townsend-v-burke
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23-5672 | Michael Lee Mac Cleary v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-09-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-history criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process judicial-accuracy sentencing townsend-v-burke uncounseled-defendants | Whether the due process right to be sentenced based on accurate information that the Court recognized in Townsend v. Burke, 334 U.S. 736 (1948), is li… |
| 19-7299 | John Joseph Barrera v. Noah Nagy, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2020-01-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process false-information fourteenth-amendment habeas habeas-corpus sentencing sentencing-accuracy sixth-amendment townsend-v-burke | WHERE A STATE CRIMINAL DEFENDANT HAS BEEN SENTENCED ON THE BASIS OF INACCURATE/FALSE INFORMATION USED BY THE SENTENCER TO INCREASE HIS PUNISHMENT, FOL… |
| 19-5123 | Richard Parrish v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-support gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion legal-reliability reliability sentencing townsend-v-burke united-states-v-tucker united-states-v-watts | Sentences based on unreliable information violate Due Process, see United States v. Tucker, 404 U.S. 443, 447 (1972); Townsend v. Burke, 334 U.S. 736,… |
| 18-9275 | James Troiano v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-05-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acca-residual-clause advisory-guidelines advisory-sentencing-guidelines armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability due-process johnson-claim johnson-v-united-states townsend-misinformation townsend-v-burke vagueness void-for-vagueness | Should a COA issue because reasonable jurists could conclude that Johnson's interpretation of the ACCA's residual clause triggers a Townsend claim aga… |
| 18-7927 | Tyrone Anderson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-02-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender career-offender-enhancement criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington townsend-v-burke | Petitioner presents the question whether his 'trial counsel provided ineffective .assistance of: counsel as required by 'the Sixth Amendment to' the C… |
| 18-6112 | Opherro G. Jones v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-09-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-guidelines beckles-v-united-states certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process misinformation sentencing sentencing-guidelines townsend-v-burke void-for-vagueness | Due process precludes a district court from relying on misinformation when sentencing a criminal defendant, requiring instead accuracy and reliability… |
| 18-6138 | Lance Fox v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-09-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-guidelines beckles-v-united-states certificate-of-appealability criminal-defendant due-process misinformation sentencing sentencing-guidelines townsend-v-burke void-for-vagueness | Due process precludes a district court from relying on misinformation when sentencing a criminal defendant, requiring instead accuracy and reliability… |