sentencing-court

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-6246 Benny Roe Stewart v. Jim Salmonsen, Warden Montana 2025-01-08 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection montana-statute sentencing-court subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether Montana Statute M.C.A. (46-22-101) violates constitutional due process and equal protection when subject matter jurisdiction is challenged
23-5055 Erick De Jesus-Torres v. United States First Circuit 2023-07-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting appellate-review downward-variance gall-v-united-states kimbrough-v-united-states meaningful-explanation policy-considerations sentencing-court sentencing-enhancement sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines Whether a sentencing court must provide a reasonable explanation, on the record, as to why it is not considering a sentencing factor, particularly an …
22-7523 Samuel Caison v. United States First Circuit 2023-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment incarceration mental-health nature-of-crime personal-characteristics sentencing-court sentencing-guidelines Whether imposing a period of incarceration that is within the Sentencing Guidelines range can be considered cruel and unusual punishment when the offe…
19-7307 Julian Moz-Aguilar v. United States Third Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach conduct-based-inquiry crime-of-violence elements-clause force-requirement johnson-v-united-states modified-categorical-approach physical-force sentencing-court Whether a sentencing court may consider a defendant's actual conduct in determining if an offense qualifies as a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 9…
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 Whether a sentencing court may look to disputed facts in the record to determine whether a prior conviction qualifies as a violent felony under the Ar…
19-6357 James Alton Turner, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 acca-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process,criminal-procedure,sentencing,acca,joh elements-clause habeas-relief johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing-court sentencing-guidelines violent-felonies Whether a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petitioner must affirmatively prove the sentencing court relied on the residual clause
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…
19-5738 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 Whether the Sentencing Court erred in finding Petitioner obstructed justice, pursuant to U.S.S.G. § 3C1.1, when Petitioner did not correct the name un…
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 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 St…
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 Whether a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petitioner must affirmatively prove sentencing court relied on residual clause
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 …
18-9106 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…
18-7585 Lemuel Gay v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-court appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court guideline-enhancement guidelines judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing-court sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Can the sentencing court's statement—that it would impose the same sentence irrespective of any error in its application of a guideline enhancement—ab…
18-229 Ralph Curry v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split johnson-v-united-states judicial-review post-sentencing-caselaw residual-clause section-2255-motion sentencing-court sentencing-enhancement standard-of-proof successive-28-usc-2255-motion Whether a sentencing court may grant a successive 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion to vacate a sentence based on the Supreme Court's invalidation of the Armed …
18-5370 Thomas Juresic v. Illinois Illinois 2018-07-26 Denied IFP civil-commitment custody due-process equal-protection liberty-interests null-and-void personal-jurisdiction sentencing-court statutory-provisions Does a civil commitment court have the constitutional authority to usurp custody and personal jurisdiction over a person prior to the expiration of th…