sua-sponte-recharacterization

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-7149 Timothy Defoggi v. United States Eighth Circuit 2026-04-06 Pending IFP due-process ex-post-facto-clause first-amendment habeas-corpus sentencing-guidelines sua-sponte-recharacterization 1) May an Article III court sua sponte recharacterize an unambiguous filing, and then do so after adversarial briefs have been concluded and filed wit…