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Roy Lee Jones, Jr. v. United States
IFP petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, No. 24-30236 · judgment April 29, 2025
Questions presented
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Whether U.S.S.G. § 4C1.1(a)(10) (Nov. 2023), which provides that a defendant is eligible for a two-level reduction if “the defendant did not receive an adjustment under § 3B1.1 (Aggravating Role) and was not engaged in a continuing criminal enterprise,” creates two independent disqualifying conditions (either of which bars relief) or requires both conditions to be present for disqualification?
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Whether a district court violates Dillon v. United States, 560 U.S. 817 (2010), and U.S.S.G. § 1B1.10(b)(1) when it makes new factual determinations about a defendant’s conduct that were never adjudicated at the original sentencing in order to deny eligibility for a sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2), raising fundamental questions about the proper scope of judicial fact-finding in sentence modification proceedings.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Dustin Talbot
Federal Public Defender
For respondent
D. John Sauer
Solicitor General
Case
Subject area
Criminal Procedure (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Order
Order list, October 6, 2025 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- Oct 06 2025Petition DENIED.
- Aug 28 2025DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2025.
- Aug 20 2025Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
- Jul 28 2025Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due September 8, 2025)