sentencing-policy

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
22-6936 Edson Gelin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-procedure first-step-act ineffective-assistance murder-conviction ninth-circuit sentencing-guidelines sentencing-policy state-court statutory-interpretation Whether the Eleventh Circuit's holding in Bryant that the policy statement in USSG §1B1.13 applies to all motions under 18 U.S.C. §3582(c)(1)(A) confl…
18-6404 Tomas Ramirez-Cruz v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-review non-frivolous-arguments procedural-due-process procedural-reasonableness reasonableness rita-v-united-states sentencing-policy sentencing-procedure sentencing-reasonableness Whether an appellate court may affirm as procedurally reasonable a sentence imposed where the record contains no indication the sentencing judge consi…
18-6092 Robert Dion Ables v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-09-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review criminal-appeals criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-plain-error-review empirical-analysis empirical-foundation-of-guidelines guideline-2g2.2 judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-policy substantive-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness-of-sentences Whether factual error is categorically immune from plain error review?