leadership-role
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-7205 | Oscar Pliego-Pineda v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-05-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure evidence-standard federal-sentencing-guidelines leadership-role sentencing-enhancement | Whether a Leadership Sentencing Enhancement Is Erroneous Without Evidence That a Defendant Supervised any Specific Individual. |
| 24-6972 | Michael John Stitts v. Brian Eller, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2025-04-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure drug-quantity guidelines-interpretation indictment leadership-role sentencing-enhancement | WHEN FEDERAL DEFENDANTS ARE ATTRIBUTED A DRUG QUANTITY FAILS TO TESTIFY - CONDUCTED AND THERES NO REQUIRE REVERSAL BASED ON EXTRAPOLATION AND THE CH… |
| 23-1078 | Gregory Jamal Williams v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-04-03 | Denied | Response Waived | direct-appeal fifth-circuit gun-enhancement importation-guideline leadership-role methamphetamine-distinction sentencing-guidelines united-states-district-court united-states-sentencing-guidelines | Whether the lower court should have remanded for the recalculation of sentencing in light of changes in the United States Supreme Court and the Fifth … |
| 22-6658 | Wade Bonk v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-01-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal circuit-court-ruling conviction criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion leadership-role retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Did the District Court err by refusing to apply the Seventh Circuit's ruling in U.S. v. Carnell retroactively since Petitioner's conviction was not fi… |
| 21-6208 | Daliang Guo v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-11-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | control-over-others criminal-procedure criminal-scheme criminal-sentencing leader-enhancement leadership-role ninth-circuit participant-control role-model sentencing-guidelines | Whether a defendant who took part in a criminal scheme with multiple participants is properly subject to the leader/ organizer enhancement at USSG § 3… |
| 20-5614 | Derrick Anthony Felton v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-09-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-activity defendant-status due-process judicial-determination leadership-role legal-error plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-enhancement trial-court vagueness | Did the Trial Court error in finding that Mr. Felton was an organizer, leader, manager, or supervisor of the criminal activity? |
| 20-5108 | Salvador Ojeda-Amarillas v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-07-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure firearms-enhancement leadership-role necessity necessity-requirement sentencing-enhancement sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines waiver wiretap wiretap-application | 1. Whether the Court of Appeals erred in finding the July 2006 wiretap application met the necessity requirements and whether it erred in holding Mr. … |
| 19-7404 | Joseph James Roe v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process enhancement-factors essential-factor guideline-interpretation guidelines judicial-discretion leadership-role lower-court-guidance sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-3b1.1(a) | Whether a district court may impose a sentence enhancement under USSG § 3B1.1(a) for leadership role based on a factor not mentioned in the Sentencing… |
| 19-6332 | Walter Glenn v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment consent-to-search criminal-procedure fourth-amendment leadership-role obstruction-of-justice rental-vehicle search-and-seizure sentencing-guidelines standing standing-civil-procedure standing-doctrine traffic-stop | 1. In September 2014, did a relief driver of a rental vehicle, driving with permission of the lessee, although contractually unauthorized, have standi… |