substantial-assistance
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6925 | Karen Altagracia Perez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-02-27 | Pending | IFP | due-process federal-sentencing-law sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance substantial-assistance | WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COMMITTED ERROR AND VIOLATED THE PETITIONER'S RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS BY IGNORING DECADES OF THIS COURT'S CONTROLLING PRECED… |
| 25-5866 | Davon Anthony Beckford v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-10-10 | Pending | IFP | miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines substantial-assistance third-circuit waiver-of-appeal | 1. DOES ENFORCEMENT OF APPELLANT'S WAIVER OF APPEAL AND THE GOVERNMENT'S SUMMARY AFFIRMANCE MOTION OF MR. BECKFORD'S SENTENCE CONSITUTE A MISCARRIAGE … |
| 23-7794 | Michael T. Washington v. Brian Emig, Warden, et al. | Third Circuit | 2024-06-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-violation due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence perjury procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct substantial-assistance | 1. Is State Attorney undisclosed substantial assistance motion "Newly Discover Evidence " resulting in a Brady violation? And violation of Petitioner … |
| 21-1496 | Twitter, Inc. v. Mehier Taamneh, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-05-31 | Judgment Issued | Amici (19) | aiding-and-abetting anti-terrorism-act foreign-terrorist-organization generic-services international-terrorism justice-against-sponsors-of-terrorism-act knowingly-provided knowingly-providing-substantial-assistance substantial-assistance terrorist-use-of-services | Under Section 2333 of the Anti-Terrorism Act, as amended by the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, U.S. nationals injured by "an act of intern… |
| 21-7867 | Jasper B. Mackey, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-05-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-sentencing due-process fourth-circuit government-discretion mandatory-minimum plea-agreement sentencing substantial-assistance | I. The United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's judgment which did not depart below the mandatory minimum… |
| 21-381 | Tzvi Weiss, et al. v. National Westminster Bank, PLC | Second Circuit | 2021-09-08 | Denied | CVSGAmici (5)Relisted (2) | 18 U.S.C. § 2333(d)(2) aiding-abetting civil-liability civil-rights due-process foreign-terrorist-organizations free-speech material-support standing substantial-assistance terrorism terrorist-organizations | Whether a person who knowingly transfers substantial funds to a designated FTO aids and abets that organization's terrorist acts for purposes of civil… |
| 20-1807 | Dontour D. Drakes v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | 18-usc-3582 18-usc-3582c2 amendment-782 career-offender criminal-sentencing retroactive-amendment sentencing-guidelines substantial-assistance united-states-v-hughes | 1. WHETHER A CAREER OFFENDER WHO PROVIDED SUBSTANTIAL ASSISTANCE WHOSE SENTENCING JUDGE-VARIED FROM THE INITIAL INTRODUCED CAREER OFFENDERS IS THE JUD… |
| 20-6170 | Justin David Brown v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law agency-action constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing sixth-amendment standing statutory-interpretation substantial-assistance | Did the defendants Sixth Distnet Court violate the Amendment right Special Agent Nicole allowing ba Bailey Hecring the defendants Sentancing 4s2 24 at… |
| 20-5323 | Alfred Domenick Wright v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-08-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure fair-sentencing-act government-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review sentencing-reduction sibron-v-new-york statutory-interpretation substantial-assistance united-states-v-gall | 1.) Should the Government correct error committed when applying 'The Fair Sentencing Act ' (Nov. 2014)? And if an applicant 's reduction for Substan… |
| 19-8193 | John Purifoy v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-04-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review booker booker-decision criminal-procedure downward-departure jurisdiction sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-assistance | The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has held that an appellate court does not have the jurisdiction to review the denial of a dow… |
| 19-7931 | Nancy Arlene Lopez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-appeal criminal-procedure-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment fifth-circuit government-misconduct methamphetamine-conspiracy miranda-rights sentencing-guidelines substantial-assistance supreme-court unconstitutional-motive | Petitioner, NANCY ARLENE LOPEZ, appealed her ten-year statutory minimum sentence imposed after she pleaded guilty to conspiracy to import 500 or more … |
| 19-665 | John Doe v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-11-25 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3553a criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure rule-35 rule-35b sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-factors substantial-assistance | 1. May a district court deny a government's Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 35(b) motion for reduction of sentence based on substantial assistance … |
| 18-8821 | Sealed Appellant v. Sealed Appellee | Fifth Circuit | 2019-04-15 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-3582 18-usc-3582c2 5k1.1-motion criminal-sentencing judicial-discretion koons-v-united-states mandatory-minimum sentence-reduction sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines substantial-assistance | Can a defendant receive a 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) sentence reduction when the district court discarded the mandatory minimum because of a substantial-a… |