apprendi-doctrine
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-5743 | Rico Lorodge Brown v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-doctrine charging-error criminal-sentencing harmless-error judicial-factfinding structural-error | I. Does the type of error that occurred in this case —sentencing a criminal defendant for an uncharged and untried offense —qualify as structural erro… |
| 24-5559 | Daniel Salgado-Melendez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-09-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-doctrine constitutional-interpretation notice-clause prior-conviction-exception sixth-amendment supreme-court-review | L. Should Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), be overruled? I. Should this Court grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, an… |
| 24-5543 | Jose Luis Sarmiento v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-09-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-doctrine constitutional-interpretation notice-clause prior-conviction-exception sixth-amendment supreme-court-review | L Should Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), be overruled? I. Should this Court grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and… |
| 22-6566 | Rodney R. Ellis v. Florida | Florida | 2023-01-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-doctrine apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure jury-clause jury-trial prior-record-exception sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Whether a sentencing court violates the Sixth Amendment's Jury Clause when the sentencing court —rather than the jury —finds that the defendant commit… |
| 21-1282 | Christopher Ryan Martin v. Nevada | Nevada | 2022-03-23 | Denied | Response Waived | 6th-amendment apprendi-doctrine civil-rights criminal-sentencing due-process jury-trial prior-convictions sentence-enhancement sentencing-factors sixth-amendment | I. Whether this Court should overrule Almendarez-Torres in light of Apprendi and its progeny. II. Whether Nevada's use of prior convictions for enhan… |
| 21-6718 | Gregory Chester and William Ford v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-12-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi apprendi-doctrine conspiracy-sentencing criminal-procedure grand-jury indictment presentment-clause sentencing statutory-sentencing superseding-indictment | Whether, where Apprendi and its progeny requires the petit jury to return special findings as to individual conspiracy defendants to justify an increa… |
| 20-7198 | Benjamin Edward Henry Bradley v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-02-22 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | apprendi apprendi-doctrine criminal-forfeiture honeycutt honeycutt-precedent in-personam-judgment in-personam-money-judgments judge-found-facts jury-finding sixth-amendment | 1. Whether, under Apprendi and its progeny, a court violates the Sixth Amendment's jury-finding requirements by ordering forfeiture, over the defendan… |
| 19-8755 | Levi West v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-06-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-doctrine armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-interpretation conviction-records criminal-procedure jury jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | The Armed Career Criminal Act enhances the statutory penalty for a firearms offense when the offender has three predicate convictions for crimes that … |
| 19-5924 | James Hennessee v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-09-12 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | apprendi-doctrine armed-career-criminal-act circuit-court constitutional-interpretation conviction-records criminal-procedure jury predicate-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | The Armed Career Criminal Act enhances the statutory penalty for a firearms offense when the offender has three predicate convictions for crimes that … |
| 18-7668 | Patricio Paladin v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-01-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-doctrine apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-element criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial jury-trial-guarantee prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements | Whether the contested fact of prior conviction entering into the sentence to increase a defendant's penalty for the instant offense, must be treated a… |
| 18-5496 | Alfredo Perez, Jr. v. California | California | 2018-08-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-doctrine apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-fact-finding judicial-findings jury-trial resentencing sentencing sixth-amendment three-strikes-law | Does the federal constitution, as construed in Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 120 S.Ct. 2348, 147 L.Ed.2d 435 (2000), permit a court charged wi… |