sentencing-considerations
7 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23-7364 | Jorge Galindo v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2024-05-02 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | capital-punishment death-penalty eddings-v-oklahoma ineffective-assistance lockett-v-ohio mitigation sentencing-considerations supreme-court-precedent tennard-v-dretke youth youth-mitigation | 1. May a state categorically exclude youth as a mitigating factor in a capital case? 2. Must a state court follow this Court's jurisprudence of Locke… |
| 23-7265 | Nicholas Stewart Hines v. South Dakota | South Dakota | 2024-04-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-considerations sixth-amendment | 1.) WHETHER THE SIXTH AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS PERMIT GREATER INCLUDED OFFENSES AND CONDUCT THAT HAS BEEN ACQUITTED BY A JURY, OR DISMISSED PURSUANT … |
| 21-5030 | Jonathan Mark Brinda v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-07-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process excessive-sentence sentencing sentencing-considerations statutory-considerations statutory-interpretation supervised-release | A. AFTER DETERMINING MR. BRINDA HAD VIOLATED THE TERMS OF HIS SUPERVISED RELEASE, THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED BY SENTENCING MR. BRINDA EXCESSIVELY BASED … |
| 19-6502 | Cory Dale Fields v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-11-06 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure due-process federal-district-court federal-sentencing grand-jury no-bill prior-conduct reliability reliability-of-evidence reliability-standard sentencing sentencing-considerations uncharged-conduct | Is alleged prior uncharged conduct that had been no-billed by a Grand Jury sufficiently reliable for a federal district court to consider at sentencin… |
| 18-8328 | Maritza Burgueno-Gonzalez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553(a) 18-USC-3553a criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion federal-sentencing sentencing-considerations sentencing-disparities smuggling smuggling-scheme unwarranted-sentences | 1. Whether the district court violated 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)'s rule that a district court must consider unwarranted sentencing disparities when it refus… |
| 18-6347 | Adam Brake v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burglary criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-counting firearm-enhancement firearm-theft guideline-enhancements guideline-range sentencing-considerations sentencing-guidelines stolen-firearm u.s.s.g-2k2.1 | Whether the district court erred when, based on impermissible double counting, it incorrectly applied a higher guideline range. In calculating Petitio… |
| 18-5276 | William Clark v. United States | District of Columbia | 2018-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | age-of-majority age-of-maturity brain-development criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection juvenile-justice montgomery-line sentencing sentencing-considerations | Whether the Montgomery Line of decisions apply to those under 18-years-old? Whether the Equal Protection clause is violated where other courts have a… |