| 25-859 |
Chelesy Eastep, as Surviving Spouse and Next of Kin of Landon Dwayne Eastep v. Steven Carrick, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-01-20 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
deadly-force excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor qualified-immunity reasonableness-standard |
1. Whether or how police officers' own creation of, or contribution to, a dangerous situation prior to the use of deadly force factors into the Fourth… |
| 25-738 |
Nick Kosmalski v. Sherrell King |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-12-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
excessive-force fourth-amendment handcuffing qualified-immunity reasonableness-standard traffic-stop |
Whether the Sixth Circuit's three-factor tight handcuffing test, a brightline rule as stated and as applied in this case to deny qualified immunity, f… |
| 25-5896 |
Shawn Travis Paschal v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure imprisonment reasonableness-standard sentencing-review supervised-release |
Whether sentences of imprisonment following the revocation of supervised release should be reviewed for reasonableness or plain unreasonableness? |
| 25-267 |
Milton Green v. Christopher Tanner, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-09-09 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
constitutional-rights excessive-force law-enforcement qualified-immunity reasonableness-standard summary-judgment |
1. In a case alleging that an officer used excessive force based on a mistake of fact, is the reasonableness of the officer's mistake a legal question… |
| 23-7508 |
Matias Zarate v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process guidelines reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines seventh-circuit supervised-release |
Whether a sentence within the guidelines range is unreasonable when the defendant has already served more time on supervised release than originally s… |
| 23-6712 |
Abner Renato Natareno-Calderon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-presumption reasonableness-standard rita-precedent rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the Court should clarify how a defendant who challenges
the substantive reasonableness of a within-Guidelines sentence may
rebut an appellate … |
| 23-6406 |
Jamal Eberhardt v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-01-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-standard criminal-procedure due-process excessive-sentence judicial-discretion reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review third-circuit |
1. Did the Third Circuit error by not finding Mr. Eberhardt's sentence was harsh and excessive. |
| 23-5432 |
Kyle Vaughn v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-presumption presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-standard rita-precedent rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the Court should clarify how a defendant who challenges
the substantive reasonableness of a within-Guidelines sentence may
rebut an appellate … |
| 22-7833 |
Jeremy Randall Ezell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-presumption reasonableness-standard rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the Court should clarify how a defendant who challenges
the substantive reasonableness of a within-Guidelines sentence may
rebut an appellate … |
| 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… |
| 22-768 |
Angie Waller, et al. v. Richard Hoeppner, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights-act fourth-amendment graham-v-connor municipal-liability reasonableness reasonableness-standard search-and-seizure tennessee-v-garner totality-of-circumstances totality-of-the-circumstances |
1. Does the Fifth Circuit's "narrowed" test of
reasonableness of a search or seizure under the Fourth
Amendment, which deems as irrelevant any of th… |
| 22-6628 |
Johnell Lewis Britton, Sr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure fact-specific-reasons federal-sentencing judicial-discretion non-guidelines-sentences procedural-error reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether district courts are required to articulate fact-specific reasons for imposing non-guidelines sentences? |
| 22-5744 |
Warne Keahi Young v. Hawaii Island Humane Society, et al. |
Hawaii |
2022-10-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
animal-seizure collateral-estoppel fourth-amendment hawaii-state-court intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress law-enforcement negligence reasonableness reasonableness-standard search-and-seizure |
Is the standard of reasonableness under the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution the same as the standard of reasonableness under neglig… |
| 22-5232 |
Jesus Javier Cruz-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-presumption reasonableness-standard rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the Court should clarify how a defendant who challenges the substantive reasonableness of a within-Guidelines sentence may rebut an appellate … |
| 21-8197 |
Michael James Bosman v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-06-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alternatives criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement-conduct police-conduct precedent probable-cause reasonableness reasonableness-standard search-and-seizure seizure |
Did the Tenth Circuit misapply this Court's precedent, and wrongly reject Mr. Bosman's Fourth Amendment claim, when it dismissed the availability of a… |
| 21-6235 |
Brandon Marquis Jennings v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process eighth-amendment life-sentence miller-v-alabama presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
WHETHER THE APPELLATE REVIEW FOR REASONABLENESS OF A LIFE SENTENCE LACKS SUFFICIENT SCRUTINY. THE CIRCUIT COURT'S APPLICATION OF PRESUMED REASONABLENE… |
| 21-5634 |
Michael D. Forbes v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-09-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-resentencing criminal-sentencing first-step-act guideline-range reasonableness-standard section-404 sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review |
Appellate court s review criminal sentence s for reasonableness . And major variances or departures from the advisory guideline range must be supporte… |
| 20-7655 |
Lisa Bershan v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure downward-departure judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines variances |
Should this Court should grant certiorari in order to resolve the following conflict among the circuits: Is a sentencing judge required specifically t… |
| 20-7168 |
Loren Joel McReynolds v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review base-offense-level criminal-procedure firearms-offense reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review ussg-2k2.1 |
I. Whether The Court's Calculation Of McReynolds' Base Offense Level Was Erroneous?
II. Whether The Court Erred In Denying A Reduction In The Offense… |
| 20-6437 |
Tommy Pena v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-11-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review upward-variance |
Mr. Peña's 360-month sentence was an upward variance of 222 months, or 160%, from the high end of the total advisory guideline range of 123-138 months… |
| 20-6274 |
Fernando Juarez, aka Fernando Perez-Juarez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a appellate-review criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing judicial-discretion overarching-goal presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-standard rita-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the presumption of reasonableness for within-guidelines sentences approved in Rita v. United States, 551 U.S. 338 (2007) has proved incompatib… |
| 20-6213 |
J. Santos Mondragon-Benitez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-authority imprisonment-revocation plain-error reasonableness reasonableness-standard revocation sentencing-review standard-of-review supervised-release |
Whether sentences of imprisonment following the revocation of supervised release should be reviewed for reasonableness or plain unreasonableness? |
| 20-585 |
Greg Vasquez, et al. v. Maritza Amador, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Gilbert Flores and as Next Friend of Minor R. M. F., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights deadly-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-intervention police-use-of-force qualified-immunity reasonableness-standard suicide-by-cop use-of-force |
1. Viewing the facts from the officers' perspective at the time of the incident, did they act reasonably, under the Fourth Amendment, when an officer … |
| 20-6155 |
Jordan Sandoval v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split congress-intent judicial-discretion proportional-sentencing reasonableness-standard reckless-conduct sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act substantive-reasonableness |
(1) Currently, the circuits are split in defining the role of appellate courts in conducting a meaningful substantive reasonableness review of a Defen… |
| 20-5507 |
Laci Landers v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure discretionary-review drug-offense guidelines judicial-review reasonableness reasonableness-standard revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines totality-of-circumstances |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit") has so far departed from the accepted and usual cou… |
| 20-183 |
Billy D. Stair, III v. Charles Jackson |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-08-19 |
Denied |
|
excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor law-enforcement plumhoff-v-rickard qualified-immunity reasonableness-standard totality-of-the-circumstances use-of-force |
Did the Eighth Circuit depart from this Court's decisions in Graham v. Connor, 490 U.S. 386 (1989) and Plumhoff v. Rickard, 572 U.S. 765 (2014) in den… |
| 19-7998 |
Paul Anthony Montanez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
I. Did the district court impose a plainly unreasonable sentence upon Mr. Montanez? |
| 19-7950 |
Daejerron L. Valentine v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment ambiguity automobile-exception conjunctive consistency criminal-procedure Did the removal of 'or' create ambiguity? disjunctive fourth-amendment Is a defendant entitled to consistent jury instruc jury-instructions jury-trial legislative-history possession probable-cause reasonableness reasonableness-standard scope-of-search search search-and-seizure search-scope statutory-interpretation warrant-requirement warrantless-search |
1) Did the warrantless search of an automobile pursuant to the automobile exception become unreasonable when police officers expanded the search beyon… |
| 19-6082 |
Chase Matheny v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights fourth-amendment home-search liberty liberty-interest overbreadth overbroad probation probation-supervision reasonableness reasonableness-standard supervised-release supervision vagueness |
Whether this Court should grant review to consider whether a condition of supervision requiring the Petitioner to permit a probation officer to visit … |
| 19-6059 |
Serrah Arnold, aka Kristen v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights fourth-amendment home-search liberty-deprivation liberty-interest overbreadth probation probation-supervision reasonableness reasonableness-standard supervised-release vagueness |
Whether this Court should grant review to consider whether a condition of supervision requiring the Petitioner to permit a probation officer to visit … |
| 19-203 |
David Greenberg v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-08-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review circuit-court-review cooperation-agreement criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing reasonableness reasonableness-of-sentence reasonableness-standard second-circuit sentence-disparity sentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines unwarranted-disparity |
Did the Second Circuit err in affirming Petitioner David Greenberg's sentence without addressing (1) the sentencing court's failure to consider the pr… |
| 19-5269 |
Reginald Christopher Gilbert v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-review jurisdiction objection reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-review |
Whether a formal objection after pronouncement of sentence is necessary to invoke appellate reasonableness review of the length of a defendant's sente… |
| 19-5220 |
Hernardo Medina-Villegas v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-claims due-process prejudice reasonableness sixth-amendment constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-standard prejudice reasonableness-standard sixth-amendment standard-of-reasonableness |
This Case involves the Trial and Appellate Counsels Performance falling Below an objective Standard of Reasonableness, that prejudice the Petitioner.
… |
| 18-9164 |
Antonio Muro, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-06 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction objection procedural-requirement reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing |
Whether a formal objection after pronouncement of sentence is necessary to invoke appellate reasonableness review of the length of a defendant's sente… |
| 18-8834 |
José Amaya-Vasquez v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion prior-bad-acts reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-review |
1. Whether the Court erred by considering the prior bad acts in the determination of the appropriate sentence?
2. Whether the sentence imposed by the… |
| 18-7739 |
Gonzalo Holguin-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-04 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction objection procedural-requirement reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing |
Whether a formal objection after pronouncement of sentence is necessary to invoke appellate reasonableness review of the length of a defendant's sente… |
| 18-7156 |
Antonez Terril Johnson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arrest federal-circuit-split fourth-amendment investigative-detention investigatory-stop investigatory-stops pedestrian-stop probable-cause reasonableness-standard scope-and-duration terry-stop terry-v-ohio |
This Court has held, in several traffic stop cases, that investigatory stops based on probable cause can violate the Fourth Amendment in scope and dur… |
| 18-6600 |
Ringo Recto Labrador v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-sentencing empirical-basis fifth-circuit judicial-review methamphetamine-sentencing presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-standard 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… |
| 18-6271 |
Sonny Scott v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-standard booker-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure plain-error plain-error-review reasonableness-challenge reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness united-states-v-booker |
(1) When—if at all—must a defendant object to the reasonableness of a sentence to preserve that argument for appellate review?
(2) What is the proper… |
| 18-5970 |
Allen D. Gorion v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform |
Whether certiorari should be granted to set forth some guidelines in
determining when a sentence is unreasonable? |
| 18-323 |
Suzan Evans, Individually and as Wife and Next of Kin of Scott Evans, Deceased v. United States, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-09-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split constitutional-law excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor police-conduct reasonableness-standard tennessee-v-garner totality-of-circumstances use-of-force |
Whether the totality of the circumstances test for assessing the reasonableness of a use of force under this Court's decisions in Tennessee v. Garner,… |
| 18-5516 |
Isaiah Galbreath v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-sentencing empirical-basis fifth-circuit judicial-review methamphetamine methamphetamine-sentencing presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-standard 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… |