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… |