dismissed-charges
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-5444 | Steven Wilson v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-08-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure dismissed-charges district-court judicial-review sentencing-colloquy third-circuit | WHETHER THE THIRD CIRCUIT ERRED IN DETERMINING THAT THE SENTENCING COLLOQUY OF THE DISTRICT COURT DID NOT UNAMBIGUOUSLY SHOW THE DISTRICT COURT CONSID… |
| 20-7216 | Antwan Seawood v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-02-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing dismissed-charges fifth-amendment sentencing sentencing-discretion sixth-amendment | Did the District Court abuse its discretion and violate Appellant's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights by sentencing him to a term of 240 months based u… |
| 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… |
| 19-5529 | Kendrick Ledelle Dotstry v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-08-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-sentencing dismissed-charges district-court-discretion divisible-elements divisible-offenses felony-enhancement felony-offense misdemeanor-elements sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-misdemeanor | 1. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT CAN ENHANCE A SENTENCE PURSUANT TO UNITED STATES SENTENCING GUIDELINE (U.S.S.G.) PROVISIONS UNDER SECTION 2K2.1(b)(6)(B)… |
| 18-5391 | Daniel Sexton v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-07-31 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-981 circuit-split criminal-forfeiture-liability criminal-procedure dismissed-charges due-process forfeiture-liability honeycutt-v-united-states joint-and-several-liability sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Question I. Does this Court's reasoning of Honeycutt v. United States, 137 S. Ct. 1626 (2017), limiting joint and several forfeiture liability to what… |
| 18-5266 | Michael Ferguson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-07-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-guidelines arrest-records bare-arrest-records dismissed-charges due-process evidence-reliability hearsay hearsay-evidence reliability-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | (1) What standard of scrutiny does Due Process require courts to use when evaluating the reliability of evidence courts rely on to impose a sentence? … |
| 18-5108 | Jaime Davila-Reyes, aka Peluche, aka Pai, aka Jaime, aka Chezina v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-07-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-sentencing dismissed-charges due-process judicial-discretion preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness unproven-allegations | Whether Petitioner's sentence was substantively unreasonable because the district court violated due process when it enhanced Petitioner's sentence ba… |