sentencing-law
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-5737 | Antwan Elvago Coplen v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-09-25 | Denied | IFP | district-court-discretion extraordinary-reasons first-step-act sentence-reduction sentencing-law statutory-interpretation | (1) WHETHER A COMBINATION OF "EXTRAORDINARY AND COMPELLING REASONS" THAT MAY WARRANT A DISCRETIONARY SENTENCE REDUCTION UNDER 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)U) (… |
| 24-6814 | Jason Johnson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-03-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure illegal-sentence plea-agreement sentencing-law | While "jurisdictions appear to treat at least some claims as unwaivable" via an appeal waiver in a plea agreement, this Court has not yet had occasion… |
| 24-5782 | Harvey Miguel Robinson v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. | Third Circuit | 2024-10-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | federal-circuit-split habeas-corpus jury-instructions legislative-interpretation sentencing-law state-court-review | (1) Whether, under Simmons v. South Carolina, 512 U.S. 154 (1994), a court may, in the course of instructing the jury that a life sentence means life … |
| 23-6879 | Christopher Sean Burrus v. Washington | Washington | 2024-03-01 | Denied | IFP | 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual-punishment drug-offense due-process eighth-amendment evidentiary-requirements ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum mental-health sentencing-law | 1. Washington's personal identity petition hon eastern powers Conviction proceedings Who Are loucden & pcoa? a boty Sed +o Nhe. Setidioned oN ise.) Be… |
| 23-6111 | Lawrence Remsen, et al. v. Jennifer Shaffer, et al. | California | 2023-11-28 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-principles criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion legislative-intent sentencing sentencing-law | Did the States Highest Court abuse its discretion when it failed to acknowledge the State's Legislature had repealed its indeterminate Sentencing Law … |
| 22-7210 | David McCall, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-04-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court-discretion extraordinary-compelling-reason sentence-reduction sentencing-law | Whether a district court may consider the disparity in a sentence when the applicable sentencing law has changed, when the disparity is of a degree wh… |
| 22-5894 | Terrence Gibbs v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-10-24 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-3582 compassionate-release criminal-justice extraordinary-and-compelling extraordinary-circumstances federal-sentencing-law federal-statute judicial-discretion retroactivity sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-law | Whether non-retroactive changes in federal sentencing law, which dramatically altered sentencing exposure for those later sentenced, comprise "extraor… |
| 22-5859 | Marcal Fraction v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-10-18 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-reasons retroactivity sentencing-law statutory-interpretation | A court may grant compassionate release and reduce a sentence if, after evaluating the factors in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a), it finds that extraordinary and… |
| 22-5625 | Orville Tucker v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-09-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 3553(a)-factors circuit-split compassionate-release guideline-range non-delegation-doctrine sentencing-commission sentencing-law statutory-interpretation | 1. Did Congress, in 28 U.S.C. § 994(t), delegate complete authority to the U.S. Sentencing Commission to "define" an exclusive list of "extraordinary … |
| 22-5161 | Antonio M. Taylor v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-07-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 criminal-procedure district-court-discretion extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-circumstances retroactivity sentence-reduction sentencing-law statutory-interpretation | Whether a district court may consider nonretroactive changes in sentencing law in determining whether a defendant has shown "extraordinary and compell… |
| 21-8082 | Arthur Houze v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-06-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-reasons retroactivity sentencing-law statutory-interpretation | A court may grant compassionate release and reduce a sentence if, after evaluating the factors in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a), it finds that extraordinary and… |
| 21-7701 | Francisco Rosales Hernandez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-04-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-guidelines advisory-range criminal-procedure district-court extraordinary-compelling-reasons judicial-discretion molina-martinez-v-united-states ninth-circuit plain-error remand remand 21-7700" rosales-mireles-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines sentencing-law sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether a district court may consider nonretroacti | When should a case be remanded for resentencing under the plain-error standard of review if the district court failed to announce its calculation of t… |
| 21-7700 | Ronald Hunter v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-04-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion extraordinary-and-compelling extraordinary-compelling-reasons rehabilitation sentencing-guidelines sentencing-law sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i), a district court may "reduce [a] term of imprisonment" upon "motion of the defendant" if it finds that "extraordin… |
| 21-6397 | Viengxay Chantharath, aka OG v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-11-23 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-3582 circuit-split extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-reasons first-step-act mandatory-minimum retroactivity sentence-reduction sentencing-law | Under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i), district courts have the authority to reduce a sentence based on "extraordinary and compelling reasons." In the F… |
| 21-5516 | In Re Freddy Perkins | 2021-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 841-b-1-a 846 851-enhancement actual-innocence cocaine-base criminal-procedure mathis-v-united-states retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing-law statutory-enhancement | 1. Whether Mathis applies retroactive to Petitioner Perkin's claim of 'Actual Innocent" under 841 (b)(1)(a) & 846, 280 grams or more Cocaine Base and … | |
| 20-6214 | John J. Powers v. Warden, Allenwood USP | Third Circuit | 2020-11-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 1-usc-109 18-usc-3624b criminal-procedure first-step-act general-savings-statute good-time-credits sentencing-law statutory-interpretation | Does the General Savings Statute, 1 U.S.C. §109, apply to the First Step Act's amendment to 18 U.S.C. §3624(b) so that penalties of the loss of good t… |
| 20-5051 | Andre Patrick Staggers v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-07-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841(b) criminal-procedure drug-offense first-step-act retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-law statutory-minimums | Does the First Step Act provision lowering the enhanced statutory minimums of 21 U.S.C. § 841(b) apply to persons who were sentenced before the provis… |
| 19-8764 | James William Burney v. Florida | Florida | 2020-06-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-provision due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactive-application sentencing sentencing-law state-constitution voter-intent | Whether the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process and Equal Protection protections requires enactment legislation for a state constitutional provision to b… |
| 19-298 | Fernando Juarez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-04 | Denied | criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment de-facto-life-without-parole eighth-amendment ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama sentencing-hearing sentencing-law | In the context of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d), which allows a n application for a writ of habeas corpus on behalf of a person in custody under a state -court … | |
| 19-5325 | Alan Victor Gomez Gomez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-25 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure force-element immigration-law mens-rea reckless-mental-state sentencing sentencing-law statutory-interpretation | Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men… |
| 18-5821 | Thomas Lee Farmer v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-08-29 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 2255-relief collateral-review concurrent-sentence-doctrine constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states multiple-sentences retroactive-constitutional-rule retroactive-review retroactivity section-2255 sentencing sentencing-law | (1) Whether the concurrent sentence doctrine should be applied to deny § 2255 relief when one of a set of multiple sentences is now invalid because of… |