| 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 |