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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6867 | Richard Henry Kayian v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2026-02-20 | Pending | IFP | apprendi-violation drug-quantity-enhancement first-step-act serious-drug-felony sixth-amendment-sentencing substantive-reasonableness | 1. whether a prior state conviction for simple possession of 1.5 grams of cocaine - punished with probation only - qualities as a "serious drug felony… |
| 25-6641 | Ervin Thornton, II v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2026-01-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-rule circuit-split drug-offense first-step-act sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation | Section 404 of the First Step Act opened a pathway to sentencing relief for people convicted of crack cocaine offenses prior to August 3, 2010. The ac… |
| 25-6636 | Donnie Bryant v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2026-01-21 | Pending | IFP | 18-usc-3582 924c-convictions extraordinary-compelling-reasons first-step-act juvenile-sentencing sentence-modification | 1. Should a defendant's juvenile status at the time of the offense qualify as an extraordinary and compelling reason for a modification of a term of i… |
| 25-6599 | Harry Whitman v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2026-01-15 | Pending | IFP | criminal-resentencing extraordinary-compelling-reasons first-step-act mandatory-minimum sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether the fact that a prisoner is serving a sentence that is significantly longer than the law would now permit, in light of the First Step Act's no… |
| 25-818 | Terrell Anthony Hargrove v. Ian Healy, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2026-01-12 | Pending | Amici (2) | circuit-split first-step-act incarceration-reduction statutory-interpretation supervised-release time-credits | Whether "[t]ime credits" under 18 U.S.C. § 3632(d)(4)(C) may be applied to reduce an individual's term of supervised release. |
| 25-5930 | William Maxwell v. Albert Thomas, III, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-22 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP | administrative-remedies exhaustion-doctrine first-step-act habeas-corpus judicial-review sentencing-credits | I. The question for this Court is whether disputes regarding the calculation of an inmate's earned First Step Act time credits, enabling the inmate to… |
| 25-5857 | Russell Kimble Jackson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-10-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender criminal-procedure drug-felony first-step-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | 1. After the First Step Act enactment date of December 21, 2018. Is it true it now takes two or more "serious drug felonies" or two or more prior "ser… |
| 25-5737 | Antwan Elvago Coplen v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-09-25 | Denied | IFP | district-court-discretion extraordinary-reasons first-step-act sentence-reduction sentencing-law statutory-interpretation | (1) WHETHER A COMBINATION OF "EXTRAORDINARY AND COMPELLING REASONS" THAT MAY WARRANT A DISCRETIONARY SENTENCE REDUCTION UNDER 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)U) (… |
| 25-5493 | Joshua Devon Barrow v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-08-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law first-step-act revocation sentencing statutory-maximum supervised-release | When determining the statutory maximum sentence on revocation, should courts consult current law or only the law at the time of the underlying offense… |
| 25-81 | Lois Jochinto Orta v. United States, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-07-22 | Pending | circuit-split district-court-discretion extraordinary-compelling-reasons first-step-act sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether, as four circuits permit but six others prohibit, a district court may consider disparities created by the First Step Act's prospective change… | |
| 25-5054 | Eural Black v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-07-08 | Pending | IFP | circuit-split compassionate-release extraordinary-reasons first-step-act mandatory-minimum sentencing-reduction | The compassionate-release statute permits courts to reduce a prisoner's sentence if the court finds that "extraordinary and compelling reasons" warran… |
| 24-6894 | William J. Wise v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-03-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aging-process compassionate-release district-court eighth-amendment first-step-act medical-conditions | Whether the District Court establish an improperly high standard for demonstrating "serious deterioration in physical or mental health because of the … |
| 24-6827 | Charles Anthony Giovinco v. Caryn Flowers, Warden | Second Circuit | 2025-03-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | agency-deference concurrent-sentences first-step-act recidivism-reduction statutory-interpretation time-credits | The First Step Act of 2018 ("FSA") provides that an eligible prisoner "shall earn" time credits if he participates in the FSA's flagship recidivism-re… |
| 24-6730 | Richard David Degout v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-procedure drug-offenses due-process first-step-act sentencing-reduction | This Court should GVR tnis case to the lower court to aadress whether the procedural protections enshrined m the Due Process of Law allows a criminal … |
| 24-6603 | Michael Lee Gordon v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-02-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | compassionate-release criminal-procedure first-step-act retroactive-application sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether or not the "reduced" penalties pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3553, commonly referred to as "Hazelwood" or as was amended and specified by Congres… |
| 24-6464 | Zachary Stinson v. Felipe Martinez, Jr., Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2025-02-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bureau-of-prisons first-step-act prerelease-custody recidivism-reduction sentencing-credits time-credits | The First Step Act of 2018 established incentives for federal prisoners to participate in evidence-based recidivism reduction programs and productive … |
| 24-820 | Daniel Rutherford v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-02-03 | Granted | Amici (7)Relisted (2) | circuit-split compassionate-release extraordinary-compelling-reasons first-step-act sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | The compassionate-release statute permits courts to reduce a prisoner's sentence if the court finds that "extraordinary and compelling reasons" warr… |
| 24-6344 | Tamir Abdullah v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-01-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure drug-quantity fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing-range statutory-interpretation | Section 404 of the First Step Act made retroactive the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010's changes to the cocaine-base drug-quantity thresholds in 21 U.S.C.… |
| 24-6292 | Shannon L. Cotton v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-sentencing fair-sentencing-act felony-classification first-step-act statutory-interpretation supervised-release | Whether the plain language of 18 U.S.C. § 3583(e)(3) requires a district court to determine the current classification of a defendant's felony by look… |
| 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… |
| 24-6131 | Kristopher Jacob Freda v. Oregon | Oregon | 2024-12-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bureau-of-prisons compassionate-release discretionary-relief extraordinary-circumstances first-step-act sentencing-reduction | 1) If the petitioner is really scared, scared, scared, scared, scared, scared, scared, scared, scared, scared, scared, scared, scared, scared, scared,… |
| 24-5822 | Fernando De La Torre v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-10-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-justice-reform first-step-act incarceration-policy judicial-discretion rehabilitation sentencing-reduction | (1) Should His Supreme Court overturn The appollate Court's decision to bypass appellote review — Cov Glouse of discretion ? (2) Does: Concepcion per… |
| 24A375 | Atif B. Malik v. Warden, Federal Correctional Institution, Loretto | Third Circuit | 2024-10-21 | Presumed Complete | 28-usc-2241 bureau-of-prisons earned-time-credits first-step-act mootness pro-se-petition | Question not identified. | |
| 24-5762 | Angel Ayala-Vazquez v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review concepcion-precedent first-step-act sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | I. Whether the First Circuit 's refusal to grant a sentence reduction under the First Step Act, despite intervening changes in sentencing law, conf… |
| 24-5222 | Darrell D. Smith v. B. Eischen, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2024-08-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | Bureau-of-Prisons Equal-Protection First-Step-Act first-time-credits FTC-Earnings imposed-term Liberty-Interest sentence-computation | "Imposed Term" 1. Whether "imposed term" used in 18 §3624 (g) , defining the application of FTCs (First Step Time Credits) , has the same credit appli… |
| 24-5048 | Bernard Celestine v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-right criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process first-step-act resentencing sentencing statutory-interpretation | Whether Congress incorporated a Constitutional right under the Due Process Clause to a plenary resentencing for an eligible Defendant under Section 40… |
| 24-5016 | Michael Medina v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-08 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-justice-reform first-step-act mandatory-minimum post-conviction-relief resentencing retroactivity sentencing-reduction sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation | The First Step Act (FSA) significantly reduced the mandatory minimum sentences for several federal drug and firearm offenses. First Step Act of 2018, … |
| 23-7440 | Michael Paul Puzey v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-05-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bureau-of-prisons compassionate-release criminal-justice-reform federal-sentencing first-step-act judicial-review rehabilitation sentence-modification sentencing statutory-interpretation | "Balancing Justice and Compassion: A Case for Revisiting Compassionate Release under the First Step Act" |
| 23-7369 | Robert George Jefferson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-05-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 404(b)-motion 404b 404c complete-review-provision concurrent-sentencing-doctrine due-process fifth-amendment first-step-act | This case present's important and lonstanding issues of both "FIRST STEP ACT" law and Fifth Amendment law. QUESTION 1) Does "DECLINING TO REVIEW" the… |
| 23-7309 | Jessie Vasquez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-04-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 3553a-factors abuse-of-discretion concepcion-v-united-states crack-cocaine criminal-sentencing discretionary-review first-step-act sentence-reduction sentencing-factors | 1. The question presented here is whether the District Court abused its discretion or erred when Mr. Vasquez qualified for a sentence reduction, he as… |
| 23-1150 | Corey Deyon Duffey and Jarvis Dupree Ross v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-04-23 | Judgment Issued | Relisted (2) | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-resentencing criminal-sentencing first-step-act judicial-resentencing judicial-vacatur retroactivity sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether the First Step Act's sentencing reduction provisions apply to a defendant originally sentenced before the First Step Act's enactment when that… |
| 23-7078 | Jeffery Wayne Taylor v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-03-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-trial cross-examination due-process evidence first-step-act out-of-court-statements sixth-amendment | I. IS IT A VIOLATION OF THE CONFRONTATION CLAUSE WHEN EXERCISING OUT'S RIGHT TO TRIAL, THAT AN OUT-OF-COURT STATEMENT CONNECTING THE DEFENDANT DIRECTL… |
| 23A853 | Christopher Dominguez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-03-20 | Presumed Complete | collateral-review crime-of-violence first-step-act ineffective-assistance plea-agreement section-924c | Question not identified. | |
| 23-1002 | Tony R. Hewitt v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-03-12 | Judgment Issued | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | circuit-split criminal-law first-step-act judicial-vacatur mandatory-minimum post-enactment-sentencing retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether the First Step Act's sentencing reduction provisions apply to a defendant originally sentenced before the FSA's enactment when that original s… |
| 23A826 | Adam Carson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-03-08 | Denied | administrative-exhaustion federal-prisoner first-step-act judicial-review sentence-calculation sentencing-relief | Question not identified. | |
| 23-890 | In Re Batia Zareh | 2024-02-20 | Denied | Response Waived | bilingual-election bilingual-requirements circuit-split compassionate-release constitutional-discrimination constitutional-law due-process election-law election-requirements equal-protection equal-protection 23-88" extraordinary-compelling-reasons first-step-act language-minority mandatory-minimum-sentence national-origin sentencing-reduction voting-rights Whether non-retroactive changes in law can be 'ext | Whether the Bilingual Election Requirements (52 U.S.C. §10503) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (52 U.S.C. §10301, et. sec.) by authorizing coverage a… | |
| 23-6722 | Jeffrey Holland v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-02-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crack-cocaine criminal-sentencing due-process fair-trial first-step-act jury-trial sentence-enhancement sentencing-discretion sentencing-enhancements trial-transcript | In Concepcion v. United States , 597 U.S. 481, 142 S. Ct. 2389, 2404 213 L. Ed. 2d 731 (2022), this Court held that the First Step Act "allows distric… |
| 23-6600 | Richard Daniel v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-01-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split covered-offense discretionary-sentencing fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing-discretion sentencing-package-doctrine sentencing-reduction | Where a defendant was sentenced for multiple offenses, some of which are now covered by § 404 of the First Step Act while others are not covered, does… |
| 23-6589 | Reginald L. McCoy v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-01-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-resentencing drug-quantity first-step-act judicial-discretion prior-finding sentencing sentencing-review statutory-threshold | Whether a First Step Act movant's entitlement to review hinges on the statutory sentencing threshold for his offense, or may be foreclosed by a prior … |
| 23-6452 | Shannon R. Thomas v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | compassionate-release criminal-procedure federal-sentencing first-step-act jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation | ~T rx necson \\ YjL. 4V-< l peY\Vov\e,r do noV qut^V^y ©f VkiV under We AVH (£j(2J((l) penoVV/ enVc^n^emenV ccoa . VWe —'O irsvrVuV Ooudc, sV\VY covwi… |
| 23-6445 | Calvin Solomon v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-01-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-v-new-jersey crack-cocaine-law crack-cocaine-sentencing discretionary-review eleventh-circuit first-step-act judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction | Section 404 of the First Step Act of 2018 sets out two steps to determine whether the imposition of a reduced sentence is warranted for a defendant pr… |
| 23-6432 | Carlos Martinez v. California | California | 2024-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-law due-process ex-post-facto first-step-act prior-conviction retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation takings | Question not identified. |
| 23-6418 | Harvey Holland v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-01-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process fair-sentencing-act first-step-act jury-trial murder-cross-reference sentencing-discretion | A long standing and durable tradition for federal sentencing in this nation is that judges have broad discretion in the kind of information and source… |
| 23-6403 | Tony L. Ford v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-01-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | concepcion-precedent concepcion-v-united-states criminal-resentencing eleventh-circuit eleventh-circuit-interpretation fair-sentencing-act first-step-act intervening-law-changes sentencing sentencing-discretion statutory-penalty | Previously, the courts of appeals were divided over whether a district court could consider intervening changes to the law during First Step Act proce… |
| 23-6197 | Daniel Joseph Teed v. Warden, Allenwood FCI Low | Third Circuit | 2023-12-07 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | administrative-aggregation due-process equal-protection first-step-act sentencing statutory-interpretation time-credits | Is the ineligibility provision of 18 USC §3632(d)(4)(D) First Step Act Time Credits constitutional? II. Can the Federal Bureau of Prisons determine F… |
| 23-6098 | Ricardo Dinnall v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-11-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-justice criminal-procedure district-court federal-sentencing first-step-act judicial-discretion sentencing-reduction sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation | Whether Concepcion v. United States, 142 S. Ct. 2389 (2022), requires district courts to consider all nonfrivolous arguments raised by the parties in … |
| 23-531 | Timothy I. Carpenter v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-11-17 | Denied | Amici (2) | criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-firearm-offense first-step-act mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums retroactivity sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation | Do the sentencing reforms in Section 403 of the First Step Act apply when a district court sentences an individual whose offense was committed before … |
| 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) … |
| 23-5832 | William R. Abbott v. Loretta Otis-Sanders, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights crack-cocaine criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment equal-protection fair-sentencing-act federal-sentencing federal-statute-of-limitations first-step-act prison-rape-elimination-act retroactivity | Whether the State of Louisiana Constitution's Equal Protection Clause embodies through the United States Constitution Fourteenth Amendment Federal sta… |
| 23-5755 | Dewayne Joseph v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-10-11 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split discretion discretionary-relief fair-sentencing-act first-step-act retroactive-application sentencing-guidelines | 1. Whether district courts have an obligation to calculate revised guidelines to reflect the retroactive effect of the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 as … |
| 23-341 | Bobby Lee Ingram v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-10-02 | Denied | Relisted (2) | apprendi-v-new-jersey concepcion-v-united-states drug-quantity eleventh-circuit fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-penalty terry-v-united-states | 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit has violated Terry in holding that, at step one, district courts should disregard the "elements" of a defendant's offe… |
| 23-5698 | Roy Christopher West v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-10-02 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split compassionate-release concepcion-v-united-states district-court-discretion equal-protection extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons first-step-act judicial-discretion sentencing-disparity | 1) Whether the Sixth Circuit's Threshold Determination of No Compelling Reasons Under the First Step Act of 2018 for Compassionate Release is Erroneou… |
| 23-226 | Antonio Soul Gonzalez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-09-12 | Denied | Amici (1) | covered-offense criminal-sentencing discretion district-court-discretion fair-sentencing-act first-step-act recalculation sentence-reduction sentencing-range statutory-interpretation | Whether a district court must recalculate a movant's sentencing range as if Sections 2 and 3 of the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 were in effect at the … |
| 23-5556 | William L. Gladney v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-09-12 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split crack-cocaine federal-sentencing first-step-act offense-grouping rico sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | May district courts reduce the sentence of those convicted of covered and non-covered offenses under the First Step Act, when the offenses intertwined… |
| 23-5462 | Victor Manuel Solorzano v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-08-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split first-step-act intervening-law mandate-rule resentencing sentencing sentencing-package | 1. Does Section 403 of the First Step Act, Pub. L. No. 115-391, 132 Stat. 5194 apply to a defendant at a post-Act resentencing hearing following vacat… |
| 23-5296 | Leonel Marin-Torres v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-08-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-justice-reform effective-assistance-of-counsel equitable-relief first-step-act guidelines-range ineffective-assistance pro-se-representation sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | 1. Whether a district court, when deciding a First Step Act motion on the pleadings, complies with Concepcion v. United States, when it fails to calcu… |
| 23-88 | Jerry L. Brown v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-07-31 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split compassionate-release extraordinary-compelling-reasons first-step-act mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence resentencing sentencing-commission sentencing-reduction | Whether non-retroactive changes in law can be "extraordinary and compelling reasons" warranting resentencing under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A). |
| 23-5228 | Patrick Frederick Williams v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-07-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split first-step-act procedural-reasonableness section-404 sentencing-reduction substantive-reasonableness | Where a district court exercises its discretion under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act to deny a sentence reduction to a defendant with a "covered… |
| 23-5198 | Richard Potts v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-07-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-justice-reform criminal-sentencing discretionary-authority district-court-discretion fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation statutory-penalty | First Question Whether the Fair Sentencing Act modified the statutory penalty for petitioner's offense, so that petitioner is eligible for a sentenc… |
| 23-5170 | Peter Robert Jordan, aka Richard Mercer v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-07-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggregate-sentence covered-counts criminal-law criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing first-step-act judicial-discretion non-covered-counts sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether Section 404(b) of the First Step Act authorizes the lower courts to impose a reduced aggregate sentence on both covered and non-covered counts… |
| 23-5148 | Bernard Edmond v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-07-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553 circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-factors first-step-act resentencing retroactive-application sentencing-disparity | WHETHER THIS COURT SHOULD GRANT THIS APPLICATION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI AND RESOLVE A SPLIT BETWEEN THE FEDERAL CIRCUIT COURTS AND APPLY RETROACTIVELY… |
| 23-27 | Michael Harper v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-07-10 | Denied | apprendi-v-new-jersey circuit-split criminal-resentencing drug-quantity fair-sentencing-act first-step-act judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-penalty terry-v-united-states | Under the First Step Act of 2018, courts may reduce certain previously imposed sentences to match the penalties in the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010. Th… | |
| 23-5014 | Jamie Williams v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-07-03 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | apprendi apprendi-rule crack-cocaine-law crack-cocaine-sentencing discretionary-relief eleventh-circuit first-step-act judicial-discretion sentencing-facts sentencing-reduction | Section 404 of the First Step Act of 2018 sets out two steps to determine whether the imposition of a reduced sentence is warranted for a defendant pr… |
| 22-1239 | Michael Jerome Files v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-06-26 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | concurrent-sentences crack-cocaine crack-cocaine-offenses district-court-discretion first-step-act powder-cocaine sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Does § 404 of the First Step Act authorize district courts to impose a reduced sentence for both crack-cocaine offenses and related offenses that are … |
| 22-7832 | David Troy, III v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-06-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court circuit-precedent criminal-resentencing fair-sentencing-act first-step-act fourth-circuit retroactive-changes retroactive-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether retroactive changes in the law unrelated to the Fair Sentencing Act must be corrected in a First Step Act proceeding? |
| 22-1216 | Dwayne Ferguson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-06-16 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court-discretion extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-reasons first-step-act habeas-corpus legal-error sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation | Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2255 limits a district court's discretion to consider—among other circumstancespecific factors—legal errors in prior proceedings a… |
| 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) … |
| 22-7794 | Leoncio Perez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-06-15 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey concepcion-v-united-states crack-cocaine-sentencing discretionary-relief eleventh-circuit first-step-act first-step-act-2018 sentence-reduction terry-v-united-states | Section 404 of the First Step Act of 2018 sets out two steps to determine whether the imposition of a reduced sentence is warranted for a defendant pr… |
| 22-7783 | Pinkney Clowers, III v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-06-14 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | apprendi circuit-split concepcion-v-united-states criminal-enterprise drug-quantity fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation terry-v-united-states | When a jury convicted Pinkney Clowers of continuing a criminal enterprise, 21 U.S.C. § 484(b) mandated a life sentence because his offense involved at… |
| 22-7728 | Warren Lavell Jackson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-06-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey concepcion-v-united-states crack-cocaine-law crack-cocaine-sentencing discretionary-relief eleventh-circuit first-step-act sentencing-reduction terry-v-united-states | Do this Court's First Step Act precedents admit of the uniquely Eleventh Circuit's intermediate step whereby, for the discrete group of individuals st… |
| 22-7734 | Christopher Alexander v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-06-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act resentencing sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Reduction of Sentence, Pursuant to Section 404 of the First Step Act of 2018, requires a Plenary Resentencing to provide procedural and substantial Du… |
| 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… |
| 22-7714 | George M. Lecco v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-06-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law district-court federal-courts federal-jurisdiction first-step-act individual-rights state-sovereignty | 1. for fedeval priseners, did thi First step Act of 2o1 open the door to Challenge the jurisdiction over the subject-matter of the sntercing Court and… |
| 22-7659 | Darrien D. Johnson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-05-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing first-step-act judicial-discretion motion-to-reduce sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. Did the District Court abuse its discretion when it imposed a sentence of 360 months when the applicable guideline range was 235-293 months? 2. Di… |
| 22-7582 | Rodolfo A. Cuellar, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-05-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal criminal-law drug-convictions federal-prisoner first-step-act resentencing sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-retroactivity statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum | MoTioN For Reduction Pursuan To 404 Senience of OF thE First ACT And Pre-Booker Issues. Stop Drug CORRECDION OF IDCORLOCT CAlCUlATION f CORRECTiON ofa… |
| 22-7533 | Terence Crawley v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-05-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 civil-rights compassionate-release criminal-procedure discretionary-relief district-court-discretion due-process first-step-act non-frivolous-arguments sentencing sentencing-relief supreme-court-ruling | Whether the district court is obligated to consider a defendant's non-frivolous arguments in exercising its discretion to grant relief in a motion for… |
| 22-7461 | Detrick Devone Daye, aka Carter v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-05-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender categorical-approach constitutional-rights drug-felony first-step-act ineffective-assistance sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-felony | I Whether the new statutory definition of the term "serious drug felony" set forth in Section 401(a)(1) of the First Step Act of 2018, and codified i… |
| 22-7451 | Bennie C. Rivera v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-05-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion criminal-justice criminal-procedure fair-sentence-act first-step-act judicial-discretion judicial-review motion-denial sentencing sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation | DID JUDGE JOHN ANTON II, UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT JUDGE ABUSE HIS DISCRETION WHEN HE DENIED THE PETITIONER'S MOTION IN PURSUANT TO THE FIRST STEP … |
| 22-7367 | Christopher J. Bailey v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-04-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 abuse-of-discretion concepcion-precedent concepcion-v-united-states criminal-justice-reform criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion first-step-act precedent sentence-reduction sentencing | WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION WHEN IT ARBITRARILY IGNORED PRECEDENT FROM ITS OWN CIRCUIT, AND THE SUPREME COURT, IN DENYING PETIT… |
| 22-7309 | James H. Roane, Jr., and Richard Tipton v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-04-18 | Denied | IFP | continuing-criminal-enterprise covered-offense criminal-enterprise drug-weight drug-weight-threshold fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing-range | Whether the First Step Act's "covered offense" analysis turns upon whether the Fair Sentencing Act modified the sentencing range for violation of a gi… |
| 22-7313 | Rakim Moberly v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-04-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure circuit-court-standard compassionate-release criminal-procedure excusable-neglect federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure first-step-act notice-of-appeal pro-se pro-se-appeal | 1) Did the Petitioner's Letter to the District Court Clerk, which stated: "5:19-Cr~136-DCR Dear Court Clerk I received the decision from the court to… |
| 22-7303 | Patrick Dewayne Smith v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-04-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | compassionate-release extraordinary-and-compelling extraordinary-circumstances federal-law-change first-step-act mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-minimum retroactivity sentencing-reduction sentencing-reform | Whether non-retroactive changes in federal law can serve as "extraordinary and compelling reasons" warranting a sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3… |
| 22-7279 | Robert J. Thomas v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-04-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure compassionate-release compassionate-relief concepcion-v-united-states due-process first-step-act in-forma-pauperis judicial-review prisoner-rights statutory-interpretation | In forma pauperis status and review his request for compassionate relief under the First Step Act based on its decision in Concepcion v. United States… |
| 22-7171 | Aczel Cardena-Sosa, aka Jesus Garcia, aka Jorge Cardenas-Sosa, aka Gasel Sosa, aka Jorge Cardenas v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-03-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-litigation civil-procedure civil-rights clean-water-act due-process extraordinary-circumstances first-step-act pfoa-contamination pfos-contamination standing | (1) Whether Certiorari should be granted to determine whether Concepcion v. United States, 142 S. Ct. 54 (U.S. June 27, 2022) govern Civil Litigation … |
| 22-7059 | Aaron M. Haynes v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-03-21 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-history-points criminal-justice federal-sentencing first-step-act mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation | The "safety valve" provision of the federal sentencing statute requires a district court to ignore any statutory mandatory minimum and instead follow … |
| 22-6982 | Diogenes De Jesus Sierra v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-03-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender-statute circuit-split first-impression first-step-act inchoate-conspiracy mandamus-review plain-error plain-error-standard | WHETHER MANDAMUS REVIEW ON ISSUE OF FIRST IMPRESSION SHOULD HAVE BEEN APPLIED TO CLAIM THAT WAS CREATED BY WAY OF INTERVENING CHANGE OF FIRST STEP ACT… |
| 22-6936 | Edson Gelin v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-03-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-procedure first-step-act ineffective-assistance murder-conviction ninth-circuit sentencing-guidelines sentencing-policy state-court statutory-interpretation | 7W Ccur-f of far W. Ekv^J-U\ ^-ff'rr/vei -W, of Mo^-'cwvj -fr /wo d rfr^ ^ -f,'osjC (KrC^ ? oC feJrr4-,'0Ki€r /y of (JfJ *T4-f ^ <*f £b~f)r'g}tWold?ts… |
| 22-806 | John Doe v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-02-24 | Denied | Response Waived | acca acca-predicates criminal-justice direct-appeal first-step-act remedial-purpose retroactive-application retroactivity statutory-interpretation | Whether a defendant whose case was pending on direct appeal at the time of enactment of the First Step Act is entitled to the benefit of §401 (limitin… |
| 22-783 | Victor J. Orena v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-02-17 | Denied | Response Waived | 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 concepcion-v-united-states district-court-authority extraordinary-and-compelling-circumstances extraordinary-circumstances first-step-act sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation | In Concepcion v. United States, — U.S. -, 142 S. Ct. 2389, 2404 213 L. Ed. 2d 731 (June 27, 2022), this Court held that the First Step Act "allows dis… |
| 22-6602 | Matthew C. Eisenmann v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-01-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights compassionate-release criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act sentencing | Question not identified. |
| 22-6379 | Leetavious Gaines v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-12-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release defendant-motion district-court-discretion first-step-act policy-statement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether Section 1B1.13 of the United States Sentencing Guidelines is an "applicable" policy statement that binds the district court in considering a d… |
| 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. |
| 22-6137 | Bryan Thornton v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-11-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court first-step-act intervening-legal-developments legal-developments retroactivity section-404(b) sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | 1.) The question presented here is the same as that presented in Concepcion v. United States, No. 20-1650, on which this Court granted certiorari on S… |
| 22-6141 | Eric Lamont Wade v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-11-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion concepcion-ruling concepcion-v-united-states criminal-justice-reform district-court-discretion due-process first-step-act section-404(c) sentence-reduction sentencing | QUESTON NUMBER ONE: Whether the district court abused its discretion by failing to comply with Section 404 (c) of the First Step Act of 2018, ensurin… |
| 22-5934 | Gemar Morgan v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-10-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | compassionate-release constitutional-due-process covid-19 criminal-justice-reform first-step-act health-conditions judicial-discretion retroactive-application sentence-modification sentencing-reform sentencing-reform-act statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. |
| 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 … |
| 22-5562 | Christopher Alexander v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-09-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process first-step-act government-response judicial-discretion misinformation reply section-404 sentencing sentencing-variance upward-variance | Whether Petitioner was denied his due process rights when the district court granted his Section 404 of the First Step Act motion, but imposed upward … |
| 22-5470 | Larry Marlowe Chambers v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-08-30 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review concepcion-v-united-states criminal-resentencing district-court first-step-act judicial-discretion remand sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether a district court commits reversible error by issuing contradictory analyses for reductions under § 404 of the First Step Act without clear exp… |
| 22-5435 | Rahsaan Johnson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-08-23 | GVR | IFP | concepcion-precedent concepcion-v-united-states district-court-denial district-court-discretion first-step-act judicial-review mitigating-information post-sentencing-conduct sentencing-mitigation vacatur | Whether the district court's denial of Mr. Johnson's First Step Act motion must be vacated in light of Concepcion v. United States because the court d… |
| 22-5253 | Dennis Charles Helmer v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-08-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release covid-19 criminal-justice-reform first-step-act medical-care sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines | 1.) Whether the District Court erred when it denied relief to Petitioner 18 U.S.C. 3582(c)(1)(A)(i) motion based upon the applicability of 18 U.S.C. 3… |
| 22-5156 | Wilbert McKreith v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-07-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | compassionate-release criminal-justice-reform criminal-sentencing district-court-authority first-step-act judicial-authority sentencing sentencing-commission statutory-interpretation | Do district courts have authority to grant compassionate release under 18 U.S.C. 3582(c)(1)(A), as amended by the First Step Act of 2018, based on a c… |
| 22-5061 | Dewayne Joseph v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-07-11 | GVR | IFP | concepcion-ruling concepcion-v-united-states crack-cocaine crack-penalties criminal-resentencing discretion eleventh-circuit fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing sentencing-modification | Whether this case should be reversed and remanded in light of Concepcion? |
| 21-8146 | Gregory Thomas v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-06-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act judicial-procedure legal-standard sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation | This Court should issue a GVR Order so that the lower court can determine whether it is an abuse of discretion when a court fails to follow the law by… |
| 21-8111 | Leo Contrera v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-06-10 | Granted | Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP | covered-offense discretionary-modification discretionary-review first-step-act non-covered-offense sentencing-guidelines sentencing-modification sentencing-package u-s-code-3553a | I. Whether the First Step Act (FSA) of 2018, under § 404 of the act, when a district court finds a defendant has a "covered offense" making him/her el… |
| 21-8118 | Myron Dejuan Orr v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-06-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-U.S.C.-3553(a) 18-U.S.C.-3582(c) 18-usc-3553a 18-usc-3582c abuse-of-discretion circuit-split extraordinary-and-or-compelling-reasons first-step-act sentencing-disparity | 1. Whether the lower courts rulings amount to an An abuse of discretion when failing to consider That a disparity in sentencing amounts to an abuse … |
| 21-8034 | Robert Lawrence v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-06-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-procedure defendant-motion first-step-act sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Is the Eleventh Circuit's decision in United States v. Bryant, 996 f.3d 1243 (11th Cir. 2021) correct in determining that Section 1B1.13 of the United… |
| 21-8014 | Reginald Woods v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-06-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 district-court district-court-discretion first-step-act policy-statement sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether U.S.S.G. § 1B1.13 is an "applicable" policy statement that binds a district court in considering a defendant-filed motion for sentence reducti… |
| 21-8021 | Frank W. Coon v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-06-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 abuse-of-discretion compassionate-release criminal-justice district-court-discretion first-step-act sentence-reduction sentencing standard-of-review | Whether the District Court Abused its Discretion by Denying Mr. Coon's Motion for Compassionate Release? |
| 21-7878 | Jermaine Alonzo Mitchell v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-05-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender categorical-analysis criminal-sentencing divisibility due-process first-step-act retroactivity sentencing-enhancement | When receiving a reduced sentence in 2020 for a crack-cocaine offense under the First Step Act, Petitioner Mitchell asked the district court to find h… |
| 21-7748 | Sonny Austin Ramdeo v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-04-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split compassionate-release defendant-motion first-step-act sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act statutory-interpretation | Whether the expanded compassionate release statute, 18 U.S.C. §3582(c)(1)(A) (2018) triggers any sentencing guideline policy statements when defendant… |
| 21-7471 | Jacques Hernes Telcy v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-03-25 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | district-court-authority first-step-act first-step-act-2018 habeas-corpus new-judgment resentencing sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation | In the course of a "New Judgment " under the First Step Act of 2018 (FSA2018) new imposed sentence, what truly excess the reset clock for habeas corpu… |
| 21-7473 | Antwoyn Terrell Spencer v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-03-25 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy due-process first-step-act habeas-corpus jury-trial sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | Whether Petitioner is being deprived of his Civil Right to Due Process against law without due process of law in Violation of the Constitution and Law… |
| 21-1274 | Bobby Lee Ingram v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-03-21 | GVR | Relisted (4) | criminal-justice-reform district-court-discretion first-step-act judicial-discretion legal-developments retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether, when deciding if it should "impose a reduced sentence" on an individual under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, a district court … |
| 21-7386 | Sandchase Cody v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-03-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 compassionate-release district-court district-court-discretion due-process federal-criminal-procedure first-step-act sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether Section 1B1.13 of the United States Sentencing Guidelines is an "Applicable" policy statement that binds a district court when considering "ex… |
| 21-7393 | Travis Ryan Skaggs v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-03-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-802 21-usc-841 concurrent-sentences first-step-act sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-felony statutory-interpretation term-of-imprisonment | Whether the District Court and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by holding that Mr. Skaggs' conviction in Wise County, Virginia on July 27, 2… |
| 21-7368 | Antwan Boyd v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-03-15 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-justice-reform district-court-discretion first-step-act intervening-legal-developments legal-developments retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether, when deciding if it should "impose a reduced sentence" on an individual under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, a district court … |
| 21-7342 | Alejandro Salinas Garcia v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 drug-sentencing fair-sentencing-act first-step-act least-harsh-sentence multiple-drug-types sentencing-parameters statutory-penalties statutory-sentencing | Does the record demonstrate that a defendant was sentenced in accordance with the FSA1 for violations of 21 U.S.C. § 841, involving multiple drug type… |
| 21-7270 | Karo Brown v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-03-04 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure first-step-act legal-developments retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether, when deciding if it should "impose a reduced sentence" on an individual under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, a district court … |
| 21-1208 | Eric Andrews v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-03-04 | Denied | Response Waived | 18-usc-3582 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons first-step-act section-924(c) sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown … |
| 21-7219 | Lorenzo Suttles v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-02-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 compassionate-release criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure federal-courts first-step-act miscarriage-of-justice sentencing-reduction sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation | I. Whether a pre-FSA (First Step Act) defendant's circumstances, changed by Congress's clarification of §924(c), and the resultant disparity thereof… |
| 21-7134 | Anthony Jerome Bell v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-02-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release district-court-discretion extraordinary-reasons first-step-act intervening-developments legal-developments sentencing sentencing-factors | In denying a motion for compassionate release under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A) for "extraordinary and compelling reasons" after considering the factors… |
| 21-7136 | Gregory Nesbitt, aka Spooky v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-02-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release district-court first-step-act policy-statement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether Section 1B1.13 of the United States Sentencing Guidelines is an "applicable" policy statement that binds the district court in considering a d… |
| 21-7035 | Seville Williams v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582c1a1 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons first-step-act judicial-discretion sentence-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown … |
| 21-6972 | Maria Haydee Luzula v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-01-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bureau-of-prisons circuit-split first-step-act non-delegation-doctrine sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether U.S.S.G. § 1B1.13 is an "applicable" policy statement that binds a district court in considering a defendant-filed motion for sentence reducti… |
| 21-6956 | Roman Enrique Delgado-Montoya v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-01-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bureau-of-prisons circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons federal-prisoner-relief first-step-act sentencing-commission sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation | Under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i), the district court is limited to the "extraordinary and compelling reasons" given in application note 1 of the com… |
| 21-6941 | Tracy Vaughn v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-01-21 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | 18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a crack-cocaine criminal-resentencing criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion first-step-act sentencing-factors sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether, in deciding whether to impose a reduced sentence for a crack cocaine offense under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act, a district court mus… |
| 21-6858 | Dalton Laquane Smith v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 851 922(g) 922(g)-conviction acca armed-career-criminal-act career-offender first-step-act government-concession rehaif sentencing-enhancement supreme-court-precedent | 1. In light of the Court& Government concessions(twice ) that the petitioner never servedover a year,should the ACCA,851 removed in wake of theand Ca… |
| 21-6786 | Semaji Warren v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-USC-3582(c) 18-usc-3582c1a1 18-USC-924(c) 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-law extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons first-step-act sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown … |
| 21-6753 | Trevin Nunnally, aka Rick v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-01-04 | GVR | Relisted (3)IFP | apprendi cocaine-distribution constitutional-law constitutional-precedent criminal-justice-reform criminal-statute first-step-act intervening-developments sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | "Whether, when deciding if it should 'impose a reduced sentence' on an individual under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018 . . . a district … |
| 21-6739 | Anthony Harris v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-12-29 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | covered-offense criminal-justice-reform district-court-discretion factual-developments first-step-act intervening-developments legal-developments retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether a district court must or may consider intervening legal and factual developments before imposing a reduced sentence on an individual found eli… |
| 21-6738 | Kadeem Willingham v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-12-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582c1a 924(c)-sentences 924c-sentences district-court-discretion extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons first-step-act nondelegation-doctrine sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines sub-delegation | 1. Whether U.S.S.G. § 1B1.13 is an "applicable" policy statement that binds a district court in considering a defendant-filed motion for sentence redu… |
| 21-6707 | Antonio Turner v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-12-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 3553(a)-factors administrative-remedy bureau-of-prisons compassionate-release criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-compelling-reasons first-step-act sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines | Whether the district court erred by denying Mr. Turner's Motion for Sentence Reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i). |
| 21-6629 | Jimmy Steele v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-12-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act judicial-interpretation retroactivity sentencing state-court statutory-interpretation | The question for review is whether, under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) and the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984, Congress intended that reasons in the first insta… |
| 21-884 | Blake Fields v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-12-15 | GVR | Relisted (2) | criminal-procedure district-court factual-developments first-step-act intervening-factual-developments intervening-legal-developments legal-developments reduced-sentence sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether, when deciding if it should "impose a reduced sentence" on an individual under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, 21 U.S.C. § 841 n… |
| 21-877 | Ross Thacker v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-12-14 | Denied | 18-usc-3582c1a 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons federal-procedure first-step-act sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown … | |
| 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… |
| 21-6584 | Gregory Donell Eatmon v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-12-13 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-u.s.c.-3553(a) criminal-procedure district-court-discretion first-step-act section-404(b) sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.-sentencing-guidelines | This Court recently granted certiorari in Concepcion v. United States, No. 201650, on the question of whether, when deciding if it should "impose a re… |
| 21-6575 | Nathaniel Fields v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-12-10 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-resentencing district-court-discretion first-step-act intervening-legal-developments legal-developments reduced-sentence sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether, when deciding if it should "impose a reduced sentence" on an individual under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, a district court … |
| 21-6560 | Carlo Donato v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-12-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 924(c) covered-offense criminal-sentencing deportation first-step-act retroactive-penalty retroactivity section-924(c) sentencing stacking statutory-interpretation | Whether, under the First Step Act, Act 403(a) Title 18 U.S.C. Section 924(c) modify penalty the covered offense Act, due to the fact that the statutor… |
| 21-6540 | Alfred E. Daking, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-12-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split compassionate-release first-step-act judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-1b1.13 | When Congress enacted the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 (Pub. L. No. 98 473, Tit. II, ch. II, 98 Sta. 1987; 18 U.S.C. §3551, et seq.) , it provided a … |
| 21-6471 | Jose Francisco Noesi v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-12-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection first-step-act retroactivity statutory-interpretation | Whether Petitioner is eligible for a Title 18 U.S.C. Section 358a(c)(1)(A)(i), bd on the modiiction of Secon 35 C)A), through the First Step Act of J0… |
| 21-6426 | Lee Dale White v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-11-24 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review criminal-justice-reform first-step-act section-404 sentencing substantive-reasonableness | Whether a district court's denial of a motion for relief from under Section 404 of the First Step Act is subject to substantive reasonableness review? |
| 21-6376 | Antonio Soul Gonzalez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-11-23 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-resentencing eligibility first-step-act judicial-discretion resentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | The question presented here is analogous to the question presented in Concepcion v. United States, No. 20-1650, on which this Court recently granted c… |
| 21-6397 | Viengxay Chantharath, aka OG v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-11-23 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-3582 circuit-split extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-reasons first-step-act mandatory-minimum retroactivity sentence-reduction sentencing-law | Under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i), district courts have the authority to reduce a sentence based on "extraordinary and compelling reasons." In the F… |
| 21-767 | Clinton Williams v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-11-23 | Denied | Amici (1) | 18-usc-3582(c)(1)(a) 18-usc-924(c) circuit-split criminal-law extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-circumstances federal-sentencing first-step-act judicial-discretion sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown … |
| 21-6224 | Tony Ford v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-11-10 | GVR | Relisted (3)IFP | criminal-justice-reform criminal-resentencing district-court-discretion first-step-act intervening-legal-developments legal-developments retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether, when deciding if it should "impose a reduced sentence" on an individual under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, a district court … |
| 21-690 | Rodney Earl Cannady, aka Camp Earl v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-11-09 | Denied | career-offender cocaine-base-offense criminal-sentencing fair-sentencing-act first-step-act plain-error retroactive-amendment retroactivity sentencing-reduction | Did the district court error by denying defendant Cannady relief pursuant to the "First Step Act of 2018" retroactive, which made the "Fair Sentencing… | |
| 21-6179 | Leoncio Perez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-11-04 | GVR | Relisted (3)IFP | civil-rights criminal-justice due-process first-step-act sentencing statutory-interpretation | I . LJh&lhtf " <1 redt/O^ ^Scnle^Xju Pc/^Ujrct +0 § a-f- #!t 'firsf ST<5/> Acf of dto/S" Ctyc/ireJ' P / e»oa >*-/ 'feserx ^ ^ . nd %5djs4wA.fi <rJ or… |
| 21-6190 | Joe Lewis Finley v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-11-04 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review criminal-justice-reform first-step-act section-404 sentencing substantive-reasonableness | Whether a district court's denial of a motion for relief from under Section 404 of the First Step Act is subject to substantive reasonableness review? |
| 21-6160 | Dennis Dean Smith v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-11-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-amendment civil-rights criminal-justice-reform cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection first-step-act prior-convictions retroactive-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-changes | 1) Has the Eleventh Amendment barred the federal courts from exercising jurisdiction over this case where the state has been sued in federal court to … |
| 21-6166 | Ángel De la Cruz v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-11-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law drug-offense due-process first-step-act maritime-drug-law safety-valve sentencing statutory-interpretation terry-v-united-states | The Pre-First Step Act Safety Valve was widely applied to the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act (MDLEA), a statute whose punishment criteria and eleme… |
| 21-6144 | Johnnie Sims v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-11-02 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3553a criminal-sentencing discretionary-review district-court-discretion first-step-act individualized-explanation sentence-reduction sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation | (1) Are district courts required to consider the sentencing factors listed in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) when deciding whether to impose a reduced sentence u… |
| 21-6128 | Tommy Pabellon v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure first-step-act intervening-changes-in-law intervening-law judicial-review legal-standard lower-court-judgment motion-review petition-for-writ-of-certiorari standard-of-review | Whether a lower court's failure to apply the proper standard of review effects its judgment in reviewing a petitioner's case based on clear intervenin… |
| 21-6107 | Thomas Johnson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-10-27 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | criminal-procedure criminal-resentencing district-court-discretion factual-developments fair-sentencing-act first-step-act legal-developments presidential-commutation sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether, when deciding if it should "impose a reduced sentence" on an eligible defendant under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, a distric… |
| 21-6068 | Ronald Tingle v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-10-25 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-3582 district-court drug-offenses extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-compelling-reasons first-step-act sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether a district judge is categorically prohibited from considering the First Step Act's amendment to penalties for drug offenses when determining w… |
| 21-6007 | Carlton Potts, aka Pep v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-10-19 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | appellate-review criminal-resentencing criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion factual-developments fair-sentencing-act first-step-act legal-developments sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether, when deciding if it should "impose a reduced sentence" on an eligible defendant under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, a distric… |
| 21-6009 | Jose Moyhernandez, aka Yindo v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-10-19 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split crack-cocaine criminal-resentencing criminal-sentencing first-step-act sentence-reduction sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation | Whether a sentencing court must consider applicable sentencing factors codified in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) when deciding whether to "impose a reduced sent… |
| 21-546 | Michael G. Harper, aka Cuban Mike v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-10-13 | GVR | Relisted (2) | criminal-justice-reform criminal-resentencing district-court district-court-discretion first-step-act intervening-legal-developments legal-developments reduced-sentence sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether, when deciding if it should "impose a reduced sentence" on an individual under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, a district court … |
| 21-5956 | Nolan Nathaniel Edwards v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-10-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act incarceration notice resentencing sentencing-modification supervised-release | I. Whether § 404 of the First Step Act allows a district court to impose a term of supervised release not previously imposed, as it was not a componen… |
| 21-5874 | Warren Lavell Jackson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-10-04 | GVR | Relisted (3)IFP | apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-law constitutional-precedent covered-offense criminal-sentencing fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether the "as if" language in Section 404(b) of the First Step Act requires a sentencing court to disregard intervening, but well-established consti… |
| 21-5875 | Kenneth J. Jackson, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-10-04 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924c criminal-sentencing de-novo-sentencing first-step-act retroactivity statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the sentencing amendments to 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) enacted by the First Step Act of 2018 (the "First Step Act", "FSA", or "Act"), Pub. L. No. … |
| 21-5879 | Dheadry Powell v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-10-04 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion first-step-act guidelines justification money-laundering resentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines | I. UNDER THE FIRST STEP ACT, DID THE DISTRICT COURT FAIL TO PROVIDE A SUFFICIENTLY COMPELLING JUSTIFICATION THAT THOROUGHLY EXPLAINS IT'S ABOVE THE GU… |
| 21-5812 | Carlos Velazquez-Fontanez v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-09-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924(c)(1)(A) actual-innocence crime-of-violence davis-precedent davis-v-us first-step-act jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge sentencing sentencing-review | "WHETHER THE U.S. FIRST CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN FAILING TO FIND THAT APPELLANT CARLOS VELAZQUEZ-FONTANEZ IS "ACTUALLY INNOCENT" OF VIOLATING… |
| 21-5802 | David A. Bridgewater v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-09-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brooklyn-savings-bank compassionate-release contractual-principle department-of-justice first-step-act plea-agreement public-interest statutory-right statutory-waiver | 1. Does the rule of United States v. Mezzanatto, 513 U.S. 196 (1995), that a statutory right is waivable in a plea agreement absent an affirmative ind… |
| 21-5634 | Michael D. Forbes v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-09-09 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review criminal-resentencing criminal-sentencing first-step-act guideline-range reasonableness-standard section-404 sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review | Appellate court s review criminal sentence s for reasonableness . And major variances or departures from the advisory guideline range must be supporte… |
| 21-5638 | Davin Griffin v. J. A. Terris, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2021-09-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence civil-rights due-process factual-innocence first-step-act habeas-corpus sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation | 1) Whether the lower court courts denial of relief in a habeas corpus petition pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 2241 ON THE QUESTION OF FACTUAL AND ACTUAL INNOCE… |
| 21-5603 | Alphonse Gainer v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-09-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion appeal appellate-discretion criminal-justice criminal-sentencing eleventh-circuit first-step-act motion-for-reconsideration motion-reconsideration sentence-reduction sentencing | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit abused its discretion in denying Gainer's Motion for Reconsideration of Denial of … |
| 21-5584 | Guerly Alexis v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-09-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing eleventh-circuit equal-protection fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation | Whether a defendant whose offense preceded the enactment of the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, and who was sentenced after its enactment, but not necess… |
| 21-5474 | Antwoyn Terrell Spencer v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-08-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-step-act jurisdiction resentencing standing | 1. Whether Petitioner is being deprived of his civil right to due process of law against law (without due process of law) in violation of the Fifth Am… |
| 21-5475 | Derrick Jerome Spencer v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-08-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-resentencing due-process fifth-amendment first-step-act sentencing-review standing | 1. Whether Petitioner is being deprived of his civil right to due process of law against law (without due process of law) in violation of the Fifth Am… |
| 21-5480 | Charles Bryant v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-08-25 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | circuit-split crack-cocaine fair-sentencing-act first-step-act judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | The Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 increased the threshold amounts of crack cocaine – from 5 and 50 grams to 28 and 280 grams – needed to trigger two man… |
| 21-5348 | James H. Bates v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-08-12 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-3553a criminal-sentencing discretionary-review district-court-discretion first-step-act individualized-explanation section-404 sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation | (1) Are district courts required to consider the sentencing factors listed in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) when deciding whether to impose a reduced sentence u… |
| 21-5297 | Kurzie Lee Curtis v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-08-04 | Denied | IFP | 8th-amendment bureau-of-prisons civil-rights compassionate-release due-process first-step-act | Questions of law In Belatiol To Inoiztment whe A MAabo DiniVE is AN AulhoAtive iNstmenthat Dicates thAN C PC CuDCAN n ea.RulE 12. Rsion ofTue b6sEsFed… |
| 21-5271 | Paul Surine v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-08-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crack-cocaine drug-conviction drug-quantity first-step-act judicial-interpretation recidivism-probability retroactivity sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines | The most important question to be resolve by the US Supreme Court is if Petitioner Paul Surine and others in his own situation should be given a reduc… |
| 21-5100 | Matthew James Haymond, Sr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-07-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crack-cocaine criminal-sentencing drug-offenses fair-sentencing-act first-step-act mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-minimum plea-bargaining retroactive-application sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether Mr. Haymond was improperly denied First Step Act § 404 relief from his mandatory life sentence under 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(A), where the distr… |
| 21-5066 | Aquabeus Moore v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-07-09 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment 8th-amendment 924(c)-enhancement crime-of-violence eighth-amendment equal-protection first-step-act fourteenth-amendment hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery | Whether Petitioner's conviction of Hobbs Act Robbery constitutes a "crime of violence" considering new case law and the passage of the First Step Act?… |
| 21-5047 | Michael Carter v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-07-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-3553a criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing discretionary-review district-court-discretion first-step-act individualized-explanation sentence-reduction sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation | (1) Are district courts required to consider the sentencing factors listed in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) when deciding whether to impose a reduced sentence u… |
| 20-8398 | Jonathan Jerome Hills v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-06-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553 criminal-justice criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection first-step-act judicial-discretion procedural-opportunity sentencing sentencing-disparity statutory-interpretation | Whether differences in procedural opportunity arising from the fact that a defendant is statutorily eligible for relief under the First Step Act, such… |
| 20-8400 | Daryl Wendell Barley v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-06-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | clear-and-convincing-evidence criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence-standard first-step-act preponderance-of-evidence relevant-conduct sec-404 sentencing-reduction sixth-amendment | 1. Whether the "clear and convincing evidence standard" should be used instead of the "preponderance of evidence standard" when determining the releva… |
| 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… |
| 20-8347 | Terron McAllister v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-06-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion criminal-resentencing discretion first-step-act guidelines guidelines-range judicial-discretion resentencing sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-discretion | Whether a District Court adjudicating a motion for a reduced sentence under the First Step Act abuses its discretion when a defendant would have a sig… |
| 20-8327 | Roberto Barrio v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-06-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cocaine-types covered-offense first-step-act jury-findings statutory-maximums statutory-minimums | TkiKe'sVvef' Go co\r\g^ Q,OUT iV (^CounV-. Of\<sJ Aypes e* eo^ n<t/ 0n<6 powdar, ona basics ^woc j bb The, 'W«d o?Afivs<£. Th<z, KrsV'Sba? P\c\ Ao T^n… |
| 20-1732 | Thomas Bryant, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-06-15 | Denied | Amici (3) | circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-procedure district-court first-step-act policy-statement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether Section 1B1.13 of the United States Sentencing Guidelines is an "applicable" policy statement that binds a district court in considering a def… |
| 20-8316 | Michael Lawrence Williams v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-06-15 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review criminal-sentencing district-court first-step-act sentencing-reform substantive-reasonableness | Whether a district court's denial of a motion for relief from under Section 404 of the First Step Act is subject to substantive reasonableness review? |
| 20-1653 | Lazelle Maxwell v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-05-27 | Denied | Relisted (2) | circuit-split criminal-sentencing first-step-act legal-developments procedural-history resentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether, when deciding if it should "impose a reduced sentence" on an individual under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, 21 U.S.C. § 841 n… |
| 20-1650 | Carlos Concepcion v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-05-26 | Judgment Issued | Amici (10) | circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-resentencing factual-developments first-step-act legal-developments resentencing sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether, when deciding if it should "impose a reduced sentence" on an individual under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, 21 U.S.C. § 841 n… |
| 20-8094 | Corey L. Johnson v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-05-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | covered-offense criminal-law drug-conspiracy federal-sentencing first-step-act multi-object-conspiracy rule-of-lenity sentencing sentencing-retroactivity statutory-interpretation | Where there is ambiguity as to which penalty applies in a multi-object conspiracy that is a "covered offense" pursuant to the First Step Act of 2018, … |
| 20-1586 | Artavis Desmond McGowan v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-05-14 | Denied | Response Waived | conspiracy constructive-amendment criminal-procedure drug-conviction evidence first-step-act mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-relief wiretap wiretap-evidence | I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERR IN DENYING McGOWAN'S MOTION FOR NEW TRIAL BASED ON CONSTRUCTIVE AMENDMENT OF THE INDICTMENT WHEN IT ALLOWED THE GOVE… |
| 20-7972 | Gregory L. Roberson, Charles Matthews, and Dorothy Robinson v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-05-11 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split crack-cocaine fair-sentencing-act first-step-act retroactivity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-penalties | Does the term "covered offense" in the First Step Act include violations of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a) involving crack cocaine to which apply the penalties in… |
| 20-7964 | John Riley, aka P. J. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-05-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-justice criminal-sentencing district-court federal-jurisdiction first-step-act motion-denial motion-to-modify sentence-reduction sentencing | Whether the district court erred by denying the Motion for Sentence Reduction under The First Step Act of 2018. |
| 20-7966 | James L. Rudzavice v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-05-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 3582(c)(1)(a)(i) compassionate-release constitutional-rights due-process first-step-act judicial-bias judicial-discretion procedural-fairness sentencing-review | (1) Did Ebth the District Court judge and the Fifth circuit Court of Appeal misconstrue the purpose of the First Step Act and 3582(c) (1)(A)(i) becaus… |
| 20-7913 | Dallas Jerome Wims v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-05-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance-act eighth-amendment first-step-act sentencing serious-drug-offense | 1. WHETHER THE FIRST STEP ACT'S AMENDMENT REDEFINING "SERIOUS DRUG OFFENSE" FOR PURPOSES OF AN ENHANCEMENT FOR VIOLATIONS OF THE CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE … |
| 20-7887 | Ronnie Spells v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-04-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crack-cocaine discretion first-step-act judicial-discretion mandatory-minimums racial-disparities sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation systemic-racism | Whether District Court Judge Castel and the Second Circuit Appeals Court perpetuated continued systemic racism by contending that Congress left out th… |
| 20-7890 | Antwoyn Terrell Spencer and Derrick Jerome Spencer v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-04-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment first-step-act resentencing standing | Whether Petitioners are being deprived of their right to due process of law against law (without due process of law) in violation of the Fifth Amendme… |
| 20-7878 | Maci Denon Davis and Joe L. Franklin v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-04-28 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | congress congressional-intent discretion district-court eighth-circuit first-step-act sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines unwarranted-disparities | Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals incorrectly found that the district court was permitted to tether itself to the United States Sentencing G… |
| 20-7826 | Jimmie C. Johnson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-04-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights collateral-review crack-cocaine district-court due-process eighth-circuit first-step-act ineffective-assistance-of-counsel johnson-case legal-review motion-denial sentencing | Whether the district court and Eighth cir. Erred when they determine that m. Joknson 2ass motion was not retroactive to cases on collateral review, Wh… |
| 20-1479 | Eddie Houston, Jr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-04-21 | GVR | Amici (2)Relisted (2) | 18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a criminal-resentencing criminal-sentencing first-step-act judicial-discretion reduced-sentence retroactive-sentencing sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation | Whether a sentencing court must consider applicable sentencing factors codified in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) when deciding whether to impose a reduced sente… |
| 20-7737 | Marjuan Shondell Fleming v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-04-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split constitutional-rights crack-cocaine criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure first-step-act post-conviction right-to-counsel sentence-enhancement sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether the term "Covered offense" in the First Step Act of 2018, includes violations of Title 18 USC 924(c), involving crack cocaine, to which ACCA t… |
| 20-7694 | Eusebio Escobar de Jesus v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-04-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release due-process fifth-amendment first-step-act sentencing statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the First Circuit erred in affirming the denial of Petitioner's Motion for Compassionate Release under the First Step Act, which the Distri… |
| 20-7617 | Willie Lee Lewis v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-03-31 | GVR | Relisted (4)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substances-act felony-drug-offense first-step-act sentence-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation | One: Does the First Step Act's addition of a definition for "felony drug offense" to section 102 of the Controlled Substances Act, 21 U.S.C. § 802, al… |
| 20-7474 | Ezralee J. Kelley v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-17 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | as four circuits hold as three circuits hold or whether a resentencing court must correct a Gu career-offender circuit-split fair-sentencing-act first-step-act judicial-interpretation resentencing sentencing-guidelines | Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018 permits district courts to "impose a reduced sentence" on defendants who committed offenses for which the… |
| 20-7421 | Jefferson Levine v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553(a) circuit-conflict criminal-resentencing first-step-act judicial-discretion post-sentencing-conduct section-404(b) sentencing sentencing-discretion | 1. Whether, in order to properly exercise its discretion under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018 to impose a reduced sentence for an eligib… |
| 20-7405 | Jorge Rangel v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-10 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | direct-appeal drug-cases first-step-act mandatory-minimum plain-error rehaif | 1. Does the provision of the First Step Act, Pub. L. 115-391, 132 Stat. 5194 (Dec. 21, 2018), that amended 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1) to reduce mandatory-m… |
| 20-7362 | Charles Braye v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | court-of-appeals criminal-procedure district-court due-process first-step-act opportunity-to-be-heard remand sentence-reduction | Whether Mr. Braye's due process rights were violated when the court of appeals determined that Mr. Braye was eligible for a sentence reduction under t… |
| 20-7077 | Derrick Lakeith Brown v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-02-08 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | constitutional-claims constitutional-provisions federal-procedure first-step-act gall-v-united-states habeas-corpus judicial-review petition-standards sentencing-reform statutory-provisions supreme-court-review united-states-v-booker | The OCR text provided is too degraded and illegible to accurately extract the "Question(s) Presented" section. While a "QUESTION(S) PRESENTED" header … |
| 20-7068 | Jerry Davis v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-02-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights conspiracy criminal-procedure discretionary-sentencing drug-convictions drug-crimes due-process first-step-act sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether the 4thCircuit Court of Appeals created a Cirauit split by affiomingthe District Courts reuson to ceny his motion for a sentence reduction und… |
| 20-6943 | Ronald Lewis Coleman, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-01-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons first-step-act mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences sentence-reduction sentencing | Whether the changes in applicable mandatory minimum sentences worked by the First Step Act can provide extraordinary and compelling reasons to support… |
| 20-6949 | Neally Cunningham v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-01-26 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | cocaine-base criminal-law criminal-resentencing drug-offenses federal-drug-offense first-step-act retroactivity sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation | Whether Appellant's offense of conviction, a violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(C) occurring before August 3, 2010, and involving cocaine base, is a "… |
| 20-6953 | Dwyne Byron Deruise, aka Duke v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-01-26 | Denied | IFP | career-offender circuit-split criminal-justice-reform discretion discretionary-review first-step-act resentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether a district court that chooses to conduct a resentencing under § 404 of the First Step Act is prohibited from considering a defendant's current… |
| 20-6870 | Antonio Harris v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-01-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crack-cocaine criminal-justice-reform first-step-act judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums retroactive-sentencing sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines | Can federal judges ignore the current United States Sentencing Guidelines calculation when considering whether to reduce a sentence for a "covered off… |
| 20-6841 | Steven Jones v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-01-12 | Denied | IFP | apprendi apprendi-standard circuit-split covered-offense drug-quantity federal-criminal-statute first-step-act sentencing sentencing-range statutory-penalties | I. Whether "statutory penalties" in § 404(a) of the First Step Act modifies the entire phrase – "a violation of a Federal criminal statute" – as the E… |
| 20-6819 | Frantz Sterlin v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-01-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-justice criminal-sentencing eligibility fair-sentencing-act first-step-act section-404 sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction u.s.-senate-bill-756 | Whether Petitioner was eligible for a First Step Act reduction of his sentence, based on Section 404 of the Fair Sentencing Act. |
| 20-6832 | Shannon Keith Harris v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-11 | Denied | IFP | cocaine-sentencing criminal-sentencing drug-trafficking fair-sentencing-act first-step-act mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums resentencing retroactivity sentencing-guidelines | When deciding whether to impose a reduced sentence under Section 404 of the First Step Act, are district courts required to apply the current, legally… |
| 20-6787 | Matthew Lee Pryor v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-sentencing direct-appeal direct-review first-step-act retroactive-application retroactivity section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation | Does Congress' express "Clarification of Section 924(c) of Title 18, United States Code" in Section 403 of the First Step Act apply to a defendant con… |
| 20-6759 | Bernard Weiters, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-01-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 3582(c)(2) criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing first-step-act resentencing section-404(b) sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-mandatory-minimum statutory-maximum | Whether the Court Committed error by declining to resentence the petitioner under Section 3582 of the First Step Act, when the Court earlier reduced t… |
| 20-6521 | Hector Valdez v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver appellate-review criminal-procedure first-step-act retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation waiver-of-rights | If a defendant waives the right to appeal a sentence and the waiver takes place before the passage of the First Step Act and the defendant is sentence… |
| 20-6442 | Jonair Tyreece Moore v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-11-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553a circuit-split crack-cocaine discretionary-reduction district-court first-step-act racial-disparity sentencing-factors | Whether a district court must consider the sentencing factors of 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) when determining whether to impose a reduced sentence for a crack… |
| 20-6427 | Marquis Wilson v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-11-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law due-process first-step-act retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether Section 403 of the First Step Act of 2018, which is expressly titled a "clarification" of the penalty provisions of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) (1)(… |
| 20-6316 | Mickey Pubien v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-justice-reform criminal-resentencing discretion first-step-act penalty-reduction sentencing sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation | What the district court may appropriately consider when imposing a reduced sentence pursuant to § 404 of the First Step Act of 2018 remains an unsettl… |
| 20-6261 | Damien Edward Desjardins-Racine v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-11-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights due-process extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons first-step-act guidelines sentencing | Does Asthnu Diagnosis o A OF Give − Rise EXTZADRDINATY OTD .3F TO AN compelling REASON DURSUANT the SeNtercing GUiDeliNeS? DD The Rassabe oF oyf FIRS… |
| 20-6243 | Okeiba Sadio v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights covered-offense criminal-procedure drug-distribution due-process first-step-act sentencing sentencing-reduction sixth-amendment statutory-penalties | (1) Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals Wrongly dismiss Mr Sadio's Appeal with out no Briefs being filed or hearing any arguments, violating m… |
| 20-6214 | John J. Powers v. Warden, Allenwood USP | Third Circuit | 2020-11-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 1-usc-109 18-usc-3624b criminal-procedure first-step-act general-savings-statute good-time-credits sentencing-law statutory-interpretation | Does the General Savings Statute, 1 U.S.C. §109, apply to the First Step Act's amendment to 18 U.S.C. §3624(b) so that penalties of the loss of good t… |
| 20-6238 | Demon O'Neil Parker v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-11-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion cell-site-location-information constitutional-review criminal-sentencing first-step-act fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation reasonable-expectation-of-privacy rehabilitation search-and-seizure sentence-reduction standing | Question not identified. |
| 20-6148 | Smith Merinord v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-10-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c 924(c)-statute brandishing criminal-justice-reform direct-appeal firearms-offense first-step-act hobbs-act sentencing statutory-interpretation | I. WHETHER THE FIRST STEP ACT APPLIES TO CASES PENDING ON DIRECT APPEAL AT THE TIME OF ITS ENACTMENT, WHERE THE PETITIONER WAS CONVICTED OF THREE HOBB… |
| 20-535 | Drew Samuel Bates v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-10-22 | Denied | circuit-split criminal-procedure first-step-act judicial-discretion resentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether a district court that chooses to conduct a resentencing under § 404 of the First Step Act is prohibited from considering a defendant's current… | |
| 20-6099 | Malcolm Moore v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-10-21 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure direct-review due-process first-step-act judicial-discretion retroactivity sentencing sentencing-retroactivity statutory-interpretation | Whether Section 403 of the First Step Act of 2018, which is expressly titled a "clarification" of the penalty provisions of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(C), … |
| 20-466 | Larry Williams v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-10-09 | Denied | Response Waived | booker-decision departure-or-variance discretionary-guidelines First-Step-Act judicial-discretion rational-basis sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction U.S.-v.-Booker | What are the scope and limits of a District Court's discretion in denying an unopposed motion for sentence reduction under the First Step Act? |
| 20-5904 | Tarahrick Terry v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-10-05 | Judgment Issued | Amici (9)IFP | 2010 crack offenders sentenced under 21 U.S.C. § circuit-split crack-cocaine fair-sentencing-act federal-criminal-statute first-step-act sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation statutory-penalties | Whether pre-August 3, 2010 crack offenders sentenced under 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(C) have a "covered offense" under Section 404 of the First Step Act. |
| 20-5787 | Thomas Wayne Godard v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 924(c) 924(c)-conviction due-process equal-protection first-step-act retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-relief | Whether the Circuit Court Erred Failing to Apply First Step Act retroactively to multiple 924(c) convictions that were announced, but not final, at th… |
| 20-5753 | Kunta Kenta Redd v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-09-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crack-cocaine-sentencing due-process first-step-act retroactive-sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-retroactivity | Whether we, the Petitioner, is entitled to Belief from denial 404 motion at the District Court level in light of the First Step Act, December 21st, 20… |
| 20-5650 | Carlos Cruz-Rivera v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-09-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure firearms firearms-conviction first-step-act judicial-review retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(C), which as clarified and as amended by the First Step Act of 2018, precludes aggravated punishment for second firearms… |
| 20-5628 | Javier Corona-Verduzco v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-09-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | based on the plain text of the statute without relying on extratextual sources of author 21-usc-841 drug-felony extratextual-sources first-step-act imprisonment-term plain-text plain-text-analysis plain-text-interpretation sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-felony statutory-interpretation | Whether the phrase "served a term of imprisonment of more than 12 months" in the First Step Act unambiguously allows a defendant to sustain two "serio… |
| 20-291 | Jamell Birt v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-09-04 | Denied | Amici (2)Relisted (3) | circuit-split crack-cocaine criminal-sentencing fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing-penalties statutory-interpretation | Does the term "covered offense" in the First Step Act of 2018 include violations of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a) involving crack cocaine to which apply the pena… |
| 20-5561 | Craig Edward Hunnicutt, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-09-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review discretion federal-sentencing first-step-act guidelines judicial-discretion motion-denial sentence-reduction sentencing | 1. A First Step Act (FSA) sentence reduction denial should come only after a "complete review on the merits." Yet the Sixth Circuit held that it had n… |
| 20-5457 | Dennis A. Smith v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-08-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender criminal-law drug-statute first-step-act predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether the Court of Appeals incorrectly determined that the Ohio Revised Code §2925.03(A)(2) dealing with preparation for shipment or preparation for… |
| 20-5469 | Alfonzo Traymayne Lee v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-08-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights discretion due-process equal-protection first-step-act judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether giving the District court discretion to grant or deny sentencing reduction pursuant to 18 USC 3553(a) and the First Step Act of 2018, Section … |
| 20-5373 | Don Nell Hawkins v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-08-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 16-usc-3582 18-usc-3582 criminal-sentencing first-step-act sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 0 Wh-tkh<_r iht District Cour t Erred /oy On Uu. Sinctvun of n u^s.c. I 36^(060 ^Ad U$S{?. Dppjos-td lo iZS^XCoCOC^ 'Wh-tA JTt Uu/ckel CL Motion Un… |
| 20-5264 | Lakento Brian Smith v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-08-05 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | crack-cocaine criminal-sentencing first-step-act guideline-range mandatory-minimum post-sentencing-conduct resentencing sentence-reduction sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation | The First Step Act changed the penalty for petitioner's crack cocaine crimes from life in prison to 10 years to life and changed petitioner's guidelin… |
| 20-5040 | In Re Antwoyn Terrell Spencer | 2020-07-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights due-process eighth-circuit first-step-act mandamus personal-liberty sentence-reduction sentencing | 1. Petitioner is deprived of Due Process of Law Contrary to Law in violation of the Fifth Amendment and Section 404 of the First Step Act. 2. Because… | |
| 20-5051 | Andre Patrick Staggers v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-07-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841(b) criminal-procedure drug-offense first-step-act retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-law statutory-minimums | Does the First Step Act provision lowering the enhanced statutory minimums of 21 U.S.C. § 841(b) apply to persons who were sentenced before the provis… |
| 20-5015 | James Latron Sumter v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment first-step-act guilty-plea mandatory-minimum plea-bargaining sentencing | 1. WHETHER THE APPELLATE COURT ERRED IN AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S RULING NOT ALLOWING SUMTER TO WITHDRAW HIS GUILTY PLEA? 2. WHETHER THE APPELLA… |
| 19-8908 | Preston Pope v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-07-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-justice-act criminal-justice-act-1964 davis-decision direct-appeal first-step-act griffith-v-kentucky ineffective-assistance notice-to-client rule-28(j)-letter writ-of-certiorari | Does the Criminal Justice Act of 1964, fl 5 Still require that Appellant Counsel provide notice to his client by way of a written letter to his client… |
| 19-8890 | Richard Antonio Hodge, Jr. v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-07-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-sentencing first-step-act resentencing retroactivity rule-of-lenity sentence-enhancement sentencing-provisions statutory-interpretation | Whether the ameliorative sentencing provisions of the First Step Act apply to defendants who were initially sentenced pre-First Step Act, but whose se… |
| 19-8877 | Patrick D. Lomas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-07-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure discretion fair-sentencing-act first-step-act judicial-discretion section-404 sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | i. Did the District Court abuse it's Discretion when it denied Petitioner's Motion seeking a reduction of Sentence under Section 404(b) of the First S… |
| 19-8878 | Frank Richardson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-07-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c criminal-law first-step-act retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation | On December 21, 2018, President Trump signed into law the First Step Act of 2018 which dramatically changes the penalties imposed for gun-related crim… |
| 19-8783 | Alfredo Gonzalez v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-06-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-851 dimaya-v-sessions due-process felony-drug-offense first-step-act johnson-v-united-states jury-selection plain-error-review sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment void-for-vagueness | I. Whether the definition of "felony drug offense" for the pur poses of 21 U.S.C. §851 is void for vaguene ss after Johnson, Dimaya, and Da vis. II. … |
| 19-8540 | Antwoyn Spencer and Derrick Jerome Spencer v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-05-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment first-step-act resentencing statutory-interpretation | Whether Petitioners are being deprived of their right to due process of law against law (without due process of law) in violation of the Fifth Amendme… |
| 19-8469 | Viengxay Chantharath v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-05-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-851 career-offender collateral-review criminal-procedure drug-convictions first-step-act mandatory-minimum retroactive-application sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether the First Step Act (FSA-2018) "altered "the statutes: 21 U.S.C.§ 841(a) (1)(b)(1) (A)-(B) also (C) for the prior drugI. con victions that qua… |
| 19-8445 | Freddie Lee Curry, aka King of da Hood, aka Rat v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-05-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 alleyne alleyne-ruling criminal-procedure drug-quantity fair-sentencing-act first-step-act mandatory-minimum sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation | Did the District Court abused its discretion when it failed to to apply Alleyne to Appellant's sentence reduction under Section 404(b) of the First St… |
| 19-8312 | Lazaro Candelaria v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-04-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure first-step-act ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement shepard-documentation | 1) Whether the First Step Act of U.S. in his Title 21 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(1) motion. 2) Whether CounselSenate Bill 756, applies to the Petitioner, ineff… |
| 19-8034 | Whitney Atkinson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-03-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crack-cocaine drug-offense fair-sentencing-act first-step-act mandatory-minimum retroactive-application sentence-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Did Mr. Atkinson receive a sentence for a covered drug offense, such that he should be eligible for retroactive application of the Fair Sentencing Act… |
| 19-8036 | Odis Lee Jackson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-03-18 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-justice-reform criminal-resentencing district-court-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction first-step-act judicial-review mandatory-minimum post-sentencing-conduct sentencing sentencing-modification sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation | I. What procedures does Section 404 of the First Step Act require a district court to follow when conducting its statutorily required "complete review… |
| 19-8005 | Harrison Garcia v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-03-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing direct-appeal edwards-v-arizona first-step-act mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-retroactivity statutory-interpretation | Whether Section 403 of the First Step Act of 2018, enacted while Petitioner's case was pending on direct appellate review, apply where his sentence is… |
| 19-7930 | Roderick Pearson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appellate-procedure criminal-justice-reform criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process finality first-step-act judicial-review retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation | Whether certiorari should be granted in order to vacate the decision below and remand to the Eleventh Circuit to consider whether § 403 of the First S… |
| 19-7531 | Joey D. Wiseman, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-02-03 | Denied | IFP | criminal-justice criminal-law criminal-sentencing direct-appeal due-process federal-sentencing first-step-act retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | 1) Whether the First Step Act Must be Applied To Cases Pending on Direct Appeal? 2) Whether there is An Inherent Disparity In Congress Amending the R… |
| 19-7430 | Richard L. Bryant v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-01-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne apprendi apprendi-alleyne apprendi-alleyne-rule drug-distribution-conspiracy fair-sentencing-act fair-sentencing-act-2010 first-step-act first-step-act-2018 relevant-conduct retroactive-sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-ranges | 1. Whether a Defendant convicted by a jury of a drug distribution conspiracy involving multiple controlled substances, whose sentence has never been r… |
| 19-7172 | Larry Antonio Simmons v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-01-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-judiciary first-step-act judicial-ethics political-bias sentencing sentencing-reduction standing statutory-interpretation trump | Whether the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina the Honorable Bruce H. Hendricks, Judge, Assistant United States District … |
| 19-6920 | Courtney Omar Boyd v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-12-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act judicial-discretion motion-denial sentencing statutory-interpretation | I. WHETHER THE LOWER COURT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION AND VIOLATED MR. BOYD'S CONSTITUTIONAL DUE PROCESS RIGHTS WHEN IT DENIED BOYD'S FIRST STEP ACT MOTION… |
| 19-6602 | Carey Ackies, aka Boyd v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-tracking criminal-procedure direct-review drug-offense first-step-act law-enforcement-surveillance location-tracking search-and-seizure sentencing-thresholds surveillance | I. Whether a cell phone, when used by law enforcement to obtain "precise location information," is a "tracking device" under 18 U.S.C. § 3117(b). II.… |
| 19-566 | Devan Pierson v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-10-30 | GVR | 922(g)-felon-in-possession criminal-procedure direct-appeal firearm-possession first-step-act first-step-act-2018 rehaif rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states sentencing status-based-possession statutory-interpretation | 1. Section 401(c) of the First Step Act of 2018, Pub. L. No. 115-394, provides: "This section, and the amendments made by this section, shall apply to… | |
| 19-527 | Paul Huskisson v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-10-23 | Denied | direct-appeal exclusionary-rule first-step-act fourth-amendment independent-source independent-source-doctrine police-misconduct retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reform | 1. Does the independent source exception to the exclusionary rule, like all other exclusionary rule exceptions, take into account the flagrancy and de… | |
| 19-6255 | Kunta Kenta Redd v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-10-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crack-cocaine crack-cocaine-sentencing criminal-justice-reform due-process first-step-act retroactivity section-404 sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether me, the Petitioner, is entitled to Relief from denial 404 motion at the District Court level in light of the First Step Act, December 21st, 20… |
| 19-6264 | Orane Nelson v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-10-11 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure direct-appeal first-step-act retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Petitioner was convicted of three 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) offenses in a single proceeding and was sentenced to enhanced minimum penalties under § 924(c)(1)… |
| 19-6142 | Santo Leone v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-10-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion amendment categorical-approach civil-procedure district-court-discretion divisibility drug-convictions due-process first-step-act marijuana-convictions motion-to-amend prior-convictions section-851 standing timeliness | Whether district court abused its discretion by concluding motion to amend should be denied as untimely? Whether district court erred when failure to… |
| 19-6078 | Terreall McDaniel v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-09-26 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924c appeal armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure first-step-act retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | I. Does Section 403 of the First Step Act , which dramatically clarifies the applicable penalties for which a defendant may be sentenced for gun rela… |
| 19-5928 | Marcos Santiago v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-09-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 civil-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process first-step-act retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether Congress decision to not make its recent clarification of 924(c) fully retroactive, creates a significant risk that thousands of prisoners sta… |
| 19-5870 | Shakeem Heratio Crawford v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-09-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender civil-rights criminal-justice criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment ex-post-facto first-step-act parole retroactivity sentencing sentencing-retroactivity statutory-interpretation | Did the Judge Abuse his Discrection under He sth Amendment Due procecc clause by Cotegorically Dening all career orfenders when he stated that career … |
| 19-5750 | Felix A. Okafor v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-08-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924(c)(1)(A) criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment firearms-offense first-step-act sentencing statutory-interpretation | WHETHER PETITIONER'S 3167 MONTH SENTENCE IMPOSED AS A RESULT OF THIS COURT'S MISINTERPRETATION OF THE STACKING PROVISIONS OF 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(1)(A)(i)… |
| 19-5743 | Michael Dewayne Hegwood v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 binding-precedent career-offender criminal-procedure criminal-resentencing federal-jurisdiction first-step-act jurisdiction sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | 1. Does the First Step Act authorize a court to "impose" a reduced sentence in accordance with such statutes as 18 U.S.C. §§ 3553(a) and 3582(a), or d… |
| 19-5526 | Frances W. Lake v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs | Federal Circuit | 2019-08-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | administrative-exhaustion administrative-procedure appeals civil-rights compassionate-release disability due-process extraordinary-circumstances federal-prisoner financial-hardship first-step-act government-benefits medical-expenses sentence-reduction | FRANCES LAKE 855YEARS OLD WIDOW OF MELVIN LAKE, VETERAN. HAS SPENT 9 YEARS SINCE BEING MEDICALLY APPROVED FOR EXPENSES WERE WITHIN MAPR. RIGHT ARM HAS… |
| 19-5267 | Michael St. Hubert v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-23 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6)IFP | 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit first-step-act habeas-corpus pending-on-direct-review preclusion pro-se section-2255 successive-2255-motion successive-motion successive-petitions | 1. Is a criminal defendant's right to Due Process in his direct appeal violated by the Eleventh Circuit's rule affording binding force and preclusive … |
| 19-5102 | Dan Pizaro v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-08 | Denied | IFP | criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offense drug-offenses due-process federal-sentencing first-step-act mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent | Whether the life sentence imposed on 21 U.S.C. § 846 and § 841(a)(1) pursuant to 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(A) and § 851 must be reduced to twenty-five (25… |
| 18-9789 | Dan Pizarro v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-25 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing direct-appeal drug-offenses drug-trafficking first-step-act prior-convictions prior-felony-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-minimum | Because Pizarro is still in the direct appeal process, is he entitled to the application of the First Step Act amendments to the statutory minimum sen… |
| 18-9615 | Shawn Russell Sorensen v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-06-12 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appeal conflict-among-courts-of-appeals drug-felony drug-felony-offenses drug-offenses eighth-amendment first-step-act mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-enhancement simple-possession | THIS COURT SHOULD GRANT MR. SORENSEN's PETITION FOR CERTIORARI TO RESOLVE A CONFLICT AMONG THE UNITED STATES COURTS OF APPEALS AS TO WHETHER PETITIONE… |
| 18-9431 | William Maurice Smith v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-05-28 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-retroactivity,sentencing-reform drug-distribution due-process first-step-act griffith-v-kentucky ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review resentencing retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation | Does Griffith v. Kentucky, 479 U.S. 314, (1987) apply to First Step Act of 2018? If so did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals fail to apply Griffith … |
| 18-9360 | Lazaro Veliz v. John V. Flournoy, Warden | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-05-21 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924 circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute due-process first-step-act johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactive-application sentencing sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court void-for-vagueness | 1. Whether the residual clause in 18 u.s.c. $924(c)(3)(B) is void for vagueness in light of this Court's decisions in Johnson v. United States, 135 S.… |
| 18-9070 | Gabriel Urzua Sanchez v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-05-03 | Denied | IFP | abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure direct-appeal district-court fifth-amendment first-step-act mandatory-minimum privilege sentencing witness-testimony | I. Whether the district court abused its discretion in failing to properly determine that Mr. Sanchez's proposed witnesses Nino Tanzini and Shawn Hous… |
| 18-9085 | Juan Antonio Hunter v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-05-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acceptance-of-responsibility base-offense-level criminal-appeal criminal-procedure-sentencing criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion federal-sentencing-guidelines first-step-act sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum u.s.s.g.-5g1.1(a) | WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION BY DEDUCTING THE THREE POINTS AWARDED THE PETITIONER FOR HIS ACCEPTANCE OF RESPONSIBILITY WHEN THOSE … |
| 18-8796 | Larry Junior Copeland, aka La-La v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-04-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing fair-sentencing-act first-step-act habeas-corpus procedural-default retroactivity sentencing-discretion | This Court holds that when a habeas petitioner alleges facts that are outside the courtroom, and if proven, those facts entitle a petitioner to relief… |
| 18-8619 | In Re Derrell L. Gilchrist | 2019-03-29 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924 criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process first-step-act habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice section-2241 section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation | CAN PETITIONER SEEK RELIEF PURSUANT TO 28 U.S.C § 2241 TO ADDRESS CLARIFICATION OF 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(C) IN THE FIRST STEP ACT OF 2O18. | |
| 18-8603 | Gralyn Leon White v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-03-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c aiding-and-abetting brandishing consecutive-sentences criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit first-step-act hobbs-act united-states-v-lewis | Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Err by Failing to Apply the Holdings of United States v. Lewis, 907 F.3d 891, 894-95 (5th Cir. 2018). to Hobb's… |
| 18-8472 | James Allen Eapmon v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-03-19 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act life-imprisonment mandatory-minimum sentencing statutory-interpretation | WHETHER THE PETITIONER WAS DENIED DUE PROCESS WHEN THE DISTRICT COURT ERRONEOUSLY CONCLUDED THAT IT WAS OBLIGATED TO IMPOSED. A STATUTORY MANDATORY MI… |
| 18-8148 | Johnathan Hawthorne v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-02-27 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appeal armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-interpretation due-process first-step-act new-law pipeline resentencing retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Whether the "New Law" of the First Step Act, sign into law on Dec. 18, 2018 made this an appeal "Pipeline" case, that fall under the First Step Act ne… |
| 18-8025 | Michael St. Hubert v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-02-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924 18-usc-924(c)(3)(B) constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation unconstitutionally-vague vagueness | 1. Is the definition of "crime of violence" in the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) unconstit utionally vague, given the Court's holding in… |
| 18-7974 | Carlos Cruz-Rivera, aka Chiqui, aka Cano, aka Cano Llorens v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-02-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing direct-appeal federal-statute first-step-act pending-cases retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(C), as amended and clarified by the First Step Act of 2018, which provides for aggravated punishment for second violatio… |