alien-smuggling
8 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-6976 | Domingo Agustin-Simon, aka Pedro Sanchez-Mendez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-04-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alien-smuggling arms-length-agreement downward-departure sentencing-guidelines sua-sponte u-s-c-3553 | 1. Is United States Sentencing Guidelines Section 2A4.1(b)(1) (ransom demand) applicable in the context of an arms-length agreement between an alien s… |
| 23-7643 | Thomas Antonio Stuart v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-06-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alien-smuggling criminal-penalty criminal-procedure legislative-history mandatory-minimum sentencing statutory-interpretation textualism | Whether the five-year mandatory minimum penalty of 8 U.S.C. § 1324(a)(2), which applies to a defendant's third "violation" of subsection (a)(2)(B)(Gi)… |
| 23-7560 | David Darnell Whitehead v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-05-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alien-smuggling border-crossing criminal-intent criminal-procedure designated-port-of-entry illegal-immigration immigration-law mens-rea port-of-entry statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence | I. IN AN ILLEGAL ALIEN SMUGGLING CASE, WHAT CONSTITUTES BRINGING TO OR ENTERING THE UNITED STATES "AT A PLACE OTHER THAN A DESIGNATED PORT OF ENTRY", … |
| 23-5453 | Pedro Ramirez-Urbina v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-08-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment 6th-amendment alien-smuggling burden-of-proof causation causation-standard criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sentence-enhancement sixth-amendment | Whether the Fifth or Sixth Amendments prohibit conduct for which Ramirez was acquitted—committing an alien-smuggling offense that resulted in a death—… |
| 22-6680 | Michael Stapleton v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-02-01 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | aiding-and-abetting alien-smuggling circuit-split defective-indictment due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction pro-se-rights sixth-amendment | No: 1 )Was the Court of Appeals wrong for failing to dismiss the defective indictment that created a split in circuits where the the Fifth and Ninth… |
| 20-6954 | Brenda Yadira Gamez-Castaneda v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alien-smuggling criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judge-found-facts judicial-fact-finding jury-trial jury-trial-rights sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | Petitioner pleaded guilty to conspiracy to transport aliens within the United States and being found in the United States after a previous deportation… |
| 18-7773 | Jose Jorge Espinoza-Mendoza v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-02-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alien-smuggling appellate-review criminal-appeal criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-review guidelines-interpretation immigration risk-assessment sentencing-enhancement standard-of-review stare-decisis statutory-interpretation | Petitioner, Jose Jorge Espinoza-Mendoza, pleaded guilty to, and was convicted of, the federal offense of conspiring to harbor undocumented aliens. The… |
| 18-5532 | Galindo Jose Ruiz-Hernandez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alien-smuggling bodily-injury causation causation-standard criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process foreseeability immigration mens-rea reasonable-foreseeability sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review | Petitioner, GALINDO JOSE RUIZ-HERNANDEZ, was tried and convicted of transporting undocumented aliens within the United States. The District Court adde… |