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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


Certiorari denied · October 6, 2025

Questions presented

  1. 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?

  2. 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

  1. Oct 06 2025
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Aug 28 2025
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2025.
  3. Aug 20 2025
    Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
  4. Jul 28 2025
    Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due September 8, 2025)