loss-calculation

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6464 Djonibek Rahmankulov v. United States Second Circuit 2025-12-31 Pending IFP bank-fraud co-conspirator-liability constructive-amendment criminal-procedure loss-calculation sentencing-guidelines 1. A writ of certiorari is requested to determine whether the district court's loss calculation which included intended losses under §2B1.1 Applicatio…
24A764 Rocco Americo Malanga v. United States Third Circuit 2025-02-06 Presumed Complete agency-rules constitutional-issue due-process loss-calculation pro-se sentencing-guidelines Question not identified.
23-7823 Jyoti Agrawal v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-loss base-offense-level criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing fraud fraud-loss-calculation government-grant intended-loss loss-calculation sentencing-guidelines U.S.S.G. § 2B1.1 provides that for cases involving fraud there is an increase in base offense level commiserate with the loss amount. The commentary t…
23-7205 Luke Joselin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-deference circuit-split fraud fraud-loss intended-loss kisor-v-wilkie loss-calculation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the Commentary to the Fraud Loss Table U.S.S.G. §2B1.1(b), Note 3(A) Defining Loss as Including "Intended Loss," Should Be Given Deference Aft…
23-6757 Bryan Alan Kennert v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-02-15 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP actual-loss deference economic-offenses guideline-interpretation intended-loss judicial-deference loss-calculation sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation This case involves the proper application of this Court's decision in Kisor v. Wilkie, 1389 S. Ct. 2400 (2019), in interpreting the United States Sent…
23-736 Bernard Gadson v. United States First Circuit 2024-01-08 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-deference criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-review loss-calculation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Does deference to the Sentencing Commission's commentary to USSG § 2B1.1, cmt. n.3(A), expanding the meaning of "loss" to include "intended loss," vio…
23-6347 Trayone Lefferio Bell v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-loss administrative-deference circuit-split federal-sentencing-guidelines fraud-guidelines intended-loss kisor-v-wilke loss-calculation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Does the intended loss commentary to the fraud guidelines § 2B1.1(b)(1) violate this court's decision Kisor v. Wilke, 139 S.Ct. 2400 (2019).
23A391 Bernard Gadson v. United States First Circuit 2023-10-31 Presumed Complete administrative-law circuit-split kisor-deference loss-calculation plain-error sentencing-guidelines Question not identified.
22-7418 Sammy Redi Araya v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-fraud government-failure judicial-discretion loss-amount loss-calculation plea-bargaining sentencing-courts sentencing-guidelines victim-losses I. Whether a sentencing court is required to verify actual or intended victim losses when applying a U.S. Sentencing Guidelines ("U.S.S.G. ") §2B1.1 S…
22-7379 Igor Grushko v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement loss-calculation probable-cause reasonableness reasonableness-standard search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing-guidelines 1. WHETHER THE POLICE ENTERING A RESIDENCE TO EXECUTE A SEARCH WARRANT MUST POSSESS PROBABLE CAUSE THAT THE PERSON THEY ARE SEEKING IS INSIDE THE RESI…
22-6627 Kenneth Mobley v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process jurisdiction loss-calculation restitution restitution-order sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness Was Mr. Mobley's sentence procedurally and substantively unreasonable as it was calculated on an excessive amount of loss unjustified by the facts of …
21-7697 Michael Mirando, aka Michael John Mirando v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court loss-calculation sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review What standard of review applies to an appeal challenging a district court's methodology for calculating the loss amount under Section 2B1.1 of the Uni…
21-6710 Prince Charles Nana Yaw Owusu Boateng v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy count-of-conviction court-of-appeals criminal-restitution loss-calculation mandatory-victims-restitution-act pattern-of-criminal-activity restitution scheme sentencing Under the Mandatory Victim s Restitution Act, when an offense does not involve as an element a scheme, conspiracy, or pattern of criminal activity, …
21-6618 Jamie Matsuba and Takaharo Thomas Matsuba v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 27-year-old-opinion due-process judicial-interpretation legal-precedent loss-calculation mortgage-fraud rents-gained sentencing-guidelines Whether a loss calculation determined using "rents gained" in a mortgage fraud case violates due process when it is based on a single 27-year-old opin…
21-5272 Gary Todd Smith v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-sentencing fraud fraudulent-investment-scheme investment-scheme loss-amount loss-calculation loss-to-losing-victims sentencing-guidelines uniformity 1. When determining the United States Sentencing Guidelines loss amount attributable to a defendant in a case involving a fraudulent investment scheme…
20-6255 John Dubor v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-review loss-calculation medicare-fraud restitution restitution-award sentencing-guidelines Did the Fifth Circuit's cursory review of the district court's record lead to an illegal, unreasonable sentence. Because the application of the senten…
20-214 Akbar Ghaneh Fard v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-25 Denied Response Waived bidding-practices contract-fraud cost-estimates cost-estimation fraud government-procurement loss-calculation procurement-programs restitution set-aside-program 1. In competitive government procurement programs, does a government contractor "defraud" the Government by practicing conservatism in the bidding pro…
19-8876 Solomon Jalloh v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi apprendi-rule common-law common-law-tradition criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing jury-findings loss-calculation restitution sentencing Whether under Apprendi, the maximum restitution that can be imposed without additional jury findings as to any amount of loss is zero, consistent with…
19-1407 Mercy O. Ainabe v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-06-24 Denied Response Waived corporate-entities health-care-claims health-care-fraud loss-calculation medicare medicare-fraud relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines victim-definition (1) Whether the Medicare beneficiaries whose health care treatments form the basis of fraudulent Medicare claims fit the definition of "victims" for p…
19-499 Henry Posada v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-10-18 Denied Response Waived appeals-court-error appellate-review clear-error criminal-procedure district-court-error evidence government-evidence government-surveillance healthcare-billing loss-amount loss-calculation medical-fraud patient-records sentencing standard-of-review Whether the court of appeals erred in determining that the district court did not clearly err in accepting the government's assertion that Mr. Posada …
19-5757 Fulvio Flete-Garcia v. United States First Circuit 2019-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-identity-theft conspiracy conversion-of-government-property evidentiary-hearing government-as-victim government-property identity-theft loss-calculation sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-enhancement tax-fraud tax-fraud-conspiracy victim-enhancement 1. Whether, in determining the sentence for a tax-fraud conspiracy where the defendant is charged with conversion of government property and aggravate…
18A1302 Mahmoud Aldissi, et ux. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-13 Presumed Complete circuit-split criminal-law government-funding loss-calculation right-to-control wire-fraud Question not identified.
18-8996 Zack Zafer Dyab v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP amount-of-loss appellate-review court-discretion criminal-sentencing illegal-sentence judicial-discretion legal-error loss-calculation plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-limitation statutory-limitations 1 - Does the miscalculation of the amount of loss as applied to the sentencing guidelines represent an illegal sentence, and plain error that the Cour…
18-6995 Ashley Owens v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP co-defendant co-defendant-disparity criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection loss-calculation plea-agreement sentencing 1. Did the Lower Courts violate the Due Process Clause when they sentenced Owens based on an unproven and inflated loss? 2. Did the Lower Courts viol…
18-6159 Charlise Williams v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence loss-calculation sentencing sixth-amendment victim-count Was the Petitioners Sixth Amendment right, under the Confrontation Clause violated? Was the Petitioners potentially violated Sixth Amendment Right, u…
18-5804 Abdoulaye Diallo v. United States Third Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence fraud indictment-delay insufficient-evidence loss-calculation motion-for-acquittal prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt sentencing snap-fraud statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence I.- Whether the District Court failed where did not granted his motion for acquittal because the Government failed to produce sufficient evidence to s…
18-5786 Donell A. Thomas v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 2255-motion certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel loss-calculation rule-59(e)-motion rule-59e section-2255-motion sentencing sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-rights strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Did the Petitioner in his 2255 Motion and Rule 59(e) motion prove his claim that the the Petitioner's trial and appellate counsel's failure to object …
18-5353 Juanita L. Berry v. United States Third Circuit 2018-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-court due-process income-classification income-tax irs-regulations loans loss-calculation promissory-notes property-rights tax tax-evasion tax-law wire-fraud 1. Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's legal holding that promissory notes between Berry and a vendor were income and…