sentencing-range
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6563 | Gary Craig Stephens v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2026-01-13 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP | court-of-appeals plain-error-review procedural-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-range supervised-release | 1. Whether a court of appeals may affirm a sentence when the district court never calculated or identified the applicable Sentencing Guidelines range,… |
| 25-617 | Jakalien J. Cook v. United States | Armed Forces | 2025-11-26 | Denied | Response Waived | court-martial due-process military-justice punishment-calculation sentencing-range uniform-code-military-justice | For almost all non-capital offenses from the timeframe of Petitioner's convictions, criminal defendants in courts-martial are sentenced in accordance … |
| 24-780 | Anthony Blue v. New York | New York | 2025-01-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | constitutional-right criminal-trial defendant-understanding right-to-counsel sentencing-range waiver | Whether a valid waiver of the constitutional right to counsel at trial requires that the defendant understood, at the time of the waiver, the "range o… |
| 24-6344 | Tamir Abdullah v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-01-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure drug-quantity fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing-range statutory-interpretation | Section 404 of the First Step Act made retroactive the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010's changes to the cocaine-base drug-quantity thresholds in 21 U.S.C.… |
| 23-6119 | Amanda Lyn Walker v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-11-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-abuse constitutional-vagueness criminal-statute cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process enabling-child-abuse judicial-discretion sentencing-range statutory-interpretation unconstitutionally-vague | 1. Whether a criminal statute with a sentencing range of not exceeding one year imprisonment in a county jail or not exceeding life imprisonment at th… |
| 23-226 | Antonio Soul Gonzalez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-09-12 | Denied | Amici (1) | covered-offense criminal-sentencing discretion district-court-discretion fair-sentencing-act first-step-act recalculation sentence-reduction sentencing-range statutory-interpretation | Whether a district court must recalculate a movant's sentencing range as if Sections 2 and 3 of the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 were in effect at the … |
| 22-7309 | James H. Roane, Jr., and Richard Tipton v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-04-18 | Denied | IFP | continuing-criminal-enterprise covered-offense criminal-enterprise drug-weight drug-weight-threshold fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing-range | Whether the First Step Act's "covered offense" analysis turns upon whether the Fair Sentencing Act modified the sentencing range for violation of a gi… |
| 22-6025 | Christopher Alan Mitchell v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-11-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review concurrent-sentences criminal-procedure district-court final-order finality habeas-corpus section-2255 sentencing sentencing-range statutory-interpretation | (1) Is an order granting relief and resentencing under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 final when the order changes the statutory sentencing range such that the dist… |
| 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 | I. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by affirming the District Court's imposing an unreasonable sentence under the totality of the circumstances, and w… |
| 20-1708 | Jose Leonel Bonilla-Romero v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-06-10 | Denied | 5th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment notice sentencing sentencing-range separation-of-powers | Does the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment require notice of the sentencing range prior to sentencing? Is it a violation of separation of pow… | |
| 20-6841 | Steven Jones v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-01-12 | Denied | IFP | apprendi apprendi-standard circuit-split covered-offense drug-quantity federal-criminal-statute first-step-act sentencing sentencing-range statutory-penalties | I. Whether "statutory penalties" in § 404(a) of the First Step Act modifies the entire phrase – "a violation of a Federal criminal statute" – as the E… |
| 20-5666 | Cristian Mendoza v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-09-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acceptance-of-responsibility advisory-sentencing criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-range | 1. A defendant who enters a guilty plea pursuant to a plea agreement that includes a purported inducement that he will receive an acceptance of respon… |
| 19-8868 | Rodrecas Tims v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-06-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing judicial-discretion prison-sentence reasonableness-review sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-range sentencing-reasonableness | Whether the district court ordered an unreasonable 108-month prison sentence under the facts of this case, and under the recommended Sentencing Guidel… |
| 19-8543 | Carl L. Burdick v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-05-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553 advisory-guidelines criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plea-agreement rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-range united-states-v-booker | Whether the District Court, contrary to precedents of this Court and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, accorded the advisory … |
| 19-8303 | Wadress Metoyer, Jr. v. Delynn Fudge, in Her Individual and Official Capacity as Executive Director of the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2020-04-19 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process liberty-interest parole parole-eligibility sentencing-guidelines sentencing-range truth-in-sentencing | Did the 1997 Oklahoma Legislature mandate in its statutory language, phrases provisions, design, purpose and intent in House Bill 1213 effective date … |
| 18-5735 | Harry Lonzo-Bolton Ervin v. Michigan | Michigan | 2018-08-23 | Denied | IFP | apprendi-alleyne-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-rule criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing habeas-corpus montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity sentencing sentencing-range sixth-amendment teague-v-lane | Pursuant to the intervening Constitutional rule announced in Montgomery v Louisiana, 577 US ; 136 S Ct 718 (2016), which clarified the retroactivity j… |
| 18-5207 | Omar Montoya v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 circumstances-beyond-control criminal-sentencing,sentencing-guidelines,abuse-of criminal-sentencing,sentencing-guidelines,sentenci discretion sentencing-guidelines sentencing-range timeliness | Whether the District Court reversibly erred in Denying to Reduce and Appropriate Outcome when the Subsequent Sentencing Range has been Lowered by the … |