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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-7024 | Abraham Rico Vasquez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2026-03-12 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-doctrine beyond-reasonable-doubt indictment prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum | Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 25-6850 | Davantae London v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2026-02-18 | Pending | IFP | appeal-waiver consecutive-sentencing ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement sentencing-appeal statutory-maximum | 1. Whether a general appeal waiver that does not mention the right to challenge the consecutive nature of a sentence bars such a challenge. 2. Whethe… |
| 25-6218 | Kenleone Joe Nyandoro v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-11-24 | Pending | IFP | appeal-waiver controlled-substance firearm-possession ineffective-assistance second-amendment statutory-maximum | 1. Whether the only permissible exceptions to a general appeal waiver are for claims of ineffective assistance of counsel or that the sentence exceeds… |
| 25-6006 | Jerry W. Green, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-procedure indictment-charging rico-conspiracy sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum | Whether, pursuant to Alleyne v. United States, 570 U.S. 99, 133 S.Ct 2151, 186 L.Ed.2d 314 (2013) and Apprendi v New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 120 S.Ct 23… |
| 25-5493 | Joshua Devon Barrow v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-08-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law first-step-act revocation sentencing statutory-maximum supervised-release | When determining the statutory maximum sentence on revocation, should courts consult current law or only the law at the time of the underlying offense… |
| 24-6016 | Santiago Parks Howard-Rios v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-11-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial statutory-maximum | L Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 24-5862 | Ismael Hernandez-Hernandez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-10-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure indictment jury-trial prior-conviction statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 24-5684 | Raunel Garcia-Suarez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 23-7461 | Shane A. Fox v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-05-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender criminal-law drug-conspiracy due-process evidentiary-hearing inchoate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum statutory-maximum-penalty | I. WHETHER THE INCHOATE OFFENSE OF ENGAGING IN A ILLEGAL DRUG CONSPIRACY CONSTITUTES A SERIOUS DRUG OFFENSE FOR PURPOSES OF INCREASING A DEFENDANT"… |
| 23-7146 | Antonio Ochoa-Leyva v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-04-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 23-7143 | Armando Ordonez-Dominguez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-04-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 23-7133 | Garry Hines v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-04-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acceptance-of-responsibility appellate-review criminal-appeal criminal-sentencing due-process fourth-circuit sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum | 1. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred when determining that Petitioner's Sentence which exceeded the statutory maximum was proper and reasonable 2. Whe… |
| 23-6978 | Jose Salome Gallardo Granados v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-03-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 23-6936 | Jose Eulalio Aguillen-Servin v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 23-6941 | Ricardo Fortino Martinez-Munoz v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-interpretation due-process jury-trial legal-precedent prior-conviction prior-convictions sixth-amendment statutory-maximum | Can Almendarez-Torres be squared with the history undergirding the Sixth Amendment; and if not, should this Court overrule Almendarez-Torres? |
| 23-6892 | Clifford Laines, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-03-05 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split rodriguez-v-united-states sentencing-regime serious-drug-offense state-law-interpretation state-sentencing-regime statutory-maximum | Does "maximum term of imprisonment . . . prescribed by law"—as used in the Armed Career Criminal Act to define "serious drug offenses" that are predic… |
| 23-6870 | Ariel Perez-Lainez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-02-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 23-6849 | Juan Salazar-Grimaldo v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-02-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-procedure criminal-indictment criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum | Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 23-884 | Marco Antonio Perez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-02-16 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process grand-jury harmless-error judicial-interpretation release-violation sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum | 1. Does an enhanced sentence pursuant to 18 USC § 3147 authorize a punishment exceeding the statutory maximum sentence for the underlying offense comm… |
| 23-6768 | Vidal Garza-Morin v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-02-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 23-6663 | Emmanuel Gil v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-02-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 23-6488 | Juan Garcia-Bertadillo v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 23-6484 | Miguel Angel Sanchez-Delgado v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 23-6412 | Jose Eugenio Pavon-Rivera v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-01-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 23-6411 | Gilberto Salvador Cortez-Garcia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-01-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-indictment criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process jury-determination jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum | Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 23-6410 | Pedro Pena-Talamantes v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-01-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 23-6402 | Vidal Orellana-Sibrian v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-01-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 23-6385 | Alfonso Garcia-Vela v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-12-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 23-6320 | Santiago Salazar-Ramirez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-12-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 23-6176 | Faustino Garcia-Sanchez, aka Miguel Garcia-Sanchez, aka Miguel Zamora-Sanchez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-12-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 23-6070 | Eric V. Bartoli v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-11-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure ex-post-facto habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-error statutory-maximum | Whether a guilty plea should be vacated when the underlying plea bargain contains an error of law (an illegal sentence) at its core. |
| 23-6081 | Jacobo Fuentes-Salgado v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 23-5936 | Hector Francisco Santos-Flores v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-01 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 23-5880 | Jose Fernando Martinez-Hernandez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-25 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 23-5636 | Javon Montreal King v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-09-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal background criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum substantive-reasonableness youth youth-consideration | Whether the district court erred, considering Mr. King's youth and background, when it sentenced him to the statutory maximum of 120 months' imprisonm… |
| 23-5264 | Julio Cesar De La Rosa-De La Cerda v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-08-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 23-5222 | Mustafa Ali v. Jeffrey Minehart, Judge, et al. | Pennsylvania | 2023-07-27 | Denied | IFP | abuse-of-discretion constitutional-provisions due-process habeas-corpus pcra-petition post-conviction-relief sentencing-discretion state-court-procedure statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum void-for-vagueness | 1. Whether the PCRA Court abused its discretion in failing to convert Petitioner's State Habeas Petition into a PCRA Petition? 2. Whether the Trial C… |
| 23-5062 | Alfredo Martinez-Rubio v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-07-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 22-7882 | Sergio Delgado-Perez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 22-7852 | Juan Victor Quezada-Lara v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 22-7826 | Ronell Watson v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-06-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment 6th-amendment attempted-murder constitutional-rights fifth-amendment jury-instructions premeditation sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-maximum | Is premeditation an element of attempted murder under the federal system, such that the Government violated Petitioner's Fifth and Sixth Amendments ri… |
| 22-7698 | Tristan Kareem Davis v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-06-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law appointments-clause civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process executive-power senate-confirmation sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-maximum tenth-amendment territorial-governance | Did the Court exceed its authority in not having a jury at the sentencing hearing to sentence Davis beyond the Statutory Maximum? Is the United State… |
| 22-7683 | Michael Dewayne Alfred v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-06-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2259 causal-role causation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing restitution sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum victim-compensation | When imposing restitution under 18 U.S.C. § 2259(b)(2), does the district court's restitution order exceed the statutory maximum when that court fails… |
| 22-7582 | Rodolfo A. Cuellar, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-05-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal criminal-law drug-convictions federal-prisoner first-step-act resentencing sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-retroactivity statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum | MoTioN For Reduction Pursuan To 404 Senience of OF thE First ACT And Pre-Booker Issues. Stop Drug CORRECDION OF IDCORLOCT CAlCUlATION f CORRECTiON ofa… |
| 22-7377 | Jose Isabel Mora-Rodriguez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-04-26 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 22-7233 | Justin Heath Thomas v. California | California | 2023-04-06 | Denied | IFP | apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-punishment constitutional-requirement criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process jury-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt ring-v-arizona statutory-maximum | WHETHER CALIFORNIA'S DEATH PENALTY SCHEME VIOLATES THE CONSTITUTIONAL REQUIREMENT THAT ANY FACT, OTHER THAN A PRIOR CONVICTION, THAT SERVES TO INCREAS… |
| 22-7016 | Guadalupe Onate-Herrera v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-03-15 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 22-6983 | Bernardino Berrun-Torres v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-03-10 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 22-6846 | Christopher L. Corn v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-02-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure invited-error judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum | Can an appellate court use the invited error doctrine to preclude review of a plainly erroneous sentence that exceeds the statutory maximum sentence a… |
| 22-746 | Damion Kentrell White v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-02-09 | Denied | Response Waived | 28-usc-2255 due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus plea-agreement sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether due process requires that a provision in a plea agreement waiving the right to file a motion to vacate sentence under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 be cons… |
| 22-6716 | Conrado Olivo-Duron v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 22-6639 | DeAndre M. Ross v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-01-26 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights due-process remand standing statutory-maximum violation-hearing | Question not identified. |
| 22-6372 | Jose Felipe Cardenas-Ramirez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-12-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 22-6302 | Selvin Omar Canales v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-12-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 22-6261 | Damar D. Ruffin v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-12-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-maximum | This Court has made clear that any fact, other than prior conviction, that increases the statutory range of punishment, must be found by a jury to hav… |
| 22-6228 | Giovanny Sanchez-Juarez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-12-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-law criminal-procedure immigration-law indictment sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum | Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998) was wrongly decided, allowing for the provisions of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b)(1) and (2) deal… |
| 22-6128 | Christopher Erwin v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-11-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 circuit-split cooperation-agreement downward-departure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-colloquy section-2255-motion sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum | 1. Did the Circuit Court err in affirming the district court's decision to deny, without a hearing, Petitioner's motion pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 b… |
| 22-5977 | Bonerge Benitez-Marquez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-11-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 22-5810 | Martin Perez-Barrios v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-10-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 22-5627 | Justin Tyrone Young v. Texas | Texas | 2022-09-20 | Denied | IFP | due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion plea-bargaining sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum supreme-court-precedent | Can ft Lauiyen haue. his Client PieaCuibty -ho OS'years on ft Statutory maximum OP Zo years* ovftt'R TEXAS Lal/. Can ft Court Re Fuse ho Homor ft u … |
| 22-5575 | Ronald Mickel v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-09-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure domestic-violence due-process indictment sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum statutory-minimum violent-felony | I. Whether all facts — including the fact of a prior conviction — that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and … |
| 22-5496 | Vance L. White v. Texas | Texas | 2022-09-01 | Denied | IFP | court-modification criminal-procedure grand-jury indictment-elements ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion plea-bargaining plea-colloquy sentencing statutory-maximum | Can H)t Tudyz modipy the. essentiac elements set Qonth In the /'ndittment cn~ the. Plea CoUoquy? Coin -the. Court Armnd M indictment- (oithout dAt te… |
| 22-5422 | Vohn Robert Cooper v. Florida | Florida | 2022-08-22 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-maximum | WHETHER THE SENTENCING JUDGE VIOLATED COOPER'S SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO HAVE A JURY DETERMINE ANY FACT THAT INCREASED THE STATUTORY MAXIMUM IN HIS CAS… |
| 22-5338 | Chikosi Legins v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-08-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1001 apprendi apprendi-rule criminal-law criminal-procedure evidence false-statement relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum sufficiency | I. Whether the evidence was sufficient to support the conviction under 18 U.S.C. 1001. II. Whether the defendant was improperly subjected to an enhan… |
| 22-5337 | Carlos Vazquez-Tellez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-08-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 22-5326 | Juan Samuel Rodriguez-Huitron v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-08-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | clear-error criminal-procedure judicial-review limited-remand plain-error remand sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum substantial-rights | This Court in Molina-Martinez v. United States advised that courts of appeals may order a limited remand to assess the impact of clear error on the de… |
| 22-5260 | David Perez v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-08-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempted-murder federal-sentencing racketeering-activity rico rico-sentencing sentencing state-law state-law-maximum statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum | State sentencing law determines the statutory maximum sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 1963(a) for a RICO conviction based on a racketeering activity that i… |
| 22-5053 | Jesus Perez-Solis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-07-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 22-5017 | Travaris Devon Bishop v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-07-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-USC-3553(a) criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum substantive-reasonableness | Whether the district court ordered a substantively unreasonable statutory maximum sentence of 120 months in prison, when the Guidelines range was only… |
| 22-5006 | David Cadena v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-06-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum upward-variance | 1. Did the district court impose a substantively unreasonable sentence when it varied upward from the advisory sentencing range to the statutory maxim… |
| 21-8271 | Raul Garcia-Salazar v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-06-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 21-8276 | Isidoro Reyes-Lopez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-06-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 21-8281 | Jose Carreon-Gonzalez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-06-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 21-8231 | Fidel Torres-Villanueva v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-06-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 21-8152 | Filiberto Chavez, aka Big Boy, aka Freeway Beto v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-06-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion lesser-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum | Can a sentencing court use the elements of a lesser offense to increase a defendant's sentence in a different, legally unrelated, offense beyond the o… |
| 21-7959 | Salito Marques Good v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-05-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fourth-circuit johnson-precedent sentencing-maximum statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum supervised-release | (1) Whether a defendant can be required to serve more than the statutory maximum sentence for his offense of conviction when a sentence for violating … |
| 21-7619 | Jarbarri Randale Wall v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-04-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver criminal-procedure federal-law plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-condition statutory-authority statutory-maximum supervised-release | The district court imposed a special condition of supervised release that the defendant abstain from the use of alcoholic beverages, not associate wit… |
| 21-7549 | Ernesto Palacios-Martinez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-04-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-law criminal-procedure immigration-law indictment sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum | Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998) was wrongly decided, allowing for the provisions of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b)(1) and (2) deal… |
| 21-7448 | Edgar Garza-Limones v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 21-7414 | Gregory M. Hawes v. Michael Pacheco, Warden, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2022-03-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process mandatory-minimum sentencing statutory-maximum | I. Whether this Court's decision in Patterson v. New York (1977), which permitted placing the burden on a criminal defendant to establish mitigating f… |
| 21-7404 | Jose Antonio Barahona-Paz v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 21-7352 | Pedro Intzin-Guzman v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 21-7293 | Jose Rodriguez-Vasquez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 21-7295 | Miguel Lerma-Reyes v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 21-7191 | Rosa Leija-Peralta v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-02-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 21-6944 | Juan Coreno-Garay v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-01-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 21-6669 | Robert Walter Scully v. California | California | 2021-12-21 | Denied | IFP | aggravating-circumstances beyond-reasonable-doubt constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process jury-determination jury-trial mitigating-circumstances statutory-maximum | Does the mandatory weighing of aggravating and mitigating circumstances under the California death penalty statute—a factfinding determination that se… |
| 21-917 | Abel Diaz v. Warden, Federal Correctional Institution, Bennettsville | Fourth Circuit | 2021-12-21 | Denied | Response Waived | drug-offense drug-offenses habeas-corpus jurisdiction jury-trial savings-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum | WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT HAD JURISDICTION UNDER THE SAVINGS CLAUSE OF 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e) TO ADJUDICATE THE MERITS OF PETITIONER DIAZ'S § 2241 PETIT… |
| 21-6631 | Jorge Ivan Vazquez-Medrano v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-12-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 21-6568 | Manuel Nunez-Gonzalez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-12-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction — that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and … |
| 21-6542 | Juan Trujillo v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-12-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review clear-error criminal-procedure judicial-discretion limited-remand plain-error remand-standard sentencing sentencing-error statutory-maximum substantial-rights | This Court in Molina-Martinez v. United States advised that courts of appeals may order a limited remand to assess the impact of clear error on the de… |
| 21-6530 | Tyreese Thompson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-12-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | Almendarez-Torres constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process jury-determination jury-trial precedent-review reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-maximum | Do any facts that increases the penalty for a crime beyond the prescribed statutory maximum need to be submitted to a jury, and proved beyond a reason… |
| 21-6419 | Roberto Aguilar-Hernandez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-11-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 21-6286 | Patrick Lawrence Henderson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-11-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-rule criminal-procedure due-process jury-determination jury-trial reasonable-doubt revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum | Whether Henderson's revocation sentence violates Apprendi and its progeny because he has been forced to serve a sentence beyond the statutory maximum … |
| 21-6201 | Reginald Kindle v. Florida | Florida | 2021-11-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure jury-trial preponderance-of-evidence recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-maximum | Whether a sentencing court violates a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial when it finds by a preponderance of the evidence that he commi… |
| 21-6210 | Tony Bowen v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-11-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver armed-career-criminal-act conviction-counting felon-in-possession sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-maximum | 1. If a defendant convicted of felon-in-possession charges has three qualifying convictions, the Armed Career Criminal Act ("ACCA") enhances the maxim… |
| 21-6148 | Lonnie Earl Parlor v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-11-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-sentencing drug-trafficking enhancement-factors firearm-possession firearms relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines specific-offense-characteristics statutory-maximum uncharged-conduct | This case presents unsettled and important questions related to the scope and application of "relevant conduct" to prove specific offense characterist… |
| 21-6077 | Torri McCray v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-10-26 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split due-process fact-finding fentanyl-analogue fifth-amendment sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum uncharged-conduct | 1. As every Federal Court of Appeals has now taken a position, should this Court resolve the Circuit split as to the proper fact-finding standard for … |
| 21-347 | Michael Jackson v. Donald Hudson, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2021-09-03 | Dismissed | circuit-precedent federal-prisoner habeas-corpus mandatory-minimum saving-clause section-2255 statutory-maximum | Whether a federal prisoner is entitled to bring a habeas claim under the saving clause of Section 2255(e) to challenge the unlawful application of a m… | |
| 21-5574 | Walter Manuel Marques-Mejia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-09-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | Almendarez-Torres burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 21-5302 | Roosevelt Rico Dahda v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-08-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne-v-united-states criminal-sentencing drug-quantity jury-determination mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence sixth-amendment statutory-maximum statutory-maximum-sentence | 1. Whether a finding on the issue of drug quantity that increases the statutory maximum sentence requires the jury to make an individualized determina… |
| 21-5231 | Shaun J. Salazar v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-07-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process federal-law imprisonment revocation sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum supervised-release united-states-v-haymond | Whether a district court may impose a revocation imprisonment term under 18 U.S.C. § 3583(e)(3) that, when combined with a defendant's initial term of… |
| 21-5240 | Carlos Elias Cruz-Bermudez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-07-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 21-5146 | Antonio Dewayne Adams v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-07-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-guidelines circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment preponderance-of-the-evidence preponderance-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum | The Tenth Circuit's decision is in conflict with decisions from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The Tenth Circuit affirmed the district court's us… |
| 20-8460 | Marcus Snipes v. Florida | Florida | 2021-06-30 | Denied | IFP | Apprendi-rule constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process jury-determination jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum | WHETHER THE STATE CAN AVOID APPRENDI'S REACH BY WRITING ITS PENAL STATUTES SO THAT A FACT THAT INCREASES THE PENALTY FOR A CRIME INSTEAD BECOMES A FAC… |
| 20-8403 | Daniel Jacob Craven, Jr. v. Florida | Florida | 2021-06-23 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment due-process elements-of-offense fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-determinations statutory-maximum unanimous-verdict | Whether a defendant's right to due process as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment through requiring that every element of any offense to be proven … |
| 20-8016 | Rico Blackwell v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-05-13 | Denied | IFP | actual-innocence collateral-attack-waiver criminal-procedure davis-challenge federal-sentencing habeas-corpus plea-bargaining procedural-default residual-clause section-924c statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum | Mr. Blackwell is serving a long federal prison sentence for the paired crimes of conspiracy to commit bank robbery and use of a firearm during and rel… |
| 20-8021 | Jason Scott Pedro v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-05-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-sentencing guidelines harmless-error procedural-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review statutory-maximum | Can a significant procedural error be deemed harmless when the sentencing judge uses the statutory maximum as the baseline for imposition of sentence? |
| 20-7793 | Edgar Ivan Lira Estrada v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-04-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 20-7591 | Herminio Perales-Perez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-03-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum | I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 20-7495 | Angel Santiago-Gonzalez v. Florida | Florida | 2021-03-18 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-determinations statutory-maximum unanimous-verdict | Whether a defendant's right to due process as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment through requiring that every element of any offense to be proven … |
| 20-7507 | Christopher Faella v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-03-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2259 appellate-rights eighth-amendment plea-agreement restitution sentencing sentencing-appeal statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum waiver | Whether a defendant's waiver in his plea agreement of the right to appeal his sentence -- unless it exceeds the statutory maximum penalty or violated … |
| 20-7456 | Rafael Ayala-Solorio v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-03-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 20-7395 | Antonio E. Wills v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-03-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence career-offender certificate-of-appealability ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement section-2255 statutory-maximum | Did the appellate court err in denying a certificate of appealability on whether the district court erred or alternatively abuse its discretion by den… |
| 20-7232 | Raul Almanza-Portillo v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-02-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 20-7197 | Roberto Elias Martinez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-02-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure district-court due-process maximum-term plain-error plea-bargaining plea-colloquy sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether plain error resulted from the district court erroneously advising the client during plea colloquy that the maximum term of imprisonment was 10… |
| 20-7220 | Antonio Diaz-Agurcia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-02-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 20-7121 | Georges Michel v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-02-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey drug-quantity due-process jury-trial sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-maximum | Whether the Court of Appeals erred, reversibly, in affirming the district court's decision—making a drug quantity determination, after the Remand—wher… |
| 20-7034 | Kelli Renee Bullard v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-02-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing defendant-rehabilitation district-court-discretion due-process judicial-review rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-reasonableness statutory-maximum | Did the district court impose a substantively unreasonable sentence of 60 months imprisonment —the statutory maximum—when it did so with a blind eye t… |
| 20-6985 | Zongli Chang v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-waiver constitutional-rights due-process fines plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-maximum | In a plea agreement that was tied to a fine guideline range, the Petitioner was never told his "maximal possible penalty" in terms of fine and forfeit… |
| 20-6884 | Luis Alberto Andrade-Salas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 20-6824 | Raymond Bright v. Florida | Florida | 2021-01-11 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment due-process elements-of-offense fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-determinations statutory-maximum unanimous-verdict | Whether a defendant's right to due process as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment through requiring that every element of any offense to be proven … |
| 20-6759 | Bernard Weiters, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-01-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 3582(c)(2) criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing first-step-act resentencing section-404(b) sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-mandatory-minimum statutory-maximum | Whether the Court Committed error by declining to resentence the petitioner under Section 3582 of the First Step Act, when the Court earlier reduced t… |
| 20-6559 | Jesus Villarreal-Ramirez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 20-6408 | Jose Hilario Fernandez-Vargas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 20-6389 | Tomas Martinez-Rodriguez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 20-6102 | Dontayous Tonard Cameron v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-10-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment 6th-amendment due-process fifth-amendment parole revocation-sentence sentencing-scheme sixth-amendment statutory-maximum supervised-release | Is 18 U.S.C. § 3583(e) unconstitutional as applied to Mr. Cameron because his combined initial and revocation sentences exceed the statutory maximum p… |
| 20-5872 | Jesus Sanchez-Chacon v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 20-5882 | Omero Nino-Guerrero v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 20-5771 | Taveon Nixon v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver due-process miscarriage-of-justice procedural-reasonableness sentencing statutory-maximum substantive-reasonableness | WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT'S OVERT CONSIDERATION OF THE EXISTENCE AND NATURE OF AN APPEAL WAIVER PRIOR TO VARYING UPWARD TO THE STATUTORY MAXIMUM SENTENC… |
| 20-5710 | Jaime E. Coca-Ortiz v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-09-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 20-5653 | Hermenegildo Margarito Espinoza Espinoza v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-09-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | 1) Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eith… |
| 20-5479 | Santos Mondragon Benitez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-08-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-indictment criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 20-5226 | Jose Flores-Dominguez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-07-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 20-5161 | Roberto Gonzalez-Gatica v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-07-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 20-5135 | James Bowell v. State Bar of California | California | 2020-07-22 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 6th-amendment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy habeas ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel parole-revocation parolee sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum | 1. Would it be considered a 6th Amendment deprivation violation ineffective assistance of counsel for a court appointed attorney refusing to present f… |
| 19-8788 | Travis Job v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-06-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-rule constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-review prior-conviction prior-criminal-conduct sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum statutory-minimum | Whether the Court should overrule the holding of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), which provides an exception to the rule of A… |
| 19-8791 | Jose Angel Vasquez-Soto v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-06-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 19-8775 | Kirby Gardner v. Texas | Texas | 2020-06-22 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure parole petition-timing sentencing statute-of-limitations statutory-maximum | WHETHER PETITIONER WAS DEPRIVED DUE PROCESS OF LAW GUARANTEED BY THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT. |
| 19-8561 | Jesus Julian Corona-Perez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-05-29 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | crime-of-violence criminal-procedure indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum | I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 19-7864 | Derek Crosby v. Illinois | Illinois | 2020-03-03 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process indictment jury jury-determination legislative-power sentencing separation-of-powers statutory-maximum | Whether The Legislature Can Remove The Facts From The Jury That Increase The Statutory Maximum ? Whether Defendant Was Properly Found Death Eligible … |
| 19-7833 | Inocente Rodriguez-Juarez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-03-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 19-7707 | Elijah Loren Arthur v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-fines criminal-restitution due-process jury-determination jury-trial sentencing-guidelines southern-union-co-v-united-states statutory-maximum | This Court held in Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 490 (2000), that "[o]ther than the fact of a prior conviction, any fact that increases the pe… |
| 19-7608 | Juan Perez-Roman v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 19-7379 | Lee Samuel Capers v. California | California | 2020-01-22 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-requirement criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-maximum | Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact other than a prior con… |
| 19-7322 | Gerardo Sanchez-Miranda v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-01-21 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 19-7333 | Eduardo Luis Martinez-Paz v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-01-17 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 19-7220 | Francisco Guerrero-Saucedo v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-01-09 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 19-7088 | Marcos Cortez-Rogel v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-12-30 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 19-7092 | Laforest Carmichael, aka LaForrest Carmichael v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-12-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a circuit-split mandatory-revocation sentencing-factors statutory-maximum substantive-reasonableness supervised-release | Should this Court resolve the current circuit split over whether a sentencing judge must consider the 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) sentencing factors when impo… |
| 19-7104 | Julio Cesar Pacheco-Astrudillo v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-12-30 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 19-6795 | Abraham Conde-Herrera v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-12-02 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 19-6796 | Valentin Castanon-Renteria v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-12-02 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 19-6773 | Edgar Ortega-Limones v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-11-27 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 19-6582 | Roberto Carlos Martinez-Mendoza v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-11-12 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 19-6496 | David Elijah Smith v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-11-05 | GVR | IFP | apprendi-v-new-jersey blakely-v-washington criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearm-statute haymond-v-united-states mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum | (1) DID THE PETITIONER'S SENTENCE FOR 18 U.S.C. 922(g) VIOLATE THE STATUTORY MAXIMUM IN VIOLATION OF BLAKELY V. WASHINGTON, 542 U.S. 296, 304; APPREND… |
| 19-6500 | Horacio Dominguez-Villalobos v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-11-05 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 19-6421 | Ralph Herman Fox, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-10-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process fairness government-misconduct judicial-discretion plea-agreement plea-bargaining public-policy sentencing statutory-maximum supervisory-powers | Whether in affirming the imposition of the statutory maximum sentence of 360 months on Ralph Fox, where (1) Petitioner Fox entered a guilty plea and (… |
| 19-6363 | David Pearson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-10-24 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appeal-rights armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act categorical-analysis drug-offense drug-offenses ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum | 1. Did the court of appeals, in rejecting petitioner's claim that his sentencing counsel provided ineffective assistance by failing to challenge his a… |
| 19-6290 | Servando Pineda-Castellanos v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-10-17 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 19-6256 | Jason Simon v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-10-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acquitted-conduct due-process false-accusation habeas-corpus-relief judicial-discretion prejudice presentence-report sentencing sentencing-enhancement standard-of-proof statutory-maximum uncharged-conduct | Did the lower courts err by relying on a false accusation listed in the PSR, that was verified as false, as the sole basis for not only imposing a sta… |
| 19-6199 | Emeterio Espino Ramirez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-10-09 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 19-6164 | Marchello Dsaun McCain v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey due-process false-statement guideline-calculation sentencing-guidelines statutory-maxima statutory-maximum terrorism-enhancement | In McCain's false statement involving terrorism prosecution, the district court applied the terrorism enhancement of Guideline Section 3A1.4 and calcu… |
| 19-6094 | Andres Herrera-Segovia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-27 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 19-6079 | Guillermo Vega-Botello v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-procedure limited-remand plain-error remand sentencing statutory-maximum substantial-rights | Whether a court of appeals that finds a plain error in the district court's selection of a statutory maximum should ordinarily order a limited remand … |
| 19-6042 | Gerardo Tajonar Cortes v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-25 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 19-5977 | Kerry Lyn Dalton v. California | California | 2019-09-17 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-requirement criminal-sentencing death-penalty fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-finding reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment statutory-maximum | Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact other than a prior con… |
| 19-5905 | Ricky Davis v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-09-11 | Denied | IFP | fairness-integrity federal-sentencing guideline-calculation judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-proportionality sentencing-uniformity statutory-maximum substantial-rights uniformity-proportionality USSG-5G1.1(a) | When this Court held in Rosales-Mireles v. United States, 138 S. Ct. 1897 (2018) that a failure to correctly calculate the guideline range, which anch… |
| 19-5907 | Luis Castaneda-Torres v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-11 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 19-5865 | Pablo Sauste Balderas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-09 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 19-5829 | Yoni Castro-Lopez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-05 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-maximum | I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 19-5785 | Raul Zapata-Dominguez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment home-search indictment jury-trial liberty-deprivation liberty-interest overbreadth probation probation-supervision statutory-maximum statutory-reasonableness supervised-release supervision vagueness | I. Whether this Court should grant review to consider whether a condition of supervision requiring the Petitioner to permit a probation officer to vis… |
| 19-5601 | Clinton Devone Hicks v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-16 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-law criminal-penalties due-process felony felony-status firearms firearms-possession indictment-requirements interstate-commerce knowledge mens-rea prior-conviction statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(a) provides for criminal penalties for felons who possess firearms in interstate commerce absent proof that they knew of th… |
| 19-5589 | Marlon Leroy Porch v. T. Watson, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure fundamental-defect maximum-sentence saving-clause sentence-review sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum | I. WHETHER A FUNDAMENTAL DEFECT IS SUFFICIENT TO SATISFY THE SAVING CLAUSE WHERE PETITIONER ERRONEOUS ENHANCE SENTENCE FELL BENEATH THE STATUTORY MAXI… |
| 19-5549 | Anthony Dion Collins v. Francisco Lara, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-defect habeas-corpus judicial-review saving-clause sentencing sentencing-error statutory-maximum | I. WHETHER A FUNDAMENTAL DEFECT IS SUFFICIENT TO SATISFY THE SAVING CLAUSE WHERE PETITIONER ERRONEOUS SENTENCE FELL BENEATH THE STATUTORY MAXIMUM? |
| 19-5516 | Rayshawn Roshard Robertson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-08-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 burden-of-proof constitutional-law constitutional-provision criminal-defendant criminal-procedure criminal-relief federal-procedure retroactive-application retroactive-constitutional-decision section-2255 sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum | I. Whether a criminal defendant moving for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, based on a retroactive constitutional decision invalidating a federal statut… |
| 19-5455 | Jesus Rios-Garza v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 19-5391 | Dan Carmichael McCarthan v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-30 | Denied | IFP | acca-enhancement armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review criminal-defendant criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 due-process notice-of-predicate-convictions retroactive-constitutional-decisions retroactivity section-2255 sentencing statutory-maximum | Both questions presented by this petition involve circuit splits. I. Whether a criminal defendant moving for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, based on … |
| 19-5279 | Miguel Esparza-Salazar v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure illegal-entry prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-factors sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum | This case presents the issue of whether a criminal defendant charged with illegal entry, pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b)(1) and (2), is entitled to not… |
| 19-5217 | Lavares Detroen Watkins v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-17 | GVR | IFP | ACCA-enhancement actual-innocence AEDPA armed-career-criminal-act due-process habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-maximum time-bar | WHETHER DUE PROCESS IS VIOLATED WHEN A COURT SENTENCES A DEFENDANT TO A TERM OF IMPRISONMENT THAT EXCEEDS THE OTHERWISE-APPLICABLE STATUTORY MAXIMUM… |
| 19-5129 | Kendell Lee Starks v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-10 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 28-usc-2255 burden-of-proof criminal-defendant criminal-defendant-relief-28-usc-2255,retroactive- florida-conviction-resisting-with-violence,violent retroactive-constitutional-decision sentencing statutory-maximum Whether a Florida conviction for resisting with vi | Whether a criminal defendant moving for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, based on a retroactive constitutional decision invalidating a federal statutory… |
| 19-5003 | Roberto Cruz-Olavarria v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process heightened-scrutiny judicial-discretion offense-seriousness sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review statutory-maximum supervised-release | 1. Whether there is a need for extensive justification and heightened scrutiny when imposing and reviewing sentences at the statutory maximum. 2. Whe… |
| 18-9782 | Carlous Lindell Daily v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-06-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-USC-924(c)(3)(B) 18-usc-924c constitutional-rights crime-of-violence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Johnson johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states resentencing sentencing sentencing-error statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum USSG-4B1.2 | (1). Whether The Lower Court(s) Erred In Concluding That Petitioner Did Not Suffer Ineffective Assistance Of Counsel At His Resentencing On Appeal … |
| 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… |
| 18-9658 | Eric Daniel Doyle v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing grouping guidelines judicial-discretion legal-calculation procedural-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum total-punishment | Whether due process requires the correct calculation of Doyle's Guidelines sentencing range. |
| 18-9616 | Rocky Riojas-Ordaz v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 18-9641 | Clifford Brigham v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum substantive-reasonableness | Whether the imposition of the statutory maximum, 60-month term was substantively unreasonable. |
| 18-9573 | Ernesto Betancourt-Carrillo v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 18-9502 | Christian Vazquez Capistran v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 18-9321 | Jesus Cornelio Dolmo-Alvarez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure indictment jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 18-9299 | Frankie Karen Washington v. Deborah Johnson, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2019-05-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review apprendi apprendi-v-new-jersey circuit-split constitutional-review harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-error sixth-amendment statutory-maximum | Under Apprendi v. New Jersey 530 U.S. 466 (2000), it violates the Sixth Amendment to sentence a defendant to a higher statutory maximum term based on … |
| 18-9100 | Corry Mency v. Florida | Florida | 2019-05-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-v-new-jersey blakely-v-washington blakey-v-washington constitutional-due-process criminal-procedure due-process judicial-factfinding jury-trial jury-trial-right sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum trial-judge | Mr. Mency contended Florida Statutes (2004) section 775.084(3)(a)6 was unconstitutional under Apprendi v. New Jersey and Blakey v. Washington as appli… |
| 18-9085 | Juan Antonio Hunter v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-05-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acceptance-of-responsibility base-offense-level criminal-appeal criminal-procedure-sentencing criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion federal-sentencing-guidelines first-step-act sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum u.s.s.g.-5g1.1(a) | WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION BY DEDUCTING THE THREE POINTS AWARDED THE PETITIONER FOR HIS ACCEPTANCE OF RESPONSIBILITY WHEN THOSE … |
| 18-8819 | Jorge Rogelio Reveles-Santana v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-04-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts — including the fact of a prior conviction — that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eit… |
| 18-8807 | Francisco Quintero-Corral v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-04-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-v-new-jersey aprendi-rule criminal-procedure due-process illegal-reentry indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum | 1. Whether all facts- including the facts of a prior conviction- that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and e… |
| 18-8782 | Cesar Lopez-Rodriguez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-04-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 18-8743 | Arturo Torres-Cabrera v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-04-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process immigration-offense indictment-requirements prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum | I. Whether all facts - including the fact of a prior conviction - that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and … |
| 18-8747 | Valentin Aguilar-Lopez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-04-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | I. Whether all facts — including the fact of a prior conviction — that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and … |
| 18-8436 | David Fehr Harder v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-03-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts - including the fact of a prior conviction - that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eit… |
| 18-8079 | Christopher Loran Bentley v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-sentencing judicial-discretion notice-requirement relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness statutory-maximum substantive-reasonableness upward-departure | 1. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN SENTENCING MR. BENTLEY TO A STATUTORY MAXIMUM OF 120 MONTHS IN THAT SUCH SENTENCE WAS GREATER THAN NECESSARY TO… |
| 18-8031 | William Bolden v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2019-02-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum | WAS PETITIONER SENTENCED UNDER A STATUTE THAT VIOLATE DUE PROCESS OF LAW UNDER THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION BY PERMITTING A TRIAL COURT TOIMPOSE AN … |
| 18-7948 | Cesar Carapia Hernandez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-02-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 18-7910 | Richard Fuentes v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-02-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act johnson-v-united-states maximum-imprisonment maximum-sentence revocation-sentence sentencing statutory-maximum substantive-reasonableness supervised-release | Can a prison sentence imposed upon revocation of supervised release ever be substantively reasonable when: 1) it was authorized by virtue of the fact … |
| 18-7776 | Miguel Angel Olvera-Cruz v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-02-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8-usc-1326 apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts — including the fact of a prior conviction — that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eit… |
| 18-7639 | Caster Delaney Whetstone v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-01-29 | Denied | IFP | appellate-waiver armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split illegal-sentence plea-agreement sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether a defendant's challenge to his status as an armed career criminal, where the sentence is in excess of the otherwise applicable statutory maxim… |
| 18-7577 | Roland Castro v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-01-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act due-process habitual-offender johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states prior-convictions residual-clause sentencing sentencing-ambiguity statutory-maximum united-states-v-herrold united-states-v-johnson violent-felony | Whether it is inconsistent with Welch v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 1257 (2016), for a court to require a prisoner who files a second or successive mot… |
| 18-7516 | Joseph Adam Mora v. California | California | 2019-01-22 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-amendments criminal-sentencing death-penalty jury-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt statutory-maximum | Does the California death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments that any fact, other than a prior co… |
| 18-7348 | Edgar Arnold Garcia v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 18-USC-3582c2 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing dillon-v-united-states district-court-discretion due-process legal-error sentence-modification sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-methodology statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum | WHETHER, DILLON v. UNITED STATES, 560 U.S. 817 (2010), REQUIRES A DISTRICT COURT TO REEVALUATE ITS ORIGINAL SENTENCING METHODOLOGY IN STEP TWO OF THE … |
| 18-7307 | Yoni Rayo-Espinoza v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-01-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 18-7323 | Robert Willis v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-01-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acca armed-career-criminal-act career-offender criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum violent-felony | GROUND (I) WHETHER PETITIONER WILLIS'S 'B&E OCCUPIED' IS A VIOLENT FELONY UNDER ACCA? GROUND (II) WHETHER PETITIONER WILLIS'S DRUG TRAFFICKING CONVIC… |
| 18-7101 | John Samuel Ghobrial v. California | California | 2018-12-19 | Denied | IFP | capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-maximum | Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact that serves to increa… |
| 18-7029 | Jorge Ruelas-Martinez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-12-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 18-7004 | Miguel Rodriguez-Garcia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-12-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error remand sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum substantial-rights | Whether a court of appeals that finds a plain error in the district court's selection of a statutory maximum should ordinarily order a limited remand … |
| 18-6897 | Victor Solorzano Tavia v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | blakely-rule consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure double-jeopardy grade-c-violation illegal-reentry sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum supervised-release | I. Whether sentence for illegal reentry and sentence for violation of supervised release should have run concurrent to avoid double jeopardy clause … |
| 18-6867 | Alberto Jorge Silva-Ibarra v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 18-6807 | Larry M. Slusser v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-11-26 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split collateral-attack criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement sentencing statutory-maximum waiver-of-rights | Whether a defendant's waiver of the right to collateral attack in a plea agreement bars a claim that the sentence exceeds the statutory maximum for th… |
| 18-6829 | Jimmy Walter Fuentes v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error remand sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum substantial-rights | 1. Whether a court of appeals that finds a plain error in the district court's selection of a statutory maximum should ordinarily order a limited rema… |
| 18-6770 | David Nino-Flores v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 18-6590 | Salah Mohamed v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-11-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion aggravating-factor due-process escape flight-risk immigration naturalization naturalized-defendant sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum | Does a court abuse its discretion under the United States Sentencing Guidelines by sentencing a naturalized defendant more than three times above his … |
| 18-6451 | Randolph Johnson Spain v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-10-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-principles apprendi-v-new-jersey cross-reference fourth-circuit-court-of-appeals fourth-circuit-mandate multiple-count-adjustment sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-application statutory-maximum | I. WHETHER THE APPLICATION OF THE CROSS-REFERENCE TO COUNT 2 OF THE INDICTMENT PURSUANT TO GUIDELINES § 2G1.1 AND § 2A3.1, AND THE SUBSEQUENT APPLICAT… |
| 18-6277 | Glover A. Yawn, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | ACCA armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law elements-clause felony-battery great-bodily-harm possession-of-firearm sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum violent-felony | The broad question presented by this case is whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously affirmed Mr. Yawn's sentence under the Armed Ca… |
| 18-6293 | Alfredo Martinez-Rey v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-10-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-maximum | I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 18-6103 | Fernando Valdez-Cejas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-09-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process plea-bargaining prior-conviction sentencing statutory-enhancement statutory-maximum | I. Whether all facts — including the fact of a prior conviction — that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and … |
| 18-6072 | Cristian Gamez Mendez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-09-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | I. Whether all facts — including the fact of a prior conviction — that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and … |
| 18-6049 | Robert Wallace Smith v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-09-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography criminal-sentencing due-process first-offender internet-crime sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum substantive-reasonableness | Whether the district court's statutory maximum, 240-month sentence is substantively unreasonable for a first offender convicted of one count of receiv… |
| 18-6042 | Ronald Eric Ary v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-09-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing deferred-adjudication due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum | I. Whether this Court should grant review to determine whether a Texas deferred adjudication can qualify as a "prior conviction" for the purposes of t… |
| 18-5754 | Ivan Rodrigo Campillo Restrepo v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-08-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-precedent criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing habeas-corpus jurisdiction mandate-recall penal-term retroactivity sentencing statutory-maximum supreme-court-ruling writ-of-certiorari | WHETHER RECALL OF THE MANDATE SHOULD ISSUE TO REMEDY A PENAL TERM IMPOSED BEYOND THE STATUTORY MAXIMUM WHEN ABROGATED CIRCUIT PRECEDENT CONTROLS BASED… |
| 18-5681 | Dexter Leemon Johnson v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2018-08-21 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-error jury-instructions jury-trial jury-verdict reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-maximum trial-error | 1. PETITIONER WAS DENIED THE RIGHT TO A JURY VERDICT OF GUILTY BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT 2. PETITIONER WAS DENIED EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAWS 3. TR… |
| 18-5612 | Detrick C. Smith v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-08-16 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability elements-clause firearm-possession florida-felony-battery florida-robbery sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum stokeling-v-united-states violent-felony | The broad question presented by this case is whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously denied Mr. Smith a certificate of appeal abilit… |
| 18-5624 | Feliciano Villa-Sariana, aka Feliciano Villa v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process indictment plea-bargaining prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | I. Whether all facts B including the fact of a prior conviction B that increase a defendant =s statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and… |
| 18-5586 | William Knight v. Florida | Florida | 2018-08-15 | Denied | IFP | abuse-of-authority appellate-procedure criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habitual-offender illegal-sentence judicial-abuse judicial-authority jurisdiction sentencing sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum | WHETHER TRIAL COURT ABUSED THEIR AUTHORITY BY ALLOWING THE STATE ATTORNEY OFFICE TO IMPOSE A SENTENCE CONTRARY TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE LAW ON DOUBL… |
| 18-5474 | Heriberto Garcia-Hernandez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-maximum | Whether all facts – including the fact of a prior conviction – that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eit… |
| 18-5468 | Raul Villarreal and Fidel Villarreal v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-06 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | acquitted-conduct appellate-review constitutional-rights dismissed-conduct fifth-amendment sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-review sixth-amendment statutory-law statutory-maximum | (1) Whether an upward departure from the advisory Sentencing Guidelines is subject to appellate review. (2) Whether reliance on acquitted and dismiss… |
| 18-5405 | Fortino Pimentel-Soto v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-maximum | Whether all facts – including the fact of a prior conviction – that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eit… |
| 18-5378 | Alejandro Chavez-Garcia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 18-5317 | Jose Villanueva-Cardenas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-conviction-enhancement sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts – including the fact of a prior conviction – that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eit… |
| 18-5263 | Bobby Ree McGee, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-07-19 | Denied | IFP | 2255-motion armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof certificate-of-appealability elements-clause johnson-claim residual-clause samuel-johnson section-2255 statutory-maximum violent-felony | Mr. McGee was convicted of possessing a firearm as a convicted felon and sentenced under the Armed Career Criminal Act ("ACCA") to 180 months' impriso… |
| 18-5111 | Lynette Gregory v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-07-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-forfeiture drug-case due-process illegal-sentence money-judgment plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-waiver statutory-authorization statutory-maximum | 1. Is a question of the legality of a federal criminal sentence subject to waiver by plea agreement? In avoidance of this question, should an agreemen… |