uncharged-conduct

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
22-6940 Leon Little v. United States Third Circuit 2023-03-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (9)IFP criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial preponderance-of-evidence sixth-amendment uncharged-conduct Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentencing on uncharged conduct
21-7356 Stacey Tremaine Johnson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process evidence firearm-possession guideline-calculation jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing sentencing-reasonableness standard-of-proof uncharged-conduct Whether there was sufficient evidence for the jury to find the petitioner guilty of drug-trafficking,firearm-possession
21-6148 Lonnie Earl Parlor v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing drug-trafficking enhancement-factors firearm-possession firearms relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines specific-offense-characteristics statutory-maximum uncharged-conduct Whether a defendant's uncharged possession of firearms is 'relevant conduct' for sentencing enhancement
21-6077 Torri McCray v. United States Second Circuit 2021-10-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split due-process fact-finding fentanyl-analogue fifth-amendment sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum uncharged-conduct As every Federal Court of Appeals has now taken a position, should this Court resolve the Circuit split as to the proper fact-finding standard for unc…
20-7172 Dakota Manucy Constantin v. Florida Florida 2021-02-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment uncharged-conduct Was Constantin denied due process when the sentencing court relied upon uncharged conduct in imposing a sentence in excess of that recommended by the …
20-6674 Tony Chevallier v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-acts criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process judicial-discretion jury-conviction sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines statutory-range uncharged-conduct When are trial judges prohibited from considering as sentencing factors criminal acts that a defendant was neither charged nor convicted of?
20-6335 Duane Allen Sikes v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment uncharged-conduct Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments preclude a district court from increasing a defendant's sentence based on conduct, uncharged and unrelated to t…
19-7978 Ramon Delgado, aka Ramon Delgado-Pina v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law affection-influence civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process foreign-nationals foreign-relations security-clearance sentencing uncharged-conduct vagueness Was the security clearance questionnaire unconstitutionally vague?
19-7336 Francisco Pena, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-judge fifth-amendment judicial-discretion preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence sentencing sixth-amendment uncharged-conduct Do the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal judge from imposing a sentence, based on a defendant's uncharged conduct found by the judge by a …
19-6502 Cory Dale Fields v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-district-court federal-sentencing grand-jury no-bill prior-conduct reliability reliability-of-evidence reliability-standard sentencing sentencing-considerations uncharged-conduct Is alleged prior uncharged conduct that had been no-billed by a Grand Jury sufficiently reliable for a federal district court to consider at sentencin…
19-6284 Jose L. Cabrera-Cosme v. United States First Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP acquitted-conduct due-process jury-trial mcmillin-v-pennsylvania sentencing sixth-amendment uncharged-conduct united-states-v-watts Whether a reasonable jurist could find debatable Petitioner's Sixth Amendment was violated
19-6256 Jason Simon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct due-process false-accusation habeas-corpus-relief judicial-discretion prejudice presentence-report sentencing sentencing-enhancement standard-of-proof statutory-maximum uncharged-conduct Did the lower courts err by relying on a false accusation listed in the PSR, that was verified as false, as the sole basis for not only imposing a sta…
18-6896 Jeffrey S. Wingate v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presentment presentment-clause sentence-enhancement sentencing strickland strickland-standard uncharged-conduct Does a substantially greater sentence imposed based primarily on a count for which a grand jury refused to indict and which did not appear in a supers…
18-6083 Jesus Manuel Laureano-Perez v. United States First Circuit 2018-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process government-prosecution plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review uncharged-conduct Whether the district court erred in enhancing Laureano's sentence based on uncharged conduct
18-6012 Lucious Wilson v. J. Soto, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa certificate-of-appealability constitutional-law darden-standard darden-v-wainwright due-process habeas habeas-corpus ninth-circuit non-unanimous-verdict prosecutorial-misconduct uncharged-conduct Is the Ninth Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability (COA) on the claim that Wilson's conviction is unconstitutional due to prosecutorial m…
18-5966 Joseph Faulkner v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy fifth-amendment law-of-case-doctrine law-of-the-case prosecution sentencing sentencing-enhancement uncharged-conduct witte-v-united-states Whether the use of uncharged conduct to increase a sentence means the conduct was used to punish, and a subsequent prosecution for the same conduct sh…
18-5686 Dwight Mundle v. United States Second Circuit 2018-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-875-c awareness-of-threat criminal-intent criminal-law due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency intent jury prejudicial-effect prior-conduct statutory-interpretation threatening-communication uncharged-conduct witness-testimony Was there enough or even any evidence to prove the conviction of transmitting a threatening communication, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 875 (c)
18-5390 Khalil Abu Rayyan v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment uncharged-conduct upward-variance Whether the district court violated Khalil Abu Rayyan's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights by imposing an upward variance of almost three times the top …