judicial-findings
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22-574 | Tiffany Lay, et vir v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-12-21 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review bench-trial bench-trials circuit-court-review civil-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure findings-of-fact judicial-findings obiter-dictum standard-of-review stare-decisis | 1. Whether Federal District Court judges in conducting complex bench trials, by issuing ostensible "findings" which fail to specially and specifically… |
| 21-5530 | Luis Gomez-Castro v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process judicial-findings obstruction-of-justice perjury plain-error-review sentencing-guidelines | I. Sentencing Guideline §3C1.1 provides a 2-level enhancement for obstruction of justice and applies if a defendant testifies untruthfully about a mat… |
| 20-7320 | Zbigniew Laskowski v. Washington State Department of Labor and Industries | Washington | 2021-03-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights de-novo-review due-process evidence judicial-findings prosecutorial-discretion standing statutory-interpretation | Whether in reviewing a claim, appellate court must 1) apply de novo review where a superior court trial judge failed to make specific findings on the … |
| 20-5253 | Douglas Farrar, Sr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-08-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process false-testimony findings judicial-findings obstruction-of-justice perjury presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether the generic adoption of a Presentence Report is sufficient to discharge the court's duties to make express and independent findings for an obs… |
| 19-8453 | John Christopher Dobbs v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-05-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure cross-reference district-court federal-rules firearm-possession judicial-findings presentence-report rule-32 sentencing-guidelines | When a defendant disputes that he has committed a Cross Reference crime, does Rule 32(i)(3)(B) require the district court to make specific findings ab… |
| 19-6558 | Antonio Lebaron Melton v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-11-07 | Denied | IFP | due-process federal-court-review federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-findings state-court state-court-deference strickland-v-washington trial-strategy wilson-v-sellers witness-investigation | 1. Whether Wilson v. Sellers requires faithful adherence to the last reasoned decision of a state court, or may federal courts bolster such a decision… |
| 19-5889 | Jonathan Torres-Arroyo v. New Jersey | New Jersey | 2019-09-10 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | alleyne-precedent alleyne-v-united-states criminal-procedure judicial-findings jury-trial mandatory-minimum ring-v-arizona sentencing sentencing-court state-v-kiriakakis | Did the New Jersey Courts make an invalid distinction from Alleyne v. United States, 570 U.S. 99 (2013), in holding that the defendant's right to a ju… |
| 18-5837 | David Lee Roberts v. Alabama | Alabama | 2018-08-30 | Denied | IFP | capital-sentencing criminal-procedure death-penalty federal-law hurst-v-florida judicial-findings jury-sentencing jury-verdict retroactivity ring-v-arizona | David Roberts was sentenced to death based solely on findings by a judge after his sentencing jury voted that he should live. In Hurst v. Florida, 136… |
| 18-5496 | Alfredo Perez, Jr. v. California | California | 2018-08-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-doctrine apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-fact-finding judicial-findings jury-trial resentencing sentencing sixth-amendment three-strikes-law | Does the federal constitution, as construed in Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 120 S.Ct. 2348, 147 L.Ed.2d 435 (2000), permit a court charged wi… |