judicial-factfinding

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A871 Malik Allah-U-Akbar v. David Schroeder, Judge Ohio 2026-02-03 Denied double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus judicial-factfinding sixth-amendment suspension-clause Question not identified.
25-5743 Rico Lorodge Brown v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-doctrine charging-error criminal-sentencing harmless-error judicial-factfinding structural-error I. Does the type of error that occurred in this case —sentencing a criminal defendant for an uncharged and untried offense —qualify as structural erro…
24-6035 Jamel Muldrew v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP agency-rules circuit-split constitutional-amendments judicial-factfinding sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation 1. Whether this court's holding in Kisor v. Wilkie, 588 U.S. 558 (2019), supports the court of appeals' determination that the Sentencing Guidelines a…
24A387 Andrew Thomas Cowhy v. Michigan Michigan 2024-10-22 Presumed Complete alleyne-precedent criminal-sexual-conduct judicial-factfinding jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Question not identified.
23-5226 Cornelius Michael Turner v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure judicial-factfinding occasions-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment wooden-v-united-states I. Whether a defendant's Armed Career Criminal Act sentence may be affirmed when the lower court fails to properly apply this Court's occasions clause…
22-7660 Damon L. Buford v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-05-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act fifth-amendment judicial-factfinding occasions-clause plain-error predicate-offenses sixth-amendment I. Whether a defendant's Armed Career Criminal Act sentence may be affirmed when the lower court fails to properly apply this Court's occasions clause…
21-6573 Michael Roy Sharpe v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-guarantees criminal-law due-process judicial-factfinding jury-trial maximum-sentence sentencing sentencing-procedure supervised-release trial-by-jury When Congress created the novel system of supervised release for federal criminal defendants, it authorized district judges to act as factfinders and …
21-115 Ivan Rosario v. United States Second Circuit 2021-07-28 Denied Response Waived 6th-amendment criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment judicial-factfinding jury jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause and the Sixth Amendment's right to trial by jury protect criminal defendants from being sentenced bas…
18-9100 Corry Mency v. Florida Florida 2019-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-v-new-jersey blakely-v-washington blakey-v-washington constitutional-due-process criminal-procedure due-process judicial-factfinding jury-trial jury-trial-right sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum trial-judge Mr. Mency contended Florida Statutes (2004) section 775.084(3)(a)6 was unconstitutional under Apprendi v. New Jersey and Blakey v. Washington as appli…
18-8900 Juan Garcia Herrera v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-v-united-states almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process judicial-factfinding jury-trial mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement 1. The enhanced-penalty provisions of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(b) and 851 expressly require that the district court, not a jury, make factual findings which i…
18-5884 Matthew Gary Richardson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split generic-burglary intent-requirement judicial-factfinding mandatory-sentence mandatory-sentencing mathis mathis-peek mathis-v-united-states reasonable-doubt sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation taylor 1. Whether the "Mathis peek" used by the court below to guess if a fact is an element or a means of committing an offense violates the Sixth Amendment…