upward-departure
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-376 | Brennaris Marquis Johnson v. Washington | Washington | 2024-10-02 | Denied | fourteenth-amendment jury-finding reasonable-doubt sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment upward-departure | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments require a jury to find beyond a reasonable doubt that aggravating facts amount to 'substantial and compell… | |
| 24-5550 | Jarrod Eugene Davis v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-09-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-U.S.C.-3553(a) criminal-sentencing juvenile-convictions sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation upward-departure | Whether a sentencing court's upward departure based on juvenile convictions results in a sentence greater than necessary to achieve statutory sentenci… |
| 23-7108 | Efren Derma-Dominguez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-03-29 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | aggravating-role application-note application-note-2 criminal-organization criminal-role fifth-circuit sentencing-guidelines supervision upward-departure | Does an aggravating role adjustment under U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 3B1.1 apply, as Application Note 2 says, only if the defendant organized or supe… |
| 23-6351 | Jerome Terry, Jr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-12-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure district-court due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect ninth-circuit notice sentencing sentencing-departure upward-departure waiver | Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in dismissing the appeal |
| 22-7231 | James Sonny Alaniz v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-04-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment gall-standard gall-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-due-process upward-departure | Whether the Court of Appeals holding that a sentencing court is not required to use the incremental steps in Section 4A1 -3(a)(4)(B) in an upward depa… |
| 22-6395 | Bryan Wolfe v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-12-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process mental-condition mental-health multi-offense-adjustment notice racial-animus rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-guidelines upward-departure | Was there adequate notice of a departure the night before sentencing, as to allow Wolfe a fair opportunity to rebut the claims that increased his sent… |
| 21-5632 | Eliseo Carrillo, III v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-09-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bureau-of-prisons criminal-law district-court due-process liberty liberty-interest mental-health sentencing supervised-release upward-departure | Whether the District Court deprived the Petitioner of liberty within the terms of 18 U.S.C. 3583 (c) and (d) by upward departing in re-sentencing Peti… |
| 21-5409 | Antonyo Reece v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-08-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure district-court judicial-discretion pepper-precedent pepper-v-united-states rehabilitation-evidence sentencing sentencing-variance upward-departure | Whether imposing an upward departure of 200 months to a criminal defendant who has exemplary rehabilitation evidence is incongruous to this Court's ho… |
| 19-8682 | Charles Ray Fulmer v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-06-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review plea-agreement prosecutor prosecutorial-discretion sentencing upward-departure variance | Whether due process requires remand for specific performance of a plea agreement or, in the alternative, remand for determination of the full terms of… |
| 19-8158 | Lucas Heindenstrom v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-04-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553 causation causation-standard fentanyl fentanyl-death harmless-error sentencing-guidelines statutory-sentencing upward-departure | Is applying the wrong causation standard when upwardly departing under the sentencing guidelines or upwardly varying under the statutory sentencing fa… |
| 19-8137 | Rafael Posadas-Gonzalez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-03-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing procedural-reasonableness sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness upward-departure | Whether the District Court and Court of Appeals misapplied the law under U.S.S.G § 4A1.3 and 18 U.S.C. § 3553 (a) sentencing factors |
| 18-9029 | Tyron James v. Kansas | Kansas | 2019-04-29 | Denied | IFP | appeal apprendi civil-rights constitutional-challenge conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment unconstitutional-error upward-departure | Whether a conviction based on an unconstitutional sentencing enhancement can be overturned under this Court's decisions in Apprendi and Alleyne |
| 18-8400 | Travis Demond Johnson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure sentencing-reasonableness statutory-purposes-of-sentencing upward-departure | Whether the district court erred in departing upward under the United States Sentencing Guidelines §4A1.3 |
| 18-8079 | Christopher Loran Bentley v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-sentencing judicial-discretion notice-requirement relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness statutory-maximum substantive-reasonableness upward-departure | Whether the district court erred in sentencing Mr. Bentley |
| 18-7872 | Steven Torres v. Randee Rewerts, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-02-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights guidelines habeas-corpus judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit upward-departure | Did the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan and the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erroneously den… |
| 18-5725 | Alfred Thomas v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-08-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alternative-calculations circuit-split criminal-sentencing double-counting firearms-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-2k2.1(b)(6)(b) u.s.s.g.-2k2.1(c) u.s.s.g.-5k2.6 upward-departure | Whether the Second Circuit correctly held that it is permissible to upwardly depart for the severity of the underlying offense when a defendant has al… |
| 18-5112 | Benjamin Fredrick Charles Robinson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-07-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | base-offense-level criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing dismissed-count due-process mandatory-minimum restitution sentencing-guidelines statutory-minimum upward-departure | Whether a four-level upward departure for conduct underlying a dismissed count is reasonable when the conduct was already accounted for in the base of… |