct double-jeopardy due-process fifth-circuit jury-verdict nelson-v-colorado sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines |
1) DID THE PANEL ERR BY UPHOLDING THE APPLICATION OF AN ENHANCEMENT FOR BRANDISHING OR POSSESSING A FIREARM WHEN MISS MOSLEY WAS ACQUITTED BY A JURY O… |
| 19-7517 |
Mario Palacios-Cordero v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent sentencing supreme-court |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 19-7450 |
George Maurice Steele v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation confrontation-clause confrontation-right criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment revocation-hearing sentencing supervised-release witness-testimony |
Whether the district court erred by allowing testimony at the revocation hearing that violated Mr. Steele's Fifth Amendment due process right to confr… |
| 19-7470 |
Agustin Martinez-Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a appellate-review appellate-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing criminal-sentencing,appellate-review,18-usc-3553(a federal-sentencing gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-review statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness |
L When conducting their substantive-reasonableness review of sentences, can appellate courts reweigh the sentencing factors in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a), as… |
| 19-7479 |
Brian Price v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-01-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-courts federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a defendant's constitutional rights are abridged when a district court bases its sentence solely on acquitted conduct.
Whether a criminal con… |
| 19-7481 |
Patrick Henry Murphy v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-01-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 capital-murder capital-punishment constitutional-law death-penalty due-process enmund-v-florida federal-habeas jury-determination jury-trial sentencing tison-v-arizona |
Does Ring dictate that a jury determine whether a capital murder defendant is eligible for a sentence of death under Enmund and Tison, and, if so, is … |
| 19-7454 |
Kenneth James Barfield v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-32 due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-circuit gall-v-united-states guidelines preponderance-of-evidence presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-watts |
According to Gall v. United States, 552 U.S. 38 (2007), every federal criminal sentencing must begin with a correctly calculated Guidelines range. Sen… |
| 19-7419 |
Timothy Shayne Hardin, Jr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals arrest charge civil-rights community-supervision constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-due-process dismissal due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment probable-cause probation revocation search-and-seizure sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 19-7422 |
Andre Antonio Fairley v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2020-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights colloquy constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction record self-incrimination sentencing waiver |
Whether trial court committed reversible structural error, by failing to conduct a mandated on-the-record colloquy into a waiver of counsel, before al… |
| 19-7434 |
Andrea Zambrano v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 18-usc-924c3b carjacking-statute crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process elements-clause residual-clause retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis |
1. Whether United States v. Davis , 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), retroactively invalidates the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B).
2. Whether "in… |
| 19-7437 |
Tony Sparks v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process fifth-circuit juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-rule miller-v-alabama montgomery-retroactivity montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity sentencing |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in concluding that the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460 (2012), which was made retroac… |
| 19-7446 |
Enrique A. Echeverria-Benitez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-circuit illegal-reentry plain-error retribution sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
On direct appeal, Mr. Echeverria-Benitez argued his twenty-seven month sentence for illegal reentry after removal was unreasonable. Mr. Echeverria-Ben… |
| 19-7397 |
Bert Hudson v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole |
Pennsylvania |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-mandate due-process equal-protection free-speech life-without-parole sentencing separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Here in these United States of America where we have all pledged "...justice for all", is this Honorable High Court's supervisory authority called for… |
| 19-7404 |
Joseph James Roe v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process enhancement-factors essential-factor guideline-interpretation guidelines judicial-discretion leadership-role lower-court-guidance sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-3b1.1(a) |
Whether a district court may impose a sentence enhancement under USSG § 3B1.1(a) for leadership role based on a factor not mentioned in the Sentencing… |
| 19-7412 |
Alford D. Embry, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender criminal-sentencing habeas-corpus johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness |
I. Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidel… |
| 19-7413 |
Brennen Clancy v. Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-court-conflict classification due-process equal-protection felony misdemeanor probation probation-department sentence-classification sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Can a probation department change the classification of a sentence from MISDEMEANOR to FELONY for no reason and without any due process?
The 1l'h cir… |
| 19-7416 |
James P. Griffin v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion calculation-error civil-procedure continuance criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment financial-penalties forfeiture medical-hardship medical-issues restitution restitution-calculation sentencing sixth-amendment trial-continuance trial-court trial-court-discretion Whether the amount of restitution and forfeiture w |
I. Whether the trial court abused its discretion in arbitrarily denying a continuance of trial requested due to Petitioner's documented medical proble… |
| 19-7417 |
Corey Michael Edwards v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering constitutional-challenge criminal-history effective-counsel predicate-offense predicate-offenses prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Can a the breaking and entering of outbouildings (ie. storage Sheds), that were visably and actually padlocked from the outside, where no reasonable p… |
| 19-7363 |
Richard Grady Romans v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-sentencing drug-conspiracy drug-distribution felony-enhancement occasions-different predicate-offense serious-drug-offense substantive-offense violent-felony |
Under the Armed Career Criminal Act ("ACCA"), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), a felon who possesses a firearm is subject to an enhanced sentence if he has three p… |
| 19-7390 |
Marshall Henry Ellis v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2020-01-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exculpatory-material fifth-amendment lesser-included-offense newly-discovered-evidence procedural-bar sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Is a defendant serving Life for Murder I entitled to newly discovered
exculpatory material when that material would make it more likely that
the … |
| 19-920 |
Boulder Young, aka Boulder Daniel McManigal v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-01-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error judicial-discretion plea-bargaining plea-hearing sentencing waiver |
Whether the waiver of a right to appeal a judgment of conviction is controlled by the defendant's written waiver or the oral pronouncement of the cour… |
| 19-7356 |
James H. Griffin v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-claim criminal-procedure downward-departure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review law-enforcement procedural-due-process sentencing sentencing-manipulation |
Did the lower federal courts deny Appellant's Brady Petition without affording a full and fair hearing concerning the claim that his counsel was ineff… |
| 19-7379 |
Lee Samuel Capers v. California |
California |
2020-01-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-requirement criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-maximum |
Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact other than a prior con… |
| 19-7322 |
Gerardo Sanchez-Miranda v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 19-7331 |
Lavorice Dondrell Cunningham v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion legal-standard pending-resolution remand sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
1. What is the appropriate standard for the determination of substantive reasonableness claim?
SUB SIDIARY QUESTI ON: Whether the Court should hold t… |
| 19-7332 |
Brian Dean King, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-production burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-objection due-process evidence government-burden pre-sentence-report sentencing |
I. Does the defendant bear the burden of production to rebut information found in a pre-sentence report after objecting to that information, or in ste… |
| 19-7333 |
Eduardo Luis Martinez-Paz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 19-7335 |
Chad Prodoehl v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy criminal-law drug-conspiracy drug-crimes drug-trafficking due-process inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses overt-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
As statutorily defined, violating 21 U.S.C. § 846 is an inchoate offense, as it requires no overt act, but is complete upon the agreement. Because of … |
| 19-7336 |
Francisco Pena, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-judge fifth-amendment judicial-discretion preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence sentencing sixth-amendment uncharged-conduct |
imposing a sentence, based on a defendant's uncharged conduct found by the
judge by a preponderance of the evidence, higher than the sentence the judg… |
| 19-7337 |
Kinney Lee Palmer v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
aggravated-assault assault crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-sentencing guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation texas-law threat |
1. Whether the Texas offense of aggravated assault by threat is a "crime of violence" under USSG §4B 1.2? |
| 19-7338 |
David P. Moran v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
concurrent-sentences consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-interpretation prosecutorial-charging same-conduct same-victim sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines |
1. Should two charges for the same episode of conduct and the same victim with
no temporal break whatsoever be sentenced to consecutive prison terms e… |
| 19-7341 |
Joey D. Wiseman, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
congressional-intent criminal-law drug-crimes drug-felonies drug-policy drug-trafficking due-process equal-protection sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether this Honorable Court should re-evaluate the inherent inequity in Congress changing the level of the enhancement for prior drug felonies for 21… |
| 19-7343 |
Anthony Tawon Williams v. Hilton Hall, Warden |
Georgia |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process felony-murder homicide homicide-rule sentencing underlying-felony voluntary-manslaughter |
CAN VOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER OR ANY OTHER HOMICIDE BE USED AS AN UNDERLYING FELONY TO SUPPORT FELONY MURDER?
IS THE HIGHEST STATE COURT OBLIGATED TO HO… |
| 19-7304 |
Anthony Michael Salazar v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure-appeal due-process habeas-corpus illegal-sentence incarceration judicial-review sentencing sentencing-error united-states-v-haymond |
The Court of Appeals erred in denying a Certificate of Appealability when Petitioner is incarcerated on an illegally-imposed sentence in light of Unit… |
| 19-7324 |
Lonnie Greer, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-procedure different-occasions generic-burglary recklessness sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-judge sixth-amendment sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-precedent statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether Sixth Circuit precedent that counts Tennessee aggravated burglary
as "generic burglary" for purposes of the Armed Career Criminal Act is in… |
| 19-7325 |
Hope K. Kantete v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-process post-conviction-relief right-to-trial section-2255 sentencing trial-strategy |
1.) Whether the lower courts erred by foiling to rule or even consider on the record whether Ms Kantete was advised of her "risk factors " in proceedi… |
| 19-7294 |
Mohammed Kwaning v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process evidence fair-trial hearsay hearsay-testimony judicial-error jury-trial material-evidence preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether the Government officials conduct violated constitutional rights? where;Petitioner's
(a) The District Court failed to disclose material eviden… |
| 19-7298 |
James Lee Bell v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-precedent blakely-rule criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jury jury-trial mandatory-minimum recidivism recidivist-treatment sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Q 1: Was the limitation of Almendarez-Torres and the dictates of Apprendi and Blakely violated? Florida in deciding whether Petitioner qualified for r… |
| 19-7299 |
John Joseph Barrera v. Noah Nagy, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process false-information fourteenth-amendment habeas habeas-corpus sentencing sentencing-accuracy sixth-amendment townsend-v-burke |
WHERE A STATE CRIMINAL DEFENDANT HAS BEEN SENTENCED ON THE BASIS OF INACCURATE/FALSE INFORMATION USED BY THE SENTENCER TO INCREASE HIS PUNISHMENT, FOL… |
| 19-7300 |
Billy J. Booker v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction sentencing standing statutory-provisions |
DOES A MNLLY HALDULELT MANLNACULED IDITMENT COLPEL CREMIHAL JURISDICTIDLL BL A STAE MIAL CUAT.
(Q)OOES A COUICTIOLUUDER A FAUDLLELTT LUDICTMEITT BINI… |
| 19-7313 |
Dalton Crutchfield v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-burglary burglary burglary-statutes categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute entry entry-element entry-requirement generic-crimes generic-statutes predicate-offense sentencing state-conviction tennessee-law |
Whether Tennessee's burglary statutes are generic where the State can obtain a conviction by proving only attempted burglary because the element of "e… |
| 19-871 |
Raheem Chabezz Johnson v. Jeffery Kiser, Warden |
Virginia |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
ake-v-oklahoma due-process indigent-defendant mcwilliams-v-dunn mental-health mental-health-expert sentencing sentencing-phase |
Whether an indigent defendant who seeks the appointment of a mental conditions expert to assist in the sentencing phase of his trial is denied due pro… |
| 19-7268 |
Acharayya Rupak v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
continuance criminal-procedure due-process plain-error-review plea-bargaining retained-counsel right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment standard-of-review |
1. This Court has held that the right to the retained counsel of one's choice is the "root meaning" of the Sixth Amendment guarantee. Here, the distri… |
| 19-7284 |
Bobby Y. Wallace, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-14 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa aedpa-deference certificate-of-appealability criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment federalism gross-disproportionality habitual-offender insufficient-evidence jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia judicial-review no-evidence proportionality-review sentencing state-court-decisions |
The Supreme Court of Louisiana has a demonstrable, decades-long history of substituting in word and deed a "no evidence" standard for the "insufficien… |
| 19-7258 |
Jamal Marquise Collins v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure holguin-hernandez judicial-review legal-standard objections remand sentencing timeliness timely-objection |
1. Whether parties to a criminal proceeding must make timely objections to the unreasonableness of a sentence?
Subsidiary question: whether the case … |
| 19-7260 |
Darin Kaufmann v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-01-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-2252 categorical-approach child-pornography federal-criminal-law first-amendment predicate-offense prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation |
1. Did the Seventh Circuit err in holding that the categorical approach does not apply when determining whether a state conviction triggers a sentenci… |
| 19-7249 |
Herbert Evans v. J. Hollingsworth, Warden |
Third Circuit |
2020-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction parole revocation sentencing statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Illegal Sentence
After
Revocati
Of supervised Release-Extended past
Originol Sentence Expiration Date. |
| 19-7251 |
William McNeal v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Apprendi apprendi-standard apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-law criminal-procedure degree-classification due-process essential-element essential-elements jury-trial reclassification sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether, when determining if a defendant's offense can be reclassified to the next highest degree, Florida's interpretation of "essential element" as … |
| 19-7253 |
Fabrizio DeFrancisci v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-60(b)(6) due-process post-conviction-relief rule-60b-motion second-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg |
I. WAS THE DISTRICT COURT AND APPEALS COURT WRONG TO DENY
THE RULE 60(b) MOTION AND CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY,
REPSECTIVELY, WHEN THIS COURT HAS … |
| 19-7220 |
Francisco Guerrero-Saucedo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 19-7234 |
Denzel Chisholm, aka Den, aka Din v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anti-drug-abuse-act anti-drug-abuse-act-1986 anti-drug-abuse-act-of-1986 congressional-intent criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offense proportionality retail-level-manager sentencing sentencing-reasonableness statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness |
Whether a 342-month sentence for a retail-level manager is substantively reasonable where it far exceeds a sentence that properly accounts for Congres… |
| 19-7206 |
Robert W. Johnson v. Law Offices of Jennifer S. Adams, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-01-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-fine-improvement-act criminal-liability criminal-procedure due-process insurance-fraud second-circuit sentencing standing statutory-interpretation white-collar-crime |
Question not identified. |
| 19-7215 |
Jerry Jabbari Rhodes v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
acquittal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-sentencing jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment watts-decision |
Is it reasonable and constitutional to sentence a defendant on facts for which a jury found the same defendant not guilty? |
| 19-7197 |
Darryl William Young v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery colloquy constitutional-law constitutional-question-of-procedural-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-11 criminal-procedure-rule-20 direct-appeal district-court-jurisdiction due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-question-of-statutory-law federal-rules-criminal-procedure jurisdictional-venue overbroad-interpretation plea-agreement plea-validity procedural-requirements sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-law venue waiver |
1. The United States Supreme Court is asked to resolve a federal question of jurisdictional law, whether the district court for the Eastern District o… |
| 19-7148 |
Jimmy Lee Boston v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
28-usc-2244 acca acca-elements-clause armed-robbery criminal-law due-process elements-clause habeas-corpus second-or-successive-motion second-successive-motion sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether, categorically, a Florida conviction for principal to armed robbery, in violation of Fla. Stat. §§ 777.011 and 812.13, is a "violent felony" u… |
| 19-7164 |
Dominic Howard v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fifth-circuit fourth-amendment in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review pro-se probable-cause search-and-seizure sentencing standing writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 19-7172 |
Larry Antonio Simmons v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-judiciary first-step-act judicial-ethics political-bias sentencing sentencing-reduction standing statutory-interpretation trump |
Whether the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina the Honorable Bruce H. Hendricks, Judge, Assistant United States District … |
| 19-7161 |
Aaron Michael Murray v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof constitutional-protections criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea guilty-plea-withdrawal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-withdraw plea-bargaining plea-colloquy sentencing withdrawal-of-plea |
Whether third-party affidavits filed with a motion to withdraw a guilty plea before sentencing, claiming ineffective assistance of counsel, overcomes … |
| 19-7123 |
Sean Gregory Mitchell v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act bodily-injury criminal-sentencing intentional-causation omission physical-force sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether a criminal statute that prohibits the intentional causation of bodily injury to another "by any means," including omissions, is a violent felo… |
| 19-7144 |
James Brandon Strouse v. Warden, USP Coleman II |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 conviction-challenge federal-prisoner habeas-corpus inadequate-or-ineffective post-conviction-relief section-2241 section-2255 sentence-challenge sentencing |
CAN A FEDERAL PRISONER CHALLENGE THEIR SENTENCE
OR CONVICTION UNDER 28 U.S.C. SECT. 2241 MOTION
WHEN THEIR POST SECTION 2255 MOTION IS INADEQUATE
OR I… |
| 19-7146 |
David Rapoport v. Robert Gilmore, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-01-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns death-penalty due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance life-without-parole plea-bargaining sentencing waiver-of-appeal-rights |
1. Was the petitioner's counsel ineffective in pre-trial stages?
2. Was the petitioner's counsel ineffective during the plea-bargaining process?
3. … |
| 19-7114 |
Joe Lewis Finley v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness due-process federal-habeas federal-sentencing habeas-corpus habeas-proceedings johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states mandatory-career-offender sentencing statute-of-limitations vagueness |
1. Under the statute of limitations applicable to federal habeas proceedings, are habeas petitions challenging sentences fixed by the mandatory career… |
| 19-7115 |
Alexander Faulkner v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca burglary burglary-definition categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause generic-burglary sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Generic burglary must be committed in a building or structure. For non buildings like vehicles to qualify as a structure, this Court has required that… |
| 19-7126 |
Ronald Damon v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583 5th-amendment appeal appellate-waiver circuit-split due-process due-process-clause plea-agreement post-conviction-waiver sentencing supervised-release |
Whether an appellate and post-conviction waiver in a plea agreement barring challenges to the "sentence imposed" precludes an appeal of the denial of … |
| 19-7130 |
Fabio Morel v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review case-law circuit-court-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing judicial-precedent plea-agreement plea-bargaining precedent retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
I. WHETHER THE LOWER COURT'S DECISION IS IN CONFLICT WITH FREEMAN V. UNITED STATES, 564 U.S. 522 (2011); AND HUGHES V. UNITED STATES, 138 S. Ct. 1765 … |
| 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… |
| 19-7136 |
Karen Lynn McClaflin v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affidavit appeal appellate-procedure cja-appointment counsel-appointment criminal-justice-act criminal-justice-act-1964 criminal-procedure due-process fee-waiver in-forma-pauperis prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing standing writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 19-7083 |
Leroy L. Perdue v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
851-enhancement criminal-procedure due-process enhancement federal-statute notice role-adjustment sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-compliance statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the sentence should be vacated for failure comply with the requirements of 21 U.S.C. § 851(b).
2. Whether the court erred in assessing a f… |
| 19-7086 |
Walter Daniel Prezioso v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether reliance on acquitted conduct in imposing sentence violates the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 19-7088 |
Marcos Cortez-Rogel v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 19-7095 |
David Lee Smith v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-30 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-relief criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-standards pro-se sentencing standing statutory-interpretation |
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| 19-7102 |
Ruben Mendez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-review constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-precedent legal-procedure precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 19-7104 |
Julio Cesar Pacheco-Astrudillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 19-7070 |
Gary R. Tomey, II v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment indictment jury-instructions material-variance self-incrimination sentencing sentencing-hearing |
1. Whether a constructive amendment and/or material variance of the indictment occurs when a court instructs the jury for the first time — during its … |
| 19-7071 |
Joseph A. Williams v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act certification criminal-law criminal-procedure judicial-certification sentencing serious-drug-offense state-convictions statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether the Armed Career Criminal Act's "serious drug offense" definition is limited to only those state convictions that are the same or narrower … |
| 19-7059 |
John Kenneth Schiefer v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion legal-reasoning plain-error procedural-error respect-for-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure |
Did the district court plainly procedurally err when it selected
and imposed sentence based on its desire to promote the
defendant's respect for the l… |
| 19-7047 |
In Re Antwoyn Spencer |
|
2019-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process pro-se sentencing |
Whether Appellant was deprived of his civil right of personal liberty against law contrary to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. |
| 19-7051 |
Adan Reyes-Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure fifth-circuit plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing waiver waiver-of-rights |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by ruling that Mr. Reyes-Martinez waived the right to appeal his sentence because of the Waiver of Appeal provision in… |
| 19-7056 |
Robert Keith Kinsey v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court judicial-objection objection preservation-of-error procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-procedure |
I. Must challenges to the procedural reasonableness of a sentence be preserved by a separate "reasonableness" objection in district court? |
| 19-7042 |
Christian Rosado v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-law guidelines judicial-interpretation judicial-opinions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines state-law state-law-offense statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
The question presented is whether, as the court of appeals in this case held, a state-law offense qualifies as a "crime of violence" for purposes of t… |
| 19-7044 |
Darmarcus Fisher v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-assault appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fifth-circuit procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the district court imposed a substantively unreasonable sentence and erred by imposing a 4-level enhancement for aggravated assault. |
| 19-7045 |
Michael Jones v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act career-offender categorical-approach controlled-substance-offense guidelines ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense |
In Shular v. United States, 18-6662, this Court granted certiorari to resolve whether "the determination of a 'serious drug offense' under the Armed C… |
| 19-7013 |
Kenneth M. Gray v. Paul S. Kemper, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights confession criminal-procedure due-process false-confession false-promises ineffective-assistance interrogation no-merit-report parent-attorney post-conviction-counsel sentencing sentencing-error waiver waiver-petition |
Whether post-conviction counsel failed to file a "no-merit" report.
Whether detectives made false promises to illicit a confession during the interro… |
| 19-7021 |
Otis Hunter and Deshawn Evans v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
bias confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination jury-instructions jury-nullification mandatory-minimum nullification sentencing sixth-amendment witness-cooperation |
Whether the Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause is violated when a court bars a defendant from eliciting the mandatory minimum sentence a prosecution… |
| 19-7022 |
Jesus D. Cruz v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment constitutional-violation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rehaif-v-united-states search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing toxicology-report |
1. Whether Counsel was ineffective for not showing the Petitioner and or verifying to the Petitioner producted a valid search warrant, once they broke… |
| 19-7006 |
Alvin Andrae Drummond v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment armed-career-criminal-act criminal-sentencing misdemeanor-crime-of-violence physical-force predicate-offense probable-cause search-warrant statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Petitioner Alvin Drummond presents two questions for this Court's review:
1. Whether a misdemeanor crime of violence, not aggravated by any additiona… |
| 19-6965 |
Vondale Lamar Kincaide v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-12-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-sentencing gvr-order sentencing serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether the determination of a "serious drug offense" under the Armed Career Criminal Act requires the same categorical approach used in the determina… |
| 19-774 |
Marcus Terrelle Marsh v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3) |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-sentencing drug-distribution drug-statute federal-sentencing predicate-offense state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether a state drug statute that lists a variety of means by which it can be violated, including purchasing, which does not meet the definition of a … |
| 19-780 |
Willie Newton v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure custis-v-united-states drug-offense due-process federal-sentencing habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states post-conviction-relief prior-conviction proposition-47 sentence-enhancement sentencing state-law state-sentencing |
In Johnson v. United States, 544 U.S. 295 (2005), and Custis v. United States, 511 U.S. 485 (1994), this Court held that a defendant who "successfully… |
| 19-6948 |
Michael Eugene Spry v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-USC-3553 criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness supervised-release |
I.
WHETHER
THE
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SENTENCE WAS UNREASONABLE AS IT WAS GREATER THAN
NECESSARY AND AS SUCH, FAILS TO COMPLY WITH TITLE 18,
… |
| 19-6953 |
Donovan G. Davis, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-proceeding critical-stage direct-appeal new-trial new-trial-motion right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure |
The Constitution guarantees the assistance and choice of counsel for a critical-stage in a criminal proceeding. Ancient statute guarantees every indiv… |
| 19-6957 |
Venise Metayer v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-12-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-hearing |
DID THE TRIAL/LOWER COURT CREATE A MANIFEST INJUSTICE WHEN IT ALLOWED THE PETITIONER TO PLEA TO CHARGES THAT VIOLATED DOUBLE JEOPARDY LAWS, WHEN THE T… |
| 19-6922 |
Charles Edward Bates v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-punishment forfeiture sentencing |
1) Did the lower courts err in their interpretation even as Chuck Bates' offense did not result in substantial forfeiture? Courts interpretation Cond … |
| 19-6933 |
Elmuiz Abdu v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-general-opinion criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection good-time-credit habeas-corpus jail-credit legislative-intent sentencing statutory-interpretation time-calculation time-served |
Base upon the case laws, rules, and the authority provided by the Genral Assermbly and the Attorney General, petitioner alleged the his jail good time… |
| 19-6935 |
Rickie James King v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certiorari criminal-procedure district-court due-process fifth-circuit leniency-arguments preservation-of-error procedural-reasonableness reasonableness remand sentencing sentencing-procedure united-states-v-haymond |
I. Must challenges to the procedural reasonableness of a sentence be preserved by a separate "reasonableness" objection in district court?
II. Whethe… |
| 19-6939 |
Anthony Scott Hunt v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
base-offense-level categorical-approach controlled-substance-offense divisibility drug-statute modified-categorical-approach predicate-offense sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g-§-4b1.2(b) u.s.s.g.-§-2k2.1(a)(4)(a) u.s.s.g.-§-4b1.2(b) |
WHETHER A STATE DRUG STATUTE, THAT IS EITHER COMPLETELY INDIVISIBLE OR AT MOST ONLY DIVISIBLE INTO NO MORE THAN THREE GENERALLY SEPARATE OFFENSES, ALL… |
| 19-6913 |
Neal Benjamin v. Jennifer Saad, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review booker-error constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error judicial-review lower-court-error sentencing sixth-amendment standard-of-review |
1) Does the Petitioner have a Sixth Amendment Booker error?
2) Does the Petitioner have a Harmless Error ground?
3) Did the Lower Court overlook the… |
| 19-6920 |
Courtney Omar Boyd v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act judicial-discretion motion-denial sentencing statutory-interpretation |
I. WHETHER THE LOWER COURT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION AND VIOLATED MR. BOYD'S
CONSTITUTIONAL DUE PROCESS RIGHTS WHEN IT DENIED BOYD'S FIRST STEP ACT MOTION… |
| 19-6928 |
Lee Dale Lofton, Jr. v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-12-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeals civil-rights constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-error sixth-amendment standing |
1. By the exception of Martinez V. Ryan (32 S.Ct. 1309 (2012), Petitioner's inability to meet the one year time limitation under CAEDPA in Habeas corp… |
| 19-6906 |
Datanya Damon Alexander v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-review indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether this Court should hold the instant petition in light of Shular v. United States, 15-1498, __U.S.__, 139 S.Ct. 2773 (June 28, 2019)?
Whether t… |
| 19-6908 |
Margarito Olvera-Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-11 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law reckless-mental-state sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court use-of-force |
Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men… |
| 19-6915 |
Andrew Lee Thompson, II v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process ex-post-facto plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing |
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| 19-746 |
Oliver Ray Carbutt v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2019-12-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea plea-bargaining presentence-investigation self-incrimination sentencing sex-offense sex-offenses |
I. When a court is in the process of accepting a guilty plea for a sex offense that will require an intrusive presentence investigation including ques… |
| 19-6876 |
Mauricio Aguirre, aka Mauricio Aguirre-Orcutt, aka Peter Holston-Aguirre, aka Peter Holston, aka Miller Aguirre v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment indictment jury-trial sentencing sentencing-modification sixth-amendment supervised-release |
Whether a federal defendant may suffer additional imprisonment
on the basis of facts that have never been placed in an indictment,
nor proven to a jur… |
| 19-6884 |
Glen B. Clay, aka Glenn B. Clay v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act district-court-review due-process johnson-v-united-states procedural-default residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement standard-of-proof successive-motion |
Whether the court of appeals erred in affirming the district court's decision that it could not consider on the merits Mr. Clay's successive motion ba… |
| 19-6881 |
April Torres v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion parole probation reasonableness revocation sentencing supervised-release |
I. Did the district court impose a plainly unreasonable revocation sentence upon Ms. Torres? |
| 19-719 |
Dami Hospitality, LLC v. Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, Division of Workers' Compensation |
Colorado |
2019-12-06 |
Denied |
|
ability-to-pay civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-fines criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-fines-clause proportionality sentencing |
How is an offender's ability to pay relevant in determining whether a fine is unconstitutional under Excessive Fines Clause of the Eighth Amendment? |
| 19-720 |
United States v. Riley Briones, Jr. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-06 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure discretionary-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment life-without-parole parole sentencing sentencing-discretion |
Whether Miller v. Alabama, which "h[e]ld that the Eighth Amendment forbids a sentencing scheme that mandates life in prison without possibility of par… |
| 19-6856 |
James W. Riley v. Delaware |
Delaware |
2019-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
capital-punishment conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-considerations fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct judicial-review right-to-counsel right-to-fair-trial sentencing sentencing-discretion |
Should this court extend Its Hurst v. Florida ruling to the pre-trial and trial stages of capital murder case where it is shown that the Judge's sente… |
| 19-6865 |
Delante L. Lunn v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
but-for-causation but-for-test causation criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-distribution drug-offenses drug-overdose mandatory-minimum overdose-causation sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether this Honorable Court should re-evaluate the but-for test established by Burrage v. United States, 571 U.S. 204 (2014) for mixed drug overdoses… |
| 19-6871 |
Justin Vazquez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-12-05 |
GVR |
IFP |
6th-amendment civil-rights conflict-of-interest confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process evidence-admission ineffective-assistance jury-selection professional-conduct sentencing speedy-trial trial-procedure |
Whether in-chief, ineffective of assistance in violation of 6th Amendment (U.S. Const.) is
Whether assigned counsel (M. Blagojevich) violated Code of… |
| 19-6838 |
Joshua Smith v. Sandra Butler, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 appellate-review caselaw federal-procedure guideline-range habeas-corpus incorrect-guideline-range mandatory-guidelines savings-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Courts of Appeals have incorrectly interpreted the 'savings clause', found in 28 USC 2255(e), to require that a defendant be sentenced und… |
| 19-6849 |
Cedric Sharrod Williams v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-review controlled-substance criminal-law drug-crimes due-process firearm-proximity firearms fourth-circuit sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether the fourth circuit court of appeals erred in concluding that, despite the controlled substance [heroin] in this matter having been locked in a… |
| 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… |
| 19-6798 |
Corey Eugene Gill v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender criminal-procedure habeas-corpus mathis-v-united-states retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 19-6799 |
Aamir A. Hafiz-Thompson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca appeal certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel precedent sentencing supreme-court-precedent |
1. Nationally, where counsel admittingly is inaccurate, misinforms and fails, to. make specific inquiry regarding Petitioner's prior predicates (ACCA)… |
| 19-6802 |
Gary Jackson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process identification identification-process judicial-circuit jurisdiction precedent sentencing standing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
1) Did the State of Florida within the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit Court in and Broward County, Florida and the Fourth District Court of Appeal as we… |
| 19-6806 |
Anthony J. Stokes v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy due-process felony jurisdictional-conflict military-law predicate-felony sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation trial-modification |
I.
WHETHER A CONVICTION ON A CHARGE CONTAINING AN ESSENTIAL ELEMENT NOT CHARGED IN THE INFORMATION IS A "DUE PROCESS" VIOLATION.
II.
WHETHER THE DOUB… |
| 19-6809 |
Jason Michael Strubberg v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process entrapment jury-instructions sentencing sixth-amendment undercover-operations |
1. Whether the Sixth Amendment and Due Process Clause allow a court to instruct the jury, over objection, that "Undercover agents may properly make us… |
| 19-6810 |
Duane Gregley v. Douglas Fender, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge due-process firearm-specification habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-verdict res-judicata sentencing sixth-amendment |
I. WHETHER THERE IS PRETENSE THAT THE STATUTES AND LAWS OF THE STATE UNDER WHICH MR. GREGLEY IS CONVICTED OF, ARE REPUGNANT TO THE CONSTITUTION AND LA… |
| 19-6817 |
Anthony Wheeler v. Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process expungement ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-standards sixth-amendment standard-of-review |
I. Did the Seventh Circuit err under Miller-El v. Cockrell , 537 U.S. 322, 336–38
(2003) and Buck v. Davis , 137 S. Ct. 759, 773–74 (2017), when it de… |
| 19-6818 |
John D. Ward v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Johnson v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015), applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidelines, USSG § 4B1.2(a)(2)?
II. Whethe… |
| 19-6832 |
James Henry Lacy, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery career-offender career-offender-guideline categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-bank-robbery habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines timeliness |
1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of
Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson
invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker … |
| 19-6792 |
Victor Sanchez v. Patrick Nogan, Administrator East Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-12-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-intervention plea-bargaining procedural-due-process right-to-appeal sentencing sentencing-review |
Where trial counsel admits to ineffective advice that lead to this petitioner being sentenced to (5) five years more time than he would have received … |
| 19-6795 |
Abraham Conde-Herrera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 19-6796 |
Valentin Castanon-Renteria v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 19-6773 |
Edgar Ortega-Limones v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 19-6774 |
Albert Allen, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal due-process fair-sentencing-act ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum mens-rea prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Court of Appeals Erred in Denying Petitioner's Application for a Certificate of Appealability to Appeal the District Court's Denial of His… |
| 19-6775 |
James Marione Butchee v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender controlled-substance criminal-history due-process federal-sentencing ineffective-counsel sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
The Federal Minimum Mandatory sentence for Career offender clause [21 USC 841(b)] is at question in this petition, Do having one violent felony and on… |
| 19-6776 |
William Dawson v. Bryan K. Wells |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process excessive-force good-faith habeas-corpus jurisdiction police-misconduct qualified-immunity sentencing voluntary-manslaughter writ |
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| 19-6786 |
Carol Johnene Morris v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-27 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process government-action habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review property sentencing standing takings |
Whether the Western District of Texas' District Courts lawfully uses Carol Johnene Morris, C# 57931, 1988 for conviction to try granted home confineme… |
| 19-6759 |
James A. Lackey v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-deference jurists-of-reason mandatory-sentencing-guidelines ninth-circuit residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review vagueness void-for-vagueness |
1. Whether the Ninth Circuit misapplied this Court's "debatable among jurists of reason" standard for a certificate of appealability.
2. Whether the … |
| 19-678 |
United States, ex rel. Laurence Schneider v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law appeal circuit-split civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process false-claims-act false-claims-act-fca-qui-tam-government-deference- government-dismissal habeas-corpus Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-deference qui-tam sentencing standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Government is entitled to absolute deference regarding its decision to dismiss an FCA action under section 3730(c)(2)(A), or whether the q… |
| 19-665 |
John Doe v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3553a criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure rule-35 rule-35b sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-factors substantial-assistance |
1. May a district court deny a government's Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 35(b) motion for reduction of sentence based on substantial assistance … |
| 19-6742 |
Jorge Prieto v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Florida |
2019-11-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process finality judicial-discretion jurisdiction sentencing subject-matter-jurisdiction trial-court |
1. Did the state trial court have jurisdiction to vacate petitioner's (20) Twenty year sentence, and then re-impose a sentence of life imprisonment, s… |
| 19-6746 |
Michael Anthony Mitchell v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process equal-protection fair-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-disparity sentencing-review unwarranted-sentence waiver-of-rights |
Does a waiver of direct appeal rights and collateral rights excepting claims premised on ineffective assistance of counsel violate a defendant's "due … |
| 19-6747 |
Josue Emmanuel Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
allocution allocution-error appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal due-process harmless-error judicial-review plain-error plain-error-review procedural-default sentencing |
1. Whether allocution error is subject to plain error review in the absence of objection? |
| 19-6714 |
Keith D. Goodman v. Eddie Pearson, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-district-court habeas-corpus procedural-rule section-2254 sentence-aggregation sentencing sentencing-calculation statutory-interpretation |
Is a federal district court (or a § 2254 petitioner) permitted to disregard or evade Rule 2(e) (of the Rules Governing Section 2254 Cases in the Unite… |
| 19-6719 |
Mauro Castaneda Palacio v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-supervised-release sentencing standing supervised-release vagueness |
whether the U.S. Fifth Circuit supports the conflicting
whether the U.S. Fifth Circuit supports some unconstitutional and vague special conditions un… |
| 19-6721 |
Christopher Ray Parrish v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-conduct double-jeopardy federal-court federal-government punishment sentencing supervised-release |
Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits a federal court from revoking
supervised release and sentencing someone based on criminal conduct for whi… |
| 19-6727 |
Tyrone Marvin Andrews v. Noah Nagy, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alibi-defense civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum-sentence plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-review strickland-v-washington trial-counsel |
DID THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT SANCTION DECISIONS OF THE MICHIGAN COURT OF APPEALS AND FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT THAT CONFL… |
| 19-6729 |
Cedric Gray v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion legal-standard mental-competency miranda-rights procedural-error sentencing suppression-hearing trial-rights |
1. Did the District Court violate my Fifth Amendment rights to remain silent?
2. Could the District Court use my 19% year old priors as proof of show… |
| 19-6638 |
Yannier Arias v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-enhancement trial-counsel |
1. Whether conflicting affidavits require an evidentiary hearing for ineffective assistance of counsel.
2. Counsel was ineffective for not objecting … |
| 19-6712 |
Adam Scott Caward v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-waiver circuit-split civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion legal-interpretation miscarriage-of-justice sentencing standing |
Whether the Court should adopt the rule espoused in the First, Third, Fourth, Tenth, and D.C. Circuits, which hold that an appellate court can decline… |
| 19-6659 |
In Re Arturo Rodriguez Ornalez |
|
2019-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-negotiations rule-11 sentencing structural-error |
WHETHER CONSTITUTION AND STATUTORY PROVISIONS AND RULE 11 VIOLATIONS MAY HAVE RENDERED ARTURO RODRIGUEZ ORNALEZ'S SENTENCE AND CONVICTION CONSTITUTION… |
| 19-6686 |
Darren Kevin Hunter v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 bank-robbery career-offender career-offender-guideline due-process elements-clause habeas-corpus-review johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness timeliness-standard |
Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker car… |
| 19-6689 |
Frank Fernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline due-process johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines pre-booker residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness timeliness-purposes |
1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker … |
| 19-6693 |
Chris Rayvon Starks v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure judge-finding jury jury-decision jury-determination predicate-offense predicate-offenses prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-penalty |
The fact that the defendant committed three predicate offenses "on occasions different from one another" an element of the ACCA for the jury to decide… |
| 19-6703 |
Shondor Janell Arceneaux v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2113(a) 924(c) aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting bank-robbery civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-offense generic-crime-definition generic-definition remand sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
I.
If §924(c) applies to predicate crimes, 1 whose Elements are
no Broader than a Federal Generic Definition of that crime , is...
remand required i… |
| 19-6706 |
Ramsin Jonathan Malek v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-bank-robbery federal-crimes federal-criminal-procedure force-clause ninth-circuit sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether this Court should grant certiorari to review the Ninth Circuit's decision because armed robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(d) does not categorical… |
| 19-6658 |
Booker Terry Simmons v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline civil-procedure constitutional-vagueness due-process johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness |
1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker … |
| 19-6670 |
Michael Bridge v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 appellate-procedure brief-formatting career-offender constitutional-rights due-process johnson-v-united-states judicial-discretion mandatory-guidelines procedural-fairness residual-clause sentencing-guidelines timeliness Whether Pennsylvania Superior Court can dismiss an |
1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of
Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson
invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker … |
| 19-6673 |
Lashon Browning v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act illinois-armed-robbery illinois-robbery sentencing sentencing-enhancement seventh-circuit seventh-circuit-interpretation stokeling-precedent stokeling-v-united-states violent-felony |
Is Illinois armed robbery an ACCA violent felony after this Court's decision in Stokeling v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 544 (2019)? |
| 19-6678 |
Joseph Van Sach v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act armed-career-criminal-act-acca circuit-split criminal-law illinois-armed-robbery sentencing sentencing-enhancement seventh-circuit statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states violent-felony |
Is Illinois armed robbery an ACCA violent felony after this Court's decision in Stokeling v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 544 (2019)? |
| 19-6680 |
Tony Lipscomb v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act armed-career-criminal-act-acca illinois-armed-robbery illinois-robbery sentencing sentencing-enhancement seventh-circuit statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states supreme-court-review violent-felony |
Is Illinois armed robbery an ACCA violent felony after this Court's decision in Stokeling v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 544 (2019)? |
| 19-6662 |
Shane E. Jones v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure judicial-determination jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right statutory-interpretation |
Does the judicial determination of crimes committed on occasions different from one another" at sentencing under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S… |
| 19-6664 |
Steven Klikno v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act illinois-robbery sentencing sentencing-enhancement seventh-circuit seventh-circuit-interpretation stokeling-precedent stokeling-v-united-states violent-felony |
Is Illinois robbery an ACCA violent felony after this Court's decision in Stokeling v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 544 (2019)? |
| 19-6643 |
John Forrest v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure descamps-v-united-states mathis-v-united-states retroactive-precedent retroactivity sentencing sentencing-correction sentencing-review successive-motion supreme-court |
A successive motion to correct a sentence under 28 U.S.C. §2255(h)(2) must contain a "new rule of constitutional law, made retroactive to cases on col… |
| 19-6644 |
Darrell Freeze v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-sentencing fifth-amendment judicial-fact-finding sentencing sixth-amendment substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments permit judges to find the facts necessary to support an otherwise substantively unreasonable federal sentence. |
| 19-6650 |
Fidel Rios, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a 8th-circuit criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court downward-variance guidelines judicial-discretion life-circumstances sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines u-s-code |
Whether the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals and District Court for the Southern District of Iowa failed to adequately consider the sentencing factors set… |
| 19-6634 |
Kathryn Woodin Markle v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-production burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process evidence government-burden pre-sentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-objection |
Does the defendant bear the burden of production to rebut information found in a pre-sentence report after objecting to that information, or instead, … |
| 19-6636 |
Gregory Williams v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circumstantial-evidence constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial jury-bias jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-reasonableness |
I. WHETHER THE GOVERNMENT VIOLATED MR. WILLIAMS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO A FAIR TRIAL, IN IT'S IMPROPER DIRECT QUESTIONING AND ILL-ADVISED POINTING OF … |
| 19-6589 |
Alicia Norman, Kendra Brantley, and Deenvaughn Rowe v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-client-relationship criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-11 due-process federal-rules judicial-interference plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
KENDRA BRANTLEY:
I.
Was the D.C. Circuit's affirmance of Petitioner Brantley's convictions
erroneous and in conflict with other federal jurisdictions … |
| 19-6601 |
Kevin Battle v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-prosecution categorical-approach categorical-match circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-law federal-sentencing prior-conviction realistic-probability sentencing state-conviction state-court state-crime |
Whether a defendant who seeks to demonstrate that a prior conviction is not a categorical match for federal sentencing purposes must point to an actua… |
| 19-6606 |
Ryan T. Root v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation criminal-procedure cumulative-errors double-prosecution due-process ineffective-counsel law-and-fact merger-doctrine miscarriage-of-justice money-laundering plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
I. WHETHER CUMULATIVE ERRORS OF LAW AND FACT LED TO A MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE AND A CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATION?
II. WHETHER A DEFENDANT MAY BE CONVICTED… |
| 19-6616 |
Alberino Magi v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-procedure criminal-fines criminal-penalty criminal-restitution due-process jury-finding jury-findings jury-trial sentencing southern-union southern-union-v-united-states |
In Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 490 (2000), the Court held that "[o]ther than the fact of a prior conviction, any fact that increases the pen… |
| 19-6620 |
John Kevin Waldrip v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure federal-law federal-sentencing-guidelines federal-statute fifth-circuit judicial-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines special-assessments statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
I. In a consolidated Appeal JOHN KEVIN WALDRIP argued that the district court erroneously applied 18 U.S.C. § 3014 when it imposed a total of $15,000 … |
| 19-6627 |
Andre Williamson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
boykin-standard boykin-v-alabama due-process equal-protection judicial-fairness mental-health mental-health-defendant mental-health-defendants plea-agreement plea-agreements plea-bargaining sentencing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Will the Supreme Court just step aside or now step in for the current and future generation of mental health defendants that desperately need this cou… |
| 19-611 |
Rene A. Boucher v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appeal below-guideline-sentence criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-appeal waiver waiver-of-rights |
1. Did the government waive its right to appeal the defendant's sentence when it expressly agreed that the defendant would be free to argue for a belo… |
| 19-612 |
Hassan Abpikar v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-court-conflict circuit-split conflict-with-other-circuits criminal-complaint criminal-procedure due-process original-indictment sentence-increase sentencing sentencing-enhancement speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation superseding-indictment |
1. Whether the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Ruling on petitioner's claim to his Rights under the Speedy Trial Act is IN CONFLICT WITH OTHER CIRCUITS, … |
| 19-6575 |
Dorothy Williams Elliott v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-11-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights court-proceedings criminal-procedure due-process expungement ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining probation sentencing |
1. On March 11, 2010, at the Felony Sounding Hearings The State of Florida was ready, and made the "Ore R." Why wasn't Attorney Robert L White, prepar… |
| 19-6582 |
Roberto Carlos Martinez-Mendoza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 19-6583 |
Patrick Killen, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment eleventh-circuit graham-v-florida gross-disproportionality proportionality sentencing statutory-limits |
I. What is the proper analysis to determine whether there is a threshold showing of an inference of gross disproportionality on an Eighth Amendment cl… |
| 19-6511 |
Roberto Trinidad Del Carpio Frescas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure fifth-circuit mandatory-victims-restitution-act preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence reliable-evidence restitution restitution-standard sentencing |
Whether this Court should clarify what "reliable evidence" means for establishing, by a preponderance of the evidence, the amount of restitution under… |
| 19-6539 |
Dwayne Dumont Haizlip v. Joseph Valliere |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process fourteenth-amendment habitual-felon-law habitual-offender mandatory-sentencing sentencing |
I. The Federal Court, Question Presented is whether a Sentential Mandatory Sentence + Drug Trafficking Conviction; Sentence Versus N.C. Gen. Stat. 90-… |
| 19-6543 |
Peter Gakuba v. Michelle Neese |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-conviction due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing structural-error structural-errors |
Question not identified. |
| 19-6545 |
Bradly M. Cunningham v. Washington County, Oregon, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-07 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus illegal-sentence parole-board section-1983 sentencing torture |
1. Am I able to pursue relief under 42 U.S.C.A. § 1983 against the Defendants/Respondents for pre-trial Torture?
2. Am I able to pursue relief under … |
| 19-6552 |
Darrell Tykwan Atkinson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-conduct double-jeopardy federal-court federal-government punishment sentencing supervised-release |
Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits a federal court from revoking supervised release and sentencing someone based on criminal conduct for whi… |
| 19-6555 |
Courtney Johnson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ability-to-pay appointed-counsel criminal-procedure due-process fine-imposition fines indigent-defendant judicial-discretion sentencing statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER A DISTRICT COURT ERRS BY IMPOSING A FINE UPON AN INDIGENT DEFENDANT, REPRESENTED BY APPOINTED COUNSEL, WITHOUT MAKING ANY INQUIRY INTO THE DEF… |
| 19-6497 |
David Morillo-Cruz v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the sentence imposed by the Court was reasonable? |
| 19-6502 |
Cory Dale Fields v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process federal-district-court federal-sentencing grand-jury no-bill prior-conduct reliability reliability-of-evidence reliability-standard sentencing sentencing-considerations uncharged-conduct |
Is alleged prior uncharged conduct that had been no-billed by a Grand
Jury sufficiently reliable for a federal district court to consider at sentencin… |
| 19-6509 |
William Gaudet v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2423(a) appeals-court appellate-review conviction criminal-sentencing district-court evidence-exclusion evidence-rule-403 federal-rules-of-evidence federal-sentencing-guidelines judgment-of-acquittal motion-in-limine prior-testimony sentencing standard-of-review whether-the-appeals-court-erred-in-upholding-the-d |
I. WHETHER THE APPEALS COURT ERRED IN UPHOLDING THE DISTRICT COURT'S DENIAL OF THE PETITIONTER'S MOTION IN LIMINE SEEKING TO EXCLUDE THE PRIOR TESTIMO… |
| 19-6510 |
Timothy L. Douglas v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255f3 career-offender criminal-law criminal-sentencing-guidelines-4b1.1-4b1.2 due-process guidelines johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness |
I. Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidel… |
| 19-6518 |
Eric Burgie v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-robbery civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process jurisdiction mental-fitness mental-health parole parole-eligibility sentencing sentencing-scheme |
Mr. Bugie filed a section lugo-ill ca petition to corfense and ane appled Miller to an 18-year old. Mr. Burgse sk this court to anwer whether or not t… |
| 19-6521 |
Marcus T. Simmons v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
career-offender criminal-justice criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 guidelines johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness |
I. Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidel… |
| 19-6525 |
Sean Trent Barnes v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion competency competency-hearing criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea plain-error-review plea-bargaining pro-se-representation self-representation sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
The issue subsuming all other issues in this appeal is whether I.
or not, Mr. Sean Trent Barnes, while incarcerated in pre-trial cus
tody as a federal… |
| 19-594 |
Mahmoud Thiam v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
american-constitutional-limitations american-court constitutional-limitations criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process foreign-statute official-act predicate-offense predicate-prosecution vagueness-doctrine |
1. Where a foreign statute is used as a predicate to prosecution in a United States court, including but not limited to the vagueness doctrine, are th… |
| 19-6496 |
David Elijah Smith v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-05 |
GVR |
IFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey blakely-v-washington criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearm-statute haymond-v-united-states mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum |
(1) DID THE PETITIONER'S SENTENCE FOR 18 U.S.C. 922(g) VIOLATE THE STATUTORY MAXIMUM IN VIOLATION OF BLAKELY V. WASHINGTON, 542 U.S. 296, 304; APPREND… |
| 19-6500 |
Horacio Dominguez-Villalobos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 19-6489 |
Clifford Gene Wallace v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-assault aggravated-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines texas-criminal-law texas-law threat ussg-4b1.2 |
1. Whether the Texas offense of aggravated assault by threat is a "crime of violence" under USSG §4B1.2?
2. Whether the Texas offense of aggravated r… |
| 19-6492 |
Tylan Tremaine Autrey v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity section-2255 sentencing-guidelines vagueness |
Petitioner was convicted of federal kidnapping and sentenced as a career offender in 2000, under the then-mandatory Sentencing Guidelines, when the Gu… |
| 19-6421 |
Ralph Herman Fox, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process fairness government-misconduct judicial-discretion plea-agreement plea-bargaining public-policy sentencing statutory-maximum supervisory-powers |
Whether in affirming the imposition of the statutory maximum sentence of 360 months on Ralph Fox, where (1) Petitioner Fox entered a guilty plea and (… |
| 19-6445 |
Lewellyn Charles Cox, IV, aka Sho, aka Showtime, aka Showtyme v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment due-process fifth-amendment guilty-plea harmless-error harmless-error-analysis ineffective-assistance right-to-self-representation self-representation self-representation-at-sentencing sentencing structural-error |
(1) Whether denial of a right to self-representation during sentencing is subject to harmless error analysis as held by the Ninth Circuit, or subject … |
| 19-6454 |
Corey Morris v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-10-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel extended-sentences federal-review multiple-indictments plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether defendants have a Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of Counsel when Contemplating Plea offers. Morris was charged at multiple indi… |
| 19-566 |
Devan Pierson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-10-30 |
GVR |
|
922(g)-felon-in-possession criminal-procedure direct-appeal firearm-possession first-step-act first-step-act-2018 rehaif rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states sentencing status-based-possession statutory-interpretation |
1. Section 401(c) of the First Step Act of 2018, Pub. L. No. 115-394, provides: "This section, and the amendments made by this section, shall apply to… |
| 19-6420 |
Christopher Mark Heath v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy conspiracy-law criminal-law criminal-statute drug-trafficking firearm-possession firearms mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
The mere presence of a firearm at the scene of a drug trafficking offense constitutes possession of the firearm "in furtherance of" the conspiracy for… |
| 19-564 |
Michigan v. Eric Lamontee Beck |
Michigan |
2019-10-29 |
Denied |
|
acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-circuit-courts preponderance-of-evidence presumption-of-innocence sentencing |
Whether, when imposing a sentence within the statutory range for the offense of conviction, due process permits a sentencing court to consider conduct… |
| 19-6424 |
Anthony Darnell Stokes v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review conviction court-of-appeals criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-statute obstruction-of-justice sentencing statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS MISAPPLIED 18 U.S.C.S. § 1512(c)(1)
(LAWYERS EDITION 2008) WHEN IT AFFIRMED STOKES'S CONVICTIONS
FOR OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTI… |
| 19-6431 |
Jose Armando Bazan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-29 |
GVR |
Relisted (4)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure fact-question guidelines plain-error role-adjustment sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Petitioner, JOSE ARMANDO BAZAN, was charged with and pleaded guilty to a single count of possession with intent to distribute cocaine. The District Co… |
| 19-6407 |
Derran Smiley v. California |
California |
2019-10-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance penal-code post-conviction retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing state-court-ruling |
1) APPELLANT OFFENSES WERE COMMITTED IN 2004, BUT, IN 2006 PENAL CODE § 667.6(d) WAS AMENDED AND INCREASED THE PUNISHMENT WHILE CHANGING THE VIOLATING… |
| 19-6417 |
Doran Wilburn Walker v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-10-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing cumulative-sentences double-jeopardy due-process oral-pronouncement-of-sentence presence-of-defendant sentencing statutory-authority trial-court-authority written-judgment |
1. If a trial court wishes to cumulate sentences, must it so order at the time and place that sentence is orally pronounced? See Grays v State, 291 S.… |
| 19-6360 |
George C. Pugh v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process felony florida-law habitual-felony-offender habitual-offender precedent release-date sentencing statutory-interpretation time-calculation |
Is it lawfol for the Petittioner For be decmed an Habitual fetorry offe whereas the Petitioner was one day outside of the B years of dor of conviction… |
| 19-6389 |
Quincy Dennis v. J. A. Terris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 categorical-approach drug-offense federal-procedure habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-relief-28-usc-2241 intervening-change mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence presidential-commutation presidential-pardon retroactive-application retroactively-applicable-decision sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
QUESTION # ONE: Whether petitioner Dennis is entitled to seek
federal habeas corpus relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 on the ground
that 28 U.S.C. § 225… |
| 19-6405 |
Ernest Vereen, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act divisible-statute due-process felon-in-possession innocent-transitory-possession record-ambiguity sentencing sentencing-court transitory-possession violent-felony |
(1) Whether a sentencing court may look to disputed facts in the record to determine whether a prior conviction qualifies as a violent felony under th… |
| 19-6363 |
David Pearson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal-rights armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act categorical-analysis drug-offense drug-offenses ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum |
1. Did the court of appeals, in rejecting petitioner's claim that his sentencing counsel provided ineffective assistance by failing to challenge his a… |
| 19-6376 |
Josue Osvaldo Solis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal construction criminal-procedure due-process fairness fairness-doctrine plea-agreement sentence-appeal sentencing waiver waiver-of-rights |
1. Whether, consistent with the Due Process Clause, a defendant can knowingly waive the right to appeal his sentence when his purported waiver occurs … |
| 19-6379 |
Timothy Edward Holz v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-10-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
career-offender collateral-review crime-of-violence johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states mandatory-sentence-enhancement mandatory-sentencing pre-booker pre-booker-mandatory residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-4b1.2a |
Whether Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), invalidated U.S. Sentencing Guidelines § 4B1.2(a)---the career offender guideline's residual… |
| 19-6385 |
Neil Grenning v. James Key, Superintendent, Airway Heights Corrections Center |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals certificate-of-appealability consecutive-sentencing due-process habeas habeas-corpus notice oregon-v-ice sentencing sixth-amendment standard-of-review straw-man |
Mr. Grenning's life sentence upon post-trial allegation of aggravating elements raises a significant issue: Integrity of appeals that circumvent Supre… |
| 19-6348 |
Billy J. Griffin v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender controlled-substances divisibility drug-statute federal-sentencing felony-convictions missouri-law state-convictions statutory-interpretation |
Question 1. Is the Missouri Controlled Drug Statue indivisible such that the Defendant's two distribution of marijuana felony convictions in state cou… |
| 19-6350 |
Maurice Antoine-Hake Dobson-El v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2019-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction sentencing speedy-trial standing |
Was Petitioner's constitutional right to a speedy trial violated? |
| 19-6358 |
In Re Morris J. Warren |
|
2019-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-conflict circuit-split conflict-of-laws constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process ex-post-facto parole-eligibility retroactive-application sentencing sentencing-regulations statutory-interpretation |
DOES DANIEL v. FULWOOD, CASE NO. 12-5327/CITATION 766 F. 3d 57 (D.C. CIR. 2014), APPLIES TO MY PAROLEBLE SENTENCE, WHERE WHICH WAS GIVEN DECEMBER 18, … |
| 19-527 |
Paul Huskisson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-10-23 |
Denied |
|
direct-appeal exclusionary-rule first-step-act fourth-amendment independent-source independent-source-doctrine police-misconduct retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reform |
1. Does the independent source exception to the exclusionary rule, like all other exclusionary rule exceptions, take into account the flagrancy and de… |
| 19-6315 |
John David Stahlman v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-law fifth-amendment sentencing statutory-interpretation title-18-usc-2422(b) |
1.) DID THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA, AND SUBSEQUENTLY THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT, VIOLATE T… |
| 19-6322 |
Kelvin Miles v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne alleyne-vs-united-states apprendi confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-destruction fair-trial hearsay sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-factors |
1. DID THE PRE-TRIAL DESTRUCTION OF EVIDENCE BY THE STATE
DENY THE PETITIONER HIS RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS AND A FAIR
TRIAL, THUS DENYING HIM THE ONLY EV… |
| 19-6331 |
Joseren Deshune Delancy v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-framework Batson-v-Kentucky civil-rights constitutional-challenge equal-protection mccleskey-v-kemp prima-facie-case racial-discrimination sentencing sentencing-bias supreme-court-precedent |
Whether this Court should overrule McCleskey v. Kemp, 481 U.S. 279 (1987), and adopt the Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986), framework that a defe… |
| 19-6336 |
Eddie Jennings v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-10-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review criminal-law johnson-ruling mandatory-sentencing new-right retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
1. Whether this Court's rulings in Johnson and Welch , retroactively invalidating the residual clause of the ACCA because it was unconstitutionally va… |
| 19-6341 |
Charles Raymond Stagner v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-intent criminal-procedure drug-crimes due-process evidence-admissibility fifth-amendment intent methamphetamine-possession sentencing sentencing-reduction sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the Fifth Amendment Guarantees the Petitioner the Right to a Judgment of Acquittal If the Government Fails to Prove the Petitioner Intended to… |
| 19-6314 |
Ralph Willard Savoie v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process haymond-v-united-states parole plea-agreement precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation suborned-perjury supervised-release supreme-court supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-watts waiver-of-appeal |
[1] Can United States v. Watts stand in light of recent holdings in Haymond v. United States?
[2] Does a waiver of appeal, in light of Garza v. Idaho… |
| 19-6318 |
Damon Tracy Locke v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-sentencing drug-statute drug-statutes mathis-precedent mathis-v-united-states plain-error sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Is the Eighth Circuit interpretation and application of drug statutes as qualifying offenses for career offender status in opposition to Mathis v. Uni… |
| 19-6327 |
Lorenzo Lorta v. Stuart Sherman, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
amendments california-penal-code circumstances civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent modification-of-sentence parole sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Refexto All attachmentoregarding
questions of Las
V
E an Modification of Sentence and Re-sentence Lnder
5
Y6 positibn 57 Also, Under ColiForriaPenal C… |
| 19-499 |
Henry Posada v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-10-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeals-court-error appellate-review clear-error criminal-procedure district-court-error evidence government-evidence government-surveillance healthcare-billing loss-amount loss-calculation medical-fraud patient-records sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether the court of appeals erred in determining that the district court did not clearly err in accepting the government's assertion that Mr. Posada … |
| 19-6284 |
Jose L. Cabrera-Cosme v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
acquitted-conduct due-process jury-trial mcmillin-v-pennsylvania sentencing sixth-amendment uncharged-conduct united-states-v-watts |
1. Whetehr a reasonable jurist could find debatable Petitioner s Sixth Amendment was violated when the district court sentenced him to life without an… |
| 19-6287 |
Seferino Martinez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-10-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act career-offender criminal-sentencing-guidelines johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines void-for-vagueness |
I. Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the analogous residual clause in the mandatory guidel… |
| 19-6290 |
Servando Pineda-Castellanos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 19-6265 |
Alex Knight v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth and/or Sixth Amendments are violated when a district court increases a criminal defendant's sentence based upon conduct for which a … |
| 19-6269 |
Eduardo Romero Martinez v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-conduct double-jeopardy federal-court federal-government punishment sentencing supervised-release |
Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits a federal court from revoking
supervised release and sentencing someone based on criminal conduct for whi… |
| 19-6247 |
In Re Donald Lee McDonald |
|
2019-10-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-sexual-assault due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habitual-criminal-act habitual-criminal-statute pro-se sentencing seventh-circuit vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
Whether Petitioner is being held unlawfully in state custody in violation of the Constitution of the United States where his natural life sentence und… |
| 19-6253 |
Adam Strege v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure delegation-of-authority due-process judicial-discretion law-enforcement-discretion mental-competence mental-disease mental-health reasonable-cause sentencing standing vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Question Presented is 18 USCS 4246 4248 4241(d) Unconstitutionally Vague lacking definitive standards by failing to aprise;persons of Ordinary intelli… |
| 19-6256 |
Jason Simon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct due-process false-accusation habeas-corpus-relief judicial-discretion prejudice presentence-report sentencing sentencing-enhancement standard-of-proof statutory-maximum uncharged-conduct |
Did the lower courts err by relying on a false accusation listed in the PSR, that was verified as false, as the sole basis for not only imposing a sta… |
| 19-6264 |
Orane Nelson v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-10-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure direct-appeal first-step-act retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Petitioner was convicted of three 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) offenses in a
single proceeding and was sentenced to enhanced minimum penalties
under § 924(c)(1)… |
| 19-6235 |
Scott Thomas Erskine v. California |
California |
2019-10-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-circumstances capital-sentencing constitutional-amendments cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process equal-protection jury-trial jury-unanimity narrowing-requirement sentencing |
I.
Does California's death penalty statute violate the Fifth,
Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States
Constitution by failing to… |
| 19-6199 |
Emeterio Espino Ramirez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 19-6216 |
Maxcium Herring v. L. S. McEwen, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admission jury-instructions jury-misconduct sentencing standard-of-review trial-errors waiver |
If a self represenTed defendanT Taks THE wiTNss sTNd in hiso heR detense whether oNe continves To represent her or himself or whethr The Trial COT mU … |
| 19-6229 |
John Joseph Douglas v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
acca aggravated-robbery aiding-and-abetting armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law overbreadth-doctrine predicate-offense sentencing state-law statutory-interpretation stokeling sudden-snatching |
I. IF A STATES AIDING AND ABETTING STATUTE IS BROADER
THAN THE FEDERAL GENERIC DEFINITION; DOES AIDING
AND ABETTING AGGRAVATED ROBBERY QUALIFY AS A … |
| 19-6230 |
Claudius L. Fincher v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-10-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process factual-question jury-determination jury-trial mandatory-minimum safety-valve safetyvalve-statute sentencing sixth-amendment |
Does the district court's resolution of a contested factual question under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f) (safety-valve statute) for the purpose of determining w… |
| 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… |
| 19-6177 |
Valerie Flores v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court government-admission government-waiver plain-error plain-error-review sentencing seventh-circuit supervised-release vagueness waiver waiver-doctrine |
I. By Disregarding the Government's Failure to Brief a Waiver Argument, Did the Seventh Circuit Errantly Look Past the Government's Waiver of Waiver a… |
| 19-6183 |
Reginald Chatman v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-10-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights contract-law criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process equal-protection florida-law plea-bargain plea-bargaining sentencing state-prosecution |
1. The Defend aat Reginald chatman entered into a negotiated agrerment uith the Florida State Attorneys office Ast Nathan Prince. for a ten Year D.oc.… |
| 19-6132 |
Christian Joseph Chavez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement sentencing |
The Fifth Circui t Court of Appe als has held that to determine
whether an appea l of a sente nce is barred by an appe al wai ver pro vision
in a plea… |
| 19-6144 |
Tom Smith, III v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting alternative-elements career-offender conspiracy controlled-substance-offense criminal-attempt divisible-statute sentencing-commission sentencing-commission-mandate sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-mandate |
I. whether the Sentencing Commission via commentary exceeded its statutory mandate under § 994(h) by includiiig/aiding and abetting, conspiracy, and a… |
| 19-6146 |
Hector Rosario-Rivera v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process due-process,sixth-amendment,fifth-amendment,ineffe fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-error sixth-amendment |
Whether the Petitioner's Fifth and Six Amendment Rigths 1.
violated by plain error made in calculating petitioner's were
and the numerous ways that Pe… |
| 19-6131 |
Derrick Estell v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 bodily-harm crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-offense due-process federal-criminal-law negligence sentencing statutory-interpretation threat-of-bodily-harm unintentional |
Can a criminal offense that involves as an element an unintentionally or negligently communicated threat of bodily harm qualify as a "crime of violenc… |
| 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… |
| 19-6113 |
Jose Armando Bazan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
GVR |
Relisted (4)IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review cocaine-conspiracy criminal-appeal criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing downward-adjustment fact-question guidelines plain-error plain-error-review role-adjustment sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Petitioner, JOSE ARMANDO BAZAN, was charged with and pleaded guilty to conspiring to possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine. T… |
| 19-6115 |
Jose Manuel Aguirre-Ganceda v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence collateral-attack criminal-justice criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-conviction due-process federal-law federal-state-comity mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-minimum prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-court-reduction state-law |
Whether a defendant is actually innocent of a mandatory life sentence once a prior state drug conviction relied upon by the District Court is set asid… |
| 19-6120 |
Raul Rodriguez v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924(c) categorical-approach circuit-precedent crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process gvr sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-ruling third-circuit vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether this petition should be granted, the judgment of the Third Circuit vacated, and the case remanded (GVR) to the court of appeals for a determin… |
| 19-6086 |
Luis Alberto Torres v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-proof circuit-conflict criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure harmless-error sentencing sentencing-error standard-of-review |
In recent years, the Court has granted certiorari to clarify how the plain-error standard of review applies to unpreserved claims of sentencing error.… |
| 19-6089 |
Joseph Signore v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-procedure criminal-procedure declaration department-of-justice due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel penalty-of-perjury sentencing service-of-process solicitor-general |
Question not identified. |
| 19-6094 |
Andres Herrera-Segovia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 19-6078 |
Terreall McDaniel v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-09-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924c appeal armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure first-step-act retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
I. Does Section 403 of the First Step Act , which dramatically clarifies the
applicable penalties for which a defendant may be sentenced for gun rela… |
| 19-6079 |
Guillermo Vega-Botello v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-procedure limited-remand plain-error remand sentencing statutory-maximum substantial-rights |
Whether a court of appeals that finds a plain error in the district court's selection of a statutory maximum should ordinarily order a limited remand … |
| 19-6042 |
Gerardo Tajonar Cortes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 19-6056 |
Michael Renee Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
§-2255 28-U.S.C-2244(b)(4) 28-U.S.C-2255(h) 28-usc-2244b4 28-usc-2255h armed-career-criminal-act federal-prisoner gatekeeping-standard johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states jurisdictional-hurdle sentencing successive-motion |
(1) Once a federal prisoner secures appellate-court authorization to file a successive motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255(h), must the prisoner satisfy a s… |
| 19-6057 |
Shane Austin Peters v. Eric Arnold, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights costs court-access due-process in-forma-pauperis indigent-status juvenile-justice legal-proceeding parole poverty poverty-affidavit redress security sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 19-6065 |
Emilio Fusco v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct article-iii article-three constitutional-rights due-process judicial-power sentencing standing |
WHETHER PETITIONER RAISED SUBSTANTIAL SHOWING OF DENIAL OF CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT ON THE ISSUE OF WHETHER ACQUITTED CONDUCT SENTENCING UNDERMINES DUE PR… |
| 19-399 |
Barry C. Garcia v. North Dakota |
North Dakota |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
discretionary-sentencing juvenile-offenses juvenile-offenses-sentencing life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana parole resentencing-hearing sentencing |
1. Whether the constitutional standard announced in Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460 (2012),—that sentences of life without the possibility of parole f… |
| 19-401 |
Lamont Dejuan Higgs v. Warden Wilson |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 appeal appellate-review federal-procedure habeas-corpus saving-clause sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
Whether the saving clause of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e) allows defendants to seek relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 on the grounds that a subsequent statutory in… |
| 19-6033 |
Christopher Johnson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-24 |
GVR |
IFP |
claim-preservation claim-preservation-yee-v-city-of-escondido crime-of-violence federal-rule-criminal-procedure federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure-32 federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure moncrieffe-v-holder ninth-circuit rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines yee-v-city-of-escondido |
I. Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously find Johnson forfeited his sentencing claim, disregarding this Court's claim preservation holdin… |
| 19-6050 |
Jose Vizcarrondo-Casanova v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c)(3)(a) categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure davis-precedent plain-error puerto-rico-law sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis |
1) Whether' murder under Puerto Rico law categorical approach
fails to qualify as a "crime of violence" under remaining
force clause of 924(C)(3)(A)… |
| 19-6021 |
Ricardo Valles De La Rosa v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
braxton-precedent braxton-v-united-states criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit nelson-v-colorado plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing |
WHETHER THE FIFTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS' AFFIRMANCE OF THE PETITIONER'S GUILTY-PLEA SENTENCE VIOLATED PETITIONER'S DUE PROCESS RIGHTS UNDER, AND TH… |
| 19-6027 |
Jordan Combs v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-09-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment child-pornography constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment possession sentencing |
WHETHER JORDAN COMBS' DUE PROCESS RIGHTS UNDER THE FIFTH
AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION WERE VIOLATED
WHEN THE DISTRICT COURT SENTENCED J… |
| 19-6029 |
Frank Jeffs v. Michael Overmyer, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Forest, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2019-09-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-murder habeas-corpus jurisdiction premeditated-murder prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense sentencing sentencing-order |
1. Is not the Pennsylvania Supreme Court required in its Per Curiam conclusions of law with respect thereto. If the court finds that...[2] the sentenc… |
| 19-374 |
Floyd Hamilton Byrns, Jr. v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2019-09-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-law criminal-record due-process ex-post-facto expungement forgery legal-remedy plea-bargaining post-facto-punishment retroactivity sentencing |
Should a person who pled guilty to forgery of a check less than $100.00 in 1987, be punished Post Facto and denied due process for an expungement 32 y… |
| 19-6015 |
Roque Arias-De Jesus v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
alleyne appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 19-6019 |
Marco Antonio Murillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process federal-defendants indictment indictment-right mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentencing sentencing sentencing-enhancement united-states-v-haymond |
1. Whether federal defendants enjoy the right to indictment as to some facts that alter the likely sentence within a mandatory range of punishment? Su… |
| 19-6005 |
Robert L. Malone v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-history drug-quantity due-process jury-instructions mandatory-minimum methamphetamine-distribution prosecutorial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervisory-power |
1.) Did the lower courts err when they imposed and affirmed Mr. Malone's sentence based on overreliance on his Criminal History?
2.) Is Mr. Malone's … |
| 19-6006 |
Nicholas Wilkerson v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2019-09-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-hearing |
The Eighth Amendment prohibits life-without-parole sentences for all but the rarest juvenile s who exhibit a lack of rehabilitative potential due thei… |
| 19-5985 |
Leeroy Cesar Carballo v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-circuit-review fundamental-rights ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-testify sentencing sentencing-phase |
During Petitioner's sentencing hearing, Petitioner took the stand, maintaining his innocence, and expressed his desire to tell the jury his side of th… |
| 19-5987 |
Ronald Richard Brown v. Washington |
Washington |
2019-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation double-jeopardy due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-vindictiveness north-carolina-v-pearce presumption-of-vindictiveness reversed-convictions sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act state-courts supreme-court washington-state |
1. Can the Washington State Courts refuse to adhere to this Courts holding in North Carolina v. Pearce?
2. Since Washington State's Sentencing Reform… |
| 19-5996 |
Michael J. W. Potter v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment life-imprisonment mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentencing sentencing |
Whether entry of a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment violated Appellant's rights under the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution. |
| 19-5946 |
Anthony Carl Spence v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process extraterritorial-application extraterritorial-jurisdiction extraterritoriality federal-sentencing foreign-conduct guidelines offense-level sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether, absent a clear indication of extraterritoriality, a federal sentencing court is permitted to enhance a defendant's offense level under the se… |
| 19-5956 |
Adrian Apodaca v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-jurisdiction crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process federalism interstate-action jurisdiction sentencing |
I. Whether the Defendent, Mr. Apodaca
and sentence can not be upheld' under the definition of "crime
of violence" for count five of the indictment o… |
| 19-5962 |
David Tjader v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court government-waiver plain-error plain-error-review sentencing supervised-release vagueness waiver waiver-doctrine |
I. By Disregarding the Government's Failure to Brief a Waiver Argument, Did the Seventh Circuit Errantly Look Past the Government's Waiver of Waiver a… |
| 19-5964 |
In Re Dwight Carter, Sr. |
|
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924c 2255-motion constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-2255-habeas-corpus davis-rule due-process habeas-corpus hobbs-act-robbery merits-analysis prima-facie-standard retroactivity second-or-successive-motion sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis |
1.) Because Petitioner's 18 U.S.C.j924(c) conviction identified conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act Robbery, 18 U.S.C. 1951, predicate to support his 924(c… |
| 19-5965 |
Robert Jessie Hill v. Washington |
Washington |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights collateral-consequences constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lesser-included-offense plea-bargaining plea-negotiations sentencing |
(A). When a defendant pleads guilty to a charge, in addition to the "direct" and "collateral" consequences of the party does the Fourteenth Amendment … |
| 19-5969 |
Tawoine Aquil Frank Banks v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consecutive-sentences consecutive-sentencing court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process revocation revocation-sentence section-3624e sentencing supervised-release |
Did the Court of Appeals err in affirming of a supervised revocation sentence that ran consecutively to other supervised release revocation sentence? |
| 19-5979 |
Rodrigo Pablo Lozano v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey conspiracy conspiracy-offense criminal-restitution deliberate-avoidance due-process hester-v-united-states mental-state ninth-circuit sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Whether Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466 (2000) applies to the imposition of criminal restitution, as suggested in Hester v. United States, 139… |
| 19-5944 |
Jerry D. Scott v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment 8th-circuit appeal certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-justice criminal-procedure domestic-assault due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus legal-standard missouri-robbery sentencing violent-crime |
WHETHER THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN NOT. GRANTING
A "CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY" WHEN EVEN AFTER UNITED STATES
v. SWOPES , 892 F.… |
| 19-5926 |
Refugio Quintanar v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process presentence-report procedural-unreasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines timely-objection |
1. Whether the defendant has the burden to deny and discredit the factual allegations of a Presentence Report that increase his or her sentence?
2. W… |
| 19-5928 |
Marcos Santiago v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-841 civil-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process first-step-act retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether Congress decision to not make its recent clarification of 924(c) fully retroactive, creates a significant risk that thousands of prisoners sta… |
| 19-5913 |
Sammie Lee Smith, IV v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-crime aggravated-offense alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-law criminal-charging criminal-procedure due-process jury-determination jury-trial mandatory-minimum sentencing sexual-felony |
Whether the facts triggering a mandatory minimum sentence under Florida's Dangerous Sexual Felony Offender Act, § 794.0115, Fla. Stat. (2016), togethe… |
| 19-5923 |
Jamaar Danglo Hayes v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
1. Whether the determination of a "serious drug offense" under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA or Act) requires the same categorical approach used… |
| 19-5924 |
James Hennessee v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-09-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
apprendi-doctrine armed-career-criminal-act circuit-court constitutional-interpretation conviction-records criminal-procedure jury predicate-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
The Armed Career Criminal Act enhances the statutory penalty for a firearms offense when the offender has three predicate convictions for crimes that … |
| 19-336 |
Keith Chester Hill v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
capital-sentencing discretionary-sentencing fifth-circuit glover-v-united-states habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis reasonable-probability sentencing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that, to demonstrate that counsel was ineffective at a state, non-capital, discretionary sentencing proc… |
| 19-5861 |
Louise K. Saine v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-denial appeals career-offender court-of-appeal crime-of-violence criminal-procedure drug-law due-process federal-case federal-classification federal-court federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure prior-convictions rehabilitation-programs rule-35 sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act state-officer |
When can Rule 35 be used error?
Can a state case be classified as a federal case if defendant has never been convicted of prior felonies?
What is th… |
| 19-5907 |
Luis Castaneda-Torres v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 19-5878 |
Darries Leon Jackson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-reasonableness criminal-justice criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection grand-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel racial-bias racial-discrimination sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
1. Whether sentences imposed upon Petitioner Constitutionally Unreasonable & greater than necessary to satisfy the ends of Justice?
2. Whether Petiti… |
| 19-5889 |
Jonathan Torres-Arroyo v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
alleyne-precedent alleyne-v-united-states criminal-procedure judicial-findings jury-trial mandatory-minimum ring-v-arizona sentencing sentencing-court state-v-kiriakakis |
Did the New Jersey Courts make an invalid distinction from Alleyne v. United States, 570 U.S. 99 (2013), in holding that the defendant's right to a ju… |
| 19-5893 |
Melissa Pfeiffer v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
conscious-disregard-for-risk criminal-law felony-murder inherent-dangerousness inherently-dangerous inherently-dangerous-felony judicial-determination judicial-fact-finding jury-instructions malice-aforethought massachusetts-law presumption-of-malice sentencing |
Is it unconstitutional for the courts, as a matter of common law, to withdraw the third element of felony murder from the jury's consideration by labe… |
| 19-5900 |
David Earl Ison v. Richard Brown, Superintendent, Wabash Valley Correctional Facility |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
boykin-v-alabama civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment plea-bargaining self-incrimination sentencing |
1. Wasn't it a threat or promise by the State: Prosecutor wilhelm when he drafted up a document, gave the document to my Attorney him giving it to me … |
| 19-5865 |
Pablo Sauste Balderas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 19-5869 |
Jaime Enriquez-Hernandez, aka Jaime Enriques-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 19-5870 |
Shakeem Heratio Crawford v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender civil-rights criminal-justice criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment ex-post-facto first-step-act parole retroactivity sentencing sentencing-retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
Did the Judge Abuse his Discrection under He sth Amendment Due procecc clause by Cotegorically Dening all career orfenders when he stated that career … |
| 19-5872 |
Philip Hugh Wentzel v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal certificate-of-appealability collateral-review constitutional-rights conviction criminal-charge criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jurisdiction sentencing sentencing-error |
1. Were petitioner's double jeopardy and due process rights violated by the sponte filing (at petitioner's sentencing) of an additional criminal charg… |
| 19-5875 |
Alfredo Gonzalez-Terrazas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-analysis sentencing supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 19-5877 |
Damion D. Faulkner v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment judicial-discretion proportionality proportionality-review sentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness sex-offense sex-offenses substantive-due-process |
Is it substantively unreasonable to impose an effective sentence of life on a 30-year-old defendant who committed a "reprehensible" sex offense that c… |
| 19-5840 |
Andre Kenneth Stuckey v. California |
California |
2019-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
california-supreme-court civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel right-to-fair-trial sentencing supreme-court-review |
WHETHER MR. STUCKEY IS ENTITLED TO HABEAS CORPUS RELIEF WHEN ATTACKING HIS CONVICTION AND SENTENCING ON GROUNDS OF TITLE II A.D.A. AND A.D.A.A.A. VIOL… |
| 19-5809 |
Lloyde Dubry v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2019-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-history descamps-v-united-states discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sixth-amendment state-v-wetrich |
1. Whether the petitioner, Lloyde Dubry, was denied his remedy by due course of law -- in violation of the Sixth or Fourteenth Amendment to the United… |
| 19-5829 |
Yoni Castro-Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 19-5813 |
Alejandro Plaza-Montecillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-16 aggravated-robbery appellate-review crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-code federal-criminal-law sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation texas-law violent-crime |
Whether the Texas offense of aggravated robbery constitutes a "crime of violence" under 18 U.S.C. §16? |
| 19-5778 |
Hosam Maher Husein Smadi v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a constitutional-rights due-process effective-counsel equal-protection manifest-injustice plea-agreement right-to-effective-counsel rule-11 sentencing sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent |
1). Whether Smadi in this Case would suffer a manifest injustice and an extreme hardship by serving several extra years in prison absent such relief i… |
| 19-5788 |
James Nunley, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-sentencing guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation texas-criminal-law ussg-4b1.2 violent-crime |
Whether the Texas offense of aggravated robbery constitutes a "crime of violence" under USSG §4B1.2? |
| 19-5789 |
Jamar Lynn McMillan v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-09-03 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
career-offender career-offender-enhancement categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense pennsylvania-law predicate-offense rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines third-circuit |
1. Does the categorical approach apply in determining whether an offense qualifies as a predicate for the career-offender enhancement under the Senten… |
| 19-5794 |
Dazzle Young v. Francisco J. Quintana, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-tampering fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sentencing |
evidence in violation of due process and violation of his Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments Rights.
(2) Could Mr. Young be sentenced over the maximum 1… |
| 19-5796 |
Alfredo Beltran Leyva v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2019-09-03 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split confrontation-clause constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review |
After pleading guilty to federal narcotics charges, Petitioner was sentenced to life imprisonment based entirely on unverified in-court testimony by a… |
| 19-5747 |
Jamall Gibson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights criminal-history criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment speedy-trial |
QUESTION # ONE: Whether Petitioner Gibson's counsel provided him with ineffective assistance of counsel by failing; to effectively investiga te his HY… |
| 19-5762 |
Stevrick Tavah Jackson v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-08-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment habeas-corpus life-sentence parole sentencing twenty-one |
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… |
| 19-5763 |
Jose Lara-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-30 |
GVR |
Relisted (4)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law federal-law federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law mens-rea reckless-mental-state recklessness sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men… |
| 19-5770 |
Danny Lee Banks v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment johnson-precedent residual-clause sentencing sixth-amendment unconstitutional unconstitutional-sentencing |
1) DID THE APPEALS COURT AND DISTRICT COURT VIOLATE BANKAS
FIFTH, SIXTH AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS BY UPHOLDING
A SENTENCE THAT WAS BASED ON TH… |
| 19-5727 |
Trayvon Smith v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP |
against-the-person-of-another crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-court federal-law federal-recidivism intentional-conduct mens-rea negligence recidivism recidivism-enhancement sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-court-interpretation state-law |
1) Whether, when determining whether a state offense qualifies as a crime of violence, a federal court is bound by the decision of the state's highest… |
| 19-5738 |
Carlos Manuel Perez-Crisostomo v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure due-process identity name obstruction-of-justice plea-agreement puerto-rico sentencing sentencing-court sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g.-3c1.1 |
I.- Whether the Sentencing Court erred in founding Petitioner obstructed
justice, pursuant to U.S.S.G. § 3C1.1, when Petitioner did not correct
the … |
| 19-5741 |
Jose Marin Saldana-Reyes v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-consideration non-frivolous-arguments procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-procedure sentencing-standard |
In contrast with the Ninth Circuit, at least seven other circuits apply a standard which requires a sentencing judge provide some express treatment to… |
| 19-5749 |
Juan Manuel Perez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP |
against-the-person-of-another crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-court federal-law federal-recidivism intentional-conduct mens-rea negligence recidivism recidivism-enhancement sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether, when determining whether a state offense qualifies as a crime of violence, a federal court is bound by the decision of the state's highest… |
| 19-5750 |
Felix A. Okafor v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c)(1)(A) criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment firearms-offense first-step-act sentencing statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER PETITIONER'S 3167 MONTH SENTENCE IMPOSED AS A RESULT OF THIS COURT'S MISINTERPRETATION OF THE STACKING PROVISIONS OF 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(1)(A)(i)… |
| 19-5752 |
Jimmie Kyle Anderson v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment apprendi-rule cruel-and-unusual-punishment disproportionate-sentences eighth-amendment public-safety sentencing sex-offender-law sex-offenders |
1. Does the public safety interest in incapacitating and deter
ring certain types of sex offenders with extremely long
sentences run afoul of the 8t… |
| 19-5754 |
Charmar Brown v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines collateral-attack constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure cross-reference double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus magwood magwood-precedent sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether Magwood extended to challenges to the original undisturbed conviction, following a new judgment?
Whether Murder Cross-reference U.S.S.G. 2D1.… |
| 19-265 |
Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary v. Laycelle Tornee White |
Oregon |
2019-08-29 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedRelisted (4) |
8th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing mandatory-sentences miller-v-alabama non-mandatory-sentence non-mandatory-sentences sentencing |
Respondent received a 67-year non-mandatory sentence 25 years ago, when he was 15 years old, for the murder of an elderly couple.
Does the Eighth Ame… |
| 19-5723 |
Melvin Bernard Thompson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
Almendarez-Torres Apprendi-v-New-Jersey criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment stare-decisis |
1. Can a Florida Law permit a trial court to exercise judicial discretion to make
new findings of fact of an escalating pattern of criminal conduct b… |
| 19-5743 |
Michael Dewayne Hegwood v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 binding-precedent career-offender criminal-procedure criminal-resentencing federal-jurisdiction first-step-act jurisdiction sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
1. Does the First Step Act authorize a court to "impose" a reduced
sentence in accordance with such statutes as 18 U.S.C. §§ 3553(a) and
3582(a), or d… |
| 19-5665 |
Douglas Harold Doyle v. David Baughman, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus parole retroactivity sentencing standing |
Parsuant to U.S. Sup. C. ruke 1H. 1(a). In 2o08, Pefitioner was convictedf ofa'misdemeanor' D.U.I.(V.C.823152). This was elevated to a felory ander P.… |
| 19-5710 |
Chidi Ezeobi v. Jamal Jamison, Warden |
Third Circuit |
2019-08-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
credit criminal-procedure due-process extradition foreign-incarceration incarceration international-law sentence-credit sentencing sentencing-court sentencing-credit statutory-interpretation |
1. Is Mr. Ezeobi entitled to seven months of credit toward his sentence for the time he was incarcerated in England awaiting extradition to the United… |
| 19-5681 |
Raphael Person, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process federal-courts harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether, when a district court imposes a sentence based on several factors, one of which is improper, the court of appeals should affirm the sentence … |
| 19-5606 |
Ndokley Peter Enow v. Ricky Foxwell, Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment plea-bargaining probable-cause search-and-seizure sentencing standing |
Did the trial court erred by admitting into evidence of the illegally obtained wiretapped tape recording of the defendant's oral conversations with th… |
| 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… |
| 19-5630 |
Roosevelt Stolden v. California |
California |
2019-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey consecutive-sentencing criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-fact-finding preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-guidelines stare-decisis |
Should the Court reconsider its majority opinion in Oregon v. Ice, 555 U.S. 160, 167-168, 173-177, 129 S.Ct. 711, 172 L.Ed.2d 517 (2009) (Ice) which p… |
| 19-5634 |
Daniel Marquez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
9th-circuit appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing downward-adjustment minor-role ninth-circuit sentencing sentencing-adjustment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-rule-10 ussg-3b1.2 |
Petitioner contends that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit erred in affirming the lower Court decision deny minor role after failing to pr… |
| 19-5638 |
Jeffrey E. Lee v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-08-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
betterman-v-montana constitutional-rights criminal-procedure delay due-process indigent-defendant right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-delay standard |
I.
IN THE WAKE OF THE QUESTION LEFT OPEN BY
THE COURT IN BETTERMAN v. MONTANA . 136 S.CT.
1609 (2016), DOES THE DUE PROCESS CLAUSE
CREATE AN ENTITL… |
| 19-5641 |
David Anthony Gordon v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver due-process government-breach judicial-assignment judicial-procedure mandatory-minimum plea-agreement safety-valve sentencing sentencing-discretion |
Whether, in reaching the decision to affirm in part and to dismiss in part, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has so far departed from the accepte… |
| 19-5613 |
Luis Samayoa-Castillo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-discretion federal-sentencing-guidelines gall-v-united-states harmless-error molina-martinez-v-united-states rosales-mireles-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-error |
When the district court expressly relies upon a clearly erroneous fact in selecting its sentence, is the error harmless if there are other factors in … |
| 19-5622 |
Cairo Lopez, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment booker cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process executive-power mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences sentencing separation-of-powers standing |
1. This Court should consider whether combining in the Executive Branch the power to charge and the power to control sentences in statutory mandatory … |
| 19-203 |
David Greenberg v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-08-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review circuit-court-review cooperation-agreement criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing reasonableness reasonableness-of-sentence reasonableness-standard second-circuit sentence-disparity sentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines unwarranted-disparity |
Did the Second Circuit err in affirming Petitioner David Greenberg's sentence without addressing (1) the sentencing court's failure to consider the pr… |
| 19-5603 |
Jonathan Javier Aleman v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver certificate-of-appealability collateral-review constitutional-counsel criminal-case-defendant-rights criminal-defense evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement right-to-appeal sentencing sentencing-challenge subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. This Court provides that a defense attorney must consult with case defendant concerning the defendant's right to appeal and the of waiving that rig… |
| 19-5589 |
Marlon Leroy Porch v. T. Watson, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure fundamental-defect maximum-sentence saving-clause sentence-review sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum |
I. WHETHER A FUNDAMENTAL DEFECT IS SUFFICIENT TO SATISFY THE SAVING CLAUSE WHERE PETITIONER ERRONEOUS ENHANCE SENTENCE FELL BENEATH THE STATUTORY MAXI… |
| 19-5552 |
Kevin Devon Sutton v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2019-08-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection free-speech judicial-review legal-rights sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions |
WHETHER SUTTON IS ACTUALLY INNOCENT OF FIRST DEGREE MURDER?
DOES THE COURT OF APPEALS' DECISION VIOLATE SUTTON'S RIGHTS TO EQUAL PROTECTION AND DUE P… |
| 19-5565 |
Carlos Miguel Perez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-13 |
GVR |
IFP |
criminal-law due-process firearms firearms-possession rehaif-v-united-states sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Mr. Perez respectfully requests that his 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) conviction be reversed and remanded in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (J… |
| 19-5575 |
Antwaine Enta Yarbrough v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus precedent sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should hold the instant petition in light of Shular v. United States, 15-1498, U.S._, _S.Ct. —, 2019 WL 2649851 (June 28, 2019)? |
| 19-5576 |
William Taylor v. Richard Brown, Superintendent, Wabash Valley Correctional Facility |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion boone-county constitutional-rights hearsay hearsay-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion lafler-v-cooper plea-bargaining prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-effective-counsel sentencing |
I. WHETHER THE ADDITIONAL SIXTY (60) YEARS TAYLOR RECEIVED AT TRIAL WHEN ATTORNEY ALLEN LIDY FAILED TO COMMUNICATE THE BOONE COUNTY TWENTY (20) YEAR P… |
| 19-5539 |
Nicholas Gilbert Beattie v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-08-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
breach-of-contract contract-law criminal-procedure due-process ethics plea-agreement prosecutorial-conduct prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-recommendation |
Whether the prosecutor's conduct in speaking out of both sides of his mouth with respect to a sentencing recommendation they had agreed to make is a b… |
| 19-5540 |
Thomas Edward Wright v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process eighth-amendment judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines special-assessment standing statutory-interpretation |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err in granting the government's motion to dismiss by denying the Petitioner the ability… |
| 19-5542 |
Robert Maloy v. New York |
New York |
2019-08-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection legal-assistance post-release-supervision sentencing state-court unusual-punishment |
The OCR text provided is severely degraded and largely illegible in the "QUESTION(S) PRESENTED" section. While a section header labeled "QUESTION(S) P… |
| 19-5549 |
Anthony Dion Collins v. Francisco Lara, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-defect habeas-corpus judicial-review saving-clause sentencing sentencing-error statutory-maximum |
I. WHETHER A FUNDAMENTAL DEFECT IS SUFFICIENT TO SATISFY THE SAVING CLAUSE WHERE PETITIONER ERRONEOUS SENTENCE FELL BENEATH THE STATUTORY MAXIMUM? |
| 19-5505 |
Jose Hernandez-Carbajal v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
I. Whether Petitioner's Sixth Amendment Rights to the Effective Assistance of Counsel Was Violated in the Follow?
a) When Counsel Failed to file a Not… |
| 19-5510 |
Maurice Patrick Fortune, III v. Virginia |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony-prosecution grand-jury indictment magistrate-warrant sentencing substantive-due-process |
(1) Mr. Fortune certifies the Commonwealth of Virginia err in deferring contents essential to the definition of a trial. A trial; as defined by Merria… |
| 19-5516 |
Rayshawn Roshard Robertson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 burden-of-proof constitutional-law constitutional-provision criminal-defendant criminal-procedure criminal-relief federal-procedure retroactive-application retroactive-constitutional-decision section-2255 sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum |
I. Whether a criminal defendant moving for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, based on a retroactive constitutional decision invalidating a federal statut… |
| 19-5528 |
Robert Anthony Chester v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
co-defendant co-defendants constitutional-proportionality criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment disparate-sentencing disproportionate-sentencing eighth-amendment equal-protection first-degree-robbery sentencing sentencing-disparity |
Was Petitioner's One Hundred Eighty Year Sentence For His Conviction Of Two Counts Of First Degree Robbery Disparate To The Twenty Year Sentence Impos… |
| 19-5455 |
Jesus Rios-Garza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 19-5460 |
Jose Ortega v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924c categorical-approach court-of-appeals criminal-law criminal-procedure grant-vacate-remand residual-clause section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis |
Whether the Court should grant, vacate, and remand Mr. Ortega's case in light of United States v. Davis, 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), after the Court of Ap… |
| 19-5494 |
Sobhy Fahmy Amin Iskander v. Dean Borders, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights collateral-challenge constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-rules-of-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-reconsideration newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief sentencing standing |
MR. ISKANDER WAS RELEASED FROM PRISON ON FEBRUARY 3, 2018 AFTER SERVING SIXTEEN YEARS (INCLUDING 2 CONCORDANT TO 6 CONCORDANT YEARS WITHOUT SUBSTRACTI… |
| 19-5478 |
Wilfredo Roy Madrigal v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
acca career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance-offense eleventh-circuit mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Is a post-2002 conviction for sale of cocaine or possession with intent to sell cocaine in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a "controlled substance of… |
| 19-5480 |
Andrew Dorsey v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
acca cocaine criminal-law drug-offense drug-offenses florida florida-statute possession sentencing statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether a Florida conviction for selling cocaine, delivering cocaine, or possessing cocaine with the intent to sell or deliver it, in violation of … |
| 19-5447 |
Erbey Botello, aka Erbey Botello-Alanis, aka Javier Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion plea-hearing plea-revocation reasonableness-of-sentence revocation-hearing sentencing sentencing-review supervisory-powers |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit-which refused to unequivocally recognize the constitutional right to … |
| 19-5465 |
Isela Alejandra Campos v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court district-court-error guideline-range guidelines molina-martinez plain-error plain-error-review prejudice prejudice-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
When the district court fails to calculate the Guideline range at sentencing, whether the defendant may rely on the district court's error alone to sh… |
| 19-5434 |
Juan Fletcher Gordillo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-requirements constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit first-impression judicial-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether this Court should review the decision of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals to determine whether the decision in this case of apparent firs… |
| 19-5413 |
John Thomas Rooney v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2019-08-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus jurisdiction plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-jurisdiction unconstitutional unconstitutional-conviction |
Can convictions and sentences imposed by a State Trial Court without Constitutional or Statutory subject-matter jurisdiction or due to an Unconstituti… |
| 19-5425 |
Damien Riley v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review career-offender criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process residual-clause sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness united-states-code united-states-v-booker |
Whether a sentence imposed under the Career Offender Guidelines is reasonable in light of the subsequent 798 Amendment to the Guidelines, in a case wh… |
| 19-5410 |
Charles Borden, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-31 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (7)Relisted (4)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act due-process mens-rea recklessness retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
1. Does the "use of force" clause in the Armed Career Criminal Act (the "ACCA"), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i) encompass crimes with a mens rea of mere … |
| 19-5412 |
Jean Claude Phillip McKenzie v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a 6th-circuit appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court history-and-characteristics judicial-discretion nature-and-circumstances sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance |
WHETHER THE SIXTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS SUFFICIENTLY DETERMINED THAT THE DISTRICT COURT'S UPWARD VARIANCE IN ITS SENTENCING OF PETITIONER BY 31 MON… |
| 19-5420 |
Kendrick Terrell v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error prior-charges sentence-enhancement sentencing sentencing-calculation sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Whether the Petitioner's Sixth Amendment Rights were violated by plain error made in calculating Petitioner's sentence, and the numerous ways that Pet… |
| 19-5422 |
Michael A. Webb v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adam-walsh-act adam-walsh-child-protection-and-safety-act constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy ineffective-assistance plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Was petitioner, Michael A. Webb, subjective to ineffective assistance of counsel or deficient representation by defense counsel in a prosecution?
Was… |
| 19-5391 |
Dan Carmichael McCarthan v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
acca-enhancement armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review criminal-defendant criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 due-process notice-of-predicate-convictions retroactive-constitutional-decisions retroactivity section-2255 sentencing statutory-maximum |
Both questions presented by this petition involve circuit splits.
I. Whether a criminal defendant moving for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, based on … |
| 19-5394 |
Michael Leon Bell v. California |
California |
2019-07-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-circumstances capital-punishment constitutional-procedure death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-fact-finding jury-trial mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-standards sixth-amendment |
Does California's death penalty scheme, which permits the trier of fact to impose a sentence of death without finding beyond a reasonable doubt (1) th… |
| 19-5401 |
Thomas Lewis v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-371 18-usc-924c ambiguous-record circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure-retroactivity due-process federal-conspiracy mandatory-sentencing retroactive-invalidation retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis |
1. Does this Court's ruling in United States v. Davis, 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), striking as unconstitutionally vague the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. §… |
| 19-5407 |
Fabian Delgado v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consideration contract contract-law criminal-procedure defendant-benefit due-process legal-principle plea-agreement sentencing |
1. Whether principles of contract law require consideration (benefit to the defendant) to support a valid plea agreement. |
| 19-130 |
In Re Randolph George |
|
2019-07-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
coram-nobis costs-of-imprisonment custody due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2255 ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel restitution section-2255 sentencing writ-of-error-coram-nobis writ-of-mandamus |
In light of the fact that the First, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuits disagree on the question whether in a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petiti… |
| 19-5309 |
William Dante Mitchell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
certiorari-petition criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process firearms-violation habeas-corpus sentencing sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions supreme-court violent-felony |
Whether this Court should hold the instant petition in light of Shular v. United States, 15-1498, U.S._, _ S.Ct. —, 2019 WL 2649851 (June 28, 2019)? |
| 19-5350 |
Stevie Elbert Jones v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
career-offender crime-of-violence federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states texas-robbery ussg-4b1.1 ussg-4b1.2 |
Whether, after Stokeling v. United States , __U.S.__, 139 S.Ct. 544 (2019), the Texas offense of robbery satisfies the definition of "crime of violenc… |
| 19-5358 |
Victor Manuel Collazo-Gonzalez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judicial-review precedent-analysis sentencing supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 19-5362 |
Kasine Deleston v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
and Ultimately Breached if it Contains an Unfulfi ambiguity breach-of-contract criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process government-breach government-misconduct plea-agreement plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing sentencing-stipulation withdrawal-of-plea |
Whether a Plea Can be Ambiguous, and Ultimately Breached if it Contains an Unfulfillable Sentencing Stipulation and the Government Fails to Offer the … |
| 19-5363 |
Richard Curtis v. Lyneal Wainwright, Warden |
Ohio |
2019-07-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-review merger sentencing void-for-vagueness |
Whether separately imposed sentences prior to merge, constitutes multiple sentences in violation of the Double Jeopardy clause; and
Whether this make… |
| 19-5300 |
Fremo Santana v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination guideline-range ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-proceedings |
WHETHER DEFENSE COUNSEL'S PERFORMANCE WAS CONSTITUTIONALLY INEFFECTIVE FOR ERRONEOUSLY MISCALCULATING PETITIONER'S GUIDELINE RANGE WHICH WAS THE DECID… |
| 19-5325 |
Alan Victor Gomez Gomez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-25 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure force-element immigration-law mens-rea reckless-mental-state sentencing sentencing-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men… |
| 19-5337 |
Arthur Shermaine Bussey v. Marty Allen, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-procedure |
Question not identified. |
| 19-5346 |
Jose Martinez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-07-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
acquitted-conduct burden-of-proof buyer-seller-defense criminal-conviction cross-examination drug-conspiracy due-process jury-instructions jury-trial sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
1. A writ of certiorari is requested to determine whether this Court's decisions to allow district courts to use acquitted conduct in imposing sentenc… |
| 19-5297 |
Esterlin Appolon v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-law judicial-review jurisdiction post-conviction second-amendment sentencing standard-of-review state-court sufficiency-of-evidence unreasonable-application |
Whether, Arizona Supreme Court abuse it's discretion by dismissing the Petition For Special action and Motion For Stay?
Whether, the Superior court w… |
| 19-5303 |
Mario Benitez-Pineda v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law constitutional-challenge constitutional-law controlled-substances criminal-law due-process federal-law penalty-provision sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 21 U.S.C. § 841 et. seq., is unconstitutional because it contains no penalty provision ? |
| 19-5307 |
James D. Brigman v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-justice criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
I.
Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the new rule announced in
Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidel… |
| 19-5310 |
Rodolfo Cantu, Jr., aka Lil Rudy v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-right crawford-v-washington due-process fifth-amendment hearsay sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-proceedings sixth-amendment |
Was the enhancement for a credible threat improper considering the district court's partial reliance on hearsay facts outside the record, which violat… |
| 19-5273 |
Wendolyn Lee v. Amy P. Weirich, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech patent sentencing standing takings |
SHeLby counTy CRIMINAL COURT LACKS VueisdicTon inTHS CASe AgAInST THis PeTiTioner, WHere THe ViETiM TATyAnA MCgeR Testifiedhopen COURT And UNSER OAT P… |
| 19-5289 |
Pharoah Brazell v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process evidence forged-guilty-plea guilty-plea habitual-offender miranda-rights plea-bargaining right-to-attorney-during-questioning right-to-counsel right-to-remain-silent sentence-enhancement sentencing |
I. Can the State use a forged Guilty Plea form from a Florida predicate offense
and used it to enhance his sentence as a Habitual Offender?
II. Is Pe… |
| 19-107 |
Vincent Asaro v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-07-22 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial-right sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct underlying a charge for which t… |
| 19-5247 |
Charles Michael Hedlund v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2019-07-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eddings-v-oklahoma habeas-corpus jury-trial sentencing |
1. Whether the correction of error under Eddings v. Oklahoma, 455 U.S. 104 (1982), requires resentencing, particularly where the error originated in t… |
| 19-5262 |
Eulos Ceasar Knight v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-error criminal-record due-process guidelines johnson-v-united-states ninth-circuit residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-tucker welch-v-united-states |
Where sentencing is imposed based on misinformation of constitutional magnitude regarding the import of the defendant's criminal record, did the Ninth… |
| 19-5269 |
Reginald Christopher Gilbert v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-review jurisdiction objection reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-review |
Whether a formal objection after pronouncement of sentence is necessary to invoke appellate reasonableness review of the length of a defendant's sente… |
| 19-5270 |
Phyteaf Phequan McCormick v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-22 |
GVR |
IFP |
case-remand criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-law fourth-circuit judicial-interpretation sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Whether the Fourth Circuit's judgment should be vacated and this case remanded for further review in light of this Court's recent opinion in Rehaif v.… |
| 19-5274 |
Anthony James Hill v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act collateral-relief constitutional-error criminal-record due-process misinformation ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-tucker |
Where sentencing is imposed based on misinformation of constitutional magnitude regarding the import of the defendant's criminal record, did the Ninth… |
| 19-5275 |
Richard Michael Mathisen v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-hearing sixth-amendment |
I. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in affirming the District Court's denial of the Petitioner's Certificate of Appealability of the District Court's … |
| 19-5278 |
Duryane Lewis Chaney v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
acca categorical-approach criminal-law davis drug-offense sentencing serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
WHETHER THE DETERMINATION OF A SERIOUS DRUG OFFENSE UNDER THE ACCA REQUIRES THE SAME CATEGORICAL APPROACH USED IN THE DETERMINATION OF A VIOLENT FELON… |
| 19-5279 |
Miguel Esparza-Salazar v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure illegal-entry prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-factors sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum |
This case presents the issue of whether a criminal defendant charged with illegal entry, pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b)(1) and (2), is entitled to not… |
| 19-5221 |
Richard Potts v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-claim constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jurisdiction sentencing standing statutory-interpretation |
Does Honeycutt v. United States, 137 S.Ct. de (2o1) apply retoactively o frfeiture judgment, that have been final foryears, on collateral review?
Can… |
| 19-5243 |
Larry Marvel v. Delaware |
Delaware |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-protection criminal-law criminal-offense double-jeopardy double-punishment due-process legislative-definition multiple-punishments sentencing state-prosecution statutory-interpretation |
Where the State General Assembly legislatively defined in two separate statutes the same identical "conduct" for two criminal offenses mandating the s… |
| 19-5244 |
Larry David Davis v. Brian Daniel, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights confession-admissibility constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection evidence-tampering habeas-corpus sentencing standing trial-fairness |
Does the Prosecutor assessment of Probable cause Standing alone meet the requirements of the Fourth Amendment and is it enough to Justify Pending tria… |
| 19-5246 |
Jason Rosado v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-1203 924(c) certificate-of-appealability constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis |
Whether, in light of this Court's most recent decision, in United States v. Davis, 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), which abrogated the Eleventh Circuit Court … |
| 19-5251 |
Thomas Cascio v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
below-guidelines below-guidelines-sentence criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion due-process prison-time rehabilitation rehabilitative-needs sentencing sentencing-guidelines tapia-error tapia-v-united-states |
1. Should certiorari be granted to find that a Tapia error occurs anytime a district court considers rehabilitative needs in imposing prison time, eve… |
| 19-5260 |
Michael Levon Jackson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-19 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-922g acquittal constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process element-of-crime jury-instruction jury-instructions jury-unanimity reasonable-doubt sentencing |
Question One
The Constitution requires that a jury find every element of the crime
beyond a reasonable doubt. The district court, however, did not pro… |
| 19-5230 |
Stephen B. Wlodarz v. Shawn Phillips, Warden |
Tennessee |
2019-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alford-plea criminal-procedure due-process life-sentence parole plea-bargaining sentencing |
Whether Petitioner's Alford guilty plea resulting in a sentence length of life in prison without the possibility of parole judgment IS legal? |
| 19-5231 |
James D. Thomas, Jr., aka Wayne Thomas v. New York |
New York |
2019-07-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal burden-of-proof civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-rulings fair-trial jury-instructions prejudicial-error prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence trial-court |
.Should this court vacate the conviction where the petitioner failed to preserve the issue and the trial court denied defendant's Motion to set aside … |
| 19-5217 |
Lavares Detroen Watkins v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-17 |
GVR |
IFP |
ACCA-enhancement actual-innocence AEDPA armed-career-criminal-act due-process habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-maximum time-bar |
WHETHER DUE PROCESS IS VIOLATED WHEN A COURT SENTENCES A DEFENDANT TO
A TERM OF IMPRISONMENT THAT EXCEEDS THE OTHERWISE-APPLICABLE STATUTORY
MAXIMUM… |
| 19-5182 |
Geovanny Antonio Loyola-Villegas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review empirical-basis federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plain-error presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
1. Whether a formal objection after pronouncement of sentence is necessary to invoke appellate reasonableness review of the length of a defendant's se… |
| 19-5197 |
Eric T. Roden v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal article-iii-judge criminal-defendant criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion ninth-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines waiver |
WHETHER THE NINTH CIRCUIT PANEL CORRECTLY CALCULATED GUIDELINES RANGE FOR USE AT A FEDERAL SENTENCING HEARING. |
| 19-5202 |
Doroteo Zambrano-Ruiz v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-authority circuit-split federal-sentencing guidelines judicial-review molina-martinez molina-martinez-v-united-states plain-error-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Should the Court address the division of circuit authority over the Court's application of plain-error review in Molina-Martinez v. United States when… |
| 19-5183 |
Miguel Grado v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-procedure criminal-statute drug-trafficking due-process firearm-use firearms multiple-offenses sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) for using a firearm to further a crime of violence or drug-trafficking crime may rest on more than one u… |
| 19-5184 |
Kristopher Courtney v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance-of-counsel poverty sentencing standing |
Question not identified. |
| 19-5189 |
Michael Tyler v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process exculpatory-evidence guidelines liberty post-conviction-relief procedural-barriers sentencing standing statutory-interpretation takings |
ISSUe ONE
whether the u.s. supreme cart should great certiorcc
to cesdve the Circuit Canflict, whether schlup gateway
lnquir require neusly Presented … |
| 19-5159 |
Quinetta Grant v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
should this Court vacate and remand for reconside was Ms Grant denied her rights under U.S.S.G. § 1 binding-authority criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-plain-error-sentencing-right-to criminal-procedure-supervisory-power-conviction-se due-process judicial-discretion mail-fraud plain-error right-to-be-present sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-relevant-conduct-scope-of-cr sentencing-procedure Where Ms Grant's sentence was enhanced by attribut Where multiple additional errors affected petition |
1) Where the Court of Appeals failed to consider binding authority holding that a defendant's absence from a material sentencing proceeding constitute… |
| 19-5162 |
Frederick Johnson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure discretionary-review plain-error plainly-unreasonable post-revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-standard supervised-release |
What is the proper standard of appellate review for sentences imposed on defendants following revocation of supervised release? |
| 19-5149 |
Luis Rojas-Marceleno v. Kansas |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment case-statement civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus jurisdictional-issue legal-review sentencing standing statutory-provisions writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 19-5150 |
Irvin Junior Phillips v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924e apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process indictment-requirements prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
1. Whether the Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of … |
| 19-5129 |
Kendell Lee Starks v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 burden-of-proof criminal-defendant criminal-defendant-relief-28-usc-2255,retroactive- florida-conviction-resisting-with-violence,violent retroactive-constitutional-decision sentencing statutory-maximum Whether a Florida conviction for resisting with vi |
Whether a criminal defendant moving for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, based on a retroactive constitutional decision invalidating a federal statutory… |
| 19-5137 |
Albert Duval Gray v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-law fifth-amendment revocation-sentence sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the writ should issue so that this Court may decide whether Petitioner's revocation sentence violated the Fifth and Sixth Amendments to the Un… |
| 19-5138 |
Jesus Alonso Gonzalez Gonzalez, aka Jesus Gonzalez, aka Jesus Alonzo Gonzalez, aka Alonzo Gonzalez, aka Roberto Soto v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
allocution allocution-error appellate-review criminal-procedure defendant-objection defendant-rights due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-error plain-error procedural-review rule-51b sentencing |
1. Whether allocution error deprives the defendant of an opportunity to object to that error within the meaning of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure … |
| 19-5141 |
William Wade v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924c-sentencing circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process johnson-dimaya physically-restrained-enhancement residual-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
1. The 10th Circuit has already declared that the 924(c) "residual" clause is unconstitutional in light of this Courts Johnson v US and Sessions v Dim… |
| 19-5096 |
Nicholas Rivera v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender career-offender-enhancement categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law federal-law pennsylvania-law predicate-offense sentencing-guidelines |
Does the categorical approach apply in determining whether an offense qualifies as a predicate for the career-offender enhancement under the Sentencin… |
| 19-5105 |
Rudy Espudo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-conviction criminal-justice criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process firearm-statute firearms sentencing statutory-interpretation underlying-offense |
Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) for using a firearm to further a crime of violence or drug-trafficking crime may rest on more than one u… |
| 19-5108 |
Donald Covington v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourth-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines special-assessments standing statutory-claims |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err in granting the government's motion to dismiss by denying the Petitioner the ability… |
| 19-5110 |
Barry Bays v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance-analog controlled-substance-analogue controlled-substances criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto fifth-amendment fraud scienter scienter-requirement sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
I. Whether a defendant's sentence for fraud offenses that applied 21 U.S.C. § 802(32), USSG § 2B1.1(b)(1), and USSG §2D1.1 and treated Bays as a "cont… |
| 19-5112 |
Rafael Jacob Stoffel v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-victim mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines sexual-assault sexual-offense sexual-offenses |
Whether a minimum mandatory sentence of twenty-five years' imprisonment imposed for the offense of touching a minor's breast violates the prohibition … |
| 19-5118 |
Jason Paul Mathison v. Washington |
Washington |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
collateral-attack constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process involuntary-plea judicial-procedure plea-agreement plea-bargaining probation sentencing sentencing-conditions time-limits treatment-program vagueness |
1. Are constitutional rights of due process violated when a court
imposes a condition that requires a defendant to "successfully
complete" a treatme… |
| 19-5123 |
Richard Parrish v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-support gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion legal-reliability reliability sentencing townsend-v-burke united-states-v-tucker united-states-v-watts |
Sentences based on unreliable information violate Due Process, see United States v. Tucker, 404 U.S. 443, 447 (1972); Townsend v. Burke, 334 U.S. 736,… |
| 19-5125 |
Francisco Gallegos-Lopez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3553a 3553(a)-factors abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion preservation-of-error procedural-error sentencing sentencing-recommendation statutory-factors |
Does urging a sentencing recommendation lower than that ultimately imposed, and grounded in the statutory factors in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a), suffice to p… |
| 19-5127 |
William D. Dunne v. G. J. Bissett, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggregated-sentences consecutive-sentences federal-prisoner federal-prisoners habeas-corpus mandatory-parole mandatory-release parole parole-eligibility pre-SRA sentence-calculation sentencing sentencing-reform-act statutory-interpretation |
Does pre-Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 (SRA)--"old law"
— parole statute 18 USC §42.06(d) mandating federal prisoners'
lease on parole absent certain… |
| 19-5100 |
Matthew Karahalios v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113(a) 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) 28-usc-2255 armed-robbery bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-law firearms-statute predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-correction statutory-interpretation |
1. Does unarmed bank robbery in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) serve asa
predicate offense for a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) of using … |
| 19-5043 |
Justin Panus v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-07-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-enhancement double-jeopardy due-process elemental-fact equal-protection offense-enhancement sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether it violates the 14th Amendment for the same elemental fact to be used as an element of on offense and also to enhance that offense to a greate… |
| 19-5085 |
Darren L. Lee v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure divisible-offense federal-sentencing full-faith-and-credit modified-categorical-approach physical-force plea-bargain sentencing shepard-documents united-states-v-horse-looking violent-felony |
Where a divisible offense may be committed two ways, one of which satisfies the "violent felony" element of physical force, and one of which does not,… |
| 19-5087 |
Willie Johnson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3559 categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing enumerated-list-of-offenses enumerated-offenses essential-nature federal-jurisdiction federal-statute federal-three-strikes-law prior-state-crime sentencing statutory-interpretation three-strikes-law |
1. Whether the categorical approach permits a court to compare "the essence" of a prior state crime of conviction to the "essential nature" of a speci… |
| 19-35 |
Brandon Lee Mojica v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-review criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-statute habeas-corpus heightened-pleading post-conviction-relief sentencing standard-of-proof united-states-v-davis |
1. Whether the Court should grant, vacate, and remand this case to the Eleventh Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Davis, 2019 W… |
| 19-5053 |
Brandon M. Hicks v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-conduct plea-bargaining sentencing separation-of-powers sixth-amendment |
1) Whethe tn heen o Conion
in context with his intent at sentenciny, is a violatiken of the Separation of
powers doctrine, in the United States Consti… |
| 19-5060 |
Derrick Washington v. Carol A. Mici, Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Correction |
First Circuit |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment anti-terrorism anti-terrorism-act anti-terrorism-effective-death-penalty-act constitutional-review cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus incarceration life-without-parole sentencing |
1: Is Congress' 1996 Anti-Terrorism Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) unconstitutional, as it unnecessarily snuffs out convicted persons abilities t… |
| 19-5034 |
Leland Dudley v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-07-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
' 'civil-rights" ' 'criminal-procedure" ' 'due-process" ' 'police-misconduct" ' 'post-conviction' ' 'sentencing" civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-review grand-jury judicial-review police-misconduct post-conviction-relief sentencing wrongful-conviction |
IN THIS CASE THE GRAUD JURY
GRAND JURY IMPEDED
THE STATES ATORNEY SPECCALLY
WAS IMPE-DED(BY)
MURDER AND THE TRCTICO IMPLOPED (BY) CHICAGO POLUICE
ATER… |
| 19-5036 |
Craig Alan Toaz v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
concurrent-sentences concurrent-sentencing criminal-conduct criminal-procedure federal-convictions habeas-corpus habeas-petition judicial-review procedural-grounds sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg-5g1.3 |
I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT AND CIRCUIT COURTS ERRONEOUSLY DISMISSED PETITIONER'S HABEAS PETITION UNDER PROCEDURAL GROUNDS, AND IF SO THEN;
II. WHETHER T… |
| 19-5023 |
Jason Keith Walker v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-united-states brady-violation due-process fifth-amendment giglio-v-united-states ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel napue-v-illinois plea-bargaining plea-negotiations prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Whether the petitioner, Jason Keith Walker, is entitled to a certificate of appealability on his claim that his trial counsel provided ineffective … |
| 19-5026 |
Melvin Lewis Andrews v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court crime-of-violence criminal-law guidelines johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervisory-powers |
1. Should this Court exercise its supervisory powers where a circuit court of appeals continues to allow trial courts to apply "crime of violence" ana… |
| 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… |
| 19-5030 |
Michael D. Mathew v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2019-07-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment proportionality sentencing |
Whether the twenty-one year sentence imposed by the state trial court violated the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishments? |
| 19-5032 |
Tyrone Felder v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adjudication adult-conviction adult-convictions career-offender criminal-history criminal-procedure federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation youthful-offender |
Whether New York youthful offender adjudications qualify as adult convictions for purposes of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines career offender provis… |
| 19-5003 |
Roberto Cruz-Olavarria v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process heightened-scrutiny judicial-discretion offense-seriousness sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review statutory-maximum supervised-release |
1. Whether there is a need for extensive justification and heightened scrutiny when imposing and reviewing sentences at the statutory maximum.
2. Whe… |
| 19-5010 |
Andrew Nelson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924(c) appellate-review continuance criminal-procedure due-process fed-r-crim-p-52a federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-error prejudice right-to-counsel sentencing substantial-rights trial-continuance vagueness-doctrine |
1. Where the district court erroneously premises its denial of a meritorious,
unopposed motion for continuance of the trial on a mistaken belief that … |
| 18-9803 |
Salvador Galvan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a appeal criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process guidelines procedural-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg-2b1.1 victim victim-definition victim-impact |
Whether, in a case involving embezzlement from a municipality, it is procedural error for a district court to consider every resident of the city a vi… |
| 18-9804 |
Michael Zachariah Gomez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-procedure circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-revocation plain-unreasonableness sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review |
I. Whether the standard of review in appeals of federal revocation sentences is limited to review for "plain unreasonableness"? |
| 18-9830 |
Michael Franklin Einfeldt v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2255-petition burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines violent-felonies violent-felony |
Whether, where the record is unclear, a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petitioner should be required to "affirmatively prove" that the sentencing court relied on th… |
| 18-9834 |
Carlos Alberto Ochoa-Orozco v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-error cumulative-error due-process fair-trial federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct rule-18 sentencing sixth-amendment venue venue-challenge |
1. Whether the district court violated Appellant's right to due process, and his Sixth Amendment right to affair trial, where' the district court 'lac… |
| 18-9844 |
Garner Wood v. Les Parish, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-relief postsentencing-motion sentencing sentencing-credit sentencing-error trial-counsel |
The trial court denied Petitioner Wood's due process right under the Fourteenth Amendment by not granting his jail credit for 1930 days after assuring… |
| 18-1585 |
Kassim M. Nagi v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-06-27 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
8th-amendment controlled-substances cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment first-time-offender lockyer-v-andrade money-laundering proportionality proportionality-test racketeering sentencing solem-v-helm |
1. A sentence, even within range, is excessive when it imposes punishment grossly disproportionate to the severity of the evidence, or constitutes not… |
| 18-9807 |
Robert Wilson, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 acca-enumerated-offense-clause acca-statute criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 due-process habeas-corpus johnson-relief johnson-v-united-states procedural-default residual-clause sentencing sentencing-court sentencing-guidelines violent-felonies violent-felony |
(1) Whether, where the record is unclear, a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petitioner should be required to "affirmatively prove" that the sentencing court relied o… |
| 18A1365 |
Juaquene Solomon v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-06-26 |
Presumed Complete |
|
career-offender controlled-substance judicial-discretion plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9776 |
Irineo Ponce-Recendiz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
allocution allocution-error appellate-review criminal-procedure defendant-objection defendant-rights due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-procedure legal-error plain-error preservation-of-error rule-51b sentencing |
1. Whether allocution error deprives the defendant of an opportunity to object to that error within the meaning of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure … |
| 18-9780 |
Christopher Hannigan v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3551 component-parts criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judgment judgment-parsing judicial-discretion rule-32 sentencing sentencing-rules statutory-interpretation |
Does the language of Rule 32(k) and 18 U.S.C. §3551 allow for the court to parcel the judgment into component parts? |
| 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 … |
| 18-9785 |
Wayne A. Hussar, II v. James C. Reynolds, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure self-defense sentencing standing warrantless-search |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9789 |
Dan Pizarro v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing direct-appeal drug-offenses drug-trafficking first-step-act prior-convictions prior-felony-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-minimum |
Because Pizarro is still in the direct appeal process, is he entitled to the application of the First Step Act amendments to the statutory minimum sen… |
| 18-9790 |
Alexander Monzoni v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-sentencing guideline-calculation guidelines judicial-review molina-martinez plain-error plain-error-review prejudice prejudice-prong sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Should the Court address the division of circuit authority over application of the prejudice prong of plain-error review for Guideline error as set ou… |
| 18-9796 |
Anthony Bernard Jimerson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
acca career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance-offense mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Is a post-2002 conviction for sale of cocaine in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a "controlled substance offense" as defined in U.S.S8.G. § 4B1.2(b) … |
| 18-1572 |
Matthew D. Priset v. Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
8th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment life-sentence mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence mental-illness sentencing |
Does a mandatory minimum Life Sentence for one who is convicted under The Guilty-But-Mentally-Ill designation constitute cruel and unusual punishment? |
| 18-9770 |
Lionel Toye v. Steven Racette, Superintendent, Great Meadows Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2019-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance lafler-v-cooper plea-bargaining plea-negotiations right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-exposure strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel |
WHETHER THIS COURT SHOULD REVISIT THE CLAIM OF INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF TRIAL COUNSEL DURING PLEA NEGOTIATIONS WHEN COUNSEL FAILS TO DISCUSS THE PROS… |
| 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… |
| 18-9760 |
Andrew D. Dixon v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca acca-sentence-enhancement acca-statute armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure elements-clause johnson-precedent post-johnson precedent predicate-prior residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Did the court error denying claims that the residual clause didn't apply to defendant by using Post-Johnson precedent claims and raising elements clau… |
| 18-9742 |
Mikle Anthony Butler v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-evaluation ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-discretion mental-health mental-illness sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9725 |
Jose Munoz v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-06-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-law-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidentiary-rule hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement vagueness |
Whether the definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague.
Whether a Hobbs Act robbery is categorically a… |
| 18-9729 |
Odell Lameche Overby v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 3553(c) appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-obligation due-process judicial-discretion judicial-reasoning nonfrivolous-arguments sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the district court fulfilled its obligation under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c) to announce the reasons for its sentencing decision where the court neve… |
| 18A1333 |
Alfredo Beltran Leyva v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2019-06-19 |
Presumed Complete |
|
criminal-procedure drug-trafficking evidence-sufficiency guilty-plea plea-withdrawal sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9705 |
Leonard Moore v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-06-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment appellate-review certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Should the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals have issued a Certificate of Appealability in the instant case to resolve an open question in the Sixth Circ… |
| 18-9724 |
Clifford Marcus Winkles v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability due-process equal-protection equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief sentencing statute-of-limitations successive-habeas |
WHETHER AN UNSOLICITED AND UNAPPOINTED ATTORNEY'S
FILING TRUMP.S A PRISONER'S PRO SE FILING WHEN BOTH
FILINGS RELATE TO THE SAME ISSUE BUT RELY ON DIF… |
| 18-9699 |
Jose Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
alleyne alleyne-v-united-states criminal-law drug-statute due-process flores-figueroa mens-rea sentencing statutory-interpretation strict-liability |
I. In light of Flores-Figueroa v. United States, 556 U.S. 646 (2009), does the "knowingly or intentionally" mens rea contained in 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a) … |
| 18-9701 |
Antoine Gause v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-error miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing supervised-release |
Whether the lower courts fundamentally erred through a mis- carriage of justice, by unconstitutionally sentencing the Petitioner to a longer sentence … |
| 18-9715 |
Johnny Curtis Bedgood v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure critical-stage evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining pre-trial-counsel section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancements |
WHETHER THE US DISTRICT COURT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION FOR FAILURE TO CONDUCT [A]N EVIDENTIARY HEARING PURSUANT TO 28 SECTION 2255(b) IN LIGHT OF A FACTU… |
| 18-9656 |
In Re Lexter K. Kossie |
|
2019-06-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
character-evidence character-witness constitutional-performance criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence mitigation right-to-testify sentencing sentencing-phase |
Can a trial counsel render constitutionally performance and not prejudice the defense by (1) proceeding to the sentencing trial 45 minutes after the j… |
| 18-9658 |
Eric Daniel Doyle v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing grouping guidelines judicial-discretion legal-calculation procedural-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum total-punishment |
Whether due process requires the correct calculation of
Doyle's Guidelines sentencing range. |
| 18-9691 |
Dwayne Lee Stallings v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-32-violations criminal-rule false-statement false-statements federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure obstruction-of-justice plain-error plain-error-analysis sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure standard-of-review structural-error |
Whether the Court's plain error analysis is properly applied to violations of Fed. R. Crim. P. 32(i)(1)(A), and, if so, whether such violations are st… |
| 18-9692 |
Jody Lanardo White v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error preservation-of-error reasonableness-of-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness standard-of-review |
Whether challenges to the reasonableness of a sentence must be preserved by specific objection? |
| 18-9677 |
Martin Arreola Zavala v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility contested-cases criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process evidence evidence-determination federal-courts federal-sentencing legal-sufficiency quantity-determinations sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
1. WHETHER THIS COURT SHOULD GRANT CERTIORARI TO ADDRESS THE PROPER APPLIATION OF LAW TO FACT RELATING TO SUFFICIENCY OF THE EVIDENCE FOR QUANTITY DET… |
| 18-9681 |
Tracey Godfrey v. United States District Court for the District of Montana |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment montana-supreme-court sentencing statutory-interpretation |
MONTANA
SUPREME COUT
IMPOSOD A 10 VEAR SONTENCE
DURSUANT D0 MCA 46-18-SO2.
ON OCT 16T LO13 TH8 21ST JUICDAL DITRICT
COURT, RAMAI
CO.MT., IMPOSED A GO … |
| 18-9616 |
Rocky Riojas-Ordaz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 18-9653 |
Todd Ricks v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation successive-motion |
When a federal prisoner demonstrates that the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual clause was a basis for enhancing his sentence, but fails to show th… |
| 18-9615 |
Shawn Russell Sorensen v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal conflict-among-courts-of-appeals drug-felony drug-felony-offenses drug-offenses eighth-amendment first-step-act mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-enhancement simple-possession |
THIS COURT SHOULD GRANT MR. SORENSEN's PETITION FOR CERTIORARI TO RESOLVE A CONFLICT AMONG THE UNITED STATES COURTS OF APPEALS AS TO WHETHER PETITIONE… |
| 18-9634 |
Destyn David Frederick v. Bryan Collier, Executive Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-challenge right-to-counsel sentencing |
ISSUE NO ONE AND TWO whether the United States District court and the Fifth Circuit court of appeals have denied Petitioner his rights to challenge th… |
| 18-9635 |
Carlos Antonio Flores v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adequate-deference co-defendant-sentences deference due-process just-punishment plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-disparities substantive-reasonableness |
Is the Sentence Substantially unreasonable because if creates unwarranted Sentence Disparities for deterrence and in light of the fact that the Senten… |
| 18-9641 |
Clifford Brigham v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the imposition of the statutory maximum, 60-month term was substantively unreasonable. |
| 18-9644 |
Jeffrey Castleberry v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-discretion mental-disabilities mental-disability reasonable-accommodations retroactive-application sentencing state-courts |
1) Does the Americans with Disabities Act (ADA) require State Trial Courts to make reasonable accommodations for persons with mental disabilities?
2)… |
| 18-9608 |
Trinidad Jesus Garcia v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process judicial-interpretation plain-error procedural-error sentencing standard-of-review |
Does the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals decision conflict with decisions of the Supreme Court in United States v. Molina-Martinez, United States v. R… |
| 18-9612 |
Gregory Rayford v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exclusionary-rule probable-cause search-and-seizure sentencing |
1.) The State failed to prove defendant Bayfard quilty beyond a reasonable doubt because it did not show that defendant Constructively possessed the n… |
| 18-9601 |
Lawrence J. Strickland v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment predicate-offenses prior-convictions sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Does it violate the Fifth Amendment Due Process Clause and the Sixth Amendment for the district court to make a finding that two "armed career crim… |
| 18-9568 |
Roderick Mullins v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process imprisonment indefinite-imprisonment life-imprisonment life-sentence sentencing sentencing-scheme state-constitution |
Does the Florida "Life Means Life" sentence scheme violate the State Constitution's ban on indefinite imprisonment and the 14th Amendment Due Process … |
| 18-9570 |
Cody Joseph Morgan v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-06-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-vindictiveness north-carolina-v-pearce retrial sentencing sentencing-package texas-v-mccullough |
Did Texas v. McCullough, 475 U.S. 134 (1986) create a brightline rule that anytime a jury returns a sentencing verdict at the original trial it become… |
| 18-9578 |
James Jacob Parrish, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process firearm-enhancement ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-conviction procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-departure sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure sentencing-reasonableness sentencing-variance sixth-amendment substantive-reasonableness |
Whether Parrish's sentence was procedurally and substantively unreasonable because the district court imposed an unsupported departure and/or variance… |
| 18-9581 |
Marcus Arenell Evans v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-rights booker booker-remedy booker-v-us constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure guidelines-interpretation plea-agreement plea-bargaining public-policy sentence-appeal-waiver sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines-interpretation |
I. Does a sentence-appeal waiver that purportedly precludes a challenge to the sufficiency of enhancement evidence and the district court's interpreta… |
| 18-9589 |
Nicholas Bradley Gilbert v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-07 |
GVR |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-penalties criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion felon-possession interstate-commerce sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness |
1. Whether substantive reasonableness review requires or permits the courts of appeals to "substantively second guess" the district court and/or to "r… |
| 18-9562 |
Shawn Michael Simms v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-06-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process illegal-sentence pennsylvania-courts post-conviction-relief post-conviction-relief-act sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation void-ab-initio |
Ground I. Did the Pennsylvania Courts err in 'denying the instant Post Conviction Relief Act Petition for failing to recognize that the P.C.R.A. statu… |
| 18-9563 |
Cody Shane Sorrels v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-sentencing judicial-discretion jury-trial sentencing sentencing-determination sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-18-usc-3553 statutory-interpretation statutory-minimum |
1. Whether district courts may determine without the aid of a jury that a sentence above the
statutory minimum is "not greater than necessary " to ach… |
| 18-9573 |
Ernesto Betancourt-Carrillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 18-9513 |
Rhonda Reid v. Walter Donnelly, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection racial-discrimination sentencing standing |
I'm asking Judge Sign a Why diol Prior restitution Order in my name on 4-12-11 Why did the trial judge make a decision on Under 0.C.G.Aq17-14.7(0) hyo… |
| 18-9534 |
Femi Alexander Mewase v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-jury-selection due-process federal-rules-of-evidence jury-selection sentencing |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by affirming the improper removal of Juror 20.
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by upholding the admission of evidence… |
| 18-9556 |
Charles R. Willard v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability inconsistent-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mental-illness prejudice prior-convictions prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-mitigation trial-counsel witness-credibility witness-impeachment |
1. Is the low threshold for a certificate of appealability ("COA") met on a claim that trial counsel provided prejudicially deficient performance when… |
| 18-9558 |
Oladimeji Ayelotan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment jury-selection sentencing shackling |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred by allowing Petitioner to be shackled in the courtroom during his trial; allowi… |
| 18-9549 |
Mauricio Lucas-Lopez v. Tony Trierweiler, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-06-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment disproportionate-sentence eighth-amendment federal-court-decisions federal-courts guidance-needed mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence proportionality sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
A. IS PETITIONER'S TWENTY-FIVE YEAR MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCE DISPROPORTIONATE TO THE OFFENSE COMMITTED VIOLATING THE EIGHTH AMENDMENT OF THE UNITED … |
| 18-9493 |
Jose Santillan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether (as the D.C., Second, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuits hold, see United States U. Price, 409 F.3d 436, 444 (D.C. Cir. 2005; United … |
| 18-9494 |
Matthew Mounir Awad v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice ninth-circuit procedural-ruling sentencing |
1. Whether the Ninth Federal Circuit Court of Appeals correctly denied Petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability (hereinafter, "COA"). A Ce… |
| 18-9495 |
Jason Jones v. Martha Underwood, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-31 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 federal-habeas-corpus federal-jurisdiction federal-statute habeas-corpus ineffective-remedy intervening-decision mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence post-conviction-relief retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing statutory-construction |
Whether petitioner is entitled to seek federal habeas corpus relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 on the ground that 28 U.S.C. § 2255 is "inadequate or ineff… |
| 18-9497 |
Lloyd E. Austin, IV v. Bridgitte Amsberry |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-competency plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing |
why petitioner the except a stipulated facks would trial plea agreement to the Worst per. Case scenerio without right trying ot trirl o he was in his … |
| 18-9499 |
Chad Austin v. Timothy Stewart, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal bureau-of-prisons civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-review retroactive-application sentencing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation time-bar |
1.) Hows Can the Bureay of Prisons make petitioners Federal
Sentence, when petitioner was sentenced on 11/iz/1999
under manttory sentencing Gidelines"… |
| 18-9502 |
Christian Vazquez Capistran v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 18-9506 |
Kenyon Raheen Gadsden v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness |
1. Whether a motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, filed within one year of, Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) and claiming that Johnson inval… |
| 18-1500 |
Jonsha Bell v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2019-05-31 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment graham-v-florida juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing life-expectancy nonhomicide-offense sentencing sentencing-proportionality |
Does the Eighth Amendment forbid an aggregate sentence that exceeds the life expectancy of a juvenile nonhomicide offender? |
| 18-9491 |
William A. Trudeau, Jr. v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-05-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
acquitted-conduct article-iii constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process further-review procedural-default sentencing |
WHETHER PETITIONER RAISED SUBSTANTIAL SHOWING OF DENIAL OF CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT ON ISSUE OF WHETHER THE LOWER COURT'S CORRECTLY CONCLUDED THAT HIS ROs… |
| 18-9434 |
Juan Carlos Rodriguez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
404(b) 4th-amendment co-defendant-consent consent-search consent-to-search fourth-amendment jury-instructions prior-bad-acts prior-bad-acts-404(b) rule-404b search-and-seizure sentencing sentencing-variance standing-4th-amendment-search-and-seizure standing-to-suppress variance warrantless-search |
Whether the trial and appellate court erred when it adjudged that Petitioner had no standing to request suppression of evidence obtained from a warran… |
| 18-9456 |
Gary Giovon Lynn v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons constitutional-law federal-bureau-of-prisons federal-sentencing nunc-pro-tunc procedural-error sentencing sentencing-authority sentencing-procedure-error separation-of-powers setser-v-united-states ussg-5g1-3c |
I. When the district court failed to follow the Court's ruling in Setser v. United States, 566 U.S. 231 (2012) at sentencing did it engage in an imper… |
| 18-9459 |
Trinidad Nanez-Rivera v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-common-law mitigating-circumstances sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness tenth-circuit within-guideline-sentences within-range-sentence |
Have the length of within-guideline sentences become effectively unreviewable in practice, and is Mr. Nanez-Rivera's sentence near the top of the rang… |
| 18-9462 |
Daniel H. Kilgore v. Ronda J. Pash, Warden, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus missouri-law plea-bargaining sentencing sex-offender |
1. Is Mr. Kilgore entitled to appeal the district court's decision that Missouri did not violate Mr. Kilgore's right to due process of law when he was… |
| 18-9466 |
Paulito Govea-San Roman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law disability senior-victim sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-2l1.2 statutory-interpretation stokeling-precedent stokeling-v-united-states texas-robbery ussg-2l1.2 |
Whether, after Stokeling v. United States, _U.S._, 139 S.Ct. 544 (2019), the Texas offense of robbery by inflicting injury against a senior or disable… |
| 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 … |
| 18-1476 |
Randy Lee Carney v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
alternative-sentence alternative-sentencing appellate-review career-offender circuit-split collateral-consequences criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion guidelines harmless-error judicial-discretion judicial-error legal-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-error united-states-v-vonn |
When sentencing defendants, some district courts announce that they would impose the same length of imprisonment even if their conclusions of law and … |
| 18-9425 |
Kevin Contreras v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-24 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-924(a) aggravated-assault criminal-law criminal-liability due-process equal-protection generic-offense interstate-movement physical-force recklessness sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-physical-force vagueness voisine-v-united-states |
I. Whether the Texas offense of aggravated assault is equivalent to the "generic" form of that offense?
II. Whether this Court's holding in Voisine v… |
| 18-9430 |
Bobby Ray Turner v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-05-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
conviction criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-bias judicial-misconduct sentencing standards-of-review |
Felony conviction? |
| 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… |
| 18-9408 |
Freddie J. Hennington v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure criminal-procedure dismissal due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion legal-review procedural-error sentencing standing |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Hennington's appeal without considering the merits of his arguments. |
| 18-9415 |
Michael Don Neely v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-05-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2255-motion armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-interpretation illegal-sentence johnson-v-united-states judicial-review residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement unconstitutional |
Michael Neely is serving an illegal sentence after Johnson v. United States. However, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals held that he is not entitled … |
| 18-9365 |
Jose Antonio Ramirez-Jaramillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure federal-rule federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing sentencing-error statutory-interpretation statutory-range substantial-rights |
Whether an error in selecting the defendant's statutory range of imprisonment affects his or her substantial rights within the meaning of Federal Rule… |
| 18-9375 |
Saleem Elamin v. Superior Court of the District of Columbia |
District of Columbia |
2019-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment armed-robbery civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
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| 18-9377 |
John Patrick Donohue v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2019-05-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jurisdiction parole probation sentencing standing |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9360 |
Lazaro Veliz v. John V. Flournoy, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924 circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute due-process first-step-act johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactive-application sentencing sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court void-for-vagueness |
1. Whether the residual clause in 18 u.s.c. $924(c)(3)(B) is void for vagueness in light of this Court's decisions in Johnson v. United States, 135 S.… |
| 18-9364 |
Javontae Tyree Street v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary criminal-sentencing mobile-structure nonpermanent-structure overnight-accommodation predicate-offense statutory-interpretation |
Whether breaking or entering a nonpermanent or mobile structure that is not adapted or used for overnight accommodation qualifies as the predicate off… |
| 18-9370 |
Mark A. Blankenship v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction criminal-procedure district-court district-court-determination fed-r-crim-p-35(b) federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-review reduced-sentence sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-factor sentencing-factors |
Does appellate jurisdiction lie from a district court's determination that a particular sentencing factor is relevant to the imposition of a reduced s… |
| 18-9348 |
Willie Joe Williams v. Stephen Welch, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeals criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction sentencing |
Whether or not the State Court And Federal Courtis) error in sending Petitioner to prison after dismissing crimels) and charge (s). |
| 18-9357 |
Mondrick Bradley v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2019-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection false-arrest habeas-corpus malicious-prosecution sentencing standing unlawful-search |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9319 |
Robert Gray v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal certificate-of-appealability criminal-conviction due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-vacate sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether the trial and appellate court erred in denying Petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability? |
| 18-9320 |
Domenick James Howard v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach criminal-law due-process federal-crime federal-state-relations lockhart-v-united-states mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states ninth-circuit prior-conviction sentencing sexual-assault statutory-interpretation statutory-penalty |
WHETHER A PRIOR SEXUAL ASSAULT CONVICTION
SHOULD BE USED TO INCREASE THE STATUTORY PENALTY
WHERE THE PRIOR STATE CONVICTION IS OVER-INCLUSIVE
VIS-A… |
| 18-9321 |
Jesus Cornelio Dolmo-Alvarez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure indictment jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 18-9322 |
Edward Ray Crosby v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law disability judicial-review senior-victim sentencing sentencing-guidelines stokeling-precedent stokeling-v-united-states united-states-sentencing-commission ussg-4b1.2 |
Whether, after Stokeling v. United States , __U.S .__, 139 S.Ct. 544 (2019), the Texas offense of
aggravated robbery by inflicting injury against a se… |
| 18-9323 |
Donald Duhart v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-924 constitutional-challenge constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Is the residual clause definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) unconstitutionally vague? |
| 18-9328 |
Diego Portocarrero Valencia v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
confrontation-rights criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process high-seas-offense jurisdiction maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law safety-valve sentencing stateless-vessel |
1. Is the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act ("MDLEA") unconstitutional because no minimum contacts between the accused and the United States are requi… |
| 18-9330 |
Thomas Anthony Hammond v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender-guideline circuit-split criminal-justice criminal-law-sentencing due-process due-process-clause ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause federal-sentencing-guidelines robbery-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
The United States Court Of Appeals has entered a decision in conflict with the decisions of the United States Courts of Appeals for the First and Seco… |
| 18-9340 |
Anes Subasic v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit No. 18-7047 make an error in denying my motion for a certificate of appealability and dismissing … |
| 18-9299 |
Frankie Karen Washington v. Deborah Johnson, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review apprendi apprendi-v-new-jersey circuit-split constitutional-review harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-error sixth-amendment statutory-maximum |
Under Apprendi v. New Jersey 530 U.S. 466 (2000), it violates the Sixth Amendment to sentence a defendant to a higher statutory maximum term based on … |
| 18-9300 |
Devon Waters, aka Devon Jones v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-review career-offender crime-of-violence criminal-defendant-appeal-waiver criminal-procedure drug-distribution drug-distribution-offense sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
I.
DOES A CRIMINAL DEFENDANT'S WAIVER OF HIS
RIGHT TO APPEAL A WITHIN GUIDELINE'S SENTENCE
BAR APPELLATE REVIEW WHERE THE DISTRICT COURT
IMPROPERLY SE… |
| 18-9301 |
Skip Earnest Ralph Lomax v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-05-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confidential-informant criminal-enhancement criminal-law felon-possession firearms firearms-trafficking intent knowledge mens-rea sentencing statutory-interpretation unlawful-use |
Did the court below err in finding that the firearms-trafficking enhancement applied when Mr. Lomax did not know that that confidential informant purc… |
| 18-9302 |
Xing Lin v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-05-16 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-924 appellate-procedure constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-statute residual-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
1. Is the residual clause at 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) void for vagueness?
2. Should this Court hold petitioner's case for a ruling in United States v… |
| 18-9303 |
Larry Ray Lincks v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver booker booker-remedy constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process guidelines-interpretation plea-agreement plea-bargaining public-policy sentence-appeal-waiver sentencing sentencing-guidelines sufficiency-of-evidence |
I. Does a sentence-appeal waiver that purportedly precludes a challenge to the sufficiency of enhancement evidence and the district court's interpreta… |
| 18-9306 |
Shawn Sayer v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-05-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process maximum-sentence probation-report procedural-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness upward-variance |
I. Whether the district court erred by imposing a sentence without adequate explanation pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c), and the length of which sente… |
| 18-9289 |
In Re Michael Leon Haley, Sr. |
|
2019-05-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection false-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing third-strike |
WHETHER PETITIONER IS ACTUALLY INNOCENT OF BEING ELIGIBLE FOR A THIRD-STRIKE SENTENCE UNDER 42 PA. C. S. §9714(g)?
WHETHER PETITIONER'S SENTENCING WA… |
| 18-9290 |
Albert J. Hamilton v. Jurban, RN, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
amendment-interpretation civil-rights constitutional-conflict criminal-law disability due-process equal-protection legal-classification rational-basis sentencing standing state-interest takings |
1. Does the State of California create a ton Flav. Under the US. Const. 5th and 14th Amend. By not Providing a Rational Relationship Between a leatti … |
| 18-9291 |
Adrian Green v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment career-offender criminal-history due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error plea-agreement prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-error |
Was defense counsel ineffective or deficient in their representation of the defendant?
Whether the district court committed reversible plain error in… |
| 18-9255 |
Santosh Ram v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-05-14 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-plea mental-competency mental-disease-defect plea-agreement plea-bargaining search-and-seizure sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether there was violation of due process of law by the failure of the trial court to order the mental competency evaluation and/or conduct mental co… |
| 18-9257 |
Lonnie Rarden v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus judgment merits mitigating-evidence opinion petition search-and-seizure sentencing state-court state-courts writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9258 |
Bernard Roosevelt Shaw v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
carjacking crime-of-violence criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-challenge |
"Whether the lower court(s) erred in its interpretation as to the "vagueness challenge" of Section §924(c)(3)(B), and the meaning as to what is consid… |
| 18-9243 |
Chima Edozie Aligwekwe v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquittal double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion jury-trial restitution sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the right to a jury trial as guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment is violated when a district court increases the defendant's prison sentence and… |
| 18-9233 |
Michael Perales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-appeals criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process plain-error procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-explanation sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure |
Is a district court's gross failure to explain an above-range sentence or to respond to arguments for a lesser sentence reversible on plain error?
Mu… |
| 18-9234 |
Rudy Mendoza v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-05-10 |
GVR |
IFP |
constitutional-vagueness criminal-law due-process federal-procedure jury-determination second-amendment section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court united-states-v-davis vagueness |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague. (This question is presently before the Court in United States v. Davis, No. 18-431.)
… |
| 18-9238 |
Reshaud Todd Brown v. Washington |
Washington |
2019-05-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment habitual-offender habitual-offender-statute life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing proportionality-review sentencing sentencing-court youthful-adult youthful-offender |
Whether imposition of a mandatory sentence of life without parole under a habitual offender statute violates the Eighth Amendment prohibition against … |
| 18-9197 |
Earl Moore v. Stephen Kallis, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender crime-of-violence descamps-v-united-states due-process due-process-clause mathis-retroactivity mathis-v-united-states retroactivity saving-clause section-2241 stash-house-robbery statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states |
Earl Moore Found himself in the sights of what has become known as a sting operation. That is, Moore was sitting at home in great need of resources to… |
| 18-9217 |
Kirk Lurton Grummitt, et al. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act career-offender-guidelines collateral-review criminal-procedure federal-habeas-corpus johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statute-of-limitations |
(1) Whether the "right" in Johnson, which invalidated the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act, triggers this statute of limitations for a… |
| 18-9156 |
Joseph Vincent Sisneros v. Eric Arnold, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus jury-instructions sentencing state-court-review |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9168 |
Melissa Owens v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights controlled-substances criminal-history drug-trafficking due-process equal-protection plea-agreement racial-discrimination school-desegregation sentencing sentencing-guidelines voting-rights |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9185 |
Bobby Martin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-08 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-16 18-usc-924 constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process residual-clause sentencing sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent void-for-vagueness |
I. Whether reasonable jurors could debate whether Sessions v. Dimaya 188 S. Ct. 1204 (2018) and Johnson v United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015) invalid… |
| 18-9186 |
Briand Williams v. California |
California |
2019-05-08 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
ada ada-discrimination cruel-and-unusual-punishment discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment parole parole-consideration proposition-57 retroactive-credits sentencing time-credits |
Did the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) policies and procedures violate the Petitioner's U.S.C.A. 14' Amendment and the… |
| 18-9189 |
Vernell Conley v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Arkansas |
2019-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy drug-offense due-process evidence hicks-v-oklahoma jury jury-trial sentencing |
PETITIONER WAS CONVICTED OF THREE DRUG OFFENSES AND SENTENCED BY THE JURY TO A TOTAL TERM OF 90 YEARS. THE ARKANSAS SUPREME COURT FOUND INSUFFICIENT E… |
| 18-9205 |
Antonio Ballesteros v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause confrontation-clause-6th-amendment criminal-procedure importation machine-generated-data sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment strict-liability |
I. Whether GPS Data prepared specifically for an ongoing investigation and culled from several databases is machine generated data that implicates the… |
| 18-9206 |
Mitchell Felix Brooks v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plea-bargaining plea-compliance rule-11 sentencing supervisory-powers supervisory-powers-of-lower-courts |
(1) Whether the District Court Judge abused its discretion in violation pursuant to Rule 11, United States v. McCarthy "62 interrogation questions" ma… |
| 18-9154 |
Jeffrey William Smith v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure-criminal constitutional-rights criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jury-instructions life-imprisonment life-sentence mitigating-factors sentencing sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
ATEPTED CAPITAL CASE
THE INSTRUCTON ANO GIVE IT IN THE PROPER FORM; CITEDIN) "WHALEY V. COMMONDEALh, 214 VA.353 (1973) AND IN " FI5hBACK v. COMMONWEG… |
| 18-9183 |
Zachary Wayne Jones v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach civil-procedure due-process federal-law federal-prosecution fifth-amendment generic-federal-standard predicate-offense state-statute |
Is it a violation of Due Process under the Fifth Amendment for the federal government to utilize a state statute in the prosecution of a federal law a… |
| 18-9164 |
Antonio Muro, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-06 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction objection procedural-requirement reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing |
Whether a formal objection after pronouncement of sentence is necessary to invoke appellate reasonableness review of the length of a defendant's sente… |
| 18-9070 |
Gabriel Urzua Sanchez v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure direct-appeal district-court fifth-amendment first-step-act mandatory-minimum privilege sentencing witness-testimony |
I.
Whether the district court abused its discretion in failing to properly determine
that Mr. Sanchez's proposed witnesses Nino Tanzini and Shawn Hous… |
| 18-9100 |
Corry Mency v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey blakely-v-washington blakey-v-washington constitutional-due-process criminal-procedure due-process judicial-factfinding jury-trial jury-trial-right sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum trial-judge |
Mr. Mency contended Florida Statutes (2004) section 775.084(3)(a)6 was unconstitutional under Apprendi v. New Jersey and Blakey v. Washington as appli… |
| 18-9124 |
Garland D. Miller v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
coram-nobis criminal-procedure federal-courts federal-criminal-procedure illegal-sentence judicial-jurisdiction restitution rule-35 sentencing sentencing-correction statutory-interpretation title-18 |
DOES JURISDICTION EXIST TO CORRECT AN ILLEGAL SENTENCE AT ANY TIME. |
| 18-9084 |
Edward JoRodge Gladney v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure diminished-capacity due-process evidentiary-hearing expert-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-capacity plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness sentencing sentencing-mitigation |
I. Whether the district court erred or abused its discretion by failing to hold an evidentiary hearing after grant of COA on contested factual allegat… |
| 18-9086 |
Roel Daniel Galvan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
carachuri-rosendo-v-holder criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process felon-in-possession felony firearm-possession hypothetical-facts misdemeanor misdemeanor-predicate predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-enhancement sixth-amendment united-states-sentencing-guidelines |
WHETHER THE FOUR LEVEL ENHANCEMENT FOR POSSESSING A FIREARM IN CONNECTION WITH ANOTHER FELONY OFFENSE PURSUANT TO U.S.S.G. §2K2.1(b)(6)(B) APPLY WHEN … |
| 18-9091 |
Antwayne Tremayne Lowry v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-conviction due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-vacate sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether the trial and appellate court erred in denying Petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability? |
| 18-9104 |
Kurt Zamor v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure common-carrier criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-16 evidence evidence-sufficiency expert-testimony firearms firearms-regulation mens-rea sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation |
I. WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT FAILED TO PROPERLY APPLY TITLE 18 U.S.C. SECTION 922(e) IN DETERMINING WHETHER THE EVIDENCE WAS SUFFICIENT TO ESTABLIS… |
| 18-9105 |
Samuel Eugene Geddie v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-crimes alleyne-precedent alleyne-v-united-states court-of-appeals criminal-classification criminal-law due-process north-carolina north-carolina-law sentencing statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE NORTH CAROLINA COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY HOLDING THERE ARE "NO AGGRAVATED CRIMES", SUCH AS AGGRAVATED COMMON LAW ROBBERY, IN NORTH CAROLIN… |
| 18-9106 |
Daqone Lentell Williams v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender career-offender-predicate felony-complaints modified-categorical-analysis modified-categorical-approach prior-conviction sentencing-court sentencing-court-consideration sentencing-guidelines shepard-analysis shepard-v-united-states sixth-amendment unadopted-assertions |
Whether a sentencing court may consider felony complaints, with unadopted assertions, under Shepard v. United States, 544 U.S. 13 (2005), when that co… |
| 18-9111 |
El-Sayyid Nosair v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-05-02 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey blakely-v-washington civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection hurst-v-florida judicial-review muslim-arab-prisoners prisoner-rights pro-se-litigation sentencing terrorism united-states-v-o'brien wrongful-conviction yick-wo-v-hopkins |
WHETHER THE DENIAL OF EQUAL JUSTICE BY LOWER COURTS IS STILL WITHIN THE PROHIBITION OF THE CONSTITUTION AS THIS COURT HELD IN YICK WO v. HOPKINS IN 18… |
| 18-9117 |
Scotty Garnell Morrow v. Benjamin Ford, Warden |
Georgia |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
death-penalty death-sentence due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida judicial-fact-finding jury-trial jury-unanimity ring-v-arizona sentencing sixth-amendment |
"The Sixth Amendment requires a jury, not a judge, to find each fact necessary to impose a sentence of death." Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616, 619 (… |
| 18-9062 |
Derek Ray King v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process indictment jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing supervised-release |
1. Whether violations of supervised release that require or permit additional imprisonment must be proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt, place d… |
| 18-9043 |
Bryan Binkholder v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-04-30 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
5th-amendment criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rights due-process plea-bargaining sentencing victim-rights victims-rights writ-of-mandamus |
1. Did the Crime Victims Rights Act, 18 USC 3771 (CVRA), and its 72 hour review requirement for a petition of Writ of Mandamus violate the Constitutio… |
| 18-9049 |
Jackie Madore v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-04-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-waivers contract-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-disparity |
I. Whether the Supreme Court of the United States should review appellate waivers in criminal cases under principles of contract law. A concatenation … |
| 18-9003 |
Ariel Brown v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
and whether false allegations in a Presentence In burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process government-burden presentence-report sentencing sentencing-enhancement weapons-enhancement weapons-possession |
1. When a defendant submits a sworn Declaration attached to her objections to a
Presentence Report, which denies certain key required elements of the … |
| 18-9004 |
Vaughn S. Archer v. Daniel Paramo, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
boykin-advisement criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-trial sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation statutory-reduction trial-court-advisement |
(1) Whether Archer knowingly and voluntarily entered into a guilty plea
where the trial court failed to advise him as to the potential application of
… |
| 18-9026 |
Arrez Meliton-Salto v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court guidelines-range molina-martinez-v-united-states plain-error prejudice record-silence sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
When the district court fails to calculate the guideline range at sentencing, whether the defendant may rely on the district court's error alone to sh… |
| 18-9029 |
Tyron James v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2019-04-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal apprendi civil-rights constitutional-challenge conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment unconstitutional-error upward-departure |
1. May a conviction baded dn a unconstitutional hard o life
Senfence be overturned at any time?
2. May this Courts decisionin Apprendi ar to what con… |
| 18-1359 |
William Shannon Gresham v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2019-04-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence |
(1) Whether a trial court may use acquitted conduct by a jury that rejected the State's proof on a particular issue in order to enhance a defendant's … |
| 18-9010 |
Joel Augutuk Mayokok v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-error re-sentencing sentence-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness unsupported-enhancement |
I. Did the District Court's decision at re-sentencing to re-impose the
same 240-month sentence it initially imposed, where the Court had
erred in its … |
| 18-9020 |
Michael Marshall v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-appeal federal-courts federal-jurisdiction fourth-circuit guilty-plea jurisdictional-grounds plea-bargaining sentencing |
Whether the writ should issue so that this Court may decide whether Petitioner's guilty plea was valid. |
| 18-8995 |
Maurice Anderson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
breach-of-contract due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure first-amendment judicial-discretion legitimate-government-purpose plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing type-c-agreement |
1. When a judge induces a defendant to plead guilty by reassuring him that if his plea is accepted the court is bound to impose a sentence specified i… |
| 18-8996 |
Zack Zafer Dyab v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-04-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amount-of-loss appellate-review court-discretion criminal-sentencing illegal-sentence judicial-discretion legal-error loss-calculation plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-limitation statutory-limitations |
1 - Does the miscalculation of the amount of loss as applied to the sentencing guidelines represent an illegal sentence, and plain error that the Cour… |
| 18-8963 |
Jose Cobian v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-04-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
730-ilcs-5-5-9-1-1 apprendi constitutional-challenge criminal-fines due-process guilty-plea sentencing southern-union-co-v-united-states standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
1. Whether the U.S. Supreme Court's holding in Southern Union Co. v. United States, 567 U.S. •-. has clarified that criminal fines are subject to the … |
| 18-8975 |
Derran Smiley v. William Muniz, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto kidnapping kidnapping-enhancement one-strike-statute penal-code retroactive-statute sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1) WAS PETITIONER SMILEY WRONGFULLY CHARGED, CONVICTED AND SENTENCED WITH BREAKING A SPECIFIED STATUTE, (PC:607, GCD)), WHICH CHANGED THE LEGAL CONSEQ… |
| 18-8978 |
Rico Montell Reid v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-11 defendant-rights district-court due-process judicial-coercion judicial-discretion plea-agreement plea-bargaining presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines withdrawal-of-plea |
Whether Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11 prohibits a district court from discussing sentencing options with a defendant at the sentencing hearing… |
| 18-8983 |
Patrick Edwards v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-04-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 18-1338 |
United States v. Joseph Decore Simms |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-24 |
Denied |
|
18-usc-924(c) constitutional-challenge constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law firearm firearm-offense firearms hobbs-act sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
Whether the subsection-specific definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(B), which applies only in the limited context of a federal cr… |
| 18-8948 |
Angel Morales De-Jesus v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-04-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment conspiracy due-process leadership-enhancement mandatory-minimum sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. At Sentencingthe District Court calculated a higher oftense tevel than the plea to the united states Constitution?
2. Angel morates-De Jesus agree… |
| 18-8964 |
Artemio Miranda-Manuel v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8-usc-1326 almendarez-torres apprendi criminal-procedure due-process immigration indictment prior-conviction sentencing |
1. Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of… |
| 18-8938 |
Elza Budagova v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
apprendi apprendi-rule constitutional-procedure criminal-fines criminal-restitution judicial-discretion jury-findings sentencing sentencing-exposure southern-union-co |
Should Apprendi's rule apply to the imposition of criminal restitution? |
| 18-8915 |
Jonathan Zepeda v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3006a appellate-waiver criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal due-process fifth-amendment independent-counsel judicial-manipulation sentencing sixth-amendment standing waiver |
As matters of first impression:
Whether a n individual 's challenge to the constitutionality of his sentence and case proceedings in a criminal prose… |
| 18-8922 |
In Re Efrain Campos |
|
2019-04-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process fraud habeas-corpus parole parole-eligibility plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing |
Was Petitioner Efrain Campos Denied A Fundamentally Fair Guilty Plea Procedural Execution, By The With Holding Of Information By The Assistant Distric… |
| 18-8923 |
Ryan Watkins v. Norm Robinson, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appeals-court criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts federal-law habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief re-sentencing sentencing sixth-amendment sixth-circuit successive-petition |
Whether Petitioner was entitled to present his claims after re-sentencing to the United States District Court of appeals.
Whether the Sixth Circuit C… |
| 18-8913 |
Esteban Aguilera-Alvarez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 18-8900 |
Juan Garcia Herrera v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-v-united-states almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process judicial-factfinding jury-trial mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
1. The enhanced-penalty provisions of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(b) and 851 expressly require that the district court, not a jury, make factual findings which i… |
| 18-1320 |
Renee Baker, Warden v. Alquandre H. Turner |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-18 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-2244 amended-judgment civil-rights conviction conviction-challenge due-process federal-habeas habeas habeas-corpus new-judgment sentence sentencing successive-petition successive-petitions time-served-credit |
1. Whether an amended judgment of conviction containing only nominal changes—that do not disturb the original conviction and sentence—should be consid… |
| 18-8851 |
Lester James Smith v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2019-04-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempt-to-elude criminal-procedure double-jeopardy double-punishment due-process equal-protection evidence-collection federalism investigative-techniques law-enforcement probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing single-incident single-jurisdiction |
M. Smith alleges that the State of Geargia has illeggally sentenced him to 25 years for five counts Single incident, and a single jurisdiction for pro… |
| 18-8879 |
Olusola Arojojoye v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-04-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction jurisdiction restitution sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1) Does 18 Usc §3664(0) and USC H3742 give the district court jurisdiction to review a sentence which the restitution was calculated in violation of t… |
| 18-8819 |
Jorge Rogelio Reveles-Santana v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts — including the fact of a prior conviction — that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eit… |
| 18-8846 |
Silvio Lopez Cuellar v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-appeal sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation waiver-of-rights |
Does a defendant's plea agreement waiver of the statutory right of a sentencing appeal preclude appellate review of the sentence even where the distri… |
| 18-8855 |
Eric A. Hicks v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2019-04-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-error criminal-procedure guidelines molina-martinez molina-martinez-standard molina-martinez-v-united-states prejudice prejudice-standard procedural-default sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the court of appeals' decision conflicts with this Court's decision in Molina-Martinez v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 1338 (2016), in concluding… |
| 18-8807 |
Francisco Quintero-Corral v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey aprendi-rule criminal-procedure due-process illegal-reentry indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum |
1. Whether all facts- including the facts of a prior conviction- that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and e… |
| 18-8824 |
Darren Gonzales v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process factual-basis money-laundering plea-bargaining plea-colloquy rule-11 sentencing |
After the Court's decision in Cuellar v. United States, does a defendant who merely parrots the language of the concealment money laundering statute s… |
| 18-8825 |
Timeiki Hedspeth v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-history criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process evidentiary-rulings fair-trial federal-sentencing-guidelines offense-level reasonable-doubt restitution sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
1. Did the District Court use an incorrect criminal history category to sentence Ms. Hedspeth?
2. Did the District Court use an incorrect offense lev… |
| 18-8827 |
David McShan v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
berger-standard berger-v-united-states criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-fabrication jury-bias nelson-v-colorado presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing trial-fairness |
I. Where the government's case against a defendant is extremely weak, does the prosecutor's persistent misconduct during trial by making improper insi… |
| 18-8834 |
José Amaya-Vasquez v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion prior-bad-acts reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-review |
1. Whether the Court erred by considering the prior bad acts in the determination of the appropriate sentence?
2. Whether the sentence imposed by the… |
| 18-1298 |
Mario Dion Woodward v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
|
arbitrary-and-discriminatory cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-override jury-sentencing repealed-statute sentencing sixth-amendment |
Pursuant to Ala. C. § 13-A-5-47(e)(1975), Alabama previously allowed trial judges to override a jury's vote for a life sentence and, based on new evid… |
| 18-1304 |
Richard Ashbaugh v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
burrage-decision burrage-v-united-states collateral-review criminal-law due-process habeas-corpus retroactive-application retroactivity sentence-enhancement sentencing statutory-interpretation substantive-rule |
In 2006, Petitioner Richard Ashbaugh pleaded guilty to distributing heroin, which, because of the "resulting-in-death" sentence enhancement contained … |
| 18-8803 |
Raymond Ramirez v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment constitutional-violation conviction due-process fourteenth-amendment judgment-of-conviction jurisdiction jurisdictional-rule sentence sentencing state-court |
Whether the State of Florida / State Court violated the 14th Amendment of United States Constitution by enlarging a jurisdictional rule without author… |
| 18-8814 |
Michael Perales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure district-court due-process objection preservation-of-error sentencing substantial-arguments |
I. Whether parties to a criminal action must lodge a separate objection to the failure of a district court to address substantial arguments for a diff… |
| 18-8792 |
Mario Devant Cheers v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-robbery career-offender constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-precedent mandatory-guidelines mandatory-minimum residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
In Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) this Court initiated a twisting journey by holding unconstitutional the residual clause of 18 U.S.… |
| 18-8799 |
Robert Gordon Lockwood v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery bank-robbery-statute categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law descamps-ruling due-process firearms johnson-ruling mathis-ruling ninth-circuit sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent violent-crime |
Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals violate the Johnson, Mathis, Descamps, and Dimaya Supreme Court rulings because Prince confirmed that the Bank … |
| 18-8755 |
Matthew Ryan Murdoch v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-restrictions due-process first-amendment freedom-of-speech liberty liberty-interest sentencing sex-offender statutory-interpretation |
Whether a lifetime prohibition on going to "locations where any form of pornography, sexually stimulating performances, or sexually oriented material,… |
| 18-8781 |
Kerri L. Kaley v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-law criminal-fines criminal-procedure criminal-restitution due-process jury-finding jury-findings jury-trial sentencing southern-union-co-v-united-states |
In Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 490 (2000), the Court held that "[o]ther than the fact of a prior conviction, any fact that increases the pen… |
| 18-8782 |
Cesar Lopez-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 18-1286 |
Brian D. Baur v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
castle-doctrine chain-of-custody civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-preservation ineffective-counsel law-of-the-case prosecutorial-misconduct reassignment sentencing standing use-of-force |
1. Whether the Law of the Case Doctrine is an
issue in this case since two Judges have made
rulings concerning the Constitutional Rights of the
Pet… |
| 18-1282 |
David Lee Sanders v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2019-04-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process illegal-plea plea-agreement plea-bargaining probation reversal sentencing speedy-trial |
1. Whether a criminal defendant who pleads guilty pursuant to a negotiated plea agreement and serves a five-year, split sentence, which is subsequentl… |
| 18-8743 |
Arturo Torres-Cabrera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process immigration-offense indictment-requirements prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts - including the fact of a prior conviction - that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and … |
| 18-8747 |
Valentin Aguilar-Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts — including the fact of a prior conviction — that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and … |
| 18-8749 |
Marvin Earl Blanks, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-reasoning sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court fulfilled its obligation under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c) to announce the reasons for its sentencing decision where the court neve… |
| 18-8760 |
James Bernard Jones, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca career-offender career-offender-enhancement constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process florida-battery-on-law-enforcement habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states non-violent-felony sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya unconstitutional violent-felony |
(1) Is a sentence as a career offender (com) unvalied se valid when a fone violent ors conviction, (Kloada attery on Law en Mv Licey), LO au by wily o… |
| 18-8761 |
Arthur Jones v. California |
California |
2019-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial sentencing |
(1) WhEthER A CoNdUet ENHANCEMENT. StAtUTE"CAif PENAl COdE SER.1192.7(2) ThAt "REMOVES, ASSESSMENt" of FALT FROm Jury USEd TO INREASE PUNISHMENT" 1s U… |
| 18-8763 |
Terry Walker v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process judicial-fact-finding jury-finding jury-trial plea-agreement plea-bargaining recharaterization sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1) Can a sentencing court consistent with the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution recharaterize a defendant's conviction into conduct th… |
| 18-8718 |
Anthony C. Barrett v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split collateral-review habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement void-for-vagueness |
Whether a second or successive habeas petitioner asserting that his sentence is invalid under Johnson II must show that the sentencing court relied ex… |
| 18-8719 |
Ciaran Paul Redmond v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-conflict criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal federal-jurisdiction judicial-notice jurisdictional-element jury-instructions jury-trial sentencing standards-of-review statutory-interpretation |
1. A jury convicted petitioner of federal assault offenses under 18 U.S.C. § 113. Pursuant to Fed. R. Evid. 201, a divided panel of the Ninth Circuit … |
| 18-8725 |
Saiydin Abdullan Muhammad v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender common-law-robbery criminal-law north-carolina north-carolina-law predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether North Carolina common law robbery qualifies as a predicate offense to support a designation of career offender |
| 18-8675 |
Joshua Sedillo v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-precedent criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process gall-v-united-states judicial-review rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance variance |
Is the Tenth Circuit precedent allowing a district court to say nothing when a reasonable request for a variance is made at sentencing consistent with… |
| 18-8711 |
Bjorn Christian Luster v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-record due-process family-law parole probation sentencing |
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| 18-8713 |
Briand Williams v. California |
California |
2019-04-05 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment code-of-civil-procedure constitutional-violation counsel-of-choice due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance marsden-hearing plea-bargaining procedural-rights right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment |
Does a Defendant have a right to replace his privately retained choice of counsel at anytime during the trial court proceeding even up to and at the a… |
| 18-8714 |
Kenneth Whigham, Jr., aka Kenneth Pringle v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process jury-submission jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement supreme-court-precedent |
Whether this Court's decision in Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), which held that the allegation of a prior conviction need no… |
| 18-8698 |
Marcel A. Walton v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-04-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
clear-error clear-error-analysis criminal-procedure due-process false-and-misleading government-assertions material-facts non-record-facts sentencing |
1. Consistent with Due Process, can a sentencing court rely upon government assertions concerning material, non-record facts—first raised at the sente… |
| 18-8700 |
Dorian Givens v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing standard-of-review supervised-release |
What is the proper standard of appellate review for sentences imposed on defendants following revocation of supervised release? |
| 18-8703 |
Alan Wade Johnson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act federal-prisoner legal-background procedural-review residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement silent-record successive-habeas-motion successive-motion |
When a federal prisoner demonstrates that, due to a silent record and the relevant legal background, the sentencing court may have relied on the Armed… |
| 18-8704 |
Brandon Keith Alexander v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-04-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing non-homicide-offense non-homicide-offenses parole parole-eligibility sentencing |
Whether sentencing a juvenile non-homicide offender to 60 years without the possibility of parole violates the 8th Amendment prohibition against cruet… |
| 18-8662 |
Howard Lawson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca aggravated-assault armed-career-criminal-act criminal-history-classification criminal-law due-process florida-criminal-law predicate-offenses sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Petitioner's prior aggravated assault under Fla. Stat. § 784.021 and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon pursuant to Fla. Stat. 784.045 qu… |
| 18-8673 |
Jamael Stubbs v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
133 S.Ct. 2151 (2013) 6th-amendment alleyne-precedent alleyne-v-united-states constructive-amendment due-process ineffective-assistance sentencing sentencing-challenge sixth-amendment trial-counsel |
Whether trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance by failing to preserve either a sentencing challenge or a constructive amendment claim under All… |
| 18-8642 |
DeJuan Leshae Hill v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-04-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-1951 18-usc-924c 28-usc-2255 2nd-amendment 2nd-amendment-rights certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-offense habeas-corpus hobbs-act post-conviction-relief sentencing tenth-circuit unconstitutionality |
Whether The Tenth Circuit Erred In Failing To Address In Its Order Denying A Certificate Of Appealability, The Unconstitutionality Of Use And Carry Of… |
| 18-8646 |
Norman Hampton v. Gregory McLaughlin, Warden |
Georgia |
2019-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus sentencing state-courts |
Question not identified. |
| 18-8649 |
Bradley Cobbler, aka B-Rad v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2019-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure district-court due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion motion-to-withdraw plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing withdrawal-of-plea |
Whether the District Court erred by partially denying Mr. Cobbler's Amended Motion to Withdraw Plea of Guilty? |
| 18-8654 |
Karyea Williams v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach collateral-review descamps mathis Mathis-retroactivity mathis-v-united-states modified-categorical-approach retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines teague Teague-exception |
Did The Court Of Appeals err by dismissing the appeal of the District Court's reasoning that Mathis was inapplicable to Karyea Williams on Collateral … |
| 18-8660 |
Tyree Mansell v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial jury-trial-right sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Whether the use of acquitted conduct to increase Mr. Mansell's Sentencing violates the Sixth Amendment jury trial right. |
| 18-8619 |
In Re Derrell L. Gilchrist |
|
2019-03-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924 criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process first-step-act habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice section-2241 section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation |
CAN PETITIONER SEEK RELIEF PURSUANT TO 28 U.S.C § 2241
TO ADDRESS CLARIFICATION OF 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(C) IN
THE FIRST STEP ACT OF 2O18. |
| 18-8623 |
Justin Cole Milam v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing standard-of-review |
I.
Are appeal waivers presented in federal criminal plea agreements an
unconstitutional overreach by the Government preventing review of
constitutiona… |
| 18-8627 |
Frank Martinez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
disclosure fifth-amendment gardner-v-florida probation sentencing confidential-recommendation disclosure due-process fifth-amendment gardner-v-florida probation probation-officer sentencing |
The sentencing court failed to disclose the "Confidential Recommendation" of the Probation Officer in regards to the sentencing of the Petitioner. The… |
| 18-8629 |
Rogelio Barajas v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure due-process equal-protection standing appeals civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process search-and-seizure sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 18-8634 |
Andrew A. Chavis v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-robbery attempted-armed-robbery career-offender crime-of-violence johnson-ruling mandatory-guidelines post-Johnson pre-Booker sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER PRIOR CONVICTION IN ILLINOIS FOR ATTEMPTED ARMED ROBBERY CATEGORICALLY QUALIFIES AS A CRIME OF VIOLENCE UNDER THE 4131.1 CAREER OFFENDER PRE-B… |
| 18-8636 |
Brian Hoskins v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure custis-v-united-states federal-guidelines federal-sentence federal-sentences federal-sentencing-guidelines habeas-corpus plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-conviction state-convictions |
Whether, this Court's decisions in Custis v. United States, 511 U.S. 485 (1995), Daniels v. United States, 532 U.S. 374 (2001), and Johnson v. United … |
| 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… |
| 18-8604 |
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 |
I. May a district court's modification of sentence under Rule 35, Fed. R. Crim. P., be treated as resetting the one-year clock under 28 U.S.C. §2255(0… |
| 18-8616 |
Parley Drew Hardman v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conclusion constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection felon-in-possession index second-amendment sentencing statutory-provisions table-of-contents |
Question not identified. |
| 18-8617 |
Kristen Patrick Doyle v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeals circuit-court-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction legal-motion-type mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err in its denial of Defendant - Appellant's Motion to be granted relief under the clari… |
| 18-1251 |
Sandy Annabi v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claim constitutional-deprivation due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-standard sentencing standing |
Whether petitioner has established a colorable claim of constitutional deprivation such that the Court of Appeals should have issued a certificate of … |
| 18-8557 |
Ignacio Ruiz v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing |
GRou oNE: Houston Police Department Detective, Jhn Brooks, testified during
the state's case -in-chief concerning ownership of a cll phone involved
in… |
| 18-8558 |
Jorge Edwin Rivera v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guidelines judicial-discretion plain-error plain-error-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights supervised-release |
When a district court imposes a term of supervised release double that of the Guidelines range without first calculating the range or providing an exp… |
| 18-8540 |
Eric David Bennett v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3742 appellate-review booker booker-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review supervised-release united-states-v-booker |
Whether the appropriate standard of review for a sentence following the revocation of supervised release is the "plainly unreasonable " standard once … |
| 18-8550 |
Ernest M. Flowers v. Laura Uriarte, et al. |
Florida |
2019-03-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing trial-procedure |
WHETHER PETITIONER IS BEING UNLAWFULLY RETAINED IN THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS CONTRARY TO FLORIDA SUPREME COURT PRECEDENT AND HAS THEREFORE… |
| 18-8489 |
Danny R. Moore v. Gene Beasley, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-precedent mathis-decision retroactivity saving-clause section-2255 sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether this Court's decision in Mathis v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 2243 (2016) should apply.
Whether the Saving Clause Of § 2255 Applies to claim |
| 18-8496 |
Anthony Swatzie v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 constitutional-decision criminal-defendant criminal-procedure district-court-judgment due-process federal-statute federal-statutory-provision habeas-corpus retroactive-constitutional-decision retroactive-relief retroactivity section-2255 sentencing silent-record statutory-interpretation successive-motion |
Whether, or under what circumstances, a criminal defendant pursuing a second or successive motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 is entitled to relief under a… |
| 18-8512 |
DaRen Kareem Gadsden v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-integrity judicial-proceedings multiplicitous-sentence plain-error remand rosales-mireles-standard sentencing sentencing-review substantial-rights |
In light of Rosales-Mireles v. United States, 138 S.Ct. 1897, 201 L. Ed. 2d 376 (2018), which, states, "[{fJailure to correct plain error that affecte… |
| 18-8524 |
Tony Kalumba Tshiansi v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process factual-claims judicial-discretion objection presentence-report presumption-of-reliability reliability sentencing unjust-incarceration |
Whether the factual claims of a Presentence Report are presumed reliable in the face of objection? |
| 18-8490 |
Bernard Mitchell v. California |
California |
2019-03-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-street-gangs discretion due-process evidence gang-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-exposure jury-instructions jury-prejudice prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-discretion standard-of-review |
1. Did the court abuse its discretion in permitting the jury to be exposed to the nicknames "Crip" and "'Scrap,"' which have been taken as a suggestio… |
| 18-8504 |
John Whaley v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process imprisonment procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
Whether, on remand, imposition of the same twenty-five year term of imprisonment and maximum ter superviselease was bot procurally n ubstantively rabl… |
| 18-8458 |
Oniel Winston Scarlett v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-circuit appellate-review buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-appealability-coa due-process eleventh-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-reasoning merits-analysis merits-review reasonable-jurist sentencing |
Should the Eleventh Circuit provide a sufficient explanation of its order denying a COA in order that a reasonable jurist could ensue its reasoning di… |
| 18-8476 |
Anthony Grandison v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
capital-sentencing collateral-consequences constitutional-due-process criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process harmless-error jury-instructions mitigating-factors sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-proof |
1. Since Maryland Law Prohibits Imposition Of The Death Penalty Without Considering The Presentencing Investigation Report Convictions As Evidence The… |
| 18-8491 |
Ernest Marquis Flowers v. Laura Uriarte, et al. |
Florida |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal civil-rights civil-rights-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review malicious-prosecution prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sixth-amendment unlawful-detention |
WHETHER PETITIONER WAS ILLEGALLY DETAINED IN THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS UNDER FULLY ENFORCEABLE VERDICTS CONTRARY TO FLORIDA SUPREME COURT … |
| 18-8493 |
Jeremel Remymartin Smith v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-921 18-usc-922 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-firearm-statute criminal-law-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearms juvenile-delinquency juvenile-justice sentencing sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation youthful-offender |
WHETHER A YOUTHFUL OFFENDER CONVICTION CAN BE USED FOR PURPOSES OF A STATUTE UNDER 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) WHERE THE PREVIOUS ADJUDICATION WERE JUVENILE… |
| 18-8498 |
Oryan Yazzie v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process guideline-range mental-health sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness supervised-release |
Is a supervised release revocation sentence of a length more than double the top of the advisory Guideline range substantively unreasonable if the dis… |
| 18-8445 |
Tommy McAdoo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split civil-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-bank-robbery federal-statute intimidation physical-force sentencing violent-physical-force |
The Fourth, Fifth, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuits broadly interpret "intimidation" as used in the federal bank robbery statute for sufficiency purposes,… |
| 18-8468 |
Alfredo Mendez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure discretion district-court-authority due-process federal-courts judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors |
Whether a federal district court is permitted boundless discretion at sentencing to weigh established factors at sentencing, as the Ninth Circuit has … |
| 18-8470 |
Tommy Lee Jones v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission fair-trial judicial-conduct sentencing |
Tommy Lee Jones was convicted of advertising, distribution, and receipt of child pornography in violation of 18 U.S.C. §2251(d) and 2252A(a)(2), and h… |
| 18-8472 |
James Allen Eapmon v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act life-imprisonment mandatory-minimum sentencing statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE PETITIONER WAS DENIED DUE PROCESS WHEN THE DISTRICT COURT ERRONEOUSLY CONCLUDED THAT IT WAS OBLIGATED TO IMPOSED. A STATUTORY MANDATORY MI… |
| 18-8441 |
Gaetan Dinelle, aka Gates v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-justice cruel-and-unusual-punishment disproportionate-sentence eighth-amendment first-time-offender marijuana-trafficking non-violent-offender non-violent-offense proportionality sentencing |
Whether a life-sentence for a non-violent, first-time offender, who trafficked in marijuana, is unreasonable, disproportionate, and amounts to cruel a… |
| 18-8442 |
Marc Dutch v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment apprendi criminal-procedure indictment jury prior-convictions sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Given that the Sixth Amendment and Apprendi prohibit a sentencing judge from finding facts about a prior conviction, does 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(1)'s requ… |
| 18-8451 |
Luciano Garcia v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process gall-v-united-states judicial-review rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance tenth-circuit variance |
Is the Tenth Circuit precedent allowing a district court to say nothing when a reasonable request for a variance is made at sentencing consistent with… |
| 18-8404 |
Adrian Laroy Seymore v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process evidence evidentiary-standard government-evidence presentence-investigation-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether a District Court erred in applying a guideline enhancement based solely on allegations contained in the Presentence Investigation Report after… |
| 18-8410 |
Marshall Ray Miller v. Joseph L. McFadden, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-enforcement-statements personal-jurisdiction plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing |
Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals err in not issuing a Certificate of Appealability where Petitioner demonstrated a substantial showing of a con… |
| 18-8436 |
David Fehr Harder v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts - including the fact of a prior conviction - that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eit… |
| 18-1198 |
Westley A. Albright v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2019-03-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
criminal-defendant criminal-procedure diversion due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment nolo-contendere plea-bargaining sentencing |
Whether the Supreme Court of Tennessee erred when it held, as a matter of first impression, that due process rights under the Fourth and Fourteenth Am… |
| 18-8415 |
John L. Lotter v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2019-03-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Does Nebraska's capital sentencing scheme requiring a three-judge panel, rather than a jury, to impose a sentence of death violate the Eighth Amend… |
| 18-8424 |
Keith Jenkins v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process excessive-punishment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel multiple-offender sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Is The Trial Court In Error By Denying The Motion To Quash Based On Errors In The Multiple Offender Charng, Pleading And Proof? Did The Multiple Bill … |
| 18-8380 |
Woodrow Pressey, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
924(e)(2)(A)(ii) acca acca-predicate armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substances criminal-enhancement criminal-history drug-conviction drug-offenses florida-statute florida-statute-893.13 predicate-offense prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense serious-drug-offenses |
1. Whether prior convictions under Fla. Stat. §893.13 qualify as "serious drug offenses" for purposes of the ACCA, §924(e)(2)(A)(ii).
2. Whether Flor… |
| 18-8388 |
Brian Wright v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-phone-tracking due-process fourth-amendment overbreadth search-and-seizure sentencing supervised-release tapia-error vagueness warrantless-search |
1. Did the Ninth Circuit err by finding that there was no "egregious violation" of Mr. Wright's Fourth Amendment rights when Mr. Wright's cellular pho… |
| 18-8390 |
Jose Salvador Lantigua v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-U.S.C.-455(a) 28-usc-455 court-victim criminal-procedure due-process judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal sentencing sentencing-guidelines victim-of-crime |
Whether, consistent with due process and 28 U.S.C. § 455(a), a sentencing judge should recuse himself when he expressly views his own court as a "vict… |
| 18-8391 |
Nam Nhat Ngo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-definition criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion legal-interpretation sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate… |
| 18-8394 |
Asim Shakir Daniels v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-definition criminal-law due-process equal-protection federal-crime federal-jurisdiction judicial-interpretation legal-interpretation sentencing statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate… |
| 18-8359 |
Jarrett Terrell Edwards v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review career-offender criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fourth-circuit guideline-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g-4b1.1 u.s.s.g.-4b1.1(a) |
Whether the United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals committed error by sentencing the Petitioner as a career offender pursuant to U.S.S.G. § 4B1… |
| 18-8360 |
Fernando Castillo-Quintanilla v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne alleyne-v-united-states criminal-law drug-statute due-process flores-figueroa flores-figueroa-v-united-states mens-rea rehaif sentencing strict-liability |
I. In light of Flores-Figueroa v. United States, 556 U.S. 646 (2009), does the "knowingly or intentionally" mens rea contained in 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a) … |
| 18-8339 |
Joshua E. Shepherd v. Jeffrey E. Krueger, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca-prior-conviction acca-purposes constitutional-interpretation constitutional-issue criminal-law due-process federal-court federal-court-jurisdiction federal-courts prior-conviction sentencing state-case-law state-courts state-statute state-statute-analysis statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Constitution permits a federal court to conclude that a prior conviction is "generic" for ACCA purposes based solely on another federal co… |
| 18-8346 |
Danilo Velasquez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure diminished-capacity due-process evidence expert-testimony fundamental-rights life-sentence ninth-circuit sentencing |
Did the Ninth Circuit fail to protect petitioner's fundamental due process right to present his complete defense when it approved the district court's… |
| 18-8349 |
Daverne Michael Foy v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeal-waiver civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-proceedings plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights waiver |
1. In Rosales-Mireles, this Court struck down the court of appeals' heightened "shock the conscience" standard for a Rule 52(b) plain error review, an… |
| 18-8355 |
Mario Chester Tabron v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burglary burglary-element criminal-enhancement criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction fourth-amendment fourth-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Did the Fourth Circuit and the Middle district Of North Carolina (Greensboro) err in affirming the USSG 2K2.1(b)(6)(B) 4-Level enhancement without … |
| 18-8320 |
Darius Andre Holmes v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
buford-v-united-states career-offender categorical-approach circuit-court-review criminal-history de-novo-review eleventh-circuit federal-enhancement predicate-offense serious-drug-offense taylor-v-united-states |
This Court should grant the writ because the circuit court departed from the established rule of Taylor v. United States, 495 US 575(1990), requiring … |
| 18-8324 |
Johnny Madison Williams, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process residual-clause retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
1. Did Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), retroactively void as unconstitutional the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B)?
2. C… |
| 18-8325 |
Amaury Villa v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance sentencing sentencing-calculation sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment standard-of-review trial-procedure u-s-sentencing-guidelines |
1. Whether appellant received the effective assistance of counsel?
2. Whether appellant's sentence was properly calculated? |
| 18-8329 |
Aristides Duartez, Jr., aka Aristedes Duartez, Jr. v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a "crime of violence" under the elements cause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(A). |
| 18-8269 |
Alejandro Casillas Prieto v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amendment-782 chapter-5-part-a criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process guideline-range guidelines life-imprisonment notice offense-level sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Does the sentencing judge's oral pronouncement of the offense level 43 control?
Is the sentencing judge require to give notice, to Chapter 5, Part A,… |
| 18-8301 |
Michael Daniel Cuero v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review court-of-appeals court-of-appeals-interpretation district-court due-process judicial-review mandate plea-agreement remand rule-21 sentencing sentencing-consequences state-court supreme-court-mandate writ-of-mandamus |
This Court previously reversed and remanded petitioner's case to the court of appeals. The judges of that court, however, have different interpretatio… |
| 18-8306 |
Billy Gene Howard v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca acca-clause armed-career-criminal-act concurrent-sentencing criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus johnson-relief johnson-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines violent-felony |
(1) Whether, where the record is unclear, a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petitioner should be required to "affirmatively prove" that the sentencing court relied o… |
| 18-8309 |
Darwin Zoch v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
acca-interpretation armed-career-criminal-act due-process due-process,sentencing,acca,johnson-v-united-state habeas-corpus johnson-relief johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
(1) Whether, where the record is unclear, a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petitioner should be required to "affirmatively prove" that the sentencing court relied o… |
| 18-8314 |
Jose Nino-Carreon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion guidelines plain-error sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights |
Whether a court of appeals that finds a plain Guideline error should ordinarily find an effect on the defendant's substantial rights if the district c… |
| 18-8267 |
Vincent Green v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ACCA acca-offender armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-procedure enumerated-offense o.c.g.a.-16-7-1 sentencing sentencing-enhancement stare-decisis statutory-interpretation |
PETITIONER'S SENTENCE AS AN ACCA OFFENDER MUST BE SET ASIDE, WHEREAS O.C.G.A. § 16-7-1 IS NOT A VIABLE ENUMERATED OFFENSE PREDICATE, BASED UPON THIS C… |
| 18-8274 |
Avniel Awan Anthony v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue obstruction-of-justice probation-department reckless-endangerment sentencing sentencing-enhancement Sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines unproven-conduct Upward-variance |
The Probation Department assessed the Movant with two separate enhancements under USSG 3C1.1 and 3C1.2 for obstruction of justice and Reckless Endange… |
| 18-8280 |
Darrell J. Williams v. Cecilia Reynolds, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
blakely-v-washington circumstantial-evidence due-process fifth-circuit jackson-v-virginia reasonable-doubt sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence |
Question not identified. |
| 18-8289 |
Kwame Asafo-Adjei v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure mandatory-disclosure maryland-rule-4-342(d) maryland-rules plea-bargain plea-bargaining sentencing void-sentence |
Is the failure of the Maryland Court of Appeals to enforce the Maryland Rule 4-342(d) a denial of a citizen's equal protection right under the Fourtee… |
| 18-8294 |
Demetrius Fitzgerald v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca armed-career-criminal-act crime-of-violence criminal-law deadly-weapon federal-sentencing-guidelines florida-law florida-statute sentencing sentencing-guidelines violent-crime violent-felony |
I. Whether the Florida offense of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon in violation of Fla. Stat. § 784.045, is a violent felony as defined by the … |
| 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… |
| 18-8254 |
Eddie Earl Phillips v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2019-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process habitual-offender indictment jury-instructions sentencing statement-of-the-case statutory-provisions |
Whether Phillips' Conviction and Sentence stems from a defective indictment, a violation of his due process rights?
Whether phillips' indictment was … |
| 18-8261 |
Cordell Berry v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender career-offender-enhancement certificate-of-appealability collateral-review federal-rules-civil-procedure legal-error mathis-retroactivity mathis-v-united-states procedural-reasonableness rule-59-motion sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-4b1.1 sentencing-guidelines-enhancement sentencing-guidelines-miscalculation |
Whether the court of appeals committed clear legal error when it denied a certificate of appealability (COA), on my challenge to the application of a … |
| 18-8264 |
Guadalupe Avendano-Vasquez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure deportation due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
Whether an appeal waiver precludes review of the sentence of supervised release when the defendant has been deported.
Whether an appeal waiver is enf… |
| 18-8266 |
Tamim Abdul-Samad, aka Tamin Abdul-Samad, aka Brandon Harris v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c 924(c) bank-robbery career-offender categorical-approach courts-of-appeals criminal-law federal-bank-robbery federal-crime intimidation legal-definition statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate… |
| 18-8210 |
Mahogany Taquilla Alexander v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment amendment-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-discretion |
1. DID TRIAL COURT ABUSE ITS DISCRETION BY CONSIDERING A NOLLE PROSSED CHARGE OF FIRST DEGREE MURDER IN SENTENCING PETITIONER TO THE 20-YEAR PLEA CAP,… |
| 18-8222 |
Desi A. Lewis v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2019-03-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction sentencing statutory-interpretation trial-court virginia-code |
Was the Trail Court in error when the Court therefore find that it is without jurisdiction to conduct a resentencing or modify the Defendant's sentenc… |
| 18-8225 |
Barry Druilhet, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion obstruction-of-justice sentencing sentencing-enhancement witness-testimony |
obstruction of justice where the defendant was seeking out witnesses to
testify on his behalf? |
| 18-8176 |
Anthony James Brightwell, Jr. v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-error sixth-amendment |
Petitioner's Constitutional Rights were violated when he guilty plea was not knowingly and intelligently made when the details of the guilty plea were… |
| 18-8179 |
Keith Dwayne Lewis v. Warren L. Montgomery, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing state-criminal-conviction sufficiency-of-evidence |
WHETHER A STATE CRIMINAL CONVICTION SHOULD STAND WHEN A STATE HAS INCORRECTLY CONCLUDES THE SUFFICIENCY OF EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE CONVICTION OF AIDIN… |
| 18-8181 |
Feliciano Soto-Lugo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure defendant-leniency district-court-discretion due-process judicial-response preservation-of-error reasonableness reasonableness-objection sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review |
Must challenges to the district court's failure to respond to a
defendant's non-frivolous grounds for leniency be preserved
by a separate "reasonablen… |
| 18-8187 |
Kelley Toney v. David Stock, Warden |
Illinois |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights corrections-department due-process sentence-enhancement sentencing sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
1) Shoud A CONVcd PERN b FL ANishEd A SENENING?
2) Is A SENtence Not AuthoRizEd by StAtUte Void?
3) IS AN IPRPER SENtENCE in ViOLATiON OF UNiTESAtES… |
| 18-8188 |
Jermaine C. Williams v. Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law contract contract-clause criminal-procedure due-process judgment judicial-review lower-tribunal plea-agreement sentencing united-states-constitution |
WHETHER THE PLEA AGREEMENT AFFIRMED BY THE LOWER TRIBUNAL VIOLATED THE CONTRACT AND DUE PROCESS CLAUSES OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION |
| 18-8190 |
Edgar Alonso Pineda-Pineda v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8-usc-1326 almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process indictment prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
1. Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of… |
| 18-8197 |
Tommy Earl Boone, Jr. v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-02-28 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-code criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ex-parte-review habeas-corpus incarceration incarceration-period parole sentencing sentencing-statute texas-criminal-procedure texas-law |
Whether Texas Penal Code Article 42.082 BEVACCP, as interpreted by the Texas Court in EX PARTE KUESIER, 24 SW3d 247 (2000), is unconstitutional.
The … |
| 18-8198 |
Brandon Lisi v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-waiver conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure curcio-hearing guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing sentencing-challenge |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit committed reversible error by denying Petitioner's timely filed Petition for Reheari… |
| 18-8205 |
Elamin Bashir v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process individualized-jury-finding jury-finding jury-instructions mandatory-minimum sentencing |
I. WHETHER THE MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCE WAS IMPROPERLY IMPOSED FOR DRUG-TRAFFICKING CONSPIRACY, BECAUSE INDIVIDUALIZED JURY FINDING AS TO QUANTITY O… |
| 18-1126 |
Mufasa Wilson Sejour v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
commerce-clause criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution hobbs-act interstate-commerce jurisdictional-reach local-business robbery sentencing |
In today's world, there is no such thing as a purely local business. All businesses use credit card machines, access the internet, and purchase out-of… |
| 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… |
| 18-8156 |
In Re Dennis Bowden |
|
2019-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct collateral-review due-process habeas-corpus nelson-v-colorado retroactive-application retroactivity sentence-enhancement sentencing united-states-v-watts |
Whether the Court should issue a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that Nelson v. Colorado, has been or should be made retroactively applicable to c… |
| 18-8161 |
Kali Lord v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
above-guidelines-sentence appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion plain-error preservation-of-error procedural-error procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-arguments sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness |
Is a district court's gross failure to explain an above-range sentence or to respond to arguments for a lesser sentence reversible on plain error?
Mu… |
| 18-8162 |
Eric V. Bartoli v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel judicial-recusal mandate-recall sentencing stare-decisis |
1) Did the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals go against Supreme Court precedent (Peugh v. U.S., 569 US 530; Class v. U.S., 2018 LEXIS 1378; Calderon v. Tho… |
| 18-8169 |
In Re Alfredo Aguirre |
|
2019-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct collateral-review due-process habeas-corpus nelson-v-colorado presumption-of-innocence retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether the Court should issue a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that Nelson v. Colorado, has been or should be made retroactively applicable to c… |
| 18-8107 |
Dheadry Loyd Powell v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-error drug-quantity due-process grouping grouping-of-counts judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg-1b1 ussg-calculation |
Did the District Court err with its finding of a new inaccurate drug quantity?
Did the District Court err by not performing separate calculations und… |
| 18-8133 |
Daryl Mingo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-plea-bargaining drug-trafficking due-process firearm-offense firearms plea-bargaining plea-colloquy sentencing statutory-construction |
When Congress enacted and amended 18 U.S.C. Section 924(C)(1)(A) periodically, did Congress give federal criminal courts discretion to make their own … |
| 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 … |
| 18-8063 |
Shaun Mark Lawler v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravated-assault constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-sentencing deadly-weapon due-process equal-protection family-violence guilty-plea heat-of-passion ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel murder sentencing statutory-punishment |
In Texas, a person who commits aggravated assault - family violence by causing serious bodily injury to his girlfriend with a deadly weapon is subject… |
| 18-8087 |
Joseph Michael Kurz v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof capital-trial criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-error standard-of-review statute-of-limitations time-limitations witness-testimony |
Reasonable jurists would determine that the district court erred in allowing the State to prosecute Mr. Kurz for an allegations that the time limitati… |
| 18-8130 |
Eduardo Segoviano-Briseno v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consideration contract-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process federal-courts judicial-interpretation legal-consideration plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing |
1. Whether principles of contract law require consideration (benefit to the defendant) to support a valid plea agreement. |
| 18-8053 |
Malcolm Roland Allen v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3006a 6th-amendment career-offender due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel judicial-proceedings notice-of-appeal prejudice sentencing-guideline sentencing-guidelines |
WHETHER at the time of evidentiary hearing was granted to challenge the ineffective counsel's failure to file a Notice of Appeal per Petitioner's requ… |
| 18-8095 |
Enrique Gamino-Perez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER A CLARIFYING AMENDMENT UNDER UNITED STATES SENTENCING GUIDELINES SHOULD APPLY RETROACTIVELY UNDER 18 USCS 3582(C) |
| 18-8044 |
Lois Brooks v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure government-rights judicial-integrity judicial-proceedings mandatory-minimum plain-error sentencing sentencing-error substantial-rights |
in derogation of them may constitute "plain error" under Fed. R. Crim. Pro. 52(b)?
If so, did the imposition of a sentence of post-release supervisio… |
| 18-8047 |
Randy L. Pope v. Steve Franke |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conviction-nullification convictions criminal-procedure disposition due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-discretion nullification re-sentencing relief-standard sentencing state-law |
WHEN THE STATE CONCEDES IN HABEAS CORPUS PROCEEDINGS AND
ASKS THE COURT TO VACATE SOME OF THE CONVICTIONSCHALLENGED, WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT MUST G… |
| 18-8050 |
Alvaun Thompson v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
age-requirement aggravated-offense criminal-statute federal-criminal-law mens-rea minors sentencing sex-trafficking strict-liability under-14 |
A federal criminal statute this Court has not construed, 18 U.S.C. § 1591, prohibits wide-ranging conduct that facilitates, directly or indirectly, th… |
| 18-8051 |
Yeison Valencia Torres v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split conflict-of-laws criminal-procedure drug-enforcement drug-offense due-process equal-protection maritime-drug-law maritime-law safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
The exclusion of the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act (46 U.S.C. § 70503) from eligibility for safety valve violates equal protection, because there … |
| 18-8055 |
Kevin Ventura v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924c apprendi apprendi-v-new-jersey apprendi-violation circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process jury-consideration jury-instructions jury-trial mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Is Mr. Ventura is serving two life sentences imposed in violation of Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 120 S.Ct. 2348, 147 L.Ed.2d 435 (2000), bec… |
| 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… |
| 18-8031 |
William Bolden v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum |
WAS PETITIONER SENTENCED UNDER A STATUTE THAT VIOLATE DUE PROCESS OF LAW UNDER THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION BY PERMITTING A TRIAL COURT TOIMPOSE AN … |
| 18-7994 |
Daniel H. King v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons civil-commitment civil-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure custody-transfer district-of-columbia due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether someone serving a sentence imposed by the District of Columbia whose physical custody was transferred to the Bureau of Prisons is "in the cust… |
| 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 |
L The trial court sentenced Mr. Martin to 168 months in prison, but the court did not adequately address Mr. Martin's arguments or the Section 3553(a)… |
| 18-7969 |
Willie Ed Smith v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2019-02-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus illegal-sentence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct legal-procedure prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-error |
WHETHER SMITH'S CONVICTION AND SENTENCE DERIVED FROM JUDICIAL MISCONDUCT?
PETITIONER ANSWERS - YES.
WHETHER SMITH'S CONVICTION AND SENTENCE DERIVED … |
| 18-7955 |
Antoine Deshawn Barnes v. David Baughman, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentences criminal-sentences-parole due-process early-release non-violent-offenders parole parole-considerations-hearings parole-eligibility parole-hearings sentencing statute violent-offenses |
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT "NON-VIOLENT" OFFENDERS, SO STIPULATE EARINGS, AN PAROLE CONSIDERATION FOR WHO RECIEVE A DETERMINATE SENTENCE, DO NOT NEED A … |
| 18-7968 |
Joseph Ragland v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection postconviction-relief sentencing sixth-amendment state-statute |
WHETHER A STATE STATUTE THAT GIVES SENTENCING JUDGES UNLIMITED, UNCHALLENGEABLE AND UNREVIEWABLE DISCRETION TO IMPOSE CONSECUTIVE SENTENCES, VIOLATE T… |
| 18-7974 |
Carlos Cruz-Rivera, aka Chiqui, aka Cano, aka Cano Llorens v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing direct-appeal federal-statute first-step-act pending-cases retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(C), as amended and clarified by the First Step Act of 2018, which provides for aggravated punishment for second violatio… |
| 18-7986 |
Maurin Chacon v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
794 amendment-violation civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-law judicial-review plain-error plain-error-standard rosales-mireles rosales-mireles-v-united-states sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-olan |
Rosales-Mireles v. United States, 585 U.S. - (2018). Clar -
ified the Plain Error Standard in United States v.Olan, 507 U.S.
725, 736 (1993). Does a… |
| 18-7938 |
Alex Quintana-Torres v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-history criminal-sentencing drug-addiction drug-offense presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness |
In Rita v. United States, 551 U.S. 338 (2007), this Court held that an appellate court could presume that a procedurally-reasonable, within-Guidelines… |
| 18-7941 |
Trevor Little v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause restitution sentencing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
the lower Courts, Fourth Circuit. Violated The Petitioner's
st Facto Clause of The Cluted States Constituton, Artice,
on 9 Clause 3, When It Still Enf… |
| 18-7944 |
Jerkeno Wallace v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process evidence judicial-discretion non-testifying-defendant remorse remorse-consideration right-to-silence sentencing sentencing-error |
WHEN COURT CONSIDERED OBSERVATIONS OF
THE NON-TESTIFYING
DEFENDANT AS BASIS OF PROVING
NO REMORSE |
| 18-7948 |
Cesar Carapia Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 18-7949 |
In Re Reginald Watson |
|
2019-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2241-motion career-offender civil-rights criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2241 jurisdiction sentencing standard-of-review standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
QUESTION #1- Whether the District Court erred in dismissing Watsons 2241 motion for lack of jurisdiction?
QUESTION #2- Whether in light of Decamps v … |
| 18-7910 |
Richard Fuentes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act johnson-v-united-states maximum-imprisonment maximum-sentence revocation-sentence sentencing statutory-maximum substantive-reasonableness supervised-release |
Can a prison sentence imposed upon revocation of supervised release ever be substantively reasonable when: 1) it was authorized by virtue of the fact … |
| 18-7913 |
Travis Thomas v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender due-process expert-reports expert-testimony harmless-error jailhouse-call johnson-analysis johnson-v-us sentencing sentencing-error |
(1) Whether the District Court's failure to conduct the analysis required by the Supreme Court in Johnson v. U.S., 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015) before determ… |
| 18-7916 |
Jimmy Lee Wren v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection post-conviction-relief rule-11 rule-11-sanctions sanctions sentencing sentencing-hearing |
Whether a state court has the right to bar a litigant of having access to the courts?
Whether due process violations toll the state's statute of limi… |
| 18-7926 |
Hubert Babb v. Clara Smith, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution determinative-motive due-process equal-protection jury-selection racial-discrimination sentencing |
WHETHER INOIGENT ANO/OR PRO SE DEFENDANTS IN CRIMINAL PROSECUTIONS
HAVE OR ARE ENTITLED TO CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTION FROM THE PRESENCE OP
SOCIOLECONOM… |
| 18-7927 |
Tyrone Anderson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender career-offender-enhancement criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington townsend-v-burke |
Petitioner presents the question whether his 'trial counsel provided ineffective .assistance of: counsel as required by 'the Sixth Amendment to' the C… |
| 18-7932 |
Dale Allen Hamer v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights court-record criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review plea-bargaining pre-trial-hearing sentencing transcript warrant-review |
That counsel's conduct fell below the wide vanse of Attorney iciet
Thut the record vevealed no reasouable strategy in counsel's 7 failure to investis… |
| 18-7883 |
Daniel Arthur Carter v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113(a) 18-usc-924(c) armed-bank-robbery bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause force-clause general-intent intent intimidation retroactivity sentencing |
1. Given this Court's holding in Carter v. United States, 530 U.S. 255, 268 (2000), that federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) … |
| 18-7751 |
Brian Bolton v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender career-offender-guideline collateral-review constitutional-law due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-guidelines welch-v-united-states |
Whether the governments arguments are incorrectly that the Supreme Court's ruling in Johnson v. United States, 135 s. ct. 2551 (2015), is "procedural-… |
| 18-7798 |
Steven Floyd Voss v. Second Judicial District Court of Nevada, Washoe County |
Nevada |
2019-02-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus sentencing state-court state-court-jurisdiction |
1. Do the imposition of and discharge from the subsequently invalidated Judgment of Conviction violate the constitutional principles of Double Jeopard… |
| 18-7823 |
Edward Nolan Norwood v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights comity due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection federalism sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation |
A. Resolving the issue explicitly left open by this Court in McNeil v. United States, 563 U.S. 816 (2011): Whether it violates the United States Const… |
| 18-7857 |
Calvin Raymond Jones v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-concerns courts-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process retribution sentencing supervised-release |
Title 18 U.S.C. § 3583(e) lists the factors district courts should consider when responding to a defendant's violation of the conditions of supervised… |
| 18-7861 |
Gary Don Boyd Graves v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3014 criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion future-earning-capacity future-earnings indigency mandatory-assessment mandatory-special-assessment non-indigent sentencing statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether district courts can consider future earing capacity in determining whether a person is "non-indigent" for the purposes of assessing the $50… |
| 18-7863 |
Jeffrey Burris v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a abuse-of-discretion criminal-sentencing due-process firearms firearms-possession reasonableness reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation unregistered |
Whether a sixty-month sentence for the simple possession of unregistered firearms, without any evidence suggesting the defendant was doing anything il… |
| 18-7864 |
Prince Charles Cotton, Sr. v. Ghae Harris, Warden |
Ohio |
2019-02-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus illegal-confinement imprisonment ohio-law parole sentencing sentencing-entry standing supreme-court-ruling |
Is it Lawful, For The State 01 4 Ohio To Hoid The Herein FetitionerIn Illegal Confinemen United States Supreme Court Has Ruled UnconstitutioiiaI. On T… |
| 18-7872 |
Steven Torres v. Randee Rewerts, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights guidelines habeas-corpus judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit upward-departure |
I. DID THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN AND THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERRONEOUSLY … |
| 18-7788 |
Sunny Robinson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Should a writ of certiorari be granted to determine whether the District Court and the Fifth Circuit erred in not granting relief under Title 18 U.S.C… |
| 18-7803 |
Dennis Hegstrom v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
eighth-amendment homicide late-adolescent late-adolescent-offender mandatory-life-sentence miller-v-alabama neuroscience-evidence parole parole-eligibility sentencing |
Is It Time to Extend the Eighth Amendment Protections Enunciated in Miller v. Alabama to Late Adolescent Homicide Offenders Like Hegstrom (i.e., 18 to… |
| 18-7804 |
Denandias Watson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
In Johnson v. United States, this Court held that the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act is unconstitutional. In Welch v. United States,… |
| 18-7818 |
Marcos Castaneda v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-v-united-states criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process judicial-finding jury-trial mandatory-minimum preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Marcos Castaneda admitted by his plea to the elements of conspiring to distribute 500 grams or more of a mixfure or substance containing methamphetami… |
| 18-7821 |
Darryl Mixon v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence civil-procedure criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment formal-complaint jurisdiction jurisdiction-over-persons jurisdiction-over-subject-matter procedural-defect sentencing standing subject-matter |
WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT LACKED JURISDICTION OVER THE PERSONS AND THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THIS CAUSE, IN ABSENCE OF A SIGNED FORMAL COMPLAINT?
WHETHER M… |
| 18-7827 |
Roger L. Kaufman v. Paul S. Kemper, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation due-process ex-post-facto federal-guidelines parole parole-eligibility sentencing sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers state-prisoner |
Whether a state prisoner is entitled under the Due Process Clause, and the Separation of Powers Doctrine of the United States and Wisconsin Constituti… |
| 18-7828 |
Robert Largo v. New York |
New York |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-law-section-440.10 due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel penal-law-section-70.02 persistent-violent-felony sentencing void-for-vagueness |
Did the New York State Supreme Court err in holding that as-applied, the part of Penal Law Section 70.02, subdivision one (2), challenged as being voi… |
| 18-7831 |
Curt Lockett v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus mandamus sentencing standing |
Should a circult Court be legally bound to hear a petitioner's motion to Correct illegal sentence after the petitioner has been prose barred from that… |
| 18-7842 |
Brian Michael Burton v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
emotional and physical dominion and control over 5th-amendment confidential-informant downward-departure due-process government-misconduct plea-agreement psychological-control sentencing statutory-minimum-sentence |
Whether a downward departure from a statutory minimum sentence is warranted when the abusive tactics of the Government acting in concert with a Confid… |
| 18-7769 |
Demetrius Hill v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence government-misconduct ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel new-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment witness-credibility witness-vouching |
Do exculpatory recordings that were purposefully withheld by the government warrant a new trial?
Did the district court err in failing to determine t… |
| 18-7776 |
Miguel Angel Olvera-Cruz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8-usc-1326 apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts — including the fact of a prior conviction — that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eit… |
| 18-7795 |
Markus D. Lanieux v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Blakely Blakely-v-Washington Booker Booker-v-United-States criminal-procedure due-process habitual-offender habitual-offender-law jury-trial mandatory-minimum-sentence reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Reasonable jurists would determine that the sentencing scheme by the State of Louisiana's Habitual Offender Law, LSA-R.S. 15:529.1 A(3)(b) [formally e… |
| 18-7797 |
Coree Patrick v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach conduct-based-approach drug-conviction drug-offense predicate-conviction predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement state-conviction statutory-interpretation |
TO DETERMINE WHETHER A PRIOR STATE CONVICTION FOR A DRUG OFFENSE IS A QUALIFYING PREDICATE CONVICTION UNDER THE ARMED CAREER CRIMINAL ACT (ACCA), 18 U… |
| 18-7800 |
Rene Antonio Aguilar v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-criminal-justice procedural-obligations rita-standard rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-arguments |
Following Rita v. United States, 551 U.S. 338 (2007), can a district court at sentencing fail to respond to a party's non-frivolous sentencing argumen… |
| 18-7801 |
Calvin Fitzgerald Tannehill v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure habeas-corpus johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Denial of a certificate of appealability in a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 proceeding is appropriate only where "reasonable jurists would consider [it] to be beyo… |
| 18-7735 |
Michael Kenta Davis v. Justin Andrews, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split constitutional-analysis criminal-law due-process mathis-v-united-states retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Question One:
WHETHER THE S. C.. CODE ANN 44-53-370 IS OVERLYBROD AND INDIVISBLE
AND NO LONGER QUALIFIES IN LIGHT OF BOTH MATHIS V US AND DESCAMPS? … |
| 18-7737 |
Tyshawn Simmons v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law controlled-substances-act criminal-procedure drug-crimes due-process federalism sentencing standing statutory-interpretation tenth-amendment |
Question not identified. |
| 18-7739 |
Gonzalo Holguin-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-04 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction objection procedural-requirement reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing |
Whether a formal objection after pronouncement of sentence is necessary to invoke appellate reasonableness review of the length of a defendant's sente… |
| 18-7748 |
James Freeman v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability COA due-process Eleventh-Circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits procedural-claims section-2255 sentencing substantive-claims underlying-2255-claims |
Question #1 - Did the Eleventh Circuit exceed the limited scope of 28 USC §2253, the Certificate of Appealability (COA) statute, by deciding Petitione… |
| 18-7714 |
Anthony Grandison v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
blockburger-test common-law-murder commutation cumulative-punishment double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause due-process felony-murder handgun-use jury-instructions legislative-intent merger-of-offenses non-merger-rule prosecutorial-discretion required-evidence-test sentencing statutory-construction statutory-offenses |
I. Whether the Maryland Court of Appeals erred in holding in light of Missouri v. Hunter convictions for common law first degree murder did not merger… |
| 18-7715 |
Jose Flores v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court-discretion drug-quantity due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure minor-role minor-role-reduction plea-bargaining plea-colloquy rule-11 sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review ussg-3b1.2 |
Was the District Court's failure to determine a factual basis, and to insure that defendant understood the nature of the charges, in violation of Rule… |
| 18-7716 |
Jesse Ingram, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
3553(a)-factors 5th-amendment appeal appellate-counsel constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactive-review retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1). Is it a Fifth Amendment violation when Petitioners are sentenced to a higher guidline sentence when 18 U.S.C. statute 3553(A) warrants a below gui… |
| 18-7723 |
Randy Dempsey v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split federal-prisoner residual-clause section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement successive-motion |
When a federal prisoner demonstrates that the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual clause was a basis for enhancing his sentence, but fails to show th… |
| 18-7726 |
Carlton Williams v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender categorical-approach criminal-law federal-criminal-law pattern-of-racketeering predicate-crime racketeering racketeering-activity rico rico-conviction sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Is a sentencing court limited to applying a categorical approach when determining whether a conviction for violating the Federal Racketeer Influence a… |
| 18-7727 |
Gregory Hatt v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea heroin-distribution ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-causation plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether failure to convey unbiased, complete, or correct information to a defendant during plea bargaining by defense counsel invalidates a guilty ple… |
| 18-7621 |
Jacoby Burns v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act career-offender categorical-analysis criminal-law elements-clause physical-force sentencing sentencing-guideline sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
I. Does a conviction under Georgia's felony obstruction-of-an-officer statute, OCGA § 16-10-24(b), qualify as either a "crime of violence" under the e… |
| 18-7680 |
Hector Cirino v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924c3b armed-bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process elements-clause johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation unconstitutional |
1. Did Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), retroactively void as unconstitutional the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B)?
2. C… |
| 18-7690 |
Thomas Phillip Bell v. Kiah Demarias Leigh, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-31 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-review mental-competency record-correction sentencing standing |
I am Thomas Phillip Bell and I would like to know how serious is the court compaired to the Federal Court's and does the Fact matter about a Case a ot… |
| 18-7692 |
Byron Anthony Horn v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction indictment plea-bargaining pleading reasonable-doubt reasonable-sentence sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether facts that alter the range of "reasonable" federal sentences must be pleaded in the indictment in federal cases? |
| 18-7699 |
Facundo Ruiz-Ruiz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process recidivism sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 18-7700 |
Luther Gene Ray v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process federal-statute force-requirement human-trafficking interstate-commerce mens-rea sentencing sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation |
Whether a conviction resulting in a fifteen-year mandatory minimum sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 1591 requires, as the statute says, that force "was used… |
| 18-7617 |
Talbert Hinton v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech sentencing standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 18-7622 |
Kendrick Bernard Demus v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
accomplice-witness accomplice-witness-rule criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing |
GROUND ONE
When the State had Petitioner's codefendant testify against Petitioner and claim that the codefendant had received no promises of leniency… |
| 18-7641 |
Arturo Huerta v. Ron Davis, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-instructions sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 18-7663 |
Randy Jason Ford v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act assault dangerous-weapon display-of-weapon force-clause iowa-law predicate-offense statutory-interpretation threatened-use-of-force |
When an Iowa "assault" is accompanied only by the "display" of a dangerous weapon, does the "displaying" provide the "threatened use of force" such th… |
| 18-7668 |
Patricio Paladin v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-doctrine apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-element criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial jury-trial-guarantee prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements |
Whether the contested fact of prior conviction entering into the sentence to increase a defendant's penalty for the instant offense, must be treated a… |
| 18-7679 |
Jeriton Lavar Curry v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) appeal-waiver appellate-review constitutional-error criminal-procedure jurisdiction plain-error sentencing sentencing-jurisdiction unconstitutional-sentence |
Did the Appeals Court err by granting the Government's motion to enforce an invalid appeal waiver, after determining that Currys' issue was non-frivol… |
| 18-7624 |
Mario Griffin v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion apprendi-v-new-jersey apprendi-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process federal-law illegal-sentence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion judicial-integrity manifest-injustice miscarriage-of-justice sentence-enhancement sentencing |
Does the sentence imposed constitute an illegal
sentence under federal law and represent a
manifest injustice calling in question the
integrity of … |
| 18-7625 |
Thomas Florence v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence jurisdiction sentencing standing |
CAN THE STATES OF THE UNDTED STATES OBTAIN UALID CONKOICTDON BASED A ON A ONA REPORT THAT DOES NOT PROVE BEYOMD A RAONAIGUE DOUIBT TO SUPPORT ADJUDIUT… |
| 18-7639 |
Caster Delaney Whetstone v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-waiver armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split illegal-sentence plea-agreement sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether a defendant's challenge to his status as an armed career criminal, where the sentence is in excess of the otherwise applicable statutory maxim… |
| 18-7642 |
Kirk Lassend v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca accomplice-liability armed-robbery circuit-split non-dangerous-weapons sentencing strict-liability violent-felony |
1. Whether This Court Should Grant This Petition To Resolve The Circuit Split As To Whether A Crime Which Does Not Require The Actual Use Of Violent F… |
| 18-7646 |
Jesse Sawyer v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process federal-procedure judicial-mandate judicial-power mandate sentencing standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
1. Whether the powers of federal appellate courts are diminished and whether a defendant is deprived of his fundamental right to appellate review when… |
| 18-7579 |
David L. Price v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-enterprise drug-conspiracy drug-distribution due-process felon-in-possession heroin-conspiracy money-laundering restitution sentencing straw-purchaser |
Question not identified. |
| 18-7593 |
Richard Michael Sanchez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-waiver consecutive-sentence criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process legal-interpretation plea-agreement sentencing |
1. Does a plea agreement's limited appellate waiver preclude a defendant's challenge of a decision to impose a consecutive sentence where the appellat… |
| 18-7607 |
Bruce White v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
counsel-actions criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-plea-bargaining defendant-rights due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-withdrawal plea-agreement plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sentencing voluntary-plea withdrawal-of-plea |
IF A PLEA WAS NOT ENTERED VOLUNTARY, INTELLIGENTLY, OR KNOWINGLY WILL THAT BE CONSIDERED GROUNDS TO FILE A MOTION FOR WITHDRAWAL OF A PLEA AGREEMENT P… |
| 18-7609 |
Merlin Alston v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c 18-usc-926b criminal-law-enforcement-officer-exemption criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process firearm-possession firearms law-enforcement sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Is the conviction of a local poli ce officer, required to carry a service pistol when off duty, excluded from prosecution for violating 18 U.S.C. 9… |
| 18-7570 |
Anthony Eugene Hardeman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation successive-motion |
When a federal prisoner demonstrates that the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual clause was the only lawful basis to enhance his sentence, but fails… |
| 18-7572 |
Vernon Montrell Webster v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-25 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
alternative-means armed-career-criminal-act burglary burglary-statute criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process generic-burglary generic-offenses prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether the locations under Wisconsin's burglary statute are alternative means——a question pending resolution from the Wisconsin Supreme Court—mak… |
| 18-7577 |
Roland Castro v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act due-process habitual-offender johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states prior-convictions residual-clause sentencing sentencing-ambiguity statutory-maximum united-states-v-herrold united-states-v-johnson violent-felony |
Whether it is inconsistent with Welch v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 1257 (2016), for a court to require a prisoner who files a second or successive mot… |
| 18-7588 |
Frank Odom, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver district-court due-process fourth-circuit mitigation mitigation-arguments plea-agreement remand sentencing |
Does a plea agreement with an appeal waiver waive the right to obtain a remand requiring the district court to actually consider the defendant's mitig… |
| 18-7490 |
Dan Reed v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-24 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment criminal-law due-process felon-in-possession mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the "knowingly" provision of 18 U.S.C. § 924(a)(2) applies to both the possession and status elements of a 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) crime? This C… |
| 18-7502 |
Edjuan Payne v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-rights competency criminal-procedure due-process mental-fitness mental-health right-to-a-fair-trial right-to-counsel sentencing trial-errors |
Question not identified. |
| 18-7511 |
Edwin J. Ortiz-Fagot v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-3582-c-2 criminal-statute due-process non-delegation retroactive-application sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation |
Does the sentencing court's discretion of setting modification via 3553(A); include deciding whether to retroactively apply the plain language of the … |
| 18-7543 |
Rodney Landingham v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law due-process residual-clause retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-crime void-for-vagueness |
1. Did Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), retroactively void as unconstitutional the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B)?
2. C… |
| 18-7557 |
Terveus Hyppolite v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 career-offender constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing due-process rule-of-lenity sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether Title 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) is unconstitutional in light of Beckles v. United States, 137 S. Ct. 886, 895 (2017)(holding the guidelines are u… |
| 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 … |
| 18-7565 |
Michael Fuller v. Lashann Eppinger, Warden |
Ohio |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggregate-sentence civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus maximum-term sentencing statutory-interpretation unlawful-detention |
Whether Petitioner's maximum aggregate sentence has expired and he is being held unlawfully. |
| 18-7567 |
Ron Collins v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment fair-sentencing-act ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
I.
Whether the court of appeals erred in denying petitioner's application for a certificate
of appealability to appeal the district court's denial of … |
| 18-7529 |
Andre Almond Dennison v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2019-01-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment apprendi apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-rights dangerous-crimes dangerous-crimes-against-children due-process enhancement fourteenth-amendment jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing |
Does Arizona's Sentencing Scheme Violate Due Process Clause, 6th Amendment, And Apprendi v New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 120 S.Ct. 2348 (2000) When Petiti… |
| 18-7533 |
Shawn Canada v. Eddie Miles, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights confrontation-clause cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining sentencing |
1. DID CANADA RECEIVE EFFECTIVE ASISTANCE OF COUNSEL
2. WAS THERE AN ABUSE OF DISCRETION TO BRINGING OF CANADA MENKAL HEALHL INJUSTICE DUNNG SENTENUN… |
| 18-7513 |
Nelson Cobas v. Kevin Lindsey, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts free-speech sentencing standing state-courts statutory-interpretation |
Under Which Standard of Review This Case Shall Be Determined Actual Innocence Injective Assistance of Counsels, The AEDPA Limitations, or After Guilma… |
| 18-7491 |
Scott Anthony Crow v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habitual-offender ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing |
District Judge Juneillm Ronvusly"nuled that I am icarcerate
Q Are My Equal Prokchins under the 14th Amend. and Due Process rights violated when; loth… |
| 18-7498 |
Eddie Hall v. J. A. Terris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender career-offender-enhancement controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense due-process fundamental-defect habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition miscarriage-of-justice section-2241 sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether the District and Circuit Courts erred in the denial of Hall's § 2241 Petition where, as here, Hall sufficiently demonstrated that the decision… |
| 18-7467 |
Phillip E. LaPointe v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment atkins-precedent atkins-v-virginia brain-development criminal-punishment cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole sentencing |
Does this Court's 8th Amendment protections extend to a just turned eighteen year old who received life without parole, where the evidence shows he wa… |
| 18-7468 |
Robert Charles Jones v. Jack Palmer, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-advice criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus hill-v-lockhart ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel life-without-parole parole plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether Jones received ineffective assistance of counsel when his trial counsel advised him to stipulate to a sentence of life without the possibility… |
| 18-7473 |
William Dale Albright v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2019-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne alleyne-decision alleyne-v-united-states apprendi apprendi-rule criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent |
QUESTION 1: DOES THIS COURT'S DECISION IN ALLEYNE V. UNITED STATES, 570 US 99 (2013) ANNOUNCE A NEW RULE OR WAS IT DICTATED BY APPRENDI V. NEW JERSEY,… |
| 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 … |
| 18-7417 |
Omari Robinson v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process illinois illinois-law mandatory-minimum sentencing statutory-vagueness vagueness weapon-enhancement |
1. Is the mandatory 25-year-to-life weapon enhancement imposed by Illinois courts unconstitutionally vague? |
| 18-7446 |
Anthony Jujuan Hopkins v. Warden, Ventress Correctional Facility |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-challenge court-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction legal-proceeding ninth-circuit petition-for-review sentencing standing |
I.
IS THE UNitEd dTATES ApPEALy COURt FOR THE EleVENth CiRCUit iN
ERROR, beCAUSE it DENIES PETITiONERg C.O.A, WhEN PETiTIONERS
CLAiMg ARE JURiSSICTION… |
| 18-7448 |
Charles Foxx v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act beckles-v-united-states career-offender collateral-review constitutional-law mandatory-guidelines pre-booker retroactive-effect retroactivity sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-vagueness vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
1. Whether U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(a)(2)'s residual clause is void for vagueness vis-à-vis defendants sentenced under the pre-Booker mandatory Guidelines.
2… |
| 18-7454 |
Tyshaun St. Vallier v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 18-usc-3582(c)(2) constitutional-statutory-provisions district-court district-court-discretion lodestone lodestone-principle sentence-reduction sentence-reductions sentencing sentencing-decisions sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation third-circuit |
Are district courts required to maintain the Sentencing Guidelines as
the lodestone of the sentencing decision when ruling on motions for
sentence red… |
| 18-7412 |
Keith Kennedy v. Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections |
Louisiana |
2019-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing standing |
Why did Judge Gail Shenp force Keith Ray Kewmekj who guilty plea?
Is my attorney Charles Kw en Be. abandoned?
Is that ss, fo ron +4 \\ Mancl. If So,… |
| 18-7418 |
Derrick T. Seals v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
851-enhancement ambiguous-plea contract criminal-procedure due-process enhancement government-breach ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
Did government breach plea agreement/contract when defendant never agreed to. enhancement?
Was Defendant mislead into plea agreement provisions inclu… |
| 18-7419 |
Fausto Becerra v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accountability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure drug-offenses drug-quantity due-process maximum-punishment plea-agreement plea-bargain prosecutorial-discretion sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines |
Because the stipulation in the plea bargain which limited the amount and type of drugs was not followed or advocated by the Government, Mr. Becerra wa… |
| 18-7420 |
Joe Ray Alires v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary criminal-sentencing federal-criminal-law generic-burglary generic-crime residential-burglary sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether a conviction for residential burglary under N.M. Stat. Ann. § 30-16-3(A) falls within the generic crime of burglary in the Armed Career Crimin… |
| 18-7421 |
Torrence Allen v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-provision certificate-of-appealability constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure habeas-corpus johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines mandatory-sentencing-guidelines retroactivity retroactivity-of-supreme-court-decisions sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness |
I. Whether Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), applies retroactively to a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion attacking a sentence imposed under man… |
| 18-7390 |
Martin R. Stancik v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeal-waiver circuit-split constitutional-error constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process sentencing sixth-circuit waiver |
Whether a criminal defendant's waiver of his right to appeal a sentence includes a waiver of the right to appeal a later, unforeseen constitutional du… |
| 18-7399 |
Gene Donta Carter v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-01-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
consecutive-sentences criminal-conspiracy drug-delivery drug-offenses due-process non-violent-crime offense-gravity offense-gravity-scores sentence-proportionality sentencing sentencing-error |
THE SENTENCING CURT ERRED IN APPLYING INCORRECT OFFENSE GRAVITY SCORES IN VIOLATION OF APPELLANT'S DUE PROCESS RIGHTS BASED UPON THE UNPROVEN WEIGHT O… |
| 18-7382 |
Jervon L. Herbin v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2019-01-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sixth-amendment structural-defect |
Did the Lower Court(s) Err in refusing to grant retroactive application to Fishback v. Commonwealth?
Did the Virginia Supreme Court Err in holding th… |
| 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, 560 U.S. 817 (2010), REQUIRES A DISTRICT COURT TO REEVALUATE ITS ORIGINAL SENTENCING METHODOLOGY IN STEP TWO OF THE … |
| 18-7351 |
Rahmad Lashad Geddes v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne appellate-review apprendi civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
1). Can a court of appeals sanction a lower courts depature from this court's well established percedents that effectively conflates the standard of r… |
| 18-7358 |
Aaron Ford v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255,ineffective-counsel ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error presentence-investigation-report section-2255-motion sentencing |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying to issue a certificate of appealability to review Petitioner's denied motion under 28 U… |
| 18-7359 |
Billy Joe Greenwood v. Tennessee Board of Parole |
Tennessee |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arbitrary-and-capricious civil-rights discrimination discriminatory and illegal application of its par due-process hence causing them to serve more time than those parole violate the equal-protection arbitrary-and-capricious constitutional-rights discrimination discriminatory-application due-process equal-protection judicial-review offense-severity parole parole-system sentencing |
Does Tennessee's arbitrary, discriminatory and illegal application of its parole review and release consideration utilizing the seriousness of the off… |
| 18-7360 |
Peter Mathis, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeals appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process final-judgment grand-jury insufficient-evidence sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation |
Did Congress' enactment of 18 USC § 3742 (a), allow for the review of an otherwise final sentence, if a defendant could showaviOlatiôn ofi1aw?
Did th… |
| 18-7365 |
Robert Allen DeVore v. Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary |
Oregon |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment consecutive-sentences constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus minimum-sentences sentencing |
1. Does the combined sentence totaling of 495 years with a 247½/ year minimum violate the Eight Amendment against cruel and unusual punishment?
2. Do… |
| 18-7307 |
Yoni Rayo-Espinoza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 18-7323 |
Robert Willis v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca armed-career-criminal-act career-offender criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum violent-felony |
GROUND (I) WHETHER PETITIONER WILLIS'S 'B&E OCCUPIED' IS A VIOLENT FELONY UNDER ACCA?
GROUND (II) WHETHER PETITIONER WILLIS'S DRUG TRAFFICKING CONVIC… |
| 18-7331 |
Ishmael Douglas v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-01-09 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
categorical-analysis circuit-split constitutional-law constitutional-vagueness criminal-law due-process legal-precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the residual clause of 18 U. S. C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague. |
| 18-7340 |
Eric Dillon v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split consecutive-sentences criminal-law criminal-procedure-sentencing due-process federal-statute mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-v-battle |
SINCE 18 U.S.C. 924(j) Is A DISCRETE OFFENSE THAT DOES NOT CONTAIN A MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCE OR REQUIRE A CONSECUTIVE S,DID THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT APP… |
| 18-7282 |
Benjamin Edward Henry Bradley v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process factual-findings objection presentence-report sentencing sixth-circuit |
Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals errer in affirming the district court's sentencing judgment where the district court adopted the Presentence Re… |
| 18-7284 |
Roger Leon Barlow v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-pa-c-s-a-9541 constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process illegal-sentence pennsylvania pennsylvania-courts post-conviction-relief post-conviction-relief-act re-sentencing sentencing void-ab-initio |
Ground I. Did the Pennsylvania Courts err in denying the instant Post Conviction Relief Act Petition for failing to recognize that the P.C.R.A. statut… |
| 18-7287 |
Lamont LaPrade v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c appeal collateral-attack crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process firearm-offense predicate-offense sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1) To Charge with 924c) (crime of violence) must sustain Conviction with connection, with Predicate Offense.
2) That, if on Collateral Attack (2255),… |
| 18-7290 |
Muhamet Ajvazi v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process enhancement evidence judicial-review prior-conviction prior-convictions remand reversal sentencing |
(I). WHETHER THE COURT SHOULD REVERSE AIAD REMAND DUE TO THE ADMISSION OF EVIDEHCE OF PRIOR COVVICTION USEN AS EHHANCEMENT THAT WAS MOT FIMAL.
I). RI… |
| 18-7292 |
Marco Whitley, Sr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-client-privilege attorney-client-relationship crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process eighth-circuit prejudice second-degree-robbery sentencing sixth-amendment violent-crime |
Did the Eighth Circuit err by holding Missouri's Second Degree Robbery is always considered to necessarily be a crime of violence?
Did the Eighth Cir… |
| 18-7293 |
Neil Walker v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights conflict-of-laws criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process jurisdiction sentencing standing venue |
1. WHERE THERE ONLY BEED ONE PRONOCNIEMENT IN COURT, WHAT SENTENCE IS THE LEGAL SENTENCE, NATURAL LIFE, OR 5?
2. DID THE COUDT HAVE TURISDICTION TO P… |
| 18-7304 |
Juan Rodriguez-Mantos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-law federal-sentencing-guidelines fifth-circuit judicial-review reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness supervisory-power |
Whether the impositi on of an outside Guideli nes sentence is reasonabl e
when the district court more than triples the already enhanced Guideli nes
s… |
| 18-7313 |
Lewis Templeton v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure drug-crimes firearms sentencing spatial-connection sufficiency-of-evidence u.s.s.g.-2k2.1(b)(6)(b) waiver |
Whether the Tenth Circuit correctly concluded that Mr. Templeton had waived his argument that the evidence was insufficient to support increasing Mr. … |
| 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. §… |
| 18-7252 |
Eddie Ray Wiese, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act federal-prisoner fifth-circuit johnson-claim residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation successive-motion |
When a federal prisoner demonstrates that the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual clause was the only lawful substantive basis to enhance his sentenc… |
| 18-7257 |
Amadou Diakite v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection personnel policy sentencing standing |
The Pivotal Guestion here is, diol the olenial of Petihoner's Oral request for in camera review of the prosecution's Star woitness personnel file, ole… |
| 18-7269 |
Larry Allison v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-review legal-procedure plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1. Can one be sentenced for a crime to which no plea of guilty has been entered and no trial resulting in a conviction has been held?
2. Will this Co… |
| 18-7272 |
Juan Pablo Arreola v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cocaine-trafficking criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-evidence due-process evidence evidence-admission indictment-scope jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing standards-of-review |
Whether evidence of uncharged cocain trafficking was, admitted erroneously because it was not inextricable intertwined with the charges in the indictm… |
| 18-7227 |
Antonio Ledon Jones v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3553a 18-usc-3553a6 due-process eleventh-circuit fifth-amendment judicial-review sentencing sentencing-disparities unwarranted-sentence-disparities |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit decided the opinion below based on inaccurate information and thereby betrayed the due process guarantees of the Fifth… |
| 18-7228 |
Dashawn D. Brown v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency excited-utterance excited-utterances hearsay hearsay-evidence prior-identification residual-hearsay-exception sentencing sentencing-error supervised-release |
1. WHETHER THE SENTENCING COURT ERRED IN ADMITTING
HEARSAY STATEMENTS AS EXCITED UTTERANCES.
2. WHETHER THE COURT ERRED IN ADMITTING HEARSAY
STATEMEN… |
| 18-7230 |
Antwain D. Ashley v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel open-plea plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether Ashley Was Denied His Sixth Amendment Right to Effective Assistance of Counsel Where Counsel Advised Ashley that if He Made an Open Plea to th… |
| 18-7239 |
Daniel P. Cannon v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender circuit-precedent due-process mandatory-sentencing mandatory-term post-booker sentencing seventh-circuit |
1) Should this Court GRANT this Write because the decision of the Seventh Circuit violates Petitioner's Due Process Right, whereas sentencing occurred… |
| 18-7240 |
Charles Jermaine King, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender constitutional-rights criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process guidelines habeas-corpus recidivism recidivist sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
IN ROSALES MIRELES V US, JUSTICE ALITO ASKED DURING THE ORAL ARGUMENTS... "SUPPOSE THERE WAS A QUESTION ABOUT WHETHER A DEFENDANT WAS PROPERLY TREATED… |
| 18-851 |
Bryan Christopher Marshall v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-sentencing drug-distribution drug-statute due-process federal-law first-amendment law-enforcement predicate-offense sentencing speech-protection statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a state drug statute that lists a variety of means by which it can be violated, including one which does not meet the definition of a drug … |
| 18-7196 |
Edward Allen McElroy v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography criminal-procedure due-process faretta-hearing faretta-v-california pro-se-representation self-representation sentencing supervised-release waiver-of-counsel |
Where a defendant is charged in federal court with possession and production of child pornography, the maximum punishment for which carries a lifetime… |
| 18-7197 |
Johnnie O'Neil Lewis v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender crime-of-violence generic-robbery minimal-force no-threat-of-violence no-violence robbery sentencing-guidelines split-among-circuits statutory-interpretation |
Whether theft offenses requiring no more than minimal force and no violence or threat of violence categorically constitute generic "robbery" for purpo… |
| 18-7180 |
Miguel Antonio Urquia-Melendez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi case-law certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing supreme-court-precedent |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 18-7181 |
Antonio Amar White v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
dismissed-conduct district-court due-process judge-found-facts sentencing sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-violation unreasonable-sentence |
Whether Petitioner's sentence violated the Sixth Amendment because the district court's factual findings, based on dismissed conduct, provided the leg… |
| 18-7185 |
Santos Orlando Diaz-Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres-precedent constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-reconsideration recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review |
Whether the Court should overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), which holds that a prior conviction that increases the maxi… |
| 18-7139 |
James Castleman Gipson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review presentence-report sentencing |
Whether (as the D.C., Second, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuits hold, see United States U. Price, 409 F.3d 436, 444 (D.C. Cir. 2005; United … |
| 18-7140 |
Tommy Ray Hull, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
chavez-meza-precedent chavez-meza-v-united-states circuit-split district-court district-court-discretion due-process fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-standard mitigation mitigation-arguments sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review |
I. This Court should grant certiorari to resolve the apparent conflict between the Fifth Circuit and this Court's decision in Chavez-Meza v. United St… |
| 18-7141 |
Luis Rey Gonzalez v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-analysis constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent overruling precedent recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Should this Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998)? |
| 18-7132 |
James R. Bright v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender circuit-split filing-period habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states retroactive-application retroactivity section-2255 statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
Section 2255(f)(3) of Title 28 of the United States Code tolls the one-year filing period for a § 2255 motion until "the date on which the right asser… |
| 18-793 |
Marion Quinton Brewster v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
armed-career-criminal-act cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment different-occasions legislative-intent sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Whether the interpretation of the Armed Career Criminal Act's "different occasions" provision has become overly broad and vague as to constitute cruel… |
| 18-7101 |
John Samuel Ghobrial v. California |
California |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-maximum |
Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact that serves to increa… |
| 18-7104 |
Axel Irizarry-Rosario v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process government-misconduct government-obligation government-obligations judicial-ethics plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion sentencing sentencing-argument statutory-interpretation |
May the government avoid its obligation to scrupulously observe the terms of a plea agreement by including in its sentencing argument information not … |
| 18-7106 |
Ramiro Plascencia-Orozco v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal breach breach-of-contract commerce-clause constitutional-violation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eleventh-amendment judicial-power plea-agreement sentencing |
Whether the District Court Erred When it Declared, Petitioner Breached His 2011 Plea Agreement and Thus Allowed the Government to go Forward on Charge… |
| 18-7107 |
Naeem-Lateef Odums v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment-due-process,6th-amendment-right-to-c 5th-amendment-due-process,sentencing-discretion,me 6th-amendment attorney-client-privilege criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intentional-deception mental-health-evaluation sentencing sixth-amendment |
Does it violate the 6th Amendment Constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel when a defendant's lawyer intentionally, willfully and knowi… |
| 18-7119 |
Stanley Grigsby v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-justice criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process excessive-sentence judicial-error jurisdiction louisiana-law sentencing sentencing-review subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the Louisiana Court's have erred in determining that the sentence was not excessive?
Whether the Louisiana Court's have erred in failing to n… |
| 18-7126 |
Ishmael Abdullah v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-assault court-of-appeals crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-guidelines federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-criminal-statute state-statute statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's holding that New Jersey Statute §2C:12-1(b)(2), one of the subsections of New … |
| 18-7127 |
Christopher French v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-burglary armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-court-review divisibility non-generic-crime sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation tennessee-burglary-statute |
Can a Tennessee Aggravated Burglary conviction serve as an armed Career Criminal Act predicate?
May a federal circuit court change a statutory burden… |
| 18-7074 |
Gennaro Mattiaccio v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence |
1. The convictions on Count two must be vacated because the evidence at trial was insufficient to establish guilt and also conflicts with the law of o… |
| 18-7079 |
Franklyn Morillo v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-waiver certiorari controlled-substances criminal-procedure district-court due-process first-impression first-impression' 'Should certiorari be granted i judicial-discretion knowing-intelligent-voluntary legal-standard plea-bargaining procedural-rights role-enhancement sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review' 'Should certiorari be granted |
1. Should certiorari be granted to decide whether a district court can only ask a Petitioner a single question about an appellate waiver, even though … |
| 18-7084 |
Anthony Steven Young v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion child-pornography close-scrutiny criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion internet-access relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review ussg-2g2.2 |
1. What standard of review applies to the district court's decision to use
the guideline for receiving or distributing child pornography to sentence … |
| 18-7086 |
Alex Joe Hernandez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-retroactivity due-process johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states judicial-interpretation prior-convictions residual-clause sentencing sentencing-error standing welch-v-united-states |
The question in this case has arisen with great frequency in the wake of Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), and Welch v. United States,… |
| 18-7039 |
Alexander Ndaula v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 5th-amendment 6th-amendment burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing loss-amount sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
The 5th & 6th amendments to the Constitution guarantee fairness in criminal proceedings to the accused. When the verification of a sentence enhancemen… |
| 18-7061 |
Francisco Reza v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights due-process federal-crime federal-crimes felon-in-possession firearms-possession ineffective-assistance-of-counsel second-amendment sentencing sentencing-enhancement standing state-misdemeanor |
Issue 1: Did Petitioner's prior crimes for which he spent less than 1 year and a day imprisonment: qualify as Federal Crimes for enhancement?
Issue 2… |
| 18-7065 |
Fabio Porfirio Lobo v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process inaccurate-information judicial-discretion life-sentence sentencing |
1. Whether Petitioner's due process rights were violated when the United States District Court relied on inaccurate information sentencing him to a de… |
| 18-7067 |
Derrick Christopher Johnson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender criminal-law divisible-statute drug-offense modified-categorical-approach plain-error prior-state-convictions sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
WHETHER PETITIONER'S "PRIOR STATE DRUG OFFENSES" QUALIFIED AS ENUMERATED OFFENSES UNDER THE "CAREER CRIMINAM" PROVISION OF THE UNITED STATES SENTENCIN… |
| 18-7037 |
Gerald L. Smith v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60b-6 criminal-law district-court due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus johnson-ii johnson-v-united-states judicial-procedure retroactivity rule-60b sentencing welch-v-united-states |
WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT AND EIGHTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN DENYING PETITIONER'S TRUE RULE 60(B) (6), WHEN THE DISTRICT COURT FAILED TO ADDRESS PETITIONER'… |
| 18-7057 |
Marcus Jermaine Royston v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
3582-motion 3582(c)(2) amendments-750-782 career-offender criminal-sentencing drug-offense guidelines-2d1.1 guidelines-amendment hughes-v-us sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction |
Does this Court's ruling in the case of Hughes V. U.S., 584 U.S. 2018, No. 17-155, apply to a career offender seeking reduction in his sentence by way… |
| 18-7019 |
Jeff Jones v. Quentin Byrne, Warden |
Nevada |
2018-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection juvenile-justice parole parole-board probation sentencing |
Does The U.s, supreme court's holdins in Goraham U.Florida, 176L.Ed,2d 825. Dealins WiTh Juvenilt Ofrtnders only apply to The sentencins of a Juvenile… |
| 18-7022 |
Ryan Lee Zater v. Kenny Atkinson, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence circuit-split federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure habeas-corpus saving-clause sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation |
What is the scope of the §2255(e) saving clause? And is it permissible for Zater to proceed thereunder? |
| 18-7029 |
Jorge Ruelas-Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 18-7000 |
Luis Rolando Bueno Jimenez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-3553(f) circuit-split criminal-law drug-enforcement mandatory-minimum maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant convicted of violating the Maritime Drug Law
Enforcement Act, 46 U.S.C. § 70501 et seq., and subject to a mandatory minimum
senten… |
| 18-7004 |
Miguel Rodriguez-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error remand sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum substantial-rights |
Whether a court of appeals that finds a plain error in the district court's selection of a statutory maximum should ordinarily order a limited remand … |
| 18-7005 |
Denis Aviles Salguero v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review child-pornography constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment sentencing |
Whether Petitioner's convictions for receipt and possession of child pornography violated the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment. |
| 18-6968 |
Alejandro Quinones Leyva v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel language-barriers notice-of-appeal plea-bargaining prejudice right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-rights sixth-amendment |
ALEJANDRO QUINONES-LEYVA, being duly sworn deposes as true; 1- I am the defendant herein, (2) In comection with pleading and sentencing I received ine… |
| 18-6972 |
Manuel Pereira-Gomez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause force-clause physical-force robbery sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the New York State offense of robbery is a "crime of violence," that is, an offense that "has as an element the use, attempted use, or threate… |
| 18-6974 |
Dannye T. McIntosh v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender circuit-precedent due-process mandatory-sentencing post-booker sentencing |
1) Should this Court GRANT this Write because the decision of the Seventh Circuit violates Petitioner's Due Process Right, whereas sentencing occurred… |
| 18-6982 |
Jerry Walden v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 28-usc-994 career-offender district-court due-process federal-sentencing guideline-application harmless-error johnson-v-united-states molina-martinez molina-martinez-precedent molina-martinez-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-error |
Whether the petitioner is entitled to resentencing, where due to Guideline application error, the district court incorrectly applied the more severe c… |
| 18-6985 |
Dwayne Barrett, aka Sealed Defendant 3, aka Tall Man v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-12-11 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-statute sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
Whether the residual clause at 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is void for vagueness, a question that evenly divides six Courts of Appeals. |
| 18-6993 |
Jamie Todd Bjerke v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
court-of-appeals criminal-law force-clause gvr-order light-resistance petition-for-writ-of-certiorari predicate-conviction predicate-offense procedural-thesis robbery sentencing-determinations sentencing-guidelines state-robbery-offense statutory-interpretation substantive-thesis united-states-sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a state robbery offense that permits a conviction for use of force sufficient to overcome light resistance qualifies as a predicate conviction… |
| 18-6995 |
Ashley Owens v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
co-defendant co-defendant-disparity criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection loss-calculation plea-agreement sentencing |
1. Did the Lower Courts violate the Due Process Clause when they sentenced Owens based on an unproven and inflated loss?
2. Did the Lower Courts viol… |
| 18-6900 |
Jacob Scott Watters v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography commerce-clause constitutional-limits criminal-law predicate-offense relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-law visual-depictions |
As written, and by the actual language used in the Statute, is 18 U.S.C. §2251(a) in excess of Congress' Powers under the Commerce Clause to. regulate… |
| 18-6941 |
John Leslie Chapman v. Robert Lampert, Director, Wyoming Department of Corrections, et al. |
Wyoming |
2018-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion legal-advisement plea-bargaining sentencing void-judgment |
I. Whether or not the strictures of Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure Rule 1 1 and
the Fourteenth Amendment due process were met concerning persona… |
| 18-6960 |
Craig Mack v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 18-6914 |
Daniel Rojas v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-12-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-1951 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-law force hobbs-act johnson-v-united-states physical-force section-2255 section-924c sentencing violent-crime |
I. What amount of force satisfies this Court's definition of "physical force," that is, force capable of causing physical pain or injury to another pe… |
| 18-6915 |
Carlton Robinson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act career-offender career-offender-guideline collateral-review constitutional-vagueness criminal-law-procedure johnson-precedent residual-clause retroactivity section-2255-motion sentencing supreme-court-retroactivity vagueness |
1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker career offender g… |
| 18-6920 |
Clyde Retiz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction indictment plea-bargaining reasonable-sentence sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether facts that alter the range of "reasonable" federal sentences must be pleaded in the indictment in federal cases? |
| 18-6934 |
Bobby Evans v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-treatment federal-procedure purposes-of-supervised-release revocation sentencing supervised-release |
Whether revoking the supervised release term of a defendant who is in need of drug treatment, after he initially failed in a drug treatment program, i… |
| 18-6946 |
Sergio Louis Trevino v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeal-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process plea-bargaining presentencing-waiver right-to-appeal sentencing sentencing-procedure waiver waiver-of-appeal waiver-validity |
Constitutionally, when a presentencing waiver of appeal is not bargained for in exchange for an agreed upon sentence, can that waiver be knowingly and… |
| 18-6911 |
Adrian Pineda-Orozco v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility affirmative-defense criminal-conviction criminal-law criminal-law-procedure duress-defense family-member fifth-circuit miscarriage-of-justice sentencing |
1. Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals opinion permitting Pineda-Orasco's conviction to stand resulted in a miscarriage of justice given the lo… |
| 18-6912 |
Bryant Lamar Monie v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-statute drug-trafficking federal-jurisdiction federal-law felony-conviction persistent-felony-offender sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the Defendant's Kentucky Drug trafficking conviction, which carries a maximum sentence of five (5) years and was enhanced by Kentucky's Per… |
| 18-6917 |
Rodolfo Portela v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal competency-hearing conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing drug-conspiracy drug-trafficking evidence-suppression firearm-possession sentencing sentencing-guidelines sufficiency-of-evidence |
1. Whether The District Court, Erred When It Found That There was
Sufficient Evidence That the Appellant had Committed the Acts
Alleged in Count I, Co… |
| 18-6895 |
Michael Clark v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons circuit-court classification criminal-history habeas-corpus judicial-review relief revocation sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-relief seventh-circuit |
Since a defendant's criminal history category establishes the U.S Sentencing Guidelines' policy range of imprisonment upon revocation and can result i… |
| 18-6896 |
Jeffrey S. Wingate v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presentment presentment-clause sentence-enhancement sentencing strickland strickland-standard uncharged-conduct |
Does a substantially greater sentence imposed based primarily on a count for which a grand jury refused to indict and which did not appear in a supers… |
| 18-6897 |
Victor Solorzano Tavia v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
blakely-rule consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure double-jeopardy grade-c-violation illegal-reentry sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum supervised-release |
I. Whether sentence for illegal reentry and sentence for violation
of supervised release should have run concurrent to avoid
double jeopardy clause … |
| 18-6901 |
Enoch D. Hall v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-12-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
advisory-panel aggravating-circumstances Caldwell-v-Mississippi civil-rights constitutional-due-process death-penalty due-process harmless-error hurst-decision jury-instructions jury-role jury-sentencing sentencing sentencing-process unanimous-recommendation |
On remand from the Florida Supreme Court's decision in Hurst v. Florida, the Florida Supreme Court held, as a state constitutional consequence, that a… |
| 18-6902 |
Scott Mansfield v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-12-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-conviction criminal-procedure death-penalty death-sentence due-process fact-finding findings-of-fact jury-findings jury-instructions notice procedural-due-process sentencing unnoticed-defendant |
Whether a conviction and death sentence may stand where a jury made no specific findings of fact that subjected an unnoticed individual to conviction … |
| 18-6904 |
Oree Roberson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-proof chavez-meza chavez-meza-v-united-states circuit-conflict due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review mitigation presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure standard-of-review |
I. Whether the defendant bears the burden to establish that objected to information in the Presentence Report is materially untrue, or whether, instea… |
| 18-6882 |
Willie Seth Crain, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-11-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
remedies prior constitutional defects in capital which requires unanimous jury findings of aggrava advisory-sentencing-panel aggravating-circumstances caldwell-v-mississippi capital-sentencing civil-rights constitutional-error death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process harmless-error Hurst-decision hurst-v-florida jury-instructions jury-role jury-unanimity mitigating-circumstances sentencing sentencing-procedure |
On remand from the Florida Supreme Court's decision in Hurst v. Florida, the Florida Supreme Court held, as a state constitutional consequence, that a… |
| 18-6873 |
Angela Armenta v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-11-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment-6th-amendment burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment jury reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Is a defendant deprived of due process where the absence of evidence constitutes probative evidence of proof beyond a reasonable doubt?
2. Are the… |
| 18-6855 |
Antonio DeJesus Perez-Martinez v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-challenge constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection indictment indictment-variance ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining proportionality sentencing sentencing-proportionality sentencing-reasonableness |
APPELLATE COUNSEL WAS GROSSLY INEFFECTIVE, BY ARGUING A MATERIAL VARIANCE IN THE INDICTMENT, INSTEAD OF THE MORE EGREGIOUS CONSTRUCTIVE AMENDMENT OF T… |
| 18-6867 |
Alberto Jorge Silva-Ibarra v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 18-6833 |
Jose Ramon Zuniga, aka Josue Ararel Zuniga-Zaragoza, aka Jose Ramon Zuniga-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure discretion due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion offense-level residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-standards statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a Guideline which incorporates by reference § 16(b)'s residual clause may serve as the basis for increasing the defendant's offense level u… |
| 18-6842 |
Matthew Davis, aka Sealed Defendant 1, aka Matt v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
3500-material brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence government-misconduct newly-discovered-evidence sentencing witness-testimony |
1. Whether the Government failed to properly discharge its obligations under Brady v. Maryland, when it produced an exculpatory chart prepared by an u… |
| 18-6846 |
Luis A. Pena v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2018-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review brady-v-stumpf collateral-consequences coram-nobis due-process guilty-plea guilty-plea-validity ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion plea-hearing plea-record sentencing voluntariness |
I. Whether The Maryland Appellate Courts In Concluding Pena Failed To Sustain His Burden Of Proving He Did Not Voluntarily And Knowingly Enter A Guilt… |
| 18-6801 |
Van McDuffy v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accidental-killing bank-robbery criminal-law criminal-statute felony-murder intent mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentencing mens-rea sentencing statutory-interpretation |
What intent, if any, beyond the intent to commit bank robbery, is required to sustain a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(e), which imposes a mandator… |
| 18-6807 |
Larry M. Slusser v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split collateral-attack criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement sentencing statutory-maximum waiver-of-rights |
Whether a defendant's waiver of the right to collateral attack in a plea agreement bars a claim that the sentence exceeds the statutory maximum for th… |
| 18-6812 |
Jack Ferranti v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 criminal-sentencing federal-bureau-of-prisons federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-sentencing-guidelines good-time-credits life-expectancy post-conviction-relief rule-60(b) rule-60b sentencing |
WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT IMPOSED A DEF'AC']X) LIFE SENTENCE THAT WAS NOT AUTHORIZED BY THE STATUTE OF CONVICTION BY CALCULATING THE DEFENDANT'S LIFE… |
| 18-6815 |
Micheal Jerrial Ibenyenwa v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining procedural-default right-to-counsel sentencing |
QUESTION 1:
IS A COA MANDATED IF A PETITIONER DEMONSTRATES
THE STATE ARRIVED AT A DECISION CONTRARY TO AND A UNREASONABLE
APPLICATION OF STRICKLAND AN… |
| 18-6817 |
Michael Albert Focia v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process judge-vs-jury judicial-fact-finding jury-instructions jury-trial obstruction-of-justice pro-se sentence-enhancement sentencing separation-of-powers sixth-amendment |
Where is the second and fifth amendments to apply the statutory scheme of 18 USC § 922 (a)(1)(A) and 18 USC § 922(b) to a Non-Federal Firearm Licensee… |
| 18-6818 |
Ruben Rangel v. California |
California |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-amendments death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment jury-determination jury-trial sentencing |
1.
Does California's death penalty statute violate the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth
Amendments to the United States Constitution by failing to… |
| 18-6822 |
Mark Anthony Brown v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute lesser-included-offense notice-requirement prosecutorial-discretion sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
The plain language of 21 U.S.C. § 851 requires the United States to, "before trial," file an "information" if it intends to seek enhanced statutory pe… |
| 18-6826 |
Carlos David Caro v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
§-2255-claim bop-data brady-violation criminal-procedure-brady death-penalty due-process exculpatory-evidence federal-prison government-misconduct procedural-bar sentencing sentencing-procedure suppression-of-evidence |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in ruling Caro was procedurally barred from raising a § 2255 claim that the Government's suppression of available exc… |
| 18-6829 |
Jimmy Walter Fuentes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error remand sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum substantial-rights |
1. Whether a court of appeals that finds a plain error in the district court's selection of a statutory maximum should ordinarily order a limited rema… |
| 18-6830 |
Francisco Heredia-Silva v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
california-penal-code circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-law-sentencing due-process federal-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation terrorist-threats violent-crime |
Should this court resolve the split between the Fifth Circuit and the Ninth Circuit about whether California terrorist threats convictions under Calif… |
| 18-687 |
Auriel Devon Frett v. Territory of the Virgin Islands |
Virgin Islands |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
|
chambers-v-mississippi co-defendant-testimony confrontation confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination cumulative-error-doctrine due-process jury-instructions sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Whether the instruction to not consider the specific length of sentence a testifying co-defendant faced absent cooperation violates a defendant's s… |
| 18-680 |
Erica Huss, Warden v. Loren Robinson |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-23 |
Denied |
|
criminal-procedure due-process federal-law habeas habeas-corpus jury-right parole-eligibility sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Whether it is clearly established federal law, as is required to grant relief in a federal habeas case, that the Sixth Amendment jury right applies… |
| 18-6747 |
Gibran Richardo Figueroa-Beltran v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure divisibility-analysis divisibility-inquiry due-process federal-courts federal-divisibility-doctrine federalism mathis-doctrine mathis-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-court-certification state-courts state-statutes three-part-test |
When applying the federal divisibility doctrine to state statutes, may federal courts terminate the three-part test set forth in Mathis v. United Stat… |
| 18-6767 |
Brent Galbreath v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-vagueness due-process error johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states retroactivity sentencing sentencing-error violent-felony violent-felony-definition |
When a Johnson v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015), movant would not be an armed career criminal if sentenced today, how can he show that his sent… |
| 18-6770 |
David Nino-Flores v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 18-6774 |
Jimmy L. Thompson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process felon-in-possession firearm-charges predicate-felony sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation void-ab-initio void-statute |
Whether a conviction based on a statute that has been held void ab initio can be used to increase punishment as a predicate felony pursuant to 18 U.S.… |
| 18-6777 |
Kenya Ali Hyatt v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-determination juvenile-life-without-parole juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-statute sixth-amendment |
I. Whether Michigan's Miller v. Alabama sentencing statute requires a jury determination and proof beyond a reasonable doubt, under the Sixth and Four… |
| 18-650 |
Miguel Cabrera-Rangel v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-20 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response Waived |
acquittal-impact acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether, or under what circumstances, the Sixth Amendment right to jury trial prohibits a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on… |
| 18-6758 |
Michael Bordman v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-pornography constitutional-vagueness continued-dissemination due-process harm-disaggregation initial-abuse restitution sentencing supervised-release |
(1) Whether the restitution award in child pornography sentencings must disaggregate the harm caused by the initial abuse from the harm caused by the … |
| 18-6763 |
Luis Antonio Bonilla, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appeal-waivers brady-standard brady-v-united-states circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement plea-agreements sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-uniformity |
I. WHAT STANDARDS OTHER THAN THE KNOWING AND VOLUNTARY WAIVER STANDARD OF BRADY V. UNITED STATES SHOULD GOVERN THE ENFORCEMENT OF APPEAL WAIVERS IN PL… |
| 18-6737 |
Jose Lopez-Castillo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
booker booker-decision constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent title-21 |
Whether the mandatory-sentencing regime of Title 21 has been abrogated by
United States v. Booker and its progeny. |
| 18-6738 |
Jonathone J. Johnson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-law-and-procedure criminal-law-procedure de-novo-review due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-victims-restitution-act presumption remand restitution sentencing |
This case raises two question of criminal law and procedure which have yet to be addressed by this Court. The first of which is whether a defendant is… |
| 18-6714 |
Maikel Suarez Plasencia v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion judicial-procedure sentencing trial-procedure |
Question not identified. |
| 18-6716 |
Jerry Walker, aka Jerry Richmond v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-11-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court conviction conviction-reversal conviction-vacatur criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-preclusion sentencing superseding-indictment |
Whether The Seventh Circuit Contravened The Holding Of Griffith By Concluding That Booker And Pepper Were NOT Retroactive To The Petitioner's Case Wit… |
| 18-6706 |
Jeremiah Davis v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-law criminal-law enhanced-penalties predicate-offense reckless-driving sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether a Tennessee aggravated assault conviction, which does not require proof that the defendant caused serious bodily injury or used or displayed a… |
| 18-6711 |
Ricardo Deleon Colon v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act bodily-harm criminal-sentencing curtis-johnson eleventh-circuit johnson-standard predicate-offense united-states-v-castleman united-states-v-vail-bailon violent-force |
In Curtis Johnson v. United States, 559 U.S. 133, 140 (2010), the Court defined the term "physical force" in the elements clause of the Armed Career C… |
| 18-6693 |
Victor M. Mangual-Rosado v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split conclusions-of-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court findings-of-fact opportunity-to-object procedural-error role-behavior role-in-crime sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-error |
I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED PROCEDURALLY AND SUBSTANTIVELY BY IMPOSING AN EXCESSIVE SENTENCE IN TERMS OF THE DEFENDANT-APPELLANT'S ROLE BEHAVI… |
| 18-6705 |
Richard A. Jiles v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary divisibility divisible-statute felon-in-possession georgia georgia-burglary-statute predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement |
Was correct to find that Mr. Jiles' prior burglary conviction under O.C.G.A. § 16-7-1 was a predicate offense under the ACCA, 18 U.S.C. §924(e)? |
| 18-6675 |
In Re Ryan Lee Zater |
|
2018-11-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus residual-clause section-2244 section-924c sentencing supervisory-powers vagueness |
Considering this circuit split that has developed, does the Fourth Circuit's denial of Zater's §2244 application, which would have been granted in oth… |
| 18-6677 |
Clarence Darnell Marshall v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment appeal booker-standard career-offender certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit rule-of-lenity sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit applied a heightened standard to the Defendant's request for Certificate of Appealability in violation of the Supreme … |
| 18-614 |
In Re George Houston |
|
2018-11-09 |
Denied |
|
alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey collateral-review conspiracy conspiracy-liability criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-quantity jurisdictional-error mandatory-minimum retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether it is the individualized drug quantity that is a fact that increases the mandatory minimum sentence or whether the amount of drugs attributabl… |
| 18-6633 |
Keith Fremin v. Robert C. Tanner, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
castration civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process good-time guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-district plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing |
Whether the 22nd Judicial District Court failed to uphold the plea agreement in exchange for a guilty plea?
Whether Counsel for the Petitioner was in… |
| 18-6641 |
Antonio Fahie v. Neil McDowell, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-sufficiency ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal-motion prosecutorial-misconduct rape-charges right-to-counsel sentencing |
Why did'nt the judge let he take. back my plea,When my counsel told the court the i never admitted to any of the (RAPE) charges.
When i found out tha… |
| 18-6592 |
Andres Pavon v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment appeal appeals castro-v-united-states criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit fifth-amendment habeas-corpus lee-v-us padilla-v-kentucky sentencing standing |
Were this Petitioner's Fifth Amendment rights according to the United States Constitution violated by the United States Court of Appeal for the Eleven… |
| 18-6604 |
Joseph Jenkins v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights court-reporters-act court-transcript due-process judicial-misconduct perjury perjury-by-exclusion qualified-retirement retirement-savings sentencing sentencing-discretion |
Can "catchall phrases" form a basis for a 'perjury by exclusion' indictment and conviction in the absence of precise questioning, open court transcrip… |
| 18-6608 |
William Charles O'Neil v. FCC Coleman, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split habeas-corpus jurisdictional-issue retroactive-law retroactivity savings-clause section-2241 section-2255 sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Is the Eleventh Circuit's interpretation of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e), or the savings clause correct in McCarthan v. Director of Goodwill Industries - Sunco… |
| 18-6564 |
Cephus Hollis v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process due-process,criminal-law,statutory-interpretation, sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation unauthorized-vehicle-use vehicle-theft |
Whether the DC Court of Appeals' erroneous statutory interpretation of the DC statute criminalizing unauthorized taking, use or operating a vehicle "t… |
| 18-6581 |
Larry Hailey v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-enhancement crimes-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-appeal prior-convictions section-2255-motion sentencing sentencing-guidelines virginia-prior-convictions |
1. Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals Erred in Denying Petitioner's Appeal from Denial of His Motion Under 28 US.C. § 2255 Wherein Petitioner… |
| 18-6588 |
Lesley Eugene Warren v. Edward Thomas, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment character-evidence circuit-split civil-rights death-penalty due-process future-dangerousness parole parole-ineligibility prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-procedure simmons-v-south-carolina |
Is it an unreasonable application of Simmons v. South Carolina for a State court to deny a parole ineligibility instruction where the prosecution repe… |
| 18-6589 |
Liddon Young v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court criminal-law criminal-procedure false-statement false-statements materiality obstruction-of-justice sentencing sentencing-enhancement stipulation |
1. When a defendant admits to all the elements of an offense/enhancement, does a prevarication on details not effecting the question of guilt render t… |
| 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… |
| 18-6569 |
Mark Lee Murray v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924c 18-usc-924c3b categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states mandatory-consecutive-sentence residual-clause retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), retroactively invalidates the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B).
2. Whether ge… |
| 18-6553 |
Michael Founier Dixon, aka Michael Fournier Dixon v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sentencing |
PlEA AgReemeNts At "ANy" stagE duRinNg the CRimiNs pRocess CAUSE the defendant Harm; considering that they All contrined a factually iNsufficint deadl… |
| 18-6512 |
Jabril Jones v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appeals cell-phone-privacy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exclusionary-rule false-imprisonment Fourth-Amendment jurisdiction jury-trial probable-cause search-incident-to-arrest sentencing standing warrantless-search |
(1) HAVE petitioner BEEN ARREStEd − without PRobabolE CAUSE
(2) whether MOUANTS ARREST WARRANT ViolAtE the SECoNd ClAUSE JO The Fourth AmendmeNt
(3)… |
| 18-6535 |
Rodney Williams v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2018-11-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment due-process fourth-amendment-violation jurisdictional-defect jury-trial-rights restitution right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment-right void-judgment void-restitution-order void-sentence |
WAS DEFENDANT DENIED HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO COUNSEL AT HIS SENTENCING AND RESTITUTION HEARING; CONSTITUTING A VOID SENTENCE AND RESTITUTION ORDER… |
| 18-6537 |
In Re Gerald Phillip Wooten |
|
2018-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct collateral-review due-process habeas-corpus nelson-v-colorado retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement united-states-v-watts |
Whether the Court should issue a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that Nelson v. Colorado, has been or should be made retroactieiy applicable to ca… |
| 18-6548 |
Salvatore Leone v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactive-effect retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement successive-habeas-motion welch-v-united-states |
Are federal courts precluded from granting a federal prisoner's successive 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion to vacate an illegal sentence based on Johnson wher… |
| 18-6513 |
Byron Christopher Chinchilla v. Greg Lewis, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment attempted-murder criminal-gang due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability mental-health sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of habeas relief based on ineffective assistance of counsel claims. |
| 18-6516 |
Linh Thi Minh Tran v. Happy Valley Municipal Court, Oregon |
Oregon |
2018-10-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial judicial-error jurisdiction municipal-court sentencing zoning-violation |
Was the trial court Clackamas State of Oregon's judgment sentence Municipal Court dated 01/26/2017 in favor of respondent Happy Valley Municipal Court… |
| 18-6518 |
Gregory Crum v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure district-court-discretion drug-crimes drug-offense drug-offenses foreign-origin leadership-enhancement methamphetamine relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
I. Whether the district court abused its discretion in determining relevant conduct.
2; Whether Greg Crum should receive a leadership enhancement.
3… |
| 18-6520 |
Jesus L. Arnett v. Patrick Covello, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process false-conviction forged-bills ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probable-cause sentencing speedy-trial speedy-trial-rights structural-error |
Should Petitioner be granted a Certificate of Appealability when Petitioner was obviously and falsely convicted of possessing forged bills, and then g… |
| 18-6472 |
James Gibson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres criminal-procedure drug-offenses jury-trial mandatory-minimum prior-convictions reasonable-doubt recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Whether the Petitioner's sentence violated his Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial when the district court imposed a minimum mandatory sentence of l… |
| 18-6473 |
Jeremy Bernard Harrison v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
allocution allocution-error appellate-review criminal-procedure defendant-objection defendant-rights due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-error plain-error preservation-of-error rule-51b sentencing |
1. Whether allocution error deprives the defendant of an opportunity to object to that error within the meaning of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure … |
| 18-6482 |
Roger Alfred Anchundia-Espinoza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-3553(f) criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-enforcement mandatory-minimum maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law safety-valve sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-safety-valve united-states-v-mosquera-murillo |
Whether a criminal defendant convicted of violating the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act, 46 U.S.C. § 70501 et seq., and subject to a mandatory minim… |
| 18-6483 |
Armando Chavez, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-sentencing indictment indictment-requirements judicial-discretion plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether facts that alter the range of "reasonable" federal sentences must be pleaded in the indictment in federal cases? |
| 18-6438 |
Oscar Kenneth Moreno v. Alana Butler |
California |
2018-10-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
confrontation-clause dna-evidence dna-testing due-process expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment remand scientific-evidence sentencing sixth-amendment |
Question 1.
The
Trial Presentation Violated My Sixth
and fourteenth Amendment Rights to Confront
and Cross-Examine His Accussers.
Scientific Evidence … |
| 18-6447 |
Eullis Monroe Goodwin v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance rule-11 sentencing sentencing-guidelines strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Did Counsel ' Failure to properly develope and present Objections to Petitioner's designation as an career offender, render Ineffective Assistance und… |
| 18-6459 |
Cliserio Balmes-Cruz v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-consideration non-frivolous-arguments procedural-reasonableness rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review |
In contrast with the Ninth Circuit, at least seven other circuits apply a standard which requires a sentencing judge provide some express treatment to… |
| 18-6461 |
Gerren K. Love v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines causation-element circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-classification criminal-law force-definition sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-v-castleman violent-crime violent-force |
If a statute has a causation-of-harm element, does it also necessarily have an element of violent force for purposes of classifying the crime as a vio… |
| 18-6415 |
Amalya Cherniavsky, aka Amalya Surenovna Yegiyan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing standard-of-review sua-sponte sufficiency-of-evidence theory-of-defense trial-procedure |
Under what circumstances must a district court sua sponte instruct the jury on a theory of defense presented and relied upon at trial where the theory… |
| 18-6445 |
Tracy Lebron Vick v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2018-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review plea-bargaining public-interest sentencing sentencing-procedure unconstitutional |
I. WHETHER THE PROVISIONS OF RULE 36.1 OF THE TENNESSEE RULES OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE, TENNESSEE CODE ANNOTATED § 29-21-101, AND TENNESSEE LAW ARE UNCON… |
| 18-542 |
John E. Hamilton v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
charging criminal-procedure defendant-standing due-process extradition extradition-treaty international-law punishment rule-of-specialty sentencing standing treaty treaty-interpretation |
Under our extradition treaty with Poland, Agreement between the United States of America and the Republic of Poland on the Application of the Extradit… |
| 18-6416 |
Briand Williams v. California |
California |
2018-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-record due-process equal-protection evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargain registration-requirements sentencing transcripts |
Is a Plea Agreement considered to be terminated or full-filled fifteen (15) years later upon the destruction or lost of the actual sentencing plea agr… |
| 18-6421 |
Alexis D. Negron-Cruz v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel internet-access internet-restrictions plea-agreement plea-bargaining pornography-ban sentencing supervised-release supervised-release-conditions |
Whether District Court erred in imposing overbroad conditions of Supervised Release, limiting Petitioner's access to the Internet, for the term of sai… |
| 18-6397 |
Angel Rosario v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence advisory-guidelines amendment-709 career-offender due-process ineffective-assistance johnson-rule rule-of-lenity sentencing-enhancement void-for-vagueness |
Were the Appellant's right to Due Process of Law violated and proceedings unfair considering that the Second Circuit granted both summary affirmance t… |
| 18-6413 |
Joshua Jackson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
21-usc-841 controlled-substances conviction criminal-adjudication criminal-law due-process federal-statute recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation youthful-offender |
Is an Alabama youthful-offender adjudication a "conviction" for purposes of sentencing enhancement under 21 U.S.C § 841(b)(1)(A)? |
| 18-6394 |
Jimmy Steele v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection extraordinary-circumstances gatekeeping-provision habeas-corpus intervening-change-in-law retroactivity second-motion successive-petitions |
In denying Steele's Second-in-time §2255 motion, did the lower court(s) err in there finding that the district court lacks jurisdiction to hear Steele… |
| 18-6395 |
Alex D. Ramos v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process firearm-offense sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
1) Did the lower Court err, and concomitantly violate the United States Constitution, Amendments V and VI, where it determined that Petitioner's prior… |
| 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… |
| 18-6389 |
Anthony Lomax v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-10-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-murder buyer-seller career-offender conspiracy crime-of-violence criminal-history drug-quantity heroin-attribution relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
I. Despite the dismissal of Anthony Lomax's conspiracy charge, during sentencing the district court assigned 16.8 kilograms of heroin to him. While a … |
| 18-6391 |
Matthew Vaughn Hawks v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure mental-disability plain-error sentencing sentencing-disparity sentencing-reasonableness substantial-rights united-states-v-olano |
I. Whether the Eleventh Circuit Misapplied Fed. R. Crim. P. 52(b) and
United States v. Olano, 507 U.S. 725 (1998) by Failing to Grant Relief
for Plain… |
| 18-6372 |
Michael Small v. Cherry Lindamood, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-challenge due-process evidentiary-ruling federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion procedural-default procedural-rules sentencing state-court sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals erred when it agreed with the district court "that the claim of ineffective assistance of counsel was witho… |
| 18-6387 |
Spencer Bowens v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) 28 U.S.C. §2255(£)(3) 28 U.S.C. §2255(f)(3) extend to pre-Booker mandatory career-offender gu that has been newly recognized by the United Stat career-offender career-offender-guidelines collateral-review criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure,sentencing,retroactivity,collat Johnson-right johnson-v-united-states mandatory-sentencing retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines Supreme-Court-precedent |
Whether the right in Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), that has been newly recognized by the United States Supreme Court and made retr… |
| 18-6355 |
Christian Dominique Scott v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence parole revocation sentencing supervised-release |
I. Whether supervised release revocation defendants enjoy a limited right of cross-examination as to facts that increase the sentence imposed followin… |
| 18-6342 |
Jaime Rene Lopez-Vaal v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accomplice-liability aggravated-felony criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law ninth-circuit-review sentencing statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
Whether Section 1326(b), which does not define "misdemeanors involving drugs or violence against the person," "felony," or "aggravated felony," is unc… |
| 18-6331 |
Vernon Robinson v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus sentencing standing statutory-interpretation |
did the 1st Diothict Count of appeal departiment from the essentinl reluinement of law ts Mandate By the uvited States Supreme the count muotmake A ex… |
| 18-6334 |
Ahkeem Wiggins v. Robert C. Tanner, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process enhancement-penalty guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction plea-bargaining sentencing |
The 1st Judicial District Court, Parish of Caddo, State of Louisiana was without jurisdiction to accept guilty plea to enhancement penalty under Louis… |
| 18-6300 |
Cheryl Singleton v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
allocution criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure joint-stipulation presentence-investigation presentence-investigation-report sentencing |
Does the filing of joint stipulation(s) as to the presentence investigation report entitle the defendant to allocution on the (A)(i), (ii) ? |
| 18-6301 |
Darrell Lynn Dancy v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals-court armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance criminal-procedure district-court factual-innocence predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement unlawful-distribution |
A "serious drug offense," under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.s.c. § 924(e), is one involving manufacturing, distribution or possessing with int… |
| 18-6317 |
Desmond DeWayne Turner v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary categorical-approach eleventh-circuit mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states predicate-offense sentencing united-states-v-ovalles |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in finding that the convictions for Burglary in the first degree under Alabama law qualified as a … |
| 18-6289 |
Bruce L. Small v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-10-12 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
and justice from incarceration civil-rights due-process ex-post-facto incarceration justice liberty civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-law incarceration justice-system legal-application sentencing |
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| 18-6302 |
Francisco Melgar-Cabrera v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law hobbs-act predicate-felony predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery as set forth as a predicate felony offense in Count 4 of the Second Superseding Indictment qualifies as a "crime of violence… |
| 18-6303 |
Jeffrey Joseph Pendleton v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law fifth-amendment force-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
Is the Force Clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) invalid under the Fifth Amendment void-for-vagueness doctrine? |
| 18-6308 |
Edwin Hernandez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure due-process duress-defense jury-instructions second-circuit sentencing |
1. Did the Second Circuit err in finding that the district court's charge correctly stated the requirements for the duress defense.
2. Did the Second… |
| 18-6313 |
Lacoya Washington v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal conviction criminal-evidence criminal-law due-process evidence judicial-discretion sentencing sex-trafficking trial trial-severance |
Whether there was sufficient evidence presented at trial to convict Lacoya Washington of the sex trafficking crime.
Whether the Honorable Trial Court… |
| 18-6314 |
Vilaychith Khouanmany v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appointment-of-counsel career-offender civil-rights,due-process,criminal-procedure,senten criminal-procedure due-process excessive-sentences habeas-corpus pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process right-to-bail right-to-counsel sentence-enhancements sentencing speedy-trial |
Is Dertyincj Appealbity of case no.17-1243 when the issues of career offender, enhancements of my priors and excessives sentences, and was unfairly de… |
| 18-6293 |
Alfredo Martinez-Rey v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 18-454 |
Derek L. Dinger v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2018-10-11 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
bouie-v-city-of-columbia court-martial due-process ex-post-facto military-justice precedent-overruling retired-personnel retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-rules |
After petitioner's offenses, the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces overruled two precedents without fair warning and held that a court-martial can… |
| 18-456 |
Michael J. Persico v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-10-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
apprendi due-process fifth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-trial plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment substantive-reasonableness |
1. Does Petitioner's sentence, which would have been deemed substantively unreasonable in the absence of the district court's factual findings, violat… |
| 18-6271 |
Sonny Scott v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-standard booker-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure plain-error plain-error-review reasonableness-challenge reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness united-states-v-booker |
(1) When—if at all—must a defendant object to the reasonableness of a sentence to preserve that argument for appellate review?
(2) What is the proper… |
| 18-6284 |
Alphonso Churchwell, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender collateral-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing eleventh-circuit mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness |
In Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) (Samuel Johnson), this Court declared the Armed Career Criminal Act's (ACCA) residual clause uncon… |
| 18-6237 |
Jacob L. Smith v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3553 appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal due-process gall-v-united-states plain-error plain-error-review preservation-of-error sentencing sentencing-variance |
In order to preserve a § 3553(c) challenge to the adequacy of the district court's sentencing explanation, must a party, who is given no opportunity t… |
| 18-6240 |
Darryl Johnson v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-rights constitutional-error due-process evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing |
Was Petitioner's guilty plea sustained in violation of due process warranting habeas relief where the district court failed to advise the petitioner c… |
| 18-6248 |
Antonio Mercedes-Rijo v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
congressional-power criminal-procedure define-and-punish-clause drug-trafficking due-process federal-jurisdiction high-seas mitigating-role sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-3b1.2 statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission |
Whether the Petitioner's Mitigating Role Should of Been Adjusted In Accordance With The United States Sentencing Guidelines § 3B1.2
Whether Congress … |
| 18-6256 |
William Wise Mock v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender categorical-approach criminal-sentencing presentence-investigation-report sentencing separate-occasions shepard-documents statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether, in applying the categorical approach to determine if a defendant is a career offender, the sentencing court can use a Presentence Investig… |
| 18-6257 |
Edward Dean McCranie v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
career-offender colorado-robbery common-law common-law-robbery crime-of-violence force force-clause generic-robbery sentencing-guidelines stokeling-v-united-states tenth-circuit violence |
Is Colorado robbery, which follows the common-law definition of the amount of force required, a crime of violence for purposes of the career-offender … |
| 18-6215 |
Leonard Nathaniel Peragine, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion child-enticement child-pornography congressional-intent criminal-sentencing empirical-evidence guideline-calculation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court's utilization of the child pornography guideline in Section 2G2.2 to determine the sentence for a defendant whose primary o… |
| 18-6230 |
Harvey L. Shoate v. Jason Lewis, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-10-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error plea-agreement post-conviction post-conviction-relief sentencing sua-sponte |
Question not identified. |
| 18-6169 |
Tracy L. Johnson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c)-statute conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy drug-conspiracy drug-crimes due-process firearm-possession informant-testimony law-enforcement-conduct mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentencing sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether a defendant should be subject to a mandatory 25 year consecutive 924(c) sentence for the same drug Conspiracy based on the facts that in a two… |
| 18-6205 |
Eliseo Guevara-Guevara v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-rule alleyne-v-united-states almendarez-torres almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process enhanced-punishment immigration-law indictment judicial-precedent prior-conviction sentencing |
Whether a prior conviction must be alleged in the indictment before a defendant is subjected to enhanced punishment under 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b), thereby … |
| 18-6206 |
Jason Randall Howard v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness variance-sentence |
1. Is Howard's 457% above-guideline variance sentence procedurally unreasonable because the District Court failed to consider the need to avoid unwarr… |
| 18-6207 |
Manuel Ernesto Paiz Guevara v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion capital-crime capital-punishment criminal-procedure death-penalty eighth-amendment fourth-circuit-split mandatory-sentencing miller-v-alabama right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the Fourth Circuit erroneously held - in conflict with the plain language of 18 U.S.C. § 3005 and in conflict with a 45-year split between … |
| 18-6212 |
Thomas Burgess v. Nicole English, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255e amendment-782 criminal-procedure intervening-arrest mandatory-minimum miscarriage-of-justice precedent-change savings-clause sentencing sentencing-modification sentencing-relief-28-usc-2255e |
IF A DEFENDANT DID TRY TO PERSUADE THE COURT OF APPEALS TO CHANGE
ITS BINDING PRECEDENT BUT WAS UNSUCCESSFUL, WOULD THE DEFENDANT BE
ABLE TO SEEK RELI… |
| 18-428 |
United States v. Clifford Raymond Salas |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-offense firearms sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
Whether the subsection-specific definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(B), which applies only in the limited context of a federal cr… |
| 18-6171 |
Dion Terry Taylor v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review district-court-discretion district-court-proceedings inter-circuit-inconsistency pinney-dock proof-standard sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-standard standard-of-proof standard-of-review u-s-sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g.-§5k2.1 unraised-claims |
1. Whether this honorable Court should grant certiorari to clarify the Sixth Circuit's "Pinney Dock" standard governing review of claims which were no… |
| 18-6180 |
Brian Deronceler v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure district-court due-process eleventh-circuit insufficient-evidence judgment-of-acquittal motion-for-acquittal sentencing sentencing-errors sufficiency-of-evidence |
I. CERTIORARI REVIEW SHOULD BE GRANTED WHERE THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT AFFIRMED DERONCELER'S CONVICTIONS WHERE THE EVIDENCE WAS INSUFFICIENT TO SUPPORT DER… |
| 18-6150 |
Noel Aquino-Florenciani v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion child-pornography criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process internet-access internet-access-ban sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
Whether the court's imposition of a total ban of internet access as a condition of supervised release is an overly broad and restrictive and without a… |
| 18-6156 |
Hector Medina v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
career-offender career-offender-guidelines criminal-classification criminal-law dangerous-instrument first-degree-robbery new-york-penal-law sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
SHOULD FIRST DEGREE ROBBERY WITH USE OF A DANGEROUS INSTRUMENT UNDER NEW YORK PENAL LAW § 160.15(3) QUALIFY AS A CRIME OF VIOLENCE FOR PURPOSES OF THE… |
| 18-6157 |
Sealed Appellee v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
18-usc-3553 due-process government-appeal individualized-hearing liberty-interest plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-waiver |
Whether, under the rules governing the construction of plea agreements and in light of due process fairness considerations, sentencewaiver provisions … |
| 18-6159 |
Charlise Williams v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence loss-calculation sentencing sixth-amendment victim-count |
Was the Petitioners Sixth Amendment right, under the Confrontation Clause violated?
Was the Petitioners potentially violated Sixth Amendment Right, u… |
| 18-6112 |
Opherro G. Jones v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines beckles-v-united-states certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process misinformation sentencing sentencing-guidelines townsend-v-burke void-for-vagueness |
Due process precludes a district court from relying on misinformation when sentencing a criminal defendant, requiring instead accuracy and reliability… |
| 18-6138 |
Lance Fox v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines beckles-v-united-states certificate-of-appealability criminal-defendant due-process misinformation sentencing sentencing-guidelines townsend-v-burke void-for-vagueness |
Due process precludes a district court from relying on misinformation when sentencing a criminal defendant, requiring instead accuracy and reliability… |
| 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… |
| 18-6120 |
Jose Ramon Pulido-Nolazco v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-justice criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-procedure prior-conviction sentencing sex-offender sex-offender-treatment supervised-release |
The decision of the Eleventh Circuit that Mr. Pulido -Nolazco's thirty year old sex offense is a factor for the Court to consider when determining whe… |
| 18-6121 |
Benjamin Vega-Garcia, aka Carlos Moreno Molina v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari-standard constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent precedent precedent-overruling recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Whether the Court should overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), which holds that a prior conviction qualifying an enhanced … |
| 18-6092 |
Robert Dion Ables v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-appeals criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-plain-error-review empirical-analysis empirical-foundation-of-guidelines guideline-2g2.2 judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-policy substantive-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness-of-sentences |
I. Whether factual error is categorically immune from plain error review?
II. Whether sentences arising under Guideline 2G2.2 tend to produce substan… |
| 18-6103 |
Fernando Valdez-Cejas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process plea-bargaining prior-conviction sentencing statutory-enhancement statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts — including the fact of a prior conviction — that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and … |
| 18-6104 |
Wayne Thomas, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law federal-jurisdiction johnson-standard johnson-v-united-states robbery-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states supreme-court supreme-court-review use-of-force violent-crime |
1) Does the Florida Robbery 812.13 "meet use of force" as defined in Johnson v. United States U.S. (2010)? Petitioner requests a GVR in light of Stoke… |
| 18-6096 |
Michael Jackson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-09-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-U.S.C.-2255 28-usc-2255 acca armed-career-criminal-act case-law evidentiary-record johnson johnson-ruling predicate-conviction residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
I. May a court may grant a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petition challenging his sentence under Johnson when the evidentiary record is silent as to whether the pe… |
| 18-6097 |
Leonard G. Marquez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-09-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary burglary-definition circuit-split mens-rea predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement tenth-circuit violent-felony |
I. Did the Tenth Circuit determine a New Mexico residential burglary is "burglary" under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(ii) in a way that contravenes this C… |
| 18-6065 |
In Re Eric M. Richardson |
|
2018-09-24 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury habeas-corpus judicial-procedure pro-se-petition sentencing standing |
Question not identified. |
| 18-6082 |
Jeffrey Eugene Lee v. R. C. Cheatham, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
betterman-v-montana braden-v-kentucky civil-rights constitutional-claim constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-circuit sentencing sentencing-obligation speedy-trial state-constitutional-obligations state-obligations state-procedure |
WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS BELOW ERRED IN REJECTING THE PETITIONER"S CLAIM UNDER BRADEN V. 30th JUDICIAL CIRCUIT OF KENTUCKY, 410 U.S. 484 (1973) an… |
| 18-6083 |
Jesus Manuel Laureano-Perez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process government-prosecution plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review uncharged-conduct |
Should a writ of certiorari be granted to determine whether the district court erred in enhancing Laureano's sentence based on uncharged conduct not c… |
| 18-6057 |
Omar Sosa-Gonzalez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule first-circuit fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure sentencing standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 18-6067 |
Edward Lee Lewis v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act booker-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process overserved-sentence plainly-unreasonable reasonableness revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-standard standard-of-review supervised-release |
1. Whether the appropriate standard of review for a sentence following the revocation of supervised release is the "plainly unreasonable" standard onc… |
| 18-6069 |
Joel Cadena v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal case-holding circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus legal-deferral pending-litigation petition-for-writ sentencing statutory-interpretation stay supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should hold the instant Petition until the resolution of Stokeling v. United States, 138 S.Ct. 1438 (April 2, 2018), and/or United … |
| 18-6072 |
Cristian Gamez Mendez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts — including the fact of a prior conviction — that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and … |
| 18-374 |
Wuilson Estuardo Lemus Castillo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-21 |
Denied |
|
18-usc-3553(f) 21-usc-960 circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-enforcement mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act safety-valve sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a criminal defendant convicted of violating the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act, 46 U.S.C. § 70501 et seq., and subject to a mandatory minim… |
| 18-6035 |
Zachary Chambers v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-exposure sixth-amendment trial-counsel |
1. Whether the lower court abused its discretion in ruling that trial counsel's erroneous advice about petitioner's sentencing exposure if he proceed … |
| 18-6054 |
In Re Michael Boone |
|
2018-09-20 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights double-jeopardy judge jury sentencing separation-of-powers statute-of-limitations statutory-offense substantive-due-process |
Is Petitioner Boone serving an unlawful/void sentence because it is a Substantive Due Process, Double Jeopardy violation for a defendant to be punishe… |
| 18-6056 |
Harley Blevins, Sr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-punishment-code due-process jury-trial jury-verdict prior-conviction sentence-enhancement sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Is Florida's Prison Releasee Reoffender Act, which nullifies a Criminal Punishment Code (CPC) sentence, unconstitutional and a violation of the Sixth … |
| 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 spilt decisions in the lower court -as to how far a Judge must explain and/or elaborate on a decision to gran… |
| 18-6030 |
Jason M. Smith v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-waiver collateral-attack constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement public-policy sentencing |
In the decision under review, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that an appellate waiver provision in petitioner's plea a… |
| 18-6034 |
In Re Gregory Wayne Burwell |
|
2018-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure federal-grand-jury federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-amendment firearm-offenses forged-indictment grand-jury indictment-validity non-existent-crimes non-existent-offenses sentencing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the District Court and Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal's had subject matter jurisdiction over the criminal case entitled United States of Ameri… |
| 18-6040 |
Daniel Lee Thornberry v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus sentencing standing |
Does The Petition state a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right? Cognizable on 28 use 2254 and Uudr 28 Usc 225314)(2)?.
Does a … |
| 18-6042 |
Ronald Eric Ary v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing deferred-adjudication due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum |
I. Whether this Court should grant review to determine whether a Texas deferred adjudication can qualify as a "prior conviction" for the purposes of t… |
| 18-5978 |
John Robert Register, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender civil-rights criminal-procedure drug-possession due-process plain-error prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
A. Did the court commit a plain error by applying a career offender enhancement to petitioner, even though his prior convictions (to wit: possession o… |
| 18-6013 |
Richard Carl Wyatt v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-09-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
acca armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-vagueness due-process elements-clause habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review johnson-v-united-states presumption presumption-of-regularity residual-clause section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
(1) Whether a § 2255 petitioner seeking relief under Johnson must affirmatively prove that he was sentenced under the residual clause of the ACCA.
(2… |
| 18-6014 |
Javier Vega-Orozco v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres apprendi Certiorari criminal-procedure due-process sentencing sixth-amendment Supreme-Court |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 18-6016 |
Fabian Sandoval-Ramos v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy controlled-substances criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-offense due-process enhancement-factor mandatory-minimum-sentence mandatory-minimum-sentences sentencing sentencing-enhancements statutory-interpretation |
In order to trigger a mandatory minimum sentence, must the government allege and prove that an enhancement factor was the object of the conspiracy, or… |
| 18-6026 |
James Ray Booth v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amendments appeals circuit-court-decision civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction ministerial-correction procedural-relief sentence-amendment sentencing |
The question presented is whether the Circuit Court's decision which held that the term "ministerial correction" nullified amendments to Petitioners' … |
| 18-6027 |
Hayden Beaulieu v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2018-09-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment extradition juvenile-justice plea-deal prosecutorial-discretion sentencing transfer-hearing |
Is it permissible under the 8th amendment of the Constitution to impose an adult sentence upon a minor who has been convicted of a non-dangerous, non-… |
| 18-6028 |
Maurice Baum v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure drug-amount drug-crimes due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment |
Was Trial Counsel's failure to object to the District Court's determination and findings of the drug amount attributable to the Petitioner objectively… |
| 18-6007 |
Valerie Louise Williams v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines appellate-review criminal-procedure downward-variance federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
Whether The Court Should Grant Certiorari to Provide Further Clarification as to the Presumption of Substantive Reasonableness for Downward Variances … |
| 18-5994 |
Ricky Wayne White v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-error legal-relief maximum-sentence misdemeanor-enhancement sentencing sentencing-error state-court-jurisdiction state-courts |
Question One:
Is an error of a lower State Court in
exceeding the maximum sentence legally
allowed, cognizable for relief at any time?
Question Tw… |
| 18-5996 |
Gene Lemay Barris v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing unreasonable-sentence |
1.How ion a sentencing Coust sentenct a defeadent cutside of the
Gui delines orainally out lindd in Tue defendents pka @gret moat. Dots
2. Hou Or can… |
| 18-5997 |
Francisco Burciaga v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-conviction criminal-law drug-classification drug-policy due-process heroin-hydrochloride innocence legal-ambiguity pharmaceutical-industry prosecutorial-discretion sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness |
All University Englh Dictionaries define/describe as follows:
heroin— a derivative of morphine
morphine— a derivative of opium
What is heroin hydro… |
| 18-6000 |
Angel Barreiro v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights de-facto-life-sentence due-process equal-protection florida-supreme-court life-sentence parole parole-eligibility parole-process sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-scheme |
Whether all 4,626 pre-1994 parole eligible Inmates in the State of Florida whom all are equally situated under the statutory schemes and criteria's of… |
| 18-5966 |
Joseph Faulkner v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy fifth-amendment law-of-case-doctrine law-of-the-case prosecution sentencing sentencing-enhancement uncharged-conduct witte-v-united-states |
(1) Whether the use of uncharged conduct to increase a sentence means the conduct was used to punish, and a subsequent prosecution for the same conduc… |
| 18-5930 |
Timothy Walker v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender double-jeopardy drug-offense due-process guideline-amendments guideline-range post-sentencing-litigation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g. |
Does it comport with the Due Process Clause and the prohibition against Double Jeopardy to, for all practical purposes, simultaneously impose two (2) … |
| 18-5944 |
Rafael Tanco-Pizarro v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3583 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing discovery due-process revocation revocation-hearing sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervised-release title-18-usc |
I.
Whether the punishment factor of the federal sentencing statute, Title 18
U.S.C §3553(a)(2)(A), is a permissible or prohibited factor in sentencing… |
| 18-5958 |
Kevin Wilmot v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-09-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing |
FLonida Violate State Ard Federal
CAN the State oF
Constitstional Amendments. And ProviSions ThAt Are
GUArAnteEd becAuse the Prisorer is Poor Ard CArN… |
| 18-5934 |
Deborah M. Wagner v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal civil-procedure criminal-appeal criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process mandatory-victim-restitution-act mvra plea-agreement restitution restitution-order sentencing statutory-authority statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether the United States Court of Appeals erred in granting the Government's Motion to Dismiss the Petitioner's Appeal? |
| 18-5939 |
Gary Michael Allen v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-09-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness due-process johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states mandatory-career-offender-guideline mandatory-guidelines residual-clause section-2255 timely-filing vagueness |
1. Whether a motion for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. _, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), and asser… |
| 18-5914 |
Jeffrey Scott Finney v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 acca acca-sentencing armed-career-criminal-act criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states post-conviction-relief sentencing violent-felony |
Whether the District Court erred in denying Jeffrey Finney's post-Johnson motion for relief pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 |
| 18-5904 |
Donavan Cross v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause constructive-delivery constructive-possession controlled-substance-offense controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-delivery due-process intent sentencing sentencing-guidelines testimonial-evidence |
(1) Whether a statute that criminalizes a constructive delivery of drugs without bona fide intent to transfer possession is a felony "controlled subst… |
| 18-5873 |
Milorad Teodor Olic v. M. Eliot Spearman, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-05 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
behavioral-credits civil-rights due-process parole prison-conditions rehabilitation sentence-reduction sentencing |
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| 18-5885 |
Kenneth Kennedy Shannon v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process evidence heroin-quantity motion-for-acquittal motion-for-new-trial motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence title-iii-wiretap verdict-acquittal |
1. Did the trial court err in denying the Petitioner's Motion for Verdict of
Acquittal and for New Trial, because the evidence taken in the light
most… |
| 18-5895 |
Justin Lyle Izatt v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 constitutional-law court-of-appeals due-process eighth-amendment federal-courts federal-habeas-corpus federal-question gross-disproportionality habeas-corpus judicial-review petition-for-writ-of-certiorari post-conviction-relief sentencing |
1. Whether the Court of Appeals committed error by denying the Petitioner's 28 U.S.C. §2255 petition ? |
| 18-5896 |
Beverly Allen Baker v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights confrontation-clause conspiracy criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel multiple-conspiracies sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
1. Should BAS cov exercise YS Super visecy authority to reverse Nig Bakers cangpiracy comvichon ®
By the end th trial, the government concluded that … |
| 18-5897 |
Arthur Braddy v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-court deprivation deprivation-of-rights due-process florida-statutes legal-procedure minimum-mandatory-sentence sentencing trial-court |
DID THE STATE OF FLORIDA VIOLATE PETITIONER'S RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS BY FAILING TO CORRECT THE TRIAL COURT'S IMPOSITION OF A MINIMUM MANDATORY SENTENCE … |
| 18-5900 |
Juan Carlos Martinez-Barrientos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-review sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 18-288 |
Philip A. Mearing v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-09-05 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
appellate-review appellate-waiver criminal-appeal criminal-defendant-waiver criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining restitution restitution-order sentencing sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether, or under what circumstances, a criminal defendant's waiver in his plea agreement of the right to appeal his "sentence" covers an appeal of… |
| 18-5872 |
Miguel Medina-Reyes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
3553(a) drug-trafficking federal-criminal-justice-system pre-sentence-report sentencing 3553(a) 3553(a)-factors 3553a-factors abuse-of-discretion amendment-782 criminal-procedure drug-amount drug-quantity-attribution drug-trafficking-conspiracy due-process pre-sentence-report sentencing sentencing-discretion threshold |
Whether Petitioner's due process rights were violated where the district court erred by failing to determine whether, at sentencing, Petitioner was in… |
| 18-5876 |
Steven Sanford v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split collateral-review johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether a court may grant a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petition collaterally challenging a sentence under Johnson when the sentencing judge never specified - an… |
| 18-5840 |
George Stoney v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1951 18-usc-924c3a categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
1. Under the categorical approach, rather than the Third Circuit's outlier contemporaneous act approach, does a conviction under the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S… |
| 18-5854 |
Joe Leonard Lambright v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2018-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process incarceration-credit life-sentence parole sentencing statutory-interpretation |
When a defendant's death sentence is vacated and a life sentence with the possibility of parole after 25 years imposed in its place, is the Due Proces… |
| 18-5861 |
Danny Lopez Chavez v. Joel Martinez, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment proportionality sentencing |
(1) Whether appellant's sentence is grossly disproportionate to the crimes of conviction in violation of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cr… |
| 18-5846 |
Dustin Xavier Wilkins, aka Dxavier Wilkins, aka Xavier Wilkins, aka Chosen Wilkins v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2018-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment appeal court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-hearing |
I.
Whether this Court should grant certiorari to determine whether the Petitioner should have been allowed to withdraw his guilty plea based on ineffe… |
| 18-5847 |
Jaime Shakur Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari-petition chavez-meza circuit-split criminal-procedure en-banc en-banc-review plain-error reasonableness remand sentencing sentencing-reasonableness |
I. Should this Court hold this Petition until the court below renders its forthcoming en banc decision in United States v. Reyes-Contreras, 892 F.3d 8… |
| 18-5848 |
Darrell Darcell Darby v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-08-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional criminal-appeals cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process prison-conditions search-and-seizure sentencing standing takings |
[SEE APPENDIX D] WHO IS UNABLE HIMSELFWITH
HOBEOS CORPUS POSTCONUICTION PETI TION TO THE COURTS ).--
CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO HELP BY ANOTHER INMATE
"W… |
| 18-5808 |
Rafael Angel Rondon v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924c 6th-amendment constitutional-law crimes-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process federal-law jury-instructions residual-clause sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent violent-crime |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) pattern jury instruction violates the Sixth Amendment because it concludes that the crutial question… |
| 18-5810 |
Laureano Chirino Rivera v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence government-error government-misconduct judicial-error sentencing sentencing-enhancement standing |
VIOLATION OF ALL CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS ILLEGAL SENTENCE AND DETAINED THE DISTRICT COURT AND THE GOVERNMENT ERRED BY NOT EVIDENCE OR ARGUMENTS AT SENTE… |
| 18-5811 |
Eusebio Escobar De Jesus v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appeals-court criminal-procedure district-court due-process gall-v-united-states guideline-range guidelines molina-martinez-v-united-states offense-level procedural-error rosales-mireles-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Appeals Court erroneously concluded Petitioner failed to state a claim, reasoning for want of a substantial question..., he asserts that (… |
| 18-5821 |
Thomas Lee Farmer v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-08-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
2255-relief collateral-review concurrent-sentence-doctrine constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states multiple-sentences retroactive-constitutional-rule retroactive-review retroactivity section-2255 sentencing sentencing-law |
(1) Whether the concurrent sentence doctrine should be applied to deny § 2255 relief when one of a set of multiple sentences is now invalid because of… |
| 18-5770 |
John Denton Rouse, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
but no text of a SCOTUS petition was provided in I cannot generate a question presented or identif please include the full text of the petition. chapman-v-united-states criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process mandatory-minimum market-oriented-approach sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the government may commingle substances that pose an identifiable danger of misidentification to produce an aggregate mixture or substance con… |
| 18-5786 |
Donell A. Thomas v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
2255-motion certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel loss-calculation rule-59(e)-motion rule-59e section-2255-motion sentencing sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-rights strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Did the Petitioner in his 2255 Motion and Rule 59(e) motion prove his claim that the the Petitioner's trial and appellate counsel's failure to object … |
| 18-5787 |
Danyale Sharron Tubbs v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
competency competency-defense due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-competency mental-illness plain-error procedural-default sentencing sentencing-error strickland-standard |
WAS MICHIGAN'S APPLICATION OF STRICKLAND V WASHINGTON UNREASONABLE WHERE DEFENSE COUNSEL FAILED TO INVESTIGATE AND PRESNT A COMPETENCY DEFENSE IN LIGH… |
| 18-5797 |
Carlos Gutierrez-Torres v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error preservation-of-error sentencing sentencing-review |
The Circuits are split on whether a defendant has to re-object to the district court's explanation of its sentencing rationale in order to preserve th… |
| 18-5804 |
Abdoulaye Diallo v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence fraud indictment-delay insufficient-evidence loss-calculation motion-for-acquittal prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt sentencing snap-fraud statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
I.- Whether the District Court failed where did not granted his motion for acquittal because the Government failed to produce sufficient evidence to s… |
| 18-5748 |
Rory Allen Meeks v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-v-united-states appellate-review constructive-amendment criminal-procedure drug-offense drug-offenses jury-instructions mccoy-v-louisiana mens-rea sentencing sixth-amendment |
QUESTION I:
Whether reasonable jurists might debate the following three questions:
- In light of Alleyne v. United States., 135 S. Ct. and Apprendi v.… |
| 18-5773 |
Michael Delancy v. Jorge L. Pastrana, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
851 F.3d 1076 (11th Cir. 2017) Inc. unconstitutionally forecloses habeas-corpus-acces which is in conflict with opinions of nine other 28-usc-2241 circuit-split constitutional-challenge due-process federal-courts federal-inmates florida-state-convictions habeas-corpus mathis-v-us sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals holding in McCarthan v. Dir. of Goodwill Indus.-Suncoast, Inc., 851 F.3d 1076 (11th Cir. 2017), which… |
| 18-5775 |
William Christopher Hogan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split conflict-of-circuits criminal-history fifth-circuit ninth-circuit sentencing shop-lifting shoplifting texas-state texas-state-law u.s.-supreme-court-rule-10 |
Whether the District Court erred in sentencing Petitioner by adding one point to his criminal history score based on a Texas State shop lifting convic… |
| 18-5779 |
Ray Cobia v. Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2004-conviction 2012-conviction civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing |
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| 18-5739 |
Terril Kinchen v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-fraud civil-procedure constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sentencing standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
1. Whether the trial court plainly erred when it accepted the defendant's guilty plea to Conspiracy to commit robbery and two 924(c) charges where the… |
| 18-5742 |
Solomon David Roberts v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-08-24 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus life-without-parole mandatory-minimums miller-v-alabama sentencing simple-robbery standing |
Whether CAJ NEw Rule oF Lonsttitonal law by the Supreme Lourt to the Dnited states Made [RJe troactive to the statEs is Subsect Previsus filings.?
Pe… |
| 18-5754 |
Ivan Rodrigo Campillo Restrepo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-precedent criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing habeas-corpus jurisdiction mandate-recall penal-term retroactivity sentencing statutory-maximum supreme-court-ruling writ-of-certiorari |
WHETHER RECALL OF THE MANDATE SHOULD ISSUE TO REMEDY A PENAL TERM IMPOSED BEYOND THE STATUTORY MAXIMUM WHEN ABROGATED CIRCUIT PRECEDENT CONTROLS BASED… |
| 18-5757 |
Michael L. Berry v. Walter Nicholson, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus jury-instructions sentencing standing |
I. THIS COURT SHOUID CONSIDER WHETHER PETONER FARLY PRESENTED
HIS CLAIMS AT EACH LEVEL OF THE STAIE'S COURS FOR FEDERAL
REVEW.
A.PETITIONER HAS CEARLY… |
| 18-5764 |
Richard Joseph Crane v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus life-sentence parole parole-consideration sentencing supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Supreme Court intended for the opinion of California Department of Corrections v. Morales (1995) 514 U.S. 499; and Garner v. Jones (U.S.Ga… |
| 18-5714 |
Jose A. Rivera-Quinones v. Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-process confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment prejudicial-evidence sentencing sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Under Our United States Constitution, Amendment VI., Can A Trial Court Posess Subject Matter . Jurisdiction On A Criminal Offense Not Charged Within. … |
| 18-5725 |
Alfred Thomas v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alternative-calculations circuit-split criminal-sentencing double-counting firearms-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-2k2.1(b)(6)(b) u.s.s.g.-2k2.1(c) u.s.s.g.-5k2.6 upward-departure |
Whether the Second Circuit, disagreeing with the Seventh Circuit, correctly held that it is permissible in sentencing a defendant for a firearms offen… |
| 18-5735 |
Harry Lonzo-Bolton Ervin v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
apprendi-alleyne-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-rule criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing habeas-corpus montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity sentencing sentencing-range sixth-amendment teague-v-lane |
Pursuant to the intervening Constitutional rule announced in Montgomery v Louisiana, 577 US ; 136 S Ct 718 (2016), which clarified the retroactivity j… |
| 18-5692 |
Melvin Jordan, III v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-08-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability enumerated-clause habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing violent-felony |
(1) Whether a § 2255 petitioner seeking relief under Johnson must affirmatively prove that he was sentenced under the residual clause of the ACCA.
(2… |
| 18-5693 |
Arlow Antone Kay v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
making robust appellate review unnecessary appellate-review constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-booker |
Have the departure provisions of the United States Sentencing Guidelines been rendered "obsolete" and "superfluous" by this Court's opinion in United … |
| 18-5698 |
Devonte Brown v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2018-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment irreparable-corruption juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana sentencing |
Whether this Court's precedent requires a trial court's record to reflect specific consideration of irreparable corruption before sentencing the child… |
| 18-5707 |
Anthony Curtis Flowers v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-08-22 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
3-strikes armed-career-criminal-act career-offender due-process due-process,johnson-v-united-states,18-usc-924,18- habeas-corpus johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
(1) Whether the district court deprived Flowers due process by denying his
§ 2255 petition challenging his sentences under Johnson v. United States, 1… |
| 18-5708 |
Thomas J. Arnold v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2018-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-proceedings due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest manifest-injustice sentencing sentencing-correction state-collateral-proceedings |
WHETHER PETITIONER HAS BEEN DENIED DUE PROCESS AND EQUAL PROTECTION UNDER THE U.S. CONSTITUTION AMENDMEN XIV, IN HIS STATE COLLATERAL PROCEEDINGS OF R… |
| 18-5671 |
In Re Kenneth Simpson |
|
2018-08-21 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights conditions-of-release due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus parole sentencing standing supervised-release |
which is unconstitutional for any reason, can a Court refuse to address that claim under conditions available at revocation hearings under Johnson v U… |
| 18-5673 |
Eugene Smalls v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing lochner sentencing sentencing-commission-guidelines sixth-amendment state-federal-relations statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 18-5674 |
Roger Clay Swain v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act career-offender collateral-review due-process federal-sentencing habeas-corpus johnson-ruling mandatory-sentencing-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity section-2255-motion sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-retroactivity timeliness |
Did Mr. Swain file his § 2255 motion within one year of "the date on which the right asserted was initially recognized by the Supreme Court," which "h… |
| 18-5681 |
Dexter Leemon Johnson v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2018-08-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-error jury-instructions jury-trial jury-verdict reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-maximum trial-error |
1. PETITIONER WAS DENIED THE RIGHT TO A JURY VERDICT OF GUILTY BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT
2. PETITIONER WAS DENIED EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAWS
3. TR… |
| 18-5640 |
Fredrick A. Laux v. Dushan Zatecky, Superintendent, Pendleton Correctional Facility |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-review criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process dysfunctional-childhood ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence sentencing sixth-amendment strickland-standard Strickland-v-Washington |
Did the Indiana Court of Appeals, the United States Southern District Court and Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals unreasonably apply, or reach a decisi… |
| 18-5654 |
Willie Lee Daniels v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-841 collateral-review constitutional-challenge controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law descamps-v-united-states mathis-v-united-states montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity retroactivity-of-new-rules sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether Mathis v. United States, is retroactive to cases on collateral review, where the principles set forth in Motgomery v. Louisiana, dictate that … |
| 18-5655 |
Cory D. Foster v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-08-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
a question that has split the circuits 10-1 18-usc-924c categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-courts federal-criminal-provision federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-definition statutory-interpretation |
Whether the categorical approach applies in determining whether an offense is a "crime of violence" supporting conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c), a … |
| 18-5656 |
Venise Metayer v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-08-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights counsel-misadvice counsel-role due-process illegal-sentence ineffective-assistance plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing trial-court-denial waiver waiver-of-rights |
I. WERE THE PETITIONER'S CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS VIOLATED WHEN THE TRIAL COURT DENTED HER MOTION FOR ILLEGAL SENTENCE BASED UPON THE PETITIONER'S REFERE… |
| 18-5658 |
Tracey L. Brown v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender commerce commerce-clause-jurisdiction,interstate-commerce,d criminal-procedure Did the Ninth Circuit err by finding that the pret Did the Ninth Circuit err when it sentenced Mr. Br due-process due-process,pretrial-identification,suggestive-ide predicate-crime sentencing sentencing,career-offender,predicate-offense,viole |
1. Did the Ninth Circuit err by finding that there was sufficient evidence for interstate commerce when the underlying acts did not have even a "de mi… |
| 18-5662 |
Myrna Diaz v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2018-08-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights counsel-misconduct criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-representation right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment unauthorized-practice-of-law |
DID THE STAFF OF THE "PROJECT FREEDOM FUND" WHO PROVIDED
FAULTY LEGAL ADVICE TO PETITIONER, AND THUS INDUCED HER TO
WITHDRAW A GUILTY PLEA FOR WHICH S… |
| 18-5663 |
Curtis Lee Dale v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-precedent alleyne-v-united-states criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing,mandatory-minimum,ju drug-quantity due-process eighth-circuit-error fourth-amendment,search-and-seizure,drug-sniffing- fourth-amendment,search-and-seizure,reasonable-exp jury-findings jury-rejection mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Did the U.S. Court of Appeals For The Eighth Circuit err when it increased the Defendant's mandatory minimum sentence on the basis of a drug quantity … |
| 18-5669 |
Peter Cruz v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2018-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process due-process,fifth-amendment,fourteenth-amendment,s fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment life-without-parole massachusetts-law sentencing |
Whether, pursuant to the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, the petitioner can be punished with a sentence of life wit… |
| 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… |
| 18-5620 |
Mario Zuniga v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2244(b) 28-usc-2255(h) attempted-murder criminal-law habeas-corpus mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states second-or-successive-2255-motion second-or-successive-motion section-2255 section-924e sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
I.
Did the Seventh Circuit error in sentencing the Petitioner Mario Zuniga as a career criminal under 18 U.S.C. §924(e), without considering Mathis v.… |
| 18-5603 |
In Re Mark Kilmartin |
|
2018-08-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct jury-trial sentencing structural-error |
WHETHER A CRIMINAL DEFENDANT CAN BE CONVICTED AND SENTENCED
TO LIFE FOR A SEPARATE, NEW AND DISTINCT CRIME WITH WHICH HE HAD
NOT BEEN ON TRIAL FOR AND… |
| 18-5607 |
Friday Ogunyemi James v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure discretion due-process evidence fair-instruction jury-instructions restitution sentencing sentencing-discretion tax tax-offense theory-of-defense trial-exhibit willfulness |
1. Whether the Petitioner was entitled to a fair instruction to support the verdict in his favor on the theory of defense that has the basis in the ev… |
| 18-5615 |
Joel Chavira-Nunez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 appellate-review brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-modification tenth-circuit-review |
Reasonable Jurist would find it debatable Whether the District Court Erred When it Ignored Undisputed Facts Establishing that The Prosecution Violated… |
| 18-5624 |
Feliciano Villa-Sariana, aka Feliciano Villa v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process indictment plea-bargaining prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts B including the fact of a prior conviction B that increase a defendant =s statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and… |
| 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 |
Issue #1 THERE IS A DIVISION AMONG THE CIRCUITS REGARDING ANY STATUTORY PRECLUSION FOR SUCCESSIVE §3582 MOTIONS, EMPLOYING U.S. v. Beard, 745 F.3d 288… |
| 18-202 |
Haynes Timberland, Inc. v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-08-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal-waiver collateral-attack criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining pre-sentence-waiver sentencing waiver waiver-of-rights |
Whether a defendant, by executing a pre-sentence waiver of the right to a direct appeal of his conviction and sentence, implicitly waives his right to… |
| 18-203 |
Joey Montrell Chandler, aka Joey M. Chandler, aka Joey Chandler v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2018-08-15 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
8th-amendment criminal-procedure eighth-amendment incorrigible juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole permanent-incorrigibility rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-discretion state-supreme-courts |
1. Whether the Eighth Amendment requires the sentencing authority to make a finding that a juvenile is permanently incorrigible before imposing a sent… |
| 18-5586 |
William Knight v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-08-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-authority appellate-procedure criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habitual-offender illegal-sentence judicial-abuse judicial-authority jurisdiction sentencing sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum |
WHETHER TRIAL COURT ABUSED THEIR AUTHORITY BY ALLOWING
THE STATE ATTORNEY OFFICE TO IMPOSE A SENTENCE CONTRARY
TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE LAW ON DOUBL… |
| 18-5594 |
Cory Devon Washington v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-08-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus illegal-sentence judicial-review residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement unconstitutional |
Cory Washington is serving an illegal sentence. However, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals held that he is not entitled to relief. The question is wh… |
| 18-5599 |
Anson Chi v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus plea-bargaining pro-se sentencing standing |
(1) Is the risk-of-force/residual clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) unconstitutionally vague in the light of Sessions v. Dimaya, 332 U.S. 584, 138 S.… |
| 18-5533 |
Brandon Maurice Shannon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review certiorari-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit harmless-error judicial-remand plain-error post-conviction-relief retroactivity rosales-mireles sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Should this Court grant certiorari, vacate the judgment, and remand in light
2018), an authority that post-dated the opinion below? |
| 18-5552 |
Victoriano Vega-Jimenez, aka Jose Raul Hernandez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-circuit 18-usc-3582 18-usc-3582(c)(2) circuit-split conflict-with-precedent criminal-sentencing drug-amount drug-quantity drug-sentencing eligibility sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-amendment-782 |
Whether the United States, Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit Has Entered a Decision that Is in Conflict with Its Own Precedent and the Decisio… |
| 18-188 |
Ivy T. Tucker v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-08-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split constitutional-deficiency constitutional-law criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum offense-of-conviction out-of-circuit-precedent procedural-default sentencing sentencing-guidelines trial-counsel |
I. Whether trial counsel's failure to make an
argument that courts of appeals outside the circuit
have accepted (and the circuit has not addressed) ma… |
| 18-5547 |
Jose Estrada-Corrales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 appeal certiorari criminal-procedure due-process federal-appeals remand retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines supreme-court |
Should this Court grant certiorari, vacate the judgment, and remand in light of Chavez-Meza v. United States, __U.S.__, 138 S.Ct. 1959 (June 18, 2018)… |
| 18-5521 |
Miguel Antonio Ramos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process fourth-amendment procedural-due-process sentencing sentencing-enhancement supervised-release |
WHETHER THE PETITIONER WAS DENIED PROCEDURAL DUE PROCESS BY
ENHANCEMENTS TO HIS GUIDELINES SENTENCE WITHOUT ANY PROOF
TO SUPPORT THOSE ENHANCEMENTS?
… |
| 18-5528 |
Brian Thurman v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment united-states-constitution |
Whether the District Court violated Mr. Thurman's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights under the United States Constitution when it increased his sentence… |
| 18-5538 |
Shawn J. Gieswein v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing guidelines molina-martinez-v-united-states peugh-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-errors sentencing-guidelines tenth-circuit volina-martinez-v-united-states |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit erroneously speculated in conflict with the principles enunciated by this Court in Mo… |
| 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 … |
| 18-5491 |
Glen Hughie Lovin, Jr. v. Joe M. Allbaugh, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-08-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-hearing fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudicial-evidence sentencing |
(1) Ground 1: The evidence was not sufficient to prove the State charged the offense of an irrelevant and constitutionality of the conviction, duly as… |
| 18-5504 |
William Lem Posey, II v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing descamps-approach divisibility element-analysis element-based-approach grammar-based-approach mandatory-guidelines non-generic-offense sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
To decide whether a non-generic offense is divisible under Descamps v. United States, 133 S. Ct. 2276 (2013), does a sentencing court need to take a g… |
| 18-5512 |
George Clinton Wilson v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2018-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment. 5th-amendment civil-procedure due-process standing takings civil-rights due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief sentencing state-court-proceedings |
Question not identified. |
| 18-5474 |
Heriberto Garcia-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts – including the fact of a prior conviction – that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eit… |
| 18-5480 |
Bjorn Christian Luster v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-08-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burglary burglary-enhancement criminal-conviction criminal-history due-process evidence-interpretation fifth-amendment-due-process juvenile-offenses points-scoring prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment-effective-assistance-of-counsel ussg-2k2.1(b)(3) ussg-4a1.1 victim-testimony |
1. Did the court err in applying an offense level enhancement under U.S.S.G 2K2,1(a)(3) for having a prior crime of violence" conviction When said con… |
| 18-5481 |
John K. D. Watson v. Virginia |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
' 'colloquy" ' 'due-process" ' 'evidentiary-review' ' 'guilty-plea" ' 'ineffective-assistance-of-counsel" ' 'learning-disability" civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process mental-competency plea-bargaining sentencing |
1)IN HIS CASE, THE GUILTY PLEA WAS NOT ONLY INCOMPREHENSIVE, BUT COERCE AND MADE THROUGH DURESS BY RELYING ON GROSSLY MISINFORMATION BY COUNSEL. I WOU… |
| 18-5495 |
In Re Billy Ray Irick |
|
2018-08-07 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment evolving-standards-of-decency fourteenth-amendment mental-illness personal-culpability sentencing |
Does the imposition of the death penalty on a person who was severely mentally ill at the time of the offense constitute cruel and unusual punishment … |
| 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… |
| 18-5449 |
In Re Michael D. Smith |
|
2018-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 appeals civil-procedure confrontation criminal-procedure district-court-review double-jeopardy due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus indictment motion-to-vacate post-conviction-relief self-incrimination sentencing speedy-trial standing |
Question not identified. |
| 18-5466 |
Lawrence E. Wilson v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2018-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment nunc-pro-tunc open-court right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-requirements sixth-amendment void |
WHETHER A TRIAL COURT'S FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH STATUTORY REQUIREMENTS WHEN IMPOSING A SENTENCE RENDERS THE ATTEMPTED SENTENCE VOID.?
WHETHER THE TRIA… |
| 18-5473 |
Justin Michael Credico v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment free-speech jury-instructions sentencing subjective-intent" |
After a colorable attack was made to the government's case-in-chief evidence, an audio forensics expert was provided to the petitioner, causing the go… |
| 18-5452 |
Kenneth Roshaun Reid v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure conspiracy-liability conviction-validity drug-conspiracy due-process jury-instructions sentencing standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Is it the District Court's duty or to determine under 4 ) the dg quantity Atributable to, D reasonably "Pinkertan" instructions on Co-conspirater when… |
| 18-5405 |
Fortino Pimentel-Soto v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts – including the fact of a prior conviction – that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eit… |
| 18-5409 |
In Re Daniel Riley |
|
2018-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights drug-reimbursement due-process erisa-preemption habeas-corpus judicial-discretion pharmacy-benefit-managers rate-regulation sentencing state-regulation statutory-interpretation supervisory-authority supreme-court-precedent time-limitation time-limits Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in holding that A |
1. Should this Court use its general supervisory authority to rectify an abuse, when the exceptional time of over two years has lapsed since Petitione… |
| 18-5422 |
Dedrick T. Garrett v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
career-offender circuit-split collateral-review constitutional-law mandatory-guidelines pre-booker retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-vagueness vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
In Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) (Samuel Johnson), this Court declared the Armed Career Criminal Act's (ACCA) residual clause uncon… |
| 18-5431 |
Melvin Andrew Morris v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure domestic-violence due-process residual-clause sentencing standing |
Question not identified. |
| 18-5390 |
Khalil Abu Rayyan v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment uncharged-conduct upward-variance |
(1) Several United States Courts of Appeals have suggested that the use of defendants' uncharged, unproven conduct in deciding their sentences may vio… |
| 18-5408 |
Norberto Serna v. California |
California |
2018-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bodily-harm criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection extortion kidnapping sentencing sentencing-disparity |
I. Whether California violates the Equal Protection Clause by imposing a harsher maximum sentence on kidnapper-extortionists—who harm their victims an… |
| 18-5388 |
Albert William Roberts, III v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
acquittal acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure double-jeopardy-clause due-process relevant-conduct sentencing sixth-amendment united-states-v-watts watts-precedent |
Question Number One: We hold that an acquitted count that incorporates all of the
succeeding counts of an indictment retains its acquitted status whe… |
| 18-5389 |
Torrick Johntrelle Rodgers v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree fruits-of-poisonous-tree ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing warrant |
WHETHER: THE DISTRICT COURT SHOULD HAVE SUPPRESSED ALL OF THE FRUITS OF THE POISONOUS TREE BASED UPON THE FOUND TO BE CORRUPTED OFFICIALS AND THE ILLE… |
| 18-5392 |
Quitman Carter v. B. E. Blackmon, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act foreclosed-claims habeas-corpus johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states jurisdiction jurisdictional-bar retroactivity savings-clause section-2241 section-2255 sentencing |
The underlying issue presented in this § 2241 case is whether Mr. Carter is entitled to resentencing under this Court's holdings in Johnson v. United … |
| 18-5395 |
Wayne Clyde Mezzles v. John N. Katavich, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-07-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure-forfeiture defense-counsel due-process federal-claims forfeiture-bar jury-admonitions jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-proportionality state-procedural-bar trial-court |
Before trial, the court ruled that defense expert Robert Owen could testify about Mezzles's PTSD but not about his capacity to form the specific inten… |
| 18-5397 |
Alejandro Parra-Ramos v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure defendant-prejudice due-process government-misconduct judicial-discretion plain-error plea-agreement plea-agreement-breach prejudice prosecutorial-breach sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-recommendation sentencing-variance upward-variance |
Whether a defendant suffers prejudice when the government breaches a plea agreement by calling its agreed-upon recommendation irrational, and the cour… |
| 18-5398 |
Kenneth Floyd Prutting v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 2nd-amendment armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process johnson-claim johnson-v-united-states residual-clause samuel-johnson section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
In 1993, Mr. Prutting was convicted of possessing a firearm as a convicted felon and sentenced under the Armed Career Criminal Act ("ACCA") to 264 mon… |
| 18-5373 |
Otis Sykes v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process guidelines guidelines-range harmless-error judicial-error molina-martinez-v-us rosales-mireles-v-us sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights |
DEFENDANT SEEKS THIS SUPREME COURT'S REVIEW OF HIS ABOVE GUIDELINES SENTENCE IMPOSED WITHIN AN INCORRECT GUIDELINES RANGE UTILIZING "ADDITIONAL EVIDEN… |
| 18-5374 |
Adrian Demond Hyman v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adversarial-system appellate-procedure claim-processing-rule claim-processing-rules criminal-appeal equitable-exception equitable-exceptions federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure jurisdictional-deadline jurisdictional-deadlines non-jurisdictional-deadline non-jurisdictional-rule sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Whether an appellate court acts without authority when it enforces the non-jurisdictional deadline for a direct criminal appeal under Fed. R. App. … |
| 18-5378 |
Alejandro Chavez-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 18-5314 |
Shannon Dale Smith v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-law-sentencing criminal-statute firearm firearm-possession firearms intent mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A) increases the sentence of "any person who, during and in relation to any crime of violence . . . uses or carries a firearm, o… |
| 18-5349 |
Tyron Young v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause confrontation-right cross-examination due-process government-informant hearsay out-of-court-allegations reliability sentencing sentencing-hearing sixth-amendment unsworn-testimony |
I. Whether the Sixth Amendment right to confront and cross-examine adverse witnesses applies at a sentencing hearing where the court bases the sentenc… |
| 18-5311 |
Jack Reid v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure criminal-forfeiture criminal-procedure drug-forfeiture drug-offenses due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines property-rights property-seizure sentencing standing substantial-connection |
Under 21 U.S.C. §853 (a)(2), a person convicted of violating a federal drug law must forfeit to the government "any of the person's property used, or … |
| 18-5313 |
Joseph Steele v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-sentencing elements-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
1. Whether the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in contrast to every other federal circuit except for the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circ… |
| 18-5319 |
Timothy Galen Tolbert v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583 bureau-of-prisons drug-treatment due-process liberty liberty-deprivation post-release-conditions revocation sentencing statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether the District Court deprived the Petitioner of liberty within the terms of 18 U.S.C. 3583 (c) and (d) by re-sentencing Petitioner to incarcerat… |
| 18-5324 |
Anastasio N. Laoutaris v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1030 criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-due-process due-process evidence fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jackson-v-virginia judgment-of-acquittal malicious-code perjury perjury-standard reasonable-doubt sentencing strickland-standard sufficiency-of-evidence |
Has the Fifth Circuit erred and its decision is in conflict with this Court's holding in Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307, 99 S.Ct. 2781, 61 L.Ed.2d … |
| 18-5325 |
Lena Lasher v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
but no text was provided for analysis. Without th I cannot generate a question presented or identif please provide the full text of the petition. civil-rights collateral-attack criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus racial-discrimination school-desegregation sentencing voting-rights |
1. Once a prisoner requests relief under Motion 2255, must a District Court grant an evidentiary hearing on the prisoner's claims?
2. If the evidenti… |
| 18-5298 |
Reuben Stewart v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-07-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-922g 18-usc-924 18-usc-924e2bii 8th-amendment aggravated-assault criminal-law due-process johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states means-rea mens-rea recklessness sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Does a prior conviction predicated on a means rea of recklessness qualify as a violent felony under 18 U.S.C. section 924(e)(2)(B)(ii) in light of Joh… |
| 18-5299 |
Derek Antonio Smith v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2018-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence sentencing standing transcripts |
If the tIh exually?
. Grounds for dismissal of my caseywere brought dn y trial by the district attorney due to the lack of widence. The Judge denied i… |
| 18-5317 |
Jose Villanueva-Cardenas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-conviction-enhancement sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts – including the fact of a prior conviction – that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eit… |
| 18-5321 |
Salvador Ortiz-Uresti v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-07-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split colorado-drug-statute criminal-law divisibility drug-statute federal-predicate federal-sentencing immigration-consequences nationwide-impact sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
When deciding whether a conviction under Colorado's primary drug statute qualifies as a federal predicate for an increased sentence, should a court tr… |
| 18-98 |
Jerrard T. Cook, aka Jerrad T. Cook, aka Jerrard Cook aka Jerrard Tramaine Cook, aka J-Fat v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2018-07-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-prohibits juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole montgomery-v-louisiana permanent-incorrigibility sentencing sentencing-authority |
The Court stated in Montgomery v. Louisiana that the Eighth Amendment prohibits life without parole sentences "for all but the rarest of juvenile offe… |
| 18-5280 |
Patrick Lanier v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal criminal-procedure eighth-amendment fifth-circuit judicial-proceedings judicial-review manifest-miscarriage plain-error plain-error-review restitution rule-52b sentencing sentencing-error |
1. In Puckett v. United States, 556 US 129, 135 (2009) this Court held that under the fourth prong of plain error review, "[t]he Court of Appeals shou… |
| 18-5284 |
Bruce L. Small v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto habeas-corpus sentencing |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional right to due process and appellate review was violated by the trial court's denial of his ex post facto violat… |
| 18-5287 |
Luis Salas v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-conviction due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-vacate sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether the trial and appellate court erred in denying Petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability? |
| 18-5294 |
Herbert Pridgen v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adjudication appeal appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court-error civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-judgment judicial-review jurisdiction legal-adjudication procedural-defect sentencing |
1. Did the Circuit Court error in its opinion when it failed to properly address the four issues raised on appeal for adjudication giving a insufficen… |
| 18-5297 |
Allen Jamel Robinson v. Darryl Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment |
Question not identified. |
| 18-5305 |
Aubry Rae Johnson v. Paul Copenhaver, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure double-counting due-process federal-custody federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus habeas-petition jurisdiction primary-jurisdiction sentencing state-custody time-served |
1. commencing where federal authorities do not have primary jurisdiction of the inmate?
2. May a state's primary jurisdiction over an inmate only be … |
| 18-5256 |
Brandon Wade Moragne-El v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2018-07-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection guilty-plea judicial-precedent pennsylvania plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal precedent sentencing supreme-court |
1. Does the denial of the Petitioner's Motion to Withdraw his Guilty Plea contradict Precedent case law from the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, the S… |
| 18-5276 |
William Clark v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2018-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-of-majority age-of-maturity brain-development criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection juvenile-justice montgomery-line sentencing sentencing-considerations |
Whether the Montgomery Line of decisions apply to those under 18-years-old?
Whether the Equal Protection clause is violated where other courts have a… |
| 18-5257 |
Frederick E. Melvin v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Florida |
2018-07-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process ex-post-facto parole prisoner-rights retroactive-application sentencing separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
(1) Would it be unconstitutional if the Florida Commission on Offender Review formerly the Florida Parole Commission knowingly operate Florida's Conso… |
| 18-5258 |
Howell Miller v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure criminal-procedure due-process en-banc-review judge-found-facts judicial-fact-finding sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment uniformity-of-decisions united-states-v-booker |
WHETHER A DRASTICALLY INCREASED SENTENCE (FROM ROUGHLY 10 YEARS TO 12 YEARS) THAT WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN REASONABLE BUT FOR JUDGE-FOUND FACTS VIOLATES TH… |
| 18-5266 |
Michael Ferguson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines arrest-records bare-arrest-records dismissed-charges due-process evidence-reliability hearsay hearsay-evidence reliability-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
(1) What standard of scrutiny does Due Process require courts to use when evaluating the reliability of evidence courts rely on to impose a sentence?
… |
| 18-5268 |
Jeremiah T. Sailor v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 acca burden-of-proof collateral-review johnson johnson-v-united-states record residual-clause sentencing |
1.) Whether a court may grant a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petition collaterally challenging a sentence under Johnson when the sentencing judge never specified … |
| 18-5230 |
John Parker Murphy v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-07-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-error due-process johnson-movant johnson-v-united-states retroactivity sentencing sentencing-error statutory-interpretation welch-v-united-states |
The question in this case has arisen with great frequency in the wake of Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), and Welch v. United States,… |
| 18-5245 |
Jesus M. Rios-Ramos v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-07-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act beckles-precedent beckles-v-united-states career-offender career-offender-guideline criminal-law due-process johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness |
Whether this Court should address the application and contours of the residual clause of the Career Offender guideline, U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2, in light of … |
| 18-5246 |
Warren Darrell Rivers v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-07-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-punishment-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment individualized-sentencing sentencing sentencing-determination |
WHETHER PROSECUTION EVIDENCE THAT A CAPITAL DEFENDANT HAS BEEN SENTENCED TO DEATH ONCE BEFORE IN THE SAME CASE IMPERMISSIBLY UNDERMINES THE SENTENCING… |
| 18-5242 |
Kenneth Martin, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof co-conspirator co-conspirator-testimony corroboration corroboration-requirement criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standard fifth-circuit-law plea-bargain sentencing testimony witness-credibility |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's law that allows a conviction based solely
on the uncorroborated testimony of a co-conspirator should be abandoned, or at
l… |
| 18-5234 |
Marcos Rodriguez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-07-13 |
GVR |
Relisted (3)IFP |
18-usc-924c3b co-defendant-motions criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-procedure legal-joinder second-amendment sentencing statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
Whether the 'risk of force' clause of 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(3)(B) is void for vagueness.
Whether the granting of a request to join in motions of a co-def… |
| 18-5217 |
Audy Perez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review due-process johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity section-2255-motion sentencing sentencing-enhancement successive-2255-motion successive-habeas vagueness welch-v-united-states |
In Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. __, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), this Court declared unconstitutionally vague the "residual clause" of the Armed Care… |
| 18-5221 |
Aquilino Guizamano-Cortes v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law drug-offense due-process equal-protection maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law rational-basis safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation territorial-jurisdiction |
The exclusion of the Maritime Drug Law Enforcemen Act (46 U.S.C. § 70503) from eligibility for safety valve violates equal protection, because there i… |
| 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… |
| 18-5188 |
James Wilks v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) abuse-of-discretion district-court judicial-discretion plain-error plainly-unreasonable revocation revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-factors supervised-release unreasonable-sentence |
Did the District Court enter a plainly unreasonable sentence for revocation of supervised release when it did not properly balance the sentencing fact… |
| 18-5204 |
Jose Luis Morales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure due-process enhancement evidence fact-finding immigration immigration-law judicial-error sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation undocumented-aliens |
WHETHER THE LOWER COURT ERRORED BY DENYING THE RELIEF UNDER SECTION 3E1:1 FOR ACCEPTANCE OF RESPONSIBILITY ?
WHETHER THE LOWER COURT ERRORED IN ENHAN… |
| 18-5206 |
Gary Dewayne Oatman v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability double-jeopardy due-process enhanced-sentence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-mistrial sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 18-5210 |
Robert A. Espinoza v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) attempt-offense crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-statute johnson-v-united-states predicate-offense sentencing sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation |
Illinois attempt offenses have two elements: an intent to commit an offense and a substantial step towards commission of the offense. The substantial … |
| 18-5177 |
Herman Majors v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
concurrent-sentence criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-quantity due-process foreseeable-drug-quantity ineffective-assistance sentencing sentencing-prejudice sixth-amendment |
I. Whether a defendant in a drug conspiracy case suffers prejudice when his attorney fails to argue at sentencing that foreseeable drug quantity is li… |
| 18-5182 |
Carlton Butler v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split count-of-conviction criminal-procedure district-court-authority federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure illegal-sentence reallocation reallocation-of-sentences rule-35 scope-of-judicial-power sentencing split-among-circuits |
Whether Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 35(a) grants a district court authority to reallocate the illegal portion of a term of imprisonment levied … |
| 18-5187 |
Verissimo Tavares v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
beckles-v-united-states career-offender congressional-directive crime-of-violence criminal-sentencing-guidelines due-process johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states procedural-error residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
1. Whether application of the residual clause of the definition of "crime of violence" in U.S.S.G. §4Bl.2(a)(2), a clause identical to that of the res… |
| 18-5189 |
Glenvert Green v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process fifth-amendment hearsay hearsay-evidence sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment victim-impact-statement victim-impact-statements |
A. Do the Sixth and Fifth Amendments provide a criminal defendant with a right to cross-examine a government witness who testifies during a sentencing… |
| 18-5156 |
D'Angelo Battis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process eleventh-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness pro-se pro-se-brief pro-se-representation sentencing standard-of-review unconstitutional-sentence |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred when it ignored Petitioner's pro se brief, in its entirety.
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of… |
| 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… |
| 18-5176 |
In Re Winex Eugene |
|
2018-07-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence article-iii career-offender case-or-controversy categorical-approach constitutional-review redressability residual-clause sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers standing standing-civil-procedure |
1) Does Mr. Eugene's incarceration constitute a case involving substantial injury, whereby a controversy requiring Article III exercise of discretion … |
| 18-5129 |
Rodolfo Trejo v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-counting due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection immigration sentencing sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness |
I.- Whether Petitioner's Sentence Constitutes Impermissible Double Counting.
Whether Petitioner's Sentence is Substantively Unreasonable Under the th… |
| 18-5139 |
Donald Keith Runnels v. Presley Bordelon, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeals civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus new-trial sentencing |
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| 18-5149 |
Francisco Cubero v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability collateral-relief collateral-review conflicting-results due-process plea-hearing procedural-default sentencing supervised-release supervised-release-term |
I. During Francisco Cubero's plea hearing , the magistrate judge told him that his
supervised-release term could not exceed five years but, at sentenc… |
| 18-5162 |
Ellord Wells v. Mary Potter, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process guilty-plea mandatory-sentence sixth-amendment trial-court appeal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-sentence sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether appellate counsel rendered ineffective assistance by not arguing that the trial court failed to inform the appellant of the mandatory nature o… |
| 18-5166 |
Darrell Taylor v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
alleyne-retroactivity alleyne-v-united-states collateral-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure legal-interpretation retroactivity sentencing supreme-court-precedent time-limitations |
Did the Lower Courts incorrectly hold that Alleyne v. United States did not affect time limitations and held not retroactive on collateral review when… |
| 18-5114 |
Nigel L. Faison v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines standing statutory-interpretation takings |
failed to review 4CCA when entered Claim .5 hualidated due to that 0lea insufficlent factuar basis. e founs whea it 4CCA that shcofret erned drug quan… |
| 18-5121 |
Leslie Dominic Musgrove v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
acquitted-conduct drug-quantity due-process jury-verdict nelson-v-colorado preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence relevant-conduct sentencing sixth-amendment |
Question # 1
Whether it is a Sixth Amendment and Due Process violation for a judge
at sentencing to attribute acquitted and relevant conduct by a pr… |
| 18-5126 |
Jamal Hamilton v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge crime-of-violence due-process johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-barahona void-for-vagueness |
Whether Lynch v. Dimaya, No. 15-1498, 2016 WL 3232911 (U.S. Sept. 29, 2016), to determine whether the identical language in the residual clause of 18 … |
| 18-5127 |
Martinez Orlando Black v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process felony-classification habitual-offender ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-delinquency prior-conviction recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Did the failure of defense counsel to object to the increase in Petitioner's sentence into the "aggravated range" at Felony Class C, by use of a prior… |
| 18-5144 |
Julio Gutierrez-Jaramillo v. Warden, FCI Gilmer |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3585 bureau-of-prisons bureau-of-prisons-program-statement criminal-procedure due-process extradition federal-bureau-of-prisons foreign-detention judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-credit sentencing-guidelines time-credit time-served united-states-v-wilson |
I. Whether prior credit for time held in foreign detention can only be given by the Federal Bureau of Prisons and to do so by the district court at se… |
| 18-5075 |
Felix A. Okafor v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
beyond-reasonable-doubt-standard Blockburger-test blockburger-v-united-states Brady-v-Maryland concurrent-sentence criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process exculpatory-evidence glover-v-united-states in-re-winship kyles-v-whitley ray-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-determination sixth-amendment |
MAY A CONVICTION THAT IS ADMITTEDLY A VIOLATION OF THE CONCURTRENT SENTENCE DOCTRINE BE ALLOWED TO STAND IN LIGHT OF RAY V. UNITED STATES, ,481 U.S. 7… |
| 18-5080 |
Derrick Pittman v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
carachuri-rosendo-v-holder career-offender career-offender-enhancement criminal-sentencing north-carolina-justice-reinvestment-act north-carolina-law post-release-supervision predicate-felonies sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guideline united-states-sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the period of post-release supervision mandated for offenders punished under the North Carolina Justice Reinvestment Act is part of the term o… |
| 18-5105 |
Atnafu Ras Makonnen v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act career-offender categorical-approach due-process fifth-amendment predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense violent-felony |
Whether in its supervisory jurisdiction over the Courts of the United States, and based upon this Court's clear precedent and the facts of record, thi… |
| 18-5108 |
Jaime Davila-Reyes, aka Peluche, aka Pai, aka Jaime, aka Chezina v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-sentencing dismissed-charges due-process judicial-discretion preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness unproven-allegations |
Whether Petitioner's sentence was substantively unreasonable because the district court violated due process when it enhanced Petitioner's sentence ba… |
| 18-5109 |
Reggie Rankins v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2018-07-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence jurisdiction jury-trial sentencing sexual-assault statutory-interpretation |
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| 18-5111 |
Lynette Gregory v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-forfeiture drug-case due-process illegal-sentence money-judgment plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-waiver statutory-authorization statutory-maximum |
1. Is a question of the legality of a federal criminal sentence subject to waiver by plea agreement? In avoidance of this question, should an agreemen… |
| 18-5072 |
Jill M. Evans v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility burden-on-court-system criminal-procedure due-process efficient-punishment federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines guilty-plea plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines unrelated-offenses |
Under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, should a defendant be entitled to credit under the acceptance of responsibility guideline (USSG §3E1.1) if sh… |
| 18-5073 |
Victor Armando Cruz-Colocho v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres apprendi apprendi-rule criminal-procedure due-process prior-conviction recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
1. Should the Court consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Apprendi… |
| 18-5033 |
Johnny L. Dawson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-sentencing due-process eleventh-circuit modified-categorical-approach prior-convictions prior-offenses sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing,criminal-law,statutory-interpretation statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding Petitioner's prior offenses qualified him under the Armed Career Criminal Act ("ACCA… |
| 18-5041 |
Louis Robinson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-law-procedure criminal-statute due-process johnson-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
I. Whether § 924(c)'s residual clause, 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B), is unconstitutionally vague after Johnson v. United States , 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) a… |
| 18-5046 |
Giezi Magno Zamora v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process eleventh-circuit evidence habeas-corpus international-law judicial-review maritime-law sentencing sentencing-reasonableness writ-of-certiorari |
In United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220 (2005), United States v. Rita, 551 U.S. 338 (2007) and United States v. Gall, 552 U.S. 38 (2007), this Court … |
| 18-5047 |
Keith Lamont Tutt v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion acceptance-of-responsibility corporate-liability criminal-procedure-due-process discretion due-process environmental-regulations fair-opportunity officer-responsibility plea-bargaining regulatory-compliance sentencing statutory-interpretation withdraw-guilty-plea withdrawal-of-plea |
1) Whether the district court Prejudiced the defendant by denying him due process of a concerning his reasons for Wanting to withdraw his guilty plea … |
| 18-5051 |
Samuel Jason Derrick v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
arbitrary-cutoff capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity sentencing |
1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, which is based on an arbitrary cutoff… |
| 18-5062 |
Norman L. Hunter v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aged-offenses appellate-review career-offender civil-procedure criminal-history district-court-error due-process guideline-determination sentencing-enhancement sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines standing writ-of-certiorari |
I. Should a writ of certiorari be granted to determine whether the district court erred in sentencing Hunter as a career offender when the offenses ut… |
| 18-8 |
Samuel Cohen v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment standing |
Question not identified. |
| 18-5001 |
John Theodore Hancock v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burrage-standard but-for-causation causation criminal-law criminal-procedure death-penalty death-resulting due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Does a jury instruction that submits the question of whe-
ther a death was the result of the accused's offense by simply
tracking the statutory lang… |
| 18-5002 |
John Gray v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-06-28 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process habeas habeas-corpus illegal-confinement judicial-misconduct retroactivity sentence-expiration sentencing standing unlawful-confinement vindictiveness |
Whether certiorari is warranted to correct disobedience by the state courts and lower federal courts if their decisions are contrary to clearly establ… |
| 18-5016 |
George Eli Brown, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment driver's-license due-process fourth-amendment inchoate-hunch law-enforcement motorist-rights police-investigation reasonable-suspicion sentencing traffic-stop |
DOES A POLICE OFFICER'S BELIEF THAT HE ALLEGEDLY HAS REASONABLE SUSPICION A MOTORIST DOES NOT HAVE A DRIVER'S LICENSE DIMINISH TO AN INCHOATE HUNCH OR… |
| 18-5027 |
Mark O. Wright v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2018-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-defendant criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judgment-enforcement legal-procedure lesser-included-offense sentencing sixth-amendment state-supreme-court void-ab-initio void-judgment |
1. Can a state Supreme Court enforce a judgment against a criminal defendant for an offense that was never charged and which was not a lesser included… |
| 25A568 |
Leroy Thomas Joyner, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
|
Application |
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ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment transcript-access trial-counsel |
Question not identified. |