| 23-6837 |
David Carbonaro v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review computer-crime computer-use criminal-procedure image-quantity judicial-discretion number-of-images reasonableness sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements |
Whether the Court erred in its application of the sentencing enhancements and the reasonableness of the sentence imposed |
| 23-6722 |
Jeffrey Holland v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crack-cocaine criminal-sentencing due-process fair-trial first-step-act jury-trial sentence-enhancement sentencing-discretion sentencing-enhancements trial-transcript |
Whether a district court can refuse to review intervening changes in facts that contradict and undermine presentence report findings used to apply a s… |
| 23-6672 |
Christopher R. Williams, Jr. v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court drug-purity drug-quantity methamphetamine-case procedural-errors sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines |
whether-the-district-court-erred-by-sentencing-the-defendant |
| 22-7808 |
Elroy Pedro Gomez v. William Joe Sullivan, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
California-Supreme-Court criminal-procedure Due-process Equal-protection Habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargain Sentencing-enhancements Sixth-Amendment |
Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel |
| 22-6925 |
Gregory Allen Cook v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-03-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-factfinding sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sixth-amendment |
Whether the Constitution requires the uncharged, non-elemental fact that a person committed three prior offenses 'on occasions different from one anot… |
| 22-6791 |
Jerome Simmons v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-02-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) crime-of-violence criminal-conspiracy elements-clause fifth-amendment hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sixth-amendment vagueness-doctrine |
Whether a sentence predicated upon a finding that Hobbs Act robbery is a crime of violence under the elements clause in 18 U.S.C § 924 (c) violates th… |
| 22-5979 |
Demetrice R. Devine and Brandon Jowan Mangum v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-11-02 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
blockburger-test consecutive-sentences constitutional-review criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy modified-blockburger new-sentencing-hearings sentencing sentencing-enhancements substantive-reasonableness |
Should this Court adopt the predominant modified Blockburger approach and find the maximum consecutive sentences imposed on the Petitioners on all cou… |
| 22-5593 |
Richard Anthony Rodriguez v. California |
California |
2022-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-rule constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial jury-trial-right juvenile-adjudication prior-conviction-exception prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sixth-amendment |
Whether juvenile adjudications obtained without a trial by jury can be used to enhance a defendant's sentence in a later proceeding |
| 21-8077 |
Duane Yates v. Iowa |
Iowa |
2022-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-review due-process ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause governor-executive-order indigent-status iowa-corrections iowa-department-of-corrections restitution sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements |
Whether the Iowa Courts have unlawfully determined the restitution that Duane Yates was ordered to pay |
| 21-829 |
Timothy Scott Hardin v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-12-03 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
18-usc-2252 18-usc-2252a age-of-consent categorical-approach criminal-law federal-sentencing minor sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements state-statutes statutory-interpretation |
Whether a conviction under state statutes criminalizing consensual sex between a 21-year-old and a 17-year-old constitutes a predicate offense for fed… |
| 21-6229 |
Kyle Shirakawa Handley v. California |
California |
2021-11-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
apprendi charging-document criminal-procedure due-process notice notice-requirements sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sixth-amendment |
Whether the 1936 rule set forth in People v Britton, 6 Cal.2d 1 violates Apprendi, Alleyne and the notice requirements of the Sixth Amendment |
| 21-5992 |
Jose Miguel Ramirez-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
COVID-19 criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection felony-convictions judicial-discretion medical-records procedural-error sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines time-served |
Whether the sentencing court erred in its application of the Sentencing Guidelines |
| 21-5122 |
Juan Angel Velasquez-Canales v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion felony-enhancement guideline-interpretation immigration prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court erred in applying a six-level enhancement under Section 2L1.2(b)(2)(C) of the Sentencing Guidelines |
| 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 |
| 20-8036 |
Antonio Kevin McKoy v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
continuing-criminal-enterprise criminal-procedure drug-penalties fourth-circuit-review jury-instructions plain-error sentencing-enhancements special-verdict |
Whether the jury should be required to return a special verdict form addressing all essential elements of continuing criminal enterprise (CCE), in tha… |
| 20-7940 |
Khaled Elbeblawy v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-forfeiture due-process fact-finding forfeiture jury-trial restitution sentencing-enhancements sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a jury trial on forfeiture, and whether the Sixth Amendment forbids a judge from finding facts that increase fine… |
| 20-6659 |
Eddie Ashley v. California, et al. |
California |
2020-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
california-law california-supreme-court constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements |
Does Petitioner had a Federal Due Process Right to the Prohibition of the Imposition of Two Different Sentencing Enhancements, per the California Supr… |
| 20-6271 |
Cordarryl Antonio Betton v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process government-breach plea-agreement record-support sentencing sentencing-enhancements |
Is a Plea Agreement breached by the government when the prosecutor announces the government's agreed to recommendation to the sentencing court but the… |
| 20-5333 |
Norman Paul Blanco v. Ralph Diaz, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law california-penal-code civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment felony-convictions judicial-review legal-procedure sentencing-enhancements statutory-interpretation |
Whether California's sentencing enhancement scheme for certain felony convictions violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual pun… |
| 20-136 |
Tremayne T. Dozier v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-08-07 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split controlled-substances-act criminal-law felony-definition prior-felony-convictions sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sentencing-scheme statutory-interpretation statutory-sentencing-scheme |
Whether an offense is 'punishable by imprisonment for more than one year' when the maximum term permitted by the applicable statutory sentencing schem… |
| 20-5197 |
Lamar Moore, aka Kane v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender-status criminal-penalties due-process factual-findings ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interstate-commerce plea-waiver second-amendment sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements |
should-moore's-plea-and-conviction-be-vacated |
| 19-7918 |
Patrick Harris v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a child-pornography criminal-sentencing district-court enhancement-factors excessive-sentence sentencing-discretion sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines statutory-considerations |
Did the district court err in applying sentencing enhancements under U.S.S.G. §2G2.2(b)(2), (b)(3), (b)(4), (b)(6) and (b)(7)(D) to Mr. Harris' case? |
| 18-9715 |
Johnny Curtis Bedgood v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure critical-stage evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining pre-trial-counsel section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancements |
whether-the-us-district-court-abused-its-discretion |
| 18-9100 |
Corry Mency v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey blakely-v-washington blakey-v-washington constitutional-due-process criminal-procedure due-process judicial-factfinding jury-trial jury-trial-right sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum trial-judge |
Whether the First District erred in deferring to the Circuit Court's finding that section 775.084 is not unconstitutional as applied to the facts of M… |
| 18-9006 |
Donald Ray Boles v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-fact-finding judicial-precedent prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sixth-amendment |
Whether the holding of Almendarez-Torres v. United States should be reconsidered |
| 18-8751 |
William Len Rainey v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights confrontation-clause discovery due-process hearsay sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sexual-offenses |
Whether the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Part 33.37 is unconstitutional as applied at trial on June 24, 2013, denying the petitioner basic Due Pro… |
| 18-8499 |
Nestor David Vasquez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres apprendi constitutional-fairness courtroom-prejudice courtroom-security defendant-rights defendant-specific-security fair-trial fair-trial-rights inherent-prejudice inherently-prejudicial judicial-procedure ninth-circuit-review prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing-enhancements trial-security |
Whether the Ninth Circuit contravened the Supreme Court's holding in Holbrook v. Flynn by finding that the defendant-specific security measures employ… |
| 18-8274 |
Avniel Awan Anthony v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue obstruction-of-justice probation-department reckless-endangerment sentencing sentencing-enhancement Sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines unproven-conduct Upward-variance |
Does the U.S. Probation Department have authority to apply enhancements for conduct alleged to have happened outside the jurisdiction of the United St… |
| 18-7668 |
Patricio Paladin v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-doctrine apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-element criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial jury-trial-guarantee prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements |
Whether the contested fact of prior conviction entering into the sentence to increase a defendant's penalty for the instant offense, must be treated a… |
| 18-7635 |
Harold Hall v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
adversarial-process due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial sentencing-enhancements sixth-amendment united-states-v-cronic |
Whether Mr. Hol was denied effective assistance of counsel required by the Federal constitution's Sixth Amendment |
| 18-6692 |
Richard D. Waterson, II v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing double-counting fairness justice procedural-reasonableness reasonableness recidivism recidivism-risk sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the sentence imposed on the petitioner was procedurally unreasonable |
| 18-6016 |
Fabian Sandoval-Ramos v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy controlled-substances criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-offense due-process enhancement-factor mandatory-minimum-sentence mandatory-minimum-sentences sentencing sentencing-enhancements statutory-interpretation |
In order to trigger a mandatory minimum sentence, must the government allege and prove that an enhancement factor was the object of the conspiracy, or… |
| 18-5532 |
Galindo Jose Ruiz-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alien-smuggling bodily-injury causation causation-standard criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process foreseeability immigration mens-rea reasonable-foreseeability sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the application of sentencing enhancements under U.S.S.G. § 2L1.1(b)(6) and § 2L1.1(b)(7) without requiri… |
| 18-5384 |
Wendell Rivera-Ruperto v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-07-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment due-process due-process-clause eighth-amendment government-manipulation mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-minimum sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements statutory-manipulation sting-operation sting-operations |
Whether the Eighth Amendment forbids the creation of a de-facto mandatory life without parole sentence through stacking 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) charges |
| 18-5095 |
Tron Lakey Davis v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach force generic-crime generic-robbery minimal-contact minimal-force robbery robbery-definition sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements taylor-precedent taylor-v-united-states violent-crime |
Whether theft offenses requiring only minimal contact and no threat of violence satisfy the generic, contemporary meaning of robbery under the categor… |