sentencing-scheme
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23-5730 | Blaise Caroleo v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-10-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment sentencing sentencing-scheme statutory-interpretation waiver-of-rights | 1. Whether a waiver of the protections against cruel and unusual punishment afforded to a defendant under the Eighth Amendment is valid and enforceabl… |
| 22-7561 | In Re Christopher Vigliotti | 2023-05-16 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process multiple-punishment plea-bargain probation probation-violation sentencing sentencing-scheme statutory-authority | Petitioner humbly calls upon this Court to test the legality of his present 15 year state prison sentence which stemmed from violating probation, a pr… | |
| 20-8048 | James Terry Colley, Jr. v. Florida | Florida | 2021-05-17 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment 8th-amendment aggravating-factor constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process first-degree-murder florida-supreme-court sentencing-scheme | Whether the Florida Supreme Court's expansion of the applicability of our statute's aggravating factor, Section 921.141(5)(i), i.e., the murder was es… |
| 20-1136 | Peter Capote v. Alabama | Alabama | 2021-02-19 | Denied | 6th-amendment aggravating-circumstances capital-punishment death-penalty judicial-fact-finding judicial-weighing jury-trial mitigating-circumstances sentencing-scheme sixth-amendment | 1. Whether the Alabama death penalty sentencing scheme, which leaves it to the judge to find whether the aggravating circumstances outweigh the mitiga… | |
| 20-6102 | Dontayous Tonard Cameron v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-10-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment 6th-amendment due-process fifth-amendment parole revocation-sentence sentencing-scheme sixth-amendment statutory-maximum supervised-release | Is 18 U.S.C. § 3583(e) unconstitutional as applied to Mr. Cameron because his combined initial and revocation sentences exceed the statutory maximum p… |
| 20-136 | Tremayne T. Dozier v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2020-08-07 | Denied | circuit-split controlled-substances-act criminal-law felony-definition prior-felony-convictions sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sentencing-scheme statutory-interpretation statutory-sentencing-scheme | The Controlled Substances Act (CSA) imposes sentencing enhancements based on an offender's prior felony convictions. 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(A). A "felo… | |
| 19-8660 | Thomas Michael Riley v. Arizona | Arizona | 2020-06-10 | Denied | IFP | aggravating-factors capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-review death-penalty furman-v-georgia gregg-v-georgia narrowing-requirement sentencing-scheme | "To pass constitutional muster, a capital sentencing scheme must genuinely narrow the class of persons eligible for the death penalty and must reasona… |
| 19-6518 | Eric Burgie v. Arkansas | Arkansas | 2019-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-robbery civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process jurisdiction mental-fitness mental-health parole parole-eligibility sentencing sentencing-scheme | Mr. Bugie filed a section lugo-ill ca petition to corfense and ane appled Miller to an 18-year old. Mr. Burgse sk this court to anwer whether or not t… |
| 18-9568 | Roderick Mullins v. Florida | Florida | 2019-06-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment civil-rights criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process imprisonment indefinite-imprisonment life-imprisonment life-sentence sentencing sentencing-scheme state-constitution | Does the Florida "Life Means Life" sentence scheme violate the State Constitution's ban on indefinite imprisonment and the 14th Amendment Due Process … |
| 18-5100 | Ras Rahim v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-07-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-1651 28-usc-2255 all-writs-act armed-career-criminal-act collateral-attack consecutive-sentencing coram-nobis due-process elements-clause postconviction-remedy residual-clause sentencing-scheme | Is Heflin, 358U.S. 415, 3 L. Ed. 2d. 407, 79 S. Ct. 451 (1959), still the controlling precedent? Herein, this court held that the text of 28 U.S.C. 22… |