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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6845 | Michael Henderson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2026-02-18 | Pending | IFP | criminal-procedure drug-offense firearm-enhancement presentence-investigation-report safety-valve-relief sentencing-guidelines | I. Whether, under Rule of Criminal Procedure 32(i)(1)(D), a district court's order for additional briefing on safety valve eligibility – which notes t… |
| 25-6847 | Andre Lamont Rawls v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2026-02-18 | Pending | IFP | appellate-review concurrent-sentences consecutive-sentences sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release | Whether the judge in the Southern District of Mississippi erred by ordering the 60-month supervised release revocation sentence at issue to run consec… |
| 25-6850 | Davantae London v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2026-02-18 | Pending | IFP | appeal-waiver consecutive-sentencing ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement sentencing-appeal statutory-maximum | 1. Whether a general appeal waiver that does not mention the right to challenge the consecutive nature of a sentence bars such a challenge. 2. Whethe… |
| 25-6827 | Titus Coston v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2026-02-17 | Pending | IFP | appellate-review criminal-sentencing district-court harmless-error procedural-error sentencing-guidelines | Whether errors in calculating the Sentencing Guidelines are rendered harmless by the district court's assertion that the Guidelines would make no diff… |
| 25-6808 | William Loggins, Jr. v. Kansas | Kansas | 2026-02-13 | Pending | IFP | constitutional-rights due-process ex-post-facto plea-agreement pro-se-pleading sentencing-guidelines | 1. Whether a state court judge must adhere to the principle that a pro se pleading must be construed liberally? 2. Whether the trial judge misconstru… |
| 25-6791 | David Sano-Perez, aka David Sanot Perez v. United States | First Circuit | 2026-02-11 | Pending | IFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules harmless-error rule-60b sentencing-guidelines | Whether a District Court's mere pronouncement at a criminal sentencing that it would have imposed the same sentence on a defendant without regard to t… |
| 25-6756 | Jacklin Cheramy v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-02-09 | Pending | IFP | criminal-procedure federal-statute predicate-offense recidivist-enhancement sentencing-guidelines state-conviction | Whether, consistent with federal statute mandating the application of the United States Sentencing Guidelines in effect at the time of sentencing, a s… |
| 25-6748 | John Edwin Corn, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-02-06 | Pending | IFP | 18-USC-3553a criminal-sentencing mitigating-factors sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness upward-variance | Following this Court's decision s in United States v. Booker , 543 U.S. 220 (2005), and Gall v. United States , 552 U.S. 38 (2007), whether a district… |
| 25-936 | Nadarius Barnes v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2026-02-06 | Pending | appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure guilty-plea legal-challenge unconditional-plea | Whether, by entering a guilty plea, a defendant waives his right to appeal his conviction on the basis that the conduct admitted does not constitute t… | |
| 25-6705 | Chad B. Wolf v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2026-02-03 | Pending | IFP | criminal-enterprise managerial-role procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit substantive-reasonableness | Question I - Was Wolf's Sentence Substantively and Procedurally Unreasonable as Rendered Given The District Court Used a Sentencing Guidelines Calcula… |
| 25-6674 | Justin K. Eaton v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2026-01-29 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure circuit-split commission-authority congressional-review due-process sentencing-guidelines | I. Can U.S.S.G. §1B1.13(b)(6) be held to be an "excess of authority" by the Commission when Congress has reviewed and ratified that guideline pursuant… |
| 25-6633 | Leihinahina Sullivan v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2026-01-21 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-history district-court plea-agreement sentence-adjustment sentencing-guidelines status-points | &ivn(<)WineVViev' be ^-zmled sendee reducho-n uvtdeK ■sfetfus points Amendment &aJ aiad -WnaA' unde« IS U.SZ. Z&SSfa'fte) 7 reaumnq-toe Court to ronf… |
| 25-6622 | Alante Martel Nelson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2026-01-20 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP | categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-law federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. To determine a controlled substance offense under USSG § 4B1.2(b) using the categorical approach, do courts compare the elements of the prior convi… |
| 25-6577 | Charles Denard Milbry v. Florida | Florida | 2026-01-14 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-defect ex-post-facto habeas-corpus judicial-discretion plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines | Petitioner played a relatively minor role in his acceptance of plea. A trial judge was assigned to petitioner's case when it was filed in 1996 and pre… |
| 25-6583 | John Hotaling v. United States | Second Circuit | 2026-01-14 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | breach-of-contract criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement santobello-standard sentencing-guidelines | Whether the government breaches a plea agreement, and violates due process under Santobello v. New York, 404 U.S. 257 (1971), when it enters into an a… |
| 25-6555 | Fredrick Dontae Slade v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2026-01-13 | Pending | IFP | appeal-waiver constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process plea-agreement | 1. IS A DEFEDANT'S RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS OF LAW VIOLATED WHEN THE GOVERNMENT REQUIRES AN APPEAL WAIVER AS PART OF A PLEA AGREEMENT? |
| 25-6563 | Gary Craig Stephens v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2026-01-13 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP | court-of-appeals plain-error-review procedural-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-range supervised-release | 1. Whether a court of appeals may affirm a sentence when the district court never calculated or identified the applicable Sentencing Guidelines range,… |
| 25-6569 | Jamarcus G. Jackson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2026-01-13 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-sentencing drug-purity evidence-standard methamphetamine preponderance-of-evidence sentencing-guidelines | Whether a district court can infer that unseized methamphetamine has similar purity to seized methamphetamine. If so, what specific evidence must supp… |
| 25-6570 | Orlanda Travon Sloan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2026-01-13 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-history individualized-sentencing mental-health-considerations methamphetamine-offense sentencing-guidelines youth-mitigation | Whether the Sentencing Guidelines' static Criminal History Categories and excessive offense levels for methamphetamine actual/ice fail to propose a re… |
| 25-6541 | Lonzie Nichols v. Mississippi | Mississippi | 2026-01-12 | Pending | IFP | constitutional-rights due-process ex-post-facto liberty-interest procedural-bars sentencing-guidelines | 1. whether a state 's application ano enforcement of its Procedural Bars via its highest appellate Court in Certain Cases resultin annihilation Ano … |
| 25-6533 | Arthur Raffy Aslanian v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2026-01-09 | Pending | IFP | appeal-waiver appellate-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment post-trial-agreement | Whether a post-trial waiver of appeal is unknowing and involuntary, and therefore invalid under the Fifth Amendment, where petitioner was not fully ad… |
| 25-6499 | Nycole Amaury Rosario Sanchez v. United States | First Circuit | 2026-01-07 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | age-consideration circuit-split criminal-procedure juvenile-sentencing sentencing-guidelines youth-mitigating-factor | Whether youth (minor age) at the time of the commission of a criminal offense, with its intrinsic characteristics, is inherently a mitigating factor t… |
| 25-796 | Princewill Arinze Duru v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2026-01-07 | Pending | Response Waived | bank-fraud criminal-statute identity-theft means-of-identification sentencing-guidelines victim-definition | Title 18, United State Code, Section 1028A imposes a mandatory two-year consecutive sentence on anyone who "knowingly transfers, possesses, or uses, w… |
| 25-6487 | Derrick S. Lewis v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-01-06 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-rule criminal-procedure fifth-amendment jury-determination sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | 1. Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments are violated when a sentencing judge, rather than a jury, finds facts that otherwise alter the minimum and/o… |
| 25-6458 | Matthew Darrel Childers v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-12-31 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance mandate-recall sixth-circuit | 1. Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred when it denied without explanation Petitioner's Motion to Recall the Mandate, Strike Reply Brief o… |
| 25-6464 | Djonibek Rahmankulov v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-12-31 | Pending | IFP | bank-fraud co-conspirator-liability constructive-amendment criminal-procedure loss-calculation sentencing-guidelines | 1. A writ of certiorari is requested to determine whether the district court's loss calculation which included intended losses under §2B1.1 Applicatio… |
| 25-6465 | Ledale Deanthony Sawyer v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-12-31 | Pending | IFP | appeal-waiver appellate-review criminal-procedure habeas-corpus legal-argument sentencing-error | 1. Whether a defendant's appeal waiver bars appellate review of a clear sentencing error when the defendant preserved the exact legal argument below a… |
| 25A756 | Juan L. Calderon Nonbera v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-12-31 | Application | administrative-remedies appeal-waiver due-process exhaustion-requirement immigration-removal section-1326d | Whether an invalid waiver of the right to appeal an immigration judge's decision renders administrative remedies unavailable for purposes of 8 U.S.C. … | |
| 25-6433 | Avis Coward v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-12-29 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-review constitutional-challenge constitutional-review criminal-law criminal-procedure role-enhancement second-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether this Honorable Court should grant certiorari to review whether the Sixth Circuit's determination that 18 U.S.C §922(g) is constitutional on… |
| 25-6439 | Marquis Melton v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-12-29 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split district-court district-court-discretion harmless-error procedural-error sentencing-guidelines | Whether a district court's statement, asserting it would have imposed the same sentence regardless of any potential procedural error, renders that err… |
| 25-6411 | Gregory Johnson, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-12-22 | Pending | IFP | appeal-waiver appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement | Can a criminal defendant knowingly and voluntarily waive the right to appeal a district court's yet-to-be-made errors as part of a plea agreement, and… |
| 25-6406 | Lawrence Joseph Florentine v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-12-18 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review judicial-discretion legal-error sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation variance-sentence | Does a district court's announcement that it would have imposed the same sentence as an "alternate variance sentence" insulate an erroneous legal ruli… |
| 25-6385 | Johnathan Morrison v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-12-16 | Pending | IFP | appeal-waiver appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court miscarriage-of-justice sentencing-guideline | Does the miscarriage of justice exception to appeal waivers apply to an appellate claim that a district court sentenced a defendant under the wrong se… |
| 25-6389 | Kingsley Ita v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-12-16 | Pending | IFP | appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement sentencing-procedure | I. Does a general appeal waiver in a plea agreement bar a criminal defendant from challenging a sentence on due process grounds when the sentencing co… |
| 25-6308 | Johnny Joe Figueroa-Mangual v. United States | First Circuit | 2025-12-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights eighth-amendment fifth-amendment plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | Whether it was a violation to the Fifth, Sixth and Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the sentencing factors enshrined in 18 U.S.C. 3553 (a) a… |
| 25A660 | Alante Martel Nelson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-12-04 | Application | acca brown-v-united-states career-offender procedural-error sentencing-guidelines time-of-conviction | Whether this Court's decision in Brown v. United States, 602 U.S. 101 (2024) extends to the federal Sentencing Guidelines. | |
| 25-6212 | Nicolas Mondragon-Gonzalez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-11-24 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP | causation-standard circuit-split death-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness | In the case of petitioner Nicolas Mondragon Gonzalez, he received a forty year sentence under the death enhancement in USSG § 2L1.1(b)(7)(D) based sol… |
| 25-6218 | Kenleone Joe Nyandoro v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-11-24 | Pending | IFP | appeal-waiver controlled-substance firearm-possession ineffective-assistance second-amendment statutory-maximum | 1. Whether the only permissible exceptions to a general appeal waiver are for claims of ineffective assistance of counsel or that the sentence exceeds… |
| 25-6183 | Stephen C. Crawford v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-11-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fifth-amendment perjury reasonable-doubt self-defense sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | 1. Whether this Court should adopt and encourage, when requested by a party, a definition of reasonable doubt to include "a doubt that would cause a r… |
| 25A594 | Keith Lashon Bell v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-11-20 | Application | appeal-waiver constitutional-exception criminal-procedure federal-sentencing habeas-corpus plea-agreement | Question not identified. | |
| 25-6151 | Christopher Lewis Tucker v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-11-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure medication-administration pretrial-custody sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervised-release | Is a twenty-five year term of supervised release with stringent special conditions including the forced administration of medication "greater than nec… |
| 25-6138 | Michael Chance v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-11-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split federal-sentencing life-expectancy parsimony-principle sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Where 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) mandates that federal courts "shall impose a sentence sufficient, but not greater than necessary, to comply with [its] purpo… |
| 25-6141 | Mark Abercrombie v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-11-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines | Whether errors in calculating the Sentencing Guidelines are rendered categorically harmless by the district court's routine and boilerplate assertion … |
| 25-6142 | John Elwood Tyrone Martin v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-11-17 | Pending | IFP | appeal-waiver criminal-procedure district-court guilty-plea mandate-rule sentencing-error | I. If a court of appeals recognizes a sentencing error and remands for resentencing, does the mandate rule bar the district court from considering a d… |
| 25A552 | Gregory Johnson, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-11-12 | Application | appeal-waiver career-offender circuit-split criminal-procedure plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines | Question not identified. | |
| 25-6068 | Eliezer Rosario-Ramos v. United States | First Circuit | 2025-11-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-sentencing first-offender judicial-discretion reasonableness-review sentencing-guidelines upward-variance | A. Whether first offender Rosario's 23-year prison sentence, that resulted from a 104.4% upward variance, is unreasonable because it was grounded on t… |
| 25-6079 | James Anthony Brian Morelock v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-11-10 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-rights felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment sentencing-guidelines | 1. Is the lifetime ban on firearms possession by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), unconstitutional on its face, because it is permanent … |
| 25-551 | United States v. Shaheem Johnson | Fourth Circuit | 2025-11-06 | Pending | criminal-procedure district-court extraordinary-reasons sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the district court permissibly found "extraordinary and compelling reasons" to allow reduction of respondent's sentence under 18 U.S.C. 3582(c… | |
| 25-6038 | Daniel Stewart v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-11-05 | Pending | IFP | administrative-law auer-deference circuit-split judicial-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction | In Stinson v. United States , 508 U.S. 36 (1993), this Court held that commentary by the United States Sentencing Commission interpreting or explainin… |
| 25A521 | Thelonious Wayne Kirby v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-11-05 | Application | criminal-appeal criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction sentencing-guidelines writ-of-certiorari | Question not identified. | |
| 25-6023 | Worldly Dieago Holstick v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-11-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-claims ineffective-assistance miller-el-precedent plea-voluntariness sentencing-guidelines threshold-inquiry | Whether the lower courts violated this Court's precedent in Miller-El v. Cockrell, 537 U.S. 322 (2003), by collapsing the certificate-of-appealability… |
| 25-6028 | Elizabeth Mora Leyva v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-11-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | co-conspirator criminal-law fifth-amendment firearm-enhancement sentencing-guidelines substantive-due-process | Whether the District Court denied the Petitioner's constitutional right to substantive due process under the Fifth Amendment by adding an enhancement … |
| 25-5986 | Tovis Ation Richardson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-10-29 | Pending | IFP | appeal-waiver circuit-split drug-conspiracy firearm-enhancement miscarriage-of-justice sentencing-guidelines | I. The Fourth Circuit and several other circuits apply the U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1(b)(1) enhancement if a firearm is found in any place where a defendant's c… |
| 25-5963 | Cesar Edgardo Castillo-Rodriguez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing-guidelines | Whether, after Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, 589 U.S. 169 (2020), a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails to reference… |
| 25-5964 | Oladayo Oladokun v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-10-27 | Pending | IFP | agency-deference judicial-review notice-and-comment sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the Sentencing Guidelines ' commentary promulgated without notice-and-comment rulemaking retains binding authority after Loper Light Ente… |
| 25A469 | Cedric Ray Jones v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-24 | Application | appeal-waiver circuit-split collateral-review constitutional-vagueness plea-agreement section-924(c) | Question not identified. | |
| 25-5946 | Antonio Montrail Anderson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. When does a record show "that the district court thought the sentence it chose was appropriate irrespective of the guidelines" within the meaning o… |
| 25-5924 | Lennard Rashard Monroe v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure participant-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission | Whether a customer can be counted as a participant for purposes of U.S.S.G. §3B1.1(b)? |
| 25A456 | Marquis Melton v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-10-21 | Application | appellate-review circuit-split firearm-possession guidelines-calculation harmless-error sentencing-guidelines | Question not identified. | |
| 25-5878 | Detrayous D. Curry v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-10-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance criminal-conviction drug-offense federal-schedule sentencing-guidelines state-law | Whether the definition of a "Controlled Substance Offense" for purposes of U.S.S.G. §4B1.2 includes a prior state law conviction for a cocaine offense… |
| 25-5861 | Julius Rucks v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-10-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-sentencing drug-offense fentanyl misrepresentation sentencing-guidelines u-s-sentencing-commission | Whether, under the U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1 (b)(13), a defendant's offense can be enhanced by four levels, when there is no evidence that the defendant misrep… |
| 25-5866 | Davon Anthony Beckford v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-10-10 | Pending | IFP | miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines substantial-assistance third-circuit waiver-of-appeal | 1. DOES ENFORCEMENT OF APPELLANT'S WAIVER OF APPEAL AND THE GOVERNMENT'S SUMMARY AFFIRMANCE MOTION OF MR. BECKFORD'S SENTENCE CONSITUTE A MISCARRIAGE … |
| 25-5853 | Clarence Santiago v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-conduct federal-procedure sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | In assessing whether two defendants are similarly situated for purposes of § 3553(a)(6), are courts required to consider their actual offense conduct? |
| 25-5830 | Kortney Moore v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-10-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | agency-inaction career-offender controlled-substances federal-law sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Defendants who have at least two prior "controlled substance offense" convictions qualify as career offenders under the federal Sentencing Guidelines.… |
| 25-5788 | Kalup Allen Born v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-10-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acceptance-of-responsibility acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure downward-departure harmless-error sentencing-guidelines | A defendant who "demonstrates acceptance of responsibility" for the offense "shall" be awarded a deduction in the offense level. When a defendant's en… |
| 25-5762 | Muhammad Masood v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-09-30 | Denied | IFP | criminal-law government-conduct intimidation-coercion sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation terrorism-enhancement | Whether the application of the "terrorism enhancement" under USSG § 3A1.4 requires the government to prove that a defendant's actions were "calculated… |
| 25-5769 | Robert Scott Kennedy v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-09-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal burglary-statute criminal-procedure predicate-offense sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether Mr. Kennedy was erroneously sentenced as an armed career criminal and received sentencing guidelines enhancements based on two prior Georgi… |
| 25-5696 | Anatole Mbe v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-09-22 | Pending | IFP | appeal-waiver criminal-procedure legal-error plea-agreement restitution sentencing | Did petitioner's appeal waiver as part of his plea agreement preclude an appeal challenging the amount imposed for restitution on grounds that the gov… |
| 25A313 | Lairon Graham v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-09-18 | Presumed Complete | appeal-waiver certiorari due-process ineffective-assistance party-presentation second-circuit | Whether, by signing a plea agreement with a generic appeal waiver, a criminal defendant waives his right to challenge his attorney's past, present, an… | |
| 25-5669 | Stanislav Steven Yelizarov v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence appeal-waiver ineffective-counsel miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement resentencing | When a criminal defendant is resentenced after a conviction is vacated because he is actually innocent of the charge, does an appeal waiver in the ple… |
| 25-5650 | Deangelus Thomas v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-09-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure harmless-error sentencing-guidelines shepard-documents sixth-amendment | (1) Does the ACCA occasions-different inquiry, requiring a detailed, multi-factored analysis of the facts surrounding at least three prior offenses—fa… |
| 25-5652 | Federico Jose Maldonado-Aleman v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-09-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court conspiracy drug-distribution jury-trial sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | Whether the Fifth Circuit's decision that a defendant may be sentenced for drugs that he was not shown to have agreed to distribute violates the Court… |
| 25-5620 | Terry Duane Qualls v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-09-12 | Pending | IFP | appeal-waiver categorical-approach controlled-substances-act due-process plea-agreement sentencing | Whether an appeal waiver applies when the sentencing judge advises the defendant that he has the right to appeal and the government does not object. |
| 25-5609 | Jackie Kavaskia McMillan v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-09-11 | Pending | IFP | appeal-waiver district-court illegal-sentence jurisdictional-challenge plea-agreement sentencing | While "jurisdictions appear to treat at least some claims as unwaivable" via an appeal waiver in a plea agreement, this Court has not yet decided "wha… |
| 25-5619 | Michael Garrick Denson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-09-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure dangerous-weapon evidence-sufficiency jury-verdict sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | 1. Whether there was sufficient evidence to sustain the jury verdicts. 2. Whether the court erred in applying a two-level sentencing enhancement for … |
| 25-227 | Raymond Poore v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-08-27 | Pending | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) | administrative-law agency-deference circuit-split judicial-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction | In Stinson v. United States, 508 U.S. 36 (1993), this Court held that Seminole Rock deference, now generally known as Auer deference, applies to inter… |
| 25-5446 | Javier Perez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-08-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bodily-injury criminal-procedure enhancement-standard judicial-discretion legal-interpretation sentencing-guidelines | Should application of the four-level sentencing enhancement for "permanent or life-threatening bodily injury" under U.S.S.G. § 2A2.1(b)(1)(A) require … |
| 25-5427 | Rufus E. Dennis v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-08-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | base-offense-level criminal-procedure district-court hobbs-act sentencing-guidelines upward-variance | 1. Did the Defendant "possess" a handgun for the purposes of the sentencing court assessing a 5 point level increase to his base offense level, pursua… |
| 25-5404 | Darren Smith v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-08-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure mitigation-arguments official-victim-enhancement procedural-error sentencing-guidelines | Whether a district court commits procedural error under 18 U.S.C. § 3553, Rita v. United States, 551 U.S. 338 (2007), and Gall v. United States, 552 U… |
| 25-5390 | Brandon Desmond Medford v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-08-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion federal-procedure judicial-interpretation policy-disagreement sentencing-guidelines | Whether district courts must ever consider arguments for a lesser sentence based on a policy disagreement with the Guidelines? |
| 25-5387 | Robert Narvett v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-08-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement rule-11-hearing | Did the Appeals Court error by claiming Movants substantial rights were not affected after conceeding that the District Court accepted the Movants ple… |
| 25-5381 | Shameika Johnson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-08-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | amendment-821 criminal-law judicial-discretion retroactive-application sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines | Whether the lower courts erred by refusing to grant Ms. Johnson a sentence reduction under retroactively applicable Amendment 821 – Part A to the Unit… |
| 25-5357 | Jessie Dejuan Sullivan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-08-14 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review criminal-law facial-challenge second-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | First, whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) facially violates the Second Amendment? Second, some sentencing judges assert that they would have selected the … |
| 25-5342 | Raymond Arthur Verrill v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-08-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-standard | Some sentencing judges routinely assert that they would have selected the exact same sentence regardless of any error in applying the Sentencing Guide… |
| 25-5297 | Christopher Jerome Ellis v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-08-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender controlled-substance federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation | Whether the term "controlled substance" in the career offender guideline refers exclusively to substances listed in the federal Controlled Substances … |
| 25-5279 | Evan McCarrick Jerald v. Arizona | Arizona | 2025-08-05 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole sentencing-guidelines | Under Graham v. Florida, the Eighth Amendment "prohibits the imposition of a life without parole sentence on a juvenile offender who did not commit ho… |
| 25-5226 | Nashaun Drake v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-07-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance criminal-law federal-sentencing prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | When defining a controlled substance offense under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) do courts look to the substances that were controlled on the date of the prior … |
| 25-5213 | Cimeon Dion Williams v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-07-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acceptance-of-responsibility constitutional-principles criminal-procedure mental-illness post-plea-misconduct sentencing-guidelines | Whether a district court may deny a reduction for acceptance of responsibility under USSG § 3E1.1 based solely on uncorroborated allegations of post p… |
| 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… |
| 25-5099 | Franklin Ray v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-07-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence appeal-waiver due-process plea-agreement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation | After this Court re-interpreted the Aggravated Identity Theft statute in Dubin v. United States, 599 U.S. 110, 132 (2023), Petitioner was factually in… |
| 25-5050 | Carlos Caraballo v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-07-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review case-law findings-of-fact sentencing-guidelines special-offense-characteristic standard-of-review | Whether the circuit court applied the appropriate standard of review regarding a challenge to the imposition of a Sentencing Guideline Special Offense… |
| 25-5029 | Damon D. Williams v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-07-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion attempted-robbery criminal-procedure fifth-amendment sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | I. When imposing maximum , consecutive sentenc es for two convictions for attempted interference with commerce by robbery (18 U.S.C. § 1951) —aris… |
| 25-5031 | Michael Odom v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-07-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver circuit-consensus due-process fifth-amendment plea-agreement sentencing-proceedings | 1. Whether the near consensus determination by the various Circuits to accept appeal waivers in plea agreements that extend to subsequent sentencing p… |
| 25-5008 | Stephen T. Aguiar v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-07-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-review coram-nobis due-process factual-innocence medical-evidence sentencing-guidelines | 1. DESPITE THE RECORD SHOWING THAT PETITIONER IS FACTUALLY INNOCENT OF DISTRIBUTING MORPHINE, DID THE SECOND CIRCUIT ERR IN AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT C… |
| 24-7503 | Bradley J. Harris v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-circuit amendment-821 judicial-discretion procedural-error sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines | 1) Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of a sentence reduction under Amendment 821 despite procedural errors, i… |
| 24-7505 | Donald Evans v. Jasen Bohinski, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-06-26 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure double-jeopardy ex-post-facto sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction | 1) DID THE COURT VIOLATE PETITIONER'S 6TH AND 14TH AMENDMENT CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS VIA REFUSING TO GRANT PETITIONER'S REQUEST FOR A CONTINUANCE TO WHE… |
| 24-7508 | Curtis Dwayne Medrano v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-26 | Denied | Relisted (6)IFP | appellate-review felony-conviction firearms-possession judicial-discretion second-amendment sentencing-guidelines | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment as applied to a defendant whose most serious prior felony convictions are attempted bu… |
| 24-1295 | Brandon Phillips v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-06-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split criminal-history expungement harmless-error procedural-error sentencing-guidelines | In 2022, the citizens of Missouri adopted an amendment to the Missouri Constitution that legalizes marijuana consumption and mandates the retroactive … |
| 24-7478 | Shaquan Dannard McCall v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-06-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process plea-agreement | 1. ISA DEFEDANTS RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS OF LAW VIOLATED WHEN THE GOVERNMENT REQUIRES AN APPEAL WAIVER AS PART OF A PLEA AGREEMENT? |
| 24A1266 | Kyle Syphax v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-06-23 | Presumed Complete | application-note circuit-split criminal-law rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. | |
| 24-7471 | Quintin T. Ferguson v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-06-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arson-statute criminal-law interstate-commerce overbreadth-doctrine sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | The Seventh Circuit decided Quintin Ferguson's 18 U.S.C. § 844(i) arson conviction was a crime of violence that subjected him to United States Sentenc… |
| 24-7434 | Ivan Gutierrez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-06-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | codefendant criminal-sentencing equal-protection leadership-enhancement sentencing-guidelines ussg-section | Did imposing a leadership enhancement on Petitioner, pursuant to USSG § 3B1.1(b) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines, but not on his codefendan… |
| 24-1265 | Glenn E. Diaz v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-12 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-procedure cross-examination judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent witness-bias | 1. Whether a district court can completely bar defense counsel from cross-examining a key government witness on an issue probative of bias and motive.… |
| 24-7409 | Pablo Jacobo Felix-Samaniego v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-sentencing judicial-discretion presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines | Should the court of appeals indulge a presumption of reasonableness for a within-guideline-range sentence where the Sentencing Commission has subseque… |
| 24-7396 | Arturo Garza, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-11 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure mandate-rule resentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether the mandate rule precludes a district court from recalculating a defendant's Sentencing Guidelines range at resentencing based on convictions … |
| 24-7357 | Christopher Scott Jones v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-06-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit obstruction-enhancement plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines | I. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred because the District Court improperly accepted a plea and proceeded with sentencing where Mr. Jones had not been a… |
| 24-7335 | Curtis Harris v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-05-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance-offense federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-conviction | Defendants who have two prior felony convictions for "controlled substance offense[s]" qualify as career offenders under the federal Sentencing Guidel… |
| 24-7323 | Jody D. Owens v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-05-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance-offense criminal-law federal-controlled-substances-act sentencing-guidelines state-drug-offenses united-states-sentencing-commission | Whether the definition of a 'controlled substance offense' in United States Sentencing Guideline ("U.S.S.G.") U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) only covers offenses… |
| 24-7265 | Myron Dreun Cook v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-05-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law federal-guidelines judicial-deference precedent-review sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Does Stinson v. United States still accurately state the level of deference due to the Commentary of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines? |
| 24-7208 | Cornell Slater v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-05-15 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review constitutional-interpretation judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review | Whether the Court of Appeals opinion is in direct contravention of this Court's holdings in Peugh v. United States, 569 U.S. 530, 541 (2013); and Rosa… |
| 24-7166 | David Eugene Rush, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-05-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver consideration constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement | Plea agreements are governed by traditional contract principles — but unlike ordinary contracts, they involve the waiver of fundamental constitutiona… |
| 24-7167 | Derek Rogers v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-05-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance-offense ineffective-assistance section-2255 sentencing-guidelines | 1. Whether a conviction under Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-18-406(2)(b)(I), (D(C) can serve as a predicate "controlled substance offense" for career offender… |
| 24-7149 | Samuel James Weaver v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-05-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split federal-courts judicial-interpretation sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review | What standard of review should apply when a district court applies a federal sentencing guideline to undisputed facts? |
| 24-7122 | Michael Samuel Dekelbaum v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-05-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process miscarriage-of-justice plea-bargain sentencing | 1. Should the U.S. Supreme Court recognize a "miscarriage of justice" exception to a waiver of appeal provision in a plea bargain for due process sent… |
| 24-7123 | Carlos Edward Thurman, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-05-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure district-court equal-protection firearm-enhancement second-amendment sentencing-guidelines | I. Whether the district court clearly erred by applying the USSG § 2D1.1(b)(1) firearm enhancement? II. Whether general application of the USSG § 2D1… |
| 24A1060 | Martin Castillo-Quinones v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-05-02 | Presumed Complete | 18-USC-3553 appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-requirements | Question not identified. | |
| 24-7058 | Todd Cannady v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-04-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | Was the Petitioner's Fifth Amendment Due Process rights violated when the Ninth Circuit denied his Certificate of Appealability petition for a procedu… |
| 24-7062 | Damone D. Oakley v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-04-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-USC-2326 criminal-procedure double-counting sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the statutory enhancement under 18 U.S.C. § 2326(2) and Guideline enhancements implemented by the Sentencing Commission constitute double coun… |
| 24-7045 | Margaret Ann Sutton v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-04-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conviction drug-trafficking due-process evidence-sufficiency firearm-possession sentencing-guidelines | I. Whether the evidence is sufficient as a matter of law to sustain Sutton's conviction for Drug Traffic Conspiracy. II. Whether the evidence is suff… |
| 24-7052 | Michael Lynn Ashford v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-04-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | Whether the District Court should be able to utilize acquitted conduct in determining the advisory Guidelines and in reaching an appropriate sentence … |
| 24-7041 | Javier A. Rodriguez v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-04-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion reasonableness-review sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines variance | 1. May the district court determine the extent of the appropriate variance without first correctly calculating the initial Guidelines range? 2. May … |
| 24-7014 | Scott Anthony Williams v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-04-16 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule federal-courts remand sentencing-guidelines | Whether a federal court of appeals may apply the exigent-circumstances exception to the exclusionary rule in the first instance on appeal or, instead,… |
| 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… |
| 24-1063 | Munson P. Hunter, III v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-04-08 | Granted | Amici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | appeal-waiver appellate-procedure circuit-split constitutional-challenge ineffective-assistance sentencing-rights | 1. Whether the only permissible exceptions to a general appeal waiver are for claims of ineffective assistance of counsel or that the sentence exceeds… |
| 24-6898 | Avery Jamal Edwards v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-03-31 | Denied | IFP | controlled-substance criminal-law federal-law sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether an offense must have involved a substance that was controlled under federal law to be considered a "controlled substance offense" as that term… |
| 24-6879 | Zachary Michael Linan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-03-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fifth-amendment judicial-fact-finding sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | 1. Did the Fifth Circuit err in affirming the district court's application of U.S.S.G. § 2A1.2(a)(1) (Second Degree Murder) rather than § 2A2.2 (Aggra… |
| 24-6830 | Khalid Alboushari v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-03-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance sentencing-guidelines | 1. Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's sentence of 92 months' imprisonment without properly considerin… |
| 24-6814 | Jason Johnson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-03-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure illegal-sentence plea-agreement sentencing-law | While "jurisdictions appear to treat at least some claims as unwaivable" via an appeal waiver in a plea agreement, this Court has not yet had occasion… |
| 24-6752 | Adonis Batista v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial methamphetamine-quantity sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | Were Petitioner's Fifth Amendment due process rights and Sixth Amendment rights to jury trial violated when the jury in his drug conspiracy trial foun… |
| 24-6753 | John Martin v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-activity joint-enterprise reasonably-foreseeable relevant-conduct second-circuit sentencing-guidelines | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit incorrectly interpreted the Sentencing Guidelines' relevant conduct provisions for j… |
| 24-6737 | Carlsel Alexander v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process firearms-ban second-amendment sentencing-guidelines | (1) Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by persons previously convicted of a crime punishable by more than a year of imprisonment, codified … |
| 24-6729 | Justin Lang Williams v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acceptance-of-responsibility drug-offense felon-in-possession firearms-possession second-amendment sentencing-guidelines | 1. Whether section 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban for possessing a firearm violates the Second Amendment as applied to Petitioner? 2. Can a district court … |
| 24-6695 | Edward Deloach v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-03-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-USC-1521 appellate-review criminal-law document-fraud false-document sentencing-guidelines | If a defendant is convicted for attempting and conspiring to file a false lien under 18 U.S.C. §1521, but the document he submitted to a federal agenc… |
| 24-939 | Kendall Streb v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-03-03 | Denied | Response Waived | certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining reasonable-jurists sentencing-guidelines | The "reasonable jurists" test was created only as a threshold to discourage frivolous habeas appeals. It was never intended as a sky-reaching wall o… |
| 24-6678 | Omari Howard Patton v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-02-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure drug-quantity extrapolation leadership-enhancement sentencing-guidelines uncharged-participants | WHEN FEDERAL DEFENDANTS ARE ATTRIBUTED A DRUG QUANTITY BASED ON EXTRAPOLATION AND THE CHEMIST FAILS TO TESTIFY AS TO HOW THE EXTRAPOLATION WAS CONDUCT… |
| 24-6667 | Luke John Scott, Sr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-02-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure false-testimony federal-question obstructing-justice sentencing-guidelines trial-testimony | Does a criminal defendant's trial testimony constitute a willful intent to provide materially false testimony as required for a two-level increase for… |
| 24-6655 | Raul Hiram Mata-Gardea v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-02-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres appellate-jurisdiction downward-departure indictment-requirement pre-removal-felony sentencing-guidelines | 1. Whether the Fifth Circuit had appellate jurisdiction to review the district court's denial of a motion for downward departure under the Sentencing … |
| 24-6657 | Leopoldo Villareal v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-02-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-sentencing harmless-error judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing-guidelines | Some sentencing judges routinely assert that they would have selected the exact same sentence regardless of any error in applying the Sentencing Guide… |
| 24-6630 | Amado De La Mora Cardenas v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-02-24 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-waiver criminal-defendant district-court legal-error plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines | The question presented in this Petition for Writ of Certiorari is whether a criminal defendant may prospectively waive the right to appeal the Distric… |
| 24-6618 | Dilesh Sharma v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-02-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | computer-offense due-process fifth-amendment image-enhancement sentencing-guidelines technological-changes | 1. Has 30 years of technological changes caused the offense enhancements for use of a computer under Sections 2G1.3(b)(3) and 2G2.2(b)(6) of the Unite… |
| 24-6582 | Dajuan Martin v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-02-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge felony-ban firearm-possession second-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | (1) Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face because it is… |
| 24-6575 | Marshall Ray Scarborough v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-02-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit plea-agreement sentencing | Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(b)(1)(N) requires that, before a district court accepts a plea of guilty, it must first "inform the defendant of… |
| 24-6562 | Derek Jones v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-02-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split due-process factual-basis guilty-plea sentencing-guidelines | 1. What are the admissive effects of a defendant's guilty plea? Specifically, does an unconditional guilty plea admit facts alleged in an indictment o… |
| 24-6543 | Devin Chaney v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-02-11 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP | appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement sentencing-error | Can a criminal defendant knowingly and voluntarily waive the right to appeal a district court's yet-to-be-made errors as part of a plea agreement, and… |
| 24A773 | Munson P. Hunter, III v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-02-11 | Presumed Complete | appeal-waiver circuit-split constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure plea-agreement sentencing-rights | (1) whether a defendant who agreed to waive his right to appeal may nonetheless challenge his sentence on constitutional grounds other than ineffectiv… | |
| 24-6505 | Jerome Jones v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-02-07 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure plea-agreement sentencing-error statutory-right | Can a criminal defendant knowingly and voluntarily forfeit his right to appeal the district court's yet-to-be-made errors as part of his plea agreemen… |
| 24A764 | Rocco Americo Malanga v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-02-06 | Presumed Complete | agency-rules constitutional-issue due-process loss-calculation pro-se sentencing-guidelines | Question not identified. | |
| 24-6482 | In Re Petera Micale Carlton | 2025-02-05 | Denied | IFP | career-offender criminal-law fourth-circuit sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Is Petitioner still a career offender based upon the Decision of the Fourth Circuit in United States v. Simmons, 649 F.3d 247 (4th Cir. 2011?I. | |
| 24-6441 | David Joseph Bunevacz v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-01-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-history due-process government-breach plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines upward-variance | 1. Whether petitioner David Joseph Bunevacz's convictions should be reversed because the government breached the plea agreement, in violation of this … |
| 24-6431 | Norman Seneka Bowers v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-01-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | direct-appeal judicial-discretion jurisdictional-delay retroactive-application sentencing-guidelines supervised-release | I. Whether Amendment 821 to the United States Sentencing Guidelines Should be Applied Retroactively on Direct Appeal. II. Whether A District Court Ma… |
| 24-6410 | Antoine Wiggins v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-01-28 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7)IFP | circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-procedure federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law | Under the federal Sentencing Guidelines § 2K2.1(a)(2), a defendant previously convicted of a "controlled substance offense" is subject to a sentencing… |
| 24-6366 | Steven Douglas Freno, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-01-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 3553a-analysis appellate-review booker-standard gall-factors judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines | 1. Whether, post- Booker and Gall, this Court should grant the Writ to provide clarity on an important, but unresolved area of law, to wit: whether ap… |
| 24-6334 | John Fredenburgh v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law judicial-deference judicial-independence sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | Does judicial deference to the Sentencing Commission's Commentary to the United States Sentencing Guidelines violate the principles of judicial indepe… |
| 24-6309 | Timothy DeFoggi v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-01-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-amendment direct-harm extraordinary-circumstances sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines u.s.c.-3582 | 1) As applied to Acquitted Conduct, whether the lower court erred in improperly denying a finding of "extraordinary and compelling" under U.S. Sentenc… |
| 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 | United States Sentencing Guidelines § 3Bl.l(a), provides: "If the defendant was an organizer or leader of a criminal activity that involved five or mo… |
| 24-6271 | Javier Francisco Perez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-01-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach criminal-procedure felony-offense probation-revocation sentencing-guidelines supervised-release | I. Whenever a probationer or supervised releasee faces revocation, the Guidelines Manual assigns a grade to the violation "conduct." The violation gra… |
| 24-6233 | Dearick Smith v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-01-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | auer-deference circuit-split judicial-review kisor-standard sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether this Court's holding in Kisor v. Wilkie, 588 U.S. 558 (2019) applies to the United States Sentencing Guidelines; and 2. If so, whether a s… |
| 24-6190 | Jacobie Travinski Johnson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-12-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-interference criminal-law judicial-procedure perjury sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Does the three-level adjustment in U.S.S.G. §2J1.3(b)(2) require more than the initial perjury to constitute a "substantial interference with the admi… |
| 24-6193 | Ronald Robinson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-12-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-sentencing eighth-circuit rita-presumption section-3553a sentencing-guidelines substantive-unreasonableness | 1. Does a presumption of reasonableness of Guidelines sentences under Rita preclude a finding of substantive unreasonableness in a maximum guideline s… |
| 24A602 | Zackery Terrell v. Texas | Texas | 2024-12-18 | Presumed Complete | criminal-procedure eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance plea-bargain right-to-counsel sentencing-guidelines | Question not identified. | |
| 24-6156 | Cenious Brewster v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-12-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-appeal judicial-discretion ninth-circuit presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines | Whether the Ninth Circuit erred when it created an unprecedented "presumption of reasonableness" for "Judiciary Sentencing INformation" ("JSIN") data … |
| 24-6112 | Dekeilon Marquel Johnson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-12-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender circuit-split federal-sentencing predicate-offense rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines | I. Should Mr. Johnson be sentenced as a career offender under the United States Sentencing Guidelines based upon the current Circuit split of whether … |
| 24-6081 | Christopher Zamarripa v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-12-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement sentencing sixth-amendment | WHETHER ZAMARRIPA WAS DENIED EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL GUARANTEED BY THE SIXTH AMENDMENT AS A RESULT OF HIS COUNSEL'S ADVICE THAT HE ACCEPT THE … |
| 24-6072 | John Rogers v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-12-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure defendant-conduct Does U.S.S.G. §3E1.1 apply when a defendant has vo plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction voluntary-termination | 1. Whether the two clauses in 18 U.S.C. §924(c) creates two separate crimes or a single crime and whether the conflation of the elements of the two di… |
| 24-604 | Xiaoqing Zheng v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-12-03 | Denied | administrative-law agency-deference judicial-interpretation kisor-standard sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction | Whether the limits on agency deference articulated in Kisor limit the deference owed to the United States Sentencing Commission's commentary on intend… | |
| 24-6060 | Albert Trampis Dogskin v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver circuit-split false-information judicial-discretion plea-agreement sentencing-error | Whether there is an exception to an appeal waiver in a plea agreement where the district court relied on false or unreliable information in sentencing… |
| 24-6052 | Terius Thomas, aka Terius Brown, aka Terry Brown v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-12-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-conflict judicial-review plain-error prejudice-standard sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights | Whether the Eleventh Circuit has created a new exception to Molina-Martinez's plain error prejudice standard which conflicts with the general rule tha… |
| 24-6035 | Jamel Muldrew v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-11-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | agency-rules circuit-split constitutional-amendments judicial-factfinding sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether this court's holding in Kisor v. Wilkie, 588 U.S. 558 (2019), supports the court of appeals' determination that the Sentencing Guidelines a… |
| 24-6020 | Justin Rivera v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-11-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-conviction federal-statute sentencing-guidelines sex-trafficking | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred by affirming the judgment of conviction and sentence pronounced by the United … |
| 24-5996 | Todd Norman v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance criminal-offense federal-law sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether an offense must have involved a substance that was controlled under federal law to be considered a "controlled substance offense" as that term… |
| 24-5980 | Vernell Moore v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-11-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | district-court-discretion eighth-amendment methamphetamine-enhancement proportionality-of-punishment sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines | Whether both the District Court and Sixth Circuit erred in determining that the District Court was entitled to apply the 10:1 enhancement for methamph… |
| 24A486 | Jeremy Young Hutchinson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-11-15 | Presumed Complete | ineffective-assistance plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct rule-11 sentencing-guidelines sentencing-recommendation | Question not identified. | |
| 24-5941 | Santos Cuevas v. Josh Highberger, Acting Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary | Oregon | 2024-11-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-rule constitutional-rights criminal-history habeas-corpus jury-fact-finding sentencing-guidelines | This case involves two sentencing guidelines rules. One rule, directs trial courts , to count a defendant's convictions at the time of sentencing in … |
| 24-5919 | Kent Booher v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-11-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-sentencing district-court judicial-discretion restitution sentencing-guidelines | A. THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED WHEN IN ITS RESTITUTION ASSESSMENT AGAINST MR. BOOHER |
| 24-5869 | Shawn Eric Durrah, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-10-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure dangerous-weapon-enhancement drug-distribution firearm-possession sentencing-guidelines | To resolve a circuit split, this Court should grant the Writ to determine whether, in applying the dangerous weapon enhancement U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1(b)(1)… |
| 24-5836 | Steven Hadley Hassan v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-10-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | congressional-authority due-process fifth-amendment sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation | 1) The U.S. Constitution, through Article One, grants Congress the authority to make or change federal laws. This includes the creation of criminal st… |
| 24-5820 | Tevon Ngomba v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-10-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure first-circuit obstruction-of-justice sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guidelines | I. Whether the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit erred by summarily affirming the district court's imposition of a two-level offense increase for… |
| 24A384 | Ryan A. Fleming, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-10-22 | Presumed Complete | criminal-appeal double-counting eighth-circuit firearm-possession high-speed-chase sentencing-guidelines | Question not identified. | |
| 24-5762 | Angel Ayala-Vazquez v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review concepcion-precedent first-step-act sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | I. Whether the First Circuit 's refusal to grant a sentence reduction under the First Step Act, despite intervening changes in sentencing law, conf… |
| 24-5748 | LaVanzel Kerr v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-10-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affirmative-defense constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure firearms-statute sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | L. May a district court apply a U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(b)(6) enhancement without resolving a defendant's affirmative defense claim? II. Is 18 U.S.C. § 922(… |
| 24A345 | Ronald Robinson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-10-11 | Presumed Complete | 18-usc-3553a criminal-history eighth-circuit mitigating-factors sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines | Question not identified. | |
| 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 one or more aggravating facts amount to "substantial… | |
| 24-5672 | Mark Leon Andrews v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-court-review criminal-history prior-convictions sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the 5th and 6th Amendments entitled the petitioner to have a jury decide below his crimes according to AS KCaStons, under the Constitution of … |
| 24-5679 | Christopher Michael Sevier v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-10-01 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-law criminal-procedure fifth-amendment sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 24-344 | James T. Foster v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-09-26 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review criminal-sentencing eleventh-circuit federal-procedure obstruction-of-justice sentencing-guidelines | 1. Whether certiorari review should be granted where the eleventh circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of Foster's objection to the … |
| 24-5621 | Christopher Dallas Nelson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review clear-error-standard federal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review | Are varied definitions of the clear error standard of review and results of such definitions pertaining to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines permissib… |
| 24-5624 | Omar Jorge Valle Estrada v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | court-procedure federal-appeals fifth-circuit judicial-review sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | The circuits are split on whether a request for a lower sentence preserves for review a claim that the district court has not adequately explained a s… |
| 24-5588 | Deven L. Smith v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-09-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion career-offender criminal-history downward-departure sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines | QUESTION NO. I: Whether the Sixth Circuit 's decision affirming the judgment of the district court was error, where one of Defendant-Appellant 's pre… |
| 24-5599 | David Martins v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-09-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-knowledge drug-prosecution federal-sentencing mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether, in a 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) prosecution, the knowingly mens rea contained in section 841(a)(1) also requires the government to prove that the … |
| 24-5601 | In Re David Wayne Nelson | 2024-09-20 | Denied | IFP | appeal-waiver constitutional-rights court-appointed-counsel indigent-defendant procedural-due-process right-to-counsel | In the Court's Holding that prejudice is presumed regardless of an appeal waiver in a state criminal case, Garza v. Idaho, 586 U.S. 232 (2019) also me… | |
| 24-5580 | Octavius Artis v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-09-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender criminal-procedure factual-basis plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines voluntary-plea | Whether the district court erred in sentencing Artis as a career offender where he did not have two prior controlled substance offenses required for a… |
| 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 | Where the sentencing court disregarded mitigating evidence and upwardly departed based largely on convictions Petitioner sustained as a teenager, whet… |
| 24-5533 | Clint Monroe Utter v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-09-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abduction base-offense-level carjacking firearm-enhancement robbery sentencing-guidelines | 1. Whether the district court erred in denying Utter's objection to the United States Probation Officer's 5 level enhancement to his base offense leve… |
| 24-5523 | Calvin Carnell Edwards, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-09-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law agency-deference constitutional-interpretation government-branches judicial-review sentencing-guidelines | Is this Court's three-part test, expressed in Kisor v. Wilkie, 588 U.S. 558 (2019), applicable only to agencies located in the Executive Branch, or do… |
| 24-5506 | Rustam Yusupov v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-09-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction second-amendment statutory-interpretation unlawful-possession | 1. Whether Rustam Yusupov's conviction for unlawful possession of ammunition under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(8) violates the Second Amendment? 2. Whether th… |
| 24-5481 | Cody Mercure v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-09-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure eighth-amendment federal-sentencing judicial-review proportionality sentencing-guidelines | Did the sentence of three hundred months violate the grossly disproportionate protection afforded by the unusual sentence prohibition under the Eighth… |
| 24A237 | Andre Michael Dubois v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-09-04 | Presumed Complete | amendment-821 criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit federal-sentencing retroactive-relief sentencing-guidelines | Question not identified. | |
| 24-5429 | Kemnorris Kinsey v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law agency-interpretation judicial-deference sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction | Whether the administrative law principles set forth in Kisor v. Wilkie, 588 U.S. 558 (2019) limit the deference owed to the United States Sentencing C… |
| 24-5433 | David Vargas v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-08-30 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split district-court judicial-discretion legal-interpretation procedural-error sentencing-guidelines | Whether a district court's failure to follow the plain language of the Sentencing Guidelines constitutes an incorrect application of the Sentencing Gu… |
| 24-211 | Al Dorsey v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-08-27 | Denied | Response Waived | accessory-offense crime-of-violence criminal-career-act physical-force sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit-interpretation | Whether an accessory offense has "as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force" under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 where it (1) does … |
| 24-5405 | Michael Edwin Harding v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-08-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining prejudice-standard sentencing-guidelines | Whether contrary to Lee v. United States, 137 S.Ct. 1958 (2017), the district court applied the incorrect prejudice standard to support its decision t… |
| 24-5375 | Michael Antrantrino Lee v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-08-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-law due-process retroactive-application sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-interpretation | 0. Is the decision in U.S. v. K 3d 232, 235-3.^ (11th Cir. I retroactively applicable? 2). Does mitigation arguments list be warranted guidelines Vio… |
| 24A183 | Paul Curtis Pemberton v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-08-19 | Presumed Complete | criminal-appeal federal-public-defender pro-se-pleadings sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines tenth-circuit | Question not identified. | |
| 24-5333 | Jamal Mohammad Eleidy v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-08-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver deportation illegal-sentence sentencing-condition statutory-interpretation supervised-release | Where the district court in sentencing a United States citizen imposes deportation as a supervised release condition, and 18 U.S.C. § 3583(d) expressl… |
| 24-5306 | William Newkirk v. Florida | Florida | 2024-08-13 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process life-sentence robbery-firearm sentencing-guidelines | I. WHETHER THE NATURAL LIFE SENTENCES IMPOSED ON ROBBERY FIREARM COUNTS 2-3 WERE ILLEGAL WHERE THE TRIAL COURT NEITHER ORDERED A MANDATORY PRESENTENCE… |
| 24-5313 | Tony Carr, aka Tony Carnell, aka Tony Coronel Carr, aka T-Bone v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-08-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attorney-general-memorandum crack-cocaine criminal-procedure fifth-amendment plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines | On December 16, 2002 Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a memorandum, which directed prosecutors to charge "pertinent statutory quantities that a… |
| 24-5264 | Delgen Foye v. Scott S. Harris, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-08-07 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review criminal-law federal-procedure fourth-circuit judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines | \Adun <x W^\ucV c^ci 4te orkkj w&k<*j4-^ ?ro?P^r ^>sWi4-?6r\ k tie alW) a a**. 4o frtc&J Os^l ct\\.tOz (Mins In^ V^r Case (\&n-Um 4r +ke offeah CDorV… |
| 24-5224 | Michael Paul Gianfrancesco v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-08-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review court-proceedings criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing jurisdiction sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness | Question not identified. |
| 24A100 | Brennaris Marquis Johnson v. Washington | Washington | 2024-07-29 | Presumed Complete | aggravating-factors criminal-sentencing judicial-discretion jury-trial sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | Whether a sentence above the statutory presumptive range violates the jury trial right where the judge may not impose such a sentence, even after a ju… | |
| 24-5144 | Richard Villareal v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2d1.1(b)(1) criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process fifth-circuit firearm-enhancement sentencing-guidelines tools-of-the-trade-presumption | Whether the Fifth Circuit's practice of applying a tools-of-the-trade presumption to the firearm enhancement of sentencing guidelines §2D1.1(b)(1) vio… |
| 24A85 | David Vargas v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-07-23 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split criminal-law enhancement physical-restraint sentencing-guidelines tenth-circuit | Question not identified. | |
| 24-5116 | Mohamad Jamal Khweis v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-history-category due-process federal-crime-of-terrorism offense-level sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-enhancement sentencing-paradigm terrorism-enhancement | (1) whether the court below erred by upholding the application of Section 3Al.4's Terrorism Enhancement when the evidence presented at trial, or lack … |
| 24-5117 | Terrance Nathaniel Brown, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 21-usc-841 acquitted-conduct due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-sentencing | A. Whether counsel was ineffective for failing to argue that the general verdict required that the statutory sentence be based on marijuana under 21 U… |
| 24-5105 | Heclouis Nieves-Diaz v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-07-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | agreement circuit-split conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law overt-act sentencing-guidelines | The United States Sentencing Guidelines define a "controlled substance offense" to include "the offense[] of conspiring to commit such offenses." The … |
| 24-5095 | Moises Gamboa v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution | DID THE LOWER COURTS IMPROPERLY INTERPRET UNITED STATES SENTENCING GUIDELINE § 4C1.1 THAT VIOLATED THE CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT CLAUSE OF THE EIGH… |
| 24-5060 | Bert Hudson v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole | Pennsylvania | 2024-07-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment eighth-amendment furman-v-georgia mandatory-minimum parole parole-review second-degree-murder sentencing-guidelines sentencing-statutes | After being rebuked for forbidden cruelty by this Court's own landmark 1972 Furman decision, Pennsylvania's sentencing statutes enacted in response to… |
| 24-5071 | Dennis German v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-07-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance eighth-amendment fifth-amendment relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines | (1). Weather the Government violated the Petitioner's 8th Amendment. Constitutional Rights (To be free from infliction of Cruel and Unusual Punishm… |
| 24-5058 | Joseph Curtis Hubman v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553(a)(2) 18-usc-3553a child-pornography criminal-history sentencing-guidelines sentencing-purposes upward-variance | Whether an upward variance sentence nearly two years higher than recommended by the Sentencing Guidelines is greater than necessary to comply with the… |
| 24-5031 | Keith White v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-u.s.c.-§-846 career-offender controlled-substance controlled-substance-offenses criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-criminal-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-§-4b1.2 | Whether an offense under 21 U.S.C. § 846 may be included in the U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 definition of "controlled substance offenses" for purposes of sentenc… |
| 24A19 | Maxsony Coissy v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-07-09 | Presumed Complete | career-offender circuit-conflict controlled-substance-offense crime-of-violence federal-law sentencing-guidelines | Question not identified. | |
| 23-7847 | Matthew Gatrel v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-07-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | computer-crime criminal-procedure improper-venue insufficient-evidence jury-instruction jury-instruction-error protected-computers sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-error sophisticated-means-enhancement venue-challenge | 1. Whether petitioner Matthew Gatrel's convictions should be reversed because the government presented insufficient evidence to support his conviction… |
| 23-7817 | Fernando Angel Puga v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-authority delegation-of-authority due-process judicial-authority judicial-delegation probation-officer sentencing-guidelines standard-conditions supervised-release | When a district court imposes a term of supervised release as part of a sentence, the United States Sentencing Commission recommends imposing a long l… |
| 23-7823 | Jyoti Agrawal v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-loss base-offense-level criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing fraud fraud-loss-calculation government-grant intended-loss loss-calculation sentencing-guidelines | U.S.S.G. § 2B1.1 provides that for cases involving fraud there is an increase in base offense level commiserate with the loss amount. The commentary t… |
| 23-7812 | Akohomen Ighedoise v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-06-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553(a) abuse-of-discretion due-process judicial-discretion mitigating-factors plea-agreement post-sentencing-rehabilitation prosecutorial-conduct sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-departure substantive-rights | 1) Whether a Judge abuses his/her discretion when there is a determination that post-sentencing rehabilitative efforts are evidence of an attempt to d… |
| 23-7796 | Stewart Bitman v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-06-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2422(b) actual-innocence criminal-statute enticement ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel minor minor-protection plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the Petitioner is actually innocent of the counts of conviction whereas, although the Petitioner actually committed, the acts stipulated in… |
| 23A1138 | Mark Jordan v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-06-21 | Presumed Complete | criminal-statute divisibility force-clause mens-rea section-924(c) sentencing-guidelines | Question not identified. | |
| 23-7768 | Leonard Williamson, Jr. v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-06-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit the district court from considering conduct of which Mr. Williamson was acquitted by the jury when cal… |
| 23-7746 | Robert Brumfield, III v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acquitted-conduct brady-prejudice criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-acquittal prosecution-evidence sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | 1. Whether courts evaluating Brady prejudice are permitted to ignore a jury's acquittal when evaluating the strength of the prosecution's evidence. I… |
| 23-7752 | Mark Edmond Brown, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-06-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver coram-nobis due-process guilty-plea miscarriage-of-justice sentence sentencing-rights sixth-circuit | The Sixth Circuit violated Mr. Brown's due process rights by concluding that his right to file a coram nobis petition fell within the scope of his app… |
| 23-7676 | Romone Raphael Jackson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-06-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender career-offender-enhancement circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances-act drug-distribution federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law | Whether a state conviction for distributing a drug that includes substances not regulated under the federal Controlled Substances Act qualifies as a "… |
| 23-7630 | Jamaal Elwood Dance v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-06-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver appellate-procedure constitutional-law contract-law criminal-procedure judicial-enforcement jurisdiction plea-agreement | WAS THE APPEAL BARRED BY THE APPEAL WAIVER IN THE PLEA AGREEMENT, I.E. SHOULD THE COURT OF APPEALS HAVE ENFORCED AND THUS APPROVED THE APPEAL WAIVER? |
| 23-7587 | Jondell Middlebrooks v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-05-31 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | career-offender crime-of-violence guidelines-manual inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses physical-force sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether a crime that requires proof of bodily injury or death, but can be committed by omission, has as an element the use, attempted use, or threaten… |
| 23-7595 | Daniel Levi v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-05-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-waiver criminal-appeal due-process liberty-interest ninth-circuit plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines voluntary-consent | The Ninth Circuit dismissed Mr. Levi's criminal appeal due to an appellate waiver in the plea agreement. Mr. Levi argues that the appellate waiver in … |
| 23A1071 | Marlo Helmstetter v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-30 | Presumed Complete | booker-decision compassionate-release juvenile-offender miller-v-alabama section-3582 sentencing-guidelines | Question not identified. | |
| 23-7583 | Shawn Hill v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-05-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure mental-health plea-bargaining remorse sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness supervised-release | 1. Was petitioner improperly denied credit for acceptance of responsibility based on an incident in a Hartford jail that appeared to be a mental healt… |
| 23-7566 | Brendon Tyre Garner v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-05-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment 6th-amendment acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury has acquitted … |
| 23-7571 | Corey Goings v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-05-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-rights appeal-waiver constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining racial-discrimination sentencing | I. Whether the Plea Agreement's general waiver of appeal rights included a waiver of appealing a sentence based on the impermissible factor of race. |
| 23A1040 | Al Dorsey v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-05-22 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split crime-of-violence elements-clause facilitation-offense mens-rea sentencing-guidelines | Question not identified. | |
| 23-7522 | Gonzalo Rodriguez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-05-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law circuit-split deference judicial-deference kisor-doctrine kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission | Whether the administrative law principles articulated in Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. Ct. 2400 (2019), limit the deference owed to the United States Senten… |
| 23-7512 | Dallas M. Acoff v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-05-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fifth-amendment guidelines harmless-error judicial-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether the district court committed error and imposed a procedurally unreasonable sentence on Mr. Acoff that exceeded the upper end of his United Sta… |
| 23-7513 | Russell Foreman v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-05-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law agency-interpretation circuit-split deference judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction united-states-sentencing-commission | Whether the administrative law principles articulated in Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. Ct. 2400 (2019), limit the deference owed to the United States Senten… |
| 23-7502 | Kevin Day v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-05-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4a1.3(b) criminal-history district-court-discretion downward-departure fourth-circuit motion-to-dismiss sentencing-guidelines variance-sentence | I. Whether the District Court abused its discretion by failing to give Mr. Day a variance sentence and a shorter period of incarceration based upon a … |
| 23-7508 | Matias Zarate v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-05-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process guidelines reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines seventh-circuit supervised-release | Whether a sentence within the guidelines range is unreasonable when the defendant has already served more time on supervised release than originally s… |
| 23-7471 | Shauntavus Berklin v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-05-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal criminal-appeal criminal-procedure district-court due-process eleventh-circuit evidence federal-sentencing-guidelines gun-accountability sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines | 1. WHETHER CERTIORARI REVIEW SHOULD BE GRANTED WHERE THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S DENIAL OF BERKLIN'S OBJECTION TO THE… |
| 23-7449 | Jacob VanDyke v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-05-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law Auer-v-Robbins Chevron chevron-deference child-pornography commentary deference guideline-commentary judicial-review sentencing-guidelines | Whether the 1 to 75 ratio for videos found in the commentary to U.S.S.G. § 2G2.2 is entitled to deference under Chevron, U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resou… |
| 23-7431 | Avery Lans v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-05-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553 abuse-of-discretion circuit-court-review criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing gall-v-united-states procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness | QUESTON NUMBER ONE: Did the Eleventh Circuit abused its discretion by the affirmance of Petitioner's 240-month federal sentence when the district cou… |
| 23-7411 | Larry Elwood Steptoe v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-05-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempt career-criminal controlled-substances criminal-attempt criminal-law federal-statute predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines u.s-sentencing-guidelines | Whether a violation of 21 U.S-C. § 841 of the U. S Criminal Code which incorporates "Attempt" crimes qualifies as a predicate offense for the Career C… |
| 23-7388 | Michael Andrew Taylor v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-05-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-law federal-act federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether "controlled substance[s]" in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines §4B1.2(b) are limited to those substances defined and regulated under the feder… |
| 23-1188 | Jonathon Owen Shroyer v. United States | District of Columbia | 2024-05-03 | Denied | Response Waived | appeal-waiver first-amendment free-speech protected-speech relevant-conduct relevant-offense-conduct sentencing substantive-reasonableness | 1. Whether a prison sentence imposed as a result of the consideration of protected speech as "relevant offense conduct" violates the First Amendment a… |
| 23-7355 | Demario Barker v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-05-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-sentencing-guidelines guideline-calculation hearsay hearsay-statements reliability-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether presumptively unreliable hearsay statements should be permitted in sentencing hearings to substantially increase a Defendant's guideline calcu… |
| 23-7338 | Damon Sean Bellis v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-04-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation circuit-split judicial-deference regulatory-ambiguity sentencing-guidelines stare-decisis statutory-interpretation | The Court held in Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. Ct. 2400 (2019), that before a court may defer to an agency's interpretation of its regulation, the court mu… |
| 23-7327 | Zachariah Jay Histed v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-04-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-sentencing judicial-discretion plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether a defendant who plea ds guilty, admits the substantive elements of the criminal charge, and spares the government the time and expense of a tr… |
| 23-7332 | Angel De Jesus Castillo-Godoy v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-04-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment government-defense jurisdiction opening-brief reply-brief sixth-amendment | Whether a criminal defendant must raise the issue of an appeal waiver in his opening brief or whether it falls upon the government to raise the waiver… |
| 23-7304 | Michael Anthony Granado v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-04-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law due-process firearms firearms-possession music-videos relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit uncharged-offenses | The United States Sentencing Guidelines directs courts to use uncharged offenses in its calculation of a defendant's guideline range if the uncharged… |
| 23-7297 | Marcus Bennett v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-04-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review control controlled-substances criminal-procedure drug-house drug-house-enhancement federal-appellate-courts possessory-interest sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit | Whether the drug-house sentencing enhancement applies with no evidence that the defendant maintained, held a possessory interest in, or otherwise cont… |
| 23-7292 | Morris Fuller v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-04-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-sentencing drug-offense due-process equal-protection federal-district-court judicial-discretion maximum-penalty post-conviction-relief sentencing-guidelines | Question not identified. |
| 23-7256 | John Pedelahore v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-04-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process eighth-amendment federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness supervised-release | Whether the district court erred by ordering Mr. Pedelahore to serve 30 months in prison for nonviolent supervised release violations when the recomme… |
| 23-7221 | Luke John Scott, Sr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-04-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | federal-law federal-perjury obstruction-of-justice perjury-rule sentencing-guidelines two-level-enhancement uncorroborated-testimony united-states | Does the longstanding rule for federal perjury cases that a finding of perjury cannot rest on the uncorroborated testimony of one witness apply to the… |
| 23-7223 | Daquan Doral Carter v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-04-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver arraignment criminal-procedure district-court due-process merits-review plea-agreement plea-bargaining rule-11 sentencing | Can the Government invoke an appeal waiver to preclude merits review of an appeal when the district court failed to specifically question the defendan… |
| 23-7205 | Luke Joselin v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-04-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-deference circuit-split fraud fraud-loss intended-loss kisor-v-wilkie loss-calculation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the Commentary to the Fraud Loss Table U.S.S.G. §2B1.1(b), Note 3(A) Defining Loss as Including "Intended Loss," Should Be Given Deference Aft… |
| 23-7173 | John Lee Barlow v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-04-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach criminal-law felony-classification georgia-law mens-rea recklessness sentencing sentencing-guidelines supreme-court | Did the Court of Appeals err when it categorically ruled that Mr. Barlow's two 2013 counts of conviction for Georgia aggravated assault constituted "c… |
| 23-7184 | Daniel Paul Sansone v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-04-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confinement confinement-period criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing detention-calculation juvenile-commitment legal-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.-sentencing-guidelines | Whether an indeterminate juvenile commitment is properly counted as a period of confinement of at least sixty days under the U.S. Sentencing Guideline… |
| 23-7132 | Thomas G. O'Lear v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-04-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | healthcare-fraud insurance-company medicaid medicare offense-level-enhancement sentencing-guidelines victim-definition vulnerable-victim | United States Sentencing Guideline § 3A1.1 provides for a base offense level increase where the victim of the offense was vulnerable. In a case involv… |
| 23-7133 | Garry Hines v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-04-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acceptance-of-responsibility appellate-review criminal-appeal criminal-sentencing due-process fourth-circuit sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum | 1. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred when determining that Petitioner's Sentence which exceeded the statutory maximum was proper and reasonable 2. Whe… |
| 23-1078 | Gregory Jamal Williams v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-04-03 | Denied | Response Waived | direct-appeal fifth-circuit gun-enhancement importation-guideline leadership-role methamphetamine-distinction sentencing-guidelines united-states-district-court united-states-sentencing-guidelines | Whether the lower court should have remanded for the recalculation of sentencing in light of changes in the United States Supreme Court and the Fifth … |
| 23-7122 | James Alexander v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-04-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | agency-interpretation circuit-split judicial-deference kisor-standard kisor-v-wilkie regulatory-ambiguity sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines | Whether the standard for triggering judicial deference to an agency's interpretation of its own regulations, as clarified in Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. C… |
| 23-7126 | Alberto Perez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-04-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arbitrary-sentences criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-offenses due-process judicial-discretion methamphetamine methamphetamine-distribution sentencing-guidelines sentencing-standards | Does the district court's blind reliance upon United States Sentencing Guideline § 2D1.1(c)(1)'s draconian base offense level of 38 for distribution o… |
| 23-7106 | Gemar Morgan v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-04-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-history guideline-commentary sentence-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation stinson-v-united-states supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-havis | Do the United States Sentencing Commission application note 4B1.4 cmt.n,(1) that states: "nor are the time periods for the counting of prior sentences… |
| 23-7107 | Brock Melancon v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-03-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing deference judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.-sentencing-commission | (1) Does this Court's decision in Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. Ct. 2400 (2019), govern the extent to which district courts may defer to the U.S. Sentencing… |
| 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… |
| 23-7099 | Keatron Walls v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-03-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law due-process eighth-amendment mental-health sentencing sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent variance-argument | 1.) Whether the Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding that 18 U.S.C. § 2261A(1) is not an unconstitutional expansion of the Commerce Clause in lig… |
| 23A865 | James Joseph Bryant v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-03-27 | Presumed Complete | criminal-appeal district-court eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction sentencing-guidelines statutory-review | Question not identified. | |
| 23-7049 | Daniel Arsenio Rodgers v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-03-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crime-lab criminal-procedure enhancement evidence-interpretation firearms naked-eye sentencing-guidelines serial-number visible | Whether the district court erred in applying a four-level enhancement under the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines for "altered or obliterated" serial number,… |
| 23-7035 | Anderson Garcia v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-03-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure dominguez-benitez due-process guilty-plea plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing | Whether a defendant who pleads guilty and appeals his sentence, challenging his appeal waiver as unknowing, must show both that the waiver was unknowi… |
| 23-1022 | Nancy Martin v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-03-18 | Denied | Amici (1) | appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process factual-basis guilty-plea plea-agreement plea-bargaining | Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(b)(3) requires a district court to "determine that there is a factual basis" for a guilty plea before accepting … |
| 23-7003 | Kenneth Malik Wise v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-03-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit knowingly-waived plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-argument | Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err by concluding that Appellant Kenneth Malik Wise knowingly and voluntarily waived his… |
| 23-6994 | Donald M. Reynolds v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-03-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review direct-appeal federal-prisoner guidelines-range resentencing retroactive-amendment sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-modification | While a federal prisoner's direct appeal is pending for sentencing issues, and retroactive Amendment 821 is enacted which now lowers the appellant's g… |
| 23-6977 | Dasmore T. Coleman v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-03-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-appeal criminal-sentencing defendant-rights due-process federal-sentencing procedural-history sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness | Whether Coleman's sentence is substantively unreasonable. |
| 23-6950 | Lawrence Guerain Fleming v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure felon-in-possession guideline-interpretation judicial-interpretation obstruction-of-justice pre-investigation-conduct sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | Petitioner pled guilty to being a felon in possession of ammunition. His sentence was increased pursuant to section 3C1.1 of the United States Sentenc… |
| 23-6953 | Anthony Lamont Mason, II v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | federal-court federal-sentencing indian-major-crimes-act mandatory-minimum mcgirt-v-oklahoma sentencing-guidelines state-court state-sentencing statutory-interpretation | This case presents a legal question under the Indian Major Crimes Act (IMCA), 18 U.S.C. § 1153, that is increasingly important in the wake of McGirt v… |
| 23-6943 | Michael Lawrence Kerlin v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing cross-reference disproportionate-effect due-process evidence evidence-standard pro-se-petition sentencing-guidelines standard-of-proof | 1. Whether a cross reference which has a disproportionate effect on the sentence requires a higher standard of proof that mere proponderence. 2. Whet… |
| 23-6919 | Raul Perez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-03-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acceptance-of-responsibility alford-plea criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing inter-circuit-split memory-defense memory-loss plea-bargaining sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guidelines | Does a plea of guilty pursuant to North Carolina v. Alford, 400 U.S. 25 (1970), based on a complete loss of memory of the actions underlying the offen… |
| 23-6904 | Chance Joseph Seneca v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-03-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review categorical criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion due-process guidelines harmless-error judicial-procedure sentencing-guidelines | Whether errors in calculating the Sentencing Guidelines are rendered categorically harmless by the district court's routine assertion that the Guideli… |
| 23-6907 | Tryton Alonzo Thomas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-03-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-deference judicial-review kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the standard for triggering judicial deference to an agency's interpretation of its own regulations, as clarified in Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. C… |
| 23-6900 | Bryan Reshad Hill v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure federal-rules fifth-circuit jury-verdict plain-error presentence-report rosales-mireles sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Does a sentence twice that authorized by the jury's verdict constitute plain error? This Court's decision in Rosales-Mireles suggests so, but recent F… |
| 23A803 | Khan Mohammed v. United States | District of Columbia | 2024-02-29 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split criminal-history due-process ineffective-counsel sentencing-guidelines terrorism-enhancement | Question not identified. | |
| 23-6834 | Jeremy Lee Sestak v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-02-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | as-applied-petition constitutional-protections criminal-procedure double-jeopardy sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release u.s.s.g.-§4b1.5 u.s.s.g.-§5d1.2 | Can a defendant bring an as-applied petition for modification of the supervised conditions? Does supervised release conditions as applied invoke Doub… |
| 23-6841 | Ronald D. Houston v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-02-27 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review booker-standard circuit-split crime-of-violence gall-v-united-states procedural-error reasonableness-review resisting-arrest sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-booker | The United States Courts of Appeal disagree as to a district court's power to preclude appellate review for significant procedural error required by G… |
| 23-6824 | Jeremiah James Lynch v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-02-26 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment parole proportionality sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release | Is it a Constitutional Violation to a grade A, naoUTk>iT\ f^ccx lOO? w*W T^^rmorc. /AovavT, ^cawsq A w^e, T,\m<l \a\£> oc\AW a\■6<^ v0^ c^- ('^ YAoa't… |
| 23-6827 | Victor Leon-Moya v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-02-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-procedure drug-importation drug-trafficking enhancement-factors importation jurisdiction sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness | 1) Whether a defendant's suggestion for a codefendant to pay a supplier what the codefendant owed said supplier constitutes "directing" per USSG § 3… |
| 23-6818 | Romeo Kevante Pride v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-02-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment sentencing-guidelines | WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY DENYING MR. PRIDE'S ARGUMENT THAT THE DISTRICT COURT COMMITTED REVERSIBLE ERROR BY IMPOSING A 110… |
| 23-6820 | Marvin Carcamo v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-02-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure gang-membership harmless-error ninth-circuit procedural-error racketeering rico-conspiracy sentencing-guidelines | 1. Did the Ninth Circuit incorrectly affirm the district court's procedural error determining racketeering conduct was reasonably foreseeable under th… |
| 23-6799 | Leon King v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-02-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion legal-reasoning sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c) requires a sentencing court which rejects a defendant's nonfrivilous arguments in favor of a lower sentence to explain its… |
| 23-6774 | Tremayne Silas v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-02-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | ambiguity appeal-waiver circuit-court criminal-appeal guilty-plea involuntary involuntary-plea legal-ambiguity summary-reversal | Whether this Court should summarily reverse the Eighth Circuit's dismissal of Silas's appeal when the appeal waiver is ambiguous as to whether it appl… |
| 23-6757 | Bryan Alan Kennert v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-02-15 | Dismissed | Response WaivedIFP | actual-loss deference economic-offenses guideline-interpretation intended-loss judicial-deference loss-calculation sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | This case involves the proper application of this Court's decision in Kisor v. Wilkie, 1389 S. Ct. 2400 (2019), in interpreting the United States Sent… |
| 23-6749 | Craig Alan Morrison v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-02-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-sentencing judicial-interpretation physical-restraint plain-text recurring-issue sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines victim-definition | Whether a defendant should receive an increased sentence under U.S.S.G. § 3A1.3 for having "physically restrained" a victim, where the conduct at issu… |
| 23-6751 | Delon Joseph Adams v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-02-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924 concurrent-sentence concurrent-sentences criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure federal-statute firearm-offense sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. Section 924(c)(1)(D)(ii) precludes a sentencing court from imposing a sentence for a Section 924(c) firearm offense partially concur… |
| 23-6712 | Abner Renato Natareno-Calderon v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-02-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-presumption reasonableness-standard rita-precedent rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness | Whether the Court should clarify how a defendant who challenges the substantive reasonableness of a within-Guidelines sentence may rebut an appellate … |
| 23-6707 | Sean Robert Wathen v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-02-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure dangerous-weapon district-court drug-offense enhancement factual-findings findings-of-fact sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g-2d1.1(b)(1) weapon-enhancement | 1. Is the sentencing court required to make specific findings of fact, supported by the record, that a defendant possessed a dangerous weapon in conne… |
| 23-6672 | Christopher R. Williams, Jr. v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-02-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court drug-purity drug-quantity methamphetamine-case procedural-errors sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines | I. Whether the district court erred by sentencing the Defendant to three hundred sixty (360) months in light of the circumstances of the case? II. Wh… |
| 23-6647 | Davaudrick Antron EtchisonBrown v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-02-01 | Denied | IFP | 2nd-amendment bruen-standard criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce precedent second-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022).… |
| 23-6634 | Andres Colon-Miranda v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-01-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review due-process litigation-strategy package-doctrine sentencing-guidelines summary-dismissal ussg-3d1.2 | A. What is the appropriate standard of review when an appellate court improperly grants a motion for summary dismissal that has the practical effect o… |
| 23-6545 | Stephen Christopher Plunkett v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability circuit-split civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-recusal sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment standing | A. Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit completely flout this Court's precedent as set forth in Buck v. Davis . 580 U.S. 100 … |
| 23-6555 | Luis Aceves-Ramirez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law drug-offense drug-offenses enhancement importation knowledge-requirement mens-rea methamphetamine sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the two-level enhancement in U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1(b)(5) for a drug offense that involves imported methamphetamine requires that the defendant knew… |
| 23A686 | Clifford Laines, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-01-24 | Presumed Complete | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-statute drug-trafficking firearm-possession sentencing-guidelines serious-drug-offense | Question not identified. | |
| 23-6531 | Terrance Brown v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-01-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | borden-v-united-states career-offender crime-of-violence criminal-conviction criminal-sentencing district-court judicial-review mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | 00hcVVvLC iht ddrtricrt coox-v trct6 vo $\o&[no^ -vViod Brouon \S a cac^r o-^ockr vxadxr U-S.S.G MfeU aad M5LZ, AoWerc OAt, Brouon ^ pccdxodc coavxc-… |
| 23-6544 | In Re Mo Savoy Hicks | 2024-01-23 | Denied | IFP | appellate-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process emotional-harm enhancement-factor miscarriage-of-justice prejudicial-variance sentencing-guidelines third-party-harm | 1. DOES THE MINNESOTA SENTENCING GUIDELINES ENHANCEMENT FACTOR 'PARTICULAR CRUELTY' IN RELYING ON EMOTIONAL HARM TO THIRD PARTIES INSTEAD OF CONDUCT E… | |
| 23-6526 | Larry Coates v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-01-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation auer-deference judicial-review kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | Whether the Sentencing Commission, when interpreting the Guidelines, should receive a more deferential version of Auer deference than all other federa… |
| 23-6485 | Keaton Lamar Shaw v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-deference kisor-standard kisor-v-wilkie policy-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the standard for triggering judicial deference to an agency's interpretation of its own regulations, as clarified in Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. C… |
| 23-6486 | Schuyler Algernon Smith v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation criminal-sentencing federal-courts judicial-deference kisor-standard kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent | Whether the standard for triggering judicial deference to an agency's interpretation of its own regulations, as clarified in Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. C… |
| 23-6492 | Delondo Henderson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | complicity complicity-law controlled-substances criminal-law inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-4b1.2 | Does the State of Kentucky's complicity law state an inchoate offense, such that a conviction for complicity cannot constitute a "controlled substance… |
| 23-6493 | Shannon Wilson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | application-note application-note-9 criminal-law drug-quantity judicial-interpretation methamphetamine pill-form sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the plain language of Application Note 9 to sentencing guidelines §2D1.1(c) requires a sentencing court to calculate the amount of pill-form m… |
| 23-6499 | Pete Manning v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-procedure drug-schedules federal-law federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-law time-of-consequences time-of-conviction | In federal sentencing, the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines typically call for a higher advisory Guidelines range if the defendant has been convicted of a p… |
| 23-6500 | Jimmy Lee Smart v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law agency-interpretation auer-deference circuit-conflict criminal-sentencing federal-agencies judicial-deference kisor-standard regulatory-interpretation sentencing-guidelines | Whether the standard for triggering judicial deference to an agency's interpretation of its own regulations, as clarified in Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. C… |
| 23-6502 | Marwan Lamar Lamb v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-finding preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence sentencing-guidelines trial-by-jury | Does nearly doubling a defendant's Guidelines sentence range based on a judge's finding by a preponderance of the evidence that the defendant committe… |
| 23-6476 | Phillip Thomas Green v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-01-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-guidelines appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing presumption-of-reasonableness rebuttal sentencing-guidelines | With the understanding that federal sentences are accompanied by a presumption of reasonableness if they fall within a properly calculated advisory gu… |
| 23-6477 | Jamaile L. Huey v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-01-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | borden-v-united-states crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-jurisdiction fourth-circuit mens-rea robbery robbery-statute sentencing sentencing-guidelines violent-crime | Whether a state robbery conviction, sustained under a statute without a specified mens rea for the element of violence or threat of violence, but with… |
| 23-6461 | Luis Armando Jimenez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-01-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-justice federal-sentencing guidelines judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Under Rita v. United States, 551 U.S. 338 (2007), can a district court at sentencing ignore a party's nonfrivolous arguments for a greater or lesser s… |
| 23-6466 | Edgar Lerma Flores, aka Carlos Alberto Penuelas Rodriguez, aka Carlos Alberto Pencelas Rodriguez v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-01-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 abuse-of-discretion extraordinary-compelling-reason extraordinary-reason guideline-ranges methamphetamine-disparity methamphetamine-purity sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction sixth-circuit | Can the disparity in Guideline ranges for offenses involving substance containing methamphetamine and those involving a pure methamphetamine be consid… |
| 23-6454 | Darwin Dwayne Hutchins v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender cocaine-definition controlled-substance federal-vs-state-law non-violent-drug-crimes sentence-length sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines state-federal-definition | 1. Did the district court err when it counted Hutchins's Ohio cocaine conviction as a controlled substance offense to make him a career offender under… |
| 23-6440 | Ismael De Jesus-Flores v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-01-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process notice-and-comment sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine | Whether the U.S.S.G Commentary being issued on a High in § 2L1.1 is unconstitutionally vague when it was never subjected to notice and comment to the … |
| 23-6445 | Calvin Solomon v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-01-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-v-new-jersey crack-cocaine-law crack-cocaine-sentencing discretionary-review eleventh-circuit first-step-act judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction | Section 404 of the First Step Act of 2018 sets out two steps to determine whether the imposition of a reduced sentence is warranted for a defendant pr… |
| 23-736 | Bernard Gadson v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-01-08 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-law agency-deference criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-review loss-calculation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Does deference to the Sentencing Commission's commentary to USSG § 2B1.1, cmt. n.3(A), expanding the meaning of "loss" to include "intended loss," vio… |
| 23-6421 | Remberto Rivera v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-01-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law agency-guidance circuit-split deference judicial-deference sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation stinson-v-united-states supreme-court-precedent | Whether this Court's decision in Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. Ct. 2400 (2019), now prescribes the amount of deference to be paid to the United States Sente… |
| 23-6405 | Brian K. Allen v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-01-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-circuit fundamental-rights plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-procedure | 1. Whether the near consensus Federal Circuit Courts of Appeals' application of plea agreement appeal waivers as to subsequent sentencing proceedings,… |
| 23-6406 | Jamal Eberhardt v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-01-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-court-standard criminal-procedure due-process excessive-sentence judicial-discretion reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review third-circuit | 1. Did the Third Circuit error by not finding Mr. Eberhardt's sentence was harsh and excessive. |
| 23A601 | Shannon Donoho v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-01-02 | Presumed Complete | child-pornography federal-criminal-law photographic-evidence sentencing-guidelines sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation | Whether surreptitiously recorded videos and images of minors in a bathroom depict those minors engaging in "sexually explicit conduct"—namely, the "la… | |
| 23-6387 | Montgomery Lebeau v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-12-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | anticipated-imprisonment concurrent-sentence concurrent-sentences criminal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-interpretation same-incident sentencing-guidelines state-charges ussg-5g1.3(c) | When a state term of imprisonment is anticipated to result from another offense that is relevant conduct to the federal offense of conviction, the Fed… |
| 23-6347 | Trayone Lefferio Bell v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-12-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-loss administrative-deference circuit-split federal-sentencing-guidelines fraud-guidelines intended-loss kisor-v-wilke loss-calculation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Does the intended loss commentary to the fraud guidelines § 2B1.1(b)(1) violate this court's decision Kisor v. Wilke, 139 S.Ct. 2400 (2019). |
| 23-6335 | Devonne L. Walker v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-12-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-leadership criminal-organization criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing firearm-possession guideline-enhancement leadership sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review | 1) Whether the lower court erred in applying a 4-level increase pursuant to U.S.S.G. Guideline § 3B1.1(a) in determining the Petitioner to be an organ… |
| 23-6336 | Javier Garibay Mendoza, aka Javier Garibay Mendoza-Romero, aka Jose Mendoza-Romero v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-12-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a circuit-split criminal-sentencing gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion procedural-obligations procedural-requirements sentencing-guidelines upward-variance | Under Gall v. United States, 552 U.S. 38, 50 (2007), a district court imposing an outside-Guidelines sentence "must consider the extent of the deviati… |
| 23-6325 | James E. Downs v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Florida | 2023-12-21 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection florida-statute habitual-offender sentencing sentencing-guidelines | UNDER THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTIONS (4) (0), (¢ )e 14 AMENDMENTS) CAN THE CLNEMS BEING PRESENTED HEREIN DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT MANIFEST WSUSTSECCE… |
| 23-6312 | Andre Reese v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie precedential-interpretation sentencing-guidelines stare-decisis statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | In Stinson v. United States, 508 U.S. 36 (1993), this Court held that the United States Sentencing Commission's commentary to the Sentencing Guideline… |
| 23-6314 | Dana Jahmal Stevenson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review attempt attempt-offense controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the court of appeal s erred in ruling that a prior sentence for a violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841 (a)(1) qualified as a "controlled substance … |
| 23-6278 | Devontae Nykel Racliff v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-12-15 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 2nd-amendment bruen-standard criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022).… |
| 23-6249 | Flenoid Greer v. Michigan | Michigan | 2023-12-13 | Denied | IFP | collateral-review due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest post-conviction post-conviction-relief sentencing-guidelines successive-motion | Can a State's collateral review procedures deny a person from having an invalid sentence vacated, without violating the right to petition. Whether Pe… |
| 23-6196 | Boris Ward v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-12-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-representation cumulative-effect drug-transaction ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-offer prior-convictions reasonableness-of-sentence sentencing-guidelines | 1) Whether trial counsel provided constitutionally deficient representation to Mr. Ward. 2) Whether the district court erred by failing to vary from … |
| 23A516 | Ronald D. Houston, aka Hassan Blue, aka Ron Reezy v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-12-07 | Presumed Complete | borden-precedent crime-of-violence eighth-circuit force-clause resisting-arrest sentencing-guidelines | Question not identified. | |
| 23-6169 | Juan Carlos Soto v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-12-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-USC-3553 appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-sentencing ninth-circuit-court remand sentencing sentencing-guidelines | A. Selective Remand Petitioner asks: Why does the 4th Circuit Court of appeals Remand (Almost Cases Where Not all of the appellant's Non-Frivolous Pa… |
| 23-6165 | Jesus Del Valle Gonzalez-Rodriguez v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-12-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver brief-filing burden-of-proof court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process government-defense opening-brief plea-agreement reply-brief | Whether a criminal defendant must raise the issue of an appeal waiver in his opening brief or whether it falls upon the government to raise the waiver… |
| 23A510 | Larry Coates v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-12-05 | Presumed Complete | auer-deference circuit-split kisor-deference sentencing-guidelines sentencing-uniformity stinson-precedent | Question not identified. | |
| 23-6157 | Mario Alberto Netro-Perales v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-12-04 | Denied | IFP | administrative-law circuit-split deference federal-courts federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation stinson-v-united-states | 1. The circuits have split over the extent of deference that is to be given to the commentaries to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines after the decisio… |
| 23-6150 | Quindell Tyree Maloid v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-12-01 | Denied | IFP | administrative-interpretation administrative-law deference judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission | Whether the administrative law principles articulated in Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. Ct. 2400 (2019), limit the deference owed to the United States Senten… |
| 23-6151 | Urbano Torres-Giles v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-12-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split clearly-erroneous-facts criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fact-finding reliability reliability-standard sentencing-context sentencing-guidelines | This Court's precedent precludes the use of clearly erroneous facts to influence a criminal defendant's sentence. Here, the district court assumed the… |
| 23-578 | Christopher Kinzy v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-29 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court-discretion gall-standard gall-v-united-states guidelines judicial-explanation rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether a district court can insulate from vacatur a sentence based on an erroneously enhanced Guidelines range simply by stating, without explanation… |
| 23-6129 | Jarmaine Carter v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-11-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach crime-of-violence extortion federal-sentencing ohio-revised-code ohio-robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether Ohio robbery under Ohio Revised Code § 2911.02(A)(2) categorically matches the enumerated offense of "extortion" under United States Sentencin… |
| 23-6131 | Eliseo Vaquerano Canas v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-11-29 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | administrative-agency administrative-law congressional-directive sentencing-commission sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-authority statutory-interpretation use-of-a-minor use-of-minor-enhancement | I. Whether the Sentencing Commission exceeded its authority when, contrary to a Congressional directive, it made the "Use of a Minor" sentencing enhan… |
| 23-6134 | Rajon Jamison v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-11-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act armed-career-offender base-level base-level-calculation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process juvenile-conviction sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | WHETHER THIS COURT SHOULD GRANT THIS APPLICATION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI AND ADDRESS TWO SENTENCING ERROR OF SIGNIFICANCE WHEN THE TRIAL COURT ERRED WH… |
| 23-6135 | Charles Kevin Agerton v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-11-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law federal-jurisdiction legal-interpretation offense-matching sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether an offense-matching categorical approach applies to the determination of a "controlled substance offense" under the Sentencing Guidelines? |
| 23A483 | Salvador Magluta v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-11-29 | Presumed Complete | acquitted-conduct circuit-split compassionate-release sentence-modification sentencing-guidelines solitary-confinement | Question not identified. | |
| 23A474 | Xiaorong You, aka Shannon You v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-11-28 | Presumed Complete | administrative-deference circuit-split economic-espionage intended-loss sentencing-guidelines trade-secrets | Question not identified. | |
| 23-6121 | Jemare Ray McNair, aka Head v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-11-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver appeal-waivers career-offender criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-enhancement | WHETHER CAREER OFFENDER STATUS SHOULD BE SUBJECT TO APPEAL WAIVERS IN PLEA AGREEMENTS WHERE A DEFENDANT HAS A LEGITIMATE ARGUMENT THAT HE WAS NOT A CA… |
| 23-6068 | Jermaine Deshan West v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment courts-of-appeals due-process empirical-evidence equal-protection fifth-amendment methamphetamine sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines | "Whether the U.S. Sentencing Commission abdicated its duties under 28 U.S.C. §994(2) (l)(B) when determining the appropriate amount of imprisonment Co… |
| 23-6079 | Santos David Ramirez-Ortega v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review conflict-with-other-courts criminal-procedure district-court guideline-range holguin-hernandez judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines substantial-arguments | Whether, after Holguin -Hernandez v. United States , __U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails… |
| 23-6082 | Cuedell Javon Henry v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | borden-precedent categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-sentencing fifth-circuit reckless-mental-state sentencing-guidelines taylor-descamps texas-robbery | Whether the Fifth Circuit has continued to misapply Taylor and Descamps by ignoring Borden and expanding "robbery" (as enumerated as a "crime of viole… |
| 23-6085 | Randall Gray Stoneman, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-11-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure district-court evidence evidence-seizure federal-sentencing-guidelines motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure sentencing sentencing-guidelines video-surveillance | A. WAS THE DISTRICT COURT IN ERROR IN DENYING THE MOTION TO SUPPRESS THE EVIDENCE SEIZED PURSUANT TO THE APRIL 19, 2020 VIDEO? B. WAS THE SIX LEVEL E… |
| 23-6086 | Luis Alberto Marcano-Godoy v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-11-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver criminal-defendant criminal-procedure government-defense opening-brief procedural-rule reply-brief | Whether a criminal defendant must raise the issue of an appeal waiver in his opening brief or whether it falls upon the government to raise the waiver… |
| 23-6087 | Ronell Whitehead v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-11-21 | Denied | IFP | 21-usc-841 21-usc-846 circuit-split conspiracy-law controlled-substances drug-conspiracy drug-distribution mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. Section 846 of title 21 provides that the available penalties for a controlled substances conspiracy violation are "the same ... as those prescribe… |
| 23A458 | Tony Ford v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-11-21 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-jurisdiction sentencing-guidelines writ-of-certiorari | Question not identified. | |
| 23-537 | Faisal Ashraf, aka Sal v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-11-20 | Denied | Amici (1) | appeal-waiver circuit-split computer-fraud-and-abuse-act criminal-procedure due-process factual-basis federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plea-agreement | Whether the federal courts of appeals can refuse to consider a challenge to the sufficiency of the factual basis for a guilty plea when the plea agree… |
| 23-6054 | In Re Christopher Thieme | 2023-11-20 | Denied | IFP | 5th-amendment constitutional-violation double-counting double-jeopardy due-process grouping multiple-punishment sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | Does the application of a four-level sentencing enhancement under United States Sentencing Guideline § 2A1.5(b)(1) to the sentence calculation of a de… | |
| 23-6048 | Elvis Redzepagic v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-11-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law federal-sentencing material-support offense-level sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation terrorism terrorist-organizations | Whether this Court should grant certiorari to resolve the circuit split regarding the correct offense level that is to be used in sentencing violation… |
| 23-6029 | Brianna Irene Bustam v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-16 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-history drug-offenses first-step-act rule-of-lenity safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | The question presented is whether the "and" in § 3553(f)(1) means "and," so that a defendant satisfies the provision so long as she does not have (A) … |
| 23-6018 | Calvin F. Currica v. Richard Miller, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2023-11-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-standard brady-vs-maryland criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit guidelines judicial-review plea-agreement plea-bargaining post-conviction-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether the decision below should be summarily reversed because the Fourth Circuit substituted its judgment for an erroneous factual decision by the s… |
| 23-6025 | Deunta Finch v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-11-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure guidelines plain-error-review preservation-of-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit | Has the Sixth Circuit erred by creating a novel doctrine that says, to avoid plain-error review, a criminal defendant must object after the sentencing… |
| 23-6005 | Ehab Sadeek v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-14 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process plain-error procedural-error sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-wooden | In the admitted absence of established circuit precedent, was it plain error for the appellate court to affirm Petitioner's 405-month sentence based o… |
| 23-5995 | Jake Messer v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion character-testimony commerce-clause federal-kidnapping-statute guidelines-calculation interstate-commerce noneconomic-violent-crime procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines | L Whether the Sixth Circuit's interpretation of the Federal Kidnapping statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1201(a)(), as applied to Petitioner, exceeded Congressiona… |
| 23A428 | Charles States v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-11-13 | Presumed Complete | attempted-murder categorical-approach crime-of-violence sentencing-guidelines substantive-offense united-states-v-taylor | Question not identified. | |
| 23A414 | Monterial Wesley v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-11-08 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review discretionary-authority extraordinary-circumstances federal-criminal-law sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines | Question not identified. | |
| 23-5978 | Brian Keith Person, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-11-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit knowing-voluntary plea-agreement plea-bargaining voluntariness | Whether the Fourth Circuit Erred By Dismissing Mr. Person's Appeal Pursuant to An Appeal Waiver When He Argued that His Plea was Not Knowing and Volun… |
| 23-5954 | Arthur Picklo v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 924(c) consecutive-sentences consecutive-sentencing criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law rule-of-lenity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the rule of lenity requires a sentencing court to impose a § 924(c) sentence consecutive to only the predicate crime of violence or drug offen… |
| 23-5940 | John Paul Lopez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-02 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-authority delegation-of-authority due-process federal-sentencing judicial-authority judicial-delegation probation-officer sentencing-guidelines supervised-release | Does Standard Condition 12 unconstitutionally delegate judicial authority to the probation officer? |
| 23-5941 | Gregory L. Randle v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-02 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | consecutive-sentence consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness supervised-release | Whether the district court erred by ordering Mr. Randle to serve 12 months in prison for nonviolent supervised release violations, and by ordering the… |
| 23-5946 | Dravion Sanchez Ware v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-11-02 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process identification identification-evidence law-enforcement physical-restraint sentencing-guidelines surveillance-evidence | L. As held by other Circuits, the physical restraint enhancement in US.S.G. § 2B3.1(b)(4)(B) requires more than pointing a gun at someone, and the Ele… |
| 23-5947 | Kraig M. Trotter v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-11-02 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | controlled-substances criminal-procedure deterrence due-process federal-sentencing methamphetamine methamphetamines proportional-punishment sentencing-guidelines third-circuit | Did the Third Circuit err in failing to consider the disparity in sentencing under U.S.S.G §2D1.1(c) of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for methamph… |
| 23A391 | Bernard Gadson v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-10-31 | Presumed Complete | administrative-law circuit-split kisor-deference loss-calculation plain-error sentencing-guidelines | Question not identified. | |
| 23-5908 | Michael James Choulat v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-30 | Denied | IFP | which expands the application of § 2K2.1(b)(6)(B) agency-deference criminal-law drug-trafficking firearm-possession firearms sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether Kisor's limits on courts' deference to an agency's interpretation of its own regulation permitted deference to Comment 14(B), which expands th… |
| 23-5893 | Tigran Zmrukhtyan v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-10-26 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure firearm-possession law-enforcement law-enforcement-interaction physical-struggle reckless-conduct risk-enhancement sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | Does mere possession of a firearm, even during a brief physical struggle with law enforcement, support a § 3C1.2 enhancement? |
| 23-5875 | Andres Vargas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-25 | Denied | IFP | agency-interpretation auer-deference circuit-split federal-criminal-sentencing judicial-deference kisor-standard kisor-v-wilkie regulatory-ambiguity sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines | Whether the standard for triggering judicial deference to an agency's interpretation of its own regulations, as clarified in Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. C… |
| 23A375 | Rico Lorodge Brown v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-10-25 | Presumed Complete | almendarez-torres apprendi-rule criminal-statute jury-finding prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines | Whether the Armed Career Criminal Act's different-occasions element must be found by a jury rather than a sentencing judge. | |
| 23-5788 | Roberto Buendia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review davis fifth-circuit intra-circuit-conflict molina-martinez plain-error plain-error-review rosales-mireles sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent | Whether the standard the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals applied for determining if the sentencing Guidelines' error in Buendia's case was "plain" conf… |
| 23-5790 | Brock Brian Beeman v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit notice-requirements plea-agreement rule-32 sentencing sentencing-notice | Did the Fourth Circuit err in upholding the Petitioner's appeal waiver to preclude his claim that the trial court violated the notice provisions of Ru… |
| 23-5782 | Tyrone Robinson, aka Tyrone R. Robinson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-10-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance federal-law grievous-ambiguity rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation | Whether the meaning of the term "controlled substance" in the Sentencing Guidelines includes any substance prohibited by state law, or instead only th… |
| 23-5786 | Mark Andre Green v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-court borden-precedent borden-v-united-states circuit-split crime-of-violence legal-analysis sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether Texas state law aggravated assault by injury can be considered a crime of violence under the Sentencing Guidelines in light of this Court's… |
| 23-5766 | Richard Todd Haas v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-10-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553(a) 3553a-factors appellate-review criminal-sentencing fourth-circuit procedural-error sentencing-guidelines variance-sentence | Is the Fourth Circuit's plausibility test for evaluating a variance sentence under the 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) factors, because it is untethered from any … |
| 23-5773 | Adrian De La Torre v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-authority delegation-of-authority due-process federal-sentencing judicial-authority judicial-delegation probation-officer sentencing-guidelines supervised-release | When a district court imposes a term of supervised release as part of a sentence, the United States Sentencing Commission recommends imposing a long l… |
| 23-5755 | Dewayne Joseph v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-10-11 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split discretion discretionary-relief fair-sentencing-act first-step-act retroactive-application sentencing-guidelines | 1. Whether district courts have an obligation to calculate revised guidelines to reflect the retroactive effect of the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 as … |
| 23-5739 | Daniel Ray Metsinger v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jurisdiction plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing waiver | Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Metsinger's appeal based on the waiver of appeal provision in his Plea Agreement. |
| 23-5699 | Jose J. Galiany-Cruz v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-10-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-procedure district-court district-court-authority extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guidelines | Does a district court have the authority to determine what constitutes "extra ordinary and compelling reasons " warranting compassionate release or ar… |
| 23-5678 | Jasper Michael Wagner v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-history criminal-procedure descamps-v-united-states gall-v-united-states judicial-fact-finding sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment united-states-v-hernandez | Whether the Fifth Circuit's holding that that judicial fact-finding as to past offenses is permissible during sentencing pursuant to United States v. … |
| 23-5688 | Angel Marie Jordan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-02 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appeal-waiver constitutional-challenge criminal-justice criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process plea-agreement right-to-appeal | This Court has recognized that an appeal waiver in a plea agreement cannot bar a challenge when a conviction, or sentence, is based on "constitutional… |
| 23-5691 | Ricardo Garcia, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-02 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | circuit-split criminal-history due-process mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Pursuant to the "safety-valve" provision of the federal sentencing statute, a defendant convicted of certain nonviolent drug crimes can obtain relief … |
| 23-310 | Cory Ratzloff v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-09-26 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation guidelines-commentary judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines stinson-v-united-states supreme-court-precedent united-states-sentencing-commission | Whether the administrative law principles articulated in Kisor limit the deference owed to the United States Sentencing Commission's commentary on the… |
| 23-5623 | Patrick Medearis v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-09-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-846 conspiracy controlled-substance-offense crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law overt-act sentence-enhancement sentencing-guidelines ussg-4b1.2 | I. Does conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846 qualify as a "controlled substance offense" under USSG § 4B1.2… |
| 23-5631 | Jason M. Moriarty v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-09-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | consecutive-sentences criminal-law criminal-procedure imprisonment maximum-sentence revocation-of-release sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervised-release | When revoking multiple terms of supervised release and requiring a defendant "to serve in prison all or part of the term of supervised release," may t… |
| 23-5636 | Javon Montreal King v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-09-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal background criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum substantive-reasonableness youth youth-consideration | Whether the district court erred, considering Mr. King's youth and background, when it sentenced him to the statutory maximum of 120 months' imprisonm… |
| 23A259 | Faisal Ashraf, aka Sal v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-09-21 | Presumed Complete | appeal-waiver cfaa-authorization computer-fraud-and-abuse-act guilty-plea sufficiency-of-factual-basis van-buren | 1. This case presents an important question on which circuits are split: whether appellate courts can refuse to consider a challenge to the sufficienc… | |
| 23-5599 | Juan Manuel Amaya-Castaneda v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-09-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion prior-conviction-exception prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | Whether, after Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, _U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails to… |
| 23-5591 | Patrick Andrew Groves v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-09-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting attempted-distribution attempted-transfer controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-law drug-offenses sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation surplusage | For certain recidivist guideline enhancements, "[t]he term 'controlled substance offense' means an offense under federal or state law, punishable by i… |
| 23-5571 | Deon Jefferson Johnson v. Mike Brown, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2023-09-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus habitual-offender jury-trial sentencing-guidelines | PETITIONER WAS DENIED HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS TO A FAIR AND IMPARTIAL JURY TRIAL DUE TO HIS CONVICTION BASED ON A HUNG JURY. PETITIONER WAS DENIED … |
| 23-5546 | Richard Sansbury v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-09-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abduction circuit-split criminal-law definitional-analysis location-change robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation victim-movement | The meaning of "abducted" as used in United States Sentencing Guideline § 2B3.1(b)(4) and elsewhere throughout the Sentencing Guidelines is the subjec… |
| 23-5550 | Joseph Jones v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-09-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver circuit-court civil-procedure contractual-law due-process plea-agreement sentence-appeal-waiver sentencing standing | Whether the Appellant's rights were violated when the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals enforced a sentence appeal waiver in a plea agreement that was… |
| 23-198 | Jamar M. Lewis v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-09-05 | Denied | Amici (1) | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance federal-law predicate-conviction sentencing-guidelines state-law | 1. Under this Court's decision in McNeill, is the term "controlled substance" in the Sentencing Guidelines defined at the time of the predicate convic… |
| 23-5512 | Robinson Mendoza-Gomez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-09-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure double-counting due-process enhancement-application federal-sentencing governmental-officer obstruction-of-justice sentencing-guidelines | Whether the guidelines' enhancement for obstruction of justice requires some conduct above and beyond the conduct comprising the offense of conviction… |
| 23-5503 | Roman Alvarado, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-08-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-authority delegation-of-authority due-process federal-sentencing judicial-authority judicial-delegation probation-officer sentencing-guidelines supervised-release | When a district court imposes a term of supervised release as part of a sentence, the United States Sentencing Commission recommends imposing a long l… |
| 23-5432 | Kyle Vaughn v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-08-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-presumption presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-standard rita-precedent rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness | Whether the Court should clarify how a defendant who challenges the substantive reasonableness of a within-Guidelines sentence may rebut an appellate … |
| 23-5435 | Marques Webb v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-08-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jurisdiction plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-default waiver | Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Webb's appeal based on the waiver of appeal provisions in his Plea Agreement. |
| 23-5437 | Adedayo Hakeem Sanusi v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-08-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split due-process fundamental-fairness sentencing-guidelines sophisticated-means substantive-reasonableness upward-variance | 1. Whether the Appellant is deprived of Due Process and fundamentalsairness where the district court applies a sophisticated means enhancement based u… |
| 23-5392 | Angelo Joseph Fernandez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-08-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crime-of-violence criminal-law domestic-violence mens-rea prior-conviction recklessness sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court | 1. Does the petitioner's prior conviction for corporal injury to a spouse or cohabitant under California Penal Code § 273.5(a) qualify as a crime of v… |
| 23-5363 | Kyle Richard Bishop v. Georgia | Georgia | 2023-08-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction mitigating-factors sentencing-guidelines standing | Question not identified. |
| 23-5364 | Christopher Alexander Nerius v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-08-16 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act career-offender-guideline controlled-substance-offense criminal-procedure federal-sentencing prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines timing-question united-states-sentencing-guidelines | Whether, in determining if a prior offense is a "controlled substance offense" for purposes of the career offender guideline, U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b), sen… |
| 23-5357 | Carlos Edwin Smith, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-08-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a adult-sentencing adverse-childhood-experiences criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court judicial-discretion mitigation-factors relevancy sentencing-guidelines | I. WHEN SENTENCING A DEFENDANT PURSUANT TO 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) DOES A DISTRICT COURT FULLY "CONSIDER THE FACTORS SET FORTH IN 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)" IF … |
| 23-5358 | Devin Jerrod Long v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-08-15 | Denied | IFP | controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law drug-conviction drug-offense federal-judge prior-felony prior-felony-convictions sentence-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | The United States Sentencing Guidelines significantly increase the recommended sentencing range for a defendant who has at least two prior felony conv… |
| 23-5304 | Jaquantious Hutchison v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-08-09 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-history federal-sentencing mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | The Safety Valve provision, 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f), instructs district courts to sentence under the guidelines without regard to any statutory mandatory … |
| 23-5320 | Curtis Lavon Magee v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-08-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jurisdiction plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-error waiver | Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Magee's appeal based on the waiver of appeal provisions in his Plea Agreement. |
| 23-5296 | Leonel Marin-Torres v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-08-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-justice-reform effective-assistance-of-counsel equitable-relief first-step-act guidelines-range ineffective-assistance pro-se-representation sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | 1. Whether a district court, when deciding a First Step Act motion on the pleadings, complies with Concepcion v. United States, when it fails to calcu… |
| 23-5290 | Littleton William Clark v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-08-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law district-court double-jeopardy due-process felony-offense firearms guideline-application sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the District Court erred in interpreting Note 14(c) of §2K2.1(b)(6)(B) when it applied a four-level enhancement pursuant to §2K2.1(b)(6)(B) fo… |
| 23-5276 | German Martinez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-08-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review appellate-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness | Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court of appeals to reweigh the sentencing factors? |
| 23-5236 | Marvas Aurelien v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-07-28 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-sentencing drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-law federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-drug-offenses | I. Whether the "controlled substance" definition in United States Sentencing Guideline § 4B1.2(b) incorporates the federal drug schedules in effect at… |
| 23-5240 | Alden Brent Cooper v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-07-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-conduct criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment presentence-investigation presentence-investigation-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Section 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(1) can be violated by either knowingly receiving or distributing child pornography. A defendant accused of a violation of… |
| 23-5207 | Omar Alfonso Alas v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-07-26 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-16a categorical-approach crime-of-violence crimes-of-violence immigration mens-rea physical-force sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether a crime with a mens rea of extreme recklessness has, "as an element, the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the… |
| 23-5213 | Deangelo Devon Grant v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-07-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process indictment indictment-interpretation judicial-discretion methamphetamine methamphetamine-weight sentencing-guidelines | Does utilizing a provision of the United States Sentencing Guidelines for " actual " weight of methamphetamine, rather than the charged offense of " m… |
| 23-5187 | Juan Sepulveda-Arreola v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-07-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administration-of-justice criminal-procedure district-court federal-jurisdiction federal-law fifth-circuit minor-participant sentencing-guidelines | Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law when it conducted a cursory review of the facts related to the district court's erroneous refusal to de… |
| 23-5159 | Juan Jabari Hollis v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-07-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-guidelines appeal-waiver categorical-approach controlled-substance-offense controlled-substance-offenses criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing miscarriage-of-justice sentencing-guidelines waiver-of-appeal | Despite waiving his right to appeal his sentence except under limited circumstances, did the calculation of his advisory guideline range, which influe… |
| 23-5164 | Ermin Adzemovic v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-07-21 | Denied | IFP | controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-sentencing decontrolled-substances drug-offense federal-sentencing-guidelines guideline-range prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines ussg-4b1.2 | Does a prior drug conviction under a statute that included now decontrolled substances qualify as a "controlled substance offense" to enhance a defend… |
| 23-5174 | Dionte Houff v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-07-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver circuit-split constitutional-statute jurisdiction plea-agreement retroactive-application statutory-and-constitutional-issues supreme-court-precedent waiver-of-appeal | Can a plea agreement that contains a waiver of appeal bar a direct appeal of a conviction and/or sentence based on a statute that this Court later rul… |
| 23A57 | Tyrone Robinson, aka Tyrone R. Robinson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-07-21 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split controlled-substance-offense eighth-amendment-sentencing federal-standards jerome-presumption sentencing-guidelines | Question not identified. | |
| 23-5149 | Javier Escalera, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-07-20 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-history fifth-circuit mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Pursuant to the "safety-valve" provision of the federal sentencing statute, a defendant convicted of certain nonviolent drug crimes can obtain relief … |
| 23-5154 | Justin Christopher Smith v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-07-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-convictions sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-sentencing violent-felony violent-offense | 1. Whether an appeal waiver can bar an attack on an enhanced statutory sentence? 2. Whether Petitioner's prior convictions for robbery and resisting … |
| 23-5137 | Joshua Christopher Stockstill v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines section-3553a-factors sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness | Whether the district court ordered a substantively unreasonable 30-year prison sentence. |
| 23-5113 | Charleton Maxwell v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-07-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-circuit conservative-estimate criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines walton-rule | Issue 1. In the case at bar the sentencing judge refused to a apply a higher standard than a mere preponderance when the issue was, based on a drug… |
| 23-5114 | Leroy C. Tate v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-07-17 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance eighth-circuit-interpretation federal-sentencing-guidelines mcneill-precedent mcneill-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines state-law | Does McNeill require courts to define "controlled substance" under § 4B1.2 of the federal sentencing guidelines by consulting superseded state schedul… |
| 23-5101 | Christopher Wade v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-07-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure fifth-circuit gall-v-united-states harmless-error judicial-precedent sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-guzman-rendon | I. Whether the Fifth Circuit's application of harmless error doctrine pursuant to United States v. Guzman-Rendon, 864 F.3d 409 (5th Cir. 2017) violate… |
| 23-5055 | Erick De Jesus-Torres v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-07-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting appellate-review downward-variance gall-v-united-states kimbrough-v-united-states meaningful-explanation policy-considerations sentencing-court sentencing-enhancement sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines | Whether a sentencing court must provide a reasonable explanation, on the record, as to why it is not considering a sentencing factor, particularly an … |
| 23-2 | Gerald Spruell v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-06-30 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review conspiracy criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-quantities evidence evidence-sufficiency jury-verdict mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-guidelines | 1. Whether the Court of Appeals erred in concluding there was sufficient evidence to support the jury's verdict and drug quantities attributed to the … |
| 23-5002 | Joseph Hauschild v. Illinois | Illinois | 2023-06-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure eighth-amendment graham-v-florida juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole meaningful-opportunity meaningful-opportunity-for-release roper-v-simmons sentencing-guidelines term-of-years-sentence | In the landmark decision of Graham v. Florida, 560 U.S. 48 (2010), this Court held that, for a juvenile offender who did not commit homicide, the Eigh… |
| 23-5004 | Gregory L. Randle v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-06-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-waiver right-to-appeal waiver | Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Randle's appeal based on the waiver of appeal provisions in his Plea Agreement. |
| 22-7900 | David Wright, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-06-29 | Denied | IFP | criminal-law criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process equal-protection federal-sentencing-guidelines guideline-range prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing-guidelines state-statutes statutory-interpretation | Whether the District Court erred by counting a prior conviction for violation of a state statute that had been changed to make the conduct not a crime… |
| 22-7904 | Andrew Ryan Demont v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-06-29 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review armed-career-criminal circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-law drug-convictions federal-guidelines federal-sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | (1) Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enha… |
| 22-7831 | Charles A. McRae v. Shannon N. Myers, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2023-06-23 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation legal-standard sentencing-guidelines standing summary-judgment | /\ppe//<-tbS Cbor'C drr id i'Ae /jtp^icA Ctvrd-^ fi)e.cf do/t./- jQM -tie fit fiD t) t M.}dj <?*. Q\4r peHH ox«A "AWBr 6o.y uokt/i, k& o-f- po$$}b c… |
| 22-7832 | David Troy, III v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-06-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court circuit-precedent criminal-resentencing fair-sentencing-act first-step-act fourth-circuit retroactive-changes retroactive-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether retroactive changes in the law unrelated to the Fair Sentencing Act must be corrected in a First Step Act proceeding? |
| 22-7840 | Cordelro Desean Shoulders v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-06-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jurisdiction plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-error waiver | Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Shoulders' appeal based on the waiver of appeal provisions in his Plea Agreement. |
| 22-7826 | Ronell Watson v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-06-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment 6th-amendment attempted-murder constitutional-rights fifth-amendment jury-instructions premeditation sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-maximum | Is premeditation an element of attempted murder under the federal system, such that the Government violated Petitioner's Fifth and Sixth Amendments ri… |
| 22-7833 | Jeremy Randall Ezell v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-06-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-presumption reasonableness-standard rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness | Whether the Court should clarify how a defendant who challenges the substantive reasonableness of a within-Guidelines sentence may rebut an appellate … |
| 22-7814 | Joshua E. Preece v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-06-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | chapter-four criminal-history criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines recidivism recidivist-enhancement relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission | Do the relevant conduct principles of USSG § 1B1.3 govern application of Chapter Four recidivist enhancements? |
| 22-7806 | Travis Charles Werkmeister v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-06-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-offense drug-trafficking federal-sentencing-guidelines mens-rea methamphetamine-importation scienter-requirement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether this Court should grant the Writ to resolve a circuit split as to whether the two level enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1 (b) (5) contains… |
| 22-7807 | Chayna Holguin v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-06-16 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-history federal-sentencing first-step-act rule-of-lenity safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | The question presented is whether the "and" in § 3553(f)(1) means "and," so that a defendant satisfies the provision so long as she does not have (A) … |
| 22-7791 | Clark Downs v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-06-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 15-year-old circuit-court-review criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-sentencing interstate-commerce safety-valve sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction sexual-exploitation visual-depiction | WHETHER THE EVIDENCE WAS LEGALLY INSUFFICIENT AS TO THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE ELEMENT ON COUNT ONE, WHICH CHARGED SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF A FIFTEEN YEAR … |
| 22-7792 | Diante Turman v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-06-15 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act circuit-court-review circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-conviction criminal-procedure district-court-discretion drug-offense drug-schedule drug-schedules federal-sentencing federal-sentencing federal-sentencing 22-7791" mcneill-precedent mcneill-v-united-states safety-valve sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction Whether the district court erred at sentencing in | Congress and the U.S. Sentencing Commission require judges to impose criminal sentences that take account of a penalty range advised by the Sentencing… |
| 22-7796 | Jose Alfredo Perez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-06-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review case-specific-facts criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fifth-circuit sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance upward-variance | Whether a district court's mere recitation of the sentencing statute absent any application of case-specific facts is sufficient to support a five-yea… |
| 22-7771 | Jaden Rene Johnson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-06-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3583 acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-sentencing due-process federal-procedure incarceration liberty liberty-deprivation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the District Court unreasonably sentenced Petitioner to a higher than necessary sentence by denying Petitioner's points for acceptance of resp… |
| 22-7755 | Jerome Williams v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-06-12 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance federal-sentencing-guidelines mcneill-precedent mcneill-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines state-drug-laws | Does McNeill require courts to define "controlled substance" under §§ 4B1.1 and 4B1.2 of the federal sentencing guidelines by consulting superseded st… |
| 22-7756 | Andre Zeno v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-06-12 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-history criminal-history-points criminal-procedure safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-minimum | Whether the "and" in § 3553(f)(1) means "and," so that a defendant satisfies the provision so long as he does not have (A) more than 4 criminal histor… |
| 22-7740 | Chelsea Shannon McIntyre v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-06-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion policy predicate-convictions sentencing-guidelines | Did Ms. McIntyre receive due process of law where the district applie d Care er Offender Guide lines, lacking a sound basis in policy, and leading to … |
| 22-7716 | Minnela Moore v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-06-06 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-law drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-offense sentencing-guidelines state-drug-offenses statutory-interpretation | (1) Whether the term "controlled substance," from the "controlled substance offense" definition in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b), is limited to substances that … |
| 22-7702 | Antonio Montero v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-06-05 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-3553(f) criminal-history criminal-procedure federal-sentencing safety-valve sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | A defendant is entitled to the safety-valve sentencing provision of 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f) unless he violates all three subsections of the statute: (1) m… |
| 22-7703 | Jacob Patrick Krafft v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-06-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness within-guidelines-sentence | How does a court of appeals determine whether a defendant has rebutted the presumption of reasonableness when the defendant is challenging the substan… |
| 22-7690 | Rodney Raphael Fluckes v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-06-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-law federal-act federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether "controlled substance[s]" in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines §4B1.2(b) are limited to those substances defined and regulated under the feder… |
| 22-7685 | Satish Kartan v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-06-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | compelled-testimony-withdrawal court-precedent due-process forced-labor griffin-v-california prosecutor-comments right-to-testify rock-v-arkansas sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | I. whether the district court violated Kartan's Might to testify and the subsequent prosecitor's comments, "These defendants don't like answering ques… |
| 22-7670 | Lonnie Burdette Porter v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-05-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency firearm-possession sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence | In Thompson v. Louisville, 362 U.S. 199 (1960) and Garner v. Louisiana, 368 U.S. 157 (1961), this Court held that it is a violation of due process to … |
| 22-7676 | Rene Lugo-Barcenas v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-05-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights drug-purity due-process equal-protection methamphetamine methamphetamine-sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment ussg-2d1.1 | Claim #1 Does the fifth amendment's due process and equal protection rights guard against disparate sentences created by the Methamphetamine Drug Tabl… |
| 22-7659 | Darrien D. Johnson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-05-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing first-step-act judicial-discretion motion-to-reduce sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. Did the District Court abuse its discretion when it imposed a sentence of 360 months when the applicable guideline range was 235-293 months? 2. Di… |
| 22-7650 | Nolan Washington v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-05-26 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court | Whether the Di strict Court erred when i t (1) fel t constrai ned to i mpose the mandatory mi nimum sentence, 120 months of i mpri sonment; (2) di d … |
| 22-7618 | Dennis Dewayne Jackson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-05-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment first-time-offender non-violent-offense non-violent-offenses procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines | WHETHER THE SENTENCE OF 138 MONTHS' IMPRISONMENT IMPOSED ON A FIRST-TIME OFFENDER VIOLATED THE EIGHTH AMENDMENT PROHIBITION AGAINST CRUEL AND UNUSUAL … |
| 22-7606 | Yvette Crystal Wade v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-05-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924 crime-of-violence elements-clause hobbs-act physical-force sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951 is a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A), where the offense encom… |
| 22-7588 | Eric Lee Coleman v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-05-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affirmative-defense categorical-approach criminal-law due-process judicial-interpretation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-analysis statutory-interpretation | The question presented is whether a court must consider the availability (or non-availability) of an affirmative defense in the categorical approach. |
| 22-7584 | Kahliq Williams v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-05-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver appeal-waivers circuit-split criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement policy-concerns sentencing-errors | Can a criminal defendant knowingly and voluntarily forfeit his right to appeal the district court's yet-to-be-made sentencing errors as part of his pl… |
| 22-7587 | John Wayne Spell v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-05-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review plea-agreement procedural-error waiver | Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Spell's appeal based on the waiver of appeal provisions in his Plea Agreement. |
| 22-7569 | Andrew Payton v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-05-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver contract-law criminal-defendant criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process plea-agreement sentencing-error sentencing-errors voluntary-forfeiture | Can a criminal defendant knowingly and voluntarily forfeit his right to appeal the district court's yet-to-be-made sentencing errors as part of his pl… |
| 22-7552 | Jeffrey Christopher Anders v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-05-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense deference-to-agency-interpretation genuine-ambiguity guidelines-commentary inchoate-offenses judicial-deference sentencing-guidelines | 1. Whether courts may defer to guidelines commentary without first determining that the underlying Guideline is genuinely ambiguous. 2. Whether the S… |
| 22-7523 | Samuel Caison v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-05-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment incarceration mental-health nature-of-crime personal-characteristics sentencing-court sentencing-guidelines | Whether imposing a period of incarceration that is within the Sentencing Guidelines range can be considered cruel and unusual punishment when the offe… |
| 22-7518 | John William Iron Road v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-05-10 | Denied | IFP | appeal-waiver appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing proximate-causation proximate-cause restitution restitution-award sentencing statutory-interpretation unlawful-award | Whether an appellate court should enforce an appeal waiver where the appeal challenges an unlawful restitution award? |
| 22-7494 | Floyd Ellis Wyche v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-05-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver conviction conviction-appeal criminal-procedure due-process plea-bargaining plea-colloquy rule-11 sentencing | Rule 11(b)(1)(N) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure requires that a district court conducting a plea colloquy inquire into the defendant's kno… |
| 22-7498 | Joel Armando Rodriguez v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-05-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cooperating-defendants cooperating-witnesses criminal-procedure drug-weight fourth-circuit methamphetamine offense-level plea-bargaining relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines | WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT IMPROPERLY EXPANDED GUIDELINE § 1B1.3 BY INCLUDING AS RELEVANT DRUG WEIGHT UNCORROBORATED STATEMENTS OF TWO COOPERATING DEF… |
| 22-7502 | Anthony Gilbert-Brown v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-05-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment police-conduct seizure sentencing-guidelines standing supreme-court-review use-of-force | 1) Whether Third Cicuit Court of Appeals Erred Affirming Gilbert-Brown was seize when Officer Engle approach Gilber.t-Brown as he attempted to go aro… |
| 22-7480 | Elbert Silas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-05-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process index-of informed-consent procedural-rights reason-for-granting-the-writ sentencing-guidelines | Whether Mr. Silas's due process rights were violated by the enforcement of the appeal waiver when Mr. Silas was not advised and did not know that he w… |
| 22-7439 | Julio Osorio v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-05-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-law guideline-interpretation ransom-crime sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | The Fifth Circuit Court Of Appeals has entered a decision in on the same conflict with the decision of other Courts Of Appeals important question of … |
| 22-7444 | Julio Gonzalez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-05-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administration-of-justice base-offense-level cocaine-possession criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing culpability culpability-assessment drug-quantity fifth-circuit sentencing-guidelines | I. Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law when it conducted a cursory review of the facts related to the district courts erroneous decision to… |
| 22-1063 | Tennessee v. Tyshon Booker | Tennessee | 2023-05-02 | Denied | Response Waived | 8th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment graham-v-florida juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama sentencing-guidelines term-of-years-sentences | Whether this Court should extend Graham and Miller to term-of-years prison sentences that permit a juvenile offender's release after a lengthy period … |
| 22-7418 | Sammy Redi Araya v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-05-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-fraud government-failure judicial-discretion loss-amount loss-calculation plea-bargaining sentencing-courts sentencing-guidelines victim-losses | I. Whether a sentencing court is required to verify actual or intended victim losses when applying a U.S. Sentencing Guidelines ("U.S.S.G. ") §2B1.1 S… |
| 22-7432 | Willie Glover, Jr. v. United States | District of Columbia | 2023-05-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment executive-order human-rights recidivism sentencing-guidelines standing | j POi> Lcfr-Zj '.lu»«e,>«Wt.»<.>J)*s U> (WlfVJi jrwiKsL K 1a^pSpaja.r-atJ stMftf ^VvVs f&r &®cuV W£, OrAef QWH ^9 Berber Pj^,fc3 Eei.Pi^*WW of Wn»^ I… |
| 22-7385 | Timothy Eugene Brown v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-04-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-offender controlled-substance controlled-substances eleventh-circuit federal-enhancement florida-priors sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-law state-priors | Whether United States v. Jackson, 36 F.4th 1294 (11th Cir. 2022) was wrongly decided by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, when it stated that App… |
| 22-1043 | Joshua Louis Rupp v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-04-27 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split due-process government-inducement plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing-guidelines | Whether the Sixth Circuit split with the Second, and erroneously departed from this Court's jurisprudence, when it refused to honor the spirit of the … |
| 22-7379 | Igor Grushko v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-04-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement loss-calculation probable-cause reasonableness reasonableness-standard search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing-guidelines | 1. WHETHER THE POLICE ENTERING A RESIDENCE TO EXECUTE A SEARCH WARRANT MUST POSSESS PROBABLE CAUSE THAT THE PERSON THEY ARE SEEKING IS INSIDE THE RESI… |
| 22-7359 | Devin Baker v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-04-25 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-convictions drug-offense federal-sentencing prior-convictions sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | The United States Sentencing Guidelines significantly increase the recommended sentencing range for a defendant who has at least two prior felony conv… |
| 22-7361 | Demonte Tretion Kelly v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-04-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process intellectual-disability miscarriage-of-justice sentencing-guidelines | Whether appellate waivers in federal criminal cases contain and implied exception for miscarriage of justice. |
| 22-7354 | Rafael L. Beier v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-04-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining section-2255-motion sentencing sentencing-guidelines | 1. Did the Ninth Circuit err in summarily denying a certificate of appealabililty that would allow an appeal from an order denying a motion to vacate,… |
| 22-7308 | Jose Alfredo Solis v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-04-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-appeals guidelines-range harmless-error sentencing-guidelines standard-of-proof | The U.S. Sentencing Guidelines "are not only the starting point for most federal sentencing proceedings but also the lodestar." Molina-Martinez v. Uni… |
| 22-7288 | Gilberto Gonzalez-Enriquez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-04-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process error-calculation harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review u.s-sentencing-guidelines | Whether a sentencing court can insulate a substantial error in calculating the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines range from appellate review simply by assert… |
| 22-7289 | Terrick Bishoff v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-04-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review application-notes circuit-court circuit-split criminal-intent deference firearms-trafficking gun-transfer sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the First Circuit erred in concluding that the enhancement for trafficking in firearms set out in U.S.S.G. §2K2.1(b)(5) applies to someone … |
| 22-7290 | Michael Kenneth Howard v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-04-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure district-court fourth-circuit right-to-appeal sentencing-guidelines waiver waiver-of-appeal | I. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by ruling that Mr. Howard waived his right to appeal whether the District Court erred by not applying Acceptance o… |
| 22-7273 | Fidelmar Hernandez-Jimenez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-04-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review conflict-with-other-courts criminal-procedure district-court district-court-error holguin-hernandez judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines substantial-argument substantial-arguments | Whether, after Holguin -Hernandez v. United States , __U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails… |
| 22-7258 | Brian Marc Fraser v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-04-12 | Denied | IFP | aggravated-robbery amendment commission-amendment criminal-classification due-process enumerated-offense robbery robbery-definition sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | L. Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result if the court of appeals were permitted to consider the Commission's Proposed Amendm… |
| 22-7263 | Christopher L. Ramirez v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-04-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances due-process equal-protection federal-law sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1) Whether "controlled substance offenses" under United States Sentencing Guidelines §4B1.2(b) are limited to those offenses involving substances list… |
| 22-7243 | Mario Roberto Bonilla-Diaz v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-04-10 | Denied | IFP | due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment illegal-reentry immigration-law in-absentia removal-order sentencing-guideline sentencing-guidelines | I. Whether Mr. Bonilla-Diaz's in absentia removal order, which issued when he was ten years old and forms the basis for his illegal reentry conviction… |
| 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… |
| 22-7130 | Timothy Fletcher v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-03-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | booker-decision criminal-procedure district-court-notice federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion mandatory-guidelines notice-requirement sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-booker | Whether this Court's elimination of the mandatory sentencing guidelines pursuant to United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220 (2005) has rendered Fed. R. … |
| 22-7096 | Appellant 1 and Appellant 2 v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-03-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-discretion appellate-procedure breach constitutional contract-interpretation cooperation-agreement crime-of-violence judicial-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Was it unconstitutional and improper for the Fifth Circuit to rely on the government's newly argued application of an undefined contract provision to … |
| 22-7106 | Brian Keith Wells, aka B. K. Wells v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-03-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | counsel-denial criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing ineffective-assistance procedural-review role-enhancement sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment sixth-circuit substantive-reasonableness ussg-3b1.1 | Whether this honorable Court should grant certiorari to review whether Mr. Wells request for new counsel should have been granted? Whether this honor… |
| 22-7061 | Lorenzo Elias Mendez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-03-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-statute first-amendment minor-exploitation sentencing-guidelines sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the statutory term "lascivious exhibition " refers to the defendant 's act of exhibiting a minor 's genitals on film, or, in other words, t… |
| 22-7070 | Kenneth Douglas Clark, III v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2023-03-22 | Denied | IFP | 6th and 8th Amendment rights by refusing to drop char and allowing a biased jury verdict excluding his self-defense claim constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-bias jury-exclusion prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense sentencing sentencing-guidelines trial-procedure | 1. Is the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in violation of the Petitioner's 5th and 8th amendment by refusing not to drop all charges against the Petition… |
| 22-7055 | Terrindez Xsidrick Bryant v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-03-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-guidelines booker-kimbrough-precedent district-court district-court-authority judicial-discretion kimbrough-v-united-states methamphetamine methamphetamine-sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance united-states-v-booker | In Kimbrough v. United States, 552 U.S. 85 (2007), this Court held that a district court had the authority, at sentencing, to reject the advice of the… |
| 22-7059 | Aaron M. Haynes v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-03-21 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-history-points criminal-justice federal-sentencing first-step-act mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation | The "safety valve" provision of the federal sentencing statute requires a district court to ignore any statutory mandatory minimum and instead follow … |
| 22-7037 | Mario Albert Villegas v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-03-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-851 advisory-sentencing-guidelines constitutional-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-procedure strickland-standard strickland-v-washington u-s-c-section-851 | Whether defense counsel's failure to advise a client of increased sentencing exposure under 21 U.S.C. § 851, and failure to correctly calculate the ad… |
| 22-7014 | Michael Hucks v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-03-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alternate-sentence appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-notice criminal-procedure fourth-circuit guideline-errors harmless-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure | I. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit's reliance on an announced alternate variant sentence to assume as harmless all G… |
| 22-6970 | Jeffrey Kesten v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-enforcement mens-rea plea-agreement | (1) Can a court enforce an appeal waiver from a plea agreement when the defendant was not informed of and did not plea to the proper mens rea element … |
| 22-6973 | Joseph Woloszyn v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-threat drug-addiction due-process preponderance-of-evidence probation-violation revocation-hearing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release uncorroborated-statements | I. Did Woloszyn's Uncorroborated Statements to the Probation Officer Prove Woloszyn Violated the Terms of His Supervised Release? II. Does a Violatio… |
| 22-6936 | Edson Gelin v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-03-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-procedure first-step-act ineffective-assistance murder-conviction ninth-circuit sentencing-guidelines sentencing-policy state-court statutory-interpretation | 7W Ccur-f of far W. Ekv^J-U\ ^-ff'rr/vei -W, of Mo^-'cwvj -fr /wo d rfr^ ^ -f,'osjC (KrC^ ? oC feJrr4-,'0Ki€r /y of (JfJ *T4-f ^ <*f £b~f)r'g}tWold?ts… |
| 22-6945 | Derrick Owens v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-03-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 7th-circuit appellate-review career-offender circuit-court-split circuit-split cocaine-conviction cocaine-convictions federal-law sentencing-guidelines | Did the district court err by finding that Mr. Owens is a Career Offender pursuant to the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines because the Indiana cocaine convi… |
| 22-6927 | Derrick Deshon Collins v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-03-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-presumption appellate-review certiorari criminal-procedure fifth-circuit presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness within-guidelines-sentence | How does a court of appeals determine whether a defendant has rebutted the presumption of reasonableness when the defendant is challenging the substan… |
| 22-6908 | Eduardo Guadalupe Melendrez-Soberanes v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-03-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof case-agent-testimony criminal-procedure drug-quantity drug-trafficking due-process evidence fifth-circuit photographic-evidence sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether the Fifth Circuit's practice of shifting the burden of production and proof to the defendant at sentencing violates a defendant's Due Process … |
| 22-828 | Roger E. Pace v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-03-01 | Denied | Relisted (2) | circuit-split criminal-history federal-sentencing mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Courts interpret statutes by applying Congress's plain language. In the First Step Act, Congress modified the federal sentencing statute to say that a… |
| 22-6853 | Joshua Seekins v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-02-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-possession due-process federalism harmless-error interstate-commerce jurisdictional-issue second-amendment sentencing-guidelines | (1) Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate possession of ammunition solely because it crossed state lines at some point before it came into the d… |
| 22-6838 | Demetri D. Beachem, aka Demetrius D. Beachem v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (9)IFP | appeal-waiver criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-plea miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing-guidelines | Whether a court can take into account exceptions binding it to accord precedent over objections to a prior court's authority to decide. Whether a cou… |
| 22-6839 | Michael O. Brown v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender circuit-court-precedent conspiracy conspiracy-conviction criminal-career-offender prior-convictions sentence-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit state-convictions | Whether the court erred in failing to grant appellant relief from his sentence enhancement based upon his prior state convictions after Mathis and whe… |
| 22-6825 | Richie Lee Edmonds, III v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-02-21 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-history criminal-law drug-distribution due-process federal-sentencing federalism sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether a prior state conviction for drug distribution qualifies as a "controlled substance offense" under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b), when the state statute… |
| 22-6803 | Mario C. Thomas v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-02-16 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-history criminal-history-points criminal-procedure federal-sentencing mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Section 3553(f) of Title 18, U.S. Code, is the "safety valve" which can allow a defendant to receive a sentence less than the statutory mandatory mini… |
| 22-6808 | Erich Deolax Riker v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-02-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process fact-finding federal-sentencing jury-finding jury-trial sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness | Whether a factual finding that is necessary to render a federal sentence substantively reasonable must be found by a jury beyond a reasonable doubt. |
| 22-6732 | David Alvarado-Rios v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-02-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-discretion presumption-of-reasonableness rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness | How does a defendant who challenges the substantive reasonableness of a within-Guidelines sentence rebut an appellate presumption of reasonableness of… |
| 22-6717 | Vontez Scales, aka Tez v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split civil-rights controlled-substance criminal-law delivery-definition due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | The battle lines are clearly drawn, with the circuits split and without this court's intervention the debate regarding inchoate offenses are controlle… |
| 22-6718 | Justin Stabler v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553 abuse-of-discretion alcohol-consumption criminal-sentencing electronic-searches section-3553a sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness supervised-release | 1) Whether the 120-month sentence ordered by the district court is substantively unreasonable because, among other reasons, the Guidelines sentencing … |
| 22-6702 | Jason Boyet v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-02-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver contract-law criminal-defendant criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process plea-agreement sentencing-error sentencing-errors waiver-enforceability | Can a criminal defendant knowingly and voluntarily forfeit his right to appeal the district court's yet-to-be-made sentencing errors as part of his pl… |
| 22-6666 | Leonel Ruiz-Lopez v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-01-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-statute hughey-v-united-states legal-definition restitution sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation title-18 victim-and-witness-protection-act victim-restitution | The Victim and Witness Protection Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3663 ("VWPA"), permits a district court to order restitution to victims of an offense under Title 1… |
| 22-706 | Timothy Howard Spriggs v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-01-30 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance private-property residence rv search sentencing-guidelines utilities warrantless-search | 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment permits the warrantless search of an immobile RV, i.e., one that is attached to usual residential utilities such as se… |
| 22-707 | Barry J. Cadden v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-01-30 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split criminal-sentencing objective-standard objective-test reckless-risk sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines subjective-test u.s.s.g.-3a1.1(b) vulnerable-victim vulnerable-victim-enhancement | 1. Did the District Court clearly err in applying a four-point "vulnerable victim" enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 3A1.1(b) to defendant's sentence, abse… |
| 22-6651 | Michael Vanous v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-01-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure guidelines ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion jury pretrial-proceedings sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | Question 1: Was defense counsel ineffective in the pretrial proceedings? Question 2: Was it a violation of the Sixth Amendment to sentence outside th… |
| 22-6626 | Jonathan Jefferson Ferris v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-01-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-authority due-process federal-sentencing judicial-authority judicial-delegation probation-officer sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers supervised-release | Does Standard Condition 12 unconstitutionally delegate judicial authority to the probation officer? |
| 22-6627 | Kenneth Mobley v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-01-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process jurisdiction loss-calculation restitution restitution-order sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness | Was Mr. Mobley's sentence procedurally and substantively unreasonable as it was calculated on an excessive amount of loss unjustified by the facts of … |
| 22-6628 | Johnell Lewis Britton, Sr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-01-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure fact-specific-reasons federal-sentencing judicial-discretion non-guidelines-sentences procedural-error reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether district courts are required to articulate fact-specific reasons for imposing non-guidelines sentences? |
| 22-6616 | Brian Cota v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process notice plea-bargaining plea-negotiation sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release | Whether the court of appeals erred by concluding that Mr. Cota can be subject to a life time of supervised release, and thereby a lifetime of revocati… |
| 22-6591 | Alecia Trapps v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-01-23 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance-offense federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law | Did the Ninth Circuit's disposition of Petitioner's claim under § 4B1.1(a) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines conflict with a rule that at lea… |
| 22-6571 | Marcus Wayne Covington v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-01-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bond-hearing civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel public-defender sentencing-guidelines sentencing-report standing | 1. Was Public Defender Robert Brodsky ineffective by assisting defendant to enter a plea without using improperly calculated Sentencing Guidelines pol… |
| 22-6558 | Roshua Marquiston White v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-01-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-sentencing minimal-role minor-role sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review | Petitioner, ROSHUA MARQUISTON WHITE, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 500 or more grams of methamphetamine. He object… |
| 22-6560 | Candido Gomez-Santacruz v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-01-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553a district-court-discretion federal-sentencing gall-v-united-states imprisonment-duration prior-term-of-imprisonment sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness | In light of its nuanced, holistic approach to federal sentencing, whether a district court may, consistent with § 3553(a)'s plain text, treat the dura… |
| 22-6564 | Sohiel Omar Kabir v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-01-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split co-conspirator control-over-co-participants criminal-enhancement leader-organizer-enhancement leader-role ninth-circuit second-fourth-sixth-eleventh-dc-circuits sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines | Does the aggravating role enhancement for "leader[s]" or "organizer[s]" of concerted criminal activity in section 3B1.1(c) of the United States Senten… |
| 22-653 | Melvin Ray v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-01-17 | Denied | Response Waived | abduction abduction-definition circuit-split criminal-procedure different-location guideline-commentary judicial-interpretation sentencing-guidelines stinson-v-united-states | Under § 2B3.1(b)(4)(A) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines ("U.S.S.G "), a four- level increase applies to a defendant 's offense level, " if a… |
| 22-6536 | Antoine D. Jackson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-01-13 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-history due-process safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | (1) Whether this Court should resolve a Circuit split and decide if the word "and" in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f)(1) should be interpreted in the disjunctive … |
| 22-644 | Anthony Lomax v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-01-11 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | auer-deference career-offender career-offender-enhancement circuit-split crime-of-violence judicial-interpretation kisor-v-wilkie seminole-rock sentencing-guidelines | In Stinson v. United States, 508 U.S. 36 (1993), this Court held that commentary by the United States Sentencing Commission interpreting or explaining… |
| 22-6502 | Jerry Joseph Higdon, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-court constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge procedural-bar sentencing sentencing-guidelines | I. IS THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT USING ITS PROCEDURAL BAR RULES IN MANNER INCONSISTENT WITH THE UNITED STATES CONSTIT… |
| 22-6443 | Daquan Madrid Pridgen v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-01-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process rule-of-lenity sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation structural-error | I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT COMMITTED STRUCTURAL ERROR BY FINDING THAT THE SENTENCE FOR A VIOLATION OF 18 U.S.C. § 2113(e) SHOULD BE 10 YEARS TO LIF… |
| 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… |
| 22-6391 | Nonami Palomares v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-12-23 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (3)IFP | criminal-history drug-crimes drug-offense federal-sentencing mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Pursuant to the "safety-valve" provision of the federal sentencing statute, a defendant convicted of certain nonviolent drug crimes can obtain relief … |
| 22-6376 | Marcus Joseph v. South Carolina | South Carolina | 2022-12-22 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | arbitrary-suspension civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus proportionality-review sentencing-guidelines state-court | Question not identified. |
| 22-6379 | Leetavious Gaines v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-12-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release defendant-motion district-court-discretion first-step-act policy-statement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether Section 1B1.13 of the United States Sentencing Guidelines is an "applicable" policy statement that binds the district court in considering a d… |
| 22-6364 | Fairly W. Earls v. Federal Bureau of Prisons | Seventh Circuit | 2022-12-21 | Dismissed | IFP | concurrent-sentences consecutive-sentences constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process federal-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-sentence | I. Whether Earls should have to serve the same Federal Sentence a Second Time. The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit violated Ear… |
| 22-6344 | Bryshun Genard Furlow v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance-offense criminal-procedure drug-conviction fourth-circuit mandate-rule prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines | Whether the Fourth Circuit erroneously refused to apply its intervening case law to Furlow's case, incorrectly applying the mandate rule. Whether the… |
| 22-6329 | Phosavan Khamnivong v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-12-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment 6th-amendment bodily-injury due-process fifth-amendment firearm-enhancement jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | In United States v. Jones, 574 U.S. 948 (2014), three justices urged the Court to grant certiorari to answer the question left open in Rita v. United … |
| 22-6316 | Kalvin Walker v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-12-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court guideline-range harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines | Whether errors in calculating the Sentencing Guidelines are automatically rendered harmless by a district court's statement that the correctness of th… |
| 22-6307 | John Homer Legros, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-12-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-law drug-offense federal-jurisdiction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether "Conspiracy" to Commit a Crime is a Controlled Substance Offense as defined under the United States Sentencing Guide lines Section §4B1.2I. W… |
| 22-6306 | Marion Joseph Hare v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-12-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affirmative-force borden-v-united-states causation-of-injury circuit-split criminal-statute force-clause sentencing-guideline sentencing-guidelines violent-force | (1) Whether a statute that only requires causation-of-injury and not the affirmative application of force satisfies the violent-force requirement? (2… |
| 22-6288 | Mangwiro Sadiki-Yisrael v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-12-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | base-offense-level first-degree-murder guilty-plea mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states rico-conspiracy sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-max | Whether in a RICO conspiracy case the government is required to prove a defendant's mens rea and knowledge of first-degree murder to establish the sta… |
| 22-6289 | Kevin Singleton v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-12-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appeal-waiver constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fifth-circuit judicial-review plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-history waiver | Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Singleton's appeal based on the waiver of appeal provisions in his Plea Agreements. |
| 22-6264 | Randall Eddie Mellon v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-12-09 | Denied | IFP | administrative-law agency-deference auer-deference circuit-split judicial-review relevant-conduct seminole-rock-deference sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | In Stinson v. United States, 508 U.S. 36 (1998), this Court held that Seminole Rock deference, now Auer deference, applies to interpretive or explanat… |
| 22-6266 | Earl Moore v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-12-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender civil-rights criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act recidivism sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. |
| 22-6255 | Deonte Courtez Gates v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-12-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | blakely-v-washington circuit-court-conflict constitutional-interpretation eighth-amendment federal-law juvenile-defendant relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines | L. Whether the relevant conduct sentencing guideline is unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment as applied to conduct committed by a juvenile defe… |
| 22-514 | Edwar Rodriguez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-12-05 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | advisory-sentencing-guidelines criminal-history criminal-sentencing dangerous-weapon dangerous-weapon-enhancement drug-quantity eleventh-circuit sentence-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines statutory-sentencing-factors | 1. Whether certiorari review should be granted where the Eleventh Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of Rodriguez' objection to th… |
| 22-6216 | Jonny Shineflew v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-12-05 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure guideline-offense integrated-agreement plea-agreement prosecutor prosecutorial-discretion sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | Whether an integrated plea agreement that specifically identifies Guideline offense levels and specific offense characteristics on which the parties a… |
| 22-6212 | Eric Cain v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-12-02 | Denied | Relisted (9)IFP | criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines fifth-amendment jury-trial-right sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | After a jury acquitted the petitioner of a firearms charge, the district court relied on the same conduct to increase his sentence range under the Fed… |
| 22-6214 | Timothy Robert Gallion v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-12-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fourth-circuit sentence-credit sentencing-credit sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines supervised-release | A. WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY DISMISSING MR. GALLION'S MERITORIOUS ARGUMENT THAT THE DISTRICT COURT COMMITTED REVERSIBLE ERR… |
| 22-6166 | Raymond Mendez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-11-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-review criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-procedure sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervisory-power | Throughout three cycles of 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) proceedings, the district court has denied Raymond Mendez a reduction to his life sentence based on … |
| 22-6134 | Eugene Riley III v. Illinois | Illinois | 2022-11-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-amendment constitutional-violation criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment de-facto-life-sentence due-process juvenile-justice juvenile-offenders miller-v-alabama mitigating-factors sentencing-guidelines | Did the State Court violate the U.S. Constitution when it imposed a 32 year sentence when it disregarded the mitigating factors laid out in Miller v. … |
| 22-6138 | Michael Lindell Teasley v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-11-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion civil-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure district-court due-process eighth-circuit equal-protection judicial-discretion non-violent-offenses sentencing sentencing-guidelines | bh pid the Gort of pepeals fp the Eight Cikwuit, South cn Piswier oF Towa, abuse its diduetin by vhlizing the Cer wero Feendeg guidelines, whi dh phim… |
| 22-6117 | Tracy Lamont Miles v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-11-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-question sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the term "controlled substance," from the "controlled substance offense" definition in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b), is limited to substances that are … |
| 22-6128 | Christopher Erwin v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-11-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 circuit-split cooperation-agreement downward-departure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-colloquy section-2255-motion sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum | 1. Did the Circuit Court err in affirming the district court's decision to deny, without a hearing, Petitioner's motion pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 b… |
| 22-6092 | Joshua Lewis v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-11-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553(a) 3553a-factors criminal-history departures guidelines-departure procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g.-4a1.3 upward-variance | Whether a district court can vary upward from the advisory sentencing range under the factors in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) based on the inadequacy of a defe… |
| 22-6106 | David Shane Paquette v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-11-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver circuit-split contract-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process plea-agreement | Whether an appeal-waiver provision in a plea agreement is enforceable when the agreement provides the defendant with no benefit. |
| 22-6108 | Jose Luis Ramirez, Jr., aka Zachary Matthew Johnson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-11-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver criminal-conviction criminal-procedure fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel money-laundering plea-agreement plea-bargaining securities-fraud | 1. WHETHER THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN DISMISSING THE PETITIONER'S MERITORIOUS APPEAL OF HIS CONVICTION OF SECU… |
| 22-6063 | Naomi Michelle Gutierrez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-11-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-circuit criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process fifth-circuit firearm-enhancement presumption sentencing-guidelines tools-of-the-trade | Whether the Fifth Circuit's practice of applying a tools-of-the-trade presumption to the firearm enhancement of sentencing guidelines §2D1.1(b)(1) vio… |
| 22-6042 | Ryan Hayes v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-11-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process equal-protection first-circuit sentencing | I. Whether considerations of equal protection and due process required the First Circuit to entertain Mr. Hayes' appeal where Mr. Hayes had not challe… |
| 22-5993 | Malik Ross v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-11-04 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (10)IFP | criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment preponderance-of-evidence reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness | Does a judge deny a defendant's Fifth Amendment rights by increasing a prison sentence based on disputed facts the Court did not find beyond a reasona… |
| 22-5983 | Cordavia Daniels v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-11-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553(a) age-consideration criminal-appeal criminal-sentencing fifth-circuit mitigating-factors sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness | I. Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by affirming the district court's consideration of Cordavia's age and mitigating factors. II. Whether the Fifth Ci… |
| 22-5962 | Marquis Donte Brown v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-11-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-review post-booker-hearing safety-valve sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. WHETHER THE DISTRIC T COURT ERRED BY IMPOSING AN UNLAW FUL SEN TENCE CONTRARY TO THE MANDATES OF § 3553(a) AND §3553(f)(5) WHICH PRECLUDE USE OF IN… |
| 22-5914 | Dominique Lamar Johnson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-10-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3583 administrative-violations criminal-procedure criminal-supervision district-court-discretion due-process liberty liberty-deprivation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the District Court acted excessively by sentencing Petitioner to a sentence two and half times above the supervision guideline range for admin… |
| 22-5897 | Unises Chapotin v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-10-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states section-2255 sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness | 1) Whether the residual clause in Section 4B1.2 of the previously binding United States Sentencing Guidelines is void for vagueness pursuant to Johnso… |
| 22-5879 | Eugene Thurman v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-10-20 | Denied | IFP | administrative-law appellate-review controlled-substance criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation | Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err when it deferred to the United States Sentencing Commission's use of commentary in its Guidelines Manual to… |
| 22-5847 | Lindsey Orr v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-10-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion judicial-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation term-of-imprisonment | WHEN ARE THE SECTION 3553 (d) FACTORS SATISFIED? THE 3553 OPINION JUSTIFIED BASED UPON? THE COMPLETION OF THE TERM OF IMPLEMENTATION SPECIFIED FROM … |
| 22-5833 | Carlos Alejandro Zuniga-Garcia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-10-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administration-of-justice criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure federal-law fifth-circuit leader-organizer-role leader-role preponderance-of-evidence sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | I. Whether the Eifth Circuit violated federal law when it conducted a cursory review of the facts related to a four-level increase in sentencing point… |
| 22-340 | Mark E. Pulsifer v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-10-12 | Judgment Issued | Amici (4)Relisted (3) | circuit-conflict circuit-split criminal-history criminal-justice-reform first-step-act mandatory-minimum rule-of-lenity safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | The "safety valve" provision of the federal sentencing statute requires a district court to ignore any statutory mandatory minimum and instead follow … |
| 22-5816 | Tony Lam v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-10-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 career-offender conspiracy conspiracy-offense controlled-substance ineffective-assistance legislative-authority legislative-delegation sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines | Did trial counsel provide ineffective assistance to his client upon his failure to research, investigate, and object to his client's career offender c… |
| 22-5788 | Martin Elliott Brooks v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-10-07 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review circuit-split harmless-error judicial-discretion procedural-error rule-52 sentencing-courts sentencing-guidelines | Whether errors in calculating the Sentencing Guidelines are rendered harmless by the district court's assertion that the Guidelines would make no diff… |
| 22-5730 | Quincy Campbell v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-10-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review burden-of-proof coconspirator-testimony criminal-procedure due-process judicial-error relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines | I. Whether the district court erred by sentencing the Defendant to one twenty (120) months in light of the circumstances of the case ? II. Whether th… |
| 22-5729 | Jose Madrid-Becerra v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-09-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-history criminal-procedure deportation early-release federal-criminal-defendants immigration immigration-law sentencing-guidelines state-statutes | Several states have or had statutes authorizing the early release of state prisoners with deportation orders to the United States Immigration and Natu… |
| 22-5665 | Geoffrie Dill v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-09-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-offense federal-jurisdiction federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Does "controlled substance offense", as that term is used in U.S.S.G. §4B1.1 and defined by U.S.S.G. §4B1.2(b), refer only to those controlled substan… |
| 22-5627 | Justin Tyrone Young v. Texas | Texas | 2022-09-20 | Denied | IFP | due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion plea-bargaining sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum supreme-court-precedent | Can ft Lauiyen haue. his Client PieaCuibty -ho OS'years on ft Statutory maximum OP Zo years* ovftt'R TEXAS Lal/. Can ft Court Re Fuse ho Homor ft u … |
| 22-242 | Cyrano R. Irons v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-09-14 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court harmless-error judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure | Whether errors in calculating the Sentencing Guidelines are rendered categorically harmless by the district court's assertion that the Guidelines woul… |
| 22-5580 | Derrick Dion Ingram v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-09-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearm-enhancement firearms guideline-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | Where U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(b)(6)(B) directs a four-level increase in offense level when a defendant possesses a firearm "in connection with another felony… |
| 22-5576 | Thoucharin Ruttanamongkongul v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-09-13 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility human-trafficking sentencing sentencing-guidelines sex-work sexual-offense statutory-interpretation violent-crime | When state values v. evidence, to show that petitioner fired (unclear handwriting) to the United States to court completely e.g. a six footers; and th… |
| 22-5507 | Edward F. Swanson v. Texas | Texas | 2022-09-06 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process felony-dismissal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-guidelines strickland-standard | xs itH ■Oxstrxc .t Clou fir uxolateDXO THE THE SJftZCtf/JGS OF HPPPEAOZ ?* t v tPH f> Tt/fiSC OXSMXSS THE... Titty &TP ,n aeFEUOMT QuZLTy OF /) LtC°X… |
| 22-5484 | Erika Perez-Garcia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-09-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review conflict-with-other-courts criminal-procedure district-court holguin-hernandez judicial-discretion sentencing-argument sentencing-guidelines substantial-arguments | Whether, after Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, __U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails t… |
| 22-5491 | John Michael Ward v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-09-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-statute federal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel overbreadth statutory-interpretation vagueness | Was the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana's interpretation of 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) vague and overbroad, and did Petitioner's at… |
| 22-5469 | Jeffrey Beard, II v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-08-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination hearsay hearsay-evidence obstruction-of-justice sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | The Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution requires that the accused "shall enjoy the right ... to be confronted with the witnesses against him." Th… |
| 22-5474 | Romney Christopher Ellis v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-08-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | communication-offense criminal-sentencing harassment intent-to-carry-out overt-acts sentencing sentencing-guidelines threat-enhancement threatening-communications u-s-sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g.-§-2a6.1(b)(1) | Whether, in sentencing in cases involving threatening or harassing communications, the six-level offense level enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 2A6.1(b)(1… |
| 22-5477 | Tracey L. Brown v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-08-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender case-law circuit-split criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process hobbs-act jurisdiction ninth-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines | 1. Should the decision by the Ninth Circuit to deny Mr. Brown's appeal be vacated when said decision was based upon case law that was vacated by this … |
| 22-5466 | Leonard Andrew v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | significant intellectual deficit and reduced ment criminal-sentencing downward-departure intellectual-deficit judicial-discretion mental-capacity reduced-mental-capacity sentencing sentencing-guidelines USSG-5H1.3 USSG-5K2.13 | Whether a sentencing court must meaningfully address a defendant's request for a downward departure pursuant to USSG §§ 5H1.3 and 5K2.13 when he has a… |
| 22-5454 | Jesus Carreon-Grimaldo v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-08-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-jurisdiction court-of-appeals discretionary-decision discretionary-decisions downward-departure jurisdictional-label sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction | Does the court of appeals have jurisdiction to review the district court's discretionary decision not to depart below the advisory Sentencing Guidelin… |
| 22-5461 | James Keith Russey v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-08-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance federal-jurisdiction judicial-interpretation legal-uniformity sentencing-guidelines state-law | Whether the categorical approach requires courts to define Sentencing Guidelines terms like "controlled substance" uniformly, as three circuits have h… |
| 22-5446 | Jose Francisco Maldonado-Rosa v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-08-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure fifth-circuit plea-agreement sentencing waiver waiver-of-rights | Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by ruling that Mr. Maldonado waived the right to appeal his sentence because of the Waiver of Appeal provision in his … |
| 22-5449 | Antonio Rodriguez, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-08-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-conflict controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense drug-trafficking federal-conviction federal-drug-trafficking federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Is it obvious error to find a prior federal drug trafficking conviction is a "controlled substance offense" under the Sentencing Guidelines when the s… |
| 22-163 | Lenair Moses v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-08-23 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | administrative-law agency-deference auer-deference criminal-law judicial-interpretation kisor-v-wilkie precedential-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | In Stinson v. United States, 508 U.S. 36 (1993), this Court held that Seminole Rock deference, now generally known as Auer deference, applies to inter… |
| 22-5427 | Jade Christian Nichols v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-08-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance criminal-procedure federal-law federal-sentencing preemption sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation | Does a state definition of "controlled substance" control a federal sentencing enhancement under the Sentencing Guidelines, when the state lists subst… |
| 22-161 | Robert Nieto and Darrick R. Vallodolid v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-08-22 | Denied | Response Waived | batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky constitutional-rights equal-protection jury-selection prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether Mr. Nieto's and Mr. Vallodolid's convictions should be reversed because the Government's peremptory striking of qualified Hispanic prospect… |
| 22-5418 | Miguel Jesus Rodriguez-Villanueva v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-08-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-guidelines appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split criminal-sentencing discretionary-decision downward-departure fifth-circuit sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals had appellate jurisdiction to review the district court's discretionary decision not to depart below the ad… |
| 22-5421 | Henry Wilke Eilders v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-08-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-history drug-conspiracy drug-offenses federal-sentencing-guidelines methamphetamine methamphetamine-distribution relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | 1. Whether Petitioner's prior methamphetamine related convictions occurring within two years of the conspiracy for distributing methamphetamine should… |
| 22-5394 | Eric Christopher Falkowski v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-08-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance-act controlled-substances criminal-law due-process enhancement-clause overbreadth sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness | Whether USSG § lBl.l 's serious-bodily-injury enhancement clause —as relative here to the Controlled Substance Act, 21 U.S.C. § 801 et seq—is imperm… |
| 22-5404 | Charles Anthony Walker, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-08-19 | Denied | IFP | abduction abduction-definition circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure fourth-circuit hobbs-act robbery sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-guidelines | (1) Whether movement of an employee within the confines of a store qualifies as abduction under U.S.S.G. § 2B3.1(b)(4)(A) |
| 22-5342 | Patrick LaJuan Jones, Jr. v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-08-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance criminal-procedure federal-law federal-sentencing preemption sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation | Does a state definition of "controlled substance" control a federal sentencing enhancement under the Sentencing Guidelines, when the state lists subst… |
| 22-5326 | Juan Samuel Rodriguez-Huitron v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-08-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | clear-error criminal-procedure judicial-review limited-remand plain-error remand sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum substantial-rights | This Court in Molina-Martinez v. United States advised that courts of appeals may order a limited remand to assess the impact of clear error on the de… |
| 22-5331 | Mark Anthony Williams v. Michigan | Michigan | 2022-08-10 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause criminal-sexual-conduct cross-examination cumulative-error due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | I. THE EVIDENCE PRESENTED AT TRIAL WAS INSUFFICIENT TO SUPPORT THE CONVICTION OF CSC 1st DEGREE WHERE THERE WAS NO PROOF OF PENETRATION AS REQUIRED BY… |
| 22-5313 | Jesse Rondale Bailey v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-08-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553(a)(6) career-offender criminal-procedure empirical-evidence evidence-based judicial-discretion presumption sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines unwarranted-disparity within-range-sentences | When evaluating whether a sentence imposed within the applicable guideline range avoids unwarranted sentencing disparities under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(6… |
| 22-5314 | Daniel Ray v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-08-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion legal-reasoning rita-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines | The Court has observed that "where a party presents nonfrivolous reasons for imposing a different sentence, the judge will normally go further and exp… |
| 22-5303 | George Daniel McGavitt v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-08-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing minor-sexual-conduct minors sentencing-guidelines sexual-offense-definition sexual-offenses statutory-interpretation | Whether self-penetration by a minor (not prepubescent) using a benign household item is "sadistic or masochistic" under USSG § 2G2.1(b)(4)(A). |
| 22-5288 | Kendale Welborn v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-08-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne-decision alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-sentencing drug-offenses methamphetamine-actual methamphetamine-mixture plea-bargaining sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | The Appellant's Appeal was denied on April 29, 2022 by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. In this case, the Appellant raises one (1) issue for determ… |
| 22-5253 | Dennis Charles Helmer v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-08-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release covid-19 criminal-justice-reform first-step-act medical-care sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines | 1.) Whether the District Court erred when it denied relief to Petitioner 18 U.S.C. 3582(c)(1)(A)(i) motion based upon the applicability of 18 U.S.C. 3… |
| 22-5262 | David D. Major v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-08-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion acceptance-of-responsibility appeal-denial career-offender criminal-history drug-related-offense obstruction-of-justice reliable-evidence sentencing-guidelines | (1) Isnt Seventh Circuit's panel decision contrary with UNITED STATES v. CHEEKS, 740 F.3d 440 (7thcir 2014),where district Court abused it's discret… |
| 22-5265 | Preston Hester, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-08-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-guidelines advisory-range criminal-procedure district-court due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines SORNA SORNA-tier tier-level | Whether the district court's failure to determine Mr. Hester's correct SORNA tier level in calculating the correct advisory Guideline sentencing range… |
| 22-5237 | Heather Marie Newhouse v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-08-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law controlled-substance-offense criminal-law guideline-commentary inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | (1) Whether the United States Sentencing Commission exceeded its authority by adding inchoate offenses to the definition of "controlled substance offe… |
| 22-5232 | Jesus Javier Cruz-Hernandez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-07-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-presumption reasonableness-standard rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness | Whether the Court should clarify how a defendant who challenges the substantive reasonableness of a within-Guidelines sentence may rebut an appellate … |
| 22-5217 | Ramell Markus v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-07-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-sentencing extreme-physical-pain kidnapping objective-standard sentencing-guidelines serious-bodily-injury subjective-vs-objective | Like other Sentencing Guidelines provisions involving violence, the Guidelines for kidnapping offenses (USSG §2A4.1) enhance a defendant's sentence wh… |
| 22-5204 | Ramon Belducea-Mancinas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-07-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender circuit-conflict controlled-substance drug-trafficking federal-drug-conviction fifth-circuit plain-error sentencing-guidelines | Ramon Belducea-Mancinas was sentenced as a career offender based on pre-2018 federal convictions for conspiracy to distribute marijuana. In December 2… |
| 22-5185 | Thomas Creighton Shrader v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-07-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3583 18-usc-3742 double-jeopardy federal-bureau-of-prisons fifth-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervised-release | #1 When the Federal Bureau of Prisons is misapplying 18 U.S.C. 3583(a) [Supervised Release] not only to Petitioner, but to thousands (1000's) of Feder… |
| 22-5127 | Edward Brown v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | co-conspirators double-jeopardy fifth-amendment political-beliefs political-views procedural-reasonableness resentencing sentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines | 1. Since the petitioner has been continuously in custody since October 4, 2007, he completely served the sentences of imprisonment imposed by the dist… |
| 22-5135 | Joshua Jay Schroeder v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure federal-rules plea-agreement right-to-appeal sentencing | Does a defendant retain the right to appeal a sentence if, after imposition of the sentence, the district court advises the defendant of the right to … |
| 22-5139 | Carol Johnene Morris v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 2nd-amendment armed-career-criminal-act civil-rights criminal-history criminal-procedure double-jeopardy drug-possession due-process felony-enhancement prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Question not identified. |
| 22-5105 | Tanner Lance King v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-07-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness within-guidelines-sentence | How does a court of appeals determine whether a defendant has rebutted the presumption of reasonableness when the defendant is challenging on appeal t… |
| 22-5107 | Marcus Dwayne Pemberton v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-07-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver appeal-waivers brady-standard brady-v-united-states circuit-split criminal-procedure miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement plea-agreements sentencing-guideline sentencing-guidelines | SHOULD STANDARDS OTHER THAN THE KNOWING AND VOLUNTARY WAIVER STANDARD OF BRADY V. UNITED STATES GOVERN THE ENFORCEMENT OF APPEAL WAIVERS IN PLEA AGREE… |
| 22-5097 | Hidey Diaz, aka Silvio Manuel Amador, aka Celio Alvarez-Carrasco v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-07-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 10th-circuit circuit-court-review criminal-sentencing federal-prosecution government-action guideline-range sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statutory-directive substantive-reasonableness unwarranted-disparity | Did the Tenth Circuit err in concluding that it was barred from considering, on review for the substantive reasonableness of Mr. Diaz's sentence, the … |
| 22-5028 | Damien Dre Gonzales v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-07-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | adam-walsh-act appeals commerce-clause criminal-procedure district-court federal-kidnapping federal-sentencing guidelines-error harmless-error sentencing-guidelines | IL Is a district court's Guidelines error always harmless when the court states that it would have imposed the same sentence regardless of the Guideli… |
| 22-5017 | Travaris Devon Bishop v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-07-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-USC-3553(a) criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum substantive-reasonableness | Whether the district court ordered a substantively unreasonable statutory maximum sentence of 120 months in prison, when the Guidelines range was only… |
| 22-5018 | Michael Allen Long v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-07-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appeal-waiver appellate-review criminal-procedure fifth-circuit jurisdiction plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-error standard-of-review waiver | Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by finding that Mr. Long's appeal should be dismissed based on the waiver of appeal provision in his Plea Agreement. |
| 22-5006 | David Cadena v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-06-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum upward-variance | 1. Did the district court impose a substantively unreasonable sentence when it varied upward from the advisory sentencing range to the statutory maxim… |
| 22-5007 | Lann Tjuan Clanton, aka Tjuan v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-06-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver criminal-procedure federal-sting federal-sting-operation fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement | I. WHETHER, AFTER WINNING THE RIGHT TO FILE A BELATED APPEAL DUE TO COUNSEL'S INEFFECTIVENESS FOR FAILING TO FILE A NOTICE OF APPEAL, THE FOURTH CIRCU… |
| 22-5012 | Kielan Brett Franklin v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-06-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crime-of-violence due-process fifth-amendment guideline-range hearsay hearsay-statements hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reliability | (1) Is substantive reliability required under the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States when a district c… |
| 21-8269 | James Paris Williams v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-06-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-guidelines advisory-range criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness upward-variance | 1. Did the district court impose a substantively unreasonable sentence when it varied upward from the advisory sentencing range? |
| 21-8277 | Matthew Michael Cimino v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-06-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness | Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court of appeals to reweigh the sentencing factors? |
| 21-8247 | Johnathan Carter v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-06-28 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | abduction abduction-enhancement bank-robbery circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | The four-level abduction enhancement pursuant to U.S.S.G. § 2B 1.3(b)(4)(A) was applied to Appellant's bank robbery conviction based on moving victims… |
| 21-8236 | Edward Toliver v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-06-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver appeal-waivers circuit-split criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fairness-doctrine plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines | Are plea agreement appeal waivers that forfeit a criminal defendant's right to challenge errors in the district court's interpretation and application… |
| 21-8238 | James Seeley v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-06-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2252a constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment proportionality sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-authority statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. |
| 21-8232 | Stephon Ellis v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-06-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-sentencing eighth-amendment judicial-discretion mitigating-factors mitigation-factors proportionality proportionality-principle sentencing-guidelines traumatic-background traumatic-childhood | Whether the 90-month sentence imposed on Mr. Ellis was "greater than necessary" considering his extraordinarily traumatic childhood. |
| 21-8171 | Lamar Keith Garvin v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-06-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing defendant-characteristics due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines sentencing-range sentencing-variance | I. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by affirming the District Court's imposing an unreasonable sentence under the totality of the circumstances, and w… |
| 21-8181 | Joshua Hayes v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-06-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-vagueness delegation-of-authority due-process judicial-delegation probation-conditions probation-officer sentencing-guidelines supervised-release vagueness | Whether the imposition of Standard Condition (12), U.S.S.G. § 5D1.3(c)(12), violates a defendant's right to Due Process because the condition unconsti… |
| 21-8129 | Radu Miclaus v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-06-14 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review application-note-2 circuit-split criminal-law identification-trafficking means-of-identification sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation trafficking transferring | Did the Sixth Circuit err in holding that "trafficking" a means of identification does not also constitute "transferring" such identification under Se… |
| 21-8111 | Leo Contrera v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-06-10 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | covered-offense discretionary-modification discretionary-review first-step-act non-covered-offense sentencing-guidelines sentencing-modification sentencing-package u-s-code-3553a | I. Whether the First Step Act (FSA) of 2018, under § 404 of the act, when a district court finds a defendant has a "covered offense" making him/her el… |
| 21-8117 | Xavier Jamaal Orange v. United States | District of Columbia | 2022-06-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | counsel-error criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel molina-martinez molina-martinez-v-united-states prejudice sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Due to defense counsel's deficiency, petitioner was sentenced based on an incorrect Sentencing Guidelines range (57 months, using a range of 46-57 mon… |
| 21-8099 | Darnell McConnell, II v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-06-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-law federal-act federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether "controlled substance[s]" in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines § 4B1.2(b) are limited to those substances defined and regulated under the fede… |
| 21-8092 | Nicole R. Bramwell v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-06-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-U.S.C.-3553a 18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3661 abuse-of-discretion appellate-review below-guideline-sentence collateral-consequences downward-variance sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review | (1) When a district court commits no procedural error at sentencing – e.g., correctly calculates the guidelines, considers all statutory sentencing fa… |
| 21-8093 | Albert Aiad-Toss v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-06-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553 18-USC-3553a abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure district-court-discretion procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness supervised-release | Whether Mr. Aiad-Toss's lifetime supervised release term was procedurally unreasonable because the district court failed to adequately explain its dec… |
| 21-8075 | Ricky Bagola v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-06-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-801 advisory-range controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense controlled-substances-act criminal-law federal-sentencing-guidelines federal-statute prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-4b1.2(b) | Is the term "controlled substance" in § 4B1.2(b) limited to those substances defined and regulated under the federal Controlled Substances Act, 21 U.S… |
| 21-8079 | Kenyad Laquan Kelly v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-06-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process federal-sentencing gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion legal-standard sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review | Whether the District Court Erred in Applying a Different Starting Point for Defendant's Sentence than the United States Sentencing Guidelines? |
| 21-8034 | Robert Lawrence v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-06-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-procedure defendant-motion first-step-act sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Is the Eleventh Circuit's decision in United States v. Bryant, 996 f.3d 1243 (11th Cir. 2021) correct in determining that Section 1B1.13 of the United… |
| 21-8014 | Reginald Woods v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-06-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 district-court district-court-discretion first-step-act policy-statement sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether U.S.S.G. § 1B1.13 is an "applicable" policy statement that binds a district court in considering a defendant-filed motion for sentence reducti… |
| 21-7977 | Jason Albert Halda v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2022-05-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-resentencing criminal-sentencing disproportionality eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing miller-montgomery-rule miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana proportionality-review sentencing-guidelines | 1. Is Jason Halda entitled to a resentencing because the judge imposed sentences long before the Court's rulings in Miller and Montgomery. Therefore,… |
| 21-7970 | Oscar Geovanny Campos v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-05-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court guideline-range holguin-hernandez judicial-discretion sentencing-arguments sentencing-guidelines substantial-arguments | Whether, after Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, __U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails t… |
| 21-7852 | Fernando Salazar-Figueroa v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-05-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administration-of-justice appellate-review criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law fifth-circuit mitigating-role sentencing-guidelines | I. Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law when it conducted a cursory review of the facts related to a warranted mitigating role adjustment un… |
| 21-7841 | Danny Jewell v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-05-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law drug-offense due-process importation-enhancement knowledge-requirement sentencing-guidelines strict-liability | The United States Sentencing Guidelines provide for an enhanced sentence for a person who commits an offense involving the importation of amphetamine … |
| 21-7822 | Christopher Patrick Lovings v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-05-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure enhancement fleeing fleeing-offense judicial-discretion knowledge knowledge-standard law-enforcement sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg-3c1.2 | Whether a sentencing court may apply an enhancement pursuant to USSG § 3C1.2 when the record fails to establish the defendant knew or had reason to kn… |
| 21-7824 | Jerome Scott King v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-05-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver appellate-review criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing voluntary-waiver | Whether a provision in a plea agreement that bars a defendant from appealing a sentence of imprisonment violates due process and whether it can be kno… |
| 21-7828 | Kimberly Jones v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-05-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-history criminal-sentencing drug-quantity drug-quantity-determination intervening-arrest narcotics-guidelines personal-use sentencing-guidelines | 1. Who bears the burden of proving or disproving "personal use" quantities when making drug quantity determinations for purposes of the narcotics guid… |
| 21-7773 | Eric Middlebrook v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-05-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | consecutive-sentences constitutional-challenge constitutional-law double-jeopardy drug-crimes drug-offense guideline-range mandatory-consecutive-term mandatory-minimum sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | 1. Does punishing an individual with both a statutory penalty that requires a mandatory consecutive prison term and a Guideline Range enhancement for… |
| 21-7767 | Michael Don Billups v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-05-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-opinions appellate-review district-court federal-sentencing judicial-discretion prejudice prejudicial-error sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review | Whether courts of appeals evaluating the prejudicial effect of a Guideline error must accept a district court's claim that the Guidelines exerted no i… |
| 21-7769 | Lonnell Tucker v. United States | District of Columbia | 2022-05-04 | Denied | Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review base-offense-level circuit-split drug-quantity narcotics-prosecution relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review | Whether the Court should resolve the circuit conflict by requiring de novo review for contested methodologies used to determine Base Offense Levels in… |
| 21-1418 | Medardo Queg Santos v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-05-04 | GVR | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | controlled-substances expert-testimony good-faith good-faith-defense medical-practice medical-purpose relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines | 1. If a physician's good faith is a complete defense to a prosecution for prescribing controlled substances without a legitimate medical purpose or ou… |
| 21-7748 | Sonny Austin Ramdeo v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-04-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split compassionate-release defendant-motion first-step-act sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act statutory-interpretation | Whether the expanded compassionate release statute, 18 U.S.C. §3582(c)(1)(A) (2018) triggers any sentencing guideline policy statements when defendant… |
| 21-7735 | Erskin Bernard Perryman v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-04-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver appellate-waiver base-offense-level criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review minor-participant plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit | The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously granted the Government's Motion to Dismiss and refused to address whether the trial court calculated th… |
| 21-7697 | Michael Mirando, aka Michael John Mirando v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-04-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court loss-calculation sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review | What standard of review applies to an appeal challenging a district court's methodology for calculating the loss amount under Section 2B1.1 of the Uni… |
| 21-7700 | Ronald Hunter v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-04-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion extraordinary-and-compelling extraordinary-compelling-reasons rehabilitation sentencing-guidelines sentencing-law sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i), a district court may "reduce [a] term of imprisonment" upon "motion of the defendant" if it finds that "extraordin… |
| 21-7701 | Francisco Rosales Hernandez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-04-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-guidelines advisory-range criminal-procedure district-court extraordinary-compelling-reasons judicial-discretion molina-martinez-v-united-states ninth-circuit plain-error remand remand 21-7700" rosales-mireles-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines sentencing-law sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether a district court may consider nonretroacti | When should a case be remanded for resentencing under the plain-error standard of review if the district court failed to announce its calculation of t… |
| 21-7707 | Jerome Lamar Pitts v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-04-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process legal-remedy plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing-guidelines | 1) Whether a miscalculated Sentencing Guideline violates Due Process enough to count as a "sentence in violation of the Constitution or laws of the Un… |
| 21-7666 | Izell Delorean Grissett, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-04-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi apprendi-ruling collateral-review constitutional-claim criminal-procedure guidelines mandatory-guidelines miscarriage-of-justice section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | 1. Whether the Sixth Amendment requires the fact of a first-degree murder cross reference under § 2Al.l-to be treated as an element-when that finding … |
| 21-7674 | Jamie Allen v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-04-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fourth-circuit reversible-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY REFUSING TO HEAR MR. ALLEN'S MERITORIOUS CLAIMS THAT THE DISTRICT COURT COMMITTED REVERSIBLE ERRO… |
| 21-7662 | Michael Wayne Cook v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-04-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-opinions appellate-review district-court district-court-discretion federal-sentencing judicial-standard prejudice prejudicial-error sentencing-guidelines | Whether courts of appeals evaluating the prejudicial effect of a Guideline error must accept a district court's claim that the Guidelines exerted no i… |
| 21-7645 | Alimamy Barrie v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-04-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure federal-appeals federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-review plain-error procedural-default re-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines successive-filing | Should an Error be Corrected in a Motion under Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure Rule 52b, when the Conditions of US v. Olano are met, even if the I… |
| 21-7632 | Carlos Gotay-Guzman v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-04-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | application-note criminal-history criminal-history-points federal-jurisdiction first-circuit-decision plain-error plain-error-standard puerto-rico puerto-rico-convictions sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Did the First Circuit err when it held Mr. Gotay-Guzman could not establish plain error regarding the assessment of 2 criminal history points for his … |
| 21-7619 | Jarbarri Randale Wall v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-04-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver criminal-procedure federal-law plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-condition statutory-authority statutory-maximum supervised-release | The district court imposed a special condition of supervised release that the defendant abstain from the use of alcoholic beverages, not associate wit… |
| 21-7625 | Jonathan Scott May v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-04-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure district-court enhancement federal-sentencing judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing-guidelines | 1. Did the district court plainly err when applying an enhancement under U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Manual § 2G2.2(b)(5)? |
| 21-7626 | Joseph Martinez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-04-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court guideline-range holguin-hernandez judicial-discretion sentencing-argument sentencing-guidelines substantial-arguments | Whether, after Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, __U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails t… |
| 21-7609 | Desmond Deleon Carviel v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-04-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law career-offender-guideline district-court-discretion guideline-commentary inchoate-offenses judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | (1) May a district court defer to the Sentencing Guideline commentary without first determining if the guideline is genuinely ambiguous. Kisor v. Wilk… |
| 21-7594 | Orin Kristich v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-04-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-counsel attorney-misconduct court-discretion de-novo-review due-process judicial-misconduct judicial-procedure plea-bargaining plea-waiver sentencing-guidelines supervised-release | 1. Whether the Appellant's Appeal Counsel, Mr. Acton, can tell the court that the Appellant agrees to dismiss the Appeal without ever talking to the A… |
| 21-7598 | Irvin Garces v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-04-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administration-of-justice criminal-procedure drug-offense exceptional-importance federal-law fifth-circuit minor-role sentencing-guidelines | I. Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law when it conducted a cursory review of the facts related to a warranted two-level adjustment under U.… |
| 21-7600 | Christopher Hibshman v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-04-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-USC-3583 18-USC-3583(e) criminal-conduct criminal-sentencing reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-standards supervised-release | 1. For violation of supervised release is the imposition of a 24 month sentence consecutive to a 2 year Indiana prison term unreasonable and at odds w… |
| 21-7586 | Jaako Williams v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-04-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-sentencing generic-offense robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation texas-penal-code texas-robbery violent-crime | Whether Texas robbery, a crime defined differently than similarly named crimes in a majority of states, is a crime of violence under the United States… |
| 21-7587 | Jose Garcia Solorzano v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-04-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acceptance-of-responsibility appeal criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion reduction-in-sentence sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g.-§3e1.1 u.s.s.g.-interpretation | Did the district court err in not granting Mr. Solorzano a reduction in sentence for his acceptance of responsibility under U.S.S.G. §3E1.1? |
| 21-7547 | Gabriel Gonzalez v. John P. Yates, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2022-04-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights covid-19 cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment imprisonment prison-conditions sentencing sentencing-guidelines | I. Does continued imprisonment under unconstrained exposure to a lethal contagion, such as COVID-19, violate his Eighth Amendment right to be free fro… |
| 21-7520 | Isaiah Wilson v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-04-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924 2nd-amendment burglary-statute career-offender civil-rights crime-of-violence due-process federal-sentencing free-speech sentencing-guidelines standing statutory-interpretation | 1. Should the court exercise it's Power to resolve a split amongst the sister Circuits regarding New Jersey Third degree burglary designation as a cri… |
| 21-7507 | Valedia Gross v. First NLC Financial Services, LLC, et al. | Maryland | 2022-03-31 | Denied | IFP | appeal appeal-waiver case-reopening civil-procedure court-intervention default-judgment legal-procedure motion-to-vacate standing timeliness waiver | Did the Court of Special Appeals (COSPA) err, as a matter of law, in holding that Ms. Gross waived her right to appeal the circuit court's order vacat… |
| 21-7482 | Gregory Jean-Louis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver appellate-procedure circuit-split criminal-appeal criminal-defendant criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process judicial-review sentencing waiver-exception | Should the United States Supreme Court grant certiorari in order the finally resolve the substantial circuit split regarding the "miscarriage—of—justi… |
| 21-7473 | Antwoyn Terrell Spencer v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-03-25 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy due-process first-step-act habeas-corpus jury-trial sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | Whether Petitioner is being deprived of his Civil Right to Due Process against law without due process of law in Violation of the Constitution and Law… |
| 21-7445 | Juniel B. Rios v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-03-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure procedural-due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness upward-variance | 1. Whether Constitutional Due Process requires that Irizarry v. United States, 553 U.S. 708 (2008) that limited the Notice requirement in Fed.R.Crim.P… |
| 21-7441 | Edgardo Maldonado-Arce v. Deanne Criswell, Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency | First Circuit | 2022-03-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-interpretation sentencing-guidelines standing state-law statute-of-limitations | Question not identified. |
| 21-7443 | Roberto Arenas-Tellez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court guideline-range holguin-hernandez-v-united-states judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines substantial-arguments | Whether, after Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, _U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails to… |
| 21-7429 | Damon Ramon Martinez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-03-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law auer-deference constitutional-law crime-of-violence judicial-interpretation seminole-rock seminole-rock-deference sentencing-guidelines | Does the Sentencing Commission's commentary impermissibly expand the unambiguous definition of "crime of violence" in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 to include atte… |
| 21-7430 | Roberto Padilla Espinoza v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection fifth-circuit-review judicial-discretion prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | Question not identified. |
| 21-7434 | Darryl Williams v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-03-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 career-offender circuit-split crime-of-violence due-process equal-protection residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines | This Court holds various residual clauses are unconstitutionally vague under the Due Process Clause, but has not yet addressed the residual clause in … |
| 21-7438 | Tramone Horne v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-03-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion judicial-review preponderance-of-evidence sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Should the Court require proof by more than a preponderance of the evidence of facts that significantly increase the defendant's sentence range under … |
| 21-1275 | Abetubokun Adesioye v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-03-22 | Denied | Response Waived | appeal appeal-waiver court-of-appeals criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process plea-bargaining right-to-appeal rule-11-colloquy sentencing sentencing-guidelines waiver | Did the Court of Appeals err in finding that the petitioner knowingly and intelligently waived his right of appeal without having considered the exist… |
| 21-7405 | Joshua Guity-Nunez v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-03-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-section-1594 appeal base-offense-level criminal-conviction criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-sentencing human-trafficking sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | I, Whether Petitioner, who was convicted of 18 U.S.C. § 1594(c), is subject to a Base Offense Level of 34 or 14? |
| 21-7386 | Sandchase Cody v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-03-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 compassionate-release district-court district-court-discretion due-process federal-criminal-procedure first-step-act sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether Section 1B1.13 of the United States Sentencing Guidelines is an "Applicable" policy statement that binds a district court when considering "ex… |
| 21-7390 | Choya Dwayne Hailey v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5k1.1 5K1.1-motion breach-of-contract criminal-procedure downward-departure government-breach government-discretion plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines | Whether the government breached the supplemental plea agreement when it declined to move for a downward departure under U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Man… |
| 21-7391 | Isaiah Ramon Henderson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-03-16 | Denied | Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-procedure federal-law federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether "controlled substance[s]" in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines § 4B1.2(b) are limited to those substances defined and regulated under the fede… |
| 21-7357 | Joel Castro-Lopez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing discretion district-court-discretion guidelines judicial-reasoning legal-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review | Whether a district court errs should reference or address substantial arguments for a sentence outside the Guideline range? |
| 21-7345 | David Wayne Aring v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography circuit-split due-process eighth-amendment first-time-offender judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release | QUESTION ONE Whether in the exercise of its supervisory jurisdiction over the United States Courts, this Court should correct the correctable injustic… |
| 21-7351 | Miguel Angel Cruz-Polanco, aka Luis Hernandez v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure federal-sentencing plain-error plea-bargaining sentencing-guidelines | I- wheter the Federal SeNten cing Guidelines Manvel Reguire a Plea oF Guilty and PoiNt ReductioN three guarantee a ? For accePtaNCe OF ResPoN sability… |
| 21-7331 | Darregus T. Robinson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split civil-rights compassionate-release constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus policy sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | USSG §1B1. B TO DENY RELIEF WHEN THE GUIDELINE DID NOT APPLY TO HIS MOTION? 5TH AND 8TH AMENDMENT CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATIONS! CAN PETITIONER GET RELIE… |
| 21-7332 | Marlon Sisnero-Gil v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness substantive-unreasonableness supervisory-power | Whether the Petition should be granted because the Court of Appeals' decision holding that Petitioner's sentence was not substantively unreasonable co… |
| 21-7323 | Russell Hampton v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-03-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review conspiracy jury-instructions juvenile-delinquency juvenile-delinquency-act post-majority-misconduct presentence-report presumption-of-retaliation sentencing-guidelines | Whether, to comply with the Juvenile Delinquency Act, a jury must be instructed that it cannot convict unless it finds that the defendant 'ratified' h… |
| 21-7301 | Bogdan Nicolescu v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | access-devices congressional-intent criminal-enhancement criminal-sentencing guideline-commentary identity-theft sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation unauthorized-access-device wireless-telephone-protection-act | 1. Whether Application Note 2 of the Commentary to U.S.S.G. § 2B1.6 bars the application of the U.S.S.G. § 2Bl.l(b)(ll)(B)(i) 2-level enhancement for … |
| 21-7318 | Abraham A. Augustin v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process federal-court mandatory-sentence resentencing right-to-counsel section-2255 section-3553a sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-requirements | SENTENCING IN FEDERAL COURT IS GUIDED BY STATUTE AND CONSTITUTIONAL CONSIDERATIONS. STATUTORY REQUIREMENTS INCLUDE CONSIDERATION OF THE FACTORS IN 18 … |
| 21-7269 | Joseph Peter Clarke v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-03-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion covid-19 criminal-history downward-variance drug-offenses juvenile-offenses sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines stash-house-robbery | Issue 1: Whether the appellate court erred affirming the district court's abuse of discretion in overruling petitioner's objections to the PSI Report … |
| 21-7230 | Gemar Morgan v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-03-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-standard probation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervised-release | Question not identified. |
| 21-7236 | Joseph Crocco v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-03-01 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | career-offender categorical-approach circuit-conflict circuit-split controlled-substance-offense plain-error sentencing-guidelines unsettled-law | Whether the Court of Appeals erred when it held that the district court's erroneous determination that Petitioner was a career offender, based on Peti… |
| 21-7221 | Alfred Lavoris Moody v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-02-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion juvenile-justice mitigating-factors mitigation-factors proportionality rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review | Whether the 78-month sentence imposed on Mr. Moody was " greater than necessary " considering his troubled childhood. |
| 21-7222 | Hugo Valencia Mendoza v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-02-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-guidelines vagueness-doctrine | 1. Is the term "involved" under Section 2D1.1(b)(5) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines Unconstitutional under the Vagueness Doctrine through t… |
| 21-7190 | Jason Terrell v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-02-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process jurisdiction merits plea-agreement procedural-facts standard-of-review | 1. Whether the court of appeals erred by dismissing the appeal based upon an appeal waiver contained in the plea agreement and should have addressed M… |
| 21-7195 | James Leon Higgins v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-02-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law firearms firearms-possession interstate-commerce perjury-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 21-7169 | Latwon James v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-factors supervised-release waiver | I. Whether the Fourth Circuit erroneously dismissed Mr. James's appeal based on a provision in Mr. James's plea agreement waiving his right to appeal … |
| 21-7163 | Nathaniel Ruth v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-02-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-procedure federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation | I Does the phrase "controlled substance" in U.S.S.C. § 4B1.2(b) include substances that are excluded from the Controlled Substances Act? II. When def… |
| 21-7136 | Gregory Nesbitt, aka Spooky v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-02-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release district-court first-step-act policy-statement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether Section 1B1.13 of the United States Sentencing Guidelines is an "applicable" policy statement that binds the district court in considering a d… |
| 21-7139 | Bradley Scott Williams v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-02-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | base-level-score criminal-procedure drug-offense judicial-discretion methamphetamine sentencing-guidelines USSG-Section-2D1.1(c)(2) USSG-Section-2D1.1(c)(4) | Did the trial court commit error when it calculated the appellant's sentencing guideline base level score using the enhanced "Ice" guideline value und… |
| 21-7128 | Cornelius Riley v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-02-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-offense due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | Should this Honorable Court extend the reasoning of Apprendi, Alleyne, and Peugh to cases where a defendant's sentencing guideline range increases sig… |
| 21-1118 | Duianete Moore v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-02-11 | Denied | Response Waived | career-offender criminal-history criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines juvenile-conviction juvenile-offenses predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Is a conviction committed 24 years ago, when Petitioner was 16 years old, a proper predicate offense for classification of Career Offender status purs… |
| 21-7079 | Reginald Glenn v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-02-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-assault circuit-split criminal-law generic-offense mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g.-4b1.2 | To be a "crime of violence" under the enumerated clause of U.S.S.G. §4B1.2(a)(2), an offense must have elements that match or are narrower than the el… |
| 21-7070 | Anderson Curtel Duke v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-02-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | agency-deference agency-interpretation attempt-crimes circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines stare-decisis stinson-v-united-states | 1. Should courts defer to Sentencing Guidelines commentary when there is no ambiguity in the underlying text? 2. Has the Commission impermissibly exp… |
| 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 BY ASSIGNING A TWO-LEVEL UPWARD ADJUSTMENT PURSUANT TO U.S.S.G. §3A1.1(b)(1) BASED ON ITS ERRONEOUS FINDING THAT THE CASE I… |
| 21-7057 | Victor Nava, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-02-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act borden-v-united-states career-offender-guideline crime-of-violence enumerated-offense-clause reckless-aggravated-assault reckless-assault sentencing-guidelines texas-law | 1. Does the Supreme Court's holding in Borden v. United States, 141 S. Ct. 1817 (2021) that a reckless aggravated assault cannot qualify as a "crime o… |
| 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 … |
| 21-7054 | Ervin Walker, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-02-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 abuse-of-discretion compassionate-release criminal-procedure district-court-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction ussg-1b1.13 | Whether the District Court abused its discretion when it denied Petitioner's Motion for Compassionate Release under 18 USC § 3582 (c)(1)(A), after it … |
| 21-7031 | Joseph D. Davis v. United States | District of Columbia | 2022-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | compassionate-release court-of-appeals criminal-sentencing district-of-columbia-court-of-appeals federal-procedure guidelines inconsistent-opinions judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-commission | I. Whether the opinion of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals concerning the Petitioner's motion for Compassionate Release is inconsistent with … |
| 21-7032 | Adrian Hunt v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2d1.1(b)(1) 5th-circuit criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit firearm-enhancement sentencing-guidelines tools-of-the-trade tools-of-the-trade-presumption | Whether the Fifth Circuit's practice of applying a tools-of-the-trade presumption to the firearm enhancement of sentencing guidelines §2D1.1(b)(1) vio… |
| 21-7034 | Jeriton Lavar Curry, aka Cheese v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender crime-of-violence criminal-procedure district-court-error due-process hobbs-act legal-analysis sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review | Whether a conviction for Hobbos Act Robbery qualifies as a "crime of violence" under the Sentencing Guidelines, U.S.S.G.3 4BI.2(a).? 2) Whether the D… |
| 21-6987 | Marcus Antonio Grubbs v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-01-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver contract-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process miscarriage-of-justice procedural-waiver sentencing | Whether a defendant can "knowingly," "voluntarily," and/or "intelligently," execute an appeal waiver of conduct yet to occur in the proceedings, visa-… |
| 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… |
| 21-6972 | Maria Haydee Luzula v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-01-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bureau-of-prisons circuit-split first-step-act non-delegation-doctrine sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether U.S.S.G. § 1B1.13 is an "applicable" policy statement that binds a district court in considering a defendant-filed motion for sentence reducti… |
| 21-6955 | Erica Umbay v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-01-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interstate-commerce plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing-guidelines | Whether a Criminal Defendant Can Withdraw a Plea Under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(b)(3) if the Plea Lacked an Adequate Factual Basis? Whet… |
| 21-6937 | Colin Michael v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-01-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review district-court district-court-discretion judicial-presumption rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness united-states-sentencing-commission | Should an appellate court automatically presume that a within - or below guideline sentence is substantively reasonable when the underlying rationale … |
| 21-6940 | Ferney Salas Torres v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-01-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion criminal-appeal criminal-procedure district-court-discretion minor-role-adjustment pilot-enhancement plea-agreement procedural-reasonableness second-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines | 1. A writ of certiorari is requested to determine whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming Ferney Salas Torres' judgment of conv… |
| 21-6921 | Sedale Pervis v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-01-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553(a) criminal-law criminal-sentencing district-court family-impact judicial-discretion mitigating-factor procedural-background respect-for-law respect-for-the-law sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | The touchstone statu te for criminal sentencing, 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a), provides that a sentence must promote respect for the law. However, "respect for… |
| 21-6924 | John T. Veysey v. Louis Williams, II, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2022-01-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burrage-v-united-states controlled-substance-act habeas-corpus mandatory-guidelines pre-booker sentencing-guidelines | 1. WHETHER § 2255 (E) "SAVINGS CLAUSE " IS IN CONFLICT WITH THE DECISIONS OF THIS COURT AND OF OTHER COURTS OF APPEAL AS THE CORRECT INSTRUMENT BY W… |
| 21-6888 | Ryan Kenneth Richmond, aka Rich v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-01-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver appellate-review attempted-murder criminal-defendant criminal-procedure plea-agreement relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines | I. DOES A CRIMINAL DEFENDANT'S WAIVER OF HIS RIGHT TO APPEAL A WITHIN GUIDELINE'S SENTENCE BAR APPELLATE REVIEW WHERE THE DISTRICT COURT USED A CROSS … |
| 21-6861 | Piyarath S. Kayarath v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | adolescent-brain compassionate-release extraordinary-circumstances mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-minimums neuroscience neuroscience-evidence procedural-error section-3553 section-3582 sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform | Whether Booker's invalidation of the mandatory sentencing regime, and post-Booker neuroscience facts about the adolescent brain constitutes extraordin… |
| 21-996 | Yonell Allums v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-01-13 | Denied | Amici (2)Response Waived | as-applied-challenge booker-decision criminal-sentencing judicial-discretion reasonable-sentence rita-decision sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-violation | In United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220 (2005), this Court held that the United States Sentencing Guidelines violated the Sixth Amendment because the… |
| 21-6825 | Diana Bustamante v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-01-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law modified-categorical-approach predicate-offenses sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Do statutes criminalizing simulated controlled substances count as predicate "controlled substance offenses" for applicability of the career offender … |
| 21-6803 | Javier Rosales v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion amendment-782 discretion drug-conspiracy due-process fifth-amendment opportunity-to-be-heard retroactive-amendment sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-guidelines | 1. Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in deciding that the District Court's order denying relief under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) did not comprise an abuse o… |
| 21-6762 | Karina Lizett Juarez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-01-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administration-of-justice criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-criminal-law federal-law fifth-circuit mitigating-role sentencing-guidelines | I. Whether the Fifth Circuit's cursory review of the facts related to a warranted mitigating adjustment under U.S.S.G. § 3B1.2 violated federal law in… |
| 21-6758 | Cameron Taevon Jones v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-01-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-law federal-law guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-law | does the term "controlled substance offense" as defined in the Guidelines include offenses under state law that are not categorical matches under fede… |
| 21-6760 | Deandre Spencer Cotton v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-01-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crime-of-violence criminal-law divisibility-inquiry due-process federal-court-certification federalism sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines state-court-certification state-criminal-statute statutory-interpretation | I. If a state criminal statute's divisibility is ambiguous when the defendant is convicted in state court, may a federal court later certify its divis… |
| 21-6738 | Kadeem Willingham v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-12-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582c1a 924(c)-sentences 924c-sentences district-court-discretion extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons first-step-act nondelegation-doctrine sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines sub-delegation | 1. Whether U.S.S.G. § 1B1.13 is an "applicable" policy statement that binds a district court in considering a defendant-filed motion for sentence redu… |
| 21-6707 | Antonio Turner v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-12-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 3553(a)-factors administrative-remedy bureau-of-prisons compassionate-release criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-compelling-reasons first-step-act sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines | Whether the district court erred by denying Mr. Turner's Motion for Sentence Reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i). |
| 21-6685 | Christopher Dominguez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-12-21 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel informed-consent mandatory-minimum plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-trial sentencing sentencing-guidelines | The prosecutor, defense counsel, and the district court all informed Mr. Dominguez that if he went to trial he would face a mandatory minimum sentence… |
| 21-6692 | Alex D. Ramos v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-12-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582c1a 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing extraordinary-circumstances federal-procedure sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown … |
| 21-6679 | Juan Jarmon v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-court-conflict conspiracy conspiracy-law crack-cocaine criminal-law evidence evidentiary-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review united-states-v-pressler | Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals entered a decision in conflict with the decision of United States v. Pressler where the evidence presented … |
| 21-6658 | Donald Ray Johnson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-12-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-courts federal-sentencing guideline-commentary judicial-deference judicial-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | Whether federal sentencing courts are bound by the illustrations found in Guideline Commentary? |
| 21-6642 | Tre Reshawn Tate v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-12-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | application-note criminal-law dangerous-weapon judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie possession robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Is the application note defining "dangerous weapon" overly broad under Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. Ct. 2400 (2019) by defining "possession" of a "dangerou… |
| 21-6644 | Ashot Minasyan v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-12-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing voluntary-plea | Whether Minasyan's waiver of appeal is unenforceable for the following reasons: because it was not knowing, intelligent and voluntary, and because Min… |
| 21-6618 | Jamie Matsuba and Takaharo Thomas Matsuba v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-12-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 27-year-old-opinion due-process judicial-interpretation legal-precedent loss-calculation mortgage-fraud rents-gained sentencing-guidelines | Whether a loss calculation determined using "rents gained" in a mortgage fraud case violates due process when it is based on a single 27-year-old opin… |
| 21-6592 | Donald Stanley v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-12-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law drug-statute mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums mens-rea ninth-circuit-precedent rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | Whether the knowingly mens rea in 21 U.S.C. § 841 applies to the elements of drug type and quantity that establish mandatory minimum and enhanced maxi… |
| 21-6609 | Christopher Coffer v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-12-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing defendant-health due-process health-issues judicial-discretion medical-disadvantage mitigation-factors sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance variance | What is the extent of medical disadvantage that a defendant must present in order to secure a variance based on ill health? |
| 21-6578 | Gregory Leri v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-12-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-history downward-adjustment drug-trafficking first-step-act safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-minimum | On December 21, 2018, Congress enacted the First Step Act of 2018 (P.L. 115 391). In Section 402 of the First Step Act, Congress amended subsection (f… |
| 21-6584 | Gregory Donell Eatmon v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-12-13 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-u.s.c.-3553(a) criminal-procedure district-court-discretion first-step-act section-404(b) sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.-sentencing-guidelines | This Court recently granted certiorari in Concepcion v. United States, No. 201650, on the question of whether, when deciding if it should "impose a re… |
| 21-6555 | Malik Saunders v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-12-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split crimes-of-violence criminal-offenses culpable-omission culpable-omissions injury-or-death intentional-causation physical-force sentencing-guidelines u.s.-sentencing-guidelines | Whether all criminal offenses that require proof of an intentional causation of injury or death, including those which may be committed by way of culp… |
| 21-6540 | Alfred E. Daking, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-12-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split compassionate-release first-step-act judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-1b1.13 | When Congress enacted the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 (Pub. L. No. 98 473, Tit. II, ch. II, 98 Sta. 1987; 18 U.S.C. §3551, et seq.) , it provided a … |
| 21-6450 | Steven Zinnel v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-11-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure gall-v-united-states jury-determination sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment substantive-reasonableness substantive-unreasonableness | Any fact that increases the penalty to which a defendant is exposed constitutes an element of a crime under and must be found by a jury, not a judge. … |
| 21-6403 | Garland Guillory v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-11-24 | Denied | IFP | application-note commentary controlled-substance-offense district-court-discretion fifth-circuit inchoate-offenses kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines u.s.-sentencing-commission | (1) Under what circumstances may a district court rely on commentary in the U.S. Sentencing Commission's Guidelines Manual to determine a defendant's … |
| 21-6418 | Emmanuel Ashemuke v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-11-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law circuit-split due-process federal-courts federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-deference legal-interpretation plain-meaning plain-meaning-rule sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether federal courts should defer to the Commentary of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines when it expands the definition of a term used in the text o… |
| 21-6427 | Antonio Lorensito Garrido v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-11-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-sentencing drug-crimes mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | I. Should this Court resolve a division among the circuit courts regarding whether the two-level enhancement pursuant to U.S.S.G. §2D1.1(b)(5) for the… |
| 21-6376 | Antonio Soul Gonzalez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-11-23 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-resentencing eligibility first-step-act judicial-discretion resentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | The question presented here is analogous to the question presented in Concepcion v. United States, No. 20-1650, on which this Court recently granted c… |
| 21-6390 | Marcial Carrillo-Serna v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-11-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-error guidelines-calculation molina-martinez-v-united-states ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review plain-error plain-error-review prejudice sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights | When the district court fails to calculate the guideline range at sentencing, whether the defendant may rely on the district court's error alone to sh… |
| 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… |
| 21-750 | Jasper Knabb v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-11-19 | Denied | Response Waived | 28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Where 28 U.S.C. § 2255 requires a prompt hearing unless the motion and the files and records of the case conclusively show that the prisoner is entitl… |
| 21-6334 | Christopher Jason Henry v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-11-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review booker-standard circuit-court harmless-error molina-martinez-v-united-states procedural-error procedural-reasonableness rosales-mireles-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-booker | I. In the opinion below, a divided panel of the Eleventh Circuit held that the sentencing adjustment in U.S.S.G. § 5G1.3(b) is completely advisory, ev… |
| 21-6336 | Darrin Lashaon Betts v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-11-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 21-usc-841(a)(1)-(b)(1)(a) amendment-782 criminal-procedure fed-r-crim-p-11(c)(1)(c) fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines statutory-law type-c-agreement | Whether a defendant is eligible for 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c) (1)(2) relief pursuant Amendment 782 where the district court adopted a Type-C plea agreement … |
| 21-6286 | Patrick Lawrence Henderson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-11-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-rule criminal-procedure due-process jury-determination jury-trial reasonable-doubt revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum | Whether Henderson's revocation sentence violates Apprendi and its progeny because he has been forced to serve a sentence beyond the statutory maximum … |
| 21-6287 | Mario Hernandez-Galarza v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-11-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-history discrimination due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment immigration-law liberty noncitizen-rights sentencing-guidelines | In 2016, the United States Sentencing Commission promulgated United States Sentencing Guideline (U.S.S.G.) § 2L1.2(b)(3), which applies exclusively to… |
| 21-6318 | Michael Aaron Aldridge v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-11-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | consecutive-sentences criminal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness supervised-release | 1. Whether the district court exceeded the statutory maximum sentence of 24 months imprisonment when it imposed five separate sentences of imprisonmen… |
| 21-6294 | Robert Michael Junkins v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-11-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure drug-evidence drug-sentencing illegal-search motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure sentencing sentencing-guidelines vehicle-search | 1. Whether the district court erred in denying Junkins' Defendant's Motion to Suppress Evidence for the evidence discovered in Mr. Junkins' vehicle af… |
| 21-6295 | Jmarreon Mack v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-11-16 | Denied | IFP | administrative-law appellate-review attempt controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense deference fifth-circuit judicial-deference sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err when it deferred to the United States Sentencing Commission's use of commentary in its Guidelines Manual to… |
| 21-6273 | Nathan R. Rollins, Jr. v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-11-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-sentencing-guidelines booker-standard criminal-conduct criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment united-states-v-booker | Mr. Rollins plead guilty to single charge of possessing a firearm after conviction of a felony. The offense of conviction resulted in an advisory sent… |
| 21-6284 | Marc Blane Baccus v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-11-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | border-trafficking criminal-sentencing drug-importation drug-trafficking guideline-enhancement importation methamphetamine methamphetamine-offense mexico sentencing-guidelines | 1. Whether Appellant's Sentence should have been enhanced for methamphetamine Importation from Mexico under §2D1.1(B)(5) 2. Whether Appellant's Guide… |
| 21-6256 | Macario Andrew Gomez, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-11-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing jury-determination jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether facts that affect the minimum or maximum reasonable federal sentence must be proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt? |
| 21-6235 | Brandon Marquis Jennings v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-11-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review due-process eighth-amendment life-sentence miller-v-alabama presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines | WHETHER THE APPELLATE REVIEW FOR REASONABLENESS OF A LIFE SENTENCE LACKS SUFFICIENT SCRUTINY. THE CIRCUIT COURT'S APPLICATION OF PRESUMED REASONABLENE… |
| 21-6210 | Tony Bowen v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-11-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver armed-career-criminal-act conviction-counting felon-in-possession sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-maximum | 1. If a defendant convicted of felon-in-possession charges has three qualifying convictions, the Armed Career Criminal Act ("ACCA") enhances the maxim… |
| 21-6208 | Daliang Guo v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-11-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | control-over-others criminal-procedure criminal-scheme criminal-sentencing leader-enhancement leadership-role ninth-circuit participant-control role-model sentencing-guidelines | Whether a defendant who took part in a criminal scheme with multiple participants is properly subject to the leader/ organizer enhancement at USSG § 3… |
| 21-6185 | Rodney Smith v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-11-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion downward-departure judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines | 1. Was the District Court's decision not to depart downward appropriate? |
| 21-6160 | Dennis Dean Smith v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-11-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-amendment civil-rights criminal-justice-reform cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection first-step-act prior-convictions retroactive-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-changes | 1) Has the Eleventh Amendment barred the federal courts from exercising jurisdiction over this case where the state has been sued in federal court to … |
| 21-6168 | Vance L. White v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2021-11-03 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-review blakely-v-washington constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion self-incrimination sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Question not identified. |
| 21-6148 | Lonnie Earl Parlor v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-11-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-sentencing drug-trafficking enhancement-factors firearm-possession firearms relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines specific-offense-characteristics statutory-maximum uncharged-conduct | This case presents unsettled and important questions related to the scope and application of "relevant conduct" to prove specific offense characterist… |
| 21-6130 | Brett Allan Corrigan, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review clear-error criminal-procedure drug-offense firearm sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review weapon-enhancement | WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT'S FINDING THAT A WEAPON WAS CONNECTED TO THE DRUG OFFENSE UNDER §2D1.1(b)(1) WAS CLEAR ERROR. |
| 21-6118 | Kevin Folse v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-10-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-battery bodily-injury circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law new-mexico sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation unlawful-force violent-crime | New Mexico courts have held that the state's aggravated battery statute can be violated by unlawful touching alone. Unlawful touch that results in bod… |
| 21-6121 | Luis Enrique Lario-Rios v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-10-28 | Denied | IFP | commentary crimes-of-violence criminal-enhancement guideline-commentary prior-convictions sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-4b1.2 | Whether the Sentencing Commission can use commentary to expand an unambiguous Guideline that applies to enhancements for prior convictions for crimes … |
| 21-6105 | Saul Hernandez-Serrano v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-10-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | courts-of-appeals federal-sentencing molina-martinez-v-united-states numerical-range-of-imprisonment presumption-of-prejudice sentencing-guidelines | Whether the presumption of prejudice recognized in Molina-Martinez v. United States extends to Federal Sentencing Guideline errors that do not affect … |
| 21-6064 | Robert William Knopping v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-10-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion downward-departure government-motion sentencing sentencing-guidelines third-level-reduction u.s.s.g. | Under what circumstances can the district court at sentencing deny the government's motion for a third-level reduction for acceptance of responsibilit… |
| 21-6087 | Maria Vargas-Luna v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-10-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-guidelines criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy fact-finding judicial-fact-finding jury-trial-right reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | Petitioner pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance. She admitted to the district court that approxima… |
| 21-6068 | Ronald Tingle v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-10-25 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-3582 district-court drug-offenses extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-compelling-reasons first-step-act sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether a district judge is categorically prohibited from considering the First Step Act's amendment to penalties for drug offenses when determining w… |
| 21-6062 | Craig Schenvinsky James v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-10-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-review sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | I. BECAUSE THERE IS A CONFLICT AMONG THE UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURTS OF APPEAL OVER THIS MATTER, CAN THE SENTENCING COMMISSION'S COMMENTS TAKE PRECED… |
| 21-6049 | Aaron Christopher Pena v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-10-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law drug-offenses importation knowledge-standard mens-rea methamphetamine offense-level-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation strict-liability | Whether an offense level enhancement under the Sentencing Guidelines that applies when "the offense involved the importation of amphetamine or methamp… |
| 21-6020 | Said Azzam Mohamad Rahim v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-10-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-v-new-jersey circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process sentencing-guidelines specific-intent statutory-interpretation terrorism-enhancement | Question 1: This Court should resolve the circuit split that has developed by finding that the twelve-level terrorism enhancement under U.S.S.G. §3A1.… |
| 21-6028 | Johnny Jasper Williams v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-10-20 | GVR | IFP | borden-v-united-states crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-sentencing intervening-development sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation texas-robbery ussg-4b1.2 | Whether the Texas offense of simple robbery by injury, Tex. Penal Code §29.02(a)(1) constitutes a "crime of violence" under USSG §4B1.2? |
| 21-5998 | In Re Anthony Terry | 2021-10-19 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act career-offender circuit-precedent circuit-split criminal-procedure elements-clause mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | In a previous holding (Borden v United States, 141 S.Ct. 1817 (2021)), this Court determined that a mens rea element of "knowing and purposeful" is re… | |
| 21-5992 | Jose Miguel Ramirez-Rodriguez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-10-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | COVID-19 criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection felony-convictions judicial-discretion medical-records procedural-error sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines time-served | -1-he. Scolcnce 4he Tudge (kiitheia Moo fez) eae d vivre Aan 4-14e Guedelmes Rom mord-)15- 4's on error sloe broke 4-he )sol rules -(4/Jere_ 7) -tkie … |
| 21-5985 | DeCarlos Titington v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-10-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | concurrent-sentences constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing discharged-sentences due-process equal-protection relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines undischarged-sentences | The federal Sentencing Guidelines treat discharged and undischarged sentences based on conduct relevant to a case before the court for sentencing diff… |
| 21-5961 | David K. Horsley v. Ohio | Ohio | 2021-10-14 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appeal-waiver appellate-procedure constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process garza-v-idaho ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-rule sixth-amendment state-appellate-procedure | To clarify if what the United States Court held in Garza v. Idaho, 586 U.S. 10 (2019) applies to Ohio App. R. 26 (B)(1) which requires a defendant to … |
| 21-5973 | Jesus Lopez-Mejia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-10-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness | I. Whether Petitioner's sentence was substantively unreasonable? |
| 21-5942 | Michael Woolen v. California | California | 2021-10-12 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review appointment-of-counsel civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure dismissal due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion procedural-due-process sentencing-guidelines | DEPRIVATIONS OF EQUAL PROTECTION OF LAWS, FAILURE TO APPOINT COUNSEL TO ADA PETITIONER WITH 8TH GRADE COGNITIVE FUNCTION PREDICATED PROCEDURAL DUE PRO… |
| 21-5929 | Jean Lynn Lillie v. Iowa | Iowa | 2021-10-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech jury-trial repeat-offender sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment standing takings | Question not identified. |
| 21-5937 | Odilon Martinez-Rojas v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-10-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver due-process fifth-amendment plea-agreement sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment | Whether a plea agreement's appeal waiver can bar a defendant from challenging the unconstitutionality of a sentencing procedure that deprives the defe… |
| 21-5899 | Joseph Vasquez, Jr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-10-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender guidelines individualized-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness substantive-review | Whether a below guidelines sentence can still result in a substantively unreasonable sentence? |
| 21-5867 | James Dean Kendrick v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-10-04 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting-liability criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure indian-reservation indian-reservations sentencing-guidelines title-21-usc title-21-usc-section-841(b)(1)(A) title-21-usc-section-848(e)(1)(A) title-21-usc-section-848(g)-(p) | 1. Can the Government's alleged motive for the murder of a non-Indian committed by another non-Indian, which occurred on the Cattaraugus Indian Reserv… |
| 21-5872 | Antonio Donnel Johnson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-10-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense guideline-commentary inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses precursor-offense precursor-offenses sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | (1) Whether the United States Sentencing Commission exceeded its authority by adding inchoate and precursor offenses to the definition of "controlled … |
| 21-5879 | Dheadry Powell v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-10-04 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion first-step-act guidelines justification money-laundering resentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines | I. UNDER THE FIRST STEP ACT, DID THE DISTRICT COURT FAIL TO PROVIDE A SUFFICIENTLY COMPELLING JUSTIFICATION THAT THOROUGHLY EXPLAINS IT'S ABOVE THE GU… |
| 21-496 | Martez L. Smith v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-10-04 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | categorical-approach conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure guideline-interpretation overt-act sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the categorical approach for generic offenses applies to the offense of conspiring under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 Application Note 1 and requires a… |
| 21-5805 | Jean Leonard Teganya v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-09-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure false-statements obstruction-of-justice perjury sentencing-guidelines significant-further-obstruction | 1. The United States Sentencing Guidelines permit a two-point increase in offense level if the defendant obstructed or impeded the administration of j… |
| 21-5825 | Raqib Abdul Al-Amin v. South Carolina | South Carolina | 2021-09-29 | Denied | IFP | compulsory-process constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment drug-offense due-process eighth-amendment evidence expert-witness mandatory-minimum sentencing-guidelines | Whether the South Carolina Supreme Court error to akfirm the trial Coust's suling where the trial Court was convinced by the Sthte's 'thired-party gui… |
| 21-5776 | Bobby John Kobito v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-09-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process federal-crime sentencing-guidelines silencer silencer-possession terrorism terrorism-enhancement trial-court-discretion | Whether the trial court erred in finding that the defendant's possession of a silencer was intended to promote a federal crime of terrorism, pursuant … |
| 21-5731 | Sheridan Sisk v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-09-22 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines federal-statute sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | The Guideline applicable to a felon in possession, U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1, increase s a defendant's base offense level if a defendant has prior "controlled … |
| 21-5747 | Juan Carlos Osorto v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-09-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-history due-process equal-protection federal-agencies immigration-law noncitizen-rights noncitizens sentencing-guidelines | In 2016, the United States Sentencing Commission promulgated United States Sentencing Guideline (USSG) § 2L1.2(b)(3), which applies exclusively to non… |
| 21-5714 | Jayren Jakar Wynn v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-09-21 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | agency-deference agency-interpretation circuit-precedent controlled-substance-offense guideline-commentary inchoate-offenses kisor-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines | Whether a circuit court may properly rely on circuit precedent predating Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. Ct. 2400 (2019), to hold, contrary to Kisor, that the… |
| 21-5712 | George Ferrer Sanchez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-09-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion right-to-appeal sentencing | Across all federal circuits, the courts of appeals have held that, as part of a plea agreement with the government, a criminal defendant can waive his… |
| 21-5725 | Sergio Amaya-Martinez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-09-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-u.s.c.s.-991(b) 5th-circuit circuit-court-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing role-adjustment sentencing-fairness sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-3b1.2 | 1. Whether the 5th Circuit Court has qualified the minor and minimal role adjustment commentary under U.S.S.G. §3 B1.2 such that the sentences in cons… |
| 21-5633 | Roland J. McLain v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-09-10 | Denied | IFP | career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-law due-process federal-guidelines federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. Does the phrase "controlled substance" in U.S.S.G. § 4Bl.2(b) , including as it is incorporated into U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1, include substances that are … |
| 21-5634 | Michael D. Forbes v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-09-09 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review criminal-resentencing criminal-sentencing first-step-act guideline-range reasonableness-standard section-404 sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review | Appellate court s review criminal sentence s for reasonableness . And major variances or departures from the advisory guideline range must be supporte… |
| 21-5639 | Siliaivaoese Fuimaona v. D. Hudson, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2021-09-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | concurrent-sentences criminal-appeal custody federal-bureau-of-prisons federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review ninth-circuit parole sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | k)kje.-rkfiA +VUL U'5- CouA-t-o-f. Appeals, 44 a +VuL 4 C>N:ai^ cPf>Mio^ ;as u>eN at> -vW ©p<* '<M ©44U£ . ftfe-tNc-*' CcuM- -VW btetXcto4 ^av\SGS Qj… |
| 21-5615 | Carlos Mora v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-09-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-preservation criminal-justice due-process importation mens-rea methamphetamine-importation plain-error plain-error-review sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | 1. Where counsel raised an issue in written Objections to the Addendum to the Presentence Report filed with the district court, and never withdrew or … |
| 21-5572 | Kamau Alan Israel v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-09-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | competency competency-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insanity-defense mental-illness plea-bargain sentencing sentencing-guidelines strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | Trial counsel in this case failed to investigate Mr. Israel's mental illness before his case was adjudicated. But Mr. Israel has been mentally ill for… |
| 21-5548 | Brent Anderson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-09-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure double-counting firearm-possession plain-error reckless-endangerment sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines vehicular-flight | I. Did the district court plainly err when it applied a 2-level enhancement for "reckless endangerment during flight" after already applying a 4-level… |
| 21-5532 | Guy Harvey Spruhan, IV v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-08-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | equal-protection non-delegation-doctrine retroactive-relief retroactive-sentence-reduction sentence-reduction sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act separation-of-powers | 1. Is the limitation in U.S.S.G. § 1B1.10, which prohibits proportional sentence reductions for defendants who have previously received variances or d… |
| 21-5513 | Christopher Seckington v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | chapman-v-united-states constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment drug-trafficking eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment urine-testing | Question 1: What must a Defendant show in order to demonstrate an Eighth Amendment violation where Petitioner was sentenced to in essence life for pos… |
| 21-5518 | John Perez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | atascosa-county base-offense-level criminal-procedure drug-distribution drug-quantity mass-marketing relevant-conduct sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines traffic-stop | I. Was it improper for the Court to find the base offense level was 34 because Mr. Perez should only have been held accountable for the 15 pounds of "… |
| 21-5530 | Luis Gomez-Castro v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process judicial-findings obstruction-of-justice perjury plain-error-review sentencing-guidelines | I. Sentencing Guideline §3C1.1 provides a 2-level enhancement for obstruction of justice and applies if a defendant testifies untruthfully about a mat… |
| 21-5504 | Eric Worley v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-08-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | base-offense-level burden-of-proof confrontation-clause criminal-procedure drug-quantity evidence preponderance-of-evidence presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines | The Appellant's Appeal was denied on June 1, 2021 by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. In this case, the Appellant raised one (1) issue for determin… |
| 21-5480 | Charles Bryant v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-08-25 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | circuit-split crack-cocaine fair-sentencing-act first-step-act judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | The Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 increased the threshold amounts of crack cocaine – from 5 and 50 grams to 28 and 280 grams – needed to trigger two man… |
| 21-256 | Bilal Hamid Love v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-08-23 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines strickland-standard | Is defense counsel required, in order to provide effective assistance of counsel, to give the defendant an estimate of the potential guideline sentenc… |
| 21-5418 | Sergio Bucio v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion mitigating-role money-laundering role-adjustment sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg-3b1.2 | I. Whether the district court erred in calculating the amount of laundered funds attributable to Mr. Bucio. II. Whether the district court erred by f… |
| 21-5413 | Antoine L. Wallace v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-08-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation | United States Sentencing Guidelines enhance the sentence for drug offenders and gun offenders, if, among other things, they have prior "felony convict… |
| 21-5397 | Jesse Carey v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-08-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crime-of-violence criminal-law enumerated-offense generic-robbery legal-interpretation robbery-definition sentencing-guidelines third-circuit third-degree-robbery | Whether the Third Circuit misapplied the law and rendered a decision in conflict with other federal courts of appeals by holding that Petitioner's thi… |
| 21-5400 | Maria Gonzalez Maldonado v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-08-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-trafficking federal-sentencing methamphetamine-possession minor-participant sentencing sentencing-guidelines | 1. Did Maria Gonzalez Maldonado conspire to possess and/or actually and knowingly possess between 5kg-15kg kilograms of methamphetamine pursuant to U.… |
| 21-5386 | Michael Kenneth Young v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-08-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal criminal-classification district-court drug-offense fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-appeal prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines serious-drug-offenses | Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal err in reversing the decision of the District Court which had determined that Petitioner Michael Young was not … |
| 21-5340 | Gerald Allen Hiler v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-08-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver criminal-procedure district-court factual-basis federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plea-agreement sentencing | Does a federal criminal defendant's valid waiver of appeal in a plea agreement bar the defendant from an appeal that challenges the sufficiency of the… |
| 21-5307 | Millard Jerome Strickland, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-08-05 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (4)IFP | career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-conviction federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law | Can a prior conviction involving a substance that is not a controlled substance for the purposes of federal law render a federal defendant a "career o… |
| 21-143 | Raymond Rodriguez-Rivera v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-08-03 | Denied | Amici (3)Response Waived | agreement circuit-split conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law overt-act sentencing-guidelines | The United States Sentencing Guidelines define a "controlled substance offense" as one that includes "the offense[] of * * * conspiring * * * to commi… |
| 21-5271 | Paul Surine v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-08-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crack-cocaine drug-conviction drug-quantity first-step-act judicial-interpretation recidivism-probability retroactivity sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines | The most important question to be resolve by the US Supreme Court is if Petitioner Paul Surine and others in his own situation should be given a reduc… |
| 21-5272 | Gary Todd Smith v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-08-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-sentencing fraud fraudulent-investment-scheme investment-scheme loss-amount loss-calculation loss-to-losing-victims sentencing-guidelines uniformity | 1. When determining the United States Sentencing Guidelines loss amount attributable to a defendant in a case involving a fraudulent investment scheme… |
| 21-5250 | Adalberto Martinez-Ramirez v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-07-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | §3Bl.1(a)-standard buyer-relationship circuit-court-review criminal-leadership criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing evidence precedent precedent-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation U.S.-v.-Miller | Whether this Court should grant Certiorari because the Eighth Circuit opinion overlooked the binding precedent set forth in U.S. v. Miller when determ… |
| 21-5196 | Shalen Stoltz v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-07-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-waiver criminal-appeal due-process liberty-interest plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines | The Ninth Circuit dismissed Ms. Stoltz' criminal appeal due to an appellate waiver in the plea agreement. Ms. Stoltz argues that the appellate waiver … |
| 21-5173 | Vernon Montrell Webster v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-07-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | application-note attempt-offense auer-deference circuit-split controlled-substance-offense kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether this Court should resolve a Circuit Split and decide if a District Court's use of Application note 1 to U. S.S.G. § 4B1.2 is an improper ex… |
| 21-5186 | Mihran Melkonyan v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-07-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law auer-deference circuit-split deference federal-courts judicial-interpretation regulatory-interpretation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1.) Whether, as the Courts of Appeals for the Third' and Sixth² Circuits have held, in conflict with the decision below³ and decisions of the Fifth* a… |
| 21-5149 | Leobardo Barraza v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-07-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | eighth-amendment irreparable-corruption juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama plain-error sentencing-guidelines | In view of the foregoing, this petition presents this issue: Whether a federal court commits plain error by anchoring a sentence for a juvenile's cri… |
| 21-5163 | Gregory Scott Stephen v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-07-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography criminal-procedure eighth-circuit fourth-amendment government-agent private-citizen search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing-guidelines standing | 1. Was the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit's conclusion that a private citizen can never be established as a government agent ab… |
| 21-75 | Ojin Kim v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-07-21 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review criminal-procedure deprivation-of-liberty due-process liberty-deprivation methodology-challenge restitution restitution-order sentencing-guidelines | 1. In cases where the methodology to calculate the guidelines range for sentencing mirrors the methodology to calculate the restitution amount, if a c… |
| 21-5144 | Tye Lanford Sarratt v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-07-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 circuit-split collateral-review due-process johnson-claim johnson-v-united-states post-conviction-motion retroactivity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Does a post-conviction motion asserting the following claim—that a sentence violates due process under Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015… |
| 21-5146 | Antonio Dewayne Adams v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-07-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-guidelines circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment preponderance-of-the-evidence preponderance-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum | The Tenth Circuit's decision is in conflict with decisions from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The Tenth Circuit affirmed the district court's us… |
| 21-68 | Brendon Janis v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-07-19 | Denied | constitutional-delegation delegation-of-authority due-process probation-officer risk-notification sentencing-guidelines supervised-release vagueness vagueness-doctrine | 1. Does Standard Condition 12 unconstitutionally delegate authority to the probation officer? 2. Is Standard Condition 12 unconstitutionally vague? | |
| 21-5092 | Dawn J. Bennett v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-07-15 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fourth-circuit judicial-discretion presumption-of-reasonableness presumptive-reasonableness procedural-error sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review summary-reversal | Does a district court at sentencing apply an impermissible presumption of reasonableness to the Sentencing Guidelines range if it refers to the range … |
| 21-5098 | Hal Herring Brown, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-07-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver criminal-procedure fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel money-laundering plea-agreement plea-bargaining securities-fraud | WHETHER THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN DISMISSING THE PETITIONER'S MERITORIOUS APPEAL OF HIS CONVICTION FOR SECURI… |
| 21-5110 | Junior Jean Baptiste v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-07-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-U.S.C.-3553(a) advisory-guidelines appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion reasoned-decision sentencing sentencing-guidelines | The district court, on remand for resentencing after failing or iginally to permit allocution by petitioner, reimposed the original sentence witho ut … |
| 21-5111 | Joenell L. Rice v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-07-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit time-served | Question not identified. |
| 21-5122 | Juan Angel Velasquez-Canales v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-07-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion felony-enhancement guideline-interpretation immigration prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the district court erred in applying a six-level enhancement under Section 2L1.2(b)(2)(C) of the Sentencing Guidelines where Mr. Velasquez-Can… |
| 21-5099 | Thomas Javion Guerrant v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-07-14 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP | career-offender controlled-substance drug-trafficking federal-law predicate-offense sentencing-guidelines state-conviction | Does a state conviction for distribution of a substance not defined as a "controlled substance" by federal law qualify as a career offender predicate … |
| 21-5104 | John G. Tomes, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-07-14 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-3582 compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process extraordinary-circumstances judicial-discretion sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation | Whether "Extraordinary and Compelling Reasons" to Reduce a Defendant's Sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i) may be based on any Factor a Court … |
| 21-5077 | Herbert Jonathan Castillo Juarez and Paola Valenzuela Arevalo v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-07-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-crimes drug-type knowledge-requirement mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-2d1.1 | Whether the government is required to prove a defendant's mens rea and knowledge with respect to the requisite drug type for penalties under Title 21 … |
| 21-5071 | Gigi Fairchild Littlefield v. California | California | 2021-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights covid-19 criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation prison-reform prosecutorial-discretion sentencing-guidelines standing systemic-injustice | Question not identified. |
| 21-5044 | Ncholeion Kashana Hollie v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-07-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abduction abduction-definition change-in-location circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-sentencing robbery robbery-enhancement sentencing-guidelines ussg-2b3.1 | Under Section 2B3.1 (b)(4)(A) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines ("USSG"), courts apply a four-level increase to the offense level for Robbery… |
| 21-5046 | Ira Lee Wilkins v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-07-08 | GVR | IFP | crime-of-violence criminal-law reckless-conduct reckless-force sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review tenth-circuit violent-crime | Should this Court grant this petition, vacate the judgment below, and remand in order to allow the Tenth Circuit to determine in the first instance wh… |
| 21-5011 | Anthony Farmer v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-07-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553 abuse-of-discretion criminal-justice criminal-law federal-sentencing judicial-discretion public-confidence racial-disparities racial-disparity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether, under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(6), a district court can or should consider the need to avoid unwarranted racial disparities in sentencing among de… |
| 21-5014 | John Bruce Fifield, Jr. v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-07-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-history criminal-procedure judicial-notice plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review | Whether a court of appeals may consider judicially noticeable facts presented for the first time on appeal in deciding whether an error is plain? |
| 20-8469 | Lamont Benedict Nelson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-07-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1951 borden-standard borden-v-united-states crime-of-violence grant-vacate-remand hobbs-act sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review | Whether the Court should grant, vacate, and remand this case to permit the lower court to consider whether a conviction for Hobbs Act robbery under 18… |
| 20-8452 | Keith Lamar Lott, aka Kevin Moore v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-06-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1951 borden-standard borden-v-united-states crime-of-violence grant-vacate-remand hobbs-act sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review | Whether the Court should grant, vacate, and remand this case to permit the lower court to consider whether a conviction for Hobbs Act robbery under 18… |
| 20-8439 | Francisco Coto-Mendoza v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-review guideline-range judicial-discretion objection plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-arguments | Whether, after Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, __U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails t… |
| 20-1807 | Dontour D. Drakes v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | 18-usc-3582 18-usc-3582c2 amendment-782 career-offender criminal-sentencing retroactive-amendment sentencing-guidelines substantial-assistance united-states-v-hughes | 1. WHETHER A CAREER OFFENDER WHO PROVIDED SUBSTANTIAL ASSISTANCE WHOSE SENTENCING JUDGE-VARIED FROM THE INITIAL INTRODUCED CAREER OFFENDERS IS THE JUD… |
| 20-1808 | Adam E. Billings v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-06-28 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-booker united-states-v-roach | 1. Whether the Sentencing Guidelines §2D1.1 Application Note 4 violates procedural due process. 2. Whether the Eighth Circuit's decision in United St… |
| 20-8415 | Demario Deshawn Simpson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-06-25 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | count-specific-plea criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-criminal-procedure jurisdiction partial-guilty-plea plea-bargaining plea-entry sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | Whether a defendant has a right under the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure to enter a partial guilty plea (without a plea agreement or any plea bar… |
| 20-8416 | Raul Ramos v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-06-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process hearsay-evidence sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment united-states-v-haymond | Whether the district court's reliance on hearsay evidence to impose a guideline sentence of life violates Ramos's right to confront and cross-examine … |
| 20-8422 | Wayne Porter v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-06-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review conspiracy-conviction criminal-enterprise criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervisory-power | Whether the Fourt Circuit Court of Appeal's sanctioning of the district court's refusal to correct errors and omissions of facts from the Fourth Circu… |
| 20-8431 | Brandon Kendale Dudley v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-06-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-guidelines constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence-standard judicial-discretion preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether the use of the preponderance of the evidence standard at sentencing to substantially enhance a criminal defendant's advisory guideline range c… |
| 20-8395 | Luis Bernal-Villareal v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-06-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | average-participant criminal-procedure drug-importation lower-courts minor-role sentencing-guidelines ussg-3b1.2 ussg-analysis | Whether, in a drug importation offense, managers and supervisors of the offense should be considered "average participants" for purposes of a USSG § 3… |
| 20-8402 | Daniel Chica-Gutierrez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-06-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affirmative-defense collateral-attack criminal-procedure custis-rule federal-statutory-provision sentencing sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines state-court-conviction statutory-interpretation | Whether a federal court is permitted to consider an argument that a prior state-court conviction does not satisfy a relevant federal statutory provisi… |
| 20-8354 | Lewis Wesley Hickman, III v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-06-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process evidence-challenge felony-conviction judicial-review mandatory-minimum plea-bargaining sentencing-disparities sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines | why was my 3 points for accepting responsibility taken for a fight in jail. I Know I didnt say} "Cooperator"; I didnt Know him at all. why was I give… |
| 20-8383 | Franklin Antonio Rios v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-06-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-history criminal-history-category drug-conspiracy firearm-charges first-step-act fourth-amendment mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences offense-level sentencing-guidelines | I. WHETHER, AFTER THE PETITIONER PLED GUILTY TO A DRUG CONSPIRACY AND TWO FIREARM CHARGES UNDER 18 U.S.C. § 924(0), RESULTING IN MANDATORY MINIMUM SEN… |
| 20-8388 | Jonathan Aaron Leal v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-06-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver appellate-review due-process federal-sentencing illegal-sentence plea-agreement post-conviction-relief | Should an appeal waiver provision in a plea agreement bar appellate or post-conviction relief from an illegal federal sentence? |
| 20-8346 | Juan Anibal Patrone v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-06-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-922 criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error immigration-status rehaif rehaif-standard sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | First, whether the district court's violation of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019) — when it omitted the knowledge of immigration status… |
| 20-1732 | Thomas Bryant, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-06-15 | Denied | Amici (3) | circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-procedure district-court first-step-act policy-statement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether Section 1B1.13 of the United States Sentencing Guidelines is an "applicable" policy statement that binds a district court in considering a def… |
| 20-8282 | Anthony Herman Lucio v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-06-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process factual-findings findings judicial-discretion presentence-report sentencing-guidelines | WAS PRESENTENCE REPORT'S CALCULATIONS ON QUANTITY O'F DRUGS UNDER U.S. SENTENCING GUIDELINES MANUAL § 2D1.1 ATTRIBUTED TO DEFENDANT PROPER BASED ON FA… |
| 20-1728 | Rico Sanders v. Dylon Radtke, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2021-06-14 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing juvenile-status life-sentence mitigating-factor parole sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether this Court's Eighth Amendment precedent clearly establishes that a sentencing court must consider a defendant's juvenile status as a mitigatin… |
| 20-8238 | Martavis Hollis Samuel v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-06-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acca controlled-substance-offense criminal-law elonis florida-drug-statute mcfadden mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Is a post-2002 conviction for sale of marijuana or cocaine or for possession of cocaine with intent to sell in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a "con… |
| 20-8211 | Christian M. Allmendinger v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-06-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judicial-fact-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment witte-v-united-states | 1. Alleyne v. United States, 570 U.S. 99, 133 S. Ct. 2151 (2013), expressly overruled Harris v. United States, 536 U.S. 545 (2002), and at least impli… |
| 20-8213 | James Atwood v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-06-03 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law | Does the undefined term "controlled substance" in the federal Sentencing Guidelines mean substances controlled by federal law, the federal Controlled … |
| 20-8215 | Aaron Walton v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-06-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-law eighth-circuit guidelines inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals incorrectly found that an inchoate offense such as an attempt is included in the definition of a "controll… |
| 20-8197 | Samuel Earl Smith v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-06-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure defendant-role fifth-circuit leader-organizer leadership-enhancement sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guidelines | The Fifth Circuit's holding in finding that Mr. Smith was a leader or organizer under the United States Sentencing Guidelines evidences a circuit spli… |
| 20-8202 | Otis Hill v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-06-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split controlled-substance-offense crime-of-violence criminal-law eighth-circuit inchoate-offenses sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g-4b1.2 | Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals incorrectly found that inchoate offenses such as attempts and conspiracy are included in the definition of… |
| 20-8181 | Linwood Earl Stephens v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-06-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals appellate-jurisdiction clearly-erroneous-fact criminal-procedure due-process fact-finding fourth-circuit judicial-review jurisdiction sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review | Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals below erred in holding it did not have jurisdiction to review a decision to deny a departure under the Uni… |
| 20-8182 | Gilbert Sanchez v. Texas | Texas | 2021-06-01 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-guidelines | QUESTION NUMBER ONE The trial court judge in this case states unequivocally that she misdirected the jury as to the law in this case that changed Peti… |
| 20-8146 | Edward Lee Smith v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-05-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | compulsory district-court district-court-interpretation judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-booker | Whether the District Court committed significant procedureal error when it mistakenly interpreted section 7B1.3(f) of the United States Sentencing Gui… |
| 20-8111 | Taariq Kaaleeq Jackson-Bey v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-05-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing felon-in-possession guilty-plea henderson-v-united-states judicial-review liberty-review notice post-conviction-relief | Question not identified. |
| 20-8084 | Gregory Brown v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-05-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law federal-courts federal-procedure mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether 28 U.S.C. § 994(h)(2)(B) and the definition of a "controlled substance offense" in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) require that a defendant's prior offens… |
| 20-8077 | Kavoris Clayton v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-05-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-offense mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the drug conduct in the "controlled substance offense" definition in U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 4B1.2(b) requires knowledge of the illicit na… |
| 20-8047 | Cornelius R. Caple v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-05-17 | Denied | IFP | acca assault career-offender controlled-substance criminal-law elements-clause mens-rea sentencing-guidelines | I. Whether the drug conduct in the "controlled substance offense" definition in U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 4B1.2(b) requires knowledge of the illicit… |
| 20-8019 | Roberto Torner v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-05-13 | Denied | IFP | aggravated-assault crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process equal-protection new-jersey-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether a New Jersey conviction for Aggravated Assault, pursuant to N.J.S.A. 2C:12-1(b)(1), is a crime of violence for sentencing guideline purposes. |
| 20-8020 | Charleston Pierre Wiggins v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-05-13 | Denied | IFP | categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance-offense drug-distribution guideline-commentary sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation USSG-4B1.2(b) | I Whether an offense-matching categorical approach applies to the determination of a "controlled substance offense" under the USSG § 4B1.2(b)? II Whe… |
| 20-8021 | Jason Scott Pedro v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-05-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-sentencing guidelines harmless-error procedural-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review statutory-maximum | Can a significant procedural error be deemed harmless when the sentencing judge uses the statutory maximum as the baseline for imposition of sentence? |
| 20-7972 | Gregory L. Roberson, Charles Matthews, and Dorothy Robinson v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-05-11 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split crack-cocaine fair-sentencing-act first-step-act retroactivity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-penalties | Does the term "covered offense" in the First Step Act include violations of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a) involving crack cocaine to which apply the penalties in… |
| 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 above-guideline-range sentences much more frequently than their peers i… |
| 20-1565 | Michael Ryan Mitchan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-05-11 | Denied | Response Waived | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines | 1. Should defendants in criminal cases be permitted to confront witnesses against them at sentencing when their uncorroborated hearsay statements are … |
| 20-7961 | Antonio Olmeda v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-05-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | consecutive-sentences consecutive-sentencing criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process firearm-possession jury-determination jury-trial multiplicitous-conviction sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether a Judgment and Conviction oh two counts, § 2K2.1.(a)., for unlawful "receipt", of a firearm and "Possession" of that firearm is multiplicitou… |
| 20-7936 | Jose Oribel Ponce-Ulloa v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-05-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-courts federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines temporal-connection ussg-2d1.1 weapon-possession | The question presented which has divided federal courts of appeal is whether a sentencing court can add two offense levels for possession of a weapon … |
| 20-7912 | Jorge Gomez-Gomez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-05-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness | Whether the court of appeals erred by concluding that Petitioner's 99-month sentence was substantively reasonable. |
| 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… |
| 20-7856 | Dennis Ayala v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-04-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review court-of-appeals district-court drug-quantity harmless-error judicial-discretion molina-martinez preponderance-standard sentencing-guidelines | Whether the Court of Appeals erred when it held, contrary to this Court's holding in Molina-Martinez, that any error in the District Court's choice be… |
| 20-7797 | Jorge Luis Rosa-Hernandez v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-04-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-decision due-process equal-protection sentencing sentencing-guidelines third-circuit unrelated-misconduct | Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's Decision in allowing the Government to use unrelated, uncharged mis… |
| 20-7803 | Jonathan S. Hall v. Delaware | Delaware | 2021-04-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines standing supreme-court-review takings | All Federal and State laws are predicated on the Constitution. If laws are unconstitutional or illegal they are void. If sentenced under said law is s… |
| 20-7742 | Deandre Joseph Warren v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-04-14 | Denied | IFP | administrative-law controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense guideline-commentary inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses precursor-offense precursor-offenses sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | (1) Whether the United States Sentencing Commission exceeded its authority by adding inchoate and precursor offenses to the definition of "controlled … |
| 20-7715 | In Re Richard DeCaro | 2021-04-12 | Dismissed | Relisted (2)IFP | double-jeopardy ex-post-facto federal-statute first-degree-murder ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-life second-degree-murder sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | 1. Whether the Ex Post Facto Clause is violated where petitioner was sentenced to the amended statute, first degree murder, mandatory life, rather tha… | |
| 20-7702 | Covia Dzell Smith v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-04-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-errors fair-trial fourth-circuit-review ineffective-assistance right-to-present-defense sentencing sentencing-guidelines | I. Whether trial counsel's ineffective assistance deprived Mr. Smith of the right to offer evidence in his defense. II. Whether the district court's … |
| 20-7705 | Marco Antonio Serrano v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-04-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-waiver career-offender district-court-error due-process mandatory-application plea-agreement sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | 1. Can a plea agreement that includes an appellate waiver lawfully deprive a defendant of his right to appeal a sentence that was based on the distric… |
| 20-7708 | Jose Noe Castro Orellana v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-04-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process fact-finding plain-error-review procedural-error sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights | The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that Mr. Castro Orellana could not show an effect on his substantial rights on plain-error review even though … |
| 20-7656 | James Robert Monson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-04-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver constitutional-rights due-process fundamental-rights intentional-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing united-states-attorney | 1. Whether the United States Attorney Offices' standard appeal waiver violates due process of law where, subsequent to the defendant signing the waive… |
| 20-7667 | Troy Kendrick, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-04-06 | Denied | IFP | 5th-circuit falsified-evidence franks-standard franks-v-delaware judicial-review law-enforcement-misconduct probable-cause sentencing-guidelines wiretap wiretap-evidence | (1) When a law enforcement agent falsifies and misrepresents wiretap evidence to establish probable cause for a second wiretap, can a reviewing court … |
| 20-7655 | Lisa Bershan v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-04-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure downward-departure judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines variances | Should this Court should grant certiorari in order to resolve the following conflict among the circuits: Is a sentencing judge required specifically t… |
| 20-7580 | Trinidad Jesus Garcia v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-03-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing individualized-circumstances judicial-discretion plain-error reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines | whether Formal objection after pronouncement of Sentence is necessary to invoke appellate review of Sentence (Ground Four) and Sentence Prejudice the … |
| 20-7547 | Saloman Martinez v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-03-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-discretion kentucky-law sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment standard-of-proof supreme-court-precedent | "VVvc G?ccoA * DecetuVi-er 11, Z02 -0 •\Vv£. uvu-V^A sAaFtS C^sAcnIcA' GoOfAr Qa^ senA-e/vc-e\A} WArWfC q^aOoa. roVi»Mj -\ o cx^<^■c \W, £ajz>\rec<\ O… |
| 20-7543 | Victor Real-Alomar, aka Toston v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-03-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appeal-waiver burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure first-amendment ninth-amendment plea-agreement plea-bargaining pretrial-detainee waiver | A. Whether a criminal defendant must raise the issue of nonapplicability of a waiver of appeal in his opening brief or whether it falls upon the gover… |
| 20-7522 | Joshua R. Jones v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-03-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 28-usc-2255 career-offender criminal-sentencing johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines void-for-vagueness | I. Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidel… |
| 20-7533 | Preston James v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-03-23 | Denied | IFP | career-offender career-offender-guideline controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense guideline-commentary inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether it is a misapplication of the Sentencing Guidelines for a sentencing court to defer to guideline commentary that expands the definition of a c… |
| 20-7492 | Justice Towan Roundtree v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-03-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alternative-sentence appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court-discretion guidelines harmless-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether a Guidelines error is harmless when the district judge issues an alternative sentence by stating that she would impose the same sentence even … |
| 20-7473 | Ivan Dario Obregon v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-03-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error plea-agreement sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines | Are unforeseeable sentencing mistakes beyond the scope of federal appeal waivers? |
| 20-7474 | Ezralee J. Kelley v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-17 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | as four circuits hold as three circuits hold or whether a resentencing court must correct a Gu career-offender circuit-split fair-sentencing-act first-step-act judicial-interpretation resentencing sentencing-guidelines | Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018 permits district courts to "impose a reduced sentence" on defendants who committed offenses for which the… |
| 20-7475 | Corry Jessie v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-03-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conviction enhancement extraneous-offense felony relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines | I. Did the district court err when it applied a 4- level enhancement for "in connection with another felony offense" based on a finding that a prior, … |
| 20-7465 | Johnny Andres Asuncion, III v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | carachuri-rosendo-v-holder criminal-sentencing felony-drug-offense mandatory-minimum ninth-circuit-precedent predicate-offense recidivism sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | The District Court Judge sentenced the Petitioner to life in prison for Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine , 21 U.S.C. Sect. 841(a)(… |
| 20-7439 | Michael Luis Suarez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924(c) actual-innocence categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process plea-bargaining predicate-offense procedural-default sentencing-guidelines statutory-enhancement | Whether a defendant may be enhanced under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) where he entered a plea of guilty to an offense that no longer qualifies as a predicate o… |
| 20-7446 | Juan Luis Rivera Arreola v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split co-defendant-liability criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-offense federal-sentencing-guidelines firearm-enhancement reasonable-foreseeability sentencing-guidelines tools-of-the-trade U.S.S.G.-2D1.1(b)(1) | In order to warra nt a two-level enhance ment for possession of a fir earm, pursuant to U.S .S.G. § 2D1.1 (b)(1), is it suffic ient to simply label fi… |
| 20-7387 | Vaughn Lewis v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-03-09 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | agency-deference career-offender controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense deference inchoate-offenses sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation | When "controlled substance offense" is defined in the text of the Career Offender Guideline, U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b), whether the commentary can add consp… |
| 20-7327 | Timothy A. Ward v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-03-05 | Denied | IFP | career-offender categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law federal-guidelines federal-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-drug-schedules state-law | Under the provisions of the career offender enhancement in the United States Sentencing Guidelines, guideline ranges are dramatically increased for pe… |
| 20-7277 | Niles O'Neil v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-03-03 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-review controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | I. Whether the Court of Appeals erred in holding that the U.S. Sentencing Commission acted within its authority by its commentary to $ U.S. Sentencing… |
| 20-7296 | Dane Schrank v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-03-02 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | appellate-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum oral-argument reasoned-decision sentencing-guidelines standing | I. Must Circuit Courts provide reasoned decisions to deny parties oral argument under Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 34(a)(2)? II. Does a policy… |
| 20-7276 | Russell Lawayne Montague v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-03-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance criminal-procedure due-process protective-order sentencing-disparities sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review supervised-release | 1) Whether the district court ordered an unreasonably long 114-month prison sentence. 2) Whether the district court erred by finding Mr. Montague gui… |
| 20-7285 | Cedric Durand Collins v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-03-01 | Denied | IFP | controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law drug-offense due-process knowledge-requirement mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the drug conduct in the "controlled substance offense" definition in U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 4B1.2(b) requires knowledge of the illicit na… |
| 20-7287 | Viguens Cius v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-03-01 | Denied | IFP | controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law drug-offense due-process knowledge-requirement mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the drug conduct in the "controlled substance offense" definition in U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 4B1.2(b) requires knowledge of the illicit na… |
| 20-7246 | Renaldo Demarquis Metcalf v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-02-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender criminal-history judicial-doctrine legal-departure sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines sentencing-process | Does the use of the "de facto career offender" doctrine distort the sentencing process and lead to unwarranted sentencing disparity? |
| 20-1187 | Leon Carmichael, Sr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-02-25 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-rights contemporaneous-evidence criminal-procedure due-process hill-v-lockhart ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prejudice-test sentencing-guidelines | Question One: What additional objective and evidentiary evidence is required to satisfy "the prejudice test" that this Court articulated in "Missouri … |
| 20-7215 | Sunni Askari Newell v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-02-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment eighth-circuit federal-sentencing firearms firearms-possession sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | WHETHER THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT HAS MISCONSTRUED U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(b)(6)(B), CONTRARY TO EVERY OTHER CIRCUIT, RESULTING IN DEFENDANTS CONVICTED OF FIREARMS … |
| 20-7218 | Crystal Zuniga v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-02-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-856 congressional-intent double-counting drug-involved-premise drug-sentencing fair-sentencing-act precedent sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether Congress intended The Fair Sentencing Act to more severely punish persons sentenced under 21 U.S.C. §856 in what is a departure from over 20 y… |
| 20-7190 | Erik Sanchez v. Terry Jacques, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2021-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause consecutive-sentences constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-review judicial-discretion plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-guidelines | IN ORCDER FOR THE SENTENCING COURT TO DEPART FROM THE CONCURCENT SENTENCES REQUIREMENT IN .R.S. S18-1-HOB(3) DOES COOVECNMENT MUST ENTER FACTUAL BASIS… |
| 20-7206 | Pedro Gonzalez-Mendoza v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2015-amendment criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion extraneous-factors mitigating-role sentencing-adjustment sentencing-guidelines u-s-sentencing-commission unrelated-cases | DID THE DISTRICT COURT ERR BY FINDING THAT MR. GONZALEZ-MENDOZA WAS NOT ELIGIBLE FOR A MITIGATING ROLE ADJUSTMENT PURSUANT TO U.S.S.G. §3B1.2? DID TH… |
| 20-7168 | Loren Joel McReynolds v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appellate-review base-offense-level criminal-procedure firearms-offense reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review ussg-2k2.1 | I. Whether The Court's Calculation Of McReynolds' Base Offense Level Was Erroneous? II. Whether The Court Erred In Denying A Reduction In The Offense… |
| 20-7186 | Brian Dale Lee v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-02-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5k2.1-motion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court fourth-circuit judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether the Fourth Circuit court erred in finding that the district court's consideration of conduct raised in a 5k2.1 motion was appropriate? |
| 20-7172 | Dakota Manucy Constantin v. Florida | Florida | 2021-02-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-guidelines criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment uncharged-conduct | WAS CONSTANTIN DENIED DUE PROCESS WHEN THE SENTENCING COURT RELIED UPON UNCHARGED CONDUCT IN IMPOSING A SENTENCE IN EXCESS OF THAT RECOMMENDED BY THE … |
| 20-7138 | Patrick Begay v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-02-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553 aggravated-assault criminal-procedure federal-sentencing guidelines judicial-discretion native-american native-american-defendants sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission | In carrying out the mandate of 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) to impose a sentence that is "sufficient but not greater than necessary on a defendant," may a dist… |
| 20-7121 | Georges Michel v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-02-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey drug-quantity due-process jury-trial sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-maximum | Whether the Court of Appeals erred, reversibly, in affirming the district court's decision—making a drug quantity determination, after the Remand—wher… |
| 20-7099 | Brandon Lamonte Sorenson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-10 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | constitutional-interpretation controlled-substance-offense inchoate-offenses promulgation-of-guidelines sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction | Whether enabling the commentary to U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) to expand the guideline definition of "controlled substance offense" to add inchoate offenses n… |
| 20-7101 | Anthony Jerome Billings, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-02-10 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review circuit-split controlled-substance-offense crime-of-violence Eleventh-Circuit florida-statute mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | I. Is a conviction for sale of cocaine in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a "controlled substance offense" as defined in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) if, acco… |
| 20-7109 | Raul Flores-Villalvaso v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process illegal-reentry mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines specific-intent | Whether the 8 U.S.C. § 1326 Attempted Illegal Reentry mens rea element of "specific intent" can be restated as simply "a conscious desire" with no ref… |
| 20-1095 | Darius Wayne Haws v. Idaho | Idaho | 2021-02-10 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | appeal-waiver appellate-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea plea-agreement | Whether a criminal defendant's purported waiver of the right to appeal in a plea agreement is knowing, intelligent, and voluntary—as required by the D… |
| 20-7069 | Martell Roberts v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-02-08 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | administrative-law controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense guideline-commentary inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses precursor-offense precursor-offenses sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | (1) Whether the United States Sentencing Commission exceeded its authority by adding inchoate and precursor offenses to the definition of "controlled … |
| 20-7085 | Thomas Hoey, Jr. v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-02-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attorney-client-privilege conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process harsher-punishment plain-text precedents sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines | 1-Should lower courts be permitted to interpret the plain text and meaning of sentencing commission's provisions to inflict harsher punishment upon pe… |
| 20-7037 | Elias Junior Rodriguez v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-02-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5K1.1-motion appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing downward-variance government-motion judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines U.S.S.G.-5K1.1 | 1. DOES A COURT VIOLATE THIS COURT'S HOLDING IN GALL v. UNITED STATES, 552 U.S. 38 (2007) BY FAILING TO ADEQUATELY EXPLAIN TO WHAT EXTENT THE COURT'S … |
| 20-1062 | Chad Bennett v. Washington | Washington | 2021-02-04 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 14th-amendment aggravating-factors constitutional-challenge due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-finding jury-findings sentencing-guidelines vagueness | In a state with mandatory sentencing guidelines, where a judge may not sentence a defendant above the guidelines range unless the jury finds an aggrav… |
| 20-7018 | Lawrence Westbrook, III v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-02-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion enhancement firearm-enhancement firearms sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guidelines | I. Whether the district court erred by applying a six-level enhancement pursuant to USSG § 2K2.1(b)(1)(C). II. Whether the district court erred by ap… |
| 20-7020 | Richie Wheeler v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-02-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bodily-injury criminal-law criminal-statute deadly-weapon intent jury-finding law-enforcement reckless-driving sentencing sentencing-guidelines | 1. Whether to be guilty of a violation of 18 U.S.C. §111(b), which requires the use of a deadly weapon while forcibly assaulting, resisting, opposing,… |
| 20-7032 | Salvador Delrio v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | courier courier-status criminal-procedure due-process mitigating-role sentencing sentencing-guidelines speculative-inference speculative-inferences u.s.s.g.-3b1.2 | 1. What weight should a court give to a defendant's essential role as a mere courier when determining a mitigating-role adjustment? 2. Does a distric… |
| 20-7033 | Otto Edward Christofferson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-02-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-sentencing drug-offenses evidence judicial-review mandatory-minimums sentencing-guidelines | Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit")–which affirmed the significant increase of the base… |
| 20-7010 | Israel Santiago-Lugo v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-02-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | ambiguity amendment-782 criminal-procedure federal-rules forfeiture molina-martinez-v-us peugh-v-us rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines | 1) WHETHER THE SENTENCE WAS IMPOSED UNDER U.S.S.G. §2Dl.l(c) TO ESTABLISH THE BASE OFFENSE, THE GUIDELINES ARE IN REAL SENSE THE BASIC FOR THE SENTEN… |
| 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. |
| 20-7006 | Jacquere Doran, aka Jacare Gorman v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | base-offense-level controlled-substance criminal-sentencing district-court-error enhancement felony-conviction felony-enhancement marijuana-conviction prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines | Did the District Court err in treating Mr. Doran's prior California conviction for sale of marijuana as a felony conviction and using it to enhance hi… |
| 20-6973 | Tommy Demond Fannin v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | assault criminal-procedure cross-reference district-court due-process fifth-circuit firearm-possession sentencing-guidelines | I. Did the district court err when it imposed a cross-reference under U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Manual § 2K2.1(c)(1) without a connection between the… |
| 20-6985 | Zongli Chang v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-waiver constitutional-rights due-process fines plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-maximum | In a plea agreement that was tied to a fine guideline range, the Petitioner was never told his "maximal possible penalty" in terms of fine and forfeit… |
| 20-6988 | Antwone Lamont Creater v. Illinois | Illinois | 2021-01-28 | Denied | IFP | aggravating-factors appellate-review criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion mitigating-factors sentencing-guidelines | This case presents an excellent vehicle for this Court to resolve a growing conflict in the Illinois Appellate Courts: Whether the seriousness of the … |
| 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… |
| 20-6921 | Elier Isai Marquez-Gonzalez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure empirical-basis fifth-circuit illegal-reentry presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines | Whether a presumption of reasonableness on appeal does not apply to a sentence produced by the illegal reentry guideline, §2L1.2, because that guideli… |
| 20-6931 | Christopher Shawn Landreneau v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-26 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether a district court may, consistent with the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment and Rule 32 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, re… |
| 20-6933 | Seledonio Martinez v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-01-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-standard totality-of-the-circumstances | Where the totality of the circumstances of this case do not support a top-of-the-Guidelines sentence, whether the 46-month sentence is reasonable. |
| 20-6953 | Dwyne Byron Deruise, aka Duke v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-01-26 | Denied | IFP | career-offender circuit-split criminal-justice-reform discretion discretionary-review first-step-act resentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether a district court that chooses to conduct a resentencing under § 404 of the First Step Act is prohibited from considering a defendant's current… |
| 20-6910 | El-Asad Alsaedi v. Florida | Florida | 2021-01-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum sentencing-authority sentencing-guidelines standing statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. |
| 20-6894 | Macho Joe Williams v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-01-14 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-interpretation criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines | DiD The Trial court Abuse Its Disctetion when He Denied Apellant's Motions To Sever a. Dig The Trial couwst commit Reversible Ervor when He faile To … |
| 20-6854 | Jose Armando Bazan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-sentencing fact-question plain-error-review role-adjustment sentencing-guidelines | Whether the Fifth Circuit properly applied plain error review in rejecting Petitioner's argument that he should have received a minor or mitigating ro… |
| 20-6870 | Antonio Harris v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-01-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crack-cocaine criminal-justice-reform first-step-act judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums retroactive-sentencing sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines | Can federal judges ignore the current United States Sentencing Guidelines calculation when considering whether to reduce a sentence for a "covered off… |
| 20-6837 | Jacob Ray Owens v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-12 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure drug-crimes fact-finding judicial-fact-finding methamphetamine-distribution plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | Petitioner pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine. He admitted to the district court only to possession of … |
| 20-6832 | Shannon Keith Harris v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-11 | Denied | IFP | cocaine-sentencing criminal-sentencing drug-trafficking fair-sentencing-act first-step-act mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums resentencing retroactivity sentencing-guidelines | When deciding whether to impose a reduced sentence under Section 404 of the First Step Act, are district courts required to apply the current, legally… |
| 20-6811 | Jesus Eder Moreno Ornelas v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-01-08 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | attempted-murder due-process felon-in-possession firearms jury plain-error-review rehaif-standard sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | A. The government failed to overcome the presumption of innocence when the jury could not reach a verdict on an attempted murder count. Did it violate… |
| 20-6789 | Lilia Abril Olmedo-Perez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administration-of-justice appellate-review criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-law fifth-circuit minor-role sentencing-guidelines | Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law when it conducted a cursory review of the facts related to a warranted two-level adjustment under U.S.S… |
| 20-6807 | Jamal Clinton, aka Moreless v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-01-08 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | bostock-precedent bostock-v-clayton-county career-offender career-offender-guideline controlled-substance-offense drug-conspiracy fair-and-not-arbitrary sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation title-18-usc-3553a6 | 1. Whether sentencing courts are required by Title 18, United States Code section 3553(a)(6) and Supreme Court precedent interpreting unambiguous stat… |
| 20-6777 | James Baxton v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-01-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-evidence criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidence fourth-circuit rico rico-conspiracy sentencing sentencing-guidelines | I. Whether the Government produced sufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the Petitioner's actions were part of a Rico Conspiracy… |
| 20-6783 | Jaelon David Harris v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abduction administration-of-justice circuit-split federal-criminal-procedure federal-sentencing-guidelines location-definition room-or-area sentencing-guidelines victim-movement | I. Whether the forced movement of victims from one room or area to another room or area within the same building constitutes an abduction for purposes… |
| 20-6754 | Alford Donta Tarpley v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-04 | Denied | IFP | borden-v-united-states burris-v-united-states crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-sentencing precedent robbery sentencing sentencing-guidelines texas-law ussg-4b1.2 | Whether the Texas offense of robbery by injury constitutes a "crime of violence" under USSG §4B1.2? |
| 20-6759 | Bernard Weiters, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-01-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 3582(c)(2) criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing first-step-act resentencing section-404(b) sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-mandatory-minimum statutory-maximum | Whether the Court Committed error by declining to resentence the petitioner under Section 3582 of the First Step Act, when the Court earlier reduced t… |
| 20-6745 | Demetrius Elishakim Jefferson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-12-31 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-3742 404b-evidence attempt-offenses auer-deference circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-procedure expert-testimony sentencing-guidelines | 1. Whether this Court should resolve a Split among the Circuit s and find a District Court's use of Application note 1 to U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2, which purp… |
| 20-6724 | Kaseem Alexander v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-12-30 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment abuse-of-discretion civil-rights criminal-procedure downward-variance due-process gun-range property-rights search-and-seizure sentencing-guidelines standing target-shooting | Issue 1: Whether the appellate court erred in affirming the District Court's abuse of discretion in overruling petitioner's objection to the Presenten… |
| 20-6726 | Jamie Betances v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-12-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure factual-objections guilty-plea legal-arguments plea-agreement sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | Did the lower court err in denying Jamie Betances acceptance of responsibility, under U.S.S.G. § 3E1.1, after Mr. Betances pleaded guilty, accepted th… |
| 20-6702 | Tomas Moreno-Turrubiates v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553 appellate-review mitigation-arguments plain-error-review procedural-reasonableness procedural-unreasonableness sentence-explanation sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights | 1. Whether, when a defendant presents nonfrivolous mitigation arguments in favor of a lower sentence, a district court must address those arguments as… |
| 20-836 | Marcus Broadway v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-12-22 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (2) | agency-deference due-process judicial-interpretation kisor-v-wilkie rule-of-lenity sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines stinson-deference | (1) Do courts owe deference to the Sentencing Commission's commentary when it expands the scope of the Sentencing Guidelines? (2) Do the rule of leni… |
| 20-830 | Washington v. Said Omer Ali | Washington | 2020-12-21 | Denied | Amici (3) | 8th-amendment criminal-procedure eighth-amendment graham-v-florida individual-proportionality juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama proportionality-determination sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent | Whether Graham and Miller require an individual proportionality determination before imposing any sentence on a juvenile offender convicted in adult c… |
| 20-831 | Washington v. Endy Domingo-Cornelio | Washington | 2020-12-21 | Denied | Amici (3) | 8th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment graham-v-florida individual-proportionality juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama proportionality-review sentencing-guidelines | Whether Graham and Miller require an individual proportionality determination before imposing any sentence on a juvenile offender convicted in adult c… |
| 20-833 | William Todd Coontz v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-12-21 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-procedure criminal-tax-prosecution expert-testimony expert-witness-exclusion foundation sentencing-guidelines state-of-mind tax-knowledge tax-prosecution willfulness willfulness-standard witness-testimony | Was it reversable error for the trial court to exclude the Petitioner's/ Coontz's key witness – the CPA expert – from testifying in a criminal tax pro… |
| 20-6668 | Christopher Zamarripa v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-21 | Denied | IFP | ambiguity appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-interpretation plea-bargaining plea-colloquy procedural-ambiguity | Does a district court's mischaracterization, during the plea colloquy, of an appeal waiver create an ambiguity that must be construed against the gove… |
| 20-6674 | Tony Chevallier v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-12-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-acts criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process judicial-discretion jury-conviction sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines statutory-range uncharged-conduct | I. When are trial judges prohibited from considering as sentencing factors criminal acts that a defendant was neither charged nor convicted of? And in… |
| 20-6657 | Ezer Rosembel Barrientos-Osorio v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutes plain error affecting substantial rig for a defendant likely to be deported criminal-procedure deportation plain-error sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights supervised-release | Where a district court commits plain error by failing to follow Section 5D1.1(c) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines by imposing, without expla… |
| 20-6631 | Aaron Sebastian Redmond v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-sentencing constitutional-law district-court-discretion due-process federal-sentencing fifth-circuit guidelines-error harmless-error sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines | The Fifth Circuit agreed with Mr. Redmond that the district court erred when it applied the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, which resulted in a higher adv… |
| 20-6596 | Kevin S. Abney v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-12-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal due-process legislative-history rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | Whether the legislative history dealing with 18 USC § 924(e)(1) supports all the lower courts' rulings concerning offenses committed on different occa… |
| 20-6590 | Jimmy Pike v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review clear-error conspiracy criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy methamphetamine mitigating-role sentencing-guidelines | A district court's guidelines calculatio ns are reviewed for clear error. Did the court of appeals err in holding that the district court's guidelines… |
| 20-6571 | Antonio W. Smith v. M. Brecken, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2020-12-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 career-offender habeas-corpus judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum miscarriage-of-justice sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Did the Fourth Circuit Appeals Court err by not hearing Petitioner's 28 U.S.C. §2241 petition on the merits where his misclassification as a career of… |
| 20-6517 | Elvis Basic v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-12-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure drug-quantity federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review | 1. Whether a federal district court must use the "err on the side of caution" principle when approximating the drug quantity? |
| 20-6516 | Eric Dynell McGadney v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit judicial-discretion molina-martinez per-se-rule prejudice prejudicial-error sentencing-error sentencing-framework sentencing-guidelines | Whether a sentencing court's statement that it would have imposed the same sentence regardless of the Guidelines creates a per se rule that a miscalcu… |
| 20-6521 | Hector Valdez v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver appellate-review criminal-procedure first-step-act retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation waiver-of-rights | If a defendant waives the right to appeal a sentence and the waiver takes place before the passage of the First Step Act and the defendant is sentence… |
| 20-6529 | Wesley Wayne Wakeford v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2d1.1(b)(5) circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense drug-offenses methamphetamine-importation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | This Court should grant this petition to interpret Sentencing Guide-lines section 2D1.1(b)(5). What an "offense that involved the importa-tion" of met… |
| 20-6508 | Jesse Harris v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law drug-offense methamphetamine scienter sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Section 2D1.1(b)(5) of the United State s Sentencing Guidelines provides that "[i]f (A) the offense involve d the importation of ... metham phetam ine… |
| 20-6478 | Barry Addison Gray v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-11-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-U.S.C.-§-2255 career-offender career-offender-sentencing-guideline due-process johnson-ruling Johnson-v-United-States residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines vagueness | I. Are 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motions raising due process vagueness challenges to fixed sentences imposed through application of the pre-2005 mandatory care… |
| 20-6465 | Damontaze Montrell Tillery v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-11-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | convicted-felon criminal-evidence criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process firearm-possession motion-for-acquittal sentencing sentencing-guidelines sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's decision to overrule Petitioner's motion for acquittal when the evidence at trial… |
| 20-6436 | Daniel Lovato v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-11-25 | Denied | Amici (2)Relisted (2)IFP | administrative-law commission-commentary crime-of-violence guideline-interpretation judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie seminole-rock-deference sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether courts may defer to Sentencing Commission commentary without first determining that the underlying Guideline is genuinely ambiguous. 2. Wh… |
| 20-6437 | Tommy Pena v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-11-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review upward-variance | Mr. Peña's 360-month sentence was an upward variance of 222 months, or 160%, from the high end of the total advisory guideline range of 123-138 months… |
| 20-6409 | Hugo Humberto Perez Rangel v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-24 | Denied | IFP | advisory-opinions appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-sentencing guideline-error harmless-error incentive-to-object judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines | Whether Guideline error is necessarily harmless if the district court is presented with the Guideline range later vindicated on appeal and disclaims a… |
| 20-6412 | Robert St. Hilaire v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-11-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing firearm-possession sentencing-guidelines serial-number serial-number-alteration statutory-interpretation | Whether the Second Circuit, which noted it was deepening a split over the meaning of U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(b)(4)(B), properly construed that Guideline's 4-… |
| 20-6426 | Jose Farias-Valdovinos v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-11-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver criminal-procedure factual-basis mens-rea plea-bargaining plea-colloquy rule-11 specific-intent specific-intent-crime | Whether the district court's omission of an independent inquiry into a defendant's mens rea during the Rule 11 plea colloquy for a specific intent cri… |
| 20-6402 | Eric Treantos v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-11-23 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review booker-standard booker-v-united-states criminal-appeal criminal-sentencing first-circuit-court-of-appeals gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-eric-treantos | 1. Does the First Circuit Court of Appeals' decision in petitioner's case conflict with this Court's decisions in Booker v. United States, 543 U.S. 22… |
| 20-6399 | Duwayne Jones v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-11-20 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | career-offender controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense eleventh-circuit fifth-circuit florida-statute-§-893.13 mens-rea second-circuit sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-§-4b1.2(b) | Is a post-2002 conviction for possession of cocaine with intent to deliver or sell, in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13, a "controlled substance offen… |
| 20-6382 | Randall Allen Eplion, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-practice plea-agreement sentencing standing waiver | Whether a provision in a plea agreement which bars the defendant from appealing "the right to seek appellate review of . . . any sentence of imprisonm… |
| 20-6376 | Sean Jason Harstine v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-11-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | age-of-defendant appeal breaking-and-entering criminal-history due-process juvenile-offender juvenile-offenses point-calculation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | I. WHETHER IT WAS ERROR TO COUNT CRIMINAL HISTORY POINTS FOR FOUR 2004 BREAKING AND ENTERING (B&E) CONVITIONS WHEN THE DEFENDANT WAS ONLY 17 YEARS OLD… |
| 20-6330 | Benjamin Macias v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-11-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-defense criminal-procedure defendant-autonomy due-process mccoy-v-louisiana reckless-endangerment sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment speedy-trial | 1. In McCoy v. Louisiana , 138 S.Ct. 1500, 1511, 200 L.Ed. 821 (2018) the court held that the Sixth Amendment guarantees a criminal defendant the righ… |
| 20-6356 | Ryan Dennis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-17 | Denied | IFP | acca criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus physical-force reckless-injury residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines subject-matter-jurisdiction | 1. Whether an offense that can be committed by recklessly causing serious injury has "the use of physical force against the person of another" as an e… |
| 20-6335 | Duane Allen Sikes v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-11-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment uncharged-conduct | The question presented by this case is whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments preclude a district court from increasing a defendant's sentence based o… |
| 20-6336 | Eric Troy Snell v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-11-16 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing fourth-circuit gall-standard gall-v-united-states harmless-error harmlessness-standard sentencing-guidelines | 1. Does the Fourth Circuit's practice of not addressing erroneous Sentencing Guidelines calculations but affirming a sentence under "assumed error har… |
| 20-6281 | Kevin Lamar Ratliff v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-11-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | amendment-782 career-offender criminal-law criminal-procedure discretion federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines guideline-amendment judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Lower Courts have discretion to reduce Whether the Petitioner's sentence under U.S.S. Guideline Amendment 782, regardless of Petitioner's career offen… |
| 20-6282 | Darius Tirrell Thomas v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-11-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation u.s.-code | Whether, the Trial Court Erred in Finding the Defendant to Be a "Career Offender" and Sentencing Him Accordingly? |
| 20-6290 | Orlando Sanchez v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-11-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act career-offender constitutional-vagueness johnson-v-united-states postconviction-motion residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether a postconviction motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, challenging a sentence imposed under the pre-2005 mandatory version of the Sentencing Guidelin… |
| 20-6291 | Christopher Stacy v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-11-12 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure felon-in-possession firearm-statute guilty-plea mens-rea plain-error plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether a defendant who pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1) and 924(a), is automatically entitle… |
| 20-6274 | Fernando Juarez, aka Fernando Perez-Juarez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553a appellate-review criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing judicial-discretion overarching-goal presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-standard rita-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the presumption of reasonableness for within-guidelines sentences approved in Rita v. United States, 551 U.S. 338 (2007) has proved incompatib… |
| 20-6255 | John Dubor v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-review loss-calculation medicare-fraud restitution restitution-award sentencing-guidelines | Did the Fifth Circuit's cursory review of the district court's record lead to an illegal, unreasonable sentence. Because the application of the senten… |
| 20-6240 | Kyle Brandon Richards v. Kristopher Taskila, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2020-11-06 | Denied | IFP | aspergers-syndrome cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process mental-health self-representation sentencing-guidelines sentencing-proportionality | (1) MR RICHARDS WAS DEPRIVED OF HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS TO SELF REPRESENTATION BY THE TRIAL COURTS SUMMARY DENIAL OF HIS TIMELY REQUEST TO GO PRO SE… |
| 20-6246 | Adam Joseph Bogema v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553 advisory-guidelines appellate-review criminal-sentencing mental-illness sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness unwarranted-disparity | Whether this Court should provide some guidance to the appellate courts on the proper evaluation of a within guidelines sentence vis-a-vis 18 U.S.C. §… |
| 20-6221 | Miguel Nunez v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-11-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-challenge federal-law johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines | Whether a motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 challenging the constitutionality of the residual clause of the mandatory U.S. Sentencing Guidelines is timely… |
| 20-579 | Zimmian Tabb v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-11-02 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | administrative-law agency-deference criminal-law guidelines-commentary judicial-interpretation regulatory-ambiguity sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether courts may defer to Sentencing Guidelines commentary without first determining that the underlying Guideline is genuinely ambiguous. 2. Wh… |
| 20-6180 | Naquan Reyes v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-11-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553 court-of-appeals criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court federal-sentencing procedural-reasonableness procedural-unreasonableness sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court | I. Whether the Court of Appeals erred in rejecting Reyes's contention that the sentence was procedurally unreasonable based on the district court's fa… |
| 20-6147 | Shane Anthony Roberts v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-10-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-right waiver | Whether the Court of Appeals improperly denied Mr. Roberts of the statutory right to appeal his 70-month sentence by summarily granting a government m… |
| 20-6155 | Jordan Sandoval v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-10-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split congress-intent judicial-discretion proportional-sentencing reasonableness-standard reckless-conduct sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act substantive-reasonableness | (1) Currently, the circuits are split in defining the role of appellate courts in conducting a meaningful substantive reasonableness review of a Defen… |
| 20-6134 | Adam Alfredo Flores v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-amendment criminal-history cruel-and-unusual-punishment disproportionate-sentence eighth-amendment felon-in-possession sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness | Was a maximum ten year sentence above the guidelines of 70 to 87 months' imprisonment for Felon in Possession of a Firearm substantively unreasonable,… |
| 20-6124 | Jose Maria Loaiza-Gaspar v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process guideline-sentence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-withdraw reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines | My Sentence of LIFE imprisonment was imposed without the trial court addressing my non-frivolous argument for a lower sentence. On appeal, the Court o… |
| 20-535 | Drew Samuel Bates v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-10-22 | Denied | circuit-split criminal-procedure first-step-act judicial-discretion resentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether a district court that chooses to conduct a resentencing under § 404 of the First Step Act is prohibited from considering a defendant's current… | |
| 20-6074 | Timothy Jarred Paige v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-10-20 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-rights criminal-charge criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines standing statutory-interpretation | WHEN CHARGED WITH VIOLATING 18.U.S.C § 922(9)(1) COUPLED WITH § 924(a)(2) DOES THE DISTRICT COURT RETAIN JURISDICTION TO CHARGE AN OFFENSE THAT ISN'T … |
| 20-6075 | Deshawn McCarter v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | california-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-statute generic-extortion generic-robbery property-threat sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Does the California robbery statute criminalize a broader swath of conduct than generic robbery or generic extortion in light of the fact that Califor… |
| 20-6085 | Celso Yanez v. California | California | 2020-10-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment first-time-offender mandatory-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines sexual-abuse | Whether a mandatory sentence of 45 years to life, imposed on a 56-year-old first-time offender in a sexual abuse case involving no violence, no force,… |
| 20-6058 | Lacey Renee Baxter Moore, aka Lacey Kittrell v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process liberty-deprivation probation probation-condition sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-purposes supervised-release | 1) Is a standard condition of supervised release which requires a person to "permit a probation officer to visit [her] at any time athome or elsewhere… |
| 20-5983 | Omar Sierre Folk v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-10-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-guidelines career-offender criminal-procedure guidelines habeas-corpus pre-beckles section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines statute-of-limitations third-circuit | 1. Whether the Third Circuit's erred in not addressing Erroneous Career Offender Designation under the 5, 2016. |
| 20-6001 | Antranette Canady v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 3583(d)(2) civil-rights criminal-procedure liberty-deprivation probation probation-condition sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-purposes supervised-release | 1) Is a standard condition of supervised release which requires a person to "permit a probation officer to visit [her] at any time athome or elsewhere… |
| 20-466 | Larry Williams v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-10-09 | Denied | Response Waived | booker-decision departure-or-variance discretionary-guidelines First-Step-Act judicial-discretion rational-basis sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction U.S.-v.-Booker | What are the scope and limits of a District Court's discretion in denying an unopposed motion for sentence reduction under the First Step Act? |
| 20-5976 | Dean Reynolds v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-10-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing obstruction-of-justice procedural-unreasonableness profit-calculation remand resentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure | IS DEFENDANT'S SENTENCE PROCEDURALLY UNREASONABLE BECAUSE THE DISTRICTCOURT INCORRECTLY SCORED THESENTENCING GUIDELINES, ERRONEOUSLYCALCULATING THE PR… |
| 20-5985 | Derrick Kennedy Crumpton v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-10-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bad-faith-review circuit-court-split criminal-procedure government-discretion government-motion judicial-review plea-agreement proffer-agreement sentencing sentencing-guidelines | What is the scope of judicial review when the defendant and the government have entered in a Plea Agreement and/or a Proffer Agreement in which the go… |
| 20-5948 | Christopher Michael Sevier v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-assault borden-precedent crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-sentencing guidelines remand sentencing sentencing-guidelines supreme-court texas-law violent-crime | Whether the Texas offense of aggravated assault by threat constitutes a "crime of violence" under USSG §4B1.2? Subsidiary question: whether the decis… |
| 20-5951 | Joshua Scott Richards v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-10-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness u.s.-sentencing-commission u.s.s.g.-§-2g2.2 | Whether a sentence imposed pursuant to the United States Sentencing Guidelines covering the crimes of accessing or possessing child pornography, U.S.S… |
| 20-5936 | Mark Phillip Carter, II v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-10-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-conflict circuit-split factual-objections judicial-discretion presentence-report sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure undue-influence | (1) Whether the undue influence enhancement in USSG §2G1.3(b)(2)(B) should be expanded, indirect conflict with precedent from the Sixth, Eighth, and N… |
| 20-5937 | Rosa Enedia Pazos Cingari v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-10-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law authority commentary federal-sentencing guideline-commentary inconsistency judicial-interpretation legal-authority sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | Whether United States Sentencing Guideline Commentary which adds to a sentencing guideline is necessarily inconsistent with the guideline such that th… |
| 20-5945 | Shelby Clarmont v. Willis Chapman, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2020-10-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-guidelines constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process people-v-lockridge people-v-milbourn proportionality resentencing sentencing-guidelines | Is The Imposing Of A Sentence Which Was Based On Incorrectly Scored Sentencing Guidelines And Was A Departure From Applicable Advisory Guidelines Wher… |
| 20-5927 | Gene Michael Diulio v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-10-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 circuit-split due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states mandatory-sentencing mandatory-sentencing-guidelines residual-clause sentencing-guidelines vagueness | I. Are 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motions filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), raising due process vagueness challenges to… |
| 20-5928 | Rick Lee Archer v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-10-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause sentencing-guidelines vagueness | I. Are 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petitions filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), raising due process vagueness challenges … |
| 20-5929 | Tommy Lee Jones v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-10-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2g2.2(b)(5) burden-of-proof criminal-procedure offense-conduct police-report restitution sentencing-guidelines shepard-standard shepard-v-united-states unreliable-evidence | Can the government utilize an unreliable nearly thirty (30) year old police report to satisfy its burden the sentencing guideline five (5) level enhan… |
| 20-5930 | Diego Palacios-Villalon v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure culpability drug-trafficking judicial-discretion mitigating-role sentencing-guidelines | "does a defendant have the sole obligation in the establishment of these elements or does the trial judge have a duty to inquire into them". |
| 20-5903 | Christopher Younger v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process federal-sentencing-law prison-sentence reasonableness-review sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness | Whether the district court ordered an unreasonable 120-month prison sentence under the facts of this case, and considering the recommended Sentencing … |
| 20-5909 | David Conerly v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-10-05 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court evidence evidence-review judicial-review ninth-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review | Did the Ninth Circuit err by mining the district record to uphold an upward adjustment to petitioner's offense level under the Sentencing Guidelines? … |
| 20-5894 | Jorge Eduardo Nava v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-liability criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment preponderance-of-evidence relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines standard-of-proof unrelated-offense | Nava's federal Guideline sentencing range for his cocaine convictions was increased by 11 to 16 years' imprisonment based on the judge's finding by on… |
| 20-5868 | Manuel Acosta-Lopez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | in a run-of-the-mill drug smuggling case between is a participant who had a managerial role in the criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-smuggling drug-trafficking managerial-role mexico-united-states-border mexico-us-relations minor-role participant-classification role-adjustment role-in-offense sentencing-guidelines | Whether, in a run-of-the-mill drug smuggling case between Mexico and the United States, is a participant who had a managerial role in the offense excl… |
| 20-5853 | Ubaldo Gabriel Acosta-Leyva v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-09-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-guidelines drug-offense due-process empirical-basis fifth-circuit presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines | Whether a sentence produced by the drug guideline, §2D1.1, is not entitled to a presumption of reasonableness on appeal. |
| 20-5862 | Markey Antonio Goldston v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-09-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver appellate-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process government-overreach plea-agreement plea-bargaining | 1. IS A DEFEDANT'S RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS OF LAW VIOLATED WHEN THE GOVERNMENT REQUIRES AN APPEAL WAIVER AS PART OF A PLEA AGREEMENT? |
| 20-5805 | Ian Resnick v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-09-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process fraud-loss overview-testimony sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment testimonial-statements | 1) Whether the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment permits, under the guise of "overview testimony", the admission against a criminal defenda… |
| 20-5812 | Jason Andrew Dunlap v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-09-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure defendant-responsibility federal-sentencing guilty-plea offense-level plea-bargaining sentencing-guidelines | Do the sentencing Guidelines limit the maximum offense level to 43, so that, from that highest level, there is a reduction when a defendant accepts re… |
| 20-5771 | Taveon Nixon v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver due-process miscarriage-of-justice procedural-reasonableness sentencing statutory-maximum substantive-reasonableness | WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT'S OVERT CONSIDERATION OF THE EXISTENCE AND NATURE OF AN APPEAL WAIVER PRIOR TO VARYING UPWARD TO THE STATUTORY MAXIMUM SENTENC… |
| 20-5791 | Anthony Moreno v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights due-process firearms-possession home-defense interest-balancing risk-assessment second-amendment sentencing-guidelines standing | 1. Does the use of an interest-balancing test to evaluate the Second Amendment rights of a person to keep and bear arms in his home (or vehicle where … |
| 20-5799 | Lorenzo Davis v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acquitted-conduct constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether a criminal defendant's sentence should be based upon acquitted conduct. |
| 20-5770 | David A. Bridgewater v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2020-09-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-rule dismissed-conduct due-process fifth-amendment judicial-fact-finding sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment substantive-reasonableness | Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a court from relying solely on dismissed conduct to impose an otherwise substantively unreasonable sen… |
| 20-5753 | Kunta Kenta Redd v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-09-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crack-cocaine-sentencing due-process first-step-act retroactive-sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-retroactivity | Whether we, the Petitioner, is entitled to Belief from denial 404 motion at the District Court level in light of the First Step Act, December 21st, 20… |
| 20-5758 | Damon Woodard v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-09-18 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924c1c congressional-amendment congressional-amendments first-time-offender first-time-offenders mandatory-minimum-sentences recidivism sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether this Court should revisit and recede from its decision in Deal v. United States, 508 U.S. 129 (1993), which permits the "stacking" of mandator… |
| 20-5759 | Charles C. Williamson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-09-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | accomplice-liability criminal-procedure drug-quantity drug-weight judicial-interpretation relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review statutory-interpretation | WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT AND CIRCUIT COURT MISINTERPRETED AND MISAPPLIED THE "RELEVANT CONDUCT" PROVISIONS OF UNITED STATES SENTENCING COMMISSION, G… |
| 20-5740 | Edward Mahan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-09-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-USC-3553a appeal criminal-procedure downward-adjustment drug-offense due-process government-misconduct plea-agreement safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines | DID THE DISTRICT COURT ERR BY ALLOWING THE GOVERNMENT TO VIOLATE THE PLEA AGREEMENT? DID THE DISTRICT COURT ERR BY DENYING MR. MAHAN'S OBJECTION TO T… |
| 20-5715 | Martin Rogelio Longoria v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-09-16 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | at sentencing may withhold a motion for a third-level reduction acceptance-of-responsibility circuit-split criminal-procedure government-discretion motion-to-suppress plea-bargaining sentencing-guidelines | Whether the government, at sentencing, may withhold a motion for a third-level reduction for acceptance of responsibility under USSG § 3E1.1(b) on the… |
| 20-5704 | Leonard Borden v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-09-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof co-conspirator-testimony criminal-procedure due-process factual-statements guideline-application preponderance-of-evidence presentence-report sentencing-guidelines sentencing-hearing | does a defendant have an obligation to prove the facts in the PSR are inaccurate or untrue after the defendant objects to the factual statements and t… |
| 20-5709 | Rickey Cole v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-09-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | and proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt? placed in the indictment burden-of-proof constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing grand-jury indictment jury-trial sentencing sentencing-guidelines | I. Whether facts that affect the minimum or maximum reasonable federal sentence must be found by a grand jury, placed in the indictment, and proven to… |
| 20-5666 | Cristian Mendoza v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-09-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acceptance-of-responsibility advisory-sentencing criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-range | 1. A defendant who enters a guilty plea pursuant to a plea agreement that includes a purported inducement that he will receive an acceptance of respon… |
| 20-5670 | Henry Horace Givins v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-09-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender-enhancement circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-law eleventh-circuit mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Is a post-2002 conviction for sale of cocaine or possession with intent to sell cocaine, in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13, a "controlled substance … |
| 20-5648 | Damien Guidry v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-09-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines imprisonment-aggregation probation-modification probation-revocation rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the Federal Sentencing Guidelines permit the aggregation of a prior sentence of imprisonment with a subsequent probation modification imposed … |
| 20-5612 | Anthony Roy Brown v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-09-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment charging-instrument criminal-procedure due-process felony-sentencing intervening-arrest prior-sentences same-charging-instrument sentencing-guidelines | Is the Court prohibited from calculating a sentences which were imposed on the same day or in the same charging instrument as separate sentences in ac… |
| 20-5596 | Kevin Dean Green v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-09-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | beckles-v-united-states constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process judicial-review legal-interpretation sentencing-guideline sentencing-guidelines vagueness-challenge vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness | Does Beckles U. United States, U.S. —, 137 S. Ct. 886 (2017) foreclose a vagueness challenge to a sentencing guideline when the operative term in that… |
| 20-5586 | Jose Zamudio-Silva v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-09-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-sentencing sentencing-departures sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness | When considering guidelines rulings, should appellate courts review the decision to depart from the guideline range in the same way as other guideline… |
| 20-5576 | Sarina Ann Williams v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-09-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split congressional-intent conspiracy federal-law sentencing-guidelines sex-trafficking | Whether the crime of Conspiracy to Engage in Sex Trafficking by Force, Fraud, and Coercion, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1594(c), carries a base offens… |
| 20-5577 | Malik Timbers v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-09-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea minor-role-reduction plea-bargaining sentence-appeal-waiver sentencing sentencing-guidelines violence-enhancement weapon-enhancement | I. WHETHER CERTIORARI REVIEW SHOULD BE GRANTED WHERE THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN FINDING THAT TIMBERS' GUILTY PLEA WAS VOLUNTARY AND THE SENTENCE-AP… |
| 20-5458 | Fidel Alain Martin-Sosa v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-08-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review clear-error criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-conspiracy methamphetamine mitigating-role role-adjustment sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review | A district court's guidelines calculations are reviewed for clear error. Did the court of appeals err in holding that the district court's guidelines … |
| 20-5513 | Timothy Allen McWilliams v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-08-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender circuit-split conspiracy controlled-substance due-process methamphetamine sentencing-guidelines | Whether the courts must give deference to the commentary to United States Sentencing Guidelines (U.S.S.G.) § 4B1.1(b)(2) in determining whether a defe… |
| 20-5533 | Gayle McNamara v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-08-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appellate-review criminal-history district-court-error downward-variance judicial-discretion offense-level sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review | A defendant who has shown that the district court mistakenly deemed applicable an incorrect, higher Guidelines range has demonstrated a reasonable pro… |
| 20-5535 | Randy Platt v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-08-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act career-offender common-law common-law-definition elements-clause physical-force robbery robbery-statute sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-commission | In Stokeling v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 544 (2029), this Court reviewed whether Florida's robbery statute required a level of force necessary to qual… |
| 20-5507 | Laci Landers v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-08-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure discretionary-review drug-offense guidelines judicial-review reasonableness reasonableness-standard revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines totality-of-circumstances | Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit") has so far departed from the accepted and usual cou… |
| 20-221 | Franqui Francisco Flores de Freitas v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-08-25 | Denied | Response Waived | aircraft-transportation conscious-avoidance controlled-substances criminal-defendant criminal-intent deliberate-steps evidence jury-instruction knowledge sentencing-guidelines | 1. Can a jury be instructed that it may convict based on a criminal defendant's conscious avoidance of knowledge of a necessary fact, without needing … |
| 20-5489 | Rodney Lavalais v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-08-25 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | 2k2.1(b)(4)(a) appellate-review due-process guilty-plea plain-error-review plea-voluntariness prejudice sentencing-guidelines stolen structural-error | 1. When it is undisputed that a defendant's plea was not knowingly and intelligently made in violation of the Due Process Clause, is automatic reversa… |
| 20-5467 | Carlos Michael Lopez v. Texas | Texas | 2020-08-24 | Denied | IFP | adversarial-process appeal appeal-waiver appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process garza-v-idaho inherent-powers sua-sponte-dismissal waiver | Garza v. Idaho, 139 S. Ct. 738, 749-50 (2019), holds that a defense attorney offends the Constitution by failing to file a notice of appeal upon the c… |
| 20-5424 | Alfred Lee Hanzy, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing fourth-circuit gall-precedent gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness | Whether the Fourth Circuit's decision is in conflict with the Court's decision in Gall v. United States, 552 U.S. 38 (2007). |
| 20-5434 | Treshun Devonte Bates v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-08-20 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | borden-case borden-v-united-states crime-of-violence grant-vacate-remand reckless-conduct sentencing-guidelines supreme-court use-of-force | Can reckless conduct constitute a "crime of violence" by satisfying the "use of force" clause in the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Manual's definition of… |
| 20-5436 | Christy Santiago v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process jury-trial sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | Does the Sixth Amendment's right to a jury trial prohibit courts from using acquitted conduct to vary significantly upward from a Sentencing Guideline… |
| 20-5408 | Robert Richard Jodoin v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-08-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process eighth-amendment federal-sentencing military-veteran non-violent-offense reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines veteran-status | WHETHER A ONE HUNDRED THIRTY MONTH PRISON SENTENCE FOR A NON-VIOLENT, DRUG DEALING, FIFTY (50) YEAR OLD, MILITARY VETERAN IS UNREASONABLE. |
| 20-5409 | Johnathan Scott Keen v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-08-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender constitutional-law criminal-law drug-offenses due-process felony-enhancement mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether, as preserved, the District Court erred as a matter of (Constitutional) Law in finding Mr. Keen's prior Florida drug convictions qualified as … |
| 20-5388 | Michael J. Buck v. Texas | Texas | 2020-08-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | adversarial-process appeal appeal-waiver appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process inherent-powers sua-sponte sua-sponte-dismissal waiver | 1. Does due process require courts to "treat at least some claims as unwaiveable" on appeal? See Garza, 139 S. Ct. at 145. 2. Does due process guaran… |
| 20-5373 | Don Nell Hawkins v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-08-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 16-usc-3582 18-usc-3582 criminal-sentencing first-step-act sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 0 Wh-tkh<_r iht District Cour t Erred /oy On Uu. Sinctvun of n u^s.c. I 36^(060 ^Ad U$S{?. Dppjos-td lo iZS^XCoCOC^ 'Wh-tA JTt Uu/ckel CL Motion Un… |
| 20-5380 | Antonio Deshawn Pitt v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-08-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bank-robbery criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-discretion mental-health proportionality proportionality-principle sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether a district court's statutory obligation to consider the "history and circumstances" of a criminal defendant and to refrain from imposing a sen… |
| 20-5348 | Chazdin Miller v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-08-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-law ploseny-case sentencing sentencing-guidelines taylor-decision | Whether an offense-matching categorical approach applies to the determination of a "controlled substance offense" under the Sentencing Guidelines? |
| 20-5356 | Jabarr Ryeheine Rudolph v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-08-14 | Dismissed | Response WaivedIFP | acceptance-of-responsibility appeal cocaine-base criminal-appeal criminal-procedure drug-weight due-process obstruction-of-justice sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review | I. WHETHER THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN THE ASSESSMENT OF A TWO POINT ENHANCEMENT AGAINST THE APPELLANT JABARR RUDOLPH FOR OBSTRUCTION OF JUS… |
| 20-5359 | Brandon Shane Eustice v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-08-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-history diversionary-disposition due-process imprisonment judicial-procedure probation-revocation revocation sentencing-calculation sentencing-guidelines | that a diversionary disposition resulting from a finding or admission of guilt in a judicial proceeding is counted as a sentence under § 4A1.1 (c) and… |
| 20-5361 | Luis Torres-Marquez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-08-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-sentencing discretion gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review | For purposes of applying the abuse of discretion standard and presumption of reasonableness on appellate review of a within guidelines sentence, does … |
| 20-5349 | In Re Daryl L. Zimmer | 2020-08-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-counsel due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum plea-agreement plea-bargain sentencing-guidelines | THE TRIAL COURT DENIED PETITIONER DUE PROCESS AND EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAW RIGHTS WHEN THE TRIAL COURT HAVING FULL KNOWLEDGE THAT PETITIONER PLED G… | |
| 20-5326 | Jose Alonso Garcia v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-08-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment career-offender categorical-approach due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Were Mr. Garcia Due Process Rights violated under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment when he was: A.) Incorrectly sentenced under U.S.S.G. 4Bl-2(c) Te… |
| 20-5335 | Dustin Johnson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-08-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment methamphetamine methamphetamine-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Issue I Whether the District Court erred in sentencing the Defendant based on ice ("actual" methamphetamine) rather than a mixture and substance cont… |
| 20-143 | Michael Harrison Lowman, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-08-12 | Denied | Response Waived | appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure disparate-treatment due-process judicial-discretion sentencing unreliable-facts | SHOULD AN APPEAL WAIVER THAT DID NOT EXPRESSLY WAIVE A DUE PROCESS CHALLENGE BE ENFORCED WHERE THE SENTENCING COURT BASED ITS SENTENCE ON UNRELIABLE F… |
| 20-133 | Joseph Michael Diaz v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-08-07 | Denied | Response Waived | child-pornography criminal-appeal eleventh-circuit evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines sexual-contact | Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding that counsel was not ineffective assistance for failing to object to the application of… |
| 20-5302 | Edwin Daniel Gongora-Baltan v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-08-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-interpretation criminal-law due-process extraterritorial-application judicial-construction rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines statutory-analysis statutory-interpretation | In the interpretation of a sentencing guideline enhancement pro vision to determine whether it applies to extraterritorial or merely domestic criminal… |
| 20-5267 | Kolongi Richardson v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-08-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-sentencing federal-conspiracy inchoate-offenses sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the inclusion of inchoate offenses within the commentary is inconsistent with the text of U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2, rendering the commentary not le… |
| 20-5284 | Tony Lam v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-08-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law constitutional-authority controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law drug-conspiracy sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Does the U.S. Sentencing Commission's use of the Sentencing Guideline commentary in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 to capture drug conspiracy offenses within the me… |
| 20-5293 | Stanley P. Bates v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-08-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion circuit-split criminal-sentencing position-of-trust position-of-trust-enhancement procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review | When reviewing the interpretation of the "position of trust" enhancement under Sentencing Guideline §3B1.3, does a court of appeals apply a de novo st… |
| 20-5280 | Rahim Williams v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-08-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure cross-reference district-court error federal-jurisdiction homicide sentencing-guidelines u-s-sentencing-commission u.s.s.g.-§-2k2.1(c)(1)(b) | Whether the district court erred by applying the Sentencing Guidelines cross reference under U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(c)(1)(B). |
| 20-5248 | Robert Bernal, Jr. v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-08-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver criminal-procedure plea-agreement restitution restitution-order sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-limits unlawful-sentence | Whether a defendant's waiver of the right to appeal which explicitly permits appeal of a sentence that "exceeds the applicable statutory limits set fo… |
| 20-5253 | Douglas Farrar, Sr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-08-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process false-testimony findings judicial-findings obstruction-of-justice perjury presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether the generic adoption of a Presentence Report is sufficient to discharge the court's duties to make express and independent findings for an obs… |
| 20-5244 | David Lopez v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-08-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | application-note base-offense-level criminal-procedure judicial-discretion leadership-enhancement rico rico-violation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Did the district court and the First Circuit err by declining to apply Application Note One as written? |
| 20-5225 | Dion Alexander v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-07-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver clearly-erroneous coram-nobis garza-v-idaho plea-agreement type-c-plea | Attorneys and judges often misunderstand Type-C plea agreements. When the parties agree to a sentence under Rule 11(c)(1)(C), their agreement is not e… |
| 20-5227 | Jesus Hernandez-Medrano v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-07-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review due-process empirical-basis fifth-circuit illegal-reentry presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing-guidelines | Whether a presumption of reasonableness on appeal does not apply to a sentence produced by the illegal reentry guideline, §2L1.2, because that guideli… |
| 20-5202 | Jerome Collins v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-07-29 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | attempted-assault categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-prisoners mental-state plea-bargaining plea-of-guilty reckless-endangerment sentencing-guidelines | 1. Whether the New York offense of attempt to commit a crime qualifies as a crime of violence, and whether varying conclusions from different circuits… |
| 20-5170 | William Russell Williams v. Michigan | Michigan | 2020-07-24 | Denied | IFP | actus-reus criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance jury-instructions mens-rea mitigation mitigation-instruction prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-present-defense sentencing-guidelines | I. Was William Williams denied his right to due process, to present a defense, and to a properly instructed jury where the trial court refused to prov… |
| 20-5172 | Darrell Henry Williams v. Joe Coakley, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2020-07-24 | Denied | IFP | career-offender criminal-statutes due-process federal-procedure mandatory-minimums physical-force reckless-conduct sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. Do criminal statutes satisfied by reckless conduct resulting in injury require as an element "the use ... of physical force against the person of a… |
| 20-71 | Stephen P. Brown v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-07-24 | Denied | Response Waived | appeal-waiver certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance section-2255 sentencing sentencing-review sixth-amendment | Should this Court vacate and remand the Februar y 12, 2020 Order of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denying a certificate of appealab… |
| 20-5153 | Jamiell Sims v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-07-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1594 conspiracy criminal-conspiracy criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-statute force-fraud-coercion offense-level sentencing sentencing-guidelines sex-trafficking | What is the base offense level for conspiracy to commit sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion in violation of 18 U.S.C. §1594(c)? |
| 20-51 | Pedro Pete Benevides v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-07-22 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-forfeiture eighth-amendment excessive-fine forfeiture ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing-guidelines | 1. Does the forfeiture of over $44 million constitute an excessive fine under the Eighth Amendment, where the forfeiture amount is more than 44 times … |
| 20-5108 | Salvador Ojeda-Amarillas v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-07-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure firearms-enhancement leadership-role necessity necessity-requirement sentencing-enhancement sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines waiver wiretap wiretap-application | 1. Whether the Court of Appeals erred in finding the July 2006 wiretap application met the necessity requirements and whether it erred in holding Mr. … |
| 20-5090 | Ronald Lynn Thomas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-07-16 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law district-court-discretion due-process federal-sentencing guidelines harmless-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether Guideline error is necessarily harmless if the district court is presented with the Guideline range later vindicated on appeal and disclaims a… |
| 20-5093 | Dion Clayborn v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-07-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender congressional-intent deference-to-agency drug-trafficking guideline-commentary recidivism sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Title 28 U.S.C. § 994(h) authorized the Sentencing Commission to promulgate guidelines that, based on legislative history, were intended harshly punis… |
| 20-5053 | Deandre Lornell Brown v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-07-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-guidelines appellate-review criminal-sentencing departure judicial-discretion presumptively-reasonable procedural-error sentencing-guidelines variance variance-standard | Whether the district court's decision when imposing sentence that a defendant failed to sufficiently justify a "reduction" from the Sentencing Guideli… |
| 20-5042 | Julian Silva-Aguilar v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-07-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process factual-basis guilty-plea ninth-circuit plea-agreement plea-bargaining supreme-court-precedent | In deciding that the defendant's guilty plea was supported by an adequate factual basis, and was therefore knowing and intelligent and subject to the … |
| 20-5031 | Artemio Ramirez-Arroyo v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-07-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582(c)(2) due-process equal-protection hughes-v-united-states retroactive-amendment retroactive-guideline-amendments sentence-reduction sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | In 2011, the Sentencing Commission changed its policy statement in U.S.S.G. § 1B1.10 to disqualify defendants who received sentences below the Guideli… |
| 20-5006 | Manuel Olivas-Guevara v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abduction appeal appeal-timeliness base-offense-level civil-procedure dismissal district-court jurisdiction robbery sentencing-guidelines standing timeliness | 1) DID THE PANEL ERR BY DISMISSING THE APPEAL FOR TIMELINESS? 2) DID THE DISTRICT COURT ERR BY AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S DECISION TO INCREASE MI… |
| 19-8923 | Bryant Okeff Leggett v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-07-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure drug-activity drug-house evidence judicial-discretion sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines trial-court-error | I. The district court applied a two-level enhancement for maintaining a drug house. This was applied despite no evidence being presented that Mr. Legg… |
| 19-8924 | William R. Jenkins v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-07-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-vagueness due-process liberty post-conviction-motion residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness | The question presented is whether a postconviction motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, challenging a sentence imposed under the pre-2005 mandatory version … |
| 19-8912 | Giezi Arce-Calderon v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-07-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process guideline-range guideline-sentence judicial-discretion plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness | A. Whether the sentence imposed on Mr. Arce is substantively unreasonable, despite being a guideline sentence of six months, where the parties agreed … |
| 19-8893 | Darryl Henry v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-07-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-rights appeal-waiver circuit-split collateral-relief criminal-sentencing involuntary-waiver judicial-integrity judicial-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing-rights statutory-entitlement | Are broad waivers of appellate rights lawful and, if so, what are the limits on their validity and enforcement? |
| 19-1453 | Michigan v. Gerald Raynard Fuller | Michigan | 2020-07-02 | Denied | acquittal acquittal-consideration acquitted-conduct conflict-of-authority criminal-procedure due-process federal-circuits judicial-discretion preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-standards state-courts | The federal circuit courts have uniformly held that a sentencing judge may consider conduct for which the defendant has been acquitted, and this Court… | |
| 19-8885 | Juan Leonardo Cadenas-Urena v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-07-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance criminal-procedure drug-manufacturing due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency jury-verdict premises-liability sentencing-guidelines sufficiency-of-evidence | 1) DID THE PANEL ERR BY HOLDING THAT THE EVIDENCE IS SUFFICIENT TO SUSTAIN THE JURY'S GUILTY VERDICT? 2) DID THE PANEL ERR BY UPHOLDING THE APPLICATI… |
| 19-8868 | Rodrecas Tims v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-06-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing judicial-discretion prison-sentence reasonableness-review sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-range sentencing-reasonableness | Whether the district court ordered an unreasonable 108-month prison sentence under the facts of this case, and under the recommended Sentencing Guidel… |
| 19-8830 | Justin Michael Oxendine v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-06-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion legal-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines upward-variance | Whether the district court abused its discretion by varying upward when an applicable guideline provision addressed conduct that formed part of the ra… |
| 19-8820 | Cesar Velazquez v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-06-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act career-offender constitutional-vagueness due-process liberty post-conviction-relief residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness | The question presented is whether a postconviction motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, challenging a sentence imposed under the pre-2005 mandatory version … |
| 19-1407 | Mercy O. Ainabe v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-06-24 | Denied | Response Waived | corporate-entities health-care-claims health-care-fraud loss-calculation medicare medicare-fraud relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines victim-definition | (1) Whether the Medicare beneficiaries whose health care treatments form the basis of fraudulent Medicare claims fit the definition of "victims" for p… |
| 19-8771 | Michael A. Risenhoover v. William Muniz, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2020-06-22 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 28-years-to-life criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-murder first-time-offender judicial-discretion murder prior-criminal-history proportionality public-message sentencing sentencing-guidelines | 1) Does SENTENCING A FIRST TIME OFFENDER WITHOUT HAS NO PRIOR CRIMINAL HISTORY TO 28 YEARS TO LIFE SEND A DANGEROUS MESSAGE TO THE PUBLIC AND FUTURE O… |
| 19-8744 | April Castro v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-06-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-sentencing dissimilar-activities fraud-calculation fraud-offenses intended-loss judicial-discretion loss-amounts loss-determination sentencing-guidelines stolen-checks | Where a person is convicted of fraud offenses arising from conduct consisting of two similar, yet distinct types of fraudulent activities that resulte… |
| 19-8745 | Bernard Scott, Jr. v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-06-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act career-offender constitutional-vagueness due-process liberty post-conviction-relief residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness | The question presented is whether a postconviction motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, challenging a sentence imposed under the pre-2005 mandatory version … |
| 19-8735 | Michael A. Jackson v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-06-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-vagueness due-process liberty post-conviction-relief residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | The question presented is whether a postconviction motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, challenging a sentence imposed under the pre-2005 mandatory version … |
| 19-8702 | Billy Edward Sedberry v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-06-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | base-offense-level criminal-procedure drug-quantity judicial-fact-finding jury-trial methamphetamine sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | 1. Whether the district court procedurally erred in miscalculating Sedberry's drug quantity base offense level. 2. Alternatively, whether the distric… |
| 19-8703 | David Sosa-Baladron, et ux. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-06-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-instructions obstruction-of-justice sentencing-guidelines | I. Did a fatal variance occur when the charge was of one conspiracy but the proofs were of two, one of which there was no evidence of Petitioners' inv… |
| 19-8649 | Angelo Johnson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-06-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure due-process guidelines guilty-plea plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines u-s-sentencing-commission | Should a defendant be denied a three-level reduction for acceptance of responsibility under U.S.S.G. § 3E1.1 when the defendant enters a timely guilty… |
| 19-8681 | Sung Hong, et ux. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-06-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affinity-fraud aggravating-factors civil-rights constitutional-law due-process establishment-clause free-exercise holguin-hernandez-v-united-states plain-error-review religious-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines | 1. Is it permissible for courts to consider religion as an aggravating factor in determining sentences, or to favor a religion by sentencing defendant… |
| 19-8683 | Edgardo Grande v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-06-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553a appeal-waiver fairness-integrity-public-reputation judicial-proceedings plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-factors substantial-rights unconscionability unconscionable-contract | 1. Whether the waiver of appeal rights contained in the Plea Agreement is unenforceable since the Plea Agreement is invalid because it is an unconscio… |
| 19-8693 | Nathan Thomas Trujillo v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-06-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-procedure judicial-discretion kimbrough-v-united-states kimbrough-variance policy-grounds sentencing sentencing-guidelines variance | A. WHETHER THE COURT ERRED IN HOLDING THE DISTRICT COURT DID NOT ABUSE ITS DISCRETION WITH ITS SENTENCE? B. WHETHER THE COURT ERRED IN HOLDING THE DI… |
| 19-8694 | Joseph D. Rouse v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-06-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-851 appeal-waiver appellate-review due-process mandatory-minimum notice-requirement plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Does the express language of 21 U.S.C. § 851 requiring prior written notice of the particular conviction the government seeks to use to enhance a mand… |
| 19-1358 | Michigan v. William Larenzo Shoulders | Michigan | 2020-06-11 | Denied | Response Waived | alleyne-v-us criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing indeterminate-sentencing jury-determination jury-trial michigan-law michigan-supreme-court parole parole-eligibility sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | In Michigan's "indeterminate" sentencing scheme, judgments of sentence contain two numbers: the minimum number of years the defendant will have to ser… |
| 19-8640 | Paul N. Littles v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-06-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-U.S.C-2255 career-offender constitutional-vagueness Johnson-v-United-States mandatory-sentencing-guidelines postconviction-motion residual-clause sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent unconstitutionally-vague | The question presented is whether a postconviction motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, challenging a sentence imposed under the pre-2005 mandatory version … |
| 19-8605 | Courtland Barnes v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-06-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography criminal-sentencing district-court federal-appeals federal-sentencing-guidelines fourth-circuit mitigating-evidence sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness | Whether the district court's reliance on the child pornography guideline and the mitigating evidence Petitioner offered to the court require the vacat… |
| 19-8592 | Maria Soly Almonte, aka Soly Almonte, aka Soly La Fuerte, aka SoSo, aka SoSo Wavy, aka Soly Montana v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-06-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | age-of-consent appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process obstruction-of-justice procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness | 1. Whether Almonte's sentence was procedurally unreasonable because the district court failed to determine whether she obstructed justice under Guidel… |
| 19-8586 | Roy Ramirez v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-06-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempt circuit-split conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-law inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing-guidelines | Whether the United States Sentencing Commission has properly defined a "controlled substance offense" under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 (b) to include the inchoa… |
| 19-8579 | Jonathan Frank Davis v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-06-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment guilty-plea plea-bargaining voluntary-plea | Does an appeal waiver clause bar a criminal defendant from later appealing their conviction on the ground that the guilty plea was not knowing and vol… |
| 19-8561 | Jesus Julian Corona-Perez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-05-29 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | crime-of-violence criminal-procedure indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum | I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 19-8566 | John Charles Thompson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-05-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggregate-imprisonment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process imprisonment plain-error revocation sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release | Was it plain err for the Western District of North Carolina to not aggregate Mr. Thompson's multiple revocation active imprisonment sentences then red… |
| 19-8558 | David Hardman v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-05-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion Anders-review appeal-waiver breach-of-plea-agreement criminal-procedure jurisdiction | DID THE CIRCUIT COURT ERR IN REFUSING TO MAKE A DETERMINATION OF THE VALIDITY OF THE APPEAL WAIVER DURING A REVIEW OF THE RECORD, PURSUANT TO ANDERS v… |
| 19-8543 | Carl L. Burdick v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-05-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553 advisory-guidelines criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plea-agreement rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-range united-states-v-booker | Whether the District Court, contrary to precedents of this Court and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, accorded the advisory … |
| 19-8523 | Christian James v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-05-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split due-process fifth-circuit government-promise obstruction-of-justice sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-justice united-states-sentencing-guidelines writ-of-certiorari | 1. Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals opinion rejecting James's claim that the Government made an implied promise that any obstruction of just… |
| 19-8525 | Julio Gabriel Diaz v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-05-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substances conversion criminal-defendant drug-conversion due-process fifth-amendment lsd self-incrimination sentencing-guidelines | Whether a criminal defendant's Fifth Amendment rights are implicated by the oxycodone-to-marijuana conversion required by U.S. S.G. § 2D1.1. |
| 19-8503 | Darieus Malik Williams v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-05-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administration-of-justice criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court fact-intensive-inquiry federal-criminal-cases fifth-circuit prostitution-enhancement review-standard sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review | On Appeal DARIEUS MALIK WILLIAMS challenged the district court's finding that he unduly influenced a minor to engage in prohibited sexual conduct such… |
| 19-8453 | John Christopher Dobbs v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-05-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure cross-reference district-court federal-rules firearm-possession judicial-findings presentence-report rule-32 sentencing-guidelines | When a defendant disputes that he has committed a Cross Reference crime, does Rule 32(i)(3)(B) require the district court to make specific findings ab… |
| 19-8444 | Clarence Zacke v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Florida | 2020-05-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process federal-court-decisions judicial-precedent legal-exemption plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing-guidelines state-courts | WHETHER THE INTEGRITY OF THE COURT REQUIRES ENFORCEMENT OF RULE 3.171(A) FLA. R. CRIMINAL P. WHERE THE STATE HAS KNOWINGLY AND INTENTIONALLY VIOLATED … |
| 19-1282 | Avery Terry v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-05-12 | Denied | Response Waived | 18-usc-924c appeal-waiver constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal-waiver due-process force-clause hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery residual-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-vagueness vagueness-doctrine violent-crime | WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN DISMISSING THE APPEAL PURSUANT TO AN INVALID APPEAL WAIVER, AFTER MAKING ERRONEOUS FINDINGS, OVERLOOKING AND MIS… |
| 19-8412 | Lenroy McLean v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-05-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure discretion discretionary-review forfeiture plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights | QUESTION I Should the Second Circuit Court of Appeals exercise it's discretion to correct the forfeited error of Petitioner's miscalculated guideline… |
| 19-8414 | Ashford James Simmons v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-05-07 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance-offense fourth-circuit prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing-guidelines serious-drug-offense | Since 1990, this Court has required the lower courts to use the "categorical approach" in courts' evaluation of a criminal defendant's prior convictio… |
| 19-8385 | Enrique Lopez Quintero v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-05-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure hughes-v-united-states plea-agreement sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines type-c-agreement | l.Is a sentence imposed pursuant to a Type-C agreement, Fed. R. Crim. P. 11(c)(1)(C), is based on the defendant's United States Sentencing Guidelines … |
| 19-1260 | Andrew Demma v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-04-30 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | 18-usc-3553a appeals-court child-pornography circuit-split discretion gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion kimbrough-v-united-states policy-disagreement sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness | (1) Whether the discretion recognized under Kimbrough v. United States for a district court to vary based on a policy disagreement applies to the chil… |
| 19-8333 | Nekhent Supreme Ali, aka William Sean Perry, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-04-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 criminal-procedure criminal-statute currency-conversion drug-proceeds drug-weight due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether in the conversion of currency drug proceeds into drug weight for purposes of sentencing criminal violations of 21 U.S.C. § 841, federal courts… |
| 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… |
| 19-8340 | Christopher Scruggs v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-04-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law distribution distribution-intent file-sharing knowledge knowledge-standard mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines | The Sentencing Commission promulgated Amendment 801, amending to only apply when a defendant 2G2.2(b) (3) (F) enhancement "knowingly engaged in distri… |
| 19-8325 | Qais Hussein v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2020-04-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Is it reasonably debatable that Qais Hussein was deprived the effective assistance of counsel where his defense attorney failed to object to any insin… |
| 19-8303 | Wadress Metoyer, Jr. v. Delynn Fudge, in Her Individual and Official Capacity as Executive Director of the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2020-04-19 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process liberty-interest parole parole-eligibility sentencing-guidelines sentencing-range truth-in-sentencing | Did the 1997 Oklahoma Legislature mandate in its statutory language, phrases provisions, design, purpose and intent in House Bill 1213 effective date … |
| 19-8273 | Deonday Evans v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-04-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-922 18-usc-924 commerce-clause commerce-nexus criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule federalism federalism-principles fourth-amendment search-warrant sentencing-guidelines standing | 1. Whether federalism principles require reinterpretation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) and 18 U.S.C. § 924 to require a more meaningful commerce nexus! 2. W… |
| 19-8263 | Larry Wesley Brown v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-04-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-possession drug-trafficking felony-enhancement guidelines gun-possession sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit")-which held Mr. Brown was involved with drug traffic… |
| 19-8235 | Justin K. Eaton v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-04-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | beckles-v-us braxton-v-us constitutional-challenge dillon-v-us judicial-review retroactive-effect sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | (1). Since the Sentencing Commission is to serve a similar function to interpreting guidelines as this Court does in interpreting statutes under Braxt… |
| 19-8215 | Victor Rivera-Munoz v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-04-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing manager-enhancement sanctions sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines subordinate-authority subordinates supervisor-enhancement supervisor-role | 1. In the a bsence of a definiti on of the terms, can a defendant receive a mana ger, or sup ervisor enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 3B1. 1 when t he evi… |
| 19-8221 | Feuu Fagatele v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-04-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process risk-of-injury sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether a statute that criminalizes creating a risk of injury categorically satisfies the definition of a crime of violence? |
| 19-8199 | Dwight Bullard v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-04-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 advisory-guidelines career-offender collateral-attack collateral-review criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing section-2255 sentencing-guidelines | Whether a defendant erroneously sentenced as a career offender under the advisory Guidelines can collaterally attack his enhanced sentence under 28 U.… |
| 19-8187 | Kahwahnas Nucumbhi Potts v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-04-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1028a circuit-split consecutive-sentencing criminal-law criminal-sentencing district-court federal-procedure inter-circuit-conflict sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether this honorable Court should grant certiorari to resolve inter-Circuit disharmony regarding a District Court's consideration of consecutive sen… |
| 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… |
| 19-8158 | 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 in granting an up… |
| 19-8100 | Jorge Rodriguez-Luca v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-03-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness | I. Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidel… |
| 19-8065 | Reinaldo Vasquez-Rivera v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-03-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review district-court-discretion guidelines-range procedural-reasonableness sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness supervised-release | Question not identified. |
| 19-8071 | Curtis Dion Earley v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-03-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-law due-process mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation stolen-firearm | Does the commentary at U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1, Application Note 8, which does not require a mens rea to impose the stolen firearm enhancement at U.S.S.G. § … |
| 19-8041 | Stanley Edward Jamison, Jr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-03-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity section-2255 sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-right timely-motion | Whether Mr. Jamison's § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), claiming that Johnson invalidates the p… |
| 19-8044 | Brian Vidrine v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-03-19 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | 924(c) career-offender criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states mandatory-enhancement section-924c sentencing sentencing-guidelines | 1. Are Vidrine's § 924(c) convictions invalid in light of this Court's decision in Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), and its progeny? … |
| 19-8016 | Jaime Vega, aka Jimmy Johnson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-03-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appeals criminal-procedure district-court due-process revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervised-release | To what extent does 18 U.S.C. § 3553 require a district court to specifically state the reasons for imposing a revocation sentence above the guideline… |
| 19-8027 | Javier Gomez-Carrasquillo v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-03-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553(a) circuit-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing individualized-assessment plea-agreement procedural-reasonableness puerto-rico-crime sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness | Question not identified. |
| 19-8038 | Jermaine James v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-03-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempt circuit-split commentary conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the United States Sentencing Commission has properly defined a "controlled substance offense" under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 (b) to include the inchoa… |
| 19-8013 | Keith Alexander v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2020-03-17 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns criminal-sentencing due-process federal-appellate-review firearms ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-interpretation mandatory-minimum mental-capacity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction | Question not identified. |
| 19-8019 | Efrain Sifuentes v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-03-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | resulting in an unreasonable sentence appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court fifth-circuit sentencing-guidelines unreasonable-sentence | 1. Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit improperly condone the District Court's error in applying the United States Sentencing… |
| 19-7998 | Paul Anthony Montanez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-03-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines | I. Did the district court impose a plainly unreasonable sentence upon Mr. Montanez? |
| 19-1133 | Melvin Hodges, Jr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-03-16 | Denied | Response Waived | 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act due-process johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states post-conviction-relief sentencing-guidelines vague-laws vagueness vagueness-doctrine | Whether a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson can assert a timely, valid claim that the residual clause of the mandatory Guidelin… |
| 19-7984 | Danny Pereda v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-03-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law due-process government-discretion government-procedures jury-trial sentencing-guidelines | Question not identified. |
| 19-7972 | Javier Brown v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4b1.1 career-offender categorical-approach drug-offense fourth-circuit modified-categorical-approach predicate-drug-offense prior-conviction records-of-conviction sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-4b1.1 south-carolina-code | Pursuant to Section 4B1.1 of the United States Sentencing Commission Guidelines, following a conviction for a narcotics offense, an offender who has a… |
| 19-7981 | Marcos Robert Castaneda v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender career-offender-guideline criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 johnson-v-united-states mandatory-sentencing-guidelines ninth-circuit residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines timeliness void-for-vagueness | 1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre Booker … |
| 19-7965 | Cedric Edney v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach controlled-substance-offense controlled-substances criminal-law fifth-circuit-interpretation mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states modified-categorical-approach sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation taylor-precedent taylor-v-united-states u-s-s-g-section-4b1-2-b | Did the Fifth Circuit Err in deciding as an issue of first impression, that Texas offenses of Distribution of controlled substances and possession wit… |
| 19-7918 | Patrick Harris v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553a child-pornography criminal-sentencing district-court enhancement-factors excessive-sentence sentencing-discretion sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines statutory-considerations | I. DID THE DISTRICT COURT ERR WHEN IT FOUND ENHANCEMENT FACTORS LISTED IN U.S.S.G. § 2G2.2(b)(2), (b)(3), (b)(4), (b)(6) AND (b)(7)(D) APPROPRIATE IN … |
| 19-7931 | Nancy Arlene Lopez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-appeal criminal-procedure-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment fifth-circuit government-misconduct methamphetamine-conspiracy miranda-rights sentencing-guidelines substantial-assistance supreme-court unconstitutional-motive | Petitioner, NANCY ARLENE LOPEZ, appealed her ten-year statutory minimum sentence imposed after she pleaded guilty to conspiracy to import 500 or more … |
| 19-7869 | Raymond David Wilson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-03-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender common-scheme criminal-scheme criminal-sentencing felony-disposition judicial-discretion misdemeanor-conviction misrepresentation-of-felony prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Why Did The DiStRiCt CouRt ERRONeouSLY CLASSIFEd MR.WiLSON AS A CAREER OFFENdER WhEN IN FACT BOth PRiORS AN INtERVeNiNg ARRESt. LSO WAS The DiStRICt C… |
| 19-7876 | Aaron Richardson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-03-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection judicial-bias judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines | I. Did an unconstitutional "objective risk of bias," Williams v. Pennsylvania, 136 S. Ct. 1899, 1905 (2016), or "probability of actual bias on the par… |
| 19-7838 | Anthony Shockey v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2020-03-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | addiction-treatment criminal-justice criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-addiction drug-test due-process parole probation sentencing-guidelines supervised-release violation-classification | 1.When an addict on supervised release fails a drug test should the failure be treated as crime, a grade B violation under Sentencing Guideline § 7B1.… |
| 19-7839 | Christopher Sanchez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-03-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure deterrence due-process imprisonment plain-error-review policy-statement policy-statement-range sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines | I. Is a single-sentence explanation of "I believe this addresses the issues of adequate deterrence and protection of the public" procedurally reasonab… |
| 19-7854 | Howronda Overstreet v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-03-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal criminal-procedure Did Ms. Overstreet's waiver of appeal unenforceabl Did the district court commit plain error when it due-process guidelines guidelines-calculation plain-error plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines waiver | QUESTION 1: DID MS. OVERSTREET PRESERVE HER RIGHT TO APPEAL THE DISTRICT COURT'S INAPPLICABLE GUIDELINES CALCULATION ? QUESTION 2: WAS MS. OVERSTR… |
| 19-7855 | Jeremy T. Walker v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-03-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certiorari criminal-procedure district-court-discretion federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession material-facts obstruction offense-level-enhancement sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines serial-number serial-number-obliteration | Whether the district court erred at sentencing by increasing Mr. Walker's Sentencing Guidelines offense level for possessing a gun with an obliterated… |
| 19-7863 | Delores L. Knight v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-03-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 35-usc-101 civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-statute due-process federal-appellate-review judicial-review ninth-circuit patent sentencing-guidelines standing statutory-interpretation takings | Question not identified. |
| 19-7815 | Robert Grimsley v. Oregon, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-03-02 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights contractual-leniency custody due-process fraud fraud-in-the-facts habeas-corpus prison prison-contracts prisoner-rights sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-court state-court-judgment statutory-interpretation takings | Can a state commit the crimes of fraud in the facta of its own Sentencing guidelines to renege on prison contracts How can there be Habas Corpus reli… |
| 19-7812 | Lajbar Lajaward Khan v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-02-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | clearly-erroneous criminal-procedure declaration district-court drug-quantity drug-weight fatico-hearing objections probation-office role-enhancement sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review | Whether the District Court's findings as to drug weight and role were clearly erroneous. |
| 19-7820 | Marcus Derby v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-02-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split conspiracy conspiracy-involvement criminal-procedure drug-trafficking essential-participant minor-participant minor-role reduction sentencing-guidelines supplier | In 2015, the United States Sentencing Guidelines were amended to clarify that defendants are entitled to the "minor role" reduction, even if they are … |
| 19-7811 | Marcus Scott Crum v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting attempt conspiracy controlled-substance-offense inchoate-offenses judicial-deference sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u-s-sentencing-commission | Whether the Sentencing Commission's commentary to its definition of "controlled substance offense" in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) to include inchoate offenses… |
| 19-7755 | Scott Michael Patrick v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 career-offender criminal-sentencing johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states mandatory-sentencing-guidelines residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines void-for-vagueness | Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the right initially recognized in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory G… |
| 19-7780 | Frank Harper v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-02-26 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-USC-924(c) 18-usc-924c carjacking-by-intimidation collateral-review consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure dean-v-united-states ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Predicate-Offense retroactivity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | I. A. Should certiorari be granted to determine whether Harper was denied the effective assistance of counsel for the failure to challenge on appeal a… |
| 19-7764 | Michael Tyrone Simpson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-25 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP | 18-usc-924(c) bank-robbery carter-v-united-states crime-of-violence criminal-intent federal-bank-robbery force-clause general-intent-crime sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness | Is federal bank robbery a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c), in light of this Court's holding in Carter v. United States,… |
| 19-7646 | Davion Fitzgerald v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach criminal-law due-deference federalism federalism-principles judicial-deference judicial-interpretation judicial-subjectivity sentencing-guidelines state-court-deference state-courts state-criminal-statutes state-statute statutory-interpretation | May a federal court dismiss state precedent interpreting the state's own criminal statute as an "odd hypothetical" based on "legal imagination" to sub… |
| 19-7706 | Tommy Adams, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-02-19 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | career-offender career-offender-guideline controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense controlled-substances criminal-law fourth-circuit modified-categorical-approach sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation taylor-descamps-mathis-precedent taylor-v-united-states | DID THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS INCORRECTLY APPLY THE LINE OF AUTHORITY FROM THIS COURT BEGINNING WITH TAYLOR V. UNITED STATES, 495 U.S. 575 (… |
| 19-7707 | Elijah Loren Arthur v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-fines criminal-restitution due-process jury-determination jury-trial sentencing-guidelines southern-union-co-v-united-states statutory-maximum | This Court held in Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 490 (2000), that "[o]ther than the fact of a prior conviction, any fact that increases the pe… |
| 19-7681 | Howard Aron Washington, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-02-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-guidelines appellate-review criminal-sentencing gall-v-new-jersey guideline-departure procedural-error procedural-reasonableness reasonableness rosales-mireles Rosales-Mireles-v-United-States sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review | THE DECISION OF THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT IN UNITED STATES V. WASHINGTON IS INCONSISTENT WITH THIS COURT'S DECISION IN… |
| 19-7695 | Arturo Delacruz v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-02-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brandishing criminal-procedure group-one-robbery ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel otherwise-used plea-negotiation robbery-offense sentencing-guidelines weapon-enhancement | Because Petitioner did not explicitly admit to facts that would support an "otherwise used" weapon enhancement, as opposed to a "brandishing" weapon e… |
| 19-1020 | Florence Bikundi v. United States | District of Columbia | 2020-02-14 | Denied | Response Waived | burden-of-proof continuance district-court-discretion due-process ends-of-justice ends-of-justice-continuance forfeiture fraud fraud-conduct restitution sentencing sentencing-guidelines speedy-trial-act | 1. Whether a district court granting an ends-ofjustice continuance under the Speedy Trial Act of 1974, 18 U.S.C. § 3161(h)(7)(A), violates the require… |
| 19-7625 | Robert L. Swinton, Jr. v. Florida | Florida | 2020-02-12 | Rehearing | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appeal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-errors sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment structural-error | (1) Is it structural error when sentencing errors were corrected by appeals court on direct appeal without defense counsel, and a constitutional denia… |
| 19-7654 | Jean Roussel Eloi v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-02-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-process appeal-stages closing-arguments conviction defenses government-misconduct ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection relationship-evidence sealed-records sentencing-guidelines | I.) Whether counsel was ineffective for not pursuing all the way through the appeal stages, the government's statement during closing arguments that… |
| 19-7638 | Rodrigo Cruz Perez v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-02-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acceptance-of-responsibility circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing fifth-amendment sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment split-among-circuits | Under the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, a defendant who accepts responsibility for an offense receives a two-point reduction on the offense level. U.S.S… |
| 19-7622 | Samuel Elliott v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-02-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-amendment appellate-review child-pornography criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness substantive-unreasonableness | Whether a sentence imposed pursuant to the United States Sentencing Guidelines covering child pornography offenses, U.S.S.G. §S 2G2.1 and 2G2.2, is su… |
| 19-7598 | Ramon Valencia-Cruz v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553 appellate-review circuit-split closer-review judicial-review kimbrough-discretion kimbrough-v-united-states policy-disagreement policy-statement sentencing-guidelines | When conducting "closer review" of a sentencing decision that was based on the district court's decision to vary from the United States Sentencing Gui… |
| 19-7604 | Richard Allen Lumpkin v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 career-offender criminal-sentencing johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness | I. Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidel… |
| 19-7561 | Ramiro D. Ramirez, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-02-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | application-note-3(c) application-note-3c court-of-appeals criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing criminal-sentencing district-court federal-sentencing-guidelines mitigating-role mitigating-role-adjustment paid-tasks proprietary-interest sentencing-guidelines supervisory-authority united-states-sentencing-guidelines ussg-3b1.2 | Whether the Court of Appeals inappropriately affirmed the district court's denial of a mitigating role adjustment which contravened the factors and th… |
| 19-7516 | Mary Mosley v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-01-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acquitted-conduct alleyne-v-united-states criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-acquitted-conduct double-jeopardy due-process fifth-circuit jury-verdict nelson-v-colorado sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | 1) DID THE PANEL ERR BY UPHOLDING THE APPLICATION OF AN ENHANCEMENT FOR BRANDISHING OR POSSESSING A FIREARM WHEN MISS MOSLEY WAS ACQUITTED BY A JURY O… |
| 19-7479 | Brian Price v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-01-29 | Denied | IFP | acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-courts federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether a defendant's constitutional rights are abridged when a district court bases its sentence solely on acquitted conduct. Whether a criminal con… |
| 19-7454 | Kenneth James Barfield v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-32 due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-circuit gall-v-united-states guidelines preponderance-of-evidence presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-watts | According to Gall v. United States, 552 U.S. 38 (2007), every federal criminal sentencing must begin with a correctly calculated Guidelines range. Sen… |
| 19-7446 | Enrique A. Echeverria-Benitez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-01-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-circuit illegal-reentry plain-error retribution sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release | On direct appeal, Mr. Echeverria-Benitez argued his twenty-seven month sentence for illegal reentry after removal was unreasonable. Mr. Echeverria-Ben… |
| 19-7404 | Joseph James Roe v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process enhancement-factors essential-factor guideline-interpretation guidelines judicial-discretion leadership-role lower-court-guidance sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-3b1.1(a) | Whether a district court may impose a sentence enhancement under USSG § 3B1.1(a) for leadership role based on a factor not mentioned in the Sentencing… |
| 19-7412 | Alford D. Embry, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 career-offender criminal-sentencing habeas-corpus johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness | I. Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidel… |
| 19-7382 | Tyrone Jemane Johnson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-01-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | aggravated-assault criminal-law federal-jurisdiction force-clause mens-rea sentencing-guidelines uniformity | I. Whether a generic aggravated assault as defined in United States Sentencing Guidelines § 4B1.2 requires a mens rea greater than mere recklessness, … |
| 19-920 | Boulder Young, aka Boulder Daniel McManigal v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-01-23 | Denied | Response Waived | appeal appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error judicial-discretion plea-bargaining plea-hearing sentencing waiver | Whether the waiver of a right to appeal a judgment of conviction is controlled by the defendant's written waiver or the oral pronouncement of the cour… |
| 19-7350 | Billy Battenfield v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2020-01-21 | Denied | IFP | aedpa appeal-waiver criminal-procedure critical-stage garza-v-idaho ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining post-sentencing retroactivity statute-of-limitations | 1. Whether Garza v. Idaho, — U.S. 139 S.Ct. 738, 203 L.Ed.2d 77 (2019) adopts a new watershed rule of procedure that applies retroactively on state co… |
| 19-7352 | Alfredo Godoy-Machuca v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver collateral-consequences criminal-procedure defense-counsel ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining voluntary-and-knowing voluntary-plea | A. Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in, at least implicitly, concluding that material affirmative misdavice given by defense counsel t… |
| 19-7331 | Lavorice Dondrell Cunningham v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion legal-standard pending-resolution remand sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness | 1. What is the appropriate standard for the determination of substantive reasonableness claim? SUB SIDIARY QUESTI ON: Whether the Court should hold t… |
| 19-7337 | Kinney Lee Palmer v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | aggravated-assault assault crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-sentencing guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation texas-law threat | 1. Whether the Texas offense of aggravated assault by threat is a "crime of violence" under USSG §4B 1.2? |
| 19-7338 | David P. Moran v. Florida | Florida | 2020-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | concurrent-sentences consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-interpretation prosecutorial-charging same-conduct same-victim sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines | 1. Should two charges for the same episode of conduct and the same victim with no temporal break whatsoever be sentenced to consecutive prison terms e… |
| 19-7305 | William James Springer v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-01-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-possession constructive-possession criminal-procedure drug-trafficking firearm-possession foreseeability jointly-undertaken-activity sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | Whether a defendant's sentence can be enhanced under U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1(b)(1) for possession of a firearm in connection with a drug trafficking offense … |
| 19-7289 | Willis Shane Gordon v. Sam Cline, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2020-01-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-v-new-jersey apprendi-violation brady-evidence Brady-Violation burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy doyle-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial kansas-sentencing-guidelines post-arrest-silence prior-convictions procedural-bar prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing-guidelines | Whether the Kansas courts violated petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel, his Fifth Amendment right against self-incri… |
| 19-7248 | Christopher Omar Hinton v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempted-robbery crime-of-violence dangerous-weapon federal-sentencing north-carolina north-carolina-law sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-commission united-states-sentencing-guidelines | Whether North Carolina attempted robbery with a dangerous weapon qualifies as a crime of violence under Section 4B1.2 of the United States Sentencing … |
| 19-7253 | Fabrizio DeFrancisci v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-60(b)(6) due-process post-conviction-relief rule-60b-motion second-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg | I. WAS THE DISTRICT COURT AND APPEALS COURT WRONG TO DENY THE RULE 60(b) MOTION AND CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY, REPSECTIVELY, WHEN THIS COURT HAS … |
| 19-7207 | Mohamed Elshinawy, aka Mojoe, aka Mo Jo v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aedpa due-process rule-of-lenity sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-construction statutory-interpretation vcclea | Did the Courts-violate the Separation of Powers and Due Process when the enhancement § 3Al.4 was applied without examining Congress' explicit directiv… |
| 19-7182 | Cirilo Mancilla Lopez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-01-06 | Denied | IFP | appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process legal-objection preservation-of-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-unreasonableness | 1. Whether claims of substantive unreasonableness must be preserved by specific objection? SUB SIDIARY QUESTI ON: Whether the Court should hold the c… |
| 19-7146 | David Rapoport v. Robert Gilmore, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene, et al. | Third Circuit | 2020-01-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns death-penalty due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance life-without-parole plea-bargaining sentencing waiver-of-appeal-rights | 1. Was the petitioner's counsel ineffective in pre-trial stages? 2. Was the petitioner's counsel ineffective during the plea-bargaining process? 3. … |
| 19-7117 | Vance Edward Ingram, III v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-12-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver appellate-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process government-power plea-agreement plea-bargaining waiver | IS A DEFEDANT'S RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS OF LAW VIOLATED WHEN THE GOVERNMENT REQUIRES AN APPEAL WAIVER AS PART OF A PLEA AGREEMENT? |
| 19-7118 | Calvin Buffington v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-12-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process judicial-fact-finding section-3582 section-3582(c)(2) sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-3582(c)(2) statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the district court's failure to find a drug quantity when adopting PSR in its entirety authorized it to select a new quantity as a basis f… |
| 19-7130 | Fabio Morel v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-12-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review case-law circuit-court-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing judicial-precedent plea-agreement plea-bargaining precedent retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | I. WHETHER THE LOWER COURT'S DECISION IS IN CONFLICT WITH FREEMAN V. UNITED STATES, 564 U.S. 522 (2011); AND HUGHES V. UNITED STATES, 138 S. Ct. 1765 … |
| 19-7083 | Leroy L. Perdue v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-12-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 851-enhancement criminal-procedure due-process enhancement federal-statute notice role-adjustment sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-compliance statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the sentence should be vacated for failure comply with the requirements of 21 U.S.C. § 851(b). 2. Whether the court erred in assessing a f… |
| 19-7103 | Edward Merritt v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-12-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law controlled-substance-offense criminal-law deference guideline-commentary inchoate-offenses judicial-deference sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. Is the definition of "controlled substance offense" in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) genuinely ambiguous such that the guideline commentary can be used to re… |
| 19-7105 | Miguel Jilberto Vazquez-Chavarria v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-12-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553a abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion remand sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness | 1. Whether substantive reasonableness review requires or permits the courts of appeals to "reweigh the [18 U.S.C. §3553(a)] factors"? SUBSIDIARY QUES… |
| 19-7107 | Joseph Thor Perkins v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-12-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553a 3553(a)-factors abuse-of-discretion booker-v-united-states criminal-sentencing downward-variance federal-sentencing-procedure gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether a sentencing court can abuse its discretion by not varying downward further based on this Court's decisions mandating that a sentencing court … |
| 19-7059 | John Kenneth Schiefer v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-12-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion legal-reasoning plain-error procedural-error respect-for-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure | Did the district court plainly procedurally err when it selected and imposed sentence based on its desire to promote the defendant's respect for the l… |
| 19-7051 | Adan Reyes-Martinez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-12-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure fifth-circuit plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing waiver waiver-of-rights | Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by ruling that Mr. Reyes-Martinez waived the right to appeal his sentence because of the Waiver of Appeal provision in… |
| 19-7034 | Charley Joe, Jr. v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split constitutional-vagueness eighth-amendment sentencing-guidelines unusual-vulnerability vagueness victim-exploitation victim-vulnerability vulnerable-victim | Section 3A1.1(b) of the Sentencing Guidelines provides for a two-level increase where, "the defendant knew or should have known that a victim of the o… |
| 19-7038 | Angela Maxine Lee v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553 18-usc-922 18-usc-924 3553-a-factors 3553a-factors appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness | Whether the above-Guidelines 84-month sentence ordered by the district court is substantively unreasonable under the § 3553(a) factors. |
| 19-7042 | Christian Rosado v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-law guidelines judicial-interpretation judicial-opinions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines state-law state-law-offense statutory-interpretation use-of-force | The question presented is whether, as the court of appeals in this case held, a state-law offense qualifies as a "crime of violence" for purposes of t… |
| 19-7044 | Darmarcus Fisher v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-assault appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fifth-circuit procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness | Whether the district court imposed a substantively unreasonable sentence and erred by imposing a 4-level enhancement for aggravated assault. |
| 19-791 | Anderson Law Offices, et al. v. Common Benefit Fee and Cost Committee | Fourth Circuit | 2019-12-20 | Denied | appeal-rights appeal-waiver appellate-review civil-procedure common-benefit-fund court-review due-process equitable-relief federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure judicial-discretion judicial-responsibilities standing waiver | Whether federal district courts possess the authority to require appeal rights to be waived as a condition for receiving an award available under law.… | |
| 19-7007 | Bryshun Genard Furlow v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-12-19 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach collateral-challenge controlled-substance-offense due-process fourth-circuit prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines serious-drug-offense state-conviction u.s.s.g.-4b1.1 | I. Whether the Fourth Circuit should be required to use the categorical approach, applying the parameters set by this Court, to its determination that… |
| 19-6948 | Michael Eugene Spry v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-12-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-USC-3553 criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness supervised-release | I. WHETHER THE APPELLANT MICHAEL EUGENE SPRY'S SENTENCE WAS UNREASONABLE AS IT WAS GREATER THAN NECESSARY AND AS SUCH, FAILS TO COMPLY WITH TITLE 18, … |
| 19-6953 | Donovan G. Davis, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-12-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-proceeding critical-stage direct-appeal new-trial new-trial-motion right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure | The Constitution guarantees the assistance and choice of counsel for a critical-stage in a criminal proceeding. Ancient statute guarantees every indiv… |
| 19-6939 | Anthony Scott Hunt v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-12-13 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | base-offense-level categorical-approach controlled-substance-offense divisibility drug-statute modified-categorical-approach predicate-offense sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g-§-4b1.2(b) u.s.s.g.-§-2k2.1(a)(4)(a) u.s.s.g.-§-4b1.2(b) | WHETHER A STATE DRUG STATUTE, THAT IS EITHER COMPLETELY INDIVISIBLE OR AT MOST ONLY DIVISIBLE INTO NO MORE THAN THREE GENERALLY SEPARATE OFFENSES, ALL… |
| 19-6926 | Roger William Campbell, II, aka Roger William Campbell v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-12-12 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | concurrent-sentences consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure federal-sentencing revocation sentence-revocation sentencing-guidelines supervised-release united-states-sentencing-commission | Is the "stacking" of multiple consecutive sentences, upon revocation of multiple concurrent terms of supervised release, consistent with the United St… |
| 19-6864 | Cedis R. Martin v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-12-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach categorical-review crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process offense-of-violence sentencing-guidelines sentencing-predicate state-court-conviction statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-§4a1.1(e) vagueness vagueness-analysis vagueness-doctrine | Does a state court conviction qualify as an "offense of violence" for the purpose of the sentencing predicate pursuant to U.S.S.G.§4A1.1(e), if the st… |
| 19-6838 | Joshua Smith v. Sandra Butler, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-12-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 appellate-review caselaw federal-procedure guideline-range habeas-corpus incorrect-guideline-range mandatory-guidelines savings-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the Courts of Appeals have incorrectly interpreted the 'savings clause', found in 28 USC 2255(e), to require that a defendant be sentenced und… |
| 19-6806 | Anthony J. Stokes v. Florida | Florida | 2019-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy due-process felony jurisdictional-conflict military-law predicate-felony sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation trial-modification | I. WHETHER A CONVICTION ON A CHARGE CONTAINING AN ESSENTIAL ELEMENT NOT CHARGED IN THE INFORMATION IS A "DUE PROCESS" VIOLATION. II. WHETHER THE DOUB… |
| 19-6818 | John D. Ward v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-12-03 | Denied | IFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness | Johnson v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015), applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidelines, USSG § 4B1.2(a)(2)? II. Whethe… |
| 19-6828 | Reginald Jerry Shaw v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review application-notes certificate-of-appealability commentary district-court-discretion ineffective-assistance legal-interpretation sentencing-guidelines strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | 1. Are the commentary and application notes in the Sentencing Guideline manual authoritative or left to the District Court's discretion. 2. Can the i… |
| 19-6830 | Don Emmery Wilson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment ambiguous-plea constitutional-rights criminal-matter cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus hearsay illegal-sentence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel obstruction-of-justice plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief profiling sentencing-guidelines | Was petitioner subjective to ineffective or deficient assistance of counsel in a criminal matter?1) Was petitioner subjective to cruel and unusual p… |
| 19-6832 | James Henry Lacy, Jr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-12-03 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery career-offender career-offender-guideline categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-bank-robbery habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines timeliness | 1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker … |
| 19-6793 | Quentin Herndon v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-12-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute federal-court federal-courts physical-force sentencing-guidelines state-court state-court-interpretation state-courts statutory-interpretation USSG-4B1.2(a) | Whether a federal court must defer to a state court's interpretation of the elements of a state criminal statute to determine if that offense requires… |
| 19-6774 | Albert Allen, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-11-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal due-process fair-sentencing-act ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum mens-rea prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether the Court of Appeals Erred in Denying Petitioner's Application for a Certificate of Appealability to Appeal the District Court's Denial of His… |
| 19-6775 | James Marione Butchee v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-11-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender controlled-substance criminal-history due-process federal-sentencing ineffective-counsel sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation violent-felony | The Federal Minimum Mandatory sentence for Career offender clause [21 USC 841(b)] is at question in this petition, Do having one violent felony and on… |
| 19-6791 | Bryan Lamon Burnett v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-11-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-circuit 8th-circuit appellate-review circuit-court-conflict circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing felon-in-possession firearm-possession firearms sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-guidelines | SHOULD THE COURT GRANT CERTIORARI TO RESOLVE THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CIRCUIT COURTS OF APPEAL IN THE APPLICATION OF UNITED STATES SENTENCING GUIDELINE SE… |
| 19-6748 | Steven A. Adams v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-11-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting ambiguity attempt conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law deference deference-doctrine sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-manual-4b1.2b statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the term "controlled substance offense" defined by UNITED STATES SENTENCING GUIDELINES MANUAL § 4B1.2(b) to mean "an offense under federal … |
| 19-6755 | Frederick Garcia-Cruz v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-11-26 | Denied | IFP | certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure debatable-among-jurists-of-reason due-process habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason mandatory-sentencing ninth-circuit residual-clause sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness | 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit misapplied this Court's "debatable among jurists of reason" standard for a certificate of appealability. 2. Whether the … |
| 19-6759 | James A. Lackey v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-11-26 | Denied | IFP | appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-deference jurists-of-reason mandatory-sentencing-guidelines ninth-circuit residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review vagueness void-for-vagueness | 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit misapplied this Court's "debatable among jurists of reason" standard for a certificate of appealability. 2. Whether the … |
| 19-6769 | Steven Hicks v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-11-26 | Denied | IFP | certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure debatable-among-jurists-of-reason johnson-v-united-states jurists-of-reason mandatory-guidelines mandatory-sentencing ninth-circuit sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g.-4b1.2(a)(2) vagueness void-for-vagueness | Whether the Ninth Circuit misapplied this Court's "debatable among jurists of reason" standard for a certificate of appealability. Whether the residu… |
| 19-6704 | JB Foster McAfee v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-11-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court circuit-court-rejection civil-procedure-mail-box-rule due-process federal-rules-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure habeas-corpus houston-v-lack mail-box-rule obstruction-of-justice prison-mail prisoner-appeals prisoner-petition sentencing-guidelines timeliness timely-filing | Whether a prisoner's petition for rehearing of his appeal decision that is due in 14 days, is considered timely filed under the "mail box rule" and Ho… |
| 19-6675 | Michael Ray Bishop v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-11-20 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance-offense enumerated-offense-clause sentencing-guidelines serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether an offense-matching categorical approach applies to the determination of a "controlled substance offense" under the Sentencing Guidelines? |
| 19-6692 | Kenneth Robert Simpson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-11-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-discretion parole revocation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction supervised-release | Question not identified. |
| 19-6670 | Michael Bridge v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-11-19 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2255 appellate-procedure brief-formatting career-offender constitutional-rights due-process johnson-v-united-states judicial-discretion mandatory-guidelines procedural-fairness residual-clause sentencing-guidelines timeliness Whether Pennsylvania Superior Court can dismiss an | 1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker … |
| 19-6656 | Fernando Quintela-Galindo v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-11-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review chapter-7-policy chapter-7-policy-statements criminal-procedure due-process presumption-of-reasonableness revocation-sentence sentencing-guidelines | Whether a presumption of reasonableness should be applied to a revocation sentence produced by Chapter 7 policy statements. |
| 19-6647 | Michael J. Baxter v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-11-15 | Denied | IFP | acquitted-conduct batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-selection racial-discrimination reasonable-doubt sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment united-states-v-watts | 1. Whether the striking of two out of three black veniremembers demonstrates a "pattern of discrimination" as necessary to satisfy the first step of t… |
| 19-6650 | Fidel Rios, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-11-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553a 8th-circuit criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court downward-variance guidelines judicial-discretion life-circumstances sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines u-s-code | Whether the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals and District Court for the Southern District of Iowa failed to adequately consider the sentencing factors set… |
| 19-6652 | Douglas Akira Hirano v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-11-15 | Denied | IFP | booker-decision circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure johnson-doctrine johnson-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-booker vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness | The Seventh Circuit holds that the void-for-vagueness doctrine and Johnson v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015), apply to the mandatory, pre-United… |
| 19-6632 | Samier Patrick Clark v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-11-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | adam-walsh-act civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing-guidelines | Was petitioner subjective to violations of his Constitutional rights throughout the course of his criminal prosecution? Was petitioner subjective to … |
| 19-6634 | Kathryn Woodin Markle v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-11-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review burden-of-production burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process evidence government-burden pre-sentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-objection | Does the defendant bear the burden of production to rebut information found in a pre-sentence report after objecting to that information, or instead, … |
| 19-6589 | Alicia Norman, Kendra Brantley, and Deenvaughn Rowe v. United States | District of Columbia | 2019-11-13 | Denied | IFP | attorney-client-relationship criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-11 due-process federal-rules judicial-interference plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review | KENDRA BRANTLEY: I. Was the D.C. Circuit's affirmance of Petitioner Brantley's convictions erroneous and in conflict with other federal jurisdictions … |
| 19-6606 | Ryan T. Root v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-violation criminal-procedure cumulative-errors double-prosecution due-process ineffective-counsel law-and-fact merger-doctrine miscarriage-of-justice money-laundering plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review | I. WHETHER CUMULATIVE ERRORS OF LAW AND FACT LED TO A MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE AND A CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATION? II. WHETHER A DEFENDANT MAY BE CONVICTED… |
| 19-6619 | Genesis Lee Whitted v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | base-offense-level criminal-procedure drug-quantity drug-weight fourth-circuit indictment relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-1b1.3 time-interval | WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT IMPROPERLY EXPANDED GUIDELINE § 1B1.3 BY INCLUDING DRUG AMOUNTS ASSOCIATED WITH CONDUCT OCCURRING SIGNIFICANTLY OUTSIDE THE… |
| 19-6620 | John Kevin Waldrip v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal criminal-procedure federal-law federal-sentencing-guidelines federal-statute fifth-circuit judicial-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines special-assessments statutory-interpretation supervised-release | I. In a consolidated Appeal JOHN KEVIN WALDRIP argued that the district court erroneously applied 18 U.S.C. § 3014 when it imposed a total of $15,000 … |
| 19-6551 | Neil Timothy Aho v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-11-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure discovery guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel obstruction-of-justice plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing-guidelines withdrawal-of-plea | Issue 1: Whether the appellate court erred in not finding that the district court abused its discretion by denying Petitioner's motion to withdraw his… |
| 19-6557 | Steven Nygren v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-11-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cognitive-impairment competency-to-stand-trial forensic-evaluation malingering material-evidence obstruction-of-justice rehabilitation sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g-3c1.1 u.s.s.g.-3c1.1 | A defendant with a medically documented cognitive impairment, which defendant was engaged in rehabilitation, was progressing positively in said rehabi… |
| 19-6497 | David Morillo-Cruz v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether the sentence imposed by the Court was reasonable? |
| 19-6510 | Timothy L. Douglas v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-11-06 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2255f3 career-offender criminal-law criminal-sentencing-guidelines-4b1.1-4b1.2 due-process guidelines johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness | I. Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidel… |
| 19-6521 | Marcus T. Simmons v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-11-06 | Denied | IFP | career-offender criminal-justice criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 guidelines johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness | I. Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidel… |
| 19-6527 | Ruben Patrick Valdes v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim criminal-history evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error sentencing-guidelines | 1. WAS TRIAL COUNSEL CONSTITUTIONALLY INEFFECTIVE FOR FAILING TO INVESTIGATE, FACT-CHECK, AND OBJECT TO ERRONEOUS INCLUSION OF JUVENILE PRIORS DURING … |
| 19-6496 | David Elijah Smith v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-11-05 | GVR | IFP | apprendi-v-new-jersey blakely-v-washington criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearm-statute haymond-v-united-states mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum | (1) DID THE PETITIONER'S SENTENCE FOR 18 U.S.C. 922(g) VIOLATE THE STATUTORY MAXIMUM IN VIOLATION OF BLAKELY V. WASHINGTON, 542 U.S. 296, 304; APPREND… |
| 19-6489 | Clifford Gene Wallace v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-11-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-assault aggravated-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines texas-criminal-law texas-law threat ussg-4b1.2 | 1. Whether the Texas offense of aggravated assault by threat is a "crime of violence" under USSG §4B1.2? 2. Whether the Texas offense of aggravated r… |
| 19-6492 | Tylan Tremaine Autrey v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-11-04 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity section-2255 sentencing-guidelines vagueness | Petitioner was convicted of federal kidnapping and sentenced as a career offender in 2000, under the then-mandatory Sentencing Guidelines, when the Gu… |
| 19-6454 | Corey Morris v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. | Third Circuit | 2019-10-30 | Denied | IFP | 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel extended-sentences federal-review multiple-indictments plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether defendants have a Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of Counsel when Contemplating Plea offers. Morris was charged at multiple indi… |
| 19-6431 | Jose Armando Bazan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-10-29 | GVR | Relisted (4)IFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure fact-question guidelines plain-error role-adjustment sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Petitioner, JOSE ARMANDO BAZAN, was charged with and pleaded guilty to a single count of possession with intent to distribute cocaine. The District Co… |
| 19-6383 | Nelli Kesoyan v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-appeals federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure legal-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Did the Court of Appeals adopt an erroneous interpretation of U.S.S.G. § 2J1.3(b)(3)? |
| 19-6389 | Quincy Dennis v. J. A. Terris, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-10-25 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2255 categorical-approach drug-offense federal-procedure habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-relief-28-usc-2241 intervening-change mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence presidential-commutation presidential-pardon retroactive-application retroactively-applicable-decision sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | QUESTION # ONE: Whether petitioner Dennis is entitled to seek federal habeas corpus relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 on the ground that 28 U.S.C. § 225… |
| 19-6379 | Timothy Edward Holz v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-10-24 | Denied | IFP | career-offender collateral-review crime-of-violence johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states mandatory-sentence-enhancement mandatory-sentencing pre-booker pre-booker-mandatory residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-4b1.2a | Whether Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), invalidated U.S. Sentencing Guidelines § 4B1.2(a)---the career offender guideline's residual… |
| 19-6332 | Walter Glenn v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment consent-to-search criminal-procedure fourth-amendment leadership-role obstruction-of-justice rental-vehicle search-and-seizure sentencing-guidelines standing standing-civil-procedure standing-doctrine traffic-stop | 1. In September 2014, did a relief driver of a rental vehicle, driving with permission of the lessee, although contractually unauthorized, have standi… |
| 19-6357 | James Alton Turner, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 acca-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process,criminal-procedure,sentencing,acca,joh elements-clause habeas-relief johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing-court sentencing-guidelines violent-felonies | (1) Whether, where the record is unclear, a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petitioner residual clause to determine that his prior offenses were violent felonies, be… |
| 19-6336 | Eddie Jennings v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-10-22 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review criminal-law johnson-ruling mandatory-sentencing new-right retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness vagueness-doctrine | 1. Whether this Court's rulings in Johnson and Welch , retroactively invalidating the residual clause of the ACCA because it was unconstitutionally va… |
| 19-6318 | Damon Tracy Locke v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-10-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-sentencing drug-statute drug-statutes mathis-precedent mathis-v-united-states plain-error sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Is the Eighth Circuit interpretation and application of drug statutes as qualifying offenses for career offender status in opposition to Mathis v. Uni… |
| 19-6308 | Ronald Detro Winder v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-10-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acca armed-career-criminal-act crime-of-violence curtis-johnson elements-clause injury injury-definition physical-force sentencing-guidelines | Whether a state offense that includes as an element causing injury, but which also defines "injury" broadly to include more than the "physical pain or… |
| 19-6287 | Seferino Martinez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-10-17 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act career-offender criminal-sentencing-guidelines johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines void-for-vagueness | I. Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the analogous residual clause in the mandatory guidel… |
| 19-6288 | Ron Christopher Whitley v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-10-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-case drug-offense drug-offenses judicial-discretion proportionality-review sentencing-departure sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines | Whether the 156-month sentence is greater than necessary to comply with the purposes of sentencing under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) where the district court … |
| 19-6295 | Antonio Flores v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-10-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver appearance-of-partiality circuit-split constitutional-due-process constitutional-review district-court due-process judicial-bias judicial-impartiality miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement sentencing-procedure | Does a broad appeal waiver included in a plea agreement between a defendant and the United States preclude appellate review of the district court's fi… |
| 19-6297 | Aleisha O. Gray v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-10-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alien-transportation conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure evidence immigration immigration-law obstruction-of-justice sentencing-guidelines sufficiency-of-evidence | I. Is there insufficient evidence to warrant a finding of guilty for conspiracy to transport undocumented aliens and for transporting undocumented ali… |
| 19-6255 | Kunta Kenta Redd v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-10-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crack-cocaine crack-cocaine-sentencing criminal-justice-reform due-process first-step-act retroactivity section-404 sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether me, the Petitioner, is entitled to Relief from denial 404 motion at the District Court level in light of the First Step Act, December 21st, 20… |
| 19-6164 | Marchello Dsaun McCain v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey due-process false-statement guideline-calculation sentencing-guidelines statutory-maxima statutory-maximum terrorism-enhancement | In McCain's false statement involving terrorism prosecution, the district court applied the terrorism enhancement of Guideline Section 3A1.4 and calcu… |
| 19-6132 | Christian Joseph Chavez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-10-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement sentencing | The Fifth Circui t Court of Appe als has held that to determine whether an appea l of a sente nce is barred by an appe al wai ver pro vision in a plea… |
| 19-6144 | Tom Smith, III v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-10-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting alternative-elements career-offender conspiracy controlled-substance-offense criminal-attempt divisible-statute sentencing-commission sentencing-commission-mandate sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-mandate | I. whether the Sentencing Commission via commentary exceeded its statutory mandate under § 994(h) by includiiig/aiding and abetting, conspiracy, and a… |
| 19-6128 | Bacari McCarthren v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-10-02 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | aggravated-battery categorical-approach crime-of-violence deadly-weapon descamps descamps-v-united-states mathis physical-force sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation turner | The Florida crime of aggravated battery may qualify as a crime of violence under Section 4B1.2 of the United States Sentencing Guidelines only if the … |
| 19-6113 | Jose Armando Bazan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-10-01 | GVR | Relisted (4)IFP | appellate-procedure appellate-review cocaine-conspiracy criminal-appeal criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing downward-adjustment fact-question guidelines plain-error plain-error-review role-adjustment sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review | Petitioner, JOSE ARMANDO BAZAN, was charged with and pleaded guilty to conspiring to possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine. T… |
| 19-6119 | Masnik Sainmelus v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-sentencing district-court firearm-possession firearms guideline-enhancement guideline-range sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-2k2.1 | 1. Whether The District Court Erred When The Court Increased The Appellant's Guideline Range Four Levels By Finding That The Offense Involved Between … |
| 19-6054 | John Hemby v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-09-25 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review constitutional-vagueness criminal-sentencing johnson-ruling mandatory-sentencing new-right retroactivity sentencing-guidelines vagueness vagueness-doctrine welch-precedent | 1. Whether this Court's rulings in Johnson and Welch , retroactively invalidating the residual clause of the ACCA because it was unconstitutionally va… |
| 19-6067 | Francisco Suarez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-09-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-conflict codefendant-comparison criminal-procedure-error eighth-circuit intra-circuit-conflict legal-standard public-safety sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-darden united-states-v-smith | I. WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT'S DECISION IN UNITED STATES V. SMITH, AND CONFLICTS WITH THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT COURT IN UNITED STATES V. DARDEN? II. WHE… |
| 19-6033 | Christopher Johnson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-09-24 | GVR | IFP | claim-preservation claim-preservation-yee-v-city-of-escondido crime-of-violence federal-rule-criminal-procedure federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure-32 federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure moncrieffe-v-holder ninth-circuit rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines yee-v-city-of-escondido | I. Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously find Johnson forfeited his sentencing claim, disregarding this Court's claim preservation holdin… |
| 19-6018 | Joey Little v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-09-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law agency-authority congressional-oversight criminal-law judicial-review magazine-based-enhancement regulatory-interpretation sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-2k2.1 statutory-construction statutory-interpretation u.s-sentencing-commission unlawful-exercise | Whether Application Note 2 of the commentary to U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 2K2.1 represents an unlawful exercise of agency authority by the U.S. Sent… |
| 19-6020 | Jose Romeu v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-09-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 amendment-599 amendment-782 drug-amount presentence-investigation-report sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines | Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals committed error in its affirmance of the District Court's denial of Petitioner Jose Romeu's 18 U.S.C. § … |
| 19-6005 | Robert L. Malone v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-09-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-history drug-quantity due-process jury-instructions mandatory-minimum methamphetamine-distribution prosecutorial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervisory-power | 1.) Did the lower courts err when they imposed and affirmed Mr. Malone's sentence based on overreliance on his Criminal History? 2.) Is Mr. Malone's … |
| 19-5987 | Ronald Richard Brown v. Washington | Washington | 2019-09-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-interpretation double-jeopardy due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-vindictiveness north-carolina-v-pearce presumption-of-vindictiveness reversed-convictions sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act state-courts supreme-court washington-state | 1. Can the Washington State Courts refuse to adhere to this Courts holding in North Carolina v. Pearce? 2. Since Washington State's Sentencing Reform… |
| 19-5946 | Anthony Carl Spence v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-09-17 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process extraterritorial-application extraterritorial-jurisdiction extraterritoriality federal-sentencing foreign-conduct guidelines offense-level sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether, absent a clear indication of extraterritoriality, a federal sentencing court is permitted to enhance a defendant's offense level under the se… |
| 19-5963 | Jesus Yugopicio-Rojas v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-09-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-consistency criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing judicial-review molina-martinez non-calculation plain-error sentencing-guidelines | Does failure to calculate the applicable Sentencing Guidelines attract the same protocol for plain error as set out in Molina-Martinez v. United State… |
| 19-5982 | Alcadio Caballero De La Torre v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing data-analysis due-process judicial-discretion reasonableness-review sentencing-commission sentencing-data sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness statistical-analysis | This Court should grant this petition to address when, if ever, Sentencing Commission statistical data may be used to evaluate the reasonableness of a… |
| 19-5929 | Abisai Ramirez-Anguiano v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-16 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense drug-offenses mens-rea methamphetamine scienter sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Section 2D1.1(b)(5) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines provides that "[i]f (A) the offense involved the importation of ... methamphetamine or … |
| 19-5926 | Refugio Quintanar v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-13 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process presentence-report procedural-unreasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines timely-objection | 1. Whether the defendant has the burden to deny and discredit the factual allegations of a Presentence Report that increase his or her sentence? 2. W… |
| 19-5861 | Louise K. Saine v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-09-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-denial appeals career-offender court-of-appeal crime-of-violence criminal-procedure drug-law due-process federal-case federal-classification federal-court federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure prior-convictions rehabilitation-programs rule-35 sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act state-officer | When can Rule 35 be used error? Can a state case be classified as a federal case if defendant has never been convicted of prior felonies? What is th… |
| 19-5905 | Ricky Davis v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-09-11 | Denied | IFP | fairness-integrity federal-sentencing guideline-calculation judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-proportionality sentencing-uniformity statutory-maximum substantial-rights uniformity-proportionality USSG-5G1.1(a) | When this Court held in Rosales-Mireles v. United States, 138 S. Ct. 1897 (2018) that a failure to correctly calculate the guideline range, which anch… |
| 19-5871 | Patrick Jones v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-09-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempt controlled-substance controlled-substances federal-crime federal-law guidelines-interpretation mandatory-minimum offer-to-sell preparatory-action sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation substantial-step tenth-circuit-precedent | 1) Did the district court error in increasing Havis base offense level based upon its belief that the Commentary to &4Bli2 appropriately includes atte… |
| 19-5878 | Darries Leon Jackson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-09-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-reasonableness criminal-justice criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection grand-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel racial-bias racial-discrimination sentencing sentencing-guidelines | 1. Whether sentences imposed upon Petitioner Constitutionally Unreasonable & greater than necessary to satisfy the ends of Justice? 2. Whether Petiti… |
| 19-5877 | Damion D. Faulkner v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-09-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment judicial-discretion proportionality proportionality-review sentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness sex-offense sex-offenses substantive-due-process | Is it substantively unreasonable to impose an effective sentence of life on a 30-year-old defendant who committed a "reprehensible" sex offense that c… |
| 19-5856 | Amando Villarreal Heredia v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-09-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 18-usc-3582c2 drug-quantity fed-r-crim-p-11 federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guidelines-range modification-proceeding plea-agreement sentence-recalculation sentencing-guidelines sentencing-modification | QUESTION #1: In a " Modification Proceeding pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2)," as to a retroactively applicable amendment to the U.S. Sentencing Gu… |
| 19-5830 | William H. Danielson v. New York | New York | 2019-09-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea judicial-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct regulatory-authority standing waiver-of-appeal | 1) Should judicial misconduct survive a waiver of appeal and guilty plea? 2) Should prosecutorial misconduct survive a waiver of appeal and guilty pl… |
| 19-5812 | Mitchum Pastor v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-09-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2113 bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Because 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) defines bank robbery in a way that does not require intentional intimidation, does § 2113(a) bank robbery fail to qualify … |
| 19-5778 | Hosam Maher Husein Smadi v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553a constitutional-rights due-process effective-counsel equal-protection manifest-injustice plea-agreement right-to-effective-counsel rule-11 sentencing sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent | 1). Whether Smadi in this Case would suffer a manifest injustice and an extreme hardship by serving several extra years in prison absent such relief i… |
| 19-5788 | James Nunley, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-sentencing guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation texas-criminal-law ussg-4b1.2 violent-crime | Whether the Texas offense of aggravated robbery constitutes a "crime of violence" under USSG §4B1.2? |
| 19-5789 | Jamar Lynn McMillan v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-09-03 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | career-offender career-offender-enhancement categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense pennsylvania-law predicate-offense rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines third-circuit | 1. Does the categorical approach apply in determining whether an offense qualifies as a predicate for the career-offender enhancement under the Senten… |
| 19-5727 | Trayvon Smith v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-08-29 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP | against-the-person-of-another crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-court federal-law federal-recidivism intentional-conduct mens-rea negligence recidivism recidivism-enhancement sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-court-interpretation state-law | 1) Whether, when determining whether a state offense qualifies as a crime of violence, a federal court is bound by the decision of the state's highest… |
| 19-5738 | Carlos Manuel Perez-Crisostomo v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-08-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure due-process identity name obstruction-of-justice plea-agreement puerto-rico sentencing sentencing-court sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g.-3c1.1 | I.- Whether the Sentencing Court erred in founding Petitioner obstructed justice, pursuant to U.S.S.G. § 3C1.1, when Petitioner did not correct the … |
| 19-5742 | Robert Gene Rand v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-08-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acceptance-of-responsibility appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion factual-findings ninth-circuit plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-application sentencing-reductions standard-of-review | Whether a circuit court errs by affirming a district court's decision regarding the applicability of the United States Sentencing Guidelines based on … |
| 19-5749 | Juan Manuel Perez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-08-29 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP | against-the-person-of-another crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-court federal-law federal-recidivism intentional-conduct mens-rea negligence recidivism recidivism-enhancement sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation | 1) Whether, when determining whether a state offense qualifies as a crime of violence, a federal court is bound by the decision of the state's highest… |
| 19-5754 | Charmar Brown v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-08-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-guidelines collateral-attack constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure cross-reference double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus magwood magwood-precedent sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether Magwood extended to challenges to the original undisturbed conviction, following a new judgment? Whether Murder Cross-reference U.S.S.G. 2D1.… |
| 19-5757 | Fulvio Flete-Garcia v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-08-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-identity-theft conspiracy conversion-of-government-property evidentiary-hearing government-as-victim government-property identity-theft loss-calculation sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-enhancement tax-fraud tax-fraud-conspiracy victim-enhancement | 1. Whether, in determining the sentence for a tax-fraud conspiracy where the defendant is charged with conversion of government property and aggravate… |
| 19-5723 | Melvin Bernard Thompson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-08-28 | Denied | IFP | Almendarez-Torres Apprendi-v-New-Jersey criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment stare-decisis | 1. Can a Florida Law permit a trial court to exercise judicial discretion to make new findings of fact of an escalating pattern of criminal conduct b… |
| 19-5730 | Lawrence Michael Lynde v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-08-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sex-offender-treatment sixth-circuit-appeal standing statutory-interpretation victim-restitution | Question not identified. |
| 19-5718 | Alexander Lee Salazar v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acceptance-of-responsibility appeal criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion mitigating-factors mitigating-role offense-level role-adjustment sentencing-guidelines | L Did the district court err when it declined to grant Mr. Salazar a mitigating role adjustment under the Guidelines? I. Did the district court err w… |
| 19-5681 | Raphael Person, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-08-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process federal-courts harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether, when a district court imposes a sentence based on several factors, one of which is improper, the court of appeals should affirm the sentence … |
| 19-5675 | Stephen Jason Whitaker v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary | Ninth Circuit | 2019-08-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability due-process exhaustion-of-state-remedies habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction-counsel procedural-default sentencing-guidelines state-court-proceedings vasquez-v-hillery | Whether a Court of Appeals' denial of a certificate of appealability conflicts with this Court's rulings in Vasquez v. Hillery, 474 U.S. 254, 260 (198… |
| 19-5652 | Anthony Wayne Bettcher v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-08-21 | GVR | Relisted (4)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act career-offender-guideline circuit-split force-clause reckless-conduct sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Do reckless crimes qualify categorically as crimes of violence under the force clause of these statutes and guidelines? |
| 19-5630 | Roosevelt Stolden v. California | California | 2019-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey consecutive-sentencing criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-fact-finding preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-guidelines stare-decisis | Should the Court reconsider its majority opinion in Oregon v. Ice, 555 U.S. 160, 167-168, 173-177, 129 S.Ct. 711, 172 L.Ed.2d 517 (2009) (Ice) which p… |
| 19-5647 | Kenneth Randale Door v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting crimes-of-violence criminal-statutory-provisions force-clause sentencing-guidelines state-criminal-offenses statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions substantive-criminal-offenses washington | Whether a state aiding and abetting statute that is broader than generic aiding and abetting and incorporated within the state's substantive criminal … |
| 19-5636 | Roger Garcia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver due-process first-amendment overbreadth-doctrine plea-bargain procedural-bar special-condition special-conditions waiver-of-appeal | 1. Does a waiver of appeal, included in a written plea bargain agreement, procedurally bar the Petitioner's appeal to the Fifth Circuit wherein he arg… |
| 19-5641 | David Anthony Gordon v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-08-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver due-process government-breach judicial-assignment judicial-procedure mandatory-minimum plea-agreement safety-valve sentencing sentencing-discretion | Whether, in reaching the decision to affirm in part and to dismiss in part, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has so far departed from the accepte… |
| 19-5624 | Zachary William Hicks v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-08-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process hicks-factors ineffective-assistance judicial-review sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review sixth-amendment trial-court-discretion | Whether the Trial Court Imposed an Unreasonable Sentence by Failing to Adequately Consider Hicks' Factors and Whether Trial Counsel Rendered Ineffecti… |
| 19-203 | David Greenberg v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-08-16 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review circuit-court-review cooperation-agreement criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing reasonableness reasonableness-of-sentence reasonableness-standard second-circuit sentence-disparity sentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines unwarranted-disparity | Did the Second Circuit err in affirming Petitioner David Greenberg's sentence without addressing (1) the sentencing court's failure to consider the pr… |
| 19-5603 | Jonathan Javier Aleman v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-08-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver certificate-of-appealability collateral-review constitutional-counsel criminal-case-defendant-rights criminal-defense evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement right-to-appeal sentencing sentencing-challenge subject-matter-jurisdiction | 1. This Court provides that a defense attorney must consult with case defendant concerning the defendant's right to appeal and the of waiving that rig… |
| 19-5574 | Anthony Ray Welch v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-13 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law drug-importation drug-offenses fifth-circuit listed-chemicals mens-rea methamphetamine methamphetamine-offense scienter scienter-requirement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Section 2D1.1(b)(5) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines provides that "[i]f (A) the offense involved the importation of ... methamphetamine or … |
| 19-5575 | Antwaine Enta Yarbrough v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-13 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus precedent sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions supreme-court supreme-court-review | Whether this Court should hold the instant petition in light of Shular v. United States, 15-1498, U.S._, _S.Ct. —, 2019 WL 2649851 (June 28, 2019)? |
| 19-5538 | Timothy Jamaras Burns v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus plea-agreement plea-bargaining section-2255 waiver-of-appeal | Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by ruling that Mr. Burns § 2255 claims are barred by the Waiver of Appeal provision in his Plea Agreement. |
| 19-5540 | Thomas Edward Wright v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-08-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process eighth-amendment judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines special-assessment standing statutory-interpretation | Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err in granting the government's motion to dismiss by denying the Petitioner the ability… |
| 19-5505 | Jose Hernandez-Carbajal v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-08-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | I. Whether Petitioner's Sixth Amendment Rights to the Effective Assistance of Counsel Was Violated in the Follow? a) When Counsel Failed to file a Not… |
| 19-5529 | Kendrick Ledelle Dotstry v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-08-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-sentencing dismissed-charges district-court-discretion divisible-elements divisible-offenses felony-enhancement felony-offense misdemeanor-elements sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-misdemeanor | 1. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT CAN ENHANCE A SENTENCE PURSUANT TO UNITED STATES SENTENCING GUIDELINE (U.S.S.G.) PROVISIONS UNDER SECTION 2K2.1(b)(6)(B)… |
| 19-5472 | Martin Avalos-Rico, aka Rolando Blanco-Garcia, aka Oscar Cruz-Tulum, aka Alejandro Tamayo v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-08-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split deportable-offender due-process geographic-disparity immigration immigration-sentencing reentry-offense sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act supervised-release | 1. Whether a district court that imposes supervised release on a deportable offender must specifically tie it to a need for deterrence or protection, … |
| 19-5478 | Wilfredo Roy Madrigal v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-08-06 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | acca career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance-offense eleventh-circuit mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Is a post-2002 conviction for sale of cocaine or possession with intent to sell cocaine in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a "controlled substance of… |
| 19-5465 | Isela Alejandra Campos v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-08-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure district-court district-court-error guideline-range guidelines molina-martinez plain-error plain-error-review prejudice prejudice-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines | When the district court fails to calculate the Guideline range at sentencing, whether the defendant may rely on the district court's error alone to sh… |
| 19-5434 | Juan Fletcher Gordillo v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-08-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-requirements constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit first-impression judicial-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether this Court should review the decision of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals to determine whether the decision in this case of apparent firs… |
| 19-5425 | Damien Riley v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-08-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review career-offender criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process residual-clause sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness united-states-code united-states-v-booker | Whether a sentence imposed under the Career Offender Guidelines is reasonable in light of the subsequent 798 Amendment to the Guidelines, in a case wh… |
| 19-5410 | Charles Borden, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-07-31 | Judgment Issued | Amici (7)Relisted (4)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act due-process mens-rea recklessness retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation use-of-force | 1. Does the "use of force" clause in the Armed Career Criminal Act (the "ACCA"), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i) encompass crimes with a mens rea of mere … |
| 19-5412 | Jean Claude Phillip McKenzie v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-07-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a 6th-circuit appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court history-and-characteristics judicial-discretion nature-and-circumstances sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance | WHETHER THE SIXTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS SUFFICIENTLY DETERMINED THAT THE DISTRICT COURT'S UPWARD VARIANCE IN ITS SENTENCING OF PETITIONER BY 31 MON… |
| 19-5420 | Kendrick Terrell v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error prior-charges sentence-enhancement sentencing sentencing-calculation sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | Whether the Petitioner's Sixth Amendment Rights were violated by plain error made in calculating Petitioner's sentence, and the numerous ways that Pet… |
| 19-5422 | Michael A. Webb v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | adam-walsh-act adam-walsh-child-protection-and-safety-act constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy ineffective-assistance plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Was petitioner, Michael A. Webb, subjective to ineffective assistance of counsel or deficient representation by defense counsel in a prosecution? Was… |
| 19-5350 | Stevie Elbert Jones v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-26 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | career-offender crime-of-violence federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states texas-robbery ussg-4b1.1 ussg-4b1.2 | Whether, after Stokeling v. United States , __U.S.__, 139 S.Ct. 544 (2019), the Texas offense of robbery satisfies the definition of "crime of violenc… |
| 19-5300 | Fremo Santana v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-07-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination guideline-range ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-proceedings | WHETHER DEFENSE COUNSEL'S PERFORMANCE WAS CONSTITUTIONALLY INEFFECTIVE FOR ERRONEOUSLY MISCALCULATING PETITIONER'S GUIDELINE RANGE WHICH WAS THE DECID… |
| 19-5346 | Jose Martinez v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-07-25 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | acquitted-conduct burden-of-proof buyer-seller-defense criminal-conviction cross-examination drug-conspiracy due-process jury-instructions jury-trial sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | 1. A writ of certiorari is requested to determine whether this Court's decisions to allow district courts to use acquitted conduct in imposing sentenc… |
| 19-5307 | James D. Brigman v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-07-24 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-justice criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness | I. Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidel… |
| 19-5316 | Abelee Bronson v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-07-24 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing criminal-sentencing-guidelines-mandatory habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-guidelines sessions-v-dimaya void-for-vagueness | I. Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the analogous residual clause in the mandatory guidel… |
| 19-5272 | Pereneal Kizzee v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-appeals criminal-procedure-error-correction criminal-sentencing federal-appeals federal-law felony-offense fifth-circuit firearm-possession guidelines-enhancement judicial-discretion judicial-integrity plain-error plain-error-review sentencing-guidelines | Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law when it refused to exercise its discretion to correct the forfeited error that seriously affected the f… |
| 19-5262 | Eulos Ceasar Knight v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-22 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-error criminal-record due-process guidelines johnson-v-united-states ninth-circuit residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-tucker welch-v-united-states | Where sentencing is imposed based on misinformation of constitutional magnitude regarding the import of the defendant's criminal record, did the Ninth… |
| 19-5268 | Thomas Bois v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-07-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | assault-with-dangerous-weapon crime-of-violence enumerated-offenses federal-sentencing force-clause massachusetts-assault massachusetts-assault-with-dangerous-weapon massachusetts-law sentence-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Where the Massachusetts offense of "Assault with a Dangerous Weapon," Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 265 § 15B, may be committed merely by means of an offensive … |
| 19-5274 | Anthony James Hill v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-22 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act collateral-relief constitutional-error criminal-record due-process misinformation ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-tucker | Where sentencing is imposed based on misinformation of constitutional magnitude regarding the import of the defendant's criminal record, did the Ninth… |
| 19-104 | Flavio Tamez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-22 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | appeal-waiver appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability collateral-attack constitutional-effectiveness criminal-defendant-waiver due-process immigration-consequences ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jae-lee-v-united-states sentencing-consequences waiver-of-rights | 1. The courts of appeals are divided over whether a criminal defendant's generic waiver of his right to appeal or bring a collateral attack can knowin… |
| 19-5251 | Thomas Cascio v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | below-guidelines below-guidelines-sentence criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion due-process prison-time rehabilitation rehabilitative-needs sentencing sentencing-guidelines tapia-error tapia-v-united-states | 1. Should certiorari be granted to find that a Tapia error occurs anytime a district court considers rehabilitative needs in imposing prison time, eve… |
| 19-5259 | Edgar Armand Hernandez-Castillo v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553 criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion jury-trial sentencing-determination sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-18-usc-3553 statutory-minimum | 1. Whether district courts may determine without the aid of a jury that a sentence above the statutory minimum is "not greater than necessary " to ach… |
| 19-5216 | Nicholas Pagliuca v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-07-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plain-error plea-bargaining rule-11 vonn-v-united-states | Whether the plain error standard of Vonn/Dominguez Benitez applies in the context of violations of Fed.R.Crim.P. 11(b)(1)(N), where the defendant rais… |
| 19-5219 | Bobby G. Pullen v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-07-17 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 28-usc-2255 circuit-split criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 criminal-sentencing guidelines-interpretation habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-guidelines successive-habeas-petitions successive-motion vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness | I. When a court of appeals grants authorization to file a successive motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255(h)(2), does 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(4) permit a distric… |
| 19-5182 | Geovanny Antonio Loyola-Villegas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-16 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review empirical-basis federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plain-error presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines | 1. Whether a formal objection after pronouncement of sentence is necessary to invoke appellate reasonableness review of the length of a defendant's se… |
| 19-5197 | Eric T. Roden v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal article-iii-judge criminal-defendant criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion ninth-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines waiver | WHETHER THE NINTH CIRCUIT PANEL CORRECTLY CALCULATED GUIDELINES RANGE FOR USE AT A FEDERAL SENTENCING HEARING. |
| 19-5202 | Doroteo Zambrano-Ruiz v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-authority circuit-split federal-sentencing guidelines judicial-review molina-martinez molina-martinez-v-united-states plain-error-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Should the Court address the division of circuit authority over the Court's application of plain-error review in Molina-Martinez v. United States when… |
| 19-5159 | Quinetta Grant v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | should this Court vacate and remand for reconside was Ms Grant denied her rights under U.S.S.G. § 1 binding-authority criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-plain-error-sentencing-right-to criminal-procedure-supervisory-power-conviction-se due-process judicial-discretion mail-fraud plain-error right-to-be-present sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-relevant-conduct-scope-of-cr sentencing-procedure Where Ms Grant's sentence was enhanced by attribut Where multiple additional errors affected petition | 1) Where the Court of Appeals failed to consider binding authority holding that a defendant's absence from a material sentencing proceeding constitute… |
| 19-5128 | Robert Vincent Salcedo v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split direct-appeal discretionary-sentencing discretionary-sentencing-authority non-retroactive-amendment nonretroactive-amendment remand-for-resentencing resentencing retroactivity sentencing-guidelines | When a non-retroactive amendment to the United States Sentencing Guidelines takes effect after a defendant is sentenced but while his direct appeal is… |
| 19-5096 | Nicholas Rivera v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender career-offender-enhancement categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law federal-law pennsylvania-law predicate-offense sentencing-guidelines | Does the categorical approach apply in determining whether an offense qualifies as a predicate for the career-offender enhancement under the Sentencin… |
| 19-5108 | Donald Covington v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourth-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines special-assessments standing statutory-claims | Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err in granting the government's motion to dismiss by denying the Petitioner the ability… |
| 19-5112 | Rafael Jacob Stoffel v. Florida | Florida | 2019-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-victim mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines sexual-assault sexual-offense sexual-offenses | Whether a minimum mandatory sentence of twenty-five years' imprisonment imposed for the offense of touching a minor's breast violates the prohibition … |
| 19-5083 | Aaron Clayton McVea v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-sentencing empirical-basis fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-vs-second-circuit judicial-review methamphetamine-sentencing presumption-of-reasonableness second-circuit sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines | Is a sentence imposed under the methamphetamine sentencing guideline –a guideline crafted without benefit of Sentencing Commission expertise or empiri… |
| 19-5089 | Clifford B. Gandy, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-05 | Denied | IFP | categorical-approach crime-of-violence divisible-offense divisible-statute modified-categorical-approach nolo-contendere physical-force plea-bargaining sentencing-guidelines shepard-documents | I Where a divisible offense may be committed two ways, one of which satisfies the "crime of violence" element of physical force, and one of which does… |
| 19-5071 | Erwin Burley v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion eleventh-circuit judicial-discretion sentencing-explanation sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines supervisory-power upward-variance | Whether this Court should exercise its supervisory power and grant review because the Eleventh Circuit has permitted an upward variance sentence almos… |
| 19-5038 | Donald Willems v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver constitutional-protections contract-law criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement right-to-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial | 1. Does an Appeal Waiver which is contained within a Plea Agreement toll the filing of a Notice to Appeal under the Sixth Amendments right to a speed… |
| 19-5036 | Craig Alan Toaz v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-07-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | concurrent-sentences concurrent-sentencing criminal-conduct criminal-procedure federal-convictions habeas-corpus habeas-petition judicial-review procedural-grounds sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg-5g1.3 | I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT AND CIRCUIT COURTS ERRONEOUSLY DISMISSED PETITIONER'S HABEAS PETITION UNDER PROCEDURAL GROUNDS, AND IF SO THEN; II. WHETHER T… |
| 19-5026 | Melvin Lewis Andrews v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-court crime-of-violence criminal-law guidelines johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervisory-powers | 1. Should this Court exercise its supervisory powers where a circuit court of appeals continues to allow trial courts to apply "crime of violence" ana… |
| 19-5032 | Tyrone Felder v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-07-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | adjudication adult-conviction adult-convictions career-offender criminal-history criminal-procedure federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation youthful-offender | Whether New York youthful offender adjudications qualify as adult convictions for purposes of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines career offender provis… |
| 19-5003 | Roberto Cruz-Olavarria v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process heightened-scrutiny judicial-discretion offense-seriousness sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review statutory-maximum supervised-release | 1. Whether there is a need for extensive justification and heightened scrutiny when imposing and reviewing sentences at the statutory maximum. 2. Whe… |
| 18-9803 | Salvador Galvan v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553a appeal criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process guidelines procedural-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg-2b1.1 victim victim-definition victim-impact | Whether, in a case involving embezzlement from a municipality, it is procedural error for a district court to consider every resident of the city a vi… |
| 18-9830 | Michael Franklin Einfeldt v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-06-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2255-petition burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines violent-felonies violent-felony | Whether, where the record is unclear, a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petitioner should be required to "affirmatively prove" that the sentencing court relied on th… |
| 18A1368 | Ibrahim McCants v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-06-27 | Presumed Complete | controlled-substance crime-of-violence felon-in-possession motion-to-suppress sentencing-guidelines third-circuit | Question not identified. | |
| 18-1593 | Jose Gracia-Cantu v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-27 | Denied | Response Waived | aggravated-felony circuit-split collateral-consequences crime-of-violence criminal-law-sentencing criminal-sentencing due-process immigration immigration-consequences mootness retroactivity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred as a matter of law in holding that Petitioner's conviction for unlawful entry warranted an… |
| 18-9805 | Keith Wayne Carver, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-06-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | access-device circuit-split criminal-law legislative-intent loss-amount sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation usability | 1. Whether the statutory phrase "can be used" contained in the definition of "access device" at 29 U.S.C. § 1029(e)(1) requires the Government prove u… |
| 18-9807 | Robert Wilson, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-06-26 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 28-usc-2255 acca-enumerated-offense-clause acca-statute criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 due-process habeas-corpus johnson-relief johnson-v-united-states procedural-default residual-clause sentencing sentencing-court sentencing-guidelines violent-felonies violent-felony | (1) Whether, where the record is unclear, a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petitioner should be required to "affirmatively prove" that the sentencing court relied o… |
| 18-9819 | Jose Francisco Rodriguez-Reyes v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-06-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion arrest-consideration arrests-without-convictions criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process excessive-sentence procedural-error sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-methodology substantive-error substantive-review | I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT'S SENTENCING METHODOLOGY WAS PROCEDURALLY AND SUBSTANTIVELY SOUND AND THAT THE DISTRICT COURT DID NOT ABUSE ITS DISCRETI… |
| 18A1365 | Juaquene Solomon v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-06-26 | Presumed Complete | career-offender controlled-substance judicial-discretion plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit | Question not identified. | |
| 18-9790 | Alexander Monzoni v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-sentencing guideline-calculation guidelines judicial-review molina-martinez plain-error plain-error-review prejudice prejudice-prong sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Should the Court address the division of circuit authority over application of the prejudice prong of plain-error review for Guideline error as set ou… |
| 18-9796 | Anthony Bernard Jimerson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-25 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | acca career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance-offense mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Is a post-2002 conviction for sale of cocaine in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a "controlled substance offense" as defined in U.S.S8.G. § 4B1.2(b) … |
| 18-9763 | Stirling Michael Heaton v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-06-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | concurrent-sentences concurrent-sentencing criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing discretion federal-guidelines federal-jurisdiction federal-plea-agreement judicial-discretion modification retroactive-amendment retroactive-guidelines-amendment sentence-concurrency sentencing-guidelines sentencing-modification sentencing-reform-act | (1). In § 3582(c)(2) proceedings to modify a federal sentence in light of a retroactive amendment to the United States Sentencing Guidelines, does the… |
| 18-9772 | William Jerome Howard, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-24 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 21-usc-841 cocaine-possession controlled-substance-offense criminal-law drug-offenses federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines felony-drug-offense florida florida-drug-law mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-4b1.2 | Drug offenses in Florida are unlike most states insofar as in Florida, the prosecution does not have to prove a defendant knew the illicit nature of a… |
| 18A1355 | Richard Johnson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-24 | Presumed Complete | crack-cocaine drug-distribution eleventh-circuit intent-to-distribute school-zone sentencing-guidelines | Question not identified. | |
| 18-9739 | Timothy Paul Malone v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acceptance-of-responsibility application-note application-note-2 chapter-5 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing judicial-interpretation offense-level sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | I. Whether the lower court has misconstrued and misapplied U.S.S.G. Chapter 5, Part A, Application Note 2 by failing to limit the offense level to a l… |
| 18-9742 | Mikle Anthony Butler v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-06-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-evaluation ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-discretion mental-health mental-illness sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Question not identified. |
| 18-9729 | Odell Lameche Overby v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-06-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553 3553(c) appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-obligation due-process judicial-discretion judicial-reasoning nonfrivolous-arguments sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether the district court fulfilled its obligation under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c) to announce the reasons for its sentencing decision where the court neve… |
| 18-9734 | Hector Dominguez-Gabriel, aka Kinko, aka John Richard Bellefleur v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-06-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion compassionate-release criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-courts federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentence-modification sentencing-guidelines sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation | WHETHER THE LOWER COURT(S) ABUSED ITS DISCRETION WHEN IT DENIED APPELLANT SECTION 3582(c)(2) RELIEF? |
| 18-9735 | Carlton Darden v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-06-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 criminal-sentencing dillion-v-united-states district-court-authority due-process evidence judicial-discretion judicial-review new-evidence offense-conduct sentencing-guidelines sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-adams ussg-1b1.10 | Does 18 USC 3582(c)(2) after Dillion give a district corut authority to make additional finding as to offense conduct attributable to a defendant base… |
| 18A1332 | Norge Manduley v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-19 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-violation due-process fair-trial lesser-included-offense post-conviction-relief sentencing-guidelines | Question not identified. | |
| 18-9696 | Jerry Louis Hughes v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-bank-robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) or U.S.S.G. § … |
| 18-9700 | Daniel Gatson v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-06-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2518 aggrieved-person cell-phone-records criminal-procedure Does the District Court have the authority to sent electronic-interception electronic-surveillance expert-testimony expert-testimony-federal-rule-of-evidence-702-scie fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-cell-phone-records-probable-cause sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-upward-departure-district-co standing standing-aggrieved-person-electronic-interception- Whether acquiring a person's past movements throug Whether an expert's testimony that has never been | I. Whether the "target " of an electronic interception, whom voice was heard in intercepted conversations have "standing " as an "aggrieved person " u… |
| 18-9703 | Milton Terry Kelton v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-06-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | base-offense-level criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plain-error sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | WHETHER THE HONORABLE JUDGE BRIAN C. WIMES AND THE U.S. ATTORNEY JAMES BOHLING UTILIZE TWO-INAPPLICABLE STATUTORY ENHANCEMENTS ENACTED BY THE UNITED S… |
| 18-9658 | Eric Daniel Doyle v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing grouping guidelines judicial-discretion legal-calculation procedural-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum total-punishment | Whether due process requires the correct calculation of Doyle's Guidelines sentencing range. |
| 18-9691 | Dwayne Lee Stallings v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-06-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-32-violations criminal-rule false-statement false-statements federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure obstruction-of-justice plain-error plain-error-analysis sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure standard-of-review structural-error | Whether the Court's plain error analysis is properly applied to violations of Fed. R. Crim. P. 32(i)(1)(A), and, if so, whether such violations are st… |
| 18-9692 | Jody Lanardo White v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-17 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error preservation-of-error reasonableness-of-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness standard-of-review | Whether challenges to the reasonableness of a sentence must be preserved by specific objection? |
| 18-9677 | Martin Arreola Zavala v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-06-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acceptance-of-responsibility contested-cases criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process evidence evidence-determination federal-courts federal-sentencing legal-sufficiency quantity-determinations sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence | 1. WHETHER THIS COURT SHOULD GRANT CERTIORARI TO ADDRESS THE PROPER APPLIATION OF LAW TO FACT RELATING TO SUFFICIENCY OF THE EVIDENCE FOR QUANTITY DET… |
| 18-9684 | David Prien-Pinto v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process federal-statute mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation stolen-firearm | Does the commentary at U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1, Application Note 8, which does not require a mens rea to impose the stolen firearm enhancement at U.S.S.G. § … |
| 18-9638 | Jose Luis Barboza, Jr. v. Texas | Texas | 2019-06-12 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence-tampering free-speech gang-membership patent prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing-guidelines standing trial-fairness | for a new judge in the trial do to the fact that there was no proff ot that Statment from defendant. also defendant was charged in a dubble jeopardy … |
| 18-9639 | Dustin E. Ash v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-06-12 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP | circuit-split crimes-of-violence criminal-conviction criminal-law-sentencing criminal-sentencing due-process federal-firearms-law federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines reckless-crime reckless-crimes sentencing-guidelines ussg-4b1.2 violent-crimes | Whether reckless crimes, like Mr. Ash's Kansas reckless aggravated battery conviction, qualify as crimes of violence under USSG § 4B1.2. |
| 18-9641 | Clifford Brigham v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum substantive-reasonableness | Whether the imposition of the statutory maximum, 60-month term was substantively unreasonable. |
| 18-9604 | Reitilly Fuentes Ramos v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance criminal-procedure dangerous-weapon enhancement pellet-gun sentencing-guidelines ussg-2d1.1 | Whether the District Court calculated Mr. Fuentes-Ramos's Sentencing Guidelines when it applied a two-level enhancement pursuant to USSG §2D1.1(b)(1) … |
| 18-9578 | James Jacob Parrish, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-06-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process firearm-enhancement ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-conviction procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-departure sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure sentencing-reasonableness sentencing-variance sixth-amendment substantive-reasonableness | Whether Parrish's sentence was procedurally and substantively unreasonable because the district court imposed an unsupported departure and/or variance… |
| 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… |
| 18-9589 | Nicholas Bradley Gilbert v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-07 | GVR | IFP | appellate-review criminal-penalties criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion felon-possession interstate-commerce sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness | 1. Whether substantive reasonableness review requires or permits the courts of appeals to "substantively second guess" the district court and/or to "r… |
| 18-9563 | Cody Shane Sorrels v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553 criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-sentencing judicial-discretion jury-trial sentencing sentencing-determination sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-18-usc-3553 statutory-interpretation statutory-minimum | 1. Whether district courts may determine without the aid of a jury that a sentence above the statutory minimum is "not greater than necessary " to ach… |
| 18A1277 | Anthony Wayne Bettcher v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-06-06 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split crime-of-violence force-clause mens-rea reckless-offense sentencing-guidelines | Question not identified. | |
| 18-9536 | Shawn J. Gieswein v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-06-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel resentencing second-amendment sentencing-guidelines upward-variance witness-tampering | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit erroneously denied Certificate of Appealability in Mr. Gieswein's case. Was Mr. Gies… |
| 18-9549 | Mauricio Lucas-Lopez v. Tony Trierweiler, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-06-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment disproportionate-sentence eighth-amendment federal-court-decisions federal-courts guidance-needed mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence proportionality sentencing sentencing-guidelines | A. IS PETITIONER'S TWENTY-FIVE YEAR MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCE DISPROPORTIONATE TO THE OFFENSE COMMITTED VIOLATING THE EIGHTH AMENDMENT OF THE UNITED … |
| 18-9493 | Jose Santillan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether (as the D.C., Second, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuits hold, see United States U. Price, 409 F.3d 436, 444 (D.C. Cir. 2005; United … |
| 18-9506 | Kenyon Raheen Gadsden v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-05-31 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 28-usc-2255 career-offender constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness | 1. Whether a motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, filed within one year of, Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) and claiming that Johnson inval… |
| 18-9432 | Joseph Frank Rowe v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-05-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-bank-robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) or U.S.S.G. § … |
| 18-9459 | Trinidad Nanez-Rivera v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-05-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-common-law mitigating-circumstances sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness tenth-circuit within-guideline-sentences within-range-sentence | Have the length of within-guideline sentences become effectively unreviewable in practice, and is Mr. Nanez-Rivera's sentence near the top of the rang… |
| 18-9466 | Paulito Govea-San Roman v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crime-of-violence criminal-law disability senior-victim sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-2l1.2 statutory-interpretation stokeling-precedent stokeling-v-united-states texas-robbery ussg-2l1.2 | Whether, after Stokeling v. United States, _U.S._, 139 S.Ct. 544 (2019), the Texas offense of robbery by inflicting injury against a senior or disable… |
| 18-9467 | Koran McKinley Allen v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-05-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-2113a-d 18-usc-924 18-usc-924c3a bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-bank-robbery physical-force sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) or U.S.S.G.… |
| 18-9469 | Paul Melvin Watson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-05-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-4a1.2 18-usc-924 bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-bank-robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u-s-s-g-4a1-2 | Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) or U.S.S.G. § … |
| 18-1476 | Randy Lee Carney v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-05-28 | Denied | Response Waived | alternative-sentence alternative-sentencing appellate-review career-offender circuit-split collateral-consequences criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion guidelines harmless-error judicial-discretion judicial-error legal-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-error united-states-v-vonn | When sentencing defendants, some district courts announce that they would impose the same length of imprisonment even if their conclusions of law and … |
| 18-9379 | Paul A. Light v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-05-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography criminal-sentencing ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-bias non-contact-offenders reasonableness recusal second-circuit sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines | I. Whether a sentence imposed pursuant to the child pornography Sentencing Guidelines, on a man whose crime was viewing pornography alone in his home,… |
| 18-9354 | Donald Reddick v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-05-21 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-2113(a) alamendarez-torres-apprendi apprendi categorical-approach constitutional-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-bank-robbery mathis mathis-doctrine prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines | Is federal bank robbery as defined in 18 U.S.C. §2113(a) categorically a crime of violence, where the statute does not require an intentional use, att… |
| 18-9344 | Samuel J. Yarber v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-05-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-922g 18-usc-924c 21-usc-841a conviction-grouping criminal-statute federal-courts federal-law grouping judicial-interpretation sentencing-guidelines united-states-code | Whether counts of conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) and 21 U.S.C. § 841(a) should be grouped under the United States Sentencing Guidelines, U.S.S.G.… |
| 18-9322 | Edward Ray Crosby v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law disability judicial-review senior-victim sentencing sentencing-guidelines stokeling-precedent stokeling-v-united-states united-states-sentencing-commission ussg-4b1.2 | Whether, after Stokeling v. United States , __U.S .__, 139 S.Ct. 544 (2019), the Texas offense of aggravated robbery by inflicting injury against a se… |
| 18-9336 | Saul Elias Camilo v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-05-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 appellate-review district-court due-process fair-administration-of-justice ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain plea-bargaining section-2255 sentencing-guidelines | I Where a plea deal has opposing clauses, is such confusion sufficient to reach the bar for appellate review in a §2255 process when ineffective ass… |
| 18-9300 | Devon Waters, aka Devon Jones v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-05-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver appellate-review career-offender crime-of-violence criminal-defendant-appeal-waiver criminal-procedure drug-distribution drug-distribution-offense sentencing sentencing-guidelines | I. DOES A CRIMINAL DEFENDANT'S WAIVER OF HIS RIGHT TO APPEAL A WITHIN GUIDELINE'S SENTENCE BAR APPELLATE REVIEW WHERE THE DISTRICT COURT IMPROPERLY SE… |
| 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… |
| 18-9306 | Shawn Sayer v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-05-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process maximum-sentence probation-report procedural-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness upward-variance | I. Whether the district court erred by imposing a sentence without adequate explanation pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c), and the length of which sente… |
| 18-9255 | Santosh Ram v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-05-14 | Rehearing | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-plea mental-competency mental-disease-defect plea-agreement plea-bargaining search-and-seizure sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether there was violation of due process of law by the failure of the trial court to order the mental competency evaluation and/or conduct mental co… |
| 18-9266 | Daniel Rodriguez v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-05-14 | GVR | IFP | 18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924(c)(3)(B) categorical-approach conduct-based-approach constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process johnson-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness | Petitioners were convicted of conspiring to commit Hobbs Act robbery and conspiring to possess a firearm in furtherance of crimes of violence. The dis… |
| 18-9245 | Martin Paul De-La-Rosa v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-history drug-quantity due-process federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines guideline-calculation judicial-review methamphetamine section-2d1.1 section-4a1.1 section-4a1.2 sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | The Court of Appeals erred by not requiring the District Court to correctly apply the Federal Sentencing Guidelines. Specifically, the sentencing cour… |
| 18-9233 | Michael Perales v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-appeals criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process plain-error procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-explanation sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure | Is a district court's gross failure to explain an above-range sentence or to respond to arguments for a lesser sentence reversible on plain error? Mu… |
| 18-9213 | James Paine v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-05-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conviction-analysis criminal-history criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation perceived-seriousness point-calculation sentencing-guidelines seriousness similar-offenses u.s.s.g.-§4a1.2(c) united-states-sentencing-guidelines | Should the court analyze whether a conviction is similar to the offenses listed in U.S.S.G. §4A1.2(c) as a group or solely for perceived seriousness w… |
| 18-9216 | Klark Deziray Hopkins v. California | California | 2019-05-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appeal-waiver constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance liberty plea-agreement presumption-against-waiver property right-to-appeal | 1. Do the presumption against waiver of fundamental constitutional rights and the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause's guaranty against deprivati… |
| 18-9217 | Kirk Lurton Grummitt, et al. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-05-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act career-offender-guidelines collateral-review criminal-procedure federal-habeas-corpus johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statute-of-limitations | (1) Whether the "right" in Johnson, which invalidated the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act, triggers this statute of limitations for a… |
| 18-9168 | Melissa Owens v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-05-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights controlled-substances criminal-history drug-trafficking due-process equal-protection plea-agreement racial-discrimination school-desegregation sentencing sentencing-guidelines voting-rights | Question not identified. |
| 18-9205 | Antonio Ballesteros v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause confrontation-clause-6th-amendment criminal-procedure importation machine-generated-data sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment strict-liability | I. Whether GPS Data prepared specifically for an ongoing investigation and culled from several databases is machine generated data that implicates the… |
| 18-9154 | Jeffrey William Smith v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2019-05-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure-criminal constitutional-rights criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jury-instructions life-imprisonment life-sentence mitigating-factors sentencing sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation | ATEPTED CAPITAL CASE THE INSTRUCTON ANO GIVE IT IN THE PROPER FORM; CITEDIN) "WHALEY V. COMMONDEALh, 214 VA.353 (1973) AND IN " FI5hBACK v. COMMONWEG… |
| 18-9161 | Robert Leonard Wood v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-05-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review beckles-precedent beckles-v-united-states criminal-law johnson johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness | Whether the Court should resolve the question left open by Beckles v. United States, 137 S. Ct. 886 (2017), that continues to divide the courts of app… |
| 18-9180 | Cesar Arce-Hernandez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-05-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver criminal-justice-act criminal-procedure garza-v-idaho indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining pretrial-proceedings right-to-counsel sixth-amendment | I. Does a Sixth Amendment claim of ineffectiveness of assistance of counsel during pretrial proceedings survive a general waiver of the right to appea… |
| 18-9069 | Hector Rengifo v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-05-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-split civil-procedure controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment standing supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-winstead | Whether two United States Court of Appeals has entered a decision in conflict with relevant decision of this Court. Whether Pennsylvania's statute fo… |
| 18-9085 | Juan Antonio Hunter v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-05-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acceptance-of-responsibility base-offense-level criminal-appeal criminal-procedure-sentencing criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion federal-sentencing-guidelines first-step-act sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum u.s.s.g.-5g1.1(a) | WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION BY DEDUCTING THE THREE POINTS AWARDED THE PETITIONER FOR HIS ACCEPTANCE OF RESPONSIBILITY WHEN THOSE … |
| 18-9086 | Roel Daniel Galvan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | carachuri-rosendo-v-holder criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process felon-in-possession felony firearm-possession hypothetical-facts misdemeanor misdemeanor-predicate predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-enhancement sixth-amendment united-states-sentencing-guidelines | WHETHER THE FOUR LEVEL ENHANCEMENT FOR POSSESSING A FIREARM IN CONNECTION WITH ANOTHER FELONY OFFENSE PURSUANT TO U.S.S.G. §2K2.1(b)(6)(B) APPLY WHEN … |
| 18-9106 | Daqone Lentell Williams v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-05-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender career-offender-predicate felony-complaints modified-categorical-analysis modified-categorical-approach prior-conviction sentencing-court sentencing-court-consideration sentencing-guidelines shepard-analysis shepard-v-united-states sixth-amendment unadopted-assertions | Whether a sentencing court may consider felony complaints, with unadopted assertions, under Shepard v. United States, 544 U.S. 13 (2005), when that co… |
| 18-9060 | Bruce Wayne Harrison v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-05-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | amendment-599 criminal-law due-process ex-post-facto higher-sentence judicial-discretion pre-2011-sentence retroactivity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g-1b1.10 | This Court provides that the Ex Post Facto Clause applies to any change in the law that creates a significant risk of a higher sentence, including cha… |
| 18-9026 | Arrez Meliton-Salto v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-04-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court guidelines-range molina-martinez-v-united-states plain-error prejudice record-silence sentencing sentencing-guidelines | When the district court fails to calculate the guideline range at sentencing, whether the defendant may rely on the district court's error alone to sh… |
| 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 | 1. May a conviction baded dn a unconstitutional hard o life Senfence be overturned at any time? 2. May this Courts decisionin Apprendi ar to what con… |
| 18-9010 | Joel Augutuk Mayokok v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-04-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-error re-sentencing sentence-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness unsupported-enhancement | I. Did the District Court's decision at re-sentencing to re-impose the same 240-month sentence it initially imposed, where the Court had erred in its … |
| 18-8985 | Michael Johnson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-04-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split eighth-circuit extraordinary-circumstances extraordinary-variance gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion major-departure minor-departure sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-review sentencing-variances standard-of-review | Whether the Eighth Circuit's test that "extraordinary variances do not require extraordinary circumstances" conflicts with this Court's mandate "that … |
| 18-8996 | Zack Zafer Dyab v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-04-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | amount-of-loss appellate-review court-discretion criminal-sentencing illegal-sentence judicial-discretion legal-error loss-calculation plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-limitation statutory-limitations | 1 - Does the miscalculation of the amount of loss as applied to the sentencing guidelines represent an illegal sentence, and plain error that the Cour… |
| 18-8978 | Rico Montell Reid v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-04-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-11 defendant-rights district-court due-process judicial-coercion judicial-discretion plea-agreement plea-bargaining presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines withdrawal-of-plea | Whether Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11 prohibits a district court from discussing sentencing options with a defendant at the sentencing hearing… |
| 18-8957 | Scott Matthew Goss v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-04-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process federal-courts sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines weapon-possession | 1. May a court accept a mere allegation of possession of a weapon as satisfaction of the Government's initial burden of proof requirement supporting t… |
| 18-8885 | Jose Roman v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-04-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-activity criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-offense fifth-circuit-interpretation firearm-enhancement firearms foreseeability presumption presumption-of-use sentencing-guidelines tools-of-the-trade | WHETHER THE GUIDELINES ARE MISAPPLIED LINER 2D1.1 (b)(1) BY MAKING A GENERAL PRESUMPTION THAT FIREARMS ARE "TOOLS OF THE TRADE" AND THAT ALWAYS IS FOR… |
| 18-8846 | Silvio Lopez Cuellar v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-04-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-appeal sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation waiver-of-rights | Does a defendant's plea agreement waiver of the statutory right of a sentencing appeal preclude appellate review of the sentence even where the distri… |
| 18-8854 | Steve Zinnel v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-04-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bankruptcy-fraud bankruptcy-schedules constructive-amendment due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-fact-finding sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment stirone-v-united-states wamu-personal-checking-account | Whether there was an unconstitutional constructive amendment or prejudicial variance that tainted all counts, caused by the confluence of the governnn… |
| 18-8855 | Eric A. Hicks v. United States | District of Columbia | 2019-04-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review constitutional-error criminal-procedure guidelines molina-martinez molina-martinez-standard molina-martinez-v-united-states prejudice prejudice-standard procedural-default sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether the court of appeals' decision conflicts with this Court's decision in Molina-Martinez v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 1338 (2016), in concluding… |
| 18-8821 | Sealed Appellant v. Sealed Appellee | Fifth Circuit | 2019-04-15 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-3582 18-usc-3582c2 5k1.1-motion criminal-sentencing judicial-discretion koons-v-united-states mandatory-minimum sentence-reduction sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines substantial-assistance | Can a defendant receive a 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) sentence reduction when the district court discarded the mandatory minimum because of a substantial-a… |
| 18-8825 | Timeiki Hedspeth v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-04-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal criminal-history criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process evidentiary-rulings fair-trial federal-sentencing-guidelines offense-level reasonable-doubt restitution sentencing sentencing-guidelines | 1. Did the District Court use an incorrect criminal history category to sentence Ms. Hedspeth? 2. Did the District Court use an incorrect offense lev… |
| 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… |
| 18-8810 | Pedro Martinez-Negrete v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-04-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-guideline-range clear-error criminal-defendant criminal-procedure defendant-appellant government-response plain-error-review sentencing-guidelines | Where a criminal defendant shows that the district court made a clear legal error when applying the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, but the government res… |
| 18-8792 | Mario Devant Cheers v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-04-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-robbery career-offender constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-precedent mandatory-guidelines mandatory-minimum residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness vagueness-doctrine | In Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) this Court initiated a twisting journey by holding unconstitutional the residual clause of 18 U.S.… |
| 18-8793 | Larry Burstein v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-04-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-proportionality constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing drug-crimes drug-dealing drug-offense due-process eighth-amendment elderly-defendant elderly-offenders non-violent-crime non-violent-offense sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent | WHETHER A FORTY-EIGHT (48) MONTH PRISON SENTENCE FOR A FIRST TIME NON-VIOLENT, DRUG DEALING, SIXTY-NINE (69) YEAR OLD GRANDFATHER, IS UNREASONABLE, VI… |
| 18-8794 | Ricky Raymond Ball v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-04-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process judicial-explanation manifest-injustice plea-agreement plea-bargaining supervised-release | 1. Whether Mr. Ball can be held to his waiver under Fed. R. Crim. P. 11(b)(1)(N) when, rather than informing Mr. Ball of the extent to which he was wa… |
| 18-8749 | Marvin Earl Blanks, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-04-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553 appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-reasoning sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the district court fulfilled its obligation under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c) to announce the reasons for its sentencing decision where the court neve… |
| 18-8725 | Saiydin Abdullan Muhammad v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-04-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender common-law-robbery criminal-law north-carolina north-carolina-law predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether North Carolina common law robbery qualifies as a predicate offense to support a designation of career offender |
| 18-8675 | Joshua Sedillo v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-04-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-precedent criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process gall-v-united-states judicial-review rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance variance | Is the Tenth Circuit precedent allowing a district court to say nothing when a reasonable request for a variance is made at sentencing consistent with… |
| 18-8654 | Karyea Williams v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-04-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach collateral-review descamps mathis Mathis-retroactivity mathis-v-united-states modified-categorical-approach retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines teague Teague-exception | Did The Court Of Appeals err by dismissing the appeal of the District Court's reasoning that Mathis was inapplicable to Karyea Williams on Collateral … |
| 18-8660 | Tyree Mansell v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-04-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acquitted-conduct due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial jury-trial-right sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | Whether the use of acquitted conduct to increase Mr. Mansell's Sentencing violates the Sixth Amendment jury trial right. |
| 18-8601 | Tommy Nelson, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-03-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-intent criminal-sentencing criminal-sentencing-guidelines firearm-enhancement intent robbery security-guard sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-gordon united-states-v-hill weapon-discharge | This Court should grant certiorari because there is a split in the circuits as to the proper application of a 7 level guideline enhancement for the di… |
| 18-8623 | Justin Cole Milam v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-03-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing standard-of-review | I. Are appeal waivers presented in federal criminal plea agreements an unconstitutional overreach by the Government preventing review of constitutiona… |
| 18-8632 | Marcos Lopez-Guzman v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-03-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 appellate-review criminal-sentencing judicial-discretion plain-error retroactivity sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-reduction,18-usc-3582,amendm sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether the United States Court of Appeals committed a clear error denying Appellant's two-level reduction pursuant to § 3582(C)(2) and Amendment 782;… |
| 18-8634 | Andrew A. Chavis v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-03-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-robbery attempted-armed-robbery career-offender crime-of-violence johnson-ruling mandatory-guidelines post-Johnson pre-Booker sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | WHETHER PRIOR CONVICTION IN ILLINOIS FOR ATTEMPTED ARMED ROBBERY CATEGORICALLY QUALIFIES AS A CRIME OF VIOLENCE UNDER THE 4131.1 CAREER OFFENDER PRE-B… |
| 18-8558 | Jorge Edwin Rivera v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guidelines judicial-discretion plain-error plain-error-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights supervised-release | When a district court imposes a term of supervised release double that of the Guidelines range without first calculating the range or providing an exp… |
| 18-8521 | Angel Galan v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-03-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearm-offense ineffective-assistance obstruction-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance substantive-reasonableness upward-variance | WHETHER THE SENTENCING COURT'S UPWARD VARIANCE FROM 71 MONTHS TO 84 MONTHS FOR FELON IN POSSESSION OF A FIREARM WAS SUBSTANTIVELY UNREASONABLE WHETHE… |
| 18-8531 | Omar Sharif Beasley v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-03-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review assistance-evaluation court-of-appeals fair-sentencing judicial-discretion reasonableness-of-sentence record-of-reasons record-of-sentencing-reasons sentence-reasonableness sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-and-policies statutory-factors statutory-sentencing-factors | I. Did the District Court For The District of Minnesota (district court) fail to give proper consideration to sentencing guidelines and policies while… |
| 18-8504 | John Whaley v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-03-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process imprisonment procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines supervised-release | Whether, on remand, imposition of the same twenty-five year term of imprisonment and maximum ter superviselease was bot procurally n ubstantively rabl… |
| 18-8476 | Anthony Grandison v. Maryland | Maryland | 2019-03-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | capital-sentencing collateral-consequences constitutional-due-process criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process harmless-error jury-instructions mitigating-factors sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-proof | 1. Since Maryland Law Prohibits Imposition Of The Death Penalty Without Considering The Presentencing Investigation Report Convictions As Evidence The… |
| 18-8498 | Oryan Yazzie v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-03-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process guideline-range mental-health sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness supervised-release | Is a supervised release revocation sentence of a length more than double the top of the advisory Guideline range substantively unreasonable if the dis… |
| 18-8451 | Luciano Garcia v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-03-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process gall-v-united-states judicial-review rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance tenth-circuit variance | Is the Tenth Circuit precedent allowing a district court to say nothing when a reasonable request for a variance is made at sentencing consistent with… |
| 18-8404 | Adrian Laroy Seymore v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process evidence evidentiary-standard government-evidence presentence-investigation-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review | Whether a District Court erred in applying a guideline enhancement based solely on allegations contained in the Presentence Investigation Report after… |
| 18-8435 | Roy Allen Green v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-03-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review constitutional-vagueness due-process mandatory-sentencing residual-clause retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing-guidelines vagueness | In Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), this Court held unconstitutionally vague the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act ("A… |
| 18-8424 | Keith Jenkins v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2019-03-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process excessive-punishment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel multiple-offender sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Is The Trial Court In Error By Denying The Motion To Quash Based On Errors In The Multiple Offender Charng, Pleading And Proof? Did The Multiple Bill … |
| 18-8390 | Jose Salvador Lantigua v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-U.S.C.-455(a) 28-usc-455 court-victim criminal-procedure due-process judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal sentencing sentencing-guidelines victim-of-crime | Whether, consistent with due process and 28 U.S.C. § 455(a), a sentencing judge should recuse himself when he expressly views his own court as a "vict… |
| 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 | 1. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN DEPARTING UPWARD UNDER THE UNITED STATES SENTENCING GUIDELINES §4A1.3 RESULTING IN AN UPWARD DEPARTURE DURING T… |
| 18-8359 | Jarrett Terrell Edwards v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review career-offender criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fourth-circuit guideline-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g-4b1.1 u.s.s.g.-4b1.1(a) | Whether the United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals committed error by sentencing the Petitioner as a career offender pursuant to U.S.S.G. § 4B1… |
| 18-8362 | Pedro Rodriguez-Cortez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553 9th-circuit appellate-review criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines immigration-offense sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness supervised-release | Whether a combined 70-month sentence on an immigration offense and the underlying supervised release violation was substantively unreasonable? |
| 18-8349 | Daverne Michael Foy v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appeal-waiver civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-proceedings plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights waiver | 1. In Rosales-Mireles, this Court struck down the court of appeals' heightened "shock the conscience" standard for a Rule 52(b) plain error review, an… |
| 18-8352 | Lino Hernandez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a 18-usc-3582(c)(2) 3553(a)-factors 3582(c)(2)-motion amendment-782 amendment-782-788 criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion procedural-reasonableness sentence-disparity sentence-reduction sentencing-disparities sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the District Court Committed substantive error when failed to impose a sentence that was sufficient but not greater than necessary to comply w… |
| 18-8355 | Mario Chester Tabron v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burglary burglary-element criminal-enhancement criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction fourth-amendment fourth-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. Did the Fourth Circuit and the Middle district Of North Carolina (Greensboro) err in affirming the USSG 2K2.1(b)(6)(B) 4-Level enhancement without … |
| 18-8325 | Amaury Villa v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-03-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance sentencing sentencing-calculation sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment standard-of-review trial-procedure u-s-sentencing-guidelines | 1. Whether appellant received the effective assistance of counsel? 2. Whether appellant's sentence was properly calculated? |
| 18-8306 | Billy Gene Howard v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-03-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acca acca-clause armed-career-criminal-act concurrent-sentencing criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus johnson-relief johnson-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines violent-felony | (1) Whether, where the record is unclear, a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petitioner should be required to "affirmatively prove" that the sentencing court relied o… |
| 18-8309 | Darwin Zoch v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-03-06 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | acca-interpretation armed-career-criminal-act due-process due-process,sentencing,acca,johnson-v-united-state habeas-corpus johnson-relief johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation violent-felony | (1) Whether, where the record is unclear, a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petitioner should be required to "affirmatively prove" that the sentencing court relied o… |
| 18-8311 | Ademolla Wahhed Adeyemi, Jr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924c bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-bank-robbery general-intent-crime sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation violent-physical-force | Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) or U.S.S.G. § … |
| 18-8314 | Jose Nino-Carreon v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-03-06 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion guidelines plain-error sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights | Whether a court of appeals that finds a plain Guideline error should ordinarily find an effect on the defendant's substantial rights if the district c… |
| 18-8268 | Alandis D. Patterson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-03-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-history criminal-procedure drug-possession due-process presentence-investigation sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance sexual-abuse | 1. Did the trial court err in overruling the Petitioner's objection to the Application of a two-level increase pursuant to U.S.S.G. Section 2G1.1(c)(1… |
| 18-8269 | Alejandro Casillas Prieto v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-03-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | amendment-782 chapter-5-part-a criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process guideline-range guidelines life-imprisonment notice offense-level sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Does the sentencing judge's oral pronouncement of the offense level 43 control? Is the sentencing judge require to give notice, to Chapter 5, Part A,… |
| 18-8234 | Jeremy Snider v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 advisory-guidelines advisory-sentencing-guidelines circuit-court-decision circuit-split cognizable-claims criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 federal-law federal-statute non-constitutional-claims post-conviction-relief sentencing-guidelines sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation | Whether non-constitutional claims for sentencing relief grounded on the advisory Sentencing Guidelines can ever be cognizable under 28 U.S.C. § 2255. |
| 18-8274 | Avniel Awan Anthony v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue obstruction-of-justice probation-department reckless-endangerment sentencing sentencing-enhancement Sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines unproven-conduct Upward-variance | The Probation Department assessed the Movant with two separate enhancements under USSG 3C1.1 and 3C1.2 for obstruction of justice and Reckless Endange… |
| 18-8294 | Demetrius Fitzgerald v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acca armed-career-criminal-act crime-of-violence criminal-law deadly-weapon federal-sentencing-guidelines florida-law florida-statute sentencing sentencing-guidelines violent-crime violent-felony | I. Whether the Florida offense of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon in violation of Fla. Stat. § 784.045, is a violent felony as defined by the … |
| 18-8261 | Cordell Berry v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-03-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender career-offender-enhancement certificate-of-appealability collateral-review federal-rules-civil-procedure legal-error mathis-retroactivity mathis-v-united-states procedural-reasonableness rule-59-motion sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-4b1.1 sentencing-guidelines-enhancement sentencing-guidelines-miscalculation | Whether the court of appeals committed clear legal error when it denied a certificate of appealability (COA), on my challenge to the application of a … |
| 18-8264 | Guadalupe Avendano-Vasquez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-03-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure deportation due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release | Whether an appeal waiver precludes review of the sentence of supervised release when the defendant has been deported. Whether an appeal waiver is enf… |
| 18-8265 | Bradford D Vol Allen v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-03-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-843b administrative-law auer-deference categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense notice-and-comment sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation | Whether the Sentencing Commission, without Congressional approval or a notice-and-comment period, may add a crime to the Sentencing Guideline definiti… |
| 18-8183 | Gregory Frank Sperow v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver civil-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fundamental-fairness government-breach government-misconduct plea-agreement property-rights rule-11 waiver waiver-provision | Whether the government can breach a Rule .11(c)(1)(C) plea agreement concerning the return of seized properties and then rely on the agreement's waive… |
| 18-8181 | Feliciano Soto-Lugo v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-02-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure defendant-leniency district-court-discretion due-process judicial-response preservation-of-error reasonableness reasonableness-objection sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review | Must challenges to the district court's failure to respond to a defendant's non-frivolous grounds for leniency be preserved by a separate "reasonablen… |
| 18-8145 | Desmond Farmer v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | amendment-782 assault criminal-classification criminal-history drug-abuse drug-offense drug-offenses due-process equal-protection family-member judicial-discretion non-violent-offense sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction violent-offender | The District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Western Division denied the petitioner a reduction in his sentence under 3582 and Amend… |
| 18-8161 | Kali Lord v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-02-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | above-guidelines-sentence appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion plain-error preservation-of-error procedural-error procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-arguments sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness | Is a district court's gross failure to explain an above-range sentence or to respond to arguments for a lesser sentence reversible on plain error? Mu… |
| 18-8107 | Dheadry Loyd Powell v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-02-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-error drug-quantity due-process grouping grouping-of-counts judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg-1b1 ussg-calculation | Did the District Court err with its finding of a new inaccurate drug quantity? Did the District Court err by not performing separate calculations und… |
| 18-8117 | Brandon Pete v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof constitutional-proportionality juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana offense-level-43 sentencing-guidelines title-18 | I. May the sentence of a juvenile convicted as an adult of a non-premeditated homicide constitutionally start from a guideline of life-without-parole… |
| 18-8131 | Adelfo Pamatmat v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-02-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights drug-quantity evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment sixth-circuit strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel | I. WHETHER PETITIONER RECEIVED THE EFFECTIVE REPRESENTATION OF TRIAL COUNSEL WHEN COUNSEL FAILED TO PROPERLY INVESTIGATE THE CASE AND THE SIXTH CIRCUI… |
| 18-8053 | Malcolm Roland Allen v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3006a 6th-amendment career-offender due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel judicial-proceedings notice-of-appeal prejudice sentencing-guideline sentencing-guidelines | WHETHER at the time of evidentiary hearing was granted to challenge the ineffective counsel's failure to file a Notice of Appeal per Petitioner's requ… |
| 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 | 1. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN SENTENCING MR. BENTLEY TO A STATUTORY MAXIMUM OF 120 MONTHS IN THAT SUCH SENTENCE WAS GREATER THAN NECESSARY TO… |
| 18-8095 | Enrique Gamino-Perez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | WHETHER A CLARIFYING AMENDMENT UNDER UNITED STATES SENTENCING GUIDELINES SHOULD APPLY RETROACTIVELY UNDER 18 USCS 3582(C) |
| 18-8115 | Kenny Daniel Barrios v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment type-c-plea | Whether the failure of counsel to object to inaccurate calculated Sentencing Guidelines is ineffective assistance of counsel, as provided under the Si… |
| 18-8049 | Ramon Montero v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-02-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-circuit harmless-error harmlessness-standard molina-martinez molina-martinez-precedent molina-martinez-v-united-states preserved-error preserved-errors rule-52a sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review | Is the Fifth Circuit correctly conducting its harmlessness inquiry when reviewing preserved Guidelines-calculation errors arising under Rule 52(a) of … |
| 18-8010 | Alimamy Barrie v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | amendment-retroactivity criminal-sentencing direct-appeal resentencing sentence-reduction sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | A. Whether Under 18 U.S.C. S3582 (C) (2) should the Petitioner be eligible for a resentencing when two clariying amendments relevent to his case was e… |
| 18-7995 | Rodney Martin v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-02-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion procedural-error reasonableness-of-sentence section-3553a sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines | L The trial court sentenced Mr. Martin to 168 months in prison, but the court did not adequately address Mr. Martin's arguments or the Section 3553(a)… |
| 18-7964 | Rafael Santos v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-02-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-sentencing drug-trafficking federal-officer firearms motion-for-reduction-of-sentence sentencing-guidelines | WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED WHEN IT DENIED PETITIONER'S SECTION 3582(c)(2) MOTION? |
| 18-7978 | Raymond Amerson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-02-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | all-writs-act audita-querela clarification criminal-procedure jurisdictional-review relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-morgan | Whether an ALL WRITS ACT Petition pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1651 (Audita Querela) fills the GAP where a Defendant [does not] have no other appropriate v… |
| 18-7896 | Ricardo Montanez-Quinones v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-02-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography distribution evidence knowingly-distributed knowledge plea-agreement prosecutorial-discretion sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | What constitutes sufficient evidence of knowledge to support two level enhancement for "knowingly engaging in distribution" of child pornography under… |
| 18-7938 | Alex Quintana-Torres v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-02-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-history criminal-sentencing drug-addiction drug-offense presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness | In Rita v. United States, 551 U.S. 338 (2007), this Court held that an appellate court could presume that a procedurally-reasonable, within-Guidelines… |
| 18-7918 | Rutilio Hernandez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-02-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a 18-usc-924 abuse-of-discretion constitutional-law criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion sentence-reduction sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines statutory-directive statutory-interpretation substantive-error sufficient-but-not-greater-than-necessary | I. Whether the District Court Committed substantive error when failed to impose a sentence that was sufficient but not greater than necessary to compl… |
| 18-7927 | Tyrone Anderson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-02-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender career-offender-enhancement criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington townsend-v-burke | Petitioner presents the question whether his 'trial counsel provided ineffective .assistance of: counsel as required by 'the Sixth Amendment to' the C… |
| 18-7751 | Brian Bolton v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-02-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender career-offender-guideline collateral-review constitutional-law due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-guidelines welch-v-united-states | Whether the governments arguments are incorrectly that the Supreme Court's ruling in Johnson v. United States, 135 s. ct. 2551 (2015), is "procedural-… |
| 18-7862 | Vincent Beatty, aka Jamaal Beatty, aka Vincent Daward Beatty, aka Mozzi v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion advisory-guidelines criminal-history criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing felon-in-possession reasonableness reasonableness-review sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance sua-sponte upward-variance | Whether a sua sponte upward variance sentence is reasonable where the advisory Guideline range accurately reflected the defendant's conduct and prior … |
| 18-7863 | Jeffrey Burris v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553a abuse-of-discretion criminal-sentencing due-process firearms firearms-possession reasonableness reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation unregistered | Whether a sixty-month sentence for the simple possession of unregistered firearms, without any evidence suggesting the defendant was doing anything il… |
| 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 | I. DID THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN AND THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERRONEOUSLY … |
| 18-7818 | Marcos Castaneda v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne-v-united-states criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process judicial-finding jury-trial mandatory-minimum preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Marcos Castaneda admitted by his plea to the elements of conspiring to distribute 500 grams or more of a mixfure or substance containing methamphetami… |
| 18-7827 | Roger L. Kaufman v. Paul S. Kemper, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2019-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-interpretation due-process ex-post-facto federal-guidelines parole parole-eligibility sentencing sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers state-prisoner | Whether a state prisoner is entitled under the Due Process Clause, and the Separation of Powers Doctrine of the United States and Wisconsin Constituti… |
| 18-7832 | Jason Lee Harris v. Karen A. Mullins, Judge, Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-07 | Denied | IFP | access-to-courts appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process federal-law first-amendment in-forma-pauperis ninth-circuit sentencing-guidelines service-of-process standing | they roled that the three strickes proursion under 28 U.S.C.S Pauperis regardin Petitoners civil rights complaint alleging he was blatantly deried the… |
| 18-7783 | Todd Eugene Cannady v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | california-penal-code california-penal-code-211 categorical-approach commentary crime-of-violence johnson johnson-ruling residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-4b1.2 | 1. Can California robbery under California Penal Code § 211 be a crime of violence under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2, where Johnson invalidated the residual clau… |
| 18-7750 | Ronald Morrobel v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-02-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-assault categorical-approach firearms-trafficking possession-of-firearm sentencing-guidelines armed-career-criminal categorical-approach crime-of-violence due-process felony-possession firearm-trafficking florida-aggravated-assault sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | I. Whether The District Court, Erred When It Found That The Petitioner Was An Armed Career Criminal When State Law Clearly Defined Florida Aggravated … |
| 18-7735 | Michael Kenta Davis v. Justin Andrews, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split constitutional-analysis criminal-law due-process mathis-v-united-states retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Question One: WHETHER THE S. C.. CODE ANN 44-53-370 IS OVERLYBROD AND INDIVISBLE AND NO LONGER QUALIFIES IN LIGHT OF BOTH MATHIS V US AND DESCAMPS? … |
| 18-7616 | Rodrigo Tovar Pupo v. United States | District of Columbia | 2019-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal constitutional-issue constitutional-issues criminal-appeal criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal district-court due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel offense-enhancement plea-bargaining sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | If Appeals Court erred by not considering the grounds raised by Appellant and denying his appeal disregarding the Constitutional issues raised by Appe… |
| 18-7715 | Jose Flores v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure district-court-discretion drug-quantity due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure minor-role minor-role-reduction plea-bargaining plea-colloquy rule-11 sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review ussg-3b1.2 | Was the District Court's failure to determine a factual basis, and to insure that defendant understood the nature of the charges, in violation of Rule… |
| 18-7716 | Jesse Ingram, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 3553(a)-factors 5th-amendment appeal appellate-counsel constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactive-review retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1). Is it a Fifth Amendment violation when Petitioners are sentenced to a higher guidline sentence when 18 U.S.C. statute 3553(A) warrants a below gui… |
| 18-7717 | Byrion Demeco Ferguson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 1B1.3 amendment appellate-review constitutional criminal-procedure evidence judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing-guidelines u.s-sentencing-commission u.s.-sentencing-commission | Whether the trial court committed plain error pursuant to Rule 52(b) by admitting insufficient evidence applied by the preamendment 1B1.3 version of t… |
| 18-7726 | Carlton Williams v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender categorical-approach criminal-law federal-criminal-law pattern-of-racketeering predicate-crime racketeering racketeering-activity rico rico-conviction sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Is a sentencing court limited to applying a categorical approach when determining whether a conviction for violating the Federal Racketeer Influence a… |
| 18-7621 | Jacoby Burns v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-01-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act career-offender categorical-analysis criminal-law elements-clause physical-force sentencing sentencing-guideline sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | I. Does a conviction under Georgia's felony obstruction-of-an-officer statute, OCGA § 16-10-24(b), qualify as either a "crime of violence" under the e… |
| 18-7666 | Rowy De Jesus Vasquez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-01-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553 advisory-guidelines criminal-sentencing departure district-court-discretion due-process notice notice-requirement sentencing-departures sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-1b1.1 ussg-5k2.0 | Whether the district court must have provided defendant notice for the grounds for a sentence above the range recommended by the advisory guidelines r… |
| 18-7679 | Jeriton Lavar Curry v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-01-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924(c) appeal-waiver appellate-review constitutional-error criminal-procedure jurisdiction plain-error sentencing sentencing-jurisdiction unconstitutional-sentence | Did the Appeals Court err by granting the Government's motion to enforce an invalid appeal waiver, after determining that Currys' issue was non-frivol… |
| 18-7623 | James Goolsby v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-01-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582-c-2 appellate-procedure dillion-v-united-states exceptional-circumstances judicial-discretion mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentencing misapplication-of-guidelines miscarriage-of-justice official-victim-enhancement recall-of-mandate retroactive-amendment sentencing-guidelines | I. WHETHER THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ABUSED ITS DISCRETION IN REFUSING TO RECALL THE MANDATE ON THE DIRECT APPEAL TO PREVENT A MISCARRIAGE O… |
| 18-7645 | Alhan Sanchez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-01-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-guidelines due-process mcmillan-v-pennsylvania meacham-v-fano minor-role-adjustment mitigating-role preponderance-of-evidence sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-watts vulnerable-victim | The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (sometimes referred to as "the Fifth Circuit" or "the Appellate Court") upheld on appeal a se… |
| 18-7609 | Merlin Alston v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c 18-usc-926b criminal-law-enforcement-officer-exemption criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process firearm-possession firearms law-enforcement sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. Is the conviction of a local poli ce officer, required to carry a service pistol when off duty, excluded from prosecution for violating 18 U.S.C. 9… |
| 18-7585 | Lemuel Gay v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-01-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-court appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court guideline-enhancement guidelines judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing-court sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review | Can the sentencing court's statement —that it would impose the same sentence irrespective of any error in its application of a guideline enhancement —… |
| 18-7588 | Frank Odom, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-01-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver district-court due-process fourth-circuit mitigation mitigation-arguments plea-agreement remand sentencing | Does a plea agreement with an appeal waiver waive the right to obtain a remand requiring the district court to actually consider the defendant's mitig… |
| 18-7511 | Edwin J. Ortiz-Fagot v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-3582-c-2 criminal-statute due-process non-delegation retroactive-application sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation | Does the sentencing court's discretion of setting modification via 3553(A); include deciding whether to retroactively apply the plain language of the … |
| 18-7538 | Jeffrey Russo v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review habeas-corpus johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statute-of-limitations suspension-clause | A motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 is considered timely if filed within one year of the date on which "the right asserted was initially recognized by the… |
| 18-7557 | Terveus Hyppolite v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 career-offender constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing due-process rule-of-lenity sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether Title 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) is unconstitutional in light of Beckles v. United States, 137 S. Ct. 886, 895 (2017)(holding the guidelines are u… |
| 18-7566 | Pedro Goris, aka Pedro Goriz, aka Pedro Abreu v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion appeals appellate-review constitutional-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion reasonableness sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness | Whether Petitioner's sentence was both procedurally and substantively unreasonable. |
| 18-7567 | Ron Collins v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment fair-sentencing-act ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines | I. Whether the court of appeals erred in denying petitioner's application for a certificate of appealability to appeal the district court's denial of … |
| 18-7440 | Christopher Whitman v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-01-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 11th-circuit appeal appellate-procedure conflict-of-interest disqualification due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion juror-bribery plain-error-review sentencing-guidelines standing | Question One The Constitution guarantees a person the effective assistance of counsel for a first appeal of right. Effective counsel necessarily cont… |
| 18-7448 | Charles Foxx v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-01-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act beckles-v-united-states career-offender collateral-review constitutional-law mandatory-guidelines pre-booker retroactive-effect retroactivity sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-vagueness vagueness vagueness-doctrine | 1. Whether U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(a)(2)'s residual clause is void for vagueness vis-à-vis defendants sentenced under the pre-Booker mandatory Guidelines. 2… |
| 18-7453 | Corey Kirkpatrick Sterling v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-01-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-law due-process mandatory-guidelines pre-booker retroactive-effect retroactivity sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-vagueness sentencing-review vagueness vagueness-doctrine | Whether U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(a)(2)'s residual clause is void for vagueness vis-à-vis defendants sentenced under the pre-Booker mandatory Guidelines. Whet… |
| 18-7454 | Tyshaun St. Vallier v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-01-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 18-usc-3582(c)(2) constitutional-statutory-provisions district-court district-court-discretion lodestone lodestone-principle sentence-reduction sentence-reductions sentencing sentencing-decisions sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation third-circuit | Are district courts required to maintain the Sentencing Guidelines as the lodestone of the sentencing decision when ruling on motions for sentence red… |
| 18-919 | Robert R. Davies v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-01-16 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion guidelines-range interest-of-justice presumption-of-reasonableness public-perception sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-intent sentencing-procedures sentencing-reliability unjust-procedures | A criminal sentence is a package of sanctions that the district court utilizes to effectuate its sentencing intent, but a district court's original se… |
| 18-7418 | Derrick T. Seals v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-01-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 851-enhancement ambiguous-plea contract criminal-procedure due-process enhancement government-breach ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines supervised-release | Did government breach plea agreement/contract when defendant never agreed to. enhancement? Was Defendant mislead into plea agreement provisions inclu… |
| 18-7419 | Fausto Becerra v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-01-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | accountability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure drug-offenses drug-quantity due-process maximum-punishment plea-agreement plea-bargain prosecutorial-discretion sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | Because the stipulation in the plea bargain which limited the amount and type of drugs was not followed or advocated by the Government, Mr. Becerra wa… |
| 18-7421 | Torrence Allen v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-01-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-provision certificate-of-appealability constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure habeas-corpus johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines mandatory-sentencing-guidelines retroactivity retroactivity-of-supreme-court-decisions sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness | I. Whether Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), applies retroactively to a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion attacking a sentence imposed under man… |
| 18-7390 | Martin R. Stancik v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appeal-waiver circuit-split constitutional-error constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process sentencing sixth-circuit waiver | Whether a criminal defendant's waiver of his right to appeal a sentence includes a waiver of the right to appeal a later, unforeseen constitutional du… |
| 18-7391 | Gadiel Romero v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment kidnapping kidnapping-offense offense-level ransom-demand sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | I. Is it proper for a sentencing court to apply the substantial 6-level increase to a defendant's offense level contemplated in Section 2A4.1(b)(1) of… |
| 18-7393 | Rodrigo Roman v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process firearm-enhancement firearm-possession guidelines-interpretation sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-enhancement stare-decisis | Petitioner, RODRIGO ROMAN, appealed his ten-year statutory minimum sentence imposed after he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to di… |
| 18-7346 | Mark Raymond Ford, aka Dred, aka Benjamin Lee Green, aka Donald Wray v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | booker-decision criminal-sentencing due-process retroactive-rule retroactivity sentence-modification sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act statutory-interpretation united-states-v-booker | I. Whether The Lower Court Denial Of Modification Of Sentence Under 18 U.S.C. §3582(c)(2) Based On A Mandatory Guidelines Range Departure's Sentence V… |
| 18-7348 | Edgar Arnold Garcia v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 18-USC-3582c2 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing dillon-v-united-states district-court-discretion due-process legal-error sentence-modification sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-methodology statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum | WHETHER, DILLON v. UNITED STATES, 560 U.S. 817 (2010), REQUIRES A DISTRICT COURT TO REEVALUATE ITS ORIGINAL SENTENCING METHODOLOGY IN STEP TWO OF THE … |
| 18-7351 | Rahmad Lashad Geddes v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne appellate-review apprendi civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | 1). Can a court of appeals sanction a lower courts depature from this court's well established percedents that effectively conflates the standard of r… |
| 18-7340 | Eric Dillon v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-01-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split consecutive-sentences criminal-law criminal-procedure-sentencing due-process federal-statute mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-v-battle | SINCE 18 U.S.C. 924(j) Is A DISCRETE OFFENSE THAT DOES NOT CONTAIN A MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCE OR REQUIRE A CONSECUTIVE S,DID THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT APP… |
| 18-7304 | Juan Rodriguez-Mantos v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-law federal-sentencing-guidelines fifth-circuit judicial-review reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness supervisory-power | Whether the impositi on of an outside Guideli nes sentence is reasonabl e when the district court more than triples the already enhanced Guideli nes s… |
| 18-7262 | Artak Ovsepian and Kenneth Wayne Johnson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-01-07 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-u.s.c.-1028a 18-usc-1028a apprendi apprendi-rule criminal-fines criminal-restitution double-counting identity-theft sentencing-guidelines u-s-code u.s.s.g.-2b1.6 | In Southern Union Co. v. United States, 567 U.S. 343, 360 (2012), the Court held "that the rule of Apprendi applies to the imposition of criminal fine… |
| 18-7263 | Gerald Patmon v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-01-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-sentencing deadly-weapon eleventh-circuit enumerated-offenses georgia-assault-statute gonzales-v-duenas-alvarez overbreadth sentencing-guidelines state-statute statutory-interpretation | The question presented by this case is whether the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erroneously affirmed Mr. Patmon's sentence under USSG § 2… |
| 18-7240 | Charles Jermaine King, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-01-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender constitutional-rights criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process guidelines habeas-corpus recidivism recidivist sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | IN ROSALES MIRELES V US, JUSTICE ALITO ASKED DURING THE ORAL ARGUMENTS... "SUPPOSE THERE WAS A QUESTION ABOUT WHETHER A DEFENDANT WAS PROPERLY TREATED… |
| 18-7197 | Johnnie O'Neil Lewis v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-12-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender crime-of-violence generic-robbery minimal-force no-threat-of-violence no-violence robbery sentencing-guidelines split-among-circuits statutory-interpretation | Whether theft offenses requiring no more than minimal force and no violence or threat of violence categorically constitute generic "robbery" for purpo… |
| 18-7138 | Antonio Alvarez-Moreno v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process firearms law-enforcement-notification sentencing-guidelines supervised-release vagueness weapon-possession | Are these conditions unconstitutionally vague? |
| 18-7089 | Esau Milliner v. Kathy Litteral, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2018-12-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver closing-argument confession constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-burglary ineffective-assistance-of-counsel initial-aggressor procedural-bar right-to-appeal right-to-testify self-defense trial-counsel | Whether Petitioner was denied the effective assistance of counsel to which he was constitutionally entitled when trial counsel failed to present readi… |
| 18-7102 | Curtis D. Huling v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-assault controlled-substance-offense crime-of-violence mens-rea mental-state physical-force recklessness sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-4b1.1 voisine-v-united-states | Section 4B1.1(a) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines raises the offense level for a "crime of violence" or "controlled substance offense" commi… |
| 18-7126 | Ishmael Abdullah v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-12-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-assault court-of-appeals crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-guidelines federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-criminal-statute state-statute statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's holding that New Jersey Statute §2C:12-1(b)(2), one of the subsections of New … |
| 18-7077 | JC Christopher Pulham v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-12-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review district-court legal-standard plain-error plain-error-review presumption presumption-of-correctness presumption-of-knowledge sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review | When a district court does not articulate the legal standard it is applying, may an appellate court presume that the district court knew and correctly… |
| 18-7079 | Franklyn Morillo v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-12-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion appellate-waiver certiorari controlled-substances criminal-procedure district-court due-process first-impression first-impression' 'Should certiorari be granted i judicial-discretion knowing-intelligent-voluntary legal-standard plea-bargaining procedural-rights role-enhancement sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review' 'Should certiorari be granted | 1. Should certiorari be granted to decide whether a district court can only ask a Petitioner a single question about an appellate waiver, even though … |
| 18-7084 | Anthony Steven Young v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-12-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion child-pornography close-scrutiny criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion internet-access relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review ussg-2g2.2 | 1. What standard of review applies to the district court's decision to use the guideline for receiving or distributing child pornography to sentence … |
| 18-7067 | Derrick Christopher Johnson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-12-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender criminal-law divisible-statute drug-offense modified-categorical-approach plain-error prior-state-convictions sentencing sentencing-guidelines | WHETHER PETITIONER'S "PRIOR STATE DRUG OFFENSES" QUALIFIED AS ENUMERATED OFFENSES UNDER THE "CAREER CRIMINAM" PROVISION OF THE UNITED STATES SENTENCIN… |
| 18-7068 | Nelson Figueroa v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-12-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne almendarez-torres apprendi apprendi-rule constitutional-protections due-process due-process-clause federal-sentencing-guidelines jury-trial prior-conviction prior-conviction-exception sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | The first question for the Court is, in light of the Guidelines' development into the de facto range of punishment in all but a very small percentage … |
| 18-7072 | Kenneth Harper v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-12-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea harmless-error judicial-error plea-bargaining plea-colloquy rule-11 sentencing-guidelines | Has United States v. Vonn, 535 U.S. 55 (2005), and its progeny stripped the Courts of Appeal of the ability to meaningfully supervise the plea colloqu… |
| 18-7057 | Marcus Jermaine Royston v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-12-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 3582-motion 3582(c)(2) amendments-750-782 career-offender criminal-sentencing drug-offense guidelines-2d1.1 guidelines-amendment hughes-v-us sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction | Does this Court's ruling in the case of Hughes V. U.S., 584 U.S. 2018, No. 17-155, apply to a career offender seeking reduction in his sentence by way… |
| 18-7012 | Anthony Jerome Addison v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-12-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims constitutional-rights criminal-history due-process eighth-amendment origination-clause sentencing-guidelines special-assessment standing statutory-claims | Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err in granting the government's motion to dismiss by denying the Petitioner the ability… |
| 18-7000 | Luis Rolando Bueno Jimenez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-12 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-3553(f) circuit-split criminal-law drug-enforcement mandatory-minimum maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether a defendant convicted of violating the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act, 46 U.S.C. § 70501 et seq., and subject to a mandatory minimum senten… |
| 18-6972 | Manuel Pereira-Gomez v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-12-11 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause force-clause physical-force robbery sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the New York State offense of robbery is a "crime of violence," that is, an offense that "has as an element the use, attempted use, or threate… |
| 18-6980 | Traveon Shaquille Martin v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-12-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acceptance-of-responsibility clear-error criminal-procedure district-court offense-level sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g-3e1.1 | Whether the district court clearly erred in denying a three-level reduction in Petitioner's offense level for acceptance of responsibility under U.S.S… |
| 18-6982 | Jerry Walden v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-12-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553 28-usc-994 career-offender district-court due-process federal-sentencing guideline-application harmless-error johnson-v-united-states molina-martinez molina-martinez-precedent molina-martinez-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-error | Whether the petitioner is entitled to resentencing, where due to Guideline application error, the district court incorrectly applied the more severe c… |
| 18-6993 | Jamie Todd Bjerke v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-12-11 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | court-of-appeals criminal-law force-clause gvr-order light-resistance petition-for-writ-of-certiorari predicate-conviction predicate-offense procedural-thesis robbery sentencing-determinations sentencing-guidelines state-robbery-offense statutory-interpretation substantive-thesis united-states-sentencing-guidelines | Whether a state robbery offense that permits a conviction for use of force sufficient to overcome light resistance qualifies as a predicate conviction… |
| 18-6996 | Jonathan R. Curshen v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-11 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | access-to-courts certificate-of-appealability due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | WAS THE PETITIONER DENIED HIS SUBSTANTIAL RIGHTS TO ACCESS TO THE COURTS, DUE PROCESS, AND EQUAL PROTECTION, WHEN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS F… |
| 18-6971 | Zachery Joseph Cooley, aka Red v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-sentencing gall-v-united-states guideline-calculation harmless-error judicial-discretion procedural-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness | When a defendant appeals his sentence on the grounds that his Guideline range was miscalculated, may an appellate court disregard any error in the gui… |
| 18-6900 | Jacob Scott Watters v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-12-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography commerce-clause constitutional-limits criminal-law predicate-offense relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-law visual-depictions | As written, and by the actual language used in the Statute, is 18 U.S.C. §2251(a) in excess of Congress' Powers under the Commerce Clause to. regulate… |
| 18-6920 | Clyde Retiz v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-12-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction indictment plea-bargaining reasonable-sentence sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether facts that alter the range of "reasonable" federal sentences must be pleaded in the indictment in federal cases? |
| 18-6926 | James Valentine v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-06 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-court-conflict circuit-court-review circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-sentencing criminal-sentencing-enhancement drug-conviction due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-convictions sentence-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | DID THE HONORABLE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS IN ATLANTA, GEORGIA COMMIT "PLAIN AND OBVIOUS ERROR" BY ALLOWING THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT,… |
| 18-6927 | In Re Jerry Urbina | 2018-12-06 | Denied | IFP | abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-courts judicial-discretion plea-agreement plea-bargaining retroactivity rule-11 sentencing-amendment sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation | WHETHER IN LIGHT OF THE SUPREME COURT HOLDING IN HUGHES V. UNITED STATES (CITATIONS OMITTED), THE LOWER COURTS ABUSED THEIR DISCRETION BY DENYING PETI… | |
| 18-6917 | Rodolfo Portela v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal competency-hearing conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing drug-conspiracy drug-trafficking evidence-suppression firearm-possession sentencing sentencing-guidelines sufficiency-of-evidence | 1. Whether The District Court, Erred When It Found That There was Sufficient Evidence That the Appellant had Committed the Acts Alleged in Count I, Co… |
| 18-6895 | Michael Clark v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2018-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bureau-of-prisons circuit-court classification criminal-history habeas-corpus judicial-review relief revocation sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-relief seventh-circuit | Since a defendant's criminal history category establishes the U.S Sentencing Guidelines' policy range of imprisonment upon revocation and can result i… |
| 18-6897 | Victor Solorzano Tavia v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | blakely-rule consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure double-jeopardy grade-c-violation illegal-reentry sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum supervised-release | I. Whether sentence for illegal reentry and sentence for violation of supervised release should have run concurrent to avoid double jeopardy clause … |
| 18-6904 | Oree Roberson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | burden-of-proof chavez-meza chavez-meza-v-united-states circuit-conflict due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review mitigation presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure standard-of-review | I. Whether the defendant bears the burden to establish that objected to information in the Presentence Report is materially untrue, or whether, instea… |
| 18-6851 | Steven Gomez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-sentencing appeal-waiver constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing-guidelines | Can an appeal waiver executed at the time of a defendant's plea waive the right to appeal constitutional error occurring at sentencing months after ex… |
| 18-6853 | Noe Garcia-Lima v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-11-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure-52(b) federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure molina-martinez molina-martinez-v-united-states plain-error-review sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights | When the "record is silent as to what the district court might have done had it considered the correct Guidelines range," Molina-Martinez v. United St… |
| 18-6858 | Micah G. Pritchett v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-11-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-law distribution drug-distribution federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation virginia virginia-law | Sentencing Guidelines? |
| 18-6833 | Jose Ramon Zuniga, aka Josue Ararel Zuniga-Zaragoza, aka Jose Ramon Zuniga-Garcia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure discretion due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion offense-level residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-standards statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether a Guideline which incorporates by reference § 16(b)'s residual clause may serve as the basis for increasing the defendant's offense level u… |
| 18-6816 | Vicente Garcia v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2018-11-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-battery constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | [1] WHETHER THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN ITS HOLDING THAT GARCIA HAD FAILED TO SHOW A DENIAL OF HIS CONSTITUTIONAL SIXTH AMENDMENT RI… |
| 18-6830 | Francisco Heredia-Silva v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-11-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | california-penal-code circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-law-sentencing due-process federal-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation terrorist-threats violent-crime | Should this court resolve the split between the Fifth Circuit and the Ninth Circuit about whether California terrorist threats convictions under Calif… |
| 18-6747 | Gibran Richardo Figueroa-Beltran v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-11-21 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure divisibility-analysis divisibility-inquiry due-process federal-courts federal-divisibility-doctrine federalism mathis-doctrine mathis-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-court-certification state-courts state-statutes three-part-test | When applying the federal divisibility doctrine to state statutes, may federal courts terminate the three-part test set forth in Mathis v. United Stat… |
| 18-6748 | Malachi M. Glass v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-11-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law criminal-statute drug-offense federal-law federal-sentencing pennsylvania pennsylvania-law sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. WHETHER THE BROADER PENNSYLVANIA DELIVERY OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE STATUTE, 35 PA. C.S.A. § 780-113(A)(30), QUALIFIES AS A "CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE O… |
| 18-6760 | David Junior Upshaw v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acca-sentencing armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review criminal-procedure mandatory-guidelines post-sentencing-law pre-booker-mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness | 1. May a defendant, faced with a silent record below, prove that his ACCA enhanced sentence was in deed based upon the residual clause through a proce… |
| 18-6761 | Tellis T. Williams v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-11-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-sentencing-guidelines beckles-v-united-states career-offender-enhancement certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-appealability-coa due-process johnson-claim johnson-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit vagueness-challenge | 1. When a Petitioner seeks a Certificate Of Appealability(COA)i based on whether this Court's decision in Beckles v. United States, 137 S 'Ct. 886, af… |
| 18-6763 | Luis Antonio Bonilla, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-11-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver appeal-waivers brady-standard brady-v-united-states circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement plea-agreements sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-uniformity | I. WHAT STANDARDS OTHER THAN THE KNOWING AND VOLUNTARY WAIVER STANDARD OF BRADY V. UNITED STATES SHOULD GOVERN THE ENFORCEMENT OF APPEAL WAIVERS IN PL… |
| 18-6729 | Jesus Santiago v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-court-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure district-court due-process guidelines-calculation guidelines-range judicial-discretion sentencing-determination sentencing-guidelines upward-variance | Whether a circuit court can competently conclude that the Sentencing Guidelines were immaterial to a district court's sentencing determination where t… |
| 18-6732 | Myron Gerald Stevens v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-guidelines criminal-sentencing discretion-to-vary downward-variance judicial-discretion procedural-reasonableness sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness | 1. Did the trial court impose a procedurally unreasonable sentence of life imprisonment upon conviction of a first offense, where it applied an incorr… |
| 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. |
| 18-642 | Morris E. Zukerman v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-11-19 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (2) | 18-usc-3742 appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion sentencing-explanation sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure sentencing-reasonableness sentencing-variance shocks-the-conscience substantive-reasonableness substantive-unreasonableness | Whether a court of appeals that finds that a district court has failed adequately to explain a sentence can simply request further elaboration without… |
| 18-6692 | Richard D. Waterson, II v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-sentencing double-counting fairness justice procedural-reasonableness reasonableness recidivism recidivism-risk sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines | Whether in the exercise of its supervisory jurisdiction over the Courts of the United States, this Court should determine that the sentence imposed on… |
| 18-6693 | Victor M. Mangual-Rosado v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-11-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split conclusions-of-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court findings-of-fact opportunity-to-object procedural-error role-behavior role-in-crime sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-error | I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED PROCEDURALLY AND SUBSTANTIVELY BY IMPOSING AN EXCESSIVE SENTENCE IN TERMS OF THE DEFENDANT-APPELLANT'S ROLE BEHAVI… |
| 18-6698 | Shawn Aluiso v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | backpage computer-crime computer-use criminal-history fifth-circuit-appeal minor-victim probation-revocation revoked-probation sentencing-guidelines texas-conviction undue-influence use-of-computer | In this Writ we present three issues dealing with the calculating of the Guideline range by the District Court. 1. The District Court erred in adding… |
| 18-6677 | Clarence Darnell Marshall v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment appeal booker-standard career-offender certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit rule-of-lenity sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness | 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit applied a heightened standard to the Defendant's request for Certificate of Appealability in violation of the Supreme … |
| 18-6590 | Salah Mohamed v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-11-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion aggravating-factor due-process escape flight-risk immigration naturalization naturalized-defendant sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum | Does a court abuse its discretion under the United States Sentencing Guidelines by sentencing a naturalized defendant more than three times above his … |
| 18-6599 | Horace Vonche Jordan v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability collateral-review criminal-sentencing due-process mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-guidelines vagueness vagueness-doctrine | In Johnson v. United States , 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) , this Court declared the Armed Career Criminal Act's (ACCA) residual clause unconstitutionally v… |
| 18-6600 | Ringo Recto Labrador v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-sentencing empirical-basis fifth-circuit judicial-review methamphetamine-sentencing presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-standard second-circuit sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines | Is a sentence imposed under the methamphetamine sentencing guideline–a guideline crafted without benefit of Sentencing Commission expertise or empiric… |
| 18-6581 | Larry Hailey v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-enhancement crimes-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-appeal prior-convictions section-2255-motion sentencing sentencing-guidelines virginia-prior-convictions | 1. Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals Erred in Denying Petitioner's Appeal from Denial of His Motion Under 28 US.C. § 2255 Wherein Petitioner… |
| 18-6583 | Dionysius Fiumano v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1343 criminal-law due-process due-process-notice federal-communications-commission fifth-amendment fraud johnson-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines skilling-v-united-states statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine welch-v-united-states | DOES THE UNDEFINED ELEMENT "SCHEME TO DEFRAUD" IN 18 U.S.C. § 1343 SATISFY FIFTH AMENDMENT DUE PROCESS NOTICE REQUIREMENTS IN LIGHT OF THIS COURT'S DE… |
| 18-596 | Marie Neba v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-06 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion judicial-review presumption-of-reasonableness proportionality rita-v-united-states sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines | 1. Should the Court overrule or refine Rita v. United States (2007) 551 U.S. 338, such that an irregular and disproportionate within-Guidelines senten… |
| 18-6561 | In Re Jesus Denova Lopez | 2018-11-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-court-discretion guidelines-range section-3553(a) section-3553a sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness | WHETHER THE PANEL OF THE FIFTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ABUSED ITS DISCRETION BY THE RUBBERSTAMP OF THE ERRONEOUS AND IMPERMISSIBLE CONCLUSION OF ERST… | |
| 18-6567 | Luis Delprado v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certiorari-petition criminal-history-enhancement generic-offense herrold-v-united-states quarles-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines statute-of-conviction statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states supreme-court-review united-states-v-stitt | I. Whether the following cases pending before this Court create a reasonable probability of a different result in the instant case insofar as the addr… |
| 18-6549 | Eric Branch v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-11-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | anti-shuttling anti-shuttling-violation appeal-waiver constitutional-violation corrupt-officials due-process garza-v-idaho iada-violation ida-violation ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel roe-v-flores-ortega | WHETHER THE TRIAL COUNSELOR AND EVIDENTIARY COUNSELOR WERE INEFFECTIVE WHEN BOTH COUNSELORS FAILED TO FILE THE APPEAL OR FAILED TO EVEN NOTIFY THE PET… |
| 18-6518 | Gregory Crum v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-10-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure district-court-discretion drug-crimes drug-offense drug-offenses foreign-origin leadership-enhancement methamphetamine relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review | I. Whether the district court abused its discretion in determining relevant conduct. 2; Whether Greg Crum should receive a leadership enhancement. 3… |
| 18-6519 | Mariano Alvarez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-10-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion life-sentence mistrial plea-bargaining plea-negotiation recusal sentencing-guidelines | Can doubts in granting a Certificate of Appealability (cOA) be resolved in favor of the appellant when considering the severity of his life sentence? … |
| 18-6498 | Gildardo Majalca-Aguilar v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-10-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 amendment-782 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion drug-conspiracy drug-quantity due-process equal-protection sentence-reduction sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines | The United States District Court of New Mexico denied the motion for reduction the sentence, Amendment 782 §3582(c)(2) spite the quantity of drugs inv… |
| 18-6511 | In Re Ken Ejimofor Ezeah | 2018-10-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal-waiver-guilty-plea-unite guilty-plea inherent-equitable-authority tenth-circuit united-states-v-galloway united-states-v-hahn united-states-v-mccarthy | (1)WHETHER THIS COURT SHOULD EXPAND THE FRAME-WORK DECIDED IN "UNITED STATES V. HAHN",IN THE TENTH CIRCUITS DETERMINATION OF A KNOWING AND VOLUNTARILY… | |
| 18-6483 | Armando Chavez, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-sentencing indictment indictment-requirements judicial-discretion plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether facts that alter the range of "reasonable" federal sentences must be pleaded in the indictment in federal cases? |
| 18-6447 | Eullis Monroe Goodwin v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-10-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance rule-11 sentencing sentencing-guidelines strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | Did Counsel ' Failure to properly develope and present Objections to Petitioner's designation as an career offender, render Ineffective Assistance und… |
| 18-6451 | Randolph Johnson Spain v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-10-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-principles apprendi-v-new-jersey cross-reference fourth-circuit-court-of-appeals fourth-circuit-mandate multiple-count-adjustment sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-application statutory-maximum | I. WHETHER THE APPLICATION OF THE CROSS-REFERENCE TO COUNT 2 OF THE INDICTMENT PURSUANT TO GUIDELINES § 2G1.1 AND § 2A3.1, AND THE SUBSEQUENT APPLICAT… |
| 18-6461 | Gerren K. Love v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-10-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-guidelines causation-element circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-classification criminal-law force-definition sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-v-castleman violent-crime violent-force | If a statute has a causation-of-harm element, does it also necessarily have an element of violent force for purposes of classifying the crime as a vio… |
| 18-6398 | Deon Pittman v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-statute drug-offense element-of-offense federal-law means-of-offense michigan-law sentencing-guidelines state-law state-statute | When a state statute prohibits the delivery of a "controlled substance" by reference to various schedules, is the specific type of substance an elemen… |
| 18-6408 | Tiffany A. Prince v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law drug-offenses drug-overdose federal-courts federal-law physical-injury sentencing-guidelines significant-physical-injury sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation | Whether a non-fatal drug overdose is a "significant physical injury" under U.S.S.G. § 5K2.2. |
| 18-6375 | Michael Whisby v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-19 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act career-offender-provision collateral-review mandatory-guidelines pre-booker-mandatory-guidelines pre-booker-sentencing retroactivity sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-vagueness stokeling-v-united-states vagueness-doctrine violent-felony | 1. Whether U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(a)(2)'s residual clause is void for vagueness vis-a-vis defendants sentenced under the pre-Booker mandatory Guidelines. 2… |
| 18-6389 | Anthony Lomax v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2018-10-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempted-murder buyer-seller career-offender conspiracy crime-of-violence criminal-history drug-quantity heroin-attribution relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines | I. Despite the dismissal of Anthony Lomax's conspiracy charge, during sentencing the district court assigned 16.8 kilograms of heroin to him. While a … |
| 18-6358 | Alj Hilton v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | and Are Plain and Affect Petitioner's Substantial -and-Are-Plain-and-Affect-Petitioner's-Substantial 18-usc-3661 5th-amendment appeal-waiver appeal-waiver,sentencing-guidelines,criminal-histo criminal-history criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum plain-error sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights trial-court-error Whether the mandatory five-year minimum sentence u | Whether Petitioner's Appeal Waiver Is Inapplicable to Issues of Trial Court Error in Applying Sentencing Guidelines' Enhancements or in Calculating Cr… |
| 18-6359 | Uriel Gomez-Saavedra v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-10-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3661-3553 5th-amendment 5th-circuit-law constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | 1. The mandatory five year minimum under which Mr. Gomez-Saavedra was sentenced is unconstitutional and contravenes 18 U. S.C. 3661 and 3553(a) becaus… |
| 18-6387 | Spencer Bowens v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-10-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) 28 U.S.C. §2255(£)(3) 28 U.S.C. §2255(f)(3) extend to pre-Booker mandatory career-offender gu that has been newly recognized by the United Stat career-offender career-offender-guidelines collateral-review criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure,sentencing,retroactivity,collat Johnson-right johnson-v-united-states mandatory-sentencing retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines Supreme-Court-precedent | Whether the right in Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), that has been newly recognized by the United States Supreme Court and made retr… |
| 18-6327 | Rolando Humphrey v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3553a criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing judicial-determination judicial-discretion jury-role jury-trial sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-18-usc-3553 statutory-minimum | 1. Whether district courts may determine without the aid of a jury that a sentence above the statutory minimum is "not greater than necessary" to achi… |
| 18-6335 | George Jenkins v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment drug-offense due-process first-time-offender non-violent-crime proportionality reasonableness-review sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines | WHETHER THE SENTENCE IMPOSED IS UNREASONABLE A. Whether a One Hundred Forty-four (144) month prison sentence for a first time non-violent, drug deale… |
| 18-6346 | Mark A. Dubarry v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1951(b) 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) 18-usc-924c circuit-split crime-of-violence economic-harm federal-criminal-law force-clause hobbs-act robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. In three circuits, pattern jury instructions extend Hobbs Act robbery (18 U.S.C. § 1951(b)) to an offense committed by causing fear of harm to inta… |
| 18-6347 | Adam Brake v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burglary criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-counting firearm-enhancement firearm-theft guideline-enhancements guideline-range sentencing-considerations sentencing-guidelines stolen-firearm u.s.s.g-2k2.1 | Whether the district court erred when, based on impermissible double counting, it incorrectly applied a higher guideline range. In calculating Petitio… |
| 18-6349 | Daniel Israel Palomino v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-review due-process guideline-commentary judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-interpretation sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation | Whether a district court abuses its discretion in misapplying a sentencing guideline when it refuses to consider a factor expressly provided for in th… |
| 18-6352 | Joseph Kelvin Aberant v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempted-murder cross-reference firearm firearm-offense fourth-circuit imperfect-self-defense indictment self-defense sentencing-guidelines | I. WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN FINDING THAT THE CROSS REFERENCE UNDER SECTION 2K2.1(C)(l) OF THE UNITED STATES SENTENCING GUIDELINES WAS AP… |
| 18-6319 | William Shane Reid v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-10-15 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-3582 appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split criminal-sentencing discretionary-denial discretionary-review procedural-reasonableness review-standard sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines | Whether a court of appeals has jurisdiction to review a district court's discretionary denial of a sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) whe… |
| 18-6322 | Gabino Medina Osorio v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-10-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8-usc-1101 criminal-law due-process illegal-reentry immigration immigration-law sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine | Can a statute that this Court has held to be unconstitutionally void for vagueness nevertheless still be applied when incorporated by reference into t… |
| 18-6281 | Terry E. Callins v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-10-10 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split collateral-review habeas-corpus mandatory-sentencing-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-retroactivity teague-v-lane timeliness | Did Mr. Callins file his § 2255 motion within one year of "the date on which the right asserted was initially recognized by the Supreme Court," which … |
| 18-6284 | Alphonso Churchwell, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender collateral-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing eleventh-circuit mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness | In Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) (Samuel Johnson), this Court declared the Armed Career Criminal Act's (ACCA) residual clause uncon… |
| 18-6229 | Josh A. Wairi v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-10-09 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review booker-standard booker-v-united-states criminal-appeal criminal-sentencing first-circuit-court-of-appeals gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-josh-wairi | 1. Does the First Circuit Court of Appeals' decision in petitioner's case conflict with this Court's decisions in Booker v. United States, 543 U.S. 22… |
| 18-6241 | Edward Jewell v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-10-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | class-precedent constitutional-challenge controlled-substance-offense criminal-law direct-appeal due-process mathis-precedent mathis-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission | Does this Court's holding in Mathis v. United States apply to determinations under the United States Sentencing Guidelines of Whether a prior convicti… |
| 18-6248 | Antonio Mercedes-Rijo v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-10-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | congressional-power criminal-procedure define-and-punish-clause drug-trafficking due-process federal-jurisdiction high-seas mitigating-role sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-3b1.2 statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission | Whether the Petitioner's Mitigating Role Should of Been Adjusted In Accordance With The United States Sentencing Guidelines § 3B1.2 Whether Congress … |
| 18-6257 | Edward Dean McCranie v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-10-09 | Denied | IFP | career-offender colorado-robbery common-law common-law-robbery crime-of-violence force force-clause generic-robbery sentencing-guidelines stokeling-v-united-states tenth-circuit violence | Is Colorado robbery, which follows the common-law definition of the amount of force required, a crime of violence for purposes of the career-offender … |
| 18-6215 | Leonard Nathaniel Peragine, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion child-enticement child-pornography congressional-intent criminal-sentencing empirical-evidence guideline-calculation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the district court's utilization of the child pornography guideline in Section 2G2.2 to determine the sentence for a defendant whose primary o… |
| 18-6206 | Jason Randall Howard v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-10-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness variance-sentence | 1. Is Howard's 457% above-guideline variance sentence procedurally unreasonable because the District Court failed to consider the need to avoid unwarr… |
| 18-6208 | Nicholas Ryan Hemsher v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-10-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553 8th-circuit appellate-review circuit-split co-conspirators criminal-enhancement criminal-procedure sentencing-disparities sentencing-disparities-18-usc-3553-a-6 sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1) Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in finding that the statutory direction to avoid unwarranted disparities among defendants, 18 U.S… |
| 18-6165 | Paul E. Rinehart v. Ohio | Ohio | 2018-10-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process judicial-fact-finding jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment trial-by-jury | Can a trial court enhance a defendant's sentence(s) to more than the minimum sentence upon judicial fact finding from a judge rather than the findings… |
| 18-6173 | Carlos Tiznado-Valenzuela v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split federal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-interpretation molina-martinez molina-martinez-standard plain-error-review prejudice prejudice-prong sentencing-guidelines | Should the Court address the division of circuit authority over the Court's application of the prejudice prong of plain-error review in Molina-Martine… |
| 18-6184 | Robert Demetrius Barnes v. B. Masters, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2018-10-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split concurrent-sentence criminal-procedure federal-appellate-courts federal-sentencing prior-undischarged-term prior-undischarged-term-of-imprisonment sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-manual-5g1.3(c) statutory-interpretation | Whether the word "concurrently" in Section 5G1.3(c) authorizes a sentencing court to run a sentence concurrently from the start of the pre-existing se… |
| 18-6150 | Noel Aquino-Florenciani v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | abuse-of-discretion child-pornography criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process internet-access internet-access-ban sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release | Whether the court's imposition of a total ban of internet access as a condition of supervised release is an overly broad and restrictive and without a… |
| 18-6111 | Thompson Christopher Kyle Mandrell v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-09-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3553a6 appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentence-disparity sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | whether the federal sentencing court failed to properly consider and apply § 3553(a)(6), which requires consideration of "the need to avoid unwarrante… |
| 18-6112 | Opherro G. Jones v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-09-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-guidelines beckles-v-united-states certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process misinformation sentencing sentencing-guidelines townsend-v-burke void-for-vagueness | Due process precludes a district court from relying on misinformation when sentencing a criminal defendant, requiring instead accuracy and reliability… |
| 18-6138 | Lance Fox v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-09-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-guidelines beckles-v-united-states certificate-of-appealability criminal-defendant due-process misinformation sentencing sentencing-guidelines townsend-v-burke void-for-vagueness | Due process precludes a district court from relying on misinformation when sentencing a criminal defendant, requiring instead accuracy and reliability… |
| 18-6141 | Damian O'Neil Towne v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-09-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-waiver criminal-procedure government-objection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review notice-of-appeal sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-miscalculation untimely-notice-of-appeal | THIS COURT SHOULD GRANT CERTIORARI TO RESOLVE THE QUESTION OF WHETHER A GROSS MISCALCULATION OF THE SENTENCING GUIDELINE RANGE SHOULD BE CORRECTED WHE… |
| 18-6113 | Frank J. Ballesteros v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-09-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-guidelines criminal-procedure fairness fairness-doctrine integrity judicial-proceedings judicial-review post-conviction-relief pro-se-applicant public-reputation resentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines | 1. Should this Court grant review of the court of appeals' decision based on this Court's subsequent decision in Rosales-Mireles v. United States that… |
| 18-6119 | Gary Long, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-09-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-sentencing de-facto-life-sentence due-process eighth-amendment federal-court-split federal-courts life-sentence sentencing-analysis sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent term-of-years | Whether the district and appellate court failed to conduct the proper analysis of imposing a de facto life sentence on the petitioner? Whether the ci… |
| 18-6092 | Robert Dion Ables v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-09-26 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review criminal-appeals criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-plain-error-review empirical-analysis empirical-foundation-of-guidelines guideline-2g2.2 judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-policy substantive-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness-of-sentences | I. Whether factual error is categorically immune from plain error review? II. Whether sentences arising under Guideline 2G2.2 tend to produce substan… |
| 18-6100 | Hugo Pliego-Hernandez v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2018-09-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-16 administrative-law attempted-robbery circuit-court-review criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process federal-jurisdiction guideline-commentary sentencing-guidelines seventh-circuit stare-decisis statutory-interpretation stinson-v-united-states | The district court enhanced Pliego-Hernandez' sentencing guideline range on the strength of a prior conviction for attempted robbery. Nothing in the t… |
| 18-6083 | Jesus Manuel Laureano-Perez v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process government-prosecution plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review uncharged-conduct | Should a writ of certiorari be granted to determine whether the district court erred in enhancing Laureano's sentence based on uncharged conduct not c… |
| 18-6066 | Melvin Noel Vasquez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-09-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure de-novo-review downward-adjustment due-process federal-sentencing fifth-circuit minimal-role mitigating-role sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-3b1.2 standard-of-review | I Whether the Fifth Circuits cursory, review rather than the proper de novo review resulted in a misapplication of the provision of U.S.S.G. s 3Bl.2 d… |
| 18-6049 | Robert Wallace Smith v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-09-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography criminal-sentencing due-process first-offender internet-crime sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum substantive-reasonableness | Whether the district court's statutory maximum, 240-month sentence is substantively unreasonable for a first offender convicted of one count of receiv… |
| 18-6061 | Rogelio Ortiz-Martinez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-09-20 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | change-in-law criminal-appeal divisible-statute fifth-circuit intervening-change-in-law judicial-proceedings mandate mandate-rule recall-of-mandate rehearing-petition sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines texas-burglary-statute | I. In a direct criminal appeal, is it a serious departure from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings when a federal court of appeals r… |
| 18-6063 | Craig Alexander v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-09-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals criminal-history criminal-procedure disciplinary-infractions due-process judicial-discretion judicial-interpretation section-3582 sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the Supreme Court should resolve spilt decisions in the lower court -as to how far a Judge must explain and/or elaborate on a decision to gran… |
| 18-6030 | Jason M. Smith v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-09-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver appellate-waiver collateral-attack constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement public-policy sentencing | In the decision under review, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that an appellate waiver provision in petitioner's plea a… |
| 18-6041 | Robert Burse v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-09-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure cross-reference district-court error firearms-offense review sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g.-§-2k2.1(c)(1)(a) u.s.s.g.-2k2.1(c)(1)(a) | Whether the district court erred by applying the Sentencing Guidelines cross reference under U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(c)(1)(A). |
| 18-5978 | John Robert Register, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-09-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender civil-rights criminal-procedure drug-possession due-process plain-error prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | A. Did the court commit a plain error by applying a career offender enhancement to petitioner, even though his prior convictions (to wit: possession o… |
| 18-6007 | Valerie Louise Williams v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-09-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-guidelines appellate-review criminal-procedure downward-variance federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness | Whether The Court Should Grant Certiorari to Provide Further Clarification as to the Presumption of Substantive Reasonableness for Downward Variances … |
| 18-5992 | Amilcar C. Butler v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-09-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | amendment-782 commutation criminal-resentencing criminal-sentencing executive-branch executive-commutation judicial-branch judicial-discretion judicial-executive-branch-interaction mandatory-minimum sentencing-guidelines | Does Butler's Statutory Mandatory Minimum Sentence Initially Imposed By The Judicial Branch And Later Commuted By The Executive Branch Bar Him From Se… |
| 18-5967 | Matthew Wade Howard v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-09-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-courts federal-criminal-law federal-guideline guideline-application sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit | Whether the Tenth Circuit and other circuits have broadened the application of U.S.S.G. 2K2.1(b)(6)(B) beyond the plain language of the guideline's te… |
| 18-5968 | In Re Jose Prisciliano Gracia-Cantu | 2018-09-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion criminal-sentencing federal-appeals-court federal-courts federal-prisoner judicial-discretion mandamus mandate mandate-stay resentencing sentencing-guidelines unreasonable-sentence vacated-sentence writ-of-mandamus | After it has issued a decision holding that a federal prisoner is entitled to resentencing due to a Sentencing Guidelines calculation error, can a fed… | |
| 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 | In Rosales-Mireles v. United States, 138 S. Ct. 1897 (2018), this Court held that, in the ordinary case, proof of a plain Sentencing Guidelines error … |
| 18-5970 | Allen D. Gorion v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-09-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform | Whether certiorari should be granted to set forth some guidelines in determining when a sentence is unreasonable? |
| 18-5973 | Alvin Ramirez-De Jesus v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-09-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553(a) booker-standard criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause probation-revocation procedural-reasonableness reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness supervised-release | Question not identified. |
| 18-5930 | Timothy Walker v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-09-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender double-jeopardy drug-offense due-process guideline-amendments guideline-range post-sentencing-litigation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g. | Does it comport with the Due Process Clause and the prohibition against Double Jeopardy to, for all practical purposes, simultaneously impose two (2) … |
| 18-5944 | Rafael Tanco-Pizarro v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-09-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3583 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing discovery due-process revocation revocation-hearing sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervised-release title-18-usc | I. Whether the punishment factor of the federal sentencing statute, Title 18 U.S.C §3553(a)(2)(A), is a permissible or prohibited factor in sentencing… |
| 18-5913 | Alfonso Escobedo Garcia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-09-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure empirical-basis fifth-circuit judicial-review methamphetamine-sentencing presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-review second-circuit sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines | Is a sentence imposed under the methamphetamine sentencing guideline–a guideline crafted without benefit of Sentencing Commission expertise or empiric… |
| 18-5917 | John Doe v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-09-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review connected-conduct criminal-procedure federal-offense nexus obstruction obstructive-act reckless-endangerment relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines | Whether the Court of Appeals erred by affirming the judgment of the District Court, which incorrectly applied the Sentencing Guidelines when it impose… |
| 18-5904 | Donavan Cross v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-09-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause constructive-delivery constructive-possession controlled-substance-offense controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-delivery due-process intent sentencing sentencing-guidelines testimonial-evidence | (1) Whether a statute that criminalizes a constructive delivery of drugs without bona fide intent to transfer possession is a felony "controlled subst… |
| 18-5893 | Dan Wayne Streetman v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-09-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | booker-precedent booker-v-united-states child-pornography gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion kimbrough-v-united-states policy-disagreement sentencing-commission sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines sentencing-uniformity separation-of-powers | 1. In the post-Booker world of non-mandatory guidelines, is it an abuse of discretion to refuse to reject a guideline on policy grounds where the guid… |
| 18-5896 | Beverly Allen Baker v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-09-05 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-procedure civil-rights confrontation-clause conspiracy criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel multiple-conspiracies sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | 1. Should BAS cov exercise YS Super visecy authority to reverse Nig Bakers cangpiracy comvichon ® By the end th trial, the government concluded that … |
| 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… |
| 18-274 | Michael Jay Stewart v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-09-04 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | criminal-fraud jury-instructions kokesh-v-sec mail-fraud materiality materiality-standard naive-and-careless omissions-theory reasonably-prudent-victim sentencing-guidelines statute-of-limitations | 1. There is widespread conflict regarding the meaning of the federal criminal fraud statutes. While the confusion existed long before Neder v. United … |
| 18-5839 | James Frederick Rebmann v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law drug-offense drug-offenses federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines felony-classification plain-reading possession-offenses prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation | The Federal Sentencing Guidelines require a base offense level of 43 if the defendant is "convicted under 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(A), (b)(1)(B), or (b)(… |
| 18-5811 | Eusebio Escobar De Jesus v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-08-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals appeals-court criminal-procedure district-court due-process gall-v-united-states guideline-range guidelines molina-martinez-v-united-states offense-level procedural-error rosales-mireles-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether the Appeals Court erroneously concluded Petitioner failed to state a claim, reasoning for want of a substantial question..., he asserts that (… |
| 18-5828 | Adolfo Lopez-Garcia v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2018-08-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a 18-usc-3582(c)(2) 3582c-motion amendment-782 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court procedural-reasonableness sentence-reduction sentencing-discretion sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines statutory-directive statutory-interpretation substantive-error substantive-reasonableness sufficient-but-not-greater-than-necessary | Whether the District Court Committed substantive error when failed to impose a sentence that was sufficient but not greater than necessary to comply w… |
| 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, disagreeing with the Seventh Circuit, correctly held that it is permissible in sentencing a defendant for a firearms offen… |
| 18-5693 | Arlow Antone Kay v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | making robust appellate review unnecessary appellate-review constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-booker | Have the departure provisions of the United States Sentencing Guidelines been rendered "obsolete" and "superfluous" by this Court's opinion in United … |
| 18-5699 | Chuck Wayne Boyd v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-08-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 3553-factors 3582-modification criminal-sentencing discretion inmate-progress judicial-discretion post-sentence-history pre-sentence-history sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines usg-amendment-782 | When considering a sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C.§ 3582 and U.S.S.G. Amendment 782, does the court abuse it's discretion by not explaining the rea… |
| 18-5707 | Anthony Curtis Flowers v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-08-22 | Dismissed | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 3-strikes armed-career-criminal-act career-offender due-process due-process,johnson-v-united-states,18-usc-924,18- habeas-corpus johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines | (1) Whether the district court deprived Flowers due process by denying his § 2255 petition challenging his sentences under Johnson v. United States, 1… |
| 18-5709 | Paul Allen Anderson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-08-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2255-proceeding appeal-waiver certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel section-2255 title-28-usc-2255 | WHETHER AN APPEAL WAIVER CAN BE ENFORCED IN A TITLE 28 U.S.C. § 2255 PROCEEDING WHEN PETITIONER HAS BASED HIS CLAIMS ON INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUN… |
| 18-5674 | Roger Clay Swain v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-08-21 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act career-offender collateral-review due-process federal-sentencing habeas-corpus johnson-ruling mandatory-sentencing-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity section-2255-motion sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-retroactivity timeliness | Did Mr. Swain file his § 2255 motion within one year of "the date on which the right asserted was initially recognized by the Supreme Court," which "h… |
| 18-5644 | Gesner Delva, aka Ti Blan v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-08-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 appellate-review circuit-court-precedent court-of-appeals criminal-sentencing district-court due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion precedent sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Contrary to Its Own Precedent Affirmed the District Court's Judgment Order Whereby Denying the Pet… |
| 18-202 | Haynes Timberland, Inc. v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-08-15 | Denied | Response Waived | appeal-waiver collateral-attack criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining pre-sentence-waiver sentencing waiver waiver-of-rights | Whether a defendant, by executing a pre-sentence waiver of the right to a direct appeal of his conviction and sentence, implicitly waives his right to… |
| 18-5586 | William Knight v. Florida | Florida | 2018-08-15 | Denied | IFP | abuse-of-authority appellate-procedure criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habitual-offender illegal-sentence judicial-abuse judicial-authority jurisdiction sentencing sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum | WHETHER TRIAL COURT ABUSED THEIR AUTHORITY BY ALLOWING THE STATE ATTORNEY OFFICE TO IMPOSE A SENTENCE CONTRARY TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE LAW ON DOUBL… |
| 18-5605 | Robert S. Beyer, II v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-08-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | admissibility appellate-procedure bad-character-evidence character-evidence criminal-procedure de-novo-review due-process evidence-rules federal-rules-of-evidence presumption-of-admissibility rule-403 rule-404 sentencing-guidelines victim-vulnerability | 1. Do Fed R. Evid. Rules 403 and 404 create a presumption favoring admissibility of bad character evidence? 2. May the United States Courts of Appeal… |
| 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… |
| 18-5533 | Brandon Maurice Shannon v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure appellate-review certiorari-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit harmless-error judicial-remand plain-error post-conviction-relief retroactivity rosales-mireles sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Should this Court grant certiorari, vacate the judgment, and remand in light 2018), an authority that post-dated the opinion below? |
| 18-5552 | Victoriano Vega-Jimenez, aka Jose Raul Hernandez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-08-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 11th-circuit 18-usc-3582 18-usc-3582(c)(2) circuit-split conflict-with-precedent criminal-sentencing drug-amount drug-quantity drug-sentencing eligibility sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-amendment-782 | Whether the United States, Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit Has Entered a Decision that Is in Conflict with Its Own Precedent and the Decisio… |
| 18-5554 | Carlos Troche-Alvarado v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-08-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-U.S.C-3553 18-usc-3553 above-guidelines-sentence adequate-explanation appellate-review criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion erroneous-factual-basis judicial-discretion procedural-reasonableness prosecution-recommended-sentence sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether a sentencing court violates 18 U.S.C. § 3553 when it imposes an above-Guidelines sentence, which also exceeds the prosecution's recommended se… |
| 18-188 | Ivy T. Tucker v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2018-08-10 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split constitutional-deficiency constitutional-law criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum offense-of-conviction out-of-circuit-precedent procedural-default sentencing sentencing-guidelines trial-counsel | I. Whether trial counsel's failure to make an argument that courts of appeals outside the circuit have accepted (and the circuit has not addressed) ma… |
| 18-5547 | Jose Estrada-Corrales v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553 appeal certiorari criminal-procedure due-process federal-appeals remand retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines supreme-court | Should this Court grant certiorari, vacate the judgment, and remand in light of Chavez-Meza v. United States, __U.S.__, 138 S.Ct. 1959 (June 18, 2018)… |
| 18-5538 | Shawn J. Gieswein v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-08-09 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing guidelines molina-martinez-v-united-states peugh-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-errors sentencing-guidelines tenth-circuit volina-martinez-v-united-states | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit erroneously speculated in conflict with the principles enunciated by this Court in Mo… |
| 18-5504 | William Lem Posey, II v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-08-08 | Denied | IFP | career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing descamps-approach divisibility element-analysis element-based-approach grammar-based-approach mandatory-guidelines non-generic-offense sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | To decide whether a non-generic offense is divisible under Descamps v. United States, 133 S. Ct. 2276 (2013), does a sentencing court need to take a g… |
| 18-5510 | Quincy Andre Jones v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-08-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | allocution appeal-waiver direct-appeal due-process fundamental-error fundamental-errors mandatory-guidelines plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines | Whether an appeal waiver in a plea agreement can prohibit a defendant from challenging on direct appeal unforeseeable fundamental errors committed by … |
| 18-5516 | Isaiah Galbreath v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-sentencing empirical-basis fifth-circuit judicial-review methamphetamine methamphetamine-sentencing presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-standard second-circuit sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines | Is a sentence imposed under the methamphetamine sentencing guideline–a guideline crafted without benefit of Sentencing Commission expertise or empiric… |
| 18-5480 | Bjorn Christian Luster v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-08-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burglary burglary-enhancement criminal-conviction criminal-history due-process evidence-interpretation fifth-amendment-due-process juvenile-offenses points-scoring prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment-effective-assistance-of-counsel ussg-2k2.1(b)(3) ussg-4a1.1 victim-testimony | 1. Did the court err in applying an offense level enhancement under U.S.S.G 2K2,1(a)(3) for having a prior crime of violence" conviction When said con… |
| 18-5483 | Martin R. Vandemerwe v. Steve Langford, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice retroactive-decision savings-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Is the Circuit Split between the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and other' listed Circuits(see below) sufficient given it denies defendant's in all … |
| 18-5468 | Raul Villarreal and Fidel Villarreal v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-06 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | acquitted-conduct appellate-review constitutional-rights dismissed-conduct fifth-amendment sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-review sixth-amendment statutory-law statutory-maximum | (1) Whether an upward departure from the advisory Sentencing Guidelines is subject to appellate review. (2) Whether reliance on acquitted and dismiss… |
| 18-5469 | Chad Allen Dorton v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-08-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion obstruction-of-justice offense-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment standard-of-review | Did the district court err in applying the sentencing guidelines offense enhancement for obstruction of justice? |
| 18-5422 | Dedrick T. Garrett v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-08-01 | Denied | IFP | career-offender circuit-split collateral-review constitutional-law mandatory-guidelines pre-booker retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-vagueness vagueness vagueness-doctrine | In Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) (Samuel Johnson), this Court declared the Armed Career Criminal Act's (ACCA) residual clause uncon… |
| 18-5390 | Khalil Abu Rayyan v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-07-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment uncharged-conduct upward-variance | (1) Several United States Courts of Appeals have suggested that the use of defendants' uncharged, unproven conduct in deciding their sentences may vio… |
| 18-5391 | Daniel Sexton v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-07-31 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-981 circuit-split criminal-forfeiture-liability criminal-procedure dismissed-charges due-process forfeiture-liability honeycutt-v-united-states joint-and-several-liability sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Question I. Does this Court's reasoning of Honeycutt v. United States, 137 S. Ct. 1626 (2017), limiting joint and several forfeiture liability to what… |
| 18-5397 | Alejandro Parra-Ramos v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-07-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure defendant-prejudice due-process government-misconduct judicial-discretion plain-error plea-agreement plea-agreement-breach prejudice prosecutorial-breach sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-recommendation sentencing-variance upward-variance | Whether a defendant suffers prejudice when the government breaches a plea agreement by calling its agreed-upon recommendation irrational, and the cour… |
| 18-5373 | Otis Sykes v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2018-07-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process guidelines guidelines-range harmless-error judicial-error molina-martinez-v-us rosales-mireles-v-us sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights | DEFENDANT SEEKS THIS SUPREME COURT'S REVIEW OF HIS ABOVE GUIDELINES SENTENCE IMPOSED WITHIN AN INCORRECT GUIDELINES RANGE UTILIZING "ADDITIONAL EVIDEN… |
| 18-5336 | Ventron Vaneke Lott v. Patrick Warren, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2018-07-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion michigan-law sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | DID THE TRIAL COURT ERRED IN SENTENCING PETITIONER UNDER THE RESRICTIONS OF OV-1 AND OV-2 [OF THE MICHIGAN SENTENCING GUIDELINES] IN VIOLATION OF HIS … |
| 18-5308 | O'Neil Anthony Harris v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-07-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-guidelines congressional-intent guideline-amendment judicial-discretion sentence-enhancement sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform upward-variance | Whether a District Court Disregards Congressional Intent and Imposes an Unreasonable Sentence When it Applies an Upward Variance to the Advisory Sente… |
| 18-5247 | James McCray v. S. L. Burt, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2018-07-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jury-trial minimum-sentence plea-bargaining reasonable-doubt sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | WHETHER THE SIXTH CIRCUIT DECISION IS OBJECTIVELY UNREASONABLE AS A MATTER OF DUE PROCESS, BECAUSE MCCRAY SENTENCING GUIDELINES OFFENSE VARIABLE[S] WA… |
| 18-5258 | Howell Miller v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-07-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure criminal-procedure due-process en-banc-review judge-found-facts judicial-fact-finding sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment uniformity-of-decisions united-states-v-booker | WHETHER A DRASTICALLY INCREASED SENTENCE (FROM ROUGHLY 10 YEARS TO 12 YEARS) THAT WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN REASONABLE BUT FOR JUDGE-FOUND FACTS VIOLATES TH… |
| 18-5266 | Michael Ferguson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-07-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-guidelines arrest-records bare-arrest-records dismissed-charges due-process evidence-reliability hearsay hearsay-evidence reliability-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | (1) What standard of scrutiny does Due Process require courts to use when evaluating the reliability of evidence courts rely on to impose a sentence? … |
| 18-5245 | Jesus M. Rios-Ramos v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-07-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act beckles-precedent beckles-v-united-states career-offender career-offender-guideline criminal-law due-process johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness | Whether this Court should address the application and contours of the residual clause of the Career Offender guideline, U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2, in light of … |
| 18-5238 | Hassanh Bey Wright, aka Hassanh Bay Wright v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-07-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crime-of-violence criminal-history criminal-law culpable-negligence force-clause intent mens-rea residual-clause sentencing-guidelines supervised-release | Whether a crime with a mens rea of culpable negligence meets the definition of a "crime of violence" under either the force clause or the residual cla… |
| 18-5241 | Victor Maturino v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law commentary-amendments destructive-devices double-jeopardy due-process firearms firearms-possession guideline-commentary offense-level-increases rulemaking-authority sentence-enhancement sentencing-commission-process sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | The Sentencing Guidelines in § 2K2.1 setting forth provisions concerning unlawful possession of firearms and specific offense characteristics provide … |
| 18-5204 | Jose Luis Morales v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure due-process enhancement evidence fact-finding immigration immigration-law judicial-error sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation undocumented-aliens | WHETHER THE LOWER COURT ERRORED BY DENYING THE RELIEF UNDER SECTION 3E1:1 FOR ACCEPTANCE OF RESPONSIBILITY ? WHETHER THE LOWER COURT ERRORED IN ENHAN… |
| 18-5207 | Omar Montoya v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 circumstances-beyond-control criminal-sentencing,sentencing-guidelines,abuse-of criminal-sentencing,sentencing-guidelines,sentenci discretion sentencing-guidelines sentencing-range timeliness | Whether the District Court reversibly erred in Denying to Reduce and Appropriate Outcome when the Subsequent Sentencing Range has been Lowered by the … |
| 18-5187 | Verissimo Tavares v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-07-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | beckles-v-united-states career-offender congressional-directive crime-of-violence criminal-sentencing-guidelines due-process johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states procedural-error residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation violent-felony | 1. Whether application of the residual clause of the definition of "crime of violence" in U.S.S.G. §4Bl.2(a)(2), a clause identical to that of the res… |
| 18-5193 | William Brown v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-07-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion beckles-precedent beckles-v-united-states crime-of-violence due-process federal-sentencing-law johnson-v-united-states procedural-error residual-clause sentencing-guidelines void-for-vagueness | Whether reliance on the "residual clause" of the "crime of violence" definition in the United States Sentencing Guidelines, U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(a)(2), is… |
| 18-5168 | Jose Palacios, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-09 | Denied | IFP | appeal appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing de-novo-resentencing due-process remand remand-rule resentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines | The Fifth Circuit, and two other circuits, have interpreted the mandate rule in a "restrictive" or "waiver" approach, meaning that when a case is rema… |
| 18-5171 | Erick Rolando Lopez-Mendez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process empirical-basis federal-sentencing illegal-reentry immigration presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines | Whether a sentence produced by the former illegal-reentry guideline, §2L1.2, is entitled to a presumption of reasonableness on appeal. |
| 18-5176 | In Re Winex Eugene | 2018-07-09 | Denied | IFP | actual-innocence article-iii career-offender case-or-controversy categorical-approach constitutional-review redressability residual-clause sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers standing standing-civil-procedure | 1) Does Mr. Eugene's incarceration constitute a case involving substantial injury, whereby a controversy requiring Article III exercise of discretion … | |
| 18-5107 | Willard Quinn v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2018-07-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bodily-injury crime-of-violence criminal-law force-clause injury sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-requirement violent-force | Whether the force clause of the Sentencing Guidelines' definition of "crime of violence" can be satisfied by a statutory requirement that a defendant'… |
| 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 | I. Whether a four (4) level upward departure for conduct underlying a dismissed count pursuant to USSG §5K2.21, bringing the defendant's sentence abov… |
| 18-5129 | Rodolfo Trejo v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-07-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-counting due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection immigration sentencing sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness | I.- Whether Petitioner's Sentence Constitutes Impermissible Double Counting. Whether Petitioner's Sentence is Substantively Unreasonable Under the th… |
| 18-5155 | Omar Qazi v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-07-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bail-reform bail-reform-act constitutional-rights dangerousness due-process pre-trial-detention pretrial-detention sentencing-guidelines speedy-trial speedy-trial-act | Question not identified. |
| 18-5114 | Nigel L. Faison v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-07-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines standing statutory-interpretation takings | failed to review 4CCA when entered Claim .5 hualidated due to that 0lea insufficlent factuar basis. e founs whea it 4CCA that shcofret erned drug quan… |
| 18-5115 | Stanley Lee Hayward v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-07-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-assault crime-of-violence due-process equal-protection essential-elements habeas-corpus sentencing-guidelines statute | WHETHER THE LOWER TRIBUNAL ABUSED IT'S DISCRETION IN DENYING PETITIONER THE RIGHT F TO DUE PROCESS EQUAL PROTECTION OF LAW IN HOLDING THAT HIS PRIOR 1… |
| 18-5116 | Benjamin A. Gibbs v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-07-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure due-process jurisdiction life-sentence murder patent retroactive-application sentencing-guidelines standing takings uncharge-offense | DENYING A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY SHOULD THE JUDGMENT BE VACATED IN LIGHT OF BUCK V. DAVIS, 137 SCT 759 (2017), WELCH V. UNITED STATES, 136 SCT 1… |
| 18-5144 | Julio Gutierrez-Jaramillo v. Warden, FCI Gilmer | Fourth Circuit | 2018-07-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3585 bureau-of-prisons bureau-of-prisons-program-statement criminal-procedure due-process extradition federal-bureau-of-prisons foreign-detention judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-credit sentencing-guidelines time-credit time-served united-states-v-wilson | I. Whether prior credit for time held in foreign detention can only be given by the Federal Bureau of Prisons and to do so by the district court at se… |
| 18-20 | Arkadiy Bangiyev v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-07-03 | Denied | Response Waived | 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability counsel-stipulation criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain plea-bargaining sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment writ-of-certiorari | In McCoy v. Louisiana, 138 S.Ct. 1500 (2018), this Court held that trial counsel may not concede the defendant's guilt over the defendant's objection.… |
| 18-5080 | Derrick Pittman v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-07-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | carachuri-rosendo-v-holder career-offender career-offender-enhancement criminal-sentencing north-carolina-justice-reinvestment-act north-carolina-law post-release-supervision predicate-felonies sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guideline united-states-sentencing-guidelines | Whether the period of post-release supervision mandated for offenders punished under the North Carolina Justice Reinvestment Act is part of the term o… |
| 18-5097 | Antonio Torres v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-activity defendant-role mitigating-role paid-tasks proprietary-interest rebuttable-presumption sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction | 1. Whether U.S.S.G. § 3B1.2 now contains a rebuttable presumption that a mitigating role reduction should be granted upon a showing by the defendant t… |
| 18-16 | Larone Frederick Elijah v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-07-02 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing-guidelines-harmless- district-court federal-sentencing harmless-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness variance-sentence | In Rosales-Mireles, 138 S. Ct. 1897 (2018), this Court held that "before a court of appeals can consider the substantive reasonableness of a sentence,… |
| 18-5072 | Jill M. Evans v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-07-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acceptance-of-responsibility burden-on-court-system criminal-procedure due-process efficient-punishment federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines guilty-plea plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines unrelated-offenses | Under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, should a defendant be entitled to credit under the acceptance of responsibility guideline (USSG §3E1.1) if sh… |
| 18-5089 | Kevin Khaaliq Beamon v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-07-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553(a) criminal-history criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines sentencing-upon-revocation sentencing-variance substance-addiction supervised-release upward-variance | Whether a district court may impose a significant upward variance at sentencing upon revocation of supervised release on an individual who had never b… |
| 18-5062 | Norman L. Hunter v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-06-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aged-offenses appellate-review career-offender civil-procedure criminal-history district-court-error due-process guideline-determination sentencing-enhancement sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines standing writ-of-certiorari | I. Should a writ of certiorari be granted to determine whether the district court erred in sentencing Hunter as a career offender when the offenses ut… |
| 18-5011 | Xavier Cardona v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-review asset-seizure burden-of-proof civil-forfeiture currency-seizure drug-trafficking drug-transaction due-process evidence-standard judicial-conversion procedural-due-process property-rights sentencing-guidelines | 1. Was it admissable for the court of appeals to affirm the dist rict court's conversion of petitioner's seized cash into cocaine, when there was no e… |