unwarranted-disparities
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-5152 | Zachary Charles Fowler v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-07-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553a advisory-range appellate-review criminal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines unwarranted-disparities | Is a sentence that falls within the advisory guideline range categorically one that does not create unwarranted disparities among defendants with simi… |
| 21-7062 | Michael Devell Smith v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-02-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 3553(a) criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion guidelines section-3553a sentence-disparity sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness unwarranted-disparities | Whether the district court ordered an unreasonable 24-month sentence considering the facts of this case and the Guidelines sentence range of 12 to 18 … |
| 20-7973 | Zavion Nunley v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-05-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split data-availability judicial-discretion nationwide-statistics reasonableness-of-sentence sentencing-disparities sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statistical-analysis unwarranted-disparities | Whether statistics demonstrating that judges in the sentencing district impose sentences much more frequently than their peers in other district are r… |
| 20-7878 | Maci Denon Davis and Joe L. Franklin v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-04-28 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | congress congressional-intent discretion district-court eighth-circuit first-step-act sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines unwarranted-disparities | Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals incorrectly found that the district court was permitted to tether itself to the United States Sentencing G… |
| 18-5969 | Carlos Alberto Fuentes-Canales v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-09-13 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | burglary burglary-offense crime-of-violence criminal-history plain-error-review sentencing-disparities sentencing-enhancement sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines unwarranted-disparities | Did the Fifth Circuit err—to the point of warranting summary reversal—when it denied Petitioner relief under the fourth prong of plain-error review ba… |