concepcion-precedent
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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… |
| 23-6403 | Tony L. Ford v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-01-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | concepcion-precedent concepcion-v-united-states criminal-resentencing eleventh-circuit eleventh-circuit-interpretation fair-sentencing-act first-step-act intervening-law-changes sentencing sentencing-discretion statutory-penalty | Previously, the courts of appeals were divided over whether a district court could consider intervening changes to the law during First Step Act proce… |
| 23-5675 | Brandon A. House v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-09-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 appellate-court appellate-court-interpretation concepcion-precedent concepcion-v-united-states district-court district-court-discretion extraordinary-and-compelling extraordinary-compelling-reasons section-3582 sentencing-modification | This Court said in no uncertain terms that a district court, when considering a sentence-modification motion, may consider not only changes in law mad… |
| 22-7367 | Christopher J. Bailey v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-04-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 abuse-of-discretion concepcion-precedent concepcion-v-united-states criminal-justice-reform criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion first-step-act precedent sentence-reduction sentencing | WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION WHEN IT ARBITRARILY IGNORED PRECEDENT FROM ITS OWN CIRCUIT, AND THE SUPREME COURT, IN DENYING PETIT… |
| 22-5435 | Rahsaan Johnson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-08-23 | GVR | IFP | concepcion-precedent concepcion-v-united-states district-court-denial district-court-discretion first-step-act judicial-review mitigating-information post-sentencing-conduct sentencing-mitigation vacatur | Whether the district court's denial of Mr. Johnson's First Step Act motion must be vacated in light of Concepcion v. United States because the court d… |