united-states-v-watts
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 23-7287 | Khan Mohammed v. United States | District of Columbia | 2024-04-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof circuit-conflict clear-and-convincing-evidence law-of-case-doctrine law-of-the-case-doctrine preponderance-of-the-evidence preponderance-standard sentencing-enhancement united-states-v-watts | 1. Whether the Government may be required to prove the factual basis for a sentencing enhancement by clear and convincing evidence, rather than a prep… |
| 22-6706 | Darin M. Ogden v. Idaho | Idaho | 2023-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acquittal criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-acquittal lewd-conduct sentencing united-states-v-watts | Whether the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits a state court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a … |
| 22-118 | Marquis Shaw v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-08-08 | Denied | Relisted (12) | acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process issue-preclusion jury-trial sentencing united-states-v-watts | (1) Do either the Jury Clauses of Article III and the Sixth Amendment or the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment bar a court from imposing a mor… |
| 21-8190 | Thomas Luczak v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-06-21 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (13)IFP | acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process sentencing united-states-v-watts | Whether this Court should overturn its decision in United States v. Watts, 519 U.S. 148 (S.Ct. 1997), which holds that sentencing judges can consider … |
| 19-8478 | John King v. United States | District of Columbia | 2020-05-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne-v-united-states criminal-procedure fact-finding judicial-discretion jury-determination jury-fact-finding mcmillan-v-pennsylvania preponderance-of-the-evidence preponderance-standard sentencing sentencing-enhancement united-states-v-watts | I. BY A JURY TO ENHANCE A SENTENCE? AFTER THIS COURT'S DECISION IN UNITED STATES V. ALLEYNE, 570 U.S. 99 (2013), NON-CONTROLLING, CAN THE PREPONDERAN… |
| 19-7454 | Kenneth James Barfield v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-32 due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-circuit gall-v-united-states guidelines preponderance-of-evidence presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-watts | According to Gall v. United States, 552 U.S. 38 (2007), every federal criminal sentencing must begin with a correctly calculated Guidelines range. Sen… |
| 19-6647 | Michael J. Baxter v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-11-15 | Denied | IFP | acquitted-conduct batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-selection racial-discrimination reasonable-doubt sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment united-states-v-watts | 1. Whether the striking of two out of three black veniremembers demonstrates a "pattern of discrimination" as necessary to satisfy the first step of t… |
| 19-6314 | Ralph Willard Savoie v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-10-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process haymond-v-united-states parole plea-agreement precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation suborned-perjury supervised-release supreme-court supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-watts waiver-of-appeal | [1] Can United States v. Watts stand in light of recent holdings in Haymond v. United States? [2] Does a waiver of appeal, in light of Garza v. Idaho… |
| 19-6284 | Jose L. Cabrera-Cosme v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-10-17 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | acquitted-conduct due-process jury-trial mcmillin-v-pennsylvania sentencing sixth-amendment uncharged-conduct united-states-v-watts | 1. Whetehr a reasonable jurist could find debatable Petitioner s Sixth Amendment was violated when the district court sentenced him to life without an… |
| 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,… |
| 18-8156 | In Re Dennis Bowden | 2019-02-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acquitted-conduct collateral-review due-process habeas-corpus nelson-v-colorado retroactive-application retroactivity sentence-enhancement sentencing united-states-v-watts | Whether the Court should issue a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that Nelson v. Colorado, has been or should be made retroactively applicable to c… | |
| 18-7645 | Alhan Sanchez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-01-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-guidelines due-process mcmillan-v-pennsylvania meacham-v-fano minor-role-adjustment mitigating-role preponderance-of-evidence sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-watts vulnerable-victim | The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (sometimes referred to as "the Fifth Circuit" or "the Appellate Court") upheld on appeal a se… |
| 18-6537 | In Re Gerald Phillip Wooten | 2018-11-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acquitted-conduct collateral-review due-process habeas-corpus nelson-v-colorado retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement united-states-v-watts | Whether the Court should issue a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that Nelson v. Colorado, has been or should be made retroactieiy applicable to ca… | |
| 18-5388 | Albert William Roberts, III v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-07-30 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | acquittal acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure double-jeopardy-clause due-process relevant-conduct sentencing sixth-amendment united-states-v-watts watts-precedent | Question Number One: We hold that an acquitted count that incorporates all of the succeeding counts of an indictment retains its acquitted status whe… |