covered-offense
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23-6600 | Richard Daniel v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-01-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split covered-offense discretionary-sentencing fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing-discretion sentencing-package-doctrine sentencing-reduction | Where a defendant was sentenced for multiple offenses, some of which are now covered by § 404 of the First Step Act while others are not covered, does… |
| 23-226 | Antonio Soul Gonzalez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-09-12 | Denied | Amici (1) | covered-offense criminal-sentencing discretion district-court-discretion fair-sentencing-act first-step-act recalculation sentence-reduction sentencing-range statutory-interpretation | Whether a district court must recalculate a movant's sentencing range as if Sections 2 and 3 of the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 were in effect at the … |
| 22-7309 | James H. Roane, Jr., and Richard Tipton v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-04-18 | Denied | IFP | continuing-criminal-enterprise covered-offense criminal-enterprise drug-weight drug-weight-threshold fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing-range | Whether the First Step Act's "covered offense" analysis turns upon whether the Fair Sentencing Act modified the sentencing range for violation of a gi… |
| 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… |
| 21-6739 | Anthony Harris v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-12-29 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | covered-offense criminal-justice-reform district-court-discretion factual-developments first-step-act intervening-developments legal-developments retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether a district court must or may consider intervening legal and factual developments before imposing a reduced sentence on an individual found eli… |
| 21-6560 | Carlo Donato v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-12-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 924(c) covered-offense criminal-sentencing deportation first-step-act retroactive-penalty retroactivity section-924(c) sentencing stacking statutory-interpretation | Whether, under the First Step Act, Act 403(a) Title 18 U.S.C. Section 924(c) modify penalty the covered offense Act, due to the fact that the statutor… |
| 21-5874 | Warren Lavell Jackson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-10-04 | GVR | Relisted (3)IFP | apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-law constitutional-precedent covered-offense criminal-sentencing fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether the "as if" language in Section 404(b) of the First Step Act requires a sentencing court to disregard intervening, but well-established consti… |
| 20-8327 | Roberto Barrio v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-06-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cocaine-types covered-offense first-step-act jury-findings statutory-maximums statutory-minimums | TkiKe'sVvef' Go co\r\g^ Q,OUT iV (^CounV-. Of\<sJ Aypes e* eo^ n<t/ 0n<6 powdar, ona basics ^woc j bb The, 'W«d o?Afivs<£. Th<z, KrsV'Sba? P\c\ Ao T^n… |
| 20-8094 | Corey L. Johnson v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-05-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | covered-offense criminal-law drug-conspiracy federal-sentencing first-step-act multi-object-conspiracy rule-of-lenity sentencing sentencing-retroactivity statutory-interpretation | Where there is ambiguity as to which penalty applies in a multi-object conspiracy that is a "covered offense" pursuant to the First Step Act of 2018, … |
| 20-6841 | Steven Jones v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-01-12 | Denied | IFP | apprendi apprendi-standard circuit-split covered-offense drug-quantity federal-criminal-statute first-step-act sentencing sentencing-range statutory-penalties | I. Whether "statutory penalties" in § 404(a) of the First Step Act modifies the entire phrase – "a violation of a Federal criminal statute" – as the E… |
| 20-6243 | Okeiba Sadio v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights covered-offense criminal-procedure drug-distribution due-process first-step-act sentencing sentencing-reduction sixth-amendment statutory-penalties | (1) Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals Wrongly dismiss Mr Sadio's Appeal with out no Briefs being filed or hearing any arguments, violating m… |