sentencing-standard
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-5342 | Raymond Arthur Verrill v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-08-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-standard | Some sentencing judges routinely assert that they would have selected the exact same sentence regardless of any error in applying the Sentencing Guide… |
| 23A1174 | Kevin Deane Jones v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-07-01 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction sentencing-standard statutory-interpretation | Whether the federal appellate court correctly applied the standard of review in affirming a criminal conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 3742 | |
| 23-6251 | Jonathan Rodriguez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-12-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acquitted-conduct confrontation-clause due-process fifth-amendment preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-standard sixth-amendment suppression-motion | Whether the use of a preponderance of the evidence standard at sentencing violated Rodriguez's Fifth Amendment and Sixth Amendment rights? |
| 20-6933 | Seledonio Martinez v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-01-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-standard totality-of-the-circumstances | Whether the 46-month sentence is reasonable given the totality of the circumstances |
| 19-7569 | Stanley Noel Ames v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-05 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | 18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924c bank-robbery carter-v-united-states crime-of-violence criminal-law-procedure federal-bank-robbery force-clause general-intent intent sentencing-standard specific-intent | Did the Ninth Circuit err in holding that federal bank robbery is a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) |
| 19-5741 | Jose Marin Saldana-Reyes v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-08-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-consideration non-frivolous-arguments procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-procedure sentencing-standard | Whether an appellate court may affirm as procedurally reasonable a sentence imposed where the record contains no indication the sentencing judge consi… |
| 19-5162 | Frederick Johnson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure discretionary-review plain-error plainly-unreasonable post-revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-standard supervised-release | What is the proper standard of appellate review for sentences imposed on defendants following revocation of supervised release? |
| 18-9698 | Ruben Perez Gomez v. California | California | 2019-06-18 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-requirement death-penalty fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-finding reasonable-doubt sentencing-standard sixth-amendment statutory-maximum statutory-maximum-punishment | Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact other than a prior co… |
| 18-6067 | Edward Lee Lewis v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-09-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act booker-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process overserved-sentence plainly-unreasonable reasonableness revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-standard standard-of-review supervised-release | Whether the appropriate standard of review for a sentence following the revocation of supervised release is the plainly unreasonable' standard or the … |