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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24A85 David Vargas v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-07-23 Presumed Complete circuit-split criminal-law enhancement physical-restraint sentencing-guidelines tenth-circuit Question not identified.
23-7049 Daniel Arsenio Rodgers v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP crime-lab criminal-procedure enhancement evidence-interpretation firearms naked-eye sentencing-guidelines serial-number visible Whether the district court erred in applying a four-level enhancement under the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines for "altered or obliterated" serial number,…
23-6707 Sean Robert Wathen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure dangerous-weapon district-court drug-offense enhancement factual-findings findings-of-fact sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g-2d1.1(b)(1) weapon-enhancement 1. Is the sentencing court required to make specific findings of fact, supported by the record, that a defendant possessed a dangerous weapon in conne…
23-6555 Luis Aceves-Ramirez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law drug-offense drug-offenses enhancement importation knowledge-requirement mens-rea methamphetamine sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the two-level enhancement in U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1(b)(5) for a drug offense that involves imported methamphetamine requires that the defendant knew…
21-7822 Christopher Patrick Lovings v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure enhancement fleeing fleeing-offense judicial-discretion knowledge knowledge-standard law-enforcement sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg-3c1.2 Whether a sentencing court may apply an enhancement pursuant to USSG § 3C1.2 when the record fails to establish the defendant knew or had reason to kn…
21-7625 Jonathan Scott May v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court enhancement federal-sentencing judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing-guidelines 1. Did the district court plainly err when applying an enhancement under U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Manual § 2G2.2(b)(5)?
21-5382 Nickie Nathanial Rico v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP attempted-murder criminal-enhancement criminal-procedure defendant-objection district-court enhancement objection presentence-report sentencing Whether the District Court erred in overruling Defendant's Objection to the Attempted Murder Enhancement in the Presentence Report.
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…
20-7475 Corry Jessie v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP conviction enhancement extraneous-offense felony relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines I. Did the district court err when it applied a 4- level enhancement for "in connection with another felony offense" based on a finding that a prior, …
20-7018 Lawrence Westbrook, III v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-02-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion enhancement firearm-enhancement firearms sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guidelines I. Whether the district court erred by applying a six-level enhancement pursuant to USSG § 2K2.1(b)(1)(C). II. Whether the district court erred by ap…
20-7006 Jacquere Doran, aka Jacare Gorman v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP base-offense-level controlled-substance criminal-sentencing district-court-error enhancement felony-conviction felony-enhancement marijuana-conviction prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines Did the District Court err in treating Mr. Doran's prior California conviction for sale of marijuana as a felony conviction and using it to enhance hi…
20-5915 Perry Cortese v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals-court criminal-procedure district-court enhancement federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing /. ~J)rd tkp&r$frFc^PocjrT^zr\d fp P/e/^17^ &ru/?~^Kjs p) vt'OU'fif' <p Loss copP^^o/ La1 /Pep / A ?
20-5019 Raul Barrera-Velasquez, aka Raul V. Barrera, aka Raul Velasquez Barrera, aka Raul Velasquez-Barrera v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing due-process enhancement equal-protection fifth-circuit parole sentencing sentencing-enhancement u.s.s.g-2l1.2 Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in rejecting Barrera's claim that the District Court's sentence violated constitutional principles of…
19-7083 Leroy L. Perdue v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 851-enhancement criminal-procedure due-process enhancement federal-statute notice role-adjustment sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-compliance statutory-interpretation 1. Whether the sentence should be vacated for failure comply with the requirements of 21 U.S.C. § 851(b). 2. Whether the court erred in assessing a f…
18-9604 Reitilly Fuentes Ramos v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substance criminal-procedure dangerous-weapon enhancement pellet-gun sentencing-guidelines ussg-2d1.1 Whether the District Court calculated Mr. Fuentes-Ramos's Sentencing Guidelines when it applied a two-level enhancement pursuant to USSG §2D1.1(b)(1) …
18-7529 Andre Almond Dennison v. Arizona Arizona 2019-01-23 Denied IFP 6th-amendment apprendi apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-rights dangerous-crimes dangerous-crimes-against-children due-process enhancement fourteenth-amendment jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing Does Arizona's Sentencing Scheme Violate Due Process Clause, 6th Amendment, And Apprendi v New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 120 S.Ct. 2348 (2000) When Petiti…
18-7418 Derrick T. Seals v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 851-enhancement ambiguous-plea contract criminal-procedure due-process enhancement government-breach ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines supervised-release Did government breach plea agreement/contract when defendant never agreed to. enhancement? Was Defendant mislead into plea agreement provisions inclu…
18-7290 Muhamet Ajvazi v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied IFP constitutional-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process enhancement evidence judicial-review prior-conviction prior-convictions remand reversal sentencing (I). WHETHER THE COURT SHOULD REVERSE AIAD REMAND DUE TO THE ADMISSION OF EVIDEHCE OF PRIOR COVVICTION USEN AS EHHANCEMENT THAT WAS MOT FIMAL. I). RI…
18-5447 David V. Rock v. Charmaine Bracy, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-08-06 Denied IFP burden-of-proof constitutional-error due-process enhancement evidence habeas-corpus plea-bargaining plea-validity presumption-of-innocence reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment 1.) O.R.C.2901.45(A)..every person accused of an offense is presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, and the burden of proof i…
18-5204 Jose Luis Morales v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure due-process enhancement evidence fact-finding immigration immigration-law judicial-error sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation undocumented-aliens WHETHER THE LOWER COURT ERRORED BY DENYING THE RELIEF UNDER SECTION 3E1:1 FOR ACCEPTANCE OF RESPONSIBILITY ? WHETHER THE LOWER COURT ERRORED IN ENHAN…