substantive-review

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-6862 Yasser AbdelHaq v. Donnie Ames, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex Fourth Circuit 2024-02-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process exhaustion exhaustion-of-remedies federal-courts jackson-v-virginia judicial-review state-courts substantive-review Whether the Petitioner's Federal Constitutional Right to Due Process of Law Was Violated When His Jackson v. Virginia Claim Was Not Substantively Revi…
22-7296 Nathan Karl Thomas v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-04-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process legal-review plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation substantive-review supreme-court-petition Did the Sentencing Court give Petitioner a Substantively Reasonable Sentence?
22-5932 Nick Casavelli, et ux. v. Donna Johanson, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Gary T. Johanson, Deceased Arizona 2022-10-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP access-to-justice administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-preemption legislative-standard service-of-process standing state-legislation substantive-review vexatious-litigant Can states pass laws that challenge the power of Congress to regulate constitutional rights?
21-7015 Edward T. James v. Florida Florida 2022-01-31 Denied IFP capital-defendant court-procedure criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus incompetency incompetency-claim mental-competency substantive-claim substantive-review Whether a court may refuse to review a capital defendant's substantive incompetency claim?
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 …
21-5899 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?
18-9819 Jose Francisco Rodriguez-Reyes v. United States First Circuit 2019-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion arrest-consideration arrests-without-convictions criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process excessive-sentence procedural-error sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-methodology substantive-error substantive-review Whether the district court's sentencing methodology was procedurally and substantively sound and that the district court did not abuse its discretion …
18-484 Melvin Charles Pettigrew v. Texas Texas 2018-10-16 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus post-conviction-review state-court substantive-review texas Whether the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas violated the Petitioner's right to due process of law as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the …