unreasonable-sentence
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-6411 | Holly Kaye Hibbler v. Jeremy Howard, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2025-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | amendment-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process sentencing-review unreasonable-sentence | Whether Petitioner is entitled to resentencing where her minimum term was an unreasonable and disproportionate sentence and an unreasonable departure … |
| 23-6592 | Bernardito Carvajal, aka Christian Mendez-Acevedo v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-01-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acquittal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-verdict sentencing sentencing-discretion unreasonable-sentence | May a sentencing judge disregard the jury's verdict acquitting the defendant of causing the decedent's death and use facts the jury rejected to justif… |
| 22-5811 | Matthew Poulin v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-10-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alcohol-consumption alcohol-prohibition appeal criminal-procedure district-court due-process reasonableness sentencing supervised-release unreasonable-sentence | I. Whether the district court erred by sentencing Mr. Poulin to twelve (12) months considering the circumstances of the case? II. Whether the special… |
| 19-8019 | Efrain Sifuentes v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-03-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | resulting in an unreasonable sentence appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court fifth-circuit sentencing-guidelines unreasonable-sentence | 1. Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit improperly condone the District Court's error in applying the United States Sentencing… |
| 18-7181 | Antonio Amar White v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-12-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | dismissed-conduct district-court due-process judge-found-facts sentencing sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-violation unreasonable-sentence | Whether Petitioner's sentence violated the Sixth Amendment because the district court's factual findings, based on dismissed conduct, provided the leg… |
| 18-5996 | Gene Lemay Barris v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-09-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing unreasonable-sentence | 1.How ion a sentencing Coust sentenct a defeadent cutside of the Gui delines orainally out lindd in Tue defendents pka @gret moat. Dots 2. Hou Or can… |
| 18-5968 | In Re Jose Prisciliano Gracia-Cantu | 2018-09-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion criminal-sentencing federal-appeals-court federal-courts federal-prisoner judicial-discretion mandamus mandate mandate-stay resentencing sentencing-guidelines unreasonable-sentence vacated-sentence writ-of-mandamus | After it has issued a decision holding that a federal prisoner is entitled to resentencing due to a Sentencing Guidelines calculation error, can a fed… | |
| 18-5188 | James Wilks v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553(a) abuse-of-discretion district-court judicial-discretion plain-error plainly-unreasonable revocation revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-factors supervised-release unreasonable-sentence | Did the District Court enter a plainly unreasonable sentence for revocation of supervised release when it did not properly balance the sentencing fact… |