crack-cocaine
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-5313 | Tony Carr, aka Tony Carnell, aka Tony Coronel Carr, aka T-Bone v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-08-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attorney-general-memorandum crack-cocaine criminal-procedure fifth-amendment plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines | On December 16, 2002 Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a memorandum, which directed prosecutors to charge "pertinent statutory quantities that a… |
| 23-7309 | Jessie Vasquez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-04-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 3553a-factors abuse-of-discretion concepcion-v-united-states crack-cocaine criminal-sentencing discretionary-review first-step-act sentence-reduction sentencing-factors | 1. The question presented here is whether the District Court abused its discretion or erred when Mr. Vasquez qualified for a sentence reduction, he as… |
| 23-6722 | Jeffrey Holland v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-02-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crack-cocaine criminal-sentencing due-process fair-trial first-step-act jury-trial sentence-enhancement sentencing-discretion sentencing-enhancements trial-transcript | In Concepcion v. United States , 597 U.S. 481, 142 S. Ct. 2389, 2404 213 L. Ed. 2d 731 (2022), this Court held that the First Step Act "allows distric… |
| 23-6524 | Lynn Richard Norton v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-01-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal crack-cocaine criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance obstruction-of-justice sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington | (1) Whether Defense Counsel Jessica McAfee Performance Was Ineffective Assistance Under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 104 S.Ct. 2052, 80 L.E… |
| 23-5832 | William R. Abbott v. Loretta Otis-Sanders, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights crack-cocaine criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment equal-protection fair-sentencing-act federal-sentencing federal-statute-of-limitations first-step-act prison-rape-elimination-act retroactivity | Whether the State of Louisiana Constitution's Equal Protection Clause embodies through the United States Constitution Fourteenth Amendment Federal sta… |
| 23-5556 | William L. Gladney v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-09-12 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split crack-cocaine federal-sentencing first-step-act offense-grouping rico sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | May district courts reduce the sentence of those convicted of covered and non-covered offenses under the First Step Act, when the offenses intertwined… |
| 22-1239 | Michael Jerome Files v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-06-26 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | concurrent-sentences crack-cocaine crack-cocaine-offenses district-court-discretion first-step-act powder-cocaine sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Does § 404 of the First Step Act authorize district courts to impose a reduced sentence for both crack-cocaine offenses and related offenses that are … |
| 22-5061 | Dewayne Joseph v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-07-11 | GVR | IFP | concepcion-ruling concepcion-v-united-states crack-cocaine crack-penalties criminal-resentencing discretion eleventh-circuit fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing sentencing-modification | Whether this case should be reversed and remanded in light of Concepcion? |
| 21-6941 | Tracy Vaughn v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-01-21 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | 18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a crack-cocaine criminal-resentencing criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion first-step-act sentencing-factors sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether, in deciding whether to impose a reduced sentence for a crack cocaine offense under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act, a district court mus… |
| 21-6679 | Juan Jarmon v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-court-conflict conspiracy conspiracy-law crack-cocaine criminal-law evidence evidentiary-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review united-states-v-pressler | Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals entered a decision in conflict with the decision of United States v. Pressler where the evidence presented … |
| 21-6009 | Jose Moyhernandez, aka Yindo v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-10-19 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split crack-cocaine criminal-resentencing criminal-sentencing first-step-act sentence-reduction sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation | Whether a sentencing court must consider applicable sentencing factors codified in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) when deciding whether to "impose a reduced sent… |
| 21-5480 | Charles Bryant v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-08-25 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | circuit-split crack-cocaine fair-sentencing-act first-step-act judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | The Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 increased the threshold amounts of crack cocaine – from 5 and 50 grams to 28 and 280 grams – needed to trigger two man… |
| 21-5271 | Paul Surine v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-08-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crack-cocaine drug-conviction drug-quantity first-step-act judicial-interpretation recidivism-probability retroactivity sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines | The most important question to be resolve by the US Supreme Court is if Petitioner Paul Surine and others in his own situation should be given a reduc… |
| 21-5100 | Matthew James Haymond, Sr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-07-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crack-cocaine criminal-sentencing drug-offenses fair-sentencing-act first-step-act mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-minimum plea-bargaining retroactive-application sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether Mr. Haymond was improperly denied First Step Act § 404 relief from his mandatory life sentence under 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(A), where the distr… |
| 20-7972 | Gregory L. Roberson, Charles Matthews, and Dorothy Robinson v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-05-11 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split crack-cocaine fair-sentencing-act first-step-act retroactivity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-penalties | Does the term "covered offense" in the First Step Act include violations of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a) involving crack cocaine to which apply the penalties in… |
| 20-7887 | Ronnie Spells v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-04-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crack-cocaine discretion first-step-act judicial-discretion mandatory-minimums racial-disparities sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation systemic-racism | Whether District Court Judge Castel and the Second Circuit Appeals Court perpetuated continued systemic racism by contending that Congress left out th… |
| 20-7826 | Jimmie C. Johnson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-04-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights collateral-review crack-cocaine district-court due-process eighth-circuit first-step-act ineffective-assistance-of-counsel johnson-case legal-review motion-denial sentencing | Whether the district court and Eighth cir. Erred when they determine that m. Joknson 2ass motion was not retroactive to cases on collateral review, Wh… |
| 20-7737 | Marjuan Shondell Fleming v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-04-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split constitutional-rights crack-cocaine criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure first-step-act post-conviction right-to-counsel sentence-enhancement sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether the term "Covered offense" in the First Step Act of 2018, includes violations of Title 18 USC 924(c), involving crack cocaine, to which ACCA t… |
| 20-6870 | Antonio Harris v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-01-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crack-cocaine criminal-justice-reform first-step-act judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums retroactive-sentencing sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines | Can federal judges ignore the current United States Sentencing Guidelines calculation when considering whether to reduce a sentence for a "covered off… |
| 20-6442 | Jonair Tyreece Moore v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-11-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553a circuit-split crack-cocaine discretionary-reduction district-court first-step-act racial-disparity sentencing-factors | Whether a district court must consider the sentencing factors of 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) when determining whether to impose a reduced sentence for a crack… |
| 20-5904 | Tarahrick Terry v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-10-05 | Judgment Issued | Amici (9)IFP | 2010 crack offenders sentenced under 21 U.S.C. § circuit-split crack-cocaine fair-sentencing-act federal-criminal-statute first-step-act sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation statutory-penalties | Whether pre-August 3, 2010 crack offenders sentenced under 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(C) have a "covered offense" under Section 404 of the First Step Act. |
| 20-291 | Jamell Birt v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-09-04 | Denied | Amici (2)Relisted (3) | circuit-split crack-cocaine criminal-sentencing fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing-penalties statutory-interpretation | Does the term "covered offense" in the First Step Act of 2018 include violations of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a) involving crack cocaine to which apply the pena… |
| 20-5264 | Lakento Brian Smith v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-08-05 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | crack-cocaine criminal-sentencing first-step-act guideline-range mandatory-minimum post-sentencing-conduct resentencing sentence-reduction sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation | The First Step Act changed the penalty for petitioner's crack cocaine crimes from life in prison to 10 years to life and changed petitioner's guidelin… |
| 19-8034 | Whitney Atkinson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-03-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crack-cocaine drug-offense fair-sentencing-act first-step-act mandatory-minimum retroactive-application sentence-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Did Mr. Atkinson receive a sentence for a covered drug offense, such that he should be eligible for retroactive application of the Fair Sentencing Act… |
| 19-6255 | Kunta Kenta Redd v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-10-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crack-cocaine crack-cocaine-sentencing criminal-justice-reform due-process first-step-act retroactivity section-404 sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether me, the Petitioner, is entitled to Relief from denial 404 motion at the District Court level in light of the First Step Act, December 21st, 20… |
| 18A1355 | Richard Johnson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-24 | Presumed Complete | crack-cocaine drug-distribution eleventh-circuit intent-to-distribute school-zone sentencing-guidelines | Question not identified. |