| 25-6570 |
Orlanda Travon Sloan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-01-13 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-history individualized-sentencing mental-health-considerations methamphetamine-offense sentencing-guidelines youth-mitigation |
Whether the Sentencing Guidelines' static Criminal History Categories and excessive offense levels for methamphetamine actual/ice fail to propose a re… |
| 24-5248 |
Jason Wade Grant v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process individualized-sentencing mitigating-factors sentencing-discretion |
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| 21-7083 |
Michael Kenneth Rich v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-02-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
conspiracy criminal-sentencing due-process due-process-of-law future-tense-instruction individualized-responsibility individualized-sentencing panel-decision rico-conspiracy rico-enterprise |
1. Ifa RICO enterprise exists for legitimate associational as well as illegitimate purposes, does it violate due process and the obligation to individ… |
| 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? |
| 20-7988 |
Robert Allen Poyson v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2021-05-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors capital-sentencing causal-nexus constitutional-review death-penalty eighth-amendment individualized-sentencing mitigation-evidence non-statutory-mitigation |
1. Is the individualized capital sentencing requirement guaranteed by the
Eighth Amendment violated when a State—whether by statute or court-
imposed … |
| 20-7851 |
Luis Noel Cruz, aka Noel v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment contemporary-standards-of-decency criminal-procedure due-process individualized-sentencing juvenile-sentencing legislative-trends life-sentence mandatory-minimum miller-rule sentencing-discretion |
Should the protections of Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460, 132 S. Ct. 2455, 183 L. Ed. 2d 407 (2012), which prohibits mandatory life sentences and req… |
| 20-5887 |
Charles Kunta Lewis, Jr. v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2020-10-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
age-consideration brain-development constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment individualized-sentencing juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing mandatory-minimum sentencing |
I. The Constitution prohibits punishments that are cruel and unusual. In addition to the crime committed, the juvenile offender's age must also be tak… |
| 19-8667 |
Diamante Alfred v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process individualized-sentencing judicial-bias judicial-discretion plea-bargaining recusal sentencing supervised-release supervision-violation |
1. Does a district court fail to appropriately individualize a supervision-violation sentence where the sentence imposed is based on a "promise" made … |
| 19-5191 |
Kenneth Byron Davenport v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-determination criminal-procedure individualized-sentencing juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing mental-disability mental-health mental-health-and-mental-retardation-act mental-illness miller-v-alabama post-conviction-relief post-conviction-relief-act schizophrenia |
Does the legal "right" recognized in Miller v. Alabama, 132 S.Ct. 2455 (2012), include all substantive components necessary to its creation, including… |
| 18A1229 |
Sam Newman v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-05-29 |
Presumed Complete |
|
eighth-amendment individualized-sentencing juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama second-degree-murder |
Question not identified. |
| 18-5246 |
Warren Darrell Rivers v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-07-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-punishment-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment individualized-sentencing sentencing sentencing-determination |
WHETHER PROSECUTION EVIDENCE THAT A CAPITAL DEFENDANT HAS BEEN SENTENCED TO DEATH ONCE BEFORE IN THE SAME CASE IMPERMISSIBLY UNDERMINES THE SENTENCING… |