mitigation-arguments
8 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-5404 | Darren Smith v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-08-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure mitigation-arguments official-victim-enhancement procedural-error sentencing-guidelines | Whether a district court commits procedural error under 18 U.S.C. § 3553, Rita v. United States, 551 U.S. 338 (2007), and Gall v. United States, 552 U… |
| 23-7565 | Juan Aguiera-Guzman v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-05-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-reasoning mitigation-arguments plain-error sentencing sentencing-discretion silent-record | Does the holding in Molina -Martinez apply to non -Guidelines calculation sentencing errors, such as the clear Rule 32 violation here? If not, how doe… |
| 22-7517 | Phillip Daniel Love v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-05-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split district-court-explanation holguin-hernandez-v-united-states mitigating-arguments mitigation-arguments preservation-of-error rita-v-united-states sentencing-arguments sentencing-procedure standard-of-review | When a district court rejects a party's nonfrivolous sentencing argument, the court is required to explain why. Rita v. United States, 551 U.S. 338, 3… |
| 20-6702 | Tomas Moreno-Turrubiates v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553 appellate-review mitigation-arguments plain-error-review procedural-reasonableness procedural-unreasonableness sentence-explanation sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights | 1. Whether, when a defendant presents nonfrivolous mitigation arguments in favor of a lower sentence, a district court must address those arguments as… |
| 20-6237 | Jamar Parker v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-11-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-history district-court mitigating-factors mitigation-arguments procedural-reasonableness sentencing substantive-reasonableness | Where the district court failed to consider or address Petitioner's mitigating arguments and focused exclusively on his criminal history, whether the … |
| 20-5825 | Larry Lamar Nance v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-09-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review central-thesis circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion mitigation mitigation-arguments sentencing sentencing-review | Whether it is sufficient for a sentencing court to address the "central thesis" of a defendant's arguments in mitigation or whether, as a majority of … |
| 18-7588 | Frank Odom, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-01-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver district-court due-process fourth-circuit mitigation mitigation-arguments plea-agreement remand sentencing | Does a plea agreement with an appeal waiver waive the right to obtain a remand requiring the district court to actually consider the defendant's mitig… |
| 18-7140 | Tommy Ray Hull, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-12-21 | Denied | IFP | chavez-meza-precedent chavez-meza-v-united-states circuit-split district-court district-court-discretion due-process fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-standard mitigation mitigation-arguments sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review | I. This Court should grant certiorari to resolve the apparent conflict between the Fifth Circuit and this Court's decision in Chavez-Meza v. United St… |