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…