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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6582 | Demonya Marquise Swarn v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2026-01-14 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach crime-of-violence fifth-circuit guidelines mens-rea robbery-definition | I. Texas robbery may be committed by a reckless use of force merely incidental to the taking of property. Did the Fifth Circuit misapply the categoric… |
| 25-6424 | Sherrod Goodspeed v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-12-23 | Dismissed | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach crime-of-violence fifth-circuit guidelines mens-rea robbery-definition | I. Texas robbery may be committed by a reckless use of force merely incidental to the taking of property. Did the Fifth Circuit misapply the categoric… |
| 23-7512 | Dallas M. Acoff v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-05-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fifth-amendment guidelines harmless-error judicial-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether the district court committed error and imposed a procedurally unreasonable sentence on Mr. Acoff that exceeded the upper end of his United Sta… |
| 23-7508 | Matias Zarate v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-05-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process guidelines reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines seventh-circuit supervised-release | Whether a sentence within the guidelines range is unreasonable when the defendant has already served more time on supervised release than originally s… |
| 23-7022 | Elvis Edgardo Molina v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-03-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burns-v-united-states due-process evidence-disclosure fifth-amendment guidelines guidelines-range judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-variance upward-variance | Whether the district court's failure to disclose gun statistics from unknown sources of questionable validity to justify an unpre cedented 30-month up… |
| 23-6904 | Chance Joseph Seneca v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-03-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review categorical criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion due-process guidelines harmless-error judicial-procedure sentencing-guidelines | Whether errors in calculating the Sentencing Guidelines are rendered categorically harmless by the district court's routine assertion that the Guideli… |
| 23-6461 | Luis Armando Jimenez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-01-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-justice federal-sentencing guidelines judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Under Rita v. United States, 551 U.S. 338 (2007), can a district court at sentencing ignore a party's nonfrivolous arguments for a greater or lesser s… |
| 23-578 | Christopher Kinzy v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-29 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court-discretion gall-standard gall-v-united-states guidelines judicial-explanation rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether a district court can insulate from vacatur a sentence based on an erroneously enhanced Guidelines range simply by stating, without explanation… |
| 23-6018 | Calvin F. Currica v. Richard Miller, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2023-11-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-standard brady-vs-maryland criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit guidelines judicial-review plea-agreement plea-bargaining post-conviction-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether the decision below should be summarily reversed because the Fourth Circuit substituted its judgment for an erroneous factual decision by the s… |
| 23-6025 | Deunta Finch v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-11-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure guidelines plain-error-review preservation-of-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit | Has the Sixth Circuit erred by creating a novel doctrine that says, to avoid plain-error review, a criminal defendant must object after the sentencing… |
| 22-6651 | Michael Vanous v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-01-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure guidelines ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion jury pretrial-proceedings sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | Question 1: Was defense counsel ineffective in the pretrial proceedings? Question 2: Was it a violation of the Sixth Amendment to sentence outside th… |
| 21-8133 | Gary L. Boyle v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-06-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-precedent course-of-conduct criminal-acts criminal-sentencing discretionary-sentencing federal-guidelines guidelines judicial-interpretation same-course-of-conduct sentencing-discretion separate-course-of-conduct united-states-v-booker | This Court's decisions (as best Boyle can research) have not defined or applied in the discretionary sentencing context, and apart from any Guidelines… |
| 21-7666 | Izell Delorean Grissett, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-04-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi apprendi-ruling collateral-review constitutional-claim criminal-procedure guidelines mandatory-guidelines miscarriage-of-justice section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | 1. Whether the Sixth Amendment requires the fact of a first-degree murder cross reference under § 2Al.l-to be treated as an element-when that finding … |
| 21-7616 | Andrew Ussery v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-04-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process guidelines methamphetamine sentencing supervisory-powers | Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit")–which affirmed the decision of the District Court t… |
| 21-7519 | Nathan Lee Tamez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-04-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | discretionary-review due-process firearms guidelines sentencing supervisory-powers | Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit")–which affirmed the decision of the District Court t… |
| 21-7357 | Joel Castro-Lopez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing discretion district-court-discretion guidelines judicial-reasoning legal-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review | Whether a district court errs should reference or address substantial arguments for a sentence outside the Guideline range? |
| 21-7062 | Michael Devell Smith v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-02-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 3553(a) criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion guidelines section-3553a sentence-disparity sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness unwarranted-disparities | Whether the district court ordered an unreasonable 24-month sentence considering the facts of this case and the Guidelines sentence range of 12 to 18 … |
| 21-7031 | Joseph D. Davis v. United States | District of Columbia | 2022-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | compassionate-release court-of-appeals criminal-sentencing district-of-columbia-court-of-appeals federal-procedure guidelines inconsistent-opinions judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-commission | I. Whether the opinion of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals concerning the Petitioner's motion for Compassionate Release is inconsistent with … |
| 21-6946 | Gregory Lozado v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | borden-decision circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law felony-menacing force-clause general-intent guidelines guidelines-interpretation sentencing | Colorado felony menacing is a general intent crime that does not require proof that the defendant intended to harm a specific person. To qualify as a … |
| 21-6758 | Cameron Taevon Jones v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-01-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-law federal-law guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-law | does the term "controlled substance offense" as defined in the Guidelines include offenses under state law that are not categorical matches under fede… |
| 21-6454 | Kyle Leroy Myers v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-12-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conversion criminal-sentencing fifth-circuit guidelines narcotics supervisory-powers | Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit")–which affirmed the District Court's decision to inc… |
| 21-5899 | Joseph Vasquez, Jr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-10-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender guidelines individualized-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness substantive-review | Whether a below guidelines sentence can still result in a substantively unreasonable sentence? |
| 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… |
| 21-5717 | Brandon Demon Blackmon v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-09-20 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | aggravated-assault criminal-law guidelines sentencing statutory-interpretation ussg-4b1.2 | Whether the Texas offense of aggravated assault by threat constitutes a "crime of violence" under USSG §4B1.2? |
| 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… |
| 20-8215 | Aaron Walton v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-06-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-law eighth-circuit guidelines inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals incorrectly found that an inchoate offense such as an attempt is included in the definition of a "controll… |
| 20-8021 | Jason Scott Pedro v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-05-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-sentencing guidelines harmless-error procedural-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review statutory-maximum | Can a significant procedural error be deemed harmless when the sentencing judge uses the statutory maximum as the baseline for imposition of sentence? |
| 20-7931 | Oscar Segura-Resendez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-05-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal constitutional-due-process due-process ex-post-facto fifth-circuit guidelines harmless-error post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-retroactivity | Is vidlation of the ex past Lacte clause of the 0.5, _ | Constitukion harm ess if the sogefic definition of 2x | DoS CackO Was done by the Coote |
| 20-7492 | Justice Towan Roundtree v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-03-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alternative-sentence appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court-discretion guidelines harmless-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether a Guidelines error is harmless when the district judge issues an alternative sentence by stating that she would impose the same sentence even … |
| 20-7138 | Patrick Begay v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-02-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553 aggravated-assault criminal-procedure federal-sentencing guidelines judicial-discretion native-american native-american-defendants sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission | In carrying out the mandate of 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) to impose a sentence that is "sufficient but not greater than necessary on a defendant," may a dist… |
| 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… |
| 20-5983 | Omar Sierre Folk v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-10-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-guidelines career-offender criminal-procedure guidelines habeas-corpus pre-beckles section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines statute-of-limitations third-circuit | 1. Whether the Third Circuit's erred in not addressing Erroneous Career Offender Designation under the 5, 2016. |
| 20-5948 | Christopher Michael Sevier v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-assault borden-precedent crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-sentencing guidelines remand sentencing sentencing-guidelines supreme-court texas-law violent-crime | Whether the Texas offense of aggravated assault by threat constitutes a "crime of violence" under USSG §4B1.2? Subsidiary question: whether the decis… |
| 20-5857 | Alimamy Barrie v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-USC-3582 criminal-procedure discretion federal-sentencing guidelines judicial-discretion retroactivity sentencing sentencing-amendment statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 20-5507 | Laci Landers v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-08-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure discretionary-review drug-offense guidelines judicial-review reasonableness reasonableness-standard revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines totality-of-circumstances | Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit") has so far departed from the accepted and usual cou… |
| 20-5090 | Ronald Lynn Thomas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-07-16 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law district-court-discretion due-process federal-sentencing guidelines harmless-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether Guideline error is necessarily harmless if the district court is presented with the Guideline range later vindicated on appeal and disclaims a… |
| 19-8649 | Angelo Johnson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-06-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure due-process guidelines guilty-plea plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines u-s-sentencing-commission | Should a defendant be denied a three-level reduction for acceptance of responsibility under U.S.S.G. § 3E1.1 when the defendant enters a timely guilty… |
| 19-8263 | Larry Wesley Brown v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-04-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-possession drug-trafficking felony-enhancement guidelines gun-possession sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit")-which held Mr. Brown was involved with drug traffic… |
| 19-7854 | Howronda Overstreet v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-03-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal criminal-procedure Did Ms. Overstreet's waiver of appeal unenforceabl Did the district court commit plain error when it due-process guidelines guidelines-calculation plain-error plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines waiver | QUESTION 1: DID MS. OVERSTREET PRESERVE HER RIGHT TO APPEAL THE DISTRICT COURT'S INAPPLICABLE GUIDELINES CALCULATION ? QUESTION 2: WAS MS. OVERSTR… |
| 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… |
| 19-7663 | Ryan Douglas LaSalle v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review categorical-analysis congressional-definition criminal-procedure federal-regulations guidelines guidelines-miscalculation plain-error regulatory-definition sentencing statutory-interpretation taylor-categorical-analysis taylor-v-united-states | Can a court of appeals successfully avoid undertaking plain error review of a Guidelines miscalculation by relying on a federal regulatory definition … |
| 19-7454 | Kenneth James Barfield v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-32 due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-circuit gall-v-united-states guidelines preponderance-of-evidence presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-watts | According to Gall v. United States, 552 U.S. 38 (2007), every federal criminal sentencing must begin with a correctly calculated Guidelines range. Sen… |
| 19-7404 | Joseph James Roe v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process enhancement-factors essential-factor guideline-interpretation guidelines judicial-discretion leadership-role lower-court-guidance sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-3b1.1(a) | Whether a district court may impose a sentence enhancement under USSG § 3B1.1(a) for leadership role based on a factor not mentioned in the Sentencing… |
| 19-7337 | Kinney Lee Palmer v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | aggravated-assault assault crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-sentencing guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation texas-law threat | 1. Whether the Texas offense of aggravated assault by threat is a "crime of violence" under USSG §4B 1.2? |
| 19-7045 | Michael Jones v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-12-20 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act career-offender categorical-approach controlled-substance-offense guidelines ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense | In Shular v. United States, 18-6662, this Court granted certiorari to resolve whether "the determination of a 'serious drug offense' under the Armed C… |
| 19-7042 | Christian Rosado v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-law guidelines judicial-interpretation judicial-opinions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines state-law state-law-offense statutory-interpretation use-of-force | The question presented is whether, as the court of appeals in this case held, a state-law offense qualifies as a "crime of violence" for purposes of t… |
| 19-6650 | Fidel Rios, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-11-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553a 8th-circuit criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court downward-variance guidelines judicial-discretion life-circumstances sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines u-s-code | Whether the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals and District Court for the Southern District of Iowa failed to adequately consider the sentencing factors set… |
| 19-6521 | Marcus T. Simmons v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-11-06 | Denied | IFP | career-offender criminal-justice criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 guidelines johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness | I. Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidel… |
| 19-6510 | Timothy L. Douglas v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-11-06 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2255f3 career-offender criminal-law criminal-sentencing-guidelines-4b1.1-4b1.2 due-process guidelines johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness | I. Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidel… |
| 19-6431 | Jose Armando Bazan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-10-29 | GVR | Relisted (4)IFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure fact-question guidelines plain-error role-adjustment sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Petitioner, JOSE ARMANDO BAZAN, was charged with and pleaded guilty to a single count of possession with intent to distribute cocaine. The District Co… |
| 19-6113 | Jose Armando Bazan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-10-01 | GVR | Relisted (4)IFP | appellate-procedure appellate-review cocaine-conspiracy criminal-appeal criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing downward-adjustment fact-question guidelines plain-error plain-error-review role-adjustment sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review | Petitioner, JOSE ARMANDO BAZAN, was charged with and pleaded guilty to conspiring to possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine. T… |
| 19-5946 | Anthony Carl Spence v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-09-17 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process extraterritorial-application extraterritorial-jurisdiction extraterritoriality federal-sentencing foreign-conduct guidelines offense-level sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether, absent a clear indication of extraterritoriality, a federal sentencing court is permitted to enhance a defendant's offense level under the se… |
| 19-5788 | James Nunley, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-sentencing guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation texas-criminal-law ussg-4b1.2 violent-crime | Whether the Texas offense of aggravated robbery constitutes a "crime of violence" under USSG §4B1.2? |
| 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… |
| 19-5262 | Eulos Ceasar Knight v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-22 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-error criminal-record due-process guidelines johnson-v-united-states ninth-circuit residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-tucker welch-v-united-states | Where sentencing is imposed based on misinformation of constitutional magnitude regarding the import of the defendant's criminal record, did the Ninth… |
| 19-5202 | Doroteo Zambrano-Ruiz v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-authority circuit-split federal-sentencing guidelines judicial-review molina-martinez molina-martinez-v-united-states plain-error-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Should the Court address the division of circuit authority over the Court's application of plain-error review in Molina-Martinez v. United States when… |
| 19-5189 | Michael Tyler v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-15 | Denied | IFP | appeal civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process exculpatory-evidence guidelines liberty post-conviction-relief procedural-barriers sentencing standing statutory-interpretation takings | ISSUe ONE whether the u.s. supreme cart should great certiorcc to cesdve the Circuit Canflict, whether schlup gateway lnquir require neusly Presented … |
| 19-5026 | Melvin Lewis Andrews v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-court crime-of-violence criminal-law guidelines johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervisory-powers | 1. Should this Court exercise its supervisory powers where a circuit court of appeals continues to allow trial courts to apply "crime of violence" ana… |
| 18-9803 | Salvador Galvan v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553a appeal criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process guidelines procedural-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg-2b1.1 victim victim-definition victim-impact | Whether, in a case involving embezzlement from a municipality, it is procedural error for a district court to consider every resident of the city a vi… |
| 18-9790 | Alexander Monzoni v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-sentencing guideline-calculation guidelines judicial-review molina-martinez plain-error plain-error-review prejudice prejudice-prong sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Should the Court address the division of circuit authority over application of the prejudice prong of plain-error review for Guideline error as set ou… |
| 18-9658 | Eric Daniel Doyle v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing grouping guidelines judicial-discretion legal-calculation procedural-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum total-punishment | Whether due process requires the correct calculation of Doyle's Guidelines sentencing range. |
| 18-1476 | Randy Lee Carney v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-05-28 | Denied | Response Waived | alternative-sentence alternative-sentencing appellate-review career-offender circuit-split collateral-consequences criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion guidelines harmless-error judicial-discretion judicial-error legal-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-error united-states-v-vonn | When sentencing defendants, some district courts announce that they would impose the same length of imprisonment even if their conclusions of law and … |
| 18-8855 | Eric A. Hicks v. United States | District of Columbia | 2019-04-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review constitutional-error criminal-procedure guidelines molina-martinez molina-martinez-standard molina-martinez-v-united-states prejudice prejudice-standard procedural-default sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether the court of appeals' decision conflicts with this Court's decision in Molina-Martinez v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 1338 (2016), in concluding… |
| 18-8558 | Jorge Edwin Rivera v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guidelines judicial-discretion plain-error plain-error-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights supervised-release | When a district court imposes a term of supervised release double that of the Guidelines range without first calculating the range or providing an exp… |
| 18-8314 | Jose Nino-Carreon v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-03-06 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion guidelines plain-error sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights | Whether a court of appeals that finds a plain Guideline error should ordinarily find an effect on the defendant's substantial rights if the district c… |
| 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,… |
| 18-7872 | Steven Torres v. Randee Rewerts, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-02-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights guidelines habeas-corpus judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit upward-departure | I. DID THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN AND THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERRONEOUSLY … |
| 18-7585 | Lemuel Gay v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-01-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-court appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court guideline-enhancement guidelines judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing-court sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review | Can the sentencing court's statement —that it would impose the same sentence irrespective of any error in its application of a guideline enhancement —… |
| 18-7240 | Charles Jermaine King, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-01-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender constitutional-rights criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process guidelines habeas-corpus recidivism recidivist sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | IN ROSALES MIRELES V US, JUSTICE ALITO ASKED DURING THE ORAL ARGUMENTS... "SUPPOSE THERE WAS A QUESTION ABOUT WHETHER A DEFENDANT WAS PROPERLY TREATED… |
| 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 (… |
| 18-5538 | Shawn J. Gieswein v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-08-09 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing guidelines molina-martinez-v-united-states peugh-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-errors sentencing-guidelines tenth-circuit volina-martinez-v-united-states | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit erroneously speculated in conflict with the principles enunciated by this Court in Mo… |
| 18-5373 | Otis Sykes v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2018-07-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process guidelines guidelines-range harmless-error judicial-error molina-martinez-v-us rosales-mireles-v-us sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights | DEFENDANT SEEKS THIS SUPREME COURT'S REVIEW OF HIS ABOVE GUIDELINES SENTENCE IMPOSED WITHIN AN INCORRECT GUIDELINES RANGE UTILIZING "ADDITIONAL EVIDEN… |