sentencing-guideline
8 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6385 | Johnathan Morrison v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-12-16 | Pending | IFP | appeal-waiver appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court miscarriage-of-justice sentencing-guideline | Does the miscarriage of justice exception to appeal waivers apply to an appellate claim that a district court sentenced a defendant under the wrong se… |
| 22-7243 | Mario Roberto Bonilla-Diaz v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-04-10 | Denied | IFP | due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment illegal-reentry immigration-law in-absentia removal-order sentencing-guideline sentencing-guidelines | Whether Mr. Bonilla-Diaz's in absentia removal order, which issued when he was ten years old and forms the basis for his illegal reentry conviction, i… |
| 22-6306 | Marion Joseph Hare v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-12-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affirmative-force borden-v-united-states causation-of-injury circuit-split criminal-statute force-clause sentencing-guideline sentencing-guidelines violent-force | Whether a statute that only requires causation-of-injury and not the affirmative application of force satisfies the violent-force requirement? |
| 22-5107 | Marcus Dwayne Pemberton v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-07-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver appeal-waivers brady-standard brady-v-united-states circuit-split criminal-procedure miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement plea-agreements sentencing-guideline sentencing-guidelines | Should standards other than the knowing and voluntary waiver standard of Brady v. United States govern the enforcement of appeal waivers in plea agree… |
| 21-6687 | Rory Lee Zirkelbach v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-12-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 career-offender district-court-discretion extraordinary-and-compelling extraordinary-reasons sentence-reduction sentencing-disparity sentencing-error sentencing-guideline statutory-interpretation | Whether a sentencing error and resulting disparity can constitute an 'extraordinary and compelling reason' for a sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § … |
| 20-5596 | Kevin Dean Green v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-09-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | beckles-v-united-states constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process judicial-review legal-interpretation sentencing-guideline sentencing-guidelines vagueness-challenge vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness | Does Beckles v. United States foreclose a vagueness challenge to a sentencing guideline when the operative term in that guideline is defined by a crim… |
| 18-8053 | Malcolm Roland Allen v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3006a 6th-amendment career-offender due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel judicial-proceedings notice-of-appeal prejudice sentencing-guideline sentencing-guidelines | Whether ineffective counsel failed to file a notice of appeal and object to career offender sentencing guideline |
| 18-7621 | Jacoby Burns v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-01-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act career-offender categorical-analysis criminal-law elements-clause physical-force sentencing sentencing-guideline sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Does a conviction under Georgia's felony obstruction-of-an-officer statute qualify as a 'crime of violence' or 'violent felony'? |