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25-6748 John Edwin Corn, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2026-02-06 Pending IFP 18-USC-3553a criminal-sentencing mitigating-factors sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness upward-variance Whether a district court imposes a substantively unreasonable sentence when it upward varies from the sentencing guidelines range but affords no real …
25-6705 Chad B. Wolf v. United States Sixth Circuit 2026-02-03 Pending IFP criminal-enterprise managerial-role procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit substantive-reasonableness Was Wolf's sentence substantively and procedurally unreasonable due to incorrect sentencing guidelines calculation for managerial role in criminal ent…
25-6212 Nicolas Mondragon-Gonzalez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-11-24 Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP causation-standard circuit-split death-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in applying the death enhancement under USSG § 2L1.1(b)(7)(D) based on but-for causation for migrant deaths in a crash…
24-7316 Miguel Yepson-Cortez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court of appeals to reweigh the sentencing factors?
24-7303 Donterrian M. Lavender v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-appeal defendant-rights federal-sentencing sentencing substantive-reasonableness Whether Lavender's sentence is substantively unreasonable.
24-5995 Manuel Espinoza-Camacho v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court of appeals to reweigh the sentencing factors?
24-5482 Travis Adam Brown v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is constitutional under the Second Amendment
24-5224 Michael Paul Gianfrancesco v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review court-proceedings criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing jurisdiction sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness Sentencing-reasonableness
23-7583 Shawn Hill v. United States Second Circuit 2024-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure mental-health plea-bargaining remorse sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness supervised-release Was petitioner improperly denied credit for acceptance of responsibility?
23-7431 Avery Lans v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 abuse-of-discretion circuit-court-review criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing gall-v-united-states procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness Did the Eleventh Circuit abused its discretion by the affirmance of Petitioner's 240-month federal sentence
23-1188 Jonathon Owen Shroyer v. United States District of Columbia 2024-05-03 Denied Response Waived appeal-waiver first-amendment free-speech protected-speech relevant-conduct relevant-offense-conduct sentencing substantive-reasonableness Whether a prison sentence imposed as a result of the consideration of protected speech as 'relevant offense conduct' violates the First Amendment and …
23-7256 John Pedelahore v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process eighth-amendment federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness supervised-release Whether the district court erred by ordering Mr. Pedelahore to serve 30 months in prison for nonviolent supervised release violations when the recomme…
23-6977 Dasmore T. Coleman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-appeal criminal-sentencing defendant-rights due-process federal-sentencing procedural-history sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether Coleman's sentence is substantively unreasonable
23-6884 Alexander Yoichi Duberek v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court of appeals to reweigh the sentencing factors?
23-6827 Victor Leon-Moya v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy criminal-procedure drug-importation drug-trafficking enhancement-factors importation jurisdiction sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness whether-defendant-directed-codefendant
23-6739 John Richard Brinson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment child-pornography criminal-history criminal-sentencing due-process life-without-parole rehabilitation sentencing-reasonableness substantive-due-process substantive-reasonableness Whether a life without parole sentence for a 24 year old with no prior criminal record for producing child pornography is substantively unreasonable?
23-6712 Abner Renato Natareno-Calderon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-02-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-presumption reasonableness-standard rita-precedent rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether the Court should clarify how a defendant who challenges the substantive reasonableness of a within-Guidelines sentence may rebut an appellate …
23-6178 Decardo Moore v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP concurrent-sentencing criminal-sentencing fact-finding intent-finding mental-health mental-illness plea-colloquy procedural-reasonableness second-degree-murder sentencing-errors substantive-reasonableness venue-insufficiency Adequacy-of-sentencing-consideration-for-mental-illness
23-5764 Kevin Lynn Tucker v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process nolle-prosequi nolle-prossed plea-agreement pretrial-detention sentencing sentencing-credit substantive-reasonableness waiver Whether the District Court's failure to give credit in sentencing for state pretrial detention on subsequently nolle prossed 'related' charges created…
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…
23-5432 Kyle Vaughn v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-presumption presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-standard rita-precedent rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness Whether the Court should clarify how a defendant who challenges the substantive reasonableness of a within-Guidelines sentence may rebut an appellate …
23-5437 Adedayo Hakeem Sanusi v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split due-process fundamental-fairness sentencing-guidelines sophisticated-means substantive-reasonableness upward-variance Whether the Appellant is deprived of Due Process
23-5276 German Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review appellate-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court of appeals to reweigh the sentencing factors?
23-5228 Patrick Frederick Williams v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split first-step-act procedural-reasonableness section-404 sentencing-reduction substantive-reasonableness Whether appellate review for 'abuse of discretion' of a district court's denial of a sentence reduction under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act req…
22-7833 Jeremy Randall Ezell v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-presumption reasonableness-standard rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether the Court should clarify how a defendant who challenges the substantive reasonableness of a within-Guidelines sentence may rebut an appellate …
22-7725 James Earl Green, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court of appeals to reweigh the sentencing factors?
22-7717 Christopher A. Bernard v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-06 Denied IFP appellate-review below-guidelines-sentence circuit-split district-court-discretion holguin-hernandez procedural-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness Whether the holding in Holguin-Hernandez that a defendant's argument for a lower sentence preserves appellate review of the substantive reasonableness…
22-7703 Jacob Patrick Krafft v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness within-guidelines-sentence How does a court of appeals determine whether a defendant has rebutted the presumption of reasonableness when the defendant is challenging the substan…
22-7106 Brian Keith Wells, aka B. K. Wells v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP counsel-denial criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing ineffective-assistance procedural-review role-enhancement sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment sixth-circuit substantive-reasonableness ussg-3b1.1 Whether Mr. Wells' request for new counsel should have been granted
22-6953 Curtis Bradley v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion sentencing substantive-reasonableness Was the sentence imposed on Petitioner substantively reasonable?
22-6927 Derrick Deshon Collins v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-presumption appellate-review certiorari criminal-procedure fifth-circuit presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness within-guidelines-sentence How does a court of appeals determine whether a defendant has rebutted the presumption of reasonableness when the defendant is challenging the substan…
22-6844 Eladio Loya-Palma v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court of appeals to reweigh the sentencing factors?
22-6808 Erich Deolax Riker v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fact-finding federal-sentencing jury-finding jury-trial sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness Whether a factual finding that is necessary to render a federal sentence substantively reasonable must be found by a jury beyond a reasonable doubt
22-6732 David Alvarado-Rios v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-discretion presumption-of-reasonableness rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness How does a defendant who challenges the substantive reasonableness of a within-Guidelines sentence rebut an appellate presumption of reasonableness?
22-6718 Justin Stabler v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 abuse-of-discretion alcohol-consumption criminal-sentencing electronic-searches section-3553a sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness supervised-release Whether the 120-month sentence is substantively unreasonable
22-6627 Kenneth Mobley v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process jurisdiction loss-calculation restitution restitution-order sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness Was Mr. Mobley's sentence procedurally and substantively unreasonable
22-6560 Candido Gomez-Santacruz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553a district-court-discretion federal-sentencing gall-v-united-states imprisonment-duration prior-term-of-imprisonment sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness Whether a district court may, consistent with 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a), treat the duration of a prior term of imprisonment as a floor or baseline on its se…
22-5993 Malik Ross v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-11-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (10)IFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment preponderance-of-evidence reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness Does a judge deny a defendant's Fifth Amendment rights by increasing a prison sentence based on disputed facts the Court did not find beyond a reasona…
22-5983 Cordavia Daniels v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553(a) age-consideration criminal-appeal criminal-sentencing fifth-circuit mitigating-factors sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by affirming the district court's consideration of Cordavia's age and mitigating factors
22-5985 Islam Yaser-Abdel Said v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-challenge criminal-defendants criminal-procedure facial-attacks facial-vagueness first-amendment johnson-v-united-states sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness-review unconstitutionally-vague Whether criminal defendants challenging a statute as unconstitutionally vague may raise facial attacks in cases not involving the First Amendment?
22-5979 Demetrice R. Devine and Brandon Jowan Mangum v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-11-02 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP blockburger-test consecutive-sentences constitutional-review criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy modified-blockburger new-sentencing-hearings sentencing sentencing-enhancements substantive-reasonableness Should this Court adopt the predominant modified Blockburger approach and find the maximum consecutive sentences imposed on the Petitioners on all cou…
22-5232 Jesus Javier Cruz-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-presumption reasonableness-standard rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether the Court should clarify how a defendant who challenges the substantive reasonableness of a within-Guidelines sentence may rebut an appellate …
22-5105 Tanner Lance King v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness within-guidelines-sentence How does a court of appeals determine whether a defendant has rebutted the presumption of reasonableness when the defendant is challenging on appeal t…
22-5097 Hidey Diaz, aka Silvio Manuel Amador, aka Celio Alvarez-Carrasco v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 10th-circuit circuit-court-review criminal-sentencing federal-prosecution government-action guideline-range sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statutory-directive substantive-reasonableness unwarranted-disparity Did the Tenth Circuit err in concluding that it was barred from considering, on review for the substantive reasonableness of Mr. Diaz's sentence, the …
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
21-8269 James Paris Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines advisory-range criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness upward-variance Did the district court impose a substantively unreasonable sentence when it varied upward from the advisory sentencing range?
21-8277 Matthew Michael Cimino v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court of appeals to reweigh the sentencing factors?
21-8093 Albert Aiad-Toss v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-06-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 18-USC-3553a abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure district-court-discretion procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness supervised-release Whether Mr. Aiad-Toss's lifetime supervised release term was procedurally unreasonable
21-7445 Juniel B. Rios v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure procedural-due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness upward-variance Whether Constitutional Due Process requires that Irizarry-v-United-States be extended to Upward-Variances
21-7332 Marlon Sisnero-Gil v. United States Second Circuit 2022-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness substantive-unreasonableness supervisory-power Whether the Petition should be granted because the Court of Appeals' decision holding that Petitioner's sentence was not substantively unreasonable co…
21-7097 Sinmyah Amera Ceasar v. United States Second Circuit 2022-02-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3553(a) appellate-standard circuit-split criminal-sentencing gall-v-united-states sentencing-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness terrorism terrorism-cases Does the application of a stricter standard of review in assessing the substantive reasonableness of terrorism sentences contravene Gall and 18 U.S.C.…
21-7065 Lori Majors v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing procedural-reasonableness ransom-demand sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness upward-adjustment vulnerable-victim Did the district court err in assigning a two-level upward adjustment and a six-level upward adjustment?
21-7062 Michael Devell Smith v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 3553(a) criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion guidelines section-3553a sentence-disparity sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness unwarranted-disparities Whether the district court ordered an unreasonable 24-month sentence considering the facts of this case and the Guidelines sentence range of 12 to 18 …
21-6937 Colin Michael v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-01-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review district-court district-court-discretion judicial-presumption rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness united-states-sentencing-commission Should an appellate court automatically presume that a within-or-below-guideline sentence is substantively reasonable when the underlying rationale fo…
21-6566 Steven Craig Bethea v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-review criminal-sentencing discretion eighth-amendment judicial-abuse sentencing sentencing-discretion substantive-reasonableness upward-variance Whether the district court erred in sentencing the appellant to a greater sentence than necessary
21-6450 Steven Zinnel v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure gall-v-united-states jury-determination sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment substantive-reasonableness substantive-unreasonableness Whether any fact that increases the penalty to which a defendant is exposed constitutes an element of a crime that must be found by a jury, not a judg…
21-6426 Lee Dale White v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-justice-reform first-step-act section-404 sentencing substantive-reasonableness Whether a district court's denial of a motion for relief from under Section 404 of the First Step Act is subject to substantive reasonableness review?
21-6362 Rocky Krupa v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP booker booker-standard district-court-discretion due-process family-circumstances probabilistic-model procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness u.s.s.g.-§5h1.6 Procedural-and-substantive-reasonableness-of-sentence
21-6318 Michael Aaron Aldridge v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP consecutive-sentences criminal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness supervised-release Whether the district court exceeded the statutory maximum sentence
21-6207 Philip Bernard Friend v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review comparable-cases comparative-sentencing criminal-procedure federal-sentencing-guidelines juvenile-offenders sentencing-disparities sentencing-reasonableness sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness substantive-review Whether an appellate court reviewing a sentence for substantive reasonableness should consider, when presented, a comparison between the instant case …
21-6190 Joe Lewis Finley v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-04 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-justice-reform first-step-act section-404 sentencing substantive-reasonableness Whether a district court's denial of a motion for relief from under Section 404 of the First Step Act is subject to substantive reasonableness review?
21-5999 Steven Dewayne Gilbert v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-10-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure career-offender-guideline circuit-split criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion guideline-interpretation holguin-hernandez procedural-reasonableness sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness Whether the holding in Holguin-Hernandez that a defendant's argument in the district court for a lower sentence preserves appellate review of the subs…
21-5973 Jesus Lopez-Mejia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness Whether Petitioner's sentence was substantively unreasonable?
21-5899 Joseph Vasquez, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender guidelines individualized-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness substantive-review Whether a below guidelines sentence can still result in a substantively unreasonable sentence?
21-5229 Jevante Marcus Richmond and Arthur Gene Evans, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-sentencing district-court fourth-circuit procedural-reasonableness sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness Whether the Fourth Circuit failed to apply substantive reasonableness review of the sentences imposed by the district court?
20-8405 Robert Allen Vestal v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure deference federal-courts judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors?
20-8316 Michael Lawrence Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-06-15 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-sentencing district-court first-step-act sentencing-reform substantive-reasonableness Whether a district court's denial of a motion for relief from under Section 404 of the First Step Act is subject to substantive reasonableness review?
20-8254 Demario M. Peterson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-06-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-variance sixth-amendment substantive-reasonableness Whether the Sixth Amendment, Fifth Amendment, and this Court's jurisprudence on the procedural and substantive reasonableness of sentences are implica…
20-8230 Jorge De Los Santos v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process liberty-interest liberty-restriction rehabilitation sentencing-conditions sex-offender substantive-reasonableness supervised-release Whether a supervised-release condition prohibiting a low-level sex offender from living in most urban and suburban areas is substantively unreasonable…
20-7912 Jorge Gomez-Gomez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-05-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness Whether the court of appeals erred by concluding that Petitioner's 99-month sentence was substantively reasonable
20-7409 Eduardo Pena-Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure deference federal-courts judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors?
20-7052 Joshua Wright v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion mitigating-factors procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing substantive-reasonableness Whether the 151-month sentence is procedurally and substantively reasonable
20-6971 Jason Alfred Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure plain-reasonableness revocation-of-supervised-release revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether the court of appeals erred in reviewing the district court's sentence for plain reasonableness
20-6946 Barry Cashin v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process procedural-reasonableness sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness Does 18 U.S.C. § 3742(a) restrict appellate courts' authority to review the procedural and substantive reasonableness of a denial of a motion for a se…
20-6474 Pedro Fermin Barajas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors?
20-6406 Jeffrey Neal Cuddington v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split history-and-characteristics preservation-of-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-procedure substantive-reasonableness what-is-required-to-preserve-procedural-reasonableness-claim
20-6246 Adam Joseph Bogema v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 advisory-guidelines appellate-review criminal-sentencing mental-illness sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness unwarranted-disparity Whether this Court should provide some guidance to the appellate courts on the proper evaluation of a within guidelines sentence vis-a-vis 18 U.S.C. §…
20-6237 Jamar Parker v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-history district-court mitigating-factors mitigation-arguments procedural-reasonableness sentencing substantive-reasonableness Whether the 168-month sentence is procedurally and substantively reasonable
20-6155 Jordan Sandoval v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split congress-intent judicial-discretion proportional-sentencing reasonableness-standard reckless-conduct sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act substantive-reasonableness Does the substantial deference afforded to within-Guidelines sentences permit appellate courts to permit a flawed Guideline to anchor the sentencing a…
20-6134 Adam Alfredo Flores v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment criminal-history cruel-and-unusual-punishment disproportionate-sentence eighth-amendment felon-in-possession sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness Was a maximum ten year sentence above the guidelines of 70 to 87 months' imprisonment for Felon in Possession of a Firearm substantively unreasonable,…
20-5951 Joshua Scott Richards v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness u.s.-sentencing-commission u.s.s.g.-§-2g2.2 Whether a sentence imposed pursuant to the United States Sentencing Guidelines covering the crimes of accessing or possessing child pornography, U.S.S…
20-5903 Christopher Younger v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process federal-sentencing-law prison-sentence reasonableness-review sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness Whether the district court ordered an unreasonable 120-month prison sentence
20-5851 John Christopher Badgett v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness united-states-v-haymond Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Haymo…
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…
20-5770 David A. Bridgewater v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-rule dismissed-conduct due-process fifth-amendment judicial-fact-finding sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment substantive-reasonableness Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a court from relying solely on dismissed conduct to impose an otherwise substantively unreasonable sen…
20-5655 Casye Necole Richardson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors?
20-5586 Jose Zamudio-Silva v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-sentencing sentencing-departures sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness When considering guidelines rulings, should appellate courts review the decision to depart from the guideline range in the same way as other guideline…
20-5424 Alfred Lee Hanzy, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing fourth-circuit gall-precedent gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether the Fourth Circuit's decision is in conflict with the Court's decision in Gall v. United States, 552 U.S. 38 (2007)
20-5433 Gregory Wind v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-deference circuit-split deference district-court federal-courts-of-appeals federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Did the district court impose a substantively unreasonable sentence upon Mr. Wind?
19-8912 Giezi Arce-Calderon v. United States First Circuit 2020-07-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process guideline-range guideline-sentence judicial-discretion plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness Whether the sentence imposed on Mr. Arce is substantively unreasonable
19-8605 Courtland Barnes v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography criminal-sentencing district-court federal-appeals federal-sentencing-guidelines fourth-circuit mitigating-evidence sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness Whether the district court's reliance on the child pornography guideline and the mitigating evidence Petitioner offered to the court require the vacat…
19-8592 Maria Soly Almonte, aka Soly Almonte, aka Soly La Fuerte, aka SoSo, aka SoSo Wavy, aka Soly Montana v. United States Second Circuit 2020-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP age-of-consent appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process obstruction-of-justice procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness Whether Almonte's sentence was procedurally unreasonable
19-8390 Do Kyun Kim v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors?
19-1260 Andrew Demma v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-04-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 18-usc-3553a appeals-court child-pornography circuit-split discretion gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion kimbrough-v-united-states policy-disagreement sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness Whether the discretion recognized under Kimbrough v. United States for a district court to vary based on a policy disagreement applies to the child po…
19-8137 Rafael Posadas-Gonzalez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing procedural-reasonableness sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness upward-departure Whether the District Court and Court of Appeals misapplied the law under U.S.S.G § 4A1.3 and 18 U.S.C. § 3553 (a) sentencing factors
19-8065 Reinaldo Vasquez-Rivera v. United States First Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review district-court-discretion guidelines-range procedural-reasonableness sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness supervised-release Whether the district court abused its discretion in imposing an above-Guidelines sentence without adequately addressing the defendant's arguments for …
19-8027 Javier Gomez-Carrasquillo v. United States First Circuit 2020-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553(a) circuit-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing individualized-assessment plea-agreement procedural-reasonableness puerto-rico-crime sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness Whether the district court erred in imposing a sentence that was procedurally and substantively unreasonable by failing to adequately consider the 18 …
19-7851 Lenin Martinez-Alvarado v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 concurrent-sentences criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court downward-departure eleventh-circuit jurisdiction substantive-reasonableness u.s.s.g-§4a1.3 Whether certiorari review should be granted where the Eleventh Circuit held that it did not have jurisdiction to review the district court's denial to…
19-7622 Samuel Elliott v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment appellate-review child-pornography criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness substantive-unreasonableness Whether a sentence imposed pursuant to the United States Sentencing Guidelines covering child pornography offenses, U.S.S.G. §§ 2G2.1 and 2G2.2, is su…
19-7470 Agustin Martinez-Lopez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553a appellate-review appellate-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing criminal-sentencing,appellate-review,18-usc-3553(a federal-sentencing gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-review statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness Can appellate courts reweigh the sentencing factors in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)
19-7427 Rodolfo Perez-Jimenez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure deference due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors?
19-7331 Lavorice Dondrell Cunningham v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion legal-standard pending-resolution remand sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness What is the appropriate standard for the determination of substantive reasonableness claim?
19-7293 Desmond Bowen v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553(a) appellate-review booker-v-united-states federal-sentencing gall-v-united-states judicial-standard sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness What standard should appellate courts use to review claims of substantively unreasonable sentences under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)?
19-7234 Denzel Chisholm, aka Den, aka Din v. United States First Circuit 2020-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP anti-drug-abuse-act anti-drug-abuse-act-1986 anti-drug-abuse-act-of-1986 congressional-intent criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offense proportionality retail-level-manager sentencing sentencing-reasonableness statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness Whether a 342-month sentence for a retail-level manager is substantively reasonable where it far exceeds a sentence that properly accounts for Congres…
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 Whether a sentencing judge must consider the 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) sentencing factors when imposing a sentence for a supervised release violation that r…
19-7105 Miguel Jilberto Vazquez-Chavarria v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553a abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion remand sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness whether-substantive-reasonableness-review-requires-or-permits-the-courts-of-appeals-to-reweigh-the-18-usc-3553a-factors
19-7038 Angela Maxine Lee v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 18-usc-922 18-usc-924 3553-a-factors 3553a-factors appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether the above-Guidelines 84-month sentence ordered by the district court is substantively unreasonable under the § 3553(a) factors
19-7044 Darmarcus Fisher v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-assault appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fifth-circuit procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether the district court imposed a substantively unreasonable sentence and erred by imposing a 4-level enhancement for aggravated assault
19-6882 Zackary Ikaika Bryton Thompson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure deference due-process judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors?
19-6758 Michael Tryance Anderson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment appellate-standard booker-standard circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-sentencing sentencing-review standing substantive-reasonableness Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of their civil rights and due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendm…
19-6644 Darrell Freeze v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-sentencing fifth-amendment judicial-fact-finding sentencing sixth-amendment substantive-reasonableness Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments permit judges to find the facts necessary to support an otherwise substantively unreasonable federal sentence
19-6415 Jose Eleuterio Nava v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure deference district-court due-process judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors?
19-6036 Arturo Eduardo Dominguez-Calderon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review courts-of-appeals criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process holguin-hernandez-v-united-states judicial-discretion remand sentencing-factors sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review requires or permits the courts of appeals to 'reweigh the sentencing factors'
19-5922 Pedro Munoz, aka Pedro Munoz Ruiz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure deference district-court federal-courts-of-appeals federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors?
19-5883 Richard Johnson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment franks-challenge franks-v-delaware gall-standard search-warrant search-warrant-challenge-standard sentencing-variance substantial-preliminary-showing substantive-reasonableness veracity Whether this Court Should Clarify the Quantum Necessary for a Finding of a 'Substantial Preliminary Showing' That Entitles Defendants to a Hearing in …
19-5448 Antolin Torres Abonza v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing deference due-process federal-courts judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness-review Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors?
19-5425 Damien Riley v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review career-offender criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process residual-clause sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness united-states-code united-states-v-booker Whether the district court's sentence is substantively unreasonable in reliance on the career offender guidelines residual clause
18-9635 Carlos Antonio Flores v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP adequate-deference co-defendant-sentences deference due-process just-punishment plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-disparities substantive-reasonableness Whether the sentence is substantively unreasonable due to unwarranted sentencing disparities and failure to provide for just punishment and adequate d…
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 imposition of the statutory maximum, 60-month term was substantively unreasonable
18-9578 James Jacob Parrish, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process firearm-enhancement ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-conviction procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-departure sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure sentencing-reasonableness sentencing-variance sixth-amendment substantive-reasonableness Whether Parrish's sentence was procedurally and substantively unreasonable
18-9589 Nicholas Bradley Gilbert v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-07 GVR IFP appellate-review criminal-penalties criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion felon-possession interstate-commerce sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review requires or permits the courts of appeals to 'substantively second guess' the district court and/or to 'rewe…
18-9459 Trinidad Nanez-Rivera v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-common-law mitigating-circumstances sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness tenth-circuit within-guideline-sentences within-range-sentence Have the length of within-guideline sentences become effectively unreviewable in practice, and is Mr. Nanez-Rivera's sentence near the top of the rang…
18-9306 Shawn Sayer v. United States First Circuit 2019-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process maximum-sentence probation-report procedural-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness upward-variance Whether the district court erred by imposing a sentence without adequate explanation pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c), and the length of which sentence…
18-9010 Joel Augutuk Mayokok v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-error re-sentencing sentence-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness unsupported-enhancement Did the District Court's decision at re-sentencing to re-impose the same 240-month sentence it initially imposed, where the Court had erred in its ini…
18-8521 Angel Galan v. United States Second Circuit 2019-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearm-offense ineffective-assistance obstruction-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance substantive-reasonableness upward-variance Whether the sentencing court's upward variance from 71 months to 84 months for felon in possession of a firearm was substantively unreasonable
18-8498 Oryan Yazzie v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process guideline-range mental-health sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness supervised-release Is a supervised release revocation sentence of a length more than double the top of the advisory Guideline range substantively unreasonable if the dis…
18-8362 Pedro Rodriguez-Cortez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 9th-circuit appellate-review criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines immigration-offense sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness supervised-release Whether a combined 70-month sentence on an immigration offense and the underlying supervised release violation was substantively unreasonable?
18-8165 Michael J. Galvan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure deference federal-courts judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors?
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 Whether the district court erred in sentencing Mr. Bentley
18-7938 Alex Quintana-Torres v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-history criminal-sentencing drug-addiction drug-offense presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness Whether Rifa's presumption of reasonableness is, in practice, effectively binding and not rebuttable, and whether the 15-year, within-Guidelines sente…
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 certain conditions are met?
18-7646 Jesse Sawyer v. United States Second Circuit 2019-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process federal-procedure judicial-mandate judicial-power mandate sentencing standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether the powers of federal appellate courts are diminished and whether a defendant is deprived of his fundamental right to appellate review
18-7566 Pedro Goris, aka Pedro Goriz, aka Pedro Abreu v. United States Second Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appeals appellate-review constitutional-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion reasonableness sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness Whether Petitioner's sentence was both procedurally and substantively unreasonable
18-6971 Zachery Joseph Cooley, aka Red v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-sentencing gall-v-united-states guideline-calculation harmless-error judicial-discretion procedural-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness When a defendant appeals his sentence on the grounds that his Guideline range was miscalculated, may an appellate court disregard any error in the gui…
18-642 Morris E. Zukerman v. United States Second Circuit 2018-11-19 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) 18-usc-3742 appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion sentencing-explanation sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure sentencing-reasonableness sentencing-variance shocks-the-conscience substantive-reasonableness substantive-unreasonableness Whether a court of appeals that finds that a district court has failed adequately to explain a sentence can simply request further elaboration without…
18-6732 Myron Gerald Stevens v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines criminal-sentencing discretion-to-vary downward-variance judicial-discretion procedural-reasonableness sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness Did the trial court impose a procedurally unreasonable sentence of life imprisonment upon conviction of a first offense, where it applied an incorrect…
18-6561 In Re Jesus Denova Lopez 2018-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-court-discretion guidelines-range section-3553(a) section-3553a sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether the panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals abused its discretion by the rubberstamp of the erroneous and impermissible conclusion of erst…
18-456 Michael J. Persico v. United States Second Circuit 2018-10-11 Denied Response Waived apprendi due-process fifth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-trial plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment substantive-reasonableness Whether Petitioner's sentence, which would have been deemed substantively unreasonable in the absence of the district court's factual findings, violat…
18-6266 Ivan Rivera-Solis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553a appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing gall-standard gall-v-united-states sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Can appellate courts reweigh sentencing factors under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)
18-6271 Sonny Scott v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review appellate-standard booker-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure plain-error plain-error-review reasonableness-challenge reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness united-states-v-booker When—if at all—must a defendant object to the reasonableness of a sentence to preserve that argument for appellate review?
18-6206 Jason Randall Howard v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness variance-sentence Is Howard's 457% above-guideline variance sentence procedurally unreasonable because the District Court failed to consider the need to avoid unwarrant…
18-6092 Robert Dion Ables v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-09-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review criminal-appeals criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-plain-error-review empirical-analysis empirical-foundation-of-guidelines guideline-2g2.2 judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-policy substantive-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness-of-sentences Whether factual error is categorically immune from plain error review?
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…
18-6007 Valerie Louise Williams v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines appellate-review criminal-procedure downward-variance federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness Whether the Court Should Grant Certiorari to Provide Further Clarification as to the Presumption of Substantive Reasonableness for Downward Variances …
18-5973 Alvin Ramirez-De Jesus v. United States First Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553(a) booker-standard criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause probation-revocation procedural-reasonableness reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness supervised-release Whether the First Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of the petitioner's motion to suppress evidence obtained in violation of the …
18-5828 Adolfo Lopez-Garcia v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a 18-usc-3582(c)(2) 3582c-motion amendment-782 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court procedural-reasonableness sentence-reduction sentencing-discretion sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines statutory-directive statutory-interpretation substantive-error substantive-reasonableness sufficient-but-not-greater-than-necessary Whether the District Court Committed substantive error when failed to impose a sentence that was sufficient but not greater than necessary to comply w…
18-5129 Rodolfo Trejo v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-counting due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection immigration sentencing sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness Whether Petitioner's Sentence Constitutes Impermissible Double Counting
18-5108 Jaime Davila-Reyes, aka Peluche, aka Pai, aka Jaime, aka Chezina v. United States First Circuit 2018-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-sentencing dismissed-charges due-process judicial-discretion preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness unproven-allegations Whether Petitioner's sentence was substantively unreasonable because the district court violated due process when it enhanced Petitioner's sentence ba…
18-16 Larone Frederick Elijah v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-02 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing-guidelines-harmless- district-court federal-sentencing harmless-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness variance-sentence When a criminal defendant argues that a district court made an error in calculating his United States Sentencing Guidelines range resulting in a sente…