fifth-circuit-standard

Case	Title	Lower Court	Docketed	Status	Flags	Tags	Question Presented
24-6260	Chris Walker v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2025-01-10	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	fair-sentencing-act fifth-circuit-standard first-step-act intervening-changes legal-review sentencing-reduction	The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a district court did not need to consider the merits of a defendant's motion for sentence reduction under…
21-6634	Roy Cornell Johnson v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2021-12-15	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	assistance-of-counsel constitutional-right constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-standard ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-stage	1. Was the Petitioner afforded his Constitutional Right to accurate assistance of Counsel in his sentencing stage. 2. Did Petitioner fail to prosecut…
18-7140	Tommy Ray Hull, Jr. v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2018-12-21	Denied	IFP	chavez-meza-precedent chavez-meza-v-united-states circuit-split district-court district-court-discretion due-process fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-standard mitigation mitigation-arguments sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review	I. This Court should grant certiorari to resolve the apparent conflict between the Fifth Circuit and this Court's decision in Chavez-Meza v. United St…