first-time-offender
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 22-7618 | Dennis Dewayne Jackson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-05-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment first-time-offender non-violent-offense non-violent-offenses procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines | WHETHER THE SENTENCE OF 138 MONTHS' IMPRISONMENT IMPOSED ON A FIRST-TIME OFFENDER VIOLATED THE EIGHTH AMENDMENT PROHIBITION AGAINST CRUEL AND UNUSUAL … |
| 22-6515 | Christopher Raiche v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment disproportionate-sentence eighth-amendment first-time-offender grossly-disproportionate life-sentence non-violent-crime sentencing | Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against grossly disproportionate prison sentences was triggered by the imposition of a de facto life senten… |
| 21-7859 | Brandis Nicole Fish v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-05-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 compassionate-release district-court-review first-time-offender medical-records non-violent-offender sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation ussg-guidelines | 1. ) DID DISTRICT COURT THOROUGHLY REVIEW PETITIONER FISH'S REQUEST FOR " COMPASSIONATE RELEASE',' PURSUANT TO POLICY USSG 1B1.13? 2. ) DID THE DISTR… |
| 21-7345 | David Wayne Aring v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography circuit-split due-process eighth-amendment first-time-offender judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release | QUESTION ONE Whether in the exercise of its supervisory jurisdiction over the United States Courts, this Court should correct the correctable injustic… |
| 21-5927 | In Re Lindsey Orr | 2021-10-07 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights congressional-authorization detention-authority due-process federal-law first-time-offender legislative-intent patent standing statutory-interpretation takings | I. TVa Following &uUtUnIs Based UP5n THt Fait [ Hat Fxuptional ti U'umshrun Vlarrant TKt txmiH Of The tourU Biuret unary Powers Baud Upon ThU*Extrcw… | |
| 20-6085 | Celso Yanez v. California | California | 2020-10-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment first-time-offender mandatory-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines sexual-abuse | Whether a mandatory sentence of 45 years to life, imposed on a 56-year-old first-time offender in a sexual abuse case involving no violence, no force,… |
| 20-5758 | Damon Woodard v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-09-18 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924c1c congressional-amendment congressional-amendments first-time-offender first-time-offenders mandatory-minimum-sentences recidivism sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether this Court should revisit and recede from its decision in Deal v. United States, 508 U.S. 129 (1993), which permits the "stacking" of mandator… |
| 19-8771 | Michael A. Risenhoover v. William Muniz, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2020-06-22 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 28-years-to-life criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-murder first-time-offender judicial-discretion murder prior-criminal-history proportionality public-message sentencing sentencing-guidelines | 1) Does SENTENCING A FIRST TIME OFFENDER WITHOUT HAS NO PRIOR CRIMINAL HISTORY TO 28 YEARS TO LIFE SEND A DANGEROUS MESSAGE TO THE PUBLIC AND FUTURE O… |
| 19-8563 | Michael Lee v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-05-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure appellate-review criminal-law criminal-review due-process first-time-offender life-sentence sentencing sentencing-review sex-crimes | 1. Should certiorari be granted to address whether a circuit court is presented with a substantial question, hence warranting full appellate review, r… |
| 19-6261 | Jeremiah Marion v. Florida | Florida | 2019-10-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment due-process evidence-rule evidentiary-provision first-time-offender fourteenth-amendment life-without-parole petition-for-grievances sexual-battery uncorroborated-accusations | DOES THE EVIDENTIARY PROVISION OF FLORIDA 'S SEXUAL BATTERY STATUTE VIOLATE THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT? AND/OR CAN A STATE LAW MANDATE LIFE WITHOUT PARO… |
| 18-1585 | Kassim M. Nagi v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2019-06-27 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | 8th-amendment controlled-substances cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment first-time-offender lockyer-v-andrade money-laundering proportionality proportionality-test racketeering sentencing solem-v-helm | 1. A sentence, even within range, is excessive when it imposes punishment grossly disproportionate to the severity of the evidence, or constitutes not… |
| 18-8441 | Gaetan Dinelle, aka Gates v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-03-18 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-justice cruel-and-unusual-punishment disproportionate-sentence eighth-amendment first-time-offender marijuana-trafficking non-violent-offender non-violent-offense proportionality sentencing | Whether a life-sentence for a non-violent, first-time offender, who trafficked in marijuana, is unreasonable, disproportionate, and amounts to cruel a… |
| 18-6808 | Harlem Suarez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause commerce-clause-power criminal-procedure eighth-amendment first-time-offender hobbs-act interstate-commerce proportionality taylor-v-united-states united-states-v-lopez weapon-of-mass-destruction weapons-of-mass-destruction | I. In United States v. Lopez, 514 U.S. 549 (1995), this Court held that Congress had the authority under the Commerce Clause to regulate three broad c… |
| 18-6335 | George Jenkins v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment drug-offense due-process first-time-offender non-violent-crime proportionality reasonableness-review sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines | WHETHER THE SENTENCE IMPOSED IS UNREASONABLE A. Whether a One Hundred Forty-four (144) month prison sentence for a first time non-violent, drug deale… |