disproportionate-sentence
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22-6515 | Christopher Raiche v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment disproportionate-sentence eighth-amendment first-time-offender grossly-disproportionate life-sentence non-violent-crime sentencing | Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against grossly disproportionate prison sentences was triggered by the imposition of a de facto life senten… |
| 21-8184 | Michael Kelly v. Jeremy Larson, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2022-06-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights disproportionate-sentence ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance plea-colloquy postconviction-counsel sentencing-proportionality | 1. WHETHER The United States Court of Appeals in The Eighth Circuit ERR IN NOT FINDING THAT KELLY HAD A RIGHT TO HAVE THE EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF POST… |
| 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,… |
| 18-9549 | Mauricio Lucas-Lopez v. Tony Trierweiler, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-06-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment disproportionate-sentence eighth-amendment federal-court-decisions federal-courts guidance-needed mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence proportionality sentencing sentencing-guidelines | A. IS PETITIONER'S TWENTY-FIVE YEAR MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCE DISPROPORTIONATE TO THE OFFENSE COMMITTED VIOLATING THE EIGHTH AMENDMENT OF THE UNITED … |
| 18-8441 | Gaetan Dinelle, aka Gates v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-03-18 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-justice cruel-and-unusual-punishment disproportionate-sentence eighth-amendment first-time-offender marijuana-trafficking non-violent-offender non-violent-offense proportionality sentencing | Whether a life-sentence for a non-violent, first-time offender, who trafficked in marijuana, is unreasonable, disproportionate, and amounts to cruel a… |