sentencing-argument
6 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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… |
| 23-5389 | 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? |
| 22-5484 | Erika Perez-Garcia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-09-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review conflict-with-other-courts criminal-procedure district-court holguin-hernandez judicial-discretion sentencing-argument 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… |
| 21-7626 | Joseph Martinez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-04-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court guideline-range holguin-hernandez judicial-discretion sentencing-argument 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… |
| 18-9791 | Luis David Moreno-Pena v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-27 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion leniency preservation-of-error sentencing-argument sentencing-reasonableness sentencing-review | Whether challenges to the reasonableness of a sentence rooted in a court's failure to address arguments for leniency must be preserved by specific obj… |
| 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 | Whether the government may avoid its obligation to scrupulously observe the terms of a plea agreement by including in its sentencing argument informat… |