commutation
6 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6451 | Thomas Steven Sanders v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-12-30 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP | appellate-review case-or-controversy commutation death-penalty federal-sentencing mootness | Following commutation of a death sentence to life in prison without the possibility of release, does a case or controversy regarding the death penalty… |
| 24-5179 | Forrest Hammond v. Tim Hooper, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-30 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-liberties commutation criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review pardon state-court | A Louisiana Executive Pardon of a felony sentence erases the criminal history and restores civil rights and liberties to a party. An Executive Commuta… |
| 20-285 | Herman Tracy Clark v. Jerold Braggs, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2020-09-03 | Denied | aedpa-restriction commutation due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus impartiality liberty-interest pardon pardon-and-parole parole statutory-interpretation | Whether the word "shall " binds the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board decision that must be pursued in the ordinary mode prescribed by law, to be ada… | |
| 19-8258 | Denver Maxwell Goree, Jr. v. Michigan Parole Board | Sixth Circuit | 2020-04-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commutation constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto parole parole-board punishment | Whether Petitioner's parole process was unconstitutional where (1) the Michigan Parole Board failed to proceed with a recommendation for commutation i… |
| 18-7714 | Anthony Grandison v. Maryland | Maryland | 2019-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | blockburger-test common-law-murder commutation cumulative-punishment double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause due-process felony-murder handgun-use jury-instructions legislative-intent merger-of-offenses non-merger-rule prosecutorial-discretion required-evidence-test sentencing statutory-construction statutory-offenses | I. Whether the Maryland Court of Appeals erred in holding in light of Missouri v. Hunter convictions for common law first degree murder did not merger… |
| 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… |