| 25-6068 |
Eliezer Rosario-Ramos v. United States |
First Circuit |
2025-11-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing first-offender judicial-discretion reasonableness-review sentencing-guidelines upward-variance |
A. Whether first offender Rosario's 23-year prison sentence, that resulted from a 104.4% upward variance, is unreasonable because it was grounded on t… |
| 24-7041 |
Javier A. Rodriguez v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-04-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion reasonableness-review sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines variance |
1. May the district court determine the extent of the appropriate variance without
first correctly calculating the initial Guidelines range?
2. May … |
| 24-6161 |
Leonard Hatten, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
co-defendant-comparison criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion reasonableness-review sentencing-disparity |
1. Was the sentence of the Defendant unreasonable because it resulted in unwarranted sentencing disparities among his co-defendants? |
| 23-7804 |
Juan Jesus Vargas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-procedure judicial-discretion open-court-statement reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-requirements statutory-interpretation |
1) Must district courts comply with the requirements of 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c) to state, in open court, the reasons for the sentence imposed?
2) Should … |
| 23-6841 |
Ronald D. Houston v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-02-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review booker-standard circuit-split crime-of-violence gall-v-united-states procedural-error reasonableness-review resisting-arrest sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-booker |
The United States Courts of Appeal disagree as to a district court's power to preclude appellate review for significant procedural error required by G… |
| 23-5130 |
Caleb Bryant Hickcox v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-procedure reasonableness reasonableness-review second-amendment sentencing sentencing-requirements statutory-interpretation |
1) Must district courts comply with the requirements of 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c) to state, in open court, the reasons for the sentence imposed?
2) Should … |
| 22-7725 |
James Earl Green, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court of appeals to reweigh the sentencing factors? |
| 22-6784 |
Jerry Don South v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split due-process open-court reasonableness-review sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1) Must District Courts actually comply with the requirements of 18
U.S.C. § 3553 (c) to state, in open court, the reasons for the sentence
imposed?
… |
| 22-6509 |
Roosevelt Mondesir v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-01-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
§2254-petition 28-usc-2254 federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation reasonableness-review state-court-decision state-court-decisions wilson-v-sellers |
1. Did the 11th U.S. Circuit Court err when it interpreted your holding in Wilson v. Sellers, 138 S.Ct. 1188 (2018) to mean that "in assessing the rea… |
| 22-5006 |
David Cadena v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum upward-variance |
1. Did the district court impose a substantively unreasonable sentence when it varied upward from the advisory sentencing range to the statutory maxim… |
| 21-7891 |
William Ramirez-Frechel v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-review sentencing |
Whether The Sentence Imposed is Unreasonable. |
| 21-7600 |
Christopher Hibshman v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-USC-3583 18-USC-3583(e) criminal-conduct criminal-sentencing reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-standards supervised-release |
1. For violation of supervised release is the imposition of a 24 month sentence consecutive to a 2 year Indiana prison term unreasonable and at odds w… |
| 20-6991 |
Edwin Jurado-Nazario v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process first-circuit judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-review sentencing |
Whether The Sentence Imposed is Unreasonable. |
| 20-6933 |
Seledonio Martinez v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-standard totality-of-the-circumstances |
Where the totality of the circumstances of this case do not support a top-of-the-Guidelines sentence, whether the 46-month sentence is reasonable. |
| 20-5903 |
Christopher Younger v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process federal-sentencing-law prison-sentence reasonableness-review sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the district court ordered an unreasonable 120-month prison sentence under the facts of this case, and considering the recommended Sentencing … |
| 20-5549 |
Javier Lopez-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review credibility-determination credibility-determinations fact-finding factual-issues federal-sentencing judicial-standard precedent reasonableness-review standard-of-review wrongful-incarceration |
Whether review for reasonableness in federal sentencing requires a separate, more deferential, standard of review for credibility determinations than … |
| 20-5408 |
Robert Richard Jodoin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process eighth-amendment federal-sentencing military-veteran non-violent-offense reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines veteran-status |
WHETHER A ONE HUNDRED THIRTY MONTH PRISON SENTENCE FOR A NON-VIOLENT, DRUG DEALING, FIFTY (50) YEAR OLD, MILITARY VETERAN IS UNREASONABLE. |
| 19-8868 |
Rodrecas Tims v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing judicial-discretion prison-sentence reasonableness-review sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-range sentencing-reasonableness |
Whether the district court ordered an unreasonable 108-month prison sentence under the facts of this case, and under the recommended Sentencing Guidel… |
| 19-5982 |
Alcadio Caballero De La Torre v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing data-analysis due-process judicial-discretion reasonableness-review sentencing-commission sentencing-data sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness statistical-analysis |
This Court should grant this petition to address when, if ever, Sentencing Commission statistical data may be used to evaluate the reasonableness of a… |
| 18-8239 |
Negus Thomas v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure crosby-remand district-court intervening-change-in-law jacobson-remand law-of-the-case law-of-the-case-doctrine manifest-injustice new-evidence reasonableness reasonableness-review resentencing sentencing |
On a Crosby remand, the district court decided not to resentence the defendants. On a Jacobson remand, the district court again decided not to resente… |
| 18-7863 |
Jeffrey Burris v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a abuse-of-discretion criminal-sentencing due-process firearms firearms-possession reasonableness reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation unregistered |
Whether a sixty-month sentence for the simple possession of unregistered firearms, without any evidence suggesting the defendant was doing anything il… |
| 18-7862 |
Vincent Beatty, aka Jamaal Beatty, aka Vincent Daward Beatty, aka Mozzi v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion advisory-guidelines criminal-history criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing felon-in-possession reasonableness reasonableness-review sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance sua-sponte upward-variance |
Whether a sua sponte upward variance sentence is reasonable where the advisory Guideline range accurately reflected the defendant's conduct and prior … |
| 18-7304 |
Juan Rodriguez-Mantos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-law federal-sentencing-guidelines fifth-circuit judicial-review reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness supervisory-power |
Whether the impositi on of an outside Guideli nes sentence is reasonabl e
when the district court more than triples the already enhanced Guideli nes
s… |
| 18-6335 |
George Jenkins v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment drug-offense due-process first-time-offender non-violent-crime proportionality reasonableness-review sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines |
WHETHER THE SENTENCE IMPOSED IS UNREASONABLE
A. Whether a One Hundred Forty-four (144) month prison sentence for a first time non-violent, drug deale… |
| 18-5913 |
Alfonso Escobedo Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure empirical-basis fifth-circuit judicial-review methamphetamine-sentencing presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-review second-circuit sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines |
Is a sentence imposed under the methamphetamine sentencing guideline–a guideline crafted without benefit of Sentencing Commission expertise or empiric… |