guidelines-range

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
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…
23-6994 Donald M. Reynolds v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review direct-appeal federal-prisoner guidelines-range resentencing retroactive-amendment sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-modification While a federal prisoner's direct appeal is pending for sentencing issues, and retroactive Amendment 821 is enacted which now lowers the appellant's g…
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…
22-7308 Jose Alfredo Solis v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-appeals guidelines-range harmless-error sentencing-guidelines standard-of-proof The U.S. Sentencing Guidelines "are not only the starting point for most federal sentencing proceedings but also the lodestar." Molina-Martinez v. Uni…
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…
19-8065 Reinaldo Vasquez-Rivera v. United States First Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review district-court-discretion guidelines-range procedural-reasonableness sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness supervised-release Question not identified.
19-5856 Amando Villarreal Heredia v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 18-usc-3582c2 drug-quantity fed-r-crim-p-11 federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guidelines-range modification-proceeding plea-agreement sentence-recalculation sentencing-guidelines sentencing-modification QUESTION #1: In a " Modification Proceeding pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2)," as to a retroactively applicable amendment to the U.S. Sentencing Gu…
18-9026 Arrez Meliton-Salto v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court guidelines-range molina-martinez-v-united-states plain-error prejudice record-silence 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…
18-919 Robert R. Davies v. United States Third Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response Waived criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion guidelines-range interest-of-justice presumption-of-reasonableness public-perception sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-intent sentencing-procedures sentencing-reliability unjust-procedures A criminal sentence is a package of sanctions that the district court utilizes to effectuate its sentencing intent, but a district court's original se…
18-6729 Jesus Santiago v. United States Second Circuit 2018-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure district-court due-process guidelines-calculation guidelines-range judicial-discretion sentencing-determination sentencing-guidelines upward-variance Whether a circuit court can competently conclude that the Sentencing Guidelines were immaterial to a district court's sentencing determination where t…
18-6561 In Re Jesus Denova Lopez 2018-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-court-discretion guidelines-range section-3553(a) section-3553a sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness WHETHER THE PANEL OF THE FIFTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ABUSED ITS DISCRETION BY THE RUBBERSTAMP OF THE ERRONEOUS AND IMPERMISSIBLE CONCLUSION OF ERST…
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…