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RICHARDSON, Circuit Judge, dissenting: Historically, juries have given tremendous weight to defendants' confessions when determining guilt, often considering them to be incontrovertible evidence. Juries today continue to do so. For this reason, under longstanding Supreme Court precedent, a prosecutor seeking to admit a defendant's out-of-court confession must provide evidence showing that the confession is trustworthy. B

OPINION McKEOWN, Circuit Judge: Congress has provided a limited mechanism for defendants to shave time off their sentences when the Sentencing Commission amends the Sentencing Guidelines with retroactive effect. In recent years, the Commission amended the Guidelines to reduce the potential time served by defendants convicted of certain drug crimes. Aft

SUMMARY ORDER Co-defendants-appellants Manuel Geral-do, Hargelis Vargas, and Jugo Cespedes (collectively, “defendants”) appeal from sentences and final judgments of conviction entered on October 30, 2015, November 25, 2015, and December 3, 2015, respectively, each by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Engelmayer, J.). We assume the parties’ familiarity with the underlying facts, procedural history,

PRECEDENTIAL UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT _____________ No. 16-1339 _____________ ROSA ELIDA CASTRO; A.A.G.C.; LAURA LISSETH FLORES-PICHINTE; E.S.U.F.; KAREN MARGARITA ZELAYA ALBERTO; S.E.A.Z; KELLY GUTIERREZ RUBIO; G.J.S.G.; GLADIS CARRASCO GOMEZ; B.J.R.C.; WENDY AMPARO OSORIO MARTINEZ; D.S.R.O.; CARMEN LEIVA-MENJIVAR; E.A.M.L.; A.M.M.L.; DINA ISAB

United States Court of Appeals For the First Circuit No. 23-1159 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Appellee, v. RANDALL CRATER, Defendant, Appellant. APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS [Hon. Denise J. Casper, U.S. District Judge] B

Case: 21-10966 Document: 00516861985 Page: 1 Date Filed: 08/17/2023 United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit ____________ FILED

USCA4 Appeal: 23-4150 Doc: 74 Filed: 05/14/2025 Pg: 1 of 25 PUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 23-4150 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff - Appellee, v. VINCENT DERITIS, Defendant -

FOR PUBLICATION UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, No. 21-10377 Plaintiff-Appellee, D.C. No. 2:20-cr- 00204-GMN- v. EJY-1 XZAVIONE TAYLOR, OPINION Defendant-Appellant. Appeal from the United Stat

FOR PUBLICATION UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, No. 21-10377 Plaintiff-Appellee, D.C. No. 2:20-cr- 00204-GMN- v. EJY-1 XZAVIONE TAYLOR, OPINION Defendant-Appellant. Appeal from the Unit

Myron H. Thompson, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE With Amendment 782 in 2014, the United States Sentencing Commission revised the Sentencing Guidelines applicable to the drug-trafficking offense for which this court sentenced defendant Jason Terrell Davenport. The Commission simultaneously promulgated Amendment 788, making Amendment 782 retroactive. This court established a Retroactivity Screening Panel to determine whether defendants

Case: 19-50832 Document: 00515571219 Page: 1 Date Filed: 09/18/2020 United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit FILED September 18, 2020

MEMORANDUM ** Elaine Beston appeals from the district court’s order granting in part her motion for a sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2). We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and we affirm. The district court reduced Bestoris sentence from 192 to 180 months. Beston contends that she is entitled to a further sentence reduction. The record reflects, however, that Best

AGEE, Circuit Judge: *180 A federal jury convicted Benjamin Galecki and Charles Burton Ritchie ("Defendants") of charges related to a conspiracy to distribute controlled substance analogues. Defendants then appealed to this Court for the first time, challenging several of the trial court's

USCA11 Case: 19-11408 Date Filed: 04/20/2021 Page: 1 of 51 [PUBLISH] IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ________________________ No. 19-11408 ________________________ D.C. Docket No. 8:18-cr-00519-RAL-AEP-1 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

KENNETH M. KARAS, District Judge: Danielle Hartmann ("Ms. Hartmann"), individually and as mother and natural guardian of I.M., an infant, and I.M., an infant by her mother and natural guardian, Ms. Hartmann (collectively, "Plaintiffs"), bring this Action against Raja Senguttuvan, M.D. ("Dr. Senguttuvan"), Amanda Hines, N.P. ("Nurse Hines") (collectively, "neonatal Defendants"), Orange Regional Medical Center ("ORMC"), Alice Bast,

*1135 OPINION CALLAHAN, Circuit Judge: D.M. appeals the denial of his motion for a sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2). The Government agrees that D.M. was eligible for a sentence reduction, but contends that the appeal is moot because D.M. has been released from federa

USCA11 Case: 23-11061 Document: 74-1 Date Filed: 02/20/2026 Page: 1 of 43 FOR PUBLICATION In the United States Court of Appeals For the Eleventh Circuit ____________________ No. 23-11061 ____________________ UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

SHWARTZ, Circuit Judge. Ilma Alexandra Soriano Nunez was charged with various crimes and appeared for a bail hearing. Conditions of release were set under the Bail Reform Act ("BRA"). Thereafter, Immigration and Customs Enforcement ("ICE") lodged and executed a detainer, and she was detained for removal proceedings. Because her detention for removal proceedings under the Immigration and

DUNCAN, Circuit Judge: Defendants-Appellants Darren Hill (“Hill”) and Lloyd Dodwell (“Dodwell”) (collectively, “Defendants”) appeal the district court’s denial of their motions to suppress. For the reasons that follow, we affirm. I. A. This appeal arises out of a traffic stop executed by Henderson County,

KELLY, Circuit Judge. After a jury trial, Eliseo Florencio Gomez-Diaz was convicted of producing child pornography, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2251 (a). Gomez-Diaz appeals, challenging the district court's denial of a lesser-included-offense instruction, it