| 25-6086 |
Jonathan Kemuel Fargas-Reyes v. United States |
First Circuit |
2025-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split sentencing-disparities sentencing-reform similar-conduct statutory-interpretation |
A core purpose of the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 is to eliminate arbitrary sentencing disparities. As part of that reform, 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(6) r… |
| 25A355 |
United States v. Shaheem Johnson |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-26 |
Presumed Complete |
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co-conspirators extraordinary-and-compelling section-3553 section-3582 sentence-reduction sentencing-disparities |
Whether sentencing disparities between co-conspirators can constitute 'extraordinary and compelling reasons' for a sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. … |
| 24-5192 |
Matthew Nicholson v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2024-07-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
arbitrariness constitutional-proportionality county-geography criminal-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment equal-protection geographic-disparity gregg-v-georgia sentencing-disparities |
Is Ohio's death penalty being arbitrarily applied in violation of Gregg v. Georgia, when geography dictates whether a defendant will be subject to the… |
| 23-6068 |
Jermaine Deshan West v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment courts-of-appeals due-process empirical-evidence equal-protection fifth-amendment methamphetamine sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the U.S. Sentencing Commission abdicated its duties under 28 U.S.C. $994(2)(1)(B) when determining the appropriate amount of imprisonment Cour… |
| 22-7690 |
Rodney Raphael Fluckes v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-law federal-act federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-disparities 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… |
| 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 |
Whether a Clromye wa daw mas/ be A Cwlaorclea and Compelling veasah for Compasslonate Celease |
| 22-6473 |
Michael Dewayne Dennis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment privacy privacy-rights reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search sentencing-disparities surveillance warrantless-search |
whether-long-term-police-use-of-a-surveillance-camera-is-a-fourth-amendment-search |
| 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 |
Whether a court may categorically refuse to consider empirical evidence showing that other judges impose sentences below the guideline range in the va… |
| 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 |
Did the district court violate the petitioner's rights under the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment? |
| 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 |
Whether the district court abused its discretion in not granting the defendant a variance sentence |
| 21-6207 |
Philip Bernard Friend v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review comparable-cases comparative-sentencing criminal-procedure federal-sentencing-guidelines juvenile-offenders sentencing-disparities sentencing-reasonableness sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness substantive-review |
Whether an appellate court reviewing a sentence for substantive reasonableness should consider, when presented, a comparison between the instant case … |
| 21-5671 |
Vicente Corona v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-09-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 compassionate-release criminal-sentencing extraordinary-compelling-reasons sentencing-disparities sentencing-reduction sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation |
Whether 'Extraordinary and Compelling Reasons' to Reduce a Defendant's Sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i) may be based on any Factor a Court … |
| 21-5104 |
John G. Tomes, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-07-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3582 compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process extraordinary-circumstances judicial-discretion sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation |
Whether 'Extraordinary and Compelling Reasons' to Reduce a Defendant's Sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i) may be based on any Factor a Court … |
| 20-8354 |
Lewis Wesley Hickman, III v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process evidence-challenge felony-conviction judicial-review mandatory-minimum plea-bargaining sentencing-disparities sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the sentencing enhancements were properly applied |
| 20-7973 |
Zavion Nunley v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split data-availability judicial-discretion nationwide-statistics reasonableness-of-sentence sentencing-disparities sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statistical-analysis unwarranted-disparities |
Whether statistics demonstrating that judges in the sentencing district impose sentences much more frequently than their peers in other district are r… |
| 20-7276 |
Russell Lawayne Montague v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance criminal-procedure due-process protective-order sentencing-disparities sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review supervised-release |
Whether the district court ordered an unreasonably long 114-month prison sentence |
| 20-7056 |
Faramarz Mehdipour v. Heather Coyle, Judge, et al. |
Oklahoma |
2021-02-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-challenges frivolous habeas-corpus malicious procedural-deficiencies sentencing-disparities standing |
Whether the Oklahoma Supreme Court should provide a list of the cases they claim to be frivolous or malicious, and afford the petitioner an opportunit… |
| 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 |
Whether sentencing courts are required to consider the need to avoid unwarranted sentencing disparities |
| 20-5976 |
Dean Reynolds v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing obstruction-of-justice procedural-unreasonableness profit-calculation remand resentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure |
Is defendant's sentence procedurally unreasonable due to errors in sentencing guidelines calculation and enhancement? |
| 19-8680 |
Adrian Zitalpopoca-Hernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 circuit-split comparative-sentencing criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion sentencing-disparities sentencing-disparity statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(6) requires federal judges to compare a defendant's sentence to the sentences of his codefendants, the sentences of defend… |
| 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-p… |
| 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 |
| 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 the sentencing court's failure to consider the proper… |
| 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 |
Whether the sentence is substantively unreasonable due to unwarranted sentencing disparities and failure to provide for just punishment and adequate d… |
| 18-8352 |
Lino Hernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a 18-usc-3582(c)(2) 3553(a)-factors 3582(c)(2)-motion amendment-782 amendment-782-788 criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion procedural-reasonableness sentence-disparity sentence-reduction sentencing-disparities sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the District Court committed substantive error in sentencing |
| 18-8328 |
Maritza Burgueno-Gonzalez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) 18-USC-3553a criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion federal-sentencing sentencing-considerations sentencing-disparities smuggling smuggling-scheme unwarranted-sentences |
Whether the district court violated 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)'s rule that a district court must consider unwarranted sentencing disparities |
| 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 |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit decided the opinion below based on inaccurate information and thereby betrayed the due process guarantees of the Fifth Am… |
| 18-596 |
Marie Neba v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion judicial-review presumption-of-reasonableness proportionality rita-v-united-states sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines |
Should the Court overrule or refine Rita v. United States (2007) 551 U.S. 338, such that an irregular and disproportionate within-Guidelines sentence … |
| 18-6208 |
Nicholas Ryan Hemsher v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 8th-circuit appellate-review circuit-split co-conspirators criminal-enhancement criminal-procedure sentencing-disparities sentencing-disparities-18-usc-3553-a-6 sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in finding that the statutory direction to avoid unwarranted disparities among defendants does not a… |
| 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 |
Is Howard's 457% above-guideline variance sentence procedurally unreasonable because the District Court failed to consider the need to avoid unwarrant… |
| 18-6111 |
Thompson Christopher Kyle Mandrell v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3553a6 appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentence-disparity sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the federal sentencing court failed to properly consider and apply 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(6) regarding unwarranted sentence disparities |
| 18-5969 |
Carlos Alberto Fuentes-Canales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burglary burglary-offense crime-of-violence criminal-history plain-error-review sentencing-disparities sentencing-enhancement sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines unwarranted-disparities |
Did the Fifth Circuit err—to the point of warranting summary reversal—when it denied Petitioner relief under the fourth prong of plain-error review ba… |
| 18-5273 |
Davian Wilson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
authentication criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sufficiency-of-evidence criminal-trial evidence-authentication federal-criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction guilty-verdict jury-verdict native-american reasonable-jury sentencing-disparities sentencing-disparity standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the district court erred in finding sufficient evidence for a guilty verdict against Mr. Wilson |
| 18-5232 |
Charles Lynch Pettis v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-07-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split physical-force robbery-statute sentencing-disparities sentencing-enhancement state-robbery victim-resistance violent-felony |
Whether a state robbery offense that requires only force sufficient to overcome victim resistance categorically qualifies as a 'violent felony' under … |
| 18-5066 |
Edward Vincent Ray v. California |
California |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-statute cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection gender-bias ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-interpretation overbreadth sentencing-disparities vagueness-doctrine |
Whether Petitioner's sentence of 36 years violates equal protection due to disparities in California sentences for female and male offenders for the s… |