judicial-explanation
9 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-6218 | Anthony McCarary v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-12-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules judicial-explanation preservation-of-error sentencing-reasonableness | To determine whether a sentencing issue is preserved, "The question is simply whether the claimed error was 'brought to the court's attention." Holgui… |
| 24-5857 | Dimas Deleon Rios v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-10-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review certificate-of-appealability judicial-explanation meaningful-review petitioner-rights procedural-due-process | Does an appellate court have an obligation to provide sufficient explanation for denying a certificate of appealability to enable a petitioner to seek… |
| 23-7474 | Bogdan Nicolescu v. Dave Bobby, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2024-05-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure appellate-review court-of-appeals due-process judicial-discretion judicial-explanation merits-panel pro-se-litigant procedural-fairness uncandid-briefing | Is a 3-judge merits panel of a U.S. court of appeals at liberty, perhaps over-reliant on the opposing party's counseled but uncandid briefing, to not … |
| 23A503 | Kathy Allen, et al. v. L3Harris Technologies, Inc. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-12-04 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review due-process erisa judicial-explanation life-insurance rule-60-motion | Question not identified. | |
| 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… |
| 23A484 | Kathy Allen v. Arthur Allen, et al. | North Carolina | 2023-11-29 | Presumed Complete | appeal-dismissal certiorari due-process judicial-explanation pro-se state-court | Question not identified. | |
| 22-7802 | James B. Norris, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-06-16 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process internet-access judicial-explanation pro-se-motion revocation-hearing sentencing sentencing-discretion supervised-release | Whether the Eighth Circuit erred – contrary to the holdings of the Second, Fourth, Seventh, Ninth, Eleventh, and D.C. Circuit Courts of Appeals, which… |
| 22-6659 | Armando Lopez-Rivera v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-01-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review appellate-standard concurrent-sentence gall-precedent gall-v-united-states individualized-assessment intellectual-disability judicial-explanation sentencing-courts sentencing-explanation sentencing-review | Whether a sentencing court must provide a reasonable explanation, on the record, as to why it is not considering a sentencing factor advanced by a def… |
| 18-8794 | Ricky Raymond Ball v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-04-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process judicial-explanation manifest-injustice plea-agreement plea-bargaining supervised-release | 1. Whether Mr. Ball can be held to his waiver under Fed. R. Crim. P. 11(b)(1)(N) when, rather than informing Mr. Ball of the extent to which he was wa… |