| 21-6969 |
Alton Jackson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines booker circuit-court-review criminal-sentencing guideline-enhancement lapsed-statute legal-interpretation mandatory-guidelines sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether it was error for the Eleventh Circuit to uphold the district court's enhancement of Defendant's sentence under a provision of U.S.S.G. § 2K… |
| 21-6362 |
Rocky Krupa v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
booker booker-standard district-court-discretion due-process family-circumstances probabilistic-model procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness u.s.s.g.-§5h1.6 |
Question I. – Was Rocky Krupa's sentence procedurally and substantively unreasonable as the district court did not consider nor articulate why the app… |
| 20-6992 |
Bobbie Lewis Mayes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
booker criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process johnson johnson-precedent mandatory-guidelines pre-booker pre-booker-era sentencing-challenge sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a defendant has a right under Johnson to challenge a sentence ordered pre-Booker, when applying the Sentencing Guidelines was mandatory. |
| 19-8339 |
Juan M. Santiago v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver booker booker-error criminal-procedure federal-sentencing mandatory-guidelines miscarriage-of-justice sentencing sentencing-guidelines waiver |
WHETHER AN ESTABLISHED BOOKER ERROR (MANDATORY APPLICATION OF THE USSG) CAN BE CONSIDERED PER SE A MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE EXCEPTION THAT IS NOT WAIVED… |
| 19-8193 |
John Purifoy v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-04-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review booker booker-decision criminal-procedure downward-departure jurisdiction sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-assistance |
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has held that an appellate court does not have the jurisdiction to review the denial of a dow… |
| 19-5622 |
Cairo Lopez, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment booker cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process executive-power mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences sentencing separation-of-powers standing |
1. This Court should consider whether combining in the Executive Branch the power to charge and the power to control sentences in statutory mandatory … |
| 18-9581 |
Marcus Arenell Evans v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-rights booker booker-remedy booker-v-us constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure guidelines-interpretation plea-agreement plea-bargaining public-policy sentence-appeal-waiver sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines-interpretation |
I. Does a sentence-appeal waiver that purportedly precludes a challenge to the sufficiency of enhancement evidence and the district court's interpreta… |
| 18-9303 |
Larry Ray Lincks v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver booker booker-remedy constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process guidelines-interpretation plea-agreement plea-bargaining public-policy sentence-appeal-waiver sentencing sentencing-guidelines sufficiency-of-evidence |
I. Does a sentence-appeal waiver that purportedly precludes a challenge to the sufficiency of enhancement evidence and the district court's interpreta… |
| 18-8831 |
Javier Contreras Vargas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver booker booker-remedy constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement public-policy sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines |
I. Does a sentence-appeal waiver that purportedly precludes a challenge to the sufficiency of enhancement evidence and the district court's interpreta… |
| 18-8540 |
Eric David Bennett v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3742 appellate-review booker booker-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review supervised-release united-states-v-booker |
Whether the appropriate standard of review for a sentence following the revocation of supervised release is the "plainly unreasonable " standard once … |
| 18-7795 |
Markus D. Lanieux v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Blakely Blakely-v-Washington Booker Booker-v-United-States criminal-procedure due-process habitual-offender habitual-offender-law jury-trial mandatory-minimum-sentence reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Reasonable jurists would determine that the sentencing scheme by the State of Louisiana's Habitual Offender Law, LSA-R.S. 15:529.1 A(3)(b) [formally e… |
| 18-6737 |
Jose Lopez-Castillo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
booker booker-decision constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent title-21 |
Whether the mandatory-sentencing regime of Title 21 has been abrogated by
United States v. Booker and its progeny. |
| 18-5898 |
Armando Castillo Valerio v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-09-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review booker circuit-split criminal-sentencing downward-departure gall judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
WHETHER THIS COURT SHOULD RESOLVE THE SPLIT AMONG THE CIRCUITS REGARDING WHETHER A DISTRICT COURT'S DENIAL OF A MOTION FOR DOWNWARD DEPARTURE IS REVIE… |