| 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 |