mitigating-role
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 21-7852 | Fernando Salazar-Figueroa v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-05-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administration-of-justice appellate-review criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law fifth-circuit mitigating-role sentencing-guidelines | I. Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law when it conducted a cursory review of the facts related to a warranted mitigating role adjustment un… |
| 21-6762 | Karina Lizett Juarez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-01-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administration-of-justice criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-criminal-law federal-law fifth-circuit mitigating-role sentencing-guidelines | I. Whether the Fifth Circuit's cursory review of the facts related to a warranted mitigating adjustment under U.S.S.G. § 3B1.2 violated federal law in… |
| 21-5418 | Sergio Bucio v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion mitigating-role money-laundering role-adjustment sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg-3b1.2 | I. Whether the district court erred in calculating the amount of laundered funds attributable to Mr. Bucio. II. Whether the district court erred by f… |
| 20-7206 | Pedro Gonzalez-Mendoza v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2015-amendment criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion extraneous-factors mitigating-role sentencing-adjustment sentencing-guidelines u-s-sentencing-commission unrelated-cases | DID THE DISTRICT COURT ERR BY FINDING THAT MR. GONZALEZ-MENDOZA WAS NOT ELIGIBLE FOR A MITIGATING ROLE ADJUSTMENT PURSUANT TO U.S.S.G. §3B1.2? DID TH… |
| 20-7032 | Salvador Delrio v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | courier courier-status criminal-procedure due-process mitigating-role sentencing sentencing-guidelines speculative-inference speculative-inferences u.s.s.g.-3b1.2 | 1. What weight should a court give to a defendant's essential role as a mere courier when determining a mitigating-role adjustment? 2. Does a distric… |
| 20-6590 | Jimmy Pike v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review clear-error conspiracy criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy methamphetamine mitigating-role sentencing-guidelines | A district court's guidelines calculatio ns are reviewed for clear error. Did the court of appeals err in holding that the district court's guidelines… |
| 20-5930 | Diego Palacios-Villalon v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure culpability drug-trafficking judicial-discretion mitigating-role sentencing-guidelines | "does a defendant have the sole obligation in the establishment of these elements or does the trial judge have a duty to inquire into them". |
| 20-5458 | Fidel Alain Martin-Sosa v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-08-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review clear-error criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-conspiracy methamphetamine mitigating-role role-adjustment sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review | A district court's guidelines calculations are reviewed for clear error. Did the court of appeals err in holding that the district court's guidelines … |
| 19-7561 | Ramiro D. Ramirez, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-02-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | application-note-3(c) application-note-3c court-of-appeals criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing criminal-sentencing district-court federal-sentencing-guidelines mitigating-role mitigating-role-adjustment paid-tasks proprietary-interest sentencing-guidelines supervisory-authority united-states-sentencing-guidelines ussg-3b1.2 | Whether the Court of Appeals inappropriately affirmed the district court's denial of a mitigating role adjustment which contravened the factors and th… |
| 19-5718 | Alexander Lee Salazar v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acceptance-of-responsibility appeal criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion mitigating-factors mitigating-role offense-level role-adjustment sentencing-guidelines | L Did the district court err when it declined to grant Mr. Salazar a mitigating role adjustment under the Guidelines? I. Did the district court err w… |
| 18-7645 | Alhan Sanchez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-01-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-guidelines due-process mcmillan-v-pennsylvania meacham-v-fano minor-role-adjustment mitigating-role preponderance-of-evidence sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-watts vulnerable-victim | The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (sometimes referred to as "the Fifth Circuit" or "the Appellate Court") upheld on appeal a se… |
| 18-6248 | Antonio Mercedes-Rijo v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-10-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | congressional-power criminal-procedure define-and-punish-clause drug-trafficking due-process federal-jurisdiction high-seas mitigating-role sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-3b1.2 statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission | Whether the Petitioner's Mitigating Role Should of Been Adjusted In Accordance With The United States Sentencing Guidelines § 3B1.2 Whether Congress … |
| 18-6066 | Melvin Noel Vasquez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-09-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure de-novo-review downward-adjustment due-process federal-sentencing fifth-circuit minimal-role mitigating-role sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-3b1.2 standard-of-review | I Whether the Fifth Circuits cursory, review rather than the proper de novo review resulted in a misapplication of the provision of U.S.S.G. s 3Bl.2 d… |
| 18-5097 | Antonio Torres v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-activity defendant-role mitigating-role paid-tasks proprietary-interest rebuttable-presumption sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction | 1. Whether U.S.S.G. § 3B1.2 now contains a rebuttable presumption that a mitigating role reduction should be granted upon a showing by the defendant t… |