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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6633 | Leihinahina Sullivan v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2026-01-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-history district-court plea-agreement sentence-adjustment sentencing-guidelines status-points | &ivn(<)WineVViev' be ^-zmled sendee reducho-n uvtdeK ■sfetfus points Amendment &aJ aiad -WnaA' unde« IS U.SZ. Z&SSfa'fte) 7 reaumnq-toe Court to ronf… |
| 25-6570 | Orlanda Travon Sloan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2026-01-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-history individualized-sentencing mental-health-considerations methamphetamine-offense sentencing-guidelines youth-mitigation | Whether the Sentencing Guidelines' static Criminal History Categories and excessive offense levels for methamphetamine actual/ice fail to propose a re… |
| 24-1295 | Brandon Phillips v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-06-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split criminal-history expungement harmless-error procedural-error sentencing-guidelines | In 2022, the citizens of Missouri adopted an amendment to the Missouri Constitution that legalizes marijuana consumption and mandates the retroactive … |
| 24-1255 | Malcom Anwar Williams v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-06-09 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 18-usc-3582 compassionate-release criminal-history rehabilitation-evidence sentence-reduction sentencing-discretion | When a federal inmate files a motion for reduction of sentence or compassionate release pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3582 (c)(1)(A), the district court mus… |
| 24A1001 | Malcom Anwar Williams v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-04-18 | Presumed Complete | 18-U.S.C.-section-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-history rehabilitation-evidence sentencing-reduction | This case concerns whether a motion for compassionate release filed under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i) may be denied based solely on a defendant's cri… | |
| 24-6441 | David Joseph Bunevacz v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-01-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-history due-process government-breach plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines upward-variance | 1. Whether petitioner David Joseph Bunevacz's convictions should be reversed because the government breached the plea agreement, in violation of this … |
| 24-6306 | Willems Calixte, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal criminal-history judicial-fact-finding sentencing-enhancement shepard-documents supreme-court-precedent | In light of Erlinger v. United States, 144 S.Ct 1840 (2024), was Petitioner Calixte properly sentenced as an armed career criminal where the district … |
| 24-5941 | Santos Cuevas v. Josh Highberger, Acting Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary | Oregon | 2024-11-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-rule constitutional-rights criminal-history habeas-corpus jury-fact-finding sentencing-guidelines | This case involves two sentencing guidelines rules. One rule, directs trial courts , to count a defendant's convictions at the time of sentencing in … |
| 24-5882 | Tyrone Greenfield v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-10-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-history judicial-discretion miscalculation procedural-error relevant-conduct sentencing | Whether a sentence may be sustained if it relies upon an obvious and gross miscalculation pertaining to alleged wrongdoing that results in incorrect r… |
| 24A345 | Ronald Robinson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-10-11 | Presumed Complete | 18-usc-3553a criminal-history eighth-circuit mitigating-factors sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines | Question not identified. | |
| 24-5672 | Mark Leon Andrews v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-court-review criminal-history prior-convictions sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the 5th and 6th Amendments entitled the petitioner to have a jury decide below his crimes according to AS KCaStons, under the Constitution of … |
| 24-5588 | Deven L. Smith v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-09-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion career-offender criminal-history downward-departure sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines | QUESTION NO. I: Whether the Sixth Circuit 's decision affirming the judgment of the district court was error, where one of Defendant-Appellant 's pre… |
| 24-5058 | Joseph Curtis Hubman v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553(a)(2) 18-usc-3553a child-pornography criminal-history sentencing-guidelines sentencing-purposes upward-variance | Whether an upward variance sentence nearly two years higher than recommended by the Sentencing Guidelines is greater than necessary to comply with the… |
| 23-7502 | Kevin Day v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-05-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4a1.3(b) criminal-history district-court-discretion downward-departure fourth-circuit motion-to-dismiss sentencing-guidelines variance-sentence | I. Whether the District Court abused its discretion by failing to give Mr. Day a variance sentence and a shorter period of incarceration based upon a … |
| 23-7106 | Gemar Morgan v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-04-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-history guideline-commentary sentence-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation stinson-v-united-states supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-havis | Do the United States Sentencing Commission application note 4B1.4 cmt.n,(1) that states: "nor are the time periods for the counting of prior sentences… |
| 23A803 | Khan Mohammed v. United States | District of Columbia | 2024-02-29 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split criminal-history due-process ineffective-counsel sentencing-guidelines terrorism-enhancement | Question not identified. | |
| 23-6739 | John Richard Brinson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-02-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-amendment child-pornography criminal-history criminal-sentencing due-process life-without-parole rehabilitation sentencing-reasonableness substantive-due-process substantive-reasonableness | Whether a life without parole sentence for a 24 year old with no prior criminal record for producing child pornography is substantively unreasonable? |
| 23-6257 | Randall Scott Jordan v. Texas | Texas | 2023-12-14 | Denied | IFP | brady brady-violation criminal-history due-process impeachment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment suppression-of-evidence witness-credibility witness-impeachment | No. 1 Randall Scott Jordan/petitioner/ contends that external impediments,(State's w witness,(Galvan) extensive violent criminal history and gang aff… |
| 23-6164 | Albert Carrasco, v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-12-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process liberty-interest liberty-restriction rehabilitation sentencing sex-offender supervised-release | For a low-level sex offender (like a mere possessor of child pornography with no prior criminal history), is a supervised-release condition prohibitin… |
| 23-6029 | Brianna Irene Bustam v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-16 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-history drug-offenses first-step-act rule-of-lenity safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | The question presented is whether the "and" in § 3553(f)(1) means "and," so that a defendant satisfies the provision so long as she does not have (A) … |
| 23-5678 | Jasper Michael Wagner v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-history criminal-procedure descamps-v-united-states gall-v-united-states judicial-fact-finding sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment united-states-v-hernandez | Whether the Fifth Circuit's holding that that judicial fact-finding as to past offenses is permissible during sentencing pursuant to United States v. … |
| 23-5691 | Ricardo Garcia, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-02 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | circuit-split criminal-history due-process mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Pursuant to the "safety-valve" provision of the federal sentencing statute, a defendant convicted of certain nonviolent drug crimes can obtain relief … |
| 23-5672 | Michael Lee Mac Cleary v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-09-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-history criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process judicial-accuracy sentencing townsend-v-burke uncounseled-defendants | Whether the due process right to be sentenced based on accurate information that the Court recognized in Townsend v. Burke, 334 U.S. 736 (1948), is li… |
| 23-329 | Chong Yim, et al. v. City of Seattle, Washington | Ninth Circuit | 2023-09-28 | Denied | Amici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-penalties criminal-history due-process fourteenth-amendment housing-ordinance landlord-tenant property-rights public-housing tenant-screening | Does Seattle's restriction on private owners' right to exclude potentially dangerous tenants from their property violate the Fourteenth Amendment's Du… |
| 23-5605 | Alfred John McDonald v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-09-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-history drug-quantity due-process evidence-standard hemp marijuana procedural-fairness relevant-conduct | 1. Whether McDonald's right to due process was violated when the drug quantity attributed to McDonald was based in part on vague ledgers, unrebutted e… |
| 23-5304 | Jaquantious Hutchison v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-08-09 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-history federal-sentencing mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | The Safety Valve provision, 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f), instructs district courts to sentence under the guidelines without regard to any statutory mandatory … |
| 23-5188 | Mark Anthony Roy v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-07-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-history criminal-law due-process firearms firearms-prohibition second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether the Second Amendment forbids application of 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) to persons who have no conviction for violent conduct, nor any offense more s… |
| 23-5149 | Javier Escalera, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-07-20 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-history fifth-circuit mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Pursuant to the "safety-valve" provision of the federal sentencing statute, a defendant convicted of certain nonviolent drug crimes can obtain relief … |
| 23-46 | United States v. Cassity Danielle Jones | Fourth Circuit | 2023-07-17 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation | Whether, in order for a defendant to satisfy the prerequisite for "safety-valve" sentencing relief in 18 U.S.C. 3553(f)(1), a court must find that the… |
| 22-7843 | George John Maslovar v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-06-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography civil-procedure criminal-history paroline-v-united-states proximate-cause restitution statutory-interpretation victim-impact | Whether a defendant's criminal history, the nature of images typically trafficked of a child pornography victim, or the amount of restitution collecte… |
| 22-7814 | Joshua E. Preece v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-06-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | chapter-four criminal-history criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines recidivism recidivist-enhancement relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission | Do the relevant conduct principles of USSG § 1B1.3 govern application of Chapter Four recidivist enhancements? |
| 22-7807 | Chayna Holguin v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-06-16 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-history federal-sentencing first-step-act rule-of-lenity safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | The question presented is whether the "and" in § 3553(f)(1) means "and," so that a defendant satisfies the provision so long as she does not have (A) … |
| 22-7756 | Andre Zeno v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-06-12 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-history criminal-history-points criminal-procedure safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-minimum | Whether the "and" in § 3553(f)(1) means "and," so that a defendant satisfies the provision so long as he does not have (A) more than 4 criminal histor… |
| 22-7702 | Antonio Montero v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-06-05 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-3553(f) criminal-history criminal-procedure federal-sentencing safety-valve sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | A defendant is entitled to the safety-valve sentencing provision of 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f) unless he violates all three subsections of the statute: (1) m… |
| 22-7709 | Ashley Latreece Thackerson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-06-05 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-history first-step-act safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation | Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err by finding that Petitioner did not qualify for safety valve relief under the First Step Act 18 U.S.C. § 355… |
| 22-7631 | Terrell McGee v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-05-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | compassionate-release constitutional-rights criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion murder-degrees retroactivity sentencing sentencing-disparities | CK c\A&KIH t; 0tf (K (\y\d Toxi^Vi be Cofn^j/fovw/e (MJ/iowe 7/" ffY, rjobr (\ihve f [)oeS SewWiciWj bak/een fiS-orJtvivry _ CVen iftic<iWw<f ^cfwr le… |
| 22-7436 | Chad Robert Kolkman v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-05-02 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-history criminal-sentencing legal-interpretation mandatory-minimum sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation statutory-text | When the terms of a statute are unambiguous, "it's no contest" what a court should do—apply the law as written. Bostock v. Clayton County, 140 S. Ct. … |
| 22-7312 | Jackie Mitchell v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-04-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-panel criminal-history domestic-violence federal-circuit-court federal-court-interpretation federal-implications panel-decision sixth-circuit-rule state-court-interpretation state-law state-law-interpretation | To resolve a federal defendant's criminal history, must a circuit court panel use the current state court interpretations of state conviction, or may … |
| 22-851 | United States v. Julian Garcon | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-03-08 | Dismissed | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | criminal-history criminal-history-points criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines jurisdiction safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation | Whether, in order for a defendant to satisfy the prerequisite for "safety-valve" sentencing relief in 18 U.S.C. 3553(f)(1), a court must find that the… |
| 22-828 | Roger E. Pace v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-03-01 | Denied | Relisted (2) | circuit-split criminal-history federal-sentencing mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Courts interpret statutes by applying Congress's plain language. In the First Step Act, Congress modified the federal sentencing statute to say that a… |
| 22-6825 | Richie Lee Edmonds, III v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-02-21 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-history criminal-law drug-distribution due-process federal-sentencing federalism sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether a prior state conviction for drug distribution qualifies as a "controlled substance offense" under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b), when the state statute… |
| 22-6803 | Mario C. Thomas v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-02-16 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-history criminal-history-points criminal-procedure federal-sentencing mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Section 3553(f) of Title 18, U.S. Code, is the "safety valve" which can allow a defendant to receive a sentence less than the statutory mandatory mini… |
| 22-6536 | Antoine D. Jackson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-01-13 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-history due-process safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | (1) Whether this Court should resolve a Circuit split and decide if the word "and" in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f)(1) should be interpreted in the disjunctive … |
| 22-6429 | Robert McKenna v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-12-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3553a appellate-review criminal-history district-court-discretion due-process public-safety sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-reasonableness | I. Whether it was procedurally and substantively reasonable for the sentencing court to a) recite statutory sentencing rationale by rote recitation wi… |
| 22-6391 | Nonami Palomares v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-12-23 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (3)IFP | criminal-history drug-crimes drug-offense federal-sentencing mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Pursuant to the "safety-valve" provision of the federal sentencing statute, a defendant convicted of certain nonviolent drug crimes can obtain relief … |
| 22-6266 | Earl Moore v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-12-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender civil-rights criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act recidivism sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. |
| 22-514 | Edwar Rodriguez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-12-05 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | advisory-sentencing-guidelines criminal-history criminal-sentencing dangerous-weapon dangerous-weapon-enhancement drug-quantity eleventh-circuit sentence-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines statutory-sentencing-factors | 1. Whether certiorari review should be granted where the Eleventh Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of Rodriguez' objection to th… |
| 22-6092 | Joshua Lewis v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-11-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553(a) 3553a-factors criminal-history departures guidelines-departure procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g.-4a1.3 upward-variance | Whether a district court can vary upward from the advisory sentencing range under the factors in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) based on the inadequacy of a defe… |
| 22-6006 | Justin Richard Testani v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-11-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography criminal-history cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment mental-capacity sentencing sentencing-disparity | 1. Whether a 720-month sentence violates the Eighth Amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual sentences when Mr. Testani never had physical contact w… |
| 22-340 | Mark E. Pulsifer v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-10-12 | Judgment Issued | Amici (4)Relisted (2) | circuit-conflict circuit-split criminal-history criminal-justice-reform first-step-act mandatory-minimum rule-of-lenity safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | The "safety valve" provision of the federal sentencing statute requires a district court to ignore any statutory mandatory minimum and instead follow … |
| 22-5741 | Anthony Delano Hylton, Jr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-10-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-history criminal-procedure detention-duration fourth-amendment law-enforcement-inquiry prolonged-detention rodriguez-precedent rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop | A. Does This Court's Decision in Rodriguez v. United States permit any criminal history inquiry at any traffic stop no matter how long the inquiry tak… |
| 22-5729 | Jose Madrid-Becerra v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-09-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-history criminal-procedure deportation early-release federal-criminal-defendants immigration immigration-law sentencing-guidelines state-statutes | Several states have or had statutes authorizing the early release of state prisoners with deportation orders to the United States Immigration and Natu… |
| 22-5655 | Robert Frank Miller v. United States | District of Columbia | 2022-09-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | compassionate-release criminal-history equal-protection procedural-fairness rehabilitation sentence-reduction sentencing-objectives standing waiver | failed to meet his burden of demonstrating Extraordinary and Compelling reasons that warrant a sentence reduction? Whether Certiorari should be grant… |
| 22-5421 | Henry Wilke Eilders v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-08-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-history drug-conspiracy drug-offenses federal-sentencing-guidelines methamphetamine methamphetamine-distribution relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | 1. Whether Petitioner's prior methamphetamine related convictions occurring within two years of the conspiracy for distributing methamphetamine should… |
| 22-5262 | David D. Major v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-08-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion acceptance-of-responsibility appeal-denial career-offender criminal-history drug-related-offense obstruction-of-justice reliable-evidence sentencing-guidelines | (1) Isnt Seventh Circuit's panel decision contrary with UNITED STATES v. CHEEKS, 740 F.3d 440 (7thcir 2014),where district Court abused it's discret… |
| 22-5139 | Carol Johnene Morris v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 2nd-amendment armed-career-criminal-act civil-rights criminal-history criminal-procedure double-jeopardy drug-possession due-process felony-enhancement prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Question not identified. |
| 22-5090 | Michelle C. Cantatore v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-07-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability criminal-history district-court-discretion evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel section-2255 sentencing sentencing-counsel sentencing-disparity | Whether the Third Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability, where the district court erred or alternatively abused its discretion by denying… |
| 21-7828 | Kimberly Jones v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-05-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-history criminal-sentencing drug-quantity drug-quantity-determination intervening-arrest narcotics-guidelines personal-use sentencing-guidelines | 1. Who bears the burden of proving or disproving "personal use" quantities when making drug quantity determinations for purposes of the narcotics guid… |
| 21-7632 | Carlos Gotay-Guzman v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-04-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | application-note criminal-history criminal-history-points federal-jurisdiction first-circuit-decision plain-error plain-error-standard puerto-rico puerto-rico-convictions sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Did the First Circuit err when it held Mr. Gotay-Guzman could not establish plain error regarding the assessment of 2 criminal history points for his … |
| 21-7269 | Joseph Peter Clarke v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-03-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion covid-19 criminal-history downward-variance drug-offenses juvenile-offenses sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines stash-house-robbery | Issue 1: Whether the appellate court erred affirming the district court's abuse of discretion in overruling petitioner's objections to the PSI Report … |
| 21-1118 | Duianete Moore v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-02-11 | Denied | Response Waived | career-offender criminal-history criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines juvenile-conviction juvenile-offenses predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Is a conviction committed 24 years ago, when Petitioner was 16 years old, a proper predicate offense for classification of Career Offender status purs… |
| 21-6578 | Gregory Leri v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-12-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-history downward-adjustment drug-trafficking first-step-act safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-minimum | On December 21, 2018, Congress enacted the First Step Act of 2018 (P.L. 115 391). In Section 402 of the First Step Act, Congress amended subsection (f… |
| 21-6287 | Mario Hernandez-Galarza v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-11-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-history discrimination due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment immigration-law liberty noncitizen-rights sentencing-guidelines | In 2016, the United States Sentencing Commission promulgated United States Sentencing Guideline (U.S.S.G.) § 2L1.2(b)(3), which applies exclusively to… |
| 21-5747 | Juan Carlos Osorto v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-09-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-history due-process equal-protection federal-agencies immigration-law noncitizen-rights noncitizens sentencing-guidelines | In 2016, the United States Sentencing Commission promulgated United States Sentencing Guideline (USSG) § 2L1.2(b)(3), which applies exclusively to non… |
| 21-5540 | Guadalupe Urbina-Rodriguez v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-08-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-922g1 18-usc-924a2 8th-amendment 8th-circuit carachuri-rosendo-v-holder criminal-firearm-possession criminal-history eighth-circuit-precedent felony-enhancement second-amendment-rights sentencing-interpretation statutory-construction | I. Because Urbina-Rodrigue z was never actually sentenced to serve a term of imprisonment that exceeds one year, by the State of Missouri's court ba… |
| 21-5014 | John Bruce Fifield, Jr. v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-07-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-history criminal-procedure judicial-notice plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review | Whether a court of appeals may consider judicially noticeable facts presented for the first time on appeal in deciding whether an error is plain? |
| 20-8421 | Braulio Perez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-06-25 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 911-call armed-career-criminal body-camera body-camera-footage constitutional-rights'\n'Issue 4 criminal-history criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure'\n'Issue 2 criminal-procedure'\n'Issue 3 criminal-procedure'\n'Issue 4 enhancement evidence fair-trial fifth-amendment firearm fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure self-incrimination sentencing sentencing-enhancement statements statutory-interpretation witness witness-testimony | 1. Whether Mr. Perez's Fourth Amendment rights were violated when his motion to suppress the firearm was denied? 2. Whether Mr. Perez's Fifth Amendme… |
| 20-8354 | Lewis Wesley Hickman, III v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-06-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process evidence-challenge felony-conviction judicial-review mandatory-minimum plea-bargaining sentencing-disparities sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines | why was my 3 points for accepting responsibility taken for a fight in jail. I Know I didnt say} "Cooperator"; I didnt Know him at all. why was I give… |
| 20-8383 | Franklin Antonio Rios v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-06-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-history criminal-history-category drug-conspiracy firearm-charges first-step-act fourth-amendment mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences offense-level sentencing-guidelines | I. WHETHER, AFTER THE PETITIONER PLED GUILTY TO A DRUG CONSPIRACY AND TWO FIREARM CHARGES UNDER 18 U.S.C. § 924(0), RESULTING IN MANDATORY MINIMUM SEN… |
| 20-8230 | Jorge De Los Santos v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-06-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process liberty-interest liberty-restriction rehabilitation sentencing-conditions sex-offender substantive-reasonableness supervised-release | For a low-level sex offender (like a mere possessor of child pornography with no prior criminal history), is a supervised-release condition prohibitin… |
| 20-8219 | Clark D. Young v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-06-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conflict-of-interest counsel-failure criminal-history due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | (1) WAS the defendant deprived of his sixth, Fifth, and Fourteenth amendments , when Counsel fAiled to investigate his. Criminal history? (2) was the… |
| 20-7825 | Carlon McGinn v. Kansas | Kansas | 2021-04-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-vagueness criminal-history criminal-sentencing due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-determination jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Petitioner's 'OUT OF STATE' crime 'IS NOT' Defined under Kansas State Statutes and used to Enhance His Sentence based on the Determinations of a Judge… |
| 20-7323 | Salvatore J. Moretti v. Borough of Paramus, New Jersey | New Jersey | 2021-03-05 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights criminal-history due-process judicial-misconduct military-control political-economics standing state-court-procedure surveillance takings veterans-exemption | 1. Can The Supreme Court of New Jersey Deny Certification on November 20, 2020, only after petitioner Moretti was found incapacitated (Ber-P-521-18) a… |
| 20-7246 | Renaldo Demarquis Metcalf v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-02-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender criminal-history judicial-doctrine legal-departure sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines sentencing-process | Does the use of the "de facto career offender" doctrine distort the sentencing process and lead to unwarranted sentencing disparity? |
| 20-7109 | Raul Flores-Villalvaso v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process illegal-reentry mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines specific-intent | Whether the 8 U.S.C. § 1326 Attempted Illegal Reentry mens rea element of "specific intent" can be restated as simply "a conscious desire" with no ref… |
| 20-902 | Kenneth E. Flick v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-01-05 | Denied | Amici (4) | 2nd-amendment as-applied-challenges circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-copyright criminal-history felony-conviction felony-convictions firearm-possession second-amendment | Whether the Second Amendment secures Ken Flick's right to keep and bear arms, notwithstanding his convictions for importing and selling counterfeit ca… |
| 20-6486 | Rakeem Asaad Davis v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-12-01 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-history firearm-possession jury-instructions rehaif-error rehaif-v-united-states second-amendment sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation substantial-rights | When determining whether a defendant's substantial rights were affected by an indictment and jury instructions that omitted an essential element of a … |
| 20-6376 | Sean Jason Harstine v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-11-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | age-of-defendant appeal breaking-and-entering criminal-history due-process juvenile-offender juvenile-offenses point-calculation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | I. WHETHER IT WAS ERROR TO COUNT CRIMINAL HISTORY POINTS FOR FOUR 2004 BREAKING AND ENTERING (B&E) CONVITIONS WHEN THE DEFENDANT WAS ONLY 17 YEARS OLD… |
| 20-6237 | Jamar Parker v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-11-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-history district-court mitigating-factors mitigation-arguments procedural-reasonableness sentencing substantive-reasonableness | Where the district court failed to consider or address Petitioner's mitigating arguments and focused exclusively on his criminal history, whether the … |
| 20-6134 | Adam Alfredo Flores v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-amendment criminal-history cruel-and-unusual-punishment disproportionate-sentence eighth-amendment felon-in-possession sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness | Was a maximum ten year sentence above the guidelines of 70 to 87 months' imprisonment for Felon in Possession of a Firearm substantively unreasonable,… |
| 20-5533 | Gayle McNamara v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-08-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appellate-review criminal-history district-court-error downward-variance judicial-discretion offense-level sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review | A defendant who has shown that the district court mistakenly deemed applicable an incorrect, higher Guidelines range has demonstrated a reasonable pro… |
| 20-5359 | Brandon Shane Eustice v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-08-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-history diversionary-disposition due-process imprisonment judicial-procedure probation-revocation revocation sentencing-calculation sentencing-guidelines | that a diversionary disposition resulting from a finding or admission of guilt in a judicial proceeding is counted as a sentence under § 4A1.1 (c) and… |
| 20-5321 | Michael Wayne Wadena v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-08-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights controlled-substance criminal-history due-process eighth-amendment firearm-possession related-cases sentencing sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation | Does 924(e)'s "serious drug offense" mandate that courts consider both statutes when sentencing Could hypothetical aggravating sentencing factors be … |
| 19-8468 | Janice M. Shufford v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-05-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy-charges criminal-history due-process evidence evidentiary-exclusion fair-trial indictment-defects judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility | This case presents two issues. First, did the court of appeals properly affirm the trial court and hold that it did not err in prohibiting the defense… |
| 19-7720 | Lamont Jones v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-02-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-circuit-court abuse-of-discretion co-conspirator-hearsay co-conspirator-hearsay-exception criminal-association criminal-history district-court-conviction hearsay-exception mental-health racketeering-conspiracy racketeering-conspiracy-18-usc-1962(d) sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-mental-health-treatment sufficient-evidence uncorroborated-confession | I. Did the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals abuse.it's discretion in upholding the District Court's conviction that the evidence against Jones was suffi… |
| 19-7417 | Corey Michael Edwards v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering constitutional-challenge criminal-history effective-counsel predicate-offense predicate-offenses prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation | Can a the breaking and entering of outbouildings (ie. storage Sheds), that were visably and actually padlocked from the outside, where no reasonable p… |
| 19-6775 | James Marione Butchee v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-11-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender controlled-substance criminal-history due-process federal-sentencing ineffective-counsel sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation violent-felony | The Federal Minimum Mandatory sentence for Career offender clause [21 USC 841(b)] is at question in this petition, Do having one violent felony and on… |
| 19-6597 | Thiodore Igorovich Galitsa v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | credibility criminal-history criminal-procedure-due-process cross-examination dismissed-case dismissed-charges due-process fair-trial false-statements illegal-reentry prior-arrests prior-convictions prosecutorial-misconduct trial-fairness | Was Mr. Galitsa denied his right to a fair trial by the government's repeated questioning about allegations from a case dismissed for lack of evidence… |
| 19-6527 | Ruben Patrick Valdes v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim criminal-history evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error sentencing-guidelines | 1. WAS TRIAL COUNSEL CONSTITUTIONALLY INEFFECTIVE FOR FAILING TO INVESTIGATE, FACT-CHECK, AND OBJECT TO ERRONEOUS INCLUSION OF JUVENILE PRIORS DURING … |
| 19-6005 | Robert L. Malone v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-09-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-history drug-quantity due-process jury-instructions mandatory-minimum methamphetamine-distribution prosecutorial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervisory-power | 1.) Did the lower courts err when they imposed and affirmed Mr. Malone's sentence based on overreliance on his Criminal History? 2.) Is Mr. Malone's … |
| 19-5809 | Lloyde Dubry v. Kansas | Kansas | 2019-09-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-history descamps-v-united-states discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sixth-amendment state-v-wetrich | 1. Whether the petitioner, Lloyde Dubry, was denied his remedy by due course of law -- in violation of the Sixth or Fourteenth Amendment to the United… |
| 19-5747 | Jamall Gibson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights criminal-history criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment speedy-trial | QUESTION # ONE: Whether Petitioner Gibson's counsel provided him with ineffective assistance of counsel by failing; to effectively investiga te his HY… |
| 19-5730 | Lawrence Michael Lynde v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-08-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sex-offender-treatment sixth-circuit-appeal standing statutory-interpretation victim-restitution | Question not identified. |
| 19-5032 | Tyrone Felder v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-07-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | adjudication adult-conviction adult-convictions career-offender criminal-history criminal-procedure federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation youthful-offender | Whether New York youthful offender adjudications qualify as adult convictions for purposes of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines career offender provis… |
| 18-9291 | Adrian Green v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-05-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment career-offender criminal-history due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error plea-agreement prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-error | Was defense counsel ineffective or deficient in their representation of the defendant? Whether the district court committed reversible plain error in… |
| 18-9245 | Martin Paul De-La-Rosa v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-history drug-quantity due-process federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines guideline-calculation judicial-review methamphetamine section-2d1.1 section-4a1.1 section-4a1.2 sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | The Court of Appeals erred by not requiring the District Court to correctly apply the Federal Sentencing Guidelines. Specifically, the sentencing cour… |
| 18-9213 | James Paine v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-05-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conviction-analysis criminal-history criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation perceived-seriousness point-calculation sentencing-guidelines seriousness similar-offenses u.s.s.g.-§4a1.2(c) united-states-sentencing-guidelines | Should the court analyze whether a conviction is similar to the offenses listed in U.S.S.G. §4A1.2(c) as a group or solely for perceived seriousness w… |
| 18-9168 | Melissa Owens v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-05-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights controlled-substances criminal-history drug-trafficking due-process equal-protection plea-agreement racial-discrimination school-desegregation sentencing sentencing-guidelines voting-rights | Question not identified. |
| 18-9174 | Warren Myles v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2019-05-07 | Denied | IFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights concealed-carry criminal-history due-process federalism law-enforcement marijuana-search probable-cause reciprocity state-reciprocity state-rights welfare-check | Does the State of Nebraska have the option to respect some but not other states concealed carry permits. Does smelling of marijuana constitute probab… |
| 18-8941 | Sheldon Lamont Jackson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-04-22 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-history elements-clause florida-statute johnson-v-united-states leocal-v-ashcroft mens-rea possession-with-intent-to-sell sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense violent-felony | The broad question presented by this case is whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously affirmed Mr. Jackson's sentence under the Armed… |
| 18-8825 | Timeiki Hedspeth v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-04-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal criminal-history criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process evidentiary-rulings fair-trial federal-sentencing-guidelines offense-level reasonable-doubt restitution sentencing sentencing-guidelines | 1. Did the District Court use an incorrect criminal history category to sentence Ms. Hedspeth? 2. Did the District Court use an incorrect offense lev… |
| 18-8380 | Woodrow Pressey, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-03-12 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | 924(e)(2)(A)(ii) acca acca-predicate armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substances criminal-enhancement criminal-history drug-conviction drug-offenses florida-statute florida-statute-893.13 predicate-offense prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense serious-drug-offenses | 1. Whether prior convictions under Fla. Stat. §893.13 qualify as "serious drug offenses" for purposes of the ACCA, §924(e)(2)(A)(ii). 2. Whether Flor… |
| 18-8320 | Darius Andre Holmes v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-03-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | buford-v-united-states career-offender categorical-approach circuit-court-review criminal-history de-novo-review eleventh-circuit federal-enhancement predicate-offense serious-drug-offense taylor-v-united-states | This Court should grant the writ because the circuit court departed from the established rule of Taylor v. United States, 495 US 575(1990), requiring … |
| 18-8268 | Alandis D. Patterson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-03-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-history criminal-procedure drug-possession due-process presentence-investigation sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance sexual-abuse | 1. Did the trial court err in overruling the Petitioner's objection to the Application of a two-level increase pursuant to U.S.S.G. Section 2G1.1(c)(1… |
| 18-8269 | Alejandro Casillas Prieto v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-03-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | amendment-782 chapter-5-part-a criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process guideline-range guidelines life-imprisonment notice offense-level sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Does the sentencing judge's oral pronouncement of the offense level 43 control? Is the sentencing judge require to give notice, to Chapter 5, Part A,… |
| 18-8145 | Desmond Farmer v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | amendment-782 assault criminal-classification criminal-history drug-abuse drug-offense drug-offenses due-process equal-protection family-member judicial-discretion non-violent-offense sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction violent-offender | The District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Western Division denied the petitioner a reduction in his sentence under 3582 and Amend… |
| 18-8048 | Darnell D. Owens v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-02-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-interpretation criminal-history due-process federal-law historical-practice judicial-discretion propensity-evidence sixth-amendment sixth-circuit supervised-release | Relying on historical practice dating back to English cases in the seventeenth century, the courts of appeals had consistently held that relying on a … |
| 18-7938 | Alex Quintana-Torres v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-02-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-history criminal-sentencing drug-addiction drug-offense presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness | In Rita v. United States, 551 U.S. 338 (2007), this Court held that an appellate court could presume that a procedurally-reasonable, within-Guidelines… |
| 18-7862 | Vincent Beatty, aka Jamaal Beatty, aka Vincent Daward Beatty, aka Mozzi v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion advisory-guidelines criminal-history criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing felon-in-possession reasonableness reasonableness-review sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance sua-sponte upward-variance | Whether a sua sponte upward variance sentence is reasonable where the advisory Guideline range accurately reflected the defendant's conduct and prior … |
| 18-7240 | Charles Jermaine King, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-01-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender constitutional-rights criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process guidelines habeas-corpus recidivism recidivist sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | IN ROSALES MIRELES V US, JUSTICE ALITO ASKED DURING THE ORAL ARGUMENTS... "SUPPOSE THERE WAS A QUESTION ABOUT WHETHER A DEFENDANT WAS PROPERLY TREATED… |
| 18-7012 | Anthony Jerome Addison v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-12-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims constitutional-rights criminal-history due-process eighth-amendment origination-clause sentencing-guidelines special-assessment standing statutory-claims | Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err in granting the government's motion to dismiss by denying the Petitioner the ability… |
| 18-6895 | Michael Clark v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2018-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bureau-of-prisons circuit-court classification criminal-history habeas-corpus judicial-review relief revocation sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-relief seventh-circuit | Since a defendant's criminal history category establishes the U.S Sentencing Guidelines' policy range of imprisonment upon revocation and can result i… |
| 18-6698 | Shawn Aluiso v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | backpage computer-crime computer-use criminal-history fifth-circuit-appeal minor-victim probation-revocation revoked-probation sentencing-guidelines texas-conviction undue-influence use-of-computer | In this Writ we present three issues dealing with the calculating of the Guideline range by the District Court. 1. The District Court erred in adding… |
| 18-6389 | Anthony Lomax v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2018-10-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempted-murder buyer-seller career-offender conspiracy crime-of-violence criminal-history drug-quantity heroin-attribution relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines | I. Despite the dismissal of Anthony Lomax's conspiracy charge, during sentencing the district court assigned 16.8 kilograms of heroin to him. While a … |
| 18-6358 | Alj Hilton v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | and Are Plain and Affect Petitioner's Substantial -and-Are-Plain-and-Affect-Petitioner's-Substantial 18-usc-3661 5th-amendment appeal-waiver appeal-waiver,sentencing-guidelines,criminal-histo criminal-history criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum plain-error sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights trial-court-error Whether the mandatory five-year minimum sentence u | Whether Petitioner's Appeal Waiver Is Inapplicable to Issues of Trial Court Error in Applying Sentencing Guidelines' Enhancements or in Calculating Cr… |
| 18-6063 | Craig Alexander v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-09-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals criminal-history criminal-procedure disciplinary-infractions due-process judicial-discretion judicial-interpretation section-3582 sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the Supreme Court should resolve spilt decisions in the lower court -as to how far a Judge must explain and/or elaborate on a decision to gran… |
| 18-5969 | Carlos Alberto Fuentes-Canales v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-09-13 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | burglary burglary-offense crime-of-violence criminal-history plain-error-review sentencing-disparities sentencing-enhancement sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines unwarranted-disparities | In Rosales-Mireles v. United States, 138 S. Ct. 1897 (2018), this Court held that, in the ordinary case, proof of a plain Sentencing Guidelines error … |
| 18-5914 | Jeffrey Scott Finney v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-09-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 acca acca-sentencing armed-career-criminal-act criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states post-conviction-relief sentencing violent-felony | Whether the District Court erred in denying Jeffrey Finney's post-Johnson motion for relief pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 |
| 18-5775 | William Christopher Hogan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split conflict-of-circuits criminal-history fifth-circuit ninth-circuit sentencing shop-lifting shoplifting texas-state texas-state-law u.s.-supreme-court-rule-10 | Whether the District Court erred in sentencing Petitioner by adding one point to his criminal history score based on a Texas State shop lifting convic… |
| 18-5491 | Glen Hughie Lovin, Jr. v. Joe M. Allbaugh, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections | Tenth Circuit | 2018-08-08 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-hearing fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudicial-evidence sentencing | (1) Ground 1: The evidence was not sufficient to prove the State charged the offense of an irrelevant and constitutionality of the conviction, duly as… |
| 18-5480 | Bjorn Christian Luster v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-08-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burglary burglary-enhancement criminal-conviction criminal-history due-process evidence-interpretation fifth-amendment-due-process juvenile-offenses points-scoring prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment-effective-assistance-of-counsel ussg-2k2.1(b)(3) ussg-4a1.1 victim-testimony | 1. Did the court err in applying an offense level enhancement under U.S.S.G 2K2,1(a)(3) for having a prior crime of violence" conviction When said con… |
| 18-5497 | Timothy Edmun Johnson v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-08-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substances criminal-history double-jeopardy drug-distribution federal-sentencing felony-possession occasions-different sentencing-enhancement separate-occasions serious-drug-offense | 1. Is Oklahoma's crime of drug distribution a "serious drug offense" under the ACCA when state law defines "distribution" to include "transport with i… |
| 18-5380 | Luis Lopez v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-07-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act carachuri-rosendo circuit-court-split criminal-history drug-offense massachusetts-state-court massachusetts-state-district-court maximum-imprisonment maximum-term-of-imprisonment moncrieffe sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense state-court-conviction | Does a prior conviction in a Massachusetts state district court for which the defendant was actually exposed by law to a maxim um term of imprisonm en… |
| 18-5238 | Hassanh Bey Wright, aka Hassanh Bay Wright v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-07-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crime-of-violence criminal-history criminal-law culpable-negligence force-clause intent mens-rea residual-clause sentencing-guidelines supervised-release | Whether a crime with a mens rea of culpable negligence meets the definition of a "crime of violence" under either the force clause or the residual cla… |
| 18-5089 | Kevin Khaaliq Beamon v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-07-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553(a) criminal-history criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines sentencing-upon-revocation sentencing-variance substance-addiction supervised-release upward-variance | Whether a district court may impose a significant upward variance at sentencing upon revocation of supervised release on an individual who had never b… |
| 18-5062 | Norman L. Hunter v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-06-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aged-offenses appellate-review career-offender civil-procedure criminal-history district-court-error due-process guideline-determination sentencing-enhancement sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines standing writ-of-certiorari | I. Should a writ of certiorari be granted to determine whether the district court erred in sentencing Hunter as a career offender when the offenses ut… |