unreasonable-sentence

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-6411 Holly Kaye Hibbler v. Jeremy Howard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process sentencing-review unreasonable-sentence Whether Petitioner is entitled to resentencing where her minimum term was an unreasonable and disproportionate sentence violating her Constitutional r…
23-6592 Bernardito Carvajal, aka Christian Mendez-Acevedo v. United States First Circuit 2024-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquittal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-verdict sentencing sentencing-discretion unreasonable-sentence Whether a sentencing judge may disregard a jury's acquittal and use rejected facts to justify a dramatic increase in the defendant's sentence
22-5811 Matthew Poulin v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP alcohol-consumption alcohol-prohibition appeal criminal-procedure district-court due-process reasonableness sentencing supervised-release unreasonable-sentence Whether the district court erred in sentencing Mr. Poulin to twelve months considering the circumstances of the case
19-8019 Efrain Sifuentes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP resulting in an unreasonable sentence appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court fifth-circuit sentencing-guidelines unreasonable-sentence Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit improperly condone the District Court's error in applying the United States Sentencing Gu…
18-7181 Antonio Amar White v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP dismissed-conduct district-court due-process judge-found-facts sentencing sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-violation unreasonable-sentence Whether Petitioner's sentence violated the Sixth Amendment
18-5996 Gene Lemay Barris v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing unreasonable-sentence Whether the sentencing court erred in imposing an unreasonable sentence on the defendant in violation of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel a…
18-5968 In Re Jose Prisciliano Gracia-Cantu 2018-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-sentencing federal-appeals-court federal-courts federal-prisoner judicial-discretion mandamus mandate mandate-stay resentencing sentencing-guidelines unreasonable-sentence vacated-sentence writ-of-mandamus Whether a federal court of appeals can stay its mandate for more than five months, thereby keeping a federal prisoner in jail under an unreasonable se…
18-5188 James Wilks v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553(a) abuse-of-discretion district-court judicial-discretion plain-error plainly-unreasonable revocation revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-factors supervised-release unreasonable-sentence Whether the district court imposed a plainly unreasonable revocation sentence by failing to properly balance the sentencing factors under 18 U.S.C. § …