upward-adjustment

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-6298 Reyes Espinoza v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-01-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP criminal-activity criminal-leadership participant-threshold sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines upward-adjustment Whether a defendant who is part of a criminal activity can be counted towards the five-participant threshold for a leadership role enhancement under U…
21-7065 Lori Majors v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing procedural-reasonableness ransom-demand sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness upward-adjustment vulnerable-victim Did the district court err in assigning a two-level upward adjustment and a six-level upward adjustment?