sentencing-requirements

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24A1060 Martin Castillo-Quinones v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-02 Denied 18-USC-3553 appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-requirements Question not identified.
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 …
23-5130 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 …
18-5948 Patrick Henry Murphy v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-09-12 Denied IFP conspiracy criminal-conspiracy death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing eighth-amendment enmund-v-florida-tison-v-arizona felony felony-murder jury-findings sentencing-requirements sixth-amendment Does the Sixth or Eighth Amendment require that before a party may be sentenced to death as a conspirator (rather than a trigger-person), the jury mus…
18-5466 Lawrence E. Wilson v. Ohio Ohio 2018-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment nunc-pro-tunc open-court right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-requirements sixth-amendment void WHETHER A TRIAL COURT'S FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH STATUTORY REQUIREMENTS WHEN IMPOSING A SENTENCE RENDERS THE ATTEMPTED SENTENCE VOID.? WHETHER THE TRIA…