| 25-5342 |
Raymond Arthur Verrill v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-standard |
Some sentencing judges routinely assert that they would have selected the exact same sentence regardless of any error in applying the Sentencing Guide… |
| 23A1174 |
Kevin Deane Jones v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-07-01 |
Presumed Complete |
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appellate-review criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction sentencing-standard statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6251 |
Jonathan Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct confrontation-clause due-process fifth-amendment preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-standard sixth-amendment suppression-motion |
I. Whether the use of a preponderance of the evidence standard at sentencing violated Rodriguez's Fifth Amendment and Sixth Amendment rights?
II. Whe… |
| 20-6933 |
Seledonio Martinez v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-standard totality-of-the-circumstances |
Where the totality of the circumstances of this case do not support a top-of-the-Guidelines sentence, whether the 46-month sentence is reasonable. |
| 19-7569 |
Stanley Noel Ames v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924c bank-robbery carter-v-united-states crime-of-violence criminal-law-procedure federal-bank-robbery force-clause general-intent intent sentencing-standard specific-intent |
Did the Ninth Circuit err in holding that federal bank robbery is a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c), in light of this C… |
| 19-5741 |
Jose Marin Saldana-Reyes v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-consideration non-frivolous-arguments procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-procedure sentencing-standard |
In contrast with the Ninth Circuit, at least seven other circuits apply a standard which requires a sentencing judge provide some express treatment to… |
| 19-5162 |
Frederick Johnson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure discretionary-review plain-error plainly-unreasonable post-revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-standard supervised-release |
What is the proper standard of appellate review for sentences imposed on defendants following revocation of supervised release? |
| 18-9698 |
Ruben Perez Gomez v. California |
California |
2019-06-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-requirement death-penalty fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-finding reasonable-doubt sentencing-standard sixth-amendment statutory-maximum statutory-maximum-punishment |
Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact other than a prior co… |
| 18-6067 |
Edward Lee Lewis v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act booker-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process overserved-sentence plainly-unreasonable reasonableness revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-standard standard-of-review supervised-release |
1. Whether the appropriate standard of review for a sentence following the revocation of supervised release is the "plainly unreasonable" standard onc… |