united-states-sentencing-commission

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-5924 Lennard Rashard Monroe v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-procedure participant-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission Whether a customer can be counted as a participant for purposes of U.S.S.G. §3B1.1(b)?
24-7323 Jody D. Owens v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substance-offense criminal-law federal-controlled-substances-act sentencing-guidelines state-drug-offenses united-states-sentencing-commission Whether the definition of a 'controlled substance offense' in United States Sentencing Guideline U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) only covers offenses involving su…
24-5934 Richard Balter v. United States Third Circuit 2024-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP compassionate-release constitutional-review judicial-discretion pre-booker-sentencing sentencing-discretion united-states-sentencing-commission Whether a District Court has the Discretion to Decline to Follow the United States Sentencing Commission's Policy Statement and Whether It is Constitu…
23-7522 Gonzalo Rodriguez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law circuit-split deference judicial-deference kisor-doctrine kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission Whether the administrative law principles articulated in Kisor v. Wilkie limit the deference owed to the United States Sentencing Commission's comment…
23-7513 Russell Foreman v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-interpretation circuit-split deference judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction united-states-sentencing-commission Whether the administrative law principles articulated in Kisor v. Wilkie limit the deference owed to the United States Sentencing Commission's comment…
23-6150 Quindell Tyree Maloid v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-12-01 Denied IFP administrative-interpretation administrative-law deference judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission Whether the administrative law principles articulated in Kisor v. Wilkie limit the deference owed to the United States Sentencing Commission's comment…
23-310 Cory Ratzloff v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-09-26 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation guidelines-commentary judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines stinson-v-united-states supreme-court-precedent united-states-sentencing-commission Whether the administrative law principles articulated in Kisor limit the deference owed to the United States Sentencing Commission's commentary on the…
22-7814 Joshua E. Preece v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-06-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP chapter-four criminal-history criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines recidivism recidivist-enhancement relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission Whether the relevant conduct principles of USSG § 1B1.3 govern application of Chapter Four recidivist enhancements
21-7031 Joseph D. Davis v. United States District of Columbia 2022-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP compassionate-release court-of-appeals criminal-sentencing district-of-columbia-court-of-appeals federal-procedure guidelines inconsistent-opinions judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-commission Whether the opinion of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals concerning the Petitioner's motion for Compassionate Release is inconsistent with oth…
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…
20-7138 Patrick Begay v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 aggravated-assault criminal-procedure federal-sentencing guidelines judicial-discretion native-american native-american-defendants sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission Whether a district court may consider reports generated by the United States Sentencing Commission's advisory groups that concluded the Guidelines for…
20-5535 Randy Platt v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act career-offender common-law common-law-definition elements-clause physical-force robbery robbery-statute sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-commission Whether robbery convictions for purposes of the career offender provision of the United States Sentencing Guidelines should be limited to only those t…
19-7248 Christopher Omar Hinton v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP attempted-robbery crime-of-violence dangerous-weapon federal-sentencing north-carolina north-carolina-law sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-commission united-states-sentencing-guidelines Whether North Carolina attempted robbery with a dangerous weapon qualifies as a crime of violence under Section 4B1.2 of the United States Sentencing …
19-6926 Roger William Campbell, II, aka Roger William Campbell v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-12-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP concurrent-sentences consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure federal-sentencing revocation sentence-revocation sentencing-guidelines supervised-release united-states-sentencing-commission Is the 'stacking' of multiple consecutive sentences, upon revocation of multiple concurrent terms of supervised release, consistent with the United St…
18-9322 Edward Ray Crosby v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law disability judicial-review senior-victim sentencing sentencing-guidelines stokeling-precedent stokeling-v-united-states united-states-sentencing-commission ussg-4b1.2 Whether the Texas offense of aggravated robbery by inflicting injury against a senior or disabled victim satisfies the definition of 'crime of violenc…
18-6241 Edward Jewell v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP class-precedent constitutional-challenge controlled-substance-offense criminal-law direct-appeal due-process mathis-precedent mathis-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission Does this Court's holding in Mathis v United States apply to determinations under the United States Sentencing Guidelines of whether a prior convictio…
18-6248 Antonio Mercedes-Rijo v. United States First Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP congressional-power criminal-procedure define-and-punish-clause drug-trafficking due-process federal-jurisdiction high-seas mitigating-role sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-3b1.2 statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission Whether the Petitioner's Mitigating Role Should of Been Adjusted In Accordance With The United States Sentencing Guidelines § 3B1.2