statutory-penalty

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-6433 Rico Lorodge Brown v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-01-08 GVR Relisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-amendment criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment indictment jury-finding sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation statutory-penalty Whether the different-occasions element of the Armed Career Criminal Act must be charged in the indictment and either admitted as part of a guilty ple…
23-6403 Tony L. Ford v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP concepcion-precedent concepcion-v-united-states criminal-resentencing eleventh-circuit eleventh-circuit-interpretation fair-sentencing-act first-step-act intervening-law-changes sentencing sentencing-discretion statutory-penalty Whether the Eleventh Circuit's limitation on First Step relief contravenes Concepcion's holding, that in deciding whether to reduce the sentence of an…
23-341 Bobby Lee Ingram v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-02 Denied Relisted (2) apprendi-v-new-jersey concepcion-v-united-states drug-quantity eleventh-circuit fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-penalty terry-v-united-states Whether the Eleventh Circuit has violated Terry in holding that, at step one, district courts should disregard the 'elements' of a defendant's offense…
23-5457 Deangelus Thomas v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-08-28 GVR Relisted (3)IFP armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof constitutional-fact-finding criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial predicate-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-penalty Whether the district court judge may find the uncharged, non-elemental fact that a person committed three prior offenses 'on occasions different from …
23-5198 Richard Potts v. United States Third Circuit 2023-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-justice-reform criminal-sentencing discretionary-authority district-court-discretion fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation statutory-penalty Whether the Fair Sentencing Act modified the statutory penalty for petitioner's offense, so that petitioner is eligible for a sentence reduction under…
23-27 Michael Harper v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-07-10 Denied apprendi-v-new-jersey circuit-split criminal-resentencing drug-quantity fair-sentencing-act first-step-act judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-penalty terry-v-united-states Whether the Eleventh Circuit has violated Terry in holding that, at step one, district courts should disregard the 'elements' of a defendant's offense…
22-1241 Jocelyn M. Murphy, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission Ninth Circuit 2023-06-27 Denied Amici (2) broker-registration due-process eighth-amendment fair-notice securities-exchange-act-1934 securities-law securities-laws securities-violations seventh-amendment statutory-penalty statutory-penalty-caps Whether the courts below exceeded the statutory penalty caps established by Congress 'for each violation' of the securities laws, depriving Petitioner…
21-6749 Matthew Sullivan v. Daniel Sproul, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-united-states criminal-procedure guilty-plea legal-clarification misinformation plea-validity post-conviction post-conviction-relief sentencing-enhancement statutory-penalty May a criminal defendant attack the validity of his guilty plea when a post conviction clarification in law reveals that he was misinformed regarding …
19-6693 Chris Rayvon Starks v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-11-20 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure judge-finding jury jury-decision jury-determination predicate-offense predicate-offenses prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-penalty Is the fact that the defendant committed three predicate offenses 'on occasions different from one another' an element of the ACCA for the jury to dec…
18-9320 Domenick James Howard v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach criminal-law due-process federal-crime federal-state-relations lockhart-v-united-states mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states ninth-circuit prior-conviction sentencing sexual-assault statutory-interpretation statutory-penalty Whether a prior sexual assault conviction should be used to increase the statutory penalty where the prior state conviction is over-inclusive vis-a-vi…
18-613 W. A. Griffin v. Aetna Health Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-09 Denied Response Waived assignee-rights civil-procedure document-request erisa erisa-benefits erisa-statutory-penalty georgia-law georgia-supreme-court o.c.g.a.-9-3-22 o.c.g.a.-9-3-28 plan-administrator retroactive-assignment standing state-law statute-of-limitations statutory-penalty Whether the District court borrowed the appropriate state law for ERISA statutory penalty