sentencing-courts

Case	Title	Lower Court	Docketed	Status	Flags	Tags	Question Presented
22-7418	Sammy Redi Araya v. United States	Fourth Circuit	2023-05-01	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	burden-of-proof criminal-fraud government-failure judicial-discretion loss-amount loss-calculation plea-bargaining sentencing-courts sentencing-guidelines victim-losses	Whether a sentencing court is required to verify actual or intended victim losses when applying a U.S. Sentencing Guidelines enhancement
22-6659	Armando Lopez-Rivera v. United States	First Circuit	2023-01-30	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	appellate-review appellate-standard concurrent-sentence gall-precedent gall-v-united-states individualized-assessment intellectual-disability judicial-explanation sentencing-courts sentencing-explanation sentencing-review	Whether a sentencing court must provide a reasonable explanation, on the record, as to why it is not considering a sentencing factor advanced by a def…
22-5788	Martin Elliott Brooks v. United States	Fourth Circuit	2022-10-07	Denied	IFP	appellate-review circuit-split harmless-error judicial-discretion procedural-error rule-52 sentencing-courts sentencing-guidelines	Whether errors in calculating the Sentencing Guidelines are rendered harmless by the district court's assertion that the Guidelines would make no diff…