sentencing-rights
10 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6321 | Wenlasombo Ilboudo v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-12-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process language-barrier rule-11-colloquy sentencing-rights waiver-of-appeal | Whether a defendant who speaks no English may properly be determined to have waived his right to appeal a substantively unreasonable sentence without … |
| 24-1063 | Munson P. Hunter, III v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-04-08 | Granted | Amici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | appeal-waiver appellate-procedure circuit-split constitutional-challenge ineffective-assistance sentencing-rights | 1. Whether the only permissible exceptions to a general appeal waiver are for claims of ineffective assistance of counsel or that the sentence exceeds… |
| 24A773 | Munson P. Hunter, III v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-02-11 | Presumed Complete | appeal-waiver circuit-split constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure plea-agreement sentencing-rights | (1) whether a defendant who agreed to waive his right to appeal may nonetheless challenge his sentence on constitutional grounds other than ineffectiv… | |
| 23-7752 | Mark Edmond Brown, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-06-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver coram-nobis due-process guilty-plea miscarriage-of-justice sentence sentencing-rights sixth-circuit | The Sixth Circuit violated Mr. Brown's due process rights by concluding that his right to file a coram nobis petition fell within the scope of his app… |
| 20-5454 | Mark Shields v. R. C. Smith, Warden, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2020-08-24 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto judicial-individualization parole parole-considerations sentencing sentencing-rights stage-1-calculation standing takings | F Whhe specifeS.7-1steE Reveinnane Consider a actuall produ of a Mandted litial Individulized Parle Considerdon heingo R ab a ubsuenb ProlCnsloheaing… |
| 19-8893 | Darryl Henry v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-07-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-rights appeal-waiver circuit-split collateral-relief criminal-sentencing involuntary-waiver judicial-integrity judicial-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing-rights statutory-entitlement | Are broad waivers of appellate rights lawful and, if so, what are the limits on their validity and enforcement? |
| 19-8572 | Roland Chambers, aka Troy Chambers v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-05-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-rights appellate-waiver collateral-relief criminal-sentencing judicial-integrity judicial-process plea-agreement plea-agreements sentencing-rights statutory-entitlement | Are broad waivers of appellate rights lawful and, if so, what are the limits on their validity and enforcement? |
| 18-6968 | Alejandro Quinones Leyva v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina | Fourth Circuit | 2018-12-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel language-barriers notice-of-appeal plea-bargaining prejudice right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-rights sixth-amendment | ALEJANDRO QUINONES-LEYVA, being duly sworn deposes as true; 1- I am the defendant herein, (2) In comection with pleading and sentencing I received ine… |
| 18-727 | Chene DeVonne Manley v. Arizona | Arizona | 2018-12-07 | Denied | 14th-amendment 8th-amendment chiari-malformation due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-condition newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief sentencing-rights | Does the Due Process Clause of the Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment entitle a convicted prisoner serving a natural life sentence to (1) appointment… | |
| 18-6638 | Israel C. Isbell v. Steven Merlak, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2018-11-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure comity custody-transfer due-process inmate-rights inmate-transfer jurisdictional-comity presumption-of-intent primary-custody primary-jurisdiction sentencing-rights sovereign-intent sovereign-jurisdiction transfer-of-custody waiver-intent | QUESTION ONE: At what point is a sovereign's intent to waive primary jurisdiction assessed, and how is that intent assessed? QUESTION TWO: Is there a… |