sentencing-authority

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-5611 Daquan Carey v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii constitutional-interpretation district-court judicial-discretion sentencing-authority sentencing-requests Whether a district court's sentencing authority is constrained by the parties' sentencing requests under Article III, Section 2, of the United States …
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 Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has so far departed from established Federal Law and the legal standards set out by this Court in MILLER…
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)?
22-7192 Dan Pizarro v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-04-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP consecutive-sentences criminal-sentencing district-court-authority district-court-discretion federal-criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction future-events future-sentence-commencement judicial-sentencing-power sentencing-authority setser-v-united-states Does a district court exceed its authority by expressly or effectively ordering its sentence to run consecutively to a sentence in another federal cas…
22-5782 Matthew Tassin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 circuit-court circuit-court-authority criminal-procedure district-court federal-prisoner ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel resentencing section-2255 sentencing-authority statutory-interpretation Whether a Circuit Court can limit the authority of a district court to resentence a federal criminal defendant or correct a criminal sentence 'as may …
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 the U.S. District Court exceeded its authority and/or jurisdiction
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 Is the Department of Corrections above the Judicial Branch in such a way that it may increase a judicially given Maximum sentence without judicial ord…
20-6910 El-Asad Alsaedi v. Florida Florida 2021-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum sentencing-authority sentencing-guidelines standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in dismissing Petitioner's civil rights claims against Defendant for lack of standing
19-5201 Kenneth Medenbach v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3561 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing criminal-sentencing-authority district-court-jurisdiction due-process jurisdiction probation probation-term sentencing-authority statutory-interpretation substantial-rights supervised-release Did the District Court err in finding that it has authority under 18 USC §3561(a)(3) to impose a sentence of six months imprisonment and a 5 year term…
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 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 impermis…
18-1259 Brett Jones v. Mississippi Mississippi 2019-03-29 Judgment Issued Amici (14)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole permanent-incorrigibility sentencing-authority Whether the Eighth Amendment requires the sentencing authority to make a finding that a juvenile is permanently incorrigible before imposing a sentenc…
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 Whether the Eighth Amendment requires the sentencing authority to make a finding that a juvenile is permanently incorrigible in order to impose a sent…