sentencing-challenge
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21-7676 | Robert Christopher Jones v. Illinois | Illinois | 2022-04-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-justice eighth-amendment juvenile-justice mandatory-sentencing miller-factors miller-v-alabama plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-challenge | (1) Whether a pre- Miller guilty plea bars a post- Miller sentencing challenge under the Eighth Amendment. (2) Whether the sentencing process mandat… |
| 21-5462 | James Michael Kerns v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-08-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-16 18-usc-924 constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence plea-bargaining plea-validity sentencing-challenge sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis | Question I. If Count 3 charging a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924 is without legal, constitutional foundation as it alleges a crime of violence in Count … |
| 20-6992 | Bobbie Lewis Mayes v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | booker criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process johnson johnson-precedent mandatory-guidelines pre-booker pre-booker-era sentencing-challenge sentencing-guidelines | Whether a defendant has a right under Johnson to challenge a sentence ordered pre-Booker, when applying the Sentencing Guidelines was mandatory. |
| 19-8080 | Julio Solorzano v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-03-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence-exception civil-rights collateral-attack criminal-procedure davis-ruling due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus sentencing sentencing-challenge waiver-doctrine | May a person who is actually innocent of a firearms offense under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) after United States v. Davis, 1389 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), seek habea… |
| 19-5603 | Jonathan Javier Aleman v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-08-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver certificate-of-appealability collateral-review constitutional-counsel criminal-case-defendant-rights criminal-defense evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement right-to-appeal sentencing sentencing-challenge subject-matter-jurisdiction | 1. This Court provides that a defense attorney must consult with case defendant concerning the defendant's right to appeal and the of waiving that rig… |
| 18-8673 | Jamael Stubbs v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-04-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 133 S.Ct. 2151 (2013) 6th-amendment alleyne-precedent alleyne-v-united-states constructive-amendment due-process ineffective-assistance sentencing sentencing-challenge sixth-amendment trial-counsel | Whether trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance by failing to preserve either a sentencing challenge or a constructive amendment claim under All… |
| 18-8198 | Brandon Lisi v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-02-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review appellate-waiver conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure curcio-hearing guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing sentencing-challenge | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit committed reversible error by denying Petitioner's timely filed Petition for Reheari… |
| 18-6385 | Jeffrey Bernard Beeman v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-18 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof collateral-review due-process elements-clause enumerated-crimes-clause johnson-rule residual-clause sentencing-challenge statutory-interpretation | In Johnson v. United States, this Court held that the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act is unconstitutional. In Welch v. United States,… |