| 23-6433 |
Rico Lorodge Brown v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-01-08 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-amendment criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment indictment jury-finding sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation statutory-penalty |
The Armed Career Criminal Act imposes heightened statutory penalties if a defendant convicted of an offense under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) has three prior c… |
| 23-6403 |
Tony L. Ford v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-01-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
concepcion-precedent concepcion-v-united-states criminal-resentencing eleventh-circuit eleventh-circuit-interpretation fair-sentencing-act first-step-act intervening-law-changes sentencing sentencing-discretion statutory-penalty |
Previously, the courts of appeals were divided over whether a district court could consider intervening changes to the law during First Step Act proce… |
| 23-341 |
Bobby Lee Ingram v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-10-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
apprendi-v-new-jersey concepcion-v-united-states drug-quantity eleventh-circuit fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-penalty terry-v-united-states |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit has violated Terry in holding that, at step one, district courts should disregard the "elements" of a defendant's offe… |
| 23-5457 |
Deangelus Thomas v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-08-28 |
GVR |
Relisted (3)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof constitutional-fact-finding criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial predicate-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-penalty |
May a district court judge properly find, by a preponderance of the evidence, the uncharged, non-elemental fact that a person committed three prior of… |
| 23-5198 |
Richard Potts v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-justice-reform criminal-sentencing discretionary-authority district-court-discretion fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation statutory-penalty |
First Question
Whether the Fair Sentencing Act modified the
statutory penalty for petitioner's offense,
so that petitioner is eligible for a sentenc… |
| 23-27 |
Michael Harper v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-07-10 |
Denied |
|
apprendi-v-new-jersey circuit-split criminal-resentencing drug-quantity fair-sentencing-act first-step-act judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-penalty terry-v-united-states |
Under the First Step Act of 2018, courts may reduce certain previously imposed sentences to match the penalties in the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010. Th… |
| 22-1241 |
Jocelyn M. Murphy, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-06-27 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
broker-registration due-process eighth-amendment fair-notice securities-exchange-act-1934 securities-law securities-laws securities-violations seventh-amendment statutory-penalty statutory-penalty-caps |
The Securities Exchange Act of 1934 empowers Respondent Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") to seek, and district courts to impose, putatively … |
| 21-6749 |
Matthew Sullivan v. Daniel Sproul, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-united-states criminal-procedure guilty-plea legal-clarification misinformation plea-validity post-conviction post-conviction-relief sentencing-enhancement statutory-penalty |
May a criminal defendant attack the validity of his guilty plea when a post conviction clarification in law reveals that he was misinformed regarding … |
| 19-6693 |
Chris Rayvon Starks v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure judge-finding jury jury-decision jury-determination predicate-offense predicate-offenses prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-penalty |
The fact that the defendant committed three predicate offenses "on occasions different from one another" an element of the ACCA for the jury to decide… |
| 18-9320 |
Domenick James Howard v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach criminal-law due-process federal-crime federal-state-relations lockhart-v-united-states mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states ninth-circuit prior-conviction sentencing sexual-assault statutory-interpretation statutory-penalty |
WHETHER A PRIOR SEXUAL ASSAULT CONVICTION
SHOULD BE USED TO INCREASE THE STATUTORY PENALTY
WHERE THE PRIOR STATE CONVICTION IS OVER-INCLUSIVE
VIS-A… |
| 18-613 |
W. A. Griffin v. Aetna Health Inc., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
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Whether or not the District court borrowed the appropriate state law for Erisa statutory penalty by applying a one year statue of limitations under O.… |