guideline-range
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6075 | Derek Muñoz-Gonzalez v. United States | First Circuit | 2025-11-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | breach-of-contract criminal-procedure guideline-range plea-agreement prosecutorial-conduct sentencing-enhancement | Whether the prosecution breached the plea agreement by vigorously advocating, at sentencing, for the application of two enhancements, that the parties… |
| 23-6079 | Santos David Ramirez-Ortega v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review conflict-with-other-courts criminal-procedure district-court guideline-range holguin-hernandez judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines substantial-arguments | Whether, after Holguin -Hernandez v. United States , __U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails… |
| 23-5164 | Ermin Adzemovic v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-07-21 | Denied | IFP | controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-sentencing decontrolled-substances drug-offense federal-sentencing-guidelines guideline-range prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines ussg-4b1.2 | Does a prior drug conviction under a statute that included now decontrolled substances qualify as a "controlled substance offense" to enhance a defend… |
| 22-7900 | David Wright, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-06-29 | Denied | IFP | criminal-law criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process equal-protection federal-sentencing-guidelines guideline-range prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing-guidelines state-statutes statutory-interpretation | Whether the District Court erred by counting a prior conviction for violation of a state statute that had been changed to make the conduct not a crime… |
| 22-6316 | Kalvin Walker v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-12-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court guideline-range harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines | Whether errors in calculating the Sentencing Guidelines are automatically rendered harmless by a district court's statement that the correctness of th… |
| 22-5625 | Orville Tucker v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-09-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 3553(a)-factors circuit-split compassionate-release guideline-range non-delegation-doctrine sentencing-commission sentencing-law statutory-interpretation | 1. Did Congress, in 28 U.S.C. § 994(t), delegate complete authority to the U.S. Sentencing Commission to "define" an exclusive list of "extraordinary … |
| 22-5097 | Hidey Diaz, aka Silvio Manuel Amador, aka Celio Alvarez-Carrasco v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-07-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 10th-circuit circuit-court-review criminal-sentencing federal-prosecution government-action guideline-range sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statutory-directive substantive-reasonableness unwarranted-disparity | Did the Tenth Circuit err in concluding that it was barred from considering, on review for the substantive reasonableness of Mr. Diaz's sentence, the … |
| 22-5012 | Kielan Brett Franklin v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-06-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crime-of-violence due-process fifth-amendment guideline-range hearsay hearsay-statements hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reliability | (1) Is substantive reliability required under the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States when a district c… |
| 21-7970 | Oscar Geovanny Campos v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-05-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court guideline-range holguin-hernandez judicial-discretion sentencing-arguments sentencing-guidelines substantial-arguments | Whether, after Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, __U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails t… |
| 21-7773 | Eric Middlebrook v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-05-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | consecutive-sentences constitutional-challenge constitutional-law double-jeopardy drug-crimes drug-offense guideline-range mandatory-consecutive-term mandatory-minimum sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | 1. Does punishing an individual with both a statutory penalty that requires a mandatory consecutive prison term and a Guideline Range enhancement for… |
| 21-7759 | Mikkel McKinnie v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-05-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 8th-amendment burrage-precedent causation drug-offense drug-related-death due-process guideline-range sentencing sentencing-reasonableness upward-variance | I. Whether the Lower Courts Erred in Not Applying the Court's Precedent in Burrage v. United States, 571 U.S. 204 (2014), to Upward Variances When a D… |
| 21-7626 | Joseph Martinez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-04-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court guideline-range holguin-hernandez judicial-discretion sentencing-argument sentencing-guidelines substantial-arguments | Whether, after Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, __U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails t… |
| 21-7443 | Roberto Arenas-Tellez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court guideline-range holguin-hernandez-v-united-states judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines substantial-arguments | Whether, after Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, _U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails to… |
| 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… |
| 20-8439 | Francisco Coto-Mendoza v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-review guideline-range judicial-discretion objection plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-arguments | Whether, after Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, __U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails t… |
| 20-7872 | Jeremy Darnell Morton v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-04-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment appeal attempt-offense career-offender controlled-substance criminal-procedure guideline-range harmless-error search-and-seizure sentencing | I. Did the court of appeals err in using the harmless error rule to resolve the illegal search and seizure of $8,300? II. Was the career offender gui… |
| 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… |
| 19-8912 | Giezi Arce-Calderon v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-07-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process guideline-range guideline-sentence judicial-discretion plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness | A. Whether the sentence imposed on Mr. Arce is substantively unreasonable, despite being a guideline sentence of six months, where the parties agreed … |
| 19-7804 | Ramon F. Flores v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-02-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 appeal criminal-procedure drug-quantity guideline-range guidelines procedural-bar sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-amendment | In a sentence reduction application matter pursuant to 1 8 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) under Amendment 782,to the Sentencing Guidelines, if a defendant object… |
| 19-6838 | Joshua Smith v. Sandra Butler, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-12-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 appellate-review caselaw federal-procedure guideline-range habeas-corpus incorrect-guideline-range mandatory-guidelines savings-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the Courts of Appeals have incorrectly interpreted the 'savings clause', found in 28 USC 2255(e), to require that a defendant be sentenced und… |
| 19-6119 | Masnik Sainmelus v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-sentencing district-court firearm-possession firearms guideline-enhancement guideline-range sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-2k2.1 | 1. Whether The District Court Erred When The Court Increased The Appellant's Guideline Range Four Levels By Finding That The Offense Involved Between … |
| 19-5465 | Isela Alejandra Campos v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-08-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure district-court district-court-error guideline-range guidelines molina-martinez plain-error plain-error-review prejudice prejudice-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines | When the district court fails to calculate the Guideline range at sentencing, whether the defendant may rely on the district court's error alone to sh… |
| 19-5300 | Fremo Santana v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-07-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination guideline-range ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-proceedings | WHETHER DEFENSE COUNSEL'S PERFORMANCE WAS CONSTITUTIONALLY INEFFECTIVE FOR ERRONEOUSLY MISCALCULATING PETITIONER'S GUIDELINE RANGE WHICH WAS THE DECID… |
| 18-9079 | Steven Dedual, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alternate-sentences appellate-review district-court guideline-range harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing-discretion sentencing-enhancement sentencing-procedure unsupported-alternate-sentences unsupported-claims | Can a district court that has erroneously applied a sentencing enhancement shield itself from appellate review by claiming, without providing specific… |
| 18-8498 | Oryan Yazzie v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-03-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process guideline-range mental-health sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness supervised-release | Is a supervised release revocation sentence of a length more than double the top of the advisory Guideline range substantively unreasonable if the dis… |
| 18-8269 | Alejandro Casillas Prieto v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-03-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | amendment-782 chapter-5-part-a criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process guideline-range guidelines life-imprisonment notice offense-level sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Does the sentencing judge's oral pronouncement of the offense level 43 control? Is the sentencing judge require to give notice, to Chapter 5, Part A,… |
| 18-6347 | Adam Brake v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burglary criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-counting firearm-enhancement firearm-theft guideline-enhancements guideline-range sentencing-considerations sentencing-guidelines stolen-firearm u.s.s.g-2k2.1 | Whether the district court erred when, based on impermissible double counting, it incorrectly applied a higher guideline range. In calculating Petitio… |
| 18-5930 | Timothy Walker v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-09-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender double-jeopardy drug-offense due-process guideline-amendments guideline-range post-sentencing-litigation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g. | Does it comport with the Due Process Clause and the prohibition against Double Jeopardy to, for all practical purposes, simultaneously impose two (2) … |
| 18-5811 | Eusebio Escobar De Jesus v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-08-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals appeals-court criminal-procedure district-court due-process gall-v-united-states guideline-range guidelines molina-martinez-v-united-states offense-level procedural-error rosales-mireles-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether the Appeals Court erroneously concluded Petitioner failed to state a claim, reasoning for want of a substantial question..., he asserts that (… |