| 23-7804 |
Juan Jesus Vargas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-procedure judicial-discretion open-court-statement reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-requirements statutory-interpretation |
Must district courts comply with the requirements of 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c) to state, in open court, the reasons for the sentence imposed? |
| 23-5130 |
Caleb Bryant Hickcox v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-procedure reasonableness reasonableness-review second-amendment sentencing sentencing-requirements statutory-interpretation |
Must district courts comply with 18-usc-3553(c) |
| 18-5948 |
Patrick Henry Murphy v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
conspiracy criminal-conspiracy death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing eighth-amendment enmund-v-florida-tison-v-arizona felony felony-murder jury-findings sentencing-requirements sixth-amendment |
Does the Sixth or Eighth Amendment require that before a party may be sentenced to death as a conspirator (rather than a trigger-person), the jury mus… |
| 18-5466 |
Lawrence E. Wilson v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2018-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment nunc-pro-tunc open-court right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-requirements sixth-amendment void |
Whether a trial court's failure to comply with statutory requirements when imposing a sentence renders the attempted sentence void |