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25A909 William Hudson v. Delaware Delaware 2026-02-12 Application criminal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review postconviction-relief pro-se-litigant state-court-review Question not identified.
25-6791 David Sano-Perez, aka David Sanot Perez v. United States First Circuit 2026-02-11 Pending IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules harmless-error rule-60b sentencing-guidelines Whether a District Court's mere pronouncement at a criminal sentencing that it would have imposed the same sentence on a defendant without regard to t…
25-6789 Richard Brundige v. United States Second Circuit 2026-02-11 Pending IFP circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-procedure gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment, either on its face or as applied.
25-6773 Devern Clemons, III v. Florida Florida 2026-02-10 Pending IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial serious-felony sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner was derived of his right, under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged w…
25-6765 Willie M. Hardy, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2026-02-10 Pending IFP body-worn-camera credibility-inference criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance miranda-warning 1. Whether a police officer's intentional and purposeful decision to keep the audio turned off on his body-worn camera constitutes an inference again…
25-6764 Jerry Lee Flores v. Texas Texas 2026-02-10 Pending IFP criminal-procedure due-process jury-verdict misdemeanor-enhancement prior-conviction state-court "WHETHER PETITIONER HAD RECEIVED "WHETHER THE STATE CAN REPLACE A JURY VERDICT WITHOUT HAVING ANOTHER JURY TRIAL?" "WHETHER THE PETITIONER WAS DENI…
25-6756 Jacklin Cheramy v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2026-02-09 Pending IFP criminal-procedure federal-statute predicate-offense recidivist-enhancement sentencing-guidelines state-conviction Whether, consistent with federal statute mandating the application of the United States Sentencing Guidelines in effect at the time of sentencing, a s…
25-6742 Gezo Goeong Edwards v. United States District of Columbia 2026-02-06 Pending IFP controlled-substance criminal-procedure due-process indictment-defect ineffective-assistance mens-rea 1. Whether an indictment charging conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance under 21 USCS 846 and 841(a) fails to state an offense where it plac…
25-6740 David Leslie Culverhouse v. Texas Texas 2026-02-06 Pending IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process prosecutorial-discretion sixth-amendment venue-change Question not identified.
25-6741 Kimberly Cannon v. Florida Florida 2026-02-06 Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility probation-violation search-and-seizure warrantless-search I. DOES EVIDENCE OBTAINED DURING A WARRANTLESS SEARCH USED IN A PROBATION VIOLATION REVOCATION PROCEEDING AND ALSO AS A BASIS FOR NEW LAW VIOLATION…
25-6752 Jerome Moore v. Texas Texas 2026-02-06 Pending IFP criminal-procedure digital-privacy electronic-device fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant Does a search warrant need to allege specific facts about a defendant's electronic device and his use of that device--and not merely allege facts abou…
25-936 Nadarius Barnes v. United States Tenth Circuit 2026-02-06 Pending appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure guilty-plea legal-challenge unconditional-plea Whether, by entering a guilty plea, a defendant waives his right to appeal his conviction on the basis that the conduct admitted does not constitute t…
25-6731 Keith Lashon Bell v. United States Fourth Circuit 2026-02-05 Pending IFP appellate-waiver consideration contract-law criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation plea-agreement Whether general contract principles, such as the requirement of consideration, and negotiated exclusive remedies, apply to the enforcement of appellat…
25-6720 Demarred Ewing v. Illinois Illinois 2026-02-04 Pending IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-counsel evidence-investigation ineffective-assistance sentencing-mitigation Whether DeMarco Curae WS Sind Wis Ce\at do the 2 Vecthwe assistace oF Counscl ushice Wis Counsel Dale doa adequately coves Ani Siete's visto euidince …
25-6701 Eskender Getachew v. United States Sixth Circuit 2026-02-03 Pending Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure defendant-presence jury-verdict sixth-amendment trial-court-duty Both the Constitution (through the Fifth and Sixth Amendments) and the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure (Rule 43) provide that a defendant "must be…
25-6699 Martin Gutierrez-Barba v. United States Ninth Circuit 2026-02-03 Pending Response WaivedIFP 3553(a)-factors appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing Is urging a sentence recommendation lower than is ultimately imposed and grounding that recommendation in the 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) factors, sufficient …
25-905 Andrew J. Johnston v. United States Seventh Circuit 2026-02-02 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived appellate-review criminal-procedure final-sentence motion-denial sentence-reduction sentencing-factors 1. Whether an appeal from an order partially denying a Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 35(b) motion for sentence reduction is an appeal from "an ot…
25A858 Dawn Marie Guevara v. United States Ninth Circuit 2026-01-30 Application confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidence-admission harmless-error sixth-amendment Question not identified.
25-6665 Tra'ven Boyer-Letlow v. United States Sixth Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending Response WaivedIFP arrest-seizure constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process miranda-rights probable-cause 1. Given the absence of probable cause to arrest here, and/or the right to seize, and/or the right to shackle here (and detain and the like, as was do…
25-6662 Pierre Burns v. United States Sixth Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-of-mistake first-amendment sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation 1. Whether the District Court's prohibition against presenting a defense of mistake of age in a case arising under 18 U.S.C. § 225l(a) created a viola…
25-6667 Alexis D. Negrón-Cruz v. United States First Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process ex-parte-communication fifth-amendment neutral-arbiter probation-revocation Does a district court violate the Fifth Amendment's neutral-and-detached-arbiter requirement, as recognized in Morrissey, when it engages in ex parte …
25-6670 Charles Victor Thompson v. Texas Texas 2026-01-27 Denied IFP autopsy-report confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process medical-evidence sixth-amendment Did the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals err when it failed to apply this Court's holdings in Smith v. Arizona, 602 U.S. __ (2024) and Crawford v. Wash…
25-884 Dontae Terrell Moore v. Texas Texas 2026-01-23 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived criminal-procedure false-testimony habeas-corpus materiality-standard prosecutorial-misconduct texas-criminal-appeals Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the TCCA's judgment, and remand to apply the correct "materiality" standard for false and misleading…
25-6659 Anthony Allen v. Debra B. Walker, Justice, Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, et al. Illinois 2026-01-23 Pending IFP appellate-jurisdiction criminal-procedure final-order mandamus-statute nolle-prosequi summary-dismissal I. Whether the Appellate Court Did Have Jurisdiction to Consider Notice of Appeal, When the Circuit Court Did Not Follow the Mandamus Statute For Summ…
25-6663 Richard Kirkland Johnson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2026-01-23 Pending Response WaivedIFP constructive-possession criminal-law criminal-procedure firearm-possession knowledge-inference temporary-occupancy Whether the mere presence of a firearm s in a bag on a shelf in a residence is sufficient to presume a defendant's knowledge and constructive possessi…
25-871 Glenn Allen Brooks v. United States District of Columbia 2026-01-22 Pending Response Waived appellate-rights burdick-precedent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment presidential-pardon 1. Whether a Presidential pardon automatically moots a pending appeal when the defendant has clearly expressed his intent to reject or refuse the pard…
25-6654 Kyle Shirakawa Handley v. Christopher Pierce, Warden Ninth Circuit 2026-01-22 Pending IFP california-law criminal-procedure due-process notice-requirement sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment 1. Does the California Supreme Court's 1936 holding that a defendant's right to notice does not apply to facts which merely "increase the penalty" vio…
25-6653 Randy Campos v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-01-22 Pending Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation supervised-release Did the district court obviously err by considering the retributive factors under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(2)(A), in violation of Esteras v. United States,…
25-6635 Jose Amaury Sanchez-Jimenez v. United States, et al. First Circuit 2026-01-21 Pending Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure federal-tort-claims-act fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution probable-cause superseding-indictment A. Chiaverini v. City of Napoleon, 602 U.S. 556 (2024) held that the presence of probable cause for one charge in a criminal proceeding does not categ…
25A826 Marco Antonio Naranjo-Aguilar v. United States Tenth Circuit 2026-01-20 Application court-of-appeals criminal-procedure federal-conviction procedural-challenge sentencing-review tenth-circuit Question not identified.
25-863 G'Ante Butler v. United States Tenth Circuit 2026-01-20 Pending Response Waived assault-definition circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law officer-safety statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 111(b) is violated only by forcibly assaulting a federal officer, or may be violated by forcibly resisting, opposing, impeding, in…
25-6631 Juan Jose Zarate Sanchez v. Texas Texas 2026-01-20 Pending IFP criminal-procedure due-process impartial-jury jury-selection sixth-amendment voir-dire Whether due process and the Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury are violated when the prosecution conducts panel-wide voir dire using a series …
25-6623 Hamed Kian v. Florida Florida 2026-01-20 Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial serious-felony sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner was derived of his right, under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged w…
25-6607 Kevin Esaud Perez Rojas v. Florida Florida 2026-01-16 Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial serious-felony sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner was derived of his right, under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged w…
25-6602 In Re Derrick L. Johnson 2026-01-16 Pending IFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus state-court Question not identified.
25-6600 Naveed Rasheed Shike v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-01-16 Pending Response WaivedIFP criminal-indictment criminal-procedure evidence-suppression judicial-review legal-dismissal suppression-motion I. Whether Shike's suppression motion should have been granted? II. Whether Shike's indictment should have been dismissed?
25-847 Alabama v. Brandon Dewayne Sykes Alabama 2026-01-15 Pending constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process griffin-error prosecutorial-comment self-incrimination 1. Whether courts must reverse for Griffin error without examining a prosecutor's comment in context and without finding prejudice. Or the Court shou…
25-6595 Hugo Ivan Macias-Ordonez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-01-15 Pending Response WaivedIFP apprendi-rule constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure prior-convictions sixth-amendment stare-decisis The Sixth Amendment guarantees the right "to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation." U.S. Const. amend. VI. "[F]act[s] that increase[]…
25-6584 Leihinahina Sullivan v. United States Ninth Circuit 2026-01-14 Pending Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judicial-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment (1) Whether Standley Counsel Richard Hoke Violated Sullivans waht +0 eelt vepresentahon when he filed a Nohcee of Tntent that =) to Judge wt. Michael …
25-6583 John Hotaling v. United States Second Circuit 2026-01-14 Pending Response WaivedIFP breach-of-contract criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement santobello-standard sentencing-guidelines Whether the government breaches a plea agreement, and violates due process under Santobello v. New York, 404 U.S. 257 (1971), when it enters into an a…
25-6581 Michael David Dunn v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-14 Pending Response WaivedIFP AEDPA criminal-procedure federal-review habeas-corpus self-defense sufficiency-of-evidence 1. What is the standard of review for a federal habeas court for analyzing a sufficiency-of-the evidence claim under the Anti-Terrorism and Effective …
25A819 Ashton J. Ryan, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-01-14 Application attorney-client-privilege certiorari criminal-procedure fifth-circuit statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Question not identified.
25-833 Duane Letroy Berry v. United States Fourth Circuit 2026-01-14 Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-commitment congressional-power constitutional-limits criminal-procedure due-process federal-custody Whether 18 U.S.C. § 4246(a) exceeds the constitutional limits of Congress's powers insofar as it permits the federal government to civilly commit a pe…
25-6555 Fredrick Dontae Slade v. United States Fourth Circuit 2026-01-13 Pending IFP appeal-waiver constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process plea-agreement 1. IS A DEFEDANT'S RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS OF LAW VIOLATED WHEN THE GOVERNMENT REQUIRES AN APPEAL WAIVER AS PART OF A PLEA AGREEMENT?
25-6571 Maxo Casseus v. Florida Florida 2026-01-13 Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial serious-felony sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner was derived of his right, under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged w…
25A812 Jesus Herrera-Salazar v. United States Tenth Circuit 2026-01-13 Application court-appointed-counsel criminal-conviction criminal-procedure federal-appeal tenth-circuit writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
25-6560 Tony Daniel Klein v. United States Ninth Circuit 2026-01-13 Pending Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-defense criminal-procedure evidence-exclusion sixth-amendment witness-bias Does a court violate a criminal defendant's constitutional right to present a defense by excluding the strongest evidence supporting the sole theory o…
25A803 Henry Wade v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-12 Application constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial prosecutorial-misconduct structural-error Whether the Petition presents multiple preserved structural constitutional questions of exceptional national importance, including: constructive amend…
25-816 Kenneth R. Spirito v. United States Fourth Circuit 2026-01-09 Pending Response Waived brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct Under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), and its progeny, prosecutors have an obligation to disclose evidence favorable to the accused, either bec…
25-6533 Arthur Raffy Aslanian v. United States Ninth Circuit 2026-01-09 Pending IFP appeal-waiver appellate-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment post-trial-agreement Whether a post-trial waiver of appeal is unknowing and involuntary, and therefore invalid under the Fifth Amendment, where petitioner was not fully ad…
25-6521 Romeo Valentin Sanchez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-09 Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review plea-bargaining sentencing-exposure 1. May a conviction be overturned if Counsel gave erroneous advice regarding a sentence exposure that induced Petitioner to reject a favorable plea of…
25-6525 Bryant Calloway v. United States Third Circuit 2026-01-08 Pending Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure legal-ethics model-rules professional-conduct prosecutorial-ethics sanctions Is requesting, For sanctions inapplicable in criminal Proceedings when an or violates the Model Rules i professiona| Con uct ? Tin requesting that so…
25-6524 Aderito Patrick Amado v. United States First Circuit 2026-01-08 Pending Response WaivedIFP collective-knowledge-doctrine criminal-procedure drug-trafficking evidence-suppression police-investigation traffic-stop 1. Following a months-long investigation into drug trafficking and while preparing to search an apartment within a large apartment complex, police obs…
25-797 Steven J. Hecke v. United States Seventh Circuit 2026-01-07 Pending Response Waived affidavit-omissions criminal-procedure fourth-amendment franks-hearing probable-cause search-warrant 1. Whether, and how, Franks applies to material information that is omitted from a search warrant affidavit. 2. Whether omissions from a search warra…
25-6512 Aubrey C. Trail v. Nebraska Nebraska 2026-01-07 Pending IFP conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process indigent-rights ineffective-assistance post-conviction 1. Does a state violate this Court's precedent and the Due Process clause when it penalizes the request for the appointment of conflict-free counsel? …
25-6499 Nycole Amaury Rosario Sanchez v. United States First Circuit 2026-01-07 Pending Response WaivedIFP age-consideration circuit-split criminal-procedure juvenile-sentencing sentencing-guidelines youth-mitigating-factor Whether youth (minor age) at the time of the commission of a criminal offense, with its intrinsic characteristics, is inherently a mitigating factor t…
25-6494 River William Smith v. United States Eighth Circuit 2026-01-06 Pending Response WaivedIFP conduct-dismissal criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion political-beliefs sentencing 1) Whether a Defendant can be held accountable at sentencing for conduct that was dismissed? 2) Whether a Defendant's sentence can be enhanced becaus…
25-6487 Derrick S. Lewis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-06 Pending Response WaivedIFP apprendi-rule criminal-procedure fifth-amendment jury-determination sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment 1. Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments are violated when a sentencing judge, rather than a jury, finds facts that otherwise alter the minimum and/o…
25-6488 Matthew Jones v. Dave Yost, Attorney General of Ohio Sixth Circuit 2026-01-06 Pending IFP criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement plea-offer right-to-counsel sixth-amendment The first question presented is : Should the Sixth Amendment right to counsel attach at the moment an accused is confronted by his expert adversary w…
25-6491 Billy J. Wilkins v. United States Sixth Circuit 2026-01-06 Pending Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure judicial-fact-finding right-to-jury right-to-silence second-amendment sixth-circuit I. Is the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in United States v. Williams, 113 F.4th 637 (6th Cir. 2024) unconstitutional because it allows a judge…
25-6496 Paul D. Carr v. Jeff Macomber, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2026-01-06 Pending IFP brady-violation criminal-procedure evidence-tampering habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pinholster-exception 1) Does this court's decision in Cullen v. Pinholster, 563 U.S.170; 131 S.CT. 1388 (2011), permit an exception whereby federal courts may consider ne…
25-6493 Paul Keith Barksdale v. Jeffrey Wehking, Warden Seventh Circuit 2026-01-06 Pending Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus Question not identified.
25-778 Natalia Mikhaylovna Bardakova v. United States Second Circuit 2026-01-05 Pending Response Waived criminal-procedure due-process foreign-national fugitive-disentitlement international-law motion-to-dismiss Whether a court may refuse to consider a foreign national defendant's motion to dismiss an indictment based on the fugitive disentitlement doctrine wh…
25-6478 Jeremy Edward Johnson v. United States Third Circuit 2026-01-05 Pending Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment harmless-error miranda-rights self-incrimination 1. DID THE THIRD CIRCUIT ERR BY ASSUMING EVEN IF THERE WAS A MIRANDA VIOLATION, THE VIOLATION WAS HARMLESS? a. Did the Third Circuit err by not deter…
25-6471 Marcia Vazquez Rijos v. United States First Circuit 2026-01-02 Pending Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure conspiracy criminal-procedure indicative-ruling jurisdiction sixth-amendment Rule 37 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure allows a party to seek an indicative ruling from the district court while an appeal is pending. Whi…
25-6466 Israel Alberto Rivas Gomez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2026-01-02 Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process miranda-warning right-to-counsel Whether law enforcement's advisement to a defendant that entirely omits the "if he so desires" language regarding the right to appointed counsel satis…
25A758 Sean Paul Baker v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-12-31 Application confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidence-rule-412 sexual-abuse witness-credibility Question not identified.
25-773 Joseph John Slack v. Robert McHugh, et al. Third Circuit 2025-12-31 Pending Response Waived criminal-procedure felony-charges grand-jury pennsylvania-law probable-cause statewide-investigation Whether the presentment of a statewide investigating grand jury in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania constitutes prima facie evidence of probable cause…
25-6465 Ledale Deanthony Sawyer v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-12-31 Pending IFP appeal-waiver appellate-review criminal-procedure habeas-corpus legal-argument sentencing-error 1. Whether a defendant's appeal waiver bars appellate review of a clear sentencing error when the defendant preserved the exact legal argument below a…
25-6464 Djonibek Rahmankulov v. United States Second Circuit 2025-12-31 Pending IFP bank-fraud co-conspirator-liability constructive-amendment criminal-procedure loss-calculation sentencing-guidelines 1. A writ of certiorari is requested to determine whether the district court's loss calculation which included intended losses under §2B1.1 Applicatio…
25-6458 Matthew Darrel Childers v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-12-31 Pending Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance mandate-recall sixth-circuit 1. Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred when it denied without explanation Petitioner's Motion to Recall the Mandate, Strike Reply Brief o…
25-6446 David Allen Benson v. Superior Court of California, Orange County, et al. California 2025-12-30 Pending IFP criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance mandamus-petition sixth-amendment speedy-trial 1. Was Petitioner denied his right to speedy trial, even his criminal Trial has been delayed for six years without his consent? 2. Did Petitioner suf…
25A750 Joseph Allen Maldonado v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-12-29 Application brady-violation criminal-procedure invited-error post-conviction-relief recantation rule-33 Question not identified.
25-6442 Michael Hinds v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-12-29 Pending Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure harmless-error prior-offenses sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation structural-error Does the ACCA occasions -different inquiry, requiring a detailed, multi- factored analysis of the facts surrounding at least three prior offenses— fac…
25-6436 Francisco Junior Louis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-29 Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights covid-delay criminal-procedure grand-jury pro-se-motion speedy-trial Is a criminal defendant's statutory and constitutional right to a speedy trial violated when the delay in obtaining an indictment arose from the gover…
25-6433 Avis Coward v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-12-29 Pending Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-review constitutional-challenge constitutional-review criminal-law criminal-procedure role-enhancement second-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation 1. Whether this Honorable Court should grant certiorari to review whether the Sixth Circuit's determination that 18 U.S.C §922(g) is constitutional on…
25-6431 Edin Anael Solis-Rodriguez v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-12-23 Pending Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure guilty-plea plain-error-standard rule-11 sentencing Does a defendant's failure to object to a Rule 11(b)(1)(H)-(I) error count against him twice, not only by subjecting him to the rigorous plain-error s…
25A742 Shameek J. Halls v. United States Second Circuit 2025-12-23 Application bureau-of-prisons criminal-procedure judicial-review plea-agreement second-circuit summary-order Question not identified.
25-6429 Georgiy Chipunov v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-12-23 Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP as-applied-challenge criminal-procedure facial-challenge first-amendment ninth-circuit true-threats In Counterman v. Colorado, 600 U.S. 66, 73 (2023), the Court clarified that, to comply with the First Amendment's protections, prosecutors "must prove…
25-6412 Israel Navarro v. New York New York 2025-12-22 Pending Response WaivedIFP apprendi-rule criminal-procedure fifth-amendment jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments guarantee criminal defendants, like the petitioner Israel Navarro, the right to a jury trial on statutorily req…
25-6413 Marcus T. Dixon v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-12-22 Pending Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure law-enforcement probation-condition property-rights standing-to-challenge warrantless-search 1) Law enforcement conducted warrantless searches related to Marcus Dixon and a supervision condition that allowed searches of "his" property. He move…
25-6415 Juan Viana-Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-12-22 Pending Response WaivedIFP bureau-of-prisons criminal-procedure custodial-sentence judicial-modification rule-36 sentencing Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 36 is titled "Clerical Error" and states, "[a]fter giving any notice it considers appropriate, the court may at any…
25-6411 Gregory Johnson, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-12-22 Pending IFP appeal-waiver appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement Can a criminal defendant knowingly and voluntarily waive the right to appeal a district court's yet-to-be-made errors as part of a plea agreement, and…
25-6401 Frankie Centeno v. United States Second Circuit 2025-12-18 Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure felony-conviction gun-rights second-amendment supervised-release 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional on its face or as applied to Petitioner because, consistent with theSecond Amendment, the federal…
25-715 Masahide Kanayama v. Scott Kowal, Chief Pretrial Services Officer, Southern District of New York, et al. Second Circuit 2025-12-18 Pending Response Waived criminal-procedure damage-calculation district-court dual-criminality extradition japanese-law Whether in certifying Dr. Masahide Kanayama's extradition to Japan, the District Court for the Southern District of New York improperly relied on a hy…
25-6396 Javier Rivera Franco v. Texas Texas 2025-12-17 Pending IFP conviction-validity criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure sentencing-error 1. Is Petitioner Franco illegally imprisoned under a invalid 75 year sentence in Indictment / Cause No. F05-45713-T and under a invalid conviction ?…
25A705 Charles Albert Massey v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2025-12-17 Application confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination hearsay-evidence preliminary-hearing sixth-amendment Question not identified.
25-6378 Kriston Price v. Ohio Ohio 2025-12-16 Pending IFP aggravated-murder criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-instruction self-defense sixth-amendment 1. Whether sufficient evidence existed to reject the defense of self defense where the defendant was violently attacked, beaten, and through the a mir…
25-6385 Johnathan Morrison v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-12-16 Pending IFP appeal-waiver appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court miscarriage-of-justice sentencing-guideline Does the miscarriage of justice exception to appeal waivers apply to an appellate claim that a district court sentenced a defendant under the wrong se…
25-6387 Joan Diaz Gonzalez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure de-novo-standard sixth-amendment speedy-trial The Sixth Amendment provides: "In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial . . . ." The question pres…
25-6389 Kingsley Ita v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-12-16 Pending IFP appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement sentencing-procedure I. Does a general appeal waiver in a plea agreement bar a criminal defendant from challenging a sentence on due process grounds when the sentencing co…
25-6366 Jarrett Howard v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP confidential-informant criminal-procedure fentanyl heroin probable-cause search-warrant I. Did probable cause exist to issue a search warrant when the affidavit for the warrant did not say when the confidential informant saw heroin and fe…
25-6367 Luis Daniel Fuentes v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 3553(a)-factors appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion mitigating-evidence sentencing Whether a sentencing court must address mitigating evidence and arguments offered by defense counsel regarding factors set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a…
25-695 Maxwell A. Matthew v. United States Armed Forces 2025-12-15 Denied Response Waived convening-authority court-martial criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment military-justice Staff Sergeant (SSgt) Maxwell A. Matthew's Convening Authority ordered his court-martial conviction expunged. He then ordered SSgt Matthew to again fa…
25A694 Andrew Burgess Gregg v. Colorado Colorado 2025-12-15 Application apprendi-line criminal-procedure double-jeopardy habitual-offender sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Question not identified.
25-6353 Marcin Sosniak v. Charles Mims, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure death-penalty evidence-retrieval ineffective-assistance police-interview right-to-counsel Whether Petitioner has received ineffective assistance of counsel where Petitioner's counsel allowed Petitioner who was facing the death penalty to ac…
25-6354 Osric Tyrone Daise v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure plain-error punishment revocation sentencing supervised-release Whether the district court committed plain error in revoking Mr. Daise's supervised release pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3583(e) when the court's expressed…
25-689 George Sharrod Johns v. Georgia Georgia 2025-12-12 Pending Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse Waived autopsy confrontation-clause criminal-procedure hearsay sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence A forensic pathologist who performed an autopsy on a homicide victim was unavailable for trial. In her place, the State of Georgia offered testimony b…
25-690 Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. v. Bradley Bieganski Ninth Circuit 2025-12-12 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived burden-shifting constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ninth-circuit-review Did the Ninth Circuit fail to apply the correct deferential standard of review, as set out in 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d), and also misapply this Court's prec…
25-6341 Selvin Edgardo Molina-Guzman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion presentence-report sentencing If a federal criminal defendant fails to present rebuttal evidence, is the district court is free to adopt the Presentence Report's findings without f…
25-6345 Felix Verdejo-Sanchez v. United States First Circuit 2025-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce pro-se-representation subject-matter-jurisdiction Can the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit deny the Petitioner his motion pro se requesting to invoke the supervisory power of the Court to verify…
25-6321 Wenlasombo Ilboudo v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process language-barrier rule-11-colloquy sentencing-rights waiver-of-appeal Whether a defendant who speaks no English may properly be determined to have waived his right to appeal a substantively unreasonable sentence without …
25-6324 Craig Edward Hunnicutt, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure factual-findings self-defense sentencing-discretion sixth-circuit supervised-release I. Whether the Sixth Circuit decision affirming Mr. Hunnicutt's supervised release violation and new law convictions, improperly upheld the clearly er…
25A678 Thurmond McDonald v. Florida Florida 2025-12-09 Application constitutional-rights criminal-procedure habitual-offender jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Question not identified.
25-6316 Kyle Ray Campbell v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-12-08 Pending IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure ninth-circuit sentence-reasonableness sentencing waiver Whether the district court erred and imposed a substantively unreasonable sentence of three hundred months? Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal…
25-6293 Melvin Leon Myrick v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure federal-procedure judicial-timing pretrial-hearing speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation Whether a final ruling at a pretrial hearing stops the Speedy Trial Act clock from running, consistent with the dictates of 18 U.S.C. § 3161.
25-6300 Anthony Jones v. United States Third Circuit 2025-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-violations criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance plain-error structural-defects I. Whether structural constitutional defects in indictments should be reviewed under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52's plain error standard when…
25-6265 Rodney Hamilton Higgins, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-12-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure drug-trafficking evidence-preservation fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment requires more than a defendant's status as a drug dealer and residential address to establish probable cause for a sea…
25-6271 Eric Arthur Walton v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-12-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure discretionary-standard district-court pro-se-representation standard-of-review supervised-release Whether the standard of review of a district court's decision to allow a defendant to proceed pro se at a supervised release revocation hearing is de …
25A638 William Lewis Reece v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-12-02 Application coerced-confession criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment interrogation-techniques self-incrimination Question not identified.
25A644 Markhel D'John Harris-Franklin v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-12-02 Application circuit-split continuance criminal-procedure ends-of-justice reasonableness speedy-trial-act Whether ends-of-justice continuances granted under the Speedy Trial Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3161(h)(7), may be open-ended.
25-618 Craig Jonathan Warner v. Texas Texas 2025-12-01 Pending constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process false-testimony fourteenth-amendment witness-testimony 1. At least ten states' courts and four federal circuit courts recognize that a state's unknowing presentation of false testimony denies a defendant d…
25-6259 Sam Boyd v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP continuance criminal-procedure judicial-discretion speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation trial-court-procedure When a trial court grants an "ends of justice" continuance pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3161(h)(7)(A), is it required to make specific factual findings bey…
25-6248 Nathan David Black v. Ryan Flores, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-11-26 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction protection-order Question not identified.
25-6255 Aaron J. Thorpe v. United States District of Columbia 2025-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-ii criminal-procedure executive-power final-conviction prosecutorial-discretion separation-of-powers In our constitutional system of separated powers, Article II vests the Executive Branch with the plenary authority to initiate and terminate criminal …
25-6240 Joel Contreras-Aguilar v. Texas Texas 2025-11-25 Pending Response RequestedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process immigration-status ineffective-assistance strickland-standard Has the State of Texas courts undermined presently established federal law in regards to the disclosure of immigration status of defendants in crimina…
25-6241 Vincent Gerald Garcia v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy criminal-procedure jury-unanimity plain-error sixth-amendment vicar-prosecution Whether a district court commits plain error and violates a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to a unanimous jury verdict when it fails to give a spec…
25-6225 Alejandro Peña Salvador v. Washington Washington 2025-11-24 Denied IFP constitutional-rights counsel-representation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance The faal JisnsqarJ fa dew &via&>ce of /rre£^Ci|^bl£cpnB' c' b^+^eeAOe^dMi amd hfc Mr Pe?Ks> rtaH4 o reDfesen^-Von a'fn'idcA.i Coothci or &4«c3-!/e > q…
25-6228 James Anthony Hale v. Michigan Michigan 2025-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP arraignment criminal-procedure due-process jurisdictional-defect right-to-counsel sixth-amendment WHERE PETITIONER WAS DENIED HIS SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO COUNSEL DURING HIS INITIAL ARRAIGNMENT PROCEEDING, JURISDICTIONAL DEFECT DEPRIVE THE STATE C…
25-597 Donatus Iriele v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-21 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-procedure drug-statute jury-instructions reasonable-doubt subjective-knowledge Donatus Iriele was indicted for violations of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a) based on a superseding indictment that failed to allege a knowing violation of the st…
25-6199 Edgar Rene Garcia-Limon v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-sexual-abuse constitutional-sufficiency criminal-indictment criminal-procedure sexual-abuse statutory-language Whether an indictment charging violations of 18 U.S.C. § § 2241(c) and 2244 is constitutionally sufficient when it alleges only that the charged acts …
25-6180 David Craig Milam v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court guilty-plea judicial-discretion plea-withdrawal sentencing Whether the district court erred by denying Petitioner's motion to withdraw his guilty plea.
25-6190 Steven Dale Bradley v. Iowa Iowa 2025-11-20 Denied IFP appeal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus sentencing I. D& Aw 4 On4)Wlwl k invfrf ie^ $ pwhlons 4vd" hw 4o 4V^C SevWAC^5 ? 3, Do cnw\4U$ kw 4 6an^WW^h4 rtaW 4t> ex^cV pnmke^ AncWl^ ™udn^/ 5 ft w'HW ^re^…
25A594 Keith Lashon Bell v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-11-20 Application appeal-waiver constitutional-exception criminal-procedure federal-sentencing habeas-corpus plea-agreement Question not identified.
25A596 Eric W. Singleton v. United States Armed Forces 2025-11-20 Application appellate-review constitutional-right court-martial criminal-procedure military-justice unanimous-verdict Question not identified.
25-6157 Eric King v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment identity-theft indictment-defects I. DUBIN MISAPPLICATION Whether Petitioner's conviction for aggravated identity theft under 18 U.S.C. § 1028A can stand where, contrary to Dubin v. Un…
25-6158 John Nock v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-11-19 Pending IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-court APPOINT SUBSTITUTE 10 TCOnN <S?T'S REFUS AL to nock's SIXTH AMENDMENT URSTrmt VI0LATED MR. representation ? DMENT RIGHT To effective ■noc™sR fifth a…
25-6161 James Capers v. United States Second Circuit 2025-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-standard apprendi-rule constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure jury-instructions sentencing-enhancement 1) In regards to 21 U.S.C. §846, to be in accordance with both Apprendi and Alleyne , to punish as 21 U.S.C. §841(b)(1)(A) (10 to life), must the ju…
25-6164 Shannon Bernard Jackson v. Texas Texas 2025-11-19 Denied IFP anders-brief appellate-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment pro-se-brief QUESTION No. 1: Is a criminal defendant deprived of his rights under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution to file a pro se brief…
25-6168 Carl Rose v. United States Third Circuit 2025-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process hearsay-evidence revocation-hearing supervised-release Whether the Due Process Clause and Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 32.1(b)(2)(C) require a district court, before admitting hearsay at a supervised…
25-6169 Elias Xavier Rosario Torres v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure firearm-statute mandatory-minimum mens-rea statutory-interpretation A person who is convicted under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence or drug trafficking crime, but who…
25-6173 Charles Jason Carmichael v. South Carolina South Carolina 2025-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process hearsay-testimony trial-error X. 4^ $ X. S-t-M-j-e $ Cot>r4 e^cej4 no4 nj v^UoX^ e'r 4\i€ 4r<c<l Coucf errcA in cv<Jvn.44->n« He +es4>'w,otnj cl"' <1 vJifnesS Q.C. , ^kex-fc -He c…
25A591 Nadarius Barnes v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-11-19 Application appellate-rights circuit-split criminal-procedure guilty-plea plea-agreement waiver Whether, by entering an unconditional guilty plea, a defendant waives his right to appeal the conviction on the basis that the conduct admitted in the…
25-6151 Christopher Lewis Tucker v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure medication-administration pretrial-custody sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervised-release Is a twenty-five year term of supervised release with stringent special conditions including the forced administration of medication "greater than nec…
25A584 Dylan Gregory Kerstetter v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-11-18 Application certiorari criminal-procedure deadline-extension jurisdictional-requirements petition-timing supreme-court Whether a defendant convicted under a state law that plainly criminalizes conduct outside the federal definition must point to actual state-court pros…
25A588 Alexis D. Negrón-Cruz v. United States First Circuit 2025-11-18 Application constitutional-rights criminal-procedure federal-public-defender first-circuit statutory-interpretation writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
25-583 Rodney Towe v. Georgia Georgia 2025-11-17 Denied criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion terry-stop Whether lawful, commonplace conduct that law abiding citizens routinely engage in can establish reasonable suspicion because it occurs near an expecte…
25-6136 Damien Antione Jones v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-11-17 Pending IFP appellate-waiver collateral-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement Petitioner is serving a sentence for an offense that was later declared unconstitutional by this Court in United States v. Davis, 588 U.S. 445 (2019),…
25-6141 Mark Abercrombie v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines Whether errors in calculating the Sentencing Guidelines are rendered categorically harmless by the district court's routine and boilerplate assertion …
25-6142 John Elwood Tyrone Martin v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-11-17 Pending IFP appeal-waiver criminal-procedure district-court guilty-plea mandate-rule sentencing-error I. If a court of appeals recognizes a sentencing error and remands for resentencing, does the mandate rule bar the district court from considering a d…
25-6116 Frank Iglesias v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure discretion early-termination ninth-circuit sentencing supervised-release Did the Ninth Circuit abused it's discretion in finding that Petitioner is not entitled to shortening or terminating supervised release of his sentenc…
25-6119 Charvez Brooks v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure ends-of-justice judicial-continuance speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation Whether the Speedy Trial Act's "ends of justice" provision, 18 U.S.C. § 3161(h)(7)(A), permits open-ended continuances that lack a definite terminatio…
25-6123 Osvaldo Gonzalez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP barker-review criminal-procedure liberty-interests pretrial-delay sixth-amendment speedy-trial Whether Barker v. Wingo's rejection of fixed time periods in defining the scope of the Sixth Amendment's Speedy Trial Clause has been abrogated and re…
25-6127 Brodrick Eugene Davis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-11-14 Pending IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Does 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) violate the Fifth and Sixth amendments?
25-565 Yogesh K. Pancholi v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-11-12 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived bad-faith compulsory-process criminal-procedure discovery-violation sixth-amendment witness-preclusion Whether the Constitution permits a trial court to impose witness preclusion as a sanction for a discovery violation in a criminal case, absent a findi…
25-6080 Warren Ellwood Shelton, Jr. v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2025-11-12 Denied IFP appeals-process constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing /\JVQU &Jt| %4rk O'D'^fS llLOl <1-1 e. OtoLuUltj ® \AJkkcj is \(v^0LiAcuie Clu&m nz4 bdrvj z\^pl?W 4o jaW£M j^ iw& pjnadr&& 1^-k) Leuv k| Aftz. Q^&c…
25-6084 Paul Gregory Perry v. Robert Van Gorder, Warden North Carolina 2025-11-12 Denied IFP appellate-counsel constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus sixth-amendment 1) Whether "Carpenter 222. ters" hralding i ratzaac hive ta Renton S Whee Convictiansand. Sentence 5 xele 2) jae Phar-capppellate counsel. tua je Fle…
25A542 Deoman Reeves v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-11-12 Application criminal-procedure drug-trafficking firearm-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Question not identified.
25A552 Gregory Johnson, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-11-12 Application appeal-waiver career-offender circuit-split criminal-procedure plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines Question not identified.
25-6092 Olegario Lares-De La Rosa v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence-interpretation federal-rules-of-evidence law-enforcement-testimony lay-opinion Whether Federal Rule of Evidence 701 permits a law enforcement officer to provide a lay opinion about the meaning of ordinary language used in a recor…
25-6075 Derek Muñoz-Gonzalez v. United States First Circuit 2025-11-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP breach-of-contract criminal-procedure guideline-range plea-agreement prosecutorial-conduct sentencing-enhancement Whether the prosecution breached the plea agreement by vigorously advocating, at sentencing, for the application of two enhancements, that the parties…
25-551 United States v. Shaheem Johnson Fourth Circuit 2025-11-06 Pending criminal-procedure district-court extraordinary-reasons sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the district court permissibly found "extraordinary and compelling reasons" to allow reduction of respondent's sentence under 18 U.S.C. 3582(c…
25-6042 Calvin Shaw v. United States District of Columbia 2025-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP alibi-witnesses appellate-review criminal-procedure government-witnesses ineffective-assistance trial-counsel I- DID THE COURT OF APPEALS ERR WHEN IT DID NOT FIND TRIAL COUNSELS REPRESENTATION OF MR. SHAW INEFFECTIVE BASED ON HIS FAILURE TO CALL ALIBI WITNESSE…
25A527 Cristian Chaverra Moreno v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-06 Application criminal-procedure district-court eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Question not identified.
25-6019 Juan Mendez v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-11-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure death-threats extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus plea-coercion sentence-reduction 1. Did both the United States District Court and Sixth Circuit Court of Appeal 3-judge panel fail to properly execercise its permissible authority to …
25-6003 Quinn R. Turner v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment Whether Mr. Turner's due process of law rights of the Fifth Amendment U.S. Constitution were violated by the district court failing to adjudicate the …
25-6004 Fillmore Wright v. Louisiana Louisiana 2025-10-31 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment uncorroborated-confession Under the U.S. Constitution Amendment VI's right to a fair trial and the due process clause of U.S. Constitution Amendment XIV, can a conviction rest …
25-6006 Jerry W. Green, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure indictment-charging rico-conspiracy sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum Whether, pursuant to Alleyne v. United States, 570 U.S. 99, 133 S.Ct 2151, 186 L.Ed.2d 314 (2013) and Apprendi v New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 120 S.Ct 23…
25-524 Cedric Ray Jones v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-10-30 Pending circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instructions structural-error I. Does a district court's failure to instruct a jury in open court result in structural error, automatically producing a violation of a defendant's s…
25-5991 Jairo Arnaldo Jacome v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instruction structural-error I. Does a district court's failure to instruct a jury in open court result in structural error, automatically producing a violation of a defendant's s…
25-5992 In Re Roger Larry McCluer 2025-10-30 Denied IFP capital-murder constitutional-rights criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining 1. WHETHER OR NOT COUNSEL'S ADVICE TO PETITIONER, TO FOREGO A TWENTY (20) YEAR PLEA OFFER, WHEN THE STATE THREATENED TO RE-VISIT THE "CAPITAL MURDER" …
25-6000 Demeccio Caston v. Louisiana Louisiana 2025-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause crawford-rule criminal-procedure due-process hearsay testimonial-evidence Whether permitting a detective to testify to unconfronted, testimonial hearsay statements that directly inculpate a defendant statements, made by witn…
25-6001 Charles Chad Giese v. Edward Borla, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance miranda-rights prosecutorial-misconduct I. Did Trial Counsel Render Ineffective Assistance by Failing to present Evidence About the Psychological and Physical Effects of Methamphetamine and …
25-525 Damion Anthony Delapena v. Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-29 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidence-suppression habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining 1. Does federal habeas petitioner make a "substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right" under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(2) where his trial at…
25-5968 Mark Wheeler v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-28 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process involuntary-commitment mental-competency 1. Does the mandatory commitment of a permanently incompetent defendant solely to assess the possibility of restoring competency violate due process?
25-5974 Terrance Douglas Baker v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion rule-32 sentencing Does a district court violate Fed. R. Crim. P. 32(i)(C)(1) when it relies upon news stories or other information outside the record in determining a d…
25-5975 Thiago de Sousa Prado v. United States First Circuit 2025-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-disqualification conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process professional-conduct prosecutorial-ethics Does the Due Process Clause permit a United States Attorney's Office to prosecute a criminal defendant when the Acting U.S. Attorney previously served…
25-5977 Dwayne Ernest Wharton v. Texas Texas 2025-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility fourth-amendment gps-tracking search-warrant third-party-doctrine Does a violation of the Fourth Amendment, as enunciated in this Court's holdings in Carpenter v. United States, 138 U.S. 2206 (2018) and United States…
25-5981 Erick Pizarro-Mercado v. United States First Circuit 2025-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure evidence-sufficiency federal-rules procedural-error rule-29 sentencing Whether evidence was sufficient to justify the district court denial of Rule 29 of the Fed. R. Crim. P. Whether the district court committed reversib…
25A481 Steven J. Hecke v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-10-28 Application constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty extension-of-time supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
25A485 Matthew Borges v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-10-28 Application certiorari co-defendant criminal-procedure due-process extension-of-time petition Question not identified.
25A487 Jairo Huertas-Mercado v. United States First Circuit 2025-10-28 Application constitutional-delay criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sixth-amendment speedy-trial Question not identified.
25-5963 Cesar Edgardo Castillo-Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-10-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing-guidelines Whether, after Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, 589 U.S. 169 (2020), a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails to reference…
25-512 Jibril Adamu v. United States Second Circuit 2025-10-24 Pending confrontation-clause criminal-procedure drug-trafficking extraterritorial-application sixth-amendment testimonial-hearsay 1. Whether the crime of possession with intent to distribute under 21 U.S.C. §959(c)(2) applies extraterritorially. 2. Whether a non-testifying analy…
25-5955 Jarred Javon Ford v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-protection criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process judicial-inquiry waiver-of-counsel Whether the Court should prescribe more specific requirements to ensure consistency and that defendants' waivers are knowing, voluntary, and intellige…
25-502 Christina Paylan v. Florida Florida 2025-10-23 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-procedure florida-law nolle-prosequi sixth-amendment speedy-trial Does the State of Florida violate Petitioner's Sixth Amendment Right to speedy trial applicable to the State through the Fourteenth Amendment, by comm…
25-5931 Caleb Campbell v. Officer Terry Pruitt, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-10-22 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge conviction-review criminal-procedure due-process procedural-grounds state-court I.Wh^v -Pv^Ul'M h\s SubsWiWe tiiAe. Process uAiev-e 0 < um.M tAvvM Wl ^4 feuwo( oh A-33^^kd Hee,^ AUekMpUj -k E-luiAc A PoWoPficcv- pv-t0V. 4c, -P4;lz…
25-5939 Michael Georgie Carson v. Michigan Michigan 2025-10-22 Denied IFP criminal-procedure fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance probable-cause search-warrant sixth-amendment DOES THE MICHIGAN SUPREME COURT'S DECISION CONFLICT WITH THE U.S. SUPREME COURT'S CASELAW, WHEN THEY OVERTURNED THE MICHIGAN COURT OF APPEALS FINDING …
25A460 George Sharrod Johns v. Georgia Georgia 2025-10-22 Application confrontation-clause criminal-procedure expert-testimony forensic-pathology sixth-amendment testimonial-statements Question not identified.
25-5919 Kevin Griffin v. New York New York 2025-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process false-testimony fourteenth-amendment search-warrant 1. Did the State Courts error by denying Petitioner 's Fourteenth Amendment 's Due process rights by the State's knowing use of false testimony and th…
25-5922 Victor M. Hernandez-Carrasquillo v. United States First Circuit 2025-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court evidence-sufficiency rule-29 sentencing Whether evidence was sufficient to justify the district court denial of Rule 29 of the Fed. R. Crim. P. Whether the district court committed reversib…
25-5924 Lennard Rashard Monroe v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-procedure participant-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission Whether a customer can be counted as a participant for purposes of U.S.S.G. §3B1.1(b)?
25-5912 David Everette v. New York New York 2025-10-20 Denied IFP apprendi-rule criminal-procedure judicial-fact-finding persistent-felony-offender sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Since deciding that the fact of a prior conviction can "authorize" a longer sentence, Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224, 246 (1998), th…
25-5914 Martins Inalegwu v. United States Third Circuit 2025-10-20 Pending IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing-error variance Whether a district judge can render sentencing errors harmless by stating it would have imposed the same sentence regardless of any error, or by simpl…
25-5917 Thomas Avery Drum v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court-authority judicial-discretion new-trial-motion rule-33 weight-of-evidence When a criminal defendant files a timely motion for a new trial under Rule 33(b)(2), what is the scope of the district court's authority to grant a ne…
25-5918 Tommie Lee Page, aka Tommie Page, aka Tommy Page v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP crimes-of-violence criminal-procedure habitual-offender indictment-amendment sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation 1) Whether the Mississippi habitual offender amendment to Page's indictment was illegal and void since the motion to amend Page's indictment was not f…
25-474 Justin Baggett v. Texas Texas 2025-10-17 Denied criminal-procedure due-process impeachment-evidence ineffective-assistance plea-agreement strickland-standard I. Whether trial counsel's failure to investigate and discover impeachment evidence against a key prosecution witness before a defendant accepts a ple…
25A440 Meelad Dezfooli v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-10-17 Application counsel-of-choice criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Question not identified.
25A444 Bernard Kentrell Breeland, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-10-17 Presumed Complete bruen-framework confrontation-clause criminal-procedure felon-in-possession lay-opinion-testimony second-amendment Question not identified.
25A449 Kerry E. Silvers v. Indiana Indiana 2025-10-17 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure criminal-procedure indiana-supreme-court legal-standards post-conviction-relief retroactive-law Question not identified.
25-5900 Latisha Anderson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-10-16 Denied Relisted (3)IFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment liberty-interest prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment I. THE FOURTH CIRCUIT 'S DECISION FINDING NO PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT OR NO IMPROPER INTERFERENCE BY THE DISTRICT COURT IS CONTRARY TO THE FIFTH AM…
25-5907 Cory Collin Fitzgerald Sanders v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure evidence-inference guilty-knowledge jury-instruction specific-intent willful-intent In a federal criminal prosecution that requires proof of specific intent, may a court instruct the jury that it may infer willful intent or guilty kno…
25-5880 Derrick Gregory James v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-15 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-review sentence-modification "What constitutes the legal meaning of the word "Active"? Does a Double Jeopardy Violation, and Due Process Violation Occur Whenever a Dept. of Corre…
25-5887 Dorice Moore v. Florida Florida 2025-10-15 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery-violation dna-evidence due-process exculpatory-evidence 1. Why was the DNA allowed to be down played by the state without defense providing proof of its importance at the crime scene? 2. If the state did n…
25-5892 Daniel Jacob Werk v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court federal-rule judgment-of-acquittal ninth-circuit rule-29-motion Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in upholding the district court's denial of Petitioner's Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 29 motion for judgment of …
25-5895 Rickey Johnson, aka Sealed Defendant 1, aka Neil Dawn Defarren v. United States Second Circuit 2025-10-15 Pending IFP circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-procedure harmless-error jury-trial sixth-amendment L. Whether the acknowledged violation of a federal criminal defendant's right to a jury of 12, under Fed. R. Crim. P. 23(b), can be harmless, a questi…
25-5896 Shawn Travis Paschal v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure imprisonment reasonableness-standard sentencing-review supervised-release Whether sentences of imprisonment following the revocation of supervised release should be reviewed for reasonableness or plain unreasonableness?
25-5899 Michael Keith Marechale v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure invited-error jury-instruction waiver "Courts of Appeals have stated . . . under the 'invited error' doctrine that a party may not complain on appeal of errors that he himself invited or p…
25A432 Kevin McCarthy, Superintendent, Elmira Correctional Facility v. Pedro Hernandez Second Circuit 2025-10-15 Presumed Complete cold-case constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidence-standard jurisdiction-review missing-child Question not identified.
25-5870 In Re Joshua Meadors 2025-10-14 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custody-credits due-process probation statutory-error Comes Now trot petitioner and Mawnan' Sochus Meadors, moves Pio honorable Court im MUNG wahiiy Pray Constitution,| Righia has been deprived oP, on ari…
25A422 Chanson A. Johnson v. United States Armed Forces 2025-10-14 Presumed Complete appellate-review criminal-procedure drug-conviction firearms-prohibition military-justice supreme-court-jurisdiction Question not identified.
25-5857 Russell Kimble Jackson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender criminal-procedure drug-felony first-step-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation 1. After the First Step Act enactment date of December 21, 2018. Is it true it now takes two or more "serious drug felonies" or two or more prior "ser…
25-5865 Aaron Norman Dunn v. California California 2025-10-10 Denied IFP capital-punishment criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment payne-v-tennessee victim-impact-evidence Whether under Payne v. Tennessee, 501 U.S. 808 (1991), a prosecutor can be permitted to play for the jury during the penalty phase of a capital trial …
25-5842 Jorge Alberto Rodriguez v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-10-09 Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
25-5843 Carlos Lorenzo Jackson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2025-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus trial-procedure Question not identified.
25-5847 Charlie Green v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure indictment-sufficiency penalty-provision rico-conspiracy sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation 1. Whether the failure of the Indictment to include a reference to the penalty provision, 18 U.S.C. § 1963(a), applicable to the offense of RICO consp…
25-5848 Cedric Milburn v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process government-cooperation rule-35b sentencing-reduction There is a conflict among the United States Courts of Appeals regarding the proper interpretation of Federal Rue of Criminal Procedure 35(b). The que…
25-5849 Darvin W. Gray v. Carrie Bridges, Warden Tenth Circuit 2025-10-09 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure federal-review habeas-corpus obstruction-of-justice statutory-interpretation The OCR text provided is too degraded and illegible to accurately extract the "Question(s) Presented" section. The handwritten or heavily corrupted te…
25-5851 Christopher Lynn Johnson v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2025-10-09 Denied IFP burden-of-proof constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance structural-error Does an attorney's failure to object to unconstitutional instructions that relieve the Commonwealth of its burden of disproving an accused's defense b…
25-5812 Michael Barreto v. United States Second Circuit 2025-10-07 Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP competency-hearing criminal-procedure defendant-rights judicial-discretion mental-competency statutory-interpretation If a district court orders a competency examination under § 4241(b) based upon reasonable cause to question a defendant's competency, is it mandatory …
25-5815 Wilclin Saintil v. Florida Florida 2025-10-07 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sixth-amendment witness-testimony I. WHETHER THE STATE COURT VIOLATED THE FIFTH, SIXTH, AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION IN DENYING THE ACCUSED HIS DUE PR…
25-5819 Max Fontes v. Arizona Arizona 2025-10-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure jury-trial ramos-precedent sixth-amendment twelve-person-jury Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a twelve-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony.
25-5821 Gregory Lee Rodvelt v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fifth-amendment official-duties sixth-amendment statutory-authority 1. Is a federal employee "engaged in. . . the performance of official duties" to sustain a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 111 when there is no statutory…
25-5823 Steven Nicholas Fulton v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fifth-amendment jury-verdict sixth-amendment Whether an appellate court may, consistent with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments, reinstate a jury's guilty verdict where the judge did not find, and th…
25-5797 Leigha Page Ackerson v. Colorado Colorado 2025-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure felony-murder legislative-amendment life-without-parole proportionality-review sentencing 1. Whether the procedure to affirm an LWOP sentence for felony murder once the Felony Murder bill 21-124 became effective is in the interest of jus…
25-399 Ronell Moses, Jr. v. United States Third Circuit 2025-10-03 Denied Amici (1) criminal-procedure curtilage fourth-amendment law-enforcement property-rights search-and-seizure 1. Whether a defendant's actual use of an area adjacent to his home is relevant to whether that area is curtilage under the Fourth Amendment, as four …
25A386 Trendell Walker v. United States Second Circuit 2025-10-02 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure habeas-corpus jurisdictional-defects structural-error venue-challenge warrant-forgery Question not identified.
25-385 Charles Ray Crawford v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-10-02 Denied capital-trial criminal-procedure retroactivity sixth-amendment structural-error teague-rule In McCoy v. Louisiana, 584 U.S. 414 (2018), this Court held that the Sixth Amendment guarantees the defendant the right to personally decide whether t…
25-5784 Daniel Raul Santiago Vasquez v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-10-02 Denied IFP capital-punishment criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment mitigation-testimony videoconference-testimony 1. Does the Eighth Amendment allow the State to prevent live mitigation testimony in favor of a capital defendant based upon financial reasons alone (…
25-5788 Kalup Allen Born v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure downward-departure harmless-error sentencing-guidelines A defendant who "demonstrates acceptance of responsibility" for the offense "shall" be awarded a deduction in the offense level. When a defendant's en…
25-5789 Joseph Anthony Barrett v. California California 2025-10-02 Denied IFP criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment implicit-bias juror-bias jury-selection sixth-amendment When a charged crime occurs within prison walls, do the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments require excusal for cause of prospective jurors who are employ…
25-5791 Raymond White v. United States Second Circuit 2025-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review charging-instrument criminal-procedure plain-error plea-review presentence-report Whether, in conducting plain-error prejudice review of a plea taken in violation of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11, an appellate court may rely…
25-5770 Charles Anthony Holmes v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-10-01 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure second-amendment statutory-interpretation strickland-standard 1. Whether 21 O.S. § 645, 644B are unconstitutional, as applied to Petitioner, because they violate the Second Amendment to the United States Constitu…
25-5771 Jared Wade Hinman, Sr. v. Illinois Illinois 2025-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process sufficiency-of-evidence trier-of-fact 1. Did the blanket refusal, by the Appellate Court of Illinois, to 'substitute their judgement for that of the Trier of Fact ', deny an affirmative de…
25-5769 Robert Scott Kennedy v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal burglary-statute criminal-procedure predicate-offense sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation 1. Whether Mr. Kennedy was erroneously sentenced as an armed career criminal and received sentencing guidelines enhancements based on two prior Georgi…
25A346 Caylon James Washington v. Texas Texas 2025-09-25 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure hearsay-objection rebuttal-witness sexual-assault substantial-rights trial-court-discretion Question not identified.
25-5716 Jesus Meraz-Ramirez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure felony-conviction immigration-law jury-trial sentencing-enhancement Whether the existence of a pre-removal felony conviction under 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b) is an element of an enhanced offense that must be proven to a jury b…
25-5720 Gregory Bartunek v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-09-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-fact-finding jury-trial sentencing Whether the rights of due process and to a jury trial are violated when courts impose sentences that, but for a judge-found fact, including, but not l…
25-5721 Jacob Joshad Robinson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP as-applied-challenge criminal-procedure felon-in-possession firearm-possession historical-tradition second-amendment Whether courts should analyze as-applied Second Amendment challenges to 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) by examining whether historical tradition supports perman…
25A338 Earl Howard v. New York New York 2025-09-24 Presumed Complete appellate-review criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process leave-to-appeal state-court Question not identified.
25-336 Elsie Franklin v. Kentucky Kentucky 2025-09-23 Denied adequate-opportunity confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination evidence-standard prior-testimony In Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004), this Court held that, under the Confrontation Clause, an unavailable witness's prior testimony "is admi…
25-5706 John Allen Rubio v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-09-23 Denied IFP criminal-procedure false-testimony fifth-circuit-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance napue-claim 1. Did the Fifth Circuit err in refusing to certify the Napue claim, when it failed to reach punishment-phase harm and when it conflated the question …
25A332 Olegario Lares-De La Rosa v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-09-23 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure federal-public-defender ninth-circuit petition-for-certiorari supreme-court-rules time-extension Question not identified.
25-5711 Jermal Williams v. Louisiana Louisiana 2025-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circumstantial-evidence constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment standard-of-proof Under the due process clause of the U.S. Constitution Amendment XIV, is La. R.S. 15:438 a higher standard of proof than Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. …
25-5696 Anatole Mbe v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-09-22 Pending IFP appeal-waiver criminal-procedure legal-error plea-agreement restitution sentencing Did petitioner's appeal waiver as part of his plea agreement preclude an appeal challenging the amount imposed for restitution on grounds that the gov…
25-5685 Anthony Lemicy v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-exploitation constitutional-violation criminal-procedure evidentiary-sufficiency specific-intent statutory-interpretation I. CAN THE GOVERNMENT PROVE THE SPECIFIC INTENT OF "USE" "FOR THE PURPOSE" WITHOUT THE MINORS TESTIFYING(direct evidence), OR CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE…
25-5646 John C. Miller v. Indiana Indiana 2025-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights counsel-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment state-constitution Whether of not the decision made on March 13, 2025 by the Indiana Supreme Court was in error. Based on the substantive argument made by the Defendant'…
25-5650 Deangelus Thomas v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure harmless-error sentencing-guidelines shepard-documents sixth-amendment (1) Does the ACCA occasions-different inquiry, requiring a detailed, multi-factored analysis of the facts surrounding at least three prior offenses—fa…
25-5651 Jose Henry Hernandez-Garcia v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court-discretion evidence-weighing judicial-review motion-for-new-trial trial-standard Whether a district court abuses its discretion when ruling on a defendant's motion for a new trial by not independently weighing the evidence presente…
25-294 Juan Carlos Sandoval-Rodriguez v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-09-15 Denied Response Waived constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Whether trial judges must define "reasonable doubt" for the jury upon the defendant's request.
25-5630 Geneva Kristina Hudson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining section-2255 1. Must a petitioner alleging ineffective assistance of counsel in advising whether to plead guilty demonstrate a predisposition to pleading guilty as…
25A293 Martin Renteria v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-09-15 Presumed Complete arrest-warrant criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance probable-cause search-warrant sixth-amendment Question not identified.
25-5625 Fred Krug v. New Jersey State Parole Board New Jersey 2025-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure ex-post-facto parole-law retroactive-application sentencing-benefit Whether the Ex Post Facto Clause protects against the retroactive removal of a substantial sentencing benefit that is conferred after the date of offe…
25-5618 Jamil Jones v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fifth-amendment mitchell-precedent right-to-silence self-incrimination sentencing Whether the failure to apologize or express remorse violates the Fifth Amendment right to remain silent at sentencing, a question left open by Mitchel…
25-5619 Michael Garrick Denson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure dangerous-weapon evidence-sufficiency jury-verdict sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines 1. Whether there was sufficient evidence to sustain the jury verdicts. 2. Whether the court erred in applying a two-level sentencing enhancement for …
25-5580 Moises Moreno v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP chemical-compound constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process forensic-analysis sentencing Did David L. Rallens' (act) of sending a Private Investigator Coteban Hearnandez to MEXICO Violate my Constitutional Rights and Due Process law Under …
25-5588 Terry Willis v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure judicial-involvement lafler-v-cooper missouri-v-frye plea-negotiations sentencing-exposure The district court participated in plea discussions, in violation of Federal Rule Criminal Procedure 11(c)(1), by discussing the merits of a plea offe…
25-5576 Nadege Auguste v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-statute money-or-property right-to-control wire-fraud I. Do employment and its employee benefits constitute the "money or property" of the employer for the purpose of the federal wire fraud statute, 18 U.…
25-5542 Francis Burns v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-tax-code tax-law taxpayer-bill-of-rights 1. Was Petitioner, Francis Burns denied his Constitutionally-protected Common Law right under the Taxpayer Bill of Rights where the UNITED STATES OF A…
25-5556 Louis Age, Jr. and Ronald Wilson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-09-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP business-record confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence-authentication hearsay-exception 1. Whether the Confrontation Clause permits the prosecution in a criminal trial to present to the jury, in lieu of live testimony and over defense obj…
25A261 William Housman v. David W. Sunday, Jr., Attorney General of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2025-09-04 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure federal-review habeas-corpus state-conviction third-circuit Question not identified.
25-247 Charles L. Payne, II v. Ohio Ohio 2025-09-03 Denied criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-vouching sixth-amendment witness-credibility Under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, a defendant has a right against a prosecutor or law enforcement vouching …
25-5533 Stanton Guillory v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-09-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility propensity-evidence rule-404b witness-testimony Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b) prohibits the use of a defendant's other bad acts to argue he has a propensity to commit a crime. The Government never…
25-5539 Louis Age, III v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-09-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-review rule-404b sufficiency-of-evidence I. Did the Fifth Circuit erroneously apply federal law in finding that the evidence at trial was sufficient to establish the crimes beyond a reasonabl…
25-5512 Robert Andrew Bartlett, Sr. v. North Carolina North Carolina 2025-09-02 Denied IFP constitutional-rights counsel-claim criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance post-conviction-review state-law Whether a trial in a state criminal case who is prevented by state law from raising a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel, who has a state law …
25-5513 In Re Olamide Olatayo Bello 2025-09-02 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction criminal-procedure district-court mandamus notice-of-appeal pro-se Whether an Appellant that Proceeded On Appeal Pro Se Oriel Intention^ did So and Without a Course/ and (AUfMout Qnj notice <% Appearance fronn arug Co…
25-5515 Jessie Smith, III v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-09-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-disclosure constitutional-safeguards criminal-procedure due-process revocation-hearing supervised-release Does the Due Process Clause require that district courts apply the constitutional safeguards of Brady v. Maryland when a defendant faces a revocation …
25A239 Demeccio Caston v. Louisiana Louisiana 2025-08-29 Presumed Complete confrontation-clause crawford-precedent criminal-procedure hearsay sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence In Petitioner's case, the Louisiana Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals announced a change in prior law that inculpatory hearsay statements made by witnes…
25A244 Tremon Staley v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-29 Presumed Complete appellate-review criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-remand Question not identified.
25-237 Bruce Mason v. Delaware, et al. Third Circuit 2025-08-28 Denied Response Waived brady-violation circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process prosecutorial-disclosure witness-impeachment 1. Whether the State's failure to disclose that its centerpiece witness was admitted to a psychiatric hospital prior to testifying, which was discover…
25-5490 Travis Broeker v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-review criminal-procedure drug-liability judicial-review Broeker s case set precedent in the 8th Circuit that undermines "Burrage " presuming any drug deal that precedes a< death causes it and putting the bu…
25-5500 Clarence C. Roland, III v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence-admission fair-trial separate-sovereigns 1. Whether eliciting the fact and details of a defendant's conviction in a separate sovereign —including that it was for the same conduct and that the…
25-5488 Missouri, ex rel. Ricardo Williams v. Thomas C. Albus, Interim United States Attorney Missouri 2025-08-27 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure domestic-assault due-process protection-order sixth-amendment Where the State violate the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, which prohibit the deprivation of "life, liberty…
25-5470 Hombra Lavail Williams v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-08-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure district-court-discretion esteras-precedent sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether, in light of this Court's decision in Esteras v. United States, 145 S. Ct. 2031 (2025) and in order to maintain uniform application of this Co…
25A220 Roberto Lopez-Ortiz v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2025-08-26 Presumed Complete appellate-review criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process state-court time-extension Question not identified.
25A225 Terrance Douglas Baker v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-08-26 Presumed Complete appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process mandate-compliance sentence-modification sentencing-enhancement Question not identified.
25A226 Eric C. Burgie v. Arkansas Arkansas 2025-08-26 Presumed Complete capital-murder claim-preclusion criminal-procedure jurisdictional-challenge res-judicata underlying-felony Question not identified.
25-222 Victor Everette Silvers v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-08-25 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) criminal-procedure fifth-amendment judicial-notice maritime-jurisdiction sixth-amendment trial-by-jury Certain federal criminal offenses under Title 18 of the United States Code, including under § 1(b) (murder), § 1113 (attempted murder or manslaughter)…
25-5465 David Nicholson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constructive-possession controlled-substance criminal-procedure dominion-and-control intent-to-distribute post-offense-admission Whether a conviction under 21 U.S.C. § 841 for possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance can be sustained based solely on (1) constr…
25-219 Jay Warren Arnold v. Texas Texas 2025-08-22 Denied constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Is the statute under which the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals dismissed petitioner's application for writ of habeas corpus, Texas Code of Criminal Pr…
25-5435 Antuan L. Wynn v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process evidence-standard Whether charging a single conspiracy with proof of a chain of distribution relationships, and without proof that a defendant agreed to join the broade…
25-5444 Steven Wilson v. United States Third Circuit 2025-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure dismissed-charges district-court judicial-review sentencing-colloquy third-circuit WHETHER THE THIRD CIRCUIT ERRED IN DETERMINING THAT THE SENTENCING COLLOQUY OF THE DISTRICT COURT DID NOT UNAMBIGUOUSLY SHOW THE DISTRICT COURT CONSID…
25-5446 Javier Perez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP bodily-injury criminal-procedure enhancement-standard judicial-discretion legal-interpretation sentencing-guidelines Should application of the four-level sentencing enhancement for "permanent or life-threatening bodily injury" under U.S.S.G. § 2A2.1(b)(1)(A) require …
25A213 In Re Gavin B. Davis Fifth Circuit 2025-08-22 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights criminal-procedure faretta-waiver pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment If a criminal defendant is forced against their will to proceed in propia persona absent a bona fide unequivocal Faretta waiver, while timely and dili…
25-5427 Rufus E. Dennis v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP base-offense-level criminal-procedure district-court hobbs-act sentencing-guidelines upward-variance 1. Did the Defendant "possess" a handgun for the purposes of the sentencing court assessing a 5 point level increase to his base offense level, pursua…
25-5429 Anthony Brian Walker v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP affirmative-defense criminal-procedure jury-instructions self-defense sua-sponte substantial-evidence 1. In a criminal prosecution, when an affirmative defense—such as imperfect self-defense—is supported by substantial evidence, does the trial court ha…
25A204 Jairo Arnaldo Jacome v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-08-20 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure fourth-circuit jury-instructions plain-error rico-conspiracy substantial-rights Question not identified.
25-5396 Gregory K. Parks v. Jamie Bullard, Warden Fourth Circuit 2025-08-19 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance jury-instructions trial-counsel t^VA - jo pAVcrA "Me GovemmenA anl Me flnieA rr)en~f n^M"J, cinooSe. 4t> use leyA glSl&inct. 4o comply unM lU Rr$A rfme^AmenV t^VA - jo pAVcrA "Me G…
25-5398 Ricky L. Miller, Jr. v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2025-08-19 Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment (1) DID THE THIRD CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS IN VIOLATION OF A MYRIAD OF SUPREME COURT SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY PRECEDENTS MISAPPREHEND …
25-200 Kevin Salvador Golphin v. North Carolina North Carolina 2025-08-19 Denied Response Waived constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole sentencing-discretion Whether North Carolina, in conflict with this Court's precedents and those of other states, has violated the Eighth Amendment by creating a de facto m…
25-5400 Andrew Charles Beard v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-08-19 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (5)IFP constitutional-claim criminal-procedure federal-prosecution plea-waiver sentencing-enhancement statutory-construction 1. Whether challenging an invalid 18 U.S.C. §924(c) conviction is a "constitutional claim" that extinguishes the government's power to enforce defenda…
25-5404 Darren Smith v. United States Second Circuit 2025-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure mitigation-arguments official-victim-enhancement procedural-error sentencing-guidelines Whether a district court commits procedural error under 18 U.S.C. § 3553, Rita v. United States, 551 U.S. 338 (2007), and Gall v. United States, 552 U…
25-5406 Malgum Whiteside, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure evidence-suppression fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant I. Mr. Whiteside moved to suppress the evidence related to the firearms because the affidavit did not establish a nexus. Did the district court improp…
25A196 Gustavo Tijerina Sandoval v. Texas Texas 2025-08-19 Presumed Complete appellate-review capital-murder criminal-procedure due-process life-sentence texas-criminal-law Question not identified.
25-5387 Robert Narvett v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement rule-11-hearing Did the Appeals Court error by claiming Movants substantial rights were not affected after conceeding that the District Court accepted the Movants ple…
25-5376 Wesley Swick v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-08-15 Pending IFP criminal-procedure federal-law fugitive-tolling habeas-corpus sentencing supervised-release I. Whether the fugitive-tolling doctrine applies in the context of supervised release. Rico v. United States, No. 24-1056, presents the same question.
25-5383 Oscar Barrios v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-08-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review constitutional-violation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy judicial-discretion plain-error Whether the absence of a binding, on-point decision of either this Court, or of the reviewing court of appeals, is enough to preclude the potential fo…
25-5356 Oscar Oropeza v. Hector Rios, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-08-14 Denied IFP compulsory-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process witness-testimony Question not identified.
25-5362 Nathaniel Blancher v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea ineffective-assistance plea-agreement Whether a guilty plea becomes knowing, intelligent, and voluntary when the plea agreement inaccurately describes the penalty provision of the statute …
25-5365 Omar Alonso Pazos-Montes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process felony-conviction immigration-law jury-trial sentencing-enhancement Whether the existence of a pre-removal felony conviction under 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b) is an element of an enhanced offense that must be proven to a jury b…
25-5367 Clevern A. Granger v. Andrea Tack, Warden Fifth Circuit 2025-08-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus Question not identified.
25-5336 Terrell McCoy v. Stephen Duncan, Warden Fourth Circuit 2025-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment constitutional-rights counsel criminal-procedure due-process evidence Question not identified.
25-5341 Kenneth Jeremy Laird v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing sentencing-discretion supreme-court-precedent In 1994, an Arizona judge sentenced Mr. Laird to death for a murder conviction and a total of 129 years in prison for 13 other nonhomicide crimes. Mr.…
25-5342 Raymond Arthur Verrill v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-standard Some sentencing judges routinely assert that they would have selected the exact same sentence regardless of any error in applying the Sentencing Guide…
25-5343 Kendrick Jarrell Beaird v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-08-13 Pending IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure federal-sentencing-guidelines firearms-regulation second-amendment statutory-interpretation I. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment? II. Whether Stinson v. United States still accurately state the level of deferen…
25-5344 Elliot Maurice Browning v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-criminal-act constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure harmless-error jury-determination sentencing-enhancement DOES THE COURT'S DECISION IN ERLINGER V. UNITED STATES , 602 U.S. 821 144 S.CT. 1840 _ L.ED.2D_(2024) REQUIRING THAT A JURY PASS ON THE THREE SEPARATE…
25-5345 Arturo Navarro-Zuniga v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP confession-admissibility criminal-procedure law-review miranda-warning objective-effectiveness subjective-intent In Missouri v. Seibert, 542 U.S. 600 (2004), the Court issued a fractured decision regarding "midstream Miranda warnings," i.e., when police question …
25-5325 Robert W. Hassett, III v. Delaware Delaware 2025-08-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP capital-sentencing constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process jury-instructions 1. Whether the Eighth^hdil '4th Amendments to the United States Constitution are violated, and this Court 's holdings are contradicted, 1 when a cour…
25-166 Jose Joya Parada, Oscar Armando Sorto Romero, Milton Portillo Rodriguez, and Juan Carlos Sandoval Rodriguez v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-08-12 Denied Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure jury-size jury-trial-right nonunanimous-jury sixth-amendment Whether the Court should overrule Williams v. Florida, 399 U.S. 78 (1970).
25-5329 Duane Gary Underwood, II v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure motion-to-suppress other-acts-evidence reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure voir-dire I. Mr. Underwood challenged his seizure and search because there was no reasonable suspicion to justify the detention and search. Did the court err in…
25-5309 Tedor Davido v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2025-08-08 Pending IFP criminal-procedure due-process false-testimony probable-cause self-representation warrant-exception 1. In light of this Court's recent grant of certiorari in Case v. Montana to resolve the question of whether the emergency aid exception to the warran…
25A166 Jason Elysse v. Florida Florida 2025-08-07 Presumed Complete continuance-motion criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-court-discretion Question not identified.
25-5279 Evan McCarrick Jerald v. Arizona Arizona 2025-08-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole sentencing-guidelines Under Graham v. Florida, the Eighth Amendment "prohibits the imposition of a life without parole sentence on a juvenile offender who did not commit ho…
25-5282 Jackson Daniel Bowers v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial sixth-amendment supervised-release In United States v. Haymond , 139 S. Ct. 2369 (2019) , a 4-1-4 decision, this Court left undecided the question of how the Sixth Amendment's jury -tri…
25-5283 Deandre Blackman v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure judicial-discretion revocation-hearing sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether courts may rely on the 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(2)(A) factors when determining the length and conditions of additional supervision following a supe…
25A145 Jeremy Baum v. Missouri Missouri 2025-08-05 Presumed Complete appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions sexual-trafficking sufficiency-of-evidence Question not identified.
25-5257 Eric Sean Roloson v. Washington Washington 2025-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process involuntary-plea plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing-alternative Whether the State's misrepresentation that the victims would support a SSOSA rendered Petitioner's plea involuntary, in violation of the Due Process C…
25-111 Timothy Carver v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-07-30 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony insanity-defense mental-defect neurodegenerative-disease 1. Whether the appellate court erred in affirming the district court's rejection of Mr. Carver's insanity defense, where expert medical testimony esta…
25-5238 In Re Dennis Griffith 2025-07-30 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-counsel fair-trial legal-access Does cl iHValiJ usurer ot Counsel hearing and no access to fke. Courts, don^ aJ+k etker ~ pcetrid violations o'? Conrhtutiond rigkts 5cJ Compulsory p…
25A125 Markeisha Elliott v. Shannon Olds, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-07-30 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance jury-instructions murder-conviction sixth-amendment Question not identified.
25-5225 Manuel Vega v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure multiple-violations prison-term sentencing statutory-interpretation supervised-release A court, in imposing sentence upon a criminal defendant, may include as part of the sentence a term of supervised release. If the defendant violates t…
25-5227 Derrick Kellen Mitchell v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court due-process guilty-plea plea-understanding sixth-circuit I. Should the Court grant certiorari to consider if the Sixth Circuit has improperly deviated from this Court's requirement, grounded in the Due Proce…
25-5230 Victor Samuel Brito v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-instruction necessity-defense sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments guarantee a criminal defendant the right to have a jury consider and give effect to a necessity defense when th…
25A124 Steven Nicholas Fulton v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-07-29 Presumed Complete appellate-reversal criminal-procedure felony-status jury-instruction prior-conviction standard-of-review Whether a Court of Appeals may reinstate a jury verdict where the judge omitted a critical legal instruction to the jury on an element of the offense …
25-5204 Mario Onesimo Gonzalez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure drug-evidence expert-testimony hearsay sixth-amendment Whether a drug value "expert" contravenes the Confrontation Clause and Smith v. Arizona, 602 U.S. 779 (2024), when her testimony about the value of dr…
25-5207 Jessica Salazar v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct religious-freedom In the criminal trial of Jessica Salazar, the prosecutor placed repeated emphasis on Ms. Salazar's request for a prayer. It was the first line of the …
25-5210 Lisa Marie Perez, fka Lisa Marie Belyew v. Lavelle Parker, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP counsel-competence criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance mental-coercion plea-bargaining 1) wynether, bo etal a videdton of ritlaredl V. WashingIon, Aloo US. % (14) a defendant nust snow 'Anak dw was competent to tao mK Peo Wriroud Mantel …
25-5212 Jacquel O'Neal v. Texas Texas 2025-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure effective-assistance jury-instruction sixth-amendment statutory-defense Does the Sixth Amendment's guarantee of effective assistance of counsel require an attorney to request a jury instruction on the sole statutory defens…
25-5213 Cimeon Dion Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility constitutional-principles criminal-procedure mental-illness post-plea-misconduct sentencing-guidelines Whether a district court may deny a reduction for acceptance of responsibility under USSG § 3E1.1 based solely on uncorroborated allegations of post p…
25-5200 Isaias Lopez Nunez v. Martin Gamboa, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit procedural-default sentencing (1) Whether the California courts' and Ninth Circuit's rejection of an Ex Post Facto Clause claim—where a more punitive law was applied at sentencing,…
25-5191 Steven Edward Stein v. Florida Florida 2025-07-24 Denied IFP brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression materiality-standard prosecutorial-misconduct 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's determination that "equally accessible" evidence has not been suppressed by the State is contrary to Brady and …
25-85 Alireza Bakhtiari v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-07-23 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence circuit-split coram-nobis criminal-procedure due-process habeas-waiver 1) This Court holds a defendant's right to plead guilty knowingly, voluntarily and intelligently in highest regard and comes back to it once every dec…
25-5176 Mario Gabriel Rodgers v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Does 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comport with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
25-5180 Sherrod Anthony Wright v. Florida Florida 2025-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure defendant-rights jury-trial sixth-amendment state-court waiver Whether the ancient right enshrined in the Sixth Amendment to trial by a twelve-member jury applies to a state court trial for major felonies where th…
25-5168 John E. Jackson v. United States Third Circuit 2025-07-22 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process punishment sentencing John Jackson fully completed his sentence while the government's second appeal was still pending. He argued at the third and fourth sentencings that t…
25-5171 Reginald Hitchcock v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing hearsay-evidence sixth-amendment 1. whether The Person's Who Supplied The Hearsay Statement That Amounted to Probable Cause En A Affidavit ov Search Warrant Need To Be Reliable © 2. …
25-5154 Elijah Muhammad v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review breach-of-contract criminal-procedure due-process four-corners-doctrine plea-agreement 1. Whether a court should only look at the "four corners" of the plea agreement language when determining whether a breach of the plea agreement occur…
25-72 James Randall Moehle v. Florida Florida 2025-07-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) constitutional-mandate criminal-procedure felony-trial jury-composition sixth-amendment williams-precedent Whether this Court should reevaluate its decision in Williams v. Florida, 399 U.S. 78 (1970), and hold that twelve-person juries are constitutionally …
25A78 Benny Lee Hodge v. Laura Plappert, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-07-21 Presumed Complete constitutional-review criminal-procedure en-banc federal-review habeas-corpus sixth-circuit Question not identified.
25-5146 Ahmad Abouammo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-07-18 Pending Amici (6)Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure federal-rules indictment prosecutorial-discretion statute-of-limitations venue-statute 1. Whether venue is proper in a district where no offense conduct took place, so long as the statute's intent element "contemplates" effects that coul…
25-5149 Jerrell Sims v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure imprisonment reasonableness sentencing-review supervised-release Whether sentences of imprisonment following the revocation of supervised release should be reviewed for reasonableness or plain unreasonableness?
25-5151 J. Ines Ruiz-Rivera v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP confession-admissibility criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error ninth-circuit supreme-court-precedent Whether courts should follow the direction of Fulminante and use "extreme caution" before finding the admission of a confession is harmless error.
25-5137 Joel Salcedo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus sixth-amendment speedy-trial Whether Mr. Salcedo was deprived of his right to a speedy trial in violation of his Sixth Amendment Guarantee by the United States Constitution.
25-5144 Gregory Michael Hawes v. Seth Norris, Warden Wyoming 2025-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process mandatory-minimum Whether this Court should resolve a 9'8 split amongst State Courts of Last Resort, when rulings, influenced by this Courts decisions, unconstitutional…
25-5119 Steven Dwayne Rigmaiden v. Louisiana Louisiana 2025-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-appeal criminal-procedure louisiana-courts murder-evidence reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence WHETHER THE LOUISIANA COURT OF APPEALS AND THE LOUISIANA SUPREME COURT ERRED WHEN IT DENIED PETITIONER'S CLAIM RAISED ON DIRECT APPEAL, THAT THE EVIDE…
25-5121 Torris Bernard Hill v. Florida Florida 2025-07-16 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-standards Was Petitioner's fundamental 5th and 14th Amendment Constitutional due process right violated by the Court when the prosecutor failed to prove prior j…
25-5122 Raheem Brown v. United States Third Circuit 2025-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-testify sixth-amendment Is a criminal defendant's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment right to testify and to receive a fair trial abridged where trial counsel announces to the ju…
25-5115 Gregory Kurzajczyk v. United States Second Circuit 2025-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment probation-search supervised-release suspicionless-search Should the Court should grant the petition in order to resolve a conflict among the Courts of Appeals as to whether a probation officer's suspicionles…
25-5116 Mark Ellis v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process evidence-sufficiency firearm-possession reasonable-doubt I. DUE PROCESS REQUIRES SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE TO ALLOW A RATIONAL JURY TO FIND GUILT BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT. WHERE THE EVIDENCE THAT A FIREARM WAS PO…
25-54 David Lynn Richards, Jr. v. Tennessee Tennessee 2025-07-15 Denied Response Waived adoption criminal-procedure due-process ministerial-status sexual-abuse wrongful-conviction Question not identified.
25-5106 Milad Shaker v. United States Third Circuit 2025-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process fraud-on-court jurisdictional-nullity post-conviction-relief 1. Whether a court may impose sentencing or supervised release after dismissing a criminal case under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 48(a) , whe…
25-5112 Brian Lee Corbett v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court judicial-discretion rule-35 sentencing supervised-release In this case, the district court held a hearing at which it revoked Corbett's term of supervised release and imposed a term of imprisonment as a resul…
25-5093 Hector Manuel Nunez-Cardenas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-07-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure felony-conviction immigration-law jury-trial sentencing-enhancement Whether the existence of a pre-removal felony conviction under 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b) is an element of an enhanced offense that must be proven to a jury b…
25-5095 Patrick D. Reed v. George A. Fredrick, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-07-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus out-of-court-statements Whether, as three circuits hold in conflict with the Sixth Circuit, clearly established law prohibits an officer's testimony about an absent declarant…
25-5076 Shomari Legghette v. Illinois Illinois 2025-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-representation constructive-denial criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment I. Whether defense Counsel's absence at a critical stage constructively denied representation as guaranteed by the sixth amendment. II. Whether appoi…
25-30 Marvin Keith Stitt v. City of Tulsa, Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-07-09 Denied congressional-authority criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure indian-country indian-law tribal-sovereignty Whether a state may exercise criminal jurisdiction over an Indian for conduct in Indian country absent a valid congressional grant of authority.
25-5065 In Re Derrick L. Johnson 2025-07-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence constitutional-review criminal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-jurisdiction preponderance-of-evidence REffiritenfs WflV'F tefilioN&tJfJ COMl^V^LAMof^CoiJ^ifoMoF^ Utifeb CeuRfUftS ToRiSblClioiU Mteiu REfrfion/EA SEEK^AiJEublCATfBfJo^TffS Mer/1s QFUM Pe…
25-5068 Dwayne Anderson v. Ohio Ohio 2025-07-09 Denied IFP bill-of-particulars constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment 1. Was Dwayne Anderson 's right to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation against him violated when the state failed to provide him a …
25-5070 Kedrick Johnson v. Louisiana Louisiana 2025-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation criminal-procedure evidence-disclosure forfeiture-by-wrongdoing legal-disclosure witness-testimony Did the State violate Brady v. Maryland when it failed to disclose a June 8, 2010, supplemental police report that would have made key witness Stephen…
25-5042 Deshawn Demarcus House v. Jeff Long, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-07-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP competency-to-stand-trial criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-inquiry mental-health Question not identified.
25-5044 Robert Baise, Jr. v. Phillip Mitchell, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-07-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP alabama-criminal-code conviction-enhancement criminal-procedure misdemeanor-classification presumptive-sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether Baise conviction's count 104A to 5 and a misdemeanor charge count 093.
25-5048 Jeremy Wayne Holt v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-07-08 Denied IFP criminal-procedure discovery-violation due-process hearsay-evidence sixth-amendment speedy-trial 1. Does a delay of seven years from alleged criminal act to trial trigger the presumption of prejudice under Doggett v. United States, 505 U.S. 647 (1…
25A19 Adrian Goudelock v. United States Second Circuit 2025-07-08 Presumed Complete appellate-review criminal-procedure jury-selection party-presentation prosecutorial-theory wholesale-exclusion This case presents exceptionally important questions relating to the principle of party presentation and the extent to which federal courts of appeals…
25-5058 Jose Manuel Ayala-Alas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure discovery-violation due-process fair-trial interpreter-rights sentencing-enhancement 1. Whether the district court violated Mr. Ayala-Alas's due process rights by requiring him to proceed to trial with only a Spanish interpreter despit…
25-5028 Michael Blake DeFrance v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-07-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bipartisan-safer-communities-act criminal-procedure domestic-violence federal-law statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Question 1: Whether the relationships listed in 18 USC §921(a)(33)(A) defining misdemeanor crime of domestic violence serve both jurisdictional and su…
25-5029 Damon D. Williams v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion attempted-robbery criminal-procedure fifth-amendment sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment I. When imposing maximum , consecutive sentenc es for two convictions for attempted interference with commerce by robbery (18 U.S.C. § 1951) —aris…
25-5010 Timothy Lynn Allen v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure fourth-amendment suppression-motion terry-stop vehicle-search Did the lower courts err in finding that the search of petitioner's vehicle was justified under Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 (1968), and does the Fifth C…
25-1 James Skinner v. Louisiana Louisiana 2025-07-01 Pending Amici (7)Relisted (5) brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-withholding judicial-precedent post-conviction-relief Did Louisiana courts err in refusing to apply Wearry to Mr. Skinner's Brady claims?
25-5002 Juan Carlos Garridoaguilar v. California California 2025-07-01 Denied IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure fourth-amendment search-and-seizure traffic-stop warrantless-search A police officer recovered a firearm when he conducted a warrantless search of the passengers of a car stopped for a registration violation. Was it er…
24-7522 Rachael Lynn Boehme v. Oregon Oregon 2025-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-representation sixth-amendment When trial court would neither agree to relieve defense counsel, even after he took positions that were plainly adverse to his client, nor permit the …
24-7529 Matthew Carter v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-06-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP conviction-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-interpretation fr) NMKkew CofVcr W<ed bu Ae-Udriue EoUCS(5a' -> ' UXs McxW^ 'Cuo CmW U\ecyA\^ Sei-z^A as\d< seoccUeA oi\ V^ccejub-ex 31^ 2X>ZO <xac)< ^\aou\cL "tVvS…
24-7520 Salvador Nolasco Romero v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court guilty-plea judicial-discretion legal-error At a change of plea hearing, Mr. Romero's testimony established every element of his offense. Although Mr. Romero further testified that his motivatio…
24-7521 Anthony D. Williams v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process government-burden revocation-hearing supervised-release witness-absence WHETHER MR. WILLIAMS DUE PROCESS RIGHTS REQUIRING THE GOVERNMENT TO SHOW GOOD CAUSE FOR A WITNESS'S ABSENCE FROM A SUPERVISED RELEASE REVOCATION HEARI…
24-7505 Donald Evans v. Jasen Bohinski, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Third Circuit 2025-06-26 Denied IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy ex-post-facto sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction 1) DID THE COURT VIOLATE PETITIONER'S 6TH AND 14TH AMENDMENT CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS VIA REFUSING TO GRANT PETITIONER'S REQUEST FOR A CONTINUANCE TO WHE…
24-7509 Jacob Mathias Rubinstein v. Eric Rardin, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure custody-credit detention-definition federal-statute legal-restrictions statutory-interpretation 1. Does "official detention" under 18 U.S.C. §3585(b) include, in addition to "detention" under 18 U.S.C. §3142(e), restrictive forms of "release" und…
24-7512 In Re Walter Drummond 2025-06-26 Dismissed Relisted (3)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression miranda-rights unlawful-arrest Question not identified.
24-7496 Allen Odell Woods v. Keithe Turner, Warden Fifth Circuit 2025-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation constitutional-claim criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct witness-impeachment Was counsel's performance deficient when counsel failed to raise a Brady claim concerning Cellphone Transcripts, Fingerprint Analysis Reports, and Sup…
24-7498 Dasahn Crowder v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2025-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruen-decision constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy ex-post-facto second-amendment In 2012, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) upheld the constitutionality of a statutory scheme in which licensure was an affirmative defen…
24-7478 Shaquan Dannard McCall v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process plea-agreement 1. ISA DEFEDANTS RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS OF LAW VIOLATED WHEN THE GOVERNMENT REQUIRES AN APPEAL WAIVER AS PART OF A PLEA AGREEMENT?
24-7460 Alvin Porterie, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-procedure overbreadth-doctrine state-conviction statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant challenging a prior state conviction under the Armed Career Criminal Act must produce actual state court decisions showing non-gen…
24-7463 Mark Christian Wroblewski v. United States District of Columbia 2025-06-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure executive-discretion mandamus-petition prosecutorial-discretion rule-48-dismissal standing-doctrine Following the Executive Order of January 20, 2025, Granting Pardons and Commutation of Sentences for Certain Offenses Relating to the Events at or Nea…
24-7466 Patrick Joseph Duncan, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure state-law When determining whether law enforcement's stop of a suspect was lawful under the Fourth Amendment, may federal courts use state law – in this case, C…
24-7467 Eldon Gale Samuel, III v. Terema Carlin, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process juvenile-waiver miranda-rights self-incrimination I. Whether the state court unreasonably determined that 14-year old Eldon Samuel knowingly, intelligently, and voluntarily waived his Miranda rights b…
24-7446 Telly Royster v. Joseph Terra, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix, et al. Third Circuit 2025-06-17 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mental-health sixth-amendment Whether the failure to consider trial counsel's mental health issues in evaluating the effectiveness of counsel constitutes a violation of the Sixth A…
24-7450 Zachery James Edward Rowe v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP buyer-seller-rule complete-defense criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy jury-instruction sixth-amendment Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision affirming the refusal to give a buyer-seller instruction in a drug conspiracy case conflicts with this Court's …
24-1279 Frank J. Anderson, Jr. v. New Jersey New Jersey 2025-06-16 Denied Relisted (2) criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment sentencing-modification sixth-amendment Does the New Jersey judicial process, by (1) preparing the judgment of conviction in the petitioner's absence, (2) departing from the orally pronounce…
24-7430 Trenton Jared Powell v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP cellphone-search criminal-procedure digital-privacy evidence-preservation fourth-amendment warrant-requirement Can the police hold a defendant's cellphone seized incident to his arrest until necessary forensic software is developed based upon evidence that the …
24-7432 Eleazar Diaz-Balleza v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process felony-conviction immigration-law jury-trial sentencing-enhancement Whether the existence of a pre-removal felony conviction under 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b) is an element of an enhanced offense that must be proven to a jury b…
24-7418 In Re Zannie J. Lotharp 2025-06-13 Denied IFP commitment-review criminal-procedure federal-court habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge writ-of-certiorari 1. Can the Supreme Court grant a writ of habeas corpus,—- —iof^comm±tment? 2. Does it extend to a prisoner? 3. Is this a case where the writ should…
24-1265 Glenn E. Diaz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-06-12 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure cross-examination judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent witness-bias 1. Whether a district court can completely bar defense counsel from cross-examining a key government witness on an issue probative of bias and motive.…
24-1268 Rodney Reed v. Bryan Goertz, in His Official Capacity as District Attorney of Bastrop County, Texas Fifth Circuit 2025-06-12 Pending Amici (1)Relisted (12) criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process evidence-law innocence-claim postconviction-relief In 2023, th e Court reversed the Fifth Circuit's holding that Rodney Reed's DNA -testing suit was untimely and rejected District Attorney Bryan Goertz…
24-7410 Nicholas Craig Woozencroft v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-06-12 Dismissed IFP appellate-jurisdiction criminal-procedure federal-courts final-judgment multi-count-indictment sentencing Whether a judgment which convicts and sentences a defendant on a count of a multi-count indictment is appealable under § 1291 where, although others c…
24-7396 Arturo Garza, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-06-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure mandate-rule resentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the mandate rule precludes a district court from recalculating a defendant's Sentencing Guidelines range at resentencing based on convictions …
24-7403 Michael Stapleton v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-06-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP blockburger-test circuit-split criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process statutory-interpretation Did the Court of Appeals create a split in Circuits by affirming Movant's convictions and sentences for crimes that were committed simultanously under…
24-7391 Angel L. Martinez v. Howard Sissem, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Forest, et al. Third Circuit 2025-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court federal-law ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-standard 1. Was the District Court's decision that Petitioner received effective assistance of counsel, contrary to or involve an unreasonable application of c…
24A1216 Kelechi Collins Umeh v. United States First Circuit 2025-06-10 Presumed Complete bank-fraud criminal-procedure guilty-plea jury-trial plea-colloquy structural-error Whether it is structural error for a court to accept a criminal defendant's guilty plea without informing him of his right to a jury trial.
24-7385 Luster Pernell Burns, Jr. v. Jeff Tanner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fair-trial mistrial prosecutorial-misconduct DID THE PROSECUTOR ENGAGED IN INTENTIONAL MISCONDUCT IN A PREVIOUS TRIAL WHICH GOATED THE DEFENSE INTO MOVING FOR A MISTRIAL, WHICH BARRED RETRIAL IN …
24-7370 Jonathan Davis v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-06-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure implied-bias juror-disqualification jury-impartiality sixth-amendment I. Does the Constitution require selected jurors to be free from implied bias? II. What standards should apply when assessing an implied bias claim? …
24-7373 Natnael Zemene v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2025-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment second-amendment 1. Whether the Fifth Amendment's double jeopardy clause as interpreted by Burks v. United States, 437 U.S. 1, 18 (1978) protects an individual from a …
24-7357 Christopher Scott Jones v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit obstruction-enhancement plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines I. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred because the District Court improperly accepted a plea and proceeded with sentencing where Mr. Jones had not been a…
24-7361 Deshaun Curtis Jones v. United States Third Circuit 2025-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court judicial-review motion-to-suppress third-circuit 1. Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's denial of Appellant's Motion to Suppress.
24-1234 United States v. Ali Danial Hemani Fifth Circuit 2025-06-04 Granted Amici (23)Relisted (3) constitutional-law criminal-procedure drug-users firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(3), the federal statute that prohibits the possession of firearms by a person who "is an unlawful user of or addicted to any …
24-1235 Suliang Bu v. Missouri Missouri 2025-06-04 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure cross-section-of-community due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial-waiver sixth-amendment Whether, consistent with the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, a waiver of the right to a jury trial is intelligent when the record does not show the d…
24-7353 Jose Trinidad Martinez Santoyo v. Lasha Boyden, former United States Marshal for the Eastern District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure extradition international-law sixth-amendment speedy-trial treaty-interpretation Under the terms of the United States-Mexico extradition treaty, is the Sixth Amendment Speedy Trial Clause a law of the United States that can bar a c…
24-7349 Reymundo Arredondo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-06-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split constructive-amendment criminal-procedure essential-elements indictment statutory-interpretation When a criminal offense can be committed in a variety of ways, does a prosecutor constructively amend an indictment by altering the essential elements…
24-7315 Kenyon Lamonte Watson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP bail-reform-act criminal-procedure fifth-amendment grand-jury pretrial-detention res-judicata Both the Constitution and the Bail Reform Act presume pretrial release. This petition presents the question of whether, under the Fifth Amendment and …
24-7316 Miguel Yepson-Cortez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court of appeals to reweigh the sentencing factors?
24-7302 Sterling Atkins, Jr. v. Jeremy Bean, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-05-28 Denied IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance strickland-standard trial-counsel 1. Can a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel be denied on the basis of an alleged failure to show what trial counsel did rather than what they …
24-7304 Eric Alonzo Windham v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure judicial-participation plain-error-review plea-negotiations safety-valve-eligibility Whether the Eleventh Circuit's plain error review properly considered the full record under United States v. Davila, 569 U.S. 597 (2013), or wrongly l…
24A1160 Mohamed Mohamed Mohamud, Issa Doreh, and Ahmed Nasir Taalil Mohamud v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-05-28 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure fisa foreign-intelligence fourth-amendment metadata-collection surveillance This application is for an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari and does not contain a "Question(s) Presented" section as would…
24-7293 Alexander Soto v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2025-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP arizona-v-gant criminal-procedure drug-trafficking fourth-amendment search-incident-to-arrest warrant-requirement With respect to the search-incident-to-arrest exception to the warrant requirement of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, this Cou…
24-7257 Alejandro R. Duarte v. Nebraska Nebraska 2025-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance medical-evidence self-defense waiver I. In a he-said-she-said case involving allegations of physical assault with self-defense being raised as an affirmative defense, is defense counsel i…
24-7254 Legarius Deshawn Bonner v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-05-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process PROTECT-Act revocation sentencing supervised-release DOES THE COURT VIOLATE A DEFENDANT'S RIGHTS TO DUE PROCESS OF LAW WHEN IMPOSING A SENTENCE UPON REVOCATION OF SUPERVISED RELEASE, WHEN THE COURT EMPLO…
24-7255 Jarred Adams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process legal-analysis sentence-length sentencing vindictive-prosecution Whether sentence length is the exclusive means to determine if a subsequent sentence is more severe for vindictive sentencing analysis?
24A1116 Bryan Christopher Bell and Antwaun Kyral Sims v. North Carolina North Carolina 2025-05-20 Presumed Complete certiorari criminal-procedure north-carolina-supreme-court supreme-court-review time-extension writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
24-7237 Jamarr Smith, Thomas Iroko Ayodele, and Gilbert McThunel, II v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-05-19 Denied IFP criminal-procedure digital-surveillance fourth-amendment general-warrant geofence-warrant good-faith-doctrine Whether the good-faith doctrine applies to digital-age general warrants.
24-7243 Dieudruch Emmanuel v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure extraordinary-circumstances marital-privilege prejudicial-evidence probative-value witness-testimony WHETHER THE MARITAL PRIVILEGE WARRANTS LIMITING THE WIFE'S TESTIMONY UNDER EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES WHEN FAILURE TO DO SO WILL ALLOW HIGHLY PREJUDI…
24-7229 DeAndre Jackson v. United States Third Circuit 2025-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop WHETHER the Third Circuit's ruling that an officer's mere suspicion of a suspects dangerousness absent any additional facts supports an arrest rather …
24-7231 Christian Leonardo Franco Posligua v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure drug-enforcement extraterritorial-statute guilty-plea maritime-law subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. For purposes of the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act (MDLEA), does a district court have authority to make its "preliminary" determination of "jur…
24-7213 Edward Magruder v. United States District of Columbia 2025-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure fourth-amendment probable-cause search-incident-to-arrest warrantless-search Federal agents found heroin during a warrantless search of a backpack that they seized from Petitioner as he exited a bus. Agents then arrested Petiti…
24-1166 Luis Iram Miranda v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-05-14 Denied Response Waived conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights counsel-representation criminal-procedure due-process sixth-amendment District courts and parties in criminal cases do not have a standard way to address conflicts of interest when a defendant's attorney has previously r…
24A1092 David Nicholson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-05-14 Presumed Complete certiorari constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fifth-circuit supreme-court-rules time-extension Question not identified.
24-7205 Oscar Pliego-Pineda v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure evidence-standard federal-sentencing-guidelines leadership-role sentencing-enhancement Whether a Leadership Sentencing Enhancement Is Erroneous Without Evidence That a Defendant Supervised any Specific Individual.
24-7191 Daryl Cook v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2025-05-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-analysis Question not identified.
24-7194 Neil Aaron Carver v. Texas Texas 2025-05-13 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sentencing 1. This Honorable Court has declared that Counsel renders ineffective assistance in failing to investigate and present mitigating evidence ina capita…
24-1159 Jeffrey Clyde Pitts v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-05-13 Judgment Issued Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) child-witness confrontation-clause constitutional-rights courtroom-screening criminal-procedure trial-procedure Whether the Confrontation Clause permits the use of a screen at trial that blocks a child witness's view of the defendant, without any individualized …
24-7178 Douglas Turner v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process incarceration-setting interrogation-context miranda-warnings supreme-court-precedent After "Howes v. Fields," are Courts to treat interrogation of an incarcerated person as fundamentally equivalent to (or less serious) than interrogati…
24-7179 Jordash Tanksley v. Deshawn Jones, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-12 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-law witness-testimony Question not identified.
24-7166 David Eugene Rush, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver consideration constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement Plea agreements are governed by traditional contract principles — but unlike ordinary contracts, they involve the waiver of fundamental constitutiona…
24-7170 In Re Jerome Curry 2025-05-09 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review Question not identified.
24-7139 David Little v. Georgia Georgia 2025-05-06 Denied IFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process hearsay sixth-amendment A Whether the Trial Court violated Sixth Amendment Right to Confrontation by Admitting the deceased Neg wiehad" diary— Which Contained testimonial Sta…
24-7132 Donovan Jacob Farr v. Texas Texas 2025-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-validity criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel guilty-plea plea-agreement Did the state court disregard this Court's precedent by upholding the constitutional validity of Petitioner's guilty plea despite recognizing the tria…
24-7135 Mario Keeream Jackson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP cellular-data criminal-procedure evidence-law fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure I. THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN DENYING MR. JACKSON'S MOTION TO SUPPRESS THE UNLAWFUL SEARCH OF CELLULAR PHONE DATA AND RECORDS
24-1127 Thomas E. Clardy v. Kenneth Nelsen, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-05-02 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony eyewitness-identification ineffective-assistance strickland-standard In a case that hinges primarily on eyewitness identification, does a criminal defense attorney perform deficiently under Strickland v. Washington, 466…
24-7122 Michael Samuel Dekelbaum v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process miscarriage-of-justice plea-bargain sentencing 1. Should the U.S. Supreme Court recognize a "miscarriage of justice" exception to a waiver of appeal provision in a plea bargain for due process sent…
24-7123 Carlos Edward Thurman, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court equal-protection firearm-enhancement second-amendment sentencing-guidelines I. Whether the district court clearly erred by applying the USSG § 2D1.1(b)(1) firearm enhancement? II. Whether general application of the USSG § 2D1…
24-7107 Brandon A. Dunkleberger v. Illinois Illinois 2025-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process essential-elements guilty-plea judicial-precedent plea-validity Is Illinois bound by this Court's rule that a guilty plea is not valid when the defendant is not informed of the essential elements of the crime?
24-7109 Justin Miles Ness v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure evidence-standard judicial-discretion jury-instruction plain-error temporal-scope In this case, there was trial evidence presented regarding a bevy of days, times, and different implements in which the accused allegedly possessed fi…
24-7103 Ikeviaun Quamonn Johnson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-04-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP arraignment-rights criminal-procedure due-process elements-of-crime federal-assault indictment-sufficiency Was Mr. Johnson entitled to vacatur of his conviction for assaulting federal officers where the essential element of the charge that Mr. Johnson acted…
24-7086 Bakari Abdul Brown v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-04-29 Denied IFP appellate-conflict constitutional-law criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance prior-conviction trial-strategy IWhen the prejudice effect of the name and nature of a prior r~~i i felony conviction in proving felon status, during the guilt phase of trial, can b…
24-7087 Jeffrey G. Hutchinson v. Florida, et al. Florida 2025-04-29 Denied IFP constitutional-review criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fundamental-fairness 1. As the dissent below highlights, does "due process require [] more" than what has occurred in this death warrant case, including the unnoticed trun…
24-7093 Alfred Velazquez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-review presentence-report sentencing-error structural-error Did the Ninth Circuit's disposition of Petitioner's claim under Rule 32(i)(1)(A) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure conflict with the Sixth Ci…
24-7096 Timothy Wayne Calhoun v. Louisiana Louisiana 2025-04-29 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment non-unanimous-jury sixth-amendment 1. As there are conflicting decisions amongst state courts of last resort concerning a constitutional issue, in accordance with Rule X(h), this matter…
24-1112 Rolland G. Shoup, II v. Indiana Indiana 2025-04-28 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-foundation fourteenth-amendment officer-testimony Does a state deprive a defendant of their Fourteenth Amendment right to due process of law when it admits adverse evidence not on the basis of a prope…
24-7082 Edgar Llausas-Silva v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure judicial-review prosecutorial-discretion safety-valve sentencing 1. Whether the district court improperly relied upon the subjective belief of the prosecutor without support in the record that petitioner lied when h…
24-7083 Raul Otero Cazares v. Jason Johnson, Director, Division of Adult Parole Operations, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2025-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-precedent criminal-procedure de-novo-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance Petitioner Raul Otero Cazares was convicted of the rape of his long-time domestic partner ("Doe") in a trial where they told very different stories re…
24-7074 Miguel Angel Ortiz v. Texas Texas 2025-04-25 Denied IFP burden-of-proof constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process element-of-offense jury-instruction Whether the language in a reoccurring jury instruction, upon which there is a split of authority, violates due process by failing to give effect to th…
24-7059 Dennis L. Magee v. Louisiana Louisiana 2025-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-rape constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment non-unanimous-jury sixth-amendment 1. As there are conflicting decisions amongst state courts of last resort concerning a constitutional issue, in accordance with Rule X(b), this matter…
24-7060 Mauricio Gonzalez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment herring-standard judgment-of-acquittal rule-29-motion 1. Whether a district court's denial of a renewed Rule 29 motion for judgment of acquittal can be equated with, or substituted for, a verdict of guilt…
24-7062 Damone D. Oakley v. United States Third Circuit 2025-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-USC-2326 criminal-procedure double-counting sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the statutory enhancement under 18 U.S.C. § 2326(2) and Guideline enhancements implemented by the Sentencing Commission constitute double coun…
24-1090 Ryan C. Patterson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-04-21 Denied Response Waived bank-deposits burden-of-proof criminal-procedure evidence-disclosure rule-16 tax-evasion Whether, under the Constitution of the United States, as amended, and applicable Federal rules and controlling case law, the United States, relying on…
24-7029 DeNeal Lee Smith v. Jeff Howard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process faretta-right self-representation sixth-amendment Can a criminal defendant invoke his Sixth Amendment right to self-representation under Faretta after an equivocal request? Did the United States Cour…
24-7017 Jose Antonio Cortez v. Texas Texas 2025-04-17 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus Question No. 1: Can a State allow a Judgment & Sentence of Conviction stand when under the probative facts and Jury Charged instructed the jury to con…
24-7018 Roderick King v. United States Third Circuit 2025-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence-rules rule-16 sixth-amendment trial-rights I."Whether The Goverment And The Panel Violates Petitioner's Due Process By Waiving His Direct Appeal Arguments By Purposefully Misstating His Argumen…
24-7020 Rosalio Alejandro Gonzalez-Silva v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process interrogation miranda-custody two-step-test Whether courts must apply the second step of Howes to determine if a person is "in custody" for Miranda purposes.
24-7024 Jesse Scott Fulcher v. Arizona Arizona 2025-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment Joa Fulcher denied his Fundamental right to Due Process as Guaranteed by the 5th and 14th Amendments of the United States Constitution, and Article II…
24-1082 Aghee William Smith, II v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-04-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) confrontation-clause constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process trial-rights witness-unavailability The courts are split on a critical question: Whether a living witness can be "unavailable" under the Confrontation Clause if the government has made n…
24-7005 Alsham M. Laster v. Indiana Indiana 2025-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure evidence-seizure fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause warrantless-search Whether the warrantless seizure of Alsham Laster's phone, during a murder investigation, violated the Fourth Amendment when: (i) police did not have p…
24-7014 Scott Anthony Williams v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-04-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule federal-courts remand sentencing-guidelines Whether a federal court of appeals may apply the exigent-circumstances exception to the exclusionary rule in the first instance on appeal or, instead,…
24-6991 Jessica L. Morris v. Jeremy Howard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-04-15 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment IS CERTIORARI APPROPRIATE BECAUSE PETITIONER WAS DENIED HER RIGHT TO PRESENT A DEFENSE IN VIOLATION OF US CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS V, VI AND XIV? IS…
24-7003 Hale R. Harris v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-04-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining sixth-amendment 1) DOES THE FINDING THAT COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE FOR FAILING TO CONVEY A PLEA ALLOW THE TRIAL COURT TO DO NOTHING TO CORRECT OR REMEDY THE CONSTITUTIO…
24-6972 Michael John Stitts v. Brian Eller, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure drug-quantity guidelines-interpretation indictment leadership-role sentencing-enhancement WHEN FEDERAL DEFENDANTS ARE ATTRIBUTED A DRUG QUANTITY FAILS TO TESTIFY - CONDUCTED AND THERES NO REQUIRE REVERSAL BASED ON EXTRAPOLATION AND THE CH…
24-1070 Conghua Yan v. Mark A. Taylor, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Criminal District Office Investigator, Tarrant County, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-04-11 Denied Response Waived constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure district-attorney first-amendment government-policy petition-rights This petition addresses an unpublished dismissal of a constitutional challenge to a goyernment. barring Petitioner and everyone from filing individual…
24-6982 In Re Lawrence J. Gerrans 2025-04-11 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Is Petitioner being detained and imprisoned in violation of the 1. Constitution, Statutory laws or Federal Rule(s) of Criminal Procedure? Is Petition…
24-1071 Jose Angel Garcia v. New Mexico, et al. New Mexico 2025-04-10 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance jury-instruction medical-evidence sixth-amendment trial-counsel Whether Petitioner Garcia's Sixth Amendment right to counsel was deprived under the following circumstances: • By failing to call the pathologist who…
24-6966 Mick J. Careaga v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquittal criminal-procedure due-process jury-verdict lesser-included-offense trial-by-jury I. Whether the Due Process clause permits a court to ignore without inquiry a jury's finding of Not Guilty on a lesser, necessarily included charge, w…
24-6950 Daontae T. Scott v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment (1) DOES TRIAL COUNSEL'S FAILURE TO INVESTIGATE, PROCURE EXCULPATORY EVIDENCE (SECURITY CAMERA FOOTAGE), OTHER INFORMATION FROM THE LOCATION CRIME SCE…
24-1057 Jerry Peoples v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-04-08 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure drug-dealing hobbs-act interstate-commerce motion-for-acquittal rule-29-motion 1. Whether the Seventh Circuit erred by affirming the district court's decision to deny Mr. Peoples' Rule 29 Motion for Acquittal where the Government…
24-6947 Harry Lee Goldsboro, II v. Florida Florida 2025-04-08 Denied IFP criminal-procedure discovery-violation due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment Question not identified.
24-1056 Isabel Rico v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-04-07 Granted Amici (4) criminal-procedure federal-law fugitive-tolling sentencing supervised-release tolling-doctrine Whether the fugitive-tolling doctrine applies in the context of supervised release.
24-6937 Anthony Craig Weimer v. Montana Montana 2025-04-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment sixth-amendment supremacy-clause 1. Whether the initial Court erred in holding that the Flathead County Commission's display on public property and the Guarantee Clause in the free ex…
24-6939 Scott Lee DeShaw, et al. v. Arizona Arizona 2025-04-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP criminal-procedure jones-v-mississippi juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama parole-discretion States may not "make life without parole the mandatory (or mandatory minimum) punishment" for juveniles. Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460, 482 n.9 (201…
24-6930 Demetris Sean Robinson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-04-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court effective-assistance-counsel evidence-suppression fourth-circuit 1. At issue herein is whether the District Court erred by allowing evidence obtained in violation of petitioner's constitutional rights by State offic…
24-1048 Karen Read v. Superior Court of Massachusetts, Norfolk County, et al. First Circuit 2025-04-03 Denied Response Waived acquittal constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy jury-verdict retrial 1. Whether a final and unanimous, but unannounced, decision by a jury following trial that the prosecution failed to prove a defendant guilty of a cha…
24-6917 Edmond Stanley Adams, III v. South Carolina South Carolina 2025-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance subject-matter-jurisdiction I. Wid the S.C. Supreme Court ettor by barches Rebitiowers.Fedecsl Fachsaal ip dicate Hoa. his purported uiaivecof bis 6" Rmendonent Righ-bo—fective a…
24-6907 Oscar Omar Lobo-Lopez v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP compassionate-release criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment THE SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO COUNSEL EXTENT TO ALL CRITICAL STASHES OF A CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS LIKE COMPASSIONATE RELEASE, WHEN COUNSEL FAILED TO PROPE…
24-6903 John Sheldon Pickens, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment independent-source-doctrine investigatory-stop warrantless-search Does an unlawful flee that would not have happened but for the police's violation of the Fourth Amendment trigger the independent source exception to …
24-6908 Harry Lee Goldsboro, II v. Florida Florida 2025-04-01 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process jurisdictional-challenge speedy-trial trial-rights warrant-service /. fOf 't'k purpose.i of hcfk sHfu-fag aW Cons bihbio„ H/ Speedy fr,\f, u/k-t„ in Ca r tstrakd defc-IAttf tS in Custidy in one Coi/nbfi hub has chore…
24-6884 Arthur L. Vitasek v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP arguable-claims court-rulings criminal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-jurisdiction legal-representation Under Penson v. Ohio, 488 U.S. 75 (1988), whether the Magistrate, the District Court Judge, and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals lost jurisdiction t…
24-6886 Jonathan Lynn Jenkins v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review confession-admissibility criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence harmless-error jury-role Whether an appellate court improperly displaces the jury's role to determine guilt by assuming error occurred when the district court improperly admit…
24-6879 Zachary Michael Linan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fifth-amendment judicial-fact-finding sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment 1. Did the Fifth Circuit err in affirming the district court's application of U.S.S.G. § 2A1.2(a)(1) (Second Degree Murder) rather than § 2A2.2 (Aggra…
24-6859 Cecil Ray v. Angela Phams, Warden, et al. Georgia 2025-03-26 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment right-to-counsel state-courts 1. IS one merits bond appeal exist and are much invalidated by a State Court as review, should Federal Court address one lack KH as a second of Unt co…
24-6862 Brandon Durell Hardison v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidence-link murder-case witness-testimony Question not identified.
24-6864 Darren Latodd Houston v. Texas Texas 2025-03-26 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-fairness judicial-error jury-instructions Question not identified.
24-6850 Philip Jude Moran v. Florida Florida 2025-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment strickland-standard Whether the state appellate court misapplied this Court's prejudice standard set forth in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), when affirmin…
24-6830 Khalid Alboushari v. United States Second Circuit 2025-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance sentencing-guidelines 1. Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's sentence of 92 months' imprisonment without properly considerin…
24-6836 Christian Genao v. United States Second Circuit 2025-03-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sentencing supervised-release Federal criminal defendants have a right to be present at sentencing, grounded in the Fifth Amendment Due Process Clause and codified in Federal Rule …
24-6823 Thomas Caves v. United States Second Circuit 2025-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review criminal-procedure felon-in-possession firearm-statute plain-error second-circuit Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred by applying its plain error standard to affirm the judgment of conviction and …
24-6824 Hansel Janel Rijo-Guerrero v. United States First Circuit 2025-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure downward-variance drug-trafficking sentencing-disparity sentencing-enhancement ussg-guidelines 1. Did the district court err when it imposed a two-level sentencing enhancement pursuant to USSG § 2D1.1(b)(3)(C) where the Government failed to prov…
24-6807 Carl P. Palladinetti v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-significance court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance section-2255 A. Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals denial of Mr. Palladinetti's COA filing represents an issue of constitutional significance worthy of U…
24-6814 Jason Johnson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure illegal-sentence plea-agreement sentencing-law While "jurisdictions appear to treat at least some claims as unwaivable" via an appeal waiver in a plea agreement, this Court has not yet had occasion…
24-6805 Anita Hollins v. Erin Maldonado, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-03-19 Denied IFP constitutional-review criminal-procedure habeas-corpus inconsistent-verdicts sixth-circuit supreme-court-precedent Whether Dunn v. United States, 284 U.S. 390 (1932), overturned by United States v. Powell, 469 U.S. 57 (1984), and United States v. Powell, self-restr…
24-6790 Saul Douglas Briggs v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant sixth-circuit 1. Whether this Honorable Court should grant certiorari to review whether the Sixth Circuit's determination that the good faith exception applies to t…
24-6797 Silas Bernard Peterson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-analysis circumstance-specific-analysis criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance sex-offender-registration SORNA In Descamps v. United States, 570 U.S. 254 (2013), this Court held that when a federal sentencing statute (the Armed Career Criminal Act) referred to …
24-991 Joshua Herrera v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-18 Denied appellate-review child-sexual-offense criminal-procedure expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence psychological-evidence Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit fail to follow this Court's recent decision in Diaz v. United States, 602 U.S. 526 (2024) in fa…
24-6780 Earl Felton Crago, Jr. v. Arizona Arizona 2025-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP conviction-review criminal-procedure federal-court habeas-corpus state-court subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Whether a state court defendant, when a state court of conviction lacks jurisdiction over the subject matter, can appeal a conviction to a higher s…
24-985 Ohio v. Garry Smith Ohio 2025-03-14 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process emergency-doctrine hearsay-exception testimonial-statements Because the Confrontation Clause affords criminal defendants the right during trial "to be confronted with the witnesses against " them , is the initi…
24-6766 David Lynn Griffith v. United States Third Circuit 2025-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure drug-evidence drug-purity evidence-reliability methamphetamine sentencing WHETHER HISTORICAL DRUGS PURCHASED BY SOMEONE OTHER THAN THE DEFENDANT CONSTITUTES RELIABLE EVIDENCE AT SENTENCING TO SUPPORT THE PURITY OF METHAMPHET…
24-6756 Marcus Leshun Sargent v. Texas Texas 2025-03-12 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection extraneous-offense ineffective-assistance Due to the inherently inflammatory and prejudicial nature of sexual offenses against children, with its tendency to suggest a verdict on an improper b…
24-6758 Matias P. Briones v. Texas Texas 2025-03-12 Denied IFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process non-unanimous-jury ramos-precedent texas-penal-code Is Texas Penal Code 21.02 repugnant to the 5th, 6th, and 14th amendment of the U.S. Constitution where Texas held error of non-unanimous jury instruct…
24-6738 Steven Dewayne Barnes, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure firearm-possession reasonable-suspicion second-amendment sentencing-enhancement terry-stop 1. The Eleventh Circuit erred in concluding that officers had reasonable suspicion to conduct a Terry stop and frisk based on ambiguous and subjective…
24-6740 Royel Page v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-03-11 Denied IFP buyer-seller-relationship circuit-split criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy party-presentation plain-error-review I. Whether the Seventh Circuit, sitting en banc, erred as a matter of law in holding that, pursuant to Direct Sales Co. v. United States, 319 U.S. 703…
24-6730 Richard David Degout v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure drug-offenses due-process first-step-act sentencing-reduction This Court should GVR tnis case to the lower court to aadress whether the procedural protections enshrined m the Due Process of Law allows a criminal …
24-963 Elvin Torres-Estrada v. United States First Circuit 2025-03-07 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion Whether the inaccurate advice by Mr. Torres-Estrada's rogue attorney to reject a favorable plea agreement during plea negotiations, with the prosecuto…
24-958 Louis Ciminelli, Steven Aiello, Joseph Gerardi, & Alain Kaloyeros v. United States Second Circuit 2025-03-06 Denied appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy legal-standard retroactivity sufficiency-challenge In its prior decision in this case two Terms ago, this Court unanimously held in Ciminelli v. United States, 598 U.S. 306 (2023), that the Second Circ…
24-6704 Brian Jury v. Ohio Ohio 2025-03-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression prosecutorial-misconduct This case poses a constitutional question of national importance. Did the Ohio Sixth District Court of Appeals impose an improper and unduly burdensom…
24-6687 Jason Jayavarman v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-03-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP child-pornography criminal-procedure duplicitous-indictment ineffective-counsel plea-offer rule-8a 1. Is indictment duplicitous when it charges two or more offenses in a single count? 2. Does Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 8(a) prohibit the cha…
24-6690 Arjune Ahmed v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure defendant-rights evidence-admission federal-rule-of-evidence sexual-assault Petitioner Arjune Ahmed was convicted of two counts of kidnapping. The district court declined to give him separate trials on the two kidnapping alleg…
24-6694 Emilio Santiago v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-decision career-offender criminal-procedure judicial-review retroactive-application sentencing-enhancement Should A Intervening Decision By A United States Court Of Appeals Invalidating A Defendant's Career Offender Enhancement Be Applied Retroactive?
24-947 Chanel Wiley v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-03-04 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights court-precedent criminal-procedure jury-prejudice ninth-circuit physical-restraints Whether a criminal defendant whose government imposed restraint is perceptible to a jury must show actual prejudice, as the decision below held, or wh…
24-6674 Kevin Millette v. United States First Circuit 2025-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction compassionate-release criminal-procedure federal-sentencing habeas-corpus sentencing-modification Whether a sentencing judge may impose a condition of supervised release that substantially restricts a defendant's access to his own children without …
24-6678 Omari Howard Patton v. United States Third Circuit 2025-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure drug-quantity extrapolation leadership-enhancement sentencing-guidelines uncharged-participants WHEN FEDERAL DEFENDANTS ARE ATTRIBUTED A DRUG QUANTITY BASED ON EXTRAPOLATION AND THE CHEMIST FAILS TO TESTIFY AS TO HOW THE EXTRAPOLATION WAS CONDUCT…
24-6667 Luke John Scott, Sr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure false-testimony federal-question obstructing-justice sentencing-guidelines trial-testimony Does a criminal defendant's trial testimony constitute a willful intent to provide materially false testimony as required for a two-level increase for…
24-6671 Isaac Doyle Koch v. Iowa Iowa 2025-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process law-enforcement official-act resistance statutory-interpretation What is the difference between interfering with an official act and refusing an official crime? What is the effect, when statute disallows all physic…
24-6652 David R. Kitchen v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fourth-circuit home-detention judicial-review sentencing-discretion supervised-release I. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by affirming the District Court's discretion in sentencing Mr. Kitchen to six (6) months of home detention for a s…
24-6653 John Douglas Alexander v. Jonathan Nance, Warden Fourth Circuit 2025-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process implied-malice jury-instructions self-defense Court err in finding that the Petitioner was not entitled to a due process review of the newly erased South Carolina Supreme Court procedure, governin…
24-6654 Willie Alsha Hill v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure indictment jury-instruction multiple-conspiracies trial-rights Whether a multiple conspiracies instruction cannot, as a matter of law, be given where a defendant proceeds to trial alone.
24-6659 Ronnie Lee Seward v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review career-criminal criminal-procedure drug-trafficking florida-law sentencing Did the District Court erroneously sentence Petitioner as a career criminal based on prior convictions for Florida trafficking in amphetamine? Did th…
24-6634 Robert Andrew Wolter v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split competency-evaluation criminal-procedure speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation transportation-delay When a criminal defendant is transported to another facility to undergo a competency evaluation, does the time between the date of the order for trans…
24-6637 Roger Moss v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure drug-trafficking fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant Courts generally recognize that probable cause to believe a person committed a crime does not alone establish probable cause to search their home. How…
24-6639 Mario Ayala Alfaro v. California California 2025-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP common-law-infant criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment jurisdictional-defect mens-rea 1. Whether punishing a common-law infant in violation of a substantive rule of criminal procedure when devoid of the requisite knowledge and guilty me…
24-6641 Chad Adam Cheever v. Oregon Oregon 2025-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial law-enforcement-misconduct 1. Does holding a position with the local executive branch of government , be it, prosecutors, detectives, or sheriff automatically give them permis…
24-6644 Lola Shalewa Barbara Kasali v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-presence jury-selection legal-jurisdiction trial-in-absentia Whether the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure 43, case law, and the United States Constitution permit the trial in absentia of a defendant who is no…
24-912 Earl Casperson Meggison v. Florida Florida 2025-02-25 Denied Response Waived constitutional-law criminal-procedure ex-post-facto removal-provision sex-offender-registration state-courts Whether the Court should resolve the following question for which the state courts are split: is it a violation of constitutional ex post facto princi…
24-6646 Randy Allen Herman, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insanity-defense involuntary-act sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner was deprived of effective assistance of counsel in violation of his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constituti…
24-6621 Curtis Brown v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure fifth-amendment judicial-discretion sentencing-conditions supervised-release Under the Fifth Amendment, is a district court required to orally pronounce at sentencing all discretionary "standard conditions" of supervised releas…
24-6626 Stanford Wall v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-law criminal-procedure cross-examination evidence-law witness-credibility Whether, consistent with the Confrontation Clause, courts must apply a presumption favoring cross-examination of a government witness's general charac…
24-6615 Gregory P. Damm v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure federal-sentencing hearsay plain-error revocation-proceeding supervised-release Can a federal supervised release defendant can ever obtain relief on plain error for the erroneous admission of hearsay in a revocation proceeding?
24-902 Ruel M. Hamilton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-02-21 Denied appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy jury-verdict In Ashe v. Swenson, this Court recognized that the Double Jeopardy Clause precludes relitigation of facts found by a jury. 397 U.S. 436 (1970). What, …
24-6598 Rodney Boyles v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-02-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure federal-court-jurisdiction statutory-provisions Question not identified.
24-6603 Michael Lee Gordon v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-02-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP compassionate-release criminal-procedure first-step-act retroactive-application sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation 1. Whether or not the "reduced" penalties pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3553, commonly referred to as "Hazelwood" or as was amended and specified by Congres…
24-6591 Kimberly Sponaugle v. United States Third Circuit 2025-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure expert-disclosure expert-witness-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence lay-opinion wire-fraud Whether the trial court erred as a matter of law in ruling that F.R.E. 701 permitted the prosecution to present in its case-in-chief lay opinion testi…
24-6580 Darrell Smith v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-02-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-ethics judicial-recusal 1. Should not a Judge have recused himself, reference 28 U.S.C. §455 (b)(2), from prosecutions and sentencing of the Petitioner, and his Companies, wh…
24-6586 Landon Hank Black v. Tennessee Tennessee 2025-02-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7)IFP burden-of-proof constitutional-limits criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions second-degree-murder 1. The defendant was convicted of second-degree murder after he shot a man who approached him aggressively in a parking lot. This factual situation pr…
24-882 Derrick Chatman v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-02-18 Denied Response Waived constitutional-law criminal-procedure direct-remand jury-unanimity lesser-included-offense sixth-amendment Does a state court direct-remand rule that infers jury unanimity on a lesser-included offense violate the Sixth Amendment, where the jury's verdict wa…
24-6573 Isaac Garcia Bracamontes v. California California 2025-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-inference jury-instruction sex-offense Are the inferences of likely guilt and of actual guilt (the latter if there is corroborating evidence) from a finding of disposition to commit sex off…
24-6575 Marshall Ray Scarborough v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit plea-agreement sentencing Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(b)(1)(N) requires that, before a district court accepts a plea of guilty, it must first "inform the defendant of…
24-872 John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections v. Joseph Clifton Smith Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-14 Granted Amici (11)Relisted (3) atkins-v-virginia criminal-procedure habeas-corpus intellectual-disability iq-testing preponderance-of-evidence 1. Whether, under a proper application of Atkins , a State can require a claimant to prove an IQ of 70 or less by a preponderance of the evidence. 2.…
24-6558 Mauricio Gonzalez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit judicial-notice statutory-interpretation witness-testimony 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in including the Government's post-trial misinterpretation of Florida Statute § 794.05 and 18 U.S.C. § 2423(a), …
24-6554 Adriano Cortez v. United States First Circuit 2025-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admission government-tolling statute-of-limitations I» \vft«4W )B U.SXc^vBZ^O Violates Wt. HPfVi Amend men 4 CDue^lVoceSS^), ff ho Evidence U)a$ ^ resen 4«d fta,<Wt\04 fried 4o determine. -Vhe, 'jiorpo…
24-6541 Bartholomew Granger v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-02-11 Denied IFP abuse-of-writ criminal-procedure federal-constitutional-law habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief state-law-ground 1. Whether the CCA's otherwise unexplained ruling that abuse of the writ under Article 11.071, section 5, precluded post-conviction relief is an adequ…
24-6543 Devin Chaney v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-02-11 Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement sentencing-error Can a criminal defendant knowingly and voluntarily waive the right to appeal a district court's yet-to-be-made errors as part of a plea agreement, and…
24-6545 Rangsey Arundech Pich v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation sentencing written-order In federal criminal proceedings, circuit courts agree that an unambiguous oral pronouncement overrides a subsequent inconsistent written order. Courts…
24A773 Munson P. Hunter, III v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-02-11 Presumed Complete appeal-waiver circuit-split constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure plea-agreement sentencing-rights (1) whether a defendant who agreed to waive his right to appeal may nonetheless challenge his sentence on constitutional grounds other than ineffectiv…
24A779 William Valentin v. United States Third Circuit 2025-02-11 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment judicial-process Question not identified.
24-6511 Ian Mitcham v. Arizona Arizona 2025-02-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure dna-profile fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery law-enforcement search-and-seizure For nearly four decades, courts have grappled with interpreting the inevitable discovery doctrine. Some courts, including the Second, Fifth, Eighth, a…
24-6519 Larry R. Steele v. United States Postal Service, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty habeas-corpus post-conviction texas-procedure Has the Jawenslecs of this Nahon w rope zah the di Gad surrem agin TAL PEOPLE the arpa REOPLE 6 Whe Unred Syorte ok Amerson?
24-6520 Lalako Jonathan Jose v. Arizona Arizona 2025-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure jury-trial ramos-precedent sixth-amendment twelve-person-jury Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a twelve-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony.
24-6523 Timothy W. Wright, Jr. v. Virginia Virginia 2025-02-10 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus Question not identified.
24-6525 Richard Stephens Terry v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-conflict criminal-procedure federal-law statutory-interpretation substantial-step 1. Did the Eleventh Circuit err in denying a certificate of appealability when its appeals court made such decision off of the Circuit's wrongful eval…
24-6527 Hazhar A. Sayed v. Gilbert Caley, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-02-10 Denied IFP competency-hearing criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance pro-se-litigant self-defense 1) Whether The Doyle v. Ohio. 426 U.S. 610 (1976) violation had a substantial and injurious effect in determining the jury 's verdict? 2) Whether the…
24-6501 In Re Noel J. Bender 2025-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure domestic-abuse due-process residential-judgment witness-testimony Whether a defendant is prohibited from being a victim of his assault, such as that he and his victim are "household members" and the assault is thus a…
24-6505 Jerome Jones v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-02-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure plea-agreement sentencing-error statutory-right Can a criminal defendant knowingly and voluntarily forfeit his right to appeal the district court's yet-to-be-made errors as part of his plea agreemen…
24-6474 Leonard Morrison v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP acca-enhancement armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure jury-determination predicate-offense Does the recent Supreme Court ruling in *Erlinger v. United States*, 602 U.S. (2024), render unconstitutional the enhancements imposed under the Armed…
24-6488 Jordy Ezequiel Ochoa, aka Jordy Ezequil Ochoa-Cordova v. Robert Luna, Sheriff, Los Angeles County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy habeas-corpus jury-trial mistrial probation-violation Is it a violation of clearly established federal law under the Double Jeopardy clause to allow a court to declare a mistrial based on a hung jury, hol…
24A763 Kayle B. Bates v. Florida Florida 2025-02-06 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty juror-interview post-conviction rule-3.575 Question not identified.
24-6480 Andrew J. Johnston v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure criminal-procedure federal-statute habeas-corpus jurisdictional-bar post-conviction-relief 1. Does 28 U.S.C. Section 2244(b)(1) apply to claims brought in second or successive motions for post-conviction relief under 28 U.S.C. Section 2255? …
24-839 Roman Storm v. United States District Court for the Southern District of New York Second Circuit 2025-02-05 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure district-court federal-rules inherent-power judicial-discretion mandamus I. Whether a district court may rely on its "inherent power" to contravene an express provision of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure Rule 16, where t…
24A762 Jermaine Lamar Rutledge v. Arizona Arizona 2025-02-05 Presumed Complete appellate-jurisdiction certiorari criminal-procedure state-court-review supreme-court-jurisdiction time-extension Question not identified.
24-6466 David Alcorn v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-of-appeals criminal-procedure defendants-rights district-court public-trial sixth-amendment Whether The Court Of Appeals Erred By Upholding The District Court 's Violation Of Defendants' Sixth Amendment Right To A Public Trial?
24-6469 Ramien Collins v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Did the appellate commit reversible err denying Petitioner's direct appeal on the issue where the district court allowed the admission of chemical ana…
24A758 Jonathan Stacy Berrier v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-02-04 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure factual-basis interstate-travel plea-agreement sentencing-variance sex-offense Question not identified.
24-6456 Doran Maurice Smith v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-02-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure mississippi-law 1a. Did the Circuit Court of Madison County violate [text unclear due to OCR quality] 2a. Did the Circuit Court of Madison County violate [text uncle…
24-6438 Iran Dwayne Ketchup v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel judicial-injustice rule-60 section-2255 Did Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 60 allow the lower courts (1) to re-open the 28 P.S.C. S 2255 proceedings, pursuant to Gonzalez v. Crosby ,…
24-6424 Terrance L. Clopton v. Illinois Illinois 2025-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidence-tampering false-affidavit probable-cause warrantless-search irikA??e.A\ aFW :TnIFoRfvA(STU£_ k??A\k\€L C®oMe\ To RknS>B XdFFF^l'/e_ CxdTv^TriAl CooAs^i Fd£ FA vW^T d xVU\WlOo Twe_\/eR{\<iiW ofTw£_ \AlAReAd\ A…
24-6412 Joey Lamont Brunson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception wiretap-order WHETHER THE "GOOD FAITH EXCEPTION" TO THE FOURTH AMENDMENT EXCLUSIONARY RULE OF UNITED STATES VS. LEON, 468 U.S. 897 (1987), APPLIES TO TITLE III WIRE…
24-6414 Albert Pinedo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP bias criminal-procedure impartiality jury-selection sixth-amendment voir-dire Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a prospective juror to make an unequivocal commitment to impartiality after revealing their actual bias.
24A742 Jose Lewis Bosquez v. Arizona Arizona 2025-01-29 Presumed Complete appellate-review arizona-courts certiorari criminal-procedure due-process post-conviction Question not identified.
24A744 Leonard Harris v. Nakita Ross, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-01-29 Presumed Complete capital-sentencing criminal-procedure exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Due Process Violations from the Use of Expunged Records: This case raises fundamental questions about whether the use of expunged records in judicial …
24-6403 Brian Dale Nixon v. Texas Texas 2025-01-28 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP capital-murder constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process presumption-of-innocence trial-location The Petitioner's capital murder trial was held in this facility: The Supreme Courts of Oregon and Washington held this is inherently prejudicial and e…
24-6407 Samuel Tanel Crittenden v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court fifth-circuit jury-instruction sufficiency-of-evidence Should a conviction be reversed and remanded for a new trial where the district court erroneously fails to give a lesser-included offense instruction,…
24-6410 Antoine Wiggins v. United States Third Circuit 2025-01-28 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7)IFP circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-procedure federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law Under the federal Sentencing Guidelines § 2K2.1(a)(2), a defendant previously convicted of a "controlled substance offense" is subject to a sentencing…
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 …
24-6395 Robert Lewis Dear, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split competency-restoration criminal-procedure due-process forcible-medication sell-standard When ordering that a criminal defendant be forcibly medicated to restore competence under Sell v. United States, 539 U.S. 166 (2003), must a district …
24-6393 Shamichael Antonio Pearson v. Louisiana Louisiana 2025-01-27 Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-standard-of-proof identity-evidence jackson-v-virginia reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the evidence was sufficient under Jackson v. Virginia to prove beyond a reasonable doubt Mr. Pearson identify as the perpetrator.
24-6396 Ryan Perrin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-01-27 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-procedure prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement state-court-decisions I. When applying the categorical approach to determine whether a prior state conviction qualifies as a predicate for the Armed Career Criminal Act (AC…
24-6372 Isidro Romero-Corona v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process miranda-custody supreme-court-precedent In Howes v. Fields, 565 U.S. 499 (2012), the Court established a two-step test for determining whether a suspect is "in custody" for purposes of Miran…
24-6383 Christian Ricker v. Indiana Indiana 2025-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance post-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct 1. Was a State Appellate Courts Finding that the States Prosecutorial Misconduct and Conditioning during Voir Dire was waived by Failure to Raise thes…
24-6387 Raymond Bradley v. Florida Florida 2025-01-24 Denied IFP constitutional-sentencing criminal-procedure juvenile-sentencing mandatory-minimum proportionality-principle youth-consideration Whether the mandatory penalty scheme at issue here is flawed where it prevents the sentencer from taking account of the central considerations of Grah…
24-6389 Kalontae Carter, aka Kelontae Carter v. Doug Luneke, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-01-24 Denied IFP accomplice-testimony confrontation-clause criminal-procedure out-of-court-statements sixth-amendment testimonial-statements I. Whether the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment prohibits the introduction and use of statements made by a non-testifying accomplice which …
24-6373 Harry Lee Goldsboro, II v. Florida Florida 2025-01-23 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining sixth-amendment Question not identified.
24-779 Roger Paul Bradford v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-01-23 Denied Response Waived criminal-indictment criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction judicial-review prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation Whether an indictment that alleges conduct outside the reach of a criminal statute precludes a district court from exercising jurisdiction to adjudica…
24A713 Matthew Lee Flowers v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-01-22 Presumed Complete confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment trial-counsel Question not identified.
24-6357 Montrese Antoine Snuggs v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fourth-amendment probation-condition search-and-seizure suspicionless-search warrantless-search Whether the Fourth Amendment authorizes warrantless, suspicionless searches of probationers as part of a condition of probation.
24-6340 Bruce E. Alexander v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-01-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP corroborating-circumstances criminal-procedure evidentiary-standard federal-rules-evidence hearsay-exception statement-against-interest Whether FRE 804(b)(3)(B) 's requirement that a court fin d "corrobo rating circumstances " that "clearly indicate [a statement 's] trustworthiness " r…
24-6344 Tamir Abdullah v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-01-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure drug-quantity fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing-range statutory-interpretation Section 404 of the First Step Act made retroactive the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010's changes to the cocaine-base drug-quantity thresholds in 21 U.S.C.…
24-6348 Christopher Howard v. United States Second Circuit 2025-01-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-validity criminal-procedure inter-circuit-split jury-instructions rico-conspiracy vicar-statute 1. Whether The Second Circuit Court of Appeal's Decisions to overturn the District Court's Acquittal of Petitioner on both the VICAR and 924(c) Counts…
24-6349 Joshua Wiley Mitchell v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-01-21 Denied IFP competency-determination criminal-procedure due-process psychiatric-evaluation statutory-procedure trial-rights 1. Was the trial court required to follow the state statutory procedures when dealing with competency, and if those statutory procedures required a ps…
24-6335 Marcrease Delance Farmer v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-01-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-ineffective-assistance criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-fairness impartial-jury trial-rights 1) WHETHER COUNSEL LESS CONSTITUTIONALLY EFFECTIVE FOR FAILING TO NOT ONLY INVESTIGATE THE INFORMATION REGARDING AN ALTERCATION BETWEEN TERROR 27 S04 …
24-6339 Mark Tomas Regan v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2025-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process firearms-possession licensure-requirement second-amendment 1. Whether the right to keep and bear arms protected by the Second Amendment, the right guaranteed by the Due Process Clause of the 14% Amendment to b…
24A709 Ghislaine Maxwell v. United States Second Circuit 2025-01-17 Presumed Complete circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court federal-jurisdiction plea-agreement prosecutorial-discretion Question not identified.
24A710 Mitchelle Derwin Robinson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-01-17 Presumed Complete admissibility-of-evidence criminal-procedure drug-trafficking evidence-rule-404b knowledge-and-intent propensity-evidence Question not identified.
24-6322 Todd Erling Becker v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance 1. Did the Eleventh Circuit apply the correct certificate of appealability standard in denying Petitioner's 28 U.S.C. § 2255 claims? 2. Is Petitioner…
24A703 Gavin Blake Davis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-01-16 Presumed Complete appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process personal-safety pretrial-release substantive-rights For a criminally accused, such as the Applicant/Petitioner, conditionally released subject to certain terms and conditions pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 314…
24-6313 Eric St. George v. Jason Lengerich, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-01-15 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admission fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness propensity-evidence Does the admission of evidence that a criminal defendant possesses guns, weapons that are -'totally unrelated to the criminal allegation against him, …
24A691 Christopher E. Barnes v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-01-15 Presumed Complete certiorari circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-appeals post-conviction time-extension Question not identified.
24-6294 Christopher Lloyd Burnell v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-01-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split counsel-substitution court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure defendant-rights sixth-amendment What standard governs a criminal defendant's motion to substitute retained with court-appointed counsel?
24-6300 Pablo Gutierrez v. Florida Florida 2025-01-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment interpreter-rights sixth-amendment The trial court recognized Mr. Gutierrez only spoke Spanish and appointed an interpreter for him —but the interpreter was prohibited from translating …
24-6305 Francisco Villanueva v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process expert-witness eyewitness-testimony identification-procedure suggestive-circumstances Whether accused citizens are entitled to present expert eyewitness testimony when unduly suggestive circumstances surround the identification?
24-6273 Darren R. Reiner v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2025-01-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-withholding judicial-discretion probable-cause 1. Not since Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) has a case been so compelling and brought before the U.S. Supreme Court needing a federal court rul…
24-6276 Robert Anthony Zaccaro v. Florida Florida 2025-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure defendant-rights judicial-discretion jury-determination sentencing-enhancement sentencing-facts Whether there are any exceptions to a Defendant's right to a jury determination of any fact which raises his minimum or maximum sentence?
24-6284 Christopher Duncan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure imprisonment reasonableness sentencing-review supervised-release Whether sentences of imprisonment following the revocation of supervised release should be reviewed for reasonableness or plain unreasonableness?
24-731 Michigan v. Mark David Woolley Michigan 2025-01-13 Denied criminal-procedure fifth-amendment miranda-warnings polygraph-procedure self-incrimination voluntariness Because the Fifth Amendment concerns voluntariness, whether Miranda should at the least be modified to an adjudicatory device rather than a rule of la…
24-6286 Frank James v. United States Second Circuit 2025-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review charging-statute circuit-split criminal-procedure indictment-defect jurisdictional-error Whether a defect in an indictment -- of whatever kind -- is categorically a non-jurisdictional error, even if the indictment alleges conduct that is b…
24-6271 Javier Francisco Perez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach criminal-procedure felony-offense probation-revocation sentencing-guidelines supervised-release I. Whenever a probationer or supervised releasee faces revocation, the Guidelines Manual assigns a grade to the violation "conduct." The violation gra…
24-6257 Willie Cory Godbolt v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-01-10 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility fourth-amendment search-and-seizure 1). a fleujS RrsV AM^Neine/lV pnvileg "Vo sVueldt Vver ^acirce^ -Vru.wjp?. CrirairvaX c^e^w^fyl's v)t<^W Ar/be>,vA<vien-V r'l^j/feV- 4© CjQj^rorvVouV^…
24-6258 Michael Collins Iheme v. Minnesota Minnesota 2025-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-counsel judicial-bias sentencing-errors 1. A defendant who was not defended by attorney in a criminal proceeding in every legal sense projection in his trial T4 but proforma and reluctant de…
24-6265 Ryan A. Fleming, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure guilty-verdict miscarriage-of-justice police-testimony video-evidence weight-of-evidence 1. Whether video evidence refuting police testimony that a defendant personally held a gun required reversal of a guilty verdict as sufficiently again…
24-721 Jordan Shaun Rodgers v. Texas Texas 2025-01-10 Denied absurdity-doctrine criminal-procedure due-process evidence-law jackson-v-virginia statutory-interpretation Whether Texas courts are applying the "absurdity doctrine" in a manner that violates due process? Whether Jackson v. Virginia tolerates inferences ba…
24A676 Mark Tomas Regan v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2025-01-10 Presumed Complete burden-of-proof criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process firearms-possession second-amendment Whether the right to keep and bear arms protected by the Second Amendment; the right to be free from conviction except upon proof beyond a reasonable …
24-6239 Charles Randy Bowlds, Jr. v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-01-08 Denied IFP appellate-review counsel-waiver criminal-procedure due-process supreme-court-precedent tenth-circuit Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals approached this matter of first impression, re-appointment of counsel after a valid waiver of counsel, …
24-6240 Jarrell Raeshon Bordeaux v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP co-conspirator-testimony conspiracy-evidence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility Do Federal Corridor Caquitainments ony Courts Yn Opracniesy ytorrnantn? Shola Gorrdoorabion Caquiramentss Ye implenanted into lass, \n anger ok Se Lo…
24-6241 Justin Michael Buehler v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure cross-examination evidence-limitation informant-testimony judicial-discretion witness-credibility Did the District Court abuse it's discretion by limiting the defendant's cross examination of the key witness and informant's criminal history?
24-6242 Kent Booher v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP anders-brief appellate-review criminal-procedure ex-post-facto plain-error substantial-rights I. Did the Court of Appeals err when it failed to address the issues raised by the appellant after his appellate counsel filed an Anders brief and mov…
24-6253 Victor Clayton v. United States Third Circuit 2025-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure motion-to-dismiss motion-to-withdraw plea-agreement rule-12 sex-trafficking 1. Did the district court err in denying defendant's motion to dismiss pursuant to federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 12 (b)(3) counts One and Two of …
24-6231 Emmanuel Zleh Totaye, Jr. v. Iowa Iowa 2025-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fair-trial fourteenth-amendment inconsistent-verdict reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Does an inconsistent verdict in a criminal case violate a defendant's right to a fair trial under the Sixth Amendment and their right to be found guil…
24-704 Xengxai Yang v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-01-02 Denied Response Waived collateral-review competency-claim criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default The "conviction of an accused person while he is legally incompetent violates due process," Pate v. Robinson, 383 U.S. 375, 378 (1966), and thus a fed…
24-706 Andrew Thomas Cowhy v. Michigan Michigan 2025-01-02 Denied constitutional-law criminal-procedure judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment Should the Court reexamine its holding in Oregon v. Ice, 555 U.S. 160 (2009), which exempts factual findings necessary to increase a defendant's punis…
24-6218 Anthony McCarary v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules judicial-explanation preservation-of-error sentencing-reasonableness To determine whether a sentencing issue is preserved, "The question is simply whether the claimed error was 'brought to the court's attention." Holgui…
24-6209 Edvin Santiagomazariegos v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent WHETHER TRIAL COUNSEL'S PERFORMANCE DEPRIVED PETITIONER OF HIS SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL AS MADE APPLICABLE BY THE FO…
24-695 Bill Cool, Warden v. Nathaniel Jackson Sixth Circuit 2024-12-30 Denied criminal-procedure death-penalty lockett-precedent mitigation-evidence remand sentencing-review Has this Court clearly required state courts to reopen the mitigation evidence in every death-penalty remand, even if the error did not affect the def…
24-6215 Liston Watson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-conviction plea-agreement post-conviction-relief Whether the right to effective assistance of counsel attaches during a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 proceeding when counsel is communicating a plea agreement to t…
24-6195 Oyd McCray v. Jeff Tanner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-12-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence criminal-procedure habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice schlup-standard sixth-circuit-review Where Petitioner presented substantial new evidence that not only shows he is innocent of murder, but further reveals the identity of the actual kille…
24-6201 Christopher Jeorge Millican v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-12-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure hearsay search-warrant sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence Whether the Confrontation Clause allows the admission at trial—without confrontation of the declarant—of documents created in response to a search war…
24A623 Bruce E. Alexander v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-12-23 Presumed Complete corroborating-circumstances criminal-procedure evidence-rule-804 exculpatory-statement hearsay-exception unavailable-witness Question not identified.
24-672 Erma Wilson v. Midland County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-12-20 Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus section-1983 statutory-interpretation 1. If a person never had access to § 2254 to impugn the constitutionality of her state criminal proceeding, is § 1983 presumptively available (as in s…
24A607 Anthony Craig Weimer v. Montana Montana 2024-12-19 Presumed Complete bail certiorari constitutional-rights criminal-procedure pretrial-liberty supreme-court-review Question not identified.
24-6173 James Louis Lange, II v. Texas Texas 2024-12-18 Denied IFP competency-hearing court-of-criminal-appeals criminal-procedure due-process mental-competency trial-court Did the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals err in denying Applicant's contention that the trial court did not conduct a proper competency inquiry because…
24A597 Deonta Lowe v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-18 Presumed Complete certiorari circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-appeals legal-complexity post-conviction Question not identified.
24A602 Zackery Terrell v. Texas Texas 2024-12-18 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance plea-bargain right-to-counsel sentencing-guidelines Question not identified.
24-6166 Hector Arturo Campos v. Texas Texas 2024-12-17 Denied IFP criminal-procedure deadly-weapon legal-standard provocation self-defense sudden-passion In the review of a Sudden Passion case, is all evidence of former provocation immaterial? Trial transcript shows evidence was removed from the scene …
24-6167 Rodney J. Lass v. Chris Buesgen, Warden Seventh Circuit 2024-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy mistrial prosecutorial-discretion vindictive-prosecution 1. Can actual vindictive prosecution be found when a mistrial is declared, not caused by a hung jury, and the Prosecutor responds by bringing addition…
24-6150 Reginold Cavoy Steed v. Johnny Fitz, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation criminal-procedure electronic-docket judicial-review post-conviction presentence-report 1.) Was Te. AS840-35~-209 vinloted Yarough out the Odjudication of this Case? 2) Ts the Content of the Presentence report ascertainable, Without it b…
24-6155 Charles Edward Johnson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-12-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP boilerplate-denial constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sentence-reduction WHETHER THE DENIAL OF PETITIONER'S MOTION FOR REDUCTION OF SENTENCE COMPLIES WITH THE FIFTH AMENDMENT GUARANTEE OF DUE PROCESS AND ESTABLISHED PRECEDE…
24A584 Daryl Cook v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2024-12-16 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Question not identified.
24A585 Trinidad Alvarado v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-12-16 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidence-suppression fourth-amendment methamphetamine-possession search-and-seizure Question not identified.
24-6140 Terrance L. Lavoll v. Jerry Howell, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-12-13 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment 1. Whether Petitioner's Writ of Habeas Corpus was denied in violation of the Fifth Amendment when the state denied his right to appeal and his sentenc…
24-6141 Martin Garcia v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting categorical-analysis criminal-procedure force-clause hobbs-act statutory-interpretation The first question presented is whether Circuits have failed to apply categorical analysis to aiding and abetting's distinct elements, which do not me…
24-6143 Gustavo Navaro v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting carjacking categorical-analysis criminal-procedure force-clause statutory-elements The first question presented is whether Circuits have failed to apply categorical analysis to aiding and abetting's distinct elements, which do not me…
24-6118 Ezekiel Isiah Delgado v. Neil McDowell, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-12-12 Denied IFP confession-admissibility criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process miranda-rights supreme-court-precedent Delgado was convicted of two counts of first degree murder. In a published decision, the California Court of Appeal held that detectives violated then…
24-6132 In Re David Charles Thatcher 2024-12-12 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-violation criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ninth-circuit successive-petition 1. Whether Mr. Thatcher's actual innocence and the constitutional violations taking place at his trial require the vacatur of his petition. 2. Whethe…
24-6120 Leprinceton Dewon Burks v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court legal-theory mandatory-findings rule-12d A. Whether a Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure Rule 12(d) requirement that a district court deciding a motion must state its essential findings is ma…
24-6107 Marcus Albert Rambo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-10 GVR IFP as-applied-challenge circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure second-amendment statutory-interpretation (1) Whether after New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022) and United States v. Rahimi, 602 U.S.__, 144 U.S. 144 S.Ct. 18…
24-6109 Kevin Lewis and Otis Ponds v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure department-of-justice evidence-standard statutory-interpretation title-iii wiretap-authorization What evidence must the government present in a wiretap application to establish that an authorized official approved the application? And if a defenda…
24-6111 Junior Standly Martinez-Martinez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure indictment judicial-review legal-error motion-to-dismiss Whether The Denial Of Mr. Martinez's Motion To Dismiss The Indictment Was Erroneous?
24-6081 Christopher Zamarripa v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement sentencing sixth-amendment WHETHER ZAMARRIPA WAS DENIED EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL GUARANTEED BY THE SIXTH AMENDMENT AS A RESULT OF HIS COUNSEL'S ADVICE THAT HE ACCEPT THE …
24-6084 Christopher Roalson v. Jon Noble, Warden Seventh Circuit 2024-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process due-process-clause evidence-preservation forensic-evidence Whether allowing an expert witness to discuss other test results or testimonial statements if the testimonial statements were not themselves admitted …
24-6062 Efe Clinton Osaghae v. Kansas Kansas 2024-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-precedent blakely-rule criminal-procedure jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Does this Court's decision in Blakely v. Washington, 542 U.S. 296 (2004) establish an "unpled but admitted facts" exception to the rule set forth in A…
24-6072 John Rogers v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure defendant-conduct Does U.S.S.G. §3E1.1 apply when a defendant has vo plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction voluntary-termination 1. Whether the two clauses in 18 U.S.C. §924(c) creates two separate crimes or a single crime and whether the conflation of the elements of the two di…
24-6056 Londell Bond v. Jasen Bohinski, Acting Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Third Circuit 2024-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice-analysis strickland-standard Does the "probing and fact-specific analysis" mandated by Strickland v. Washington and Sears v. Upton require courts to weigh both the strengths and w…
24-6061 Chadwick Smith v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure fifth-circuit-review firearms-conviction plain-error-review second-amendment Did the Fifth Circuit err in holding that petitioner's argument that his federal firearms-related conviction violated the Second Amendment, both on it…
24-6064 Johnny Nunez Garcia v. United States Second Circuit 2024-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure de-novo-review firearm-possession second-amendment supervised-release Whether the term of supervised release prohibiting possession of firearms violates the Second Amendment?
24-6044 Antonio Shropshire v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure government-seizure sixth-amendment testimonial-autonomy trial-preparation Were Shropshire's Sixth Amendment rights violated by the government's seizure of his trial preparation documents? Did the government violate Shropshi…
24-6047 Rodney Tyrone Henry v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553a accomplice-liability circuit-court-review criminal-procedure premeditation sentencing The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit's decision misapplied the established precedent regarding circumstances that could support a…
24-6042 David Leonard Wood v. Texas Texas 2024-11-26 Denied IFP atkins-standard criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics On his campaign website seeking election to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, a judge provided a link to a news story praising his ruling that Davi…
24A518 Zackary Ellis Sanders v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-11-26 Presumed Complete child-pornography circuit-split criminal-procedure electronic-data forfeiture-law property-rights Whether under 18 U.S.C. § 2253(a), electronic data files are distinct forms of property from the physical devices or medium on which they are stored.
24-577 Gilbert Perez v. United States First Circuit 2024-11-25 Denied Amici (2) arrest-search criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement luggage-search warrantless-search Does the Fourth Amendment prohibit the warrantless search of a backpack, piece of luggage, or other bag carried by an individual at the time of his ar…
24-6031 Haitham Yousef Alhindi v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency-determination criminal-procedure due-process insanity-defense-reform-act jackson-v-indiana statutory-interpretation Whether, given the structure of § 4241(d)(1) and in light of Jackson v. Indiana, 406 U.S. 715 (1972), the four-month period of 18 U.S.C. § 4241(d)(1) …
24A511 Harry Lee Goldsboro, II v. Florida Florida 2024-11-25 Presumed Complete appellate-review criminal-procedure discretionary-jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirements notice-of-appeal state-supreme-court Question not identified.
24-6011 Harry Lee Goldsboro, II v. Florida Florida 2024-11-21 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance plea-agreement post-conviction Question not identified.
24-6014 Ronald Cox v. Ronald S. Weber, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-11-21 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-claim criminal-procedure exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment Did The U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit, Err When It Denied Relief To Ineffective Assistance Of Counsel On Petitioner's Sixth Amendment Claim; C…
24-6016 Santiago Parks Howard-Rios v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial statutory-maximum L Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe…
24-5987 Brandon Howard Mauk v. Michigan Michigan 2024-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure jury-unanimity multiple-acts state-supreme-court verdict-violation Does Michigan violate a defendant's constitutional right to jury unanimity when the State Supreme Court refuses to recognize the difference in unanimi…
24-5990 Darius Rush v. James Corrigan, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression trial-counsel Whether defense attorneys' failure to challenge Constitutional violations during trial counsel's opening statement and cross-examination resulted in i…
24A495 Jordan Shaun Rodgers v. Texas Texas 2024-11-19 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure diplomatic-intervention foreign-national ineffective-counsel post-conviction-relief texas-criminal-law Question not identified.
24-557 David Asa Villarreal v. Texas Texas 2024-11-18 Granted Amici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-testimony right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-court Whether a trial court abridges the defendant's Sixth Amendment right to counsel by prohibiting the defendant and his counsel from discussing the defen…
24-5968 Brian Adkison v. Kelly Morriss, Acting Warden Eighth Circuit 2024-11-14 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance jury-trial plain-error strickland-standard 1. This Court should grant certiorari to clarify that the content prong/proof of prejudice prong of the Strickland V. Washington Standard relative to…
24-5972 Alex N. Morales-Velez v. United States First Circuit 2024-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance mandatory-minimum plea-agreement sentencing-recommendation strickland-standard 1. Whether defense counsel's failure to object to the government's high-end sentencing recommendation —contrary to the terms of the plea agreement fol…
24-535 Gregory Rogers v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-11-13 Denied criminal-procedure expectation-of-privacy fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure vehicle-search 1. Whether an individual sitting in the passenger seat of a borrowed and lawfully parked vehicle, which is being used with the standing permission of …
24-5962 Preston M. Young v. Angela Phams, Warden, et al. Georgia 2024-11-13 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process indictment ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment 1. Whether a defense attorney provide effective assistance of counsel as guaranteed under the Sixth Amendment when he fails to demurrer indictment to …
24-5930 Anthony Tawon Williams v. Georgia Georgia 2024-11-07 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment merger-errors sentencing 1. Whether a defendant indicted, tried, and found guilty of multiple counts of felony murder for the death of a single victim and later finds out that…
24-5938 John Charles Schnekenburger v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-USC-2253 circuit-split criminal-procedure non-contraband-seizure property-forfeiture statutory-interpretation 1. Whether the scope of 18 USC §2253 allows for the forfeiture of the contents of property, such as real property or electronic devices. 2. Whether a…
24-5921 Christopher Koteras v. Daniel Akers, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing judicial-discretion sixth-amendment witness-communication When the interaction between the Prosecution's Victim's Advocate and a testifying witness has been determined by the trial court to have enhanced the …
24-5924 Elliot Morales v. New York New York 2024-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process right-to-counsel sentencing-exposure trial-court-procedure waiver Does a criminal trial court violate Iowa v. Tovar in failing to advise a defendant, before he waives his right to trial counsel, of the sentencing exp…
24-5926 Glenn Thomas v. United States Second Circuit 2024-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-discretion sentencing Cx_v\cl \xiWx\- aaV X'T'&d: Oo^S rvvy eu&.ST'Ov> 36o To L >FE foT Gou^H w\vm<jE)ft. 6'V Gf^aiv^ Xtjc»S fiivjwc) G,ij.\-rV CouHTSon SYT>no/ 'S>/ung Gux…
24-5927 William Dale Watson v. William Streeter, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility judicial-error jurisdictional-challenge prosecutorial-misconduct trial-fairness 1. Mr. Watson alleged the circuit court did not have the jurisdiction to try his case or sentence him, due to his Forged waiver of arraignment by an o…
24A457 Tony Lamons Gooch III v. Tennessee Tennessee 2024-11-06 Presumed Complete constitutional-error criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment trial-counsel Question not identified.
24-5893 Mahlon Prater, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-11-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof circuit-split conspiracy-charges constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy 1. Whether, when determining if two charged conspiracies violate double jeopardy, the court should assess the degree of difference between two charged…
24-5916 Javance Mickey Wilson v. California California 2024-11-05 Denied IFP capital-sentencing constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure death-penalty jury-findings reasonable-doubt Does California's capital-sentencing scheme violate the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments because it fails to require that the jury make the fac…
24-5898 Herman Felton, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-11-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-violation criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus pro-se-petition 1. Why was I denied an Evidentiary Hearing? 2. What's the reason for refusing to hear my case? 3. Why did the Courts agree with the Constitutional vio…
24-5905 Huosheng Xian v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-11-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure jury-verdict mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing Do the findings embodied in a jury's verdict constrain a sentencing judge's ability to find that a defendant has provided full and truthful informatio…
24A442 Dale Scott Heineman v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-11-04 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure due-process incarceration peonage restitution sentencing Question not identified.
24A444 Antonio Ulises Barrera-Mackorty v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-11-04 Presumed Complete constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure federal-statute immigration-law naturalization supreme-court-jurisdiction Question not identified.
24-5891 Kimberly Cannon v. Florida Florida 2024-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-error judicial-discretion probation-violation sentencing-discretion Is it fundamental error for a trial court to consider a subsequent offence without arrest or conviction is fashioning a sentence for a violation of pr…
24-5896 Matthew Myke v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2024-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP character-evidence criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance sexual-assault trial-strategy witness-testimony 1. In a criminal case involving accusations of sexual assault in which the prosecution relies solely upon the testimony of the complainant, is it inef…
24-5897 Justin Jermaine Johnson v. Stephen Duncan, Warden Fourth Circuit 2024-11-01 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-admission harmless-error mistrial witness-testimony allowing investigator to testify via Skype video messenger 1: was Harmless Error? 2: Was statement to investigators freely and voluntarily given? 3:…
24-496 William Michael Crothers v. Wyoming Wyoming 2024-10-31 Denied Response Waived brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility The Constitutional rule set out in Brady v. Maryland and its progeny requires prosecutors to disclose material, exculpatory evidence to the defense. I…
24-5862 Ismael Hernandez-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure indictment jury-trial prior-conviction statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
24-5871 Jeremy Travis Payne v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP biometric-data constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fifth-amendment self-incrimination testimonial-evidence Is the forced use by the police of a person's biometrics to open a locked cellphone "testimonial" within the meaning of this Court's Fifth Amendment p…
24-477 Thomas John Boukamp v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-10-30 Denied Response Waived competency-to-stand-trial criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-standard mental-capacity I. In Dusky v. United States, 362 U.S. 402 (1960), this Court the Dusky standard require that the defendant be II. Does a defendant have a rational u…
24-478 Omnisun Azali v. Ohio Ohio 2024-10-30 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure self-defense sufficiency-of-evidence Ohio's statutory law "allow ed" Petitioner Omnisun Azali ("Azali") to "act in self-defense[.]" Ohio Revised Code § 2901.05(B)(1) (effective Mar. 28, 2…
24-5859 Hugo Rangel-Botello v. Texas Texas 2024-10-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-violation court-of-criminal-appeals criminal-procedure documentary-evidence due-process habeas-corpus I.) 0' (/- "tl\L l Dipnc-f £ev>~-t kU6c^<f C.&u^Jy Ctt>u5£ //-$ d-iSClrpioin />, ftflfiome.^ fo-hCjl. /'4. full Cl^c/. fo.Hr- dui'cJjih. h "fh0M fiS d…
24-5861 Robert Joseph Schmitt v. Texas Texas 2024-10-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP concurrent-sentencing constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance statutory-interpretation Did the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals err in not exercising their inherent authority to correct the sentence imposed unlawfully due to the ineffecti…
24-5863 Andres C. v. Connecticut Connecticut 2024-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-material constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-review prosecutorial-discretion Whether, when potential Brady material (Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963)), is discovered during a criminal trial—and that material consists of th…
24-5865 Reginald Donell Rice v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-10-30 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief fl\To Ikrik l\Oe_Vr^ci£l^ Cii* ^ (I&a^V yA) '2A\)Llk±l^ \Afe.'Aro$ V^W Ld^ c-VW U vW lAr^tcP- tooA $or IH'TW SV-A*. tootle \LioUcel Vk Ao-c Wsi. ri^Y"…
24-5868 William J. Webb, Jr. v. Delaware Delaware 2024-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure faretta-hearing pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Was petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to counsel violated when the trial court ordered petitioner to proceed pro se without conducting a proper Faret…
24-5869 Shawn Eric Durrah, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure dangerous-weapon-enhancement drug-distribution firearm-possession sentencing-guidelines To resolve a circuit split, this Court should grant the Writ to determine whether, in applying the dangerous weapon enhancement U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1(b)(1)…
24-5840 David R. Schachtner v. Chris Brewer, Warden Eighth Circuit 2024-10-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure fair-trial impeachment-evidence motion-to-suppress prior-bad-acts trial-court-discretion 1. Does a court abuse its discretion in upholding a conviction and sentence for a crime that was clearly disproven at trial, based solely on the factu…
24-5852 Alexander W. Kawleski v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography constitutional-authority criminal-procedure due-process interstate-commerce witness-credibility (1) Did the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and the District Court err when the Government's case rested on Tracy Brown's testimony that she unexpect…
24A416 Ricky Durham v. Richard Adams, Warden Missouri 2024-10-29 Presumed Complete constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance missouri-supreme-court Question not identified.
24-5837 Ruben Aguilera v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-10-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure jury-determination section-2255 [1] May a petitioner in his initial § 2255 stage who has preserved the claim that a jury must decide the "occasions" clause of the Armed Career Crimin…
24-5823 Jose Bernazard v. Mark Miller, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2024-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief Question not identified.
24-5826 In Re Daniel Laurel 2024-10-25 Denied IFP article-iii-jurisdiction constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-standing 1) Can lower courts, delay and deny access to Habeas Corpus, and maintain Constitutional adherence? 2) Can a District court proceed with a "case " ag…
24-5829 Ricky Donnell Abner v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constructive-amendment criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process geographical-location section-924c 1. Does the §924(c) (1)(A) 'Possession In furtherance of' offense conduct require geographical location be proved as alleged in indictment, when ONE P…
24-5815 Joseph S. Addison v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment trial-court-discretion 1. What bright line indicates whether a defendant has clearly and unequivocally invoked their right to conduct their own defense? 2. Can a trial-cour…
24-5819 Oscar Robinson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure plain-error plea-agreement sentencing substantial-rights When a criminal defendant demonstrates that, but for the plain error raised on appeal, his sentence as to each of two separate counts would be differe…
24-5820 Tevon Ngomba v. United States First Circuit 2024-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure first-circuit obstruction-of-justice sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guidelines I. Whether the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit erred by summarily affirming the district court's imposition of a two-level offense increase for…
24A398 Ralph Berry v. United States Second Circuit 2024-10-23 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure en-banc excusable-neglect legal-resources petition-for-rehearing pro-se Question not identified.
24-5792 Mark A. Whitworth v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure for-cause-strike judicial-discretion jury-selection trial-fairness venireperson-bias Should a criminal defendant be required to prove prejudice when a federal district court erroneously strikes a potential juror for cause based on her …
24-5807 Christopher Collings v. David Vandergriff, Warden Missouri 2024-10-22 Denied IFP brady-violation cause-and-prejudice criminal-procedure due-process impeachment-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct The State built its death penalty case against Christopher Collings on the credibility of its primary law enforcement witness, Wheaton Police Chief Cl…
24A379 Londell Bond v. Jasen Bohinski, Acting Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Third Circuit 2024-10-22 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction sixth-amendment Question not identified.
24-436 Robert James Rainey v. Colorado Colorado 2024-10-18 Denied Response Waived appointed-counsel constitutional-rights criminal-procedure indigent-defendant right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether, once counsel has been appointed for an indigent defendant, the Sixth Amendment guarantees the defendant the same right to continued represent…
24-5780 Alex Ryle v. Brian Emig, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2024-10-18 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment habeas-corpus sentencing Was Petitioner's Fifth Amendment protections against multiple punishments for the same offense violated by several convictions and sentences for posse…
24A370 Michel D'Angelo v. United States First Circuit 2024-10-18 Presumed Complete attorney-client certiorari communication-barriers criminal-procedure due-process pro-se-petition Question not identified.
24-5771 Kyle Christopher Zoellner v. City of Arcata, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-17 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence-tampering fourth-amendment probable-cause sixth-amendment 1. Fourth Amendment Violation - Lack of Probable Cause at Arrest ° Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming the district court 's judgment that th…
24-5777 Daniel Loren Jenkins v. Erin Reyes, Superintendent, Two Rivers Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2024-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-privilege confidentiality constitutional-rights criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Does clearly established Supreme Court precedent establish that defense counsel renders ineffective assistance of counsel by disclosing information pr…
24A355 James Cobb Hutto v. Mississippi Mississippi 2024-10-16 Presumed Complete constitutional-review criminal-procedure habeas-corpus post-conviction successive-petition supreme-court-review Question not identified.
24A357 Eghbal Saffarinia, aka Eddie Saffarinia v. United States District of Columbia 2024-10-16 Presumed Complete administrative-law agency-investigation criminal-procedure government-forms obstruction-of-justice statutory-interpretation 1. This case presents an important question about the scope of an obstruction-of-justice statute, 18 U.S.C. §1519. Section 1519 criminalizes false sta…
24-409 Roderick Jones v. Tommy Bowen, Warden Georgia 2024-10-11 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance jury-instructions sixth-amendment Whether McCoy v. Louisiana, 584 U.S. 414 138 S. Ct. 1500 (2018) permits counsel to concede his client's guilt in direct contradiction of his testimony…
24-5748 LaVanzel Kerr v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP affirmative-defense constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure firearms-statute sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation L. May a district court apply a U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(b)(6) enhancement without resolving a defendant's affirmative defense claim? II. Is 18 U.S.C. § 922(…
24-5751 Nicolas Dominique v. Florida Florida 2024-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion sentencing victim-impact-statement IS IT EVER DEEMED UNCONSTITUTIONAL WHEN A JUDGE USE THE VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENT AS AN AGGRAVATING FACTOR OR AS FACT FINDING TO INCREASE DEFENDANT'S PU…
24-5737 Matt Jones, aka Mack Jones v. United States Third Circuit 2024-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy indictment-dismissal motion-to-suppress speedy-trial 1. Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, erred in its unprecedented decision in not reversing the District Court's failure to Dismiss the Indict…
24-5738 Corloyd Anderson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP affiant-misconduct bad-faith criminal-procedure fourth-amendment probable-cause warrant-clause Nearly half a century ago, this Court held that the Fourth Amendment's Warrant Clause "surely takes the affiant's good faith as its premise." Franks v…
24-5728 Anthony Raymoné Clark v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-10-09 Denied IFP appeal-process criminal-procedure district-court final-judgment post-conviction procedural-rules In my case I timely submitted my original post-conviction application and the trial Judge along with the state's attorney unreasonably created an impe…
24-5729 Jerome Coast v. Georgia Georgia 2024-10-09 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-law jurisdiction Question not identified.
24-5721 Ryan Lawrence Anthony v. Josh Highberger, Superintendent, Oregon State Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2024-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus serial-killer-confession Strengthening Chambers v. Mississippi, this Court in Holmes v. South Carolina, 547 U.S. 319 (2006), held that even where the government's forensic evi…
24A336 Michael Tyrone Young v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-08 Presumed Complete appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
24-391 Felipe Petrone-Cabanas v. Arizona Arizona 2024-10-08 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) criminal-procedure jones-v-mississippi juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama sentencing-discretion Whether juveniles may be sentenced to life without parole under a system that did not afford the sentencing court discretion to choose any lesser opti…
24-5725 Jose G. Barajas Gomez v. Daniel W. White, Superintendent, Monroe Correctional Complex Ninth Circuit 2024-10-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP capital-punishment criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance mitigating-evidence sentencing-phase sixth-amendment Question not identified.
24-5714 Gerardo Farias-Contreras v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-10-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP circuit-court-variation criminal-procedure government-breach plain-error-review plea-agreement sentencing-recommendation Does "plain-error review" of a defendant's claim that the government breached a plea agreement focus on the "scope of the Government's commitments" to…
24-5715 Lashaun Casey v. United States First Circuit 2024-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance law-enforcement-questioning safe-harbor statement-suppression strickland-standard Whether, under the framework set out in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance by not moving to …
24-5717 David Devaney, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-10-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment interrogation right-to-counsel self-incrimination Whether the statement of "I have to get a lawyer, I have to shut the interview down" constitutes an unambiguous request for counsel, and can a defenda…
24-5706 Paul Gary Wallace v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP ballistics-evidence criminal-procedure due-process forensic-testimony scientific-reliability toolmark-identification Whether and to what extent it violates a defendant's due process rights to allow a firearms examiner to testify conclusively that two sets of ballisti…
24-5695 Deandre Johnson v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2024-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus sentencing Whether Reasonable Doubt Find Defandgue Coonsacg Refzetiweness Foe. Cocinte To Argue Pentres Spe Mars Did Not Consrinue Theoms As Befined By Eloms. O…
24-5700 Andersen Rable v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP atf-interpretation criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility federal-firearms-license firearms-regulation mens-rea 1. Whether the District Court, Erred When It Refused to Allow Evidence of the Fact That the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (hereinafter ATF), …
24-5691 Antoine Edwards v. Bradley Scott, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-10-02 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial-act 1) What is the remedy for Speedy Trial Act violation; Deprivation 18 U.S.C.A § 3161 et seq.; 6 Amendment U.S. Constitutional Eight? 2) Is Barker v. W…
24-5692 Jamie Patrick Hahn v. Angela Reaves, Warden, et al. Georgia 2024-10-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-review criminal-procedure false-evidence habeas-corpus right-to-counsel sixth-amendment 1. Will zhrs Court review the validity of the indick ment which iS @ double Jd &¢pardy Violakion by the Tiled date of return? As well as the court's l…
24A319 Hugo Rangel-Botello v. Texas Texas 2024-10-02 Presumed Complete counsel-performance criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-agreement sixth-amendment Question not identified.
24A320 Joshua Idlefonso Villalobos v. Kris Mayes, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-02 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure federal-review habeas-corpus ninth-circuit post-conviction procedural-rules Question not identified.
24-372 William Robert Taft v. Colorado Colorado 2024-10-02 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure fourth-amendment probable-cause protective-sweep unreasonable-search warrant-requirement Thirty-four years ago, in Maryland v. Buie , 494 U.S. 325 (1990), this Court ruled that the protective sweep exception to the warrant requirement allo…
24-5677 Kelly Daniel Bass v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2024-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights courtroom-closure criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel speedy-trial 1. Whether criminal defendants are required to prove prejudice for an ineffective assistance of counsel claim where counsel is absent and the defenda…
24-5679 Christopher Michael Sevier v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-10-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure fifth-amendment sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
24-5684 Raunel Garcia-Suarez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
24-5685 Okwuchukwu Jidoefor v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-interpretation contract-law criminal-procedure government-breach judicial-review plea-agreement Whether the Eighth Circuit's holding that the government could cure its breach of a plea agreement in a criminal case can be cured by a partial retrac…
24-5652 Tiffany Smith v. Shannon Olds, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-09-27 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-discretion provocation self-defense QUESTION 1 - Within the context of SUFFICIENCY of Jackson v. Virginia. 443 U.S. 307, at 317 n.10. When the defense of self-defense and provocation ha…
24-5647 David Rashaun Hamil, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2024-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment social-science Whether Petitioner was derived of his right, under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, to a trial by a 12 person jury when the defendant is charged w…
24-5648 Aramian Scott v. Illinois Illinois 2024-09-26 Denied IFP aggravating-factor constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process sentence-enhancement subject-matter-jurisdiction IS PETITIONER 'S 25-YEAR SENTENCE ENHANCEMENT, FOR PERSONAL DISCHARGE OF A FIREARM VOID, WHERE THE STATE COURT LACKED SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION TO E…
24-5610 Harold U. McGhee v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure franks-motion gps-tracker sixth-amendment warrant-affidavit 1. Whether the District Court committed Procedural and substantive error when it denied the Defendant's Franks Motion? 2. Whether the District Court …
24-5630 Ernie Sacoman v. David Cole, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-09-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP correctional-facility criminal-procedure good-time-credits habeas-corpus parole-modification sentencing-discretion (1.) CAN A COURT OF CORRECTIONAL FACILITY CHANGE PETITIONER'S PAROLE FROM 3/-2/-10 (D) 1ST DEGREE FELONY AND WHO HAS SERVED THE SENTENCE OF IMPRISONME…
24-5635 Kim Bowers v. Payson City, Utah Utah 2024-09-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure defendant-presence due-process sixth-amendment trial-rights Question not identified.
24-330 Cid C. Franklin v. New York New York 2024-09-24 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9) bail-report confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination sixth-amendment testimonial-statements 1. Whether the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause applies to out-of-court statements admitted as evidence against criminal defendants if, and only…
24-5613 In Re Lyndon C. Davis 2024-09-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance i) Whether on the Sixth Amendment, the Prosecutor deprived Petitioner's "Ineffective Assistance of Counsel" testimony of evidence denied him due proce…
24-5608 Jason Smith v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-09-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure recognizance-forfeiture sixth-amendment supervised-release Historical documents showing that the Framers would have understood the jury right to apply to forfeitures of recognizance, a proceeding similar to re…
24-5587 Clayton Cornelius Reynolds v. Texas Texas 2024-09-20 Denied IFP constitutional-review criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ninth-circuit post-conviction-relief state-court-review 1) Did the Court of Appeals error, lou Albuns eco hosel tole an A Sees eak€ chen there wAS an bbuious Tresecuel Arcealable icsue. 2.) Teal founels tu…
24-5594 Seldrick Carpenter v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-09-20 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP article-iii constitutional-rights criminal-procedure jury-trial sixth-amendment supervised-release IL Historical documents show that the Framers would have understood the jury right to apply to forfeitures of recognizance, a proceeding similar to re…
24-5595 David Tran v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea plea-withdrawal voluntariness If a guilty plea was not entered into knowingly and voluntarily, may it be withdrawn under without inquiry into other factors?
24-5597 Justin Andre Lamoureux v. Florida Florida 2024-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony statutory-provisions Question not identified.
24-5600 Abimael Narvaez-Rosa v. United States First Circuit 2024-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure first-circuit incarceration-term judicial-breach plea-agreement sentencing-error Whether the United States court of Appeals for the First Circuit erred in rejecting Narvaez-Rosa's claim of a procedural sentencing error, when the Un…
24-5573 Johnathan Samuel Borden v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure suppression-motion Whether Borden's suppression motion should have been granted?
24-5576 Jose Antonio Campos-Esqueda v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure firearms-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment? II. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firear…
24-5580 Octavius Artis v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender criminal-procedure factual-basis plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines voluntary-plea Whether the district court erred in sentencing Artis as a career offender where he did not have two prior controlled substance offenses required for a…
24-5571 Bakari Abdul Brown v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-09-18 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure felony-conviction ineffective-assistance stipulation In proving felon status, is there a conflict between appellate courts where one court holds that trial counsel is not ineffective for offering a stipu…
24-5566 Curtis Hunter v. Lieutenant Morris, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit federal-appeals habeas-corpus Where defendant only administers tests, X-Ray, MRI which revealed the only solution is a Total Knee Replacement, and failed to perform the surgery, th…
24-295 Donald Herrington v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2024-09-16 Denied Response Waived circuit-split criminal-procedure fifth-amendment right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver-of-counsel 1. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by holding, in conflict with other circuits and a plurality opinion of this Court, that a criminal defendant can v…
24-5554 Harry Lee Goldsboro v. Florida Florida 2024-09-16 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-counsel judicial-review procedural-error Question not identified.
24-5536 Jose Reyes Ochoa v. United States Third Circuit 2024-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellant-rights court-ruling criminal-procedure duress-defense judicial-discretion legal-error Did the Court err in precluding Appellant's "duress" defense?
24-5540 Mykel Lee McMillion v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure firearm-possession fourth-amendment open-carry warrantless-seizure Whether the possession of a firearm in an open-carry state, combined with other wholly innocent factors, is sufficient to justify a warrantless seizur…
24-5545 Humberto Falcon San-Martin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-conflict constitutional-theory criminal-procedure government-agents judicial-doctrine sentencing-entrapment Whether the conduct of government agents or officials can constitute sentencing entrapment, as that constitutional theory is recognized outside of sen…
24-5544 Evan Wald v. New York New York 2024-09-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP autopsy-report confrontation-clause crawford-standard criminal-procedure homicide-investigation testimonial-evidence Whether a certified autopsy report—created as part of a homicide investigation and asserting that the cause of death was homicide—is "testimonial" und…
24-5530 Manuel Larry Jackson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence-preclusion fifth-amendment percipient-witness sixth-amendment Do the Fifth and Sixth Amendments guarantee a defendant the right to call a percipient witness to nearly the entirety of the Government's evidence pre…
24-5514 Christopher Jensen v. Illinois Illinois 2024-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure evidence-law jury-instructions sentencing trial-court 1) When for A Whit of Cerbirar To decide which leecrd es tle altinse attihat al 2) do tu< dide_rihal Kecard 2 atturabe ac Cortect wtep. 3) When ted …
24-5519 Matthew Peddicord v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility prior-bad-acts propensity-evidence rule-404b Whether evidence of prior bad acts is admissible under Rule 404(b) where its relevance to a proper purpose depends on propensity reasoning.
24-5500 Terris Chanley Baker v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy criminal-procedure evidence-standard federal-rule-of-evidence probative-knowledge whether-character-evidence I. Whether character evidence dated after the conclusion of a conspiracy is probative of knowledge under Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b)? II. What pr…
24-5509 James Rashad Clay v. Roy Odum, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP chain-of-custody constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process forensic-evidence witness-testimony I. Who was the November 11, 2013 gunshot residue report under Division of Forensic Sciences Case# 2013-10 4511 by Georgia Bureau of Investigation exam…
24-5510 Dawayne Rolin Walker v. Michigan Michigan 2024-09-10 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-procedure witness-testimony Aejj-hfitdrio# vJ^s c,\e.cK<\i St+&$£s4ecl , VJ<xi V S'tawv as pbofo MCi W<4kfcf io // »h'l-'CoLX\\ 4\)C >J t4/i&ss wfrs *»«*><* h;s ?cel^'*<y e**»\f…
24-5486 Joel Salcedo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process sixth-amendment speedy-trial Violation of the U.S. Constitution by Depriving the Petitioner his Right to a speedy trial Guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution Amendment VI.
24-5490 Eric Michael Corder v. Shawn Straughn, Superintendent, Northern Correctional Center West Virginia 2024-09-09 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-hearing due-process legal-waiver plea-agreement Is it Constitutional for a state to deny a defendant a hearing without the defendant formally waiving the hearing? Is it Constitutional for a defenda…
24-5492 Jalen Rashad Pasley v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure deprivation-of-liberty fifth-amendment individualized-assessment sentencing-conditions supervised-release Under the Fifth Amendment, is a district court required to orally pronounce at sentencing all discretionary "standard conditions" of supervised releas…
24-5496 Jose Manuel Galan v. Jeff Macomber, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2024-09-09 Denied IFP child-sexual-abuse criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto jury-instructions penal-code 1. Did the admission of evidence of child sexual abuse accommodation syndrome ("CSAAS") violated Petitioner's due process rights? 2. Did the trial co…
24-5497 Michael Scott Hoover v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-review reversible-error Is the clause in 18 USC. §2235 that produces or transmitted using materials that have been mailed, shipped, or transported in or affecting interstate …
24-253 Avery Curry Archuleta, aka Avery Archuleta v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-09-06 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure jury-instruction legal-standard self-defense trial-court unanimity The Petitioner, Avery Curry Archuleta, asks this Court to clarify that trial courts instruct juries that any decision on a self-defense must be unanim…
24-5476 In Re William Harold Wright, Jr. 2024-09-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-claim criminal-procedure habeas-corpus motion-to-vacate procedural-bar sentence-correction Did the district court err in dismissing Wright's amended § 2255 motion to vacate, set aside, or correct sentence based on a constructive amendment cl…
24-5481 Cody Mercure v. United States First Circuit 2024-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure eighth-amendment federal-sentencing judicial-review proportionality sentencing-guidelines Did the sentence of three hundred months violate the grossly disproportionate protection afforded by the unusual sentence prohibition under the Eighth…
24-5482 Travis Adam Brown v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is constitutional under the Second Amendment. Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court …
24-5483 Spyros Panos v. United States Second Circuit 2024-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-ethics conflict-of-interest constitutional-law criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance prejudice-standard In Cuyler v. Sullivan, 446 U.S. 335 (1980), this Court held that a defendant alleging ineffective assistance of counsel based on a lawyer's conflict o…
24-5464 Jeromy Schiedenhelm v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency ineffective-assistance trial-counsel QUESTION ONE. IF TRIAL COUNSEL FAILS TO, AND REFUSES A DEFENDANTS REPEATED DEMANDS TO FILE A MOTION TO SUPPRESS AND MAKE THE PROPER FOURTH AMENDMENT C…
24-5467 Joseph Miller v. Dan Redington Eighth Circuit 2024-09-05 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony I. Does Evidence That was in the STATE'S Possession: An Affidavit Signed by The PROSECUTOR: Recorded Evidence in Doctor's Note; And Transcripts from P…
24-5468 Dennis L. Flint v. Florida Florida 2024-09-05 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy precedent resentencing sentence-enhancement Can petitioner cl 3errfence cx\[ curbed during r£S£n4-epcin^ \mf-Photdr running afoui c*P double jeopardy principles and curren+ precedent Conrtroltin…
24-5469 Carl Mott v. Paul Schreiber, Acting Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-09-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus 1. DID THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN AND THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERRONEOUSLY …
24-5470 Larry Jerome Grady v. Kevin White, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure dna-testing post-conviction-relief scientific-evidence statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
24-5473 James Williams v. United States Second Circuit 2024-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement (1) Did the previous alleged criminal Joe at the Counts Aiden & oo rts LOVNDIOAT OCIA \ ancl when Shere were ext Ce. ae 4 J ine USe ok on Qirearm An R…
24-5475 Joshua Joel Zamora Gonzales v. California Victim's Compensation Board California 2024-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP conviction-appeal criminal-procedure due-process evidence-challenge judicial-review presumption-of-innocence Question not identified.
24-247 Kenneth Kelley v. William S. Bohrer, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-09-04 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus mens-rea vehicular-homicide Does this Court's clearly established precedent require an explanation and understanding of the elements of each charge to which a defendant pleads gu…
24-5445 Soren Richard Olsen, II v. Washington Washington 2024-09-04 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-discretion Question not identified.
24-5447 Wilbert Lee Nubine v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-09-04 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto parole-hearing statutory-interpretation (1) Whether a public interest is at stake with Petitioner's Ex Post Facto Clause violation issue of Oklahoma by Repeal law forbid female and male pris…
24-5450 Anthony H. Warnick v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-09-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution mcgirt-decision state-law tribal-jurisdiction tribal-lands IcLC-k 5 jUf'' 5cl i c_+i ooorrbr^) Can Oklahoma Incarcesochs- ar\ ZL.nd\ar\ pi/rsuarrf "h> a- jpd^rnerff rf dejJo\A q-P lur'isi'icJ-ion ~H>on ~l~o p…
24-5451 Martin Moncada-de la Cruz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-09-04 Denied IFP controlled-substances-act criminal-procedure drug-possession intent-to-distribute material-evidence witness-deportation 1. Whether, for purposes of the Controlled Substances Act, proof of possession with intent to distribute requires a showing of control over the drugs,…
24-5452 Dustin Sierra, aka Dustin Sierro v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP co-defendant criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit kidnapping severance I. Whether or not the defendant's case shoul d have been severed from that of hi s co-defendant brother. II. Whether or not the government proved that…
24-5456 Robert Paul Durrell v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-09-04 GVR Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation supervised-release The supervised-release statute, 18 U.S.C. § 3583(e), lists factors from 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) for a court to consider when sentencing a person for viola…
24A237 Andre Michael Dubois v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-04 Presumed Complete amendment-821 criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit federal-sentencing retroactive-relief sentencing-guidelines Question not identified.
24A238 Gregory Rogers v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-09-04 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure expectation-of-privacy fourth-amendment probable-cause vehicle-search warrantless-search Question not identified.
24-5435 Orlando Sanchez v. Fidencio N. Guzman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-09-03 Denied IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review trial-rights 1. Does the U.S. Supreme Court have jurisdiction to review the trial court's prejudicial error in refusing to instruct the jury on the perfect self-de…
24A228 Elliot Morales v. New York New York 2024-09-03 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sentencing-exposure sixth-amendment waiver Whether a criminal trial court violates Iowa v. Tovar, 541 U.S. 77 (2004), in failing to advise a defendant, before he waives his right to trial couns…
24-5430 Christopher J. Thorpe v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus sexual-battery sixth-amendment Whether – pursuant to this Court's holding in Hemphill v. New York, 595 U.S. 140 (2022) – the Petitioner's constitutional right of confrontation was v…
24-5431 Jacob Valle v. Florida Florida 2024-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment social-science unanimous-verdict Whether Petitioner was derived of his right, under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged w…
24-5432 Irina Collier v. Donald J. Trump District of Columbia 2024-08-30 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection post-conviction-relief temporal-limitations Question not identified.
24-227 John Kevin Woodward v. California, et al. California 2024-08-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) acquittal criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment judicial-interpretation substantial-evidence The Fifth Amendment's Double Jeopardy Clause bars retrial whenever a court's order dismissing a criminal case constitutes an "acquittal." Under this C…
24-5411 Mario Chavez v. Carlos Lazarin, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process hearsay-evidence sixth-amendment CWc\ dee^ved \V ^nx.&£M *Vo " Woo/e, W avooVWercicty (Mx{ ^Ejcjt\ V ^©V\ wJdt gk (xw^reWstve <taW-XA\'cyv. oV'WW aac>uac\\ , ydW^A- vV dW'f (AAdvA.^…
24-5398 William Michael Talley v. Texas Texas 2024-08-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus judicial-review UMV«6^v {AtAoitl , fekrkext" eu% o ask -VWs (Lec^-Vtb r^uieM) -H^e- de,di^io^ ©k fVk /e^ped-'&d l\ e 'AeitcLS Cou^k" Of Cv'T'wkect A^pecxk c)^wicc\ e>…
24-5402 Craig Foote v. United States Third Circuit 2024-08-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP counsel criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment 1. Was Petitioner denied the effective assistance of counsel?
24-5401 Whitney Leigh Estep v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure fifth-amendment fourth-circuit sentencing-discretion witness-testimony A. WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY DENYING MS. ESTEP'S ARGUMENT THAT THE DISTRICT COURT COMMITTED REVERSIBLE ERROR BY ALLOWING TH…
24-5405 Michael Edwin Harding v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining prejudice-standard sentencing-guidelines Whether contrary to Lee v. United States, 137 S.Ct. 1958 (2017), the district court applied the incorrect prejudice standard to support its decision t…
24-5388 John Joseph Douglas v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP accomplice-liability armed-career-criminal-act criminal-liability criminal-procedure separate-offenses statutory-interpretation I.IF A PERSON IS HELD CRIMINALLY LIABLE FOR AN OFFENSE, COMMITTED BT ANOTHER, UNDER A "REASONABLE AND FORESEEABLE ACTS" ACCOMPLICE LIABILITY STATUTE,…
24-5379 Stephen T. Mitchell v. New York, et al. Second Circuit 2024-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-ruling habeas-corpus hearsay-exclusion Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit should have granted a Certificate of Appealability to the habeas petitioner because …
24A192 Sherman Brown v. Kevin McCoy, Warden Fourth Circuit 2024-08-22 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-circuit innocence-project post-conviction writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
24A193 Eloy Heraclio Alcala v. Texas Texas 2024-08-22 Presumed Complete confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination exclusionary-rule motion-to-suppress sixth-amendment Question not identified.
24-5346 In Re Jeremy Dewayne Foster 2024-08-20 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process exculpatory-evidence post-conviction-relief Question not identified.
24-5349 Ryan Monroe Allen v. Tennessee Tennessee 2024-08-20 Denied IFP criminal-procedure faretta-hearing ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-representation sixth-amendment-rights trial-court-discretion I. HAVE THE TENNESSEE CRIMINAL COURT OF APPEALS DECIDED AN IMPORTANT FEDERAL QUESTION IN A WAY THAT CONFLICTS WITH RELEVANT DECISIONS OF THE UNITED …
24-5350 Jay Sandon Cooper v. Texas Texas 2024-08-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP bill-of-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-rights judicial-duty Whether the judicial duty to identify and protect constitutional rights described in Obergefell v. Hodges (a civil case) applies to State criminal cas…
24-5343 Victor Darnell Berry v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-right-to-defense conviction-set-aside criminal-procedure felon-in-possession knowledge-element youth-rehabilitation-act I. Where a conviction that is the basis for a felon in possession of a firearm charge has been set aside at the time of sentencing, does the statutory…
24-5324 Marnell Johnson v. United States Third Circuit 2024-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment circuit-split constructive-possession criminal-procedure due-process joint-possession Does the 3rd Circuit's interpretation of constructive possession doctrine, especially in joint constructive possession cases, violate the 5th Amendmen…
24-5332 Armando Daniel Calderon v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement property-rights reasonable-suspicion vehicle-seizure 1. Does an officer interfere with a driver's property rights, in violation of the Fourth Amendment, by continuing to seize a vehicle after the driver …
24-5327 Daniel Lopez, III v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules revocation-hearing sentencing-procedure supervised-release Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 32.1(b) defines the procedure for supervised release revocation hearings. The Ninth Circuit has split from other ci…
24-5334 Russell G. Conlon v. Oklahoma Department of Human Services, Child Support Services, et al. Oklahoma 2024-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-support constitutional-challenges criminal-procedure due-process judicial-recusal state-taxation Whether a court of law can convict an American citizen of a criminal charge without a trial, if such citizen has pled not guilty, and such citizen has…
24-167 Tim Makoto Nukida v. California California 2024-08-15 Denied criminal-procedure cruel-unusual-punishment csaas-testimony due-process eighth-amendment expert-witness 1. State courts of last resort are intractably divided over the admissibility of Child Sexual Abuse Accommodation Syndrome (CSAAS). Should certiorari …
24A174 Omnisun Azali v. Ohio Ohio 2024-08-14 Presumed Complete burden-of-proof criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment self-defense sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence Does express statutory permission to act in self-defense call down the protections of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constit…
24-5306 William Newkirk v. Florida Florida 2024-08-13 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process life-sentence robbery-firearm sentencing-guidelines I. WHETHER THE NATURAL LIFE SENTENCES IMPOSED ON ROBBERY FIREARM COUNTS 2-3 WERE ILLEGAL WHERE THE TRIAL COURT NEITHER ORDERED A MANDATORY PRESENTENCE…
24-5309 Andrew R. Allred v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-13 Denied IFP criminal-procedure death-penalty ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health-evaluation mitigation-testimony sixth-amendment Whether Mr. Allred's convictions and death sentences are unconstitutional due to receiving ineffective assistance of counsel at his trial in violation…
24-5313 Tony Carr, aka Tony Carnell, aka Tony Coronel Carr, aka T-Bone v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-general-memorandum crack-cocaine criminal-procedure fifth-amendment plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines On December 16, 2002 Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a memorandum, which directed prosecutors to charge "pertinent statutory quantities that a…
24A171 Mark Watkins v. New York New York 2024-08-13 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure cross-racial-identification due-process ineffective-assistance reasonable-probability strickland-standard Whether, under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), a single unreasonable error that raises a reasonable probability of a different outcome …
24-5312 Genaro Medina-Luna v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-argument criminal-procedure guilty-plea indictment-waiver jurisdictional-error plea-validity Is Petitioner's appellate argument, that his waiver of Indictment was invalid, a claim of jurisdictional error that is not waived by an unconditional …
24-5319 Marlin Lee Gougher v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-08-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process faretta-colloquy self-representation sixth-amendment Does a .defendant that gave a lucid, literate, articulate answer that the District Court Judge did not like during a Faretta dolloquy precludes self-r…
24-5302 Victor Hugo Rodriguez Hernandez v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Ninth Circuit 2024-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fingerprint-evidence habeas-corpus misidentification Devriawlerez V. Petriclf B. Gm/lmvj J\ ttowM General No-21 ^iUfi2 Qoes<ia,s re-jodiy Case No 2| -456 pe&n-fcd m refateJn afth<? Court Gf Appeals of N…
24-5292 Shawn Paul O'Brien v. Kansas Kansas 2024-08-09 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sexual-offense For the Supreme Court of the United States to Correct these errors from the Court of Appeals of the State of Kansas and any error found from any other…
24-5294 Tommy J. May v. Kansas Kansas 2024-08-09 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-murder jury-instruction lesser-included-offense voluntary-manslaughter Whether Tommy T. May was entitled to a jury instruction on the lesser offense of attempted voluntary manslaughter on the attempted first-degree murder…
24-5260 Jess Richard Smith v. Washington Washington 2024-08-09 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-rules habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief Question not identified.
24-5272 Brian Michael Waterman v. Kansas Kansas 2024-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP communication-restrictions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review supreme-court-jurisdiction 1. (a\a 'SWa o>rc>s*cuie>r 's <^o discfcWvj recdpb oh AuPevuiAuh dkvd case, Covvl-aivuiM, iAVU jv'Imuu WVVctrS c£ 'SVraJoL^/ ^lP \v\c'ri^;w<xUor> / '…
24-5273 Nicholas Frank Wilcox v. Tim Garrett, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-08 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process legal-interpretation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Did Petitioner's APPLICATION FOR CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABALLTY demonstrate that jurists of reason would find it debatable whether the petition states a…
24-5282 Darrell Gunn v. New York New York 2024-08-08 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure guilty-plea ineffective-assistance plea-withdrawal sentencing WHETHER APPELLANT COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE FOR STRONG APPELLATE CLAIM THAT A WITHDRAWAL OF GUILTY PLEA WAS MADE PRIOR TO SENTENCING?
24-5284 Roy E. Terrell v. Florida Florida 2024-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process jury-composition sixth-amendment statutory-amendment trial-rights 1. Whether, contrary to the Due Process Clause, the trial court erred in instructing the jury on the elements of the charged crimes as defined by a st…
24A156 Humberto Falcon San-Martin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-08 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit government-inducement judicial-review sentencing-entrapment standard-of-review Question not identified.
24-5275 Terrell Jason Armstrong v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure federal-rule motion-for-new-trial newly-discovered-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct witness-recantation Whether the District Court and the Court of Appeals erred in denying the Petitioner's Motion for a New Trial under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure …
24-5285 Ernesto Alba Vasquez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure factual-basis guilty-plea judicial-discretion plea-acceptance presentence-report Whether a factual basis, that completely lacks facts supporting any of the three elements of the offense charged in the indictment, can be cured by fa…
24-5255 Benjamin Burciaga-Herrera v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
24-5237 Warren Alexander v. United States Second Circuit 2024-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process presentence-report sentencing supervised-release Should the Court grant the petition in order to resolve a conflict among the circuits as to whether a district court in imposing sentence is required …
24-5241 Jason Gatlin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-06 Denied IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eleventh-circuit fifth-amendment judicial-interference jury-verdict 1. Whether a jury has rendered a final verdict and jeopardy terminates under the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment where the jury has indi…
24-5247 Eric Cruz v. Officer Domingo Cervantez Fifth Circuit 2024-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment brady-rule brady-rule-of-evidence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment evidence evidence-exclusion qualified-immunity safe-prison-act (I) Did the U S District courts ,failure to allow relevant evidence into trial proceeding violate ,Brady Rule of Evidence under Brad ■Out.iv v Maryl…
24-5248 Jason Wade Grant v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process individualized-sentencing mitigating-factors sentencing-discretion If £olv\ cx ^u/nYV^ W. oc^VvA, i V -W'-e_ cfteC :ewc5L<x,vc\~ OWxV -Hv^aj CL-t-e ^lClaWm o-P ljlvv -Hv -Hv€_ -s>€w.Vev\cL-e__ Is proAoaiAced 2.. C<sw…
24-124 Brent Brewbaker v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-08-05 Denied 5th-amendment-6th-amendment'\n\n'Did the court of antitrust-law appellate-review article-1 constitutional-challenge constitutional-error criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process fifth-amendment harmless-error jury-instructions presumption sherman-act sixth-amendment void-for-vagueness 1. Section 1 of the Sherman Act criminalizes "[e]very contract ...in restraint of trade." 15 U.S.C. § 1. This prohibition cannot be applied literally …
24-5220 Christopher L. Smith v. Ohio Ohio 2024-08-05 Denied IFP civil-procedure-joinder confidential-informant constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial prejudicial-joinder probable-cause rules-of-evidence search-warrant sufficiency-of-evidence 1. Isa prejudicial joinder concerning unrelated counts a fundamental violation of One's constitutional right to a fair trial, if the facts of one inci…
24-5224 Michael Paul Gianfrancesco v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review court-proceedings criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing jurisdiction sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness Question not identified.
24-5225 Nidal M. Hasan v. United States Armed Forces 2024-08-05 Denied IFP appellate-review automatic-reversal criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error public-trial structural-error waller-v-georgia weaver-v-massachusetts A violation of the public trial guarantee is structural error, defying harmless error review. Weaver v. Massachusetts, 582 U.S. 286, 299 (2017). In Wa…
24-5227 James W. Johnson v. United States Third Circuit 2024-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process impartial-jury impartiality jury-selection peremptory-challenge racial-bias sixth-amendment Whether a criminal defendant is denied his Due Process and Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury when the trial court determines that a potential…
24A130 Keith Vernon Davis v. David Close, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Houtzdale Third Circuit 2024-08-05 Presumed Complete constitutional-validity criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance plea-of-guilt pro-se suppression-of-evidence Question not identified.
24-119 Alan Safahi v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-08-02 Denied civil-procedure contract-breach contract-law criminal-fraud criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-criminal-fraud federal-fraud fraudulent-inducement statutory-interpretation Whether, in the absence of fraudulent inducement, a party who subsequently breaches the contract can be guilty of federal criminal fraud.
24-121 John Won v. United States Second Circuit 2024-08-02 Denied Amici (1) confrontation-clause constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence exceptional-circumstances interest-of-justice sixth-amendment two-way-video video-testimony Whether the Confrontation Clause contains an exception that permits the government to present testimony at a criminal trial by two-way video so long a…
24-5216 Ricky Mendoza v. William Sullivan, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process habeas-corpus habeas-relief harmless-error sixth-amendment witness-testimony Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in denying habeas relief on petitioner's claim that the state trial court deprived him of his Sixth Amendment right to…
24A122 Azibo Aquart v. United States Second Circuit 2024-08-02 Presumed Complete charging-statute circuit-split criminal-procedure indictment-sufficiency jurisdictional-error mandate-rule Question not identified.
24-5204 Gavin Blake Davis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split collateral-order-doctrine criminal-procedure interlocutory-appeal mootness pretrial-release speedy-trial-act Is a decision regarding an 18 U.S.C. § 3164 Motion for Pretrial Release immediately appealable interlocutory (e.g. 28 U.S.C. § 1291; collateral order …
24-5206 Ronny Lee Thomas v. Tony R. Moore, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-08-01 Denied IFP compromise contract criminal-procedure negotiate plea-bargaining plea-deal Question not identified.
24-5207 E. C. v. Q. T. Texas 2024-08-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-liberties constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial judicial-review legal-procedure witnesses Question not identified.
24-5210 Jason William Dittmer v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel obstruction-of-justice plea-bargaining sentencing Question not identified.
24-5211 Jerod Askew v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process firearm-possession firearms jury-instruction jury-instructions statutory-interpretation Whether a jury instruction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c), Possession of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Crime, requires reference to "mere p…
24-5214 Hsiu Ying Tseng v. Mona D. Houston, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation legal-review ninth-circuit prosecutorial-misconduct writ-of-certiorari Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in holding that the prosecutorial misconduct did not violate due process?
24-5183 Harshadkumar Nanjibhai Jadav v. J. Woodson, Warden Fourth Circuit 2024-07-31 Denied IFP and whether the state prisoner made a proper show actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-standard criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions schlup 1. What constitutes as 'new' evidence, and whether the state prisoner made a proper showing of actual innocence under Schlup? 2. Whether the Virgini…
24A115 Justin Erskine v. Delaware Delaware 2024-07-31 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-discretion mandamus post-conviction right-to-counsel Question not identified.
24-105 Boris Kotlyarsky v. Department of Justice, et al. Second Circuit 2024-07-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-rights conviction criminal-plea criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus innocence judicial-review procedural-safeguards In the context of habeas corpus, would it constitute a breach of due process to convict a defendant in a criminal proceeding, despite clear evidence d…
24-5188 Patrick Wilson v. Louisiana Louisiana 2024-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trials non-unanimous-jury second-degree-murder sixth-amendment state-courts 1. As there are conflicting decisions amongst state courts of last resort concerning a constitutional issue, in accordance with Rule X(b), this matter…
24-5191 Quentin Veneno, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-07-31 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (22)IFP constitutional-authority courtroom-closure criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure intratribal-conduct presley-v-georgia public-trial rule-51(b) rule-51b tribal-sovereignty 1. Presley v. Georgia, 558 U.S. 209 (2010), held that, before closing the courtroom during a criminal trial, "courts are required to consider alternat…
24-5194 George Henry Purdy, III v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-31 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 2nd-amendment burden-of-proof constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process presentence-report second-amendment sentencing standing statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment? Whether factual findings of a Presentence Report (PSR) that result in a higher sente…
24-5200 Victor Tavares v. Rhode Island Rhode Island 2024-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process indictment jurisdiction legal-jurisdiction petition sixth-amendment supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
24-5179 Forrest Hammond v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2024-07-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-liberties commutation criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review pardon state-court A Louisiana Executive Pardon of a felony sentence erases the criminal history and restores civil rights and liberties to a party. An Executive Commuta…
24-5180 Lemuel S. Whiteside v. Arkansas Arkansas 2024-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa criminal-procedure cumulative-error habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-review strategic-decision-making strickland-standard strickland-v-washington WHETHER THE ARKANSAS COURTS APPLIED AN INCORRECT STANDARD FOR RESOLVING PETITIONER WHITESIDE'S CLAIMS OF INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL IN SENTENCI…
24-5170 Eric Lee Smith v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process false-testimony government-misconduct napue-violation prosecutorial-misconduct Where the Assistant United States Attorney's representing the Government violates a standard announced in Napue v. Illinois by gaining a criminal conv…
24-5178 Keith Earl Robinson v. Jim Farris, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-07-30 Denied IFP criminal-procedure defense-strategy due-process ineffective-assistance jury-instructions sixth-amendment sixth-amendment,criminal-procedure,ineffective-ass 1. Did Mr. Robinson's trial counsel's performance in preparing defense witnesses meet the standards of effective assistance of counsel, as required by…
24-5160 Duane Leo Ehmer, Darryl William Thorn, and Jake Ryan v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-07-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution ex-parte jury-selection jury-trial petty-offenses presley-v-georgia sixth-amendment structural-error sua-sponte (1) Whether the district court's sua sponte, ex parte, and case-specific excusal of trial jurors for cause constituted reversible structural error? (…
24-5162 Johnny Ho v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fair-trial impartial-jury judicial-discretion jury-selection peremptory-challenges sixth-amendment voir-dire This petition involves questions of exceptional importance for jury selection in trials in all jurisdictions across our nation, involving the process …
24-5164 Joel Miles v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-appeal judicial-review miscarriage-of-justice sentencing waiver Whether appellate waivers in federal criminal cases contain an implied exception for judgments that represent a miscarriage of justice?
24-5166 Nicholas Joseph v. United States Second Circuit 2024-07-29 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure impartial-jury newly-discovered-evidence sixth-amendment unconscious-bias voir-dire 1) Whether this Court should grant Certiorari to address whether a trial judge, when requested by defense counsel, must voir dire on implicit or uncon…
24-5151 Tyrone Scott Cameron v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment bruen-decision constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure felon-in-possession firearms-regulation new-york-state-rifle-pistol-association-v-bruen second-amendment united-states-v-jackson united-states-v-rahimi PETITIONER'S CONVICTION VIOLATES HIS SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS TO BEAR ARMS AND POSSESS AMMUNITION AS EXPANDED BY THE COURT IN New York State Rifle & Pi…
24-5143 Nicholas Nassif Hayek v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-statement district-court due-process evidence motion-to-suppress procedural-error sixth-circuit standard-of-review A. THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED WHEN IT DENIED MR. HAYEK'S MOTION TO SUPPRESS HIS STATEMENT AND THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERRED WHEN IT AFFIRMED THE DISTRICT COUR…
24-5144 Richard Villareal v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2d1.1(b)(1) criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process fifth-circuit firearm-enhancement sentencing-guidelines tools-of-the-trade-presumption Whether the Fifth Circuit's practice of applying a tools-of-the-trade presumption to the firearm enhancement of sentencing guidelines §2D1.1(b)(1) vio…
24-5145 Antonio Tyree Gaskin v. Kentucky Kentucky 2024-07-25 Denied IFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification law-enforcement legal-representation lineup procedural-safeguards right-to-counsel suspect-rights Whether the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution have guaranteed protection that safeguard law in enforcement showing in single paragraph a suspect…
24-5123 Angel Sanchez v. Teresa Cisneros, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-07-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP calcrim-375 constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment prior-acts sixth-amendment WheVW petitioner Was Denied His FiFtty 3/Xrh//Avui Fow+eetH AfoeYiWvif Right +0 Due process Av\H Ftxvo Tm\ Because ottt C0(avTS USe OF prior Acts In…
24-5128 Selvyn Gustavo Mejia-Marroquin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation legal-precedent recidivism sentencing statutory-analysis supreme-court-precedent Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998) should be overruled.
24A80 Steven Cuellar v. Randy Grounds, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-07-23 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure due-process gang-enhancement juvenile-justice sentencing-enhancement sufficiency-of-evidence Question not identified.
24-5115 Jima Brown v. New York New York 2024-07-19 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment investigative-suspicion law-enforcement privacy probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search WJ FourFi/\ AyvAead iM.e/rF permd-S Afi' v^l S>FxVeS rVvuFe a warrarv+less CocFs OocUbaSe "5Wrck ^ ^ro/vA a |jFre£] person wko AaS Ac4 bee a. £oc t c\…
24-5118 Jared Holton Seavey v. Texas Texas 2024-07-19 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony medical-examiner precedent remand sixth-amendment I. Where the State used a surrogate medical examiner to opine as to the cause of death in a murder trial, should the Court GVR this matter in light of…
24-5119 Stacey Williams, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-sentencing sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation I. Whether Mr. Williams's Count 1 conviction and corresponding life sentence violate his right to due process? II. Whether application of a 21 U.S.C.…
24-5102 Alexi Hinojosa Matos v. Texas Texas 2024-07-18 Denied IFP appointment-of-counsel criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-counsel writ-application Due to the gross nature of trial counsel's errors, and the miscarriage of justice due to prosecutor's misconduct, should the Court of Criminal Appeals…
24-5110 Cristobal Castillo-Velasquez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres case-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion legal-precedent precedent-overruling sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
24-5113 Steven Alexander Mantecon v. Florida Florida 2024-07-18 Denied IFP constitutional-right criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-offense fourteenth-amendment jury jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-procedure 1. Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a twelve-person jury to try a criminal defendant accused of a felony offense.
24-5095 Moises Gamboa v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution DID THE LOWER COURTS IMPROPERLY INTERPRET UNITED STATES SENTENCING GUIDELINE § 4C1.1 THAT VIOLATED THE CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT CLAUSE OF THE EIGH…
24A60 Keith Edmund Gavin v. Alabama Alabama 2024-07-17 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure death-row filing-fee in-forma-pauperis indigent-status judicial-discretion Question not identified.
24-37 Lorenzo Garod Pierre v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-16 GVR 2nd-amendment as-applied-challenge constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process federal-firearms-laws federal-law second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation Whether a criminal defendant may raise an as-applied Second Amendment challenge to 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1).
24-5088 In Re Gavin B. Davis 2024-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court-split circuit-split collateral-order-doctrine criminal-procedure interlocutory-appeal mootness pretrial-release speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation (1) Is a decision regarding an 18 U.S.C. § 3164 Motion for Pretrial Release immediately appealable interlocutory (e.g. 28 U.S.C. § 1291; collateral or…
24-5093 David Nam v. John Rivello, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. Third Circuit 2024-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default Question not identified.
24-32 Donavan J. White Owl, aka DJ v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-07-12 Denied Response Waived constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy eighth-circuit implied-consent manifest-necessity mistrial waiver The double jeopardy clause prevents the retrial of a criminal case after mistrial unless the defendant consents or if the mistrial was for manifest ne…
24-5063 Bruce Rowan v. Brian Emig, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2024-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP bail-conditions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment lower-court trial-court Does a conviction for breach of bail conditions-set by lower court-violate the protections of the Fourteenth Amendment right to due process, where tri…
24-5065 Damon John Broussard v. Lousiana Louisiana 2024-07-12 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment proportionality sentencing Does Petitioner's, harsh and unprecendented, sentence of fourty years, without benefits, constitute cruel and unusual punishment, in violation of th…
24-5068 Frankie Wayne Pope v. Kevin Sprayberry, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fraud habeas-corpus judicial-process post-conviction-relief state-court transcripts trial-fraud ^ Wn SMVXA^ <A.<\ T-We^aX fOM/XcboW \W^ OF- TAVtoiL tbU>JT7/fa^tZJBi'FA D^PdA^tUGk Wxs xMMoc£*it rn^OA uiWc? *STAre OT ?Ml+xov^ xrT? ^'Lol*/ M0C\( C…
24-5070 Javaris Marquez Tubbs v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment birth-certificate citizenship-status civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction legal-classification national-identity sentencing state-jurisdiction as the sentence imposed in violation of the constitution or laws of the United States? 2. Is the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Loui…
24-5071 Dennis German v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance eighth-amendment fifth-amendment relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines (1). Weather the Government violated the Petitioner's 8th Amendment. Constitutional Rights (To be free from infliction of Cruel and Unusual Punishm…
24A38 Cid C. Franklin v. New York New York 2024-07-12 Presumed Complete bail-hearing confrontation-clause criminal-procedure evidence-admission sixth-amendment testimonial-statement 1. This case raises the fundamental question of when a statement is "testimonial" and thus subject to the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause. See …
24-35 Sean Eamonn Waite v. Texas Texas 2024-07-12 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mental-health plea-bargain plea-bargaining procedural-due-process Did the TCCA deny petitioner procedural due process by summarily rejecting his substantial constitutional claim without requiring the trial court to r…
24-5066 Lynual McElroy v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-07-12 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-counsel constitutional-amendment constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel public-defender speedy-trial 1- Does l8 U-S.C.A. § 3161, [speedy trial], apply to all state(s) within the Union, through the United States Constitution, Article III, cl. 2, § 3 an…
24-5052 In Re Kenton G. Findlay 2024-07-11 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-violation court-of-appeal criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus legal-relief 1. Did the Third District Court of Appeal Violate Section (9) in the Constitution of the State of Florida Due Process-No person shall be deprived of l…
24-5037 William J. Kemp v. John Rivello, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. Third Circuit 2024-07-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process griffin-v-california habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-instructions miranda-rights prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment 1. Does a prosecutor's violations of Federal Due Process, as were identified here by the trial court, or invalid jury instructions warrant habeas reli…
24-5047 Pedro Terrazas v. Illinois Illinois 2024-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-prejudice jury-selection plain-error rule-431b trial-court-error Was Defendant 'Prejudiced' And Denied His Constitutional Right To The Effective Assistance Of Appellate Counsel On [Direct-Appeal] For Failing To Rais…
24-5048 Bernard Celestine v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-right criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process first-step-act resentencing sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether Congress incorporated a Constitutional right under the Due Process Clause to a plenary resentencing for an eligible Defendant under Section 40…
24-5021 Joyce Isagba v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP admissibility criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence-404b fifth-amendment prior-bad-acts relevance rule-404b sentencing-conditions supervised-release I. Under Rule 404(b), Federal Rules of Evidence, is a single uncharged act occurring 5-7 year prior to the charged conduct in question, without any in…
24-5022 Angela J. Wells v. Illinois Illinois 2024-07-09 Denied IFP criminal-procedure domestic-violence due-process plea-agreement plea-bargain post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation victim-rights 1. SHOULD THE PETITIONER BE ELIGIBLE FOR RELIEF SET FORTH IN 735 ILCS 5/2£-1401( (B-5) 2016 REGARDING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIM EVEN IF SHE AGREES TO A…
24-5027 Jovan Marquis Harris v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP burrage-v-united-states causation-of-harm criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-distribution evidentiary-hearing federal-statute heroin-distribution jury-instruction jury-instructions overdose sentencing-enhancement 1. Did the trial court err when it refused to instruct the jury that the heroin distributed by the defendant was the same heroin that caused the vict…
24-5028 Rafael Cardona, Sr. v. United States First Circuit 2024-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure forfeiture good-cause motion-timeliness multiplicity plain-error-review rule-12 waiver Before 2014, Rule 12 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure required certain enumerated types of motions to be filed before trial, and stated that…
24-5030 Lani Lucas Limane, aka Lukasz Chad Limane v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-identity-theft criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error identity-theft indictment indictment-variance plain-error plea-bargaining plea-colloquy predicate-offense rule-11 Was it plain error for a District Court to convict Petitioner on his plea of guilty to a crime never charged in the governing Indictment? When the su…
24-5031 Keith White v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-u.s.c.-§-846 career-offender controlled-substance controlled-substance-offenses criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-criminal-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-§-4b1.2 Whether an offense under 21 U.S.C. § 846 may be included in the U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 definition of "controlled substance offenses" for purposes of sentenc…
24-5033 Jose Domingo Carranza-Rubio v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres case-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion legal-precedent precedent-overruling sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
24A16 Jay Sandon Cooper v. Texas Texas 2024-07-09 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-error judicial-duty supreme-court-review Question not identified.
24-5015 Eduardo Alvarez, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP arrest-warrant attenuation-doctrine criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment illegal-stop search-and-seizure standing utah-v-strieff In Utah v. Strieff, 579 U.S. 232 (2016), this Court held that an officer's discovery of a valid, pre-existing arrest warrant for the defendant himself…
24-5001 Tito Lemont Knox v. Jeffrey Krueger, Warden Fourth Circuit 2024-07-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance privacy probable-cause search-and-seizure state-court-review Question not identified.
24-5004 Joshua Mounts v. Ohio Ohio 2024-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony expert-witnesses nazi-comparison personal-attacks prosecutorial-misconduct Whether violations of the United States Constitution occur where defense experts are not allowed to respond to criticism of their expert reports and w…
24-5006 Jason Steven Kokinda v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-07-03 GVR IFP 18-u.s.c-2250 34-u.s.c-20913 change-of-residence chevron-deference criminal-procedure jury-instructions rule-of-lenity sex-offender-registration smart-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the district court erroneously instructed the jury regarding a crucial element of the criminal offense of failure to register as a sex offende…
24-5010 Bryon Keith Creech v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-07-03 Denied IFP competency due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance post-conviction withdrawal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief sentencing-mitigation ~j~~p -/"/) C doe~S fvop ///7<^ -p) htofiorj -ft VrH'&t'i'UJ ft ^ SoMtv Pieti, !>o FUbft* 6/? r RcOef )F ■jinz person U*as cotJ^ifre^. Lohi h PTaj c …
24-5012 Miguel Angel Ibarra-Mora v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit precedent-overturning sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-7843 Luis Alfredo Nanez-Lopez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari-petition constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent precedent precedent-overruling sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-7844 Marcus Orlando Armstrong v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-jurisdiction forfeiture forfeiture-doctrine judicial-discretion objection sentencing sentencing-procedure standard-of-review Does a defendant forfeit a challenge to the manner in which the district court imposed sentence by failing to object after the sentence is pronounced,…
23-7847 Matthew Gatrel v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP computer-crime criminal-procedure improper-venue insufficient-evidence jury-instruction jury-instruction-error protected-computers sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-error sophisticated-means-enhancement venue-challenge 1. Whether petitioner Matthew Gatrel's convictions should be reversed because the government presented insufficient evidence to support his conviction…
23-7848 In Re Lyle R. Harrison 2024-07-02 Dismissed IFP civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process inheritance-rights judicial-misconduct police-reports probate-law speedy-trial 1. Whether due process allows the Denial of all Unredacted Police Reports by; Judge Richard L. Broch, Judge Jeremy J. Richey, Prosecutor Luke McNeill,…
23-7838 Davit Davitashvili v. United States Third Circuit 2024-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment mental-health-disclosure miscarriage-of-justice prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment 1. Were there violations of the 5th and 6th Amendments? 2. Was Prosecutor Zalesky's lies and slander of my character and other misconduct a miscarria…
23-1355 Kris V. Zocco v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2024-06-28 Denied Response Waived cell-phone-search criminal-procedure enumerated-crimes evidence evidence-seizure fourth-amendment particularity-requirement search-and-seizure search-warrant Does a warrant to search the entire contents of a cell phone for unspecified "evidence" of enumerated crimes violate the Fourth Amendment's requiremen…
23-7805 In Re Enrique Medina 2024-06-28 Denied IFP access-to-court constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment jurisdiction search-and-seizure sixth-amendment warrantless-search 1. WHETHER THE PETITIONER IS PARTY TO SEEK TRIAL WHEN PETITIONER'S RIGHTS VIOLATED 2. WHETHER RESPONDENT'S SUIT VIOLATED PETITIONER'S PROCEDURAL DUE …
23-7823 Jyoti Agrawal v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-loss base-offense-level criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing fraud fraud-loss-calculation government-grant intended-loss loss-calculation sentencing-guidelines U.S.S.G. § 2B1.1 provides that for cases involving fraud there is an increase in base offense level commiserate with the loss amount. The commentary t…
23-7831 In Re Olamide Olatayo Bello 2024-06-28 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment search-and-seizure search-warrant Whether a search warrant and seizure violate the Petitioner's Fourth Amendment and due process rights.
23-7814 James Harmon, III v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-27 Denied IFP 8th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction juvenile-justice parole sentencing Question not identified.
23-7821 Noe Rodriguez-Adorno v. United States First Circuit 2024-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP communications constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-counsel district-court impasse right-to-counsel sixth-amendment supervised-release 1. Should certiorari be granted where defense counsel informed the District Court he and Petitioner were at an impasse, and all communications between…
23A1162 Donte Parrish v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-06-26 Presumed Complete appellate-review constitutional-claim criminal-procedure fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct Question not identified.
23-7802 Festus O. Ohan v. Axos Bank, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-06-26 Dismissed IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-banking habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance investment property-rights sentencing standing Question not identified.
23-7810 Odell Calvin, aka Julius Jones v. Illinois Illinois 2024-06-26 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-fabrication habeas-corpus standing state-conviction takings witness-testimony Question not identified.
23A1148 Mark Manuel Angeles Marino v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-25 Presumed Complete appellate-review criminal-procedure jurisdictional-requirements petition-for-certiorari supreme-court-rules time-extension Question not identified.
23A1149 James W. Johnson v. United States Third Circuit 2024-06-25 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights criminal-procedure juror-impartiality jury-selection racial-bias voir-dire Question not identified.
23-7795 Marc Pierre Hall, aka Marc Valeriano, aka Fella v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure sentencing statutory-interpretation sVsAtrVe^S Cor^Vrfefes er er-rontcus U3e cA Sl\ J\ko\\er- -_Aor\ L^orxAS^^ cjT- Cor>s'VrWi\i o^C)\ Errors ga.~a Connc~V\r>ej— error cn Aer~lV\<e ^T^k…
23-7804 Juan Jesus Vargas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-procedure judicial-discretion open-court-statement reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-requirements statutory-interpretation 1) Must district courts comply with the requirements of 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c) to state, in open court, the reasons for the sentence imposed? 2) Should …
23A1145 Percy L. Jacobs v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-06-24 Presumed Complete competency-to-proceed criminal-procedure faretta-hearing right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver-of-counsel Whether, for a waiver of the Sixth Amendment right to trial counsel to be effective, a defendant must understand the elements of the charged offenses …
23-7787 Enrique Martinez-Flores v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-enhancement criminal-procedure historical-analysis notice-clause prior-conviction-exception recidivism sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-notice-clause L Can the prior-conviction exception from Almendarez-Torres be squared with the text of the Sixth Amendment's Notice Clause and the historical practic…
23-7788 Francisco Valtierra-Zuniga v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari-petition constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial precedent precedent-overruling sentencing supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23A1133 Jason Gatlin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-21 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure double-jeopardy eleventh-circuit finality jury-verdict sex-trafficking Question not identified.
23-7772 Christopher L. Parker v. Darren Galloway, Warden Seventh Circuit 2024-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-prisoner habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-interpretation prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement state-court-remedies Circumstances exist that render State Court Remedies in effective to Protect my 14th Frohts Pursuant to Clause 2254 HOG CY? 730205 613-63 0) QOD, AY,…
23-7774 Pablo Santana Arellano v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-06-21 Denied IFP co-conspirator-testimony co-conspirators confrontation-clause confrontation-rights criminal-procedure sentencing-agreements sixth-amendment witness-bias Whether, under the Sixth Amendment to the United State Constitution, defendants may be prohibited from asking cooperating witnesses, and former co-con…
23-7775 Edward Treisback v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment morrissey-v-brewer revocation-hearing supervised-release Did the District Court shift the burden of proof from the United States to the defendant in violation of 18 U.S.C. 3583(c)(3) {see In Re Winship, 397 …
23-7777 Robert King Via, Jr. v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2024-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment accomplice-testimony constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-rights due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence witness-testimony lo coo pi t & 6 dfftnddnfj c o $ e re sfs Coiely On 'fta urn lore a \>i refect of aiitjed accomf>lu£S\ dots Hie. defendants iLltl' dntnf Lon (fa]tvHmo…
23-7778 Davonte Williams-Dorsey v. United States Second Circuit 2024-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-due-process-jury-trial-evidence due-process duress-defense fifth-amendment judicial-precedent jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-procedure united-states-v-contento-pancho united-states-v-paul Did the lower courts err in their preclusion of Petitioner's duress defense at trial, given the preexisting caselaw, wherein the Jury, not the Court, …
23-7733 Thomas Richard Ward v. Virginia Virginia 2024-06-20 Denied IFP constitutional-rights coram-vobis criminal-procedure criminal-record-expungement cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process plea-bargain plea-colloquy protection-order-violation Whether or not Petitioner's Due Process according to U.S. Amendments V, VI, & XIV was violated due to errors Coram Vobis committed in the plea colloqu…
23-7766 Charles Edward Luckett v. Robert Neuschmid, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-06-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process evidence exclusionary-rule fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment witness Whether the Ninth Circuit applied this Court's precedents in Bradshaw v. State and Barclay v. Marchand to exclude a defendant's custodial interrogatio…
23-7768 Leonard Williamson, Jr. v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-06-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit the district court from considering conduct of which Mr. Williamson was acquitted by the jury when cal…
23-7769 In Re Johnny Smith 2024-06-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP bar-ethics court-rules criminal-procedure due-process indictment judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct legal-procedure prosecutorial-misconduct rule-of-court rules-of-court 1) WHY DOES A DEFENDANT/PETITIONER AFTER DENIAL OF APPEAL UNDER 3.850 AS FILED IN FEDERAL COURT ALL UNDER HABEAS CORPUS IS WARRANT? 2) PROSECUTOR DEL…
23-7743 Jensen Ken Alexander v. Territory of the Virgin Islands, et al. Virgin Islands 2024-06-18 Denied IFP civil-procedure due-process government-delay ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct speedy-trial constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standing Question not identified.
23-7744 In Re William F. Laffoon 2024-06-18 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jurisdiction mcgirt-ruling native-american native-american-rights reservation-law retroactivity tribal-jurisdiction on /Vku 7T*1 203.H 3imCU dfGirtuJas Set Feet nfter'feCiev'/ruJtl/ne Served . tke Volina u5aS .Made tavl ^RoryxlA k, (dkiTC. of tke united States Dis…
23-7746 Robert Brumfield, III v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct brady-prejudice criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-acquittal prosecution-evidence sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment 1. Whether courts evaluating Brady prejudice are permitted to ignore a jury's acquittal when evaluating the strength of the prosecution's evidence. I…
23-7748 Jacob W. Barron v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP compliance-check criminal-procedure fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-expectation-of-privacy law-enforcement privacy-expectation probable-cause probation probation-search warrantless-search Mr. Jacob W. Barron's probation officers conducted a compliance check of Mr. Barron's home after they were contacted by Rapides Parish Sheriff's Offic…
23-7755 Anthony Raymoné Clark v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-06-18 Denied IFP appeal appeal-process criminal-procedure district-court due-process due-process,civil-procedure,post-conviction,appeal final-judgment impediment post-conviction post-conviction-procedure procedural-rules 1. Is it an abuse of discretion and are these contrary act(s) of federal law and treaty by the lower court a negligence of "natural law" resulting in …
23-7734 Reshod Jamar Everett v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights law-enforcement maryland-v-buie probable-cause protective-sweep reasonable-belief warrantless-search Whether the Fourth Amendment precludes the police from conducting a warrantless search of a home when the police decided to conduct a protective sweep…
23-7738 Terrill Goods v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure in-absentia presence sentencing waiver 1. Whether a defendant who does not clearly and expressly waive his presence at his sentencing hearing may be sentenced in absentia under Fed. R. Crim…
23-7739 Cary Joseph Heath v. Texas Texas 2024-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-intoxication new-trial trial-fairness witness-testimony Question not identified.
23-7721 Darren M. Reese v. Jay Forshey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-06-14 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-procedure criminal-procedure'\n\n'May a State Court of Last due-process legal-interpretation rule-of-lenity state-court state-law statutory-interpretation 1. Is the Rule of Lenity a Constitutional Due Process guarantee that must be employed when a State Court construes ambiguous statutory language? 2. I…
23-7722 Christopher Harry West v. Brian Emig, Warden Delaware 2024-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation carter-v-illinois constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process harrington-v-richter post-conviction post-conviction-review second-challenges state-law-procedural-requirement suppression-requirement J<bo/eJ Wk<2r€ SUta £ouf4 poJ-f-cqAv/ic-fi ' v/<VV\^u+ <* kzy S4<t-fe- pro<-^Jor<\] r^^uirQmznf <vjJ 4/,e S-/a4u>fe vl<x$ fnow^fVH/ c tank'd vifh no…
23-7723 Barbara Martin v. New Jersey New Jersey 2024-06-14 Denied IFP change-of-venue civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-withholding prosecutorial-misconduct qualified-immunity standing witness-tampering Question not identified.
23-7725 Jimmie Lee Walton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion allen-charge coercion court-of-appeals criminal-procedure Did the Court of Appeals abuse it's discretion in Did the Court of Appeals abuse its discretion in a directed-verdict double-jeopardy due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judgment-of-acquittal judicial-discretion jury-instructions mistrial motion-for-acquittal right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Did Walton receive effective assistance of counsel? Did the Court of Appeals abuse its discretion in affirming the District Courts denial of the moti…
23-1310 Dean Gross v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-06-14 Denied Amici (1) criminal-custody criminal-law criminal-procedure custody federal-courts federal-escape-statute federal-statutes halfway-house statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit Whether or under what circumstances a criminal defendant released to a halfway house is in "custody" and therefore can commit the crime of escape.
23-7705 Eric D. Johnson v. Mississippi Mississippi 2024-06-13 Denied IFP administrative-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection judicial-relief retroactivity safety-valve sentencing-calculation statutory-interpretation Whether Sohnson's SenTencé 18 improperly Calculated--and Should be celev[aTe! under The $,4Ty perseoT (0%) Sentencing law in effecT aT The Time of im …
23-7708 Joshua Peters v. United States Third Circuit 2024-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-shifting constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process government-misconduct new-trial presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-misconduct trial-order Before trial, the district court barred the Government from commenting that the defense had the opportunity to conduct independent forensic testing on…
23-7711 Philong Nghia Huynh v. J. Lizarraga Ninth Circuit 2024-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-trial forensic-nurse sixth-amendment surrogate-nurse surrogate-testimony testimonial-statements testimony Whether the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment permits the prosecution in a criminal trial to present testimony by a surrogate nurse conveyin…
23-7715 Noel Bender v. Iowa Department of Corrections, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-06-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure criminal-statute domestic-violence due-process evidence federal-law firearm-possession gun-rights restraining-order standard-of-proof statutory-interpretation Whether Suth Amfra/f &JdwCt Suff&rfe Ahvt dhAJat C&tudi Jyndfiy /XtiadOmaA'U skedA 9M9 y&d Bentff Add Pm/A Afrt A^hah/A/np a/- ?Ae Bmdtr dS&uf-kd AAe …
23-7716 Donte Solomon v. Robert St. Andre, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP alcohol-and-drugs constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process heat-of-passion jealousy judicial-review jury-instructions jury-selection legal-challenge mental-state provocation Question not identified.
23-7717 Ledra A. Craig v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rights cross-examination due-process right-to-counsel right-to-cross-examine 1. Can a Defendawts Conwetion be Sustained and impermissiby Prediedted on a defendants Uncorroborated statements ta Laterragition oF Ficers. * oes th…
23-7690 Wendell Johnson, aka Lamar Hill v. New Jersey New Jersey 2024-06-12 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias judicial-review legal-procedure prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
23-7697 Zachary Kelsey v. Tim Garrett, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP cause-of-death closing-argument criminal-procedure criminal-trial forensic-pathologist forensic-pathology habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel second-degree-murder sixth-amendment 1. Whether Zachary Kelsey was deprived of the effective assistance of counsel when trial counsel waived Kelsey's closing argument at trial. 2. Whethe…
23-7699 Levoyd A. Jones v. Angela Hunsinger-Stuff, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-06-12 Denied IFP 6th-amendment brady-violation criminal-procedure direct-evidence due-process evidence ineffective-assistance jurisdiction sixth-amendment trial-counsel uncharged-crime witness-impeachment I. Whether evidence of an uncharged crime that occured two years after the time-frame of the indictment can be used as direct evidence linking the def…
23-7700 Deon Anthony Romell Bailey v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP bodily-safety circuit-court civil-rights compassionate-release criminal-procedure due-process innocence-claim physical-abuse sentencing-enhancement sexual-abuse Did the Eighth Circuit Decision improperly deny defendant's Career offender Challenge by failing to consider he no longer qualifies for the enhancemen…
23-1295 Linnzi Zaorski v. Nicholas Usner Louisiana 2024-06-12 Denied child-custody civil-contempt civil-procedure contempt-of-court criminal-contempt criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment preponderance-of-evidence purge-clause reasonable-doubt suspended-sentence suspension-of-sentence 1) Did the suspension of Ms. Zaorski's fixed jail sentence and fine, conditioned on terms wholly unrelated to the judgment which she was convicted of …
23-1290 Michael Binday v. United States Second Circuit 2024-06-11 Denied Response Waived 598 U.S. 306 (2023) requires retroactive effect constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process fraud habeas-corpus retroactive-effect retroactivity section-2255 standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether this Court's decision in Ciminelli v. United States, 598 U.S. 306 (2023), was a constitutional determination that placed particular conduct or…
23-7681 Thomas George Craaybeek v. Texas Texas 2024-06-11 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-rights grand-jury habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief suppressed-evidence ACCORNML Te THE Stare & TEAS in Ex Sante Tovaa, M6) 4¥I28 YBN 1 that tHE _Pundnse to SE Senvzo G4 A Pode cenvienon wear & daseas Cons 14 \wete ane hes…
23-7682 Daniel Loyola, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment appellate-review constitutional-analysis criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit firearms plain-error statutory-interpretation united-states-v-bruen I. Mr. Loyola pleaded guilty to violating 18 U.S.C. § 922(o), which criminalizes the transfer or possession of a machinegun. On appeal, Mr. Loyola att…
23-7683 Keon Lamont Lee v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-rights circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea guilty-plea-withdrawal plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing sixth-circuit Should a district court grant a pre-sentencing motion to withdraw a guilty plea if that plea was made without full knowledge of its consequences?
23-7685 Edwin K. Davis v. Florida Florida 2024-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial ramos-v-louisiana sixth-amendment williams-v-florida Whether Petitioner was derived of his right, under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged w…
23-7673 Aubrey Jiles Stanley, Jr. v. Bryan Morrison, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense severance sixth-amendment witness-testimony 1.) WAS TRIAL COUNSEL INEFFECTIVE FOR FAILURE TO MOVE FOR A MISTRIAL, OR FILE A SEVERANCE MOTION IN THE CIRCUIT COURT, WHICH PREJUDICE HIS DEFENSE? FO…
23-1288 Nicholas Newman v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-06-10 Denied actual-innocence assault-federal-officer collateral-attack-waiver criminal-law-procedure criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law habeas-corpus plea-agreement statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit 1. Whether reasonable jurists could debate whether assault on a federal officer under 18 U.S.C. § 111 can be committed by reckless contact with anothe…
23-7661 Muhammad E. Milhouse v. New York City Department of Homeless Services, et al. Second Circuit 2024-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-representation civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure critical-stage due-process representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standing victim-rights Question not identified.
23-7663 Sandra Denise Curl, aka Sandra Curl Jacobs, aka Sandra Curl-Jacobs El, aka Minister Sandra El v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process mental-health right-to-counsel sixth-amendment von-moltke-v-gillies waiver waiver-of-counsel I. Whether, for a waiver of the Sixth Amendment right to trial counsel to be effective, a defendant must understand the elements of the charged offens…
23-7665 Kenneth Oteng Duodu v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2024-06-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP article-vi confrontation-clause constitutional-rights consular-notification criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus international-obligations vienna-convention Question not identified.
23-7669 Anthony Bender, Jr. v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency police-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-sentence witness-testimony 1. Whether the government's failure to disclose the dash camera video constituted a Brady violation? 2. Whether a conviction based solely on the test…
23-7650 Samuel Cuellar v. Jeff Tanner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-violation criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel informed-decision mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences plea-bargaining plea-negotiations sentencing I. PETITIONER IS ENTITLED TO REINSTATEMENT OF PLEA OFFER WHERE COUNSEL FAILED TO INFORM HIM DURING PLEA NEGOTIATIONS THAT IF HE WAS CONVICTED UNDER MC…
23-7656 Carl Monroe Gordon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendants-rights due-process jurisdiction legal-procedure speedy-trial statutory-interpretation trial-act Was defendants Speedy Trial Rights Act Violated?
23A1088 Anthony Mungin v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-06 Presumed Complete constitutional-review criminal-procedure death-penalty habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance trial-counsel Question not identified.
23-1278 Tsai-Fen Lee v. Washington Washington 2024-06-06 Denied Response Waived appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel guilty-plea ineffective-assistance personal-restraint plea-bargaining right-to-counsel voluntariness-of-plea 1. Whether Trial Court erred in accepting defendant Tsai-Fen Lee to plead guilty when the plea was on its face equivocal. 2. Can Lee's guilty plea be…
23-7637 Andres Nixon Gonzales-Catagua, aka Nexon Gonzalez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure drug-enforcement drug-interdiction jurisdiction jurisdictional-limit law-enforcement maritime-drug-law maritime-law military-law-enforcement miranda-warnings sixth-amendment WHETHER the jurisdictional limit contained in the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act relates to the legislative reach of the statute or whether it rela…
23-7640 Devin Fischer v. North Dakota North Dakota 2024-06-05 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process due-process-clause fair-trial guilty-plea judicial-discretion legal-standards Is a defendant denied due process when the court ignores legal standards and relies solely on their discretion? Does the defendant suffer double jeop…
23-7642 John A. Beatty v. Jay Forshey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standards precedent precedent-validity standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent 1. Is McCarthy V United States, 394 U.S. 459(1969); Ex Parte Milligan, 71 U.S. 2(1866); Greenholtz V Nebraska Penal Inmates, 442 U.S. 1 (1979); Oregon…
23-7643 Thomas Antonio Stuart v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP alien-smuggling criminal-penalty criminal-procedure legislative-history mandatory-minimum sentencing statutory-interpretation textualism Whether the five-year mandatory minimum penalty of 8 U.S.C. § 1324(a)(2), which applies to a defendant's third "violation" of subsection (a)(2)(B)(Gi)…
23-7646 Rogaciano Demetrio-Jimenez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres case-precedent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-7616 Jacob Ray Owens v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof co-conspirator-evidence criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-purity drug-quantity ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel methamphetamine-purity sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether the purity of outside-the-conspiracy methamphetamine, linked to Owens's conspiracy solely by personnel, permitted an inference that Owens's me…
23-7629 Robert Randall Ziegler v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-06-04 Denied IFP constitutional-rights conviction-relief criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review post-conviction-relief right-to-counsel state-court-appeal Question not identified.
23-7630 Jamaal Elwood Dance v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appellate-procedure constitutional-law contract-law criminal-procedure judicial-enforcement jurisdiction plea-agreement WAS THE APPEAL BARRED BY THE APPEAL WAIVER IN THE PLEA AGREEMENT, I.E. SHOULD THE COURT OF APPEALS HAVE ENFORCED AND THUS APPROVED THE APPEAL WAIVER?
23-7635 Douglas Cornell Jackson v. Nathan Hoffman, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-06-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus post-conviction postconviction-proceedings standing state-court WHETHER A DISTRICT COURT'S SUA SPONTE STAY OF HABEAS CORPUS PETITION PENDING RESOLUTION OF POSTCONVICTION PROCEEDING IN STATE COURT IS APPEALABLE AFTE…
23-7615 Randall Crater v. United States First Circuit 2024-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process criminal-procedure fair-trial sixth-amendment structural-error touhy-regulations trial-subpoenas witness-testimony Whether the district court's decision to quash three trial subpoenas because defendant did not comply with Touhy regulations violated defendant's Sixt…
23-7619 Brandon Gibbs v. Texas Texas 2024-06-03 Denied IFP closing-argument constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination Did prosecutor improperly comment on Petitioner's failure to testify during closing argument, in violation of the Fifth Amendment?
23-7622 Angel Luis Concepcion-Rosario v. United States Third Circuit 2024-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure district-court-error due-process exclusionary-rule impeachment judgment-of-acquittal miranda-rights motion-for-mistrial physical-evidence sentencing suppression-of-evidence 1. Did the district court error in not suppressing the physical evidence and the statement? 2. Did the district court error in not granting the petit…
23-7623 Estephen Castellon v. Ohio Ohio 2024-06-03 Denied IFP criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence-preservation exculpatory-evidence law-enforcement sixth-amendment speedy-trial warrant-execution Whether the failure to preserve potentially exculpatory evidence under the Trombetta and Youngblood standards, coupled with delays in trial proceeding…
23-7625 Henry Sowers v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada-accessibility americans-with-disabilities-act criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection hearing-impairment judicial-accessibility pro-se pro-se-defendant structural-error voir-dire 1. Does the State violate the American Disabilities Act by failing to provide "Program Accessibility " to a hearing impaired Defendant (pro-se) in a …
23-7599 Jorge Ortiz-Juarez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law certiorari-petition constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure overruling precedent-overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-7606 Tommy Tate Collins v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-05-31 Denied IFP criminal-procedure district-court fair-and-just-standard government-breach judicial-discretion plea-agreement remedy santobello-v-new-york sentencing-remedy 1. What is the appropriate test or what factors should a district court consider when determining the appropriate remedy, after an appellate court has…
23-7609 Donald Washington, Sr. v. California California 2024-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief procedural-due-process right-to-appeal 1. Did the Defendant have the Right to Appeal his Conviction 48 years Ago as a Right? 2. Was Petitioner Denied Effective Assistance of Counsel by his…
23A1073 Jeremiah Wooden v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2024-05-31 Presumed Complete constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment retrial sufficiency-of-evidence If there is a change in law during the appeal of a criminal conviction, and the evidence at trial is insufficient to support a finding of guilt under …
23-7592 Ynedra Diggs v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruton-rule bruton-v-united-states co-defendant-statements confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fifth-amendment fifth-circuit testimonial-evidence testimonial-statements unavailable-witnesses WAS MS. DIGGS'S CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO CONFRONTATION VIOLATED WHEN THE DISTRICT COURT ADMITTED RECORDED STATEMENTS OF UNAVAILABLE CODEFENDANTS INTO E…
23-7594 Felipe Matias-Miguel v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-7581 Glenn D. Odom, II v. Scott Jordan, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-counsel conflict-of-counsel constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-rights due-process jury jury-questioning pro-se-defense waiver witness witness-testimony Please help uS T The ComfnonweAlhh ©h !Aer\hucKy V\a$ ndophed aa unconshihuhioned pAhtern And pfAthic^ Allowing Cour4 Appealed UvuyerS ho lolurh ©uh…
23-7583 Shawn Hill v. United States Second Circuit 2024-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure mental-health plea-bargaining remorse sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness supervised-release 1. Was petitioner improperly denied credit for acceptance of responsibility based on an incident in a Hartford jail that appeared to be a mental healt…
23-7585 Wilfred H. v. Josh Ward, Interim Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex West Virginia 2024-05-29 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-charges criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process factual-allegations legal-procedure multiple-convictions multiple-counts Does a state violate due process or double jeopardy principles when it charges and convicts a defendant on multiple, identical counts, with none conne…
23-7588 Ruben Mendezsales v. Florida Florida 2024-05-29 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure felony felony-charges fourteenth-amendment jury-trial overrule sixth-amendment williams-v-florida Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-1249 Timothy Patrick Guilfoy v. Brandon Watwood, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-05-29 Denied Response Waived confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus jury-misconduct right-to-confront testimonial-evidence After a first trial resulted in a hung jury, Petitioner was retried and ultimately convicted of sexual assault. Suspecting foul play during trial, def…
23-1250 Carlos Vega v. Terence B. Tekoh Ninth Circuit 2024-05-29 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administration-of-justice circuit-split coerced-confessions confession-admissibility criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony fifth-amendment miranda-rights miranda-warning ninth-circuit 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit erred by establishing—in conflict with the decisions of other circuits—a categorical rule requiring the admission of expe…
23-7561 Charles Hyde v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence standing supreme-court Question not identified.
23-7564 Ricky T. Jackson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP confidential-informant criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-hearsay due-process evidentiary-sufficiency sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment sixth-circuit 1. Whether this Honorable Court should grant certiorari to review whether the Sixth Circuit's determination that the uncorroborated and unreliable dou…
23-7565 Juan Aguiera-Guzman v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-reasoning mitigation-arguments plain-error sentencing sentencing-discretion silent-record Does the holding in Molina -Martinez apply to non -Guidelines calculation sentencing errors, such as the clear Rule 32 violation here? If not, how doe…
23-7566 Brendon Tyre Garner v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury has acquitted …
23-7567 Michael David Carruth v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-28 Denied IFP alabama appellate-counsel constitutional-right criminal-procedure death-penalty exhaustion ineffective-assistance procedural-bar right-to-counsel state-procedure writ-of-certiorari When a state by statute or rule imposes a duty upon appellate counsel for the defendant-appellant in a criminal case to file a petition for a writ of …
23-7568 Malek Lassiter v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-conviction criminal-procedure federal-statute section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court united-states-v-taylor Whether The Court Of Appeals Erred By Holding Lassiter's Convictions Under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) On Counts 25 And 28 Remain Lawful After United States v.…
23-7569 Raymond Woodley v. North Carolina North Carolina 2024-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance multiple-representation sixth-amendment strickland-prejudice strickland-standard sullivan-standard trial-court When counsel alerts the trial court to a conflict of interest not involving multiple representation, and the trial court fails to resolve the conflict…
23-7571 Corey Goings v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-rights appeal-waiver constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining racial-discrimination sentencing I. Whether the Plea Agreement's general waiver of appeal rights included a waiver of appealing a sentence based on the impermissible factor of race.
23-7572 Jerry A. Smith v. John Galipeau Seventh Circuit 2024-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment search-and-seizure standing Question not identified.
23-7560 David Darnell Whitehead v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP alien-smuggling border-crossing criminal-intent criminal-procedure designated-port-of-entry illegal-immigration immigration-law mens-rea port-of-entry statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence I. IN AN ILLEGAL ALIEN SMUGGLING CASE, WHAT CONSTITUTES BRINGING TO OR ENTERING THE UNITED STATES "AT A PLACE OTHER THAN A DESIGNATED PORT OF ENTRY", …
23-7553 Francisco Joseph Arcila Ramirez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2339b criminal-procedure foreign-terrorist-organization material-support sentencing terrorism-enhancement When a defendant has entered a plea of guilty to the offense of providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization, in violation of 18 U.S…
23-7556 Nathan O. Beal v. Washington Washington 2024-05-23 Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-trials daubert-standard due-process evidence-rule expert-testimony federal-evidence-rule firearm-ballistics frye-standard scientific-evidence trial-procedure ke/ft 5'ft^ft '^vft vft ft/\e. D 4fte Frye, S'Frdnrd 3uftft/ei£/iftft SkoJd £j«s/wWftfA ^Me L*oe_ c»- WK l J-rec-'f kpfpAtdn FzderjbUenee RJt 701^,'U…
23A1048 Quentin Veneno, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-05-23 Presumed Complete covid-19 criminal-procedure preservation public-trial right-to-access sixth-amendment The circumstances under which Rule 51 triggers a criminal defendant's obligation to object to a violation of his or her right to a public trial, and s…
23A1049 Meko R. Walker v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-23 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance right-to-testify sixth-amendment trial-counsel Question not identified.
23-7532 In Re Keith Hager 2024-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP charging-instrument criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-authority mandamus mens-rea sentencing statutory-interpretation writ-of-mandamus WHETHER THIS COURT MUST ISSUE A WRIT OF MANDAMUS WHERE A FEDERAL COURT LACKED AUTHORITY TO SENTENCE PETITIONER UPON AN OFFENSE FOR WHICH CONGRESS DID …
23-7537 Mike Austin Anderson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process judicial-procedure jury-instructions jury-verdict motion-to-revoke recusal-motion standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence 1) Whether the district court erred by finding that the prosecution produced sufficient evidence at trial for a reasonable jury to return a guilty ver…
23-7539 Eddie Lamar Thomas v. Don Langford, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-05-22 Denied IFP criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment investigative-detention miranda-warnings self-incrimination 1. Mr. Thomas alleged that the district court violated his Fifth Amendment rights. Mr. Thomas was convicted, in larger part, from his statements made …
23-7540 Oscar Catalan Ruiz v. California California 2024-05-22 Denied IFP abstract-statutes appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendants-rights due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-interpretation procedural-due-process sentencing Question not identified.
23-7541 Tommy Duane Barnes v. Roberto Felix, Jr., et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-05-22 GVR Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP civil-rights conspiracy conspiracy-to-murder constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-misconduct jurisdiction pro-se-representation standing texas-jurisdiction tyranny 1) Was Ashtian actually MUR"ERE" as part of a plan ? 2) Was the petittioner(TOMMY BARNES) Constitutional Rights violated by The United States "istri…
23-7542 Anthony Obute v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-rights appellate-waiver controlled-substance criminal-procedure pharmacy-operations plea-agreement sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Does a defendant's waiver of appellate rights in a plea agreement, which explicitly reserves the right to challenge the constitutionality of a statute…
23-7543 Jeryme Morgan v. DeAnna Brookhart Seventh Circuit 2024-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-interpretation precedent-setting prior-crimes-evidence standing statutory-construction The text in the "QUESTION(S) PRESENTED" section is severely degraded and largely illegible due to handwriting and OCR errors. The visible portions app…
23-7544 Rodolfo Morales-Cortez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof closing-argument criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process objection-standard prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct Does a defendant who timely objects to a prosecutor's misconduct during closing argument nevertheless bear the burden to show that it caused him preju…
23-7545 Bobby Tatum v. Darren Galloway, Warden Seventh Circuit 2024-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence child-victim-testimony civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel video-evidence 1) Whether it's Proper For the District court to Tawed and Cove ANd CaiWote-to Growed Pex Alors 40 Goppgrts Me Chem & GAC Facroul Lonocences and déry …
23-7547 Branden Tyler v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2 5th-amendment aiding-and-abetting criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment interstate-commerce person principal statutory-interpretation WHETHER UNDER THE FIFTH AMENDMENT OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION CAN A DEFENDANT BE CHARGED WITH AIDING AND ABETTING UNDER 18 U.S.C. § 2 WHEN THE A…
23-7517 Christopher L. Wilson v. Hawaii Hawaii 2024-05-21 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9)IFP 2nd-amendment bruen-test civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process licensing-scheme second-amendment self-defense standing supremacy-clause Whether the Bruen test determines when a State's criminal prosecution for carrying a handgun without a license violates the Second Amendment?
23-7521 Keith Lamar Rodgers v. Florida Florida 2024-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-7525 Stanley Waldron v. Louisiana Louisiana 2024-05-21 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-punishment due-process equal-protection hard-labor involuntary-servitude state-liability thirteenth-amendment IS THE STATE OF LOUISIANA BARRED BY THE THIRTEENTH AMENDMENT OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION FROM THE PUNISHMENT OF INVOLUNTARY SERVITUDE AT HARD LA…
23-7528 Aaron Matthew Rentfrow v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure evidence fair-trial juror-misconduct jury-misconduct prosecutorial-conduct prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-procedure witness-testimony The district court erred by failing to grant a mistrial. Error in the following four respects, viewed in aggregate, deprived Mr. Rentfrow of his Sixth…
23A1035 Dedric Dixon v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-05-21 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy felony-murder ineffective-assistance jury-verdicts Question not identified.
23-7509 Thomas J. Moore v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-20 Denied IFP burden-of-proof capital-case criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct religious-arguments testimonial-evidence trial-counsel In a capital case where the petitioner has always maintained his innocence, where the petitioner testified in his own defense, and where the prosecuti…
23-7511 Rodney Johnson v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2024-05-20 Denied IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure I-l pcul-exi 4^ Coryipl^ 4~kp p ^ oF CourT" +■© Prelude ■++« Sn'gm onol StoJ °.F pfbhahk CGW2e ^^)+hlh T|W| r ^Lf'Sd'CW +* loo lei Csu7T-T><jipmc<SS>…
23-7516 Anthony Roy Spain v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-05-20 Denied IFP creek-nation criminal-procedure direct-appeal flores-ortega ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction mcgirt-decision mcgirt-v-oklahoma sixth-amendment Were trial counsel ineffective, in violation of Roe v. Flores-Ortega, 528 U.S. 470 (2000), for failing to consult with Mr. Spain about taking a direct…
23-7494 Ohio, ex rel. Soleiman Mobarak v. Jeffrey M. Brown, Judge, Court of Common Pleas of Ohio, Franklin County, et al. Ohio 2024-05-17 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto retrospective-legislation subject-matter-jurisdiction void-for-vagueness 1. Is it repugnant to the Constitution, treaties, or laws of the United States to convict and incarcerate a United States citizen, and deprive him of…
23-7503 Christopher Michael Bullins Croce v. Florida Florida 2024-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony first-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment stalking-statute I. Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? II. Wh…
23-7508 Matias Zarate v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process guidelines reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines seventh-circuit supervised-release Whether a sentence within the guidelines range is unreasonable when the defendant has already served more time on supervised release than originally s…
23-7491 Caesar V. Vaca v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-introduction fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel trial-attorney Whether trial attorney's error resulted in the introduction of evidence under Federal Rules of Evidence 404(b) that led to an unfair conviction. OR W…
23-7496 In Re Olamide O. Bello 2024-05-16 Denied IFP access-to-court access-to-courts constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment speedy-trial-act standing Whether tre failure of tne Counsel to Pursue an appea\ Or Motion the Pebttonee wWourd hove Ofnerwise Puvsyed Wolate tne Sixth amendment Preyudice tn t…
23-7497 In Re Olamide O. Bello 2024-05-16 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defamation due-process federal-release first-amendment free-speech government-liability retaliation speech-restriction 1. Wether a Company's Comments with customer on and for tedress Of Grievances Ver on alt eqed Qqovernment defam ator stoten ends 15 Orotected Under Fi…
23-7470 Christopher L. Takhvar v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process edwards-v-arizona ex-post-facto fundamental-rights habeas-corpus retroactive-criminalization slack-v-mcdaniel 1A He appeal of the duial fa 28 e224 Pebtion t>/ Raeary ee lo "MMer-El v Cockrell 37 VS 322" the US PRES Guei * 9 "case Govern He vance of aX Ca Oe Go…
23-7476 Julius Jerome Walker v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-05-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fundamental-rights ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct registration-requirements 1. Whether the District court in Muskogee county denied me my fundamental rights because of PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT of Larry Moore former prosecutor …
23-7477 Joseph Ira Patterson, III v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-jurisdiction criminal-appeal criminal-procedure drug-possession due-process plea-agreement plea-bargain sentencing sentencing-enhancement waiver waiver-of-rights Whether a provision in a plea agreement which bars a defendant from appealing "any sentence of imprisonment" can be knowingly entered into well before…
23-7483 Edgardo Esteras v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-05-15 Judgment Issued Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3583 circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation supervised-release Even though Congress excluded section 3553(a)(2)(A) from section 3583(e)'s list of factors to consider when revoking supervised release, may a distric…
23-7486 Edgar Vazquez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing motion-to-dismiss motion-to-suppress standard-of-review I. WHETHER CERTIORARI REVIEW SHOULD BE GRANTED WHERE THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S DENIAL OF VAZQUEZ' MOTION TO DISMISS…
23-7468 Joe Ernest Robinson v. Texas Texas 2024-05-14 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process free-speech judicial-procedure legal-review scotus-petition standing statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
23-7471 Shauntavus Berklin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-appeal criminal-procedure district-court due-process eleventh-circuit evidence federal-sentencing-guidelines gun-accountability sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines 1. WHETHER CERTIORARI REVIEW SHOULD BE GRANTED WHERE THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S DENIAL OF BERKLIN'S OBJECTION TO THE…
23-7472 Torrie Chermaine Austin v. Florida Florida 2024-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-7478 Dylan Gregory Kerstetter v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-14 GVR IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach constitutional-indictment criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-finding jury-trial prior-felony-conviction sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation 1. Petitioner pleaded guilty to an indictment alleging all the elements necessary for conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) and punishment up to 120 …
23-7480 Sanjay Kumar v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP cheek-v-united-states criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process good-faith-belief jury-instructions subjective-intent tax tax-crime willfulness WHETHER JURY INSTRUCTIONS BY THE DISTRICT COURT, ON ONE OF THE ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF THE TAX CONVICTION, I.E., WILLFULNESS, BE IMPROPER, IF THEY DISRE…
23A1009 Luis Chavez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-05-14 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights criminal-procedure ninth-circuit petition-for-certiorari supreme-court-rules time-extension Question not identified.
23-7458 In Re Michael David Hower 2024-05-13 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP acquitted-charge acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus jury-trial section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Did the Courts below commit reversible err denying petitioners 2255 motion without conducting an evidentiary hearing to resolve factual disputes? Di…
23-7459 Alan Troy Houser v. Stephen Buzas, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene, et al. Third Circuit 2024-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 accomplice-liability civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-law criminal-liability criminal-procedure due-process failure-to-intervene standing Question not identified.
23-7460 William Burton v. Brian Emig, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2024-05-13 Denied IFP criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-stipulation fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mccoy-v-louisiana plea-rights sixth-amendment strickland-standard Was Petitioner's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel violated when his trial attorney stipulated to the prosecutio…
23-7447 Azaniah Blankumsee v. Maryland Maryland 2024-05-10 Denied IFP actual-innocence circuit-court civil-rights criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion standing writ-of-error Did the lower Court abuse its discretion by denying Petitioner's Petition for writ of actual innocence without looking back at the trial, or assessing…
23-7432 Torrieo Monte Johnson, aka Torrieo Corker v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights corporate-fraud criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge land-use multi-defendant-case ninth-circuit-interpretation state-jurisdiction What is the Acceptance and Recordation Date For which the Federal Government Accepted Concurrent Legislative Jurisdiction From the STATE OF Georgia ov…
23-7433 Gary Allen Kachina v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure habeas-corpus new-trial standard-of-review Question not identified.
23-7436 Eagles Denashu Begay v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-05-09 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 appeal criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance pro-se-claim right-to-counsel If an indigent, incarcerated federal defendant, for the first time on direct appeal, raises a colorable claim of ineffective assistance by his distric…
23-7441 William F. Kaetz v. United States Third Circuit 2024-05-09 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-jurisdiction legislative-history official-duties separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation This court determined many times throughout history, legislative history is not law, and it is wrong to use legislative history as law and as a means …
23-7445 Lloyd Kidd v. United States Second Circuit 2024-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process electronic-evidence jurisdiction motion-to-suppress sufficiency-of-evidence summary-charts venue venue-challenge Was there legally insufficient evidence to establish that venue was proper in the Southern District of New York for each count of conviction? II. Was…
23-7396 Francisco Manuel Padilla v. California California 2024-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion legal-standard standing superior-court IS IT THE AUTHORITY OF THE SUPERIOR COURT TO HEAR/SEIZE THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS OF A DEFENDANT? IS THE FOUNDATION OF THE SUPERIOR COURT LEGITIMATE …
23-7415 Carlos Gomez v. United States Second Circuit 2024-05-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions pinkerton-liability predicate-offense rosemond-v-united-states statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis vicarious-liability 1. Whether, following this Court's decision in United States v. Davis, 588 U.S. 445 (2019), a jury instruction permitting a finding of guilt on an 18 …
23-7425 Orlando Bell v. United States District of Columbia 2024-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment 1) Was counsel ineffective in not using compulsory process for obtaining witnesses, identified by the United States Park Police and the AUSA in the mo…
23-7394 Moses Jackson v. Alabama Alabama 2024-05-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech standing takings Question not identified.
23-7398 Jamaal Parker v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion new-trial new-trial-standard preservation-of-error reversible-error sentencing sentencing-explanation This Petition implicates two splits in the Circuits. First, a district judge can grant a new criminal trial "if the interest of justice so requires."…
23-7404 William Maxwell v. United States Third Circuit 2024-05-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process firearm-transfer money-laundering obstruction-of-justice rico-conspiracy wire-fraud I. The Supreme Court in Ciminelli, Bruen, Rahimi, Cleveland, Kelly, and Fischer, issued (or will issue) post conviction/post Maxwell's Third Circuit P…
23-7406 Bobby Rouse v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se pro-se-representation sixth-amendment 1. Is it a violation of appellant's Sixth Amendment constitutional rights for defense counsel to refuse to investigate the evidence and interview witn…
23-7408 Melvin Warren Rivers v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure final-order judicial-review motion-denial probation probation-revocation procedural-appeal revocation Whether the denial of a motion to terminate probation made during a probation revocation hearing but prior to the final revocation hearing is a final …
23-7409 Fernando Ramirez v. New York New York 2024-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-right criminal-procedure demeanor-observation due-process fair-trial impartiality jury-selection right-to-counsel sixth-amendment voir-dire Whether the Constitution requires that a defendant have a simultaneous, unobstructed view of a prospective juror's facial expression to observe their …
23-7390 In Re Guy Lewis Coulston, Jr. 2024-05-06 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection exclusionary-rule interrogation-tactics involuntary-confession miranda-rights trespass Did Detective trespass on private property and violate" Miranda right And Edward, to make an "Involuntary Confession " during Interrogation by (Ignori…
23-7387 Justin Luis Sanchez v. Florida Florida 2024-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition sixth-amendment trial-by-jury Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-7389 Brad Evans v. Florida Florida 2024-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigants WHETHER THE STATE OF FLORIDA HAS CREATED RULES OF CRIMINAL AND APPELLATE PROCEDURE THAT ARBITRARILY AND UNREASONABLY ENCROACHES UPON THE PERSONAL RIGH…
23-1193 Favion Lara v. Nebraska Nebraska 2024-05-06 Denied Response Waived breach-of-agreement criminal-procedure due-process government-breach plea-agreement police prosecutor prosecutorial-promise sentencing Where a plea agreement includes the prosecutor's promise that the State will recommend a particular sentence, does a police officer's recommendation o…
23A983 Robert Brumfield, III v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-03 Presumed Complete acquitted-conduct brady-violation criminal-procedure fifth-amendment sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Question not identified.
23-7354 Warren Baker v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1951(b) 18-usc-924(c) crime-of-violence criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law hobbs-act predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether Hobbs Act Robbery in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1951(b) is a predicate "crime of violence" for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c).
23-7366 Carlos Enrique Navarro-Trevino v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres appellate-procedure case-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-7367 John E. Garrett v. Richard Clouse Seventh Circuit 2024-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP bail bail-revocation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment judicial-proceedings liberty liberty-interest standing 1. Is notice and a hearing required, prior to depriving one of his liberty pending trial and does said liberty qualify as a substantive and/or procedu…
23A975 Kwuan Montrell Baker v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-02 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure evidence-suppression fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop Question not identified.
23A973 Marc Pierre Hall, aka Marc Valeriano v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-05-01 Presumed Complete appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules petition-for-certiorari supreme-court time-extension Question not identified.
23A972 Benjamin Biancofiori v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-05-01 Presumed Complete confrontation-clause criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility hearsay-exception sex-trafficking sixth-amendment Question not identified.
23-7355 Demario Barker v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-sentencing-guidelines guideline-calculation hearsay hearsay-statements reliability-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether presumptively unreliable hearsay statements should be permitted in sentencing hearings to substantially increase a Defendant's guideline calcu…
23-7356 Jonathan Burnett v. Georgia Georgia 2024-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-molestation crime-victims criminal-procedure criminal-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection voir-dire WHETHER TRIAL COUNSEL'S FAILURE DURING VOIR DIRE IN A CHILD MOLESTATION CASE TO EXPLORE AND INVESTIGATE WHETHER JURORS HAD BEEN CRIME VICTIMS (DIRECTL…
23-7357 Jesus Robledo Aguilar v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constructive-possession criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense drugs firearms safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation Does simultaneous constructive possession of drugs and firearms disqualify a defendant for safety valve relief?
23-1181 Gail M. Ritchey v. Ohio Ohio 2024-05-01 Denied Amici (1) autopsy-report confrontation-clause criminal-investigation criminal-procedure evidence hearsay-evidence medical-examiner medical-examiner-testimony sixth-amendment Does the admission of an autopsy report and testimony from a doctor who neither participated in the autopsy nor prepared the report violate the Sixth …
23-7339 Philip Shane Young v. Texas Texas 2024-04-30 Denied IFP appeal criminal-procedure deadly-weapon evidence-sufficiency jury-finding jury-instructions standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence IS THE EVIDENCE SUFFI CIENT TO SUSTAI N THE JURY'S FINDING THAT A DEADLY W EAPON W AS USED?
23-7341 Ronald Leon Thompson v. Colorado Colorado 2024-04-30 Denied IFP appellate-review consent constitutional-error constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-definition jury-instructions legal-standard trial-court-discretion Whether the Court of Appeals erred in finding the trial court's error in failing to define the term consent was constitutional harmless error.
23-7342 Marlon Jermaine Johnson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-04-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process firearm-possession gun-ownership non-violent-felon second-amendment WHETHER PETITIONER'S CONVICTION FOR BEING A NON-VIOLENT FELON IN POSSESSION OF A FIREARM VIOLATES THE SECOND AMENDMENT.
23-7343 Dalevonte D. Hearn v. Illinois Illinois 2024-04-30 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process first-degree-murder ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial mistrial sentencing trial-rights ^j) T$ Xv LaM^L.I Thai An American OH'Zen &f Puntsbpcf Tor £* WS>^ f2ic^h To A Turq . (Jkj IsrH 6nf /M one Cr^e you \SheU 'Jour AcHonS rn^j l4oi*f I…
23-7344 Richard Arlee Champion v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-04-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-vacate plea-bargaining pleading-timing pre-indictment-delay statute-of-limitations I. WHEN DETERMINGING THE TIMLINESS OF A MOTION TO VACATE PURSUANT TO 28 USC 2255, WHAT PLEADING DETERMINES THE RELEVANT PLEADING WHEN MAKING THAT DETE…
23-7345 James Joseph Bryant v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-30 GVR IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation jury-trial prior-convictions reasonable-doubt sentencing-enhancement 1. Whether, for purposes of applying the categorical approach required by the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), a prior conviction's elements can be d…
23-7326 Erik Johnson v. Patrick Griffin Second Circuit 2024-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence hearsay hearsay-evidence missing-witness missing-witness-instruction testimonial-statement Whether the admission into evidence, through the testimony of decedent's 10-year-old daughter, of hearsay statements allegedly made by the decedent to…
23-7327 Zachariah Jay Histed v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-sentencing judicial-discretion plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether a defendant who plea ds guilty, admits the substantive elements of the criminal charge, and spares the government the time and expense of a tr…
23-7332 Angel De Jesus Castillo-Godoy v. United States First Circuit 2024-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment government-defense jurisdiction opening-brief reply-brief sixth-amendment Whether a criminal defendant must raise the issue of an appeal waiver in his opening brief or whether it falls upon the government to raise the waiver…
23-7311 Holly Harvey v. Allen Dillis, Warden Georgia 2024-04-26 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights court-filing criminal-procedure due-process employment-history financial-disclosure in-forma-pauperis income-sources poverty-affidavit search-and-seizure standing Question not identified.
23-7312 James Bennett v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment Whether consideration of acquitted conduct by the District Court in consideration of Bennett's ultimate sentence violates the Due Process Clause of th…
23-7317 Michael A. Maggio v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute nunc-pro-tunc plea-bargaining plea-modification post-conviction-relief property-rights statutory-interpretation statutory-limitation supreme-court-ruling Should Michael A. Maggio benefit from subsequent rulings of the United States Supreme Court that 18 U.S.C § 666(a)(1)(B) was limited to property right…
23-7319 Yudith Reynoso-Hiciano v. United States Second Circuit 2024-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting burden-of-proof closing-argument criminal-procedure jury-instructions presumption-of-innocence reasonable-doubt Whether repeatedly arguing in closing that the defendant 'needed the jury to believe' certain things impermissibly shifted the burden of proof and evi…
23A963 Jovan Marquis Harris v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-04-26 Presumed Complete bureau-of-prisons criminal-procedure eighth-circuit federal-inmate petition-for-certiorari pro-se Question not identified.
23-7306 Ronnie Y. Conrad v. Rob St. Andre, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-04-25 Denied IFP 6th-amendment conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presumption-of-prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct retroactivity sixth-amendment Whether the presumption of prejudice applies to conflict-of-counsel claims when the defense attorney is being prosecuted by the same agency prosecutin…
23-7307 Silvano Marroquin-Bravo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-7297 Marcus Bennett v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-04-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review control controlled-substances criminal-procedure drug-house drug-house-enhancement federal-appellate-courts possessory-interest sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit Whether the drug-house sentencing enhancement applies with no evidence that the defendant maintained, held a possessory interest in, or otherwise cont…
23-7298 Jonathan Wayne Daniels v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process eyewitness-identification hobbs-act-robbery jury-instruction jury-instructions suggestive-identification suggestive-procedure third-circuit Whether petitioner's jury was adequately "warn[ed] to take care in appraising identification evidence," in accordance with due process, where his jury…
23-7300 Juan Francisco Turcios v. Texas Texas 2024-04-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion plea-bargain sentencing (1). In accordance with Judicial Discretion ,once the trial Judge accepted and approved the plea bargain agreement for the maximum of the trial court …
23-1155 Priscilla Villarreal v. Isidro R. Alaniz, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-04-24 GVR Amici (13)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arrest-without-cause civil-rights criminal-procedure first-amendment free-speech government-officials news-reporting public-officials qualified-immunity 1. Whether it obviously violates the First Amendment to arrest someone for asking government officials questions and publishing the information they v…
23-1146 Jade Joseph Nickels v. Drew Evans, Superintendent, Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Minnesota 2024-04-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-penalty criminal-procedure due-process due-process-clause liberty-interest personal-information-disclosure sex-offender-registration stigma Whether a registration scheme that requires a person to provide detailed information about every aspect of his life, where failing to provide the info…
23-7286 Francis Arthur v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure deportation due-process exculpatory-evidence fourth-circuit material-witness motion-to-dismiss witness-deportation 1. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of Arthur's motion to dismiss the indictment because the Government depor…
23-7294 Robert Cota, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment habeas-corpus shackles shackling Did the Ninth Circuit violate the constitutional guarantee of Due Process and 28 U.S.C. §2255(b) when denying Appellant an evidentiary hearing, despit…
23-7295 Glen Taylor Helzer v. California California 2024-04-23 Denied IFP criminal-procedure evidence exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment plain-view-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrant-scope Does the plain view doctrine apply where police enter and seize a home under a warrant to search for evidence of specified crimes, and forego getting …
23-7296 George E. Lacey v. Illinois Illinois 2024-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance joinder right-to-counsel status-charges 1. Whether, and to what extent, the joinder of status charges with non-status charges in a single trial denies criminal defendants the right to a fair…
23-7283 Hector Manuel Gomez Rodriguez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-04-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 21-usc-841 constitutional-scrutiny criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences non-capital-sentences proportionality-review sentencing Did the Ninth Circuit contravene Harmelin's plurality and Ewing by essentially exempting all sentences that a district court imposes under 21 U.S.C. §…
23-7260 Mark R. Zana v. Nevada Nevada 2024-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ninth-circuit post-conviction retroactivity statutory-interpretation 1. Whether Petitioner's conviction and continued incarceration under Nevada Revised Statute 209.730 are facially unconstitutional under the Due Proces…
23-7262 Eric D. Sweet v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal conviction-review criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process florida-supreme-court fundamental-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-timeliness post-conviction-relief standard-of-review statutory-time-limit One B/t'dencs (^4-eoj-^d in Court froee&dhq Wa$n '~f Gb/idr'eJe de C&nvt c.-f^fv3« %& FlonJa tosfndt douff d Afye4* cjeCism resul-fzj m a decjsfo* da…
23-7265 Nicholas Stewart Hines v. South Dakota South Dakota 2024-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-considerations sixth-amendment 1.) WHETHER THE SIXTH AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS PERMIT GREATER INCLUDED OFFENSES AND CONDUCT THAT HAS BEEN ACQUITTED BY A JURY, OR DISMISSED PURSUANT …
23-7266 Nathaniel O. Robinson v. Louisiana Louisiana 2024-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure direct-review fourteenth-amendment griffin-v-kentucky jury-unanimity ramos-v-louisiana sixth-amendment state-proceedings it4 V- VOMisiAHfv / THIS Covet \i$u> that The 6|/th Amendment to the Vt^TEp STATED C^H6rVrroT\cn , 6/TENDEP To THE STATED £>y wAy OpTUe FoOpTeENTH A…
23-7268 Pikerson Mentor v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process johnson-v-united-states procedural-default statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-challenge I. Whether Mr. Mentor established cause sufficient to overcome the procedural default of his "ordinary-case" vagueness challenge to his convictions un…
23-7269 Willis Maxi v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure Question not identified.
23-7270 Mark Johnson v. New York New York 2024-04-19 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus legal-representation sexual-assault standing victim-rights Question not identified.
23-7272 Matthew Michael Albritton v. Florida Florida 2024-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23A941 Rafael Cardona, Sr. v. United States First Circuit 2024-04-19 Presumed Complete circuit-split criminal-procedure forfeiture plain-error rule-12b8 waiver Question not identified.
23-7250 Rian Waters v. Aidan Kearney Massachusetts 2024-04-18 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-complaint criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion obstruction-of-justice standing state-prosecution witness-intimidation Whether a private plaintiff has standing to appeal a District Courts ' unintelligible refusal to issue a criminal complaint, when the crimes are obstr…
23-7251 In Re Raynada Jones 2024-04-18 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony-murder jurisdiction magistrate probable-cause subject-matter-jurisdiction WHETHER PETITIONER IS IN CUSTODY IN VIOLATION OF THE CONSTITUTION OR LAWS OR TREATIES OF THE UNITED STATES WHERE, THE INGHAM COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT WAS …
23-7256 John Pedelahore v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process eighth-amendment federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness supervised-release Whether the district court erred by ordering Mr. Pedelahore to serve 30 months in prison for nonviolent supervised release violations when the recomme…
23-7257 Gavin G. Brown v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-18 Denied IFP criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-notice premeditated-murder self-defense use-of-force witness-testimony A) Whether the jury used unreasonable facts to prove a premeditated design. Where there was sufficient [provocation] to find Petitioner not guilty. B…
23-1131 Marcus Traylor v. Gideon Yorka Fifth Circuit 2024-04-18 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-fabrication fabrication-of-evidence felony fourteenth-amendment misdemeanor qualified-immunity Respondent is a police officer who fabricated evidence used to bring misdemeanor criminal charges against Petitioner, which were subsequently dismisse…
23-7240 In Re Patrick Christian 2024-04-17 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP asylum-law civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure discrimination due-process equal-protection hate-crimes statutory-interpretation systemic-racism 1. When did raping, kidnapping, and murdering an American Voters family for being a Heterosexual become Law, and how can Constitutional Officers sanct…
23-7242 Juan Avendano v. Illinois Illinois 2024-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-indictment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury-instructions jury-verdict statutory-interpretation statutory-offense Whether a defendant's rights under the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment are violated when the prosecution brings multiple, factually iden…
23-7243 Nathaniel Blayn Becker v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process explosive-devices mental-illness obstruction-of-justice psychotic-disorder right-to-testify sentencing-enhancement trial-testimony 1. Whether the obstruction of justice enhancement for "false" trial testimony by the defendant violates the right to testify when the court did not ma…
23-7244 Clarence F. Stephenson v. Florida Florida 2024-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial life-felony sixth-amendment I. Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a twelve-person jury when the defendant is charged with a life felony…
23-7245 Dustin Jay Harpel v. Florida Florida 2024-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-7246 Harold Stewart v. Florida Florida 2024-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-charge fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-7248 Hector Negron-Espada v. Florida Florida 2024-04-17 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-charges fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-7239 Bertrand Laidler, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2024-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-charges fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-by-jury Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23A921 Carmen Difilippantonio v. Arizona Arizona 2024-04-16 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas ineffective-assistance post-conviction state-court-review Question not identified.
23A919 Jurgen Marku v. Florida Florida 2024-04-15 Presumed Complete appellate-review conviction-challenge criminal-procedure due-process florida-state-court writ-of-certiorari Whether the trial court erred by allowing the jury to be informed that a codefendant entered a guilty plea to murder and robbery charges.
23-7223 Daquan Doral Carter v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver arraignment criminal-procedure district-court due-process merits-review plea-agreement plea-bargaining rule-11 sentencing Can the Government invoke an appeal waiver to preclude merits review of an appeal when the district court failed to specifically question the defendan…
23-7226 Michael Lee Villamonte v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-04-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement plea-bargaining Did the Ninth Circuit's disposition of Petitioner's request to recognize a miscarriage of justice exception to the appellate waiver doctrine conflict …
23-1114 Charles R. Hays v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-04-15 Denied Response Waived automobile-exception contraband criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement passenger probable-cause search search-and-seizure Whether law enforcement has probable cause under the Fourth Amendment's automobile exception to search a driver's vehicle based on a passenger's perso…
23-1110 Gerald S. Ostipow, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Royetta L. Ostipow v. William L. Federspiel Sixth Circuit 2024-04-12 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-investigation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment just-compensation property-rights property-seizure taking takings Does the non-return and indefinite retention of non-forfeited private property (or its monetary equivalent), when initially seized for a criminal inve…
23-7200 Willie Johnson v. Kenneth Nelson, Warden Fourth Circuit 2024-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-provision criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jurisdiction legal-review petition sentencing statutory-provision writ vfyj/t. T^/fZf%/ /pk £o 5'tj/r/ly £/£/j J&t Q)j<Lzs Jo -SW/ <L<i/e6si9 VzfwJtf&eJ oJ <>J& HV9//A j^3- Z&/tV/cJ/0rt S.e.AsJrCC'lOZ'
23-7204 Sean L. Hagins v. United States Third Circuit 2024-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation court-discretion criminal-procedure defense-counsel-ineffectiveness habeas-corpus illegal-sentence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error plain-error-review pro-se pro-se-litigation sentencing Did the lower court have the obligation to correct an illegal sentence, brought to its attention, regardless of the passage of time? Did the lower …
23-7207 Dwayne K. Taylor v. Illinois Illinois 2024-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-defect criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus jury-instructions necessity self-defense sentencing sentencing-enhancement 0. 4he \ri &{ Cowri CammiM&c/ ernoTT clet^jfirg 4^ie. doferrs^. reaue*& -fe 'OSinW^( ne^ass^^ even Ahe^ um% Som© iq <Jrta4 'C&cmxl rg £>U4^Yve:wl, ^ir…
23-7176 Albert Enrique Narvaez v. Florida Florida 2024-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-burden counterfactual-analysis criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion judicial-review plea-bargaining presumption-of-acceptability prosecutorial-discretion Does Missouri v. Frye, 566 U.S. 134 (2012), place an unreasonable burden upon defendants by requiring them to produce evidence to prove the counterfac…
23A907 Wilfred H. v. Josh Ward, Interim Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex West Virginia 2024-04-10 Presumed Complete carbon-copy-indictment constitutional-protections criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process sixth-amendment Question not identified.
23A909 Bruce Rowan v. Brian Emig, Warden, James T. Vaughn Correctional Center, et al. Third Circuit 2024-04-10 Presumed Complete bail-conditions criminal-intent criminal-procedure intentional-violation no-contact-order statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
23-1100 Albert Jones v. California California 2024-04-10 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure defendant-rights doyle-v-ohio due-process miranda-warning post-miranda right-to-silence selective-invocation Do the protections of Doyle v. Ohio, 426 U.S. 610 (1976)—which prohibit a prosecutor on commenting on a defendant's post-Miranda warning invocation of…
23-1096 William Allen Davis v. Colorado Colorado 2024-04-09 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) affluent-defendants appointed-counsel constitutional-rights continuity-of-representation criminal-procedure indigent-defendant indigent-defendants lower-court-split right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether, once counsel has been appointed for an indigent defendant, the Sixth Amendment guarantees the defendant the same right to continued represent…
23-7174 Richard Lee David Brown v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-04-09 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure defense-instruction drug-convictions due-process evidence jury-instructions plain-error prior-convictions propensity-evidence 1. Whether the admission of two prior drug convictions for the purpose of arguing in closing that "[t]he defendant possessed that crack cocaine, and h…
23-7175 Philip Ayala v. Nelson Alves, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk First Circuit 2024-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-case criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health-records When a capital case entirely depends on the testimony of one eyewitness, where there was no physical or forensic evidence to connect the Petitioner to…
23-7180 Gary Wayne Warner v. Texas Texas 2024-04-09 Denied IFP actual-innocence criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice newly-discovered-evidence plea-bargaining plea-package state-law-ground WHETHER TEXAS COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEAL'S IS APPLYING SEC. 4 [TCCP ART.11.07] —AS ADEQUATE & INDEPENDENT STATE LAW GROUND IN LIGHT OF THIS COURT HOLD…
23-7182 Jonathan Wray v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi apprendi-rule civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-determination predicate-act rico rico-conspiracy sentencing sentencing-enhancement Does this Court's decision in Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466 (2000), require that the Government prove beyond a reasonable doubt to a jury that …
23-7184 Daniel Paul Sansone v. United States First Circuit 2024-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP confinement confinement-period criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing detention-calculation juvenile-commitment legal-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.-sentencing-guidelines Whether an indeterminate juvenile commitment is properly counted as a period of confinement of at least sixty days under the U.S. Sentencing Guideline…
23-7156 Robert Shields v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP chain-of-custody chemical-identity constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-distribution due-process evidence evidence-standard (1) Does the Constitutional right to due process of law require some evidence that a drug that resulted in death was chemically identical to the drug …
23-7162 James Hodge v. Florida Florida 2024-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-7165 Emiliano Emmanuel Flores-González v. United States First Circuit 2024-04-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP article-iii article-iii-jurisdiction circuit-court-procedure criminal-procedure due-process en-banc en-banc-procedure judicial-review sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation 1. Did the court's fealty to ministerial en banc procedures justify abdication of its constitutional and statutory obligations to adjudicate an as-of-…
23-1091 Call-A-Head Portable Toilets, Inc., et al. v. New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, et al. New York 2024-04-08 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-proceeding confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence sixth-amendment witness-testimony Do the accused in State administrative proceedings have a Sixth Amendment right to confront and cross-examine witnesses whose written testimony serves…
23-7142 Elizabeth A. Ramsey v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-04-05 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial judicial-review legal-rights presumption-of-innocence standing Question not identified.
23-7146 Antonio Ochoa-Leyva v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe…
23-7147 Margarito Cruz-Ramirez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-7150 Elana Gordon v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2024-04-05 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-trial expert-testimony expert-witness forensic-evidence forensic-testimony right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel 1. Whether the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment permits the prosecution in a criminal trial to present testimony by a substitute forensic e…
23-7152 Sean Burton v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2024-04-05 Denied IFP brady-rule constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence government-misconduct post-conviction-relief right-to-a-fair-trial WHETHER THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA VIOLATED THE BRADY RULE. WHETHER PETITIONER'S STATE AND FEDERAL CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS WERE VIOLATED WHICH PR…
23-7136 Michael Dewayne Smith v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-04-04 Denied IFP confession confession-corroboration constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial false-testimony murder-conviction perjured-testimony Whether Mr. Smith's first degree murder convictions and sentence of death are unreliable and in violation of his constitutional rights to due process …
23-7143 Armando Ordonez-Dominguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-04-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe…
23-7120 Chaviz Wofford v. Illinois Illinois 2024-04-02 Denied IFP case-statement constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction opinions plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing statutory-provisions writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
23-7124 Naftali Dominguez Zenon v. Florida Florida 2024-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial life-felony life-without-parole sixth-amendment I. Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a twelve-person jury when the defendant is charged with a life felony…
23-7126 Alberto Perez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitrary-sentences criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-offenses due-process judicial-discretion methamphetamine methamphetamine-distribution sentencing-guidelines sentencing-standards Does the district court's blind reliance upon United States Sentencing Guideline § 2D1.1(c)(1)'s draconian base offense level of 38 for distribution o…
23A880 Dylan Gregory Kerstetter v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-04-02 Presumed Complete certiorari criminal-procedure deadline-extension fifth-circuit jurisdictional-requirements supreme-court-rules Question not identified.
23-7115 Timothy D. Hinkle v. Kentucky Kentucky 2024-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process hearsay hearsay-rule jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sexual-assault witness-credibility Petitioner was found guilty of rape first-degree, tampering with a witness and assault fourth-degree during trial. The facts of the case, however, log…
23-7116 Ricky L. Reese v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-04-01 Denied IFP competency constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review sentencing-error statute-of-limitations Does a person is convict of a crime lose his right to public relief from the court if he didn't receive a copy of his sentence becoming final to the c…
23-7105 Katherine Barrett v. Kentucky Kentucky 2024-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP closing-arguments criminal-procedure due-process home-incarceration jail-credit jury-instructions presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-misconduct I. THE PROSECUTOR ENGAGED IN FLAGARANT MISCONDUCT WHEN HE TOLD THE JURY IN CLOSING "THAT THE PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENCE. . .IS GONE " II. DID TRIAL C…
23-7107 Brock Melancon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing deference judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.-sentencing-commission (1) Does this Court's decision in Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. Ct. 2400 (2019), govern the extent to which district courts may defer to the U.S. Sentencing…
23-7109 Edgar Garcia-Heredia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure jury-trial precedent-overruling recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-7093 Jeremy J. Quinn, Jr. v. Ohio Ohio 2024-03-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment sentencing sentencing-statute state-courts When a state court carelessly or negligently enters a cause claim, to enhance a criminal sentence, does it violate a person's due process rights and c…
23-7097 Travis C. Crosby v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit evidence fraud fraud-charges ppp-loans relevant-conduct rule-404b sentencing (1) Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in finding that the district court did not abuse its discretion by admitting Rule 404 (b) evidence of fraudulen…
23-7087 Natasha Bates, aka Tasha Bates v. Tennessee Tennessee 2024-03-27 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure evidence fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probable-cause search-warrant sixth-amendment 1. Did the trial court commit reversible error by failing to grant Petitioner's post conviction relief because of the introduction of evidence at her …
23-7089 Steven L. Lewis v. Mississippi Mississippi 2024-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process improper-venue mistrial retrial speedy-trial venue *Whether the Constitution Permits the retrial of a defendant following a trial in an in Pro Per venue Whether the Constitution Permits the retrial of…
23-7075 Breon D. Hicks v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession firearms jury-instruction jury-instructions section-924(c) section-924c unlawful-user I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRONEOUSLY INSTRUCTED THE JURY CONCERNING THE SECTION 924(c) CHARGES? II. WHETHER THE GOVERNMENT ESTABLISHED A KNOWING…
23-7078 Jeffery Wayne Taylor v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-trial cross-examination due-process evidence first-step-act out-of-court-statements sixth-amendment I. IS IT A VIOLATION OF THE CONFRONTATION CLAUSE WHEN EXERCISING OUT'S RIGHT TO TRIAL, THAT AN OUT-OF-COURT STATEMENT CONNECTING THE DEFENDANT DIRECTL…
23-1055 Jeremy Alan Douglass v. Arizona Arizona 2024-03-26 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief right-to-counsel sixth-amendment substance-abuse Whether evidence of a defense attorney's impairment due to substance abuse discovered after the first petition for post-conviction relief was decided …
23-7067 In Re Timothy Stratton 2024-03-25 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-documents plea-bargaining post-conviction-review sentencing 1. CAN A MAN BE CHARGED TO FIND GUILTY WHERE ALL OF THE NECESSARY ELEMENTS OF A CRIME ARE NOT INVOLVED IN THE JURY'S CHARGE? 2. IS THERE ANY POSSIBLE…
23-7068 Jabari J. Johnson v. Jill Brady, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-03-25 Dismissed IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-counsel post-conviction right-to-counsel standing Question not identified.
23-7069 Jesse R. Redmond, Jr. v. District of Columbia District of Columbia 2024-03-25 Denied IFP 4th-amendment constitutional-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment jurisdiction precedent rule-4 rule-4a 1. Whether the District of Columbia Court of Appeals fails to apply the lawful—the precedent by the Supreme Court to comply to Rule 4(a)(B)? 2. Wheth…
23-7044 Melanie A. Ogle v. Hocking County Common Pleas Court, et al. Ohio 2024-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-authority criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process personal-jurisdiction right-to-counsel sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction void-conviction QUESTION 1. In absence of counsel and a waiver of right to counsel during a sentencing hearing, does a state trial court possess "constitutional autho…
23-7055 Jacob Lyon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-922g constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure second-amendment sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-v-rahimi waiver 1. Whether an objection to a sentencing enhancement, urged with a specific argument supporting the non-application of that enhancement, waives all oth…
23-7057 Sammy Tinnin v. Indiana Indiana 2024-03-22 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment cl /erclcVV SoyporV^ by gd/w,/~/eg/ <?/ 'Jttcv\de,iA^ q(~ /[, *S %i]ci'h n/to-iZ' oi 1 r'l^U- *to Cy £<J>r~ Vr\cA ^"K jL U'2>. (okv5 it Vo L'0
23-7058 James E. Palmer v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equitable-tolling evidence-standard habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-remedies Whether it only ta deaial ef any stales lerisonex's constitutional cight to the weit of veo fheS £2 PNS te aot...peceait equitable, telling fe — wh th…
23-7060 Marcus D. Ford v. David Buss, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-03-22 Denied IFP congressional-authority criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law criminal-procedure indian-civil-rights-act indian-territory oklahoma organic-act state-law tribal-sovereignty Did Congress pass the Organic act for Oklahoma on May 31, 1890 (25 U.S.C. § 30-31; 26 Stat. 81, 83-84, 87) to establish State laws, or did Congress pa…
23-7063 Ryan P. Givey v. Department of Justice, et al. Third Circuit 2024-03-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-complaint criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment government-accountability petition-clause standing Can the Department of Justice refuse to take a criminal Complaint of federal crimes from Givey?
23-1050 Luis Sanchez, et al. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-22 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) amendment circuit-split civil-forfeiture criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture pleading pleading-deficiency statutory-interpretation When a person is convicted of a drug crime, 21 U.S.C. § 853 calls for bifurcated proceedings to ascertain what property may be forfeited as a result o…
23-1044 Juan Balderas v. Texas Texas 2024-03-21 Denied abuse-of-writ brady-violation competency-to-stand-trial constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review Whether, in light of these circumstances, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeal s' summary determination that Juan Balderas's subsequent petition failed …
23-7046 Pamela Kathryn Conley v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-identity-theft bank-fraud circuit-court concurring-opinion criminal-law criminal-procedure loan-documentation signature-forgery statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant's forging of a signature of a bank employee on a lien release, used as supporting documentation for a bank loan in the defendant's…
23-7047 Renaire Roshique Lewis, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP coconspirator-hearsay counsel criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-rules-of-evidence fifth-amendment miranda-warnings right-to-counsel L. Whether the presence of counsel obviates the need for Miranda warnings; and I. Whether Bourjaily v. United States permits the affirmance of the ad…
23-7049 Daniel Arsenio Rodgers v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP crime-lab criminal-procedure enhancement evidence-interpretation firearms naked-eye sentencing-guidelines serial-number visible Whether the district court erred in applying a four-level enhancement under the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines for "altered or obliterated" serial number,…
23-7050 David Phillip Ryan v. Florida Florida 2024-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment standing Whether the jury guaranteed by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments is a 12-person jury?
23-7035 Anderson Garcia v. United States Second Circuit 2024-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure dominguez-benitez due-process guilty-plea plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing Whether a defendant who pleads guilty and appeals his sentence, challenging his appeal waiver as unknowing, must show both that the waiver was unknowi…
23-7037 Billy Joe King v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-03-20 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction burden-of-proof civil-procedure competency-hearing constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility judicial-review mental-capacity standing Question not identified.
23-7023 Johnny Mack Sketo Calhoun v. Florida Florida 2024-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-law federal-constitution florida-law state-criminal-law third-party-confession third-party-confessions 1. Does the manner in which Florida deals with third party confessions violate defendant's rights under the Due Process Clause of the Federal Constitu…
23-7029 Byron James Shepard v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-03-19 Denied IFP aggravating-circumstance aggravating-factors capital-punishment capital-sentencing criminal-procedure death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-discretion Does Oklahoma's continuing threat aggravating circumstance violate this Court's capital sentencing jurisprudence and the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendme…
23-7033 Donte Taylor v. California California 2024-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus sentencing 1) WHy was my 8th amendment denied? 2) Why was my sentence not considered cruel or unusual?
23A847 Richard Alan Costanzo v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-03-19 Presumed Complete abuse-of-discretion confrontation-rights criminal-procedure federal-rule hearsay-evidence probation-revocation Question not identified.
23-1036 Robert John Dodd v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2024-03-19 Denied constitutional-violation criminal-indictment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel Dodd was indicted on nine counts for the sexual abuse of a child fifteen years prior. Each count of the indictment was an identical carbon copy, inclu…
23-1020 Utah v. Alfonso Valdez Utah 2024-03-18 Denied Amici (1) cellphone cellphone-privacy criminal-procedure fifth-amendment foregone-conclusion passcode self-incrimination testimonial testimonial-communication 1. Is disclosing a cellphone passcode that has no substantive meaning testimonial under the Fifth Amendment when the only information communicated is …
23-1022 Nancy Martin v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-03-18 Denied Amici (1) appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process factual-basis guilty-plea plea-agreement plea-bargaining Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(b)(3) requires a district court to "determine that there is a factual basis" for a guilty plea before accepting …
23-7008 Lawrence Martin v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2024-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment brady-violation civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence federal-court new-trial relief trial-rights Federal Question / Did THE Supreme Court of THE UNITED STATES MAIL MARTIN PROBS IN FV\S I / fi / 2.6 22. , AaJSO U /\l/Z07Z LE6AC ivuv-lt^ , \M<Vs MMC…
23-7016 Gregory Chatten Stockman v. California California 2024-03-18 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-interpretation patent-infringement patent-licensing standing state-court-review Question not identified.
23-6983 Christopher James Michelotti v. Austin Knudsen, Attorney General of Montana Ninth Circuit 2024-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment brady-v-maryland civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance jury-trial prejudicial-evidence sixth-amendment Within the case the district court abused its discretion by admitting evidence that the defendant is affiliated with a gang. Discredit by denying defe…
23-6991 Spencer P. Peace v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2024-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP common-law constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent sixth-amendment speedy-trial For 800 years the English Common Law prohibited jailing a defendant for more than one year prior to their trial. Fifty years ago, this Court changed c…
23-6999 Ronald Monique Best v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2024-03-15 Denied IFP constitutional-rights counsel-effectiveness criminal-procedure defendant-representation due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-strategy L)W\ 3U\lV and punishment 'is 4he. sale, 'issue. Qor bhe. juri^'is i4 ever (ptrrms&ible 'vor cooesei bo motae. -Vine urn lateral decision 4o can eer…
23-7000 Jereme Lee Escobedo v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-03-15 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection fifth-circuit-review ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-bias sex-crimes sixth-amendment QUESTION ONE: Does a criminal defendant charged with sex-crimes have the same Constitutional rights as a defendant charged with non-sex-crimes? QUES…
23-7002 Ayoob Wali v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-courts federal-criminal-law miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing waiver-of-appeal Should the court of appeals below recognize a fundamental-miscarriage of-justice exception to a waiver-of-appeal provision of a federal criminal defen…
23-7003 Kenneth Malik Wise v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit knowingly-waived plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-argument Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err by concluding that Appellant Kenneth Malik Wise knowingly and voluntarily waived his…
23A842 Quentin Freeman v. Daniel Deas Fourth Circuit 2024-03-15 Presumed Complete appellate-review certiorari criminal-procedure fourth-circuit incarcerated-petitioner legal-clinic Question not identified.
23-6986 Raghvendra Singh v. California California 2024-03-14 Denied IFP access-to-courts constitutional-rights conviction-for-non-crime criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fabricated-charges false-testimony judicial-misconduct standing Q _ftLt-OW TO PROV E THPiT ALLFfipp CHftRfiES ARE MOT CRWEfiYSFeATTa^c^jo w,^.- ?fi^ES(^TO@) RUUHS . OTHERWISE. IT ..'■. ■ ■ 1 ■ HFn TSHORiHftPVWfci> …
23-6987 Michael Todd Hilton v. Daniel Akers, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony expert-witness habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-present-defense strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Introduction; Mr. Hilton was indicted for murder and other offenses stemming from an automobile accident which occurred while he was under the influen…
23-6993 Leon Akins v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-14 Denied IFP competency-evaluation criminal-procedure drope-v-missouri due-process dusky-v-united-states judicial-review mental-competency record-evidence trial-standards DOES THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS DECISION CONFLICT WITH THIS COURTS DECISION IN DUSKY V. UNITED STATES, 362 US 402 (1960) AND DROPE V. MISSO…
23-6974 Bartolo Damaso-Sixtos v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-overruling precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-6975 D'Amantae Graham v. Ohio Ohio 2024-03-13 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process pro-se-representation self-representation sixth-amendment sovereign-citizen trial-court Can a trial court deny a criminal defendant the right to self-representation solely because he was designated a sovereign citizen?
23-6976 Juan Cabrera v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-03-13 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure custody eighth-circuit howes-test miranda-custody miranda-rights ninth-circuit supreme-court tenth-circuit terry-stop Whether courts must apply the second step of Howes to determine if a person is "in custody" for Miranda purposes.
23-6978 Jose Salome Gallardo Granados v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe…
23-6979 Kyston Ivory v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process mandatory-revocation sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation united-states-v-haymond Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
23-6982 Paulius Telamy v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression favorable-evidence postconviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct suppressed-evidence Whether, reasonable jurists could debate whether, under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1968), the prosecution suppressed favorable evidence at Petiti…
23-6963 James Deon Bryant, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2024-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-charges fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-6965 Armando Orozco-Barron v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP covid-19-pandemic criminal-procedure dismissal-without-prejudice due-process ends-of-justice individual-assessment judicial-discretion pandemic speedy-trial-act (1) May a Chief Judge extend the STA's deadlines by general order, without individually evaluating defendants' interests in a speedy trial? (2) When …
23-6968 Raymond Vincent v. Florida Florida 2024-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-charges fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-6948 Erick Wanjiku v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-03-11 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-bias jurisdiction legal-standards state-court vagueness-doctrine peKWcwv) pqpse U*cl&r Uk?er4 i'w-k^pre^fi o<^S LrVrcj<=tVe5 W OtovJ' ot U)v4+ ^of VUW:> V- Ker^iev; 404 U*s 513 (b7^) +U16 fW'Ko.o +Ui5 (WV Vo Chfevoh…
23-6950 Lawrence Guerain Fleming v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure felon-in-possession guideline-interpretation judicial-interpretation obstruction-of-justice pre-investigation-conduct sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines Petitioner pled guilty to being a felon in possession of ammunition. His sentence was increased pursuant to section 3C1.1 of the United States Sentenc…
23-6951 Jesus Barron-Bautista v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial precedent-overruling sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-6952 Frantz Brifil v. Florida Florida 2024-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-law crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-law hearsay out-of-court-statements sixth-amendment witness-testimony WHETHER THE STATE COURT VIOLATED THE MANDATE OF CRAWFORD AND PROGENY BY INTRODUCING A NON TESTIFYING WITNESS'S OUT-OF-COURT STATEMENTS?
23-6954 Charles B. Thomas v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review case-law circuit-court-conflict criminal-procedure double-jeopardy judicial-interpretation sentencing statutory-analysis supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-blackwell united-states-v-phipps witte-v-united-states WHETHER THE 7TH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS DECISION IN THE CASE AT BAR IS IN CONFLICT WITH THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT'S DECISION IN WITTE V. UNITED…
23-6955 Donald Kissner v. Michigan Michigan 2024-03-11 Denied IFP appellate-counsel appellate-procedure civil-rights communication-breakdown constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review right-to-counsel right-to-present-defense WAS MR. KISSNERS STATE AND FEDERAL COMSTZTUTIONAL BLGHTS 70 EFF ECTLVE Con STANCE OF APPOINTED APPELLATE yy El. WHERE THE WAS A BREAKDOWN COMMUNEICATL…
23-6958 Mal Pauliet Tharjiath v. Minnesota Minnesota 2024-03-11 Denied IFP civil-liberties civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process hearings judicial-review legal-standing standing Question not identified.
23-6931 Darrell Tillery v. Tim Hooper, Warden Louisiana 2024-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-rape constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial non-unanimous-jury sexual-battery sixth-amendment As there are conflicting decisions amongst state courts of last resort concerning a constitutional Issue, In accordance with Rule X(b), this matter is…
23-6936 Jose Eulalio Aguillen-Servin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
23-6937 Mahmoud Almuhtaseb v. Florida Florida 2024-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-6938 Frank Garcia v. Julie Wolcott, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2024-03-08 Denied IFP accused-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process exoneration harmless-error post-conviction Can the might have reasonable possibility Harmless error doctrine be applied to DNA, that has the sole trifecta ability, to either: 1. Clear the Accu…
23-6939 Jaime Dean Charboneau, aka Jaimi Dean Charboneau v. Tyrell Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-03-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence admissibility-of-evidence circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process evidence-standard federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation 1. Whether 28 U.S.C. § (b)(2)(B)(ii)'s actual innocence standard requires the court to consider all the evidence, old and new, incriminating and excul…
23-6942 Paulino Granda v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-minimum predicate-conviction sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether a Petitioner demonstrates that he has made "a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right " warranting the issuance of a certi…
23-6943 Michael Lawrence Kerlin v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing cross-reference disproportionate-effect due-process evidence evidence-standard pro-se-petition sentencing-guidelines standard-of-proof 1. Whether a cross reference which has a disproportionate effect on the sentence requires a higher standard of proof that mere proponderence. 2. Whet…
23-6915 Raynaldo Ray Quiroga v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violation criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice In Bousiew v. United u.s. WA ty%> i)$ Sxt iuom , mo ued £dJea8(i<WX4his murt held -Hw "Actual Innocence^ Is more -Bw a mere legal insufficiency., 11- …
23-6919 Raul Perez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility alford-plea criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing inter-circuit-split memory-defense memory-loss plea-bargaining sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guidelines Does a plea of guilty pursuant to North Carolina v. Alford, 400 U.S. 25 (1970), based on a complete loss of memory of the actions underlying the offen…
23-6925 Sadat El-Amin v. Louisiana Louisiana 2024-03-07 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection forcible-rape fourteenth-amendment jury-trial non-unanimous-jury sixth-amendment 1. As there are conflicting decisions amongst state courts of last resort concerning a constitutional issue, in accordance with Rule X(b), this matter…
23-6927 In Re Antoine Thomas 2024-03-07 Denied IFP appeals constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction standing Question not identified.
23-6902 Jeffrey Akard v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-error plea-bargain procedural-due-process retroactivity sentencing statutory-provisions L S/muiJ Q U, S. Cour-L ZTurlge. P/ifnrr.e n pi PA. Qk^rejeMPsAr appeal Id at j/gr /a Fe. i»jIap.a 4 ^ l$4'Cr £//] ZTo/y ^ A1tLcL&- £t/l error -fo 1/t…
23-6907 Tryton Alonzo Thomas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-deference judicial-review kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the standard for triggering judicial deference to an agency's interpretation of its own regulations, as clarified in Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. C…
23-6908 Shawn Christy v. United States Third Circuit 2024-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-procedure criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance judgment-of-acquittal judicial-discretion judicial-error pro-se right-to-counsel self-representation sentencing-review 1. Did the district court error in not permitting Mr. Christy to represent himself? Suggested Answer: Yes. 2. Did the district court error in not gra…
23-6909 Arnold D. Holland v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search search-and-seizure supervised-release totality-of-circumstances 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment applies to the act of searching or the initial decision to search, based on an objective standard considering the tota…
23-6912 Samuel Fields v. Laura Plappert, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-03-06 Rehearing Relisted (10)IFP aedpa clearly-established-law constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process extrinsic-evidence habeas-corpus jury-experiment jury-trial verdict-standards Does this Court's rule requiring that a verdict be based only on the evidence presented in the courtroom at trial satisfy 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1)'s "cl…
23-966 Oscar Amos Stilley v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-03-06 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure judicial-appointments judicial-assignment judicial-cross-designation judicial-ethics statutory-interpretation supervised-release 1. Whether or not 13 consecutive cross-designations of Oklahoma district judges, with apparent intent to issue new cross-designations each year, in pe…
23-974 Sammy Jay Riddle v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-03-06 Denied aedpa criminal-procedure deferred-adjudication fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judgment judgment-of-conviction statute-of-limitations Whether the Court should apply the rule in Burton v. Stewart, 549 U.S. 147 (2007)—that a final judgment in a criminal case means the sentence—and hold…
23-6893 Jacob A. Rubini v. Illinois Illinois 2024-03-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel perjured-testimony perjury post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct Pro Se Post Conviction Petition On May 23, 2022, Rubini filed a pro se post conviction petition. (C. 680). In this petition, Rubini raised the follow…
23-6900 Bryan Reshad Hill v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure federal-rules fifth-circuit jury-verdict plain-error presentence-report rosales-mireles sentencing sentencing-guidelines Does a sentence twice that authorized by the jury's verdict constitute plain error? This Court's decision in Rosales-Mireles suggests so, but recent F…
23-6901 Joshua Lane Tansil v. Florida Florida 2024-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-6884 Alexander Yoichi Duberek v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court of appeals to reweigh the sentencing factors?
23-6886 Paul Francisco Torres, III v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial jury-trials pandemic pandemic-restrictions sixth-amendment speedy-trial Did prolonged jury-trial bans during the pandemic violate the Sixth Amendment's Speedy Trial Clause, especially as to those accused who were jailed du…
23-6887 Brenda B. v. Tennessee Department of Children's Services Tennessee 2024-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment confrontation-clause confrontation-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-credibility hearsay-rules witness-credibility witness-testimony *Tb \ not have (X nc\v\V to Confront a\\ alltcjfd voi+ness? • v^o \ not have a rio^t Vo ut o\\ alleged axdwee? •D«\V I hcux, a dtjVfr to Q full and Pa…
23-6873 Darrin Lynn Pickens v. David Buss, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-03-01 Denied IFP arkansas-law civil-rights-act congressional-authority criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-lands indian-territory oklahoma organic-act tribal-sovereignty loress passiheOraonicac+tbroKlahoma on establish Slate laws, or did Congress eneral lauJS of Arkansas on ITIaY Z,I2% providina fine provis ► entHTea T…
23-6876 Joseph Neil Bronson, Jr. v. United States First Circuit 2024-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-attempt criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment free-speech legislative-intent overbroad post-conviction-relief standing statutory-interpretation vagueness Is 18 U.S.C. § 1504(1)(C) (Omnibus Crime Control Act) applied to Bronson's Metaphysical attempt to attempt "Louefl)rco,c|j uayi w" unconstitutionally?…
23-6878 Jose Luis Avalos-Sanchez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-953 Brandon Michael Council v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-03-01 Denied Amici (3) circuit-split competency criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-death-penalty judicial-discretion mental-competence trial-competency In the middle of his federal death-penalty trial, Brandon Council had a delusional breakdown, asking his attorneys to "subpoena God." The District Cou…
23-945 Ilana Bangiyeva v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-02-29 Denied Response Waived asset-seizure civil-procedure criminal-procedure district-court due-process forfeiture judicial-review legal-interest property-forfeiture property-rights standing united-states-government What is the appropriate test to determine whether petitioner has a sufficient legal interest in forfeited property.
23-949 In Re David Erlanson, Sr. 2024-02-29 Denied Response Waived 9th-circuit administrative-law civil-procedure civil-proceeding civil-rights criminal-penalty criminal-procedure due-process judicial-duty judicial-process mandamus separation-of-powers Can the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals indefinitely prolong or avoid its judicial duty when a judicial process in the lower district court resulted obvi…
23-6870 Ariel Perez-Lainez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-02-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe…
23-6874 Kendall Dean Mitchell v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-02-29 Denied IFP 14th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review jurisdiction retroactive-application state-law state-prosecution supremacy-clause Question not identified.
23-6857 Lamar Gibson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance lower-courts post-conviction-relief statutory-violation trial-testimony Question not identified.
23-6859 Andrew Smart v. Jamie LaManna Second Circuit 2024-02-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure district-court-procedure due-process evidence federal-courts federal-law habeas-corpus witness-identification 1. Whether the Courts below determination that the witnesses Identification was not unduly suggestive, was contrary to clearly established Federal I,…
23-6865 Justus Onyiego v. Tennessee Tennessee 2024-02-29 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance post-conviction right-to-counsel right-to-testify trial-counsel I. WAS TRIAL COUNSEL INEFFECTIVE FOR FAILING TO REQUEST LESSER INCLUDED OFFENSE INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE OFFENSE OF AGGRAVATED RAPE CAUSING BODILY INJURY?…
23-6866 Cesar Abreu v. United States Second Circuit 2024-02-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility federal-rule-of-evidence-404b federal-rules-of-evidence fifth-amendment narcotics narcotics-distribution prior-conviction prior-convictions search-and-seizure Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, affirming Petitioner's conviction of narcotics distribution in the …
23-6845 Milton Martin Biester-Villeda v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-procedure sentencing sixth-amendment stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-6846 In Re Shirron Jozette Gayles-Zanders 2024-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mandamus nevada-supreme-court post-conviction-relief Question not identified.
23-6849 Juan Salazar-Grimaldo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-procedure criminal-indictment criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe…
23-937 Joshua James Duggar v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-02-28 Denied alternative-perpetrator complete-defense constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-exclusion trial-court trial-court-discretion Does the exclusion of relevant evidence of an alternative perpetrator based on a trial court's conclusion it is too speculative violate a criminal def…
23-6834 Jeremy Lee Sestak v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP as-applied-petition constitutional-protections criminal-procedure double-jeopardy sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release u.s.s.g.-§4b1.5 u.s.s.g.-§5d1.2 Can a defendant bring an as-applied petition for modification of the supervised conditions? Does supervised release conditions as applied invoke Doub…
23-6836 Ruixue Shi, aka Serena Shi v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-plea plea-bargaining right-to-counsel trial-preparation voluntariness Whether Petitioner's guilty plea was involuntary because she decided to plead guilty based upon her attorney's advice that it was in her interest to d…
23-6837 David Carbonaro v. United States Third Circuit 2024-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review computer-crime computer-use criminal-procedure image-quantity judicial-discretion number-of-images reasonableness sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements I. Whether the Court erred when it overruled the objections to the enhancements for the use of a computer and the number of images? II. Whether the C…
23-6839 Donte Johnson v. Nevada Nevada 2024-02-27 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discretionary-strategy effective-counsel expert-testimony false-confessions ineffective-assistance police-interrogation sixth-amendment strickland strickland-standard Did the Nevada Supreme Court deprive petitioner of his Sixth Amendment right to effective counsel by analyzing counsel's ineffective performance as me…
23-6842 Reginald Creshawn Doss v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-02-27 GVR Relisted (2)IFP 2nd-amendment bruen-test circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearms-regulation second-amendment standing Whether, as the Eighth Circuit held, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) (which prohibits any felon from possessing firearms) is invariably constitutional both faci…
23-6823 Troy Raynard Alexander v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-02-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment guilty-plea rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states sixth-amendment QUESTON NUMBER ONE; Whether the lower court abused their discretion by denying Mr. Alexander a C.O.A. as it is debatable amongst of jurists of reason …
23-6824 Jeremiah James Lynch v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-02-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment parole proportionality sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release Is it a Constitutional Violation to a grade A, naoUTk>iT\ f^ccx lOO? w*W T^^rmorc. /AovavT, ^cawsq A w^e, T,\m<l \a\£> oc\AW a\■6<^ v0^ c^- ('^ YAoa't…
23-6825 Jmarreon Mack v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression exculpatory-evidence fair-trial judicial-integrity prosecutorial-misconduct trial-fairness rtme Coufi -fo ufldc? my WlfoMgCitj CoNVicfioKj \y\ \oWer U.$, pis-Mcf CoukS n Circuit ^ Sravif me Release,5 i zs'K Ail of -fhe Unikd S+jf& Supreme …
23-6827 Victor Leon-Moya v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy criminal-procedure drug-importation drug-trafficking enhancement-factors importation jurisdiction sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness 1) Whether a defendant's suggestion for a codefendant to pay a supplier what the codefendant owed said supplier constitutes "directing" per USSG § 3…
23-6830 Thomas E. Creech v. Josh Tewalt, Director, Idaho Department of Correction, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-26 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment execution-secrecy lethal-injection Whether it comports with due process for a state to refuse to provide a condemned inmate information about his method of execution that would enable h…
23-6820 Marvin Carcamo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure gang-membership harmless-error ninth-circuit procedural-error racketeering rico-conspiracy sentencing-guidelines 1. Did the Ninth Circuit incorrectly affirm the district court's procedural error determining racketeering conduct was reasonably foreseeable under th…
23-6787 Jerry Means v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-22 Denied IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-proceedings post-conviction-relief state-law-rights WHETHER OL, MWHOCEMT asa Marre of STHTE /a W)) acrval and -acrval/ WMI OCENIT, /MDIgEMT feosE DekupauT in & STATE Ceimmal Case bio 1S PpkonibiTED aN A…
23-6806 Bruce Wayne Harp v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-02-22 Denied IFP criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process jury jury-impartiality justice-system obstruction-of-justice penal-code pre-trial trial-rights WHEN DOES PENAL CODE 2I.OZ ADULTERATE THE Justice system ,jMstructir /a due process , A WRTRtAL AMD AN IMPARTIAL JURY ?r
23-6807 Floyd William Damren v. Florida Florida 2024-02-22 Denied IFP constitutional-amendments constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process florida-rule habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief scientific-evidence 1. Does Florida's rule 3.851(d)(2)(A), which establishes a one year timeline (from the time that the evidence became discoverable) violate petitioner'…
23-6808 Joseph Michael King, aka Joey King v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process non-indigent sentencing sentencing-enhancement special-assessment statutory-interpretation Under 18 U.S.C. § 3014(a), defendants convicted of certain sexual offenses must be assessed a $5000 special assessment if one other condition is met —…
23-6809 Warren Lee Mackey v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process evidence harmless-error judicial-precedent prejudice prejudice-standard trial-testimony witness-bolstering witness-testimony Circuits are applying different tests to gauge prejudice resulting from testimony that improperly bolsters or vouches for the testimony of another wit…
23-905 John William Hanson, III v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-02-22 Denied Response Waived arrest-time civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process excessive-force false-testimony jury-instructions search-and-seizure sentencing 1. The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has already established that the Petitioner did not Resist Arrest on February 3, 2018. "Hanson did not threaten …
23-898 Ryan Thornton v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2024-02-21 Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof counsel criminal-procedure defendant due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-harm sixth-amendment Did the Wisconsin Supreme Court err by Denying-without-response (App.23) RYAN's 2023AP769 [5/12/2023 Petition For Review] and issuing no response (App…
23-6786 Carl Ray McNeil, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-02-21 GVR Relisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment indictment sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation The Armed Career Criminal Act imposes heightened statutory penalties if a defendant convicted of an offense under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) has three prior c…
23-6795 Gregory Taylor v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-02-21 Denied Relisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure evidence expert-testimony hearsay laboratory-evidence laboratory-tests sixth-amendment Whether the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment is satisfied when an expert witness provides opinion testimony that is based on data from labo…
23-6799 Leon King v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion legal-reasoning sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c) requires a sentencing court which rejects a defendant's nonfrivilous arguments in favor of a lower sentence to explain its…
23-6802 Wally Irizarry-Sisco v. United States First Circuit 2024-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-sex-abuse child-sex-case criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence-law excited-utterance hearsay hearsay-exception sixth-amendment 1. Whether Federal Rule of Evidence 803(2), the hearsay exception for "excited utterances," encompasses out of court statements that (a) go beyond the…
23-6788 Terrance Fowler v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2024-02-20 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions maximum-penalty sentencing uncharged-crime Can a State deny a defendant due process of law by convicting and sentencing him to the maximum penalty for a crime that he was not charged with, nor …
23-6768 Vidal Garza-Morin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
23-6769 Derrick Durrell Jones v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-firearms-law federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite pas…
23-6776 Robert Shawn Ingram v. Warden, Holman Correctional Facility Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-16 Denied IFP criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel Is an attorney constitutionally ineffective when he does not realistically convey to his client the consequences of failing to honor his plea agreemen…
23-884 Marco Antonio Perez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-16 Denied Response Waived circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process grand-jury harmless-error judicial-interpretation release-violation sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum 1. Does an enhanced sentence pursuant to 18 USC § 3147 authorize a punishment exceeding the statutory maximum sentence for the underlying offense comm…
23-886 Carlos Guardado v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2024-02-16 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) burks-v-united-states change-in-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy evidence legal-sufficiency prosecution-evidence second-trial supreme-court-precedent trial-rights In Burks v. United States, 437 U.S. 1, 11 (1978), this Court held that when the evidence the prosecution introduced at a criminal trial is legally ins…
23-888 Alfredo Felipe Rasco v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-16 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure deportation-consequences guilty-plea guilty-plea-withdrawal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel padilla-precedent padilla-v-kentucky rule-11 rule-11-violation Whether the Eleventh Circuit's decision to deny my C.O.A. and the district court's denial of my motion to withdraw my guilty plea contravenes this Cou…
23-6756 Kenneth J. Coleman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency-hearing confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-competency pate-v-robinson plea-agreement 1). Is the petitioner constitutionally entitled to a hearing upon the issue of his competency to stand trial. Was the petitioner tried, convicted and…
23-6758 Frank Bernard Johnson v. Virginia Virginia 2024-02-15 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial judicial-procedure mental-health mental-health-competency pro-se pro-se-representation right-to-counsel In any trial in which a guilty verdict can result in a criminal conviction; is it lawful to have compulsory pro sc representation by the defendant? I…
23-6759 Hia-Keem Don'ae Rice v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing supervised-release written-judgment Whether Rule 43(a)(3) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, which requires a defendant to be present at sentencing, permits the sentencing judge…
23-6763 Armani L. Moore v. Illinois Illinois 2024-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure evidence evidence-law memory-loss sixth-amendment testimonial-hearsay unavailable-witness witness-unavailability Whether a declarant is "unavailable to testify" for purposes of the Sixth Amendment, and as that phrase is used in Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36…
23-6765 Ethan Andrew Hannold v. Bobbi Jo Salamon, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2024-02-15 Denied IFP his father and the egregious breach of duty from criminal-procedure due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mental-health-diagnosis procedural-default Did the U.S. Court of Appeals of the Third Circuit fail to consider the effect the combination of the relevant attributes of Mr. Hannold's diagnoses o…
23-6740 George Willie Rios v. Arizona Arizona 2024-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment civil-rights counsel-presence criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment miranda-v-arizona miranda-warning right-to-counsel When police sought a custodial interrogation with George Rios, prior to questioning, an officer read the following warning: You have the right to rem…
23-6742 Alexander D. Pennington v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 5th-amendment-rights 5th-circuit criminal-investigation criminal-procedure custody fifth-amendment interrogation miranda-rights search-warrant Under the Fifth Amendment, is a suspect in a criminal investigation "in custody" when he is ordered out of his residence by armed agents who broke dow…
23-6748 Eric Lavell Minter v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-court-review civil-rights clear-error-standard criminal-enterprise criminal-procedure due-process evidence fact-based-enhancement managerial-role sentencing sentencing-enhancement Must a district court find that a defendant exercised control over another participant in a criminal enterprise before considering a managerial role s…
23-6750 Patrick Aboite v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits a person from possessing a firearm if he has been convicted of "a crime punishable b…
23-6751 Delon Joseph Adams v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924 concurrent-sentence concurrent-sentences criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure federal-statute firearm-offense sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. Section 924(c)(1)(D)(ii) precludes a sentencing court from imposing a sentence for a Section 924(c) firearm offense partially concur…
23-6728 In Re Kimberlee Pitawanakwat 2024-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction general-crimes-act indian-rights major-crimes-act stare-decisis supremacy-clause treaty-interpretation treaty-of-fort-laramie Does it violate the Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868) and the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution to subject Indians to stand federal trial…
23-6730 Bryant Calloway v. United States Third Circuit 2024-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial grand-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review material-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility witness-testimony Whether despite evidence that the fundamental witness of the prosecution, in the shape of violation passed on the divergeceptions of Thomas Valdez Gui…
23-6723 Brandon Keith Owensby v. Florida Florida 2024-02-12 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-6725 Deonte Marques Curry v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process electronic-filing forfeiture notice restitution sentencing sentencing-error 1. In Dolan v. United States, 560 U.S. 605 (2010), the Court held that compliance with the statutory deadline for determining restitution was unnecess…
23-6727 Daniel J. Erb v. John Rivello, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. Third Circuit 2024-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-law guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct In reference to Petitioner's Guilty Plea and Prosecutorial misconduct, the decisions of the lower courts are contrary to, or involv[ing] an unreasonab…
23-6711 Ronnie Collins, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-02-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence harmful-error harmless-error witness-testimony Whether the limits placed on Collins's right to cross-examine the central witness against him constituted harmful error.
23-6712 Abner Renato Natareno-Calderon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-02-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-presumption reasonableness-standard rita-precedent rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether the Court should clarify how a defendant who challenges the substantive reasonableness of a within-Guidelines sentence may rebut an appellate …
23-6714 Ramon Umberto Cortez-Rodriguez, aka Ramon Humberto Cortez-Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-02-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres certiorari-petition constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-appeal judicial-review jury-trial precedent-overruling sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-6715 Re'Shaun Lamonte Wilborne v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-02-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure evidence exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery inventory-search probable-cause search-and-seizure The police violated the Fourth Amendment when they searched Wilborne's backpack and recovered a firearm that formed the basis of the indictment filed …
23-6716 Tommy Lee Walker v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-02-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment criminal-procedure due-process firearm-interstate-commerce interstate-commerce jury-instruction jury-instructions sixth-amendment speedy-trial-act standing 1. Where the firearm at issue was manufactured in California and found in a home in Califo rnia, did the district court err by refusing to give a requ…
23-6718 Larry David Doak v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-02-09 Denied IFP appellate-review collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-proceeding due-process federal-review indian-law judicial-procedure petition-for-certiorari retroactivity supremacy-clause Question not identified.
23-6719 In Re Anthony Michael DelaRosa 2024-02-09 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct judicial-review legal-procedure Whether such civil court can exercise, and should the omitted jurisdiction in violation of the Petitioner, by this Rule 11(a) violation of the United …
23A742 Luis Alexis Briceno v. Tennessee Tennessee 2024-02-09 Presumed Complete constitutional-standards conviction-review court-of-criminal-appeals criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction Question not identified.
23-6701 Luis Raul Vicente Fonseca v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process sixth-amendment speedy-trial standing statement-of-the-case statutory-provisions trial-rights Deprivation of Constitutional Amendment six's right to a speedy trial.
23-6706 Ohio, ex rel. Lonnie Rarden v. Court of Common Pleas of Ohio, Butler County, et al. Ohio 2024-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure faretta-v-california fundamental-error johnson-v-zerbst law-of-the-case res-judicata right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-court-jurisdiction waiver-of-counsel Does this Court no longer recognize this Court's long standing precedent in Johnson v. Zerbst, 304 U.S. 458, 58 S.Ct. 1019, 82 L.Ed. 1461 (1938), that…
23-6707 Sean Robert Wathen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure dangerous-weapon district-court drug-offense enhancement factual-findings findings-of-fact sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g-2d1.1(b)(1) weapon-enhancement 1. Is the sentencing court required to make specific findings of fact, supported by the record, that a defendant possessed a dangerous weapon in conne…
23-6688 Christian Alejandro Estrella v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement parole parole-search police-authority probable-cause search-and-seizure suspicionless-search suspicionless-seizure A police officer may seize and search a person on parole without suspicion. See Samson v. California, 547 U.S. 843, 857 (2006). But the officer must f…
23-6690 Lamark Armond Combs, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process record-expansion remand sentencing I. May a district court expand the record on remand to allow the government to present additional evidence even though the government's burden was cle…
23-6672 Christopher R. Williams, Jr. v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court drug-purity drug-quantity methamphetamine-case procedural-errors sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines I. Whether the district court erred by sentencing the Defendant to three hundred sixty (360) months in light of the circumstances of the case? II. Wh…
23-6673 Lillian Akwuba v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substance criminal-procedure harmless-error intent-element jury-instruction jury-instructions medical-care mens-rea standard-of-care In Ruan v. United States, 597 U.S. 450, 454 (2022), this Court held that to convict an authorized person of distributing a controlled substance under …
23-6678 In Re Tina Wagoner 2024-02-06 Denied IFP arrest civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence probable-cause Are the elements of the crimes charged justified by the facts presented in the above-stated evidence? If prosecutorial discretion constitutes the abi…
23-6679 Quaysean Tikii Williams v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-02-06 Denied IFP conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process evidence firearm jackson-v-virginia robbery sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the evidence was sufficient under Jackson v. Virginia, 99 S.Ct. 2781 (1979), to support petitioner's conviction for conspiracy to commit robbe…
23-6680 Mark Mayo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rule federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error rule-52(b) structural-error Does a clear or obvious structural error always, or at least ordinarily, require relief under the plain-error standard of Federal Rule of Criminal Pro…
23-845 Timothy Ray Vasquez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-02-06 Denied Response Waived bribery criminal-procedure due-process honest-services-fraud official-act public-official quid-pro-quo quid-pro-quo-bribery statutory-interpretation Does quid pro quo bribery, in the context of an honest services fraud prosecution, permit conviction on the basis that a public official received a be…
23A727 Joel Michael Guy, Jr. v. Tennessee Tennessee 2024-02-06 Presumed Complete 28-USC-1257 appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure state-court-review Question not identified.
23-6664 Robert Edward Sindaco v. Florida Florida 2024-02-05 Denied IFP appellate-review bias constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct Question not identified.
23-6666 Jackie-Devere Allen Cole v. Colorado Colorado 2024-02-05 Denied IFP 6th-amendment civil-liberties constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure procedural-fairness speedy-trial standing Question not identified.
23-6668 Roosevelt L. Lincoln, aka Roosevelt L. Linicomn v. Harris County Sheriff's Office, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-02-05 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-fairness legal-procedure section-242 statutory-interpretation 1) DOES THE 14th AMENDMENT ; [AND SECTION 242 OF TITLE 18] CONSTITUTE A MAN JUSTICE? 2) DOES THE DISTRICT COURT JUDGE HAVE ANY RULES TO GO BY UNDER …
23-6653 Mark Marvin v. United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia District of Columbia 2024-02-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure first-amendment free-speech habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mandamus standing WHETHER PETITIONER HAS STANDING TO FILE A HABEAS AND MANDAMUS PETITION WITH THE COURT OF APPEALS WHEN THE QUESTION OF FREEDOM OF SPEECH AFFECTS HIM AS…
23-6659 Edward Logan v. Illinois Illinois 2024-02-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection pre-trial-detention sixth-amendment speedy-trial statutory-interpretation Wow con a Gioke enack and use an Ack, that by 45 oon Vagu ness, Com tae Werpretated te deny . Any. Criminal defendant the vight te.a spealy triol unde…
23-6663 Emmanuel Gil v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-02-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
23-830 Lonnie Allen Bassett v. Arizona Arizona 2024-02-02 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana sentencing-discretion Whether the Eighth Amendment permits a juvenile to be sentenced to life without parole under a system that did not afford the sentencing court discret…
23-831 Constance Eileen Caswell v. Colorado Colorado 2024-02-02 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) almendarez-torres apprendi-rule criminal-procedure due-process felony-enhancement jury-determination jury-trial misdemeanor-elevation prior-conviction sentencing sixth-amendment 1. Whether a prior misdemeanor conviction that elevates a subsequent offense from a misdemeanor to a felony is an element of the subsequent offense th…
23A714 Rodney Thomas Ternovsky v. Florida Florida 2024-02-01 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process florida-appellate-court judicial-review writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
23-6642 David Wayne Poydras v. Louisiana Louisiana 2024-02-01 Denied IFP constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-standard factual-innocence indigent-defendants judicial-review jurisdictional-issue legal-procedure post-conviction-relief statutory-interpretation IT. 3} id L * * Cadz. Ca I'm I Pro cedufie. ^ fl/tdfcla <3 &>* 3 (BJ j AllduJ dhe CouR't 's 7a/ Lou'iO/a d/L db deAfej dt5-j-i'-tui-be. 7aImade-'J d…
23-6645 Arthur Johnson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
23-6648 Anthony Christopher Mendonca v. United States Second Circuit 2024-02-01 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial first-amendment jury-selection plain-error-review public-trial public-trial-right sixth-amendment structural-error The Constitution requires "public" criminal trials. U.S. Const. amend. VI. The First Amendment and Sixth Amendment guarantee the community and the def…
23-6627 In Re Reginald Bernard Hatton 2024-01-31 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sentencing time-served unconstitutional QUESTION No. 1. WHETHER THE PETITIONER HAS BEEN DEPRIVED OF HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS UNDER THE 8TH AND 14TH AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITU…
23-6630 Terry L. Terry v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2024-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jackson-v-virginia molestation sexual-assault statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence victim-testimony Did the state court unreasonably apply Jackson v. Virginia when it determined that evidence presented at trial was sufficient to sustain Terry's convi…
23-6632 Jasen Randhawa v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2024-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional constitutional-rights criminal-procedure deterrence due-process general-deterrence sentencing sentencing-discretion social-science social-science-evidence I. Does a court violate a defendant's right to due process when a lengthy sentence is based upon mistaken information that a severe sentence will dete…
23-6616 Fan Yang v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP complete-defense criminal-defendant criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-exclusion federal-rules-of-evidence jury-trial right-to-present-defense rule-403 Whether a court may exclude evidence under Fed. R. Evid. 403, where doing so would preclude a criminal defendant from presenting a complete defense to…
23-6622 Miguel Jaimes-Luviano v. Florida Florida 2024-01-30 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial felony fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-size jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a twelve-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-6623 Johnl Jackson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-evidence notice-requirement sex-trafficking 1. The crime of Sex Trafficking by Force, Fraud, or Coercion, 18 U.S.C. § 1591, by virtue of its definitions of "coercion" and "serious harm," allows …
23-6599 Devon Blevins v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1 appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure first-degree-murder insufficiency-of-evidence jackson-v-virginia standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the court of appeals failed to correctly apply the standard of review for claims of insufficiency of evidence to support conviction of a crime…
23-6585 Arnulfo Fagot-Maximo v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure district-court due-process fourth-circuit government-vouching habeas-corpus witness-testimony I. Should a writ of certiorari be granted to since the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in not granting a Certificate of Appealability II. Shoul…
23-6589 Reginald L. McCoy v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-resentencing drug-quantity first-step-act judicial-discretion prior-finding sentencing sentencing-review statutory-threshold Whether a First Step Act movant's entitlement to review hinges on the statutory sentencing threshold for his offense, or may be foreclosed by a prior …
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…
23-6593 Larry Rush, aka Leroy Thomas v. Michael Zaken, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene, et al. Third Circuit 2024-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction petition-denial third-circuit 1. Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit err in affirming Mr. Rush's Denial of Habeas Corpus?
23-6594 Noemy Ramirez-Gomez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-6596 Kenneth Roshaun Reid v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina Fourth Circuit 2024-01-26 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP board-of-immigration-appeals child-status-protection-act criminal-procedure discretion discretionary-review fair-sentencing-act immigration-law plain-error priority-date retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
23-6597 Abraham Fagot Mejia v. Florida Florida 2024-01-26 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-6564 Jerome M. Teats v. Brandon Watwood, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-01-25 Denied IFP collateral-proceeding collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-rule habeas-corpus martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan state-procedural-framework tennessee 1. Did the decision in Martinez v Ryan 132 SCT 1309 require claims to be raised beyond the initial collateral proceeding for exhaustions purposes in T…
23-6567 Jonathan David Wilke v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2024-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture harmless-error lineup photo-array witness-identification 1. The Wisconsin Court of Appeals held that Jonathan forfeited his argument about Detective Dolan's and T.J.'s testimony about T.J.'s reaction to Jon…
23-6573 Brenda Evers Andrew v. Tamika White, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-01-25 GVR Amici (3)Relisted (23)IFP criminal-procedure cumulative-error due-process gender-presentation gender-stereotyping miranda-rights miranda-violation motherhood prosecutorial-misconduct sex-based-stereotypes sexual-discrimination sexual-history 1. Whether clearly established federal law as determined by this Court forbids the prosecution's use of a woman's plainly irrelevant sexual history, g…
23-6575 Racardo Jackson v. Ken Clark, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment impeachment miranda-warnings selective-silence self-incrimination This Court held in Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 486 (1966), [that a suspect who is taken into custody has the right to remain silent, and it held in D…
23-6579 Jamaal A. Hameen v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-25 GVR Relisted (3)IFP armed-career-criminal-act commerce-clause criminal-procedure drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense firearm-offense prior-state-drug-offense sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense state-drug-offense L. Whether the "serious drug offense" definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(i), incorporates the federal drug s…
23-802 William Bembury v. Kentucky Kentucky 2024-01-25 Denied Amici (2) backpack criminal-procedure evidence-seizure fourth-amendment luggage probable-cause purse search-incident-to-arrest warrant-requirement Does the exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement for searches incident to arrest permit a warrantless search of a backpack, purse, lug…
23-6551 Steven McGauley v. Illinois Illinois 2024-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings critical-stage due-process effective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-bias right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standing Whether the trial court erred where the trial court denied McGauley's defense motion without weighing the potential for prejudice by other testimony o…
23-6553 Danjuan Antonio McBride v. Virginia Virginia 2024-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquittal criminal-procedure directed-verdict double-jeopardy fifth-amendment retrial Whether the Virginia Supreme Court erred when it held that Petitioner's Fifth Amendment right not to be put twice in Jeopardy was not violated when th…
23-6557 Frank R. Stevenson v. Lynn Lilley, Superintendent, Eastern Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2024-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP automatic-reversal constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process federal-law ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error unwanted-defense Whether the unconstitutionality of imposing an unwanted defense on the accused, over objection, has long been federally established and is a structura…
23-6558 Freddie Quinn v. Florida Florida 2024-01-24 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-6524 Lynn Richard Norton v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal crack-cocaine criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance obstruction-of-justice sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington (1) Whether Defense Counsel Jessica McAfee Performance Was Ineffective Assistance Under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 104 S.Ct. 2052, 80 L.E…
23-6532 Zerak Brown v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment assistance-of-counsel certiorari criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process jurisdiction right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Did the Framers intend that, in a criminal prosecution, a defendant is entitled assistance of counsel, under the 6th Amendment, for "all criminal pros…
23-6541 In Re Ronald Freeman 2024-01-23 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-policy due-process federal-detention habeas-corpus marijuana-offense 1. Whether being in federal "detention, " "custody " is a substantial denial of Ronald Freeman 's constitutional right of liberty, without "sufficient…
23-6542 Archie Cabello, aka Archibaldo Cabello, aka Archie Cabello, Jr., aka Archie P. Cabello, aka Arquimedes Cabello, aka Archie Palumbo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-01-23 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment 6th-amendment-counsel constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review jurisdiction legal-jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
23-6544 In Re Mo Savoy Hicks 2024-01-23 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process emotional-harm enhancement-factor miscarriage-of-justice prejudicial-variance sentencing-guidelines third-party-harm 1. DOES THE MINNESOTA SENTENCING GUIDELINES ENHANCEMENT FACTOR 'PARTICULAR CRUELTY' IN RELYING ON EMOTIONAL HARM TO THIRD PARTIES INSTEAD OF CONDUCT E…
23-6546 Paul R. Hansmeier v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus rule-of-lenity sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-jurisdiction Whether an indictment that alleges only a non-offense or that accepts a plea to conduct falling outside the scope of a federal mail or wire fraud stat…
23-6547 Billy J. Seabolt v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial jury-instructions jury-trial legal-interpretation prosecutorial-conduct prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-a-fair-trial speedy-trial Is n a Or fS cleanly '*)■hrf'ai Me. ic/fen J Ury a ciiS^feSSeJ SikuaH&s? cturfoty a i°iy fr'iCii) Cl/)of; fkey Conk fad lor fhemseineL iky anj Hof <y …
23A680 Robert J. Rice v. United States Third Circuit 2024-01-23 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure federal-appeal incarceration legal-review third-circuit writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
23-6527 Jermaine Anderson, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2024-01-22 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition sixth-amendment trial-by-jury Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-6490 Johnny Patterson v. Florida Florida 2024-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process florida-constitution judgment-of-acquittal procedural-due-process I. Did the court violate Petitioner Johnny Patterson procedural due process rights under the 5th and 14th Amendments under the U.S. Constitution and A…
23-6506 Alpheus Elite Hamilton v. Arizona Arizona 2024-01-18 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-violation criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process false-evidence miller-v-pate prosecutorial-misconduct Did the State of Arizona violate the Due Process Clause when its prosecutor presented knowing use of false evidence to the jury as in Miller v. Pate, …
23-6510 In Re Theodore C. Shove 2024-01-18 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-misconduct judicial-review legal-evidence oath-of-office standing trial-procedure 1 Based upon Certified Trial Court Record No Legal Search or Arrest Warrants, or Returns of Any Evidence Exists, How can there be an Appealable Judg…
23-6514 Tiffany Janis v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1 18-usc-924 criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law federal-murder-statute force-clause sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime Whether federal second-degree murder in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1(a) qualifies as a "crime of violence" under the force clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(…
23A661 Andrew Tablack v. United States Third Circuit 2024-01-18 Presumed Complete controlled-substance criminal-procedure drug-indictment federal-crime scheduling statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
23A657 Pedro Rodriguez v. Jeff Macomber, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2024-01-17 Presumed Complete constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial post-conviction sentencing-claim Question not identified.
23-6484 Miguel Angel Sanchez-Delgado v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe…
23-6488 Juan Garcia-Bertadillo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe…
23-6489 Robert E. Harrison v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility intent-knowledge prior-bad-acts prior-conviction propensity-evidence rule-404(b) rule-404b statutory-interpretation supreme-court 1. Are prior gun possession convictions admissible under Rule 404(b) to prove knowing or intentional gun possession on a later date when the governmen…
23-6496 Irvin Harris Johnson v. United States District of Columbia 2024-01-17 Denied IFP attorney-client-privilege criminal-procedure evidence-seizure prejudice pretrial-detention right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-evidence work-product-doctrine work-product-privilege While Petitioner Irvin Johnson was in jail awaiting trial for murder, he reviewed the police affidavit from his arrest, taking notes on questions and …
23-6497 Alex Marquez v. Tim Garrett, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel involuntary-confession miranda-warning ninth-circuit 1. Did the Ninth Circuit err when Alex Marquez made a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right as to an inadequate Miranda warning …
23-6499 Pete Manning v. United States Third Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-procedure drug-schedules federal-law federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-law time-of-consequences time-of-conviction In federal sentencing, the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines typically call for a higher advisory Guidelines range if the defendant has been convicted of a p…
23-6502 Marwan Lamar Lamb v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-finding preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence sentencing-guidelines trial-by-jury Does nearly doubling a defendant's Guidelines sentence range based on a judge's finding by a preponderance of the evidence that the defendant committe…
23-6503 David Rivera v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech fundamental-rights pretrial-claims prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-vindictiveness standing When a defendant presents strong circumstantial evidence of possible vindictiveness beyond mere correlation, can a presumption of vindictiveness arise…
23-6476 Phillip Thomas Green v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing presumption-of-reasonableness rebuttal sentencing-guidelines With the understanding that federal sentences are accompanied by a presumption of reasonableness if they fall within a properly calculated advisory gu…
23-6479 Sterling H. Roberts v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure declarant-unavailability forfeiture-by-wrongdoing mixed-motives primary-purpose sixth-amendment unavailability In Giles v. California, 554 U.S. 353, 128 S. Ct. 2678, 171 L. Ed. 2d 488 (2008), this Court recognized the common law exception to the Confrontation C…
23-6482 Christopher J. Barnett v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-01-12 Denied IFP appellate-review brady-rule constitutional-provisions conviction-integrity criminal-procedure due-process judicial-process legal-jurisdiction petition-review prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court-procedure writ-of-certiorari MAY A COURT ENFORCE BRADY AND NAPUE VIOLATIONS THAT JEOPARDIZE A DEFENDANT'S RIGHT TO A FAIR TRIAL AND DOES THE BRADY/NAPUE ISSUES ARISE WHEN A CHANGE…
23-6458 Mario Astudillo-Herrera v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-6459 Alan Osterhoudt, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 5th-amendment certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals criminal-procedure fifth-amendment law-enforcement-comment mistrial-motion self-incrimination Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his claim that his Fifth Ame…
23-6460 Richard C. Duerson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel manifest-injustice newly-discovered-evidence pro-se rule-33 sixth-amendment supervisory-power 1. Given that Rule 33 of the Federal Criminal Rules of Procedure allows a court discretion to grant a new trial if the interest of justice require, …
23-6461 Luis Armando Jimenez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-justice federal-sentencing guidelines judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines Under Rita v. United States, 551 U.S. 338 (2007), can a district court at sentencing ignore a party's nonfrivolous arguments for a greater or lesser s…
23-6468 Omar A. Rahman v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2024-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process evidence pennsylvania-superior-court right-to-counsel right-to-defense search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence unlawful-arrest witness-testimony Whether the Pennsylvania Superior Court's decision, affirming the denial of Petitioner's suppression of physical evidence claim, conflicts with the de…
23-6447 Samuel Sherman v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause confrontation-right criminal-joinder criminal-procedure prejudice prejudicial-error rule-14 rule-14-procedure sixth-amendment zafiro-precedent zafiro-v-united-states Whether the lower courts misapplie d this Court's holding in Zafiro v. Unit ed States, 506 U.S. 534, 113 S.Ct. 933 (1993), and the require ments of Ru…
23-6452 Shannon R. Thomas v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-01-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP compassionate-release criminal-procedure federal-sentencing first-step-act jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation ~T rx necson \\ YjL. 4V-< l peY\Vov\e,r do noV qut^V^y ©f VkiV under We AVH (£j(2J((l) penoVV/ enVc^n^emenV ccoa . VWe —'O irsvrVuV Ooudc, sV\VY covwi…
23-6453 James David Welton v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus maximum-sentence petition-review procedural-challenge sentencing state-court-conviction supervised-release supreme-court-review Whether the court should grant the writ to resolve a circuit split as to whether the sentence of supervised release must be counted with a 10 year max…
23-6438 Jean Jocelyn Merilien v. Andrew McFarlane, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence exhaustion habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct standing trial-disclosure Question not identified.
23-6446 William Riley Gaul v. Tennessee Tennessee 2024-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy judicial-relief jury-instructions jury-verdict logical-inconsistency multiple-count-presentment mutually-exclusive-verdicts powell-v-texas sufficiency-of-evidence Whether a jury's positive finding of guilt in one count of a multiple count presentment is mutually exclusive from its illogical, but positive finding…
23A632 Carlos Guardado v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2024-01-09 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure double-jeopardy legal-development retrial second-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence Whether there is an exception to this Court's holding in Burks v. United States, 437 U.S. 1, 11 (1978), when there was a change in the law as to the e…
23-6425 Christopher Daniel Taylor v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-01-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP brady-v-maryland brady-waiver criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings direct-appeal due-process fifth-amendment plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-phase Whether the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause permits courts to find a plea agreement waiver that is silent as to Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1…
23-6430 Nicholas Dwayne Jones v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-parte fifth-amendment fourth-amendment search-warrant truthfulness Does a defendant in a criminal proceeding, still retain the right under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment under the United States Constitution, subs…
23-6433 Rico Lorodge Brown v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-01-08 GVR Relisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-amendment criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment indictment jury-finding sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation statutory-penalty The Armed Career Criminal Act imposes heightened statutory penalties if a defendant convicted of an offense under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) has three prior c…
23-6434 Pascal Gedeon v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2024-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment judicial-discretion mandamus pretrial-motions speedy-trial-act vagueness 1) Will delay resulting from pretrial motions be excluded under the Speedy Trial Act if a defendant can assert that the motion hearing was deliberatel…
23-6435 Norman Williams v. Colorado Department of Corrections Time Computation Department, et al. Colorado 2024-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP colorado-dept-of-corrections conviction-classification criminal-procedure due-process non-categorical-approach prior-convictions sentence-enhancement sentencing-enhancement time-computation violent-crime 1) In light of this Court's holdings in Johnson v. U.S 135 S. Ct. 2551, 2563 (2015), does § 17-22.5-403 C.R.S. violate Mr. Williams' and other similar…
23-6441 Marc Hernandez v. United States Third Circuit 2024-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure integrity-of-courts judicial-integrity plain-error structural-error substantial-rights 1. The district court excluded the public, including family members, from the courtroom for the entirety of jury selection. Petitioner's counsel faile…
23-6420 Orlando S. Burgos v. Martin Gamboa, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP bias confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination habeas-corpus harmless-error motive-to-lie sole-evidence witness-bias Petitioner Orlando Burgos was deprived of his Confrontation Clause right to cross-examine his accuser—the key prosecution witness—that he received a b…
23-6422 Raymond J. Kraynak v. United States Third Circuit 2024-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure due-process fair-and-just-reason guilty-plea judicial-review plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing trial-court-discretion withdrawal-of-plea I. Whether Petitioner has sufficiently shown a fair and just reason for requesting withdrawal of his guilty plea such that the trial court shall grant…
23-6415 Christian Cruz v. Florida Florida 2024-01-05 Denied IFP capital-case capital-punishment criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process equal-protection first-degree-murder pulley-v-harris relative-culpability sentencing supreme-court-review WHETHER THE AFFIRMANCE BY THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA OF DEFENDANT'S CONVICTION FOR FIRST DEGREE MURDER AND SENTENCE OF DEATH WAS CLEARL…
23-6417 Ralph Hall v. New York New York 2024-01-05 Denied IFP civil-rights compelled-speech constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment free-speech government-speech prosecutorial-discretion sentencing Question not identified.
23-6410 Pedro Pena-Talamantes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe…
23-6411 Gilberto Salvador Cortez-Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-indictment criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process jury-determination jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe…
23-6412 Jose Eugenio Pavon-Rivera v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
23-6413 Donald Bill Smith v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1512 burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-statute drug-conspiracy mens-rea official-proceeding witness-tampering 1. Whether the witness tampering resulting in death statute, 18 U.S.C. §§1512(a)(1)(A) and (k), requires the Government to prove beyond a reasonable d…
23-6402 Vidal Orellana-Sibrian v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe…
23-6404 Jamar Hunter v. United States Third Circuit 2024-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court-review constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence 1. Was the Third Circuit's reversal of Petitioner's suppression of evidence in violation of the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution?
23-6405 Brian K. Allen v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-circuit fundamental-rights plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-procedure 1. Whether the near consensus Federal Circuit Courts of Appeals' application of plea agreement appeal waivers as to subsequent sentencing proceedings,…
23-6406 Jamal Eberhardt v. United States Third Circuit 2024-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court-standard criminal-procedure due-process excessive-sentence judicial-discretion reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review third-circuit 1. Did the Third Circuit error by not finding Mr. Eberhardt's sentence was harsh and excessive.
23-6408 Jade LaRoche v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the use of acquitted conduct to determine a defendant's sentence violates the Fifth and Sixth Amendments.
23A613 Michael Jonathon Carlson v. Arizona Arizona 2024-01-03 Presumed Complete capital-case constitutional-error criminal-procedure fair-trial postconviction-relief supreme-court-review Question not identified.
23A619 Steven Antonius, aka Sealed Defendant 1, Shervington Lovell, aka Sealed Defendant 1, Argemiro Zapata-Castro, aka Sealed Defendant 1 v. United States Second Circuit 2024-01-03 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance notice-of-appeal procedural-default right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Question not identified.
23-6401 Wayne Johnson v. Contra Costa County Clerk Recorder, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-misconduct civil-rights court-immunity court-reporter criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process immunity judicial-proceedings procedural-error standing state-court Whether a court reporter in a state criminal action is entitled to immunity for failing to record objections made by parties in a criminal preceding t…
23-6396 Eleuterio Covarrubias-Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-analysis constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent precedent precedent-overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether the Court should overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998).
23-6397 Jaime Rivera v. United States Second Circuit 2023-12-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924 circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-statute force physical-force physical-inaction statutory-interpretation Whether a crime of physical inaction ever "has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person or propert…
23-6377 Ryan F. Duncan v. Florida Commission on Offender Review Florida 2023-12-28 Denied IFP 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement \ x \t> ^c&kvVflVtOYN o^aaVn^V CbvJoW, ^ Torres o-f CoAt^WA0*V\\ \mrNUsmVv^ lA SecuT^A GlAAaAQV SVc3e_ acAc/v^s Uvyier -Wul \A^ /WW^er^'s or \ 0Ar-\iA…
23-6378 Gilmer Diaz-Jaramillo v. United States First Circuit 2023-12-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure define-and-punish-clause due-process felony-on-high-seas foreign-nationals interlocutory-review maritime-drug-enforcement maritime-law standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether denial of a pretrial challenge to the court's subject matter jurisdiction under the Maritime Drug Enforcement Law warrants interlocutory revie…
23-6385 Alfonso Garcia-Vela v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
23-6386 Michael Andrew King, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-12-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review credibility-determination criminal-procedure due-process due-process-rights evidence jury-instructions jury-trial mask-obstruction witness-credibility witness-testimony Whether an appellate court's traditional deference to credibility determinations made by jurors in returning a guilty verdict should give way where th…
23-6387 Montgomery Lebeau v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-12-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP anticipated-imprisonment concurrent-sentence concurrent-sentences criminal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-interpretation same-incident sentencing-guidelines state-charges ussg-5g1.3(c) When a state term of imprisonment is anticipated to result from another offense that is relevant conduct to the federal offense of conviction, the Fed…
23-6388 Christopher J. Barnett v. David Guten, District Judge, District Court of Tulsa County, Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-12-28 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus indigent-pro-se ineffective-assistance judicial-bias post-conviction-relief standing Question not identified.
23-6392 Phillip Watkins v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-12-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment QUESTON NUMBER ONE; Whether the Sixth Circuit abused its discretion by affirming the district court's failure to conduct an Evidentiary Hearing regar…
23-6394 Andrew Tablack v. United States Third Circuit 2023-12-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-841 controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-statute indictment indictment-defect scheduling statutory-interpretation Is there a legal element in 21 U.S.C. §811(2)(G) that requires the "drug named" in the indictment to be listed as the controlled substance analogues? …
23-6354 Devonte Easterling, aka Devontae Easterling v. Mississippi Mississippi 2023-12-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jV 1 fK<_uJ) f ■nf c l 2. Oer
23-6355 Allan Leslie Sinanan, Jr. v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2023-12-27 Denied IFP article-1-section-8 criminal-procedure drug-buys dunaway-v-new-york fourth-amendment probable-cause strickland-standard terry-stop terry-v-ohio warrantless-arrest WHETHER THE PENNSYLVANIA JUDICIARY'S APPLICATION OF THE Strickland/Pierce STANDARD WAS UNREASONABLE, WHERE TRIAL COUNSEL FAILED TO LITIGATE VIOLATIONS…
23-6356 Mohammad Sharifi v. Alabama Alabama 2023-12-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocent armed-evidence constitutional-search criminal-procedure direct-evidence due-process evidence-admissibility forensic-evidence fourth-amendment police-misconduct reasonable-doubt trial-judge Question not identified.
23-6358 Devadrick Markevin Booker v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process jury-instructions prosecutorial-evidence reasonable-doubt standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the district court erred by finding that the prosecution produced sufficient evidence at trial for a reasonable jury to return guilty verdicts…
23-6359 Davin Chaz Nevins v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process sentencing sixth-amendment supervised-release Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
23-6360 In Re Burt Setts 2023-12-27 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment capital-conviction civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury indictment Whether Petitioner was denied the right to a capital conviction without a Grand Jury's indictment, under the U.S.C., 5th Amendment, violating due proc…
23-6364 Luis Guridi v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2023-12-27 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure sentencing statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
23-6368 In Re Damion Hardy 2023-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction legal-document petition standing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
23-6369 Joseph R. Cyr v. Steven Harpe, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2023-12-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof conclusive-presumption criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions malice-aforethought sandstrom-standard sandstrom-v-montana Whether the trial court's charge to Petitioner's jury violate his Due Process rights as articulated in Sandstrom v. Montana, 442 U.S. 510 (1979), beca…
23-692 Zachariah Minix v. Kentucky Kentucky 2023-12-27 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment parole-eligibility plea-agreement plea-withdrawal Petitioner, Zachariah M. Minix (Minix), appeals as a matter of right from an Adair County Circuit Court Judgment and Sentence on Plea of Guilty that i…
23-693 Yi-Chi Shih, aka Yugi Shi, aka Yichi Shih v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-12-27 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure deference export-controls regulatory-interpretation skidmore-deference technical-regulations The question presented is whether district courts may, under Skidmore, give deference to an agency's interpretation of its own technical regulations w…
23-6341 Tramaine Edward Martin v. Jay Forshey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-12-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-process civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct 1. Does habeas corpus stand to correct the abuse of process involved in deliberate deception of a court by presentation of known false evidence? 2. D…
23-6342 Ya-Sin El-Amin Shakir v. Tina Walker, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2023-12-26 Denied IFP appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-review jury-finding mental-health sufficiency-of-evidence 1. IS Fusils A MENTAL. ku£ PitoceTS V/»lATgi uiHfsl A JvKS'l FiMb/toc. Gvilt is uprtetbk r^£ &Ec&»jLb AEMe^s-rtATCj MfuFn £isit ts//i£wc£, 7
23-6343 Patrick Bowie v. Mark Miller, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2023-12-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP authentication confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process evidence-authentication hearsay ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-v-washington 1. Is the right to confrontation violated when inculpatory letters, turned over to the People by a non-testifying witness, admitted into evidence wit…
23-6344 Michael Broomer v. Delaware Delaware 2023-12-26 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination sixth-amendment trial-counsel Under U.S. Constitution Amendment(s) 4 and/or 5, and/or 14, does defendant have a right to due process? Was my right(s) violated? Under US Constituti…
23-6346 Walter Freeman Jordan, III v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-appeal habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-petition sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
23-6348 Danial Leanos v. Illinois Illinois 2023-12-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP confession confidentiality constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process interrogation interrogation-tactics miranda-rights suspect-waiver totality-of-circumstances Should an interrogator's promise of confidentiality invalidate a suspect's Miranda waiver only if it immediately induces them to confess, or should it…
23-6351 Jerome Terry, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-12-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect ninth-circuit notice sentencing sentencing-departure upward-departure waiver Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in dismissing the appeal when the district court failed to give notice of its intent to depart upwards 147 months and …
23-6352 LaDerrius Williams v. Illinois Illinois 2023-12-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-arrest criminal-procedure due-process owner-driver-inference probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-ownership Whether Glover's owner-driver inference constitutes, not only reasonable suspicion to initiate a traffic stop of a motorist if the police have reason …
23-6330 Raymond Ghaloustian v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule harmless-error harrison-v-united-states miranda-rights miranda-warning opening-brief The Court has held that where a defendant's statements are admitted in the Government's case-in-chief in violation of Miranda v. State of Arizona, 384…
23-6332 Antonio Misael Rivera-Lopez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure case-law circuit-split criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-review legal-precedent precedent procedural-error sentencing standard-of-review Whether Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, __U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), applies to claims of procedural error?
23-6333 Nora Gilda Guevara Triana v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit evidence-rule fair-trial rule-of-completeness special-verdict standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent u.s.-v.-griffin 1. Whether the Eighth Circuit Court's failure to follow this Court's precedence in U.S. v. Griffin, 502 U.S. 46 (1991) and Turner v. U.S., 396 U.S. 39…
23-6335 Devonne L. Walker v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-leadership criminal-organization criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing firearm-possession guideline-enhancement leadership sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review 1) Whether the lower court erred in applying a 4-level increase pursuant to U.S.S.G. Guideline § 3B1.1(a) in determining the Petitioner to be an organ…
23-6339 Juan Guzman, aka Juan Villarreal-Guzman, aka Juan Guzman-Villareal, aka Victor Nava, aka Francisco Lara, aka Francisco Lara-Paramo, aka Ayala Ramoro, aka Carlos Solorio, aka Daniel Solorio, aka Flaco v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion assault-with-a-firearm criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion evidence-admission firearm-possession prior-allegation prior-bad-acts sixth-circuit Does a District Court prejudicially abuse its discretion in a firearm possession case, as previously found by the Sixth Circuit, when that District Co…
23-6320 Santiago Salazar-Ramirez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
23-6323 Ryan F. Duncan v. Florida Florida 2023-12-21 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process identification-evidence mandatory-minimum parole photo-array plea-bargaining sentencing witness-testimony I. Does (x. \t\&\ CUjurV c\. c*\<nvrwOi &&£erAdn\r cP di/ve. process ujWexA (\tde^Mf\c^ (x. o^aAVm pk^ u)^<mV v^ftAin^ -\h(y*\ dootxV (k. vmc,d{*Wu ■V…
23-6325 James E. Downs v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2023-12-21 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection florida-statute habitual-offender sentencing sentencing-guidelines UNDER THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTIONS (4) (0), (¢ )e 14 AMENDMENTS) CAN THE CLNEMS BEING PRESENTED HEREIN DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT MANIFEST WSUSTSECCE…
23-6308 Ariel Garcia-Pelico v. Nebraska Nebraska 2023-12-20 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigative-procedures judicial-discretion motion-to-reopen procedural-fairness sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington 1. x tOeutb L\Wc Tb (Rented. or. nIot ^\al Onset's Actu^s f&L 'Betbuo Thl DA v. 0& n!i<- ? 2. X wool5 U\ce 1o f4/^ kftterH6t o/i Mot CouzJSaA Actions…
23-666 James T. Cunningham v. United States Armed Forces 2023-12-20 Denied court-martial criminal-procedure due-process military-justice non-unanimous-verdict prejudice-test sentencing unanimous-verdict victim-impact-statement I. Whether Senior Airman James T. Cunningham was entitled to a unanimous verdict in his court-martial when the Government convicted him of murder—a se…
23A566 Areli Escobar v. Texas Texas 2023-12-19 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process forensic-science scientific-reliability Question not identified.
23-6304 Onterrious V. Tillman v. Florida Florida 2023-12-19 Denied Relisted (5)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-6281 Laquince T. Hogan v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Arkansas 2023-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus oral-amendment sixth-amendment uncharged-offense 1. Whether the Arkansas Supreme Court denied Mr. Hogan due process of law under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, in acknowledging that Mr. …
23-6283 Stacy Anthony Mitchell v. Arkansas Arkansas 2023-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP choice-of-counsel constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process indigent-defendant right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-court-discretion Does a trial court's denial of an indigent criminal defendant's choice of privately retained counsel, who is ready, willing, and able to proceed to tr…
23-6289 Wisben Sanon v. Florida Florida 2023-12-18 Denied Relisted (5)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition sixth-amendment trial-by-jury Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-6293 Shallon Hawkins v. David Vandergriff, Warden Eighth Circuit 2023-12-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress newly-discovered-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct trial-court Did the United States District Court error, by denying my Claims for procedural defaultier tl rue thon, under Nociner, Glenn furstamental Fcnesy Vewly…
23-6297 Kevin Hewlett v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2251 cellphone-evidence child-pornography commerce-clause criminal-conduct criminal-law criminal-procedure interstate-commerce jury-instruction mens-rea 1) Whether the use of an internationally-manufactured cellphone in criminal conduct is, by itself, a sufficient nexus to interstate commerce to satisf…
23-6267 Jose Gonzalez, III v. Texas Texas 2023-12-15 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mccoy-precedent right-to-counsel right-to-remain-silent sixth-amendment trial-procedure 1). Is McCoy v Louisiana a logical extension of Florida V Nixon at all when concession of Petitioner's guilt was never discussed prior to trial? 2). …
23-6271 Tyrone Maddox v. Illinois Illinois 2023-12-15 Denied IFP criminal-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility intent intent-element judicial-discretion narcotics-charge prejudice prejudicial-evidence prior-conviction prior-convictions probative-value The trial court should not have allowed the introduction of Tyrone Maddox's 20 year old prior Indiana Conviction for delivery of Narcotics on the issu…
23-6272 In Re Bruce Lamont Fuller 2023-12-15 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions corpus-delicti criminal-procedure due-process evidence jurisdiction standing statewide-importance statutory-provisions I.HOW SHALL WE HAVE A CONCLUSIVE ANSWER OF CORPUS OF STATEWIDE IMPORTANCE ,WHEN THIER HAS NOT BEEN AN EFFECTIVE ASCERTAINMENT OF EXPEDITIOUS TRUTH?DEL…
23-6275 Samuel Trelawney Hughes v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining sentencing Question not identified.
23-6279 Ismael Robles-Perez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres almendarez-torres-precedent constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23A557 William Newkirk v. Florida Florida 2023-12-15 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-error life-sentence sentencing-hearing Question not identified.
23-650 Laura Jordan and Mark Jordan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) alternative-theory appellate-review constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instructions structural-error sufficiency-of-evidence I. Whether an appellate court's harmless-error analysis of constitutional alternative theory error in jury instructions must decline to find the erro…
23A547 Eric Lavell Minter v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-12-14 Presumed Complete abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure fact-finding jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Where a district court applies a federal sentencing enhancement based on findings of fact at sentencing—and neglects to explain how it selected among …
23-6241 Mark Emmanuel Martinez v. Erik A. Hooks, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety Fourth Circuit 2023-12-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdictional-issues legal-procedure statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Whether the Proposed Recusal - Adv. Ookten cack; ercscad 6 Cen mre inn Giece. of erence hel of Uahtdn S0kFii ne. prSena face ar Ment tabPon Ceqwire ne…
23-6259 Bryan Lee Ogle v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-assault armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction most-innocent-conduct sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation tennessee-statute violent-felony Whether the district court erred in applying an enhanced sentence, pursuant to the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), to Mr. Ogle at sente…
23-6260 Charles E. Linder, Jr. v. Kenneth Black, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure detective-testimony evidence evidentiary-objection firearm ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment testimony witness-credibility 1. Trial counsel was ineffective in violation of his Sixth Amendment right under the US Constitution due to his failure to: (1) object to Detective Re…
23-6262 Raymond Clyde Robideau v. Minnesota Minnesota 2023-12-14 Denied IFP aggravating-factors constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy judicial-discretion jury-trial jury-trial-waiver remand state-remand waiver I. Is a court required to obtain a renewed jury-trial waiver when the State amends it's Aggravating Factor[s] after remand from State's Highest Cour…
23-6263 Freddy Abad v. United States Second Circuit 2023-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 924(c) 924(j) criminal-charging criminal-procedure double-jeopardy federal-criminal-law lora-v-united-states robbery-conspiracy sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation unit-of-prosecution united-states-v-davis 1). Whether the two §§ 924(C), 924(J) Counts Five and Six, were based on a single "unit of prosectution ," this court should hold that they were; un…
23-6265 Timothy Dean Stone v. Texas Texas 2023-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review schlup-standard state-procedural-ground state-procedural-grounds texas-criminal-procedure texas-law writ-application Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals', holding that Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Article 11.07 section 4 (a) (2) precluded consideration…
23-641 Daisy Miller v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-14 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process independent-investigation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigation-failure trial-counsel witness-testimony Whether trial counsel's near total reliance on the defendant's characterization of proposed defense witnesses' testimony, and the failure to conduct m…
23-6242 Francisco Mora-Carrillo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial precedent-overturning sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-6245 Donato Lopez-Arellano v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-precedent constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-6252 Juan Antonio Guerrero-Lazaro v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-precedent precedent-overruling sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-6254 William Graves, III v. Florida Florida 2023-12-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigants WHETHER THE STATE OF FLORIDA HAS CREATED RULES OF CRIMINAL AND APPELLATE PROCEDURE THAT ARBITRARILY AND UNREASONABLY ENCROACHES UPON THE PERSONAL RIGH…
23-638 Kenneth Wendell Ravenell v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-12-13 Denied Amici (2) burden-of-proof circuit-split conspiracy criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure federal-prosecution jury-instructions money-laundering non-overt-act-conspiracy statute-of-limitations Whether, to comply with 18 U.S.C. § 3282(a) in a prosecution for a non-overt act conspiracy, the government bears the burden of proving to a jury that…
23A541 Carl Ray McNeil, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-12-13 Presumed Complete appellate-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-law fourth-circuit Whether the ACCA's different-occasions element must be found by a jury rather than a sentencing judge.
23-6240 Jesus Salvador Gonzalez-Lunar v. United States First Circuit 2023-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation covered-vessel criminal-procedure due-process jurisdictional-determination jury-trial maritime-law proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the Constitution requires a jury trial and proof beyond a reasonable doubt, or an adequate factual basis during a guilty plea, to find that a …
23-631 Hollis Morrison Greenlaw, et al. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-12 Denied appellate-review constitutional-error criminal-procedure harmless-error intent-to-defraud jury-instructions scheme-to-defraud structural-error Petitioners were charged with fraud offenses, all of which had as an element "intent to defraud" and most of which also had as an element "scheme to d…
23-6225 Michael Ramsey v. Matthew J. Platkin, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2023-12-11 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process negotiation-strategy plea-bargaining plea-negotiations right-to-claim-innocence Does Petitioner give up the right to claim innocence as a bargaining tool during plea negotiations?
23A526 Jacob Smith v. Nethanjah Breitenbach, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-12-11 Presumed Complete constitutional-right criminal-procedure faretta-right preliminary-hearing self-representation sixth-amendment Question not identified.
23-618 Delano Marco Medina v. Colorado Colorado 2023-12-08 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) burden-of-proof constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process guilty-plea judicial-procedure judicial-review legal-standard Whether it is consistent with due process for a court to convict a criminal defendant without finding that the defendant is guilty.
23-6199 Trayvon Hall v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge constitutional-rights court-procedure criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-pronouncement life-sentence plain-language sentencing statutory-interpretation I crimin&L Censjrt(jtfa>n*lly QtrfrMed ~fc> life ScnWic^ zfttcuhd ^afSuAni % ~fht ferm5 of Senhsicz* Orally pronouAccA in? A ?hfe ^CeSonce/ , i *n
23-6207 Ottis J. Cummings Jr., aka Ottis Junior Cummings, aka Otis Cummings, aka Ottis J. Commings, aka Otis J. Cummings v. Mississippi Mississippi 2023-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance plea-negotiations sex-discrimination standing trial-counsel A). . . . Whether the Court aos denied Se + Maer Tutisdie~ Hon" proceedings due to otatolly Mckay sexh? | B). . . .Whebher Yro iadielmnent aos, orren…
23-613 Luis Soto Soto, et al. v. Yashira Quiles Carrasquillo Puerto Rico 2023-12-07 Denied civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment search-and-seizure 1. An employee of the United States Postal Service in a labor-management dispute that arose within a postal facility; under Section 8 of the United St…
23-6182 Joshua Anthony Peterman v. Mississippi Mississippi 2023-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-procedure due-process habitual-offender indictment ineffective-assistance judicial-bias jury-indictment prosecutorial-bias sentencing speedy-trial (1) Whether the trial Court erred in amending Judgment and hate Sentencing to not* dual in violation of fllx, ft-Crim. P, Rule ti&lH,i (h) (d) Whethe…
23-6187 Jamar Green v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-12-07 Rehearing Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP appellate-review constitutional-validity criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plea-bargaining pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sentencing waiver-of-counsel waiver-of-rights 1. Whether an uncounseled felony guilty plea is Constitutionally valid when the defendant was not properly warned by the trial court of the perils of …
23-6192 David Lewis Holland v. Texas Texas 2023-12-07 Denied IFP appellate-procedure appellate-review case-law constitutional-law constitutional-provision criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process right-to-counsel speedy-trial trial-preparation QUESTION 1: Whether the new Speedy Trial requirement created by the Texas 7th Court of Appeals in the instant case is in conflict with current case l…
23-6193 Steven Vincent Smith v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP brady-material criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence void-ab-initio warrant-validity warrantless-search Does the determination that a warrant is void ab initio, rendering the resultant search of the Petitioner's residence warrantless (and thus unreasonab…
23-6194 Christopher Andrew Canales v. Nathan Hoffman, Acting Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-12-07 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery-rights due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-discovery voluntariness-of-plea THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS HAS DECIDED AN IMPORTANT QUESTION OF FEDERAL LAW THAT HAS NOT, BUT SHOULD BE, SETTLED BY THIS COURT, AS TO: (1) WHE…
23-6158 Derrick Hunt v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment child-pornography criminal-procedure evidence fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant Did the District Court abuse its discretion in denying Defendant's Motion to Suppress the Search of his computer when the Police searched pursuant to …
23-6169 Juan Carlos Soto v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-USC-3553 appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-sentencing ninth-circuit-court remand sentencing sentencing-guidelines A. Selective Remand Petitioner asks: Why does the 4th Circuit Court of appeals Remand (Almost Cases Where Not all of the appellant's Non-Frivolous Pa…
23-6171 Patrick Henry Hill, II v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-12-06 Denied IFP actual-innocence criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure forensic-pathology medical-examiner medical-examiners shaken-baby-syndrome veterans veterans-jurisdiction Veterans, to include active duty service members and family members that are stationed in the continental United States at installations garrisoned by…
23-6175 Phillip A. Kenner v. United States Second Circuit 2023-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence-standard government-witness napue-standard napue-v-illinois perjury prosecutorial-misconduct witness-perjury At a criminal trial, Petitioner sought to confront a Government witness with notes of an interview, taken by Government agents, which reflected a prio…
23-6176 Faustino Garcia-Sanchez, aka Miguel Garcia-Sanchez, aka Miguel Zamora-Sanchez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
23-6177 Sylvia Olivas, aka Sylvia Lee Gavaldon v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-12-06 GVR Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-activity criminal-procedure expert-testimony expert-witness federal-rules-of-evidence mens-rea mental-state trier-of-fact Rule 704(b) of the Federal Rules of Evidence provides: In a criminal case, an expert witness must not state an opinion about whether the defendant did…
23-6179 Anibal Miranda-Montanez v. United States First Circuit 2023-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review case-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-instructions legal-sufficiency procedural-challenge standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence trial-evidence verdict-challenge Whether The Evidence Was Insufficient for the Verdict to Stand.
23-6180 Clifford Allen Follansbee v. Arizona Arizona 2023-12-06 Denied IFP arizona-constitution constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process judicial-review procedural-fairness professional-norm structural-error united-states-constitution Are Arizona. Judiciaries violating 4be Doe. Process Clause <dr 4be Arizona. and Un;4ed States ConoViVuWm / bu, practicing a Professional fJocm AWsA is…
23-6185 Jabril Wilson v. Chris Stevens, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-12-06 Denied IFP burden-of-proof child-enticement criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sexual-assault 1 YTh^aua '*-/ noY Wvit ^o^oncKWu nT CKAA eu.\\<x-^ien4r kOkefC ffcHWeC A L/ 1 JV^x-u tO 1vs * SWV, A4%, 0 cl»UL\ i-V vvtkrtmrse ov %®m\ «tSs=>ai*.W …
23-6162 James Williams v. United States Third Circuit 2023-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure irreconcilable-differences judicial-discretion mckaskle-v-wiggins pro-se pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver Question 1: In light of this courts decision in McKaskle v. Wiggins. 465 U.S 168, 104 S.Ct. 944; 79 L.Ed 2d 122(1984), as interpreted by the Third Cir…
23-6164 Albert Carrasco, v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process liberty-interest liberty-restriction rehabilitation sentencing sex-offender supervised-release For a low-level sex offender (like a mere possessor of child pornography with no prior criminal history), is a supervised-release condition prohibitin…
23-6165 Jesus Del Valle Gonzalez-Rodriguez v. United States First Circuit 2023-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver brief-filing burden-of-proof court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process government-defense opening-brief plea-agreement reply-brief Whether a criminal defendant must raise the issue of an appeal waiver in his opening brief or whether it falls upon the government to raise the waiver…
23-6154 Jennifer Lynn Dees v. Colorado Colorado 2023-12-04 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct jury-tampering sixth-amendment trial-integrity Whether a trial's verdict validity get impacted if a judge engages in jury tampering as defined under C.R.S. § 18-6-609 violating defendants Sixth and…
23-6159 Eddie James King v. Doctor Aikens, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment medical-care search-and-seizure standing Question not identified.
23-6143 Howard Nelson Bartee, III v. Florida Florida 2023-12-01 Denied Relisted (6)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition sixth-amendment trial-by-jury Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-6145 Daniel E. Salley v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process internal-revenue-service mental-competency mental-health-defense property-rights property-seizure statute-of-limitations tax-law treasury-offset-program Wfoe4-Ke.tr cl collate c^m-duofe, <3uaA swccessfwA busn^e sswiaw ou/rt€.T of ex small 0-CCOuvvHincj ctffevr jpreiwelmo^ sev/evcv) a.u.di'fs cxW jr\ne …
23-6146 Catherine Denise Randolph v. United States District Court for the District of Maryland Fourth Circuit 2023-12-01 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process free-speech harmless-error ineffective-assistance obscenity standing state-court-decision surveillance Question not identified.
23-6149 Gary Lynn Gatlin v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4241-motion competency-evaluation criminal-procedure due-process intellectual-disability mental-competency mental-illness standards-of-review I. SHOULD COURTS EVALUATE EVIDENCE SUPPORTING MOTIONS FOR COMPETENCY EVALUATIONS DIFFERENTLY WHEN THE CLAIMED BASIS FOR INCOMPETENCY IS INTELLECTUAL D…
23-6151 Urbano Torres-Giles v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split clearly-erroneous-facts criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fact-finding reliability reliability-standard sentencing-context sentencing-guidelines This Court's precedent precludes the use of clearly erroneous facts to influence a criminal defendant's sentence. Here, the district court assumed the…
23-6137 In Re Ronald Boyajian 2023-11-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal-of-right constitutional-rights criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process judicial-assignment judicial-recusal prejudice recusal three-judge-panel 1. In an only appeal of right of a criminal judgment, did Respondents deny defendant-appellant Ronald Boyajian's ("Petitioner") Due Process in failing…
23-6141 Arthur Grady v. Charles Truitt, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jackson-v-virginia jury-instructions special-verdict strickland-v-washington sufficiency-of-evidence united-states-v-powell During Petitioner Arthur Grady's murder trial, the State pursued a single theory of guilt: Grady shot and killed the victim. The jury explicitly rejec…
23A492 George Willie Rios v. Arizona Arizona 2023-11-30 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights criminal-procedure interrogation miranda-warning right-to-counsel suppression-of-evidence Question not identified.
23-6128 Julia Ann Poff v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony fair-trial indigent-defense plea-bargaining right-to-counsel I. Should a defendant's guilt or innocence be determined by their finances? II. Before making a noninvoluntary and informed plea, should a defendant …
23-6130 Sylvia Hofstetter v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substances criminal-procedure jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error ruan-standard ruan-v-united-states sixth-circuit 1. On October 17, 2022, this Court vacated the opinion of the Sixth Circuit affirming Petitioner Sylvia Hofstetters convictions and remanded for furth…
23-6133 Jacquelyn Reaves v. Monmouth University, et al. Third Circuit 2023-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-liability civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-liability criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection false-imprisonment hate-crime jurisdiction racial-discrimination Should respondents be criminally and civilly liable for hate crime(s), false imprisonment, racial discrimination, persecution, emotional distress, and…
23-6134 Rajon Jamison v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act armed-career-offender base-level base-level-calculation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process juvenile-conviction sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation WHETHER THIS COURT SHOULD GRANT THIS APPLICATION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI AND ADDRESS TWO SENTENCING ERROR OF SIGNIFICANCE WHEN THE TRIAL COURT ERRED WH…
23-578 Christopher Kinzy v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-11-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court-discretion gall-standard gall-v-united-states guidelines judicial-explanation rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether a district court can insulate from vacatur a sentence based on an erroneously enhanced Guidelines range simply by stating, without explanation…
23-6111 Lawrence Remsen, et al. v. Jennifer Shaffer, et al. California 2023-11-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-principles criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion legislative-intent sentencing sentencing-law Did the States Highest Court abuse its discretion when it failed to acknowledge the State's Legislature had repealed its indeterminate Sentencing Law …
23-6113 Michael Eugene Lewis v. Texas Texas 2023-11-28 Denied IFP appeals appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-for-new-trial right-to-counsel texas-criminal-law Whether the Petitioner was afforded effective assistance of counsel at trial and on appeal, and whether the scheme in Texas on a Motion for New Trial …
23-6116 Cynthia Clemons v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substances criminal-procedure jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error ruan-v-united-states sixth-circuit supreme-court-precedent On October 17, 2022, this Court vacated the opinion of the Sixth Circuit affirming Petitioner Cynthia Clemons' convictions and remanded for further pr…
23-6120 Demecia Shontres Washington v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP character-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standard expert-testimony jury-bias plain-error profile-evidence Whether the district court plainly erred by admitting expert testimony about the common characteristics of a particular type of offender, also known a…
23-6121 Jemare Ray McNair, aka Head v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appeal-waivers career-offender criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-enhancement WHETHER CAREER OFFENDER STATUS SHOULD BE SUBJECT TO APPEAL WAIVERS IN PLEA AGREEMENTS WHERE A DEFENDANT HAS A LEGITIMATE ARGUMENT THAT HE WAS NOT A CA…
23-6122 Courtney Newman v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substances criminal-procedure jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error ruan-v-united-states On October 17, 2022, this Court vacated Petitioner Newman's conviction in light of Ruan v. United States, 142 S. Ct. 2370, 213 L. Ed. 2d 706 (2022) an…
23-6123 Kyle Maurice Parks v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP camera constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence law-enforcement perjury search-and-seizure suppression-hearing vehicle 0) UrevldiNO. W A tfehihc, Coma,,-, r£-/U/ 4^t/ yu°r ViokrtCM) a pthu ®(ficen pi pttj vny <U ThZ fiu-T AT JUpfiHeSJ/o* &c;e faoccs.3 0) A / Q/LE-S£A…
23-6106 Damion Edward Cruz-Benavente v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-standard constitutional-error criminal-procedure criminal-trial cumulative-error cumulative-errors due-process harmless-error judicial-review procedural-fairness standard-of-review verdict-influence To determine whether a criminal trial was unfair because of cumulative errors, does a court review whether the aggregate errors—both preserved and for…
23-6109 Tou Thao v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-242 civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure deprivation-of-rights due-process fair-trial prosecutorial-misconduct specific-intent willfulness The Petitioner was convicted of two counts of deprivation of rights under color of law resulting in bodily injury and death in connection with the dea…
23-554 Michael O'Bannon v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-11-27 Denied Response Waived acquitted-conduct constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Constitution permits a criminal defendant to be sentenced based on conduct for which he or she was acquitted.
23-6088 Alpheus Elite Hamilton v. Arizona Arizona 2023-11-22 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process false-evidence fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment miller-v-pate prosecutorial-misconduct Did the State of Arizona violate the Due Process Clause when its prosecutor presented knowing use of false evidence to the jury as in Miller v. Pate, …
23-6091 Valentino Bernard Lee v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2023-11-22 Denied IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process firearm-possession jury-instructions legal-principles mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence possession-of-firearm sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the trial court erred in sentencing defendant to a mandatory 11 year sentence under the 10-20-Life statute for possession of a firearm when th…
23-6095 Jerome McGoy v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights confidential-informant controlled-buy criminal-procedure drug-investigation due-process law-enforcement search-and-seizure undercover-operation Is it not true that Arkansas state was not authorized to use the Confidential Informant (CI) Robert Sullivan a.k.a. Smokey G. in an undercover operati…
23-6096 Thomas Oliver v. Joseph Leonard Michaud, et al. First Circuit 2023-11-22 Denied IFP civil-litigation civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-activity criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-law judicial-misconduct legal-ethics standing Can a party to civil litigation in the United States —no matter who the party is—commit crimes in order to win its case, all the while have judges at …
23-6098 Ricardo Dinnall v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-justice criminal-procedure district-court federal-sentencing first-step-act judicial-discretion sentencing-reduction sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation Whether Concepcion v. United States, 142 S. Ct. 2389 (2022), requires district courts to consider all nonfrivolous arguments raised by the parties in …
23-6101 Kevin E. Chace v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standards-of-review trial-counsel WHETHER PETITIONER SHOULD BE ENTITLED TO CERTIORARI REVIEW BASED ON MULTIPLE ERRORS OF TRIAL COUNSEL THAT OCCURRED WHILE LITIGATING PETTIONER'S CASE
23-6103 Alvin Celius Andre v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constructive-amendment criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process entrapment entrapment-defense prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-interpretation I. Does a constructive amendment occur when the government substitutes Congress's intended object of the actus reus of 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b), "any indiv…
23-6104 Michael Venetez McRae v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent jurisdiction sentencing statutory-interpretation Actus. 92269) sould be Corrected there a —Ln5..Cotart ___ of Appeals Pinds hetodisteick cock 'incorrect, " determine d thot to of the thee required pr…
23-6079 Santos David Ramirez-Ortega v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review conflict-with-other-courts criminal-procedure district-court guideline-range holguin-hernandez judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines substantial-arguments Whether, after Holguin -Hernandez v. United States , __U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails…
23-6081 Jacobo Fuentes-Salgado v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
23-6085 Randall Gray Stoneman, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure district-court evidence evidence-seizure federal-sentencing-guidelines motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure sentencing sentencing-guidelines video-surveillance A. WAS THE DISTRICT COURT IN ERROR IN DENYING THE MOTION TO SUPPRESS THE EVIDENCE SEIZED PURSUANT TO THE APRIL 19, 2020 VIDEO? B. WAS THE SIX LEVEL E…
23-6086 Luis Alberto Marcano-Godoy v. United States First Circuit 2023-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver criminal-defendant criminal-procedure government-defense opening-brief procedural-rule reply-brief Whether a criminal defendant must raise the issue of an appeal waiver in his opening brief or whether it falls upon the government to raise the waiver…
23-6070 Eric V. Bartoli v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure ex-post-facto habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-error statutory-maximum Whether a guilty plea should be vacated when the underlying plea bargain contains an error of law (an illegal sentence) at its core.
23-6072 James Richards v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights crawford-v-washington crawford-violation criminal-procedure evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence this Court review the Betitioner's Trial Court Transcript Record on April 21, 2021, and all appeals. Counsel Arkie Byrd was so ineffective for failing…
23-6073 William Shirley, IV v. Steven Harpe, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2023-11-21 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief 1.) Have petitioner 's Fifth(5th) and Fourteenth(l4th) Constitutional Amendment Rights been violated? 2.) Has the State of Oklahoma violated the M.C.…
23A458 Tony Ford v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-21 Presumed Complete appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-jurisdiction sentencing-guidelines writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
23A461 Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2023-11-21 Presumed Complete constitutional-right court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief unitary-review Question not identified.
23-6056 Talthia Sorbel v. South Dakota, ex rel. South Dakota Department of Social Services, et al. South Dakota 2023-11-20 Denied Relisted (3)IFP adoption civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission family judicial-review standing ttejio •e.Vidence. "to 'oe vo\\u no one. a\\ovoYc\a ^re^raJr\n\m -to rrv^ e^Sw°tS \v\ -\Vi\S GjOS^.?' ore \OY\u \joaS CA Qrankd uiHY'ioud «ru| due- o…
23-6057 Juan J. Zuniga-Bruno v. United States First Circuit 2023-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy first-circuit issue-preclusion predicate-felonies sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vacatur 1. Whether the Court of Appeals of the First Circuit's affirming opinion in Zuniga-Bruno is case is conflicting with First Circuit precedents United S…
23-6060 John Lacey Mulkey v. Georgia Georgia 2023-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence extrinsic-evidence right-to-present-defense rule-403 sixth-amendment speedy-trial Did the Court of Appeals violate the due process right to present a defense, in holding admissible, under O.C.G.A. § 24-4-403, (Rule 403) extrinsic ev…
23-6062 Holli Womack v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offenses jury-instructions plain-error ruan-standard sixth-circuit standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent On October 17, 2022, this Court vacated Petitioner Womack's conviction in light of Ruan v. United States, 142 S. Ct. 2370, 213 L. Ed. 2d 706 (2022) an…
23-6063 Kieffer Michael Simmons v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fifth-amendment judicial-immunity subpoena witness witness-subpoena 1. Whether Simmons should have been entitled to judicial immunity for his subpoenaed witness, who would have offered exculpatory evidence at trial. 2…
23-6065 Tyrone Kevin Smith v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924(o) actual-innocence circuit-split criminal-procedure hobbs-act jurisdiction post-conviction post-conviction-relief section-2255 statutory-interpretation (1) Whether the Eleventh Circuit's wanton disregard for Taylor and its progeny in erecting an illogical and legally erroneous barrier to relief for § …
23-6066 Kirk Lamar Williams v. Washington Washington 2023-11-20 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery-violations due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure speedy-trial Question not identified.
23-537 Faisal Ashraf, aka Sal v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-11-20 Denied Amici (1) appeal-waiver circuit-split computer-fraud-and-abuse-act criminal-procedure due-process factual-basis federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plea-agreement Whether the federal courts of appeals can refuse to consider a challenge to the sufficiency of the factual basis for a guilty plea when the plea agree…
23-529 Matthew Hayko v. Indiana Indiana 2023-11-17 Denied Response Waived appellate-review credibility criminal-procedure evidence-weighing harmless-error sixth-amendment trial-by-jury witness-credibility Whether an appellate court can violate a defendant's right to trial by jury under the Sixth Amendment by weighing evidence and judging the credibility…
23-531 Timothy I. Carpenter v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-11-17 Denied Amici (2) criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-firearm-offense first-step-act mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums retroactivity sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation Do the sentencing reforms in Section 403 of the First Step Act apply when a district court sentences an individual whose offense was committed before …
23-6038 Lakeith Lynn Washington v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-11-17 GVR Relisted (2)IFP alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fifth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt minimum-and-maximum-sentences prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment I. Do the Fifth and Sixth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution require that facts to prove a defendant's prior convictions were for offenses committed …
23-6041 Luis Alberto Hernandez-Perez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-6044 Cristian Rodriguez v. United States First Circuit 2023-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure define-and-punish-clause felonies-on-high-seas felony-on-the-high-seas international-law laws-of-nations maritime-drug-enforcement-law maritime-law piracy-principles subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether denial of a pretrial challenge to the court's subject matter jurisdiction under the Maritime Drug Enforcement Law warrants interlocutory revie…
23-6046 Antonio Lebaron Melton v. Florida Florida 2023-11-17 Denied IFP age-of-culpability age-of-offender criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment roper-v-simmons scientific-evidence 1. Does this Court's holding in Roper v. Simmons, 543 U.S. 551 (2005), that the death penalty is unconstitutionally cruel and unusual punishment for i…
23-6049 Jimmie Jerome Manning, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2023-11-17 Denied Relisted (8)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial felony fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-size jury-trial sixth-amendment williams-v-florida Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-6000 Tyler Catlin Borg v. California California 2023-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-due-process criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-murder intent jury-instructions lying-in-wait murder-intent 1. Can a person be guilty of 1st degree murder without intent to kill or injure? 2. Does CALCRIM 521 unconstitutionally omit the intent element of fi…
23-6016 Malik Green v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-15 Denied IFP 28-usc-2253(c) certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interference-with-right-to-testify postconviction-relief prior-criminal-history right-to-testify sixth-amendment Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his claim that his counsel r…
23-6018 Calvin F. Currica v. Richard Miller, Warden Fourth Circuit 2023-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-standard brady-vs-maryland criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit guidelines judicial-review plea-agreement plea-bargaining post-conviction-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the decision below should be summarily reversed because the Fourth Circuit substituted its judgment for an erroneous factual decision by the s…
23-6025 Deunta Finch v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure guidelines plain-error-review preservation-of-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit Has the Sixth Circuit erred by creating a novel doctrine that says, to avoid plain-error review, a criminal defendant must object after the sentencing…
23-6001 Kenric Lavaughn Jackson, Sr. v. Texas Texas 2023-11-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence capital-murder constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sufficiency-of-evidence texas-law Question not identified.
23-6002 Justin Del Rio v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review plain-error statutory-interpretation This appeal concerns a challenge to the enforceability of a $5,000 fine under 18 U.S.C. § 3014. Petitioner, JUSTIN DEL RIO, submits the Fifth Circuit …
23-502 Noble U. Ezukanma v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-11-14 Denied Response Waived counsel-advice criminal-procedure defendant-testimony due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice right-to-testify sixth-amendment strickland strickland-standard How do the standards for judging ineffective assistance of counsel apply to the question of what advice defense counsel gives to a defendant concernin…
23-505 Garrett A. Arrowood v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-14 Denied Response Waived appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause crawford-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-law habeas-corpus hearsay-evidence I. WHETHER THE RECORD SUPPORTS THE COURT'S CONCLUSION THAT THE STATE COURT HEARING REGARDING THE INADMISSIBLE HEARSAY (CRAWFORD VIOLATION) DID NOT VIO…
23-5999 Anson Chi v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-11-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-appeal criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process extension-of-time petition-for-rehearing petition-for-rehearing-en-banc restitution Question not identified.
23-5977 Sean Overstreet v. United States Second Circuit 2023-11-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights counsel-waiver criminal-defendant-rights criminal-procedure due-process right-to-be-present sentencing supervised-release waiver May counsel waive a criminal defendant's right to be present during the portion of his sentence in which special conditions of supervised release are …
23-5980 Edgar Arellano v. California California 2023-11-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial senate-bill-567 sentencing sentencing-disposition sixth-amendment The Court Should Grant A Review To Settle The Weather The California Courts Were Correct. Question: In Stating That The Petitioner's Case Was Finally…
23-5990 Kirk A. Simmons v. Thomas Scarantino Fourth Circuit 2023-11-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 2241 aedpa aedpa-limitations criminal-procedure entrapment-defense federal-criminal-procedure government-fraud government-misconduct habeas-corpus innocence judicial-review 1. Does fraud, perpetrated by the federal government during a federal criminal proceeding so as to obstruct a defendant from mounting an entrapment de…
23-5973 Richard C. Duerson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-11-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-error constitutional-rights criminal-procedure critical-stage cronic-standard due-process due-process-rights ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice strickland-test strickland-v-washington united-states-v-cronic 1.) Has the Supreme Court overruled United States v. Cronic, eliminating the presumption that an accused has suffered Constitutional error without the…
23-5976 Brian Heath Davis v. Randy Gibbs, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP autopsy autopsy-report confrontation-clause criminal-procedure effective-assistance expert-testimony reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Akin to Justice Sotomayor's Bullcoming v. New Mexico, 564 U.S. 647, 672-74 (2011) scenario; To what extent are Sixth Amendment guarantees of Confronta…
23-5978 Brian Keith Person, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit knowing-voluntary plea-agreement plea-bargaining voluntariness Whether the Fourth Circuit Erred By Dismissing Mr. Person's Appeal Pursuant to An Appeal Waiver When He Argued that His Plea was Not Knowing and Volun…
23-5979 Daniel Vargas-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sixth-amendment The Sixth Amendment protects the right "to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation." U.S. Const. amend. VI. In Apprendi v. New Jersey, t…
23A411 Irvin Harris Johnson v. United States District of Columbia 2023-11-08 Presumed Complete attorney-client-privilege confidential-communication criminal-procedure right-to-counsel sixth-amendment work-product-doctrine Question not identified.
23-5965 Cody Enrriquez v. Florida Florida 2023-11-07 Denied Relisted (9)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-5966 Jonathan Ericksen v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence jackson-v-virginia judgment-of-acquittal rule-29 standard-of-review At the close of the government's evidence at his jury trial for Attempted Enticement of a Minor, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b), Petitioner Erick…
23-5968 Richard Langston v. Connecticut Connecticut 2023-11-07 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy fourteenth-amendment jury-acquittal jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States prohibit a state court from basing a criminal defendant's sentenc…
23-5969 Semaan Makdissi v. Florida Florida 2023-11-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP compulsory-process confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence false-accusation fourteenth-amendment motive sixth-amendment Whether the Petitioner's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated when the trial court prohibited the defense from placing before the jury …
23-5971 Kevondric Fezia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP closing-arguments confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process hearsay jury non-testifying-witness prosecutorial-argument sixth-amendment witness-testimony Does the Confrontation Clause apply to statements made by a prosecutor during closing arguments that detail for the jury what a non-testifying witness…
23-483 Mauricio Gonzalez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-07 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure district-court eleventh-circuit predicate-offense rule-29 rule-29-motion standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether the District Court applied the proper standard of review to find guilt and issue their judgment on Petitioner's Rule 29 motion. Whether the E…
23-5954 Arthur Picklo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 924(c) consecutive-sentences consecutive-sentencing criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law rule-of-lenity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the rule of lenity requires a sentencing court to impose a § 924(c) sentence consecutive to only the predicate crime of violence or drug offen…
23-5955 Kyle Maurice Parks v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-amendment government-attorney government-misconduct illegal-evidence search-and-seizure warrantless-search (1) Can an attorney for the government go outside the jurisdictional process and ask a friend to dearch an office without a warrant and not violate th…
23-5964 William Glenn Rogers v. Zac Pounds, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-11-06 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 constitutional-review criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel penalty-phase prejudice-standard prejudice-test strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. Is application of a prejudice standard that requires a habeas petitioner to "eliminate or completely discredit" the prosecution's trial evidence in…
23-5938 Loren J. Larson, Jr. v. Alaska Alaska 2023-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment juror-testimony sixth-amendment structural-error In Alvarez-Perdomo v. State , 454 P.3d 998, 999 (Alaska 2019), the Alaska Supreme Court held that compelling a defendant to testify in violation of t…
23-5941 Gregory L. Randle v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-11-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP consecutive-sentence consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness supervised-release Whether the district court erred by ordering Mr. Randle to serve 12 months in prison for nonviolent supervised release violations, and by ordering the…
23-5944 Kaylin Eric Johnson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-11-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-law habeas-corpus interlocutory-appeal judicial-review ninth-circuit standing Question not identified.
23-5946 Dravion Sanchez Ware v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-02 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process identification identification-evidence law-enforcement physical-restraint sentencing-guidelines surveillance-evidence L. As held by other Circuits, the physical restraint enhancement in US.S.G. § 2B3.1(b)(4)(B) requires more than pointing a gun at someone, and the Ele…
23-5947 Kraig M. Trotter v. United States Third Circuit 2023-11-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP controlled-substances criminal-procedure deterrence due-process federal-sentencing methamphetamine methamphetamines proportional-punishment sentencing-guidelines third-circuit Did the Third Circuit err in failing to consider the disparity in sentencing under U.S.S.G §2D1.1(c) of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for methamph…
23-469 Andrew P. Witt v. United States Armed Forces 2023-11-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fundamental-fairness judicial-ethics military-justice military-sentencing prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing The prosecutor repeatedly exhorted the panel members to consider how their sentence would reflect on them personally and professional and suggested th…
23-5928 Michael David Beiter, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process initial-appearance judicial-procedure legal-representation magistrate-judge right-to-counsel 1. Can a magistrate judge at an initial appearance force counsel upon a defendant who has never waived his rights and never participated in the right …
23-5931 Donald Lee Kissner v. Joseph Michael Orr, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-11-01 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony judicial-error medical-care ninth-circuit pretrial-detention qualified-immunity I. Did the Sixth Circuit United States Court of Appeals commit clear error when it affirmed the motion to dismiss? II. Did the Sixth Circuit United S…
23-5935 Michael Ray Thomas v. Adam Douglas, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-11-01 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct standing sua-sponte-appointment sufficiency-of-evidence After a United States District Judge orders the appointment of counsel sua sponte "in the interest of justice," may a United States court of appeals s…
23-5936 Hector Francisco Santos-Flores v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-11-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
23A396 Robert E. Harrison v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-11-01 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure due-process evidence-rule-404b jury-trial prior-conviction propensity-evidence Question not identified.
23-5916 Steven Richard Taylor v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-31 Denied IFP criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process expert-testimony frye-standard frye-test ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation right-to-counsel 1. Was Petitioner prejudiced by trial counsel's failure to move for adversarial testing of the State's novel DNA testing and statistics under Frye v. …
23-5917 Salvador Diaz-Diaz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certiorari-petition constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent precedent-overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5925 Isaac Johnson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-10-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 21-u.s.c.-§-851(c)(2) criminal-defendant criminal-procedure plain-error plain-error-review predicate-offense prior-conviction rule-52(b) rule-52b sentencing-enhancement waiver Does a criminal defendant waive Rule 52(b) plain error review pursuant to 21 U.S.C. § 851(c)(2) by failing to argue before the trial court that a cons…
23-5926 Jahvaris Lamoun Springfield v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-10-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment jury-misconduct no-impeachment-rule sixth-amendment The question presented is whether there is a constitutional exception to the no-impeachment rule codified in Federal Rule of Evidence 606(b) for insta…
23-5927 Katerin Martinez-Alberto v. United States First Circuit 2023-10-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure cross-examination defendant-rights due-process evidence jury-instructions plain-error self-incrimination testimonial-evidence testimony 1. Does display of a defendant's body part (a foot) to the jury constitute testimony that subjects the defendant to cross-examination? 2. In a multi-…
23-5909 Eric A. Zevely v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-10-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3582 article-iii-courts constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure federal-court-jurisdiction federal-criminal-conviction judicial-power prosecutorial-misconduct standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Question not identified.
23-5898 Christian Hayward v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-10-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection privacy-interest property-seizure search-and-seizure standing texas-v-brown united-states-v-place 1) DID THE LOWER COURT VIOLATE DUE PROCESS AND/OR EQUAL PROTECTION BY FAILING BY FAILING TO RECOGNIZE THAT HAYWARD HAD A PRIVACY POSSESSORY INTEREST I…
23-5901 Albert Randolph v. Texas Texas 2023-10-27 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance new-trial Court of Criminal Appeals error denying Writ of Habeas Corpus for New Trial. Court of Criminal Appeals error denying Motion for New Trial.
23-5903 Nathan Russell Cates v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-10-27 Denied IFP criminal-procedure dog-sniff drug-dog-alert fourth-amendment harris-v-florida motion-to-suppress probable-cause rule-16 vehicle-search This case involves a circuit split over the materiality of a drug dog's training and performance records under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 16, …
23-5904 Hazhar A. Sayed v. Colorado Colorado 2023-10-27 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure excusable-neglect ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction-motion sentencing standard-of-review Whether the Colorado Court of Appeals misapplied the standard of review applicable to assertion of justifiable excuse or excusable neglect for belated…
23-5905 Daniel Kristof Lak v. California California 2023-10-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP brady brady-disclosure conflict-of-interest conflicts-of-interest criminal-investigation criminal-procedure due-process impeachment-evidence law-enforcement law-enforcement-witness prosecutorial-ethics witness When a law enforcement witness in a criminal trial, themselves, becomes the subject of an unrelated criminal investigation, the prosecution is faced w…
23-5889 Christopher Michael Williams v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-10-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP alternative-suspect-defense criminal-procedure due-process due-process-violation habeas-corpus-petition ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining reasonable-doubt right-to-trial sixth-amendment-right Does the 6th Cir. Court err when it determines that a defendant's 6th Amendment right is not violated when there was evidence that it was likely than …
23-5891 Luis Alonso Hidalgo, III v. Tim Garrett, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-10-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel joinder joint-trial sixth-amendment 1. Did the Ninth Circuit err when Petitioner Hidalgo made a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right as to the failure of counsel t…
23-5892 Shane Woodgeard v. Timothy Heavlin, et al. Ohio 2023-10-26 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion bond-setting case-consolidation change-of-venue civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-recusal venue-change Did a lower Court violate Rights in issuing an unheard of, $100,000 bond on a misdemeanor, when there was overwhelming evidence showing there was no c…
23-5893 Tigran Zmrukhtyan v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-10-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure firearm-possession law-enforcement law-enforcement-interaction physical-struggle reckless-conduct risk-enhancement sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines Does mere possession of a firearm, even during a brief physical struggle with law enforcement, support a § 3C1.2 enhancement?
23-5894 Myron Lee Brandon v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-10-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment consent criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-exclusion fifth-amendment jury-instructions sixth-amendment transportation-of-minors I. The District Court violated the Defendant's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights by excluding evidence and Arg ument under Fed. R. Evid . 412, specific…
23-5895 Ryan Rydell Bonner v. Texas Texas 2023-10-26 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure procedural-default speedy-trial standing state-court Question not identified.
23-5879 Richard Wayne Johnson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-10-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge sentencing standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. In a Federal criminal case, whether a motion pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 2255(e) is a petition in the Mitigation in the Residual can challenge the subj…
23-5880 Jose Fernando Martinez-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
23-5883 Shardaye Jeacole Malik Bey v. Ohio Sixth Circuit 2023-10-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-1443 appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-rights court-fees criminal-procedure criminal-removal due-process filing-fees in-forma-pauperis Because filing fees are not required for removal of a criminal action under [28 U.S.C.] § 1443, it is not necessary to grant Petitioner in forma paupe…
23-5885 Donald Lee Kissner v. Heidi E. Washington, Director, Michigan Department of Corrections, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-10-25 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights collateral-consequences constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fact-finding-hearing judicial-discretion parole-revocation preliminary-hearing procedural-error I. DID THE SIXTH CIRCUIT UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS ABUSE ITS DISCRETION WHEN IT CLAIMED MR. BISSNER'S APPEAL WAS FRIVOLOUS? II. DID THE WESTERN …
23-5869 Craig Martin Shults v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-standard mutually-exclusive severance standard zafiro-precedent zafiro-v-united-states Whether the Ninth Circuit's rigid "irreconcilable and mutually exclusive" standard for severance survives this Court's decision in Zafiro v. United St…
23-5857 Jeremy Moody v. Georgia Georgia 2023-10-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP autonomy-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-strategy due-process faretta-v-california guilty-plea mccoy-v-louisiana right-to-control-defense right-to-self-representation self-representation trial-court-discretion 1. Whether a guilty plea inherently waives claims that the trial court violated a defendant's autonomy-based rights, such as the right to self-represe…
23-5858 Anthony Schneider v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure guilty-plea jurisdictional-challenge jurisdictional-challenges plea-bargaining supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-goodall united-states-v-taylor A guilty plea that includes an appellate waiver does not bar jurisdictional challenges on appeal. Class v. United States, 138 S. Ct. 798 (2018). The f…
23-5860 John Carl Ferrell v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP boykin-v-alabama constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review plea-bargaining sentencing supreme-court voluntary-plea Does a decision by the Supreme Court, after a plea is entered but before sentencing, present sufficient cause to consider if the plea was entered know…
23-5865 Jason Dix v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error separation-of-powers sua-sponte I. May an appellate court, consistent with due process, relieve a government party of its burden to show that a favorable error is harmless, decide th…
23-5845 In Re Kennedy Wright 2023-10-20 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction sentencing supreme-court Question not identified.
23-5846 Jong Whan Kim v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-10-20 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-courts indictment mens-rea plea-hearing rule-11 Is it error for a district court to rely on a defendant's pre-hearing review of the indictment to inform him of the nature of the offense?
23-5850 In Re Lawrence Smith 2023-10-20 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus standing One whether officials violate the Eighth Amendment when they deliberately indifference to a serious medical need of an incarcerated person?
23-5853 Alex Adams v. Unknown Layton, Sergeant, Coffield Unit, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-10-20 Dismissed IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection free-speech judicial-review legal-jurisdiction standing state-law takings & k WTAiT O £ / rffiz&ffr ?> bft2&kr 7tfT krAOVCf or Tttfc STATET 7 , T^et TlAT T d>^'f Quf CPAirprn^Xi)^ 5At £ 0°S Hk<& PCX {&&?(, M ujpmK J- MoJJ /…
23-5854 In Re Terrance A. McCauley 2023-10-20 Denied IFP civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection free-speech judicial-review petition-for-review sovereign-immunity standing Whales The _pdquedt oF comndiion aggd Tecconce. N ao. So . DMCarhey, wren, sengosedd \purdens oF Dre Shake a won URSConsiA, UREN @ ciraen oF Ye Nooa…
23-5839 Cesar Humberto Valencia-Terrazas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion legal-precedent precedent-overruling sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-414 Devon Archer v. United States Second Circuit 2023-10-19 Denied Amici (1) circuit-split criminal-procedure discretion judicial-discretion manifest-injustice new-trial new-trial-standard rule-33 second-circuit weight-of-evidence 1. Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 33 permits a district court to order a new trial "if the interest of justice so requires." The district court he…
23-416 Derek Michael Chauvin v. Minnesota Minnesota 2023-10-19 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived change-of-venue community-bias community-harm criminal-procedure juror-bias juror-prejudice presumed-prejudice sixth-amendment venue-change voir-dire Although a slightly similar question was presented to this Court in Skilling v. U.S., 558 U.S. 945 (2009), questions remained unresolved regarding the…
23-406 Taylor J. Matson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-10-18 Denied Response Waived case-agent criminal-procedure evidence evidence-summary jury-inference jury-instructions lay-opinion lay-witness-testimony legal-interpretation plain-language-interpretation summary-of-evidence witness-testimony Whether case agents may offer lay opinions summarizing evidence, interpreting plain language, and drawing inferences from evidence that only a jury ma…
23-5806 Jason Wayne Oien v. Chad Pringle, Warden Eighth Circuit 2023-10-18 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process jury-instructions marijuana prejudicial-evidence retroactivity sentencing Question not identified.
23-5832 William R. Abbott v. Loretta Otis-Sanders, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights crack-cocaine criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment equal-protection fair-sentencing-act federal-sentencing federal-statute-of-limitations first-step-act prison-rape-elimination-act retroactivity Whether the State of Louisiana Constitution's Equal Protection Clause embodies through the United States Constitution Fourteenth Amendment Federal sta…
23-5834 Herbert Johnson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c appellate-waiver categorical-analysis criminal-procedure illegal-conviction illegal-sentence jurisdictional-challenge plea-agreement statutory-interpretation For convictions and sentences to stand, they must not violate the Constitution. Challenges to illegal 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) convictions necessarily encom…
23-5796 Jose Folch-Colon v. United States First Circuit 2023-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute federal-law mens-rea racketeering VICAR violent-crime If by procuring and paying for the commission of murder, Petitioner aided and abetted a crime of violence in aid of racketeering (VICAR) as defined in…
23-5809 Bryce Jackson v. Tony Golick, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-10-17 Denied IFP 5th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment government-liability probable-cause search-and-seizure standing Question not identified.
23-5814 Justin Andre Lamoureux v. Florida Florida 2023-10-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure judicial-jurisdiction obstruction-of-justice witness-tampering Question not identified.
23-5816 Henry Jo Ward v. West Virginia West Virginia 2023-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-presumption fourteenth-amendment official-capacity The West Virginia Supreme Court interpreted a statute to create an unconstitutional evidentiary presumption. Specifically, the West Virginia Supreme C…
23-5817 Cordarius Lawrence v. Illinois Illinois 2023-10-17 Denied IFP appeal criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction sentencing standard-of-proof Question not identified.
23-5826 Mary Ann German v. South Carolina South Carolina 2023-10-17 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure davis-good-faith-exception exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception judicial-precedent police-conduct retroactivity After a decision of this Court makes a state statute unconstitutional under the Fourth Amendment, do the police get a grace period after this Court's …
23-5785 Joshua Aston v. Arizona Arizona 2023-10-16 Denied IFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions reopening-of-case right-to-present-defense right-to-testify sixth-amendment trial-procedure unanimous-jury Where a defendant wasn't afforded the opportunity to testify, did the trial court or defense counsel violate a defendant's right to testify and presen…
23-5789 Jean Max Darbouze v. Patrick Covello, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-10-16 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure csaas-testimony due-process evidence expert-testimony free-speech habeas-corpus translation-accuracy witness-credibility 1. During trial, it was elicited on cross-examination, that the victim told the investigator she never had sexual contact with Petitioner, and that h…
23-5790 Brock Brian Beeman v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit notice-requirements plea-agreement rule-32 sentencing sentencing-notice Did the Fourth Circuit err in upholding the Petitioner's appeal waiver to preclude his claim that the trial court violated the notice provisions of Ru…
23-5794 Joseph Aiken v. Florida Florida 2023-10-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9)IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure felony felony-charges fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-5802 Erie Adams, aka Michael Johnson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-counsel due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-precedent sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington In light of the facts of this case, was the defense counsel ineffective in light of this court's precedent in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (…
23-5768 Frank Nathan Escalante v. Jim Robertson, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-10-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice ninth-circuit procedural-rights standing 1. Was Petitioner's due Process Violated at any time through Judicial Proceedings? 2. Was Petitioner's Trial "fundamentally unfair"? 3. Has Petition…
23-5769 Brandon M. Jefferson v. Aaron D. Ford, Attorney General of Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-10-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights counsel-right criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance nevada-law right-to-counsel sixth-amendment state-law I. Dio Tfte penTiotoep. 1-fAve rite SixtH I'VMewoMe^r Rjwt uwoeft THe a-s. 6OK»St<TUT(0M To t&6 REPRCSeNTeD By t-ZOfrL couNSfL Dm.R|W6| ALL 6^ H(S CRI…
23-5770 Victor M. Barahona v. Matthew J. Platkin, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2023-10-12 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance involuntary-confession miranda-warning police-interrogation self-incrimination 1. When Detective Lopez told Petitioner that his statement could be used in his favor, did Detective Lopez subverted the Miranda warning, thus, render…
23-5776 Andrea Lamont Medlock v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure federal-authority imprisonment-review judicial-discretion plain-error reasonableness revocation sentencing-review sentencing-standards standard-of-review supervised-release Whether sentences of imprisonment following the revocation of supervised release should be reviewed for reasonableness or plain unreasonableness?
23-5777 Iker Fabricio Mendez-Alfaro v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure legal-standard precedent-overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5779 Donovan Romo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture-doctrine judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing sentencing-procedure standard-of-review Does a defendant forfeit a challenge to the manner in which the district court imposed sentence by failing to object after the sentence is pronounced,…
23-5749 Mark Anthony Thompson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus selective-adjudication selective-prosecution standard-of-review statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent I. DOES THIS SUPREME COURT FINDS THE FIFTH CIRCUIT 'S SELECTIVE ADJUDICATION AND UNDERMINING THE LAW OF THIS COURT ACCEPTABLE WHEN IT AFFIRMED THE D…
23-5758 Jimmy Jay Strayhorn, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 3553(a)-factors constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial pepper-v-united-states resentencing sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation unconstitutional WHETHER OR NOT/WHEN ONE HAS EXCERSIZED HIS RIGHT TO TRIAL AND RF. FOUND GUILTY OF A COUNT IN HIS INDICTMENT THAT WOULD LATER RF. FOUND UNCONSTITUTIONA…
23-5760 Mattie T. Lomax v. United States Federal Circuit 2023-10-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-investigation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial legal-definition seventh-amendment Plaintiff Mattie Lomax brought this action under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983 and 1985, alleging that the Defendants violated her constitutional rights during a …
23-5762 Isaiah Whitefox Redbird v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP where context made the basis of his objection to criminal-procedure evidence-preservation federal-rules-of-evidence plain-error-review preservation-requirement propensity-evidence tenth-circuit Did the Tenth Circuit incorrectly hold that Mr. Redbird's claim was not preserved, where context made the basis of his objection to exclude the prosec…
23-5764 Kevin Lynn Tucker v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process nolle-prosequi nolle-prossed plea-agreement pretrial-detention sentencing sentencing-credit substantive-reasonableness waiver 1. Whether the District Court's failure to give credit in sentencing for state pretrial detention on subsequently nolle prossed "related" charges crea…
23-5736 In Re Travis J. Guttu 2023-10-10 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa-deadline criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-innocence 1. Does a claim of procedural innocence require a petitioner to show his actual innocence with facts outside of the record where no trial took place? …
23-5739 Daniel Ray Metsinger v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jurisdiction plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing waiver Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Metsinger's appeal based on the waiver of appeal provision in his Plea Agreement.
23-5741 Hewitt A. Grant, II v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2023-10-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-prosecution jurisdiction standing witness-testimony Question not identified.
23-374 Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. v. Bryan David Range Third Circuit 2023-10-10 GVR Relisted (2) 2nd-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process felons felony-conviction firearm-possession firearms second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits a person from possessing a firearm if he has been convicted of "a crime punishable by …
23-5730 Blaise Caroleo v. United States Second Circuit 2023-10-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment sentencing sentencing-scheme statutory-interpretation waiver-of-rights 1. Whether a waiver of the protections against cruel and unusual punishment afforded to a defendant under the Eighth Amendment is valid and enforceabl…
23-5722 Armando Orozco-Calderon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5711 Mitchell D. Green v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2023-10-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP admissible-evidence constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jury jury-impartiality mistrial trial-rights In Arizona v. Washington, 434 U.S. 497, 98 S.Ct. 824, 54 L.Ed.2d 717 (1978) this Court addressed under what circumstances the Double Jeopardy Clause p…
23-5718 Adam Neftali Santana v. United States Third Circuit 2023-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment conspiracy-charge criminal-indictment criminal-procedure evidence evidence-sufficiency firearm-possession motion-to-suppress search-warrant standing 1. Did the Court err when it denied Petitioner's Motion to Suppress the evidence obtained through the execution of the contingency search warrant? 2.…
23-357 Jacob Hilbert v. Missouri Missouri 2023-10-04 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process jury-trial jury-trial-waiver split-of-authority trial-court-discretion waiver Petitioner appeared for trial along with counsel. The trial court stated that defense counsel had represented that defense counsel wanted a bench tria…
23-349 Donald Esslinger, et ux. v. Shawn Bass, et ux. Idaho 2023-10-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 5th-amendment citizen-citation civil-procedure civil-rights continuance criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment parallel-proceedings self-incrimination summary-judgment In an Idaho civil trespass case petitioners were denied a first-time continuance of a summary judgment hearing after they asserted their Fifth Amendme…
23-351 Rami A. Amer v. New Jersey New Jersey 2023-10-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) article-vi-a criminal-procedure due-process interstate-agreement-on-detainers pretrial-motion unable-to-stand-trial 1. Whether a defendant is always "unable to stand trial" under Article VI(a) of the Interstate Agreement on Detainers while a pretrial motion is pendi…
23-5699 Jose J. Galiany-Cruz v. United States First Circuit 2023-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-procedure district-court district-court-authority extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guidelines Does a district court have the authority to determine what constitutes "extra ordinary and compelling reasons " warranting compassionate release or ar…
23-5702 Ian A. Milaski v. Florida Florida 2023-10-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP arbitrary-and-unreasonable continuance counsel-of-choice criminal-procedure due-process right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-court Whether the trial court's arbitrary and unreasonable denial of a continuance (i.e., "I have full confidence in [current defense counsel's] ability to …
23-5707 Edward James Steiner v. Washington Washington 2023-10-03 Denied IFP case-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence-tampering insufficient-evidence judicial-process jury-instructions legal-procedure prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-fair-trial (1) Was there prosecutor misconduct? (2) Was there tampering of evidence? (3) Was the Indictment not guilty? (4) Is there witness tampering? (5) W…
23-5678 Jasper Michael Wagner v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-history criminal-procedure descamps-v-united-states gall-v-united-states judicial-fact-finding sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment united-states-v-hernandez Whether the Fifth Circuit's holding that that judicial fact-finding as to past offenses is permissible during sentencing pursuant to United States v. …
23-5684 William J. Dahl v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2023-10-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP armed-robbery civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process felony judicial-review legal-procedure precedent sentencing statutory-analysis Question not identified.
23-5688 Angel Marie Jordan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal-waiver constitutional-challenge criminal-justice criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process plea-agreement right-to-appeal This Court has recognized that an appeal waiver in a plea agreement cannot bar a challenge when a conviction, or sentence, is based on "constitutional…
23-5689 Philip Jones v. Charles Schuyler, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-10-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-v-cockrell ninth-circuit slack-v-mcdaniel Did the Ninth Circuit's refusal to issue a certificate of appealability for Jones's ineffective assistance of counsel claim conflict with this Court's…
23-5692 Jose Ramon Andino-Morales v. United States First Circuit 2023-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial jury-trial-right sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury has acquitted …
23-333 Evan S. Gutman v. Citibank, N.A. Florida 2023-10-02 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-immunity litigation-privilege tortious-act Does a State Supreme Court infringe upon the Due Process and Equal Protection Clause Rights of a Litigant in both the Civil and Criminal Context in ev…
23-346 Torriano Walpool v. Texas Texas 2023-10-02 Denied Relisted (2) actual-innocence credibility credibility-determination criminal-procedure deference-to-trial-court due-process habeas-corpus standard-of-review trial-court-findings In Texas law, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals considers the trial court the "eyes and ears" of the Court in making findings to aid the Court in de…
23-5671 Oscar Hernandez Maldonado v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure cultural-assimilation downward-departure expert-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presentence-report sentencing waiver-of-rights Whether the United States Court of Appeals properly affirmed the trial court's determination that the defendant was denied effective assistance of cou…
23-5672 Michael Lee Mac Cleary v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-history criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process judicial-accuracy sentencing townsend-v-burke uncounseled-defendants Whether the due process right to be sentenced based on accurate information that the Court recognized in Townsend v. Burke, 334 U.S. 736 (1948), is li…
23-5676 Terry Wayne King, II v. Texas Texas 2023-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure employer-property employment fourth-amendment incarceration privacy privacy-expectation search-and-seizure transportation trucking-industry Does a person have a legitimate expectation of privacy in a tractor trailer truck cab that serves as his home while he is on the road working for an e…
23-5664 Robert Edward Sindaco v. Florida Florida 2023-09-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-counsel newly-discovered-evidence perjury post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility Question not identified.
23-5666 Jeremy Aswegan v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure government-objection plain-error sentencing sentencing-enhancement standard-of-review I.WHETHER PLAIN ERROR REVIEW APPLIES WHEN A DEFENDANT OPPOSES A GOVERNMENT' OBJECTION TO A SENTENCING ENHANCEMENT? II.WHETHER THERE WAS INSUFFICIEN…
23-5668 Maurice Bellamy v. United States District of Columbia 2023-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-vagueness count-severance criminal-indictment criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process indictment joinder severance trial-court-discretion I. Whether the trial court erred when it denied defendant's repeated motions to sever counts in the indictment II. Whether the cruel, heinous and atr…
23-5656 Stephen M. Cooke, Jr. v. Allen Gang, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment involuntary-statements post-indictment-statements right-to-counsel sixth-amendment undercover-agent 1. Was Cooke's Sixth Amendment right to counsel violated when the state introduced at trial Cooke's post-indictment statements and actions that were i…
23-311 Keith Michael Connole v. David W. Garbarino, Judge, Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County, et al. Arizona 2023-09-27 Denied Relisted (2) arizona-revised-statutes codis-database criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-access reliability-of-conviction reliability-of-convictions statutory-interpretation Whether a trial court must interpret Arizona Revised Statutes Title 13, Section 4240, to maximize a defendant's due process rights to access evidence …
23-321 Jerry J. Davis, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-09-27 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland strickland-standard trial-counsel Whether the District Court and Sixth Circuit Erred When Both Found That Mr. Davis Was Not Entitled to the Issuance of a Certificate of Appealability f…
23-309 Michael Paul Nelson v. North Carolina North Carolina 2023-09-26 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure disability-rights due-process equal-access fundamental-rights reasonable-accommodation Does the Confrontation Clause of the 6th Amendment and/or the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment require a criminal court to modify its policies…
23-5645 Robert Eugene Stallings v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge counterman-precedent criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions procedural-error statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence Whether Counterman v. Colorado, decided after the decision below, shows that 18 U.S.C. §1038(a) should be read to require proof that the defendant int…
23-5654 Daquail Ramon Johnson v. Virginia Virginia 2023-09-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia rational-trier-of-fact reasonable-doubt standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence virginia In Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307 (1979), this Court held that the Due Process Clause requires the following standard of review for appellate claim…
23-5639 Damaso Rivera-Fonseca v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-09-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge convicted-felon criminal-procedure felon-in-possession firearm-possession habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance rehaif-v-united-states strickland-standard In light of the facts of this case, was the defense counsel ineffective in light of this court's precedent in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (…
23-5642 Tracy Jones, aka Tracy Wilcox v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-09-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure dismissal due-process fifth-amendment miranda-rights missouri-v-seibert presentment 1) Whether a 37-day delay in presentment requires dismissal under the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment? 2) Whether the use of pre-Mirandized…
23-5631 Jason M. Moriarty v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP consecutive-sentences criminal-law criminal-procedure imprisonment maximum-sentence revocation-of-release sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervised-release When revoking multiple terms of supervised release and requiring a defendant "to serve in prison all or part of the term of supervised release," may t…
23-5632 Mario Rolando Cadenas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-appeal judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent-overruling sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5634 Jacob M. Currey v. Illinois Illinois 2023-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-standard plea-bargaining right-to-appeal sixth-amendment Wvv^-VVie-r W "»£ -far ck svulf d,ouc4 c\eM o rd^6+ c\ -VM^eAy^ pec? ^\<?4^o 4c? b'4h<i rc^xjftj g\jvr4y ^) \€o-& ,c\j\A v/ \l > 4 y iv(4> r^V^A" £X.…
23-5635 William Raymond Carter v. Illinois Illinois 2023-09-21 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process evidence free-speech jurisdiction legal-procedure standing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
23-5624 Charles M. Porter v. United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida Eleventh Circuit 2023-09-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process extraordinary-circumstances judicial-discretion law-enforcement probable-cause trial-court-error warrantless-arrest The sole point of this petition is the fact that Petitioner was arrested without probable cause. Hence, therefore, the warrantless arrest was unlawful…
23-5616 Isaac Kipkurui Biegon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP accomplice-testimony confrontation-clause conspiracy-evidence conspiracy-hearsay corroboration corroboration-evidence criminal-procedure due-process hearsay jury-instructions sixth-amendment This petition seeks a review of a wrongful alleged conspiracy conviction. A. There are three foundational prerequisites which must be established to …
23-5618 Gustavo Tijerina Sandoval v. Texas Texas 2023-09-20 Denied Relisted (10)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process jury-empanelment jury-selection lower-court-split trial-procedure 1. Given that jury selection is one of the most critical phases of a criminal trial, how should courts determine when jury empanelment begins for a pa…
23-5621 Amado Alvarez-Alvarado v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-interpretation precedent precedent-overruling sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5626 Arun Dhavamani v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process evidentiary-hearing factual-finding federal-jurisdiction manufactured-jurisdiction sentencing Whether a defendant's right to due process is violated when a Court of Appeals remands a case for additional factfinding after the district court has …
23-5627 Ronald Rene Deleon, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure mandatory-minimum plain-error revocation sentencing sentencing-procedure supervised-release Whether application of a mandatory minimum term of supervised release following a revocation amounts to plain error?
23-5629 Rene Rigoberto Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-09-20 Denied IFP 2nd-amendment appellate-review constitutional-analysis criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felony-indictment fifth-circuit plain-error statutory-interpretation united-states-v-rahimi Whether a ruling in Mr. Rahimi's favor would affect the Fifth Circuit's plain-error analysis concerning the constitutionality of § 922(n).
23-266 Javaar Yavonnie Kalem Watkins v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-09-20 Denied Response Waived constitutional-error conviction-reversal criminal-procedure due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-doubt structural-error The Constitution requires the Government to persuade a jury "beyond reasonable doubt" in order to sustain a conviction. Over Watkins' objection, the r…
23-5608 George Butler v. Mississippi Mississippi 2023-09-19 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus habitual-offender indictment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel intervening-decision sentencing-error (1) The Conviction and/or Sentence was in violation of the United States Constitution, Mississippi Constitution, and Laws of Mississippi. (2) The Con…
23-5599 Juan Manuel Amaya-Castaneda v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion prior-conviction-exception prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether, after Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, _U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails to…
23-5607 Juan Valero v. Texas Texas 2023-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment capable-of-repetition criminal-procedure due-process evading-review texas-code texas-code-of-criminal-procedure writ-of-certiorari I. DOES ARTICLE 46B.0095(A) OF THE TEXAS CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE VIOLATE THE DUE PROCESS CLAUSE OF THE 14TH AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UN…
23-5593 Shawn V. Castiglione v. Florida Florida 2023-09-15 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-validity criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief sexual-offense statutory-interpretation 1) Whether the Florida Statutes, Chapter 794 and Chapter 800, under which Petitioner was charged, tried, convicted, sentenced and incarcerated, are co…
23-5594 Brim Bell v. New Hampshire New Hampshire 2023-09-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process false-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-procedure warrantless-search 1. Whether trial-counsel erred by not filing a motion to quash the indictments, despite the overwhelming-evidence that proves the investigating offi…
23-5596 Edward James Steiner v. Washington Washington 2023-09-15 Denied IFP citizenship civil-liberties constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-jurisdiction legal-standing prosecutorial-misconduct standing witness-tampering Was there prosecutorial misconduct? Was tape of evidence? Is this in state jail? Will this case and others bring like the first U.S. Citizens? Wil…
23-5569 Francisco Gutierrez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure criminal-procedure de-novo-resentencing de-novo-review judicial-discretion law-of-case law-of-the-case open-record resentencing sentencing Does law of the case apply to an appeal from a de novo resentencing on an open record?
23-5579 Fitzroy C. Morton v. Florida Florida 2023-09-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (18)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-242 Jonathan M. Martinez v. United States Armed Forces 2023-09-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial jury-unanimity military-conviction military-justice sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict uniform-code-military-justice Whether military convictions for serious offenses must be unanimous.
23-5566 Scott A. Anthony v. United States Third Circuit 2023-09-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 3rd-circuit 4th-circuit 8th-circuit child-abuse circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law interstate-commerce sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation visual-depiction The Child Abuse Victims Right Act of 1986 led to the passage of 18 USC § 2251(a) which prohibits the knowing possession of videos and any other matter…
23-5567 Carlos Gilbert Arellano-Ramirez v. Florida Florida 2023-09-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (18)IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure felony felony-charges fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-5570 Scottie Andrea Jackson v. Florida Florida 2023-09-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (18)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-5572 Joseph W. Fischer v. United States District of Columbia 2023-09-13 Judgment Issued Amici (12)Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split congressional-inquiry congressional-investigations criminal-procedure mens-rea obstruction-of-justice statutory-construction statutory-interpretation vagueness witness-tampering Did the D.C. Circuit err in construing 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c) ("Witness, Victim, or Informant Tampering"), which prohibits obstruction of congressional i…
23-5573 Lashun Tracy Tinnen v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-precedent performance-evaluation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-test In light of the facts of this case, was the defense counsel ineffective in light of this court's precedent in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (…
23-5574 Ramone L. Wright v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-process notice-requirement self-representation sixth-amendment trial-preparation Question not identified.
23-5575 Andrew Sposato v. Florida Florida 2023-09-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (18)IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-charge fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-5554 Cameron L. Hickman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process jury-instructions prosecutorial-burden reasonable-doubt sexual-assault standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the prosecution presented sufficient evidence at trial to establish the elements of the alleged crime.
23-5555 Alfredo Garcia-Aleman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5557 Millard E. Price v. Centurion of Delaware, LLC, et al. Delaware 2023-09-12 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence fair-trial indigent ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief prisoner Question not identified.
23-5562 Paul Dubois v. Nelson Alves, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk First Circuit 2023-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-procedure court-conflict criminal-procedure due-process extradition extradition-law judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction procedural-review standing WHETHER THE UNITED STATES OF APPEALS HAS ENTERED A DECISION IN CONFLICT WITH THE DECISION OF ANOTHER UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS ON THE SAME JUDTIC…
23-238 Roger Dale Anderson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-09-12 Denied comport with the Supreme Court's holding in Ruan which did not explicitly reference the Controlled controlled-substances-act criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions medical-practice medical-professional-liability mens-rea statutory-interpretation In Ruan v. United States, 142 S. Ct. 2370 (2022), this Court held that a physician may be convicted under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1), of the Controlled Sub…
23-5547 Timothy James Hahn v. Florida Florida 2023-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment sentencing Whether a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole on a defendant who was under the age of twenty-five at the time of the offen…
23-5536 Kinley MacDonald v. Maine First Circuit 2023-09-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP child-protection child-welfare civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process family-law hearsay-evidence judicial-discretion standing Before the Court is a matter involving court-based Children, Placed into "ostern Care by mere hearsay) Causing: Itrepoir—adle harm. Th mother suffered…
23-5539 Trezjuan Thompson v. United States First Circuit 2023-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court-of-appeals circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing deficient-performance ineffective-assistance new-rule-doctrine new-rule-of-law sentencing-counsel supreme-court-precedents 1) How far afield from prior criminal sentencing cases does a doctrinal opinion from a regional circuit court of appeals have to go before it qualifie…
23A222 Jong Whan Kim v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-09-07 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure guilty-plea mens-rea nature-of-charges ruan-v-united-states rule-11-colloquy Question not identified.
23-5519 Octavio Cortez Fierros v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law child-pornography civil-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment judicial-review legal-precedent sexual-exploitation standing statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
23-5522 Javier Guerra v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure drug-quantities fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentence-enhancement sentencing-enhancement strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Given the case's specifics, was the defense counsel ineffective according to the Strickland v. Washington 466 U.S. 668 (1984) precedent when failing t…
23-5523 Cedrick L. Jones v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-oath judicial-review newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief standing state-constitution d> f- Jflo&idk 1 UJh-^-4'k eft A £_i &C.U1K I Coo'R.T ' _ju<dcje. Ju'R\SD \€±~Ctot4 _£> V_s 4 \aJK<£. nj i4p ^.onvA'd. 4o \oty #(-f(j? OATF K/WP- Ah.€…
23-5526 Adelfo Rodriguez-Mendez v. United States Third Circuit 2023-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-standard constitutional-violation criminal-procedure drug-attribution evidence fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment post-conviction-sentencing sentencing sixth-amendment 1. Whether attributing drugs , post-conviction , in an amount greater than what is charged in an indictment and greater than what the jury found is in…
23-5527 Brian Kerry O'Keefe v. Doug Gillespie, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-09-06 Denied IFP circuit-court-review civil-procedure constitutional-violation criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy federal-habeas habeas-corpus jurisdiction post-conviction post-conviction-relief state-court-proceeding Question not identified.
23-5535 Michael Rocky Lane v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-claim brady-rule circuit-split clear-and-convincing-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence-standard federal-jurisdiction federal-law habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation I. Whether The Circuit Courts Have Decided An Important Question Of Federal Law That Should Be Definitively Settled By This Court? II. Whether 28 U.S…
23-206 Jerry Lynn Burns v. Iowa Iowa 2023-09-06 Denied Response Waived civil-rights criminal-procedure dna-collection fourth-amendment privacy-rights probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search Does the State's warrantless search of a person's unavoidably shed DNA violate the Fourth Amendment where the individual has never been arrested or co…
23-5514 Rodger William Dillard v. Wyoming Wyoming 2023-09-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion alford-plea appeal court-rules criminal-procedure due-process judicial-abuse judicial-discretion plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentence-correction sentencing 1. Did the District in and for Natrona County 7th Judicial Abuse its power when it accepted the Petitioner alford plea because the the statue reads as…
23-5515 Carmen Saldana Meyer v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure extraterritorial-jurisdiction federal-kidnapping-act foreign-commerce jurisdictional-basis jury-instructions kidnapping united-states unlawful-act Whether the Federal Kidnapping Act authorizes a conviction where the foreign commerce jurisdictional basis was the defendant's travel in foreign comme…
23-5516 Angela Jane Johnson, et al. v. Victoria Fire and Casualty Company Sixth Circuit 2023-09-05 Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process judicial-process legal-review petition public-trial right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
23-5500 Le'Troy D. Merritt v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-09-01 Denied IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-rules fair-trial federal-appeal habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-due-process state-action Question not identified.
23-5509 Vincent D. White, Jr. v. Michael Phillips, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP adverse-effect concurrent-conflict conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance 23-5508" mickens-standard post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment state-court trial-counsel Whether a state court's denial of post-conviction 1. Whether a criminal-defense attorney, under indictment on charges of rape, kidnapping, and sexual assault, has a conflict of interest when simultane…
23-5512 Robinson Mendoza-Gomez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-procedure double-counting due-process enhancement-application federal-sentencing governmental-officer obstruction-of-justice sentencing-guidelines Whether the guidelines' enhancement for obstruction of justice requires some conduct above and beyond the conduct comprising the offense of conviction…
23-5513 Rickeena Hamilton v. Tennessee Tennessee 2023-09-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions lesser-included-offense right-to-present-defense second-degree-murder 1. The defendant was convicted of second-degree murder after she stabbed a man who had attacked her in a bar without any provocation. This factual sit…
23-5498 Alex Adams v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-08-31 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-provision criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review jurisdictional-matter legal-issue procedural-question statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
23-5499 Manuel De Jesus Del Cid Bran v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3583 abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing deportation discretionary-sentencing sentencing-commission supervised-release A district court may not consider retribution when deciding whether to impose a term of supervised release. See Concepcion v. United States, 142 S. Ct…
23-5504 Jabriel Fitzgerald Lakes v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP classification criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-criminal-procedure incarceration-classification judicial-error presentence-report recidivism right-to-appeal sentencing sentencing-procedure Did the District Court commit "error" that substantively —violated Lakes' right when it failed to enclude the disputes of the objection to the PRS w…
23-5505 Jacques Lamar Walker v. Virginia Virginia 2023-08-31 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP bank-robbery criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment trial-court witness-identification Whether The Supreme Court Of Virginia Erred In Refusing To Reverse Petitioner Jacques Lamar Walker's Convictions Because The Trial Court Violated The …
23-5483 Dontavious Blake v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence-prejudice ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias plea-bargaining prejudice sentencing ISSUE 1: The Appellate Court erred in denying relief for IOC concerning the advice that petitioner would receive a life sentence after either a guilty…
23-5484 Dion Ray Wheeler v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
23-5487 Jose Humberto Hernandez-Mendez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-rule almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi-rule constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-analysis sentencing supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
23-5489 Lonnie Dee Brown v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-08-30 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure daubert daubert-standard evidence expert-testimony ineffective-assistance kumho-tire standard-of-review strickland-test 1. Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals ' review of trial courts decisions to admit or exclude expert testimony comport with the United St…
23-5465 Steven Justin Villalona v. Warden, Oakdale FCI, 1, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii-c constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process interstate-agreement-on-detainers judicial-remedy notice-requirement remedy speedy-trial trial-rights Question not identified.
23-5472 Jorge Andrade Rico v. James Robertson, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-detention civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus mootness procedural-default solitary-confinement standing The OCR text provided is too degraded and illegible to accurately extract the "Question(s) Presented" section verbatim. While a "QUESTION(S) PRESENTED…
23-5455 John A. Crane v. Florida Florida 2023-08-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (18)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-charge fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-5457 Deangelus Thomas v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-08-28 GVR Relisted (3)IFP armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof constitutional-fact-finding criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial predicate-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-penalty May a district court judge properly find, by a preponderance of the evidence, the uncharged, non-elemental fact that a person committed three prior of…
23-5458 Kimeo Delmar Conley v. Jason Wells, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-amendment jury-instructions sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
23-5459 Maurice Turner v. Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2023-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP co-defendant co-defendant-statements confrontation-clause criminal-procedure douglas-v-alabama due-process harmless-error pretrial-statements sixth-amendment testimony WHETHER THE VIOLATION OF THE CONFRONTATION CLAUSE AS EXPLICATED IN DOUGLAS V. ALABAMA, 380 U.S. 415, 85 S.CT. 1074, 13 L.ED.2D 934 (1965) WAS HARMLESS…
23-5440 Roman Andreyevich Glukhoy v. California California 2023-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review chapman-standard chapman-v-california criminal-procedure harmless-error jury-instructions legal-theory prejudice prejudicial-error standard-of-review 1. When a defendant is convicted after a trial court instructs a jury on two theories of guilt, one of which is legally correct and one legally incorr…
23-5445 William Bazemore v. United States Second Circuit 2023-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion crime-of-violence criminal-procedure district-court factual-findings guilty-plea section-1591 sex-trafficking voluntariness withdrawal I WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION WHEN IT DENIED DEFENDANT'S MOTION TO WITHDRAW HIS GUILTY PLEA AND FAILED TO MAKE FACTUAL FINDINGS N…
23-5449 Antonio Rojas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
23-5450 Hermenegildo Garcia-Gutierrez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5451 Raul Omar Rios-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-appeal judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent-overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5453 Pedro Ramirez-Urbina v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment alien-smuggling burden-of-proof causation causation-standard criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sentence-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth or Sixth Amendments prohibit conduct for which Ramirez was acquitted—committing an alien-smuggling offense that resulted in a death—…
23-5454 Moses Crowe v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-08-25 Denied IFP confrontation-clause confrontation-right criminal-procedure cross-examination drug-abuse due-process intoxication jury-unanimity methamphetamine witness-credibility 1. Whether Petitioner's constitutional right to confrontation was violated when, during his criminal jury trial, the district court restricted cross e…
23-5422 Herman Robinson v. Donita McIntosh, Superintendent, Clinton Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2023-08-24 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-amendment illegal-evidence police-procedure search-and-seizure Did the Schenectady County Police Department violate Petitioner's Fourth Amendment right against illegal search and seizure? Did the Schenectady Coun…
23-5427 Ranson Long Pumpkin v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-08-24 Denied IFP confrontation-clause credibility credibility-evidence criminal-procedure cross-examination drug-usage drug-use evidence sixth-amendment Whether Long Pumpkiw's right to confrontation was denied when the district court ruled that he could not cross-examine two important eye-witnesses "in…
23-5432 Kyle Vaughn v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-presumption presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-standard rita-precedent rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness Whether the Court should clarify how a defendant who challenges the substantive reasonableness of a within-Guidelines sentence may rebut an appellate …
23-5435 Marques Webb v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jurisdiction plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-default waiver Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Webb's appeal based on the waiver of appeal provisions in his Plea Agreement.
23-5413 Christopher Ray Lipska, aka Christopher Ray Hare v. Oregon Oregon 2023-08-23 Denied IFP child-abuse child-sexual-abuse criminal-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility judicial-discretion prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-proportionality sexual-abuse 1) In an ECSA and unlawful contact with a trial, does a trial court abuse its OEC 401, 402, 403 discretion by allowing the state to present evidence t…
23-5417 Ari Misha Liggett v. Colorado Colorado 2023-08-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-evidence criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule harris-v-new-york impeachment-exception insanity-defense james-v-illinois supreme-court-precedent Whether the Colorado Supreme Court's radical expansion of the narrow impeachment exception this Court adopted in Harris v. New York, 401 U.S. 222 (197…
23-5418 Billy Noel Catherwood v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas-corpus judicial-circuit national-emergency public-defender standing state-corrections time-extension victim-impact Question not identified.
23-5419 Seth Williams v. United States Third Circuit 2023-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-authority mandatory-minimum rehaif-doctrine sentencing sentencing-modification Does the District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania have the authority and jurisdiction to change a sentence after 12 years that was ORALL…
23-5423 Andre Monteek Edwards v. Kim Cargor, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP accident accident-defense criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions prejudice prejudice-analysis second-degree-murder self-defense strickland-standard 1(a). DOES A SECOND DEGREE MURDER CONVICTION PRECLUDE A SHOWING OF PREJUDICE WHEN COUNSEL'S ERRORS WHICH PRECLUDED THE JURY'S CONSIDERATION OF MICHIGA…
23-5424 Caesar V. Vaca v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights-restoration constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-firearms-law felony-possession habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel restoration-of-civil-rights second-amendment I. Whether reasonable jurist could debate that trial and appellate counsel failed to invoke 18 U.S.C. §921(a)(20) despite abundant legal support for…
23-5396 Antoine Clark v. United States Third Circuit 2023-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause title-iii wiretap wiretap-law 1. Whether this Court should set limits on whether law enforcement's selfcreated exigent circumstances provide justification for a Title III wiretap?
23-5404 Grace Woodham v. New Hampshire New Hampshire 2023-08-21 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-rights competency-to-stand-trial constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-jurisdiction mental-health-treatment pretrial-detention Did either / both my appellate and trial counsel perform beneath the standard demanded by the US Constitution? Was this appeal moot?
23-5410 Sedrick D. Russell v. J. Denmark Fifth Circuit 2023-08-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice pro-se-petition sixth-amendment standing Must a pro se petitioner alleging a complete denial of counsel specifically cite Cronic to exhaust his claim in the state court? If a detained crimin…
23-5385 Adam Knoll v. Florida Florida 2023-08-18 Denied Relisted (3)IFP constitutional-law constitutional-validity criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus procedural-error sexual-offense standing 1) Whether the Florida Statutes, Chapter 794 and Chapter 800, under which Petitioner was charged, tried, convicted, sentenced and incarcerated, are co…
23-5387 James Frank Noel, Jr. v. Indiana Metro Police Department, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction sentencing statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
23-5389 Wilfredo Rodriguez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split colorable-claim criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process federal-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion judicial-response sentencing sentencing-argument Where a federal criminal defendant raises a colorable sentencing argument, must the district court acknowledge and respond to it?
23-5390 Neeraj Chopra v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process essential-elements indictment indictment-modification jury-instruction jury-instructions sexual-assault sexual-contact statutory-interpretation A jury instruction constructively amends the indictment if it modifies the essential elements of the offense charged in the indictment. Chopra's indic…
23-5391 Walter Raul Maguina v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidence extrinsic-evidence harmless-error judicial-procedure prejudice prejudicial-evidence remand Whether a district court's failure to address the prejudicial nature of extrinsic evidence requires remand.
23-5393 Shaun N. Taylor v. Illinois Illinois 2023-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP ake-v-oklahoma criminal-procedure due-process expert-appointment expert-witness fourteenth-amendment indigent-defendant insanity-expert mental-competency mental-health right-to-counsel I. Do this Court's decisions in Ake v. Oklahoma and McWilliams v. Dunn require the appointment of a second insanity expert for an indigent defendant w…
23-5394 In Re Justin Lewis 2023-08-18 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment federal-court fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review legal-procedure Question not identified.
23-5395 In Re Justin Lewis 2023-08-18 Denied IFP 4th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-court judicial-review prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
23-5399 Milton Melvin Rodgers v. California California 2023-08-18 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions court-procedure criminal-procedure due-process evidence jurisdictional-issue legal-writ search-and-seizure statutory-provisions Cm, f_j:_shou\A (kc\\g 4k &(lauxr^ \^cWl yelloA of iquk Mi>q. <X ^jkj^AgLSpe &eSeion of a tixeAfm !?^iso0*Ljy2^QsA-^^ X- A\A nrel ^,,A A fc/uAg*, U)K…
23-160 Francisco Dario Mora v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-08-18 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 28-usc-2461 criminal-forfeiture criminal-procedure due-process government-seizure property-rights statutory-interpretation substitute-property temporary-possession Whether the Government may require criminal defendants under 28 U.S.C. § 2461 to forfeit their own property as a substitute for objects they temporari…
23-5365 Marcus Roosevelt Taylor v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP asset-forfeiture civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure drug-proceeds drug-trafficking due-process mandatory-victim-restitution-act restitution restitution-order Whether the $228,304 restitution order infringes upon Marcus Taylors constitutional rights. And sets a dangerous precedent by allowing for the return …
23-5374 Jessie C. Roberts v. Danny Samuel Ninth Circuit 2023-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency criminal-procedure delusions hallucinations incompetency ineffective-assistance mental-health specific-intent Whether a trial counsel whose client has been found incompetent to stand trial three different times prior to trial provides ineffective assistance of…
23-5379 Everett Charles Wills, II v. Louisiana Louisiana 2023-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP actus-reus counsel-concession criminal-defendant-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mens-rea retroactivity right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-strategy When guilt is the sole issue for the jury to decide, is it permissible for counsel to unilaterally concede the essential elements (actus reus and mens…
23-5362 Jerry Lee Beale, Jr. v. Mississippi Mississippi 2023-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP attempted-murder civil-rights criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process hearsay hearsay-testimony intent jury-instructions officer-testimony trial-procedure A. Whether the indictment is defective for failure to allege what act Beale committed in furtherance of his attempt to kill the officers. B. Whether …
23-5363 Kyle Richard Bishop v. Georgia Georgia 2023-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction mitigating-factors sentencing-guidelines standing Question not identified.
23-5364 Christopher Alexander Nerius v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-16 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act career-offender-guideline controlled-substance-offense criminal-procedure federal-sentencing prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines timing-question united-states-sentencing-guidelines Whether, in determining if a prior offense is a "controlled substance offense" for purposes of the career offender guideline, U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b), sen…
23-5366 Ricky Alan Deephouse v. Wyoming Wyoming 2023-08-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process hearsay-evidence illegal-opinion-issuance judicial-review rule-of-law single-justice-opinion state-court-procedure state-power-abuse state-supreme-court wyoming-rules-of-evidence 1. DID THE STATE SUPREME COURT IN THIS MATTER ABUSE ITS POWER? 2. DID THE STATE SUPREME COURT IN THIS MATTER MISUSE ITS POWER? 3. DID THE STATE SUPR…
23-5372 Larry David Davis v. Amy Jackson Douglas, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-08-16 Dismissed IFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-jurisdiction police-misconduct statutory-interpretation trial-procedure Question not identified.
23-5357 Carlos Edwin Smith, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a adult-sentencing adverse-childhood-experiences criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court judicial-discretion mitigation-factors relevancy sentencing-guidelines I. WHEN SENTENCING A DEFENDANT PURSUANT TO 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) DOES A DISTRICT COURT FULLY "CONSIDER THE FACTORS SET FORTH IN 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)" IF …
23-5359 James Thomas Burke v. Nick Deml, Commissioner, Vermont Department of Corrections, et al. Second Circuit 2023-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-counsel due-process effective-assistance effective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment #1. Whether Americans are lawfully entitled to conflict free defense counsel? #2. Whether Americans are lawfully entitled to effective assistance of …
23-5350 Daniel Chris Ramsey v. California California 2023-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights competency constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jurisdiction legal-procedure mental-health writ Question not identified.
23-5339 Jean Buteau Remarque v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-08-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitrary-enforcement civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause section-2252A speedy-trial statutory-interpretation 1. Whether an unprecedented legal theory of receipt that relies on file name of unauthenticated screen shots as relevant unit of prosecution under Sec…
23-5343 Scott Lindsay Halfhill v. Washington Washington 2023-08-11 Denied IFP alternative-suspect circumstantial-evidence criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment (1) Should this Court grant Certiorari when Halfhill was convicted of killing a man with intent upon nothing more than being of many people in the vic…
23-5345 Henry Robledo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-08-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules holguin-hernandez-v-united-states preservation-of-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-preservation statutory-interpretation Is an argument for a sentence based on specific statutory sentencing factors sufficient to preserve a procedural reasonableness claim?
23-5324 Michael D. Beiter, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3006a court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure due-process forced-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation waiver This case presents an important issue concerning what constitutes "the right to have the assistance of counsel" under the Sixth Amendment to the U.S. …
23-5326 Latonia Smith v. United States District Court for the District of Nevada Ninth Circuit 2023-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment free-speech habeas-corpus legal-detention speech-conduct standing Whether AOL A(C2I0B) targets conduct lone of SPeecin.and.Conduck Can sir distinciand.Confircking opinyvons among tthe lowes Coutts ond signifreanty ta…
23-5331 Al Douglas Wordly v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default residual-clause statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine Whether Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. 591 (2015), establishes "cause" to excuse procedurally defaulted 28 U.S.C. § 2255 claims that are predicate…
23-5334 Mario Iglesias-Villegas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process evidence grand-jury-transcripts habeas-corpus jackson-standard reasonable-doubt rule-6e sufficiency-of-evidence 1. The Court has held that the due process clause requires the government to prove each element of a criminal offense beyond a reasonable doubt. In re…
23-5303 Jeanne Germeil v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-procedure expert-testimony good-faith jury-instructions medical-practice ruan-v-united-states 1. Whether the United States Supreme Court's Decision in Ruan v. United States Warrants Certiorari Review of the Court's Refusal to Instruct the Jury …
23-5310 Joseph Tyshawn Darren Favorite v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-08-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP burden-of-proof confrontation-clause criminal-conduct criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standards judicial-discretion police-report sentencing-enhancement uncorroborated-accusation May the Court rely on an uncorroborated accusation of criminal conduct in a police report to enhance a defendant's sentence when the report is not par…
23-5312 In Re Brian D. Smith 2023-08-09 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias judicial-recusal plea-bargaining right-to-appeal Is Smith's plea of guilty invalid because he was not informed of the true nature of his crime and was misled and misinformed by his court-appointed pu…
23-5314 Joe Crawford v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP confidential-informant criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency felony-conviction jury-instructions mens-rea reasonable-doubt rehaif-standard réhaif-v-united-states WHETHER IN LIGHT OF Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 204 L.Ed.2d (2019), WAS THE EVIDENCE INSUFFICIENT TO SUSTAIN A CONVICTION WHEN THE GOVERN…
23-5315 Jesse Dean Redfearn v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-08-09 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights compulsory-process confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process sixth-amendment witness-obstruction Did the trial court and/or the prosecution violate the Sixth (6th) Amendment, [confrontation clause], and clearly established law of the United States…
23-5320 Curtis Lavon Magee v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jurisdiction plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-error waiver Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Magee's appeal based on the waiver of appeal provisions in his Plea Agreement.
23-5321 Samuel Reaves v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-08-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-procedure plea-bargaining procedural-barriers right-to-counsel state-courts uJhd-r) A Z)«f X/^CoiM PeJ-e^cV : x S 14^I sU.jl. IXll&jje-tl 4-c> QeJ- -#-kjL_ doiir-t do ^>iire- Courts e-i T LUllAk 0ot7s/-.'4u-l-*'.5 /3 )0 l/olc…
23-5322 Tommie Doward Weathers, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fault-determination pretrial-confinement pretrial-detention release-from-confinement speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation This case concerns the meaning of the word "fault" in 18 U.S.C. § 3164(c), which says that if a defendant is not brought to trial within 90 days follo…
23-5298 Edgar Sandoval Catarino v. California California 2023-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial mandatory-minimum sentencing sixth-amendment 1. Do the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments confer a right to a jury trial with respect to a fact that has the dual effect of (1) increasing the mandato…
23-119 Rolland G. Shoup, II v. Indiana Indiana 2023-08-08 Denied Response Waived brady-v-maryland brady-violation civil-criminal-distinction civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process speeding-infraction speeding-infractions state-power Whether a state may deprive a citizen of his right to due process and ignore this Court's ruling in Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) by treating …
23-121 Patrick Shin v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-08-08 Denied Response Waived coram-nobis criminal-case criminal-procedure defendant-decision-making ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining post-hoc-assertion prejudice strickland-standard strickland-v-washington writ-of-error 1. Whether a district court may require an additional showing of prejudice to grant a writ of coram nobis in a criminal case, and, if so, whether the …
23-5294 Micky Don Wade v. Texas Texas 2023-08-07 Denied IFP criminal-procedure cronic-standard due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard 1. May a state court evaluate a Cronic claim under the more burdensome standard of Strickland? (Please see Memorandum Opinion below, Appendix Exhibit …
23-5295 Custodio Carrasco-Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP counsel-performance criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance right-to-appeal sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington In light of the facts of this case, was the defense counsel ineffective in light of this court's precedent in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (…
23-5281 Morris Scott Holmes v. Tommy Bowen, Warden Georgia 2023-08-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct I. D&U.BLS. IT£/SPAf\-DY 1 f*g4i4i an.i4r U/£LS faiLiud *rUfl4 du.il4u v of WaLiCd. flluftlCr fcdiLnil Dfde ^ t\\n.ct^£ of i/udicfmeAi + 'i'lLoHXX ^f…
23-5284 John Wesley Lee, Jr. v. Maryland Maryland 2023-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery discovery-violation dna-evidence dna-testing due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigant video-recording 1. Whether an Indigent Pro Se Petitioner Entitled to counsel; where DNA Testing Results and Video Recording exist; but, never given to the trial attor…
23-5289 Willie Seth Crain, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-04 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance pleadings sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence 1. Is it a violation of the Fourteen th Amendment right to Due Process to allow a conviction to stand where some of the elements of the crime were not…
23-5292 Carlos Arturo Patino Restrepo v. United States Second Circuit 2023-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-instructions prosecutorial-discretion Where an indictment alleges a conspiracy involving a specific group, does a district court's conspiracy instructions which removes any mention of the …
23-5270 Justin Lewis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-violation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment good-faith-appeal motion-to-dismiss Question not identified.
23-5271 Eric Villarreal v. California California 2023-08-03 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion court-of-appeals criminal-conviction criminal-procedure disability due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-standard legal-review mental-health psychological-disorder right-to-counsel Question not identified.
23-5273 Cory Joe Barton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit procedural-due-process rule-32 sentencing statutory-construction Did the Fifth Circuit err in holding that the determination of Mr. Barton's sentence did not violate his procedural due process rights?
23-5274 Wicahpe George Milk v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1503 attorney-client-privilege constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure dismissal indian-reservation jurisdiction statutory-interpretation suppression I. Whether acts occurring on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation deprived the Court of jurisdiction over all parts of the indictment. II. Whether 18 U.…
23-5276 German Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review appellate-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court of appeals to reweigh the sentencing factors?
23-107 Louis Matthew Clements v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) criminal-procedure criminal-sanction custody due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus liberty liberty-restraint sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation Federal courts "shall entertain an application for a writ of habeas corpus in behalf of a person in custody pursuant to the judgment of a State court …
23-104 Granville S. Watson v. Connecticut, et al. Second Circuit 2023-08-03 Denied 18-usc-242 civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discretionary-function-exception federal-tort-claims-act fraudulent-concealment sovereign-immunity wrongful-incarceration Federal Tort Claims Act's (F.T.C.A.) discretionary function exception does not immunize the government from liability for actions proscribed by federa…
23-95 Philip Esformes v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-02 Denied attorney-client-privilege criminal-procedure disqualification forfeiture judicial-fact-finding prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment While investigating petitioner for alleged health-care fraud, federal prosecutors seized hundreds of petitioner's attorney-client privileged documents…
23-5251 Mark Edwin Guida v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-08-01 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment cell-phone-evidence criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment illegal-search probable-cause search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence warrant-requirement I. WAS EVIDENCE PRESENTED AT A TRIAL FOR MURDER SUBJECT TO THE EXCLUSIONARY RULE, WHERE SAID EVIDENCE WAS THE RESULT OF AN ILLEGAL SEARCH OF THE DEFEN…
23-5253 Youssef Hoballah v. Virginia Virginia 2023-08-01 Denied IFP appeal-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment structural-error trial-procedure Question not identified.
23-5256 Joseph Fenelon Cooper v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 crime-of-violence criminal-procedure elements-clause firearm-conviction johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states section-2255 successive-petition united-states-v-taylor welch-v-united-states The question presented is whether a Petitioner in a properly filed successive petition pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 challenging his conviction for pos…
23-5257 Angel Rios-Edeza v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof closing-argument criminal-procedure due-process evidence-vouching jury-instructions ninth-circuit prosecutorial-misconduct rebuttal-argument Prosecutors are allowed to strike hard blows but not foul ones. Here, in closing and rebuttal argument, the prosecutor vouched for the evidence, impro…
23-5261 Everado Joe Flores-Salcido v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres case-precedent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5264 Julio Cesar De La Rosa-De La Cerda v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
23-5245 Juan Leonardo Aparicio-Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5247 In Re David Jackson 2023-07-31 Dismissed IFP and post-conviction proceedings trial 14th-amendment 4th-amendment arrest-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fifth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel post-conviction-relief probable-cause retaliation search-and-seizure self-incrimination trial-procedure Whether the Unless Se.ocW and Se^re ft VioUhon of my ^ ^ ^Q-P h&brU&C'/ /c///9 <?f?| (4/nendtn€o-f-S fi^htS > uihAUr r'3^s" uihAUr r'3^s" rnyvoku °P …
23-5240 Alden Brent Cooper v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-conduct criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment presentence-investigation presentence-investigation-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines Section 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(1) can be violated by either knowingly receiving or distributing child pornography. A defendant accused of a violation of…
23-5241 Lenroy McLean v. United States Second Circuit 2023-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment judicial-conflict legal-precedent standing 1. Whether there is a conflict between Kimmelman v Morrison holding that the Fourth Amendment is not a trial right in criminal prosecution and Ex-Part…
23-5232 In Re Marcus Antone Peterson 2023-07-28 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process illegal-imprisonment jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect mandamus mandamus-relief sentencing 1. The lower court acted outside its jurisdiction. 2. A quite bee ath lower court record jurisdiction 3. Peterson is illegally in-prison. (An amets…
23-5233 Randall Lamont Sanders v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-07-28 Denied IFP 14th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process insufficiency-of-evidence jackson-v-virginia oklahoma-court-of-criminal-appeals standard-of-review supremacy-clause supreme-court-standard (1) Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals failed to apply this Court's standard for insufficiency of evidence as described in Jackson v. Virg…
23-5235 Hector Lares-Nunez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-precedent certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-overruling precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5237 Jordan Cole Laws v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-discretion criminal-procedure factual-findings indigent indigent-defendant justice-for-victims-of-trafficking-act sentencing special-assessment statutory-interpretation Did the district court err when it imposed a $5,000 special assessment, pursuant to the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015, 18 U.S.C. § 30…
23-5239 Samuel Trelawney Hughes v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP autism-spectrum-disorder boykin boykin-standard change-of-plea cognitive-deficiencies cognitive-deficiency criminal-procedure district-court-record due-process plea-hearing Did the Ninth Circuit's rejecting Petitioner's due process claim regarding his change-of-plea hearing conflict with Boykin and its progeny, particular…
23-5221 Gilberto Betero-Carrillo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-rule almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi-rule constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation precedent-analysis sentencing supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
23-5225 Leonard Sapp v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure district-court due-process fair-trial government-misconduct imminent-danger Was Leonard Sapp afforded a fair trial when the Government shifted the burden of proof to the Defense during trial? Does a District Court's decision …
23-5226 Cornelius Michael Turner v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure judicial-factfinding occasions-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment wooden-v-united-states I. Whether a defendant's Armed Career Criminal Act sentence may be affirmed when the lower court fails to properly apply this Court's occasions clause…
23-5227 Luis Roman v. Illinois Illinois 2023-07-27 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct trial-counsel Question not identified.
23-5229 Rodolfo Hernandez Roman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-82 Joshua Isaiah Joyner v. Texas Texas 2023-07-27 Denied Response Waived constitutional-violations criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-justice procedural-due-process prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense Did the TCCA deny petitioner procedural due process by summarily rejecting his substantial constitutional claims without requiring the trial court to …
23-5199 Duron B. Peoples v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2023-07-26 Denied IFP compulsory-process criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts hearsay-exception ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel murder-conspiracy witness-testimony witness-unavailability 1. IS FEDERAL DUE PROCESS VIOLATED UNDER THE "COMPULSORY PROCESS" WHERE A FEDERAL COURT CONCLUDES THAT A PETITIONER'S COUNSEL INEFFECTIVE CLAIM LACKS …
23-5200 Augustine Rincon Medina v. California California 2023-07-26 Denied IFP birks-rule constitutional-law criminal-charging criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions lesser-included-offense lesser-offense prosecutorial-discretion Should the Rule announced in People v. Birks (1998) 19 Cal.4th 108, which permits a Prosecutor to veto a Defendant's request for an instruction on a L…
23-5203 Ronald Marion Carpenter v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2023-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause confrontation-rights credibility criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health-records THIS PETITION PRESENTS NOVEL QUESTIONS OF LAW, THE RESOLUTION OF WHICH WILL DEVELOP THE LAW AND HAVE NATIONWIDE IMPACT, WHILE ESTABLISHING A NEEDED AN…
23-5204 Larry David Davis v. Anna Catherine Cargile, Prosecutor, Pulaski County Prosecutor's Office, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-07-26 Dismissed IFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions court-filing criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction legal-document petition police-misconduct qualified-immunity search-and-seizure statutory-provisions Question not identified.
23-5205 Steven Lesane v. United States Second Circuit 2023-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure district-court factual-basis guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel mental-competency motion-to-withdraw plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation I. Whether the District Court abused its discretion when it denied appellant's motion to withdraw his guilty plea where 1) there was an insufficient…
23-5206 Francisco J. Castaneda v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-07-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-convictions criminal-procedure detention-standards due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation-tactics law-enforcement police-questioning search-and-seizure Question not identified.
23-5208 Jason Boudreau v. United States First Circuit 2023-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment fourth-amendment plea-agreement search-and-seizure search-condition sentencing sentencing-enhancement 1. Whether the District Court's decision to subject the Petitioner to a lifetime suspicionless search condition that lacks any limitations at all vio…
23-5210 Andres Zapata-Reyes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5211 Andrew Cook v. Robert Martin, Warden, et al. Second Circuit 2023-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP abstention amendment-protections civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process executive-power executive-powers general-warrants judicial-abstention younger-doctrine 1) Whether there are issues of Constitutional importance regarding Ztthe 4th,6th,8th and 14th Amendments in case at bar That Are of im- -portance to…
23-5213 Deangelo Devon Grant v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process indictment indictment-interpretation judicial-discretion methamphetamine methamphetamine-weight sentencing-guidelines Does utilizing a provision of the United States Sentencing Guidelines for " actual " weight of methamphetamine, rather than the charged offense of " m…
23-5216 Kinley MacDonald v. Michael A. Duddy, et al. First Circuit 2023-07-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP child-abuse constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction foster-care hearsay interstate-crime jurisdiction parental-rights standing witness-tampering Before a Court in a matter involving unabused Children trafficked into Foster Care, by hearsay, Causing irreparable harm. The mother suffered expected…
23-5217 Kinley MacDonald v. Maine Maine 2023-07-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP bail-bond-conditions child-protective-custody constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custody due-process family-reunification hearsay judicial-review legal-standards state-statute Question not identified.
23-5218 In Re Jerome Curry 2023-07-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process indictment material-facts non-response sentencing standing summary-judgment waiver Was na-F -tee, ChtcC aJ US ltf,H US ?a CK/ljc.R-k,vtc Gr,W*j^ Kr,/^' F, 0 H Doei nof Ike. /d/vU reqtfint AUeA dot 4o Hoe fLetyoniew+Y na>vre£ pcn.se …
23-5187 Juan Sepulveda-Arreola v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP administration-of-justice criminal-procedure district-court federal-jurisdiction federal-law fifth-circuit minor-participant sentencing-guidelines Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law when it conducted a cursory review of the facts related to the district court's erroneous refusal to de…
23-5190 Mardy D. Mollett, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearm-possession justification-defense second-amendment Does the inclusion of an fifth element of the justification defense for being a felon in possession of a firearm, requiring the Defendant to prove tha…
23-5193 Bradley Ross Fairbourn v. Neicole Morden, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus impliedly-biased-juror juror-bias strickland-standard strickland-v-washington structural-error weaver-v-massachusetts Whether, in light of this Court's decision in Weaver v. Massachusetts , __ U.S. __, 137 S. Ct. 1899, 198 L. Ed. 2d 420 (2017), the actual -prejudi ce …
23-5195 Cynthia Kaye Wood v. Texas Texas 2023-07-25 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mens-rea specific-intent voluntary-plea In Texas, the ens rea for attempted capital murder is a specific intent to kill. The defendant did not know this. Thus, she pled guilty although she h…
23-5177 Kenneth Ragan-Armstrong v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion plain-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-conditions supervised-release Whether the district court plainly erred in imposing special conditions of supervision without explaining why such conditions were necessary or approp…
23-5178 Bobby Dean Robey v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender conspiracy criminal-procedure drug-crimes evidence sentencing I.WHETHER THERE WAS INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE THAT MR. ROBEY WAS INVOLVED IN THE "IMPORTATION" OF METHAMPHETAMINE? II.WHETHER MR. ROBEY'S CRIMINAL HISTOR…
23-5180 Dickens Etienne v. Michelle Edmark, Warden First Circuit 2023-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-investigation criminal-procedure exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mental-illness post-arrest-conduct post-conviction-review right-to-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Where there was evidence of a history of the defendant's mental health issues and mental health hospitalization and trial counsel failed to even initi…
23-5181 Rudy Alexander Ventura-Recinos v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-precedent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial legal-standard sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23A65 Jacob Hilbert v. Missouri Missouri 2023-07-24 Presumed Complete bench-trial criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial-waiver sixth-amendment valid-waiver Question not identified.
23-5161 Derek M. Funk v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-07-21 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 9th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility statute-interpretation statutory-interpretation Are Oklahoma statute(s) 21 O.S. § 1040.12(a), 21 O.S. 1040.8 (a), and 21 O.S. § 1024.1 in conformity with the United States Constitution, Amendment(s)…
23-5162 DeMario B. Griffin v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process fifth-amendment jurisdiction mandate-recall right-to-counsel sixth-amendment 1. Does Griffin have a right to counsel on his first direct appeal under the Fifth Amendment? 2. Does Griffin have a right to counsel on his first di…
23-5163 Michael Joseph Formica v. Virginia Virginia 2023-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence impeachment judicial-discretion standing DJH£TM* TM C/tOUrt coa/ir fe/i -pfi C*wtY ^ FoeM'^ F^ re^rl4 A^6AJbM^ -f A7A1 oaJI<J£A ti-Ttt JC^ei/i)£ l//otfT£D fcl(,/fT 3y tAlL/M 7* Aw/hAsJd bis…
23-5171 Natoya Cunningham v. Florida Florida 2023-07-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (19)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition sixth-amendment trial-by-jury Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-5173 Jose Luis Guzman v. Florida Florida 2023-07-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (18)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-5147 Johnny Johnson v. David Vandergriff, Warden Missouri 2023-07-20 Denied IFP attorney-general brady-v-maryland brady-violation continuing-duty-to-disclose criminal-procedure critical-state's-witnesses due-process impeachment-evidence local-prosecutor's-office material-impeachment-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility Johnny Johnson was charged with the first-degree murder of six-year-old Casey Williamson. Mr. Johnson was diagnosed with schizophrenia as young as six…
23-5150 Augustus Quintrell Light v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-due-process criminal-procedure government-misconduct illegal-sentence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion sentencing sentencing-error WHETHER ON ONE'S, DID THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS COMMIT ERROR IN FINDING THAT THE DISTRICT COURT DID NOT ABUSE ITS DISCRETION IN DENYING PETI…
23-5152 Angel Maldonado v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2023-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure curative-instruction ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions pennsylvania-supreme-court reasonable-doubt state-court-review 1. Whether the Pennsylvania Supreme Court erred when it denied Petitioner's request for a new trial based on trial counsel's ineffectiveness for faili…
23-5154 Justin Christopher Smith v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-convictions sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-sentencing violent-felony violent-offense 1. Whether an appeal waiver can bar an attack on an enhanced statutory sentence? 2. Whether Petitioner's prior convictions for robbery and resisting …
23-5158 Martice Deshawn Wallace v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus suppression-of-evidence witness-testimony Question not identified.
23-5130 Caleb Bryant Hickcox v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruen circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-procedure reasonableness reasonableness-review second-amendment sentencing sentencing-requirements statutory-interpretation 1) Must district courts comply with the requirements of 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c) to state, in open court, the reasons for the sentence imposed? 2) Should …
23-5131 Xavier Dominique Garris v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit harmless-error judicial-review plea-bargaining plea-colloquy rehaif-error remand standard-of-review trial-probability 1. WHETHER, IN A CASE WHERE REHAIF ERROR OCCURRED, THE FOURTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN FAILING TO REMAND THE CASE TO THE DISTRICT COURT TO MAKE THE DETERMINAT…
23-5137 Joshua Christopher Stockstill v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines section-3553a-factors sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness Whether the district court ordered a substantively unreasonable 30-year prison sentence.
23-5141 Alejandro Holguin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5118 In Re Dustin Ray Braddock 2023-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court due-process expert-testimony jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct structural-error subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court trial-error Whether the District Court erred in denying petitioner Braddock's right to expert and precipient witness testimony, and whether prosecutorial miscondu…
23-5121 Kyle Ross Rivers v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentence-appeal sentencing waiver waiver-of-rights 1. Whether a defendant, consistent with the Due Process Clause, can waive the right to appeal his sentence knowingly when his purported waiver occurs …
23-5125 Justin Lewis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jurisdiction sixth-amendment Question not identified.
23-5127 Edward R. Brown v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2023-07-18 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-analysis dna-evidence due-process habeas-corpus laboratory-evidence sentencing trial-procedure (1). Did the trial court Error based on false and misleading DNA Laboratory Analysis reports in the Petitioner's trial proceeding which violated the P…
23-46 United States v. Cassity Danielle Jones Fourth Circuit 2023-07-17 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation Whether, in order for a defendant to satisfy the prerequisite for "safety-valve" sentencing relief in 18 U.S.C. 3553(f)(1), a court must find that the…
23-5113 Charleton Maxwell v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-circuit conservative-estimate criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines walton-rule Issue 1. In the case at bar the sentencing judge refused to a apply a higher standard than a mere preponderance when the issue was, based on a drug…
23-5115 Lonnie Eugene Lillard v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-07-17 Denied IFP counsel-of-choice criminal-procedure due-process fund-seizure hearing-requirement luis-v-united-states right-to-counsel seizure-of-funds self-representation A. Whether a court may rule on a request for self-representation based solely on the existing record or whether it must hold a hearing and question th…
23-5102 Taiwo K. Onamuti v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-07-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1028a 18-usc-287 aggravated-identity-theft counsel-advice criminal-procedure guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plenary-resentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation 1) Can an original guilty plea be completely knowing and voluntary, when the government, and the district court wrongly advised defendant about couns…
23-5078 Kendrick Ramon Page v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure fourth-amendment minimization minimization-requirement motion-to-suppress necessity probable-cause theory-of-defense-instruction wiretap wiretap-evidence 1. Whether the 8th Circuit erred by affirming the district court's denial of Page's MTS wiretap evidence because the necessary probable cause under 18…
23-5079 Genaro Perchez-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5090 Travis J. Brown v. California California 2023-07-13 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP acquittal appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-protections criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment judicial-review mistrial procedural-error WHETHER A STATE COURT SUBMITS A SUCCESSION OF VERDICTS BOTH GUILTY AND NOT GUILTY OF THE SAME COUNT, AGAINST THE SAME DEFENDANT, AND TO THE SAME TRIAL…
23-5094 Adam Jason Poitra v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-sexual-abuse criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions sexual-abuse sixth-amendment unanimity unanimity-instruction When the government introduces evidence of multiple alleged instances of sexual abuse to prove a single count of aggravated sexual abuse in violation …
23-5095 Marland Maynor v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process facial-challenge federal-statute plain-error second-amendment standing I. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is facially unconstitutional under the Second Amendment. First subsidiary question: Whether the plain-error standard …
23-5098 Arthur Ray Deere, Sr. v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Employees, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus prison-conditions statutory-provisions Question not identified.
23-5101 Christopher Wade v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure fifth-circuit gall-v-united-states harmless-error judicial-precedent sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-guzman-rendon I. Whether the Fifth Circuit's application of harmless error doctrine pursuant to United States v. Guzman-Rendon, 864 F.3d 409 (5th Cir. 2017) violate…
23-5081 Ronnie R. Lovell v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof criminal-procedure fifth-amendment jury-trial preponderance-of-evidence sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Can a district court judge determine that an individual's prior offenses occurred "on occasions different," as required by the Armed Career Criminal A…
23-5083 James Calfee v. Texas Texas 2023-07-12 Denied IFP appeal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence fair-trial government-powers judicial-discretion Question not identified.
23-5075 Derek J. Petty v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-offense criminal-procedure due-process essential-element federal-felony federal-jurisdiction indictment indictment-defect judicial-review structural-error Whether the omission of an essential element of a criminal offense from a federal felony indictment constitutes structural error.
23-5062 Alfredo Martinez-Rubio v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
23-5063 Bradley M. Cox v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure interstate-commerce interstate-nexus judgment-of-acquittal motion-for-judgment-of-acquittal sufficiency-of-evidence threat-of-damage Regarding generally motions for judgment of acquittal and their consideration and review: 1. Has the "light most favorable to the Government/prosecut…
23-5064 Joseph Chandler Davall v. Warren L. Montgomery, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-07-10 Denied IFP child-custody confrontation-clause constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure custody-dispute due-process evidence hearsay judicial-procedure legal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
23-5065 Mario Reynoso v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-07-10 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appointment-of-counsel civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process methamphetamine-distribution standing subject-matter-jurisdiction tenth-circuit writ-of-certiorari DID THE TENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERROUNEOUSLY FIND THAT THE COURTS LACKED SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION AND THAT YOUR PETITIONER'S MOTION FOR APPO…
23-5058 Gabriel Simental-Murillo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5059 Savon Hardaway v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-07-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender criminal-procedure felon-in-possession guilty-plea harmless-error mens-rea plea-agreement rehaif-advisement rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-error I. Mr. Hardaway pleaded guilty to a felon in possession charge. The district court arraigned Mr. Hardaway after this Court's decision in Rehaif v. Uni…
23-5049 Marcus O. Singleton v. Scott Eckstein, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error judicial-review prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-vouching trial-misconduct wisconsin-courts witness-credibility 1. Whether the Wisconsin courts failed to address the issue presented to them that the prosecutor vouch for their witnesses. 2. Whether the prosecuto…
23-5052 Richie A. Stokes, Jr. v. New York New York 2023-07-06 Denied IFP constitutional-rights court-dismissal criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-discretion jury-tampering legal-standards prosecutorial-misconduct speedy-trial Question not identified.
23-5054 Vitaly Burleovitsch Kolosha v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-07-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence-access exculpatory-evidence grand-jury multiple-prosecutions post-conviction sentencing state-prison U/frthT /S> P/XOpB/2 uJtTBM SPATE- cl*0<u*LFs AlBPtS£/~Af<5 TO tr&A-R- CLASS njtfSOJE A McecJpf Ceoc/MTY Or/L/HJd \Tcy/2^/ ppPc/spp TO /Mb7cT~ p&ri t…
23-14 Delilah Guadalupe Diaz v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-07-05 Judgment Issued Amici (3)Relisted (2) criminal-procedure drug-trafficking evidence evidence-law expert-testimony mens-rea mental-state rule-704(b) rule-704b In a prosecution for drug trafficking—where an element of the offense is that the defendant knew she was carrying illegal drugs—does Rule 704(b) permi…
23-5030 Nygel Dejon Freeman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal constitutional-provisions court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-evidence reasonable-doubt rule-29 statutory-provisions sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the District Court and Court of Appeals did not defer err in finding sufficient evidence was presented because the Lost P1 r Freeman) J^H ' le…
23-5031 Marc Anthony Hill v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP advance-knowledge apprendi-precedent circuit-court-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process essential-elements fifth-amendment four-corner-rule jury-findings sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court Is Apprendi v. New Jersey still good law? If yes, are the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and other circuits applying Apprendi incorrectly which viola…
23-5033 Rick John Morales, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-diligence expert-witness government-action speedy-trial trial-procedure trial-scheduling witness-appearance Whether sending an email asking if there is a "better" date for an expert witness qualifies as the Government's requirement to act with "due diligence…
23-5035 Miguel Lux-Tum v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-doctrine precedent-overruling sentencing supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5042 Daniel Robinson v. United States Third Circuit 2023-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process federal-rule-of-evidence fifth-amendment grand-jury law-enforcement-testimony opinion-evidence prosecutorial-overreach 1. Whether this Court's guidance on constructive amendments in conspiracy cases is necessary to protect criminal defendants' Fifth Amendment rights. …
23-5043 Coby Quinton Ceaser v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2023-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression ineffective-assistance jackson-standard jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-present-defense right-to-testify trial-fairness Can the Jackson standard be satisfied when relevant, material, and appreciable evidence is impermissibly kept from the juiy? Was Ceaser's trial rende…
23-5045 Evans Samuel Santos Diaz v. United States Third Circuit 2023-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP associational-rights conditions-of-release constitutional-scrutiny criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment freedom-of-association individual-liberty supervised-release 1. The First Amendment guarantees individuals a right to associate. Petitioner and his fiancée want to associate. The Court of Appeals affirmed a dist…
23-5016 Jonathan Limbrick v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion courts-of-appeals criminal-procedure fair-and-just-reason fifth-circuit guilty-plea kercheval-v-united-states plea-withdrawal rule-11 DID THE FIFTH CIRCUIT ERR BY FINDING THAT THE DISTRICT COURT'S DECISION TO DENY MR. LIMBRI CK'S MOTION TO WITHDRAW HIS GUILTY PLEA DID NOT CONSTITUTE …
23-5020 Christopher Delgado v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure evidentiary-standard federal-rules-of-evidence inextricably-intertwined other-bad-acts rule-404(b) rule-404b standard Whether evidence of other bad acts is exempted from the limits and requirements of Rule 404(b) of the Federal Rules of Evidence when it is "inextricab…
23-5024 Walter Charles Link v. Texas Texas 2023-07-03 Denied IFP burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-proceedings sufficiency-of-evidence texas-law 1. Did +W& ©-£ T£)OxS &tf {/v £&.vlviA,£j +0 ?ro»l£/ BrooK's abWtl A a (£o£oac>L\& deulA ? 2. t»rA +V\£ .s-t&te Tfeiaj: iilgqaley Seirhm^ ?e+W • rt a…
23-5026 Isaiah L. Dunbar v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus standing Whether the denial by the 11TH Circuit Court of Appeals of PETitioner's LOA ReSulted iN A FEdERAl dUE pROCESS ViOlAtiON in the timeliness of his 2254 …
23-5027 Gabriel Gonzalez Perez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-2 Gerald Spruell v. United States Third Circuit 2023-06-30 Denied Response Waived appellate-review conspiracy criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-quantities evidence evidence-sufficiency jury-verdict mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-guidelines 1. Whether the Court of Appeals erred in concluding there was sufficient evidence to support the jury's verdict and drug quantities attributed to the …
23-5002 Joseph Hauschild v. Illinois Illinois 2023-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure eighth-amendment graham-v-florida juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole meaningful-opportunity meaningful-opportunity-for-release roper-v-simmons sentencing-guidelines term-of-years-sentence In the landmark decision of Graham v. Florida, 560 U.S. 48 (2010), this Court held that, for a juvenile offender who did not commit homicide, the Eigh…
23-5003 Monty J. Banister v. Kansas Kansas 2023-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure duty-to-consult effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance notice-of-appeal post-conviction-relief roe-v-flores-ortega sixth-amendment trial-counsel Does this Court's decision in Roe v. Flores-Ortega, 528 U.S. 470 (2000), establish at least a rebuttable presumption that trial counsel has a Sixth Am…
23-5004 Gregory L. Randle v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-waiver right-to-appeal waiver Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Randle's appeal based on the waiver of appeal provisions in his Plea Agreement.
23-5010 Donald Lee Linville v. Arizona Arizona 2023-06-30 Denied IFP 4th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief search-and-seizure Question not identified.
22-7893 Liver Gruezo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction law-enforcement-procedures maritime-drug-law maritime-law minimum-contacts miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona stateless-vessel 1. Whether the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act ("MDLEA"), 46 U.S.C. § 70501, et. seq., violates Due Process because its enforcement procedures are v…
22-7896 Marcelino Mendoza-Najera v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-precedent constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7899 Enrique Lopez-Cristobal v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit legal-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7901 Samuel Howard v. Renee Baker, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest criminal-defense criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-inquiry legal-representation prejudice right-to-counsel sixth-amendment 1. Is the Sixth Amendment violated when a defendant is forced to accept representation by lawyers who se supervisor have a longstanding social and fam…
22-7902 Saul Navarrete De La Cerda v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres apprendi-v-new-jersey common-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure notice-clause prior-conviction prior-conviction-exception sixth-amendment Whether the prior-conviction exception from Almendarez-Torres can be squared with the text of the Sixth Amendment's Notice Clause and the historical p…
22-7905 Tikisha Upshaw v. California California 2023-06-29 Denied IFP cell-phone-location co-defendant criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility expert-witness fair-trial jury-instructions police-testimony scientific-reliability witness-testimony Question not identified.
22-7906 Lamar McDonald v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-standard criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence void-for-vagueness 1)Is Apprendi v. New Jersey Still Good Caselaw? Are the Lower Courts (Appeals Courts included) misapplying Apprendi and Mr. McDonald Fifth and Sixth …
22-7907 Terrence Terrell Moore v. Bryan Morrison, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus standing Question not identified.
22-7852 Juan Victor Quezada-Lara v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
22-7875 J Reyes-Carrillo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-procedure statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7876 Gideon Charles Arrington, II v. Dyanna L. Street, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-06-28 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process false-evidence judicial-immunity legal-accountability moral-nation prosecutorial-misconduct 1. Is the use of false evidence a crime? 2. Are detectives, prosecutors, and judges immune from liability for the use of false evidence knowingly? 3…
22-7882 Sergio Delgado-Perez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
22-7878 Kenny Eugene Smart v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-922(g) criminal-procedure evidence-standard evidentiary-rulings federal-rule-of-evidence-404(b) federal-rules-of-evidence prior-convictions rule-404b rule-of-inclusion standard-of-review statutory-interpretation 1. WHAT IS THE PROPER STANDARD OF REVIEW OF EVIDENTIARY RULINGS UNDER FEDERAL RULE OF EVIDENCE 404(b) AND IS RULE 404(b) A RULE OF INCLUSION WHICH ALW…
22-7883 Latron Y. Cross v. Illinois Illinois 2023-06-27 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation jurisdiction legal-standing speedy-trial standing state-court-review Question not identified.
22-7853 Carlos Miguel Concepcion-Guliam v. United States First Circuit 2023-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP arrest criminal-procedure detention fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure search-warrant Should a writ of certiorari be granted to clarify whether an exception to the Fourth Amendment can be applied randomly or if law enforcement officers …
22-7862 Lazaro Veliz v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP cause-exception circuit-split constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default residual-clause vagueness Whether Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. 591 (2015), establishes "cause" to excuse procedurally defaulted 28 U.S.C. § 2255 claims that are predicate…
22-7863 Osvaldo Castelan-Saucedo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-precedent court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-review sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7868 Lawrence Broviak v. Florida Florida 2023-06-26 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection expungement judicial-bias judicial-discretion legal-remedy sentence-commutation sentencing vindictive-sentencing CAN A VINDICTIVE SENTENCE BE EXPUNGED DUE TO PERSONAL BIAS BEING COMMUTED BT A JUDGE?
22-7870 Jayson Neil Sparks v. Texas Texas 2023-06-26 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility federal-courts standing state-court-ruling statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
22-7854 Edgar Ivan Armenta-Lopez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-law-review certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-overruling sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7857 Balwinder Singh v. California California 2023-06-23 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fraud misconduct Question not identified.
22-7840 Cordelro Desean Shoulders v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jurisdiction plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-error waiver Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Shoulders' appeal based on the waiver of appeal provisions in his Plea Agreement.
22-7842 Dashawn Lewis v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure directed-verdict due-process judicial-error jury-instruction jury-instructions ninth-circuit reasonable-doubt Whether the last sentence of the Ninth Circuit's pattern jury instruction on reasonable doubt, telling jurors that "if after a careful and impartial c…
22-7846 Vance Collins v. United States Second Circuit 2023-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruton-v-united-states codefendant codefendant-statement confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure hearsay out-of-court-statement sixth-amendment Whether a defendant's rights under the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment are violated by the admission of a non-testifying codefendant's out…
22-7847 Colum Patrick Moran v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-22 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process insufficient-evidence judicial-precedent plain-error precedent standard-of-review statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence Whether a conviction predicated on insufficient evidence can meet the plain error standard in the absence of explicit statutory language or on point, …
22-7849 Jensen Ken Alexander v. Joseph Ely, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-06-22 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure damages due-process free-speech judicial-discretion legal-standards religious-claims standing state-court-review Question not identified.
22-7821 Joseph W. Peeples, lll v. United States District Court for the Western District of New York Second Circuit 2023-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure document-authentication due-process equal-protection evidence-verification federal-agency legal-process original-copy standing takings 0) Cam Mo LocatC On£T 6 foi- SzGtJATU^ittAMe:, T&TEE; OF P/Locess OF ANyo^G ^PA^ tx^U OfJOAJST'TUiOAldUh-MY Qbo yoO s~ee A By a U,S>.doC6€. (Lqa^tx^^ …
22-7822 Darwin Powell v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plea-bargaining rule-11 sentencing standard-of-review withdrawal withdrawal-of-guilty-plea Whether the courts of appeals, by creating checklists of considerations for the district courts to follow, have improperly narrowed the "fair and just…
22-7827 Scott Anderson v. Chad Wakefield, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Smithfield, et al. Third Circuit 2023-06-21 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion burden-of-proof certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion legal-innocence reasonable-jurist sufficiency-of-evidence Is a defendant legally and factually innocent, if the State fails to prove each and every element of the crime {facts}, and the facts do not establish…
22-7833 Jeremy Randall Ezell v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-presumption reasonableness-standard rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether the Court should clarify how a defendant who challenges the substantive reasonableness of a within-Guidelines sentence may rebut an appellate …
22-7839 Christian Ruben Tirado v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-question gang-paraphernalia supervised-release vagueness-doctrine Is a special condition of supervised release that prohibits a supervisee from possessing any of a laundry list of items "known to represent associatio…
22-7802 James B. Norris, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-06-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process internet-access judicial-explanation pro-se-motion revocation-hearing sentencing sentencing-discretion supervised-release Whether the Eighth Circuit erred – contrary to the holdings of the Second, Fourth, Seventh, Ninth, Eleventh, and D.C. Circuit Courts of Appeals, which…
22-7803 Aaron Joel Oliphant v. Montana Montana 2023-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-procedure due-process expert-consultation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel A jury convicted Oliphant of assaulting his infant son based solely on a medical diagnosis of abusive head trauma ("AHT"). His trial counsel failed to…
22-7804 Ricky Simmonds v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP breach-of-contract constitutional-law contract-law criminal-procedure district-court due-process offense-level plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-hearing Whether the United States of America breaches a negotiated plea agreement when it fails to affirmatively state at the Sentencing hearing that the stip…
22-7806 Travis Charles Werkmeister v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-offense drug-trafficking federal-sentencing-guidelines mens-rea methamphetamine-importation scienter-requirement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation 1. Whether this Court should grant the Writ to resolve a circuit split as to whether the two level enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1 (b) (5) contains…
22-7808 Elroy Pedro Gomez v. William Joe Sullivan, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP California-Supreme-Court criminal-procedure Due-process Equal-protection Habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargain Sentencing-enhancements Sixth-Amendment 1. In the fi rst pl ace, was Peti tioner deni ed hi s Sixth Amendment right to the effecti ve assi stance of counsel when hi s court-appoi nted trial …
22-7812 Miguel A. Cisneros v. Trent Allen, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-06-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-procedure jury-instructions legal-standing Question not identified.
22-1216 Dwayne Ferguson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-06-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court-discretion extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-reasons first-step-act habeas-corpus legal-error sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2255 limits a district court's discretion to consider—among other circumstancespecific factors—legal errors in prior proceedings a…
22-7790 Lancey Darnell Ray v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-06-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP active-duty-service-members actual-innocence criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process forensic-pathology medical-examiners military-jurisdiction state-medical-examiners veterans Active duty service members, i.e., Airmen, Soldiers, Marines, Sailors, and Space Force alike, with civilian dependents stationed in the continental Un…
22-7791 Clark Downs v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 15-year-old circuit-court-review criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-sentencing interstate-commerce safety-valve sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction sexual-exploitation visual-depiction WHETHER THE EVIDENCE WAS LEGALLY INSUFFICIENT AS TO THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE ELEMENT ON COUNT ONE, WHICH CHARGED SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF A FIFTEEN YEAR …
22-7792 Diante Turman v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-06-15 Denied IFP appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act circuit-court-review circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-conviction criminal-procedure district-court-discretion drug-offense drug-schedule drug-schedules federal-sentencing federal-sentencing federal-sentencing 22-7791" mcneill-precedent mcneill-v-united-states safety-valve sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction Whether the district court erred at sentencing in Congress and the U.S. Sentencing Commission require judges to impose criminal sentences that take account of a penalty range advised by the Sentencing…
22-7793 Nedeltcho Vladimirov v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-06-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause covid-19-restrictions criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial less-restrictive-alternatives sixth-amendment speedy-trial witness-testimony Whether the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment is violated by requiring all trial witnesses to testify with masks that covered the majority o…
22-7796 Jose Alfredo Perez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review case-specific-facts criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fifth-circuit sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance upward-variance Whether a district court's mere recitation of the sentencing statute absent any application of case-specific facts is sufficient to support a five-yea…
22-7784 Demarcus Donte Ivey v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-06-14 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof chapman-v-california constitutional-error criminal-procedure cumulative-error-doctrine evidentiary-errors harmless-error standard-of-review When, on direct appeal from a conviction in a federal criminal trial, an appellate court identifies multiple evidentiary errors, should each of those …
22-7785 Christopher Lewis Tucker v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process forcible-medication involuntary-medication judicial-discretion mental-competency mental-health pretrial-custody pretrial-detention sell-standard Whether a district court may order forcible medication under Sell v. United States when (1) record evidence shows that the government has already trie…
22-7768 Nidal Ayyad v. United States Second Circuit 2023-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure direct-appeal double-jeopardy habeas-corpus resentencing section-2255 sentencing sentencing-review vacatur Whether, following the vacatur of a count of conviction (either on direct appeal or via a § 2255 motion), the district court must resentence the defen…
22-7774 Duane E. Armstrong v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-13 Denied IFP burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony fingerprint-analysis forensic-evidence trial-procedure Before the Supreme Court review during trial in front of a jury. Does the court 's need a second analyst to testifies, to the first analyst opinion co…
22-7775 David Elijah Smith v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial procedural-requirements sentencing statutory-interpretation Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did yo…
22-7779 Zohn Wang Kub Yang v. Dan Cromwell, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment law-enforcement miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona self-incrimination Whether the totality of the law enforcement officers' words or actions made during the questioning of Petitioner in this case when they told Petitione…
22-1205 Brian D. Skattum v. Devan Collomy Maine 2023-06-13 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment child-custody civil-rights criminal-case criminal-procedure divorce-proceeding due-process family-law fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment self-incrimination Question I: Can the Maine courts penalize a father in a divorce and child custody proceeding, while he is also a defendant in a Criminal case, for e…
22-1200 Lee Jones v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-06-12 Denied appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure forfeiture independent-obligation judicial-discretion legal-argumentation legal-forfeiture young-v-united-states Do the courts of appeals, under Young v. United States, 315 U.S. 257 (1942), have an "independent obligation" to craft and consider forfeited legal ar…
22-7753 Jane Doe, Female Juvenile v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-06-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment federal-juvenile-act juvenile-justice juvenile-transfer miller-v-alabama ripeness transfer-to-adult-proceedings When a juvenile is charged by Juvenile Information with First Degree Murder pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §§ 2, 1(a), 1151 & 1153, and the government files a …
22-7756 Andre Zeno v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-history criminal-history-points criminal-procedure safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-minimum Whether the "and" in § 3553(f)(1) means "and," so that a defendant satisfies the provision so long as he does not have (A) more than 4 criminal histor…
22-7758 Steven Keith Hunley v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-violations criminal-procedure fifth-amendment indictment jury-factfinding lower-courts-error preponderance-of-evidence sixth-amendment Can a district court judge determine that an individual's prior offenses occurred "on occasions different," as required by the Armed Career Criminal A…
22-7761 Aaron Keith v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-06-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure federal-courts judicial-procedure motion-to-dismiss speedy-trial statutory-right trial-continuance waiver Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that petitioner waived any speedy-trial objection to the period of delay after his motion to dismiss for…
22-7764 Duane E. Owen v. Florida Florida 2023-06-12 Denied IFP competency competency-to-be-executed criminal-procedure death-penalty dementia due-process eighth-amendment insanity legal-insanity rational-understanding 1. Whether the State of Florida's perfunctory evaluation of Owen's claim that he is legally insane and incompetent to be executed violated the Eighth …
22-7765 Michael Tanner Lank v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-06-12 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process federal-constitution oklahoma-court-of-criminal-appeals petition-for-writ-of-certiorari state-constitution state-law-interpretation trial-by-jury 1) Mr. Lank respectfully asks- ' Is the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals Court, Rule 5.5 in conformity with the DUE PROCESS OF LAW standards of the …
22-7766 Ramon Ramirez v. United States Second Circuit 2023-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-law criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure district-court federal-courts interstate-commerce jurisdiction second-circuit statutory-interpretation 1. HAS THE SECOND CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEAL ERRED IN ITS CONCLUSION THAT THE DISTRICT COURT HAD JURISDICTION BASED ON EVIDENCE SUPPORTING THE INTERSTATE…
22-7740 Chelsea Shannon McIntyre v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion policy predicate-convictions sentencing-guidelines Did Ms. McIntyre receive due process of law where the district applie d Care er Offender Guide lines, lacking a sound basis in policy, and leading to …
22-7741 Rudy Alvarez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-06-09 Denied Amici (1)IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility fifth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure miranda-warning miranda-warnings police-interrogation self-incrimination supreme-court 1. When determining whether statements made after a midstream Miranda warning are admissible, do courts consider the warning's objective effectiveness…
22-7742 Kent Taylor v. California California 2023-06-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction speedy-trial statutory-interpretation HOW CAN tHE dIRECT APPAL bE hEId INTO JUBMISAON FOR APPROXIIMATELY (3) MHRE YEARS, PRaM SEPTEMbA 27, ZO17, UNITIL JANUMRY 17, ZOZO, WHEN tHhE PITONER …
22-7747 Samuel Wilson, III v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure drug-slang evidence expert-testimony law-enforcement lay-testimony lay-witness Some, but not all, circuits permit a law enforcement agent who is not designated as an expert to testify as a lay witness about drug slang, jargon or …
22-7731 Roy Lee Jones, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof controlled-substances criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy due-process essential-elements evidence fifth-circuit-precedent jury-instructions sentencing sentencing-issue standard-of-proof In addressing Roy Lee Jones, Jr.'s claim that the evidence in this methampethamine prosecution supported only a conviction for conspiracy to possess w…
22-7733 Ahmad Salti v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-06-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP apportioned-restitution apportionment-of-liability co-defendant-liability credits-for-payments criminal-procedure criminal-restitution criminal-sentencing joint-and-several-liability payment-credits When a criminal restitution order apportions liability among co-defendants relative to their culpability and makes that apportioned amount owed jointl…
22-7734 Christopher Alexander v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act resentencing sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Reduction of Sentence, Pursuant to Section 404 of the First Step Act of 2018, requires a Plenary Resentencing to provide procedural and substantial Du…
22-7725 James Earl Green, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court of appeals to reweigh the sentencing factors?
22-7729 William J. Sears v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement section-2255 Did the Court of Appeals err when it denied my Motion for Certificate of Appealability? Did the District Court err when it denied my § 2255 petition …
22-1185 Anthony James Scott v. Georgia Georgia 2023-06-07 Denied Response Waived brady-violation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment mistrial mistrial-request prosecutorial-misconduct Did the Carroll County Superior Court and the Court of Appeals of the State of Georgia err when they held that the Carroll County District Attorney's …
22-7718 Donnell Bledsoe v. Pearlie Townes California 2023-06-06 Dismissed IFP cherokee-nation civil-rights constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eastern-state-court jurisdiction life-sentence second-generation-offender sovereign-immunity Question not identified.
22-7719 Joseph J. Buttercase v. James Martin Davis, et al. Nebraska 2023-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence attorney-fees attorney-misconduct breach-of-contract civil-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process ex-parte-communication fourteenth-amendment legal-malpractice standing Whether it is unconstitutional to require a criminal defendant to prove actual innocence to recover funds paid to his former defense attorney who neve…
22-7723 Wesley Jorome Harris v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment parole sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
22-7701 Jose Pena v. United States Second Circuit 2023-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review criminal-procedure de-novo-review double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus section-2255 sentencing vacatur Whether, following the vacatur of a count of conviction (either on direct appeal or via a § 2255 motion), the district court must resentence the defen…
22-7702 Antonio Montero v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3553(f) criminal-history criminal-procedure federal-sentencing safety-valve sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation A defendant is entitled to the safety-valve sentencing provision of 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f) unless he violates all three subsections of the statute: (1) m…
22-7703 Jacob Patrick Krafft v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness within-guidelines-sentence How does a court of appeals determine whether a defendant has rebutted the presumption of reasonableness when the defendant is challenging the substan…
22-7710 Michael Walker v. Morris Houser, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Benner Township, et al. Third Circuit 2023-06-05 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-evidence credibility criminal-procedure due-process evidence exclusionary-rule federal-procedure judicial-review standing state-law timeliness 1) He 5uppieME CowftT SfafeJ 4KaV -Vhe peV.'URfef rO^ ' ReUbitClftifris OF ccfiiVVuFcnal CXCcR tOi-W\ ^uEvJvAence .v6 peYA.cn ^ of ^tu3 r p^-V.-ViC^rW…
22-7711 William Jon Patric Ebert v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility fourth-circuit prior-bad-acts rule-404(b) rule-404b sixth-circuit united-states-v-stout WHETHER THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S RULING TO ADMIT EVIDENCE OF THE APPELLANT'S …
22-7682 Tyrin Gayle v. United States Second Circuit 2023-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment circuit-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure disjunctive-theories due-process firearms-statute predicate-offense sentencing statutory-interpretation verdict-ambiguity I. Whether the Second Circuit conflicted with its own precedent in Capers when it denied Gayle relief? II. Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeal…
22-7693 Jandin Munoz v. Arizona Arizona 2023-06-02 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief right-to-counsel standing Question not identified.
22-7697 Kenneth Brown, Jr. v. Pennsylvania, et al. Pennsylvania 2023-06-02 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP act-84 civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea sentencing separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation void-ab-initio I. Whether Act B4, 42 Pa.C.S. § 9728(b)(5) is Unconstitutional on its Face as Violative of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Constitution and/or the …
22-7680 Adonne A. Horton v. West Virginia West Virginia 2023-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-i-section-10 constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment life-sentence police-pursuit statutory-interpretation Whether the Lower Court's Application of an Ex Post Facto Law to Affirm Petitioner's Life Sentence for Running From the Police Violated Article I, Sec…
22-7683 Michael Dewayne Alfred v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2259 causal-role causation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing restitution sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum victim-compensation When imposing restitution under 18 U.S.C. § 2259(b)(2), does the district court's restitution order exceed the statutory maximum when that court fails…
22-7686 Daniel Dorado v. California California 2023-06-01 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment miranda-rights rape-cases sentencing sixth-amendment For the Court's consideration and determination regarding issues involved in my criminal case, and consideration for adults in rape cases: 1. That th…
22-7687 James Jones v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-06-01 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion retroactive-application self-defense statutory-interpretation verbal-threat Question not identified.
22-7688 Avery Smartt v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-06-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process human-trafficking ineffective-counsel judicial-misconduct speedy-trial standing X£^ aXBX^&mL^AL Law.eD to Drop off % Leave. A___ BMQkLL^„XU^Pmijn&nr_A lnor AT A Reslnenca^ 77>:AfecSaty XH pJ THe A&enT Sl&ieS fo Howe (roUen ARtPor…
22-7689 Jose Guadalupe Romero Torres v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure historical-practices notice-clause prior-conviction prior-conviction-exception sixth-amendment Whether the prior-conviction exception from Almendarez-Torres can be squared with the text of the Sixth Amendment's Notice Clause and the historical p…
22-7670 Lonnie Burdette Porter v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency firearm-possession sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence In Thompson v. Louisville, 362 U.S. 199 (1960) and Garner v. Louisiana, 368 U.S. 157 (1961), this Court held that it is a violation of due process to …
22-7672 Marcus D. Winston v. Nebraska Nebraska 2023-05-31 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial prosecutorial-misconduct racial-rhetoric Whether the Nebraska Court of Appeals has decided an important question of federal law that has not been, but should be, settled by the United States …
22-7673 James Michael Wells v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP anonymous-jury apprendi-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-selection jury-trial public-trial restitution-order sixth-amendment 1. Whether a criminal defendant has a Sixth Amendment right to a public jury, as opposed to an "anonymous" jury, in a federal criminal trial, and, if …
22-7674 John Paul Waldon v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-05-31 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus standing Question not identified.
22-7659 Darrien D. Johnson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing first-step-act judicial-discretion motion-to-reduce sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation 1. Did the District Court abuse its discretion when it imposed a sentence of 360 months when the applicable guideline range was 235-293 months? 2. Di…
22-7661 Michael D. Beiter, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-counsel constitutional-rights counsel-termination criminal-procedure discovery due-process fifth-amendment pro-se-defense sixth-amendment Whether a defendant who continually terminated (FIRED) his/her counsel ab initio of the proceedings and throughout the proceedings can gain access to …
22-7664 Forest Mitchell Kirst v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-05-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-investigation congressional-intent criminal-procedure due-process federal-agency federal-jurisdiction obstruction-of-justice statutory-interpretation The question presented here addresses the extent to which 18 U.S.C § 1505 applies to accident investigations by the National Transportation and Safety…
22-7647 Nicasio Nevarez-Zamudio v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7650 Nolan Washington v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court Whether the Di strict Court erred when i t (1) fel t constrai ned to i mpose the mandatory mi nimum sentence, 120 months of i mpri sonment; (2) di d …
22-7652 Mark A. Jones v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights counsel-communication criminal-procedure deadline-extension effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance missouri-v-frye plea-bargaining sixth-amendment Whether this Court's holding in Missouri v. Frye, 566 U.S. 134 (2012), that an attorney has a duty pursuant to the Sixth Amendment to communicate a fo…
22-7653 Jose Carlos Gallegos-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7656 In Re Brad Edmonds 2023-05-26 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment gps-tracking habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-negotiations privacy search-and-seizure standing Whether the United States court of Appeals previously addressed GPS tracking warrant and in conflict with a lower court of appeals and Supreme court? …
22-7631 Terrell McGee v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP compassionate-release constitutional-rights criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion murder-degrees retroactivity sentencing sentencing-disparities CK c\A&KIH t; 0tf (K (\y\d Toxi^Vi be Cofn^j/fovw/e (MJ/iowe 7/" ffY, rjobr (\ihve f [)oeS SewWiciWj bak/een fiS-orJtvivry _ CVen iftic<iWw<f ^cfwr le…
22-7641 Carl Dean Wyatt, Jr. v. Steven Harpe, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2023-05-25 Denied IFP criminal-procedure discovery dna-testing due-process ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony #1. Is it proper for the prosecution to withhold the fact that a deal has been made with the witness for their testimony against a defendant. #2. Why…
22-7620 Timothy Sean Coogle v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process entrapment evidence-sufficiency fabricated-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence sixth-amendment strickland-standard Why was a Sixth Amendment violation not addressed in the Lower courts where defendant's lawyer failed utter the Strickland standards? How is the defe…
22-7621 Jerry Elkins v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction fraud-on-the-court hazel-atlas-fraud interstate-commerce jury-instructions rico-violation Whether the convictions of Petitioner, to include twenty-one (21) other Defendants, was in violation of the U.S. Constitution as the instant indictmen…
22-7623 Arquimedes Mendoza v. Jeff Macomber, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2023-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-right criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel padilla-standard padilla-v-kentucky plea-bargaining reasonable-defendant reasonable-person Whether, it is enough for a defendant claiming ineffective assistance of counsel in the plea context to back his claim with substantial contemporaneou…
22-7615 Willie Jerome Manning v. Mississippi Mississippi 2023-05-23 Denied IFP criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process evidence evidence-testing habeas-corpus post-conviction post-conviction-relief state-court state-courts After trying for many years, Willie Manning was finally given access to biological evidence, including hairs that were introduced at trial and used ag…
22-1139 Victor Santana v. Texas Texas 2023-05-23 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) bolstering-evidence criminal-appeal criminal-procedure hearsay hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions prior-bad-act-evidence prior-bad-acts trial-counsel Did the Court of Criminal Appeals err in finding that trial counsel's errors did not amount to ineffective assistance of counsel?
22-7605 Sealed Appellant v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-05-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bad-faith cooperation cooperation-agreement criminal-procedure due-process government-misconduct guilty-plea plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion section-3553e sentencing sentencing-relief Did the government act in bad faith by denying 18 U.S.C. § 3553(e) relief to Petitioner when, after securing his guilty plea with the promise that it …
22-7599 Curtis Marcel Barnette v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process government-prosecution plea-agreement plea-bargaining right-to-appeal waiver DOES IT VIOLATE DUE PROCESS FOR A DEFENDANT TO BE REQUIRED TO WAIVE HIS RIGHT TO APPEAL IN ORDER TO ENTER INTO AN OTHERWISE FAVORABLE PLEA AGREEMENT W…
22-7600 Randall Cooper, Jr., aka Randall Cooper, aka Randall Carl Cooper, Jr., aka Randall C. Cooper, Jr., aka Randall Carl Cooper v. Mississippi Mississippi 2023-05-19 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing newly-discovered-evidence trial-rights WHETHER THE NEWLY DISCOVERED EVIDENCE PRESENTED BY THE PETITIONER SHOULD WARRANT A NEW TRIAL PURSUANT TO THE 5TH 6TH AND 14TH AMENDMENTS OF OUR UNITED…
22-7604 Harbans Singh v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-05-19 Denied IFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process hearsay immigration interpreter-testimony sixth-amendment Whether an interpreter's hearsay statements are subject to Confrontation Clause analysis, particularly when the statements themselves constitute the c…
22-7593 In Re Edwin W. Rubis 2023-05-18 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-custody habeas-corpus liberty marijuana-prohibition 1. Whether Rules 14 (g) and (h) are not applicable to a petition for writ of habeas corpus to the Supreme Court of the United States that has original…
22-7595 Arnoldo Navarette v. Vincent Horton, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-05-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment trial h |Q\fy| C'vV €:M*r %.tf b | be vaU^^* "7 "lo^ »7 ti> ■ c\ -Vm ILO' r 3C k\ ^ % t hr. * {0icC^\^ ^ S' ^ v| ^<&
22-7596 Ripdaman Narula v. Superior Court of California, Orange County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-05-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights crime-reporting criminal-procedure default-judgment due-process judicial-procedure judicial-review law-enforcement pro-se standing victim-rights Question # 1. A pro se has a right to file a complaint in the court. Does he also has a right to win especially if defendant(s) default? Question # 2…
22-7578 In Re Carlos A. Seino 2023-05-17 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-appellate jurisdictional-challenge massachusetts-law procedural-rules search-and-seizure standing Question not identified.
22-7580 Victor Alfredo Bermudez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-17 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing notice-of-objection preservation-of-error preservation-of-objection procedural-error sentencing standard-of-review supervisory-powers trial-court-notice Whether a specific objection must be lodged to preserve a procedural error claim when the trial court was put on notice of the objection through defen…
22-7584 Kahliq Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appeal-waivers circuit-split criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement policy-concerns sentencing-errors Can a criminal defendant knowingly and voluntarily forfeit his right to appeal the district court's yet-to-be-made sentencing errors as part of his pl…
22-7585 Enrique Roberto Villarreal v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
22-7587 John Wayne Spell v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review plea-agreement procedural-error waiver Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Spell's appeal based on the waiver of appeal provisions in his Plea Agreement.
22-7558 Mike Vigil v. Midas International Corporation, et al Nevada 2023-05-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure default-judgment disability-act due-process elder-abuse elder-exploitation felony fraud intentional-fraud service-of-process standing IRREFUTABLE INTENTIONAL FRAUD - FELONY ? This Appeal of Certiorari Does Not Arise on an Error of fact. The Appeal Arises from the Supreme Court of t…
22-7564 Victor Wilson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 11th-circuit 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment speedy-trial (1) Can a 11th Circuit Court sua sponte deny a defendant's or petitioner's constitutional right to a public speedy trial 3.191 (P)(3). (2) Does the Pe…
22-7566 Byron Keith Howard v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP automatic-right-to-withdraw criminal-procedure due-process factual-basis federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plea-bargaining plea-colloquy right-to-be-informed rule-11 voluntary-plea Must a defendant be informed at the Rule 11 plea colloquy of a factual basis to support the defendant's plea of guilty before the court can accept the…
22-7569 Andrew Payton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver contract-law criminal-defendant criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process plea-agreement sentencing-error sentencing-errors voluntary-forfeiture Can a criminal defendant knowingly and voluntarily forfeit his right to appeal the district court's yet-to-be-made sentencing errors as part of his pl…
22-7546 Robert Leslie Roberson, III v. Texas Texas 2023-05-15 Denied Amici (5)IFP actual-innocence criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus medical-evidence scientific-consensus shaken-baby-syndrome (1) Does a conviction, based on a causation theory presented to a jury as scientific fact and used to establish that a homicide occurred, violate due …
22-7553 Ivory Joe Tisdale v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process government-prosecution plea-agreement plea-bargaining right-to-appeal waiver DOES IT VIOLATE DUE PROCESS FOR A DEFENDANT TO BE REQUIRED TO WAIVE HIS RIGHT TO APPEAL IN ORDER TO ENTER INTO AN OTHERWISE FAVORABLE PLEA AGREEMENT W…
22-7539 Stacy Gallman v. United States Third Circuit 2023-05-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP court-proceedings criminal-procedure cross-examination evidence evidence-ruling jury-selection public-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment's public trial guarantee extends to proceedings after a jury has been seated in which the court rules on challenged eviden…
22-7540 Harry Cole v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure district-court due-process essential-element jurisdiction jurisdictional-concept sua-sponte venue 1. Whether venue is only a jurisdictional concept rather than essential element of an offense that must be proved beyond a reasonable doubt; 2. Wheth…
22-7542 Wilber Curtis Johnson v. Texas Texas 2023-05-12 Denied IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-constitution sexual-assault texas-constitution trial-procedure witness-testimony Whether testimony can be sufficient to render harmless any error in admitting additional testimony in evidence, when trial counsel objected to testimo…
22-7543 Dwayne Mitchell Littlejohn v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP all-writs-act coram-nobis criminal-procedure custody due-process ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel novelty-of-legal-interpretation sixth-amendment Whether a defendant's reliance on erroneous advice from counsel, the Court of Appeals and novelty of a legal interpretation constitutes valid reasons …
22-7512 Eric Scott Kindley v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2412 causation civil-rights constitutional-error criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process false-evidence government-agents judicial-review jury-unanimity (1) whether the yuo vecds to be ua mous, tv Fide on elemats that are the causation oF de PAWATIOn UNVEZ IDUSC 2412, and where spect catly wetructinie …
22-7531 Chykeetra Maltbia v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP briefing circuit-court criminal-procedure due-process insufficient-evidence legal-error mens-rea miscarriage-of-justice plain-error prejudice regulatory-provisions Whether the Circuit Court erred in finding that the defendant had not established prejudice due to an omitted mens rea element based on what it believ…
22-7533 Terence Crawley v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 civil-rights compassionate-release criminal-procedure discretionary-relief district-court-discretion due-process first-step-act non-frivolous-arguments sentencing sentencing-relief supreme-court-ruling Whether the district court is obligated to consider a defendant's non-frivolous arguments in exercising its discretion to grant relief in a motion for…
22-7534 Charles Claude Ramsey v. Kimberly H. Runion, Director, Virginia Center for Behavioral Rehabilitation Fourth Circuit 2023-05-11 Denied IFP civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-circuit judicial-recusal self-incrimination standing state-law Question not identified.
22-7492 Cedric Winston O'Neal v. Craig Hughes, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-justice mandatory-penalty mandatory-transfer miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana Are Mandatory Transfer Schemes also apart of SCOTUS' 8th Amendment ban of mandatory penalty schemes against children? Did the United States Supreme C…
22-7515 Juan Andrade-Moreno v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-05-10 Denied IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus indigent-defense ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Constitutionalits with theUnited State Constitutional of statute into question;? 2D Thete Conflicted into Puestion?ln Sovereisnty, Common LAw. Bill o…
22-7520 Levaughn Collins v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure fifth-amendment fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress statutory-interpretation suppression-of-evidence wiretap-evidence wiretapping Whether the District Court erred in its two decisions, on August 16, 2018, R. 546 and Hrg. Tr. I; and January 22, 2019, R. 625 and Hrg. Tr. II, denyin…
22-7521 John Earnest Skrdla v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-05-10 Denied IFP constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel oklahoma-court-of-criminal-appeals state-court-appeals strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals ruled in contrary to Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 687(1984) when it determined Petitioner…
22-7491 Orlando Ocasio v. Joseph Noeth, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2023-05-09 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony expert-witness fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-evidence trial-strategy As in Mr.Ocasio's case where there was no introduction of any defense whatsoever and the Monroe County Court, Western District Court, and the Second C…
22-7494 Floyd Ellis Wyche v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver conviction conviction-appeal criminal-procedure due-process plea-bargaining plea-colloquy rule-11 sentencing Rule 11(b)(1)(N) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure requires that a district court conducting a plea colloquy inquire into the defendant's kno…
22-7495 Rudolfo Gill v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-05-09 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review legal-precedent standing takings Question not identified.
22-7496 Akkeli Frederick v. California California 2023-05-09 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment illegal-interrogation involuntary-confession ninth-circuit prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination CjO-3 tv\ Qfo ae* c^LA.^'beA - PeA-iVt ©\ne.>r <^>V_a£> -VVua CLovav T-V-W? v'-e.N/xssi V(^. Vv^Ae\ACC Code SecA-ie>iA-i4-3L'20-'^ LOV\e^ VVv£. #\oUi…
22-7498 Joel Armando Rodriguez v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP cooperating-defendants cooperating-witnesses criminal-procedure drug-weight fourth-circuit methamphetamine offense-level plea-bargaining relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT IMPROPERLY EXPANDED GUIDELINE § 1B1.3 BY INCLUDING AS RELEVANT DRUG WEIGHT UNCORROBORATED STATEMENTS OF TWO COOPERATING DEF…
22-7501 Leon Caril, II v. Washington Washington 2023-05-09 Denied IFP appeals-process criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process improper-witness-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-errors sentencing-errors sentencing-review sixth-amendment witness-testimony 1. an as an Jvshce [A deciding Prosecuterial Vindiot veness OF appeals a ys want jvstee ta dec? " PTesecutecs 2. fA cidiag oX two Count ConyicHea Sor…
22-7502 Anthony Gilbert-Brown v. United States Third Circuit 2023-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment police-conduct seizure sentencing-guidelines standing supreme-court-review use-of-force 1) Whether Third Cicuit Court of Appeals Erred Affirming Gilbert-Brown was seize when Officer Engle approach Gilber.t-Brown as he attempted to go aro…
22-1090 Christopher David Tarpey v. Wyoming Wyoming 2023-05-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-waiver due-process fundamental-right personal-right public-trial sixth-amendment waiver Is the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial a fundamental right that is personal to the defendant such that waiver must be on the record by the def…
22-7479 Mario Rodolfo Chairez-Avila v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-08 Denied IFP Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-law certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7480 Elbert Silas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process index-of informed-consent procedural-rights reason-for-granting-the-writ sentencing-guidelines Whether Mr. Silas's due process rights were violated by the enforcement of the appeal waiver when Mr. Silas was not advised and did not know that he w…
22-7468 Donatus O. Mbanefo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-deficiency criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection minority-rights selective-prosecution sixth-amendment trial-counsel Question 1. Whether the lower courts erred by lending themselves to a prosecution that intentionally selected minority physicians for prosecution in v…
22-7469 Angel Hernan Hernandez v. Ron Godwin, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-05-05 Denied IFP appeals civil-rights criminal-procedure district-attorney due-process standing Question not identified.
22-1080 City of Stockton, California, et al. v. Francisco Duarte Ninth Circuit 2023-05-05 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-claim criminal-procedure due-process heck-bar heck-v-humphrey nolo-contendere plea-bargaining plea-deal pretrial-diversion section-1983 Whether the " Heck Bar," which this Court created in Heck v. Humphrey , 512 U.S. 477 (1994) , bars a 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 claim where the plaintiff …
22-1068 Gary Paul Kirkman v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-05-04 Denied certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process melendez-diaz-v-massachusetts sane-records sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in denying Gary Paul Kirkman's request for a certificate of appealability (COA) when it concluded that he had not made…
22-1070 Stanford James Stelle, III v. California California 2023-05-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) competency competency-hearing criminal-defendant criminal-procedure drope-v-missouri due-process fourteenth-amendment mental-competency mental-incompetence pate-v-robinson successive-review Does California's heightened standard for a successive competency hearing violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment?
22-1075 James E. Hinkle v. Ron Neal, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-05-04 Denied Response Waived 6th-amendment confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-precedent impeachment impeachment-evidence witness-testimony 1. Whether The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit's decision was contrary to federal precedent when it held that Hinkle's federal …
22-7457 Bruce Allen Buckner v. Daniel Porter, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-05-04 Denied IFP brady-violation civil-procedure civil-rights civil-stay constitutional-rights criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process judicial-bias obstruction-of-justice stay 1. Does a Stay in one civil proceeding pending the outcome of a Criminal case extend to all other civil proceeding stemming from the same Criminal cas…
22-7459 Joseph Church v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit guilty-plea involuntary-plea notice plea-withdrawal sentencing I. Whether it is harmless error when a guilty plea is obtained in violation of due process of law when a judgment of conviction is entered without pro…
22-7460 Carlos Darnell Dixon v. Tennessee Tennessee 2023-05-04 Denied IFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence firearm-possession jury-inference jury-trial second-amendment The issue presented in this application has never been addressed by this Court; to wit, to what extent may the State violate a citizen's right to bear…
22-7462 Ronnie Bowman v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-05-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus sentencing Question not identified.
22-7465 Jogaak Jogaak v. Dan Sullivan, Warden South Dakota 2023-05-04 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction sentencing-enhancement standing statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine violent-felony Is a Section 1983 action involved in SDC 22-1-2(WA)? Serious, why does the Eighth Amendment protect the right to life with what is SDC 22-1-2(B)? Does…
22-7438 Frank Nellom v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2023-05-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP court-order criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process expungement fourteenth-amendment judicial-interpretation jury-finding jury-instructions rape-conviction A. Did the honorable Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Judge Joan A. Brown find the Commonwealth v. Frank Nellom, 565 A.2d 770 (Pa. Super. 1989) Cour…
22-7439 Julio Osorio v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-law guideline-interpretation ransom-crime sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation The Fifth Circuit Court Of Appeals has entered a decision in on the same conflict with the decision of other Courts Of Appeals important question of …
22-7451 Bennie C. Rivera v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-justice criminal-procedure fair-sentence-act first-step-act judicial-discretion judicial-review motion-denial sentencing sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation DID JUDGE JOHN ANTON II, UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT JUDGE ABUSE HIS DISCRETION WHEN HE DENIED THE PETITIONER'S MOTION IN PURSUANT TO THE FIRST STEP …
22-7437 Kevin Darrell Miller v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP contemporaneous-conduct criminal-procedure drug-distribution drug-use evidence evidence-admissibility intent-standard mens-rea possession Whether, in a drug distribution trial, evidence of a defendant's drug use and simple possession is admissible to prove mens rea if the use and possess…
22-7444 Julio Gonzalez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP administration-of-justice base-offense-level cocaine-possession criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing culpability culpability-assessment drug-quantity fifth-circuit sentencing-guidelines I. Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law when it conducted a cursory review of the facts related to the district courts erroneous decision to…
22-1063 Tennessee v. Tyshon Booker Tennessee 2023-05-02 Denied Response Waived 8th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment graham-v-florida juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama sentencing-guidelines term-of-years-sentences Whether this Court should extend Graham and Miller to term-of-years prison sentences that permit a juvenile offender's release after a lengthy period …
22-1065 John Paul Gosney, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-02 Denied Response Waived asset-forfeiture asset-restraint counsel-of-choice criminal-procedure due-process ex-parte-order forfeiture-statute grand-jury right-to-counsel traceability I Whether United States v. Monsanto, 491 U.S. 600 (1989), and/or Kaley v. United States, 571 U.S. 320 (2014), should be overruled or at least modified…
22-7417 Keanan Dequez Bond v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP compassionate-release criminal-procedure district-court due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment plea-agreement sentencing Whether the court of appeals violated the defendant's Fourteenth Amendment right to equal protection where the district court in a motion for compassi…
22-7420 Jose Angel Morquecho-Sanchez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-01 Denied IFP case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7421 Michael Anthony McDowell, aka Red v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP compel criminal-procedure district-court due-process government-discretion government-refusal judicial-review rule-35 rule-35-motion standing Whether the due process rights of Petitioner violated by the Government's refusal to file a Rule 35 motion, and the district court's refusal to compel…
22-7423 Gilberto Marquez-Calzadilla v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-01 Denied IFP Almendarez-Torres case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7426 George Donald Hatt, Jr. v. Washington Washington 2023-05-01 Denied IFP criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel informed-consent informed-decision mandatory-minimums offender-score plea-bargain plea-negotiations trial-strategy Does effective assistance of counsel in a plea bargain context require that counsel actually and substantially assist a client in deciding whether to …
22-7432 Willie Glover, Jr. v. United States District of Columbia 2023-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment executive-order human-rights recidivism sentencing-guidelines standing j POi> Lcfr-Zj '.lu»«e,>«Wt.»<.>J)*s U> (WlfVJi jrwiKsL K 1a^pSpaja.r-atJ stMftf ^VvVs f&r &®cuV W£, OrAef QWH ^9 Berber Pj^,fc3 Eei.Pi^*WW of Wn»^ I…
22-7435 Alex Smith v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-doubt Does the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment require a trial court to instruct, or refuse to instruct, the Jury on the fundamental meaning of "B…
22-7393 Allen W. Thompson v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2023-04-28 Denied IFP affidavit-requirement collateral-attack credibility-of-witnesses criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standards habeas-corpus habeas-petition ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-litigation standard-of-review Pro se litigants filing claims of ineffective assistance of counsel and claims 1. are routinely dismissed as "insufficient " "where it is merely concl…
22-7396 Richard Anthony Wilford v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP cocaine-quantity criminal-procedure district-court due-process equal-protection false-declaration pro-se pro-se-petition sentencing sentencing-memorandum supervised-release supremacy-clause Whether to grant the petition for a writ of certiorari, vacate the judgment, and remand for reconsideration in light of Concepcion V. United States, 1…
22-7397 Daniel Kim v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2023-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-speech due-process fighting-words first-amendment free-speech jury-determination jury-instructions speech-protection state-court true-threats 1. Whether a state court is prohibited from unilaterally determining whether a defendant's written speech on his blog is protected or criminal, withou…
22-7400 Maurice Morrison v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2023-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause confrontation-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-protection jury-deliberations jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-evidence A person accused of a crime is entitled to have his guilt or innocence determined solely on the basis of evidence introduced at trial. Taylor v. Kentu…
22-7401 Brandon Quane Hudson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure drug-trafficking fourth-amendment good-faith-exception magisterial-review magistrate-review probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant In this case, police executed a search warrant at a person's home based solely on the fact that said person was involved in the sale of drugs, when ot…
22-7404 Tomas Jaramillo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-rights attorney-client-communication attorney-consultation consultation-duty criminal-appeals criminal-defendant criminal-procedure flores-ortega-standard ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-appeal sentencing Whether, when a criminal defendant expresses interest in an appeal and concern over the length of his sentence, an attorney who fails to hold a follow…
22-7407 Derrick D. Hayes v. Illinois Illinois 2023-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance prejudice right-to-counsel trial-strategy 0. UJhdhsr 4te '5 "trial ojfern&Uj (tetiHlufrmlltj jfie^feo/n/e. C(s5 \sfanc& by jjufsutoj <3 IWeose-' Prwoca'fldn - Tt'wf tucvs p<*fe/rHi/ Un'kznqbf…
22-7408 Robert E. Hammersley v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2023-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-parte ex-parte-denial habeas-corpus judicial-notice post-conviction postconviction-relief standing statutory-interpretation wrongful-conviction The Wisconsin Supreme Court Should Not Have EX PARTE discriminatively continued with the 2018-ongoing DENIALS OF the UNHEARD PETITIONS FILED FOR JUDIC…
22-7413 Nathan G. Flemming v. Tennessee Tennessee 2023-04-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure defendant-rights delay due-process judicial-process presence-of-defendant pronouncement-of-sentence sentencing sentencing-delay 1. DOES A THIRTEEN MONTH DELAY BETWEEN SENTENCING HEARING AND THE PRONOUNCEMENT OF SENTENCE VIOLATE DUE PROCESS? 2. DOES THE ABSENCE OF A DEFENDANT F…
22-7389 Gerald Lee Banks v. A. W. Wingfield, Acting Warden Fourth Circuit 2023-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellant-court case-law criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit judicial-review legal-precedent precedent sentencing-error Did the Appellant err when it violated its own precedent in denying Banks sentencing error? Did the Lower Court err when it violated Fourth Circuit p…
22-7390 Robert James Turner, aka Robert James Branham v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP assimilative-crimes-act civil-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction government-action jurisdictional-dispute legal-review ninth-circuit stipulation relied almost exclusively on Torver's jurisdictional "stipulation" iNvolving the Lortons Facility, Can this stipulatiow legally Torner's case? Moreov…
22-7391 Joshua G. Stegemann v. United States Second Circuit 2023-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP asset-forfeiture constitutional-rights counsel-performance criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sixth-amendment 1. If a lawyer advises her client to reject a favorable plea deal and instead proceed to trial in the face of overwhelming evidence of guilt resulting…
22-1046 Thomas J. Kelly v. University of Florida Board of Trustees, et al. Florida 2023-04-27 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-misconduct mandamus-petition presumption-of-innocence public-records separation-of-powers Whether when considering a petition for a writ of mandamus regarding a public records request, can a state civil, not criminal, circuit trial court ju…
22-7370 Donte Lamont Dingle v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure de-novo-review discovery-rule-16 fourth-amendment franks-v-delaware franks-violation jencks-material probable-cause search-warrant standard-of-review Whether the Fourth Circuit's decision conflicts with prior decisions of this Court and another United States Court of Appeals, including its own, on t…
22-7373 Victor M. Miranda-Guerrero v. California California 2023-04-26 Denied IFP aggravating-circumstances apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process jury-determination jury-trial mitigating-circumstances sentencing sentencing-procedure Does the mandatory weighing of aggravating and mitigating circumstances under the California death penalty statute—a factfinding determination that se…
22-7377 Jose Isabel Mora-Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-26 Denied IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
22-7378 Patrick Ellis Cochran v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2023-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custody due-process ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining plea-negotiations sixth-amendment speedy-trial Petitioner experienced extreme prejudice for 7 months while held in continous custody _2_ .counties away, waiting to answer charges — in Fairfax Count…
22-7379 Igor Grushko v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement loss-calculation probable-cause reasonableness reasonableness-standard search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing-guidelines 1. WHETHER THE POLICE ENTERING A RESIDENCE TO EXECUTE A SEARCH WARRANT MUST POSSESS PROBABLE CAUSE THAT THE PERSON THEY ARE SEEKING IS INSIDE THE RESI…
22-7381 Larry Anthony Ladson, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standing procedural-due-process selective-prosecution standing Whether Petitioner was a victim of Selective Prosecution. Whether Petitioner was erroneously denied a Certificate of Appealability.
22-7382 Tarus Vandell Sales v. Texas Texas 2023-04-26 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty eighth-amendment enmund-v-florida fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus law-of-parties sixth-amendment tison-v-arizona 1. Whether Mr. Sales's death sentence violates the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments, where the jury did not and could not find, based on the e…
22-7384 In Re Reidie James Jackson 2023-04-26 Denied IFP abstention circuit-court civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure dismissal due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-procedure jurisdiction standing Can Pre Uwited Stes Court of Appeals. Fer We Bh Cir eu refuse Yo address We is9n2 of abstention . Presented Yny The VS. distvick court's Merch 352022…
22-7359 Devin Baker v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-04-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-convictions drug-offense federal-sentencing prior-convictions sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation The United States Sentencing Guidelines significantly increase the recommended sentencing range for a defendant who has at least two prior felony conv…
22-7361 Demonte Tretion Kelly v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process intellectual-disability miscarriage-of-justice sentencing-guidelines Whether appellate waivers in federal criminal cases contain and implied exception for miscarriage of justice.
22-7364 Matthew Caleb Ross v. Texas Texas 2023-04-25 Denied IFP civil-rights community-supervision constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance texas-court I. PETITIONER QUESTIONS THE LEGALITY OF THE COURT OF OKLAHOMA APPEALS OFFICER'S DISMISSAL OF A WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS TO ENJOIN COMMUNITY SUPERVISION N…
22-7369 Sydney Tyrone Mays v. Illinois Illinois 2023-04-25 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance prior-statement right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-integrity witness Does a witness stating that he does not remember 2his two thirds of nis prror staterrent without ever establishing Proper foundatien to specfic subjec…
22-7350 Emanuel Higuera v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-04-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-hearing expert-testimony judicial-discretion law-enforcement preliminary-proceedings trial-procedure witness-qualification Whether district courts should be required to hold some type of preliminary proceedings before allowing experienced-based law enforcement experts to t…
22-7352 Samuel Jesus Avila v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-rule plain-error precedent second-amendment standing In Henderson v. United States, this Court held that "it is enough that an error be plain at the time of appellate consideration" to meet the second pr…
22-7357 Irina Collier v. Marc Tessier-Lavigne, President of Stanford University, et al. Federal Circuit 2023-04-24 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus standing Question not identified.
22-7343 William Levi Oliver v. Texas Texas 2023-04-21 Denied IFP 6th-amendment confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony ineffective-assistance trauma-narrative videoconference-testimony witness 1 (a) Whether it is a violation of the Confrontation Clause to dispense with physical/ face-to-face confrontation and permit out-of-state testimony vi…
22-7345 Ali F. Elmezayen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure domestic-abuse due-process fair-trial impartial-jury jury-selection sixth-amendment voir-dire Whether, consistent with the Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury, a district court may refuse to inform the venire during jury selection about …
22-7346 John G. Calhoun v. Florida Florida 2023-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process estelle-v-mcguire habeas-corpus jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-precedent lisenba-v-california manslaughter trial-fairness Whether the inaccurate jury instruction on Manslaughter by Act so infused the trial with unfairness as to deny the Petitioner's right to Due Process o…
22-7348 Joel Suarez v. Chris Brewer, Warden Eighth Circuit 2023-04-21 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel Ineffective Assistance Of Counsel Counsel failed to get a interpreter. Counsel was ineffective in the plea-bargain process. Counsel failed to object t…
22-7349 Thomas J. M. Goodin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance standing 1. Whether the Fifth Circuit clearly exceeded its authority by failing to consider Mr. Goodin's Motion to Supplement in support of his claim that tria…
22-7330 Pedro Perez-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP citizenship citizenship-status civil-rights constitutional-violations criminal-procedure deportation due-process habeas-corpus immigration ineffective-counsel sentencing guilty of offense of "reentry" into United States, which was for Sixth Constitutional Amendment (Effective Assistance of Counsel). Where defense Trial…
22-7333 David Jah, Sr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-04-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights commerce-clause criminal-procedure due-process interstate-commerce jury-instruction jury-instructions pro-se-representation sixth-amendment speedy-trial speedy-trial-act 1) Will the theory of the government, assisted by their witnesses, known to be fabricated, asserted to be harmful and outreagous conduct, be enough t…
22-7335 Enrique Holguin v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-04-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standards expert-testimony judicial-discretion law-enforcement preliminary-hearing preliminary-proceedings trial-procedure Whether district courts should be required to hold some type of preliminary proceedings before allowing experienced-based law enforcement experts to t…
22-7336 Shawn Kaleb Drake v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP bureau-of-prisons credit criminal-procedure duty-to-determine federal-sentence federal-sentencing judicial-discretion presentence-detention sentencing 1. If a defendant requests that he be given credit towards his federal sentence for presentence detention time, is a district court – knowing that the…
22-7339 Holly Harvey v. Georgia Georgia 2023-04-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-Amendment appellate-rights criminal-appeals criminal-procedure due-process georgia-courts habeas-corpus ocga-5-6-35 post-conviction-remedies In Dougherty v. State, 315 Ga 188, 880 SE2d 523 (2023), the Supreme Court of Georgia admitted they have erroneously referred pro se litigants to pursu…
22-7340 Damorius D. Gaines v. Geoffrey Benedict Eaton, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-04-20 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-warrant 1. Did Magistrate Judge Geoffrey Eaton err in violating the Fourth Amendment, Search and Seizure; probable Cause. By Signing arrest warrant without a …
22-7316 Hugo Perez-Mendoza v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-19 Denied IFP criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent precedent-overturning recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether this Court should overrule its decision in Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998).
22-7317 Rosa V. v. Ali H. California 2023-04-19 Denied IFP child-abuse civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-law hearsay-exception medical-records out-of-court-statements sixth-amendment In Our "ShorvG4u* l'tFyMW(ii)Oo5*r'i T prt-sented TVi* .Mtentit- OMvfMd (Vib/^ i/USdod-iau Of pecenis iflfoEi/itUnck- jwtyii, yw+U diSisq^kTH c..!,:^ …
22-7319 Jose Manuel Salazar-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-19 Denied IFP case-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7321 Schuyler Scarborough v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-04-19 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus retroactivity right-to-counsel state-criminal-procedure akMtr+k*' ifoh- of tthfitkA a Ade.i^c{>f>or^rh^ fft^ te ^ dwltd fh<o ostiehuu*. of Ceufi^l -for bus d&tlASt. ./. uiht-fbitr-0ie~^fah- e-f OkUah&Ma. t…
22-7324 Byron R. Fisher v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2023-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure disability-claims due-process judicial-review military-service standing veterans-benefits Did the lower court violate the constitutional rights of an Iraq War Veteran (Petitioner) by not addressing the crimes commited by the Respondent? …
22-7308 Jose Alfredo Solis v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-appeals guidelines-range harmless-error sentencing-guidelines standard-of-proof The U.S. Sentencing Guidelines "are not only the starting point for most federal sentencing proceedings but also the lodestar." Molina-Martinez v. Uni…
22-7310 Antonio Minnis v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure enhanced-sentence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prejudice-prong sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington This Court in Strickland v. Washington , 466 U.S. 668, 80 L.Ed.2d 674, 104 S.Ct. 2052 (1984), laid the foundation for the gauging of ineffective assis…
22-7313 Rakim Moberly v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-court-standard compassionate-release criminal-procedure excusable-neglect federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure first-step-act notice-of-appeal pro-se pro-se-appeal 1) Did the Petitioner's Letter to the District Court Clerk, which stated: "5:19-Cr~136-DCR Dear Court Clerk I received the decision from the court to…
22-1013 J. R. v. North Carolina North Carolina 2023-04-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process impartial-judge judicial-bias judicial-impartiality liberty-interest north-carolina-law trial-judge trial-procedure Whether, when a person's liberty is at stake, the right to an impartial judge guaranteed by the Due Process Clause is violated where the trial judge a…
22-7282 David William Linder v. Brian Lammer, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP analogue-drugs controlled-substances criminal-procedure drug-statute federal-cases jury-instructions mens-rea standing supreme-court-rule-14.1(b) Can the drug death statute, 21 § 841(b)(1)(C) be enlarged to include analogue drugs? Can a McFadden review of a defendant's mens rea be performed by …
22-7284 Herbert Bernard Johnson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment criminal-law criminal-procedure harmless-error indictment indictment-amendment interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation structural-error I. Should this Court grant the Petition for a Writ of Certiorari to resolve whether the statutory language of 18 U.S.C. §2252A(a)(5)(B)'s alternative …
22-7286 Vonteak Alexander v. Jane Doe, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-04-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP contract-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process judicial-discretion legal-reformation mistake-of-law mutual-mistake plea-agreement May a court reform an accepted, valid, federal plea agreement containing a mutual mistake of law to circumvent the mistake to the defendant's prejudic…
22-7287 Rodolfo Tovar-Zamarripa v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-14 Denied IFP almendarez-torres apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure historical-practices notice-clause prior-conviction-exception prior-convictions sixth-amendment Whether the prior-conviction exception from Almendarez-Torres can be squared with the text of the Sixth Amendment's Notice Clause and the historical p…
22-7288 Gilberto Gonzalez-Enriquez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process error-calculation harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review u.s-sentencing-guidelines Whether a sentencing court can insulate a substantial error in calculating the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines range from appellate review simply by assert…
22-7290 Michael Kenneth Howard v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure district-court fourth-circuit right-to-appeal sentencing-guidelines waiver waiver-of-appeal I. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by ruling that Mr. Howard waived his right to appeal whether the District Court erred by not applying Acceptance o…
22-7292 Jason Edward Simpson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-841 controlled-substances-act criminal-procedure due-process jury-finding jury-instructions knowledge-element mens-rea reasonable-doubt statutory-minimum-maximum statutory-sentencing 1. Whether a conviction of a substantive offense under 21 U.S.C. § 841 of the Controlled Substances Act ("CSA") requires that a jury find beyond a rea…
22-7296 Nathan Karl Thomas v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-04-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process legal-review plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation substantive-review supreme-court-petition Did the government breach the plea agreement by giving Petitioner a substantive sentence that was inconsistent with the plea agreement? Double Jeopar…
22-7267 Lloyd Leslie Kindred v. T. Cisneros, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-04-13 Denied IFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance interest-of-justice outcome-determination prejudicial-error reasonable-probability sixth-amendment Brawnds(f), tas J deated the 6TH mend ment oF Heo VU, Lornctidubion: Ke oarebing Lown sed s Pray Mianee. Wa ad teas onobhy et&ti ve"and Hrat Here /5 a…
22-7271 Gregg Haden v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-04-13 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review supreme-court-precedent texas-procedure ynoc^dut*. FaII ,'fcj Ut-jDer TU< 4 CRuTny Of Ttl<. Bull Com', -^TAA/ cIario AM) Vio IA Ti'hQ TH< FT/J hmtksOmcnT THAT iS To STATcS THROUGH Ttt& IHm…
22-7272 Christopher Ernest Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure elements-of-crime factual-basis federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plain-error plea-bargaining rule-11 sufficiency-of-evidence united-states-supreme-court Where the record identifies no conduct that matches the clearly established and uncontested elements of the crime of conviction, is the district court…
22-7273 Fidelmar Hernandez-Jimenez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review conflict-with-other-courts criminal-procedure district-court district-court-error holguin-hernandez judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines substantial-argument substantial-arguments Whether, after Holguin -Hernandez v. United States , __U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails…
22-7280 Richard Ralph Martinez v. Michelle Lujan Grisham, Governor of New Mexico, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-04-13 Dismissed IFP criminal-procedure determinate-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus indeterminate-sentencing judicial-review life-sentence new-mexico parole parole-eligibility sentencing 1. Whether Petitioner's allegations of violation, abridgment and denial of his constitutional rights by the named defendants' ignoring and violating t…
22-992 Clay Melton Denton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-13 Denied adverse-inference criminal-procedure due-process evidence-spoliation exculpatory-evidence government-failure jury-instruction spoliation If critical evidence, which is at a minimum potentially exculpatory, is lost as a result of government's failure to preserve it, when is a defendant e…
22-997 Andrew Lewis v. Texas Texas 2023-04-13 Denied criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-evidence medical-testimony prejudice-analysis standard-of-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel Whether the TCCA, by considering only the trial testimony that supported the convictions rather than how the testimony of petitioner's medical experts…
22-993 In Re Krishna Maharaj 2023-04-12 Denied Amici (2) constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process factual-innocence federal-courts federal-procedure habeas-corpus innocence judicial-review WHETHER, GIVEN THE CHAOS IN THE LOWER COURTS ON THE EXISTENCE OR SCOPE OF THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT NOT TO BE IMPRISONED WHEN FACTUALLY INNOCEN…
22-7259 Jose Manuel Cejudo-Mancinas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-12 Denied IFP case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7260 Luis Alberto Escobedo-Duenas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-12 Denied IFP almendarez-torres-precedent certiorari constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review overrule sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7261 Susan Elise Prophet v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 abuse-of-discretion appellate-review compassionate-release criminal-procedure eighth-circuit federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit abused its discretion in denying Prophet's Motion for Compassionate Release/Reductio…
22-7264 Corey Shamon McKinney v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure drug-possession evidence-suppression fourth-amendment franks-v-delaware probable-cause search-warrant standing Question 1: Did a illegal search and seizute takeplace?
22-7247 Claudia Castillo Guzman v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process government-conduct judicial-discretion mitigating-factors sentence-manipulation sentencing Whether the Due Process Clause is violated when a sentencing court refuses to consider, as a mitigating factor, whether the government has engaged in …
22-7249 Daryl Lee Godette Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constructive-possession criminal-procedure drug-possession due-process evidence evidence-standard possession reasonable-doubt Whether the Government proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Mr. Godette possessed the heroin found in the apartment.
22-7251 Thomas Creighton Shrader v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-competence constitutional-standing criminal-procedure criminal-venue federal-courts federal-jurisdiction fourth-circuit-review standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction venue #1. When Congress by Statute has mandatorily set where the criminal Subject Matter Jurisdiction of the offense must be, was the Fourth Circuit in erro…
22-978 Jackie Jackson v. Ohio Ohio 2023-04-10 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment contraband criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement lower-court-conflict police-conduct precedent probable-cause search search-and-seizure vehicle-search Where one police officer opens the door of a car, and another officer looks through the open door for contraband, have the police conducted a "search"…
22-980 Neil Paul Noble v. Texas Texas 2023-04-10 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-right harmless-error indictment-notice notice sixth-amendment state-courts A. Indictment A(l). Notice Is a Fundamental Federal Constitutional Right Is the Sixth Amendment right to be informed of the na ture and cause of the …
22-7239 Edward Knight v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-04-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process felony hobbs-act in-person jury-trial public-trial sixth-amendment structural-error 1. Whether allowing a seated juror to appear virtually via Zoom in a federal felony trial is structural error violating the Fifth and Sixth Amendment …
22-7225 Andrew Michael Gomez v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-inquiry criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress plea-bargaining presumption-of-innocence trial-court 1.) Whether a trial court is constitutionally required to conduct an extensive inquiry into, and make a judicial finding of, the factual basis of a gu…
22-7232 Darrell Gunn v. Frederick N. Berntein, et al. Second Circuit 2023-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment assault assault-case civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standards judicial-review medical-treatment retaliation whether plaintiff was within the 3 year time limit of 42 U.S.C.A. Section 1997e(a) whether the plaintiff's factual allegations of Anthony Annucci, et…
22-7235 Adam Chism v. Mississippi Mississippi 2023-04-06 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process illegal-sentence interest-of-justice plain-error sentencing trial-court WHETHER CHISM WAS DENIED DUE PROCESS OF LAW WHEN PLAIN ERROR WAS COMMITTED BY THE TRIAL COURT IN IMPOSING AN ILLEGAL SENTENCE AS A MATTER OF LAW AND/O…
22-7214 Miguel Angel Bacilio v. Texas Texas 2023-04-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-error constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial judicial-discretion jurisdiction right-to-counsel sixth-amendment (a) Whether the trial court was legally convened and constitu ted with the provisions of the constitution and statute to remain a "Court of Competen…
22-7215 Robert William Wazney v. South Carolina South Carolina 2023-04-05 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-review criminal-procedure direct-review due-process exhaustion-of-remedies jury-instructions post-conviction-relief retroactivity state-court-jurisdiction Subsequent Petitioner's conviction/ while his case was under direct review, State High-Court held in an unrelated case—Stukes [1]—that the trial court…
22-7216 Terrell Anderson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-circuit judicial-review motion-to-suppress pretrial-motion search-and-seizure standard-of-review Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Terrell Anderson's pretrial mo…
22-7218 Jaime Tomas-Antonio v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-05 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit legal-precedent precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7220 Geronimo Juarez-Medellin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-05 Denied IFP appellate-procedure Apprendi-v-New-Jersey certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7222 Ray Dansby v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2023-04-05 Denied IFP bias confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process informant jailhouse-informant witness-impeachment To secure Ray Dansby's conviction and death sentence, the State relied heavily on the testimony of a jailhouse informant to whom Dansby purportedly co…
22-7224 Trinidad Walter Encarnacion-Pascual v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-05 Denied IFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-precedent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7210 David McCall, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court-discretion extraordinary-compelling-reason sentence-reduction sentencing-law Whether a district court may consider the disparity in a sentence when the applicable sentencing law has changed, when the disparity is of a degree wh…
22-7213 Brian Evan Roth v. Florida Florida 2023-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof civil-rights closing-arguments criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-introduction judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure 1. Did thetrial Court Err in allowing oncharged erimes not containod in the in farmatuen, to he introduced and sfotlighted as testimany? As well as be…
22-966 Cavanta McLilly v. Adam Douglas, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-04-05 Denied Response Waived alleyne-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence harmless-error jury-instructions jury-verdict police-testimony sentencing-review standard-of-review surveillance-video I. Whether police testimony identifying Mr. McLilly as the perpetrator seen on a surveillance video from the crime scene had a substantial and injurio…
22-7197 Bernard A. Brandon v. Connecticut Connecticut 2023-04-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP coercion criminal-procedure custody juvenile-justice miranda-rights probation (1) Whether an interrogation in a secured facility between a probationer who is present on the orders of his probation officer, and armed law enforcem…
22-7205 Miguel Valdivia-Gonzalez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-04 Denied IFP case-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-precedent precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7207 Ignacio Martinez-Saucedo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-04 Denied IFP case-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure legal-precedent overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7209 Dylan Brando Ervey Macias-Torres v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-04 Denied IFP case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7178 David Frazier v. Tennessee Tennessee 2023-04-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-review court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-error procedural-due-process sentencing sentencing-procedure state-courts Whether Supreme Court for Tennessee ignored facts and procedure for correction of illegal sentence. Whether Criminal Appeals Court for Tennessee also…
22-7179 Andres Ajualip-Pablo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-03 Denied IFP case-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7180 Tyshon Booker v. Tennessee Tennessee 2023-04-03 Dismissed IFP apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment juvenile-court juvenile-transfer probable-cause reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment transfer-hearing The defendant in this case was sixteen when the alleged crime was committed. He was initially charged in Juvenile Court. He was transferred from Juven…
22-7182 Azizjon Rakhmatov v. United States Second Circuit 2023-04-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-46c 2nd-circuit circuit-conflict criminal-procedure due-process en-banc en-banc-review inter-panel-conflict judicial-bias racial-bias sentencing 1. Whether the unresolved conflict between the Second Circuit panels in this case, and the conflict among the circuits on whether 28 U.S.C. §46 can an…
22-7183 Manuel Camilo Ordonez-Mendoza v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-03 Denied IFP case-law constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7186 Daniel Ray Mann v. Doug Clark, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-04-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony plain-error plain-error-review procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct vouching 1. Are AW "rUiW 2. \ 5 W-eof €_viWv\a: 11 Cjqyw AvAcvVvonW C$tl'*' iytK) fi'tjhA ftcccjnizej 3.5 AW. reWAW process ru^VA preseMeck unier "pWn errur V…
22-7145 Abdullah Khabir Yusuf v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process in-re-winship jackson-v-virginia reasonable-doubt standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence The question presented is whether a federal court of appeals reviewing a defendant's challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence supporting his convi…
22-7167 Quentin Truley v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process hobbs-act ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining probable-cause sentencing (1) Under categorical approach, is 18 USC § 924(c)'s residual clause held as unconstitutionally vague, and predicated by Conspiracy to Commit Hobbs Ac…
22-7142 William Matthew Plump v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-03-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process fraud legal-ethics legal-misrepresentation mail-fraud misrepresentation sentencing wire-fraud The law of the Eighth Circit is that an attomey volates the federal mail andwi frand stattes 18 U.5.8 134 and 343, if thy Make Mat Misstatements or am…
22-7155 Kalid Koron Ocean-Avent v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-03-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-errors fair-trial firearm firearm-possession jury reasonable-doubt I. Whether the Government proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Mr. Ocean-Avent possessed a firearm. II. right to a fair trial.
22-7156 James Anthony Rogers v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-03-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection prosecutorial-misconduct Question not identified.
22-7159 Denzel Simmons v. Mike Walczak, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-03-30 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fraud-on-court free-speech ineffective-assistance-of-counsel police-misconduct sixth-circuit 1) Musk MESimamens conchors fer assaul voitn intenb te ou Ader and LAorions. assaull le vacated because ray, are nck supported. by soPhiciend eindence…
22-953 Pablo Calderon v. United States Second Circuit 2023-03-30 Denied Response Waived criminal-charges criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statute habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation substantive-law Does a federal district court have habeas corpus jurisdiction when a substantive element of the criminal charges was not found under the law mandated …
22-945 Jonathan Dean Davis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) criminal-procedure criminal-statute misrepresentation money-laundering restitution sentencing statutory-interpretation victim-loss wire-fraud 1. Is proof of misrepresentations by a defendant in 2014 alone sufficient to establish that wire transfers occurring years later in 2016 and 2017 were…
22-7138 Muzammil Ali v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure downward-variance due-process fifth-amendment jail-phone-calls motion-for-continuance sentencing sixth-amendment speedy-trial speedy-trial-act 1. WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN AFFIRMING THAT ALI'S FIFTH AND SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS WERE NOT VIOLATED UNDER THE SPEEDY TRIAL ACT. 2. WHETH…
22-7146 Daren Bernard Razz, III v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3161 criminal-procedure due-process federal-prosecution government-delay indictment-timing sixth-amendment speedy-trial statutory-delay Issue 1: Petitioner briefs the following point in an abundance of caution to preserve the issue regarding the denial of his second motion to dismiss t…
22-7148 Karteu Omar Jenkins v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (9)IFP acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure drug-weight-calculation due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN NOT APPOINTING NEW COUNSEL AFTER THE SECOND HEARING ON THIS MATTER? II. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN NO…
22-7130 Timothy Fletcher v. United States First Circuit 2023-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP booker-decision criminal-procedure district-court-notice federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion mandatory-guidelines notice-requirement sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-booker Whether this Court's elimination of the mandatory sentencing guidelines pursuant to United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220 (2005) has rendered Fed. R. …
22-7114 Miguel Ortiz-Castillo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-27 Denied IFP alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation precedent-analysis sentencing supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
22-7116 In Re Ramone L. Wright 2023-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-error plea-agreement plea-bargaining rule-11 rule-52 1D cen a prosecutorenter additionc chorses in an indictment withoot the added counts bang Superceded or returned by the Grand Jry while cnder oxith of…
22-7121 Christopher Barret v. United States Second Circuit 2023-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure de-novo-resentencing de-novo-review direct-appeal resentencing sentencing sentencing-discretion vacatur 1. Whether, following the vacatur of one or more counts, either pursuant to a direct appeal or a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion, a district court must conduc…
22-7087 Michael James Hoffman v. United States District Court for the District of Arizona Ninth Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence-manipulation fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-jury right-to-counsel sixth-amendment state-misconduct trial-misconduct 1. To secure its 2011 and 2012 false indictments, did the State violate Petitioner's Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel and Due Process when it circumve…
22-7090 Frank Gallardo v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-exclusion expert-testimony fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence speedy-trial I Mo/io/l for Jcojul tt<sL se -L^/^ /a/SuffideA &\)'ic/ertC& ~bo Gubsid tkce^Se to Jit/y. Xj (beard i To nKeUs TesiL /f\Ony Should sv&t bs^ (bets (sl…
22-7091 David Lee Hering v. Iowa Iowa 2023-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-authority personal-jurisdiction speedy-trial void-judgement 1. Whether a criminal prosecution and judgement therefrom is void where the trial court lost personal jurisdiction over the defendant prior to the sta…
22-7100 Felipe Nevarez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process objection-timing speedy-trial speedy-trial-act statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit trial-delay waiver Does the Speedy Trial Act require the accused to object to lack of speedy trial only after the time has lapsed, or can the accused assert this right p…
22-7103 George Lincoln Stanley, IV v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1291 confrontation-clause criminal-procedure hearsay-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jurisdiction kidnapping kidnapping-charges sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence The following questions are exceptional circumstances that warrants the exercise of the court's discretionafcyvpowers and adequate relief cannot be ob…
22-7106 Brian Keith Wells, aka B. K. Wells v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP counsel-denial criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing ineffective-assistance procedural-review role-enhancement sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment sixth-circuit substantive-reasonableness ussg-3b1.1 Whether this honorable Court should grant certiorari to review whether Mr. Wells request for new counsel should have been granted? Whether this honor…
22-7076 Servando Pineda-Valdez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility constitutional-claims counsel-performance criminal-procedure guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing writ-of-certiorari Should a writ of certiorari be granted since Servando-Pineda 's title 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion sufficiently alleged constitutional claims violations du…
22-7084 Christopher Daniel Lutker v. Michigan Michigan 2023-03-23 Denied IFP criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process guilty-plea involuntary-confession knowingly-voluntarily mental-competency plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing trial-court-discretion x, £>lP C-HHT^TOpHEM DAHTTT ZHTHE& KNOWTMZZYj I NTT/LLX&TNTIy AND YOIUNTARILYMADE WHEN H E WAS 5J3aK AND SOJU-TN&HIMEJTLF ANDPZMZEP A fiESrACOM uMTL…
22-7070 Kenneth Douglas Clark, III v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2023-03-22 Denied IFP 6th and 8th Amendment rights by refusing to drop char and allowing a biased jury verdict excluding his self-defense claim constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-bias jury-exclusion prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense sentencing sentencing-guidelines trial-procedure 1. Is the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in violation of the Petitioner's 5th and 8th amendment by refusing not to drop all charges against the Petition…
22-7051 William Todd Lewallen v. Scott Crow Tenth Circuit 2023-03-21 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-testimony due-process evidence jury-trial right-to-testify rock-v-arkansas sentencing sentencing-procedure state-evidence-law Oklahoma has jury sentencing in all felony cases, and those proceedings may be bifurcated. The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals (the "OCCA") has the…
22-7041 Deandre Markee King v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence collateral-attack-waiver constitutional-rule criminal-law criminal-procedure habeas-corpus plea-bargaining retroactivity The vast majority of federal criminal cases end in a guilty plea. And in many of those pleas, the defendant promises not to file a future 28 U.S.C. § …
22-7025 Kevin Ariel Garcia-Archaga v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-17 Denied IFP almendarez-torres apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure historical-practices notice-clause prior-conviction-exception sixth-amendment Whether the prior-conviction exception from Almendarez-Torres can be squared with the text of the Sixth Amendment's Notice Clause and the historical p…
22-7026 Erin F. Graham, Jr. v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP co-defendant confrontation-clause criminal-offense criminal-procedure domestic-incident hearsay hearsay-statements law-enforcement ongoing-criminal-offense 1) Whether the introduction of a co-defendant's inculpatory hearsay statements about her alleged co-conspirator, made to law enforcement following a d…
22-7033 DeAndre Forrest v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment 1. Whether Forrest's Sixth Amendment was violated when his counsel conceeded his guilt during trial? 2. Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Er…
22-7027 Lester Barnett v. North Carolina North Carolina 2023-03-16 Denied IFP 10th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment pre-trial-detention sentencing state-prisoner The OCR text provided is too degraded and illegible to accurately extract the "Question(s) Presented" section verbatim. While a "QUESTION(S) PRESENTED…
22-7029 Roger Keeling v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review brecht-v-abrahamson criminal-procedure harmless-error kotteakos-v-united-states ninth-circuit non-constitutional-error standard-of-review weighty-evidence Did the Ninth Circuit err in concluding that a non-constitutional error was harmless when it found "ample," rather than "weighty," evidence of guilt c…
22-7030 John Gabriel Trevino v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review court-compliance criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-discretion presentence-report sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether non-compliance with Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 32(i)(1)(A) may be excused where the defendant fails to show that he or she would have …
22-899 Jason Smith v. Arizona Arizona 2023-03-16 Judgment Issued Amici (10)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 6th-amendment confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-trial expert-testimony forensic-analysis sixth-amendment subpoena testimonial-evidence Whether the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment permits the prosecution in a criminal trial to present testimony by a substitute expert convey…
22-885 South Carolina v. Angela D. Brewer South Carolina 2023-03-15 Denied confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure expert-testimony forensic-evidence forensic-pathology melendez-diaz-v-massachusetts ohio-v-clark sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence testimonial-statements Whether lab results requested not by law enforcement but by a forensic pathologist to assist in making a routine cause of death determination are test…
22-887 Rogelio Albino Diaz-Tomas v. North Carolina North Carolina 2023-03-15 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indefinite-postponement north-carolina plea-bargaining prosecution-postponement speedy-trial In Klopfer v. North Carolina, 386 U.S. 213 (1967), the Court held unconstitutional a practice unique to North Carolina, under which the state indefini…
22-7014 Michael Hucks v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP alternate-sentence appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-notice criminal-procedure fourth-circuit guideline-errors harmless-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure I. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit's reliance on an announced alternate variant sentence to assume as harmless all G…
22-7016 Guadalupe Onate-Herrera v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-15 Denied IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
22-7022 LeAnthony T. Winston v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia Fourth Circuit 2023-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process prosecutorial-discretion sixth-amendment speedy-trial state-prosecution trial-in-absentia Question not identified.
22-7009 Davion Smith v. California California 2023-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP adult-sentence criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial juvenile-adjudication juvenile-delinquent sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment I. Does a state violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when it denies the right to a jury trial to a juvenile delinquent on the gr…
22-6990 Scott Ray Bishop v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process presumption-against-waiver right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver In Von Moltke v. Gillies, this Court laid out a series of advisements that a defendant must understand before a waiver of the Sixth Amendment right to…
22-6998 David Arroyo-Ramon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-13 Denied IFP criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent legal-standard precedent-overturning recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether this Court should overrule its decision in Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998).
22-6999 Allen Maki v. Texas Texas 2023-03-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-rules judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction motion-in-limine second-amendment statutory-interpretation texas-criminal-law Whether there is a conflict between Tex Criminal Code Art. 44.17 And Tex Gov. Code Sec. 30.00015 (a).(1) (2) Whether it fair to regard Maki 's gentle…
22-7000 Nickless Whitson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance effective-assistance-of-counsel ex-post-facto fair-trial prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment I- fj/l/l. UJHTrf^Aj Cd//r£/vX>5 '7'MA'T t/e /<l€C€i-v<~o 7A£Ff£errve. A5S7 s7AAC f o p CauAJsec Du/txbQ {~pzs 7^/to Afcode^cn&jci xA OJftecH Vep&z'…
22-6981 Thomas R. Alt v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-conflict criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process equivocal-invocation miranda-rights right-to-counsel seventh-circuit unequivocal-invocation WHETHER A SUSPECT'S QUESTION AS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF APPOINTED COUNSEL, IN IMMEDIATE RESP
22-6983 Bernardino Berrun-Torres v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-10 Denied IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
22-6984 Ciaran Paul Redmond v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure diligence-requirement due-process exculpatory-evidence legal-diligence procedurally-unrelated-case prosecutorial-disclosure unpublished-case 1. Whether, to establish a violation of Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), a defendant must show that his attorney could not have obtained the und…
22-6985 Lisa Bergman v. Jeremy Howard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-right criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony expert-witness prosecution-evidence right-to-counsel scientific-evidence scientific-expert Whether the Due Process Clause requires an impoverished criminal defendant to be appointed a scientific expert that is essential to confront scientifi…
22-6986 Paulo Bernal-Ceto v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-10 Denied IFP case-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-precedent recidivism sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-6987 Dennis J. Brookshire v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2023-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel out-of-court-identification post-conviction-review WAS TRIAL COUNSEL INEFFECTIVE FOR FAILING TO MOVE TO SUPRESS THE OUT OF COURT IDENTIFICATIONS AND DID SUCH IDENTIFICATIONS DENY THE PETITIONER A FAIR …
22-6991 Samuel Dickerson v. Ken Scarlett, Chief, Springfield Police Department, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-03-10 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection police-misconduct standing Does it violate the Federal Constitution under the I4th Amendment Due Process and Egual Protection rights described by the Plaintiff in United States …
22-6992 Samuel Reaves v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-03-10 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process felony-classification involuntary-plea parole parole-revocation plea-agreement plea-bargaining prison-sentence rehabilitation sentencing street-time IS IT LEGAL TO START A PRISON SENTENCE, THEN STOP IT AND THEN RE START IT BY ADDING MORE YEARS? IS IT LEGAL TO REVOKE STREET TIME ON PAROLE WHEN IT C…
22-6966 In Re Antwoyn Terrell Spencer 2023-03-08 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-decisis constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process due-process-clause final-decisions grand-jury grand-jury-clause indictment jurisdiction statute-of-limitations Question not identified.
22-6968 Thomas Marmolejos v. United States Second Circuit 2023-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP crime-of-violence crimes-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-error predicate-offense section-924(c) section-924(j) sentencing Can a section 924(c) and 924(j) charge that alleges multiple predicates stand when one or more of the predicates no longer qualifies as a crime of vio…
22-6970 Jeffrey Kesten v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-enforcement mens-rea plea-agreement (1) Can a court enforce an appeal waiver from a plea agreement when the defendant was not informed of and did not plea to the proper mens rea element …
22-6971 Joseph Dingler v. Terry Garrett, Sheriff, Rockwall County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-03-08 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-evidence preservation-rights standing statutory-interpretation takings tax Question not identified.
22-6972 Deandre Earp v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourth-circuit judicial-interpretation mental-illness sentencing Whether a General Act violating the Constitution of the United States presents a "question" within the meaning of the Judiciary Act. Whether the peti…
22-6974 Theodore Smith v. Louisiana Louisiana 2023-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights collateral-consequences criminal-procedure due-process sex-offender-registration i) OA A comxx^ fc o:teDl^ 16 \>&M ^ ^ fa 0fW _ . ^h'J' U-5 <^>[(Aisrji\ r§Vi^uD tx ST^lg T»w^ b>ojr. £ea/l a stag b<? gAtussii Ff^/] 1^)1"' cf cx bam…
22-851 United States v. Julian Garcon Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-08 Dismissed Response RequestedRelisted (2) criminal-history criminal-history-points criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines jurisdiction safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation Whether, in order for a defendant to satisfy the prerequisite for "safety-valve" sentencing relief in 18 U.S.C. 3553(f)(1), a court must find that the…
22-857 Paulette H. Foster, et al. v. Michael Wearry Fifth Circuit 2023-03-08 Denied absolute-immunity buckley-v-fitzsimmons civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process functional-approach judicial-phase prosecutorial-immunity section-1983 witness-preparation After Respondent's murder conviction was reversed because the prosecution had failed to disclose evidence bearing on the credibility of its witnesses,…
22-6952 Brian Duane Brookins v. Georgia Georgia 2023-03-07 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process impartial-jury jury-impartiality right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-fairness turner-v-louisiana witness-testimony In this Georgia death penalty case, the local Sheriff gave key testimony for the State, detailing his investigation of the crime and arrest of Petitio…
22-6953 Curtis Bradley v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion sentencing substantive-reasonableness Was the sentence imposed on Petitioner substantively reasonable?
22-6916 Carlos Mejia-Quintanilla v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review appellate-waiver constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-claim plea-agreement plea-bargaining summary-enforcement L. The first question for this Court's review is whether courts can summarily enforce an appellate waiver to bar motions to vacate convictions that ar…
22-6930 Robert Earl Hackney v. Michigan Michigan 2023-03-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct jury-trial standing writ-of-certiorari The questions before this Court is asked with impartialities on whether it can be presumed given the facts underlined in this writ, that if a petition…
22-6936 Edson Gelin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-procedure first-step-act ineffective-assistance murder-conviction ninth-circuit sentencing-guidelines sentencing-policy state-court statutory-interpretation 7W Ccur-f of far W. Ekv^J-U\ ^-ff'rr/vei -W, of Mo^-'cwvj -fr /wo d rfr^ ^ -f,'osjC (KrC^ ? oC feJrr4-,'0Ki€r /y of (JfJ *T4-f ^ <*f £b~f)r'g}tWold?ts…
22-844 Hamid Akhavan and Ruben Weigand v. United States Second Circuit 2023-03-06 Denied confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination exceptional-circumstances remote-testimony sixth-amendment trial-procedure Whether the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment is violated by denying a criminal defendant the right to cross-examine a key prosecution witne…
22-835 Bradley Hester v. Matthew Gentry Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-03 Denied Amici (3) bail-practices civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit pretrial-liberty public-safety standing Whether the Due Process Clause protects a fundamental right to pretrial liberty that prevents states from depriving a presumptively innocent person of…
22-839 Daniel Greer v. Connecticut Connecticut 2023-03-03 Denied Response Waived constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-instructions propensity propensity-evidence sex-crimes sexual-misconduct Is the Due Process Clause violated when a jury at a sex crimes trial is instructed that evidence of uncharged sexual misconduct "is admissible and may…
22-6920 Ogerta Helena Hartwein v. Missouri Missouri 2023-03-03 Denied IFP civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure custody domestic-violence due-process forfeiture forfeiture-by-wrongdoing intent witness-testimony Pre. urstodys, Somedute sheuated on We 20\& order, The Gimina® Ur Way aod Noring tap Wer Son ¥o Fates on Quar lb) old, per The 2OIA order The, Missour…
22-6925 Gregory Allen Cook v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-factfinding sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sixth-amendment May a district court judge properly find, by a preponderance of the evidence, the uncharged, non-elemental fact that a person committed three prior of…
22-6927 Derrick Deshon Collins v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-presumption appellate-review certiorari criminal-procedure fifth-circuit presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness within-guidelines-sentence How does a court of appeals determine whether a defendant has rebutted the presumption of reasonableness when the defendant is challenging the substan…
22-6929 Forrest Thomas III v. Brandon M. Smith, Warden Fifth Circuit 2023-03-03 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-disparity sex-offender-registration Whether a sex offender registry statute, when applied to predators convicted of rape without any sexual motivation to the offense, bears a reasonable …
22-6905 Francisco Nunez Carrillo v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy sentencing statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
22-6907 Jeremy Jermaine Cumbie v. Texas Texas 2023-03-02 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-unusual-punishment due-process evidence evidence-outside-record outside-the-record record sentencing trial-court-discretion I. WAS MR. CUMBIE DENIED DUE PROCESS OF THE LAW WHEN THE COURT CONSIDERED EVIDENCE OUTSIDE THE RECORD IN ASSESSING THE SENTENCE? II. DID THE TRIAL CO…
22-6908 Eduardo Guadalupe Melendrez-Soberanes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof case-agent-testimony criminal-procedure drug-quantity drug-trafficking due-process evidence fifth-circuit photographic-evidence sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the Fifth Circuit's practice of shifting the burden of production and proof to the defendant at sentencing violates a defendant's Due Process …
22-6912 Michael Wright v. J. Pickett, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency federal-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sufficiency-of-evidence 1. Can the Federal court deny a Certificate of Appealability on the issue of ineffective assistance of counsel for his failure to raise a constitution…
22-6913 In Re Robert B. Read, Jr. 2023-03-02 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure ex-post-facto habeas-corpus rules-of-evidence sixth-amendment speedy-trial subject-matter-jurisdiction 1) Did the United States Constitution allow the trial court implied subject-matter jurisdiction to try Petitioner for the indicted Felony One Offense?…
22-6893 James Alvin Chaney, aka Ace Chaney v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof court-officers criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing ex-parte-discussions juror-misconduct jury-instructions united-states-v-ruan unrecorded-ex-parte-discussions Number 1: In light of United States v. Ruan, were the jury instructions in Chaney incorrect and should Dr. Chaney's conviction be vacated? Number 2: …
22-6897 Ruben Hernandez-Correa v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-01 Denied IFP alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi certiorari constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation precedent sentencing supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
22-6901 Brandon L. Johnson v. Illinois Illinois 2023-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment illinois-constitution ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions knowingly-standard seventh-amendment 1. Whether the State violated the Due Process clause where it induced jurors with an incorrect legal definition of "knowingly", in such a way that rel…
22-827 Carlos Herrera, Daniel Sanchez, and Anthony Ray Baca v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-03-01 Denied commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge post-trial-motion rule-12 waiver Whether, under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 12, Petitioners were permitted to bring a facial constitutional challenge to their statute of convic…
22-812 Isaac D. Koch v. Nebraska Nebraska 2023-02-28 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal protection-order standing statutory-interpretation What is the government's interpretation of an order against all contact and communication and presence? If the Court agrees that the power of the peo…
22-6877 Ramone Wright v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure clerk-authority criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury indictment-correction judicial-integrity judicial-process judicial-records prosecutorial-error public-confidence record-amendment Does the clerk of court have the authority to correct the Record that was filed under oath and returned by the jurors concerning the indictment? Does…
22-6878 Roger Keith Lunsford v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-attack constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court double-jeopardy due-process federal-prosecution habeas-corpus hearing-requirement legal-relief IX. Could Whe Stole Violate A Defendants Subshant! Ve And Procedural Right To Due Recess So Earegiously That Lt Would Bar A Future Federal, Rosecution…
22-6880 Roosevelt Washington v. Mississippi Mississippi 2023-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-review justice-standard legal-interpretation sentencing Whether Washington's sentence is illegally imposed as a matter of law and/or in the interest of justice.
22-6882 David Byron Russ v. Florida Florida 2023-02-28 Denied IFP capital-defendant capital-punishment criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus mental-competency review-claim state-court state-courts substantive-incompetency 1. Whether a state court may refuse to review a capital defendant's claim of substantive incompetency?
22-6871 Ahmed Khalil v. New York New York 2023-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing speedy-trial I' Ktd Ti-cp&flc 7«e^ i*<&eQJK fitfi'TiVnif-U)ke*-e -fie pYaSsCvT^r osA«u w- \ahtti tLcr wVTW Wooy <W c^i^<s (xwa/,yer dlibyij 'f'L) cuzfioa J kofru#…
22-6873 Jesus Ivan Dominguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-02-27 Denied IFP Almendarez-Torres case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-6857 Cynthia J. Rowe v. Penny J. Roberts, et al. Third Circuit 2023-02-24 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights crime-scene criminal-procedure defendant-presence documentary-evidence due-process equal-protection evidentiary-standard jurisdiction standing supreme-court-review Question not identified.
22-6858 In Re Zumar H. Dubose 2023-02-24 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury indictment jury-selection personal-jurisdiction sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction trial-rights Question not identified.
22-6861 Jairo Francisco Solano v. Texas Texas 2023-02-24 Denied IFP 6th-amendment appellate-review confrontation-clause criminal-procedure defendant-objection due-process evidence evidence-admission hearsay judicial-procedure trial-court-error DID THE TRIAL COURT ERRED BY ADMITTING HEARSAY TESTIMONY OVER THE OBJECTION OF MR. SOLANO? WAS THIS EVIDENCE ADMITTED IN VIOLATION OF THE CONFRONTATI…
22-6862 Benjamin Young v. Alabama Alabama 2023-02-24 Denied IFP capital-trial character-evidence criminal-procedure culpability-phase dawson-v-delaware first-amendment fourteenth-amendment gang-membership sentencing-phase Whether, as in the sentencing phase of a capital trial under Dawson v. Delaware, 503 U.S. 159 (1992), the First and Fourteenth Amendment prohibit the …
22-6866 Antonio Rosello v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default residual-clause statutory-interpretation vagueness Whether Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. 591 (2015), establishes "cause" to excuse procedurally defaulted 28 U.S.C. § 2255 claims that are predicate…
22-6844 Eladio Loya-Palma v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court of appeals to reweigh the sentencing factors?
22-6845 Jesus Lopez v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-amendment judicial-interpretation legal-procedure plea-bargaining rule-11 seventh-circuit Whether the Seventh Circuit's stringent application of Rule 11(d)(2)(B) violates due process?
22-6846 Christopher L. Corn v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure invited-error judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum Can an appellate court use the invited error doctrine to preclude review of a plainly erroneous sentence that exceeds the statutory maximum sentence a…
22-6849 Salvatore Pelullo v. United States Third Circuit 2023-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment bruen-decision civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-power felon-dispossession second-amendment speedy-trial standing 1. Whether Congress has the power to dispossess citizens of their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms based on a citizen's non-violent felony…
22-6855 Alvin Lee Johnson v. Mississippi Mississippi 2023-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process indictment-defect ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct sufficiency-of-evidence WHETHER JOHNSON'S CONVICTION AND SENTENCE DERIVED FROM A DEFECTIVE INDICTMENT NOT BEING PRESENTED, RECEIVED AND FILED IN OPEN COURT? WHETHER JOHNSON'…
22-798 William Michael Crothers v. Wyoming Wyoming 2023-02-23 Denied Response Waived brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence impeachment-material prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility witness-testimony In a criminal case based on disputed eyewitness testimony, is the Constitutional rule set out in Brady v. Maryland and its progeny prejudicially viola…
22-797 Marquay Quamaine Sheppard v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-02-22 Denied Response Waived appeal circuit-court-precedent criminal-appeal criminal-procedure district-court due-process fourth-circuit precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-decisions Did the Fourth Circuit err by dismissing the Petitioner's appeal and affirming the 188 month sentence imposed by the trial court, inasmuch as this dec…
22-6828 Luis Espinoza v. Tammy Foss, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment witness-testimony Were Mr. Espinoza's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights violated by: (1) the jury's viewing a witness's refusal to testify; (2) the prosecutor askin…
22-6832 James L. Mahaffey v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-02-22 Denied IFP cell-phones criminal-procedure digital-evidence fourth-amendment privacy search-and-seizure "The Petitioner respectfully ask "'- When the [Fjramers of the Oklahoma State Constitution, created and enacted Article I. $ 3\ [Unappropriated public…
22-6833 James Floyd v. Texas Texas 2023-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidentiary-hearing goading mistrial trial-rights 1) Does a goading-style Double Jeopardy violation bar further retrial even where the trial court had granted a mistrial on anindependent ground? 2) I…
22-6835 Deon'te Reed v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 924c-conviction brecht-standard conspiracy-liability criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions robbery-conspiracy stromberg-error In applying harmless error review under Brecht, may a federal court disregard the prejudice resulting from Stromberg error, i.e., the jury's considera…
22-6838 Demetri D. Beachem, aka Demetrius D. Beachem v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-02-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (9)IFP appeal-waiver criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-plea miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing-guidelines Whether a court can take into account exceptions binding it to accord precedent over objections to a prior court's authority to decide. Whether a cou…
22-6843 Edgar Barrera v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction mandatory-minimum mens-rea non-elemental-facts plea-bargaining preponderance-standard sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation 1) Whether the Constitution permits a sentencing judge to find non-elemental facts by a preponderance of the evidence and then rely on those facts to …
22-6816 Montray Lorenzo Cato v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
22-6822 Timothy Alan Dunlap v. Idaho Idaho 2023-02-21 Denied IFP brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence materiality-standard prosecutorial-misconduct Whether a defendant's ability to independently obtain exculpatory evidence is relevant to a Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) claim?
22-6823 Abraham Conde-Herrera v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-02-21 Denied IFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure fifth-circuit judicial-precedent recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-6824 Daniel Dietz v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process gall-v-united-states johnson-v-united-states ninth-circuit revocation sentencing supervised-release The Ninth Circuit failed to apply this Court's decisions delineating the purpose of supervised release as set forth in Johnson v. United States, 529 U…
22-6826 Marcos Juan Martin-Andres v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-02-21 Denied IFP case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-review recidivism sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-785 Theryn Jones v. United States Second Circuit 2023-02-21 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment immunity self-incrimination sixth-amendment witness witness-immunity When, if ever, the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment requires vacatur of a criminal conviction based on the government's refusal to seek immun…
22-6810 Jason Jarvis v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-02-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution defendant-rights due-process evidence evidentiary-rules fourth-amendment legal-standing prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure suppressed-evidence 1) Whether suppressed evidence or evidence not belonging to the defendant can be used against the defendant to prosecute him?
22-6812 Ernest Luther Taylor v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-02-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure indigent-defendant mental-health mental-illness restitution social-security social-security-disability 1. Did the District Court err when it ordered defendant Taylor to pay interest on a $7500.00 restitution obligation, where the evidence showed that he…
22-6813 Joshua Glowacki v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-02-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography criminal-procedure due-process jury-determination jury-trial probable-cause restitution restitution-order search-warrant sentencing victim-rights After Petitioner pled guilty to a child pornography offense the district court awarded restitution of $10,000 to one victim, over Petitioner's objecti…
22-6815 David E. Merry v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-17 Denied Relisted (7)IFP acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing (enhancing) a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury ha…
22-6803 Mario C. Thomas v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-02-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-history criminal-history-points criminal-procedure federal-sentencing mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Section 3553(f) of Title 18, U.S. Code, is the "safety valve" which can allow a defendant to receive a sentence less than the statutory mandatory mini…
22-6807 Antonio McGhee v. Maryland Maryland 2023-02-16 Denied IFP appellate-standard civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance juvenile-justice post-conviction prejudicial-error retroactivity sentencing Question not identified.
22-6808 Erich Deolax Riker v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fact-finding federal-sentencing jury-finding jury-trial sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness Whether a factual finding that is necessary to render a federal sentence substantively reasonable must be found by a jury beyond a reasonable doubt.
22-6809 Mohamed Ibrahim Ahmed v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 404(b)-standard appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-rule evidentiary-issues evidentiary-test judicial-interpretation legal-uniformity rule-404(b) Is an updated, clear, and uniform test needed for the most common evidentiary issue presented on appeal, Rule 404(b) related issues?
22-6789 Juan Francisco Turcios v. Texas Texas 2023-02-15 Denied IFP compensation criminal-procedure due-process illegal-confinement judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct plea-agreement plea-bargain sentencing sentencing-error (1) On A April 9,2012 after all parties approved and signed the plea bargain agreement documents ,and Hon.Judge Teresa Hawthorne approved and. accep…
22-6793 Robert Loya, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-possession drug-trafficking evidence felon-in-possession gang-affiliation intent-to-distribute sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence I. Is there insufficient evidence to warrant a finding of guilty for Count 1: possessing with intent to distribute methamphetamine over 50 grams and C…
22-6794 Anthony Suggs v. Tim McConahay, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency habeas-corpus legal-jurisdiction sentencing sixth-amendment standing WHY IS MR. OBEGS BEEN DENIES RELIEF ENENMIOUGH THE CONVICTIONS FOR KIESARRIN® BE NOT HAVE HE ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS TO SO?PORE 17 ¢ FIND ATERSON GOUTY BEF…
22-6795 Jacobo Rozo Posso v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights counsel-performance criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-malpractice notice-of-appeal post-conviction-relief procedural-default right-to-appeal 1. WHETHER COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE WHEN HE FAILED TO FILE THE NOTICE OF APPEAL WHEN REQUESTED.
22-6778 Mi-in-gun Justin Charette, aka Justin Marshall Critt v. Minnesota Minnesota 2023-02-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation custodial-questioning fifth-amendment miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona right-to-counsel self-incrimination suspect-rights Whether the prophylactic rules announced in Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966), which protect the Fifth Amendment right against self-incriminatio…
22-6782 Richard Leon Wilbern v. United States Second Circuit 2023-02-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment appellate-standard constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment standard-of-review witness-identification wrongful-convictions Witness misidentifications are a leading cause of wrongful convictions. The Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause thus requires trial courts to exclude…
22-6764 Michael Ray Davis v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review lafler-v-cooper overruling padilla-v-kentucky statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether United States v. Granados , 168 F.3d 343 (8th Cir. 1999), Has Been Overruled by Padilla v. Kentucky , 559 U.S. 356 (2010), and Lafler v. Co…
22-6766 Michael A. Weis v. Illinois Illinois 2023-02-13 Denied IFP cell-phone cell-phone-privacy civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment search-and-seizure warrantless-search Petitioner's Fourth Amendment I. Did the Illinois courts violate Right to be free from illegal search and seizore when the police seized his cl phone …
22-6747 Jimmy Wayne Guinard v. Kris Mayes, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-02-10 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fair-trial jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing vouching The jury, whern he has never had charges of that nature and was charged with drug offerses. violate petotioner's uis.c.lothand 14th Amendment rights t…
22-6749 Robert L. Harrington v. James Corrigan, Warden Michigan 2023-02-10 Denied IFP arbitrary-prosecution civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction prosecution standing trial-judgment 1. MICH4SAM C£SA5ANt?J0K ©F TRIALS JIMt&MENT KitT^MT OlSTfttiC.T C3?* £.mOO!/£R ®f AMY eH&ft&E a&Ky HI£H.£ITIZ£US OF COLfSfiriaf PKOtl&% RIGim^F JW .4…
22-6750 Pascual Agustin-Basilio v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-procedure sentencing sixth-amendment stare-decisis supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-6754 In Re Walter Drummond 2023-02-10 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process standing Question not identified.
22-6755 Lecedric Prentice Harris v. Florida Florida 2023-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-specific-justification constitutional-law constitutional-requirement courtroom-closure criminal-procedure judicial-discretion public-trial-clause split-of-authority statutory-interpretation Whether the state court correctly held — in conflict with holdings of this Court, the supreme courts of other states, and federal courts of appeal — t…
22-6761 Joshua David Lambert v. Washington Washington 2023-02-10 Denied IFP civil-procedure copyright-law criminal-procedure damages due-process jurisdiction legal-notice right-to-counsel sentencing statutory-interpretation waiver-of-counsel I. Ca Coun\el 'ho 5ofN£ cbyrjgj- r\c>i ciU dk&iryes, (\V\\ ~vk^ U/a\v/e«r- 5+\\^K 0L, W ~VL<l cle/fr\d«iK-fK 1-5 ASf appr/tej 0f~ oA^ CKai/Ti eS Q^c…
22-6736 Justin D. Martin v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-02-09 Denied Relisted (8)IFP acquittal criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-acquittal jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury has acquitted …
22-750 Nathan D. Crisp v. Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-09 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure due-process first-offender forgery jury-trial perjury void-judgment Can the State of Georgia use a perjury and forgery guilty plea and perjury First Offender to bypass Petitioner Sgt. Crisp's jury trial and due process…
22-6726 Terrence Lowell Hyman v. Eddie M. Buffaloe, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety Fourth Circuit 2023-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-murder-trial constitutional-violation criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process falsified-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. Whether a criminal defense lawyer renders ineffective assistance of counsel under this Court's holding in Strickland v. Washington when she intenti…
22-6730 Pabeel Narvaez-Gomez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-02-08 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres U. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
22-6732 David Alvarado-Rios v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-discretion presumption-of-reasonableness rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness How does a defendant who challenges the substantive reasonableness of a within-Guidelines sentence rebut an appellate presumption of reasonableness of…
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 …
22-6716 Conrado Olivo-Duron v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
22-6721 Jeffery T. Crystal v. Florida Florida 2023-02-07 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-charges criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto jury-determination jury-trial sixth-amendment supremacy-clause trial-procedure verdict-form Did the "verdict form " agreed upon by the jury failure to specify I. "GUILTY " as to Count 1 violate 6th Amendment right to a jury determination of G…
22-6724 In Re Christopher Cobb 2023-02-07 Denied IFP collateral-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus precedent retroactivity supreme-court-precedent 1) Whether Hemphill v New York, 595 US be declared retroactive to cases on collateral review., 142 S.Ct. 681, 211 L Ed. 2d 534 (2022) should
22-6702 Jason Boyet v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver contract-law criminal-defendant criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process plea-agreement sentencing-error sentencing-errors waiver-enforceability Can a criminal defendant knowingly and voluntarily forfeit his right to appeal the district court's yet-to-be-made sentencing errors as part of his pl…
22-6704 Angel Vazquez-Figueroa v. United States First Circuit 2023-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure individualized-assessment judicial-discretion plain-error plain-error-review plea-agreement section-3553a-factors sentencing sentencing-discretion Question not identified.
22-6699 Marquita Leigh Meredith v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-02-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP compassionate-release criminal-procedure district-court federal-sentencing policy-statement sentencing statutory-interpretation The questions presented here is whether 2007 statement is an "applicable" policy Statement that binds a district court when deciding whether to grant …
22-727 Izzac Christopher Weister v. West Virginia West Virginia 2023-02-03 Denied Response Waived competency-law constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process mental-competency psychiatric-custody statutory-interpretation vagueness violence violence-definition west-virginia 1. Izzac Weister was criminally charged with sexual offenses as a result of electronic messages that he sent to his half sister. The trial court found…
22-721 Damian McElrath v. Georgia Georgia 2023-02-02 Judgment Issued Amici (5)Relisted (7) acquittal criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy fifth-amendment jury-verdict prosecution repugnant-verdict repugnant-verdicts The Georgia Supreme Court held that a jury's verdict of acquittal on one criminal charge and its verdict of guilty on a different criminal charge aris…
22-6669 Kenneth H. Newkirk v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2023-02-01 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus judicial-review pro-se-petition procedural-deficiency standing takings va-code-19.2-271 Question not identified.
22-6671 Rodney P. Mazzulla v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel appellate-procedure criminal-procedure due-process franks-hearing Franks-v-Delaware ineffective-assistance reasonable-performance search-warrant Strickland-v-Washington I. Does trial counsel render ineffective assistance when counsel fails to request a mid-trial Franks v. Delaware, 438 U.S. 154 (1978) hearing when the…
22-6681 Shane Swindall Chambers v. Fredeane Artis, Acting Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP actus-reus constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-instructions mens-rea modus-operandi other-acts-evidence trial-court WHETHER PETITIONER WAS DEPRIVED OF HIS LIBERTY WITHOUT FIRST THE DUE PROCESS OF LAW WHERE A FALSE MODUS OPERANDI REQUIRED TO ADMIT OTHER ACTS EVIDENCE…
22-6684 In Re Fox Joseph Salerno 2023-02-01 Dismissed IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jurisdiction post-conviction-relief standing Question not identified.
22-6665 Orlando Cortez-Nieto and Jesus Cervantes-Aguilar v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-01-31 Denied IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion jury-instructions lesser-included-offenses post-trial-convictions sua-sponte May a court sua sponte enter post-trial convictions on lesser-included offenses that the jury had no authority to return?
22-6666 Leonel Ruiz-Lopez v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-statute hughey-v-united-states legal-definition restitution sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation title-18 victim-and-witness-protection-act victim-restitution The Victim and Witness Protection Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3663 ("VWPA"), permits a district court to order restitution to victims of an offense under Title 1…
22-6668 Aaron Lyons v. Brian Ladner, Warden Fifth Circuit 2023-01-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process evidence fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel insufficient-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct standing 1. Petitionee has presented that key state witness 10:45 using cellphone while testifying against petitioner at trial. Petitioner was convicted solely…
22-710 James D. Pieron, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-01-31 Denied chapman-v-california circuit-split constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instructions sixth-circuit statute-of-limitations I. Whether the Sixth Circuit's ruling merits summary reversal where the court found constitutional error but deemed it harmless under the far less sea…
22-706 Timothy Howard Spriggs v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-01-30 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance private-property residence rv search sentencing-guidelines utilities warrantless-search 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment permits the warrantless search of an immobile RV, i.e., one that is attached to usual residential utilities such as se…
22-6655 Theodore Washington v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit 2023-01-30 Denied Amici (1)IFP criminal-procedure deference due-process fact-finding federal-court federal-habeas habeas habeas-corpus judicial-deference procedural-review state-court state-court-findings Must a federal habeas court defer to a state-court finding of fact that favors the defendant?
22-6656 Randy Lee Stapleton v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-waiver circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice motion-to-withdraw After learning of the objective evidence (body camera video footage) documenting an unlawful warrantless search and seizure, the defendant moved to wi…
22-6658 Wade Bonk v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal circuit-court-ruling conviction criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion leadership-role retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement Did the District Court err by refusing to apply the Seventh Circuit's ruling in U.S. v. Carnell retroactively since Petitioner's conviction was not fi…
22-6636 Mostafa Kamel Mostafa v. United States Second Circuit 2023-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure defense-counsel federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-trial-motion rule-33 1. Whether a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel may be raised under Rule 33(b)(1) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure? 2. Whether the …
22-6644 Sayantan Ghose v. Texas Texas 2023-01-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP citizens-arrest civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process standing void-for-vagueness Will the U.S. Supreme Court review and recommend a more SENSIBLE and SAFER Citizen's Arrest Protocol by Aspiring Law Professor and Missionary Ghose (m…
22-6651 Michael Vanous v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure guidelines ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion jury pretrial-proceedings sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Question 1: Was defense counsel ineffective in the pretrial proceedings? Question 2: Was it a violation of the Sixth Amendment to sentence outside th…
22-6627 Kenneth Mobley v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process jurisdiction loss-calculation restitution restitution-order sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness Was Mr. Mobley's sentence procedurally and substantively unreasonable as it was calculated on an excessive amount of loss unjustified by the facts of …
22-6628 Johnell Lewis Britton, Sr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure fact-specific-reasons federal-sentencing judicial-discretion non-guidelines-sentences procedural-error reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether district courts are required to articulate fact-specific reasons for imposing non-guidelines sentences?
22-6637 Roberto Francisco-Francisco v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-6642 Leihinahina Sullivan v. Federal Bureau of Prisons, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-01-26 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial jury-selection public-trial sixth-amendment Question not identified.
22-700 Mark Howerton v. Texas Texas 2023-01-26 Denied criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment intent judicial-discretion mistrial oregon-v-kennedy prosecutorial-misconduct This Court has long held that a mistrial declared in the face of manifest necessity does not generally prohibit a retrial under the Fifth Amendment. W…
22-6624 Daniel Ray Loyd v. Neil McDowell, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony-murder felony-murder-rule ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions prejudice right-to-counsel state-law-error Question not identified.
22-6612 Teri Bernard Johnson v. Randee Rewerts, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-murder civil-rights courtroom-access criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mitigating-evidence public-trial right-to-counsel sentencing-phase Question not identified.
22-6613 Robert Nathaniel Brown v. Florida Florida 2023-01-24 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment standard-of-review state-court-decisions Strickland-v-Washington Whether the state appel late court in this case misappl ied thi s Court's holding in Harrington v. Richter , 562 U .S. 86 (2011).
22-6614 Omar Kashaka Taylor v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP ambiguous-term criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process jury-instruction legal-principles statutory-interpretation Whether a jury instruction effectively directing a 1) Whether an overly broad interpretation of an ambiguous term in a criminal statute carrying severe penalties complies with established principles of…
22-6615 Robert Jim v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility evidence-presentation fair-trial improper-evidence reasonable-doubt sentencing trial-fairness I. Whether The Court Violated Jim's Constitutional Rights To Due Process & A Fair Trial By Allowing Improper Evidence & Preventing Him From Presenting…
22-6617 Winsloe Duhaney v. United States District of Columbia 2023-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy implied-acquittal statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence After a defendant on appeal challenges the sufficiency of the evidence under the subsection of the criminal statute under which he was convicted, and,…
22-6619 Reginald L. Dunahue v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus sentencing Question not identified.
22-6621 Jason Sewell v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-01-24 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure denial-of-petition due-process habeas-corpus non-frivolous-claims petition-denial texas-law 1) Was Petitioner entitled to a certificate of appealability on four claims following the denial of his petition, where each issue presented non-frivo…
22-6592 James Stacey Harber v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining section-2255 sentencing 1. Was Mr. Harber denied the effective assistance of counsel at the plea and sentencing phase of trial? 2. Did the district court err by denying Mr. …
22-6595 Solita Harrington v. MedStar Washington Hospital Center, et al. District of Columbia 2023-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-privilege civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance medical-malpractice ninth-circuit standing state-court Is Medstar Washington Center Hospital and their attorney going to say that petitioner is not about having ovarian cancer and the respondent mis-diagno…
22-6600 Eric Banks v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-01-23 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-prison jurisdictional-requirements statutory-interpretation territorial-jurisdiction Several federal criminal statutes only apply within the United States's "special maritime and territorial jurisdiction," including the assault statute…
22-6601 Rick Benavides v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process entrapment evidence-admissibility government-inducement law-enforcement-conduct predisposition social-media Petitioner was subjected to a pervasive inducement campaign by government agents using social media and texts to his personal phone. The question pres…
22-6602 Matthew C. Eisenmann v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights compassionate-release criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act sentencing Question not identified.
22-6603 Miguel Angel Valencia-Sandoval v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation precedent-interpretation sentencing supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998) , in light of the reasoning of …
22-6606 Henry Zabala-Zorilla v. Joseph Terra, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix, et al. Third Circuit 2023-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP allen-charge civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction reversible-error supplemental-instruction Does the Fourteenth Amendment equal protection laws require a state judge be found to commit reversible error to give a supplemental charge - or an "A…
22-6586 Reginald Daushawn Earl Tate v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-01-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP brandishing criminal-procedure firearm-brandishing fourth-circuit hobbs-act rule-11 sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the United States Court of Appeals properly affirmed the trial court's improper sentencing of the defendant pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(1)(A…
22-667 Chen Bing v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-01-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process executive-authority free-speech genocide-determination human-rights-violations international-law judicial-review standing (1) . were there genocide, crimes against humanity and forced labor in Xinjiang ? Is there sufficient evidence to support it? Does the Secretary of St…
22-6568 Duraid Hussein v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-01-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-v-new-jersey circuit-precedent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection procedural-due-process rehaif-v-united-states sixth-amendment stare-decisis statutory-interpretation 1. In Rehaif v. United States , 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), this Court clarified that the word knowingly under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) applies to both defendan…
22-6571 Marcus Wayne Covington v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-01-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP bond-hearing civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel public-defender sentencing-guidelines sentencing-report standing 1. Was Public Defender Robert Brodsky ineffective by assisting defendant to enter a plea without using improperly calculated Sentencing Guidelines pol…
22-6576 Phillip Tarver v. Keisha Fisher, Administrator, South Woods State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2023-01-19 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment trial-by-jury UNDER THE FIFTH, SIXTH AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS WAS THE PETITIONER DEPRIVED OF HIS DUE PROCESS RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY AND HIS RIGHT NOT TO BE PUT IN …
22-6581 John Krasley v. United States Third Circuit 2023-01-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP admissibility-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure defendant's-other-bad-acts evidence-rule federal-rules-of-evidence propensity-evidence rule-404(b) third-party-acts The Third Circuit, deepening a mature circuit split regarding the scope of Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b), and its prohibition against propensity evi…
22-6553 Esau Ferdinand v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1962(d) criminal-procedure enterprise-affairs enterprise-liability federal-rule-criminal-procedure-14(a) joint-trial personal-participation prosecutorial-discretion rico-conspiracy severance I. For RICO conspiracy liability under 18 U.S.C. § 1962(d), must the defendant agree to personally further the enterprise's affairs, rather than merel…
22-6555 Steven Charles Hill v. Texas Texas 2023-01-18 Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process evidence-sufficiency jury-verdict life-sentence proportionality sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence IS THE EVIDENCE SUFFICIENT TO SUSTAIN THE JURY'S GUILTY VERDICT? WAS THE LIFE SENTENCE IMPOSED ON MR. HILL GROSSLY DISPROPORTIONATE? DOES THE LIFE SE…
22-6556 Lawrence Anderson Fonseca, fka Lawrence Anderson Fonseca-Garcia v. United States First Circuit 2023-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure foreign-national guilty-plea innocence new-evidence plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal post-conviction-relief subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Whether Fonseca should be allowed to withdraw his guilty plea in light of new evidence supporting his claim of innocence. 2. Whether the district …
22-6561 Telly Hankton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause conspiracy-liability criminal-procedure federal-circuit-courts forfeiture-by-wrongdoing sixth-amendment standard-of-proof testimonial-statements By what standard of proof does the Sixth Amendment permit the admission at trial of prior testimonial statements under the forfeiture by wrongdoing ex…
22-6563 Jaquain Young v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP complete-defense confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-discretion right-to-present-defense severance witness-recantation 1. Shortly after the murder of Jelvon Helton, which petitioner was convicted of, witness Tierra Lewis went to the police, circled codefendant Esau Fer…
22-6566 Rodney R. Ellis v. Florida Florida 2023-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-doctrine apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure jury-clause jury-trial prior-record-exception sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether a sentencing court violates the Sixth Amendment's Jury Clause when the sentencing court —rather than the jury —finds that the defendant commit…
22-653 Melvin Ray v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-17 Denied Response Waived abduction abduction-definition circuit-split criminal-procedure different-location guideline-commentary judicial-interpretation sentencing-guidelines stinson-v-united-states Under § 2B3.1(b)(4)(A) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines ("U.S.S.G "), a four- level increase applies to a defendant 's offense level, " if a…
22-6543 Miguel Angel Mota v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-01-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure harmless-error presentence-report rule-32 structural-error Did the Ninth Circuit's disposition of Petitioner's claim under Rule 32(i)(1)(A) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure conflict with the Sixth Ci…
22-6545 Kamil Hakeem Johnson v. R. M. Wolfe, Warden Fourth Circuit 2023-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge sentencing-discretion sentencing-options statutory-interpretation THE DISTRICT COURT WAS WITHOUT JURISDICTION TO IMPOSE A "TERM OF YEARS" SENTENCE WHEN THE STATUTE CONTAINED ONLY TWO SENTENCING OPTIONS, DEATH, OR LIF…
22-6547 Kashai Jones v. Illinois Illinois 2023-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process illinois-supreme-court judicial-discretion jury-instructions jury-selection legal-principles plain-error trial-court wainwright-v-witt 1) Illinois Supreme Court Rule 451 requires the West court and accepts' certain principles which are at the heart of certain oral accepts' certain pri…
22-6532 Alfred E. Caraffa, aka Alfred Erik Caraffa v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-01-13 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-rules habeas-corpus state-jurisdiction supreme-court-jurisdiction 1) A writ corpus (ANKJC^^^u.'^or^CiUcA <d?.\<vy£ck ^ "{"cd -H/i<2L 'Ou.c ^CiCtSS Uo*.Ki a.»*H Ccju^I Le&<> O5? 4^ rZH"^ 4 /^AitrslC^ A\C.N]\ Ci-^r 4W_…
22-647 Ross Anthony Scott v. Texas Texas 2023-01-11 Denied circuit-split constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure defendant-rights defendant-silence fifth-amendment liberal-construction prosecutor-comment prosecutorial-comment self-incrimination In considering whether a prosecutor's comment on a criminal defendant's failure to testify infringes on the defendant's Fifth Amendment privilege agai…
22-6522 Charvez Brooks v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process federal-courts hobbs-act ineffective-assistance interstate-commerce judicial-discretion jury-instructions reasonable-doubt standard-of-proof I. Does a federal district court possess meaningful discretion to define "proof beyond a reasonable doubt" in jury instructions upon request of a crim…
22-6525 Keith D. Arline, Jr. v. California California 2023-01-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP brady-claim constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression exculpatory-evidence material-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct suppression-of-evidence williams-v-traylor 1) WHETHER THE CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT RENDERED A DECISION IN VIOLATION OF THE LAW OF THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT AS PRONOUNCED IN BRADY V. MARYL…
22-6526 Anton Michael Kubica v. California California 2023-01-11 Denied IFP case-dismissal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-review material-evidence prosecutorial-delay prosecutorial-misconduct speedy-trial WAS THE APPELLANT DENIED HIS FEDERAL AND STATE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS, BECAUSE OF UNJUSTIFIED, PREJUDICIAL PROSECUTORIAL DELAY IN FILING …
22-6527 William Langley, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 924(c) constitutional-challenge conviction-reversal criminal-procedure due-process factual-innocence firearm-statute guilty-plea plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation SHOULD THE COURT FIND PETITIONER'S CONVICTION FOR '924(c) et al. UNCOUNSTITUTIONAL "use" and "carry" of 924(c) a due process violation that warrants a…
22-6502 Jerry Joseph Higdon, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge procedural-bar sentencing sentencing-guidelines I. IS THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT USING ITS PROCEDURAL BAR RULES IN MANNER INCONSISTENT WITH THE UNITED STATES CONSTIT…
22-6503 Patrick Emeka Ifediba v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-01-10 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP controlled-substances criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment intent medical-intent medical-practice sentencing sixth-amendment 1.) Was Petitioner denied his rights under Ruan v. United States, 142 S. Ct. 2370, 213 L. Ed. 2d 706 (6-27-22) which was decided after briefing in Pet…
22-6513 Jeremy Dale Bartram v. West Virginia West Virginia 2023-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-rule fair-trial presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-discretion rule-404(b) uncharged-misconduct Does the prosecution's use of 'uncharged misconduct' under Rule 404(b) of the West Virginia Rules of Evidence strip a criminal defendant of the presum…
22-6483 Eli Sloan v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-01-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure impartial-jury jury-selection prejudicial sixth-amendment trial-procedure voir-dire 1. Whether the voir dire selection was partial or prejudicial in violation of Petitioner. Eli Sloan's Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury.
22-6487 Chasity Reanee Orellana v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court due-process jurisdiction post-release-conduct revocation sentencing supervised-release Whether the district court erred by revoking Ms. Orellana's supervised release because its revocation decision relied on conduct that occurred after h…
22-6490 Wayne Johnson v. Court of Appeal of California, First Appellate District, et al. California 2023-01-09 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error judicial-fabrication unpublished-opinion void-order void-restraining-order Can it ever be harmless error for a State to force a Defendant to stand trial on multiple felonies while admitting into evidence as the foundation of …
22-6493 Robert Keith Kinsey v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights controlled-substance criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit preponderance-of-evidence sentencing supervised-release trial-by-jury Section 3583(g) of United States Code Title 18 requires a district court to revoke a defendant's term of supervised release and impose a term of impri…
22-6495 Genero Javon Zuniga v. Colorado Colorado 2023-01-09 Denied IFP colorado constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment retroactivity substantive-law zuniga Did the State of Colorado violate Mr. Zuniga's Fourteenth Amendment due process protections when it failed to apply rule of substantive law retroactiv…
22-6500 Richard Eugene Glossip v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-01-09 Dismissed Amici (2)Relisted (21)IFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression impeachment-evidence materiality post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review suppressed-evidence witness-credibility 1. Whether a court may require a defendant to demonstrate by clear and convincing evidence that no reasonable fact finder would have returned a guilty…
22-6471 Kyle Maurice Parks v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation (1) Whether Mr. PARKS improperly WAS DENIED A REVIEW IN EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE of COUNSEL AND PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT 24p District Court UNDER. J 28 U.…
22-6472 Vincent Paul Melendrez v. Jason Bennett, Superintendent, Stafford Creek Corrections Center Ninth Circuit 2023-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure defense due-process fifth-amendment self-incrimination sixth-amendment 1. Where the Trial Court's Ruling Compelling the Election of Rights had required a criminal Defendant to waive his Fifth Amendment Constitutional Ri…
22-6473 Michael Dewayne Dennis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-06 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment privacy privacy-rights reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search sentencing-disparities surveillance warrantless-search Whether long-term police use of a surveillance camera targeted at a person's home and curtilage is a Fourth Amendment search. Whether the Due Process…
22-6475 Nohe Dominguez-Morales v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP almendarez-torres apprendi apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure historical-practices notice-clause prior-conviction-exception prior-convictions sixth-amendment Whether the prior-conviction exception from Almendarez-Torres can be squared with the text of the Sixth Amendment's Notice Clause and the historical p…
22-6458 Brian L. Melson v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-01-05 Denied IFP cherokee-nation criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction indian-law major-crimes-act native-american-rights reservation-status tribal-sovereignty united-states-constitution "Mr. Melson respectfully ask "'- Did Congress ever disestablish the Cherokee Nation and/or Reservation as a sovereign nation, [within the State of Okl…
22-6465 Jess Richard Smith v. Washington Washington 2023-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process federal-law jurisdiction post-conviction state-court stay witness-testimony AjW A Uer -xUe. csAA^- c<pop4" -£ L^u3 uMzr -\Ue~ Ao<2__ ^roeeSLS ' Clause- c& AUg- LaA-VA S\a\-<^s C^ l\sVA o-VA( s-i\ as V° l-5 AAAs r0 (^por-WA--…
22-6467 Louis Antonio Zayas v. United States Third Circuit 2023-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari controlled-substances criminal-procedure criminal-trial directed-verdict due-process evidence-disclosure harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions prosecutorial-conduct 1. Should the Supreme Court grant certiorari to consider whether the erroneous decision of the Trial Court to instruct the jury that the United States…
22-6442 Brennan Thomas Baker v. Wyoming Wyoming 2023-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion cell-phone-recording criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-abuse-of-discretion fourth-amendment legal-admissibility surveillance surveillance-footage witness-testimony DID THE DISTRICT COURT ABUSE ITS DISCRETION WHEN IT ADMITTED THE STATE'S CELL PHONE RECORDING OF SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE THAT CAPTURED THE ALTERCATION BE…
22-6443 Daquan Madrid Pridgen v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process rule-of-lenity sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation structural-error I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT COMMITTED STRUCTURAL ERROR BY FINDING THAT THE SENTENCE FOR A VIOLATION OF 18 U.S.C. § 2113(e) SHOULD BE 10 YEARS TO LIF…
22-6449 Carl Anthony Wilson v. Texas Texas 2023-01-04 Denied IFP actual-innocence blood-draw conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-warrant unreasonable-search-and-seizure Oh may 03/2015 atio.xH mi cuus tape u to SfniTP County Tail in Ty/erjTexus at , on Floy^Q.od.6 1 my Blood uas dracon without a searChurarraot Or Count…
22-6450 Dedrevionus C. Williams v. Florida Florida 2023-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-fact-finding jury-trial preponderance-standard sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation 1. Does Florida's Statute §775.082(9) Prison Releasee Reoffender sentence violate a defendant's U.S. Constitutional rights per this Court's holdings i…
22-6451 Dwayne Edmond Wilson v. Randee Rewerts, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process incarceration judicial-delay liberty speedy-trial 'rial Rtijkl®rfefefl£t- »to *r& %) (pn)oLCdo^ ^poJyTflcA Claim ufctWI (Je fab \nqty\&TtiCcttc mlpPn o r QppCc^s ^cTxrtCiCcjeici hb n X pfb'fed^ byfh& …
22-6453 Mario Torres v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2023-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification habeas-corpus plea-agreement plea-bargain post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sentencing reneged on the plea bargain. Whether the District Court is bound by the original plea-agreement. Petitioner was resentenced. Whether a restitution h…
22-6460 Davonte DeJean v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights court-responsibility criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-trial right-to-jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment Was counsel ineffective for not enforcing the 6th Amendment right to a jury trial in the sentencing proceeding and is the court also responsible? Was…
22-6461 Segundo Marcial Dominguez-Caicedo and Adrian Andres Cortez-Quinonez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-01-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP arrest arrest-delay criminal-procedure due-process high-seas judicial-proceedings magistrate-review speedy-trial transportation transportation-time unnecessary-delay Upon an arrest on the high seas, is the additional delay resulting from transportation to the district the Government chooses to prosecute a factor th…
22-6438 Tommiel Q. Claiborne, aka Tommie Lee Claiborne, Jr., aka Tommie L. Claiborne v. Mississippi Mississippi 2023-01-03 Denied IFP confrontation constitutional-rights court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure criminal-proceeding due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection legal-assistance peremptory-challenges sixth-amendment Ineffective Assistance of Counsel for [PETITIONER] to challenge, due process, and right to effective assistance of counsel which is a violation of the…
22-607 Noah Nagy, Warden v. Jimmy Baugh Sixth Circuit 2023-01-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) actual-innocence constitutional-error criminal-procedure federal-review habeas-corpus new-evidence sixth-amendment standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Did the Sixth Circuit misapprehend § 2244(b)(2)(B)(ii)'s standard by granting habeas relief to Jimmy Baugh when the newly discovered evidence at issue…
22-6427 Denver Sangster v. United States Third Circuit 2022-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-vs-maryland confidential-informant confrontation-clause criminal-procedure good-faith-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant There has been more than enough cases in the last few decades, where search warrants that lack probable cause has been accepted by all the lower Unite…
22-6435 Willie Tyrone Shipley v. D. Holbrook Ninth Circuit 2022-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights confrontation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-discretion sixth-amendment witness-testimony 1.) Is a defendant deprived of his right to Confrontation and due Process within the meaning of the Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments Whea the District…
22-6437 Alan Singleton v. Tom Watson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial hearsay hearsay-testimony ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel Did counsel provide ineffective assistance? Did the prosecution's use of the word "uncontroverted" place the burden of proof on the defendant, thereb…
22-6414 Keith Antonio Barnett v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-12-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process hearsay hearsay-testimony jury-instruction theory-of-defense WHETHER THE CONFRONTATION CLAUSE WAS VIOLATED WHEN PROSECUTORS RELIED, EXCLUSIVELY, ON HEARSAY TESTIMONY TO CONVICT THE PETITIONER? WHETHER THE PET…
22-6417 Eric C. Burgie v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2022-12-29 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure claim-construction criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation racial-discrimination standing statute-of-limitations tolling Surgte bo cfe£ CQ mode 0/0^QOTLt&zhe ^wve //ujruiW suclnC.C ncujr'n S kmc ? 3. wUe-Hoer- 4^e AisfricV ccu^rV oWsei) Ai'scn^en iVuiV^r> Hr. o^pomVtw…
22-6419 Brian Wright v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-12-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP asset-forfeiture cash-seizure civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-procedure property-rights rule-41g Should Mr. Wright be allowed a return of his seized cash when Mr. Wright filed a motion under Fed. R. Crim. P. 41(g) to return the cash, and the gover…
22-6421 Sergio Garcia-Lara v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process presentence-report sentencing unreliable-evidence Whether, in cases where a party seeks appellate relief on the ground that a district court has considered unreliable information, the district court m…
22-6401 William Clyde Culberson, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2022-12-28 Denied IFP 6th-amendment confrontation-clause crawford-vs-washington criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-law medical-records sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence IS MEDICAL RECORDS CONSIDERED AS CONFRONTATION CLAUSE COVERED UNDER CRAWFORD VS. WASHINGTONA.
22-6402 Jesse Johnson, III v. California California 2022-12-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prejudice prejudice-prong prima-facie-showing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington When a defendant alleges that his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to properly advise him regarding the consequences of rejecting a plea offe…
22-6408 Samuel Lawrence Wood v. Mike Brown, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-12-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP concurrent-sentences consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-review federal-sentencing habeas-corpus sentencing state-prisoner state-sentencing statutory-authority Is the state of Michigan in the Absence of Statutory Authority. See 18 U.S.C. 9 3584 (a) Petitioner was Already subject to the state sentences. Petiti…
22-6409 Victor Gaspar Chichande v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-12-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP criminal-procedure detention-conditions drug-enforcement drug-law-enforcement due-process foreign-nationals human-rights international-law maritime-interdiction maritime-law Why do the courts of this country sanction the forced apprehension of foreign nationals who are chained to the steel decks of United States Coast Guar…
22-6396 John Edward Sansing v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-12-27 Denied IFP appellate-review clearly-established-law criminal-procedure death-penalty eighth-amendment federal-habeas mitigating-evidence mitigating-factors sentencing-procedure victim-impact John Edward Sansing pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and other felonies with no agreements offered by the state. During the sentencing proceeding…
22-6399 Kerry Simpson v. Tom Watson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process judicial-reasoning legal-standard manifest-weight prejudice prejudice-standard standard-of-review 1. Did the Federal Appellate Court Apply the Correct Standard in the Determination of Prejudice? 2. Manifest Weight of the Evidence. 3. Can a "Juris…
22-589 Daryl Holloway v. City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-12-27 Denied circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification identification-procedure law-enforcement lineup qualified-immunity 1. Whether the Court should address ambiguity among the circuits on whether an unduly suggestive identification procedure violated the Due Process Cla…
22-6392 Adam Tello v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect legal-correction sentencing sentencing-error standing strickland-standard Whether a jurisdictional defective sentence is "non-law" and cannot be adjudicated time or procedurally barred under U.S. Supreme Court law of United …
22-6374 Damian Perry v. United States First Circuit 2022-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-protection criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process first-circuit same-offense sentencing-enhancement successive-punishments Has the First Circuit impermissibly narrowed the application of Double Jeopardy Clause of the United States Constitution therefore removing any practi…
22-6376 Marcus Joseph v. South Carolina South Carolina 2022-12-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP arbitrary-suspension civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus proportionality-review sentencing-guidelines state-court Question not identified.
22-6377 Thaddeus Chaylon Martin v. Florida Florida 2022-12-22 Denied IFP civil-rights corrections criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction prison-credits retroactive-application sentencing sentencing-credits ①Dd Court hae tunisdieton to Amend are-charge then re- sentence again years Later to an expired sentence? martin recieved (45) duy time serve April 29…
22-6386 Frank Sanchez v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-12-22 Denied Relisted (9)IFP acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the use of acquitted conduct to determine a defendant's sentence violates the Fifth and Sixth Amendments.
22-6359 Leonid Gershman v. United States Second Circuit 2022-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review collateral-consequence conspiracy-charges criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy merger plain-error sentencing sentencing-multiplicity Isn't it plain error for a court to impose multiple punishments for multiple counts of conviction that for double jeopardy purposes amount to the same…
22-6362 Carlos Santana R. Garcia v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-12-21 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel unreasonable-determination 1. Did the Court of Criminal APPeals of Texas and the US. Direraet Court Northeen Distact of Texas San AnGelo Division, eRe bi decidrna the merits of …
22-6365 Ronald E. Cook v. Tom Watson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-12-21 Denied IFP appeals constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence-exclusion fair-trial jurisdiction right-to-present-defense Question not identified.
22-6372 Jose Felipe Cardenas-Ramirez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
22-6344 Bryshun Genard Furlow v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance-offense criminal-procedure drug-conviction fourth-circuit mandate-rule prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines Whether the Fourth Circuit erroneously refused to apply its intervening case law to Furlow's case, incorrectly applying the mandate rule. Whether the…
22-6346 Robert D. Johnson v. Douglas Fender, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-continuance speedy-trial sufficiency-of-evidence IS IT NOT ERRONEUOSLY FACTUAL AND A MISAPPLICATION OF LAW, RULE OR STATUE FOR THE STATE COURTS AND DISTRICT COURTS TO CONCUR WITH A CONTINUANCE THAT W…
22-6348 Douglas James Schneider v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plain-error procedural-violation rule-11 substantial-rights waiver Whether the court of appeals erred in holding the failure to object to the violation of Rule 11(c)(1) provides dispositive evidence that the violation…
22-6350 Raul Alvarez v. New York New York 2022-12-20 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights court-objection criminal-defense criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-strategy Must a client object in open court to invoke their Sixth Amendment right to maintain actual innocence as the objective of their defense?
22-6353 Furlonzo R. Moran v. Louisiana Louisiana 2022-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial juror-disqualification jury-selection social-media-evidence trial-court-discretion Is it unconstitutional to disqualify a juror from service without just cause? Was Moran deprived of his right to be tried by the jurors selected to t…
22-6357 Clifton Raye v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel Was Petitioner's rights under 6th Amendment to the United States Constitution violated when trial counsel was ineffective? Did the State and Federal …
22-6335 Timothy Michael Unzueta v. Texas Texas 2022-12-19 Denied IFP clear-error criminal-justice criminal-procedure date-range due-process grand-jury legal-procedure material-element void-conviction Is it not clear error to allow a void conviction to continue (i.e., to not be vacated) knowing that a material (date-range essential) element was impr…
22-6316 Kalvin Walker v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court guideline-range harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines Whether errors in calculating the Sentencing Guidelines are automatically rendered harmless by a district court's statement that the correctness of th…
22-6317 Normando Eligio Esquivel-Ontiveros v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-jurisdiction constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit legal-precedent precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-6318 Eduardo Ocegueda-Ruiz v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process firearm-possession lenity sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Does a person possess a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A), when the person receives a…
22-6327 Anthony Naquan West v. Texas Texas 2022-12-16 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-review conviction-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus state-court state-courts Has the State Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas adjudication to dismiss petitioner's writ of Habeas Corpus contrary to or involve an unreasonable app…
22-6308 Alberto Mendoza-Espinoza v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure legal-precedent overrule sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-6309 Uriel Mora-Mendez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-jurisdiction constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-6310 Terence Sandy McCray v. Michael Capra, Superintendent, Sing Sing Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2022-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland criminal-procedure due-process evidence-disclosure pennsylvania-v-ritchie psychiatric-records second-circuit-court-of-appeals 1. When a trial court in a criminal case reviews the complainant's psychiatric records for Brady material as required by Pennsylvania v. Ritchie, 480 …
22-6311 Massey L. Allen, Jr. v. Nebraska Nebraska 2022-12-15 Denied IFP criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment jackson-v-virginia miranda-rights post-miranda-silence reasonable-doubt standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence 1. Whether there was sufficient evidence adduced at trial to convict Petitioner of the offense beyond a reasonable doubt under this Court's holding …
22-6312 Kristian Jones v. United States Third Circuit 2022-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-procedure fourth-amendment hotel-guest hotel-guest-rights privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure standing This case involves an important issue in which there is a split of authority in the lower courts regarding whether there is a reasonable expectation o…
22-550 Carlos Jackson v. Mississippi Mississippi 2022-12-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) competency conviction criminal-procedure due-process judicial-inquiry retroactivity sentence state-courts void-conviction I. WHETHER THE RETROACTIVITY RULE FOR CRIMINAL PROCEDURE APPLIES TO THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI. II. WHETHER THE FAILURE TO MAKE A COMPETENCY INQUIRY WH…
22-6297 Kevin W. Malone v. Nebraska, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-ethics sixth-amendment trial-bias I. Does the trial counsel's fraudulent behavior and conflict of interest violate the Petitioner's 6" & 14" Amendment right to conflict free counsel? …
22-6300 Edman Castro-Salazar v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres criminal-procedure due-process indictment recidivism recidivism-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation statutory-offense L. Whether the government's failure to allege a prior conviction necessary to support a statutory recidivism enhancement violated Mr. Castro's right "…
22-6302 Selvin Omar Canales v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe…
22-6303 Steven Riad Jalloul v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit judicial-discretion plea-agreement plea-bargaining restitution sentencing statutory-interpretation This Court should grant this petition to address the degree of specificity re-quired for the language in a defendant's plea agreement to be construed a…
22-6289 Kevin Singleton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fifth-circuit judicial-review plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-history waiver Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Singleton's appeal based on the waiver of appeal provisions in his Plea Agreements.
22-6292 Ryan L. Bessert v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2022-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process maryland-v-craig ohio-v-roberts two-way-video witness-testimony Our constitution codifies the ancient right of confronting one's accuser. Relying on Ohio v. Roberts, this Court has held a procedure which eliminates…
22-6280 Jose Adolpho Castillo v. Texas Texas 2022-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process hearsay-testimony ineffective-assistance prejudice right-to-counsel standard-of-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas has made the standard articulated by this Court in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 104 S.Ct. 20…
22-536 Eliezer Alberto Jimenez v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-12-12 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-procedure guilty-plea habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice unconstitutional-conditions waiver-of-rights This case presents a recurring constitutional question of exceptional importance. The Court has said in a variety of contexts that "the government may…
22-6254 Aaron Michael Murray v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial impartiality-standard judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal media-bias media-coverage recusal Whether numerous local and national media reports, which brought facts to light that have caused the public to question the district court's impartial…
22-6266 Earl Moore v. United States Third Circuit 2022-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender civil-rights criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act recidivism sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
22-6274 John C. Killingbeck v. United States Second Circuit 2022-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights content-provider criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process free-speech habeas-corpus internet-immunity internet-service-provider-liability section-230 standing What is the correct way for the Government to correct its prosecution and answer as in etc. Are the Government and courts acting within their Questi…
22-6257 Kenneth Ray Borders v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court compassionate-release criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment health-conditions judicial-misconduct procedural-error standing I. SHOULD THIS COURT GRANT THE WRIT WHERE THE LOWER COURT ERRED IN VIOLATION OF THE EIGHTH AMENDMENT IN DENYING COMPASSIONATE RELEASE WHEN THE LOWER…
22-6258 Rondale Young v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP assimilated-crimes assimilative-crimes-act criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment houston-v-moore separate-sovereign-doctrine Whether, pursuant to the Houston v. Moore, 18 U.S. 1 (1820) exception to the separate-sovereign doctrine, a defendant previously acquitted of murder u…
22-6261 Damar D. Ruffin v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-maximum This Court has made clear that any fact, other than prior conviction, that increases the statutory range of punishment, must be found by a jury to hav…
22-528 Gilbert Rodriguez, IV v. Texas Texas 2022-12-08 Denied criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-rights sixth-amendment Whether the 183rd district court for Harris County, Texas erred in denying Petitioner Rodriguez's writ of Habeas Corpus when Petitioner's trial and ap…
22-527 Sammy Jay Riddle v. Texas Texas 2022-12-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-collateral-review texas-courts texas-criminal-procedure I. Whether the Texas courts denied petitioner due process by rejecting his substantial ineffective assistance of counsel claim without conducting an e…
22-6237 Orlando Dean Hobbs v. Clinton Bryant Sixth Circuit 2022-12-07 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process firearm-rights habeas-corpus restoration-of-rights statutory-interpretation Was the Habeas Corpus in this case Effectively Suspended in this case? when the officers of the courts knew the petitioner's civil rights were restore…
22-6240 Robert Dale Hines v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-12-07 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-tampering fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-negotiations sixth-amendment trial-counsel RAC i Z i sm Hou> Co,M.rVy V^ViOo<4 fcsXt5 y. »\y ^0)-^ 1'^ K^vown sl/nce. +ke. ^^-vU gv-txle iAr^-ftc vi +k«s cog^s K>s ^cco^cA re.pre.sovt me_ /A Co…
22-6250 Matthew James Dury v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP alias citizenship-status civil-rights criminal-procedure deportation due-process immigration immigration-law legal-residency naturalization permanent-residency NO United States Judge has the Authority to Order a Foreign Born Defendant to Violate United States Laws. No Non US Citizen Can serve Supervised Rele…
22-6253 Michael J. Moller, aka Michael Robinson v. United States First Circuit 2022-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-waiver certiorari criminal-procedure district-court due-process paycheck-protection-program plea-bargaining sentencing sophisticated-means-enhancement standard-of-review 1. Should certiorari be granted to address the enforceability of an appellate waiver where the District Court's entire inquiry consisted of a single q…
22-6228 Giovanny Sanchez-Juarez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-law criminal-procedure immigration-law indictment sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998) was wrongly decided, allowing for the provisions of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b)(1) and (2) deal…
22-6216 Jonny Shineflew v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-12-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure guideline-offense integrated-agreement plea-agreement prosecutor prosecutorial-discretion sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines Whether an integrated plea agreement that specifically identifies Guideline offense levels and specific offense characteristics on which the parties a…
22-6218 Carlos Brito-Brito v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998) , in light of the reasoning of …
22-6220 Martin Robert Moncada-Aguirre v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing supreme-court-precedent Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
22-6202 Peter Gakuba v. Illinois Prisoner Review Board Illinois 2022-12-02 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule grand-jury grand-jury-indictment jurisdiction jurisdictional-error privacy-protection statutory-rape video-privacy-protection-act void-judgment vppa-violation Whether Gakuba's criminal indictment for 'statutory rape' was void ab initio due to the Illinois police and prosecutors' violation of the Video Privac…
22-6207 Anika George v. Shelbie Smith, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-12-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance Question not identified.
22-6209 Mayeli Molina v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial dual-role-witnesses due-process expert-testimony jury-instructions sentencing sentencing-standards substantial-rights witness-testimony 1. Whether Molina's substantial rights were affected when two-thirds of the Government's witnesses testified in dual roles as experts and fact witness…
22-6210 Aaron Michael Crick v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-12-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing downward-variance fourth-amendment fourth-circuit judicial-discretion motion-denial reversible-error sentencing A. WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY DENYING MR. CRICK'S MERITORIOUS ARGUMENT THAT THE DISTRICT COURT COMMITTED REVERSIBLE ERROR BY…
22-6212 Eric Cain v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-12-02 Denied Relisted (9)IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines fifth-amendment jury-trial-right sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment After a jury acquitted the petitioner of a firearms charge, the district court relied on the same conduct to increase his sentence range under the Fed…
22-6214 Timothy Robert Gallion v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-12-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fourth-circuit sentence-credit sentencing-credit sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines supervised-release A. WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY DISMISSING MR. GALLION'S MERITORIOUS ARGUMENT THAT THE DISTRICT COURT COMMITTED REVERSIBLE ERR…
22-6185 Brent William Bogseth v. James R. Schiebner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus jury-verdict sixth-circuit unreasonable-evidence Was the District Court's order for petitioner's B2254 petition final in that it actually adjudicated petitioner's (capital) jury Claim, vi Amendment V…
22-6187 Demetrio Lifrieri v. James Stinson Second Circuit 2022-12-01 Denied IFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fair-trial fourth-amendment murder-prosecution police-search unlawful-evidence unlawful-search Was petitioner's right to a fair trial compromised by the admission of the "unlawfully obtained evidence" at his murder prosecution? 2. Was petitione…
22-6189 Jessie Jackson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings due-process fair-trial hypoglycemia medical-condition mental-competence Should this Sonora Court's Opinion to affirm Judge Holt's dismissal of Hypoglycemia (Low Blood Sugar) in a Criminal defov civil Cause, inconsistent, a…
22-6195 Kenneth W. Shelton v. Edward Bickham, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-12-01 Denied IFP alibi counsel-performance criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigation investigation-failure legal-procedure motion-to-quash Was counsel's performance deficient when counsel failed to conduct an independent investigation concerning the time Petitioner was not present at the …
22-6197 Albert Bautista Guzman v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-12-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment interrogation-tactics police-misconduct search-and-seizure self-incrimination Detectives that investigate cases should practice in tegrity under the Due process clause of the 6th and 14th amendment under the equal protection cla…
22-6167 Eber Gramajo v. Mark Nooth, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2022-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-discovery habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-evidence pinholster-standard shaken-baby-syndrome Can reasonable jurists disagree whether a federal subpoena request for medical evidence, barred in state court because petitioner had not proven that …
22-6171 Leihinahina Sullivan v. United States District Court for the District of Hawaii Ninth Circuit 2022-11-30 Dismissed IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression government-misconduct grand-jury grand-jury-subpoena prosecutorial-misconduct subpoenas } i>£» if"c\base piroeett av\<\ vVoletiicrvi o4- Pc\i-hcme-rt£> H4-U Ame^mcnl Coi^bb^birviei I Du FceHtrwsf | R_u It^s, o-f Cin ion i nei |a\r\ <=- E…
22-6174 Porfirio Duarte-Herrera v. Brian Williams, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP co-defendant-severance constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-instructions ninth-circuit-review severance suppression-of-evidence trial-procedure 1. Did the Ninth Circuit err when Mr. Duarte-Herrera made a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right as to the inability to present…
22-6179 Brandon J. Office v. Marcus Myers Fifth Circuit 2022-11-30 Denied IFP charging-document constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus illegal-sentence motion-to-correct sentencing 1. Was the Petitioner entitled to Habeas Corpus Relief, where the Petitioner properly raised a Motion to Correct an Illegal Sentence ? 2. Was the Pet…
22-6181 Willie Speed v. Douglas Fender, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-conflict conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment 1. WHETHER AN ATTORNEY'S CONFLICT OF INTEREST DEPRIVED PETITIONER OF HIS RIGHTS UNDER THE SIXTH AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS TO EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE AND …
22-6159 Jeffrey Morris v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-29 Denied IFP actual-innocence appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing post-conviction recantation witness-testimony Does the State of Florida violate a defendant's due process and/or constitutional right to present a defense in conviction challenges and entitlement …
22-6161 Melvin Lavon Shields v. Kansas Kansas 2022-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP bad-faith criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process government-delay lovasco-v-united-states marion-v-united-states pre-charging-delay prejudice state-v-shields Whether a criminal defendant who has established prejudice from the government's pre-charging delay must show that delay was the result of the governm…
22-6162 Donald Lee Scott v. Arizona Arizona 2022-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process pre-accusation-delay prejudice prosecutorial-delay prosecutorial-discretion statute-of-limitations witness-testimony What is the proper standard for evaluating pre-accusation delay?
22-6163 Noel Brown v. New York New York 2022-11-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-rights probable-cause speedy-trial Does the substantial holding in United States of America V. Demario CHATMON, (2nd Cir.), the court held"that because the initial seizure of defendant …
22-6166 Raymond Mendez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-review criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-procedure sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervisory-power Throughout three cycles of 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) proceedings, the district court has denied Raymond Mendez a reduction to his life sentence based on …
22-6168 Jose Santos Perez-Gonzalez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure judicial-precedent legal-review precedent-overturning recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether this Court should overrule its decision in Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998).
22-6172 Terry L. Benson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-identity-theft civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process frcp identity-theft jury-of-peers personal-jurisdiction rule-60b writ-of-mandamus 1. Appeal from originating case from the case No. 2:19-cr-20065-lmsn Appealed to the case No. 21-6064 Affirming Aggrivated Identity theft ason record …
22-6156 Peter Ivan McNeal v. Dean Borders, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel memory-expert taint-expert trial-counsel Whether the California courts' unreasonable refusal to hold an evidentiary hearing on petitioner's claims of ineffective assistance of counsel, combin…
22-6157 Carlton McKissic v. Shawn Emmons, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-28 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure legal-interpretation plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sentencing state-court-review WHy Have All other Courts ignored the Plea bargain (1 Process And Procedures Afforded to me, As my Faulf 1is Mot raiseing the issue earlier? 2. Why wa…
22-496 Jheshua Daniel Jackson v. Colorado Colorado 2022-11-28 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment in-absentia-trial right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-in-absentia 1. Do the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution permit a court to deny a criminal defendant his request for appointment of…
22-491 Raymond Delgado v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-23 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona motion-to-suppress right-to-counsel right-to-remain-silent sixth-amendment suppression-of-confession Whether Delgado was denied effective assistance of counsel by his counsel's failure to file a motion to suppress his confession given in response to c…
22-6129 Artak Ovsepian v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-11-23 GVR Relisted (2)IFP certiorari criminal-procedure dubin-case due-process habeas-corpus ninth-circuit petition-for-writ remand supreme-court supreme-court-procedure vacatur Whether this Court should hold this petition and then grant, vacate, and remand for reconsideration in light of the pending opinion in Dubin v. United…
22-6133 David Priester v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP anders-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-rights right-to-counsel sentencing-mitigation voluntariness waiver-of-counsel Battery or identify theft, where one pays inconsistent testimony battery, and the statute of grand theft? Is Does the petitioner have a due process r…
22-6150 Walter Raglin v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-11-23 Denied IFP capital-murder capital-punishment closing-arguments criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance procedural-bar res-judicata state-procedural-bar trial-counsel voir-dire 1. Whether a capital defendant is deprived of the effective assistance of trial counsel when his lawyers repeatedly concede guilt of aggravated murder…
22-6130 Darvill Jimmy Joseph Bragg v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-11-22 Denied IFP categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing gonzales-v-duenas-alvarez mens-rea sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states Whether plainly overbroad statutory language is sufficient to establish a prior state conviction is broader than the generic definition of a criminal …
22-6135 Monzell Harding v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-discretion evidence extrinsic-evidence rico rico-conspiracy rule-404(b) rule-404b trial-error uncharged-crimes Was the district court required by Huddleston v. United States, 485 U.S. 681 (1988) and Rule 404(b) to cure the reversible trial error that resulted f…
22-6137 Bryan Thornton v. United States Third Circuit 2022-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court first-step-act intervening-legal-developments legal-developments retroactivity section-404(b) sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation 1.) The question presented here is the same as that presented in Concepcion v. United States, No. 20-1650, on which this Court granted certiorari on S…
22-6138 Michael Lindell Teasley v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure district-court due-process eighth-circuit equal-protection judicial-discretion non-violent-offenses sentencing sentencing-guidelines bh pid the Gort of pepeals fp the Eight Cikwuit, South cn Piswier oF Towa, abuse its diduetin by vhlizing the Cer wero Feendeg guidelines, whi dh phim…
22-485 Kenneth Charles McNeil v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-11-22 Denied Response Waived all-writs-act coram-nobis courts-of-equity criminal-judgment criminal-procedure equity evidentiary-hearing federal-courts habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation Whether federal courts of equity had jurisdiction to correct criminal judgments after completion of the sentence, and, if so, whether federal courts v…
22-488 Darrell Hemphill v. New York New York 2022-11-22 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appeal confrontation-clause constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-ruling harmless-error judicial-review out-of-court-statement supreme-court-precedent Whether the improper admission of the out-of-court statement by the alternative suspect in Hemphill v. New York, 142 S. Ct. 681 (2022), was "so unimpo…
22-6124 Jason Baxter v. Harold D. Graham, Superintendent, Auburn Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2022-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process right-to-counsel right-to-public-trial WHY WAS BAXTER DENIED THE DUE PROCESS OF LAW BY WAY OF BEING TRIED IN ABSENTIA AT TRIAL? WHY DID THE JUDICIAL SPILLOVER EFFECT OF BEING RE-INCARCERAT…
22-6125 Carlos Bladimir Rodriguez-Juarez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-6095 Owen Garth Hinkson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-felony appellate-waiver constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process immigration immigration-law ineffective-assistance sentencing sentencing-enhancement vacated-conviction Whether the district court can sentence Mr. Owen Garth Hinkson, to a statute of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b)(2), 20 years imprisonment when his 1987 Massachuset…
22-6098 Quartshezz Leonard Lewis v. Texas Texas 2022-11-18 Denied IFP burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law court-procedure criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-error legal-review statutory-analysis Question not identified.
22-6099 Robert Lewis v. Hoke County, North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation procedural-default standing What inhibits a Court of Appeals' discretion to invoke the waiver doctrine? Whether a court of appeals should apply the waiver doctrine to a litigant…
22-6106 David Shane Paquette v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver circuit-split contract-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process plea-agreement Whether an appeal-waiver provision in a plea agreement is enforceable when the agreement provides the defendant with no benefit.
22-6108 Jose Luis Ramirez, Jr., aka Zachary Matthew Johnson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver criminal-conviction criminal-procedure fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel money-laundering plea-agreement plea-bargaining securities-fraud 1. WHETHER THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN DISMISSING THE PETITIONER'S MERITORIOUS APPEAL OF HIS CONVICTION OF SECU…
22-6109 Dustin Wayne Randall v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process non-indigent-defendant special-assessment statutory-construction statutory-interpretation The question presented is whether 18 U.S.C. § 3014, once triggered by a qualifying conviction, requires a non-indigent defendant to pay a single addit…
22-474 Laddie Huffman, et al. v. Rachel Harris Fifth Circuit 2022-11-18 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse Waived civil-rights constitutional-duties criminal-procedure detention due-process fifth-circuit mental-health qualified-immunity schizophrenic-inmate section-1983 In a Section 1983 action against county sheriffs arising from the detention of an incompetent criminal defendant, a court must grant qualified immunit…
22-6083 Aaron Jay Pierce v. Utah Utah 2022-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP coercion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-collection impeachment interrogation-tactics law-enforcement police-interrogation right-to-counsel self-incrimination m H'f CitdcpteAsfS 4%L*ft/VV[ c*~ were obfai^erf fmfx>lf*e. l.vfer/no^rh 'o^/ vioj^Hom erf1 Co/vstffiAfro^ ! ^4 tafesrh£~ 0/Sfr/crf~ £oti*rf~j rfn^ 5…
22-6063 Naomi Michelle Gutierrez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-circuit criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process fifth-circuit firearm-enhancement presumption sentencing-guidelines tools-of-the-trade Whether the Fifth Circuit's practice of applying a tools-of-the-trade presumption to the firearm enhancement of sentencing guidelines §2D1.1(b)(1) vio…
22-6065 Samirkumar J. Shah v. United States Third Circuit 2022-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP adversarial-process conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure disqualification disqualification-motion due-process evidentiary-hearing prosecutorial-ethics prosecutorial-misconduct The situation in this case raises the question of whether the Petitioner, Samirkumar Shah, a practicing cardiologist whose former attorney, Tina Mille…
22-6066 Brent Stephens v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-11-16 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2254 appeal appeal'\n\n'Whether the Federal Court of Appeals f appeal'\n\n'Whether the U.S. District Court Magist appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process exhaustion exhaustion'\n\n'Whether the Federal Court of Appea federal-statute fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-deference jury-trial jury-verdict magistrate-bar procedural-bar sentencing standard-of-review standard-of-review'\n\n'Whether the U.S. District trial-court-authority QUESTION A: Whether the Trial Court had the authority to supplant the verdict of the jury on punishment? QUESTION B: Whether the U.S. District Court …
22-6076 Joseph Rauber v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-11-16 Denied Relisted (3)IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-offenses mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing-statute statutory-interpretation The federal sentencing statute contains a "safety valve" that protects defendants from mandatory minimum sentences if they meet certain criteria. 18 U…
22-6077 William Donnell, III v. Eddie Caley, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-11-16 Denied IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process extrinsic-evidence impeachment lead-detective right-to-present-defense trial-court-error trial-error witness-impeachment 1. Did the trial court, by prohibiting me from impeaching the lead detective with extrinsic evidence specifically contradicting his testimony on direc…
22-6078 James Wesley Scott v. Jacqueline Banks Fifth Circuit 2022-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-process mississippi post-conviction-relief speedy-trial supreme-court-review I. Should BArker v. Wing0's, 407 U.5.S14, 92 S.Ct. 2182.33L.EL.2d 101 (1972) FOur FACtOrS iN determing when An Accused Right to A Speedy triAl hAs bee…
22-6079 Teshome Sok Sameru v. Minnesota Minnesota 2022-11-16 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence self-incrimination witness Question not identified.
22-6084 Jerry Bonton v. David R. Harris, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2022-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech medical-privacy mental-health-history standing trial-rights Question not identified.
22-464 United States v. Saleem Hakim Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-16 Denied appellate-review automatic-vacatur criminal-procedure judicial-discretion pretrial-procedure right-to-counsel self-representation structural-error Whether a defendant's erroneous pretrial self-representation categorically constitutes structural error, thereby requiring automatic vacatur of the co…
22-6058 Justin David Martin v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-of-record criminal-procedure evidence evidence-admission federal-prosecution procedural-error record search-warrant structural-error waiver 1. As Courts of the United States are Courts of Record, is it structural error for the federal Prosecution to rely upon a state search warrant for the…
22-6051 Arriba Lewis v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment career-offender criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance motion-to-suppress racial-profiling selective-enforcement sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment QUESTON NUMBER ONE: Petitioner Lewis' ex-lawyer provided him with ineffective assistance of counsel by a Motion to Quash and Suppress and failing to c…
22-6035 Michael Andra Reed, aka Mychal Andra Reed v. California California 2022-11-10 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection indigent-litigants indigent-rights pro-se pro-se-litigant time-bar time-limits DOES THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA CRIMINAL APPEAL TIME LIMIT (TIME BAR) VIOLATE THE U.S. CONSTITUTION'S 14TH AMNEDMENT EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE PERTAINING…
22-6037 Spencer Jean v. United States Second Circuit 2022-11-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c 6th-amendment criminal-procedure disclosure-requirements due-process expert-witness fair-trial government-misconduct rule-16-disclosure sixth-amendment I. This Court should Grant certiorari review, Vacate the lower court's judgment, and Remand the case (GVR) based on the court of appeals error in affi…
22-6038 Gabriel Mangum v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-11-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-751 5th-amendment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy escape-from-custody fifth-amendment residential-reentry-center statutory-interpretation supervised-release 1. Whether Petitioner's 5" Amendment Double Jeopardy rights were violated when he was punished twice for the same conduct, to wit: Escape from Custody…
22-6042 Ryan Hayes v. United States First Circuit 2022-11-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process equal-protection first-circuit sentencing I. Whether considerations of equal protection and due process required the First Circuit to entertain Mr. Hayes' appeal where Mr. Hayes had not challe…
22-6043 Jose Rene Cante-Dondiego v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-11-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-reconsideration sentencing supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
22-6026 Robert C. Stryker v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2022-11-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP computer-evidence computer-files criminal-procedure evidence fourth-amendment search-and-seizure social-worker-patient-privilege social-worker-privilege state-court-review warrantless-search • Were the petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights violated when the contents of computer files held in evidence against him were revealed in warrantless…
22-6010 Christopher Lamont Penn v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-11-08 Denied IFP appeals civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto retroactivity I feel railroaded And why was my Question 1 Counsel filed to ASK when vof A MIStNAl my verdict WAS Shanged 4ovt $13 Guilty Not 2f 4
22-6013 Damian Robert Guthary v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-922g criminal-law criminal-procedure guilty-plea mens-rea plain-error rehaif rehaif-error statutory-interpretation Whether Petitioner satisfies Greer's plain error standard for relief from Rehaif error arising from his guilty plea under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) where the…
22-6017 Reginald Eugene Grimes, Sr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-08 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit false-testimony perjury plain-error prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-hearing (1) DID THE HONORABLE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS IN ATLANTA, GEORGIA COMMIT "PLAIN AND OBVIOUS ERROR" BY DENYING PETITIONER'S REQUEST FOR A C…
22-6020 John M. Esposito v. Florida Florida 2022-11-08 Denied IFP citizens-rights civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process federalism legal-challenge preemption statutory-interpretation void-ab-initio void-statute IS THE STATE OF FLORIDA VIOLATING THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION BY PROSECUTING AND CONVICTING U.S. CITIZENS UNDER § 794.011, FLORIDA STATUTES, A VOID…
22-6021 George Guo v. Texas Texas 2022-11-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP capital-murder criminal-procedure delayed-death-homicide due-process ex-post-facto fair-warning jackson-standard statute-of-limitations structural-error 1. Under the Jackson standard and per Garrett v. U.S. 471 U.S. 779,1791, is this conviction of Texas Penalty code §19.03 (a) (2) capital murder a "Vo…
22-6022 Shimar Jamal Dean Thompkins v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-precedent criminal-law criminal-procedure diversionary-disposition due-process federal-charging federal-jurisdiction judicial-interpretation sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant's prior diversionary disposition in a felony case can be considered both an indictment and a conviction for federal charging and s…
22-6023 Tonatihu Aguilar v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-11-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing miller-v-alabama parole-abolition sentencing-reform When a state abolishes its parole system, does it create a mandatory life-without-parole sentence that, when imposed on a juvenile homicide offender, …
22-6024 Orentha James Pea v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP consent consent-search criminal-procedure fernandez-rule fernandez-v-california fourth-amendment physical-presence randolph-exception randolph-v-california search-and-seizure warrantless-search In Fernandez v. California, 571 U.S. 292, 306, 134 S. Ct. 1126, 1136, 188 L. Ed. 2d 25 (2014), this Court acknowledged that, if "Randolph requires pre…
22-6025 Christopher Alan Mitchell v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review concurrent-sentences criminal-procedure district-court final-order finality habeas-corpus section-2255 sentencing sentencing-range statutory-interpretation (1) Is an order granting relief and resentencing under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 final when the order changes the statutory sentencing range such that the dist…
22-6027 Cedric Joseph Rue, Jr. v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit 2022-11-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-interpretation juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing parole-abolition sentencing-discretion When a state abolishes its parole system, does it create a mandatory life-without-parole sentence that, when imposed on a juvenile homicide offender, …
22-5997 Tarence Kirkland v. New York New York 2022-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing criminal-verdict cross-examination due-process evidence fair-trial identification legal-sufficiency second-degree-offense weight-of-evidence 1. (Louv'V sP^eVna\ decision on Kocin(|ue'2_C.Xcie 'rv\-\^icMvorv) ArA SancAoVS. I (oSe c£pnoc Cr\'or ve5 > arA &c,\s on. CroSS-exannr n<3'bork) 9veso…
22-5998 Jeffrey Wingate v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-11-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3553 bureau-of-prisons criminal-procedure due-process mitigating-evidence rule-35 rule-35-resentencing sentencing sentencing-factors 1) Whether due process is violated when, in the event a defendant submits mitigating evidence in a rule 35 (b) resentencing that has a connection to…
22-6009 David Matthew Carter v. South Carolina South Carolina 2022-11-07 Denied IFP civil-procedure confrontation-clause courtroom-removal Crawford-v-Washington criminal-procedure due-process Maryland-v-Craig sixth-amendment trial-rights witness-testimony Did the trial Court commit reversable error by removing Petitioner from the courtroom and forcing him to watch his trial via closed circuit monitoring…
22-422 Kendall Streb v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-11-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) abuse-of-discretion brady-violation civil-procedure criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence-concealment government-misconduct hearing prosecutorial-misconduct witness-payments When the government intentionally conceals Brady evidence (payments and benefits to witnesses) on the eve of trial - in violation of DOJ policy, ABA S…
22-419 Cedric Chanu v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-11-04 Denied circuit-split commodities-exchange criminal-procedure ends-of-justice financial-misrepresentation financial-transaction implied-misrepresentation speedy-trial-act wire-fraud (1) Whether the federal wire fraud statute criminalizes any "implied misrepresentation" that induces another to enter into a financial transaction, ev…
22-5976 Ricky Pendleton v. Donnie Ames, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex West Virginia 2022-11-04 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP constructive-amendment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment grand-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jurisdiction malicious-assault robbery sixth-amendment Under the Constructive Amendment, any substantial amendment, direct or indirect, of an indictment must be resubmitted to the grand jury. Pendleton new…
22-5990 Leroy Brooks v. United States Third Circuit 2022-11-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 3553a-factors abuse-of-discretion compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion extraordinary-reasons judicial-review sentence-reduction sentencing 1. Whether the district court abused its discretion in denying Petitioner's motion for compassionate release/reduction in sentence.
22-5991 Glenn Randall Ferguson v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-11-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-4241 child-pornography competency criminal-competency criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-courts mental-health rule-403 1. When a district court has found a criminal defendant to be incompetent pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 4241, and the defendant is then sent to a BOP facili…
22-5992 Andre Jenkins v. United States Second Circuit 2022-11-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP circumstantial-evidence criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process joint-defense motion-for-acquittal severance trial-procedure witness-credibility 1. In a case where the proof against petitioner was wholly circumstantial and the eyewitnesses that were necessary to assign his conduct to those circ…
22-5993 Malik Ross v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-11-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (10)IFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment preponderance-of-evidence reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness Does a judge deny a defendant's Fifth Amendment rights by increasing a prison sentence based on disputed facts the Court did not find beyond a reasona…
22-5994 Kevin Leon Lucien v. Texas Texas 2022-11-04 Denied IFP criminal-procedure duty-to-investigate ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mitigating-evidence punishment standard-of-review trial-counsel voluntary-intoxication 1. Was trial counsel ineffective for failing to investigate and present evidence of voluntary intoxication as mitigating evidence at punishment? 2. W…
22-5981 Jose Refugio Nieto-Uribe v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation legal-precedent recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998) should be overruled.
22-5985 Islam Yaser-Abdel Said v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-challenge criminal-defendants criminal-procedure facial-attacks facial-vagueness first-amendment johnson-v-united-states sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness-review unconstitutionally-vague 1. Whether criminal defendants challenging a statute as unconstitutionally vague may raise facial attacks in cases not involving the First Amendment? …
22-5986 Raymond Howard v. United States Third Circuit 2022-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process expert-witness late-notice Whether the District Court's decision to allow the testimony of the Government's key expert witness over the Petitioner's objection based on late noti…
22-5988 Clemente Hernandez-Garcia v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-procedure discriminatory-intent equal-protection judicial-standard ninth-circuit peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike racial-discrimination If a trial court legally errs at step three of Batson, may an appellate court resolve the factual question of whether a party acted with discriminator…
22-5970 David Antoine Luster v. R. M. Wolfe, Warden Fourth Circuit 2022-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2113(d) 924(c)(3)(a) armed-bank-robbery borden-v-united-states categorical-approach criminal-procedure mens-rea plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation Question of Law : In light of Borden v. United States, 141 S.Ct. 1821 (2021), under the categorical approach the element narrow enough to be deemed a …
22-5977 Bonerge Benitez-Marquez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
22-5978 Richard R. Crawford v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitrary-and-capricious arbitrary-capricious certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure detention-versus-arrest due-process evidentiary-hearing sworn-testimony WHETHER A DETERMINATION BY THE LOWER COURTS THAT THE OFFICERS ONLY DETAINED THE PETITIONER, AND NOT ARRESTED HIM, WHICH FINDING WAS IN DIRECT CONFLICT…
22-5980 Arius Hopkins v. United States Second Circuit 2022-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence grand-jury rule-404(b) trial-fairness Whether the admission of evidence of prior alleged conduct similar to the crime on trial and dismissed by a grand jury, which was noticed for one purp…
22-5956 Charles Wallace v. Louisiana Louisiana 2022-11-01 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-trial jury-unanimity retroactivity state-constitution state-jurisdiction ARE NONUNANIMOUS INSTRUCTED CASES RIPE TO REMOVAL via 28 U.S.C.A. §1443? DOES THE UNITED STATE CONSTITUTION AND AMENDMENTS IN AND OF ITSELF VOID AND …
22-5962 Marquis Donte Brown v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-review post-booker-hearing safety-valve sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation 1. WHETHER THE DISTRIC T COURT ERRED BY IMPOSING AN UNLAW FUL SEN TENCE CONTRARY TO THE MANDATES OF § 3553(a) AND §3553(f)(5) WHICH PRECLUDE USE OF IN…
22-5964 Shaun Michael Farrington v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process impartial-jury implied-bias judicial-discretion jury-impartiality sixth-amendment standing 1. The circuit courts divide regarding Smith v. Phillips implication of implied bias. This Court should decide whether the Sixth Amendment right to an…
22-5966 Malachi Henessey Rodriguez v. Minnesota Minnesota 2022-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof character-evidence civil-rights coercion consent constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admission reasonable-doubt 1. The state failure to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the petitioner used coercion where there was no evidence that NC communicated lack of con…
22-5967 Hunter Halver Brown v. Alabama Alabama 2022-11-01 Denied IFP covid-19 covid-restrictions criminal-procedure due-process evidence interstate-agreement-on-detainers restitution speedy-trial trial-timeline I- Whether Hunter Brown's Covington, County, Al. Charges in CASE NO. :CC-20-303. should've been dismissed pursuant to the Interstate Agreement on Deta…
22-5968 Grant Manaku v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement rule-41 search-warrant warrant-service When executing a search warrant, agents disassembled the ir five-page warrant , disregarded homeowners' repeated requests for a copy of the warrant , …
22-5936 Demetrius Troy Bradley v. Michigan Michigan 2022-10-31 Denied IFP acquitted-conduct constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-trial-rights sentencing sentencing-discretion sixth-amendment 1. Do the jury-trial and due process guarantees of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit judges from considering, at sentencing in a criminal c…
22-5947 Kevin Johnson v. Missouri Missouri 2022-10-31 Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial death-penalty eighth-amendment juror-misconduct juvenile-justice mental-health mental-impairment racial-bias 1. In light of a court's duty to issue a remedy that "neutralize[s] the taint of a constitutional violation" while avoiding the grant of "a windfall t…
22-5949 Oswaldo Omar Ramirez-Ortiz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-5950 Antonio Ramirez-Juan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-review sentencing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-5953 Robert Lee Swinton v. New York New York 2022-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-of-right appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal procedural-default right-to-appeal After a defendant has shown his counsel a desire to appeal, can counsel take a defendant's appeal of right and fail to file a Notice of Appeal in the …
22-399 Adam Dean Brown v. Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-31 Denied accident-reconstruction burden-of-proof certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence expert-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct traffic-accident Did Petitioner satisfy the burden for the issuance of a certificate of appealability on his ineffective assistance of counsel claims where his trial a…
22-402 James Vorley v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-10-31 Denied circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court ends-of-justice implied-misrepresentation speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation wire-fraud 1. Whether, as the Seventh and Ninth Circuits hold, a "scheme or artifice to defraud" under the wire fraud statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1343, encompasses an "…
22-398 Marcos F. Santiago v. J. C. Streeval Seventh Circuit 2022-10-28 Denied Relisted (2) criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-status knowledge-requirement post-conviction-relief postconviction-relief rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-relief Whether a felon who has spent less than a year in custody is entitled to a presumption that he lacked knowledge of his felon status and therefore, abs…
22-5931 Anthony Michael D'Amico v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP arrest criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial juror juror-observation sixth-amendment witness witness-arrest Whether a person's Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial is violated when a juror witnesses a critical defense witness arrested outside the courtroom …
22-5940 Hugo Villarreal-Solis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-discretion motion sentencing WHETHER IT WAS ERROR FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT TO DENY SOLIS' MOTION FOR COMPASSIONATE RELEASE?
22-5941 Albert L. Watson v. Stu Sherman, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-10-28 Denied IFP constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process en-banc-hearing ninth-circuit penal-code procedural-rules reasoned-opinion sixth-amendment state-law state-penal-code I. WAS THE DISTRICT COURT'S USE OF STATE PENAL CODE JUSTIFYING VIOLATION OF SIX AMENDMENT A CORRECT APPLICATION OF STATE LAW ? II. WAS THE NINTH CI…
22-5924 Carl Jones v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2022-10-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standard legal-sufficiency self-defense standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence I. Does the well-settled standard and scope of review governing sufficiency-of-the-evidence claims - a standard and scope of constitutional dimension …
22-5930 Davon Young v. United States Second Circuit 2022-10-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP cause-and-prejudice circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-statute habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation A claim not raised on direct review "may be raised in habeas [] if the defendant can [] demonstrate [] 'cause' and actual 'prejudice.'" Bousley v. Uni…
22-5914 Dominique Lamar Johnson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3583 administrative-violations criminal-procedure criminal-supervision district-court-discretion due-process liberty liberty-deprivation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the District Court acted excessively by sentencing Petitioner to a sentence two and half times above the supervision guideline range for admin…
22-5916 Randy Lee Lassiter, Jr. v. Virginia Virginia 2022-10-26 Denied IFP brady-disclosure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial The Virginia Supreme court Erred br AFfirming the court oF Appeals Ruling Allowing Jaiihouse InFormant Ranvel Ramos to TestiFy at Trial Because the Co…
22-5917 In Re John David Stahlman 2022-10-26 Denied IFP criminal-procedure discovery discovery-rights due-process fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence habeas-corpus harmless-error 1.) DID THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT VIOLATE PETITIONER'S SUBSTANTIAL RIGHTS; TO INCLUDE HIS RIGHT TO A FAIR TRIAL, HIS RIGHT TO DU…
22-5921 Antwoyn Terrell Spencer v. United States District Court for the District of Minnesota Eighth Circuit 2022-10-26 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure criminal-proceeding due-process grand-jury indictment mandamus personal-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Question not identified.
22-5908 Giles McGhee v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment in-re-winship ineffective-assistance jackson-v-virginia reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment 1. Reasonable jurists would determine that Mr. McGhee was denied his right to Due Process of Law under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to t…
22-5912 William Gonzalez-Ramirez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
22-5900 Robert Bethel v. Ohio Ohio 2022-10-25 Denied IFP brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence guilty-plea impeachment-evidence united-states-v-ruiz Whether there is a fundamental difference between material exculpatory and impeachment evidence when a guilty plea is involved, and does due process r…
22-5909 Timmy Doucet v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-material criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jackson-v-virginia reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment 1. Reasonable jurists would determine that the evidence presented during trial was insufficient to convict Doucet of Aggravated Rape beyond a reasonab…
22-5889 Michael Paul Jessup v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-10-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 8th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing parole-abolition sentencing When a state abolishes its parole system, does it create a mandatory life-without-parole sentence that, when imposed on a juvenile homicide offender, …
22-5890 Ronald William Brooks v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-waiver constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief section-2255 Whether the boilerplate waiver of Petitioner's appellate and post-conviction rights contained within his plea agreement bars his claim under 28 U.S.C.…
22-5893 Christopher Tavaris Dean v. Florida Florida 2022-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-exception apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing jury-clause prior-record-exception prison-releasee-reoffender sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment state-prison Florida enhances the sentences for certain offenses —making the statutory maximum sentence also the statutory minimum sentence —if the defendant is a …
22-5875 Bryan Protho v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3509 child-victim closed-circuit-testimony criminal-procedure district-court district-court-procedure statutory-interpretation testimony two-way-closed-circuit-television witness-testimony Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3509 requires a district court to question a child victim on the record before to introducing the child victim 's testimony at tri…
22-5882 Allen Calligan v. Frank Vanihel, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure habitual-offender ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel informal-plea-offer plea-bargaining prejudice sentencing sixth-amendment Mr. Calligan alleged that his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to inform him of an informal plea offer made by the prosecutor, which would ha…
22-5869 Carlos Ivan Chavira-Montanez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne almendarez-torres apprendi constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-construction supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
22-5870 Rodney Marshall v. Brian Williams, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-10-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fair-trial ninth-circuit sentencing 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit erred by denying a certificate of appealability on the question of whether Mr. Marshall's right to be free from double je…
22-5847 Lindsey Orr v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion judicial-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation term-of-imprisonment WHEN ARE THE SECTION 3553 (d) FACTORS SATISFIED? THE 3553 OPINION JUSTIFIED BASED UPON? THE COMPLETION OF THE TERM OF IMPLEMENTATION SPECIFIED FROM …
22-5854 Willie Ricardo Gordon v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-procedure drug-crimes drug-weights fourth-circuit obstruction-of-justice presentence-investigation presentence-investigation-report sentencing 1. Did the trial court err in accepting the findings of the presentence investigation report, regarding the weights of the drugs attributable to Mr. G…
22-5856 Tracy J. McGill v. Oklahoma Department of Corrections Oklahoma 2022-10-18 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-indian-law federal-law habeas-corpus jurisdiction state-court subject-matter-jurisdiction unreasonable-determination I, UketW OKlakomo, Court ef tf'un'aai Appeals t)e./uaj of ft ttesc-e-alaivt of An En ftelM U1c-K.a4a.1i Sm^n'-s Subject-Matter TvtrUA\^\on Lieu rn In …
22-5858 Heather Nicole Trogdon v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-procedure eighth-circuit evidence fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery inventory-search policy probable-cause Does the inevitable discovery doctrine apply when it is based on the expectation that an inventory search of an arrestee's backpack will occur at the …
22-5862 Gregory Ramos v. United States Second Circuit 2022-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal constitutional-right criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel second-circuit sixth-amendment Whether the Second Circuit's determination that Petitioner was not denied his right to the effective assistance of counsel consistent with the Sixth A…
22-5865 Charles Smith v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure criminal-conviction criminal-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect ninth-circuit plea-agreement sentencing waiver Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in dismissing the appeal when Mr. Smith's plea agreement contains a count of conviction and resulting sentence that is…
22-5867 Monica McCarrick v. Janelle Espinoza, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence first-degree-murder meaningful-defense mental-health paranoid-delusions premeditation trial-court-evidence 1. Does an objectively unreasonable violation of the Constitutional right to present a meaningful defense occur when a trial court prevents a defendan…
22-5851 Siaosi Vanisi v. William Reubart, Acting Warden Nevada 2022-10-17 Denied IFP competency criminal-procedure double-jeopardy gross-negligence intent-requirement mental-competency oregon-v-kennedy self-representation 1. Does gross negligence on the part of the State satisfy the intent requirement as set forth in Oregon v. Kennedy, 456 U.S. 667 (1982) so that double…
22-5825 Ahmed R. Morning v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction ramos-v-louisiana retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-review 1) Whether the State trial court erred by imposing an unconstitutionally harsh and excessive sentence? 2) Whether the holding in Ramos v. Louisiana, …
22-5826 Alonzo Peters v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-materiality brady-v-maryland conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process fifth-circuit kyles-v-whitley suppressed-evidence witness-testimony L. Whether a defendant's convictions for conspiracy and drug trafficking conspiracy must be vacated where the defendant had no commercial association …
22-5828 DeShaun Bullock v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-10-14 Denied Relisted (10)IFP acquittal criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy fifth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-acquittal sentencing sixth-amendment 1. Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury has acquitt…
22-5829 Montana Barronette, Brandon Wilson, John Harrison, Linton Broughton, Terrell Sivells, Taurus Tillman, Timothy Floyd, and Dennis Pulley v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment courtroom-access criminal-procedure due-process family-attendance family-friends public-trial public-trial-clause sixth-amendment This Court observed in 1948 that without "exception all courts have held that an accused is at the very least entitled to have his friends, relatives …
22-5833 Carlos Alejandro Zuniga-Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP administration-of-justice criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure federal-law fifth-circuit leader-organizer-role leader-role preponderance-of-evidence sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines I. Whether the Eifth Circuit violated federal law when it conducted a cursory review of the facts related to a four-level increase in sentencing point…
22-348 Floyd Tayler v. Washington Washington 2022-10-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) aggravating-factors criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing domestic-violence jury-instruction jury-instructions pattern-aggravator reasonable-doubt statutory-interpretation unanimity Must the jury, in deciding whether a defendant has committed the domestic violence pattern aggravator, RCW 9.94A.535 (3) (h) (i), be instructed that t…
22-5810 Martin Perez-Barrios v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
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…
22-5814 Christopher Allan Allred v. Washington Washington 2022-10-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure critical-stage cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment execution mental-illness rational-understanding right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Question not identified.
22-5818 In Re Errol Victor, Sr. 2022-10-12 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-privileges criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-selection racial-discrimination speedy-trial trial-rights Whether due process and equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution and relevant civil rights laws prohibit a st…
22-5821 Felipe Noriega, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure seizure traffic-stop 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment allows a police officer to extend a concluded traffic stop based on minimal, if any, suspicious factors. 2. Whether t…
22-5824 Edward Tyrone Ridley v. Antoine Caldwell, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-12 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto federal-custody habeas-corpus illegal-detention judicial-review procedural-rights sex-offender-registration takings Question not identified.
22-5801 Steven Nelson Murray v. Jerry Howell, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial jury-trial-waiver procedural-default sixth-amendment When a criminal defendant must make a personal decision whether to waive a fundamental constitutional right, does an attorney provide deficient perfor…
22-5785 Robert Alan Fratta v. Texas Texas 2022-10-07 Denied IFP attorney-neglect constitutional-compliance criminal-procedure grand-jury habeas-corpus indictment pro-se state-courts state-procedure supreme-court-precedent 1) IN LIGHT OF THE SHINN v. MARTINEZ RAMIREZ RULING, ARE STATE COURTS NOW REQUIRED TO ACCEPT AND RULE ON THE MERITS OF CLAIMS PRESENTED IN WRITS OF H…
22-5789 Rodney Donta Jackson v. Minnesota Minnesota 2022-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process juror-misconduct post-verdict-hearing post-verdict-hearings public-trial sixth-amendment trial-procedure I. Does the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial extend to postverdict hearings investigating potential juror misconduct? II. Is the remedy for a …
22-5795 Kevin White, Jr. v. Michigan Michigan 2022-10-07 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission judicial-discretion jurisdiction trial-procedure venue Question not identified.
22-5796 James Edward Rose v. South Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-10-07 Denied IFP brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct sovereign-citizen standing ucc-1-308 Question not identified.
22-5779 James Michael Johnson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-10-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency jury-instructions money-laundering standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence wire-fraud I. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by finding that the evidence was sufficient to convict Mr. Johnson of wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit money l…
22-5780 James F. Snyder v. Washington Washington 2022-10-06 Denied IFP ada civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure disability-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standing sentencing Question not identified.
22-5782 Matthew Tassin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 circuit-court circuit-court-authority criminal-procedure district-court federal-prisoner ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel resentencing section-2255 sentencing-authority statutory-interpretation Whether a Circuit Court can limit the authority of a district court to resentence a federal criminal defendant or correct a criminal sentence "as may …
22-5784 Kevin Antonio Watson v. Virginia Virginia 2022-10-06 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process false-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sei -e.K'Vfnsfc WWAW feAvk&rte/'S 4f ha4 C ■frauA vjt(slt-Ws A1jl_ (ojM (\v dP Ak_ Fe^erci I Ca^.-kWi 2\(DUrt6 f Cg >vi(A>£A fO Cu£ ^ -5 -fo okrtam ■…
22-5764 Lynn Richard Norton v. David Barker, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-10-05 Denied IFP appeal-dismissal civil-procedure civil-rights court-costs criminal-procedure due-process indigent-litigant malicious-prosecution prosecutorial-discretion statute-of-limitations wrongful-conviction (A) Whether, The Law Suet las Femely Bnowéol Usclee Jénness2€ Code Prince Seclron, 18-1106 Srale OF Lamztation, When File Two Years, Later Of The on. …
22-5769 Donovan Lemont Bookman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
22-5771 Shawn Canada v. Olmsted County Community Corrections, All Staff Members, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-10-05 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process proportionality prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing supreme-court-review Question not identified.
22-318 Ronald Tai Young Moon, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-05 Denied Response Waived 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure forfeiture public-trial sixth-amendment waiver What is the standard for finding a waiver (as opposed to mere forfeiture) of the Sixth Amendment right to a "public trial?" This prominently includes …
22-5746 Chrystal Clues-Alexander v. Louisiana Louisiana 2022-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-waiver criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea jury-unanimity plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal ramos-retroactivity retroactivity right-to-jury-trial unanimous-jury Whether this Court's decision in Ramos v. Louisiana, 590 U.S. ___ (2020), provides grounds for a defendant to withdraw her pre-Ramos plea of guilty be…
22-5749 Justin Jamal Warner v. South Carolina South Carolina 2022-10-04 Dismissed IFP criminal-defendant-rights criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification in-camera-hearing law-enforcement-procedure out-of-court-identification police-misconduct reliability-standard surveillance-video unreliable-evidence video-identification Whether a criminal defendant is entitled to an in camera hearing pursuant to Neil v. Biggers, 408 U.S. 188 (1972) on the reliability of an out-of-cour…
22-5751 Mark Ryan Shipley, aka Marc R. Shipley, aka Marc Ryan Shipley v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-firearms-law felon-in-possession mens-rea rehaif statutory-interpretation DOES THE KNOWINGLY ELEMENT APPLY TO U.S.C. $921 (a)(20)? DOES A STIPULATION AT THE TIME OF TRIAL THAT A DEFENDANT HAD AT SOME POINT IN THE PAST CQMIT…
22-5759 Andrew Robertson v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2022-10-04 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence indictment judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct Question not identified.
22-5762 Jonathan Mattox v. Arizona Arizona 2022-10-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal arizona-rule-criminal-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief sentencing standard-of-review statutory-interpretation What i the coredtinter pretation that should be percieved from A.R.5. 28-1383 (4)(2) T?
22-5763 Benjamin Justin Brownlee v. New York Second Circuit 2022-10-04 Denied IFP brady-violation criminal-procedure discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-defense Question not identified.
22-5720 Mark Julian Edmonds v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP acca armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge procedural-standard residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement unconstitutional Was Mr. Edmonds required to prove, in district court, that it is "more likely than not" that the sentencing judge "actually relied on" the ACCA's unco…
22-5730 Quincy Campbell v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof coconspirator-testimony criminal-procedure due-process judicial-error relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines I. Whether the district court erred by sentencing the Defendant to one twenty (120) months in light of the circumstances of the case ? II. Whether th…
22-5731 Jonathan D. Carr v. Kansas Kansas 2022-10-03 Denied IFP capital-trial confrontation-clause criminal-procedure eligibility-phase selection-phase sentencing-phase sixth-amendment witness-confrontation Whether the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause secures an accused's right to confront witnesses against him throughout the sentencing phase of a c…
22-5732 Richard Michael Arrington v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2022-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure interrogation jail-informant maine-v-moulton massiah-v-united-states recording-device right-to-counsel sixth-amendment state-agent united-states-v-henry Whether, for purposes of determining if an accused's Sixth Amendment right to counsel was violated, a jail informant is considered a state agent where…
22-5733 Robert Brown, II v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-trial evidence fair-trial jury jury-bias perjury perjury-evidence rico rico-conspiracy sixth-amendment The Government here alleged the Seven Mile Bloods operated as an enterprise in Detroit, Michigan, in an area known as the "Red Zone." The Government a…
22-5735 Thomas A. Scott v. Lonnie Oliver, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2022-10-03 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-integrity judicial-review manifest-injustice sixth-amendment 1. DOES THE JUDGEMENT OF SENTENCE REPRESENT A MAINIFEST INJUSTICE WARRANTING THE SUPERVISORY POWERS OF THIS HONORABLE COURT AS IT SHAKES SOCIETIES CON…
22-5740 Rony Alexander Granados-Ortez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-analysis sentencing supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
22-5741 Anthony Delano Hylton, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-history criminal-procedure detention-duration fourth-amendment law-enforcement-inquiry prolonged-detention rodriguez-precedent rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop A. Does This Court's Decision in Rodriguez v. United States permit any criminal history inquiry at any traffic stop no matter how long the inquiry tak…
22-5743 Timothy Love v. California California 2022-10-03 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-crimes j'l tn*i^ IkiU^ -j~& ^ y^op [^ d ^ Sho-o'{* v'4 * t £<<fIc, TTU-fe/ {0$<LC\A, V • 0 |-e- \a CC y-CU^O^/x o ccu^yi-ejl \HX^ C^<_ ybft'U u*a?f ^ 'j?. f…
22-5724 In Re Chad Small 2022-09-30 Denied IFP compliance-with-rules constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel knowingly-intelligently-voluntarily parties-to-proceeding sixth-amendment 1) WHETHER PETITIONER WAS DENIED HIS SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL 2) WHETHER THE GUILTY PLEA WAS KNOWINGLY, INTELLIGENTLY…
22-5725 Marty Joe Banghart v. Dan Sullivan, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-09-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit federal-procedure habeas-corpus standing Question not identified.
22-5727 Antonio Garrett v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-30 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction section-2254 WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN DENYING GARRETT A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY ON HIS 28 U.S.C. SECTION 2254 HABEAS CLAIM OF IN…
22-5729 Jose Madrid-Becerra v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-09-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-history criminal-procedure deportation early-release federal-criminal-defendants immigration immigration-law sentencing-guidelines state-statutes Several states have or had statutes authorizing the early release of state prisoners with deportation orders to the United States Immigration and Natu…
22-5711 Joshua Austin Kramer, aka Benjamin Franklin v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion judicial-resources legal-innocence plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal prejudice withdrawal-of-plea Whether the district court erred by denying Petitioner's motion to withdraw his guilty plea.
22-5712 Ramona I. Morgan v. Gloria Geither Tenth Circuit 2022-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction motion-to-vacate prosecutorial-discretion sentencing-review statutory-interpretation 1. Should the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit have granted a Certificate of Appeal to the Petitioner [Edmond Morgan]? 2. Should …
22-5714 Tracy Alan Zornes v. William Bolin, Warden Eighth Circuit 2022-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act-of-1 courtroom-closure criminal-procedure partial-courtroom-closure presley-v-georgia public-trial sixth-amendment voir-dire waller-test waller-v-georgia The question presented by this petition is whether the Sixth Amendment's public trial guarantee, within the review apparatus imposed by the Antiterror…
22-307 Michigan v. Marcus Martell McCloud and Bruce Cliffin Edwards Michigan 2022-09-29 Denied Response Waived commonsense-judgments criminal-procedure detention frisk human-behavior law-enforcement officer-experience probable-cause reasonable-suspicion terry-stop weapons-frisk Police preparing to enter a suspected unlicensed after-hours drinking establishment to make an under-cover purchase removed the two respondents from j…
22-5691 Meamen Jean Nyah v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence-rule-404b federal-rules-of-evidence firearms firearms-case judicial-interpretation prior-bad-acts propensity-evidence Whether Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b) should be construed, contrary to its purpose and history, as a rule of inclusion resulting in certain admissib…
22-5705 Lateef Alagbada v. United States Third Circuit 2022-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-order criminal-defendant criminal-procedure extradition final-judgment-rule habeas-corpus international-law pretrial-order repatriation Whether a pretrial order denying a motion for repatriation of an incarcerated criminal defendant falls within the exception to the final judgment rule…
22-5684 Victor Gavillan Martinez v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-27 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment warrantless-search Whether Petitioner's Fourth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment Rights to the United States Constitution Require this Court to vacate Petitioner's convic…
22-5694 Jonathan Lopez v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review judiciary public-confidence standing Whether a criminal defendant is required to prove an ineffective assistance of counsel claim on the face of the record? Whether review should be gran…
22-5697 Robert Capelli v. United States Second Circuit 2022-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure fourth-amendment private-plane search search-and-seizure vehicle-exception warrant-requirement Whether the vehicle exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement applies to the search of a private plane.
22-5699 In Re Thomas George Craaybeek 2022-09-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment standing takings WAS THE OPINION STRUCK COST OF APPEALS SUCH THAT EXTRA CIRCUIT SPLIT BY SUPREME COURT VIOLATED MCCULLENT TO COLLAR HE EASE PREDLINE SET EM BOM THAT SV…
22-5701 Terry Wayne Cope v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 compassionate-release congress covid-19 criminal-procedure district-court judicial-discretion public-health sentencing A. Does the precedent that "a defendant's incarceration during the COVID-19 Pandemic when the defendant has access to the COVID-19 vaccine does not pr…
22-5673 Juan Amaya Lozano v. Fredrick Entzel, Warden Eighth Circuit 2022-09-26 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel interpreter-rights limited-english-proficiency sentencing sentencing-discretion sixth-amendment 1) Whether the District Court abused it's discretion after ruling that Juan Lozano, (a limited English Proficiency defendant), required a Spanish Inte…
22-5653 Deryl Dude Nelson v. Michigan Michigan 2022-09-23 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-hearing fourth-amendment fraud judicial-misconduct probable-cause standing state-court-procedure warrant-fraud A prosecutor and magistrate falsified a criminal complaint and warrant in the name of "The People of the State of Michigan" and "Keely Cochran" includ…
22-5649 Graylin Gray v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Corrections, et al. Nebraska 2022-09-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP arraignment court-filing criminal-procedure due-process personal-jurisdiction service-of-process subject-matter-jurisdiction waiver-of-rights The amended information was not filed when petitioner appeared in court for arraignment and waived reading of the 12 count amended information and a…
22-5650 In Re Bobby D. Hathaway-Bey 2022-09-22 Denied IFP criminal-procedure first-amendment public-access public-trial sentencing sixth-amendment should this court isr s lowik toGrant alrit of Haks Corpus Jo a Moorish AMKican SovErig Man wHo has No wvaila forum to raiss his Comlilling clam of Di…
22-5660 Jon Anthony Terry v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-09-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP ability-to-pay criminal-procedure district-court due-process future-assessment hypothetical-means judicial-discretion sentencing special-assessment statutory-interpretation 1. May a District Court at sentencing, find a defendant "non-indigent" for the purposes of 18 USC 3014(e), based upon past income and a hypothetical "…
22-5662 Sergio Trevino v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-09-22 Denied IFP constitutional-rights counsel-deficiency criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prejudice-inquiry prejudice-standard probation-misadvice reasonable-probability reject-plea-offer waive-right-to-trial In an ineffective assistance of counsel claim alleging probation misadvice, to what degree (if any) should the possibility of a conviction have on the…
22-274 Steven Donziger v. United States Second Circuit 2022-09-22 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) appointments-clause criminal-contempt criminal-procedure executive-power federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure interbranch-appointments judicial-power separation-of-powers special-prosecutor In Young v. United States ex rel. Vuitton et Fils S.A., 481 U.S. 787 (1987), this Court endorsed the practice of appointing private lawyers to try cri…
22-5638 Hector Martinez-Robos v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substances criminal-procedure jury-instructions mandatory-minimum-sentences mens-rea plain-error sentencing statutory-interpretation 1. Whether an instructional error is "plain" for purposes of Fed. R. Crim. P. 52(b) when the charge to the jury is erroneous under an opinion of this …
22-5643 Derek Lee Casey, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2022-09-21 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing trial-counsel Question not identified.
22-5620 Ebrahim Kalatehe v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure criminal-procedure due-process evidence-collection fourth-amendment judicial-review pen-register standing third-party-doctrine waiver 1.May the government use information obtained through a pen register against an individual over whom the government did not obtain a pen register orde…
22-5622 Todd Matthew Phillips v. Amber Phillips, nka Amber Korpark Nevada 2022-09-20 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process evidentiary-standard family-court family-law parental-rights standing subject-matter-jurisdiction In the midst of a routine divorce saga, Wife alleged that Husband, during the marriage, had committed violent crimes against her. But Wife never conta…
22-5624 Tiffany Leigh Marion v. North Carolina North Carolina 2022-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge Batson-v-Kentucky criminal-procedure equal-protection plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination Whether Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986) and its progeny apply to equal protection claims challenging a prosecutor's decision of whether to exte…
22-5603 Faustino Sanchez-Lugo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-rule almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi-rule constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
22-5605 Jeffrey Ricardo Wimberly v. Michigan Michigan 2022-09-19 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence pre-arrest-delay speedy-trial WHETHER A (15) FIFTEEN YEAR PREARREST DELAY WHERE THE PROSECUTOR COULD NOT GIVE A SUFFICEINT REASON FOR THE DELAY TO JUSTIFY THE PREJUDICE TO THE PETI…
22-5606 Jesus Guadalupe Amparano-Torres v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-precedent constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review legal-challenge sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-5597 Bernardino Adrian Venzor-Ortega v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-precedent overrule sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-5598 Ramiro Montoya-De La Cruz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998) , in light of the reasoning of …
22-5599 Denzell Russell v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation plain-error plain-error-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation 1. Is the Sixth Circuit's application of plain error review under Fed. R. Crim. P. 52(b) in conflict with this Court's decisions? 2. Have the courts …
22-5586 Lori Ann Robles v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure discretionary-review mandatory-guidelines rita-v-united-states sentencing velson-v-united-states 1. Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirming Petitioner's sentence of 360 months, based on an importa…
22-5589 Carrie Helen Fine v. Florida Florida 2022-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment-challenge appeals constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-punishment drug-statutes due-process evidence judgment-of-acquittal state-law I. Whether the affirmation of the Appellant Court (that it was proper for trial court to deny Fine's Motions for judgment of Acquittal) was correct. …
22-5590 Robert Nathan Hensley v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-scrutiny prosecutorial-misconduct sexual-offenses Is it INEFFECTINE ASSISTENCE OF COUNSEL WHERE : THEREBY PROUING NOT ALLOWE "TAMPERED EVIDENCE" WERE AT TRIAL DUE TO THE JUOGE "CHOOSINE 11 THIS WAS ON…
22-5593 Richard Anthony Rodriguez v. California California 2022-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-rule constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial jury-trial-right juvenile-adjudication prior-conviction-exception prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sixth-amendment Can juvenile adjudications, obtained without a trial by jury, be relied upon to enhance a defendant's sentence in a later proceeding? Thus, the quest…
22-5564 Michael Muthee Munywe v. Washington Washington 2022-09-14 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-interrogation miranda-rights sixth-amendment trial-rights Question not identified.
22-5575 Ronald Mickel v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure domestic-violence due-process indictment sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum statutory-minimum violent-felony I. Whether all facts — including the fact of a prior conviction — that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and …
22-5580 Derrick Dion Ingram v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearm-enhancement firearms guideline-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Where U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(b)(6)(B) directs a four-level increase in offense level when a defendant possesses a firearm "in connection with another felony…
22-242 Cyrano R. Irons v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-09-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court harmless-error judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure Whether errors in calculating the Sentencing Guidelines are rendered categorically harmless by the district court's assertion that the Guidelines woul…
22-5560 Tyrone Learone McCurdy v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-09-13 Denied IFP brady-disclosure brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process perjury prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-fair-trial witness-tampering witness-testimony I. IF THE PROSECUTOR MAKES A PRETRIAL OFFER OF LENIENCY TO A WITNESS IN EXCHANGE FOR THAT WITNESSES' TESTIMONY AGAINST THE DEFENDANT, AND THE WITNESS…
22-5567 Lamar Harris v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error plain-error-review sentencing sentencing-waiver waiver 1. The question presented is whethe r sentencing issue is waived where the Defendant raises, but drops an issue as part of a sentencing or subject to…
22-5576 Thoucharin Ruttanamongkongul v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-09-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility human-trafficking sentencing sentencing-guidelines sex-work sexual-offense statutory-interpretation violent-crime When state values v. evidence, to show that petitioner fired (unclear handwriting) to the United States to court completely e.g. a six footers; and th…
22-5577 Marvin Davis v. Kevin Genovese, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-interview child-witness confrontation-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-counsel forensic-interviewer hearsay hearsay-statements sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation (1) WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT ERRED IN ALLOWING THE CHILD VIDEO INTERVIEW AND WHETHER T.C.A. SECTION 24-7-123 IS [UNCONSTITUTIONAL? (2) WHETHER THE PET…
22-5522 Fernando Cazares v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal certificate-of-appealability conspiracy crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process general-verdict pinkerton-conspiracy section-241 section-245 sentencing violent-crime Did the court of appeals err in failing to grant a certificate of appealability where the application presented three debatable questions: First, the …
22-5548 In Re David Moore 2022-09-12 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-limitations criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge state-court-jurisdiction successive-petition successive-petitions unconstitutional-conviction 1. Did Congress intend to preclude as successive under the AEDPA a state prisoner habeas claim that he is held unconstitutionally upon conviction and …
22-5551 Jose Carmen Barajas-Salvador v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
22-5558 Vince Edward LaSane v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure defense-knowledge due-process felony jury-conviction jury-instructions legal-error minor registration-requirements sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation Whether the District Court erroneously denied Mr. Lasane's request that Jury instruction on Count Two (committing a felony offense involving a minor w…
22-5563 Noel Brown v. Pennsylvania, et al. Pennsylvania 2022-09-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus plea-bargaining retroactivity right-to-counsel sixth-amendment In Persuasive Authority Leading Case on Point Hamilton V. Alabama 368 U,S.52,(1961). The Supreme Court of the United States Reversed. In an opinion by…
22-222 Abelino "Abel" Reyna, et al. v. John Wilson, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-09-12 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 criminal-procedure due-process franks-rule franks-v-delaware grand-jury judicial-procedure probable-cause search-warrant section-1983 In Franks v. Delaware, 438 U.S. 154 (1978), this Court announced a rule of "limited scope" which allowed a criminal defendant to attack the veracity o…
22-5540 David Villegas Pereznegron v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-09-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-proceedings plain-error-review right-to-allocution sentencing sentencing-allocution substantial-rights Whether the plain and prejudicial denial of the right to allocution is an error that ordinarily warrants correction under the fourth prong of plain-er…
22-5546 Jhon Albert Carrizales Pretell v. Florida Florida 2022-09-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-right criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-offense fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-procedure 1. Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a twelve-person jury to try a criminal defendant accused of a felony offense.
22-5523 Lawrence Gaines v. Morris Houser, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Benner Township, et al. Third Circuit 2022-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions no-adverse-inference strategic-decision trial-counsel I. WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED WHEN IT REVERSED THE WELL REASONED DECISION OF THE DISTRICT COURT WHICH HELD THAT TRIAL COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE …
22-5529 Anthony H. Lett v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states standing 1. Did. Court of appeals error when denying Petitioner's Rehaif v.: United States , 139 S.Ct. 204. 2. Was Petitioner 's ineffective assistance claim …
22-5530 Joseph Ray Jordan v. United States Second Circuit 2022-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP affirmative-defense brady-rule constitutional-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief right-to-testify section-2255 strickland-standard witness-tampering Each of the following four pages presents one primary question regarding IAC claims that survived Section 2255(b) screening, but were ultimately rejec…
22-5533 Dario Pinson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 18-usc-3582c compassionate-release criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion sentencing WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT'S FAILURE TO PROPERLY CONSIDER THE APPROPRIATE FACTORS PURSUANT TO 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c) BEFORE DENYING MR. PINSON'S MOTION F…
22-5537 Joseph William Rendon v. Iowa Iowa 2022-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner was provided effective Assistance of Counsel
22-5516 Antrell Desharron Lewis v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion burrage burrage-standard criminal-procedure drug-overdose habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Did trial counsel provide ineffective assistance in light of this court's holding in Burrage by failing to investigate the drug alleged to have caused…
22-205 Demetrios Stavrakis, aka Dimitrios Stavrakis, aka Jimmy v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-09-07 Denied Response Waived circuit-split circumstantial-evidence criminal-procedure evidence-sufficiency federal-court judgment-of-acquittal motion-for-judgment-of-acquittal rule-of-equipoise sufficiency-of-evidence Whether a federal court, assessing the sufficiency of the evidence in a criminal case based wholly on circumstantial evidence, must apply the "rule of…
22-202 Leonardo Nuncio v. Texas Texas 2022-09-06 Denied constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment free-speech harassment-statute obscenity obscenity-test overbreadth texas-penal-code vagueness 1. Is Texas's obscene harassment statute (Tex. Penal Code 42.07(a)(1) and (b)(3)) unconstitutionally vague and overbroad? 2. Does the Miller v. Calif…
22-5455 Tyrone Woolaston v. United States Second Circuit 2022-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights confidential-informant criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process government-conduct government-misconduct manufactured-venue venue venue-manipulation Whether manufactured venue is a valid criminal defense that a defendant is entitled to present to a jury when it is undisputed that the Government tra…
22-5504 Rafael Villanueva v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment commerce-clause competency criminal-procedure due-process mental-capacity 1. Because the trial court and the Fifth Circuit erred by finding Mr. Villanueva competent to stand trial, it violated his due process rights. 2. Bec…
22-5507 Edward F. Swanson v. Texas Texas 2022-09-06 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process felony-dismissal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-guidelines strickland-standard xs itH ■Oxstrxc .t Clou fir uxolateDXO THE THE SJftZCtf/JGS OF HPPPEAOZ ?* t v tPH f> Tt/fiSC OXSMXSS THE... Titty &TP ,n aeFEUOMT QuZLTy OF /) LtC°X…
22-5508 Hanford Chiu v. United States First Circuit 2022-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence federal-rules-of-evidence fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant Whether a faulty search warrant that was executed without probable cause and without a good faith exception violates Fourth Amendment protections. Wh…
22-5511 Edmundo Portillo-Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
22-5514 Roland Scott, Jr. v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction sentencing standing statutory-interpretation Did the United States Supreme Cort overturn it's own precedent in Rehaf v. United States 139 S. Ct 2191, 20t L. Ed 594 2o1g), where this Cort decided …
22-5500 James R. LaPoint v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-02 Denied IFP 14th-amendment appellate-record constitutional-rights criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process fair-trial Hardy-v-United-States incomplete-record Mayer-v-City-of-Chicago sentencing-review 1. Do the State courts violate a defendant's 14th Amendment Right to due process and to a fair and complete direct appeal when they become aware of a …
22-5505 Elec Elmer Cusick v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-09-02 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure habeas-corpus indian-law mcgirt-ruling post-conviction-relief retroactive-application retroactivity subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), is a Substantive ruling or a Procedural ruling.
22-5506 Kacey Lewis v. Angel Quiros, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction Connecticut 2022-09-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial habeas-corpus judicial-discretion state-court-proceedings I. WHETHER THE PETITIONER WAS' DEPRIVED OF HIS RIGHTS TO A FAIR ' TRIAL DURING HIS 2009 CRIMINAL TRIAL COURT PROCEEDINGS IN THE JUDICIAL'DISTRICT OF…
22-5483 In Re Frank Michael Monte 2022-09-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus incarceration sentencing 1. Constitutionality of Petitioner's incarceration.
22-5484 Erika Perez-Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review conflict-with-other-courts criminal-procedure district-court holguin-hernandez judicial-discretion sentencing-argument sentencing-guidelines substantial-arguments Whether, after Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, __U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails t…
22-5486 Hillary Best v. New York City Police Department Sex Offender Unit Second Circuit 2022-09-01 Denied IFP 13th-amendment 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process 1. Does Section §100.30(l)(d) of the New York Criminal Procedure Law violate the 4th, 13th and 14th Amendments to the United States Constitution by al…
22-5487 Gabriel Paul Hall v. Texas Texas 2022-09-01 Denied IFP capital-murder criminal-procedure evidence-admission massiah-v-united-states penalty-phase right-to-counsel sixth-amendment state-action state-agent Did the TCCA err in holding that the State upheld its "affirmative obligation to not act in a manner that circumvents the [Sixth Amendment] protection…
22-5492 William Wallace v. Florida Commission on Offender Review Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-sufficiency judicial-review reasonable-doubt sentencing standing witness-testimony (1) Is it abuse of false evidence to convict a petitioner for a crime, where there has never been any proof of deception that does use / in this case?…
22-5495 Micquel Shemario Thomas v. Michigan Michigan 2022-09-01 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP brady-violation criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus michigan-supreme-court people-v-ginther post-conviction remand state-court supreme-court-review Question not identified.
22-5496 Vance L. White v. Texas Texas 2022-09-01 Denied IFP court-modification criminal-procedure grand-jury indictment-elements ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion plea-bargaining plea-colloquy sentencing statutory-maximum Can H)t Tudyz modipy the. essentiac elements set Qonth In the /'ndittment cn~ the. Plea CoUoquy? Coin -the. Court Armnd M indictment- (oithout dAt te…
22-196 Adam Samia, aka Sal, aka Adam Samic v. United States Second Circuit 2022-09-01 Judgment Issued Amici (7) codefendant-confession confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence out-of-court-statement redaction sixth-amendment Whether admitting a codefendant's redacted out-of-court confession that immediately inculpates a defendant based on the surrounding context violates t…
22-5469 Jeffrey Beard, II v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination hearsay hearsay-evidence obstruction-of-justice sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment The Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution requires that the accused "shall enjoy the right ... to be confronted with the witnesses against him." Th…
22-5477 Tracey L. Brown v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender case-law circuit-split criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process hobbs-act jurisdiction ninth-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines 1. Should the decision by the Ninth Circuit to deny Mr. Brown's appeal be vacated when said decision was based upon case law that was vacated by this …
22-5480 Manuel Ralios-Chajal v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-fact-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing Whether facts that affect the minimum or maximum reasonable federal sentence must be proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt?
22-5475 Merlin Williams v. Burl Cain, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP circumstantial-evidence civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony wrongful-conviction Question not identified.
22-5453 Hugo F. Marquez v. Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Ninth Circuit 2022-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interview-tapes right-to-confrontation sex-abuse-case sex-crimes trial-procedure 1. Should the Ninth Circuit have denied Marquez's motion for a certificate of appealability on the issue of ineffective assistance of counsel, where t…
22-5458 Kenneth Lainell Davis v. Florida Florida 2022-08-29 Denied IFP criminal-defendant criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process eighth-amendment felony jury jury-composition juvenile-sentencing mandatory-minimum sixth-amendment 1. Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a twelve-person jury to try a criminal defendant accused of a felony offense. 2. Whether the imposition of a …
22-5459 Jose Socorro Gonzalez-Ruiz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation legal-precedent recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998) should be overruled.
22-5460 Bradley Lane Croft v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-29 GVR Relisted (2)IFP aggravated-identity-theft circuit-split criminal-procedure discretionary-review federal-question identity-theft money-laundering sufficiency-of-evidence wire-fraud Whether an accused commits the crime of aggravated identity theft by merely uttering, mentioning, or reciting someone else's name when committing frau…
22-5464 Barney Adrian Dunlap v. David Mitchell, Superintendent, Lanesboro Correctional Institution Fourth Circuit 2022-08-29 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-constitutional-rights ineffective-assistance jury-instructions lesser-included-offenses state-constitutional-rights 1) Has the trial court erred by refusing to instruct the Jury on lesser Included offenses supported by the evidence in violation of Dunlap's State and…
22-5446 Jose Francisco Maldonado-Rosa v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure fifth-circuit plea-agreement sentencing waiver waiver-of-rights Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by ruling that Mr. Maldonado waived the right to appeal his sentence because of the Waiver of Appeal provision in his …
22-5450 Jermaine Crump v. Joe Errington, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-disclosure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review Question not identified.
22-5443 Robert L. Davis v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-08-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burglary-conviction civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure DNA-database due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus retroactive-laws standing statutory-interpretation Reason For Question #1 There exist a ConFliat Among United States Circuit Counts On Whether the Immenent Danger oF 28 U.S.C. 3 1915(g) aPPly to at the…
22-5428 Norman Lafonte Pryor, aka Nc LaFonse Pryor v. Ronald Erdos, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel Question not identified.
22-5436 Oraine D. Brown v. New Jersey New Jersey 2022-08-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure discovery discovery-rules due-process judicial-discretion new-jersey-court-rule pre-indictment-discovery prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-motion speedy-trial trial-commencement trial-postponement (1) Can a trial judge postpone a trial on its commencement date at the prosecutor's motion for additional discovery without establishing how the oppos…
22-5426 Joseph Antonetti v. Timothy Filson, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-08-23 Denied IFP autopsy-report certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-examiner Did the courts below err in denying a Certificate of Appealability to review the holdings of the district court and the Nevada Supreme Court that Mr. …
22-5427 Jade Christian Nichols v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substance criminal-procedure federal-law federal-sentencing preemption sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation Does a state definition of "controlled substance" control a federal sentencing enhancement under the Sentencing Guidelines, when the state lists subst…
22-5432 Terence Valentine v. Florida Florida 2022-08-23 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-development habeas-corpus jury-trial jury-verdict state-courts Whether, when deciding if it should allow a defendant an opportunity to present evidence of actual innocence, a state court must, in conformance with …
22-5412 Clifton Lee Tribble v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-08-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-collection habeas-corpus judicial-review police-procedure standing witness-testimony Question not identified.
22-5422 Vohn Robert Cooper v. Florida Florida 2022-08-22 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-maximum WHETHER THE SENTENCING JUDGE VIOLATED COOPER'S SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO HAVE A JURY DETERMINE ANY FACT THAT INCREASED THE STATUTORY MAXIMUM IN HIS CAS…
22-5374 In Re Darris Newsome 2022-08-19 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-admission incarceration incarceration-evidence judicial-discretion transfer-history Did refusal to allow Darris Antory Newsome certified and authenticated copy of a transfer history document severely hinder his ability to present his …
22-5385 J. S. v. Texas Texas 2022-08-19 Denied IFP confrontation criminal-procedure due-process juvenile-justice kent-v-united-states sixth-amendment A split exists among state courts of last resort on whether the Sixth Amendment right to confrontation extends to a hearing on whether to certify a ch…
22-5396 Timothy J. Hill v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-08-19 Denied IFP criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction indian-law mcgirt-case native-american-rights oklahoma-jurisdiction procedural-rule retroactivity statutory-interpretation substantive-rule supreme-court-ruling Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), is a Substantive ruling or a Procedural ruling.
22-5399 John Afriyie v. United States Second Circuit 2022-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorneys-fees circuit-split corporate-expenses criminal-procedure criminal-restitution mandatory-victims-restitution-act noscitur-a-sociis restitution statutory-interpretation Section (b)(4) of the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act ("MVRA") requires a criminal defendant convicted of a wide variety of offenses to: reimburse …
22-5400 Maurice D. Bell v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error-review preservation-of-error procedural-error sentencing sentencing-procedure Whether an appellate court errs under Fed. R. Crim. P. 51 by applying plain error review to a claim of procedural error brought to the sentencing judg…
22-5402 Ronnie Jones v. Deanna Brookhart, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction procedural-error sentencing standing Question not identified.
22-5403 Paul Frederick Stover v. Oregon Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision Ninth Circuit 2022-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lesser-included-offense second-degree-assault sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Could reasonable jurists debate whether trial counsel's failure to request a lesser-included offense instruction as an alternative to second degree as…
22-5404 Charles Anthony Walker, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-08-19 Denied IFP abduction abduction-definition circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure fourth-circuit hobbs-act robbery sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-guidelines (1) Whether movement of an employee within the confines of a store qualifies as abduction under U.S.S.G. § 2B3.1(b)(4)(A)
22-5405 Perry Sawano v. Colorado Colorado 2022-08-19 Denied IFP 8th-amendment aggregate-sentence constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment proportionality-analysis proportionality-review sentencing sentencing-review 1) Does the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits the imposition of cruel and unusual punishment require that a sentencing court…
22-5384 In Re Randell Joseph Redmond 2022-08-18 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-rights standing Question not identified.
22-5387 Ulises Ervey Islas-Macias v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-5389 Antonio Molina-Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit legal-review precedent recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-155 Hiral M. Patel v. Connecticut Connecticut 2022-08-18 Denied Response Waived bourjaily-v-united-states confrontation-clause confrontation-rights crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure davis-v-washington due-process dutton-v-evans evidence-admission michigan-v-bryant penal-interest testimonial-statement Whether a statement against penal interest— e made by an inmate/declarant who was moved into the cell of an inmate/informant, who was then outfitted …
22-5359 Kareem M. Murray v. Joseph Noeth, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2022-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-procedure federal-review habeas-corpus peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike prosecutorial-discrimination supreme-court-precedent unreasonable-determination-of-facts 1. Whether a state trial court's granting of a prosecutor's challenge to a defendant's use of a peremptory strike, without following the three-step pr…
22-5365 David Steve Elias v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure mandatory-minimum plain-error retroactivity rule-11 sentencing I. After Mr. Elias's plea but before his sentencing, the First Step Act amended § 924(c)(1) to clarify that the consecutive mandatory minimum sentence…
22-5369 Milton Lee Gardner v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-08-17 Denied IFP confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jury-charge juvenile-adjudication juvenile-justice sentencing-enhancement 1). If the record in this case contains two "written waivers" of counsel, and one request to proceed pro se by counsel, prior to voir dire. But, the r…
22-5377 Malik Breyon Hollis v. Matthew Magnusson, Warden First Circuit 2022-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-composition jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination Whether peremptory challenges of racial minorities during jury selection in criminal trials should be subjected to a heightened judicial inquiry of st…
22-5350 Randolph J. Norwood v. Florida Florida 2022-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fatal-variance trial-integrity victim-identification witness-testimony Can a State charge a defendant with committing a crime against a specific individual and at trial present a completely different individual as the all…
22-5360 Wayne Chin v. Joseph Noeth, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2022-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP accused-autonomy actual-innocence attorney-client-relationship autonomy constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-counsel due-process right-to-counsel sixth-amendment unwelcome-defense WHETHER A DEFENSE COUNSEL CAN OVERRIDE AN ACCUSED 'S FINAL AND INFORMED DECISION FOR AN ACTUAL INNOCENCE DEFENSE AND IMPOSE AN UNWELCOME DEFENSE UPON …
22-5363 Rodney Flucas v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process federalism interstate-travel jury-instruction precedent sexual-conduct state-authority Was the Jury Erroncously Instructed That the Government Only had to Prove That Sexual Activity Was a "Motivating Purpose" for Transportation of Person…
22-146 Tracy Smith v. Georgia Georgia 2022-08-16 Denied Response Waived constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions non-unanimous-verdict sixth-amendment trial-counsel Whether it is a violation of the Sixth Amendment for trial counsel to fail to object to a jury instruction that sanctioned a non-unanimous verdict.
22-139 Sari Alqsous v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-08-15 Denied Response Waived charge-conference confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process hobbs-act mens-rea public-official sentencing sixth-circuit Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in analyzing ruling that Petitioner was not entitled to be present during the Charge Conference under Fed. R. Crim. P.…
22-140 Yvette B. Beaulieu v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. District of Columbia 2022-08-15 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure disclosure-requirements due-process equal-protection federal-employee government-investigation government-misconduct legal-fairness 1. WHY IS THERE NO EQUAL APPLICATION OF RELEVANT FAIRNESS PRINCIPLES IN CIVIL AND CRIMINAL MATTERS? 2. WHY IS THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT ALLOWED…
22-5348 Clarence Lee v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process judicial-bias judicial-recusal motion-hearing prosecutorial-agreement recusal sentencing sentencing-discretion standing 1) Whether the district court erred by denying defense counsel's oral motion for recusal of the district judge. 2) Whether the district court erred b…
22-5349 Leopoldo Pacheco-Apodaca v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-5352 Travis Thomas, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment criminal-procedure factual-description factual-distinction fifth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-clause indictment-modification prescription-drug required-element trial-amendment Does the Fifth Amendment's Grand Jury Clause prohibit a trial amendment altering a factually distinct description of a required element?
22-5353 Ricardo Salazar-Munoz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-5335 Julius Wayne Baker v. Bryan K. Dobbs, Warden Fourth Circuit 2022-08-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-investigation federal-jurisdiction free-speech incarceration legal-jurisdiction miranda-rights standing Federal Bureau of Investigation. 2) How can the petitoner be in two places at once, when proving he was already Incarcerated in another county in the…
22-5337 Carlos Vazquez-Tellez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
22-5338 Chikosi Legins v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-08-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1001 apprendi apprendi-rule criminal-law criminal-procedure evidence false-statement relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum sufficiency I. Whether the evidence was sufficient to support the conviction under 18 U.S.C. 1001. II. Whether the defendant was improperly subjected to an enhan…
22-5342 Patrick LaJuan Jones, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-08-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substance criminal-procedure federal-law federal-sentencing preemption sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation Does a state definition of "controlled substance" control a federal sentencing enhancement under the Sentencing Guidelines, when the state lists subst…
22-5343 In Re Quelyory A. Rigal 2022-08-11 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process duplicitous-indictment fifth-amendment habeas-corpus jury non-unanimous-verdict sixth-amendment 1. Whether a non-unanimous verdict in C.D.FL. # 0:12-cr-60088-WPD, in violation of the Fifth Amendment and Sixth Amendment, is plain error, reversible…
22-5326 Juan Samuel Rodriguez-Huitron v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP clear-error criminal-procedure judicial-review limited-remand plain-error remand sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum substantial-rights This Court in Molina-Martinez v. United States advised that courts of appeals may order a limited remand to assess the impact of clear error on the de…
22-5328 Justin Michael Tyson v. North Carolina North Carolina 2022-08-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process indictment jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
22-5330 Demetrius J. Wade v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2022-08-10 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process evidence-tampering fifth-amendment forensic-evidence fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel (1). Was petitioner's 5th and 14th Amendment Rights violated when police tampered with evidence and removed bullet fragments recovered from the victim…
22-132 Carlos Ruben Ruiz v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2022-08-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-procedure demeanor-evidence due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions In a criminal trial, "[d]ue process means a jury capable and willing to decide the case solely on the evidence before it, and a trial judge ever watch…
22-124 Brett C. Kimberlin v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-08-09 Denied Amici (1) circuit-split civil-disability civil-rights collateral-consequences criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review standing writ-of-error-coram-nobis Whether a petitioner must show he suffers from a "civil disability"—that is, a collateral consequence that causes a substantial and present harm, is s…
22-5305 Aileen Kogera Njoroge v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fraud identity-theft legal-appeal probation restitution sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence trial-court-discretion The Defendant, Aileen Kogera Njoroge, hereinafter "Kogera " appeals her conviction following a jury trial held on October 13th through October 16, 202…
22-5313 Jesse Rondale Bailey v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553(a)(6) career-offender criminal-procedure empirical-evidence evidence-based judicial-discretion presumption sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines unwarranted-disparity within-range-sentences When evaluating whether a sentence imposed within the applicable guideline range avoids unwarranted sentencing disparities under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(6…
22-5314 Daniel Ray v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion legal-reasoning rita-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines The Court has observed that "where a party presents nonfrivolous reasons for imposing a different sentence, the judge will normally go further and exp…
22-5261 Yusuf O. Bush v. David J. Ebbert District of Columbia 2022-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment federal-courts habeas-corpus standing statutory-interpretation 3., Do&S "fye Aw£i>PA 6-f N/ibloAe- 4*V\C Ce>n5454i£>in 0-f 4~ln£- l)n\4ed Skk^ i5^ a/\J 6^&wevoJoi-evv4- 'J Sp^C\§i c\\j fV^£, Ist Ostno^.^ ime/it Ju…
22-5304 Nuelito Morel-Vargas v. Connecticut Connecticut 2022-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment waiver waiver-doctrine 1. Do the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments require a canvass of the defendant prior to a constitutionally valid waiver of the fundamental, pers…
22-5308 Lashawn Lewis v. New York New York 2022-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure daubert daubert-standard due-process expert-testimony frye-standard scientific-evidence Petitioner's conviction was predicated on the testimony of a so-called blood spatter expert. Defense counsel objected to the admission of this testimo…
22-5309 Saddam Daoud Samaan v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-misconduct civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus immunity ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief Question not identified.
22-5300 Michael G. Peters v. Andrew S. Hanen Fifth Circuit 2022-08-05 Dismissed IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-selection public-trial Question not identified.
22-5302 Michael G. Peters v. Actual Innocent Clinic Fifth Circuit 2022-08-05 Dismissed IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech public-access standing Question not identified.
22-5282 Cory Mingo v. Florida Florida 2022-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 6th-amendment cell-site-location-information criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance probable-cause search-and-seizure sixth-amendment warrantless-search Question One: Whether the Petitioner was deprived of the effective counsel where counsel failed to file a motion to suppress cell site location inform…
22-5285 Alifonso Eduardo Garcia v. Kansas Kansas 2022-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP autopsy-evidence criminal-procedure due-process jury-questionnaire jury-selection lesser-included-offense presumed-prejudice skilling-factors standard-of-review venue venue-prejudice 1. Whether the Kansas Supreme Court's presumed prejudice standard of review is in contrary to Skilling v. United States, 561 U.S. 358, 130 S.Ct. 2896,…
22-5267 John Everette Murray, III v. Florida Florida 2022-08-03 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion post-conviction-relief remand rule-3.850 state-courts 1. Will the United States Supreme Court allow the State courts to abuse their discretion by denying a rule 3.850 motion determined to be facially defi…
22-5273 Bradley Beauchamp v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule illegal-traffic-stop reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure sentencing-enhancement suppression-of-evidence traffic-stop venue-violation 1. Whether the District Court caused reversible error by not suppressing evidence obtained by an illegal traffic stop where the officer lacked articul…
22-5248 Douglas A. Hoglan v. Virginia Virginia 2022-08-02 Denied IFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process extrinsic-fraud fifth-amendment miranda-rights plea-agreement plea-bargain procedural-safeguards right-to-counsel right-to-due-process Did the extrinsic fraud which deprived Hooper of knowing of the existence of, and effectively having access to, the recordings of his police interroga…
22-5252 Carlos Fleitas v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-procedure non-expert-testimony sentence-enhancement sentencing-enhancement writ-of-certiorari When a defendant's sentence is enhanced based a non-experts testimony should a higher standard, apart from that permitted by Fed. R. Evid. 1101(d)(3) …
22-5263 Jesse Brown v. Eric Armel, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2022-08-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review counsel-performance criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion procedural-default standard-of-review I. WhetherWAs the Courtof Appeal's decision that Petitioner's trial Counsel told the jury degree of murder was Suficient, is the Petitioner entitled t…
22-5264 Cody Gober v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP concurrent-sentence constitutional-scrutiny criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-sentence post-conviction-relief sentencing sixth-circuit state-sentence Whether the due process rights of the Petitioner were violated by the failure of the trial court to address, first at sentencing and then in a post-se…
22-5265 Preston Hester, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines advisory-range criminal-procedure district-court due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines SORNA SORNA-tier tier-level Whether the district court's failure to determine Mr. Hester's correct SORNA tier level in calculating the correct advisory Guideline sentencing range…
22-5269 Juan M. Cuellar v. Illinois Illinois 2022-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus lesser-offense newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction sentencing Whether a Retnal ZT ano core Clain Apples bo fesser ob gale? he mcd es Se fhay one Can be Ae Fall va IeCenJd- RL Ps Segre e Murder Sach thal he- "ys G…
22-5234 Victor Manuel Duarte-Munoz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-jurisdiction constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-5235 Louis McIntosh v. United States Second Circuit 2022-08-01 GVR IFP §924(c) criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction forfeiture hobbs-act interstate-commerce rule-32.2 sentencing 1. Whether petitioner's §924(c) conviction based on an attempted Hobbs Act robbery should be vacated in light of United States v. Taylor? 2. Whether …
22-5241 Silvino Vasquez-Jacinto v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-jurisdiction constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-5243 Grover D. Cannon v. Louisiana Louisiana 2022-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP actus-reus constitutional-law criminal-procedure defense-counsel mccoy-v-louisiana mens-rea right-to-autonomy self-defense sixth-amendment Did Louisiana's courts violate Grover D. Cannon's Sixth Amendment rights recognized in McCoy by allowing Mr. Cannon's defense counsel over Mr. Cannon'…
22-5244 Charles M. Torrence v. Hazel Peterson, Warden Tenth Circuit 2022-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-right criminal-procedure critical-stage due-process legal-representation mental-competency right-to-counsel sixth-amendment statewide-importance Whether it is of statewide, and even nationwide importance, ONE: for the United States Supreme Court to declare definitively whether a mental compete…
22-5247 Luckens Petit v. Florida Florida 2022-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP bond-hearing confrontation-clause constitutional-rights crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process evidence florida-arthur-bond-hearing sixth-amendment I. WHETHER THE FLORIDA ARTHURVBOND HEARING SATISFIES THE SIXTH AMENDMENT 'S CONFRONTATION CLAUSE REQUIREMENT AS EXPLAINED IN CRAWFORD V. WASHINGTON, 5…
22-5232 Jesus Javier Cruz-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-presumption reasonableness-standard rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether the Court should clarify how a defendant who challenges the substantive reasonableness of a within-Guidelines sentence may rebut an appellate …
22-5212 Jonita Desirrae Brown v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review booker-standard criminal-procedure fifth-circuit plain-error plain-unreasonableness reasonableness sentencing supervised-release Whether appellate review of a sentence imposed after the revocation of a defendant's supervised-release term is for reasonableness, as United States v…
22-5214 Martin Rios-Galicia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-analysis criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent precedent-overturning recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether the Court should overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998).
22-5216 Ray Salazar v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-07-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigation mental-competency sixth-amendment 1. The question is: Did al Counsel ably Commabonal chan Assistance of Counsel Undertee SAM Htodeiont in tveir Guraveess of SelaZavs Mortal Heal isues …
22-5219 Kim Lee Millbrook v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment ineffective-assistance newly-discovered-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct standing takings Whether petitioner has a jurisdictional and standing to challenge 18 U.S.C. § 922 and 924, 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2), and 18 U.S.C. § 30 as an infringeme…
22-5194 Maxo Jean v. United States Second Circuit 2022-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 appeals appellate-procedure criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jurisdiction motion-to-vacate timeliness timely-filing WHETHER THE APPEALS COURT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION BY DIS MISSING PETITIONER'S "NOTICE OF APPEAL" FROM THE DENIAL OF A MOTION TO VACATE, FILED PURSUANT …
22-5202 In Re Tavon Dameon Davis 2022-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct mandamus prosecutorial-misconduct witness-tampering Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing the court of appeals (Fourth Circuit) to remand this case to the district court without delay to hol…
22-5206 Shain Duka v. United States Third Circuit 2022-07-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 924(c) actual-innocence circuit-court-review concurrent-sentence-doctrine criminal-conviction criminal-procedure invalid-conviction judicial-procedure jury-instruction sentencing-error statutory-interpretation Whether the Third Circuit Erred in Utilizing the Concurrent Sentence Doctrine to Uphold a Concededly Invalid 924(c) Conviction.
22-77 David Brown v. Louisiana Louisiana 2022-07-27 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (7) brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence favorable-evidence material-evidence materiality-standard third-party-confession Where a defendant denies participating in a particular criminal act, is another person's confession stating that he and someone else committed the act…
22-81 Nathaniel Lambert v. Louisiana Louisiana 2022-07-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process griffith-standard jury-unanimity prejudice rehabilitation sentencing-delay 1. Respondent and Louisiana courts delayed eighteen years before sentencing petitioner on two criminal convictions. It is undisputed this delay preven…
22-5188 Jamshid Muhtorov v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP barker-test barker-v-wingo constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence judicial-balancing sixth-amendment speedy-trial I. Whether the judge-made and ahistorical balancing test for assessing a deprivation of the Sixth Amendment's right to a speedy trial set out in Barke…
22-5190 Rafael Cortez-Oropeza v. United States First Circuit 2022-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP admissibility-of-evidence atf bureau-of-alcohol-tobacco-and-firearms criminal-procedure evidence expert-testimony firearms interstate-commerce judicial-discretion legal-standard 1. Should certiorari be granted where the district court itself called this case a "close" situation when an unqualified Special Agent with the Bureau…
22-5168 Rodney Mesquias v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-error jurisdiction legal-standard sentencing standard-of-review Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming Mesquias' convictions and sentences.
22-5174 Lester Waters, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process exclusionary-rule miranda-rights self-incrimination substance-influence voluntary-waiver * unw rnmn i fqtfr WATFRS IR WAIVE HIS RIGHTS "KNOWINGLY AND INTELLIGENTLY" WHILE UNDER THF°TNFUIENCEE OFEA SUBSTANCE "ALCOHOL" ? PER BERGHUIS V. THO…
22-5177 William Eugene Moon v. Tennessee Tennessee 2022-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus right-to-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial statute-of-limitations trial-delay Was the Defendant denied a speedy trial?
22-5153 Ramon A. Boyce v. Ohio Ohio 2022-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-authentication prejudice pro-se-defendant self-representation trial-court trial-court-discretion 1.) Has a criminal Defendant's constitutional right to self-representation been violated by a trial court, if that court unreasonably delays the Defen…
22-5154 Myron Baker v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-record criminal-procedure district-court evidence evidence-admission federal-prosecution record-of-court search-and-seizure search-warrant state-search-warrant structural-error As Courts of the United States are Courts of Record, is it structural error for the federal Prosecution to rely upon a state search warrant for the ad…
22-5155 In Re Donald Williams 2022-07-22 Denied IFP cage-v-louisiana cause-and-prejudice constitutional-review criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan out-of-time-appeal writ-of-appeal 1) Whether the facts of Cockeiham and Petitioner Williams are exactly the same for purpose of out of time appeal and application of Cage to their conv…
22-5158 Bernard J. Battle v. United States District of Columbia 2022-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance legal-nullity plea-bargaining procedural-default sentencing state-law statutory-interpretation When guilty plea is entered without the defendant being informed of the consequences, the judgment of conviction is a nullity.
22-5160 Robert V. Wonsch v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2022-07-22 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-supremacy sixth-amendment speedy-trial state-constitutional-law 1. May any State or Territory create, enact or enforce 2 any penal statute or constitutional provision in CONTUMACY of the Sixth Amendment right to a …
22-5161 Antonio M. Taylor v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 criminal-procedure district-court-discretion extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-circumstances retroactivity sentence-reduction sentencing-law statutory-interpretation Whether a district court may consider nonretroactive changes in sentencing law in determining whether a defendant has shown "extraordinary and compell…
22-5165 Daniel Boos v. Jermaine White, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cumulative-error cumulative-prejudice due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment trial-counsel trial-errors Question not identified.
22-5147 Ortavious Devon Wilson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres-v-united-states certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure jury-trial mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentencing prison-releasee-reoffender sixth-amendment 1. Whether the Petitioner's sentence violated his Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial when the trial court imposed a minimum mandatory sentence of l…
22-5149 Rajesh Ramcharan v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process immigration immigration-fraud marriage-fraud racial-prejudice rosales-loper voir-dire Rajesh Ramcharan is Black. He was charged with immigration and marriage fraud related offenses. Both immigration and marriage are issues with long his…
22-5150 Julio Cesar Gomez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-07-21 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process entrapment entrapment-defense evidence-admissibility fair-trial inadmissible-evidence judicial-discretion preemptive-rebuttal The Second, Seventh, Eighth, Eleventh, and D.C. Circuits require that before the government may introduce otherwise inadmissible evidence to rebut a c…
22-5151 James Tyrell Drane v. Michigan Michigan 2022-07-21 Denied IFP 14th-amendment constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment retroactive-law statute-of-limitations THE U.S. SUPREME COURT HAS HELD.THAT A STATE LAW'S REVIVAL OF AN EXPIRED LIMITATION PERIOD UNDER ITS STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS VIOLATES THE EX POST FACT…
22-5128 My Loan Nguyen v. Michael Pallares, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment fundamental-rights miranda-rights ninth-circuit police-interrogation police-questioning The sole question raised by this Petition for Certiorari is whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals violated petitioner's fundamental rights by rul…
22-5131 Terry Gillard v. California California 2022-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment witness-impeachment Whether the California court's refusal to allow a witness to be impeached with his federal bank robbery conviction violated petitioner's clearly estab…
22-5135 Joshua Jay Schroeder v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure federal-rules plea-agreement right-to-appeal sentencing Does a defendant retain the right to appeal a sentence if, after imposition of the sentence, the district court advises the defendant of the right to …
22-5137 Clifford Raymond Salas v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process factual-errors plain-error prosecutorial-argument sentencing sentencing-variance tenth-circuit-review Did the Tenth Circuit wrongly hold that the district court did not plainly err, where (a) the prosecutor argued that a factually untrue reason support…
22-5138 Arthur Frank Cardenas v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process firearm-possession habeas-corpus knowledge-element ninth-circuit rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states right-to-counsel sentencing In light of this Court's decision in Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (2019) must show that the defendant knew he possessed the firearm and als…
22-5139 Carol Johnene Morris v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 2nd-amendment armed-career-criminal-act civil-rights criminal-history criminal-procedure double-jeopardy drug-possession due-process felony-enhancement prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-guidelines Question not identified.
22-49 Efrain Lora v. United States Second Circuit 2022-07-19 Judgment Issued Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-split concurrent-sentences consecutive-sentences criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law mandatory-minimums sentencing sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(D)(ii), which provides that "no term of imprisonment imposed … under this subsection shall run concurrently with any oth…
22-5116 Michael Dewayne Vickers v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP acca actual-reliance armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure habeas-corpus johnson-standard johnson-v-united-states jurisdictional-requirement second-or-successive-motion sentencing sentencing-reliance After this Court struck down the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual cause in 2015, the Fifth Circuit granted Mr. Vickers permission to file a "secon…
22-5119 Christopher Paul Hasson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-07-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-law criminal-defendant criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process facial-challenge statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness Whether, to prevail on a facial void-for-vagueness challenge, a criminal defendant must show that the statute under which he is prosecuted is vague as…
22-5067 Benjamin M. Withrow v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2022-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP connection-between-causes connection-severed criminal-procedure initial-confinement judicial-discretion multiple-cases sentencing-credit separate-charges wisconsin-law 1. Whether Petitioner is entitled to sentencing credit on multiple cases when there is a connection — not between the offenses but between the causes …
22-5110 Onterio Dimitri Brown v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2022-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence jackson-v-virginia standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence supreme-court-precedent PLULE 2201 ve stole grsnneis le Culeye Cnlulaeal_uaulans my Question Two? Hes the Supreme Cour) overturned Jackson —v. Vitginim 443 U.§ O7 G) 1 Ed ad…
22-5112 Roberto Hernandez-Aldama v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-standard fifth-amendment judicial-interpretation methamphetamine sentencing Whether the court of appeals violated the defendant's Fifth Amendment right to due process where the government presented evidence regarding just one …
22-5115 Michael Kennedy v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-15 Denied IFP consent constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-consent due-process fourteenth-amendment right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel 1. Does the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments require that before a trial counsel can conceded defendant's guilt, trial counsel must first consult with …
22-44 Westley Devone Harris v. Alabama Alabama 2022-07-15 Denied criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury juror-misconduct jury-selection sixth-amendment voir-dire 1. Whether a criminal defendant is deprived of his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to an impartial jury when a jury member gives dishonest and i…
22-5104 Nakia Adams v. United States Third Circuit 2022-07-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession indictment speedy-trial third-circuit 1. Did the Third Circuit error by not dismissing Mr. Adams' indictment on speedy trial ground and/or the Government's failure to prove that he is a fe…
22-5105 Tanner Lance King v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness within-guidelines-sentence How does a court of appeals determine whether a defendant has rebutted the presumption of reasonableness when the defendant is challenging on appeal t…
22-5106 Kalvin Lamar Washington v. Michigan Michigan 2022-07-14 Denied IFP acquittal court-forms criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus indigent-petitioner jury-trial state-prosecution statutory-provisions Question not identified.
22-5107 Marcus Dwayne Pemberton v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-07-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appeal-waivers brady-standard brady-v-united-states circuit-split criminal-procedure miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement plea-agreements sentencing-guideline sentencing-guidelines SHOULD STANDARDS OTHER THAN THE KNOWING AND VOLUNTARY WAIVER STANDARD OF BRADY V. UNITED STATES GOVERN THE ENFORCEMENT OF APPEAL WAIVERS IN PLEA AGREE…
22-5082 Brian Gonzales v. California California 2022-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions reasonable-doubt winship Does the failure to instruct juries in criminal trials that the prosecution must prove each element of the charged crime beyond a reasonable doubt vio…
22-5083 William Wellington Hooper, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial fourth-amendment search-and-seizure sentencing 1. Were Mr. Hooper's cell phones seized in violation of his Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable search and seizure? 2. Did the District Court…
22-5084 Luciano Felipe-Pascual v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-precedent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial legal-challenge recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-5089 Mike Webb v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia Fourth Circuit 2022-07-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-appellate-procedure federal-courts federal-jurisdiction freedom-of-access-to-clinic-entrances grand-jury-investigation mandamus pro-se-litigation standing writ-of-mandamus "Globally, as of 6:19pm CEST, 6 July 2022, there have been 548,990,094 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,341,637 deaths, reported to WHO", Staf…
22-5091 Tyre Bradbury v. Indiana Indiana 2022-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP all-or-nothing-strategy criminal-defense criminal-procedure defendant-consultation ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-strategy lesser-included-offenses performance-deficiency strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-strategy Is the decision not to tender available lesser included offense instructions in order to instead pursue an "all or nothing " strategy an "important de…
22-5094 Garfield D. Campbell v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidence fourth-circuit marijuana-use reversible-error sentencing supervised-release WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY DENYING MR. CAMPBELL'S MERITORIOUS ARGUMENT THAT THE DISTRICT COURT COMMITTED REVERSIBLE ERROR BY…
22-5100 Joshua Eric Townley v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-07-13 Denied IFP burks-v-united-states constitutional-claim criminal-procedure double-jeopardy federal-prosecution insufficient-evidence reinstatement-of-convictions state-prosecution supreme-court-precedent trial-court-reversal 1. Is there a constitutional claim of double jeopardy, reinstatement of convictions after acquittal, when a Federal or State trial court rescinds its …
22-5102 Nathaniel Louis Daniels v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-07-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 6th-amendment armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure judge judicial-discretion jury jury-determination sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether the Sixth Amendment requires that a jury, rather than a judge, resolve whether prior crimes were "committed on occasions different from one an…
22-5072 Basil Bey v. United States Third Circuit 2022-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence-rule-701 evidentiary-standards federal-rules-of-evidence law-enforcement-testimony opinion-evidence uniform-standards witness-testimony 1. Whether this Court should set limits on what law enforcement testimony should be admitted as opinion evidence under Federal Rule of Evidence 701.
22-5074 Kurtis D. Worley v. Illinois Illinois 2022-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance plea-negotiations post-conviction-relief seizure settlements 1. Whether Petitioners lost Conviction Petition 2. Whether Trial Counsel Rendered Ineffective Assistance of Counsel lhere he falled to advance the Ar…
22-5059 Rodolfo Oliva-Santos v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation Supreme-Court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-5050 Johnny M. Ruffin v. David Mitchell Seventh Circuit 2022-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP admissibility brady-materiality brady-v-maryland circuit-conflict circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression impeachment-evidence materiality suppressed-evidence The Seventh Circuit's Opinion has stretched The United States Supreme Court's Opinion in Brady v. Maryland beyond.its logical bounds when compared wit…
22-5052 Fox Joseph Salerno v. Arizona Arizona 2022-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment apprendi-rule constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury incorporation precedent subject-matter-jurisdiction I. Should the U.S. Constitutional Fifth Amend requiring indictments be applied to the States, thereby overturning precedence from 1884; Hurtado v. C…
22-5053 Jesus Perez-Solis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
22-5055 Amin Wadley, aka Jamil Abdul Amin White v. United States Third Circuit 2022-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial-procedure evidence-rules evidentiary-standards federal-rules-of-evidence law-enforcement law-enforcement-testimony lay-witness lay-witness-testimony opinion-evidence opinion-testimony 1. Whether this Court should set limits on what law enforcement testimony should be admitted as opinion evidence under Federal Rule of Evidence 701.
22-5046 James R. Butler v. Florida Florida 2022-07-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process foreign-witness oath oath-validity witness-testimony QUESTION A: Is the oath of the State's witness invalid in a criminal proceeding when that witness testifying from a foreign country by video-satellite…
22-5047 Jermaine Blackwell v. Jeff Nines, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-07-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargain plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sentencing trial-counsel trial-strategy 1. Did the lower .Court error in Not finding that the Petitioner Trial Counsel committed ineffective assistance of Counsel when trial counsel misadv…
22-5037 Stephen Todd Booker v. Florida Florida 2022-07-06 Denied IFP banks-v-dretke brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland constitutional-due-process criminal-procedure disclosure due-diligence due-process exculpatory-evidence government-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct May courts impose a due diligence requirement for Brady claims that focuses on the actions of the defense rather than the government, effectively limi…
22-5040 Priscilla Ann Ellis v. United States District Court for the District of Columbia District of Columbia 2022-07-06 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP article-iii constitutional-rights criminal-charges criminal-procedure due-process extradition indictment right-to-counsel sixth-amendment 1. Does a criminal defendant have the right to an Attorney Immediaetely once criminal charges are presented in an Indicment? 2. If criminal defendan…
22-5023 Sam Jones, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit judicial-discretion less-culpable-defendant mandatory-minimum sentencing-entrapment supervisory-jurisdiction Whether in the exercise of its supervisory jurisdiction over the United States Courts, this Court should correct the correctable injustice, and violat…
22-5024 Jerod Rodriguez v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure guilty-verdict ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-v-cockrell mistrial postconviction-relief prejudice-prong reasonable-jurists sixth-amendment strickland-standard 1. Whether the prejudice prong set forth in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), is established if a petitioner/defendant can demonstrate th…
22-5027 Justin D. Bennett v. Texas Texas 2022-07-05 Denied IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-protections constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process jackson-v-virginia out-of-court-statements sufficiency-of-evidence 1. Wheather the due process standard recognized in Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307 (1979) constitutionally protects an accused against out-of-cour…
22-5028 Damien Dre Gonzales v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP adam-walsh-act appeals commerce-clause criminal-procedure district-court federal-kidnapping federal-sentencing guidelines-error harmless-error sentencing-guidelines IL Is a district court's Guidelines error always harmless when the court states that it would have imposed the same sentence regardless of the Guideli…
22-5029 Christopher Michael Fairley v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review court-ruling criminal-procedure due-process error-preservation judicial-discretion legal-objection preservation-of-error standard-of-review Whether parties to a criminal proceeding sufficiently preserve error by informing the court —when the court ruling or order is made or sought —of the …
22-5030 Paul John Denham v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2022-07-05 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-protections due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus judicial-bias post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct Where a Criminal defendant has a postconviction habeas petition alleging the district attorney's office engaged in Brady/Napve multiple intentional vi…
22-5016 Christopher Lee Bryant v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP corroboration criminal-procedure fourth-amendment police-investigation probable-cause recently-arrested-person search-and-seizure warrant warrant-requirement Does the Fourth Amendment require police officers to corroborate information obtained from a recently arrested person, whom officers did not know unti…
22-5017 Travaris Devon Bishop v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-USC-3553(a) criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum substantive-reasonableness Whether the district court ordered a substantively unreasonable statutory maximum sentence of 120 months in prison, when the Guidelines range was only…
22-5018 Michael Allen Long v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver appellate-review criminal-procedure fifth-circuit jurisdiction plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-error standard-of-review waiver Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by finding that Mr. Long's appeal should be dismissed based on the waiver of appeal provision in his Plea Agreement.
22-5019 Amber Renee Guyger v. Texas Texas 2022-07-01 Denied IFP constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process jackson-v-virginia legal-sufficiency mistake-of-fact self-defense 1. Under the legal sufficiency standard of Jackson v. Virginia, does a court violate due process by concluding that self-defense and mistake-of-fact a…
22-5004 Eduardo Pena-Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-5005 Gerardo Olvera-Vitela v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent overrule sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-5006 David Cadena v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum upward-variance 1. Did the district court impose a substantively unreasonable sentence when it varied upward from the advisory sentencing range to the statutory maxim…
22-5007 Lann Tjuan Clanton, aka Tjuan v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver criminal-procedure federal-sting federal-sting-operation fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement I. WHETHER, AFTER WINNING THE RIGHT TO FILE A BELATED APPEAL DUE TO COUNSEL'S INEFFECTIVENESS FOR FAILING TO FILE A NOTICE OF APPEAL, THE FOURTH CIRCU…
21-8263 John Matthias Watson, III v. Nevada Nevada 2022-06-29 Denied IFP capital-murder criminal-procedure defendant-autonomy mccoy-precedent mccoy-v-louisana right-to-autonomy sixth-amendment trial-counsel unauthorized-concession Is it a concession of guilt by trial counsel which violated Mr. Watson's longstanding right to autonomy and the Sixth Amendment holding of McCoy v. Lo…
21-8265 Michael S. Gorbey v. United States District of Columbia 2022-06-29 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appellate-review appointment-of-counsel compassionate-release constitutional-rights covid-19 criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
21-8268 Roger Acosta v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution indictment indictment-defect mens-rea rehaif-standard structural-error Petitioners were each convicted of possessing a firearm as a prohibited person. After their convictions became final, this Court held in Rehaif v. Uni…
21-8269 James Paris Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines advisory-range criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness upward-variance 1. Did the district court impose a substantively unreasonable sentence when it varied upward from the advisory sentencing range?
21-8271 Raul Garcia-Salazar v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
21-8273 Jesus Fernando Fierro-Renteria v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
21-8274 Melvin Martinez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP covid-19 criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error plain-error-review plea-bargaining plea-hearing virtual-proceedings In light of the reduced reliability of virtual procedures employed during the pre-vaccine period of the COVID-19 pandemic, was the "reasonable probabi…
21-8276 Isidoro Reyes-Lopez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
21-8277 Matthew Michael Cimino v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court of appeals to reweigh the sentencing factors?
21-8281 Jose Carreon-Gonzalez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
21-8285 Darryll Justin Lee Reed v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-06-29 Denied IFP criminal-procedure indian-law judicial-precedent jurisdiction mcgirt-rule procedural-law retroactive-application retroactivity statutory-interpretation substantive-law tribal-sovereignty 1.) Is McGirt a Substantive or Procedural rule? 2.) Should McGirt be applied retroactively?
21-8287 Michael D. Phillips v. Florida Florida 2022-06-29 Denied IFP burglary civil-rights criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency jury-instructions prosecutorial-burden reasonable-doubt sentencing Did the prosecutor ever prove all prongs and elements of the crime being charged in a second degree murder? Did the prosecutor ever prove that the al…
21-8240 Clayton Jones v. South Carolina Fourth Circuit 2022-06-28 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction speedy-trial standing Question not identified.
21-8248 Lorenzo Newborn, Karl Darnell Holmes, and Herbert McClain v. California California 2022-06-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appointed-counsel court-appointment criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process in-forma-pauperis indigent-defendant indigent-status right-to-counsel supreme-court-rule writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
21-8250 Deandre McIntosh v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP buyer-seller buyer-seller-rule criminal-intent criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy due-process government-burden-of-proof knowledge knowledge-requirement stake sufficiency-of-evidence Whether a defendant can be convicted of drug conspiracy when he was no more than a buyer seller and the government failed to establish he had knowledg…
21-1601 Areli Carbajal Escobar v. Texas Texas 2022-06-28 GVR Amici (3)Relisted (7) capital-murder criminal-procedure death-penalty dna-evidence due-process false-evidence federal-court habeas-corpus state-court Did the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals err in holding that the prosecution's reliance on admittedly false DNA evidence to secure petitioner's convict…
21-8234 Bithomas Ceasar, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bureau-of-prisons commitment competency competency-hearing criminal-procedure district-court judicial-authority mental-health-commitment restoration statutory-interpretation Whether a district court lacks authority to order additional competency-restoration commitment under 18 U.S.C. § 4241(d)(2) once the director of a Bur…
21-8236 Edward Toliver v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appeal-waivers circuit-split criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fairness-doctrine plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines Are plea agreement appeal waivers that forfeit a criminal defendant's right to challenge errors in the district court's interpretation and application…
21-8238 James Seeley v. United States Second Circuit 2022-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2252a constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment proportionality sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-authority statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
21-8227 Jose Fernando Ochoa-Fabian v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-8228 Angel Daniel Caraballo v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency-hearing criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standards habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health sworn-testimony Question (1) WHETHER DEFENDANT IS ENTITLED TO A COMPETENCY HEARING WHERE THE FACE OF THE COURT RECORD REFLECTS THAT THE STATE, DEFENSE COUNSEL AND THE…
21-8231 Fidel Torres-Villanueva v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
21-8206 Noble Laverne Bennett v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing sentencing-review I. WHETHER IT WAS ERROR FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT TO DENY BENNETT'S APPEAL WITHOUT AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE HEARD? II. WHETHER IT WAS ERROR FOR THE LOWER CO…
21-8208 Homer Jones v. Luke Pettigrew, Warden Tenth Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus interstate-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity sovereign-nation treaty Is a treaty between Sovereign Nations over an individual States Laws ? Does the United States have jurisdiction over a Sovereign Nation it is NOT at …
21-8210 Ralph William Lee, III v. Maryland Maryland 2022-06-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights confidential-documents constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment right-to-counsel unreasonable-seizure waiver warrantless-search \o^€r Cc^r-V violate f^ixU clM Ap$d\c^A4 o^iisVh^ion^\ rUjh% U| ^ccA'incj +<7 tAiwrc 4KaA He ftnou/.A^Wj cuuk voWA^'A^ uxuued. hi-b C .5K4 4t? C-oan^…
21-8211 Richard Vincent Letizia v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied IFP burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process extradition federal-appeals habeas-corpus identity-dispute 1) In the State of Texas, County exhumed without first necessary third judicial to confirm hundreds Identity? Proved by his SWAT testimony and Sworn …
21-8212 Anthony N. Ott v. New York New York 2022-06-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-appeal criminal-procedure door-opening double-jeopardy due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel new-york-law vindictive-sentencing vindictiveness I. Whether the New York Courts erred when they failed to adhere to Hemphill v. New York and its progeny regarding the proper standard for door-opening…
21-8213 James York v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion administrative-remedies asthma compassionate-release covid-19 criminal-procedure discretionary-review federal-corrections sentencing-factors Whether the District Court Abused its Discretion by Denying Mr. York's Motion for Compassionate Release?
21-8214 Miguel Andres-Tomas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP Apprendi-v-New-Jersey constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial precedent-review recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-8215 Nathaniel Ausbie v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process government-theory jury-instructions legal-review sufficiency-of-evidence When a defendant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence for his conviction, may a court of appeals affirm based on a theory different from the one…
21-8216 Roy Lee Dykes v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-instructions sentencing 1. Did the Fourth Circuit err in affirming the District Court's abuse of its discretion in admitting evidence of weapons found in Mr. Dykes' residence…
21-8219 Dante Danil Carter v. California California 2022-06-23 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-procedure doyle-v-ohio due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment miranda miranda-rights post-miranda-silence self-incrimination WHETHER THE CALIFORNIA TRIAL COURT DEPRIVED CARTER OF HIS 5TH, 6TH OR 14TH AMENDMENTS PERMITTING THE PROSECUTION TO IMPERMISSIBLY USE HIS POST-MIRANDA…
21-8224 Arthur L. Gurbey v. United States Second Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split compelled-self-incrimination criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment minnesota-v-murphy polygraph polygraph-testing self-incrimination supervised-release Whether a condition of supervised release impermissibly compels a defendant to answer any questions posed during any examination during the period of …
21-8225 Luis Adrian Carchi-Fernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-8196 Cody Andrew Anderson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review booker-standard criminal-procedure fifth-circuit plain-error plain-unreasonable reasonableness sentencing supervised-release Whether appellate review of a sentence imposed after the revocation of a defendant's supervised-release term is for reasonableness, as United States v…
21-8197 Michael James Bosman v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP alternatives criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement-conduct police-conduct precedent probable-cause reasonableness reasonableness-standard search-and-seizure seizure Did the Tenth Circuit misapply this Court's precedent, and wrongly reject Mr. Bosman's Fourth Amendment claim, when it dismissed the availability of a…
21-8198 Ruben Cabrera Saucedo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure davis-precedent district-court-discretion double-jeopardy motion-to-vacate sentence-modification sentencing unconstitutional unconstitutional-conviction united-states-v-davis Whether, after a motion to vacate sentence is granted on a conviction that is unconstitutional under United States v. Davis, 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), a…
21-8201 Judel Espinoza-Gonzalez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-06-22 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-waiver constitutional-violation conviction-review criminal-procedure district-court-authority due-process jurisdictional-challenge mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentence sentencing unconstitutional-conviction L. A guilty plea that includes an appellate waiver does not bar jurisdictional challenges on appeal. Class v. United States, 138 S. Ct. 798 (2018). Th…
21-8203 Galina Rytsar v. Lonnie Oliver, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Cambridge Springs Third Circuit 2022-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure deportation-consequences discovery due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus impeachment-of-witnesses ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right translation Did Appellant receive ineffective assistance of counsel, in violation of her Sixth Amendment Right, beginning at the Bucks County PA Court of Common P…
21-8204 Reginald Brown v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture ineffective-counsel pro-se pro-se-representation right-to-counsel severance sixth-amendment Pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 10, a review is warranted as this case present an important question of federal law that has not been, but should be, s…
21-8188 Joe Davis, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2022-06-21 Denied IFP client-advice constitutional-rights criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-offer right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel requires counsel to advise his client whether acceptance or rejection of a pl…
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 …
21-1576 Timothy J. Smith v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-06-21 Judgment Issued Amici (5)Relisted (2) acquittal circuit-split constitutional-right criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process reprosecution retrial trial-remedy venue Whether the proper remedy for the government's failure to prove venue is an acquittal barring reprosecution of the offense, as the Fifth and Eighth Ci…
21-8171 Lamar Keith Garvin v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing defendant-characteristics due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines sentencing-range sentencing-variance I. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by affirming the District Court's imposing an unreasonable sentence under the totality of the circumstances, and w…
21-8172 Juan Manuel Contreras-Zamora v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fifth-amendment interrogation interrogation-rights legal-communication miranda-rights re-initiation right-to-counsel self-incrimination suspect-invocation waiver 1. If, during a criminal interrogation, the suspect states, "Look man, I'm going to tell you just like this; I need my lawyer," must there be some lap…
21-8173 Vincent Raymond Rios v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure drug-crimes due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel language-barrier language-rights plea-bargaining Should the Ninth Circuit have vacated Mr. Rios's guilty plea for lack of a knowing and voluntary waiver of his constitutional rights, for these reason…
21-8174 Scott Svoboda v. Ohio Ohio 2022-06-17 Denied IFP attorney-client-privilege attorney-client-relationship confiscation criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-strategy Whether a criminal defendant is denied his right to the effective assistance of counsel when the prosecutor purposely interferes with the attorney-cli…
21-8176 Marice Nalls v. Louisiana Louisiana 2022-06-17 Denied IFP aggravated-rape armed-robbery constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fair-trial prescribed-charge prescription simultaneous-trial (1) Whether Petitioner's Constitutional right to a fair trial on his charge of aggravated rape was violated when he was tried simultaneously for armed…
21-8179 Terrance Washington v. Eric Tice, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset, et al. Third Circuit 2022-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement l ^ «- > c« V PX-O *- VU- g < ^) ^ j ^!7Tr W ?*^ (^ f JLC^ It vt- on^ ^\) 2)^.* '*ft\ZAf*~ **< XoAAJ^-C^U/l^ VAA^^^VfT^T X.OOjifv1pj^0/\<5\\ o\ ^-yV…
21-8182 Reuben Conway v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-courts federal-jurisdiction indictment indictment-defect jurisdiction mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation After Petitioner Reuben Conway was charged, convicted, and sentenced for prohibited person in possession of a firearm, this Court overturned near-unan…
21-8152 Filiberto Chavez, aka Big Boy, aka Freeway Beto v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion lesser-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum Can a sentencing court use the elements of a lesser offense to increase a defendant's sentence in a different, legally unrelated, offense beyond the o…
21-8158 Larry Jose Torrez-Gutierrez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent sentencing sixth-amendment stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-8159 Danny Leon Lynch, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
21-8160 Jamie M. Coffey v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-06-16 Denied IFP 14th-amendment appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process griffith-v-kentucky judicial-precedent retroactive-application retroactivity 1. Do the State and Federal courts violate a petitioner's 14th Amendment Right to due process when they decline to apply a new rule governing a crimin…
21-8163 Benjamin Perez-Jimenez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent legal-procedure sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-8165 Darryl Keith Rolle v. Florida Florida 2022-06-16 Denied IFP 14th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection rule-of-lenity sentencing Whether this Honorable Court should grant Certiorari where Florida Statute section 775.021(1) concerning the rule of lenity is being unconstitutionall…
21-8143 Marcus Branch v. Ohio Ohio 2022-06-15 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-offense criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process parole parole-board sentencing separation-of-powers WAS THE "DOUBLE JEOPARDY ' CLAUSE VIOLATED WHEN I WAS SENTENCED THREE TIMES FOR THE EXACT SAME OFFENSE I'M HERE FOR NOW PURSUANT TO USCS CONSTITUTION,…
21-8146 Gregory Thomas v. United States Second Circuit 2022-06-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act judicial-procedure legal-standard sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation This Court should issue a GVR Order so that the lower court can determine whether it is an abuse of discretion when a court fails to follow the law by…
21-8128 Duane Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause confrontation-right criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standard mandatory-conditions revocation-hearing standard-conditions supervised-release witness-testimony Whether the district court erred by revoking Mr. Williams' supervised release status, and returning him to prison. This overall issue consists of the …
21-8131 Daniel A. Rodriguez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process newly-discovered-evidence plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief statutory-interpretation Does a silent Plea foreclose a defendant From filing a Motion for Newls Discovered Evidence. Pursuant to Rule 33. Where: a) the statute is ambigous. A…
21-8134 Jacquere Doran v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-procedure waiver Whether the District Court Erred in Ruling that Petitioner Waived an Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Claim Based on a Fourth Amendment Violation?
21-8135 Zachary Chandler v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP adversarial-testing criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-sympathy sixth-amendment sympathy-defense trial-strategy I. WHETHER COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE BECAUSE COUNSEL'S DEFENSE STRATEGY WAS TO HAVE CHANDLER WEAR PRISON ATTIRE IN ORDER TO GARNER THE JURY'S SYMPATHY? …
21-8137 David Lee Green v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure entrapment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-v-cockrell reasonable-jurists sixth-amendment strategic-decision undercover-operation 1. Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his claim that his ineffe…
21-8138 Lawrence J. Gerrans v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure first-amendment free-exercise religious-rights sixth-amendment structural-error trial-rights 1. May a district court , upon the prosecutor's demand that a defendant's Bible be removed from the courtroom during a criminal trial, constitutionall…
21-8139 Duenta Grier v. Georgia Georgia 2022-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP availability confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process government-agent minors testimonial-hearsay witness-availability Was the Confrontation Clause violated when the State presented testimonial hearsay consisting of out-of-court statements to a government agent alleged…
21-8140 Richard Chippero v. Matthew J. Platkin, Acting Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2022-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process insufficient-evidence legal-sufficiency sufficiency-of-evidence 1. Should Petitioner's convictions be vacated because the evidence was wholly insufficient to sustain his convictions?
21-1557 Dayonta McClinton v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-06-14 Denied Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (14) criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy fifth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-acquittal sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury has acquitted …
21-1562 Jermel Leon Reed v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2022-06-14 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-indictment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment A. Was Reed's right to a grand jury indictment secured by the Fourteenth and Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution was violated when Reed …
21-8125 Carlos Montano v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-06-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP boykin-standard change-of-plea-hearing constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony-conviction ninth-circuit plea-bargaining plea-hearing substance-abuse Did the Ninth Circuit's overlooking Petitioner's due process claim regarding his change-of-plea hearing conflict with Boykin and its progeny, particul…
21-8107 Keith Undray Ford v. Suzanne M. Peery, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP adjudication criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-statute habeas-corpus legal-interpretation presumption-of-innocence presumption-of-law state-court state-courts 1. When an issue before a state court is resolved by an assumption of fact, as opposed to a factual finding, has the issue before the state court been…
21-8117 Xavier Jamaal Orange v. United States District of Columbia 2022-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP counsel-error criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel molina-martinez molina-martinez-v-united-states prejudice sentencing sentencing-guidelines Due to defense counsel's deficiency, petitioner was sentenced based on an incorrect Sentencing Guidelines range (57 months, using a range of 46-57 mon…
21-8123 Terry Malone v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2022-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof controlled-substance criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment mandatory-presumption patterson-v-new-york rebuttable-presumption DID THE SUPERIOR COURT VIOLATE THE DUE PROCESS CLAUSE OF THE FOUR TEENTH AMENDMENT (in its fullest context) AND THE DICTATES OF THIS COURT IN "PATTERS…
21-8124 Kywon A. Datham v. United States District of Columbia 2022-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights compassionate-release criminal-procedure danger-to-community due-process incarcerated-persons judicial-discretion rule-35b sentence-reduction sentencing time-bar Whether District of Colombia Court of Appeals errd when it denid petitioner's Request For summary reversal? Did the Lower Courts abuse their discreti…
21-1551 Jamar E. Plunkett v. Dan Sproul Seventh Circuit 2022-06-10 Denied ambiguity contract-interpretation criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process judicial-interpretation plea-agreement rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation Whether a plea agreement that is subject to more than one reasonable interpretation must be interpreted in the defendant's favor.
21-8100 Luis Antonio Molina-Rivas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-law constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-8101 Marco Antonio Marin-Maldonado v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres certiorari constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-8102 Rodrigo Jimenez-Ramirez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres certiorari constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-8106 Jay Jurdi v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure government-misconduct ineffective-assistance jurisdictional-issue legal-standard preservation-of-error procedural-question self-incrimination sentencing statutory-provisions writ-of-certiorari Was Jurdi's counsel ineffective for failing to object to, and thereby preserve for appeal, the fact that the government intended to use a non-qualifyi…
21-8108 Daniel Gallegos-Quirino v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-8109 Eric Ray Smith v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP or whether the court of appeals should first cons ambiguity contract-interpretation cooperation-agreement criminal-procedure government-as-drafter judicial-construction plain-error-review plea-agreement statutory-interpretation Whether a reasonable ambiguity in a cooperation or plea agreement necessarily defeats a defendant's claim of breach on plain error review, or whether …
21-8086 Jeremiah F. Wooden v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2022-06-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-record guilty-plea ineffective-assistance informed-consent meritorious-defenses plea-bargaining plea-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment 1. Whether, under the Sixth Amendment, plea counsel has a duty to advise of the impact of a conviction on his client's criminal record before his clie…
21-8089 Darrell E. Gillespie v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-06-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP §924(c)-offense 924c categorical-approach civil-rights conspiracy crime-of-violence criminal-procedure davis-precedent due-process force-elements-clause pinkerton-liability The question presented is whether, after Davis, the invocation of Pinkerton theory of liability by the government, without more, obviates the governme…
21-8091 Jermaine Jackson v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2022-06-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-tampering ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure Did our Third Circoit Court oF Appeal Make a Mistake when a constitutinal rght was volated and they did not grant a C.o.A.for Prosecutr ue oia or Pant…
21-8093 Albert Aiad-Toss v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-06-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 18-USC-3553a abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure district-court-discretion procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness supervised-release Whether Mr. Aiad-Toss's lifetime supervised release term was procedurally unreasonable because the district court failed to adequately explain its dec…
21-8094 In Re Marcus O'Neal Jenkins 2022-06-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP arrest booked-on-charges civil-rights criminal-procedure custody due-process sixth-amendment speedy-trial (l) Did the action taken on April 20, 2010 at BCDC, constitute an arrest for purposes of determining whether Marcus O'Neal Jenkins ' (Jenkins ') 6th a…
21-8073 Leihinahina Sullivan, aka Jen, aka Jennifer, aka Jennifer Sullivan, aka Lei Sullivan, aka Lei v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction collateral-order-doctrine court-of-appeals criminal-procedure divestiture-rule final-judgment non-appealable-order pro-se pro-se-status sentencing-phase (1) Can a criminal defendant maintain an appeal of the revocation of her pro se status by a district court judge sua sponte during the sentencing phas…
21-8074 Juan Jesus Barrieta-Barrera v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment parole sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
21-8076 Siva K. Durbesula v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure enhanced-punishment enhanced-punishments judicial-fact-finding jury sixth-amendment special-assessment speedy-trial-act supervised-release 1) WHETHER THE SIXTH AMENDMENT REQUIRES A JURY RATHER THAN A JUDGE TO DETERMINE FACTS WHICH ARE USED TO APPLY ENHANCED PUNSIHMENTS INCLUDING THE PERIO…
21-8079 Kenyad Laquan Kelly v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process federal-sentencing gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion legal-standard sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether the District Court Erred in Applying a Different Starting Point for Defendant's Sentence than the United States Sentencing Guidelines?
21-8081 Moses Clark v. California California 2022-06-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus plea-agreement preliminary-hearing prosecutorial-misconduct 1. Review should be granted, beause the state court failed to bring the defendant before the magistrate within 48-hours after arrest, violating The Fo…
21-8072 Erik Daniel Salgado-Castellano v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres appellate-procedure case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-1531 Korry L. Ardell v. Joshua Kaul, Attorney General of Wisconsin Seventh Circuit 2022-06-07 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment free-speech habeas-corpus jury-instructions procedural-default stalking I. The jury instructions here permitted conviction for felony "stalking" based merely on the Ardell's communications with third parties about the alle…
21-8056 Earl Lee King v. Texas Texas 2022-06-06 Denied IFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process federal-law habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence procedural-impediment standing state-court-action state-created-impediment Has the action by the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas in dismissing Petitioner's State Application for a Writ of Habeas Corpus Violated Article Sec…
21-8058 Alejandro Pascual-Miguel v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review legal-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-8059 Jesus Morales-Agustin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-8063 William Lee Wright Jr. v. California California 2022-06-06 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process faretta faretta-motion judicial-discretion self-representation timeliness totality-of-the-circumstances 1. Whether, as the majority of jurisdictions hold, a request for self-representation under Faretta v. California, 422 U.S. 806 (1975), is timely if ma…
21-8064 Antonio D. Shannon v. Randall Hepp, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP counsel-obligations criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel right-to-testify sixth-amendment Given that "the accused has the ultimate authority [to decide] whether to... testify in his or her own behalf," Jones v. Barnes, 463 U.S. 745, 751 (19…
21-8067 Juan Gomez v. Scott Frauenheim, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-06-06 Denied IFP child-sexual-abuse criminal-procedure culpability due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability sixth-amendment Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of habeas corpus relief based on ineffective assistance of counsel claims.
21-8069 Billy Wayne Lewis v. Texas Texas 2022-06-06 Denied IFP 4th-amendment appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure fourth-amendment rodriguez-precedent rodriguez-v-united-states search-and-seizure supreme-court-guidance unreasonable-search I. QUESTION ONE: U.S. CONSTITUTION 1\J AMENDMENT RULE 10. Rules of the United States Supreme Court at (C); Has the Tenth Court of Appeals of the State…
21-8045 Marcellus Overton v. United States Second Circuit 2022-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation criminal-procedure exculpatory-evidence guilty-plea materiality materiality-standard plea-withdrawal reasonable-defendant rule-11 united-states-v-dominguez-benitez 1. When a defendant seeks to withdraw his or her guilty plea based upon the Government's failure to timely disclose exculpatory evidence, is the "mate…
21-8047 Santiago Esquivel v. Gary Miniard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus miranda-rights post-arrest-silence prosecutorial-conduct prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-circuit I. DID THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERR, WHEN IT FAILED TO FIND AS DEBATABLE OR WRONG THE DISTRICT COURT'S DECISION THAT THE PROSECUTOR'S REFERENCE TOI PETITIONE…
21-8052 Rene Sanchez-Quintero v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-8054 Carlos Johnson v. Dan Reddington, Warden Missouri 2022-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-rights crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process evidence-law habeas-corpus hearsay probation-revocation To guarantee fairness, should criminal defendants in probation revocation proceedings be provided under the due process clause with a more robust righ…
21-8020 Ronald Mitchell v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP §2255-motion 21-usc-841 certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure drug-abuse drug-distribution heroin-possession ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel serious-bodily-injury 1. Was trial counsel constitutionally ineffective because she failed to consult or hire an expert witness in drug abuse (rather than toxicology) to in…
21-8033 Jesus Francisco Fernandez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-06-02 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fourth-amendment good-cause plain-error plain-error-review pretrial-motions Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 12(c)(3) provides that certain pretrial motions are "untimely" if not raised by the deadline set by the district co…
21-8034 Robert Lawrence v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-procedure defendant-motion first-step-act sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Is the Eleventh Circuit's decision in United States v. Bryant, 996 f.3d 1243 (11th Cir. 2021) correct in determining that Section 1B1.13 of the United…
21-8039 George Munoz, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-06-02 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-homicide criminal-procedure different-outcome evidence-limitation ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions motion-for-new-trial prejudice reasonable-likelihood trial the coud of Apperls ened bY yeling Ha A 714| Suebse iy ro} feguied To gre A reyvass Lasheetion of He lesser atinse of cfiakal nesluet Lomicide ube An …
21-8007 In Re Michael David Hower 2022-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 aedpa criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-rules habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel massaro-v-united-states plea-withdrawal Has AEDPA created an unconstitutional barrier that has rendered the petitioners remedy under 28 U.S.C. §2255 inadequate or ineffective to test the leg…
21-8008 In Re James Martin Graham 2022-06-01 Denied IFP criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process federalism fifth-amendment habeas-corpus subject-matter-jurisdiction tenth-amendment Did the complaint/information or indictment fail to charge an ONE: offense againse the laws ofthe United States, because no jurisdiction has been ced…
21-8009 Joshua Rodney Meech v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-922a6 appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process firearm-regulation huddleston-v-united-states mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states standing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-bailey At a sporting goods store Petitioner was considering the purchase of a firearm. The store clerk asked Petitioner to identify himself and fill out the …
21-8011 David Reese v. Florida Florida 2022-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights court-records criminal-procedure due-process government-misconduct standing 1. How Can the Lower Courts Rulk AgRinst My Motions that had Filed n their Courts. ANd SAy thit My AllegAtions Is Frivolous. When the Documents that h…
21-8017 Stephen Scott Meals, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure district-court due-process exclusionary-rule federal-law fifth-circuit judicial-review motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure standing Whether the Government's warrantless review of Mr. Meals's private written communications on Facebook's Messenger application constitutes a physical i…
21-8018 Ramon Ortiz Perez v. Giselle Matteson, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis ninth-circuit search-and-seizure standing supreme-court-rules writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
21-8025 Christopher Thieme, aka John Thieme v. United States Third Circuit 2022-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3664 all-writs-act criminal-law criminal-procedure illegal legal-relief restitution restitution-order sentencing sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation writ-of-audita-querela 1.) Does 18 U.S.C. §3664(k) and (0). which allows a sentencing court to consider motions to "adjust" a restitution order without anv time limits. perm…
21-8030 Andre Marcus Buchanan v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a career-offender criminal-procedure due-process plain-error plain-error-review reasonableness sentencing WHETHER MR. BUCHANAN'S SENTENCE IS UNREASONABLE BECAUSE IT IS GREATER THAN NECESSARY TO ACCOMPLISH THE GOALS OF 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a). WHETHER PLAIN …
21-1504 Jason Wayne Carlile v. Texas Texas 2022-06-01 Denied Response Waived adversarial-testing criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment 1. May a defense attorney completely fail to subject the State's case to adversarial testing during a trial, without thereby depriving a criminal defe…
21-8000 Elijah Johnson v. California California 2022-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure general-verdict inconsistent-verdicts jury-trial reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment How does this Court's "inconsistent verdicts" jurisprudence reconcile with the Sixth Amendment jury trial guarantee: May a reviewing court uphold a ge…
21-7985 Freddie Glover v. Florida Florida 2022-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal capital-crime constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury information-charging notice opportunity-to-be-heard state-counsel subject-matter (1). Whether Glover is Due Process Rights were violated by not allowing him opportunity to Reply to State Counsel Answer Brief prior to making a rulin…
21-7986 Stephen Gosch v. Florida Florida 2022-05-27 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-disclosure fourteenth-amendment jury-instruction jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct state-court 1. Did the state court violate the petitioner's right to due process of law as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment where the prosecution failed to …
21-7987 Keith Rose v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights collateral-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review plea-agreement plea-bargaining standing 1. In Class v. United States, 138 S. Ct. 798 (2018), this Court held that a plea of guilty, without more, does not prevent an individual from having h…
21-7988 Donald Tarnawa v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure financial-factors financial-resources restitution restitution-modification sentencing sentencing-procedure standard-of-review 1. Whether the controlling standard of review for modification under 18 USCA § 3664(k) should be de novo or abuse of description. The Panel Opinion re…
21-7990 Jerry Lee Craig, Sr. v. Brent Fluke, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-05-27 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-bias standing Question not identified.
21-7991 Mario Mandell Moore v. Michigan Michigan 2022-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection identification-procedure identification-procedures police-misconduct show-up-identification show-up-identifications writ-of-certiorari WHETHER PETITIONER IS ENTITLED TO A WRIT OF CERTIORARI WHERE MICHIGAN HAS DENIED HIM DUE PROCESS, EQUAL PROTECTION AND IGNORED THE DICTATES OF THIS CO…
21-7995 Joseph Kurz v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ex-post-facto fifth-circuit fourteenth-amendment reasonable-jurists sixth-amendment (1) Whether the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana properly conclude …
21-7996 George Edward Purdy v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-05-27 Denied IFP 5th-amendment blockburger-rule criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment jurisdiction plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion venue Where identical chargee are filed for the same alleged victim in multiple counties, is it a violation of the 5th Amendment double jeopardy rule base…
21-7997 Benjamin Green Robinson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion cocaine-trafficking criminal-procedure evidence judgment-of-acquittal judicial-discretion motion-in-limine motion-to-suppress plain-error prior-conviction (1) Whether the lower courts abused their discretion in granting the Government's motion in limine to admit into evidence, Petitioner's prior State co…
21-7998 Lamar Daniel Ron Wilson v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2022-05-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP charging-instrument constitutional-violation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process felony-information indictment ineffective-counsel plea-agreement 1. Is a plea agreement, the statement of the accused, "I did it.", the sole piece of information necessary to convict? Specifically, is felony informa…
21-7976 Mark A. Hill v. Ohio Ohio 2022-05-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief pro-se right-to-counsel standing 1. Whether it is unconstitutional for a state court to make it mandatory that an indigent, pro se prisoner provide an attorney affidavit in order for…
21-7980 Perry Singo v. Tennessee Tennessee 2022-05-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-independence political-influence political-interference separation-of-powers state-constitution ARE THE ATTACKS ON THE JUDICIARY AND THE EFFORTS OF POLITICIANS TO CHANGE THE JUDICIARY SO IT WILL DO THINGS THE POLITICIANS WANT IT TO DO DENYING …
21-7981 Jeffrey Ray Sundwall v. Florida Florida 2022-05-26 Denied IFP constitutional-rights credibility criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial impartiality judicial-misconduct legal-ethics public-trust Contrary to Severener's errer, Grndaticol eer Or Harmless Preedureal Delbele can any Trdlted-wnreade be vali when browaht by Un credible Persons who a…
21-7967 Jairo Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction procedural-default retroactivity statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court-precedent unconstitutional-statute Can a defendant, by failing to directly appeal his sentence, procedurally default his claim that the court had no jurisdiction to imprison him pursuan…
21-7970 Oscar Geovanny Campos v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court guideline-range holguin-hernandez judicial-discretion sentencing-arguments sentencing-guidelines substantial-arguments Whether, after Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, __U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails t…
21-7973 In Re Roberto Villarreal 2022-05-25 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus liberty-interest marijuana-criminalization 1. Whether applicant/petitioner, denied certificate of appealabihty for habeas relief from the District Court, has no other court to go to but here. …
21-7974 Omero Rojas-Leal, aka Belarmino Lopez-Lopez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-1482 Dequantey Maurice Williams v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-05-25 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment criminal-procedure evidence fourth-amendment law-enforcement motion-to-suppress plain-view-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search Whether the United States District Court For The Middle District Of North Carolina Erred in Denying Mr. Williams 's Motion to Supress evidence related…
21-1485 In Re Eileen Vey 2022-05-25 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-venue due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct retaliation self-defense WHETHER THIS COURT SHOULD ORDER APPROPRIATE OFFICIALS TO CLEAR HER RECORD OF ALL CHARGES SINCE SHE WAS DEPRIVED OF "REASONABLE DOUBT" AND CLEAR EVIDEN…
21-7957 Samuel Morales v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-crimes elements-of-crime reasonable-doubt Whether the government fails to prove the elements of a drug conspiracy beyond a reasonable doubt when it has only circumstantial evidence and that ev…
21-7959 Salito Marques Good v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fourth-circuit johnson-precedent sentencing-maximum statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum supervised-release (1) Whether a defendant can be required to serve more than the statutory maximum sentence for his offense of conviction when a sentence for violating …
21-7960 Jesus Antonio Montoya-Balderrama v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres-precedent certiorari constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7964 Estevan Saucedo v. California California 2022-05-24 Denied IFP coerced-confession confession-admissibility constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule law-enforcement-conduct miranda-rights police-misconduct police-tactics APPellovrV's Cov^feSSiov^ Adw*:i<iUle 5\v\ce H WcxS boAed illegal po^ce "tcxc+iCS?Ur\ ^ Wouj<J £>. d>ff e^ev-rf V^vdiCrf hir-e^cloed^ ln<X(l "fRe j|…
21-7936 Jeffrey E. Akard v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2022-05-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP benefits civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing habeas-corpus incarceration retroactive-rule section-2255 special-appointment standing substantive-law Does a disabled veterar have a "personal stake, interest, or standing" on seing that his wlthheld 20% bereFit, dve to his incarcerator, recelve a 'spe…
21-7940 Jason P. Thomas v. Morris Houser, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Benner Township, et al. Third Circuit 2022-05-23 Denied IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy evidentiary-hearing fabricated-evidence ineffective-assistance jury-instruction jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing I. Whether the District Court, without holding an evidentiary hearing erred in disposing of Petitioner 's trial icounsel 's ineffectiveness surroundin…
21-7942 P'erre Jones v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment circuit-split criminal-procedure fifth-amendment polygraph polygraph-testing self-incrimination supervised-release Whether a circuit split should be resolved regarding whether a condition of supervised release requiring submission to polygraph testing violates a De…
21-7943 Anthony Gerald Wernsman v. Colorado Colorado 2022-05-23 Denied IFP colorado-courts confrontation-clause confrontation-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process harmless-error self-incrimination witness-intoxication WHETHER THE COLORADO COURTS WRONGLY CONCLUDED THAT A DENIAL OF CROSS-EXAMINATION ON WITNESSES INTOXICATION DID NOT IMPLICATE PETITIONER 'S CONFRONTATI…
21-7923 Charles K. Topping and J. W. Long, aka James Wayne Long v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process essential-element fraud-scheme jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct theory-of-defense 1. Where the district court's instructions to the jury in a crim inal case provide—as part of the theory of defense instruction—an explana tion of an …
21-7933 John Armstrong, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-05-20 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP case-determination civil-rights criminal-adjudication criminal-procedure due-process legal-interpretation recidivism-calculation sentencing sentencing-containment statutory-interpretation supreme-court violent-offense Question not identified.
21-1465 Austin Channing McGraw v. Kentucky Kentucky 2022-05-20 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment self-incrimination warrantless-search Whether the government can advise a jury that a Defendant invoked his right against self-incrimination, and refused a consensual, warrantless search o…
21-1464 Emond S. Gulley v. Kansas Kansas 2022-05-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama sentencing-discretion term-of-years-sentence In Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460 (2012), the Court held that the Eighth Amendment bars the mandatory imposition of life in prison without parole for…
21-7908 Jose Mejia v. New York New York 2022-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactive-application retroactivity sixth-amendment On October 25, 2021, N.Y. Crim. Proc. § 440.10(2)(b) and (c) were amended to remove the procedural bar precluding a defendant from raising a collatera…
21-7913 William Earl Sweet v. Florida Florida 2022-05-19 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection faretta-standard fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus harmless-error self-representation timeliness 1. Whether the Petitioner's right to self-representation was violated when the trial court denied the Petitioner's request to proceed pro se and the F…
21-7915 Amado Rodriguez-Navarrete v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit precedent-review recidivism sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7918 Jaime Gonzalo Castiblanco Cabalcante v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit harmless-error jury-deliberations jury-instructions knowledge-element 1. In Connecticut v. Johnson , 460 U.S. 73, 88 (1983) (plurality opinion), the court held that instructions 1"permitt[ing] the jury to convict [a def…
21-7922 Jason Michael Ehret v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus judicial-bias rule-11 standing structural-error uncounseled-counsel void-conviction Does an uncounseled guilty plea — where defense counsel was suspended and thus "ineligible to practice in federal court" at that time -- constitute a …
21-7932 Sameer Muhammad v. Florida Florida 2022-05-19 Denied IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process florida-constitution judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction mandate trial-court-authority WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT WAS WITHOUT JURISDICTION TO ENTER AN ORDER REINSTATING THE PREVIOUS ORDER VACATING OFFENSE UNDER DOUBLE JEOPARDY PRINCIPLE …
21-7897 Barry Slakman v. Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-05-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto parole sentencing standing statutory-interpretation takings interpretation and application of an ex post facto violation within the context of parole eligibility statutes, such as in initial parole eligibility,…
21-7899 Francis Paul Sicola v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-05-18 Denied IFP criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure Question not identified.
21-7904 Vladimir Duarte v. New York New York 2022-05-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process faretta-standard faretta-v-california self-representation sincerity sixth-amendment unequivocal-request waiver-of-counsel When a defendant makes an "unequivocal" request for self-representation, the court must, under Faretta v. California, 422 U.S. 806, 835-836 (1975), pe…
21-7905 Marc Anthony Sanders v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-05-18 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure ex-post-facto jurisdictional-conflict non-retroactivity oklahoma-court state-court-decisions subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court tenth-circuit I. UkdrKw ^iako^aCcartoftrUUal Appeals useof a mud W-rdr 0CLCik^ kfiUnus -Sub^ecf^affar jafisdhftoa dal mis UvalfJ &£ d-A Lx tost Facto Mklatka © P …
21-7910 Kendrick Dwight Marshall v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
21-7891 William Ramirez-Frechel v. United States First Circuit 2022-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-review sentencing Whether The Sentence Imposed is Unreasonable.
21-7895 Antoine Mayes v. United States Second Circuit 2022-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-court criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis I. WHETHER IT WAS ERROR FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT TO DENY MAYES THE RIGHT TO FILE AN APPEAL OR COAIN LIGHT OF THE SUPREME COURT 'S DECISION IN UNITED STA…
21-7898 Emilio Evalio Arenas v. Nevada Nevada 2022-05-17 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process free-speech mistrial prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct standing (1) After the Supreme Court of Nevada reversed the did the Court Order remanding the petitioner new Amendments Fire, Six, and Fourteen? (2) Did the S…
21-1452 Matthew David Cwik v. Georgia Georgia 2022-05-17 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial military-testimony military-uniform victim-testimony witness-appearance Were Petitioner's due process and fair trial rights violated when the victim was allowed to testify in a military uniform?
21-7876 Matthew Alexander, III v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-05-16 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure motion-to-suppress plain-error suppression-motion waiver When a defendant files a motion to suppress, then raises a new argument to support suppression in the court of appeals, is the new argument waived abs…
21-7884 Juan Carlos Rodriguez-Garcia v. Eddie M. Buffaloe, Jr., Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety, et al. North Carolina 2022-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction standing state-court state-jurisdiction 1. Is it lawful for the State of North Carolina to hold the herein Petitioner under unconstitutional confinement under the Court's unexplained refusal…
21-7854 Michael G. Peters v. David Hittner, Judge Fifth Circuit 2022-05-13 Dismissed IFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination hearsay sixth-amendment unavailability Question not identified.
21-7856 William Garrido v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-05-13 Denied IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process prosecutorial-conduct prosecutorial-misconduct read-back-testimony right-to-fair-trial witness-testimony 1. Whether a trial court violates a criminal defendant's constitutional right to due process of law by permitting a prosecutor to introduce previous u…
21-7862 Mark DeWayne Hallcy v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-05-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus mootness ninth-circuit post-conviction-relief sentencing sixth-amendment 1. Does &4$aul4r Cw/Wiel^ i/uo erf W{\4, h'oHtflif % >9^4 r^oiric^ 6ttk^^ >kJjk&> ft ' ^e ot 0^ u*vW ■fa* ^ 'i^^tuuk, sWe. p^o^eiu^e *mi£ ifat' P^ft'K…
21-7866 Carlos Alberto Zamudio v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plea-bargaining rule-11 standard-of-review withdrawal withdrawal-of-guilty-plea Whether the courts of appeals, by creating checklists of considerations for the district courts to follow, have improperly narrowed the "fair and just…
21-7869 Timothy Thibodeaux v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause confrontation-right constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment pro-se-petition sixth-amendment 1: Reasonable Jurists would determined that Mr. Thibodeaux's conviction was obtained in violation of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United…
21-7872 Steven Guardado v. Billy K. Sipe, Jr., et al. Arizona 2022-05-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP compulsory-process confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-constitution federal-question judicial-remedy pandemic-court state-courts STEVEN GUARDADO FILED AN APPLICATION FOR A WRIT OF MANDAMUS IN THE SUPREME COURT OF ARIZONA REQUESTING AN ORDER TO THE STATE TRIAL COURT TO COMPLY WIT…
21-7852 Fernando Salazar-Figueroa v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP administration-of-justice appellate-review criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law fifth-circuit mitigating-role sentencing-guidelines I. Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law when it conducted a cursory review of the facts related to a warranted mitigating role adjustment un…
21-7857 Richard Dwayne Blalock v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-05-12 Denied IFP criminal-law criminal-procedure indian-law jurisdiction mcgirt-case native-american-rights procedural-rule retroactivity statutory-interpretation substantive-rule tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), is a Substantive ruling or a Procedural ruling.
21-7858 Larry Lewis v. Mississippi Fifth Circuit 2022-05-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency grand-jury indictment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions Whether the indictment was defected in count 1 and two under See - on pale coun) cauck practice The in dickmeng fail +o e Cu 6 Spee ic dake and lace o…
21-7836 Bruce Edward Bingham, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-05-11 Denied IFP burden-of-proof closing-arguments constitutional-ineffective-assistance criminal-procedure discovery-violation due-process due-process-violation prosecutorial-misconduct remorse right-to-counsel Was the prosecutions remarks regarding the "conscience of the community" and "remorse" prosecutorial misconduct , or allowable argument? Was trial cd…
21-7838 Leonardo Divinci Larck v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP communication-failure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lapsed-plea-offer plea-bargaining plea-offer sixth-amendment Does the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel require counsel to communicate a client's inquiry/response to a formal plea offer? …
21-7840 Hazhar A. Sayed v. Colorado Colorado 2022-05-11 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea immigration ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel people-v-chavez-torres plea-bargaining plea-counsel 1) Mr, Sayed's Plea was not entered Knowingly, intelligently and voluntarily because his plea counsel failed to adequately advise him that he would be…
21-7842 Tommy Dean Bullcoming v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment access-to-evidence constitutional-rights crime-scene-access criminal-defendant-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-gathering fair-trial property-rights Does an accused in a criminal case have a constitutional right to access the crime scene, where it is private property not under government control --…
21-7844 James R. W. Mitchell v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP counsel-appointment court-discretion criminal-defendant criminal-procedure faretta-right faretta-v-california mccoy-v-louisiana right-to-counsel right-to-self-representation self-representation sixth-amendment In Faretta v. California , 422 U.S. 806 (1975), this Court held that a criminal defendant has a Sixth Amendment right to represent himself at trial. I…
21-7846 Jose L. Arroyo-Garcia v. Ohio Ohio 2022-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure discrimination due-process equal-protection exceptions indictment-amendment legal-discrimination state-court state-courts Does the Due Process Clause tolerate invidious discrimination by way of a state court's denial of a well-established exception to the rule? Is notice…
21-7822 Christopher Patrick Lovings v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure enhancement fleeing fleeing-offense judicial-discretion knowledge knowledge-standard law-enforcement sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg-3c1.2 Whether a sentencing court may apply an enhancement pursuant to USSG § 3C1.2 when the record fails to establish the defendant knew or had reason to kn…
21-7824 Jerome Scott King v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appellate-review criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing voluntary-waiver Whether a provision in a plea agreement that bars a defendant from appealing a sentence of imprisonment violates due process and whether it can be kno…
21-7830 Daniel Paul Starr v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma Tenth Circuit 2022-05-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-communication judicial-misconduct jury-instructions jury-note jury-unanimity trial-conduct 1. ON A STATE DISTRICT COURT LEVEL, IS IT LAWFUL FOR JURY TO RENDER A VERDICT OF GUILTY ON A LESSER-CHARGE (MISDE MEANER), AND THE AFTERWORDS THE JUDG…
21-7803 Frank Jauron Stringfellow v. Louisiana Louisiana 2022-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process intoxication-defense jury-instructions non-unanimous-verdict supreme-court-review Whether The Louisiana Supreme Court, Louisiana Second Circuit Court Of Appeal And The TVial Court Bred In Denying Frank Stringfeliow's Constitutional …
21-7808 John Edward McIntyre v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-interdiction criminal-procedure equal-protection fourth-amendment high-crime-neighborhood high-crime-neighborhoods law-enforcement probable-cause racial-profiling targeted-enforcement traffic-stop In Whren v. United States, 517 U.S. 806 (1996), this Court held that for purposes of the Fourth Amendment, a police officer's subjective motivation fo…
21-7813 Hector Cervantes-Resendiz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit precedent-review sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-1428 Donald L. Blankenship v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-05-09 Denied Amici (1) brady-v-maryland brady-violation circuit-split criminal-procedure due-diligence due-process exculpatory-evidence prosecutorial-disclosure self-help Whether, to establish a violation of Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), a defendant must show that he could not have obtained the suppressed, excu…
21-7791 Aaron Ramirez-Almader v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure judicial-review legal-precedent recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7793 Leihinahina Sullivan v. United States District Court for the District of Hawaii Ninth Circuit 2022-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-privilege civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech grand-jury-procedure pro-se-defendant prosecutorial-misconduct standing subpoena-abuse Due to the lack of vesources while pretvia\ inca rcevatca at Honolulu Fedeval Detention Cenky C'F De") L apologize for using recytled paper. Pencil, a…
21-7797 Michael G. Peters v. Texas Medical Board Fifth Circuit 2022-05-06 Dismissed IFP administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-action breakdown-of-communication criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review right-to-counsel sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation substitute-counsel Question not identified.
21-7798 Francisco Manuel Padilla v. California California 2022-05-06 Denied IFP constitutional-rights counsel-appointment criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal right-to-counsel standard-of-review 1. DID THE COURT ABUSE ITS DISCRETION, AND THEREBY VIOLATE APPELLANT'S CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS, WHEN IT DENIED HIS MOTION TO WITHDRAW HIS PLEAS? 2. DID…
21-7782 William Larry Foley v. Texas Texas 2022-05-05 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial jury-verdict standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence IS THE EVIDENCE SUFFICIENT TO SUSTAIN THE JURY'S GUILTY VERDICT?
21-7785 Jose Mena-Valdez v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure law-enforcement probable-cause vehicle-search warrantless-search Did law enforcement officers have probable cause to conduct a warrantless search of the vehicle driven by the Defendant.
21-7786 Ignacio Trevizo-Cortez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-jurisdiction constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7766 Jacory Brown v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-05-04 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process effective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-claims prima-facie-case sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington Counsel under the sixth Amendment, Does Making a Showing under defient perfrmance and prejudice establish a prina facie case? 2.Does a District court…
21-7768 Jowell Travis LeGendre v. Virginia Virginia 2022-05-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel inquiry pre-trial • Were my rights to due process of law under the Fifth Amendment and Section 1 of the Eighth Amendment prejudiced when the Circuit Court for the City …
21-7771 James Lamar Strickland v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-05-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-disclosure criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-fairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice-standard sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the court of appeals improperly applied the prejudice standard articulated by this Court in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), to …
21-1414 Barton Ray Crandall v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-05-04 Denied Response Waived 18-usc-3582(c)(1)(A) 18-usc-924(c) criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-circumstances federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown …
21-7763 Randolph Ashford v. South Carolina South Carolina 2022-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment amendment-rights constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process indictment indictment-procedure subject-matter-jurisdiction Was Petitioner's 5th, 6th, and 14th, Amendment Rights of the U.S. Constitution, Due Process Rights violated, by the pro cedural defects in the establ…
21-1398 Nelson Daniel Centeno v. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Puerto Rico 2022-05-02 Denied acquittals constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure judicial-precedent non-unanimous-verdict puerto-rico puerto-rico-law ramos-v-louisiana sixth-amendment Does this Court's decision in Ramos v. Louisiana, 590 U.S. __, 140 S.Ct. 1390 (2020) bar Puerto Rico from continuing to authorize non-unanimous acquit…
21-1401 John Doe v. Colonel Gary T. Settle, Superintendent, Virginia Department of State Police Fourth Circuit 2022-05-02 Denied Response Waived 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment punishment punishment-analysis sex-offender-registry smith-v-doe state-restrictions Whether a state sex offender registry that imposes restrictions on individuals beyond mere registration with state or local law enforcement constitute…
21-7749 Samba Sarr v. Brian Cook, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-04-29 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence kidnapping sexual-assault sufficiency-of-evidence I. Whether Counsel for Defendant was ineffective as trial counsel for his failure to make proper objection. II. Whether, the evidence presented was i…
21-7733 Rashod Lewis v. United States Second Circuit 2022-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 924(c) conviction-validity crime-of-violence criminal-procedure davis-precedent due-process sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-offense united-states-v-davis vagueness-doctrine 1) Can a conviction and punishment stand on a non-existent stat utory offense, based on it being dismissed? 2) Was Petitioner's 18 U.S.C. 924(c) (1)(…
21-7734 Bruce Mitchell Nicholson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonableness search-warrant time-limit Does a violation of a time-limit prescribed in a search warrant render a search unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment?
21-7735 Erskin Bernard Perryman v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appellate-waiver base-offense-level criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review minor-participant plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously granted the Government's Motion to Dismiss and refused to address whether the trial court calculated th…
21-7738 Guillermo Mata-Valerio v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent sentencing sixth-amendment stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7742 Marvel Jones v. John M. Carter, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure court-review criminal-procedure dismissal-without-prejudice federal-rules legal-ruling pleading prejudice res-judicata standing summary-judgment Question not identified.
21-7743 Matthew J. Kidder v. Nebraska Nebraska 2022-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights counsel criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sentencing sixth-amendment state-court-jurisdiction Is ihe. 5^cde Coor-t re^c,;fed ie Keo^ c*/\ci rwxYe. o. cleAe.fi*' no. S'V+k. cxvdi ft)odee.r\Ui p£jM fs effective G S3'S^nce c? Cocosel cIcm S Tflue …
21-7744 Bralen Lamar Jordan v. Federal Bureau of Prisons, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-04-28 Denied IFP 18-usc-1915 civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction imminent-danger judicial-review standing three-strikes WhAT IS IMMINENT DANGER As TO THE EEMENT OF STAOTE GOING TO HAPPENOR SOMEtHING IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN? INJURY VIOLATON OF THE CAUSE TO WALLANT IMMINENT D…
21-7716 Paul Douglas Jackson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-04-27 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment actual-innocence constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-process post-conviction-relief state-court-review vs eoWHerf 40 Relief oil ao -Etfideohe-c^ ^ \4beR6 *4*ve, 'UtaW Couxri- of ^Ws/^ r»AVi duzcu^ auq SI Uto liute# SUifes ~L>^(Zurf (iouftl kJmibQO 7).s…
21-7721 Juan Francisco Cruz-Mora v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres certiorari constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7723 Freddie Galan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit guilty-plea ineffective-assistance judicial-review plea-bargaining rule-11 supreme-court-review Whether Mr. Galan's guilty plea to facts which do not constitute a conspiracy offense as a matter of law is an invalid and unintelligent guilty plea w…
21-7725 Jeffrey Ndungi Sila v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appointed-counsel criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-proceedings plain-error plain-error-standard pro-se-motion summary-affirmance waiver Whether the Fifth Circuit proceedings in petitioner's case "so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings," Sup. Ct. R. 1…
21-7726 Michael Charles Sartin v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari CJA-plan criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure misinformation post-conviction-relief wilkins-precedent wilkins-v-united-states writ-of-certiorari Whether misinformation about the timeframe for seeking certiorari in violation of a lower court's CJA plan entitles a defendant to a GVR consistent wi…
21-7729 William Gerard Wallace v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-27 Denied IFP civil-action civil-procedure criminal-charge criminal-procedure due-process florida-state-law judicial-error jurisdiction plea-bargaining standing trial-court Is the Florida State trial court at error when allowing the petitioner to plea out to a non-existing criminal charge that constitutes civil action?
21-7731 Alonzo Bell v. Illinois Illinois 2022-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence evidence-exclusion judicial-discretion proportionate-penalties sentencing Whether the Circuit Court erred in admitting Social Media evidence at trial. Whether Defendant was Denied His Constitutional right to the effective a…
21-7693 Kenneth R. Heddlesten v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2022-04-26 Denied IFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus plain-error rule-60b4 timeliness How does the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals policy of reviewing plain error only prevent appellate counsel from "raising all claims of error in a …
21-7697 Michael Mirando, aka Michael John Mirando v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court loss-calculation sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review What standard of review applies to an appeal challenging a district court's methodology for calculating the loss amount under Section 2B1.1 of the Uni…
21-7701 Francisco Rosales Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines advisory-range criminal-procedure district-court extraordinary-compelling-reasons judicial-discretion molina-martinez-v-united-states ninth-circuit plain-error remand remand 21-7700" rosales-mireles-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines sentencing-law sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether a district court may consider nonretroacti When should a case be remanded for resentencing under the plain-error standard of review if the district court failed to announce its calculation of t…
21-7703 Tyrone Wortham v. New York New York 2022-04-26 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP booking-exception criminal-procedure incriminating-response law-enforcement miranda-rights split-of-authority When a law enforcement officer's purportedly biographical question to a suspect is reasonably likely to elicit an incriminating response, does it fall…
21-7704 Kerry Vanderpool v. United States Second Circuit 2022-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3742 appeals criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction sentencing 1. Does the plain language of 18 U.S.C. § 3742(f) deprive the federal Courts of Appeals of jurisdiction to vacate a sentence when it is uncontested th…
21-7705 Nolan Woods v. Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquittal appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judgment-of-acquittal judicial-remedy re-prosecution WILL THIS COURT CREATE A BRIGHT-LINE RULE DELINEATING THAT THE ONLY CURE FOR A DOUBLE JEOPARDY VIOLATION CAUSED BY DUAL CONVICTIONS OF THE SAME CRIME …
21-7706 Irving Ernesto Arias v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process fifth-circuit guilty-plea motion-to-withdraw plea-bargaining sentencing DID THE FIFTH CIRCUIT ERR BY FINDING THAT THE DISTRICT COURT'S DECISION TO DENY MR. ARIAS'S MOTION TO WITHDRAW HIS GUILTY PLEA DID NOT CONSTITUTE AN A…
21-7707 Jerome Lamar Pitts v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process legal-remedy plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing-guidelines 1) Whether a miscalculated Sentencing Guideline violates Due Process enough to count as a "sentence in violation of the Constitution or laws of the Un…
21-7713 William Neely v. Superior Court of California, Sacramento County California 2022-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment criminal-procedure dna-evidence dna-tampering due-process fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest post-trial-discovery Do the safegards provided by the 14th Amendment apply to the state's unreasonable denial of post-trial criminal discovery where Petitioner, with newly…
21-7687 Earl Jones v. Ohio Ohio 2022-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-review fact-inference jackson-standard reasonable-doubt standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence supreme-court-ohio Whether a reviewing court must consider all the evidence in determining whether inferences from basic facts to ultimate facts are reasonable to prove …
21-7690 Anthony J. Springer v. Bryan Morrison, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure entrapment-by-estoppel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel michigan-supreme-court pre-trial-defense reasonable-jurist TRAIL AND APPELLATE COUNSEL PROVIDED INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE FOR FAILING TO INVESTIGATE AND PRESENT THE PRE-TRIAL DEFENSE OF ENTRAPMENT BY ESTOPPEL. A…
21-7682 Travon DeAngelo Brown v. Mississippi Mississippi 2022-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process forensic-analysis habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief res-judicata spoliation-of-evidence Whether Arizona v. Youngblood, 488 U.S. 1 (1988), is sufficient to except such due process claim from procedural default of RESTATEMENT (SECOND) OF JU…
21-7683 Nelson Conto v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-circuit interview-evidence judicial-error motion-in-limine standard-of-review trial-procedure 1. WHETHER THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN DISMISSING THE PETITIONER'S MERITORIOUS APPEAL OF THE DENIAL OF APPELLAN…
21-7666 Izell Delorean Grissett, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi apprendi-ruling collateral-review constitutional-claim criminal-procedure guidelines mandatory-guidelines miscarriage-of-justice section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment 1. Whether the Sixth Amendment requires the fact of a first-degree murder cross reference under § 2Al.l-to be treated as an element-when that finding …
21-7668 Russell Haley v. Mississippi Mississippi 2022-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights conviction-challenge counsel criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Does a guilty plea waive a defendant's right to make a Sixth Amendment claim of ineffective assistance of counsel where counsel's failure to investiga…
21-7669 Thomas Hoey, Jr. v. United States Second Circuit 2022-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-privilege civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment legal-precedent sixth-amendment Does new precedent need to be set to protect the Fifth & Sixth Amendments, and the attorney-client privilege?
21-7674 Jamie Allen v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fourth-circuit reversible-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY REFUSING TO HEAR MR. ALLEN'S MERITORIOUS CLAIMS THAT THE DISTRICT COURT COMMITTED REVERSIBLE ERRO…
21-7675 Jason Leon Cruse v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-04-21 Denied IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process federal-structure habeas-corpus mcgirt-retroactivity native-american-rights retroactivity tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020) applies retroactively to convictions that were final when it was decided?
21-7678 Robert Elton v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-04-21 Denied IFP arizona-v-united-states constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure edwards-v-vannoy federal-preemption indian-country judicial-jurisdiction mcculloch-v-maryland preemption state-court-powers tribal-sovereignty 1. Whether a State's contortion of Edwards v. Vannoy (2021) to delimit Indian Country powers into new rules of criminal procedure can be permitted to …
21-7648 Luis Fernando Ceja, aka Chako v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-04-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure foreign-citizen foreign-defendant jury-trial jury-trial-waiver oral-colloquy rule-23 waiver Whether courts may decline to enforce the plain language of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 23(a) requiring that a waiver of jury trial be in writi…
21-7651 Manuel Martinez v. Illinois Illinois 2022-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel miranda-rights post-conviction-relief trial-strategy 1) If a DNA Exculpatory Wearing the-Release Cause-Tested 4th right he had Be-To /e PM iMiAe^e^ o-f fAii /vtvlur^ . W<aA kjo hlAMUr ok/ the DfV/1 £v/D£…
21-7646 Jason Delacerda v. Texas Texas 2022-04-19 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process future-dangerousness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel psychiatric-evidence psychiatric-testimony sufficiency-of-evidence I. QUESTION PRESENTED NO. ONE - Did the appellate court err in failing to find that the evidence was insufficient to support the conviction and death …
21-7636 Ramon Lopez v. Angel Quiros, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction Connecticut 2022-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure disclosure due-diligence material-evidence material-favorable-evidence prosecuting-authority prosecutorial-evidence Does the rule set forth in Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), requiring that the government disclose material favorable evidence to a criminal def…
21-7637 Marecellus Adams v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure defense-strategy due-process fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Did trial counsel violate Adams's right to choose the objective of his defense when he conceded guilt over his express objection? Was Adams entitled …
21-7640 Ramel General v. United States Second Circuit 2022-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-rights circuit-precedent criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent procedural-challenge standard-of-review united-states-v-gomez-perez waiver waiver-enforcement Whether the Petitioner demonstrated that the waiver of his appellate rights is unenforceable under United States v. Gomez-Perez, 215 F.3d 315, 319 (2d…
21-7641 Jose Diaz Perez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-04-18 Denied IFP 4th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-seizure intoxication-statements search-warrant 1) Did the State of Texas and theU.S. District Court improperly hold that the trial court properly admitted into evidence a personal writing by the …
21-7644 Mario Reynoso, aka Mario Hernandez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appointment-of-counsel court-appointed-counsel criminal-appeal criminal-procedure extraordinary-circumstances federal-appeals federal-circuit-court ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-remedy mandate-recall recall-of-mandate writ-of-certiorari (1). WHAT REMEDY IS AVAILABLE FOR PETITIONER WHEN HIS COURTAPPOINTED (CJA) ATTORNEY FAILED TO INFORM, ADVICE OR FILE A TIMELY PETITION FOR A WRIT OF …
21-7645 Alimamy Barrie v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure federal-appeals federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-review plain-error procedural-default re-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines successive-filing Should an Error be Corrected in a Motion under Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure Rule 52b, when the Conditions of US v. Olano are met, even if the I…
21-1357 James S. Tyler, III v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Louisiana 2022-04-18 Denied Amici (1) capital-defendant collateral-review criminal-procedure mccoy right-to-counsel sixth-amendment substantive-rule teague-bar 1. Where a capital defendant objected to his attorney's concession of guilt, does the explicit text of the Sixth Amendment and longstanding right to c…
21-7631 Johnell Lee Carter v. Hunter Anglea, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process pro-per pro-per-status right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment trial-court-discretion Whether the trial court denied Petitioner's right to self representation by concluding Mr. Carter's opting for pro per status was made too close to th…
21-7619 Jarbarri Randale Wall v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver criminal-procedure federal-law plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-condition statutory-authority statutory-maximum supervised-release The district court imposed a special condition of supervised release that the defendant abstain from the use of alcoholic beverages, not associate wit…
21-7621 Jose Miguel Perez-Vides v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7622 Alejandro Medina-Rios v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7625 Jonathan Scott May v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court enhancement federal-sentencing judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing-guidelines 1. Did the district court plainly err when applying an enhancement under U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Manual § 2G2.2(b)(5)?
21-7626 Joseph Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court guideline-range holguin-hernandez judicial-discretion sentencing-argument sentencing-guidelines substantial-arguments Whether, after Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, __U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails t…
21-1352 Vivian Tat, aka Vivian Lnu v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-04-14 Denied Response Waived appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure fundamental-rights jury-instructions plain-error-review rogers-error rogers-v-united-states standard-of-review Does plain error review govern claims of Rogers error on appeal, as the Ninth Circuit held below, or are such claims reviewed for harmlessness beyond …
21-1347 Kevas L. Ballance v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-04-13 Denied Response Waived appellate-review circuit-split clear-error criminal-procedure de-novo-review district-court standard-of-review suppression-hearing suppression-ruling When reviewing a suppression ruling on appeal, should the appellate court review factual findings for clear error and the ultimate legal determination…
21-7606 Michael La Donte Scott v. Robert W. Fox, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-04-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington time-barred-charges Petitioners WS Provided EAC Under Strickland W. WASHinGTon CLA84) Ube U-S. GELB, By Hic Coonsel's incompetest Ravice To Plead No Contest "To "Time -Ba…
21-7612 Jose Luis Aldaba-Roman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial sentencing Supreme-Court writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7613 James Edward Williams v. Illinois Illinois 2022-04-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence hearsay hearsay-evidence jury-instructions prior-bad-acts propensity The state appellate court's decision was wrong Can the jury be instructed to consider Criminal 3.14 IPI instructions Saying that the jury can consider…
21-7616 Andrew Ussery v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process guidelines methamphetamine sentencing supervisory-powers Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit")–which affirmed the decision of the District Court t…
21-7617 Stevie Wyre v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-04-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence federal-rights habeas-corpus innocence newly-discovered-evidence perjury-testimony 1) Whether Wype is ewttlet Yo Relief 02 av Eviherhiney heain Whene Whe Lded Slates Coue of Appeals. SCaeut avd Whe VUrled Ques Dishdiel Couet Loe Whe …
21-7597 Clifford Idris Bell v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP confidential-informant criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement personal-residence probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits the issuance of a warrant and the subsequent search of a personal residence based solely on a confidential info…
21-7598 Irvin Garces v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP administration-of-justice criminal-procedure drug-offense exceptional-importance federal-law fifth-circuit minor-role sentencing-guidelines I. Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law when it conducted a cursory review of the facts related to a warranted two-level adjustment under U.…
21-7601 Eugene Kevin Pugh v. United States District of Columbia 2022-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct Question not identified.
21-7603 Glen S. Evans v. Bill Stange, Warden Eighth Circuit 2022-04-12 Denied IFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure fruit-of-poisonous-tree fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence motion-to-suppress prejudice reasonable-suspicion second-degree-murder sufficiency-of-evidence 1. Where the trial court has erred and abused its discretion in overruling defendant's motion to suppress his statements to police, and in admitting …
21-7587 Jose Garcia Solorzano v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility appeal criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion reduction-in-sentence sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g.-§3e1.1 u.s.s.g.-interpretation Did the district court err in not granting Mr. Solorzano a reduction in sentence for his acceptance of responsibility under U.S.S.G. §3E1.1?
21-7589 Mark A. Brown v. Bernadette Mason, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy, et al. Third Circuit 2022-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence reasonable-doubt Whether the Court of Appeals finding that the state Courts conviction was based on a reasonable determination of the facts in light of the evidence pr…
21-1341 Wysingo Turner v. Christine Brannon-Dortch, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-04-11 Denied Response Waived 2nd-amendment civil-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process federal-law firearm-possession murder-trial self-defense standing state-court Whether a state court's decision that a criminal defendant can be falsely accused during his state criminal murder trial of "illegally" possessing out…
21-1344 Christin Campbell-Martin and Adam Scott Leiva v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-04-11 Denied and established the arrestee's identity secured the arrestee in a police car 4th-amendment arrest-search criminal-procedure established-identity false-identification fourth-amendment incident-to-arrest police-procedure probable-cause search-and-seizure search-incident-to-arrest secured-arrestee vehicle-search In Arizona v. Gant , this Court held, "Police may search a vehicle incident to a recent occupant's arrest only if the arrestee is with in reaching dis…
21-7574 Danyel Black v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substances criminal-procedure fourth-amendment prior-conviction probation-search sentencing-enhancement warrantless-search Whether a Florida controlled substances offense, which does not require proof that the defendant knew of the illicit nature of the controlled substanc…
21-7575 Keith Morris v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-waiver criminal-procedure due-process knowing-waiver plea-agreement plea-bargaining right-to-appeal sentencing waiver Whether a provision in a plea agreement which bars a defendant from appealing "any sentence of imprisonment" can be knowingly entered into well before…
21-7577 Nicholas N. Kerr v. Florida Florida 2022-04-08 Denied IFP automobile-exception carroll collins-v-virginia constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment search-and-seizure Whether Petitioner's Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendment Rights to the United States Constitution Require this Court to vacate Petitioner's convic…
21-7580 Amos Lamar Burch v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process fourteenth-amendment free-speech post-conviction-relief qualified-immunity standing Question not identified.
21-7569 Miguel Scott Arnold v. United States Third Circuit 2022-04-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute human-trafficking jury-instructions rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation third-circuit-court third-circuit-court-of-appeals unit-of-prosecution What is the allowable unit of prosecution for violations of 18 U.S.C. § 1591(a)? 2. Did the Third Circuit Court of Appeals err by not remanding to th…
21-7570 Vander Clayborne v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2022-04-07 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea juvenile-justice mental-capacity mental-competency miller-v-alabama parole sentencing In every jurisdiction of the United States - both federal and State - there is a balancing test for deciding whether a court's decision to deny a Crim…
21-7571 Anton F. Liverpool v. Reggie Cleveland, et al. Second Circuit 2022-04-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process excessive-force habeas-corpus judicial-review qualified-immunity standing present an argument of genvine dispute ldissagrement to officer cleveland tl indicent exposure andy thecelore admitedly the delendent to havino knowla…
21-1336 Jeffrey Olsen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-04-07 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived covid-pandemic criminal-procedure district-court district-court-authority due-process judicial-discretion jury-trial-suspension jury-trials pandemic prosecutorial-delay speedy-trial-act I. Whether a District Court may dismiss an indictment under the Speedy Trial Act, where the District Court finds that it is possible to hold a jury tr…
21-7557 Maria Andrea Gonzalez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3161 criminal-procedure due-process ends-of-justice federal-district-court findings-of-fact speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation trial-continuance Does the Speedy Trial Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3161, require federal district courts to make specific findings of fact from those factors enumerated in § 3161…
21-7560 Martin Andres-Tomas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres certiorari constitutional-interpretation court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7561 Ana Duarte-Pineda v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel appellate-review conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance pro-se-response sixth-amendment sua-sponte-replacement If an indigent criminal defendant's pro se response to a brief filed under Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967), alleges ineffective assistance o…
21-7563 Alexander Kates v. New York Second Circuit 2022-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure custody-determination district-court-discretion due-process federal-precedent habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance standing state-law state-law-precedent 1. Are district courts allowed to disregard State law and controlling federal precedent when handling state habeas corpus petitions? 2. Is a petition…
21-7565 Brandon James Lee v. Eddie M. Buffaloe, Jr., Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-04-06 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discretionary-review district-court due-process federal-courts fifth-amendment habeas-corpus standing IN THE OF OS oa BASH PROCEEDING THAT THE. ISSUES PRESENTED WERE ADEQUATE TO DESERVE. ENCOOZAGEMENT 1 PRECEE D Soup Tne FEDe@ar. Cougs? EXEC CASE THE …
21-7566 Andrew James Johnston v. John Devries Seventh Circuit 2022-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial jury-selection public-trial sixth-amendment Question not identified.
21-7533 Ion Stanciu v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-04-05 Denied IFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process expert-witness fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance medical-evidence state-misconduct WHEN A STATE TOGETHER WITH STATE'S EXPERT WITNESS CHANGE THE ORIGINAL VERSION OF MEDICAL EVIDENCE INTO A NEW COMPLETE DIFFERENT VERSION, TO LINK THE A…
21-7537 Leonardo Gutierrez v. Texas Texas 2022-04-05 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process extraneous-evidence facial-challenge judicial-jurisdiction jury-trial penal-code ramos-v-louisiana ISSUE ONE: Texas Penal Code §21.02 is Whether, in light of Ramos v. Louisiana unconstitutional on its face? ISSUE TWO: Whether a trial court has jur…
21-7538 Clyde Otis Alston, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment sentencing (.CokeAkor4W Coutr-V foeAovo £rr«.A ia TVv-fiA^ feWP m^oa 4-V\<l SutsWvKcA^ lAAfeASoACNVic Se^VeAC^
21-7539 John P. Higley v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-04-05 Denied IFP 14th-amendment appeal-out-of-time case-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process evidentiary-hearing findings-of-fact ineffective-assistance 1) Did the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals violate Mr. Higley's 14th Amendment right to Due Process by: a) Affirming the District Court 's decision…
21-7548 Sergey Genadievich Novitskiy v. Colorado Colorado 2022-04-05 Denied IFP bench-trial burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial standard-of-proof waiver 1. Whether Petitioner's choice to proceed to a bench trial, instead of a jury trial, in a criminal case, lowers/lessens the prosecution burden of proo…
21-7549 Ernesto Palacios-Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-law criminal-procedure immigration-law indictment sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998) was wrongly decided, allowing for the provisions of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b)(1) and (2) deal…
21-7530 Paul M. Weadick v. United States First Circuit 2022-04-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1512 circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-statute federal-witness-tampering fowler-v-united-states reasonable-likelihood specific-intent statutory-interpretation witness-tampering The federal witness tampering statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1512, permits conviction of any individual who "prevent[s] the communication by any person to a [Fe…
21-1317 Rafi Wali McCall v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) acquittal constitutional-prohibition criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-finding jury-trial supervised-release Does the United States Constitution prohibit a judge from revoking supervised release pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3583 based on a judicial finding that th…
21-1319 Mark Nordlicht and David Levy v. United States Second Circuit 2022-04-04 Denied Amici (1) credibility criminal-procedure discretion district-court-discretion evidence-weighing federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure jury-verdict new-trial new-trial-motion rule-33 standard-of-review witness-credibility Whether district courts have discretion to weigh the evidence, including the credibility of witnesses, when deciding to grant a new trial under Rule 3…
21-7510 Ramon Lopez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP bureau-of-prisons compassionate-release criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing extraordinary-circumstances federal-corrections federal-sentencing-guidelines sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether Criminal Defendants may use the "recently amended" Compassionate Release Statute [18 U.S.C. Sec. 3582(c)(1)(A)]'to reduce or correct an exce…
21-7522 Jerry Wayne Phillips v. Martin Frink, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto grand-jury indictment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection sexual-battery standard-of-review 1. CAN CONVICTIONS OF AGGRAVATED SEXUAL BATTERY BE SUSTAINED WHEN THE STATE OF TENNESSEE FAILED TO PROVE THE ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF THE CRIME AS DESCRI…
21-7523 Martin Robinson v. Ohio Ohio 2022-04-01 Denied IFP appeals constitutional-claims criminal-justice-system criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias judicial-review post-conviction-relief pro-se-litigants Question not identified.
21-7525 Jerome Perkins v. Grady Perry, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process post-conviction-relief search-and-seizure Question not identified.
21-7526 Adam C. Morris v. Illinois Illinois 2022-04-01 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process firearm-enhancement interrogatory-issue jury-instructions material-fact material-facts right-to-jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sentencing-procedure verdict-control 1) DID THE COURT AVOID CONSIDER THE ARGUMENT THAT THE SEPARATE GROUND INTERROGATORY IS AN ISSUE OF MATERIAL FACT AND THAT THE JURY HAD NO KNOWLEDGE IN…
21-7501 Helen Tyne Mayfield v. Texas Texas 2022-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus right-to-confrontation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-in-abstentia 1. WHEN PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW IS DISCRETIONARY BY THE TEXAS COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS, DID THE COURT ABUSE ITS DISCRETION IN NOT REVIEWI…
21-7503 Lucas Victorino-Tista v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7506 Curtis Carr v. Illinois Illinois 2022-03-31 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility fair-trial fifth-amendment interrogation interrogation-techniques videotaped-evidence Does the admissibility of videotaped interrogations in which the interrogating officers inject their conclusions about the operator's guilt violate th…
21-7509 Jean Carlo Ferreira v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure criminal-statute davis-precedent due-process jury-instruction procedural-default sentencing standing vagueness Whether the Court should address the Circuit Split regarding whether, and under what circumstances, a movant's procedural default can be excused becau…
21-7514 Sidney J. Clark, Jr. v. Kansas Kansas 2022-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-withholding full-faith-and-credit habeas-corpus sentencing (1) THE SENTENCING OF S.J.C.JR., TO THE H.C.A. PURSUANT TO K.S.A. 21-4504 ,WITHOUT ANY LEGAL PROOF OF THE ONE PRIOR JUDICIAL COURT PROCEEDING OF THE S…
21-7516 Delroy T. Booth v. Georgia Georgia 2022-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief sentencing standing 1. Did the Georgia Supreme court Have Jurisdiction to Review Petitioner's appeal From the Denial of the Georgia Superior Court Denying Petitioners Mot…
21-7489 Raul Roy Vasquez v. Florida Florida 2022-03-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court-appeal double-jeopardy due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-conflict privileges-immunities procedural-law state-court-conflict two-year-limitation 1. Is the Refusal of the Supreme Court of the State of Florida, Decunskeo to Address the Certified Conflict Between Petitioner's Second District Court…
21-7482 Gregory Jean-Louis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appellate-procedure circuit-split criminal-appeal criminal-defendant criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process judicial-review sentencing waiver-exception Should the United States Supreme Court grant certiorari in order the finally resolve the substantial circuit split regarding the "miscarriage—of—justi…
21-7483 Ruben Aguilera v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure criminal-statute-interpretation divisibility fifth-circuit-interpretation generic-burglary sentencing-enhancement texas-burglary-statute 1. Can the Texas burglary statute — which the Fifth Circuit has held to be indivisible and descriptive of generic burglary — properly be the basis for…
21-7487 Dion Fisher v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure discovery district-court-order evidentiary-ruling harmless-error motion-to-suppress suppression-hearing trial-witness-list witness-disclosure witness-testimony Whether petitioner is entitled to a new trial based on the district court's order denying his motion to suppress. Whether petitioner is entitled to a…
21-7492 In Re Jonathan Manwell 2022-03-29 Denied IFP appellate-review confrontation constitutional-rights counsel-of-choice criminal-procedure discovery due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel forensic-evidence impartial-tribunal DOES PETITIONER HAVE A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO LOCATED AND CONFISCATED EXCULPATORY FORENSIC EVIDENCE, TRANSCRIPTS AND DOCUMENTS NECESSARY FOR A MEANIN…
21-7476 Samuel Lee Dantzler v. Randee Rewerts, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process expert-witness habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel scientific-evidence sixth-amendment 1. Whether it is clearly established federal law that a criminal defendant is entitled to a scientific expert that is essential to confront scientific…
21-7478 Derrick Jerome Spencer v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-03-28 Denied IFP 1st-amendment capital-punishment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts standing takings Whether Petitioner is being deprived of his civil right to "equal" due process of law in violation of "the Constitution and laws of the United States.…
21-7456 Robert Earl Rowles v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-25 Denied IFP criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing florida-law ineffective-assistance outcome-of-proceeding post-conviction reasonable-probability right-to-counsel sixth-amendment strategic-decision Whether a Petitioner who is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole is denied his constitutional rights to counsel where counsel's r…
21-7470 Reggie Orlando Williams v. Texas Texas 2022-03-25 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment judicial-charging legal-procedure margin-of-error state-court state-prosecution \/OV\en '■WML o€ "Y&*aS -£<x\\eA 'V^ eAeoV vJVucIa cJaargin^ -Vrtvvsaoticn °f -VVml oCCW# -V4 ,v€_ V> W»\)£- Cen\i\<ot«A uaQ$J\ O^s AV\e. scvw-e- re_s…
21-7472 Earnest Eugene Walker, Jr. v. Kansas Tenth Circuit 2022-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus illegal-sentence ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief sentencing Correction of Serterce And As the same the Habear Corpur to be corstrned as the same to Correct an Illegal senterce After senterced hos beer served; w…
21-7473 Antwoyn Terrell Spencer v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-03-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy due-process first-step-act habeas-corpus jury-trial sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner is being deprived of his Civil Right to Due Process against law without due process of law in Violation of the Constitution and Law…
21-7445 Juniel B. Rios v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure procedural-due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness upward-variance 1. Whether Constitutional Due Process requires that Irizarry v. United States, 553 U.S. 708 (2008) that limited the Notice requirement in Fed.R.Crim.P…
21-7446 Kristopher Kyle Russell v. Texas Texas 2022-03-24 Denied IFP criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion post-conviction-relief standing statutory-interpretation 1. The plain reading of the statute indicates that counsel must be appointed to learn if biological evidence exists, yet Texas courts have specificall…
21-7460 Eric Dean Smith v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 abuse-of-discretion compassionate-release criminal-procedure due-process sentencing 1. Did thE CouRts AbUsE it's DiscletiOw AftR Derying Me. SMith COMPASSIONATE RELEASEUNDER IBL. 13 AFER COUR CoNCudEd DEENdANt sAtisfiEd thE ExteoRdiNA…
21-7440 Norman Alan Kerr v. Christopher Gomez, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-03-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure document-suppression due-process evidence-rules government-misconduct judicial-discretion plea-bargaining sentencing trial-procedure Question not identified.
21-7441 Edgardo Maldonado-Arce v. Deanne Criswell, Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency First Circuit 2022-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-interpretation sentencing-guidelines standing state-law statute-of-limitations Question not identified.
21-7443 Roberto Arenas-Tellez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court guideline-range holguin-hernandez-v-united-states judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines substantial-arguments Whether, after Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, _U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails to…
21-7444 Fnu John Sadiqullah v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-law criminal-procedure entrapment entrapment-defense government-agent-conduct inducement jury-instructions predisposition When a defendant requests a jury instruction on the affirmative defense of entrapment, what must be proven by the defendant to be entitled to such ins…
21-7448 Edgar Garza-Limones v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei…
21-7428 Chad Eugene Caldwell v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence career-offender circuit-split criminal-procedure mandatory-guidelines section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement Petitioner Chad Caldwell was sentenced to 272 months in prison based on the district court's conclusion that he was a career offender under USSG §4B1.…
21-7430 Roberto Padilla Espinoza v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection fifth-circuit-review judicial-discretion prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines Question not identified.
21-7438 Tramone Horne v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion judicial-review preponderance-of-evidence sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Should the Court require proof by more than a preponderance of the evidence of facts that significantly increase the defendant's sentence range under …
21-1275 Abetubokun Adesioye v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-03-22 Denied Response Waived appeal appeal-waiver court-of-appeals criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process plea-bargaining right-to-appeal rule-11-colloquy sentencing sentencing-guidelines waiver Did the Court of Appeals err in finding that the petitioner knowingly and intelligently waived his right of appeal without having considered the exist…
21-1273 Frank D. Lazzerini v. Ohio Ohio 2022-03-21 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error right-to-be-present structural-error trial-proceedings voir-dire Over objection that it violated his constitutional right to be present at all critical stages of his trial on two hundred seventy-two felony charges, …
21-7419 Gilberto Mulgado v. Florida Florida 2022-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-hearsay child-testimony constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cumulative-evidence custodial-offense due-process fair-trial hearsay sexual-battery Whether a criminal defendant's constitutional due process right to a fair trial is violated by the admission at trial of needlessly cumulative child h…
21-7423 Delbert Keyes v. Mississippi Mississippi 2022-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus sentencing Question not identified.
21-7413 Brian Folks v. United States Second Circuit 2022-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence issue-preservation prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility Whether this Court should grant certiorari to recognize error and provide clarity about the prejudice that stems from a prosecutor's repeated requests…
21-7414 Gregory M. Hawes v. Michael Pacheco, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process mandatory-minimum sentencing statutory-maximum I. Whether this Court's decision in Patterson v. New York (1977), which permitted placing the burden on a criminal defendant to establish mitigating f…
21-7400 Derrick U. Stricklin v. Nebraska Nebraska 2022-03-17 Denied IFP alibi-evidence capital-case capital-punishment criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment trial-tactics I. WHETHER THE FAILURE OF DEFENSE COUNSEL TO FILE A NOTICE OF ALIBI AND PRESENT AMPLE ALIBI EVIDENCE WHEN INSTRUCTED TO DO SO BY THE DEFENDANT IN A …
21-7401 Harold Edwards v. Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habitual-sentence liberty-interest sixth-amendment state-court state-procedure 1. Did The State/ District Court Judge's Failure To Abide By Nevada's State Procedural Law Violate My Constitutionally Protected Liberty Interest Unde…
21-7402 Brandon Leon Bibbs v. Don Barnes, Sheriff, Orange County, California Ninth Circuit 2022-03-17 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigative-procedure Question not identified.
21-7403 James Calvin Breeden v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-procedure felon-in-possession firearm-possession jury-instructions mens-rea rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states rule-29 rule-29-motion Whether the district court erred under Rehaif v. United States by denying requested jury instructions and a Rule 29 motion for acquittal on the felon-…
21-7404 Jose Antonio Barahona-Paz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
21-7381 Jessie D. Hoffman, Jr. v. Louisiana Louisiana 2022-03-16 Denied Amici (1)IFP capital-case criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process juror-misconduct jury-selection no-impeachment-rule peña-rodriguez racial-bias Did the Louisiana Supreme Court err in failing to consider clear evidence of juror racial bias under Peña-Rodriguez in the extraordinary circumstances…
21-7385 Juan M. Alcaraz v. Brian Williams, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment 1. Did the Ninth Circuit err when Mr. Alcaraz made a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right as to trial counsel repeatedly tellin…
21-7390 Choya Dwayne Hailey v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5k1.1 5K1.1-motion breach-of-contract criminal-procedure downward-departure government-breach government-discretion plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines Whether the government breached the supplemental plea agreement when it declined to move for a downward departure under U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Man…
21-7391 Isaiah Ramon Henderson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-03-16 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP circuit-split controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-procedure federal-law federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether "controlled substance[s]" in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines § 4B1.2(b) are limited to those substances defined and regulated under the fede…
21-7395 Konstantinos Zografidis v. United States Second Circuit 2022-03-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus second-circuit writ-of-habeas-corpus Did the Second Circuit Court of Appeals en banc err in failing to reverse the District Court's ruling denying my Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus …
21-7369 Dannie Simon Parker, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-proceedings agency-action bank-robbery criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-instructions precedent statutory-interpretation substantial-rights NAWIW e. AW. lJuog Wcm Cjol&A in WWz V. OoWA kWW, SSO U-W 25^, Zb&, 2io ^.c4. ZISS IT? L.ES ZS 20s(zooo^AWi ejcAWy' U.t>.d. hZWhi^s \l£Jjy\2uZ 'r^JDC{…
21-7375 Rodolfo Rodriguez, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review consensual-encounter consent criminal-procedure investigative-detention investigative-stop law-enforcement-interaction search-and-seizure standard-of-review voluntary-consent 1. What is the appropriate standard to be applied in determining whether an encounter with police was consensual or an investigative stop? 2. Whether…
21-7353 Alejandro Chavarria v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-waiver criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure government-estoppel judicial-error plea-agreement rule-32 sentencing 1. Whether a trial judge's erroneous FED. R. CRIM. P. 32(j)(1)(B) advice regarding the defendant's right to appeal his sentence, and the Government's …
21-7354 Joseph Patrick Keel v. Florida Florida 2022-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-precedent apprendi-rule criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process identity judicial-interpretation prior-convictions prior-record-exception sentencing sixth-amendment 1. Whether courts, including those in Florida, have been incorrectly applying a "prior record" exception to the rule from Apprendi v. New Jersey 530 U…
21-7355 Jon Charles Vance v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury reasonable-doubt Whether the Petitioner Jon Charles Vance was denied his fundamental right under the Fifth Amendment to Due Process when the Jury failed to find him Gu…
21-7356 Stacey Tremaine Johnson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process evidence firearm-possession guideline-calculation jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing sentencing-reasonableness standard-of-proof uncharged-conduct 1. Whether there was sufficient evidence for the jury to find the petitioner guilty of drug trafficking and firearm possession. 2. Whether the jury i…
21-7357 Joel Castro-Lopez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing discretion district-court-discretion guidelines judicial-reasoning legal-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether a district court errs should reference or address substantial arguments for a sentence outside the Guideline range?
21-7360 Marc N. Greenberg v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-proceeding due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure fundamental-fairness notice-of-appeal supervised-release I. Whether the technical requirements of Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 3(c)(l)(B), addressing the contents of a Notice of Appeal, trump an indiv…
21-7346 Avian Brule v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error judicial-discretion revocation-standard sentencing supervised-release (1) What is the appellate standard of review applicable to sentences imposed following revocation of supervised release? (2) Is a district court's er…
21-7351 Miguel Angel Cruz-Polanco, aka Luis Hernandez v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure federal-sentencing plain-error plea-bargaining sentencing-guidelines I- wheter the Federal SeNten cing Guidelines Manvel Reguire a Plea oF Guilty and PoiNt ReductioN three guarantee a ? For accePtaNCe OF ResPoN sability…
21-7352 Pedro Intzin-Guzman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
21-7332 Marlon Sisnero-Gil v. United States Second Circuit 2022-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness substantive-unreasonableness supervisory-power Whether the Petition should be granted because the Court of Appeals' decision holding that Petitioner's sentence was not substantively unreasonable co…
21-7334 Gregory Todd Numann v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability child-pornography criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel password-protected-device plea-bargaining Whether the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit erred in denying Mr. Numann's motion for certificate of appealability of the denial of his 28 USC 2…
21-7322 James Earl Harper v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-03-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP breach-of-agreement breach-of-contract criminal-procedure due-process government-contract government-motion incarceration plea-agreement sentencing 1. Whether the Government should have been bound by the provisions of the Plea Agreement as the Petitioner did not breach the provisions contained the…
21-7325 Michael T. Braxton v. Tonya James, Warden Fourth Circuit 2022-03-09 Denied IFP appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review parole statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions 1). dtinat AFT and in CoN to a lafl state Court of Appets ORDER? 2. Can an state agency parsue ony other Laciful Apptlte Proces, on "UNFAVORABE " oR …
21-7327 Tina Carol Ortega v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure delegation-of-authority district-court due-process judicial-discretion plain-error probation probation-officer sentencing separation-of-powers 1. Did the district court plainly err when it delegated to a probation officer the authority to determine the duration of a residential treatment prog…
21-7328 Glen S. v. Connecticut Connecticut 2022-03-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-right criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process judicial-canvassing probation-violation right-to-testify testimony-rights trial-court-duty waiver waiver-of-rights Should an affirmative duty be imposed on trial courts to canvass criminal defendants and alleged probation violators about their constitutional right …
21-7287 Ivan Cruz-Rivera v. United States First Circuit 2022-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure fourth-amendment informant informant-tip law-enforcement police-officer probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure Whether It Is Not Necessary To Evaluate The Basis Of Knowledge Underlying An Informant's Tip If The Informant Is A Police Officer.
21-7299 Rasheed Ali Muhammad v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jurisdiction Question not identified.
21-7305 Steven Bryant v. Shawn Emmons, Warden Georgia 2022-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure false-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-deal prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-standard strickland-v-washington witness-testimony Where the state's only eyewitness and linchpin of its case, the co-defendant, struck a deal whereby she would plead to a lesser offense and testify ag…
21-7306 Jonathan Mota v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellant-standard appellate-review circuit-conflict civil-rights criminal-procedure cumulative-error district-court due-process judicial-error legal-prejudice prejudice What degree of error and of prejudice must an appellant show with respect to individuals errors of the district court before those errors may be consi…
21-7316 Richard Duerson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-03-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP absent-witness confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admission hearsay hearsay-testimony judicial-discretion judicial-proceedings just-conclusion officer-testimony OF THE CONFRONTATION CLAUSE?
21-7317 Michael Cota v. John Malone, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-08 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process immunity prosecutorial-misconduct standing £hm<i (tihoks Q&tolokjmmoriik if A frCT/W£> Afe iwhlu /Oo/OsJ'odimuAJ h)frrulE.is immi uo oi mpL- m?rmo$ Do/ibr/Mfe Mum/ru
21-7321 Eric Labreece Mack v. Texas Texas 2022-03-08 Denied IFP appeal criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-instructions sentencing standard-of-review 1. IQW^&tsf Tne Cco^r appeals e,rreji \a ttYA'b yaoV eoViWe^ -h> die&JA^o^- ^virvj CVc^r^e. « 9' ^UjW^WiT "^V-e c_ooxV o£ Popped tb €jTrei \fe_ C\H …
21-7289 Katrina Brown v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP closing-argument criminal-procedure fair-trial judicial-error motion-for-severance prejudice right-to-counsel severance standby-counsel I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT COMMITTED ERROR BY ORDERING THE DEFENDANT TO GO FORWARD WITH CLOSING ARGUMENT WITHOUT STANDBY COUNSEL LANDES BEING PRESE…
21-7291 Bonifacio Eduardo Trujillo-Gutierrez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres certiorari constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7292 James E. Walker v. Illinois Illinois 2022-03-07 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability post-conviction post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing Was it prosecutorial misconduct ct during the state's opening vacnta hnee hodn his trial. Page 15,16 Is i inel e ng afilue tga e te was impasing acco…
21-7293 Jose Rodriguez-Vasquez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
21-7295 Miguel Lerma-Reyes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
21-7297 Jaime B. Garcia v. Warren L. Montgomery, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-murder habeas-corpus jury-instructions legal-theory prosecutorial-concession reasonable-jurists standard-of-review Because the appellate court must issue a certificate of appealability ("COA") when the issue is debatable among jurists of reason, should the Ninth Ci…
21-7270 Karo Brown v. United States Second Circuit 2022-03-04 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure first-step-act legal-developments retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether, when deciding if it should "impose a reduced sentence" on an individual under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, a district court …
21-7276 Julio Rodriguez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus harmless-error residual-clause standing unconstitutional-vagueness 1. Whether a certificate of appealability can be issued despite controlling circuit authority to the contrary. 2. Whether a general verdict that was …
21-7277 Sadeen Jones v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2022-03-04 Denied IFP carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-location-information criminal-procedure fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery initial-illegal-search probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant-requirement A. Is this matter so identical to Carpenter v. United States, 138 S. Ct. 2206 (2018) that like that case, this Petition for WRIT OF CERTIORARI should …
21-7278 Calvin James v. John T. Wilcher, Sheriff, Chatham County, Georgia Georgia 2022-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights court-procedure criminal-procedure defendant-rights double-jeopardy due-process federalism jurisdiction service-of-process summons PAINTIFF ENTERED DEFAULT TUDOEMENT AND COURL ENRRED DRORR DS IMPLIEO ON SUMMONS. COURT STILL AUIEI EN DEFENDANTS FAVDR, HOW? PROSECUTINGIFOR HE SAME …
21-7280 Sammie Carroll v. Maryland Maryland 2022-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review court-of-special-appeals criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency jail-call-evidence standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence 1) Did the Gourt of Special Appeals of Maryland err,in ruling that the evidence adduced at trial was sufficient to sustain a conviction? 2) Did the …
21-7265 Victor L. Manns, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2022-03-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment implied-waiver miranda-rights self-incrimination testimony When a Detective Under Oath admits multipe times she did not properly Mirandarize defendant, and a Defendant testifies Miranda warnings were never giv…
21-7266 Fredy Zamora-Reyes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres apprendi constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure notice-clause prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment I. Can a court, consistent with the Sixth Amendment's Notice Clause, impose a statutorily enhanced sentence based on the fact of a prior conviction ne…
21-7271 Matthew Moore v. Thomas Mackie, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-sexual-conduct due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment WAS DEFENDANT-PETITIONER DENIED EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL AND UNCONSTITUTIONALLY COERCED INTO TAKING A PATERNITY BLOOD TEST IN JUVENILE COURT TH…
21-7244 Walter L. Merritte v. Illinois Illinois 2022-03-03 Denied IFP appeal constitutional-law criminal-information criminal-procedure due-process legal-procedure standing state-court trial-court Whether petitioner's due process rights were violated when the state trial court granted Respondent leave to file the criminal information?
21-7230 Gemar Morgan v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-standard probation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervised-release Question not identified.
21-7231 Caleb L. McGillvary v. New Jersey New Jersey 2022-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process faretta-inquiry Faretta-motion right-to-counsel self-representation waiver 1.) If Defendant's motion to self-represent is denied without a Faretta inquiry, does his cooperation thereafter with defense counsel constitute a wai…
21-1201 Michael D. Smith v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-03-02 Denied Response Waived civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury judicial-misconduct jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct Will the Eastern District of Kentucky be allowed to ignore our federal laws, Constitution and Bill of Rights and have a 5 week, mock trial on innocent…
21-1202 Michael D. Smith v. Frances Catron Cadle, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-03-02 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-power civil-rights constitutional-rights cover-up criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction government-liability judicial-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct Will the government officials of the Eastern District of Kentucky and state officials be allowed to violate our federal laws, Constitution and Bill of…
21-7245 Julia Ann Poff v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights compassionate-release criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing habeas-corpus pro-se pro-se-filing sentence-reduction sentencing Question not identified.
21-7251 Major Hudson, III v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-03-02 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-sovereignty indian-law land-title native-american-rights standing subject-matter-jurisdiction tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty 1. Whether Oklahoma Court 's can continue to unlawfully exercise under state law, criminal jurisdiction over the lands formerly known as the Unassign…
21-7253 Luis D. Sambolin-Robles v. Corrections Administration First Circuit 2022-03-02 Denied IFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-standard judicial-review legal-procedure standing trial-fairness Question not identified.
21-7254 Stephen C. Hanf v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-02 Denied IFP civil-rights COVID-19-pandemic criminal-procedure due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus molestation-charges standing trial-procedure Whether the COVID-19 pandemic qualifies as an extraordinary circumstance for equitable tolling in the instant cases consistent with Carter v United St…
21-7255 James Robert Hope v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence jurisdiction jury-instructions mistrial prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct standing 1)ASTHE T CIR. ERZ IN EFERING TO THE LOWER COUGTS DECISION THAT M2. HOPE TRIAL WAS HELA INTNE PRPPER COUNETY WNEN PROCF WAS PROVIE THAT HIS CBIME DCCU…
21-7256 Clemente Rosales-Sanchez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7258 Fernando Contreras-Rojas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres certiorari constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7260 George K. Mackie v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2022-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP closing-argument criminal-procedure impeachment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions miscarriage-of-justice prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt A. DID THE APPEALS COURT ERR IN HOLDING THAT THE ERROR-LADEN CLOSING ARGUMENT BY THE PROSECUTER, TAKEN IN ITS TOTALITY, CREATE A SUBSTANTIAL RISK OF A…
21-7235 Wesley S. Ricks v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-offense capital-offenses criminal-procedure due-process joinder-of-offenses non-capital-offenses procedural-safeguards state-constitution trial-rights 1. Whether Capital and NonCapital Offenses may be Joinder of Offenses for Trial? 2. Whether The Constitution of the State of Louisiana of 1974, Artic…
21-7238 Holli Wrice v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 3553(a)-factors compassionate-release congressional-intent criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure extraordinary-and-compelling extraordinary-circumstances retroactive-sentencing sentencing-reduction sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i) allows district courts to reduce a defendant's sentence, based on a finding of extraordinary and compelling reasons, afte…
21-7239 Michael Arrington v. United States Third Circuit 2022-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment Whether trial Counsel must inform the defendent of the nature of his right to testify und that the utimate decision belongs to him? What standard nus…
21-7219 Lorenzo Suttles v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 compassionate-release criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure federal-courts first-step-act miscarriage-of-justice sentencing-reduction sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation I. Whether a pre-FSA (First Step Act) defendant's circumstances, changed by Congress's clarification of §924(c), and the resultant disparity thereof…
21-7220 Jesse Kyle Skyberg v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jurisdiction precedent-interpretation standing I. For more thn 180 pours this court hs held that the priv Juisicition o 4h0 cquistie ro discretionary; it is a mundatory limitation on a courts juris…
21-7221 Alfred Lavoris Moody v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion juvenile-justice mitigating-factors mitigation-factors proportionality rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review Whether the 78-month sentence imposed on Mr. Moody was " greater than necessary " considering his troubled childhood.
21-7222 Hugo Valencia Mendoza v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-guidelines vagueness-doctrine 1. Is the term "involved" under Section 2D1.1(b)(5) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines Unconstitutional under the Vagueness Doctrine through t…
21-7223 Angel DeLara v. California California 2022-02-28 Denied IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-determination jury-trial penal-code sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether California's Determinate Sentencing Law, by permitting sentencing Judges to impose enhanced sentences based on their determination of facts no…
21-7225 Milton Lattimore v. Illinois Illinois 2022-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial guilty-plea judicial-discretion mental-competency special-conditions trial-fitness Whether a person who is fit to stand trial only with special conditions is denied due process when the trial court accepts a guilty plea entered witho…
21-7229 Steven A. Taliani v. Illinois Illinois 2022-02-28 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-hearing involuntary-intoxication prescription-medication state-prisoner statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review 1) Does the Illinois Supreme Court's opinion and analysis constitute an unreasonable determination of the facts in light of the Illinois Supreme Cour…
21-1185 Rufino Valdez-Lopez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-02-28 Denied circuit-split collateral-attack criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judicial-vindictiveness sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment This case turns on whether the Pearce presumption of judicial vindictiveness applies—for the Government to then rebut with new evidence—when a second …
21-1186 Michelle Manor, et vir v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-02-28 Denied Response Waived civil-rights coercive-interrogation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence immigration judicial-review marriage-fraud ninth-circuit unreliable-statements Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in finding that the Manors waived the issue that the trial court erred in relying upon unreliable statements made duri…
21-7206 Chuck Duckworth v. Illinois Illinois 2022-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-discharge bankruptcy-injunction creditor-recovery creditors criminal-procedure fresh-start restitution restitution-award state-prosecution Section 524 of the United States Bankruptcy Code provides that a bankruptcy discharge "operates as an injunction against the commencement or continuat…
21-7207 Robert Brewer v. New York New York 2022-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP accomplice-liability constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-unanimity precedent state-courts supreme-court-precedent This Court should grant certiorari to decide whether or how Schad v Arizona, 501 U.S. 624 (1991), continues to apply following the decisions in Ramos …
21-7211 Theodore William Taylor v. The Kendall Law Group, P.L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-02-25 Denied IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation legal-ethics misconduct statutory-interpretation Whether the Fifth Circuit violated the Petitioner's (Plaintiff's) Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights to Due Process of the Law by permitting such egregi…
21-7213 Kwasi McKinney v. Arkansas Arkansas 2022-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction compulsory-process confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection postconviction-relief speedy-trial 1. WHEN DOES THE DIRECT APPEAL OF A JURY TRIAL CONVICTION OF SIX (6) DIFFERENT CRIMINAL OFFENSES AND SENTENCE BECOME FINAL? 2. IF A STATE TRIAL COURT…
21-7217 Thomas Allen Twobabies v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-02-25 Denied IFP criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction major-crimes-act mcgirt-decision montgomery-v-louisiana native-american-law oklahoma-court-of-criminal-appeals retroactivity schriro-v-summerlin supreme-court-precedent tribal-jurisdiction 1. WHETHER THIS COURT'S DECISION IN MCGIRT V. OKLAHOMA APPLIES TO THE CHEYENNE AND ARAPAHO TRIBES FOR MAJOR CRIMES ACT PURPOSES. 2. WHETHER THE OKLAH…
21-7191 Rosa Leija-Peralta v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe…
21-7194 Mainor Canales v. Tennessee Tennessee 2022-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance investigation post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment trial-preparation witness-investigation 1. INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL? a. COUNSEL DID NOT PROVIDE CONSTITUTIONALLY EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE WHEN HE FAILED TO CONDUCT REASONABLE INVESTIGAT…
21-7196 Luis Alonso Ramirez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres certiorari criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7198 Remel Ahart v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2022-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP and whether Massachusetts's appellate review prov appellate-review collateral-review criminal-procedure equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel postconviction-review procedural-default sixth-amendment 1. When a court issues a procedural ruling not to extend the benefits of a new rule collaterally to those who did not preserve their claim, does the S…
21-7201 Michael Dewayne Jones v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-02-24 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure federal-enclave fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment state-jurisdiction 1) Did the State of OKlahome violate Petitionus Fourth and Fourtenth Amenmnt ss when they Poscuted this Ptits Crime Which happened on a fidud enclave …
21-1170 Louis Ciminelli v. United States, et al. Second Circuit 2022-02-24 Judgment Issued Amici (5)Relisted (2) circuit-split criminal-procedure economic-decision federal-statute fraud-statutes property-fraud right-to-control second-circuit wire-fraud Whether the Second Circuit's "right to control" theory of fraud—which treats the deprivation of complete and accurate information bearing on a person'…
21-1165 Janhoi Cole v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-02-23 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment investigation officer-conduct rodriguez-rule rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop unrelated-crimes Whether the extension of a traffic stop for an officer to ask detailed questions about the driver's travel plans violates the Fourth Amendment rule in…
21-7183 Ruth Diaz-Burgos v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-amendment interrogation plea-bargaining plea-colloquy self-incrimination The district court, in conducting a change of plea hearing, failed to advise Petitioner of her right to be free from compelled self-incrimination befo…
21-7188 Elishay Banks v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review counsel-performance criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-error ninth-circuit standard-of-review Is it error by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to fail to consider the petitioner's argument concerning the ineffective assistance of counsel obvio…
21-7169 Latwon James v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-02-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-factors supervised-release waiver I. Whether the Fourth Circuit erroneously dismissed Mr. James's appeal based on a provision in Mr. James's plea agreement waiving his right to appeal …
21-7170 Deborah Bowers and Steve S. Jabar, aka Steve Shariff, aka Satar Jabar, aka Kamal Jabar, aka Kamal Jamel v. United States Second Circuit 2022-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1001 appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure false-statements fraud fraud-theory indictment materiality materiality-standard prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation 1. May a court of appeals reinstate a verdict on a theory of fraud that was not pled in the indictment, not sought to be proven or argued at the trial…
21-7173 Herman J. Snell, II v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-02-22 Denied IFP collateral-attack criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice fundamental-rights jurisdictional-challenge miscarriage-of-justice state-conviction subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. WAS VISGTAT V. OKLAHOMA, 140 S.CT. [CITATION], A COLLATERAL PROCEEDING? DID THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT ENTER A NEW PROCEDURAL RULE OF LAW IN O…
21-7174 Inocencio Gamboa-Rivera v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-precedent constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit legal-review sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7154 John Walters v. Michael Martin, Warden Fourth Circuit 2022-02-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel missouri-v-frye plea-bargaining plea-offer prejudice-analysis right-to-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Mr. Walters lost an opportunity for a favorable plea because his counsel failed to tell him about it. As a result, Mr. Walters entered a guilty plea t…
21-7157 Richard Lucas v. United States Second Circuit 2022-02-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split cocaine cocaine-definition controlled-substances criminal-arrest criminal-procedure plain-error probable-cause statutory-interpretation 1. If a state statue's definition of "cocaine " differs from the federal definition of "cocaine" based on the plain, unambigu ous language of the sta…
21-7161 Deja Paschal v. Connecticut Connecticut 2022-02-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process equivocal-request right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment waiver Whether a defendant's request for self-representation, made in the context of expressing frustration with appointed counsel and requesting new counsel…
21-7163 Nathaniel Ruth v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-02-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-procedure federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation I Does the phrase "controlled substance" in U.S.S.C. § 4B1.2(b) include substances that are excluded from the Controlled Substances Act? II. When def…
21-7143 Johnny Brett Gregory v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-17 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-1651 constitutional-rights coram-nobis criminal-procedure judicial-review legal-challenge petition-rights post-conviction-relief supervised-release writ-of-certiorari Does a former federal prisoner serving a term of supervised release have a Constitutional right to avail themselves of a Writ of Coram nobis remedy un…
21-7147 Sergio Alberto Arzate-Gameroz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-02-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-precedent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review overrule sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7148 Mark Allen Banes v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-02-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-law federalism improper-venue interstate-registration registration-compliance sex-offender-registration venue venue-jurisdiction Whether the state of origin where a sex offender is properly registered is an improper venue for hearing a violation of the sex offender's registratio…
21-7149 Pedro Romero-Sandoval v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-02-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-law constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7150 Michael Cameron v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-02-17 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification misidentification right-to-defense right-to-present-defense showup-lineup suggestive-lineup witness-identification The police conducted a showup lineup with Cameron and four witnesses without justification. The unduly suggestive showup lineups were never corroborat…
21-7152 Jeremy Heath Barney v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2022-02-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process post-conviction-relief resentencing undisturbed-conviction I. DOES A DEFENDANT HAVE A UNITED STATES CONSTITUTIONAL 14TH AMENDMENT RIGHT UNDER DUE PROCESS - TO ATTACK HIS UNDISTURBED CONVICTION AFTER BEING RESE…
21-1146 Gary McClain v. Texas Texas 2022-02-17 Denied client-autonomy criminal-procedure criminal-trial defense-counsel fundamental-rights right-to-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error trial-strategy This Court held in McCoy v. Louisiana, 138 S. Ct. 1500 (2018), that defense counsel may not concede his client's guilt in the guilt phase of trial if …
21-1135 Goyko Gustav Kuburovich v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-02-16 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-fraud criminal-procedure due-process false-statements federal-prosecution fraud jury-instructions jury-unanimity statutory-interpretation sua-sponte Where a criminal defendant is prosecuted in federal court for a single count of bankruptcy fraud relying on multiple alleged false statements, each wi…
21-7133 Francis P. Salemme v. United States First Circuit 2022-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP accessorial-liability accessory-after-the-fact aiding-and-abetting criminal-procedure due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-precedent middleton-v-mcneil Whether the jury instruction regarding accessorial liability that fails to distinguish between aiding and abetting liability and accessory after the f…
21-7139 Bradley Scott Williams v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP base-level-score criminal-procedure drug-offense judicial-discretion methamphetamine sentencing-guidelines USSG-Section-2D1.1(c)(2) USSG-Section-2D1.1(c)(4) Did the trial court commit error when it calculated the appellant's sentencing guideline base level score using the enhanced "Ice" guideline value und…
21-7116 Victor Armando Acevedo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-02-15 Denied IFP criminal-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-procedure notice sentencing supervised-release Whether, under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 43(a)(3), a district court can lawfully impose the thirteen "standard" supervised-release conditions…
21-7119 Victor Carlos Castano v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-02-15 Denied IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure enterprise fifth-amendment grand-jury jury-instructions proffer-agreement rico-conspiracy sentencing sentencing-enhancement A. Whether the government was impermissibly relieved of its burden to prove each element of RICO Conspiracy when the court instructed the jury that an…
21-7122 Thomas Warner v. Illinois Illinois 2022-02-15 Denied IFP aggravated-battery criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-sufficiency firearm-discharge jury-instructions sentencing state-testimony witness-credibility Whether Thomas Warner's convictions for Aggravated Battery with Discharge of a Firearm should be reversed where they were not supported by credible te…
21-7125 William F. Kaetz v. United States Third Circuit 2022-02-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure coram-nobis criminal-procedure fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-error miscarriage-of-justice rule-60 writ-of-coram-nobis 1. Federal rules of civil procedure Rule 60 and a Writ of Coram Nobis both can be used to set aside a judgment, one is for civil cases, and one is for…
21-7128 Cornelius Riley v. United States Third Circuit 2022-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-offense due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Should this Honorable Court extend the reasoning of Apprendi, Alleyne, and Peugh to cases where a defendant's sentencing guideline range increases sig…
21-7110 Jorge Alberto Funez-Zapata v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
21-7102 Elmer Josue Rivas-Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
21-7094 Gustavo Guillermo Gutierrez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP Apprendi-v-New-Jersey constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial precedent-review recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7100 Alkiohn Dunkins v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2022-02-10 Denied IFP cellsite-information constitutional-protections criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement privacy privacy-rights search-and-seizure standing Whether the Lower Courts erred by being forced to suppress the cell-site information under this Courts opinion in Carpenter? Whether the Lower Courts…
21-7081 Marko Stasiv v. United States Second Circuit 2022-02-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-discretion jury-coercion jury-trial motion-for-new-trial Was the Defendant, Marko Stasiv, entitled to have a hearing on the question of jury coercion in connection with his Motion for a New Trial when the tr…
21-7084 Dwight David Jordan v. Florida Florida 2022-02-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-instructions legal-precedent lesser-included-offense principal-liability waiver GROUND 1) Whether the court can depart from clearly established law on case by case basis? State v. Gray, 435 So. 2d 816, 818 (Fla. 1983) is a case th…
21-7087 In Re Wesley Thompson 2022-02-09 Denied IFP appeals criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus sentencing PRIOR COURTS DISPITE THE CONSTTTUTIONAL VIOLATIONS? 2) CAN MR. THOMPSON'S CONVICTIONS STAND WITHOOT VINDICATION OF THE VIOLATIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION…
21-7088 Selbourne Waite v. United States Second Circuit 2022-02-09 GVR Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924c aiding-and-abetting attempted-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-procedure eighth-amendment hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement Whether attempted Hobbs Act robbery, which may be completed through an attempted threat alone, see 18 U.S.C. § 1951(a), and aiding and abetting a Hobb…
21-7092 Epati Malauulu v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-02-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2255 constitutional-rights counsel-waiver criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief section-2255 waiver Whether, Despite a Waiver, Malauulu Can Properly Raise Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Claims Under 18 U.S.C. § 2255?
21-7067 Kimmie Dwayne Baker v. Arizona Arizona 2022-02-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certiorari-review criminal-procedure due-process electronic-surveillance evidence exculpatory-evidence government-misconduct government-response judicial-procedure new-trial new-trial-motion surveillance 1. Shola the Inoldina of Uritted States Ve Elbechnact SYe le. VL (2005), " thak im his Case Coovermment Vieo\eeready bo Yespond, and Yor Contest Whe m…
21-7072 Dontrell R. Wise v. United States Second Circuit 2022-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-conviction criminal-procedure drug-crimes drug-dealing due-process expert-testimony sufficiency-of-evidence 1. A writ of certiorari is requested to determine whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming Dontrell Wise's conviction which was …
21-7073 Nathaniel Collins v. Alabama Alabama 2022-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process electronic-hearing in-person-hearing probation trial-court-objection video-conference virtual-hearing Whether a virtual, video conference, or other hearing that takes place using an electronic or computer medium is sufficient to meet the due process re…
21-1099 Thomas Clayton Steres v. Kevin Curran, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-02-08 Denied Response Waived cell-phone-search certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sixth-amendment 1. Whether Thomas Steres received ineffective assistance of counsel in violation of the Sixth Amendment? 2. Whether the search of Mr. Steres' cell ph…
21-1102 Oklahoma v. Shaynna Lauren Sims Oklahoma 2022-02-08 GVR Response RequestedRelisted (2) criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federalism indian-country native-american-rights non-indian-crimes state-prosecution tribal-sovereignty 1. Whether a state has authority to prosecute non-Indians who commit crimes against Indians in Indian country. 2. If the answer to the first question…
21-1089 Jeff Garvin Smith, Cary Dale Vandiver, Patrick Michael McKeoun, David Randy Drozdowski, and Vincent John Witort v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-02-07 Denied Criminal-Procedure Due-Process First-Amendment Free-Speech hypothetical-elements jury-instruction Jury-Instructions RICO-Conspiracy sixth-circuit-precedent I. Should the jury have been allowed to convict the defendants on the hypothetical existence of all of the elements of a RICO Conspiracy? II. Did the…
21-1082 Tarresse Leonard v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-04 Denied criminal-procedure essential-element harmless-error indictment judicial-review motion-to-dismiss structural-error Whether the erroneous denial of a timely raised motion to dismiss an indictment omitting an essential element is structural error requiring dismissal …
21-1083 Jay Hoon Choi v. Virginia Virginia 2022-02-04 Denied Response Waived 6th-amendment criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process law-enforcement-contact miranda-rights right-to-attorney right-to-counsel right-to-remain-silent sixth-amendment state-magistrates Issue 1. Following the police reading of the rights enumerated in Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966), how long after a person in custody asserts …
21-7059 Timothy George Muller v. Michigan Michigan 2022-02-04 Denied IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction plea-bargaining substance venue MR. MULLED- EaJT/TIE D To uoiTA/TIRA lS DlEA AMD Tai/E /J& CoaJTclVoa} fa/Z DEA iuEAY oE 6orimoU.tX> SuBSfAAJCE tAOZiti^DEATbJ VACATED, l$EC/kJSE '…
21-7062 Michael Devell Smith v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 3553(a) criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion guidelines section-3553a sentence-disparity sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness unwarranted-disparities Whether the district court ordered an unreasonable 24-month sentence considering the facts of this case and the Guidelines sentence range of 12 to 18 …
21-7063 Salahudin Shaheed v. United States Third Circuit 2022-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure drug-introduction due-process exculpatory-defense legal-standard plea-bargaining sentencing sexual-misconduct standing Has thousands of people been wrongfully convicted by Courts of law, facts (drug introduction into correctional institutions) and "illicit sex acts)" i…
21-7047 In Re Daren Kareem Gadsden 2022-02-03 Dismissed IFP constitutional-violation criminal-indictment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-indictment federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment sentencing sentencing-authority Whether or not the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland exceeded its authority and/or jurisdiction by punishing petitioner to a (23) twent…
21-7051 Demarcus Antwon Chatmon v. Texas Texas 2022-02-03 Denied IFP body-camera body-camera-recording confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process hearsay hearsay-exception police-evidence primary-purpose testimonial-statement The Confrontation Clause grants defendants the right to confront witnesses against them. Here, the trial court overruled objections and allowed accusa…
21-7053 Iramm Wright v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-law constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states procedural-default statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine 1. Whether the Court should resolve the three-way circuit split regarding whether, and under what circumstances, a movant's procedural default may be …
21-7054 Ervin Walker, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 abuse-of-discretion compassionate-release criminal-procedure district-court-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction ussg-1b1.13 Whether the District Court abused its discretion when it denied Petitioner's Motion for Compassionate Release under 18 USC § 3582 (c)(1)(A), after it …
21-7041 Anthony Andrews v. Bryan K. Dobbs, Warden Fourth Circuit 2022-02-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process parole revocation sentencing supervised-release Question not identified.
21-7016 Tony Gonzalez v. Rhode Island Rhode Island 2022-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion brady-violation cellphone-search criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment jury-selection jury-venire motion-to-suppress sixth-amendment standing Did the trial Justice err, when the Jury Venire challenge, had been inappropriately addressed, concerning a proper sixth Amendment challenge? And Tria…
21-7018 Jose Fuentes v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-01 Denied IFP character-evidence criminal-procedure deposition due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insanity-defense medical-records subpoena trial-counsel witness-testimony Question one of ground one of Fuentes £2254 petition: Relevancy is everything when it comes to evidence, and the Petitioner 's private psychologist, D…
21-7022 Patrick Nilo Gil v. Virginia Virginia 2022-02-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction public-defender sentencing suppression-hearing video-evidence Vehicle seized EASTERN Shore of VA comack CouNty Sheriff's chris Hargis offic IN the couNty of NOrthamPtON VA EASTERN Store him authority in having NO…
21-7023 Toni Marie Rambo v. Texas Texas 2022-02-01 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment sentencing DOES THE SENTENCE IMPOSED ON MRS. RAMBO CONSTITUTE CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT IN VIOLATION OF HIS EIGHTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS?
21-7030 Darrin Lynn Pickens v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-02-01 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure enabling-act federal-jurisdiction federal-land-restrictions indian-country state-enabling-act state-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction territorial-jurisdiction I. Does the State of oKlahoma have Subject matter Jurisdiction over anY person mho Commits an offense UUithin tlic boundries of Indian CountrY ? Does…
21-7032 Adrian Hunt v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2d1.1(b)(1) 5th-circuit criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit firearm-enhancement sentencing-guidelines tools-of-the-trade tools-of-the-trade-presumption Whether the Fifth Circuit's practice of applying a tools-of-the-trade presumption to the firearm enhancement of sentencing guidelines §2D1.1(b)(1) vio…
21-7034 Jeriton Lavar Curry, aka Cheese v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender crime-of-violence criminal-procedure district-court-error due-process hobbs-act legal-analysis sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether a conviction for Hobbos Act Robbery qualifies as a "crime of violence" under the Sentencing Guidelines, U.S.S.G.3 4BI.2(a).? 2) Whether the D…
21-7036 Jeffrey Davis v. Orange County Sheriff's Office, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP arrest-validity civil-rights criminal-procedure detention-challenge district-court-procedure due-process false-arrest habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard prima-facie-evidence standing Whether the district court departed from the essential requirements of the law, in the absence of prima facie evidence attached to its order to refute…
21-7037 Robert Breest v. New Hampshire New Hampshire 2022-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure dismissal dna-testing expert-testimony favorable-evidence forensic-evidence habeas-corpus new-hampshire retrial statutory-interpretation 1. Issue One: Whether the DNA tests were favorable under New Hampshire RSA 651-D-2, VI (b) and warrant dismissal of the charge because a different res…
21-7038 Jeremy William Lillich v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure detention fourth-amendment identification reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop warrant-execution Petitioner Jeremy Lillich pleaded guilty, pursuant to a conditional plea agreement, to violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1), 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(A), 2…
21-6989 Jason Wayne Oien v. Chad Pringle, Warden Eighth Circuit 2022-01-31 Denied IFP certiorari civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review lower-court-decision post-conviction-relief procedural-error prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing supreme-court-review Testinny y Exprt winses My lawer ad 1. Rule 702. Police OFFicer. (14thAmendment) 2. Luminol testing. DNA was never found on me or victim. 3. Rule 1…
21-6998 Robert Lars Pape v. California California 2022-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-exclusion right-to-present-defense standard-of-review third-party-culpability 1. Does the Constitution permit the exclusion of a defendant's presentation of substantial evidence of third-party culpability simply because the cour…
21-6999 Sharoc Richardson v. Sherman Campbell, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure defense-witnesses due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-a-fair-trial trial-court-error witness-cross-examination QUESTION ONE: DID THE TRIAL COURT ERR IN FAILING TO INSTRUCT THE JURY ON INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER IN THIS CASE? QUESTION TWO: WAS TRIAL COUNSEL INEFF…
21-7009 Cristian M. Loga-Negru v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2022-01-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP brady-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure deportation due-process exculpatory-evidence plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct vindictiveness Question not identified.
21-7012 Jessica Ewing v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2022-01-31 Denied IFP burden-of-proof counsel-performance criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel innocence judicial-discretion plea-agreement plea-bargaining post-conviction Ms. Ewing asserts that the previcis court erred when it did not grant a C.O.A. despite the debatability of the District Court's opinion by a reasonabl…
21-7013 Michael John Wolfe v. Oregon Oregon 2022-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-crime constitutional-law constitutional-provision criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto legislative-amendment retroactivity The ex post facto prohibition in Article I, section 10, of the United States Constitution prevents a change in law from being applied retroactively wh…
21-7014 Vicente Lopez-Sanchez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP assault criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions law-enforcement mens-rea Whether the district court erred by denying the defense's jury instruction stating that for a finding of guilt, Mr. Lopez had to know that the person …
21-7015 Edward T. James v. Florida Florida 2022-01-31 Denied IFP capital-defendant court-procedure criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus incompetency incompetency-claim mental-competency substantive-claim substantive-review 1. Whether a court may refuse to review a capital defendant's substantive incompetency claim?
21-7020 Charles David Gordon v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-disclosure criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility mental-health segregation self-incrimination voluntariness voluntary-statements I. Whether a defendant's statements may be admitted into evidence when the statements were made while she was placed in segregated confinement based o…
21-6990 Roger D. Roberts v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure drug-crimes due-process evidence-standard habeas-corpus informant-credibility police-misconduct search-and-seizure state-court-review How did the prosecutor use evidence of a drug sell allegedly by Mr. Roberts an informant where there was no Us.nq 2 were purchased from Mr. Robert's t…
21-6996 Robert Stivers v. Illinois Illinois 2022-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights coerced-confession confession-admissibility constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process interrogation-procedure police-interrogation right-to-silence Is a suspect's Constitutional Amendments V as well as XIV rights violated when a clear and unambiguous invocation to remain silent is ignored? Additio…
21-7000 Dominic Dean Adams v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review conviction conviction-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure legal-error sentencing standard-of-review Did the court of appeals err in affirming Mr. Adams' conviction?
21-7006 Juan Jaime-Guzman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-rights criminal-procedure indictment prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment I. Can a court, consistent with the Sixth Amendment, impose a statutorily enhanced sentence based on the fact of a prior conviction never alleged in t…
21-7008 Marco Dane Acoff v. Alabama Alabama 2022-01-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-protocol criminal-procedure due-process federal-constitution habeas-corpus judicial-discretion mental-evaluation state-constitution supreme-court-review WHETHER "THE ALABAMA SUPREME COURT WRONGFULLY DECIDED AN IMPORTANT ISSUE RAISED TO THEM BY PETITIONER MARCO DANE ACOFF WHERE HE WAS DENIED A TIMELY AN…
21-1053 Randall Hepp, Warden v. Danny L. Wilber Seventh Circuit 2022-01-28 Denied aedpa-review criminal-procedure deck-v-missouri due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus judicial-restraint jury-trial shackling state-conviction state-court-deference During Danny Wilber's jury trial in 2005 for fatally shooting a man at a party, Wilber became increasingly belligerent with the Milwaukee County Circu…
21-6974 Alfredo Gonzalez v. Angel Quiros, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction Connecticut 2022-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP accessory-liability burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process firearm-enhancement firearms jury-determination manslaughter sentencing Does Connecticut's statutory scheme of accessory to manslaughter in the first degree with a firearm violate Due Process, in that it allows for an incr…
21-6980 Michael R. Fowler v. Robert Fox, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence hearsay unconFrontedstatements Whather a victims to police wre admissible at trial onthe grounds of unavailability by forfeiture where no affirmcaused +he wi…
21-6987 Marcus Antonio Grubbs v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver contract-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process miscarriage-of-justice procedural-waiver sentencing Whether a defendant can "knowingly," "voluntarily," and/or "intelligently," execute an appeal waiver of conduct yet to occur in the proceedings, visa-…
21-6992 Michael Rocky Lane v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing ninth-circuit sentencing summary-affirmance I. Whether The Denial Of Michael Lane's Motion For Compassionate Release Was An Abuse Of Discretion? II. Whether the Ninth Circuit's Summary Affirman…
21-6961 Mauro C. Palacio v. Justin Caraway, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admission fifth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-discretion procedural-error Question not identified.
21-6967 Lemonta Markuis Maddox v. California California 2022-01-26 Denied IFP civil-rights coerced-confessions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-law interrogation involuntary-statements plea-bargaining state-law Is it rightly lawful for a detective to obtain involuntary statements by coercion and promises of leniency violating federal and state constitutional …
21-6968 Jay Anthony Jones v. Maryland Maryland 2022-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-protection criminal-procedure criminal-remand double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion north-carolina-v-pearce sentencing sentencing-enhancement twigg-v-state 1. Is the State of Maryland's case Twigg v. State, 447 Md. 1 (2016), afoul of the long standing principal set forth in North Carolina v. Pearce, 395 U…
21-1042 David Minnick v. Dan Winkleski, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-01-26 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure defense-counsel direct-appeal guilty-plea hill-v-lockhart ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonableness-inquiry sentencing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. Whether the "reasonableness" standard for assessing deficient performance of defense counsel under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), a…
21-6948 Robert Earl Ramseur v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process grand-jury indictment prosecutorial-vindictiveness self-surrender sentencing superseding-indictment 1. Is it prosecutorial vindictiveness to have a superseding indictment after completion of the trial proceedings and sentencing without resubmission t…
21-6949 Reno Fuentes Rios v. Ken Clark, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-01-25 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus parole sentencing Question not identified.
21-6950 Stephen Rosa v. New York New York 2022-01-25 Denied IFP case-law civil-rights constitutional-violation court-procedure criminal-procedure district-attorney due-process sentencing standing statutory-rights WAS THE COURTS IN VIOLATIONS FOR NOT FOLLOWING ITS OWN CASE LAWS ? WAS PETITIONERS DUE PROCESS RIGHTS VIOLATED AND HIS RIGHTS UNDER D.L. § § 720.10 &…
21-6952 Sunrise Lee v. United States First Circuit 2022-01-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split conspiracy controlled-substances criminal-procedure due-process evidence-standard federal-court judgment-of-acquittal legal-sufficiency physician prescription-drugs 1. Whether a non-physician may be convicted of conspiring with a physician to prescribe controlled substances outside of the course of professional pr…
21-6955 Erica Umbay v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interstate-commerce plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing-guidelines Whether a Criminal Defendant Can Withdraw a Plea Under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(b)(3) if the Plea Lacked an Adequate Factual Basis? Whet…
21-6957 David Kent Thacker, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-01-25 Denied IFP amendment-due-process civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings due-process exclusionary-rule federal-intervention investigation-scope miranda-rights pecuniary-interest self-incrimination in this particular scenario (pretrial assertions must it have been asserted by way of the 4th Amendments EXCLUSIONARY RULE, to suppress State Statemen…
21-6960 Jonathan C. Roush v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3161 18-usc-3164 court-of-appeals criminal-procedure district-court-order griggs-v-provident-consumer-discount-co retroactive-exclusion speedy-trial speedy-trial-act time-calculation zedner-v-united-states Whether, in light of this Court's ruling in Zedner v. United States, 547 U.S. 489, 126 S. Ct. 1976, 164 L. Ed. 2D 749 (2006) and Griggs v. Provident C…
21-6933 Carlos Rivera-Alejandro, aka Homero v. United States First Circuit 2022-01-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP barker-factors barker-v-wingo circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process speedy-trial standard-of-review trial-length 1. Whether the Supreme Court should resolve a circuit split concerning the standard of review for a constitutional speedy trial claim. 2. Whether the…
21-6940 Ferney Salas Torres v. United States Second Circuit 2022-01-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-appeal criminal-procedure district-court-discretion minor-role-adjustment pilot-enhancement plea-agreement procedural-reasonableness second-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines 1. A writ of certiorari is requested to determine whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming Ferney Salas Torres' judgment of conv…
21-6944 Juan Coreno-Garay v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-01-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
21-6945 Johnnie W. Byrd, III v. David W. Gray, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-01-21 Denied IFP burden-of-proof certificate-of-appealability criminal-justice-system criminal-procedure due-process federal-due-process-protections federal-judicial-system food-stamps judicial-review ohio-law sixth-circuit Johnnie Byrd's case raises an issue of national importance in the wake of our Criminal Justice Systems efforts to regain the publics confidence in it…
21-6890 Robert William Moats v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights consensual-encounter consent constitutional-rights criminal-procedure detention fourth-amendment police-detention probable-cause search-and-seizure Whether the majority opinion of the Unit ed States Fourth Circuit of Appeals, which held that the defendant had a consensual encounter with police and…
21-6908 Jessie Flores v. Brian Cates, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP competence-to-stand-trial competency-to-stand-trial criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health-defense mental-state-defense psychosis specific-intent substance-abuse willful-deliberate-and-premeditated-murder Does defense counsel unreasonably fail to investigate and present a mental state defense to a charge of willful, deliberate and premeditated murder wh…
21-6910 Juan Manuel Cruzado-Laureano v. W. Stephen Muldrow First Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion attorney-for-government attorney-for-the-government criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure grand-jury grand-jury-procedure indictment indictment-validity judicial-discretion mandamus mandamus-petition 1- An Indictment whose "True Bill" is only signed by the US District Attorney to arrest and criminally prosecute an accused is valid, even when the si…
21-6912 Jamar Jones v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review cell-phone-data constitutional-rights counsel-performance criminal-procedure fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence ineffective-assistance plea-withdrawal privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure liE TItetZ ntElZE E)(1 sr A- SLIFF x cr-c-ry T E577.1SLtsli P8 - 7ri n on/ PLEA oF Gu I . L Ptiaulinrr m caw -r ON& (*I Che-rded vio La,.1-7 o Ai Cam-…
21-6917 Joseph Earl Clark, II v. Shawn Lindsey Britt, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief sentencing-mitigation standing Whether the Fourth Circuit erred and/or abused its discretion in affirming summary judgment against petitioner. Can court dismiss claims in the compl…
21-6919 Kevin Vigil v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure evidence-of-continuous-excitement excited-utterance federal-criminal-jurisdiction federal-evidence-rule federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay-exception indian-country-status indian-law pueblo-lands-act I. Whether a hearsay statement may be properly admitted as an excited utterance under Fed. R. Evid. 803(2) without evidence that the declarant was und…
21-6932 Joshua Dixon v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel criminal-procedure federal-review ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-court-findings sufficiency-of-evidence I In Florida, e criminal defendant hes a first eppecl as a matter of c:qht and t theappointment of counsel for said oppeal. under Floridd case law a s…
21-6902 Daliyl Raaid Muhammad v. Eric Armel, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2022-01-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-standard circuit-split collateral-review criminal-procedure federal-prejudice-standards harmless-error jury-verdict jury-verdicts supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether the Third Circuit erred, in conflict with decisions of the Second and Ninth Circuits, when it held that this Court's decision in United St…
21-6905 Ramon Diaz-Quintana v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-01-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-6879 In Re Allen Fitzgerald Calton 2022-01-18 Dismissed IFP cause-and-prejudice constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidence-review evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus innocence innocence-claim life-sentence original-jurisdiction state-court-review 1. Whether Petitioner Ao Me Sickack Court Lor hearing gursus nt PON Combs ocainal \qaloeas yursdicion Vo rarcanked fa AHS excephional Life serene case…
21-6882 Alexi Lenin Argueta-Urbina v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-6884 Hermin Rodriguez-Monserrate, aka Cano, aka Canito v. United States First Circuit 2022-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP coronavirus-act coronavirus-aid-relief-and-economic-security-act criminal-procedure defendant-absence due-process educational-condition learning-disability sentencing sentencing-procedure supervised-release 1. Should certiorari be granted because the district court conducted Petitioner's sentence and revocation hearing in his physical absence, even though…
21-6886 Roberto Martinez-Rivera v. United States First Circuit 2022-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fair-and-just-reason plea-withdrawal presumption-of-innocence rule-11 Whether a defendant who enters a plea of guilty, but moves to withdraw such plea prior to sentencing, while at the same time properly articulating a p…
21-6887 Sergio Rodriguez-Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-6888 Ryan Kenneth Richmond, aka Rich v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appellate-review attempted-murder criminal-defendant criminal-procedure plea-agreement relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines I. DOES A CRIMINAL DEFENDANT'S WAIVER OF HIS RIGHT TO APPEAL A WITHIN GUIDELINE'S SENTENCE BAR APPELLATE REVIEW WHERE THE DISTRICT COURT USED A CROSS …
21-6899 John B. Alberts v. Grady Perry, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP automobile-exception container criminal-procedure fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel laptop-computer laptop-evidence private-property search-and-seizure Whether Trial Counsel was Ineffective for Failing to Move to Suppress Computer Evidence on the Ground that a Search Pursuant to the Automobile Excepti…
21-6901 Wilbert Mathes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure drug-quantity drug-quantity-enhancement evidentiary-hearing fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel leadership-enhancement sentencing sentencing-errors Whether the Fifth Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability, where the district court erred or alternatively abused its discretion by conclud…
21-6836 Daniel Locus v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2022-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP credibility criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification federal-courts judicial-review state-court-review state-courts wrongful-conviction wrongful-convictions 1. Did the District Court's ruling consistent with the holdings in Neil v. Biqqers , 2243 (1977)?423 U.S. 98, 114, 53 L.Ed.2d 140, 97 S. Ct. 2. If t…
21-6852 Joedon Bradley v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP assets constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process employment-history felon-in-possession firearms in-forma-pauperis indigence monthly-income second-amendment support-obligations Question not identified.
21-6859 Jaquirro T. Scott v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court civil-rights constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review plea-bargaining procedural-standard standing I. Whether acceptance of a guilty plea without establishing a crime against the United States constitutes a structural error that voids the subsequent…
21-6865 Justin Odell Langford v. Renee Baker, Warden Nevada 2022-01-14 Denied Relisted (2)IFP commission-statute constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure emergency-legislation fraud-upon-the-court judicial-power judicial-time-bars legislative-override legislative-power procedural-constraints state-supreme-court statutory-revision Me 5eperotion gP Pouje.f daotr/s) e. xt not isP, .1) YW VVvCs Coort um/ke-if Were eves- a.-ViMe a. <\oci^e co,v\ turtle lata* and or p<lS5 rh as an '…
21-6871 Alan Price v. Florida Florida 2022-01-14 Denied IFP collateral-review criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance McCoy-retroactivity mccoy-v-louisiana montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity right-to-counsel substantive-rule I. Whether McCoy u. Louisiana, 138 S. Ct 1500 (2018), adopts a new substantive rule that applies retroactively to cases on collateral review? II. Whe…
21-6873 Juan J. Torres v. Illinois Illinois 2022-01-14 Denied IFP appellate-court court-denial criminal-procedure custody-violation due-process fifth-amendment jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge legal-procedure miranda-rights right-to-counsel sixth-amendment the United states Supreme court what about informing suspect ruling was having a lawyer about present durning Questioning. What 747 United states sup…
21-6875 Dontaie Anderson v. Kyle Russell, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2022-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection evidence judicial-procedure sentencing supreme-court SECURIYOF PERSON, FROM, SEVER IINESS, MENTANY. PHYSICAHY, DEATH. DUE PROCESS.AND.PUNISHMENT. PERTICIPATING IN MIS OWN DEFFENCSE, DID VIOIATE THE SIXTH…
21-6877 Alisha Dawn Aldridge v. Texas Texas 2022-01-14 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process independent-investigation ineffective-counsel witness-testimony Question not identified.
21-1001 Hakim Bey v. John Rivello, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. Third Circuit 2022-01-14 Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-doubt Whether a jury instruction is unconstitutional if there is a reasonable likelihood that the jury understood it to allow conviction without proof beyon…
21-6838 Bernard Steven Boyd v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment guideline-sentence guideline-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-variance upward-variance Did the Trial Court provide insufficient information or explanation to an upward variance in the Petitioner's Guideline Sentence, from a range of 51 t…
21-6844 Pedro Rafael Caraballo-Martinez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instruction multiple-theory-error predicate-offense statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-vagueness united-states-v-davis vagueness Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A) may be sustained based on the reviewing court's finding that the jury relied equally on a valid pr…
21-6845 In Re Willie S. Smith 2022-01-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP acquittal appeal appellate-review constitutional-injury criminal-procedure due-process judgment-of-acquittal judicial-discretion legal-remedy usurpation-of-power (1) Is it clear and indisputable that, respondent Judges have a duty to enter a judgement of acquittal pursuant to "Ball" and Crim. Rule 29? (2) Is i…
21-6848 Juan Manuel Lopez v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-01-13 Denied IFP criminal-procedure equal-protection equal-protection-clause federal-major-crimes-act judicial-interpretation major-crimes-act mcgirt-v-oklahoma native-american-rights new-rule subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), announced a new rule of criminal procedure. Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals' indepe…
21-6817 Rufus B. Jones v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-offer sixth-amendment stand-your-ground victim-deposition Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his claim that his counsel r…
21-6824 Dwight Frederick Barnes v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure fourth-amendment geolocation-warrant good-faith-doctrine nexus search-and-seizure warrant-requirements warrantless-searches 1. Can the good faith doctrine allow a police officer to rely on a geolocation warrant that lacks any showing of nexus in the application between the …
21-6827 Ryan Thomas Pick v. Virginia Virginia 2022-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment electronic-surveillance fifth-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech miranda-rights search-and-seizure sixth-amendment standing 1. Are citizen's Fourth Amendment rights impinged and Electronic Communication and Privacy Act statutes violated when police intercept private electro…
21-6833 Jason Lee Sarabia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure double-jeopardy evidence-standard fifth-circuit jury-conviction jury-instructions lesser-included-offenses multiplicity Do convictions of greater and lesser-included offenses violate the Double Jeopardy Clause when the prosecution uses the same evidence to obtain both c…
21-6816 N'Neka L. Crews v. Colorado Colorado 2022-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP accident-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federalism fourteenth-amendment mens-rea public-welfare-offense strict-liability I. Whether the Colorado Supreme Court's interpretation, that a criminal leaving the scene of an accident law without a stated mens rea meant that it w…
21-6818 Arron Lawson v. Ohio Ohio 2022-01-11 Denied IFP 5th-amendment 8th-amendment capital-offenses competency competency-evaluation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment state-court-proceedings Does a state Court proceeding resulting in a sentence of death violate the Fifth and Eighth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States when t…
21-985 Oklahoma v. Gage Christopher J. Shriver Oklahoma 2022-01-11 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction indian-law jurisdictional-challenge McGirt-precedent native-american-rights oklahoma-sovereignty stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled.
21-6784 Brian James Talbot v. Virginia Virginia 2022-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-consistency legal-precedent plea-withdrawal precedent Can the decision in the present case and the prior decision of the Court of Appeals of Virginia in Williams v. Commonwealth and its progeny, be reconc…
21-6785 Jarvis Thomas v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence government-witness hypothetical-question hypothetical-questions rule-704b Whether Fed. R. Evid. 704(b) precludes a government expert in a criminal case from opining that the defendant knowingly participated in the charged cr…
21-6795 Jerry White v. Tim Garrett, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-rights confession constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process freestanding-claim habeas-corpus new-evidence post-conviction-relief Whether the constitution prohibits the continued incarceration of a person who proves, with new evidence in the form of a confession by the true perpe…
21-6797 In Re Lawrence Earl Wilson 2022-01-10 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP constitutional-deprivation criminal-procedure critical-stage due-process equitable-tolling exceptional-case habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel 1. WHETHER, A PERSON WHO HAS BEEN DENIED THE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL AT A CRITICAL STAGE OF THE TRIAL PROCEEDINGS AND RECEIVED THE INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANC…
21-6804 Timothy Wayne Kemp v. Arkansas Arkansas 2022-01-10 Denied IFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation cone-v-bell criminal-procedure due-process materiality materiality-standard prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court-precedent Whether the October 7, 2021 decision of the Arkansas Supreme Court, finding that Timothy Kemp was not prejudiced under Brady v. Maryland, was in confl…
21-6807 Davis Salary v. California California 2022-01-10 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief sentencing X. -ZTjf ^ fossibt My fa? Jj faC G£?7fy) 6)f 5 yriof' ^
21-6775 Temne Adah Hardaway v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy conspiracy-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure financial-transactions money-laundering sixth-amendment specified-unlawful-activity venue venue-jurisdiction In United States v. Cabrales, 524 U.S. 1, 2 (1998) this Court and the Eighth Circuit held in a substantive money laundering charge that venue is impro…
21-6776 Wesley R. Carey v. Illinois Illinois 2022-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance michigan-v-mosley post-conviction-relief self-incrimination state-court-decision Has the State of Illinois entered a decision in conflict with the decision in a United States Supreme Court case, Michigan v. Mosley, thereby, Violati…
21-6779 Troy Allen Hite v. Michigan Michigan 2022-01-07 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-violation criminal-procedure critical-stage due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel michigan-state-courts procedural-default right-to-counsel I. IS CERTIORARI APPROPRIATE WHERE MICHIGAN STATE COURTS REFUSED TO ADDRESS PETITIONER'S DENIAL OF HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO COUNSEL AT A CRITICAL S…
21-6762 Karina Lizett Juarez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP administration-of-justice criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-criminal-law federal-law fifth-circuit mitigating-role sentencing-guidelines I. Whether the Fifth Circuit's cursory review of the facts related to a warranted mitigating adjustment under U.S.S.G. § 3B1.2 violated federal law in…
21-6751 Rudy Mendoza v. United States Third Circuit 2022-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure defendant-rights deportation due-process material-evidence materiality victim witness witness-testimony 1. WHETHER THE GOVERNMENT MUST PROVIDE NOTICE TO A DEFENDANT PRIOR TO UNILATERALLY DEPORTING THE SOLE WITNESS AND SOLE ALLEGED VICTIM OF A PENDING CRI…
21-6755 Kenny Pugh v. Illinois Illinois 2022-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule in-forma-pauperis judicial-district legal-representation search-and-seizure state-court state-courts Question not identified.
21-6749 Matthew Sullivan v. Daniel Sproul, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-united-states criminal-procedure guilty-plea legal-clarification misinformation plea-validity post-conviction post-conviction-relief sentencing-enhancement statutory-penalty May a criminal defendant attack the validity of his guilty plea when a post conviction clarification in law reveals that he was misinformed regarding …
21-961 Oklahoma v. Patrick Wayne Olive Oklahoma 2021-12-30 Denied criminal-law criminal-procedure federalism jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law oklahoma-sovereignty stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled.
21-949 George Little, Acting Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. v. Samuel Randolph Third Circuit 2021-12-29 Denied continuance continuances counsel-of-choice criminal-defendant criminal-procedure forfeiture right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-court waiver Whether this Honorable Court should grant review to decide an important question of federal law—whether a criminal defendant can forfeit or waive his …
21-6742 Raudel Salgado-Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP credibility-of-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence-credibility fair-trial judicial-discretion jury-instruction jury-instructions theory-of-defense Whether it violates an accused's right to a fundamentally fair trial to have a judge refuse a theory-of-defense jury instruction because the judge per…
21-6744 Jose D. Resto-Figueroa v. United States First Circuit 2021-12-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-justice-act criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule first-circuit in-forma-pauperis pro-se-petition probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search Question not identified.
21-6746 Adan Ramirez-Rubio v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe…
21-6734 Roger Dale Epperson v. Kentucky Kentucky 2021-12-28 Denied IFP constitutional-law counsel-concession criminal-defense criminal-procedure defendant-autonomy due-process factual-innocence right-to-counsel trial-strategy 1) Does McCoy apply where the defendant made clear to counsel the objective of the defense is to maintain innocence, only for counsel to then concede …
21-6736 Steven R. Henson v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-12-28 GVR Relisted (2)IFP actual-knowledge appellate-review criminal-intent criminal-procedure deliberate-ignorance harmless-error jury-instructions medical-practitioner prescription-liability statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence willful-blindness 1. Whether the erroneous issuance of a deliberate ignorance or willful blindness instruction is harmless as a matter of law and beyond appellate revie…
21-940 Kentucky v. Jared McCarthy Kentucky 2021-12-27 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived blood-test criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission fourth-amendment impaired-driving mandatory-minimum search-and-seizure 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits the admission of a defendant's refusal of a blood test in an impaired-driving prosecution. 2. Whether the F…
21-945 Wisconsin v. Manuel Garcia Wisconsin 2021-12-27 Denied confession criminal-confession criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence-exclusion fifth-amendment miranda-warning miranda-warnings misleading-jury witness-testimony Can a criminal defendant's cross-examination of a witness for the State, designed to mislead the jury, open the door to the introduction of the defend…
21-937 Christopher Lee Holloway v. Minnesota Eighth Circuit 2021-12-23 Denied Response Waived based solely on the relative age of the actor violates the constitutional right to equal-protec while permitting it to another affirmative-defense age-discrimination constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-law legislative-intent rational-basis Whether the denial of an affirmative defense to one class of offenders in a criminal case, while permitting it to another, based solely on the relativ…
21-6712 Jermar Jamie Fuller v. Texas Texas 2021-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure disclosure disclosure-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence prejudice prejudice-inference speedy-trial speedy-trial-analysis 1. The court of appeals determined that the delay caused by the State's failure to disclose exculpatory evidence did not weigh against the State under…
21-6715 Leihinahina Sullivan v. United States District Court for the District of Hawaii Ninth Circuit 2021-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-privilege civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-investigation psychotherapist-patient-privilege self-representation subpoena-validity Question not identified.
21-6718 Gregory Chester and William Ford v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi apprendi-doctrine conspiracy-sentencing criminal-procedure grand-jury indictment presentment-clause sentencing statutory-sentencing superseding-indictment Whether, where Apprendi and its progeny requires the petit jury to return special findings as to individual conspiracy defendants to justify an increa…
21-6724 Carl Thompson v. Alaska Alaska 2021-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus incompetent-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction sixth-amendment supremacy-clause Can a trial court lose its jurisdiction when a defendant who has incompetent representation, that is established under prevailing Sixth Amendment stan…
21-6730 Mehmet Fatih Biyikoglu v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-waiver breach-of-contract criminal-procedure district-court due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing Was petitioner's appellate waiver enforceable after the district court found him in breach of his plea?
21-6691 Aaron Hicks v. United States Second Circuit 2021-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct conflict-of-interest counsel-representation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy issue-preclusion joint-trials right-to-counsel severance 1. When a co-defendant is represented by counsel who previously represented the defendant, thereby creating an actual conflict of interest, may a cour…
21-923 Delila Pacheco v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-12-22 Denied criminal-conviction criminal-procedure final-judgments habeas-corpus indian-law mcgirt-v-oklahoma oklahoma-law retroactivity supreme-court-precedent tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced.
21-911 Dan V. Sharp v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-21 Denied Response Waived confrontation-clause constructive-possession criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process firearms-offense ineffective-assistance joinder motion-to-suppress severance Whether the Court erred in failing to sever the counts by date. Whether the Court erred in requiring the Appellant to appear in shackles in front of …
21-6685 Christopher Dominguez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-12-21 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel informed-consent mandatory-minimum plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-trial sentencing sentencing-guidelines The prosecutor, defense counsel, and the district court all informed Mr. Dominguez that if he went to trial he would face a mandatory minimum sentence…
21-6689 Daniel Lawrence McGarry v. California California 2021-12-21 Denied IFP criminal-procedure preliminary-hearing probable-cause sixth-amendment speedy-trial state-criminal-proceeding Is California's current definition of probable cause as used at preliminary hearings deficient under U.S. Supreme Court precedent, and does it thus vi…
21-6661 Alonzo Cortez Johnson v. Jimmy Martin, Warden Tenth Circuit 2021-12-20 Denied IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-procedure habeas-corpus jury-selection peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination reconstruction-hearing waiver Do the normal rules of waiver apply in a situation like this to preclude a reconstruction hearing where the State has failed to offer any reasons for …
21-6670 Eric Beverly v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP administration-of-justice bank-robbery beyond-reasonable-doubt criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit jury-conviction standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence I. On Appeal ERIC BEVERLY nged the sufficiency of the evidence for the following jury convictions: (1) four counts of aiding and abetting bank robbery…
21-6680 Jemaine Monteil Cannon v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-12-20 Denied IFP criminal-procedure direct-appeal final-conviction jurisdiction jurisdictional-claim mcgirt-retroactivity post-conviction postconviction-proceeding retroactivity right-to-counsel state-procedure 1. Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma , 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced. 2. Can a stat…
21-6681 Eric Michael Crapser v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-20 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions lesser-included-offense sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Court should resolve the following question for which there is a clear circuit split: does the Court's holding in Strickland v. Washington…
21-6652 Salatheo Fluid v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion attorney-representation criminal-procedure district-court federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion jurisdiction legal-standing motion-for-new-trial WHETHER THE LOWER COURTS ABUSED THEIR RESPECTIVE DISCRETION BY DISMISSING PETITIONER'S MOTION FOR A NEW TRIAL (Fed.R.Crira.P. 33(b)), BASED ON A MOTIO…
21-6653 Urban Fermin v. Anthony J. Annucci, Acting Commissioner, New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision Second Circuit 2021-12-17 Denied IFP business-records confrontation-clause criminal-procedure dna-evidence evidence hearsay hearsay-exception sixth-amendment Whether the business record exception to hearsay survives the United States Constitution's Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause when the regularly con…
21-6657 Joshua Reshi Dudley v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-17 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure occasions-different occasions-test prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement shepard-v-united-states sixth-amendment I. Whether the Sixth Amendment limits a sentencing court, when determining whether a defendant's prior offenses were "committed on occasions different…
21-6658 Donald Ray Johnson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-courts federal-sentencing guideline-commentary judicial-deference judicial-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether federal sentencing courts are bound by the illustrations found in Guideline Commentary?
21-6662 Bryant Christopher Watts v. Texas Texas 2021-12-17 Denied IFP affirmative-defense appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process reasonable-doubt self-defense standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence trial-court DID THE COURT OF APPEALS ERR IN AFFIRMING THE TRIAL COURT WHERE EVIDENCE IS INSUFFICIENT TO SUPPORT THE AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSE OF SELF DEFENSE BEYOND A R…
21-6663 Asher Abid Khan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-deference remand sentencing Did the Court of Appeals fail to accord due deference to the district court's reasons for reimposing the same sentence after remand?
21-899 Lauren Rosecan v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-17 Denied Response Waived collateral-order-doctrine criminal-information criminal-procedure due-process felony grand-jury grand-jury-clause interlocutory-appeal jurisdictional-defect pretrial-motion Whether the denial of a pretrial motion to dismiss a criminal information that charges, in violation of theGrand Jury Clause, felony offenses without …
21-892 Micah James Patterson v. Virginia Virginia 2021-12-16 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction constitution constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury judicial-authority Does any court have the authority to amend the United States Constitution by fiat and extinguish a defendant's Fifth Amendment rights?
21-6616 Gabriel Schaaf v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process in-custody-interrogation miranda-rights police-questioning right-to-counsel right-to-remain-silent Whether police must wait for counsel to be present, before questioning a suspect who has invoked his right to remain silent and to have counsel presen…
21-6629 Jimmy Steele v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act judicial-interpretation retroactivity sentencing state-court statutory-interpretation The question for review is whether, under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) and the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984, Congress intended that reasons in the first insta…
21-6630 Daniel A. Rodriguez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-455 appeal appellate-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute guilty-plea judicial-recusal recusal waiver-of-rights Whether an unconditional guilty plea waives a federal criminal defendant's right to appeal a district court's failure to recuse under 28 U.S.C. § 455(…
21-6635 Larry Alonzo Gibbs, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-16 Denied IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence relevance reliability witness-testimony Does the State of Florida violate a defendant's right to confront witnesses when they allow the State to introduce evidence that a minor suffered from…
21-6638 Michael Lewis Gibbons v. Missouri Missouri 2021-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment alleged-victim contradictory-testimony criminal-procedure due-process impartial-juror inconsistent-statements judicial-impartiality no-physical-evidence physical-evidence sixth-amendment witness-testimony Given 1) Inconsistent statements by the alledged victim 2) At least one statement by the alledged victim that is not physically possible 3) The 2 main…
21-6640 Kennedy Terrell Walker v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP borden-standard carjacking criminal-procedure elements-clause first-time-motion florida-robbery habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states recidivism section-2255 sentencing violent-felony 1. Whether a criminal defendant moving for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 for the first time should be subject to the statutory hurdles applicable to m…
21-6643 Leonus Stevenson Peterson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-circuit appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit knowing-and-voluntary miscarriage-of-justice plea-waiver standard-of-review Did the Fourth Circuit err in finding that Petitioner's plea waiver was knowing and voluntary and then applying a stricter standard than a number of o…
21-6644 Ashot Minasyan v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing voluntary-plea Whether Minasyan's waiver of appeal is unenforceable for the following reasons: because it was not knowing, intelligent and voluntary, and because Min…
21-6645 Robert Brandon Bilus v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent jurisdiction plea-bargaining precedent sixth-amendment Whether the Eleventh Circuit entered a decision that misapplies the precedent of this Court and as a result, violates the Sixth Amendment to the Unite…
21-6648 John Cornelius Montgomery v. David Hudson, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-12-16 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process free-speech standing j<eeP S/\/e /r>e 77/ey use o/& CSS£ geeM 'XM&<cT7peMT' 7Wc <e g/#5<£ mo/Ke. 7>2f
21-6594 James A. Hald, et al. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-12-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP compassionate-release criminal-justice-system criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process extraordinary-reasons federal-prisoner-rights federal-prisons sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether, under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i), a district court must first determine whether "extraordinary and compelling reasons warrant such a reduct…
21-6612 Brian Cavitt v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2021-12-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-integrity due-process fair-trial forensic-evidence misleading-jury perjury quality-assurance trial-procedure 1) Where an incomplete dvi prflle allegedly fom @ Knife handle ,is frlsely ~ scremkfreally cmduded to be a'match' bo a vickins complete DNA profile, …
21-6620 Tormu Prall v. Andrew J. Bruck, Acting Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2021-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP chain-of-custody criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-tampering fundamental-fairness prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony 1). While incarcerated at the county jail between October 2008 and February 04, 2010, state witnesses Jeneya Richardson and Kimberly Meadows wrote the…
21-6622 Rufus Lawson, Jr. v. Officer West, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-12-15 Denied IFP 8th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process excessive-fines statutory-interpretation tax-evasion I.Hrjufj 'Hw viohifM / urjer ftrUi wi! {ul mins of )mn [Atf cJh. J J*i/W an aa, a t of j. f Z-&..T ', r 1 r. ; ■ S'
21-6623 Gustav Kloszewski v. United States Second Circuit 2021-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-privilege constitutional-rights court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Was Kloszewski's Fifth and Sixth amendment rights violated when court appointed counsel divulged conversations of other uncharged/unrelated offenses i…
21-6631 Jorge Ivan Vazquez-Medrano v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe…
21-6634 Roy Cornell Johnson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP assistance-of-counsel constitutional-right constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-standard ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-stage 1. Was the Petitioner afforded his Constitutional Right to accurate assistance of Counsel in his sentencing stage. 2. Did Petitioner fail to prosecut…
21-883 Glen D. Gore v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-12-15 Denied chickasaw-nation conviction-finality criminal-procedure federal-native-american-relations habeas-corpus indian-major-crimes-act judicial-precedent McGirt-retroactivity mcgirt-v-oklahoma Oklahoma-law retroactivity substantive-rule Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was decided.
21-884 Blake Fields v. United States First Circuit 2021-12-15 GVR Relisted (2) criminal-procedure district-court factual-developments first-step-act intervening-factual-developments intervening-legal-developments legal-developments reduced-sentence sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether, when deciding if it should "impose a reduced sentence" on an individual under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, 21 U.S.C. § 841 n…
21-873 Damon Goodloe v. Christine Brannon, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-12-14 Denied Response Waived confrontation-clause criminal-procedure custody due-process show-up show-up-identification sixth-amendment witness-testimony Whether the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment permits the prosecution to introduce statements elicited at a show-up conducted after the lone…
21-6579 Cesar Hidrogo-Marin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-rule almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi-rule constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998) , in light of the reasoning of …
21-6602 Brandon Christian v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2021-12-14 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process factual-basis habeas-corpus plea-bargaining plea-validity sentencing statutory-interpretation In petitioner §2254 petition, Petitioner raises this question of error? The plea was not entered knowingly and voluntarily because the trial court fa…
21-6606 Akil Tymes v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-14 Denied IFP counsel-communication criminal-procedure duty-to-communicate favorable-plea-offer ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel missouri-v-frye plea-bargaining sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1) Does counsel perform deficiently in duties/responsibility, to fully inform a defendant during the plea bargaining process, per Missouri v. Frve. 13…
21-6609 Christopher Coffer v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing defendant-health due-process health-issues judicial-discretion medical-disadvantage mitigation-factors sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance variance What is the extent of medical disadvantage that a defendant must present in order to secure a variance based on ill health?
21-6610 Cody Allen Bruner v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-12-14 Denied IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process final-judgment finality-of-judgments habeas-corpus mcgirt oklahoma retroactivity statutory-interpretation supreme-court tribal-jurisdiction Whtf McGirf ]/. j^O s, c>i, (lbzo)j applies ~h) to/hJittiofls Anft\ 4]hen W&S an^uAtcl,u3t(t,
21-6570 Bo Jack Kelley v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-fact-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing Whether facts that affect the minimum or maximum reasonable federal sentence must be proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt?
21-6572 Jose Luis Ramos-Ramos v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-6582 Genaro Alberto Nunez-Ugarte v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-precedent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-6583 Roger Edward Picard v. United States First Circuit 2021-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge mental-health-assessment rule-35 rule-35-motion sentencing sentencing-procedure i. Did the First Circuit err in denying a jurisdictionally sound motion filed pursuant to Fed.R.Crim.P. 35(a), where the district court simply ignored…
21-6584 Gregory Donell Eatmon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-13 GVR Relisted (2)IFP 18-u.s.c.-3553(a) criminal-procedure district-court-discretion first-step-act section-404(b) sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.-sentencing-guidelines This Court recently granted certiorari in Concepcion v. United States, No. 201650, on the question of whether, when deciding if it should "impose a re…
21-6585 Freddy Crespo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus miller-el-v-cockrell supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit's rule that a certificate of appealability cannot be granted where an issue is foreclosed by circuit precedent conflic…
21-6587 Marcus Termaine Darden v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony gang-expert harmless-error hearsay hearsay-testimony sixth-circuit I DID THE SIXTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERR BY HOLDING THE DISTRICT COURT'S ERRORS IN ADMITTING POLICE "GANG EXPERT" AND OTHER HEARSAY TESTIMONY WERE…
21-870 Michigan v. Treshaun Lee Terrance Michigan 2021-12-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) ashe-v-swenson constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy issue-preclusion jury-acquittal michigan-courts perpetrator-identity yeager-v-us 1. Since issue preclusion is a civil doctrine and not originally part of the double jeopardy clause, should it apply in criminal cases? Should Ashe v …
21-872 Amoneo Lee v. Shannon Meyer, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-12-13 Denied Response Waived aedpa-tolling alleyne-rule collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus innocence retroactivity sentencing statute-of-limitations substantive-law 1. Whether AEDPA's one-year statute of limitations should be equitably tolled because the Petitioner is innocent of the non-capital Hard 40 sentence? …
21-6556 Richard Bernard Grundy, III v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure due-process faretta-v-california fifth-amendment judicial-discretion self-representation sixth-amendment Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and the District Court deprived Richard Grundy of his Fifth and Sixth Amendment rig…
21-6557 Tekoa Glover v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure guilty-plea non-jurisdictional-claim sixth-amendment waiver withdrawal DID THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT ERR BY RULING THAT MR. GLOVER WAIVED HIS SIXTH AMENDMENT CLAIMS BY ENTERING A GUILTY PLE…
21-6563 Hector Sanchez-Torres v. Florida Florida 2021-12-09 Denied IFP coerced-confessions coercive-police-activity colorado-v-connelly confession-voluntariness criminal-procedure due-process law-enforcement-threats motivating-cause police-misconduct probable-cause quid-pro-quo voluntariness 1. Whether the appropriate interpretation of Colorado v. Connelly's "essential link" between coercive police activity and a suspect's confession is a …
21-6568 Manuel Nunez-Gonzalez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction — that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and …
21-6547 Richard Lynn Long, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency competency-evaluation criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review mental-health plea-agreement right-to-counsel Mr. Long asserts that his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to notify the court of the contents of aneuropshychologica! report that found he w…
21-851 Richa Narang v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-12-08 Denied burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury indictment jurisdiction mens-rea reinstatement statute 1. Whether a district court has jurisdiction to try a defendant upon a finally dismissed indictment that the government has never sought to reinstate,…
21-852 Christopher D. Lischewski v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-12-08 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) antitrust constitutional-principle criminal-antitrust criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial per-se-rule reasonable-doubt separation-of-powers sherman-act The Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1, prohibits any contract or combination "in restraint of trade or commerce." This Court has long held that Congress inte…
21-6534 Wilfredo Rodriguez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process general-verdict harmless-error jury-verdict residual-clause sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether a conviction obtained in reliance on an unconstitutionally vague residual clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) may be sustained based on a revie…
21-6537 Stephen Condon Peters v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP asset-forfeiture asset-restraint counsel-of-choice criminal-procedure due-process financial-conflict luis-v-united-states right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Does it violate this Court's holding in Luis U. United States and the Sixth Amendment, where the trial court deprives a defendant of the use of untain…
21-6541 Jesus Corona v. James Hill, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure habeas-corpus preliminary-hearing presumption-of-vindictiveness prima-facie-case procedural-default prosecutorial-discretion sentencing vindictive-prosecution 1. Does a criminal defendant state a prima facie case of vindictive prosecution, trigging a presumption of vindictiveness, when the day after he succe…
21-6542 Juan Trujillo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review clear-error criminal-procedure judicial-discretion limited-remand plain-error remand-standard sentencing sentencing-error statutory-maximum substantial-rights This Court in Molina-Martinez v. United States advised that courts of appeals may order a limited remand to assess the impact of clear error on the de…
21-6550 Wade Lay v. Aboutanaa El Habti, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-12-07 Denied IFP 8th-amendment appellate-procedure civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process execution judicial-discretion standing Whether a prisoner may appeal to the United States Supreme Court under 28 U.S.C. § 1254 to contest his grounds under the Correct Constitution, regardi…
21-6512 Jason Kiger v. Tim Hooper, Warden Louisiana 2021-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-offense constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process jury-trial legislative-amendment legislative-power sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation unanimous-verdict Louisiana voted to change its Constitution to require unanimous verdicts in non-capital cases where they were not required before. In 1997 and 1998, w…
21-6514 Jorge Hernandez Rivera v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure elements-of-crime felon-in-possession firearm-offense information-defect second-amendment sentencing sentencing-enhancement WHETHER AN INFORMATION IS DEFECTIVE FOR FAILING TO STATE THE PROPER ELEMENTS FOR THE CRIME OF FELON IN POSSESSION OF A FIREARM WHETHER THE ACCA BAN B…
21-6518 Kassie Bond Carpenter v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional criminal-procedure federal-courts guideline sentencing statutory Whether application of 18 U.S.C. §3147 increases the total range of imprisonment to which the defendant may be subject?
21-6525 George Patrick v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP class-of-felony criminal-procedure error-correction felony-classification judicial-authority revocation-hearing sentencing sentencing-correction statutory-interpretation supervised-release A sentence imposed upon revocation of supervised release is governed by the class of felony determined at the time of the original sentence. 18 U.S.C.…
21-6528 Tushkahomma J. Leon v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-12-06 Denied IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure juvenile-justice mcgirt-retroactivity miller-v-alabama retroactivity state-procedural-bar subject-matter-jurisdiction tribal-jurisdiction 1. Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced? 2. Is Oklahoma'…
21-6529 Brandon Lamont Jenkins v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-12-06 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-procedure matloff-v-wallace mcgirt-retroactivity mcgirt-v-oklahoma retroactivity state-procedural-bar subject-matter-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty 1. Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced? 2. Is Oklahoma'…
21-6530 Tyreese Thompson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process jury-determination jury-trial precedent-review reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-maximum Do any facts that increases the penalty for a crime beyond the prescribed statutory maximum need to be submitted to a jury, and proved beyond a reason…
21-6533 Jabari J. Johnson v. Kathleen McGuire, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-12-06 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-precedent habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing state-court-review 1. Plaitiff ask thesapreme Court did the dislnct coast abuse their clesurelion regarding issue A? or wns the distrit (ourt Ceary erronpous? 2. Plaiit…
21-835 Otha Ray Flowers v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-06 Denied 4th-amendment criminal-procedure fourth-amendment high-crime-area illinois-v-wardlow law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion terry-stop terry-v-ohio Whether conduct that is consistent with either lawful or unlawful behavior, and in which law-abiding members of the general public routinely engage, c…
21-6475 Mark Hollingsworth v. Maryland Maryland 2021-12-03 Denied IFP brady-violation closing-argument criminal-procedure due-process false-testimony jury-argument napue-v-illinois napue-violation prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-fair-trial Did the Maryland State Courts err in finding that the Prosecutor did not violate Napue v. Illinois, 360 U.S. 264 (1959) when the Prosecutor argued to …
21-6503 Pradeep Gupte v. University of Connecticut Second Circuit 2021-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review child-pornography civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
21-6510 Luis Solis-Vasquez v. United States First Circuit 2021-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process elements-of-offense federal-statute jury-determination jury-instructions mandatory-victim-restitution RICO rico-offense state-law state-law-predicates 1. Whether state law RICO predicates are elements of a RICO offense that must be found by the jury. 2. Whether aggravated RICO conspiracy is properly…
21-6489 Edward F. Swanson v. Texas Texas 2021-12-02 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process indictment judicial-discretion jury-trial preponderance-standard sentencing statutory-scheme Question not identified.
21-6491 Lucas Montagne v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-12-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure exception illegal-sentence invited-error judicial-procedure legal-error sentencing 1. Should an exception to the doctrine of invited error be recognized in a case in which an illegal sentence is imposed? 2. Should an exception to th…
21-6492 Jaime Galvez v. William Muniz, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-12-02 Denied IFP criminal-procedure defendant-rights directed-verdict due-process federal-law harmless-error insanity-defense right-to-remain-silent trial-court-error 1. Is it clearly established federal law within the meaning of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1) that a trial court's error, of forcing a criminal defendant to t…
21-6493 Jarrett Alvin Kinley v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2021-12-02 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process false-evidence false-testimony napue-v-illinois napue-violation polygraph polygraph-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility Petitioner was subject to a pretrial polygraph by his bondsman for "risk assessment" purposes as a condition of his bond. The polygraph examiner testi…
21-6494 Benjamin Robert Cole v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-12-02 Denied IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure final-judgments habeas-corpus indian-law mcgirt-v-oklahoma oklahoma-law retroactivity supreme-court-precedent tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced.
21-6452 Donnell Murray v. United States Second Circuit 2021-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting conviction count-one criminal-procedure davis insufficient-evidence jury-instruction predicate-acts racketeering trial-errors 1. Whether Murray's conviction on Count One should be reversed because there is insufficient evidence after Davis that the jury found two or more pred…
21-6462 Clarence Rozell Goode, Jr. v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-12-01 Denied IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure final-judgment habeas-corpus indian-law mcgirt-v-oklahoma oklahoma-law retroactive-application retroactivity supreme-court-precedent tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced.
21-6464 John Fitzgerald Hanson v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-12-01 Denied IFP convictions criminal-conviction criminal-procedure final-judgments habeas-corpus indian-law mcgirt-v-oklahoma oklahoma-law retroactivity supreme-court-precedent tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced.
21-6465 Andrew John Gibson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process non-delegation-doctrine overbreadth sentencing-conditions supervised-release third-party-notification vagueness L. Must federal appellate courts adjudicate direct appeal challenges to the illegality or unconstitutionality of supervised release conditions imposed…
21-6466 Ernest Romond Gibbs, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure direct-appeal judicial-discretion pepper-v-united-states post-sentencing-rehabilitation resentencing sentencing sentencing-evidence In Pepper v. United States, 562 U.S. 476 (2011), this Court held that a district court, in resentencing a defendant, may consider evidence of post-sen…
21-6468 Joshua Fernandes v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2021-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP age-discrimination constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-cross-section jury-selection peremptory-challenge race-neutral-reasons Whether age should be considered a protected class, and whether the exclusion of all young potential jurors violates the Equal Protection Clause. Whe…
21-6469 Glen Campbell v. J. LaManna Second Circuit 2021-12-01 Denied IFP cause-and-prejudice constitutional-claims counsel-ineffectiveness criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment 1). Whether the District Court overlooked Constitutional Claims and Cause and Prejudice. 2). Whether petitioner was intitled to an Evidentiary Hearin…
21-6470 Michael George Kogianes v. Edward Jensen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-12-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-court federal-rights state-court Question not identified.
21-6481 General Grant Wilson v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2021-12-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice standing third-party-perpetrator wisconsin-law 1. Whether the limitations that Wisconsin places on a criminal defendant seeking to introduce third-party-perpetrator evidence are consistent with the…
21-6436 Korey Stewart v. United States Second Circuit 2021-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure speedy-trial 1) Re—quesshoa greseaked is whedner a veasondble Kv oined low enforcement officer could Wave concluded Nna Yo evidence ovaidde So Xe agents ol Yoo Lam…
21-6439 John Joseph Rushinsky, Jr. v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice strickland-standard 1. May the state, consistent with Due Process, sweepingly criminalize a broad range of conduct embracing both innocent and culpable behavior and assig…
21-6441 Sonny Scott v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment attorney-performance constitutional-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure strickland-standard strickland-v-washington warrantless-search Was counsel's refusal to file a meritorious, dispositive motion to suppress the fruits of a warrantless search unreasonable under Strickland v. Washin…
21-6448 Joseph D. Brown v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-11-30 GVR Relisted (4)IFP acca career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-procedure occasions-different occasions-test sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation temporal-analysis 1. Should the courts employ a purely temporal approach or a "totality of the circumstances" test when interpreting the Career Criminal Act's phrase, "…
21-6449 Pizarro Thomas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-conduct criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement-conduct police-policy reasonable-suspicion terry-stop terry-v-ohio warrantless-seizure QUESTION 1 : WAS THERE "REASONABLE SUSPICION" JUSTIFYING PETITIONER'S STOP AND FRISK UNDER TERRY WHEN THE OFFICERS EFFECTING THE "STOP " DID NOT OBSER…
21-6450 Steven Zinnel v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure gall-v-united-states jury-determination sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment substantive-reasonableness substantive-unreasonableness Any fact that increases the penalty to which a defendant is exposed constitutes an element of a crime under and must be found by a jury, not a judge. …
21-6457 Ervin Anibar Lopez-Ordonez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
21-6459 Daniel Lowell v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1(a) carjacking criminal-procedure criminal-statute defendant-burden federal-criminal-law felony-murder-rule legal-standard temporary-safety When applying the felony murder rule under 18 U.S.C. § 1(a) to the crime of carjacking, what must a defendant show to establish that he has reached a …
21-6460 Truman Jones v. United States Third Circuit 2021-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure dismissal-with-prejudice due-process judicial-discretion prejudice remand sixth-amendment speedy-trial speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation 1. Whether the district court's refusal to accurately compute the extent of a Speedy Trial Act violation and to consider the government's district wid…
21-6463 William Martin Cresham v. California California 2021-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure domestic-violence due-process evidence evidence-law prior-acts propensity propensity-evidence This case presents the question this Court acknowledged was "left open" in Estelle v. McGuire, 502 U.S. 62, 75, fn. 5 (1991): "whether a state law wou…
21-793 Pennsylvania v. William Henry Cosby, Jr. Pennsylvania 2021-11-30 Denied 14th-amendment criminal-charges criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment immunity immunity-promise press-release prosecutorial-discretion When a prosecutor publicly announces that he will not file criminal charges based on lack of evidence, does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth A…
21-6431 Vegas D. Smith v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-11-29 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion appeals appellate-review career-offender criminal-procedure explanation judicial-discretion procedural-error record sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation Did the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit commit error when it affirmed the District Court's decision to deny petitioner's motion filed under 18…
21-6432 James Chandler Ryder v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-11-29 Denied IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure final-judgments habeas-corpus indian-law mcgirt-v-oklahoma oklahoma-law retroactivity supreme-court-precedent tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced.
21-6433 Jaimian Rashaad Sims v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP administration-of-justice beyond-reasonable-doubt criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-cases fifth-circuit-review jury-conviction sex-trafficking standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence I. On Appeal JAIMIAN RASHAAD SIMS challenged the following: (1) the sufficiency of the evidence for the jury conviction for conspiracy to sex traffic …
21-6434 Robert Alan Fratta v. Texas Texas 2021-11-29 Denied IFP aiding-and-abetting constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus indictment jury-charge jury-instructions law-of-parties 1) CAN A LAW OF PARTIES (OR AIDING AND ABETTING) BE ADDED TO A JURY CHARGE WHEN A PERSON IS INDICTED AS THE ONLY ACTOR TO COMMIT AN OFFENSE? 2) IS U.…
21-6440 Jemaine Monteil Cannon v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-11-29 Dismissed IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure final-judgment final-judgments habeas-corpus indian-law judicial-interpretation McGirt-precedent mcgirt-v-oklahoma procedural-law retroactivity Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma , 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced.
21-6442 Armando Cardon-Cortez, aka Vatto v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction Question not identified.
21-6443 Shaun Michael Bosse v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-11-29 Denied IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure final-judgment final-judgments habeas-corpus indian-law judicial-interpretation McGirt-precedent mcgirt-v-oklahoma procedural-law retroactivity Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced.
21-6402 Nyambui Joe Gipson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreements sentencing waivers-of-appeal Whether this Court should recognize a "miscarriage of justice" exception to waivers of appeal in plea agreements?
21-6404 Ngoc Hong Nguyen v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment parole sentencing sixth-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
21-6405 Ashley McArthur v. Florida Florida 2021-11-24 Denied IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment involuntary-confession law-enforcement miranda-rights self-incrimination waiver-of-rights Whether a law enforcement officer's minimization/downplaying of a defendant's rights set forth in Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966), renders a s…
21-6408 James A. Harnage v. Janine Brennan, et al. Second Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation contract criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process judicial-discretion plea-agreement settlement-agreement state-action 1. Whether A state violates The Express Terms of A settlement Agreament By Failing To Inform The Decison Maker of Ther Authorlty To Grant Approvals Th…
21-6409 Stephen Harmer v. Eric Armel, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney automatic-reversal conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure defendant due-process holloway-doctrine ineffective-assistance judicial-inquiry sixth-amendment trial-judge 1. Does Holloway demand automatic reversal when a trial judge fails to inquire into a known conflict that a defendant could not object to because his …
21-6412 Rebecca Stampe v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-11-24 GVR IFP brady-disclosure criminal-procedure due-process evidence-review government-disclosure in-camera-review materiality materiality-standard prosecutorial-discretion Can the district court, consistent with Brady and its progeny, refuse in camera review of evidence that is plausibly subject to disclosure under Brady…
21-6419 Roberto Aguilar-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
21-6425 Maycol Mendez-Maradiaga v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure drug-activity entrapment government-inducement inconsistent-verdicts jury-verdicts predisposition prior-experience willing-participant 1. In an entrapment case where the defendant has met his burden on the threshold element of inducement, may the government establish predisposition me…
21-6429 Randall T. Deviney v. Florida Florida 2021-11-24 Denied IFP aggravating-factors alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-sentencing criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment functional-elements hurst-v-florida ring-v-arizona I. The Due Process Clause requires the existence of an element of a crime to be determined beyond a reasonable doubt. See Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 …
21-780 Ewin Oscar Martinez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied Response Waived 18-usc-2119 actual-innocence carjacking carjacking-statute crime-of-violence criminal-procedure habeas-corpus procedural-default residual-clause Ewin Oscar Martinez was convicted in 2000 of using and carrying a firearm during a "crime of violence" in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c), based upon …
21-764 Patrick Huff v. Florida Florida 2021-11-23 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-rights courtroom-closure criminal-procedure first-amendment public-access sixth-amendment trial-procedure waller-analysis waller-v-georgia Whether, as the court below and two other states hold, trial courts may close a courtroom pursuant to a closure statute without undertaking the Waller…
21-6379 Keith R. Gomez v. Ron Haynes, Superintendent, Stafford Creek Corrections Center Ninth Circuit 2021-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-remedy sentencing state-court substantive-rights Question not identified.
21-6382 Askia Mustafa Raheem v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-23 Denied IFP brain-damage cause-and-prejudice criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus incompetency plain-error seizure-disorder 1 Whether the lower courts violated this Court's incompetency and "right to evidentiary hearing" habeas law when they summarily denied a hearing on in…
21-6387 Richard Barry Randolph v. Florida Florida 2021-11-23 Denied IFP apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-sentencing constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment retroactive-law statutory-construction 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's decision in Hurst v. State constitutes statutory construction of substantive law, and if so, whether the Due Pr…
21-6390 Marcial Carrillo-Serna v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-error guidelines-calculation molina-martinez-v-united-states ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review plain-error plain-error-review prejudice sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights When the district court fails to calculate the guideline range at sentencing, whether the defendant may rely on the district court's error alone to sh…
21-6391 Hai A. Duong v. Darryl Vannoy, Warden Louisiana 2021-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-unanimity legislative-amendment non-unanimous-verdict sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Louisiana voted to change its Constitution to require unanimous verdicts in non-capital cases where they were not required before. In 1997 and 1998, w…
21-6396 Tamara Jeune v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-23 Dismissed IFP circuit-court-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-propensity evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence prejudice prior-bad-acts probative-value propensity-evidence How are the courts to properly apply Fed. R. Evid. 404(b)? Should they apply the Third Circuit's more substantive approach which requires a close conn…
21-6357 Kenneth Roshaun Reid v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fair-sentencing-act federal-sentencing habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel jurisdiction procedural-default retroactivity sentencing When the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals Vacated and Remanded case #19-7803 back to the District Court shouldn't the district Court have given Mr. Reid a…
21-6346 Jason W. Reed v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sexual-predator sexual-predator-designation strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Question One: Whether, counsel's admitted misadvice with respect to Petitioner's designation, its direct result of imposition of "specialized supervis…
21-6347 Justin Dwight Sholley-Gonzalez v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process intimate-partner-violence plain-error rehaif-error restraining-order second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether a new trial based on plain error is required where the defendant maintained at all times during his pre-Rehaif prosecution that the state cour…
21-6348 Rafael Ramiro-Medina v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-22 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review batson-challenge criminal-procedure discriminatory-intent equal-protection fact-finding jury-selection procedural-error racial-discrimination standard-of-review If a trial court legally errs in applying the final step of the process under Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986), can a federal court of appeals c…
21-6363 Diane Arellano v. Jeremy Howard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure cumulative-effect-of-error due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel miranda-rights sixth-amendment I. ft go against Krr USiCcKfr. Amend. \Z£rr'ght tc> 3. Speedy trial > that- 3-fi exiting d/>^ <Lcu t 8hi'm*?s t© r«^«ste>n£i v/iolafe h?c 7 0c« her re…
21-6366 Juan Alberto Ceron-Ortiz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial recidivism sentencing The Court Should Grant Certiorari to Consider Whether to Overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998).
21-6367 Dacoby Reshard Wooten v. Florida Florida 2021-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP alternative-theories criminal-procedure felony-murder first-degree-murder jury-unanimity premeditated-murder sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment requires jury unanimity as to whether a defendant committed premeditated murder or felony murder when the state proceeds o…
21-6369 Jeremy Denson v. Texas Texas 2021-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP boykin-standard boykin-v-alabama constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea judicial-discretion judicial-oversight plea-bargaining plea-canvass record-development Judges must ensure defendants fully understand the consequences of their guilty pleas. Boykin v. Alabama requires judges to use "the utmost solicitude…
21-6370 Omil Cotto, aka Omil Gomez, aka Omil Alfredo Gomez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment cell-phone-seizure cellphones criminal-procedure fourth-amendment overbreadth probable-cause road-rage search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant warrant-overbreadth This case emerged out of a road rage incident during which shots were fired. The suspect, Omil Cotto, fled the scene in a red Camaro. Officers execute…
21-759 WeBuildTheWall, Inc. v. United States Second Circuit 2021-11-22 Dismissed appeal appellate-jurisdiction asset-forfeiture asset-restraint criminal-procedure due-process ex-parte-order forfeiture-statute injunction standing 1. Can a non-party whose assets were restrained by a District Judge presiding over a criminal case, and who was blocked from a timely opportunity to b…
21-750 Jasper Knabb v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-19 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines Where 28 U.S.C. § 2255 requires a prompt hearing unless the motion and the files and records of the case conclusively show that the prisoner is entitl…
21-6338 Danquan A. Fanning v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii article-iii-authority article-iv-court constitutional-authority court-judgment criminal-procedure due-process judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction legal-usurpation territorial-court WHETHER the UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT being a Article IV Territorial Court illegally usurped Article III, Constitutional Authority and illegally e…
21-6340 Troy Wayne Harmon v. Texas Texas 2021-11-19 Denied IFP constitutional-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure evidence evidence-rules fourteenth-amendment inconsistent-opinion informant-privilege material-witness sixth-amendment 1. The trial court refused to allow Petitioner to call a material witness that could significantly aid in his defense -and complied with the Rules O…
21-6349 Victor Hurns v. Mississippi Mississippi 2021-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment judicial-acquittal judicial-review legal-procedure newly-discovered-evidence statutory-interpretation WHETHER THE PETITIONER'S APPLICATION FOR LEAVE TO PROCEED IN THE MISSISSIPPI TRIAL COURT BY THE MISSISSIPPI SUPREME COURT WAS CLEARLY ERRONEOUS AND CO…
21-6350 Michael J. Greene v. Shelby Searls, Superintendent, Huttonsville Correctional Center Fourth Circuit 2021-11-19 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure custody due-process plea-agreement sentencing Question not identified.
21-6356 Felipe Nieves-Perez v. Texas Texas 2021-11-19 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment indictment life-sentence motion-to-quash right-to-due-process trial-court I. DID THE TRIAL COURT VIOLATE MR. NIEVES-PEREZ'S RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS BY DENYING HIS MOTION TO QUASH THE INDICTMENT? II. DOES THE LIFE SENTENCE IMPO…
21-6361 Marcus Crawley, aka Holyfield v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure davis-v-united-states due-process judicial-review plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation If a defendant pleaded guilty to a § 924(c) charge and a predicate crime of violence that is no longer valid after Davis, may a reviewing court search…
21-6321 Fernando Rodriguez-Macedo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei…
21-6324 Jesus Alfredo Ramirez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-procedure communication-interception criminal-procedure district-court evidence-suppression probable-cause title-iii wiretap Whether the district court erred in authorizing a wiretap of Petitioner's communications under Title III and in failing to suppress the evidence inter…
21-6328 Scottie D. Allen v. Florida Florida 2021-11-18 Denied IFP capital-sentencing criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing standard-of-proof I. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's rejection of Petitioner's claim of error based on the jury being affirmatively misinformed about its role in th…
21-6331 Byron White v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-11-18 Denied IFP collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction mcgirt-decision post-conviction-relief procedural-defenses retroactivity subject-matter-jurisdiction teague-exception tribal-sovereignty WHETHER RESPONDENT WAIVED/FORFEITED ANY OF IT'S PROCEDURAL DEFENSES IN McGIRT'S DECISION AND RESPONDENT IS PROCEDURALLY BARRED FROM ASSERTING ANY IF I…
21-6335 Chi Mak v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 abuse-of-discretion compassionate-release criminal-procedure judicial-review sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors statutory-factors statutory-interpretation Whether the district court abused its direction and acted unreasonably in denying Mak's motion for compassionate release under 18 U.S.C. §3582(c), by …
21-6336 Darrin Lashaon Betts v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 21-usc-841(a)(1)-(b)(1)(a) amendment-782 criminal-procedure fed-r-crim-p-11(c)(1)(c) fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines statutory-law type-c-agreement Whether a defendant is eligible for 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c) (1)(2) relief pursuant Amendment 782 where the district court adopted a Type-C plea agreement …
21-740 Richard E. Paulus, M.D. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-11-18 Denied appellate-jurisdiction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ethical-violations fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court government-misconduct 1. Did the Sixth Circuit err by ruling that it lacked jurisdiction to consider Petitioner's allegations of fraud upon the court and ethical and due pr…
21-734 Oklahoma v. Justin Dale Little Oklahoma 2021-11-17 Denied Amici (1) criminal-appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-indian-law federalism jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-rights native-american-sovereignty oklahoma-criminal-law stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled.
21-6285 Gary Hughbanks v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-11-17 Denied IFP admissibility-of-evidence appellate-review brady-materiality brady-v-maryland confession-evidence criminal-procedure due-process materiality-analysis sixth-circuit suppressed-evidence Are another individual's repeated statements confessing to the murders for which the defendant is on trial material for purpose of assessing the impac…
21-6286 Patrick Lawrence Henderson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-rule criminal-procedure due-process jury-determination jury-trial reasonable-doubt revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum Whether Henderson's revocation sentence violates Apprendi and its progeny because he has been forced to serve a sentence beyond the statutory maximum …
21-6307 Donald James Smith v. Florida Florida 2021-11-17 Denied IFP capital-case capital-punishment criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial penalty-phase prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment victim-impact Was petitioner's right to a fair "penalty phase" trial violated when the prosecutor told the jurors, during closing arguments in the guilt phase, that…
21-6320 Devon Carl Jordan-McFeely v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP ambiguous-statute criminal-procedure divisibility divisibility-inquiry federal-court federal-sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancement state-court state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-ambiguity supreme-court-precedent When a state statute is ambiguous as to its divisibility at the time of the defendant's state conviction, may a federal court certify the divisibility…
21-6322 Gustavo Trejo-Ramos v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe…
21-6323 D'Arde Lee Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure escape halfway-house plain-error sentencing u.s.s.g.-2p1.1 Whether the court of appeals failed to properly apply the plain error analysis to the question of whether the sentencing court erred by failing to gra…
21-6275 David Wayne Dooley v. Kentucky Kentucky 2021-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP arizona-v-youngblood burden-of-proof civil-procedure confrontation-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-spoliation separation-of-witnesses state-action 1. Is Due Process violated when a criminal defendant must bear the burden of showing bad faith in order to be entitled to a missing evidence instructi…
21-6288 Tina L. Wagoner v. New York New York 2021-11-16 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction standing trial preceedings were govered loy the propur appticaftion of lawi to fac in regdrd to jurisdiction, application of legalterms used to describe a part…
21-6294 Robert Michael Junkins v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure drug-evidence drug-sentencing illegal-search motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure sentencing sentencing-guidelines vehicle-search 1. Whether the district court erred in denying Junkins' Defendant's Motion to Suppress Evidence for the evidence discovered in Mr. Junkins' vehicle af…
21-6297 Henry Cervantes and Jaime Cervantes v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-statute jury-trial obstruction-of-justice official-proceeding sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation As to both petitioners, 1. Whether the federal obstruction of justice statute, 18 U.S.C. §1512(c)(2) (obstruction of an official proceeding), can be …
21-6298 Ronald David McCalister, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreements sentencing waivers-of-appeal I. Whether this Court should recognize a "miscarriage of justice" exception to waivers of appeal in plea agreements?
21-6300 Ricky Cardenas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-procedure objection-standard presentence-report sentencing unjust-incarceration Whether the defendant bears a burden to disprove adverse conclusions of a Presentence Report?
21-6301 Travis Wayne Bentley v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-11-16 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing expert-witnesses fourteenth-amendment indian-federal-law indigenous-rights indigent-legal-counsel post-conviction-relief tribal-jurisdiction 1) Did the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals violate Mr. Bentley's Fourteenth Amendment right to Due Process by affirming the district court's Denial…
21-6302 Juan Alvarado-Gonzalez v. Illinois Illinois 2021-11-16 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech government-action immigration language-access public-officials retaliation p4! on prom m a(c\ Ce<">-br?( /lic<\. /Mo*Vv'oo 4~o WN-V^d^awl G^i'lV Pi#**- Q^d \Mca4eJ 4h* Q,>ecau^ On K°ow/^ "Hios'f q^J PuLl^c &et*«J'eh ytyf^W c…
21-728 Pedro Dino Cedado Nuñez, et al. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-16 Denied circuit-split criminal-procedure customary-international-law drug-enforcement international-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-test maritime-drug-law maritime-law statutory-interpretation vessel-nationality The Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act authorizes the United States to prosecute certain drug crimes committed aboard a "covered vessel." 46 U.S.C. § 7…
21-6268 Cesar Martinez v. United States First Circuit 2021-11-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury-acquittal sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment trial-by-jury Whether basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct underlying a charge for which the jury acquitted him violates his rights to due process and …
21-6269 Johnathan Dewayne Mitchell v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-11-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights competency criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process forcible-medication judicial-authority medical-intervention medication mental-health Whether this Court should resolve an issue of first impression and decide if district courts have the authority to order the forcible medication of co…
21-6271 Austin Myers v. Ohio Ohio 2021-11-15 Denied IFP access-to-courts criminal-procedure death-penalty discovery due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction postconviction-relief summary-dismissal I. Do the Ohio state courts deny a death-sentenced postconviction petitioner's rights to due process, access to the Ohio courts, and an adequate corre…
21-705 Oklahoma v. Ted Roosevelt Yargee Oklahoma 2021-11-15 Denied Amici (1) civil-rights criminal-appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federalism jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-sovereignty oklahoma-criminal-law standing tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma , 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled.
21-6233 Joe Lenard Rodriguez v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy conspiracy-to-distribute criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency jury-trial methamphetamine 1. Did the courts below err when they determined that there was sufficient evidence to convict the Petitioner of Conspiracy to Distribute Methampheta…
21-6252 Ryder Shane Altman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure collateral-appeal collateral-review criminal-defendants criminal-procedure fact-finding ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se Whether federal criminal defendants presenting substantial claims of ineffective assistance of counsel should receive the benefit of additional fact-f…
21-6253 Baltazar Aguirre-Rivera v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial mandatory-minimum sentencing sixth-amendment special-interrogatory When a jury's answer to a special interrogatory negates an element of the charged offense, must a district court enter a judgment of acquittal when th…
21-6255 Ofelio Arvizu-Loredo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei…
21-6256 Macario Andrew Gomez, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing jury-determination jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether facts that affect the minimum or maximum reasonable federal sentence must be proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt?
21-6258 Ramiro Romero v. Texas Texas 2021-11-12 Denied IFP andrus-v-texas appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigation strickland strickland-standard Whe.h? a-n 0uH~Oisyy&y ZtitTtct/s Jh Y&StJgfi-tiOh? JLhottasds *tO /hte.t'lsieu/ a. ofe'fihoLiutts t^s/tsted hriTtitss&s bec^s^ the. fcttoshty Mfstfrf…
21-6229 Kyle Shirakawa Handley v. California California 2021-11-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP apprendi charging-document criminal-procedure due-process notice notice-requirements sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sixth-amendment 1. Whether the 1936 rule set forth in People v Britton , 6 Cal.2d 1 -- that facts which expose a defendant to substantially enhanced punishment need n…
21-6230 In Re Billy John Roberson 2021-11-10 Denied IFP 2nd-amendment aggravated-assault conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency judicial-conflict jury-instructions penal-code texas-penal-code How could I receive an Guilty Verdict of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon at the time of this supposed incident, I, Billy John Rooerson, did no…
21-6236 L. B. Joseph v. Illinois Illinois 2021-11-10 Denied IFP constitutional-rights conviction-reversal criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief reasonable-doubt testimony WAS DEFENDANT GIVEN A FAIR TRIAL? WAS DEFENDANT FOUND CGUILTY BEYOND A RESONABLE DOUBT? WAS PERJURED TESTMONY GIVEN TO COVER UP THE TRUTH? WERE FAR…
21-6241 Eric J. Turner v. Richard L. Broch Seventh Circuit 2021-11-10 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-evidence habeas-corpus legal-competency mental-competency schizophrenia Whether the trial court failed to order a determination of the defendant's schizophrenia? Whether a conviction that violates due process happened whi…
21-6200 Jesus Ruiz v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-11-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP collateral-review concurrent-sentence-doctrine criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-conviction harmless-error non-concurrent-sentence sentencing 1. Whether a conviction carrying a non-concurrent prison sentence for an act the law does not make criminal can ever be considered harmless. 2. Wheth…
21-6201 Reginald Kindle v. Florida Florida 2021-11-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure jury-trial preponderance-of-evidence recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-maximum Whether a sentencing court violates a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial when it finds by a preponderance of the evidence that he commi…
21-6215 Lawrence Oakie, aka LBJ v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-11-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the use of acquitted conduct to determine a defendant's sentence violates the Fifth and Sixth Amendments.
21-6211 Cubby Wayne Williams v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP brain-injury cognitive-deficits criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony good-faith mens-rea rule-702 traumatic-brain-injury willfulness Whether, in a case in which the government was required to prove that the defendant was not working from a good faith misunderstanding of the law, the…
21-6217 Alberto Grajales v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process general-verdict harmless-error judicial-review residual-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether a general verdict that was obtained in reliance on the unconstitutionally vague residual clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(B) may be sustained b…
21-679 Tim Shoop, Warden v. August Cassano Sixth Circuit 2021-11-08 Denied Relisted (14) aedpa criminal-procedure habeas-corpus pro-se-representation right-to-counsel right-to-self-representation sixth-amendment timely-invocation 1. Should th e Court summarily reverse the Sixth Circuit 's award of habeas relief? 2. When a three -judge panel clearly errs in awarding habeas r…
21-6195 Ronald C. Fairchild v. Kentucky Kentucky 2021-11-05 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment martinez-claim martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment Did the Kentucky Court of Appeals allow Mr. Fairchild 's right 's under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution,…
21-6196 I. A. v. Kansas Kansas 2021-11-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance legal-representation right-to-appeal standing 1. Did I.A. have a Fourteenth Amendment Right to have a District Court Judge inform him of his right to appeal? 2. Was I.A.'s trial attorney, Scott W…
21-6204 Antonio A. Tankes v. Florida Florida 2021-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment free-speech retroactive-application sentencing-enhancement standing Question not identified.
21-6206 Joel Barcelona v. Sergeant Parish, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-threatening life-without-parole medical-treatment refusal-of-care Question not identified.
21-6207 Philip Bernard Friend v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review comparable-cases comparative-sentencing criminal-procedure federal-sentencing-guidelines juvenile-offenders sentencing-disparities sentencing-reasonableness sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness substantive-review The question presented is whether an appellate court reviewing a sentence for substantive reasonableness should consider, when presented, a comparison…
21-6208 Daliang Guo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP control-over-others criminal-procedure criminal-scheme criminal-sentencing leader-enhancement leadership-role ninth-circuit participant-control role-model sentencing-guidelines Whether a defendant who took part in a criminal scheme with multiple participants is properly subject to the leader/ organizer enhancement at USSG § 3…
21-6209 Angelo Cobbins v. Illinois Illinois 2021-11-05 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance evidence-suppression intellectual-capacity motion-to-suppress right-to-counsel trial-court waiver -/L, Motion to iSuppuss Loas -efror Gs it in as did not]fllulllinr th& ryl djLftionstrcJsd Ikb P-^titi patliy to (xialv-e. his Custoclid fi^ht 5 ?i/…
21-6175 Shaun Short v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-11-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment automobile-exception criminal-procedure disabled-car franks-hearing parked-car probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Does the automobile exception to the warrant requirement extend to a parked and disabled car, or is it limited to its original justifications? Is a d…
21-6182 Erick Argueta Larios v. United States First Circuit 2021-11-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP clear-and-convincing-evidence criminal-procedure due-process federal-district-court relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether a federal district court may use relevant conduct not proven by clear and convincing evidence to disproportionately raise a defendant's senten…
21-6186 Faruq Rose v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-11-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-court-of-appeals constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether the majority opinion of the United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, which held that the petitioner had no reasonable expectation of pri…
21-6188 Johnathan Andrew Doody v. Arizona Arizona 2021-11-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-withdrawal coercion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance involuntary-confession right-to-testify 1. Whether Doody was denied his personal right to testify in his own behalf by his attorneys' ineffective assistance regarding their advice on the use…
21-6193 In Re Roy Allen Nichols 2021-11-04 Denied IFP commerce-clause constitutional-jurisdiction constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-power habeas-corpus prejudice recurrent-issues sixth-circuit territorial-limits The Defendant/Petitioner states that the issues being presented in this Writ are not only ones of great public interest or Constitutional importance, …
21-6142 John Gregory Alexander Herrin v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP bank-theft criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-indictment indictment interstate-transportation jurisdiction money-laundering statute-of-limitations WHETHER THE GOVERNMENT WAS ENTITLED TO ESTABLISH PETITIONER'S GUILT AT TRIAL FOR FEDERAL OFFENSES IT DID INDICT (INTERSTATE TRANSPORTATION OF STOLEN M…
21-6154 Shawn Ford v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-11-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment apparent-authority consent-to-search criminal-procedure fourth-amendment reasonable-belief residence search-and-seizure third-party-consent Whether a third party's apparent authority to consent to a search of a criminal suspect's residence requires that the police reasonably believe that t…
21-6156 Vilasini Ganesh v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-03 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP calendar-management conflict-of-interest counsel-conflict counsel-substitution criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process sixth-amendment substitution trial-court-discretion A. Do Sixth Amendment safeguards require trial courts to inquire into existing conflicts between counsel and the defendant before a trial court may de…
21-6161 Adam Rene Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-court judicial-review jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation WHETHER DEFENDANT'S CONVICTION IS IN VIOLATION OF THE SEARCH AND SEIZURE PROTECTION OF THE FOURTH AMENDMENT, AND THE DUE PROCESS CLAUSE OF THE FOURTEE…
21-6162 Antwain T. Sales v. Tennessee Tennessee 2021-11-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction jurisdictional-authority standing state-courts state-law-interpretation 1. Sheer this Cowal skaisld issue this kt of Contionani LAdhetee the lonler Couets in Tennessee exceeded the jueisdidtion conteaeed and acted illegall…
21-6168 Vance L. White v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-11-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review blakely-v-washington constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion self-incrimination sentencing sentencing-guidelines Question not identified.
21-6171 Carlos Granda v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-03 Denied IFP 18-usc-924c3b circuit-split constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure harmless-error harmless-error-review johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states procedural-default 1. Whether the Court should resolve the three-way circuit split regarding whether, and under what circumstances, a movant's procedural default may be …
21-653 Harold Lee Harvey, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2021-11-03 Denied Relisted (2) autonomy-right counsel-override criminal-defense criminal-procedure defendant-autonomy due-process first-degree-murder ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mccoy-v-louisiana sixth-amendment Is the Sixth Amendment autonomy right established in McCoy violated where counsel overrode an express agreement with the defendant to not concede guil…
21-646 Oklahoma v. Dameon Lamar Leathers Oklahoma 2021-11-02 Denied Amici (1) 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020) should be overruled court-of-criminal-appeals criminal-appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federalism jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-criminal-law oklahoma-jurisdiction precedent-challenge stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled.
21-6135 Jesus Ramirez-Barrera v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP bail community-danger criminal-procedure detention district-court-review due-process extraordinary-reasons judicial-discretion public-safety relief-standard sentencing sentencing-review I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN DECIDING THAT PETITIONER HAS NOT SHOWN EXTRAORDINARY AND COMPELLING REASONS; AND THAT HE WAS A DANGER TO THE CO…
21-6146 Keenan Rollerson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment Whether a sentencing judge increasing a criminal defendant's punishment for acts charged but acquitted by the jury violates the jury trial guarantee o…
21-6149 Domingo Palma v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2021-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment mistrial prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Are the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments violated by a trial court's refusal to grant a mistrial where a prosecution witness injects groundless, irrele…
21-6152 Keith Arthur Vinson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability counsel-performance criminal-defense criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain sixth-amendment 1. Did the Court of Appeals err in denying a certificate of appealability over trial counsel's potential ineffectiveness in the plead-vs-trial decisio…
21-6155 Jose Burciaga-Alcantar v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-6074 Nikolas Gacho v. Illinois Illinois 2021-11-01 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance plea-admonishment plea-negotiations prejudice sixth-amendment I. Does a plea admonishment cure all prejudice and preclude a defendant from challenging counsel's representation during the plea negotiations process…
21-6123 Antonio Rene Martinez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure harmless-error presentence-report rule-32 sentencing structural-error Did the Ninth Circuit's disposition of Petitioner's claim under Rule 32(i)(1)(A) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure conflict with the Sixth Ci…
21-6127 In Re Howard Griffith 2021-11-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process extraordinary-writ federal-rules habeas-corpus standing statutory-interpretation What was the reason for not making application for writ of habeas corpus to the district court of the district in which I am being held? (Rule 20.4[a]…
21-6133 Dean Rossi v. United States Third Circuit 2021-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-withdrawal conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure judicial-discretion necessary-witness prosecutorial-discretion right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standard-of-review 1) Is a prosecution's claim that a defendant's lawyer is "likely to be a necessary witness" at trial an "actual conflict" or "a serious potential conf…
21-6137 Vassily Anthony Thompson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury indictment sentencing 1. Does it offend the Fifth Amendment right to a grand jury for a court to ignore legally relevant elements of an offense charged by a grand jury in a…
21-6139 Yency Nuñez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-01 Denied IFP appellate-procedure article-iii circuit-courts circuit-precedent criminal-procedure due-process jurisdictional-facts maritime-drug-law precedent statutory-interpretation Petitioner Yency Nuñez and the government agree that, although the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act makes proof of jurisdictional facts indispensable…
21-634 Zachariah Brian Wright v. Indiana Indiana 2021-11-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) criminal-procedure due-process equivocal-invocation high-penalty-case intelligent-waiver judicial-discretion right-to-counsel right-to-self-representation self-representation sixth-amendment In Faretta v. California, this Court held that the Sixth Amendment protects the "fundamental" right of a criminal defendant to "conduct his own defens…
21-6124 Saul Contreras-Roman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-6126 Jason A. Tobey v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion pretrial-hearing right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-continuance 1. When indisputable evidence shows a federal criminal defendant's retained counsel has abandoned him at a key pretrial hearing and is not prepared fo…
21-6128 Tommy Pabellon v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure first-step-act intervening-changes-in-law intervening-law judicial-review legal-standard lower-court-judgment motion-review petition-for-writ-of-certiorari standard-of-review Whether a lower court's failure to apply the proper standard of review effects its judgment in reviewing a petitioner's case based on clear intervenin…
21-6130 Brett Allan Corrigan, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review clear-error criminal-procedure drug-offense firearm sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review weapon-enhancement WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT'S FINDING THAT A WEAPON WAS CONNECTED TO THE DRUG OFFENSE UNDER §2D1.1(b)(1) WAS CLEAR ERROR.
21-6131 Jose Alfredo Gonzalez-Mares v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-6132 Shelton Marbury v. United States District of Columbia 2021-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process external-influence government-burden jury jury-influence presumption-of-prejudice sixth-amendment Whether under the Sixth Amendment, once a defendant has presented evidence that an external influence has reached his jury, a presumption of prejudice…
21-633 Gustavo Placancia-Rosendo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-10-29 Denied Response Waived acceptance-of-responsibility burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement relevant-conduct sentencing standard-of-proof A defendant who pleads guilty will face a presentence investigation report, the results of which will guide the District Court in affixing sentence. A…
21-6110 Richard L. Starghill, II v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jury-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct retrial trial-integrity Do multiple mistrials, necessitated by jury misconduct, create a Double Jeopardy bar, preventing a retrial of a criminal defendant?
21-6115 Jaime Mayorga v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP chapman-v-california criminal-conviction criminal-procedure harmless-error intent-to-defraud jury-instruction jury-instructions ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation united-states-v-neder Did the Ninth Circuit's disposition of Petitioner's instructional error claim, which did not examine evidence Petitioner proffered regarding his lack …
21-6122 Malek Lassiter v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-of-appeals criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution motion-for-judgment-of-acquittal rico rico-conspiracy sentencing standard-of-review WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S DENIAL OF LASSITER'S MOTION FOR JUDGMENT OF ACQUITTAL ON THE RICO CONSPIRACY CHAR…
21-623 Anthony Penton v. A. Malfi, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-10-28 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived brady-evidence brady-v-maryland criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment prior-convictions prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment suppressed-evidence 1. Whether evidence covered by Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), and withheld by prosecutors is considered suppressed under the Fifth Amendment r…
21-6085 Robert George Knecht, Jr. v. Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Florida 2021-10-27 Denied IFP 1st-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment standing Question not identified.
21-6098 Hector Enamorado, aka Vida Loca v. United States First Circuit 2021-10-27 Denied IFP bruton-doctrine bruton-v-united-states codefendant-confession confrontation-clause criminal-procedure evidence multi-defendant-trial multi-defendant-trials rico-conspiracy sixth-amendment Petitioner Hector Enamorado was convicte d on a single count of conspiracy to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), …
21-6102 Anthony B. Williams v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-10-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment district-court double-jeopardy due-process grand-jury-indictment jury-instructions sentencing Does the absence of a specific unanimity instruction at trial require both distribution of Pcp and accompanying 924.lis count be vacated Does a convi…
21-6103 Moses D. Estrada v. California California 2021-10-27 Denied IFP attorney-client-relationship collaborative-discovery constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure legal-interpretation procedural-rights right-to-counsel victim-rights Question not identified.
21-6106 Ahmed Osman Farah v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-10-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP arrest-record circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion sentencing-enhancement Does a district court violate a defendant's right to due process by enhancing a sentence based on unreliable arrest history, as the Third and Seventh …
21-6107 Thomas Johnson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-27 Denied Relisted (3)IFP criminal-procedure criminal-resentencing district-court-discretion factual-developments fair-sentencing-act first-step-act legal-developments presidential-commutation sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether, when deciding if it should "impose a reduced sentence" on an eligible defendant under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, a distric…
21-618 Armand Jones v. Mississippi Mississippi 2021-10-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) codefendant-conduct codefendant-liability confrontation-clause confrontation-right criminal-procedure forfeiture-by-wrongdoing sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence witness-unavailability Whether a defendant forfeits his Sixth Amendment right to confront a witness against him when the defendant did not engage in conduct designed to prev…
21-619 Hugo Reyes-Morales v. Maryland Maryland 2021-10-27 Denied Response Waived criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process immigration-consequences ineffective-assistance padilla-v-kentucky plea-bargaining sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington If "the deportation consequences of a particular plea are unclear or uncertain…a criminal defense attorney need do no more than advise a noncitizen cl…
21-6064 Robert William Knopping v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion downward-departure government-motion sentencing sentencing-guidelines third-level-reduction u.s.s.g. Under what circumstances can the district court at sentencing deny the government's motion for a third-level reduction for acceptance of responsibilit…
21-6078 Melvin Jackson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines ineffective-assistance-of-counsel statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
21-608 Oklahoma v. Laurie Jean Martin Oklahoma 2021-10-26 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction mcgirt-precedent native-american-law oklahoma-sovereignty stare-decisis state-sovereignty statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled.
21-6087 Maria Vargas-Luna v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy fact-finding judicial-fact-finding jury-trial-right reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Petitioner pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance. She admitted to the district court that approxima…
21-6088 George Brass v. Aaron D. Ford, Attorney General of Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-26 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-default standing state-court takings Question not identified.
21-6089 Edward N. Daniels v. Bobbi Jo Salamon, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2021-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruton-precedent bruton-v-united-states co-conspirator co-defendant confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence-admissibility precedent DID THE LOWER COURT ERR WHEN THEY REFUSED TO APPLY THIS COURT'S PRECEDENT IN BRUTON V. UNITED STATES, 391 U.S. 123 (1968) WHEN THE CO-CONSPIRATOR / C…
21-6090 Olry Maurival v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy crawford-confrontation criminal-procedure evidence-sufficiency false-tax-return false-tax-returns hearsay-evidence sufficiency-of-evidence tax-fraud I. WHETHER THE VERDICT OF GUILT WAS SUPPORTED BY SUFFCIENT EVIDENCE TO SUSTAIN A CONVICTION, AND THE EVIDENCE, VIEWED IN A LIGHT MOST FAVORABLE TO THE…
21-6091 Harold Cook v. United States Second Circuit 2021-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland criminal-investigation criminal-procedure disclosure-requirements due-process exculpatory-evidence prosecutorial-duty witness-statement witness-statements 1. WHETHER BRADY V. MARYLAND, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) AND ITS PROGRENY REQUIRE THE PROSECUTION TO CREATE A RECORD OF AND PRESERVE APPARENTLY EXCULPATORY WI…
21-6043 Vedrick Lamonte Symonette v. Florida Florida 2021-10-25 Denied IFP brady-v-maryland constitutional-violations criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-error fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice judicial-procedure jurisdiction miscarriage-of-justice vague-indistinct-indefinite Where information so vague, indistinct, and indefinite it resulted in due process violation, Brady v Maryland violation, and a Fundamental Miscarriage…
21-6045 Melissa Richardson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-circuit appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency involuntary-confession judicial-error miranda-rights motion-to-suppress right-to-counsel Whether the 5th Circuit erred in denying Richardson's motion to suppress. Whether the 5th Circuit erred in affirming that there was sufficient eviden…
21-6069 Artavius Horne v. United States Third Circuit 2021-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-review supervisory-power third-circuit Did the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit so far depart from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, or sanctioned such a departur…
21-6042 Marques Smith v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-hour criminal-procedure discovery discovery-review due-process fair-trial sixth-amendment trial-preparation (1) Does the District of South Dakota's Standing Order 16-04, which prohibits a defendant from independent review their discovery, deny defendants of …
21-6058 David James Lola v. Florida Florida 2021-10-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process federal-judiciary fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-review legislative-review separation-of-powers sixth-amendment state-sovereignty Does due process pursuant to the Fourteenth Amendment protect an individual's right to express lawful speech free from state action and deliberate ind…
21-6059 Terry Jonathan Phillips v. Florida Florida 2021-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-right criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-offense fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-procedure 1. Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a twelve-person jury to try a criminal defendant accused of a felony offense.
21-6060 Ance Payton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 compassionate-release covid-19 criminal-procedure district-court federal-criminal-procedure health-conditions motion sentencing Whether the district court erred by denying Mr. Payton's Motion for Compassionate Release under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A).
21-6062 Craig Schenvinsky James v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-review sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation I. BECAUSE THERE IS A CONFLICT AMONG THE UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURTS OF APPEAL OVER THIS MATTER, CAN THE SENTENCING COMMISSION'S COMMENTS TAKE PRECED…
21-6011 Robert Leslie Stencil v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP adversarial-defendant clean-energy criminal-procedure defendant-prejudice due-process fraud-intent prejudice severance trial-severance Whether due process is violated when a trial court denies a motion to sever the trial, resulting in prejudice to petitioner because an adversarial def…
21-6012 Michael Rimmer v. Tennessee Tennessee 2021-10-20 Denied IFP capital-trial confrontation-clause criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fundamental-fairness prosecutorial-misconduct trial-fairness witness-unavailability 1. Whether the courts below erred by upholding the trial court's determination that the only witness to petitioner's purported jailhouse confession wa…
21-6023 Dina Elizabeth Guardado v. Eric Aldridge, Warden Virginia 2021-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-privilege civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process legal-ethics standing IaHu* did Mr. Prices Kosh Sta±H Oct t&ui&n Clsu^ Shock Svd donS ShcSS MlC^durUS CI 9 d Hood IS it tfaut hC- UJOJS asSi^neJ to bs m-i court (tffoud&l…
21-6024 Dudley Allen Hicks v. Florida Florida 2021-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP counsel-competence criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-competency post-conviction-relief right-to-counsel sixth-amendment VJWV V\\nM oP evxfAe-'Ote avd C'^cuvvisAa^ces n'lusV be. CeveoAed Vo a CCxnVxnaN aVVo'r*>ey •Vo C-CeciVe a boma Pde dloubV as Vo W\± cV»eoVs cor*pe.…
21-6026 Barton R. Gaines v. Texas Texas 2021-10-20 Denied IFP brady-rule constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief strickland-standard trial-counsel Like Brady, but with defense counsel (i.e., rather than the prosecutor), does the defendant have a reasonable expectation that his trial counsel will …
21-6029 Daronnie Thompkins v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP bank-robbery coercion criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency firearm-enhancement interrogation interrogation-tactics involuntary-statements self-incrimination sentencing Whether Thompkins' incriminating statements were involuntary and should have been suppressed, where the interrogating officer: suggested that Thompkin…
21-6033 Larry Gene Francis v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-10-20 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial material-facts parole-violation state-misconduct testimony 1) An administrative parole violation hearing? 2) Is it violation of Due Process of Law, when the "preponderance of testimony as to all material fact…
21-6034 Clifton James Jackson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-conduct criminal-procedure discovery-violations federal-jurisdiction government-agencies indictment-defect mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states speedy-trial-act 1. After Jackson was charged with and convicted of unlawful firearm possession, this Court overturned near-unanimous circuit authority by holding the …
21-576 Benjamin Forrest Carter v. Virginia Virginia 2021-10-20 Denied Response Waived confrontation-clause constitutional-violation criminal-procedure hearsay hearsay-testimony judicial-error prior-testimony remedy sixth-amendment Whether the Supreme Court of Virginia erred in affirming the judgment of the Court of Appeals of Virginia, which affirmed the defendant's convictions …
21-580 Vitaly Korchevsky v. United States, et al. Second Circuit 2021-10-20 Denied Response Waived criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process evidence grand-jury grand-jury-clause insider-trading material-nonpublic-information securities-exchange-act securities-fraud stock-trading 1. The Grand Jury Clause of the United States Constitution states that "[n]o person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime…
21-581 Allen H. Loughry, II v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-10-20 Denied criminal-procedure extrajudicial-communication juror-contact juror-misconduct presumptive-prejudice remmer-hearing sixth-amendment social-media social-media-evidence trial-integrity In Remmer v. United States, 347 U.S. 227, 229 (1954), the Court held that "any private communication, contact, or tampering directly or indirectly, wi…
21-568 Jason Jarvis v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-10-19 Denied Amici (1) criminal-law criminal-procedure extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-circumstances federal-law federal-law-change judicial-discretion retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether non-retroactive changes in federal law can serve as "extraordinary and compelling reasons" warranting a sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3…
21-5996 Jayson Thomas Weiss v. California California 2021-10-19 Denied IFP appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Question not identified.
21-5997 Jeremiah Ybarra v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-10-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure drug-statute due-process effective-counsel fifth-amendment grand-jury indictment jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment WHETHER APPELLANT WAS DENIED HIS FIFTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO A GRAND JURY PRESENTMENT OR INDICTMENT WHETHER APPELLANT WAS DENIED HIS SIXTH AMENDMENT RIG…
21-5998 In Re Anthony Terry 2021-10-19 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act career-offender circuit-precedent circuit-split criminal-procedure elements-clause mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation In a previous holding (Borden v United States, 141 S.Ct. 1817 (2021)), this Court determined that a mens rea element of "knowing and purposeful" is re…
21-6000 Marius A. Brown v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-10-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appointed-counsel criminal-procedure fruit-of-poisonous-tree fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree miranda-rights probable-cause search-warrant wanton-endangerment Section 61-7-12 of the West Virginia Code provides that the offense of wanton endangerment is committed if a person "wantonly performs any act with a …
21-6001 Terence Tramaine Andrus v. Texas Texas 2021-10-19 Denied Amici (8)Relisted (17)IFP capital-case criminal-procedure death-penalty effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment stare-decisis strickland-v-washington vertical-stare-decisis I. On remand, did the Texas court reject this Court's conclusions in Andrus v. Texas, 140 S.Ct. 1875 (2020), which were amply supported by the habeas …
21-6002 Mario Bachiller v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-conviction jury-instructions predicate-offense statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis "It has long been settled that when a case is submitted to the jury on alternative theories the unconstitutionality of any of the theories requires th…
21-6004 Olufolajimi Abegunde v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-10-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split conspiracy-charges criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure indictment indictment-allegations rule-8-joinder venue venue-impropriety In determining the propriety of Joinder of offenses and/or defendants under Rule 8 Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, there is a profound circuit sp…
21-6006 Cory Wayne Kilgore v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-10-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment address-connection appellate-review child-pornography criminal-procedure fourth-amendment prior-conviction probable-cause search-warrant Did the Tenth Circuit, on review of the denial of Petitioner's motion to suppress, err in holding that the search warrant affidavit provided adequate …
21-6008 Keyaira Porter v. Arizona Arizona 2021-10-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review batson-challenge comparative-juror-analysis criminal-procedure equal-protection jury-selection racial-discrimination standard-of-review trial-procedure For over a decade now, Courts have found themselves intractably divided on two important issues regarding the enforcement of Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U…
21-6014 Yina Maria Castaneda Benavidez, aka La Reina, aka Ingeniera v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process evidence evidence-standard knowledge-element sentencing sentencing-disparity This petition arises from the affirm ance of a judgment of conviction and sentence to a term of 22 ½ years ' incarceration following a jury trial for …
21-5982 Marcus Matthews v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-interpretation circuit-court-precedent controlled-substance-offense controlled-substances criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines georgia-criminal-code sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-guidelines Does a conviction under Official Code of Georgia Annotated ("OCGA") § 1613-30 qualify as a "controlled substance offense" for purposes of enhancing a …
21-5989 Jeffrey G. Boyd v. United States Third Circuit 2021-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split contested-element criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions knowledge-element standard-of-review Based on this Court's harmless error jurisprudence and that of seven other circuits, the government must establish beyond a reasonable doubt that an e…
21-5992 Jose Miguel Ramirez-Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP COVID-19 criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection felony-convictions judicial-discretion medical-records procedural-error sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines time-served -1-he. Scolcnce 4he Tudge (kiitheia Moo fez) eae d vivre Aan 4-14e Guedelmes Rom mord-)15- 4's on error sloe broke 4-he )sol rules -(4/Jere_ 7) -tkie …
21-5967 Zenon Grzegorczyk v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-10-15 Denied Relisted (11)IFP collateral-review constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea retroactivity substantive-law waiver Pursuant to this Court's holding in Class, does an unconditional guilty plea, by itself, waive a defendant's right to challenge his conviction under §…
21-5970 Fredrick Devone Flemming v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process juvenile-delinquency prior-conviction sentencing-factor sentencing-factors sixth-amendment stare-decisis In Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), this Court held that the fact of a prior conviction was a "sentencing factor," not an "ele…
21-5978 Derek Levert Hall v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-15 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure indigent-defendant pro-se pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel waiver The federal courts of appeals are about evenly split over whether an indigent criminal defendant's waiver of trial counsel requires a clear and unequi…
21-5979 Leihinahina Sullivan, aka Jennifer Sullivan v. Reneau Kennedy, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-15 Denied IFP civil-rights competency constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-subpoena medical-records patient-privacy psychotherapist-patient-privilege standing Does a judge vested by Statute to Subpoena a Criminal defendants treating Psychotherapist— patient records, Cannot over a criminal defendant's express…
21-5988 Stephen B. Jones, Sr. v. Maryland Maryland 2021-10-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-reasoning procedural-rules speedy-trial statutory-provisions Question not identified.
21-556 Alexander P. Bebris v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-10-15 Denied Response Waived confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing evidentiary-hearings pretrial-hearing pretrial-hearings sixth-amendment witness-credibility Does the Sixth Amendment and Confrontation Clause apply to all pretrial evidentiary hearings implicating the credibility of a witness?
21-5961 David K. Horsley v. Ohio Ohio 2021-10-14 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal-waiver appellate-procedure constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process garza-v-idaho ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-rule sixth-amendment state-appellate-procedure To clarify if what the United States Court held in Garza v. Idaho, 586 U.S. 10 (2019) applies to Ohio App. R. 26 (B)(1) which requires a defendant to …
21-5973 Jesus Lopez-Mejia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness I. Whether Petitioner's sentence was substantively unreasonable?
21-5975 Modesto Balderas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-10-14 GVR IFP armed-career-criminal-act borden-v-united-states criminal-procedure records-of-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement simple-robbery texas-penal-code violent-felony Whether the Texas offense of Simple Robbery, Tex. Penal Code §29.02(a) constitutes a "violent felony" under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. §…
21-5976 Jude Joseph David Lovchik v. Virginia Virginia 2021-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-investigation criminal-procedure dna-evidence dna-testing expectation-of-privacy forensic-evidence fourth-amendment search-and-seizure search-warrant The Fairfax County Police seized trash from in front of Jude Lovchik's home. The items seized were then submitted to the Virginia Department of Forens…
21-5977 In Re Rigoberto Melero Aguirre 2021-10-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constructive-denial counsel-rights criminal-procedure due-process fraud-on-the-court fraud-upon-court ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-proceedings miscarriage-of-justice plain-error-standard standard-of-review WHETHER THE CONSTRUCTIVE DENIAL OF COUNSEL DURING MELERO AGUIRRE'S JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS, COUPLED WITH THE WHOLESALE ADOPTION BY THE FIFTH CIRCUIT, OF …
21-5963 Norris Williams v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-investigation criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment habeas-corpus investigation right-to-silence self-incrimination 1. When a defendant in an investigation says "No" is it a 5th amendment violation. When does the investigation stop? 2. When new evidence is made ava…
21-5951 Steven B. Baumgarten v. Erika Evans Washington 2021-10-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process excessive-punishment judicial-disqualification mental-illness mental-illness-discrimination perjury-allegations stalking stalking-evidence standing 1) Is the U.S. Constitution and federal case law violated when a trial court erred in finding substantial evidence of two or more distinct, individual…
21-5956 Nolan Nathaniel Edwards v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act incarceration notice resentencing sentencing-modification supervised-release I. Whether § 404 of the First Step Act allows a district court to impose a term of supervised release not previously imposed, as it was not a componen…
21-543 Mark Anthony Spell v. Louisiana Louisiana 2021-10-13 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process misdemeanor sixth-amendment speeding-ticket statute-of-limitations 1. Does the Sixth Amendment permit the prosecution of a misdemeanor speeding ticket after the lapse of more than twenty years if there is no evidence …
21-5889 Anibal Alejandro Hernandez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-10-12 Denied IFP closing-argument courtroom-security criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudicial-statements shackling trial-shackling Was Petitioner denied the effective assistance of counsel when his trial counsel failed to object to Petitioner being ordered by the trial court to be…
21-5942 Michael Woolen v. California California 2021-10-12 Denied IFP appellate-review appointment-of-counsel civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure dismissal due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion procedural-due-process sentencing-guidelines DEPRIVATIONS OF EQUAL PROTECTION OF LAWS, FAILURE TO APPOINT COUNSEL TO ADA PETITIONER WITH 8TH GRADE COGNITIVE FUNCTION PREDICATED PROCEDURAL DUE PRO…
21-5929 Jean Lynn Lillie v. Iowa Iowa 2021-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech jury-trial repeat-offender sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment standing takings Question not identified.
21-5931 Noe Lopez Suchite v. New York New York 2021-10-08 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-information penal-law right-to-bear-arms second-amendment self-defense trial-transcripts NY-PENAL'LAW' '35.15 JUSTIFICATION . I reasonably believes to defend myself,when I am risk of peril, whenever can be in my defense. I. AM JUSTIFY 4.CO…
21-5922 Edwin Oland Andrus v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-10-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certiorari-petition civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process individual-rights judicial-review statutory-construction statutory-interpretation 1. Should this Court grant writ of Certiorari addressing constitutional issues, correcting a miscarriage of justice that occurred when lower Court unc…
21-516 Justin Haggerty v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-10-07 Denied 18-usc-1152 affirmative-defense criminal-procedure element federal-jurisdiction indian-country interracial interracial-offense statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction I. Whether the "interracial" nature of a minor offense in Indian Country is an element of 18 U.S.C. § 1152, rather than an affirmative defense, and th…
21-5915 Thomas D. Holmes v. Randy Gibbs, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-10-06 Denied IFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-statute defendant-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure oral-verdict precedent sentencing Whether a Certificate of Appealability should have issued on the question of whether a Defendant can be imprisoned pursuant to an orally pronounced ve…
21-5916 Ramiro Medina-Oliden v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-10-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
21-5871 Stephret R. Harvey v. Jason Kent, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-10-05 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review prosecution-bar state-court-record statute-of-limitations time-limitations Was counsel's performance deficient when counsel failed to conduct an independent investigation concerning the time limitations once the institution o…
21-5894 Jeffrey Richard Martinson v. Arizona Arizona 2021-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquittal constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-doctrine fifth-amendment new-trial prosecutorial-misconduct trial-court-dismissal Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment bars retrial where the trial court dismissed the case with prejudice for bad faith prosecuto…
21-5898 Ernest Gabriel Verdugo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP abandoned-address criminal-procedure fourth-amendment independent-access law-enforcement motel-room probable-cause residence residence-definition search-and-seizure Whether police officers establish probable cause that a motel room is a suspect's "residence" when they learn that he has abandoned his reported addre…
21-5903 Angela Johnson, et al. v. United States Federal Circuit 2021-10-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure domestic-violence due-process federal-governing-bodies federal-statutes legal-jurisdiction standing state-law takings victim-rights (1) CAN STATES OVERTURN FEDERAL STATUTES BY AND ENFORCEABLE FEDERAL GOVERNING BODIES WITHOUT REBUKE OR AWARDING EXPIATION, SPECIFICALLY UIFSA AND UC…
21-502 Oklahoma v. Terrance Lucas Cottingham Oklahoma 2021-10-05 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-indian-law jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law oklahoma-sovereignty overruling-precedent stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled.
21-496 Martez L. Smith v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) categorical-approach conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure guideline-interpretation overt-act sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation 1. Whether the categorical approach for generic offenses applies to the offense of conspiring under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 Application Note 1 and requires a…
21-5851 Daniel Bryan Kelly, Jr. v. California California 2021-10-04 Denied IFP child-witness confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial gang-related-crime ineffective-counsel trial-rights witness • WM UaSn4 x allowed 4o -fixce. mw accuser or cross- examine. Won a\ final ? * WhW cJoulclo4 /AW A\4omeV5/ MarK S-taPlefioo . Trai/i S S4roud and Ste…
21-5855 Jeremiah Kyle Blaber v. Oregon Oregon 2021-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-due-process criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process individual-standard medical-appropriateness medical-coercion mental-health mental-health-standard physician-opinion trial-fitness 1. Can the court medicate a defendant against the opinion of the defendant's treating physician under a "Sell order" (Sell vs. United States) for the …
21-5858 Enrique E. Quintana v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence collateral-attack commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure indictment indictment-deficiency plea-agreement waiver Can a defendant who claims actual innocence after entering a plea agreement be barred from raising his actual innocence claim based on a Plea Agreemen…
21-5867 James Dean Kendrick v. United States Second Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting-liability criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure indian-reservation indian-reservations sentencing-guidelines title-21-usc title-21-usc-section-841(b)(1)(A) title-21-usc-section-848(e)(1)(A) title-21-usc-section-848(g)-(p) 1. Can the Government's alleged motive for the murder of a non-Indian committed by another non-Indian, which occurred on the Cattaraugus Indian Reserv…
21-5868 Ryan Russell Parks, aka Dinero v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment constitutional-rights constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial indictment ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief variance Question not identified.
21-5879 Dheadry Powell v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion first-step-act guidelines justification money-laundering resentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines I. UNDER THE FIRST STEP ACT, DID THE DISTRICT COURT FAIL TO PROVIDE A SUFFICIENTLY COMPELLING JUSTIFICATION THAT THOROUGHLY EXPLAINS IT'S ABOVE THE GU…
21-5839 Antonio Darnell Mays v. Tracy Johnson Seventh Circuit 2021-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule false-documents false-evidence false-statements fourth-amendment fundamental-question probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search Question not identified.
21-5844 James Malcolm Hale v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-disposition federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion pretrial-motion pretrial-motions procedural-waiver waiver Whether, in a federal criminal prosecution, a defendant who has not reserved in writing his right to appellate court review of an adverse determinatio…
21-5845 Danny Collins v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certiorari criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing service-of-process solicitor-general supreme-court-rule Question not identified.
21-5848 Zackie Thomas Reed, IV v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP black-v-romano criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit narcotics narcotics-violation preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-standard revocation supervised-release Whether the preponderance of the evidence standard utilized by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in a supervised release revoca…
21-5849 Jason August Eisenach v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-standing plea-bargaining sentencing Why did may public defender help the prosecution by delaging the trial so the prosrcution could d 3.why Did my attorney at the last sicond ask me to …
21-484 Oklahoma v. Sonny Raye McCombs Oklahoma 2021-10-01 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (3) civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-indian-law jurisdictional-challenge McGirt-precedent native-american-law oklahoma-sovereignty standing statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled.
21-486 Oklahoma v. Dakota James Alleyn Shriver Oklahoma 2021-10-01 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020) should be overruled appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction indian-law jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-jurisdiction native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-law oklahoma-sovereignty precedent-review stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled.
21-488 Oklahoma v. Dakota Shay Fox Oklahoma 2021-10-01 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020) should be overruled appellate-review criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-indian-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law oklahoma-sovereignty oklahoma-statehood stare-decisis tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled.
21-482 Hassan Sharif Ali, aka Big Hassan v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-09-30 Denied Response Waived categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process jury-verdict modified-categorical-approach predicate-offense statutory-interpretation united-states-code united-states-v-davis Whether a court must apply the modified categorical approach to determine whether a verdict of conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) necessarily rests o…
21-5828 Brandon Aaron Thomas v. California California 2021-09-30 Denied IFP apartment-search constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment gang-evidence illegal-search illegal-searches illegal-seizures motion-to-proceed-in-forma-pauperis seizure Question not identified.
21-5829 Amar Taylor v. United States Second Circuit 2021-09-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c 2nd-amendment crime-of-violence criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process firearm-statute statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis 1. Whether Petitioner's conviction for using a firearm during a crime of violence in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) remains valid in light of United …
21-5830 Bradley David Johnson v. Stuart Sherman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-09-30 Denied IFP confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process evidence sixth-amendment Question not identified.
21-5805 Jean Leonard Teganya v. United States First Circuit 2021-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure false-statements obstruction-of-justice perjury sentencing-guidelines significant-further-obstruction 1. The United States Sentencing Guidelines permit a two-point increase in offense level if the defendant obstructed or impeded the administration of j…
21-5807 Christian Estrada Comacho v. Nebraska Nebraska 2021-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause covid-19 covid-19-exception criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process interpreter-testimony two-way-video video-testimony witness-demeanor witness-testimony 1. Did the district court err when it allowed testimony via two-way interactive video on foundational or "factual scenario" grounds over confrontati…
21-5808 In Re Tommy Rutledge 2021-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy habeas-corpus judicial-discretion judicial-mandate mandate procedural-review res-judicata sentencing supreme-court-order vacatur When a District Court Judge has executed a mandate of the United States Supreme Court by vacating a charge and its sentence, can that same Judge reins…
21-5814 Matthew David George v. Ohio Ohio 2021-09-29 Denied IFP civil-rights compelled-speech constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-mandate Is a court ordered apology letter in a criminal case a violation of the First Amendment's prohibition on compelled speech?
21-5825 Raqib Abdul Al-Amin v. South Carolina South Carolina 2021-09-29 Denied IFP compulsory-process constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment drug-offense due-process eighth-amendment evidence expert-witness mandatory-minimum sentencing-guidelines Whether the South Carolina Supreme Court error to akfirm the trial Coust's suling where the trial Court was convinced by the Sthte's 'thired-party gui…
21-467 Clifton Merrill Parish v. Oklahoma, et al. Oklahoma 2021-09-29 Denied Amici (1) collateral-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus indian-law oklahoma-law retroactivity supreme-court-precedent tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced.
21-470 Eric Lee Brown v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-28 Denied appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rule-criminal-procedure judicial-precedent legal-standard plain-error precedent standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether an error can be "plain" within the meaning of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52(b) based on established legal principles, or whether an er…
21-5792 Karl Roye v. United States Second Circuit 2021-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment 8th-amendment-violation constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mandatory-life-without-parole miller-v-alabama sentencing Whether the Second Circuit erred, in violation of the Eighth Amendment, when it concluded that Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460 (2012) condoned the imp…
21-5797 George Verkler v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-misconduct plea-agreement presumption-of-innocence right-to-appeal right-to-counsel sentencing Does the presumption of innocence and due process mean that if a judge will not read what a defendant in a criminal case submits to the court, or if t…
21-5798 Willie Israel Navarette v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process evidence evidence-law impeachment suppression-hearing trial-testimony 1. Whether testimony from a suppression hearing may be used for impeachment purposes if a defendant testifies at trial.
21-5799 Robert Ronald Perales v. Texas Texas 2021-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process entrapment law-enforcement online-persona outrageous-government-conduct Outrageous government conduct exists when the actions of law enforcement are shocking to the universal sense of justice. Outrageous government conduct…
21-5804 Kenneth Randale Door v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-09-28 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure evidence evidence-sufficiency judgment-of-acquittal jurisdiction plain-error rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states Is review of a claim that the evidence was insufficient to establish the knowledge of status required by Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (201…
21-5776 Bobby John Kobito v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process federal-crime sentencing-guidelines silencer silencer-possession terrorism terrorism-enhancement trial-court-discretion Whether the trial court erred in finding that the defendant's possession of a silencer was intended to promote a federal crime of terrorism, pursuant …
21-5795 Ethan Guillen v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-09-27 Denied Amici (1)IFP circuit-split confession-admissibility constitutional-rights criminal-procedure interrogation-procedure law-enforcement-procedure miranda-warnings officer-intent question-first-interrogation seibert-v-missouri In determining the admissibility of post-warning confessions given during question-first interrogations, should courts apply the Seibert plurality's o…
21-460 April Diane Myres v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-09-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission fourth-amendment probable-cause self-incrimination warrantless-search Whether the Fourth Amendment permits the Government to introduce testimony, based only on the defendant's not consenting to warrantless fingerprinting…
21-5775 Peter George Noe, aka Ghost v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment Question not identified.
21-5777 Vance Keith Wilson v. Louisiana Louisiana 2021-09-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment bail civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-challenge judicial-discretion pretrial-detention 1. Is a district court authorized to, sua sponte, but without a Warrant or any quantum of suspicion, order a pretrial defendant, whose bond geemncnas …
21-5782 Cenobio Humberto Herrera, Sr., aka Bert Herrera, aka Cenobio Herrera Lanz, aka Cenobio Humberto Lanz v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure custodial-status district-court methamphetamine methamphetamine-production ninth-circuit pseudoephedrine section-3553a sentencing sentencing-discretion 1. Did the Ninth Circuit err in failing to vacate the district court's order because the court based its analysis on two clearly erroneous facts—the a…
21-5783 Brian D. Smith v. Montana Montana 2021-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-procedure critical-stage due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal post-conviction procedural-default right-to-counsel sentencing Is a motion to withdraw guilty plea considered a "critical Stage" requiring the assistance of counsel for a person "too poor" to hire one at the follo…
21-5787 In Re Randall Thomas McArty 2021-09-24 Dismissed IFP civil-rights compassionate-release criminal-procedure due-process extraordinary-circumstances federal-procedure federal-sentencing habeas-corpus parole sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation 1. Whethe the prima fai requiement in 28uss 2244() wud funtion enn renen ennt f a sentn ot ld l dee etio of nelease or paude. 2). Whether 28 usc 246 …
21-5742 Steven Wayne Isbel v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-09-23 Denied IFP civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment standing trial-counsel Question One: has Whether the 5th Circvit Court of Appeals that is in direct conflict with entered a decision the United States Supreme Court precede…
21-5766 Dionte Dortch v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment criminal-procedure deportation due-process firearm immigration-consequences ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining rico-statute simple-possession I WHETHER thE DUE PROCESS ClOUSE ANC THE SIth AMENdMENT PRotECTS ThE ACCUSEd FROM A PlEA of Guly To MatRial FActs Of SIMple PosSESSION OF CocaINe aNd …
21-5767 James Felton v. United States Second Circuit 2021-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process implicit-bias jury-impartiality jury-selection racial-bias racial-prejudice sixth-amendment voir-dire Does our society's evolving understanding of the impact of implicit bias on jury behavior justify overturning the "substantial circumstances" test set…
21-5772 Charles Eason v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-court armed-career-criminal-act chemical constitutional-challenge conviction criminal-procedure drug-classification drug-manufacturing remand sentencing-enhancement serious-drug statutory-interpretation I. When the Appellate Court Interprets"Promotion" Of A Chimical that "Could" be used to Manufacture as a "Serious Drug" is Remand Required ? II. If…
21-5774 Joseph Hilton Dierks v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing exculpatory-evidence government-misconduct habeas-corpus Question not identified.
21-5748 Kyle Evan Peterson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-09-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography circuit-split criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule knowledge-element plea-bargaining plea-colloquy post-hoc-warrant united-states-v-x-citement-video 1. The Sixth and Ninth Circuits are split on whether, during a plea colloquy in a child pornography case, the district judge must explain to the defen…
21-5751 Charles Elmer Kovary v. Willis Chapman, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-09-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP alibi-witness constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief trial-counsel witness-testimony 1) Was Appellate Counsel ineffective for failing to raise trial counsels ineffectiveness for failing to fully investigate Alibi witness, and help Alib…
21-5754 Cedrin Farodd Carter v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-22 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure different-occasions judicial-fact-finding jury-fact-finding prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Is a different-occasions finding, like other ACCA determinations about prior convictions, confined to matters essential to the fact of a prior convict…
21-5756 Gettus Leroy Mintz v. Arizona Arizona 2021-09-22 Denied IFP civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process equal-protection false-testimony forensic-evidence grand-jury sixth-amendment witness-testimony Question not identified.
21-5758 Bobby Martin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-vagueness conviction-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-law harmless-error statutory-interpretation supreme-court Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A), that was obtained in reliance on the unconstitutionally vague residual clause invalidated in Unit…
21-440 Miguel Angel Santana v. Maryland Maryland 2021-09-22 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived constitutional-integrity constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process false-testimony government-misconduct immunity-agreements prosecutorial-misconduct witness-immunity Whether, when a government witness provides material false testimony about an immunity agreement and the government fails to correct that false testim…
21-447 Matthew Nix v. United States Second Circuit 2021-09-22 GVR Relisted (2) actual-bias categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-procedure hobbs-act implied-bias juror-bias juror-dishonesty mcdonongh-power-equipment mcdonough-standard new-trial new-trial-standard 1. Whether a new trial is warranted pursuant to this Court's decision in McDonough Power Equipment, Inc. v. Greenwood, 464 U.S. 548 (1984), only upon …
21-5715 Ronald George Whitehouse v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof co-defendant criminal-procedure drug-offenses drug-quantity due-process fifth-circuit probation-officer reversible-error sentencing 1. THE PETITIONER OBJECTED TO THE PROBATION OFFICER'S CONCLUSION THAT THIS DEFENDANT WAS RESPONSIBLE TO 10 KILOS OF METHAMPHETAMINE AS A RESULT OF GIV…
21-5734 Tony Lamar Vann v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process police-misconduct racial-discrimination standing A fOUCt of ft ctd C»qiU UbGftlLy piANT Q81M& ori &LmK MM, am r/% ewers p/s&cM# /ul ut6AL ptfcAP/^ (j\m wow peoof.)
21-5735 Juan Manuel Lira-Salinas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-production burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process fifth-circuit sentencing Whether the Fifth Circuit's practice of shifting the burden of production and proof to the defendant at sentencing violates a defendant's Due Process …
21-5738 Daniel Jose Gomez v. Robert Dooley, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-09-21 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jury-trial statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
21-5712 George Ferrer Sanchez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion right-to-appeal sentencing Across all federal circuits, the courts of appeals have held that, as part of a plea agreement with the government, a criminal defendant can waive his…
21-5719 Edward Zinner v. United States Third Circuit 2021-09-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aedpa conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fraud-on-the-court government-failure-to-admit-or-deny habeas-corpus hazel-atlas prosecutorial-misconduct 1. When prosecutors conspire with known conflicted defense counsel pre-indictment, and devise a scheme to deprive two targets in a criminal investigat…
21-5723 Juan Manuel Pardo-Oseguera v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure plain-error presentence-report safety-valve sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-minimum weapons-enhancement A defendant in a federal criminal case, under the appropriate circumstances, is eligible for a reduction of 2 offense levels and to be sentenced witho…
21-5724 Devin Lee Rintye v. California California 2021-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-counsel miller-v-alabama mitigating-evidence sentencing youth youth-mitigation Does a State Court Violate a defendant's due process rights, in light of U.S. Supreme Court rulings in Appendix: New Jersey and Miller YAUW the Court …
21-5725 Sergio Amaya-Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-u.s.c.s.-991(b) 5th-circuit circuit-court-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing role-adjustment sentencing-fairness sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-3b1.2 1. Whether the 5th Circuit Court has qualified the minor and minimal role adjustment commentary under U.S.S.G. §3 B1.2 such that the sentences in cons…
21-5727 Frank Cisneros v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy criminal-defense criminal-procedure federal-law ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining sentencing-enhancement statute-of-limitations withdrawal (1) Whether an attorney's admitted failure to investigate or present a defendant's affirmative withdrawal from a conspiracy beyond the applicable st…
21-5689 Harold V. Hoskins v. Kevin Kauffman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. Third Circuit 2021-09-17 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment WAS THE PETITIONER DENIED HIS SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO BE REPRESENTED BY COUNSEL AS MEANT BY THE SIXTH AMENDMENT AND DID THE ACTIONS OF "ALL" COUNSE…
21-5690 Pedro Zavala-Armendariz v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553(f) appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court judicial-discretion safety-valve sentencing statutory-interpretation Did the District Court err by not adequately explaining its ruling in applying or not applying the safety valve in connection with 18 U.S.C. §3553(f)?
21-5691 Juan Guzman Zuniga, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-09-17 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule federal-courts fourth-amendment habeas-corpus probable-cause search-and-seizure standing warrantless-search (1) WHETHER HIS PETITION HABEAS CORPUS IS "SECOND OF SUCCESSIVE"? (2) WHETHER THE PROCEDURAL DEFAULT RULING DECISION BY THE DISTRICT COURT ON PRIOR H…
21-5699 Al-Kareem Rasool-Rachmaan Collier v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-09-17 Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-procedure prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-interpretation supreme-court ^■Mou) d_tfie6j'M' mcI -the petitioner? l\MMJlUm&„i4)A$LCmmitte4S- _ ^ _ ^J^^6-^ilsct^t £&4t ktiJ? ~0uhide_m£(uinceJmproi&JyJ r(,u4kU&„k^ p _ __ %-…
21-5701 Michel Cherfrere v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-17 Denied IFP competency competency-examination criminal-procedure due-process faretta-v-california right-to-counsel self-representation speedy-trial standby-counsel Do United States Supreme Court supported any Defendant who competent have right to represent himself in the criminal case at the jury trial. Do United…
21-5703 Mark French v. Frank B. Bishop, Jr., Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-09-17 Denied IFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-inquiry right-to-counsel trial-counsel trial-court-discretion 1. IS IT A CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATION WHEN A TRIAL COURT FAIL'S TO INQUIRY OR ADDRESS A DEFENDANT'S WRITTEN REQUEST ABOUT HIS CONCERNS ABOUT HIS TRIAL C…
21-5705 Lazaro Fernandez v. Jonathan W. Blodgett First Circuit 2021-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure dna-evidence dna-testing due-process exculpatory-evidence forensic-analysis post-conviction-relief saliva Whether it was error for the Court of Appeals to uphold the District Court in denying to order testing of the biology found at the crime scene, the al…
21-5708 Rodney Dale Hood v. Texas Texas 2021-09-17 Denied IFP contract-law contractual-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fraud fraud-in-judicial-proceedings judgment judicial-discretion plea-agreement plea-bargaining state-power 1. Wether the current Due Process standard for interpreting the obligations of the parties in plea agreements Is to broad? 2. Are the States free to …
21-5709 Miguel Gonzalez v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2021-09-17 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-error legal-precedent mccoy-v-louisiana retroactivity supreme-court supreme-court-interpretation Did the Supreme Court, Superior Court and trial Court commit reversible error when they held that a new constitutional right was not created by the Su…
21-5710 Charles L. Fieldgrove v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services, et al. Nebraska 2021-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-interpretation A Criminal Defendant's initial Habeas Corpus action, filed for the purpose determining the validty of the statutes convicted and sentence under, as be…
21-5679 Toye Tutis v. United States Third Circuit 2021-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-site-simulator criminal-procedure fourth-amendment plea-agreement plea-bargaining privacy privacy-rights search-and-seizure wiretap wiretap-order WHETHER EMPLOYMENT OF A "CELL-SITE SIMULATOR", IN ORDER TO DETERMINE IF THE PETITIONER POSSESSED ANOTHER CELLPHONE, OR CELLPHONES, CONSTITUTED AN INFR…
21-5693 Eleno Guillen-Morales v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-416 Darell Anthony Anderson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-09-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) breach civil-procedure contract contract-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process legal-procedure plea-agreement (1). The petitioner's direct appeal, as of right, was not adjudicated in accord with due process of law, and the plea agreement contract is vague, and…
21-408 Gertrude Parker v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-15 Denied Response Waived conspiracy-charge criminal-intent criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel general-verdict insufficient-evidence jury-verdict medicare medicare-statutes reasonable-interpretation sixth-amendment WHETHER PARKER WAS DENIED EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL GUARANTEED BY THE SIXTH AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION AS A RESULT OF HER TRIAL…
21-410 Gregorio Gigliotti and Angelo Gigliotti v. United States Second Circuit 2021-09-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-violation constitutional-standard criminal-investigation criminal-procedure foreign-law-enforcement fourth-amendment joint-investigation law-enforcement wiretapping 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment is violated when foreign law enforcement officials engage in wiretapping at the behest of United States officials purs…
21-5666 William Marcellus Campbell v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-09-15 Denied IFP 6th-amendment abuse-of-discretion appellate-review confrontation-clause cooperating-witness criminal-procedure de-novo-review sentencing 1. There is a split in the federal courts of appeals and several state courts regarding the following question: Whether a Defendant's 6th Amendment Co…
21-5675 Jayson Neil Sparks v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-09-15 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-protections criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection indigenous-rights jurisdiction native-american-law sentencing WAS PETITIONER NOT OWED THE MIMISTERIOL DUTY BU THE JS. DIBTRICT COURT OF A FOL AND FOIR HEARING OF TUE FIIED S ZZSY LOBEAS CRPUS? ACCORDING TO US. C…
21-5682 Sheila Davalloo v. Amy Lamanna, Superintendent, Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, et al. Second Circuit 2021-09-15 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process faretta-hearing mckaskle-v-wiggins right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment standby-counsel Most federal courts of appeal require that defendants are aware of the "dangers and disadvantages" of self-representation prior to waiver of their Six…
21-5683 Jerome McBride v. Jeff Nines, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-supremacy criminal-procedure due-process federalism habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief separation-of-powers standing Did the State-Division and the Federal-Division unconstitutional-Convert adopt depriving/ .This question is inlight. is the Petitioner beina Subject …
21-5684 Zaire Paige v. Stewart Eckert, Superintendent, Wende Correctional Facility, et al. Second Circuit 2021-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-confrontation constitutional-rights courtroom-presence criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus illinois-v-allen judicial-discretion second-circuit trial-rights Whether petitioner was denied his constitutional right to be present at his trial, where the judge ejected him after a single, brief, spontaneous, non…
21-5653 In Re Matthew Phillips 2021-09-14 Denied IFP criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure Matthew Sherman Phillips did not receive the "effective assistance of counsel," as guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment of the United States of America's…
21-5661 Raymond Moya v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP causation causation-of-death criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-distribution evidence evidence-suppression expert-testimony motion-in-limine motion-to-dismiss PROPOSITION ONE: Whether the District Court erred in denying Moya's Motion to Dismiss Count 2 in that there was insufficient evidence that the heroin …
21-5668 Freddy Angel Trujillo v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-09-14 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment gang-evidence joinder joinder-of-charges prejudicial-evidence summary-reversal Trujillo's trial was rendered fundamentally unfair due to the joint trial of unrelated charges and the admission of highly prejudicial gang evidence r…
21-403 Bruce H. Zitka, et ux. v. Michigan Michigan 2021-09-14 Denied Response Waived civil-rights court-order criminal-procedure due-process entrapment-by-estoppel government-liability governmental-officials jury-trial legal-defense res-judicata Were the Zitkas denied the right to present evidence to show the jury a prior court order authorized their conduct and to show they acted as they did …
21-5655 Timothy Dean Leners v. Wyoming Wyoming 2021-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process effective-counsel ineffective-assistance pro-se-representation prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-appeal sixth-amendment ONE: Was Defendant's 6th Amend. right to Effective Counsel violated when 1st chair appointed counsel testified at W.R.A.P. 21 hearing for new trial th…
21-5658 Elias G. Montalvo v. Isidro Baca, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-search criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-instructions lesser-included-offense motion-to-suppress open-murder voluntary-manslaughter Question not identified.
21-5641 Conoly Freddie Franklin, III, and Andre Anthony Franklin, aka Tommy Martin v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP charging-document circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure good-cause judicial-review plain-error plain-error-review sufficiency Does Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 12(b)(3) bar reviewing the sufficiency of a charging document absent a showing of good cause as the Ninth Circ…
21-5645 In Re Donald Mack 2021-09-10 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus mental-incompetence pate-v-robinson procedural-rules The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits states from trying or convicting a defendant who is mentally incompetent. See Pate v. Rob…
21-5648 O. B. Davis, Jr. v. Johnny Sumlin, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-09-10 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel nolo-contendere prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court-review witness-testimony Whether the Court's adjudication of this case ensue from a decision that was to, or involve an unreasonable application of, clearly established law as…
21-5625 Phillip Shawn Horton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-interpretation legal-conflict procedural-review remand remand-order sentencing stare-decisis supreme-court-precedent I. Should this Court should grant review to determine whether the opinion of the court below conflicts with this Court's decisions in Witte v. United …
21-5635 Jamail D. Hairston v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2021-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error miranda-rights miscarriage-of-justice police-testimony right-to-remain-silent right-to-silence sufficiency-of-evidence DID THE APPEALS COURT ERR IN HOLDING THAT NO SUBSTANTIAL RISK OF A MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE RESULTED FROM OFFICER PAGAN'S ERRONEOUS TESTIMONY ABOUT HAIR…
21-5589 Michael Lee Gordon v. United States Third Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation conviction-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel sentencing standing 1. whether the United States District Court or not has jurisdiction to grant Habeas Corpus relief for WNH pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 2241 2. whether or no…
21-5599 Robert Nathan Hensley v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions On an important matter, and subsequent to a capital case of Texas 5495, and east the Government VEN Prose Knowyes by Ay @ Leite peldover; Not uF B, wd…
21-5600 Linda Hardison v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-law constitutional-review court-procedure criminal-procedure documentary-evidence due-process habeas-corpus judicial-error judicial-review legal-adjudication CAN THE DISTRICT COURT AND THE APPEALS' COURT OVERLOOK A BLATANT ERROR OF LAW WHEN THE PETITIONER PRESENTED ALL DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE AND DECLARATIONS …
21-5601 Abdullah Hamidullah v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP colloquy constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts guilty-plea motion-to-withdraw plea-bargaining rule-11 sentencing 1. DID. THE DISTRICT'COURT VIOLATE THE DEFENDANT'S SUBSTANTIAL DUE PROCESS RIGHTS DURING THE MANDATORY RULE 11 COLLOGUY? 2. DID THE COURT ERR WHEN TH…
21-5607 Terry R. Smith v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP autopsy autopsy-requirement black-lung-disease cause-of-death civil-rights compensation-claim criminal-procedure due-process evidence medical-evidence A Reason(s) Wh+ Wftuse, of 4V ^p\\+- of ^ +Wis MA+feR +W (^ <3lWisioA/ / U)WcV\ is J C.A a/ you iACCuRjdely <SeWmiA^, A 4n0e, cwu^ of cW"^ U)>4Wf AV …
21-5611 In Re Andrew James Johnston 2021-09-08 Dismissed IFP attempted-crime bank-robbery civil-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process intimidation jury-instructions prosecutorial-discretion Will this Court issue a writ of habeas corpus that vacates the conviction and sentence imposed in Case No. 1:17-cr-517, under a version of a federal c…
21-369 Oklahoma v. Bea Ann Epperson Oklahoma 2021-09-08 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) criminal-appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-indian-law jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-criminal-law overruling-precedent stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled.
21-370 Oklahoma v. Travis Dray Stewart Oklahoma 2021-09-08 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction indian-law judicial-review McGirt-precedent native-american-rights oklahoma-sovereignty statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled.
21-371 Oklahoma v. Jeffery Arch Jones Oklahoma 2021-09-08 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federalism judicial-review McGirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-sovereignty stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled.
21-373 Oklahoma v. Joses Ric-E Beck Oklahoma 2021-09-08 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-indian-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge McGirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-sovereignty stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled.
21-356 Jermain V. Richards v. Connecticut Connecticut 2021-09-07 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hung-jury mistrial perez-v-united-states richardson-v-united-states After Ramos v. Louisiana required unanimous juries to convict criminal defendants, only Oregon preserved nonunanimous jury verdicts in criminal cases,…
21-5584 Guerly Alexis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing eleventh-circuit equal-protection fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant whose offense preceded the enactment of the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, and who was sentenced after its enactment, but not necess…
21-5553 F. Daly v. Maine Maine 2021-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP beyond-reasonable-doubt boyde-v-california burden-of-proof constitutional-standard criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions standard-of-proof sullivan-v-louisiana witness-testimony The testimony of a single witness is sufficient to prove any fact and would justify a verdict in accordance with such testimony even if a number of wi…
21-5568 Carl Anthony Wilson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-09-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP blood-evidence blood-search constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fourth-amendment jury-selection prosecutorial-misconduct retroactivity FftUomtE to ft DEFEUDfiFr AFTER HE HNS BEER TOLD -TO THRU OUBR EUzDEMCE FfiuoRA&LE To THE DEPENDENT? A ]Y)072IO a/ fiOR EUXDEHClF FftUoRBBLE TO THE D…
21-5574 Walter Manuel Marques-Mejia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe…
21-5575 Frederick Arayatanon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial defendant-rights district-court due-process evidence evidentiary-admission fair-trial jail-telephone-calls presumption-of-innocence Do-es —t-he—admirs's!on of "jail telephone calls by the District Court during defendant's trial undermine defendant's presumption of innocence?
21-5578 Guy Don Minze v. Texas Texas 2021-09-03 Denied IFP court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-facts jurisdiction notice penal-code prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-vindictiveness standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence tex-r-app-p Did the Court of Appeals err in failing to base its Opinion on the evidentiary and adjudicated facts in the record i.e. the Trial Court's "judgment of…
21-5579 Emmanuel Perez v. Nebraska Nebraska 2021-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility evidence-rule evidentiary-standard federal-rules-of-evidence inextricably-intertwined judicial-interpretation standard-of-review There is a split between the United States Circuit Courts regarding whether the "inextricably intertwined " standard is a proper exception to Fed.R.Ev…
21-5559 Selvin Leonell Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause criminal-procedure criminal-statute evidence evidentiary-standard federal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element mens-rea Whether possession of a firearm is "in or affecting commerce" when there is no evidence that the defendant moved the firearm across state lines or tha…
21-5563 William Ferguson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-09-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-242 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-procedure davis-ruling due-process johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states predicate-offense section-924c statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis Whether a defendant's convictions for violating 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) should be vacated, where each § 924(c) charge had, as an underlying predicate, a vi…
21-340 Orlando Carter v. District of Columbia District of Columbia 2021-09-02 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 6th-amendment constitutional-right court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process groppi-precedent groppi-v-wisconsin impartial-jury venue venue-change Whether the District of Columbia Court of Appeals' categorical prohibition on changes of venue deprives defendants of the right to trial by an imparti…
21-319 Oklahoma v. Nacole Ryan Bain Oklahoma 2021-09-01 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law oklahoma-law stare-decisis state-sovereignty statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled.
21-320 Oklahoma v. Robert William Perry, II Oklahoma 2021-09-01 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) criminal-appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-indian-law jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-sovereignty oklahoma-criminal-law overruling-precedent stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled.
21-323 Oklahoma v. Michael Eugene Spears Oklahoma 2021-09-01 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020) should be overruled criminal-appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-indian-law jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-rights native-american-sovereignty oklahoma-criminal-law oklahoma-sovereignty stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled.
21-326 Oklahoma v. Devin Warren Sizemore Oklahoma 2021-09-01 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-indian-law jurisdictional-challenge McGirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-sovereignty stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled.
21-327 Oklahoma v. Floyd Joseph Ball, Jr. Oklahoma 2021-09-01 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) criminal-appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federalism jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-sovereignty oklahoma-criminal-law stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled.
21-334 In Re Jody Tremayne Wafer 2021-09-01 Denied article-iii constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process liberty liberty-interest marijuana-laws political-question standing Federal marijuana laws are constitutional because marijuana is not a fundamental right. Judicial review of these criminal laws has been rational basis…
21-5526 Duane Kelly v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison Third Circuit 2021-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court-review double-jeopardy due-process evidentiary-hearing inconsistent-verdict inconsistent-verdicts post-conviction-relief reasonable-jurist state-court-decision 1.) WAS THE DISTRICT COURTS FINDINGS THAT THE STATE COURT REASONABLY APPLIED THE INCONSISTENT VERDICT LAW IN THIS CASE CORRECT? 2.) WOULD A REASONABL…
21-5547 Yimoe Siddha v. Donald B. Sealing, II, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-09-01 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus standing Question not identified.
21-5548 Brent Anderson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-counting firearm-possession plain-error reckless-endangerment sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines vehicular-flight I. Did the district court plainly err when it applied a 2-level enhancement for "reckless endangerment during flight" after already applying a 4-level…
21-5551 Floyd Flugence v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process intent jury-evidence louisiana second-degree-murder specific-intent sufficiency-of-evidence 1. Whether the evidence was sufficient to support, the finding of guilt, in accordance with La. R.S. 14:30.1 (Second Degree Murder) where there was no…
21-5558 William Paul Langrum, II v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-09-01 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-limitations appeal criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance investigation pre-trial-investigation presumption-of-prejudice statute-of-limitations strickland-standard 1) The flntiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA) establishes a one-year statute of limitations for state inmates seeking federal …
21-5537 John Creech v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-materiality brady-v-maryland conviction criminal-procedure defense-strategy disclosure due-process evidence-disclosure litigation-strategy materiality prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-circuit Is evidence material for purposes of Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), if its disclosure would affect defense litigation strategy?
21-5541 Dan Kenny Delva v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel joint-trial right-to-counsel severance sixth-amendment trial-severance Whether it is debatable Mr. Delva was denied a Sixth Amendment right under the United States Constitution to effective assistance of counsel when his…
21-306 Troy Seales v. California California 2021-08-31 Denied counsel-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-parte-hearing ineffective-assistance right-to-be-present right-to-counsel trial-fairness 1. Did the Supreme Court err in failing to rule that the exclusion of Petitioner and his counsel from an ex parte hearing violated Petitioner's rights…
21-5515 Kenneth Hairston v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2021-08-30 Denied IFP aggravating-factor criminal-procedure death-penalty felony-convictions ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct victim-impact victim-impact-testimony TRIAL COUNSEL GAVE INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE FOR FAILING TO OBJECT TO THE PROSECUTOR'S IMPROPER ARGUMENT REGARDING VICTIM IMPACT TESTIMONY USED TO SUPPOR…
21-5516 In Re Freddy Perkins 2021-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 841-b-1-a 846 851-enhancement actual-innocence cocaine-base criminal-procedure mathis-v-united-states retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing-law statutory-enhancement 1. Whether Mathis applies retroactive to Petitioner Perkin's claim of 'Actual Innocent" under 841 (b)(1)(a) & 846, 280 grams or more Cocaine Base and …
21-5518 John Perez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP atascosa-county base-offense-level criminal-procedure drug-distribution drug-quantity mass-marketing relevant-conduct sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines traffic-stop I. Was it improper for the Court to find the base offense level was 34 because Mr. Perez should only have been held accountable for the 15 pounds of "…
21-5529 Amando Martinez Montealvo v. Iowa Iowa 2021-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure juror-bias new-trial presumed-bias sex-abuse trial-rights voir-dire Does the presumed bias doctrine require a new trial when a juror who was a victim of sex abuse lies during voir dire to serve in a criminal sex abuse …
21-5531 Garlin Raymond Farris v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP agency-principles appointed-counsel criminal-procedure due-process excusable-neglect indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pioneer-investment-services procedural-hurdles sixth-amendment The question presented, on which the federal appellate courts are currently divided, is whether appointed counsel's misconduct can serve as excusable …
21-5498 Raymond Concepcion v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2021-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure eighth-amendment intellectual-disability juvenile-court juvenile-justice mandatory-sentencing miller-v-alabama proportionality youth youth-culpability 1. Whether the mandatory exclusion of murder defendants between the ages of 14 and 18 from Juvenile Court precludes individualized consideration of th…
21-284 In Re Mathew Ryan Byrd 2021-08-27 Denied Response Waived appeal appellate-review covid-19 criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit incarceration mandamus medical-conditions medical-risk I. This Court has long held that it, "has power to issue a mandamus, in the exercise of its appellate jurisdiction, and that the writ will lie in a pr…
21-285 In Re Dimitri Jonthiel Patterson 2021-08-26 Denied civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus standing state-custody Should a Petitioner raising a 28 U.S.C. §2241 Habeas Corpus, remain in State custody without certified legal documentation in violation of his constit…
21-288 Lancy White, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-26 Denied Response Waived computer-forensics criminal-procedure cronic-standard e-mail-evidence email-manipulation expert-testimony federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel missing-evidence strickland-standard 1. Whether under the Strickland standards of deficient performance and prejudice, trial counsel was ineffective by failing to file a proper notice und…
21-5504 Eric Worley v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP base-offense-level burden-of-proof confrontation-clause criminal-procedure drug-quantity evidence preponderance-of-evidence presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines The Appellant's Appeal was denied on June 1, 2021 by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. In this case, the Appellant raised one (1) issue for determin…
21-5488 John Patrick Blackmon v. Jeffrey A. Uttecht, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process exceptional-circumstances habeas-corpus judicial-inquiry prior-testimony right-to-testify testimony-waiver trial-procedure waiver 1. Did events in the second trial establish additional process due the Defendant in any subsequent trial? 2. Was the trial judge's noting the Defenda…
21-5489 Jerris M. Blanks v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-08-26 Denied IFP circuit-conflict criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence good-cause judicial-discretion plea-bargaining plea-offer prejudicial-evidence pretrial-motion 1. Whether, in direct conflict with decisions of other circuits, the Eighth Circuit correctly held that under Fed. R. Crim. P. 12(c), a defendant who …
21-5490 Joseph Montrel Bourgeois v. Texas Texas 2021-08-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure deadly-weapon direct-appeal due-process guilty-plea intoxication plea-agreement retroactive-application sentencing-enhancement warrantless-search ©Can a trial Court mm a rd/dof /) Deadly UJEAPOU ? TART OJfiS A/qT STIPULATED XU THE' PLEA) AQREEMEHT ? ® "-'S£ '" to-nm umi& smessumm fS\ nnp pjEnj…
21-5491 Alton Alexander Nolen v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-08-26 Denied IFP capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability mental-retardation Whether Oklahoma's procedure for litigating the issue of whether a capital defendant suffers from an intellectual disability that would disqualify him…
21-5481 James Earnest Watts v. Mississippi Mississippi 2021-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus sentencing Whether Watts Sentence OF Petitioner Withut The Possibit OF Parores Life AI ETE, Loot Committed IAC1 the RAU ERROR Durins Gentecing When Phaud have Kn…
21-273 Buck Gene Brune v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-08-25 Denied circuit-split criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment finality-of-judgment plea-bargaining plea-of-guilty prosecutorial-overreach sentencing Under the Fifth Amendment's Double Jeopardy Clause, upon a defendant's plea of guilty, does jeopardy attach: a. when the district court accepts the d…
21-5428 Crystal V. L. Rivers v. United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia Fourth Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights crime-victims-rights-act criminal-procedure federal-investigation government-disclosure government-misconduct ongoing-investigation rico victim-notification The Petitioner/Victim, Crystal VL Rivers, filed her Crime Victim Rights Act Petition to aid in the enforcement of the CVRA rights currently in place a…
21-5430 Percy Allen Stucks v. Florida Florida 2021-08-24 Denied IFP criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process florida-law judicial-discretion plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal pre-trial-motion right-to-trial withdrawal-of-plea Does a Florida defendant have the right to withdraw plea before trial?
21-5453 Charles J. Senke v. United States Third Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion circuit-split collateral-review criminal-procedure direct-appeal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel strickland-standard substitution-of-counsel The Third Circuit panel majority, deepening a n acknowledged and entrenched circuit split, ruled that the district court's failure to inquire into Sen…
21-5456 Yarlin Garcia v. United States First Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure district-court evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment legal-standard motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure standard-of-review Whether the District Court erred by denying Mr. Garcia's Motion to Suppress?
21-5467 Michael Denton v. Ron Haynes, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment habeas-corpus search-and-seizure sentencing Ceetificate of Appealalontith Sterting: AppEllant has Not Made A "SubstantiAl Shawing PEtition andl HIS Habeas CoRAs PEtitin that His SixthAmendment C…
21-5446 Robert Carter v. Bernadette Mason, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Retreat, et al. Third Circuit 2021-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel maximum-penalty plea-bargaining sentencing third-degree-murder trial-counsel WHETHER TRIAL COUNSEL ADEQUATELY AND EFFECTIVELY ASSISTED PETITIONER IN DECIDING WHETHER TO ACCEPT A PLEA OFFER OF 15 TO 30 YEARS WHERE COUNSEL FAILED…
21-5447 Nicholas Edwards v. Derek Oberlander, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Forest, et al. Third Circuit 2021-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process criminal-procedure due-process identification-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default sixth-amendment 1. WHETHER THE U.S. COURT OF APPEAL ERROR IN NOT FINDING PETITIONER WAS NOT PREJUDICED BY TRIAL COUNSEL FAILURE TO CALL WITNESSES P/O OFFICER WHO WO…
21-5451 John M. Wasson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions legal-counsel mining-claim right-to-counsel The questions presented are: 1. Did Mr. Wasson have adequate counsel during his trial and appeal? 2. Was Mr. Wasson's accessing his mining claim's c…
21-256 Bilal Hamid Love v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-08-23 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines strickland-standard Is defense counsel required, in order to provide effective assistance of counsel, to give the defendant an estimate of the potential guideline sentenc…
21-257 Oklahoma v. Jimmie Dewayne Starr Oklahoma 2021-08-23 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020) should be overruled criminal-appellate-procedure criminal-procedure federal-indian-law jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-criminal-law oklahoma-sovereignty stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled.
21-258 Oklahoma v. Donta Keith Davis Oklahoma 2021-08-23 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) criminal-procedure due-process federalism mcgirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-criminal-law stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled.
21-259 Oklahoma v. Arnold Dean Howell Oklahoma 2021-08-23 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction indian-law judicial-review McGirt-precedent native-american-rights oklahoma-sovereignty stare-decisis state-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled.
21-253 Oklahoma v. Christopher Jason Hathcoat Oklahoma 2021-08-20 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) criminal-procedure federal-indian-law judicial-review jurisdiction McGirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-sovereignty statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled.
21-254 Oklahoma v. Jordan Batice Mitchell Oklahoma 2021-08-20 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) criminal-procedure federalism judicial-review McGirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-sovereignty stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled.
21-255 Oklahoma v. Grant N. Jackson, IV Oklahoma 2021-08-20 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure federal-indian-law federalism McGirt-precedent native-american-rights oklahoma-sovereignty stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled.
21-5418 Sergio Bucio v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion mitigating-role money-laundering role-adjustment sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg-3b1.2 I. Whether the district court erred in calculating the amount of laundered funds attributable to Mr. Bucio. II. Whether the district court erred by f…
21-5420 Naim Rasool Muhammad v. Texas Texas 2021-08-20 Denied IFP burden-of-proof capital-case constitutional-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice preponderance-of-the-evidence strickland-standard strickland-v-washington texas-court-of-criminal-appeals 1. Whether a habeas court violates Strickland and decades of this Court's precedent by imposing a "preponderance of the evidence" standard for prejudi…
21-5424 Victor H. Canales v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-08-20 Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-procedure criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings legal-counsel post-conviction-relief standing Whether prosecutors, courts, and state officials violated the Fourteenth Amendment and state law by conducting proceedings following arrests and charg…
21-5425 Jay J. Sawatzky v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession first-amendment judicial-discretion racist-paraphernalia racist-views sentencing sentencing-variance upward-variance May a sentencing judge impose an upward variance on a defendant convicted of possessing firearms and ammunition as a felon, based on that defendant's …
21-5431 Jereme Eugene Mackey v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-crimes due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel pre-trial-custody sentencing sentencing-reasonableness statutory-interpretation I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN FINDING THE APPELLANT JEREME EUGENE MACKEY GUILTY INASMUCH AS THE GOVERNMENT FAILED TO PROVE AT THE TIME OF ARR…
21-5434 Demontrae Wilson v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP authentication circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence evidentiary-standards lay-witness social-media social-media-evidence Social media evidence presents unique foundational issues and is now a nearly ubiquitous component of many criminal cases. The standards for admission…
21-5436 William D. Dickerson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-analysis civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-review court-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-standard legal-procedure procedural-error sentencing statutory-interpretation The OCR text provided is too degraded and illegible to accurately extract the "Question(s) Presented" section. While a "QUESTION(S) PRESENTED" header …
21-5439 Michael Geoffrey Peters v. Bobby Lumpkin. Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-08-20 Denied IFP brady-evidence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct jurisdiction jury-selection trial-procedure 1. Whether or not I am guilty on Count No.l of the indictment? 2. Whether or not I am guilty of Count No.3 of the indictment? 3. Whether of not the …
21-5387 Roland Adams, aka Peter Brown, aka Harold Whiteker v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction plea-agreement statutory-authority statutory-interpretation void-judgment 1. Whether the district court lacked jurisdiction to enter judgement under 18 U.S.C § 1956(h), where Petitioner was not charged with nor engaged in "f…
21-5388 Wilbert Kelly, Jr. v. Louisiana Louisiana 2021-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP age-restriction burden-of-proof constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process legal-standing post-conviction-relief presumption-of-innocence public-official sufficiency-of-evidence supreme-court-jurisdiction Have The PElitioner Beon Reovided With Fundamental Due Process According To The United Stales Constilulions By His Slate CauFts?
21-5389 Juan J. Martinez v. Texas Texas 2021-08-18 Denied IFP admissible-evidence collateral-proceedings constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance probable-cause right-to-counsel search-and-seizure trial-counsel Question not identified.
21-5395 In Re Christopher Burgess 2021-08-18 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mail-room-delay time-bar 1. In the interest of justice, should a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 be entertained under less stringent conditions if it contains both "actial innocence " and in…
21-5408 Bruce Allen Rutherford v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-08-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sixth-amendment Court states that, Movant claimes counsel failed to inform him of plea offers and allowed them to expire was not in §2255. (see Appendix A) This state…
21-5409 Antonyo Reece v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court judicial-discretion pepper-precedent pepper-v-united-states rehabilitation-evidence sentencing sentencing-variance upward-departure Whether imposing an upward departure of 200 months to a criminal defendant who has exemplary rehabilitation evidence is incongruous to this Court's ho…
21-5413 Antoine L. Wallace v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation United States Sentencing Guidelines enhance the sentence for drug offenders and gun offenders, if, among other things, they have prior "felony convict…
21-243 James Warner v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-08-18 Denied bribery-statute constructive-amendment criminal-procedure indictment indictment-modification jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error substantial-rights Whether the constructive amendment of an indictment by an erroneous jury instruction, stating that conspiracy counts alleged agreements to violate a d…
21-5380 Luke Edward Fleming v. Florida Florida 2021-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circumstantial-evidence cold-case constitutional-law criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process evidence murder sexual-battery Whether the Petitioner's convictions for murder and sexual battery violate the Due Process Clause of the United States Constitution because the eviden…
21-5382 Nickie Nathanial Rico v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP attempted-murder criminal-enhancement criminal-procedure defendant-objection district-court enhancement objection presentence-report sentencing Whether the District Court erred in overruling Defendant's Objection to the Attempted Murder Enhancement in the Presentence Report.
21-5383 Mark Stinson v. John P. Yates, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process judicial-inquiry right-to-counsel sixth-amendment 1. Whether a Judge must inquire into the propriety of the issue. 2. Whether the mere possibility of a conflict of interest warrants the conclusion th…
21-5391 Jermontae Moss v. Georgia Georgia 2021-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment family-violence felony-murder juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama mitigating-factors sentencing sentencing-discretion Does a court violate Miller when it refuses to consider childhood trauma as mitigating when sentencing a child to life without parole?
21-5393 Hemy Neuman v. Georgia Georgia 2021-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-estoppel criminal-procedure double-jeopardy mental-health procedural-due-process procedural-law reversal-of-conviction substantive-law trial-reversal Where a defendant is found guilty at a second trial after reversal of the first trial's verdict of guilty but mentally ill: 1) Is a double jeopardy cl…
21-5398 Scott Estes v. United States First Circuit 2021-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process emergency-call evidence hearsay-exception sixth-amendment testimonial-statements Did the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit fail to correctly apply the objective primary purpose test for testimonial statements mad…
21-5400 Maria Gonzalez Maldonado v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-trafficking federal-sentencing methamphetamine-possession minor-participant sentencing sentencing-guidelines 1. Did Maria Gonzalez Maldonado conspire to possess and/or actually and knowingly possess between 5kg-15kg kilograms of methamphetamine pursuant to U.…
21-5402 Ronald E. West v. United States District of Columbia 2021-08-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-issue criminal-procedure due-process election-dispute election-procedure judicial-review legal-challenge recidivism rehabilitation sentencing supreme-court Question not identified.
21-5404 Maria Teresa Duarte Godinez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure disparities due-process judicial-discretion plea-bargaining sentence-disparity sentencing sentencing-waiver waiver Whether the appellate court erred when it enforced the waiver keeping the Defendant from appealing her sentence in violation of her due process rights…
21-5406 Bryson Tuesno v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process hearsay impartial-jury sixth-amendment testimony Is it a violation of one's 6th amendment right to Impartial Jury by allowing person to contridict another person's testimony with hearsay statements? …
21-225 Ashley Mere Howard v. Texas Texas 2021-08-16 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) credibility-determinations criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel parole-eligibility plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal I. Does the state court's decision that petitioner cannot challenge her murder conviction based on her original counsel's failure to inform her of the…
21-210 Wisconsin v. Mark D. Jensen Wisconsin 2021-08-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) confrontation-clause criminal-procedure domestic-abuse emergency-exception future-crime ongoing-emergency sixth-amendment testimonial-hearsay 1. Can a person's statement expressing fear about a possible future crime be testimonial under the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause? 2. When a …
21-211 Valueland Auto Sales, Inc., and Ron Benit v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-08-13 Denied circuit-split criminal-charges criminal-procedure district-court expungement judicial-procedure jurisdiction record-expungement When the district court dismisses all criminal charges against a defendant, does that court have jurisdiction over a motion to expunge the records rel…
21-5349 Chris Allen Miller v. Jason R. Ravnsborg, Attorney General of South Dakota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-08-13 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jury-trial prosecutorial-misconduct Question not identified.
21-5363 Christopher Cope v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP client-autonomy constitutional-right criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-strategy 1. Whether petitioner was denied his constitutional right to have effective assistance of counsel when trial counsel admitted petitioner's guilt at tr…
21-5366 Abram K. Sollman v. Nebraska Nebraska 2021-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hearsay-evidence witness-testimony I. WHETHER OR NOT THE NEBRASKA COURTS RELIANCE ON A WITNESS STATEMENTS (Sean Nowling) INDUCED THE STATE'S (Respondent) CASE-IN-CHIEF VIA ERRONEOUS OR …
21-5367 Roger Everett Smith, III v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP alien-transporting alienage confrontation-clause criminal-procedure deposition-testimony good-faith-effort material-witnesses sixth-amendment witness-procurement Whether the mailing of form letters addressed to three material witnesses in three small villages in Mexico approximately two weeks before trial amoun…
21-5368 Alberto Rodriguez v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2021-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-right legal-representation notice-of-charges sixth-amendment waiver Whether the Sixth Amendment fundamental right to notice of charges can be waived by the lawyer's failure to object or whether the defendant must perso…
21-5371 James Roland Henderson v. California California 2021-08-13 Denied IFP criminal-intent criminal-procedure evidence-exclusion familial-violence first-degree-murder homicide imperfect-self-defense jury-instructions parental-relationship religious-beliefs self-defense special-circumstances Question not identified.
21-5350 Bobby Earl Keys v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review compassionate-release criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process prisoner-release sentencing sentencing-factors standard-of-review statutory-interpretation DID THE FIFTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS APPLIED THE WRONGED APPELLATE STANDARD OF REVIEW TO CLAIM THAT DISTRICT COURT COMMITTED STATUTORY ERROR UNDER 1…
21-5358 Leonel Rodriguez-Caraveo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei…
21-5360 Danta Omar Roberts v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure direct-appeal fourth-amendment fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-representation procedural-review standard-of-review trial-counsel I. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by ruling that the record did not conclusively demonstrate any deficiencies in trial counsel's representation, and…
21-5340 Gerald Allen Hiler v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-08-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver criminal-procedure district-court factual-basis federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plea-agreement sentencing Does a federal criminal defendant's valid waiver of appeal in a plea agreement bar the defendant from an appeal that challenges the sufficiency of the…
21-190 Carlos W. Santiago v. Josean Toucet, et al. Puerto Rico 2021-08-11 Denied Relisted (2) appeal appellate-rights confession confession-suppression criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct trial-transparency A = If due process of law is violated when a judge in a hidden trial disappears and erases from his judgment the confession obtained through strong cr…
21-186 Oklahoma v. Shaun Michael Bosse Oklahoma 2021-08-10 Dismissed Amici (2) criminal-procedure indian-country jurisdiction mcgirt-precedent non-indian-crimes postconviction-relief procedural-bars prosecutorial-authority state-prosecution 1. Whether a State may impose procedural or equitable bars to postconviction relief on the claim that the State lacked prosecutorial authority because…
21-5322 André J. Twitty v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-law federalism first-amendment preemption state-statute statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause void-for-vagueness Does the Assimilative Crimes Act, 18 U.S.C. § 13, impose upon a federal Court to assimilate Under the requirements of an Unconstitutional State Statut…
21-5324 Michael Dasean Robinson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process harmless-error rule-32 sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review At sentencing, Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 32(i)(3)(B) gives a district court two options for addressing any "controverted matter": "rule on th…
21-5335 Omar Israel-Griffin v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law constitutional-provisions contract-law cooperation criminal-procedure due-process federal-procurement government-contract government-discretion plea-agreement statutory-interpretation withdrawal When a defendant enters a plea agreement (guilty/nolo contendere), providing that the government is allowed to withdraw if the government believes the…
21-5392 Jose Raymundo Rodriguez-Yanez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-5313 In Re Juan Luis Leonor 2021-08-09 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure federal-retroactivity-test retroactivity second-degree-murder state-v-ronald-smith sudden-quarrel-provocation supreme-court-review teague-standard 1. Whether, the Nebraska Supreme Court's decision not to hold Ronald-Smith retroactive to cases on collateral review confines Petitioner to a lesser r…
21-5317 Mauricio Melendez v. Renee Baker, Warden Nevada 2021-08-09 Denied IFP attorney-concession criminal-autonomy criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel right-to-defense stare-decisis supreme-court-precedent In 2018, this Court decided McCoy v. Louisiana, 138 S.Ct. 1500 (2018), recognizing a criminal defendant's right to secured autonomy over his defense. …
21-5325 Raul Adrian Torres v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP arrestee criminal-procedure fourth-amendment handcuffs law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure search-incident-to-arrest secured Whether a search of a backpack or other bag that was being carried by an arrestee is permissible as a search incident to arrest even after officers ha…
21-5327 Mark Anthony Gonzalez v. Texas Texas 2021-08-09 Denied IFP criminal-procedure juror-substitution jury-deliberation jury-trial sixth-amendment structural-error trial-procedure unanimous-verdict Petitioner Mark Gonzalez's penalty-phase jury was charged with deciding two issues that together would dictate his sentence. The jury had reached a ve…
21-5328 James Robert Dowty v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP crime-scene-search criminal-procedure custody-testimony due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment government-witnesses judicial-bias police-procedure sequestration Whether the District Court violated the Fourteenth Amendment right to due process when the p is frich (tarticnitJ a metier) per, the jotrp fo iriew th…
21-5303 William Pruitt v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP allen-charge burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process judicial-error judicial-instruction jury-coercion jury-deadlock jury-instructions retrial trial-procedure I. WHETHER THE APPEALS COURT ERRED IN AFFIRMING THE USE OF ITS PATTERN MODIFIED "ALLEN" CHARGE WITH A DEADLOCKED JURY, EXPRESSLY REFERENCING THE TIME,…
21-5311 Thomas Morgan Soper, II v. Idaho Idaho 2021-08-06 Denied IFP brady-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation *1. 0oes A PisTfaicrF C.jp&'kT A#*®' p&^ef\ &*tcL/o/? RicpT *To Avi e?^o<ef^ o£-0lo5u5pes)^ a/J pefts/'sTMt E/ilfiwceirtert& **3{t O&e.'b a Di^TricT"…
21-5315 Rafael Arturo Coto Chinchilla v. Louisiana Louisiana 2021-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP closing-arguments criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sufficiency-of-evidence trial-error 1. WAS THE EVIDENCE IN THE INSTANT CASE INSUFFICIENT TO SUPPORT A GUILTY VERDICT ON ALL THREE COUNTS OF THE BILL OF INFORMATION? 2. DID THE TRIAL COU…
21-5321 Jerome Kieffer v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-privacy civil-rights constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech government-seizure standing (1) Does the unconstitutionally vague language, stack down, as by the Court in USC 10@) Apply to 18 USC 72a¢g)(L)? (2) May a Stipulation Suffice to C…
21-176 David J. Tatara v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-06 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process felony-murder habeas-corpus judgment-of-acquittal mens-rea superseding-information 1. Does a conviction of a crime submitted to the jury through a superseding information filed after jeopardy attached and after the court granted judg…
21-5308 Calvin B. Lynch v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2021-08-05 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-law statutory-interpretation witness-intimidation witness-testimony 1. Is PETITIDNER ENTITLED TO THE BENEFIT OF THE PENNSYLVANIA SUPREM COURTS CLARIFYING INTERPRETATION OF THE WITNESS INTIMIDATION STATUTE, PA.C.S.A.S49…
21-5288 Cornelius L. Jones v. Illinois Illinois 2021-08-04 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review post-conviction post-conviction-review standing writ-of-certiorari CoRnelius L.Jones, PetitioneR- Appllant, APPeAls fm A file A successive post-Conviction Petition. An isse is Raised concerning the sufficiency of the…
21-5291 Leonardo Miguel Garcia Morales, aka El Padrino v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial critical-stage defendant-presence district-court-discretion due-process judicial-discretion jury-deliberations right-to-presence testimony-of-accused testimony-rehearing Does the right to presence at critical stages of a criminal trial extend to proceedings before the jury in which the district court discourages the ju…
21-5294 Wilshaun King v. Mike Brown, Acting Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP autopsy-report confrontation-clause criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-examiner plea-bargaining plea-offer right-to-counsel sixth-amendment I. PETITIONER'S TRIAL COUNSEL WAS APPROACHED AT THE TIME THE JURY RETIRED FOR DELIBEARITONS BY PROSECUTING ATTORNEY SCOTT EHLFELDT TENDERING A PLEA O…
21-5299 John Johnson, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2021-08-04 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause factfinder-discretion fourteenth-amendment non-unanimous-verdict penal-code statutory-interpretation Does Texas Penal Code §21.02 desciminate who is an<d.who is not protected under the Equal Protection Clause under the Fourteenth Amendment by allowing…
21-5270 Robert Stanard v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process firearms judicial-interpretation legal-challenge personal-property state-law takings 1. Does the taxing powers oF Congress negahes Operson's Possessory Vakeresd in Suineralip of A Ciena, A. Where doos Ivhersioke Commern bean ond end W…
21-5280 Robert Craft v. Florida Florida 2021-08-03 Denied IFP aggravating-factors alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-sentencing constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process hurst-v-florida reasonable-doubt ring-v-arizona Under the Due Process Clause, the determination of the existence of an element of a crime must be made beyond a reasonable doubt. See Apprendi v. New …
21-5273 Jerry L. Wheeler v. Randall Hepp, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-08-02 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-strategy due-process fair-trial prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel right-to-notice trial-counsel witness-testimony 1. Whether titled CFf^iwc, t9<JJiS^wc6 OF Counsel*, UjKefJ Trial CauffSgL. FaU<uH To Qh<tripi£jT t Call H) Testify fTk& 2-3 gyz* uj )+cJ£6<} bJKo Sl*f…
21-5255 Nathaniel B. Appleby-El v. Maryland Maryland 2021-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence evidence-admission right-to-counsel witness-testimony 1. Whether such extensive reliance on transcripts, denied Mr. Appleby-El's federal right of confrontation, because doing so effectively prevented him …
21-5260 James E. Nottingham v. Laurel Harry, et al. Third Circuit 2021-07-30 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process false-arrest habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge perjury standing writ-of-certiorari 1. Shall the Writ of Certiorari be Granted in favor of the Petitioner James E. Nottingham for false arrest? 2. Shall the Writ of Certiorari be Grante…
21-5265 Terry Reed v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment affidavit criminal-procedure fourth-amendment good-faith-doctrine good-faith-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-exception warrant-requirement Whether the good faith exception to the warrant requirement extends so far as to excuse an officer's reliance upon an affidavit he drafted with the on…
21-5268 Ambus Ray Davis, III v. Nick Ludwick, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-07-30 Denied IFP constitutional-rule criminal-procedure direct-review due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retrospective-application united-states-constitution 1. WHETHER ALL NEWLY DECLARED CONSTITUTIONAL RULE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE APPLY RETROSPECTIVELY TO JUDGMENTS OF CONVICTIONS NOT YET FINAL AND PENDING …
21-128 Roger Waldner, et al. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-07-30 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure due-process enforcement-order garnishment recoupment restitution statute-of-limitations takings-clause 1. Would a GVR Order for a hearing below reveal that no court below gave Glenn a hearing on his recoupment defense? 2. Would a GVR-ordered hearing be…
21-5231 Shaun J. Salazar v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process federal-law imprisonment revocation sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum supervised-release united-states-v-haymond Whether a district court may impose a revocation imprisonment term under 18 U.S.C. § 3583(e)(3) that, when combined with a defendant's initial term of…
21-5245 Jamie Patrick Hahn v. Georgia Georgia 2021-07-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP case-record constitutional-rights court-precedent criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-denial procedural-challenge prosecutorial-misconduct vindictive-prosecution 1. Will this Court review the fact of the Respondent's vindictive prosecution? The record of the case shows the vindictiveness and the lower courts de…
21-5250 Adalberto Martinez-Ramirez v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP §3Bl.1(a)-standard buyer-relationship circuit-court-review criminal-leadership criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing evidence precedent precedent-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation U.S.-v.-Miller Whether this Court should grant Certiorari because the Eighth Circuit opinion overlooked the binding precedent set forth in U.S. v. Miller when determ…
21-5253 John David Wilson, Jr. v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-29 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief sentencing statutory-interpretation I ENTER THIS COURT WITH "CLEAN HAND" AS A HONORABLY DISCHARGED QUALIFIED SUBMARINER, WHO POSSESSED A QUALIFIED SUBMARINE INSIGNIA. (THIS MILITARY AWAR…
21-5257 Jermaine Latwone Haynes v. Willis Chapman, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial ineffective-assistance self-defense sentencing-mitigation Was Petitioner Denied His Constitutional Right To The Effective Assistance Of Counsel and A Fair Trial Proceeding, Pursuant To U.S. Const., Amends Vi,…
21-5228 Dwayne Sheckles v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-07-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure drug-crimes drug-dealing evidence-seizure home-invasion probable-cause residential-searches search-warrant search-warrants Search warrants are directed at places, not people. To obtain a warrant to enter a person's home, there must be probable cause that evidence of a crim…
21-5233 Abel Guillermo Godoy v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-v-united-states criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process elements-of-crime jury-determination legal-precedent prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-factors sixth-amendment In Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), the Court held that in a prosecution for 8 U.S.C. § 1326, the fact of a prior conviction n…
21-5234 Melquiades Galvez-Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-5235 Vincent Holton v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy conviction criminal-procedure due-process entrapment jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing 1. Whether t he District Court Wrongly Denied Petitioner's Request for a Jury Instruction on Entrapment ? 2. Whether t he Court Erred by Allowing the…
21-5237 Taurice Leonard Brown v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas-review jury-selection merits-decision sixth-amendment supremacy-clause WHETHER FLORIDA COURTS ARE REFUSING TO CONSIDER SIXTH AMENDMENT CLAIMS IN VIOLATION OF THE SUPREMACY CLAUSE BY NOT TREATING RUSSELL V. UNITED STATES, …
21-5238 Deyaa Khalill v. W. L. Montgomery, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process preliminary-hearing sixth-amendment Whether the admission of preliminary hearing testimony violates a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment right to confrontation when the preliminary hea…
21-5240 Carlos Elias Cruz-Bermudez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
21-5241 Jose Lazaro Venancio Mendoza-Batres v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-5242 Joshua Sadat Washington v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-07-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence search-and-seizure suppression-hearing Question not identified.
21-116 Missouri, ex rel. Michalene Hagan v. Milan Berry, Judge, 45th Judicial Circuit, Pike County, Missouri, et al. Missouri 2021-07-28 Denied criminal-procedure due-process excessive-bail federal-constitution missouri-constitution pretrial-detention I. When a judge sets bond on the initial warrant for arrest, whether the Excessive Bail Clauses are preempted or stayed because of Missouri Supreme Co…
21-122 Davin Seth Waters v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-28 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus judicial-discretion mutual-mistake plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal voluntariness 1) Does the doctrine of mutual mistake provide a cognizable basis to find a guilty plea involuntary?
21-5198 Dustin Trevino Lawrence v. Ohio Ohio 2021-07-27 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial impartial-judge judicial-bias manifest-weight manifest-weight-of-evidence proportionate-sentencing reasonable-doubt sentencing 1. When a judge openly admits bias against an appellant in which he was not only the trial judge but also the sentencing, shouldn't the remedy afforde…
21-5224 Julian Terence Martin, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-07-27 Denied IFP criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure 1. When a state court grants a motion for a competency haering, but convicts a defendant without holding one, is a defendant's due process of law deni…
21-5226 Faryion Edward Wardrip v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-07-27 Denied IFP criminal-procedure death-penalty habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington unreasonable-factual-determinations 1. Though Faryion Wardrip 's trial counsel failed to present critical evidence supporting his strategy to spare Wardrip from the death penalty, the T…
21-5210 Trojan Hart v. United States Second Circuit 2021-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-restrictions jury-instructions right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-review shackling (1) Whether the district court erred when it shackled Hart and co-defendant Sharpe? (2) Whether the district court interfered with the right to couns…
21-5211 Edwin Artis Pettaway v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP confidential-informant confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure drug-possession due-process firearm-possession search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing 1. Was Mr. Pettaway denied his constitutional right to present a complete defense? 2. Where multiple additional errors affected petitioner's convicti…
21-5217 Jeffrey Keller v. Illinois Illinois 2021-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process eavesdropping eavesdropping-law miranda-rights prosecutorial-misconduct warrantless-arrest I. Whether the Illinois Courts incorrectly found that petitioner's rights were not violated when he was arrested without a warrant inside his office b…
21-5192 Gilberto Antonio Guillen-Hernandez v. Texas Texas 2021-07-23 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-requirement continuous-sexual-abuse criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process jury-conviction jury-unanimity sexual-abuse sixth-amendment Does the constitutional requirement of jury unanimity, contained within the Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution, require a jury to be un…
21-5193 Vernon Collins v. New Jersey New Jersey 2021-07-23 Denied IFP appellate-division appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-law illegal-sentence open-court procedural-claims sentencing DID THE NEW JERSEY SUPERIOR COURT APPELLATE DIVISION ERR IN CONCLUDING CONSECUTIVE SENTENCES IMPOSED OUTSIDE PETITIONER'S PRESENCE IN OPEN COURT SOME …
21-5200 Walter Himmelreich v. Stephen Spaulding, Warden First Circuit 2021-07-23 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-issues constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process federal-sovereignty habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-interpretation procedural-rights standing statutory-analysis Did the lower courts err in failing to Grant i.) a hearing on the issues ofa Constitutional nature raised 2) As this Court has never in opportunity to…
21-5201 Susan Kaytlin Scott v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-split circuit-courts constitutional-law constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure custody-determination due-process fifth-amendment law-enforcement-interrogation miranda-custody miranda-warning 1. Do the Circuit Courts' different tests used to determine custody status for purposes of Miranda lead to inconsistent results? 2. Did the District …
21-5202 Esteban Figueroa-Larrea v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP contested-element criminal-procedure district-court jury-charge jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-scope plain-error standard-of-review trial-court-error trial-procedure Whether the district court plainly erred by misadvising the jury about the legal scope of the sole contested element at trial.
21-5203 Ibrahim Akasha Abdalla, aka Ibrahim Akasha v. United States Second Circuit 2021-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process extraterritorial-jurisdiction fifth-amendment foreign-national personal-jurisdiction What level of contact with the United States must a foreign national who never entered this country and committed the offense conduct solely outside o…
21-97 Anne Georges Telasco v. The Florida Bar Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-23 Denied Response Waived civil-rights criminal-procedure defamation due-process ex-parte-judgment false-criminal-report felony-conviction florida-bar free-speech sovereign-immunity standing Whether Sovereign Immunity as deployed by Welch v. Texas Dep't of Highways & Pub. Transp., 483 U.S. 468, 472 (1987) and its progeny, are inapplicable …
21-5166 Leobardo Valladares v. Craig Koenig, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure cumulative-error due-process evidentiary-hearing first-degree-murder ineffective-assistance jury-instructions reasonable-doubt standard-of-proof sufficiency-of-evidence I. Did the Prosecution Fail to Prove Beyond a Reasonable Doubt That Valladares Committed First Degree Murder? II. Did Trial Counsel Render Ineffectiv…
21-5172 Mayra Vanessa Gandara Escarcega v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-procedure sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-5174 Domingo Cruz-Miguel v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-5175 Alfredo Jesus Chavez-Portillo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-5182 Pedro Ray Tejeda v. Minnesota Minnesota 2021-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP ammunition constitutional-rights criminal-possession criminal-procedure due-process firearm jury-instruction possession trial-procedure unanimous-verdict I. Must my conviction for Ineligible Person in Poss. of Ammo or firearm be reversed, remanded for new trial and or vacated based on Unanimous Verdict …
21-5183 Robert McMillian v. United States District of Columbia 2021-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-evidence california criminal-procedure district-of-columbia due-process evidence-suppression judicial-conflict prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court I. Whether the opinion of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals concerning the withholding of material Brady evidence is inconsistent with opinion…
21-5185 Lexton Pellew v. United States District of Columbia 2021-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal conviction-count criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-review sentence-calculation sentencing sentencing-error The petitioner was not charged with aiding and abetting in counts 11-14 but the court allowed the jury verdict on those counts based upon an admittedl…
21-5152 Lewis R. Fox v. Ohio Ohio 2021-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-question criminal-defense criminal-procedure expert-witness expert-witnesses ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-relief res-judicata 1) Whether a trial counsel is to be considered incompetent when s/he fails to consult with their client (the criminal defendant) about their financial…
21-5158 Miguel Angel Berdeja-Medina v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent sentencing sixth-amendment stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-5160 Rodney Ledell Carter v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process parole sentencing sixth-amendment supervised-release Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
21-5161 Jamar J. Draper v. Jimmy Martin, Warden Tenth Circuit 2021-07-21 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process exhaustion-of-remedies ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sentencing-mitigation sixth-amendment speedy-trial Question not identified.
21-5163 Gregory Scott Stephen v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography criminal-procedure eighth-circuit fourth-amendment government-agent private-citizen search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing-guidelines standing 1. Was the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit's conclusion that a private citizen can never be established as a government agent ab…
21-81 Burt W. Newsome, et al. v. Clark A. Cooper, et al. Alabama 2021-07-21 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived appellate-review civil-claims civil-liability civil-rights criminal-liability criminal-procedure due-process newton-v-rumery release-dismissal 1. Whether a release-dismissal order entered in a criminal case is enforceable under the standards set forth in Newton v. Rumery wherein said order wa…
21-75 Ojin Kim v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-21 Denied Response Waived appellate-review criminal-procedure deprivation-of-liberty due-process liberty-deprivation methodology-challenge restitution restitution-order sentencing-guidelines 1. In cases where the methodology to calculate the guidelines range for sentencing mirrors the methodology to calculate the restitution amount, if a c…
21-5140 Gabriel Elijah Kane Arkinson, aka Daniel Elijahkane Arkinson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP accomplice-testimony acquittal-standard criminal-procedure due-process evidence motion-for-acquittal ninth-circuit-review rule-29-motion witness-credibility witness-identification In response to Petitioner's third and final motion for acquittal under Rule 29(c) Fed. R. Crim. P. the district court ruled that standing alone the go…
21-5141 Terrance Tyrell Edwards v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP commercial-sex-trafficking conclusive-presumption criminal-procedure due-process interstate-commerce jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error 1. Is evidence that establishes only the use of cellular telephones, the Internet or hotels by a defendant, without any evidence of how the use of the…
21-5142 Michael Angelo Williams v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea harmless-error ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment sixth-circuit withdrawal-of-plea Whether this honorable Court should grant certiorari to review whether Mr. Williams should have been permitted to withdraw his guilty plea, which requ…
21-5146 Antonio Dewayne Adams v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment preponderance-of-the-evidence preponderance-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum The Tenth Circuit's decision is in conflict with decisions from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The Tenth Circuit affirmed the district court's us…
21-5133 Michael Skillern v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari coa criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit geders-rule geders-v-united-states habeas-corpus right-to-counsel supreme-court trial-recess DOES THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT'S RULE ENUNCIATED IN CRUTCHFIELD v WAINWRIGHT, 803 F3d1103 (11th Cir. 1986) ABROGATE OR MODIFY THE SUPREME COURT DECISION AS…
21-5135 Michael Ray Orr v. Texas Texas 2021-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP closing-argument criminal-procedure defendant-rights demeanor fifth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination trial-procedure DID THE TRIAL COURT ERR BY DENYING MR. ORR'S OBJECTION TO IMPROPER CLOSING ARGUMENT BY THE PROSECUTOR? THIS IMPROPER ARGUMENT CONSISTED OF: 1) BY DEL…
21-69 John Allison Huckabay v. Idaho Idaho 2021-07-19 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived 14th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felonies felony-prosecution public-welfare-offenses scienter scienter-requirement Without any requirement or proof of scienter, Petitioner was convicted of unlawful possession of a moose carcass out of season, a felony under Idaho l…
21-60 Logan Brooks Drinkard v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-16 Denied Response Waived constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy greater-offense jury-verdict lesser-included-offense In a case where the prosecuti on charged both a greater offense and a lesser included offense in the same charging document, and where the jury found …
21-5114 Mario Daniels v. Florida Florida 2021-07-16 Denied IFP aggravated-assault criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jury-determination separation-of-powers sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation substantive-rights Whether the First District Court of Appeals unauthorized abrogation of an Essential Element of the statutory offense of Aggravated Assault deprived Da…
21-5117 Christopher Allan Allred v. Washington Ninth Circuit 2021-07-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial jurisdiction jury-selection standing 1o Does the U.s. Constitution allov for Grand Juries in state Criminal cases? 2. Per the Hurtao v. California ruling, can states, if they so choose, …
21-5098 Hal Herring Brown, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver criminal-procedure fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel money-laundering plea-agreement plea-bargaining securities-fraud WHETHER THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN DISMISSING THE PETITIONER'S MERITORIOUS APPEAL OF HIS CONVICTION FOR SECURI…
21-5110 Junior Jean Baptiste v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-U.S.C.-3553(a) advisory-guidelines appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion reasoned-decision sentencing sentencing-guidelines The district court, on remand for resentencing after failing or iginally to permit allocution by petitioner, reimposed the original sentence witho ut …
21-5111 Joenell L. Rice v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit time-served Question not identified.
21-5122 Juan Angel Velasquez-Canales v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion felony-enhancement guideline-interpretation immigration prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the district court erred in applying a six-level enhancement under Section 2L1.2(b)(2)(C) of the Sentencing Guidelines where Mr. Velasquez-Can…
21-5123 Terence L. Thomas v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-process civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-interpretation standing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Appealiblity I wes denled a Cof certificate of 10thciR templates in regards to the next process because are libarary dont have fomany thirg. (3) would…
21-5124 Derrick Wilson v. United States Second Circuit 2021-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process due-process-clause evidence-fabrication government-misconduct habeas-corpus miller-el-standard standing Did the Court of Appeals err in concluding that Petitioner's Certificate of Appealability had not "made a substantial showing of the denial of a const…
21-5125 Reginald Lamont Thomas v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of California Ninth Circuit 2021-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP age-consideration civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process judicial-council judicial-suspension retroactive-application sentencing-limits statutory-interpretation suspension time-limits ^ Id the cjdOQ£€$$) oiML efAlJc If O.S.C-5 i IVlI (cj) olMcS i-C 4ke cH\e£ jodyc of a d\s\txzd eoueL-V coijel.LAi.e_s 11 pA iv si/epeiisioii of +iwe…
21-5091 Brian Dunkley v. Shawn Phillips, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-07-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has entered a decision in conflict with decisions of another United States court of Appeals on the same i…
21-5102 Jaime Meza v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review brady-v-maryland brady-violation commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process government-misconduct judicial-review materiality suppressed-evidence I. Whether a defendant seeking relief under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) is entitled to have some court review the suppressed information to …
21-5104 John G. Tomes, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-07-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3582 compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process extraordinary-circumstances judicial-discretion sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation Whether "Extraordinary and Compelling Reasons" to Reduce a Defendant's Sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i) may be based on any Factor a Court …
21-5106 Logan Viquesney v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-07-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP conviction criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-instructions legal-sufficiency notice state-offense sufficiency-of-evidence 1) Can the Court sustain a conviction when a required underlined State offense is not charged in the indictment?
21-5108 Victor Willis v. Illinois Illinois 2021-07-14 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole Question not identified.
21-5079 Donnell Bledsoe v. Richard J. Guiliani, Judge, Superior Court of California, San Joaquin County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-07-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights color-of-law criminal-procedure due-process qualified-immunity A material point of fact or law was overlooked in the decision; 18 U.S.C. 242
21-5085 David James Lola v. Florida Florida 2021-07-13 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights competence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judicial-system A Does due process under the sixth and Fourteenth Amendments dictate that there is a presumption of competence for a criminal defendant to proceed pro…
21-5087 Zachary Gage Pebley v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP authentication chain-of-custody criminal-procedure deepfakes digital-evidence digital-recordings due-process voice-identification When the government is the proponent of evidence at a criminal trial, it bears the burden of establishing both authentication and chain of custody. Au…
21-5089 Martin Thomas Lawrence v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-exposure sixth-amendment trial-counsel 1. Whether, in light of trial counsel's express admission that he underestimated Petitioner's sentencing exposure if he went to trial, this Court shou…
21-5095 Melissa Elizabeth Lucio v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-07-13 Denied Amici (2)IFP arbitrary-exclusion civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-exclusion evidentiary-standards expert-testimony false-confession right-to-defense right-to-present-defense 1. Whether, as the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuits have held, this Court's cases clearly establish …
21-5096 Jaime Martinez-Rojas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-41 James Allen Jackson v. Texas Texas 2021-07-13 Denied Response Waived closing-argument constitutional-rights criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice procedural-due-process racist-testimony right-to-silence trial-counsel wiccan-testimony I. Was petitioner denied the effective assistance of counsel when defense counsel failed to object to irrelevant, inflammatory testimony that petition…
21-43 Moe M. Al-Dolemy v. Michigan Michigan 2021-07-13 Denied appellate-review conviction conviction-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure legal-error michigan-court-of-appeals record-contradiction record-evidence Did the Michigan Court of Appeals commit reversible error through issuing a opinion affirming Petitioner 's conviction where the opinion is contradict…
21-5077 Herbert Jonathan Castillo Juarez and Paola Valenzuela Arevalo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-crimes drug-type knowledge-requirement mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-2d1.1 Whether the government is required to prove a defendant's mens rea and knowledge with respect to the requisite drug type for penalties under Title 21 …
21-39 Benjamin Ramirez Ruiz v. California California 2021-07-12 Denied Response Waived child-protective-services confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure evidence-law ongoing-emergency sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence testimonial-statement Was a statement made to a child protective services investigator testimonial for the purposes of the Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause as establish…
21-5072 Roque Saenz-Quintela v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-5076 Charlene Terry-Ann Walker Rosa v. Florida Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-process 1. Whether the finding of strategic Decision on the part a depenre Couned, where the vecrd shat that such qurding only purpore is to prellent a menit …
21-5083 Corbin J. Breitenbach v. Kansas Kansas 2021-07-12 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure discovery dna-testing due-process evidence habeas-corpus judicial-procedure i-o f}\A \W V)'\sVxcX GouA oWse \W c^2>oceV%<cXVer^0ack v5 vr\ DA VW Dv^Vrxd CaxA oAxse As &*cjce\\o^ \* Aexv^ ^cc\e^o£xA\s s<zx^K.t& %o( t\ouj aj^>d…
21-25 Richard Janusz v. Illinois Illinois 2021-07-09 Denied arraignment arraignment-delay constitutional-rights criminal-procedure delay due-process fourteenth-amendment speedy-trial 1. Whether a defendant is denied due process of the fourteenth amendment to United States Constitution where his arraignment is delayed, for no appare…
21-5061 Henry Johnson Lucas, Jr. v. Virginia Virginia 2021-07-09 Denied IFP appeals appellate-procedure constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-court fourteenth-amendment legal-interpretation standing supreme-court-rules virginia-law I. The quEstiON pResENtEd is WhEthEr thE VA. SUPREME COUt VIDLAtEDpEtitiONER'S DUE PROCESS OF LAWINVIOATION OF AMEND. 14 oF thE UNitED StAtESCONstitut…
21-5062 Ricardo Burgos v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights-restoration criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing felon-in-possession plain-error rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states In Light of this Court's holding in United States v. Gary, (20-444) (S.Ct. June 14, 2021) regarding plain error under Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.C…
21-5063 Sammy Cano v. Illinois Illinois 2021-07-09 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-seizure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-discretion witness-credibility witness-testimony 1. Whether or not the State failed to prove Sammy Cano guilty beyond a reasonable doubt where the only witness to the crime directly contradicted her …
21-5068 Leonard Griffin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP age compassionate-release covid-19 criminal-procedure district-court-discretion family-circumstances federal-statute health-conditions motion-for-relief race sentencing Whether the district court erred by denying Mr. Griffin's Motion for Compassionate Release under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A).
21-5071 Gigi Fairchild Littlefield v. California California 2021-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights covid-19 criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation prison-reform prosecutorial-discretion sentencing-guidelines standing systemic-injustice Question not identified.
21-20 Jack Albert Chappell v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied Response Waived brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-disclosure evidence-handling fair-trial government-witness prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony Under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), does prosecutorial misconduct and mishandling of evidence constitute a Brady violation when the Governmen…
21-5037 Derrick Vaughn v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial in-court-identification prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Should the Court grant certiorari to determine whether improper in-court identifications performed at the behest of the prosecution deprived Petitione…
21-5041 Kosoul Chanthakoummane v. Texas Texas 2021-07-08 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment trial-procedure Whether Mr. Chanthakoummane is entitled to a new trial because trial counsel ignored his unequivocal direction to challenge his guilt during the culpa…
21-5042 John Shields v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied IFP controlled-substance criminal-procedure double-jeopardy evidence guilty-plea money-laundering plain-error waiver waiver-doctrine I. Whether the Sixth Circuit's blanket policy of relying on the waiver doctrine as justificatio n for refusing to review an insufficiency of the evide…
21-5043 Carlos Amador Saragoza-Botello v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-5044 Ncholeion Kashana Hollie v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP abduction abduction-definition change-in-location circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-sentencing robbery robbery-enhancement sentencing-guidelines ussg-2b3.1 Under Section 2B3.1 (b)(4)(A) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines ("USSG"), courts apply a four-level increase to the offense level for Robbery…
21-5045 Colvis Jerrod Higgins v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP alcohol-prohibition criminal-procedure drug-treatment due-process judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing sentencing-conditions special-conditions substance-abuse supervised-release I. Did the district court plainly err when it imposed a special condition of supervised release requiring Mr. Higgins to abstain from alcohol and to a…
21-5047 Michael Carter v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3553a criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing discretionary-review district-court-discretion first-step-act individualized-explanation sentence-reduction sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation (1) Are district courts required to consider the sentencing factors listed in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) when deciding whether to impose a reduced sentence u…
21-5049 Yancey J. Myers, aka Yam v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fatal-variance judicial-integrity plain-error reversible-error standard-of-review When the ex post facto clause is breached and the error is obviously plain, does this Constitutionally forbidden error require a reversal of a crimina…
21-5053 Hernando Javier Vergara v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment amendment-challenge constitutional-scrutiny criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process jury-trial retroactive-application retroactivity supervised-release In a previous holding (United States v Raymond , 588 U.S., 139 S.Ct._, 204 L. Ed. 2d 897 LEXIS 4398 (2019), this Court ruled that 18 U.S.C. §3583(1*;)…
21-5054 Kevin Antonio Watson v. Virginia Virginia 2021-07-08 Denied IFP appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency habeas-corpus ninth-circuit prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence L. Vjke-tlwi Obfhr -tine m //sA-A/^ s-P Pku&rafat lb PfoS^ec-U-hcun j as\^ ra-h 4iri €/r> oF'' '. P4< l4 £ouI 4 kat/e-f'kut'id *ffhe_ Vc&afAfaaf^ tfnT…
21-5055 Bobby Wilson, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement Can A PROGRAM NORRIS MOTION OR APPEAL BE DISMISSED BASED UPON A WRITTEN WAIVER EVEN THOUGH THE GOVERNMENT BREACHED ITS PLEA AGREEMENT THAT INDUCED A P…
21-5058 Joseph Andrew Phipps v. Neil McDowell, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment aedpa criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-instructions lesser-included-offenses 1) Does Petitioner have a due process right to jury instructions on lesser included offenses? 2) Does the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendm…
21-5029 Antonio Domingo-Morales v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-5038 Donnell Bledsoe v. Stockton Police Department, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-07-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process excessive-force exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment police-misconduct qualified-immunity search-and-seizure section-1983 The lower court(s) ruled that a federal criminal statute that enforces constitutional limits on conduct by law enforcement officers, provided in relev…
21-5014 John Bruce Fifield, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-history criminal-procedure judicial-notice plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether a court of appeals may consider judicially noticeable facts presented for the first time on appeal in deciding whether an error is plain?
21-5004 Bo Daniel Shafer v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-07-02 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel trial-counsel trial-procedure voir-dire witness-testimony 1. DID THE FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT ERRONEOUSLY CONCLUDE THAT BO SHAFER'S IAC CLAIM REGARDING HIS TRIAL COUNSEL'S PERFORMANCE DURING VOIR DIRE WAS WITHO…
20-8467 Cyrus Casby v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP chain-of-custody civil-rights constitutional-standards criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process evidence-contamination expert-qualification expert-testimony scientific-procedure testing-guidelines WHETHER THE ACCUSED DNA REPORT AND RAW DATA (SCIENTIFIC PROOF) CONTAMINATED (UPLIFTING EVIDENCE WAS MISUSED TO CONVICT ME, TO DISMISS MY INDICTMENT/OV…
20-8468 Deborah Petty v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-identity-theft criminal-procedure criminal-venue district-court due-process identity-theft interstate-crime jurisdiction venue I. Was venue proper in the Northern District of Texas when the crimes were actually committed in Nevada and Florida?
20-8472 Rocky Leandro Orosco v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-07-01 Denied IFP criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress warrantless-search 1) During Mr.Orosco's trial, the State District Attorney told the jury that Mr.Orosco's Cell Phone was' "Obtained" with a warrant when it really was…
20-8477 Stephen Aguiar v. United States Second Circuit 2021-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure article-three case-or-controversy civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing standing supervised-release 1. WHETHER THE SECOND CIRCUIT WRONGLY DISMISSED PETITIONER'S PETITION AS MOOT BEFORE ALLOWING HIM THE OPPORTUNITY APPEAL TO SHOW THAT HIS APPEAL MEETS…
20-1825 Jeffrey McClatchy v. Texas Texas 2021-07-01 Denied brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence guilty-plea plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct united-states-v-ruiz 1. RELEVANT ISSUES : Brady v. Maryland , 373 U.S. 83 (1963), enshrined the principle that the prosecu-tion is obligated to provide a criminal defendan…
20-1819 Lawrence B. Hughes v. Georgia Georgia 2021-06-30 Denied 14th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process indictment indictment-clarity jury-charge jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense standard-of-review Is it a requirement within State Statute of Fed eral law for an indictment to be clear and precise within accusation? In review of deliberation stag…
20-8446 Hewitt A. Grant, II v. Florida Florida 2021-06-30 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-procedure fifth-amendment judicial-review jurisdiction legal-interpretation procedural-rules retrial united-states-law >-T7 'ot7l&nqpro^ fWmSHiAS A&jpfffiJ oFm!£i//d6/)£& re&m Id him ? F) (po&dfibn CO Vtdfilizs u, S Rffh Ariid/ttm^UTOc^s. ft All do vidCOi FR/ c/a C&ldf…
20-8450 Ronald Anthony Gomez v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-06-30 Denied IFP apodaca-v-oregon criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-unanimity schad-v-arizona sixth-amendment I. Does a state trial court 's failure to give a unanimity instruction to a jury in a criminal trial raise a debatable valid claim of the denial of …
20-8451 J. P. v. Arkansas Arkansas 2021-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure directed-verdict due-process motion-for-directed-verdict preservation-of-error procedural-due-process state-criminal-procedure trial-preservation Does the State of Arkansas's strict interpretation and enforcement of a procedural rule which requires criminal defendants to identify the specific fl…
20-8458 Patrick Eugene Stein v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-06-30 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process jury-act jury-selection standing tenth-circuit weapon-of-mass-destruction Does this practice substantially violate the plain language of the Jury Act under 28 U.S.C. § 1861, and was the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals wrong t…
20-8460 Marcus Snipes v. Florida Florida 2021-06-30 Denied IFP Apprendi-rule constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process jury-determination jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum WHETHER THE STATE CAN AVOID APPRENDI'S REACH BY WRITING ITS PENAL STATUTES SO THAT A FACT THAT INCREASES THE PENALTY FOR A CRIME INSTEAD BECOMES A FAC…
20-8443 Jacobie A. Green v. Louisiana Louisiana 2021-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure defendant-statement due-process evidence jury-charge jury-instructions motion-to-quash photographic-evidence right-to-counsel state-created-impediment trial-court-discretion 1. Did the Louisiana Supreme Court error in denying review after a. State-crested impediment occurred? 2. Whether ihe trial court erred in admittmg d…
20-8444 Dustin Melvin Davison v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-06-29 Denied IFP autonomy constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-autonomy defense-counsel due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel guilt-concession right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-strategy Is it unconstitutional to allow defense counsel to concede any aspect of guilt over defendant's unambiguously expressed desire to maintain actual inno…
20-8445 Christian Kalen Crawford v. Florida Florida 2021-06-29 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment blood-draw criminal-procedure detention due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop Whether law enforcement officers may extend the detention of a driver involved in an accident resulting in the death of another person in order to wai…
20-8453 Devonte Jaishun Tucker v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion mitigation preservation preservation-of-error sentencing sentencing-discretion Whether a defendant must object to sentencing court's failure to consider a nonfrivolous mitigation argument in order to preserve the issue for appeal…
20-1814 Donnie Rudd v. Illinois Illinois 2021-06-29 Denied arrest-warrant criminal-complaint criminal-procedure prosecutorial-involvement right-to-counsel rothgery-v-gillespie sixth-amendment Whether the Court's decision in Rothgery v. Gillespie eliminates attachment of an individual's Sixth Amendment right to counsel prior to his appearanc…
20-1808 Adam E. Billings v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-06-28 Denied Response Waived circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-booker united-states-v-roach 1. Whether the Sentencing Guidelines §2D1.1 Application Note 4 violates procedural due process. 2. Whether the Eighth Circuit's decision in United St…
20-8438 Michael A. Livingston v. Alabama Alabama 2021-06-28 Denied IFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech takings Question not identified.
20-8439 Francisco Coto-Mendoza v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-review guideline-range judicial-discretion objection plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-arguments Whether, after Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, __U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails t…
20-8440 Jerry Douglas, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure federal-question felon-in-possession felon-possession jury-instruction justification-defense minor-child-safety minor-protection second-amendment Is a defendant entitled to a justification jury instruction on a charge of possession of ammunition in commerce by a felon when the defendant is actin…
20-8425 Phillip L. Carson v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment brady-v-maryland constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process evidence-admissibility giglio-v-united-states judicial-precedent supreme-court-review right to the Due Process of Law? (uscA sth &14 th Amendments) .Has the Supreme Courtof the Vnited States overtured its own Precident in Brady V. Mary…
20-8415 Demario Deshawn Simpson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-06-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP count-specific-plea criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-criminal-procedure jurisdiction partial-guilty-plea plea-bargaining plea-entry sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether a defendant has a right under the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure to enter a partial guilty plea (without a plea agreement or any plea bar…
20-8416 Raul Ramos v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process hearsay-evidence sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment united-states-v-haymond Whether the district court's reliance on hearsay evidence to impose a guideline sentence of life violates Ramos's right to confront and cross-examine …
20-8421 Braulio Perez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-25 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 911-call armed-career-criminal body-camera body-camera-footage constitutional-rights'\n'Issue 4 criminal-history criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure'\n'Issue 2 criminal-procedure'\n'Issue 3 criminal-procedure'\n'Issue 4 enhancement evidence fair-trial fifth-amendment firearm fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure self-incrimination sentencing sentencing-enhancement statements statutory-interpretation witness witness-testimony 1. Whether Mr. Perez's Fourth Amendment rights were violated when his motion to suppress the firearm was denied? 2. Whether Mr. Perez's Fifth Amendme…
20-8422 Wayne Porter v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review conspiracy-conviction criminal-enterprise criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervisory-power Whether the Fourt Circuit Court of Appeal's sanctioning of the district court's refusal to correct errors and omissions of facts from the Fourth Circu…
20-8424 James Erik Godiksen v. United States Second Circuit 2021-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure expert-testimony harmless-error judicial-discretion jury-instructions jury-note prejudice trial-procedure Did the Court of Appeals improperly conclude that the District Court's mishandling of a jury note and replaying only a portion of the defense expert's…
20-8399 Clarence O. Hopkins v. Illinois Illinois 2021-06-24 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus habitual-criminal mandatory-supervised-release pre-trial-detention sentencing speedy-trial Wsappellate Coseieffective o ing incue a ha hi iioe pentfo speedy trial violation?
20-8400 Daryl Wendell Barley v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP clear-and-convincing-evidence criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence-standard first-step-act preponderance-of-evidence relevant-conduct sec-404 sentencing-reduction sixth-amendment 1. Whether the "clear and convincing evidence standard" should be used instead of the "preponderance of evidence standard" when determining the releva…
20-8414 Cynthia Stiger v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP alternate-jurors bias circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process health-care-fraud judicial-discretion juror-bias jury-selection restitution-liability supervised-release 1. Did the Fifth Circuit err in holding that the district court did not abuse its discretion in refusing to strike a juror during trial based on perce…
20-8428 Joseph George v. M. Eliot Spearman, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-06-24 Denied IFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony sixth-amendment Does false evidence and expert witness perjured testimony the alleged victim suffered a fracture of the zygomatic buttress qualify for the Schlup doct…
20-8429 Christopher Forman v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2021-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment burglary conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment sentencing 1. Did the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania defy the due process clause of the Fourteenth amendment to the United States Constitution by permitting a conv…
20-8430 Samuel Gayden v. Illinois Illinois 2021-06-24 Denied IFP chain-of-custody criminal-procedure dna-evidence evidence-admissibility fair-trial ineffective-assistance jury-instructions lay-opinion prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure witness-identification I Whether the State misused DNA evidence to link Petitioner to the weapon used in the offense, and to alleged threatening letters sent from the Cook C…
20-8431 Brandon Kendale Dudley v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence-standard judicial-discretion preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the use of the preponderance of the evidence standard at sentencing to substantially enhance a criminal defendant's advisory guideline range c…
20-8389 Asa Lea, aka Asa Lorenzo-Lamiyah Lea v. United States District of Columbia 2021-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure district-court-error exclusionary-rule illegal-evidence judgment-of-acquittal motion-for-new-trial motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure tangible-evidence 1. Whether the District Court erred by denying Mr. Lea's Motion to Suppress Illegal Tangible Evidence? 2. Whether the District Court erred by denying…
20-8390 Gary L. Workman v. Jason Kent, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-06-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel police-misconduct prosecutor-misconduct right-to-counsel witness-subpoena Was Petitioner denied his right to compel witnesses when counsel failed to subpoena an expert that had found exculpatory evidence and this evidence w…
20-8393 Robert Steven McDaniel v. Georgia Georgia 2021-06-23 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel-error criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-remedies right-to-appeal 1. TO AN APPEAL OR OUT-OF-TIME- APPEAL? 2. Is The AbANDOUMeNT of couNsEl fOR ThE defENdaNT AfTER A PlEA hERINg OR SENTENCINg Of CONSTITOTIONAl MAGNTU…
20-8395 Luis Bernal-Villareal v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP average-participant criminal-procedure drug-importation lower-courts minor-role sentencing-guidelines ussg-3b1.2 ussg-analysis Whether, in a drug importation offense, managers and supervisors of the offense should be considered "average participants" for purposes of a USSG § 3…
20-8402 Daniel Chica-Gutierrez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP affirmative-defense collateral-attack criminal-procedure custis-rule federal-statutory-provision sentencing sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines state-court-conviction statutory-interpretation Whether a federal court is permitted to consider an argument that a prior state-court conviction does not satisfy a relevant federal statutory provisi…
20-8405 Robert Allen Vestal v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure deference federal-courts judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors?
20-8407 Daniel Littlepage v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-murder criminal-procedure due-process orc-2945.06 plea-bargaining post-release-control sentencing three-judge-panel 1. Is the Petitioner's Due Process Rights Violated Due to the requiring a Three-Judge Panel Violation of O.R.C. ' 2945.06 for Aggravated Murder? 2. …
20-8354 Lewis Wesley Hickman, III v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process evidence-challenge felony-conviction judicial-review mandatory-minimum plea-bargaining sentencing-disparities sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines why was my 3 points for accepting responsibility taken for a fight in jail. I Know I didnt say} "Cooperator"; I didnt Know him at all. why was I give…
20-8355 Jason Kyle Gee v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-06-22 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jackson-v-virginia jury-deliberations racial-bias standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence verdict-challenge Question not identified.
20-8378 Michael R. Gore, Jr. v. Andrew J. Bruck, Acting Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2021-06-22 Denied IFP criminal-procedure faretta self-representation sixth-amendment voir-dire waiver I. IS THE RIGHT TO SELF-REPRESENTATION VIOLATED WHEN A DEFENDANT IS NOT AFFORDED VOIR DIRE UNDER THE U.S. SUPREME COURT'S DECISION IN FARETTA V. CALIF…
20-8384 Pedro Rodriguez-Calderon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei…
20-8386 Cheddie Lamar Griffin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure davis-precedent due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus johnson-rule sentencing statutory-interpretation successive-petition supreme-court WHETHER THE CIRCUIT PANEL'S DECISION AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S DENIAL OF MR. GRIFFIN'S AUTHORIZED SUCCESSIVE 2255 (UNDER JOHNSON) SIMPLY BECAUSE …
20-8387 Bruce Lee Felix v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-delay criminal-procedure judicial-discretion motion-resolution presumptive-prejudice pretrial-motion pretrial-motions speedy-trial tolling trial-procedure united-states-v-tinklenberg In Barker v. Wingo, 407 U.S. 514, 530, 92 S. Ct. 2182, 2192, 33 L. Ed. 2d 101 (1972), this Court held that a period of delay from indictment to trial,…
20-1771 Charles Simonson v. Borough of Taylor, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2021-06-22 Denied circuit-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure domestic-violence due-process independent-investigation probable-cause warrantless-arrest witness-statement The Third Circuit held that probabl e cause can be based solely on the statements of a victim and an alleged 1 ½ hour investigation that failed to inc…
20-1772 Branden Edward Shumate v. California California 2021-06-22 Denied Response Waived attorney-client-relationship attorney-of-choice criminal-defendant criminal-procedure motion-for-new-trial post-conviction-proceedings right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment trial-court I. Whether a Trial Court Deprives a Defendant of His Right to Counsel by Discharging a Defendant's Hired Attorney of Choice Just Before Trial Was to S…
20-8350 Curtis Lee Holliman v. Texas Texas 2021-06-21 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence harmless-error standing Did the court of Appeals misapply the holding in Ray v. state in holding that the error was harmless? Did prosecutors mislead the jury and fail to tu…
20-8352 David Alexandre v. United States First Circuit 2021-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment circuit-split criminal-activity criminal-procedure fourth-amendment nexus-requirement probable-cause search-warrant supreme-court Did the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit erroneously hold the government was not required to establish probable cause to the belie…
20-8353 Russell Armfield v. Sonja Nicklaus, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-06-21 Denied IFP bruton-rule bruton-violation civil-rights constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions jury-prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-claim (1) If a ruling must be contrary to established Federal Law for A Defendant to receive relief, When there is no established Federal Law or Precedent t…
20-8363 Outhdorm Ros v. California California 2021-06-21 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission fifth-amendment miranda-rights prosecutorial-argument self-incrimination 1. In a criminal prosecution, can a suspect's silence after he is arrested, but before he is questioned or read his rights under Miranda v. Arizona, 3…
20-8366 Larry Dean Garrett, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP coercion confrontation-clause criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule false-statements fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment jury-bias plea-negotiation search-and-seizure sixth-amendment Question not identified.
20-8367 Kiera Shanice Graham v. Brooks Benton, Warden Georgia 2021-06-21 Denied IFP constitutional-rights counsel-representation criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sentencing voluntary-decision Is ifa vfokthon of dun proc.&& for & defwda nb -b pkad AUi'I'ly b a \ fo SinDmoi tohjin informed hj Counsel +inaf Umm pm\fo (mos biwj aujhi, ba+ ujos…
20-8369 Clarence Clark v. United States Second Circuit 2021-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment guilty-plea plain-error plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in violation of U.S. Const. V and VI as well as this Court's precedent, when it denied Mr. Clark's c…
20-8344 Harry Sharod James v. Tom Brickhouse, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-06-17 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-admissibility ex-post-facto grand-jury impartial-jury indictment judicial-discretion trial-rights Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, as applied to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment and presented to a grand jury in th…
20-8346 Juan Anibal Patrone v. United States First Circuit 2021-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-922 criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error immigration-status rehaif rehaif-standard sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation First, whether the district court's violation of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019) — when it omitted the knowledge of immigration status…
20-8325 Francisco Javier Bermudez-Chavez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-8326 Michael Adefemi Adeyemo, aka Adekunle Olufemi Adetiloye v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fifth-amendment incriminating nexus-requirement obstruction-of-justice plea-colloquy self-incrimination separate-offense testimonial I. Whether the Fifth Amendment "self-incrimination clause" protects a defendant during the change of plea colloquy against compulsory self-disclosure …
20-8328 Juan E. Seary-Colon v. United States First Circuit 2021-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-challenge conviction-review criminal-procedure due-process insufficient-evidence legal-sufficiency procedural-review standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether Evidence was Totally Insufficient for the Conviction to Stand.
20-8330 Ilmane Charone Campas Strong v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction firearms judicial-fact-finding mandatory-minimum sixth-amendment supervised-release Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any ammunition that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past…
20-8335 George A. Christian, Jr. v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-06-16 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment search-and-seizure standing Question not identified.
20-8337 Noe Torres v. Dwayne Santistevan, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claims court-rules criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process extension-of-filing-period habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-misconduct media-coverage procedural-default state-court Question not identified.
20-1754 Lawrence Joey Smith v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-16 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure burden-of-proof certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-review criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions prosecutorial-argument prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt 1. Is it objectionable for a prosecutor to argue to the jury that a lack of evidence does not give rise to a reasonable doubt? 2. Is the Eleventh Cir…
20-1732 Thomas Bryant, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-15 Denied Amici (3) circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-procedure district-court first-step-act policy-statement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether Section 1B1.13 of the United States Sentencing Guidelines is an "applicable" policy statement that binds a district court in considering a def…
20-8300 Lonnie Norton v. Utah Utah 2021-06-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness (N) Do this Court's rulings in Apprend: v. New Jersey,530U.S. 466 (2000) and Alleyne v. United States 577 U.S.99 (2013) require that when a state stat…
20-8306 Donnie Joe Phillips v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-06-15 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-defense criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process entrapment government-inducement law-enforcement unwitting-agent Whether the "government inducement" element of the entrapment defense can be met through the actions of an unwitting government agent.
20-8312 Ronald Delester Burke v. Washington Washington 2021-06-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination nurse-examiner sexual-assault sexual-assault-nurse-examiner sixth-amendment testimonial-statements Does the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment prohibit a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner from testifying about statements made during a forensic …
20-8322 Fabian Perpall v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-15 Denied IFP circuit-split contested-issue criminal-evidence criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence not-guilty-plea plea-of-not-guilty prior-bad-acts rule-404(b) rule-404b state-of-mind By pleading not guilty, can a defendant make his prior convictions admissible under Rule 404(b) to show "state of mind"?
20-8282 Anthony Herman Lucio v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process factual-findings findings judicial-discretion presentence-report sentencing-guidelines WAS PRESENTENCE REPORT'S CALCULATIONS ON QUANTITY O'F DRUGS UNDER U.S. SENTENCING GUIDELINES MANUAL § 2D1.1 ATTRIBUTED TO DEFENDANT PROPER BASED ON FA…
20-8293 Louis John Fontanez v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP §2255-motion 21-usc-841 but-for-causation criminal-procedure due-process expert-witness expert-witnesses habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel penalty-enhancement Was counsel constitutionally ineffective because he failed to consult or hire expert witnesses to investigate tte but-for causation of the victim's in…
20-8294 Markeith Loyd v. Florida Florida 2021-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure history-based-re-evaluation jury-rights legal-precedent lockhart-precedent lockhart-v-mccree sixth-amendment trial-by-jury Whether this Court should recede from Lockhart v. McCree, 476 U.S. 162 (1986), as part of its ongoing history-based re-evaluation of the Sixth Amendme…
20-8299 In Re Michael Skillern 2021-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-precedent mandamus scotus writ-of-certiorari writ-of-mandamus DOES THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT'S RULE ENUNCIATED CRUTCHFIELD v. WAINWRIGHT, 803 F.3d 1103 (11th Cir. 1986) ABROGATE OR MODIFY THE SUPREME COURT DECISION AS…
20-1728 Rico Sanders v. Dylon Radtke, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-06-14 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing juvenile-status life-sentence mitigating-factor parole sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether this Court's Eighth Amendment precedent clearly establishes that a sentencing court must consider a defendant's juvenile status as a mitigatin…
20-8287 Kenneth Wayne Walker, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment parole sentencing sixth-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
20-8288 Anthony L. Ingram v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1201(a)(1) criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency federal-kidnapping jury-instructions motion-for-acquittal 1. Are the due process rights of a defendant in a criminal case violated when the government fails to present evidence at trial as to each element of …
20-8290 Anthony Leon Waits v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court federal-court federal-rule forfeiture forfeiture-judgment indictment indictment-notice statutory-basis Does Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 32.2(a) prohibit a district court from entering a forfeiture judgment when the indictment does not give notice…
20-8292 Pete Anthony Tyndale v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing divisibility due-process federal-prosecution reckless-conduct serious-violent-felony sovereign-authority state-prosecution statutory-interpretation three-strikes-statute Whether the life sentence imposed under the Federa Does the government have the authority to dictate sovereign particular state, federal trial will be prosecuted other than the state according to the D…
20-8273 Roger G. Babcock v. Florida Florida 2021-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion mandatory-sentencing sentencing sentencing-discretion state-law statutory-interpretation My name is Roger G. Babcock, and, in 1997 a Florida jury found me guilty of the crime of sexual battery, a capital felony not punishable by death. At …
20-1708 Jose Leonel Bonilla-Romero v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-06-10 Denied 5th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment notice sentencing sentencing-range separation-of-powers Does the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment require notice of the sentencing range prior to sentencing? Is it a violation of separation of pow…
20-1709 David Ming Pon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-10 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (2) appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence-standard government-case harmless-error judicial-review presumption-of-innocence standard-of-review Whether an appellate court reviewing a cold criminal trial record may determine that an error at trial was harmless by applying an "overwhelming evide…
20-8247 Marcus Darwyn Jones v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-misrepresentation sentencing-consequences sorna waiver 1. Whether reliance on a prosecutor's legal misstatements regarding the consequences of a guilty plea renders that plea involuntary and unknowing. 2.…
20-8259 Peter James Sorokaput v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2021-06-09 Denied IFP civil-rights coerced-confession constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process law-enforcement plea-bargaining sentencing wrongful-conviction So W ftkouf Sl/ch evidence Old oFFfceC FiaVe ffobableCaLlse +o SiopOie, SeaOch meTThen he?Oessufla) Hie-, Forced me +o Confess -Vo a crime I d ithric…
20-8260 Earton Smith v. John Schuyler Marvin Fifth Circuit 2021-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari civil-rights constitutional-challenge court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review prisoner-rights state-court-procedure supreme-court whether the S.C.s 1983. Jurisdictione OVER
20-8262 Francisco Hilt and Sean Alexander v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process entrapment firearms-possession impeachment-evidence informant-disclosure sting-operation 1. In an ATF sting operation, the government failed to disclose the identity of the informant pretrial, and the defense was entrapment. The defense di…
20-8264 Jeremy Hough v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process harmless-error judicial-procedure procedural-error sentencing standard-of-review Whether, through "assumed error harmlessness review," appellate courts may affirm a criminal sentence without addressing allegations of significant pr…
20-8267 Christopher Jermaine Kelley v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process essential-element guilty-plea judicial-review parties plea-bargaining Did the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee and the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit err in denying …
20-8268 Duprece Jett v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights compassionate-release constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review sentencing separation-of-powers Whether testimony identifying Agent Guy's identifying Def. Dyprece Jett, as one of the two robbers under the Open Door doctrine was harmless error alt…
20-8270 Maurice A. Jackson v. Kevin Ransom, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Third Circuit 2021-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-of-appeals criminal-procedure dna-testing evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-standard standard-of-review trial-counsel witness-impeachment 1. Did the third circuit court err in deferring to the Court of Common Pleas finding that Mr. Jackson was not prejudiced by trial counsel not having k…
20-8248 Richard W. Williams v. Sherie Korneman, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-06-08 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance fourteenth-amendment further-proceedings ineffective-assistance public-defender sixth-amendment 1) TOir S™ r?„!SK 'ed'JUr0 SS °3 a ^ P31"51' one °f-«Mch stated during d^nse ' Sixth 'ancHFourteent^Amendment 2)Does being deprived of conflict-free …
20-8251 Jayrionte Thomas v. West Virginia West Virginia 2021-06-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-murder habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-procedure right-to-counsel sixth-amendment west-virginia-law Whether the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals erred in declining to hold, on direct criminal appeal, that the Petitioner received ineffective ass…
20-8256 Terry Alonzo Wilson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting civil-rights conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process hobbs-act Question not identified.
20-1694 Gregory Molden v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-06-08 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process fifth-amendment health-care-fraud medicare medicare-regulations regulatory-compliance Petitioner in district court appeared in a jury trial with multiple co-defendants three of which like Petitioner were licensed physicians. All of the …
20-1702 Jimmy Cobb v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction plea-bargaining plea-deal sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation undercover-operation 1. Does a District Court have the have Jurisdiction to punish and convict conduct that does not fall within a Federal Statute of 18 U.S.C 2422(b) and …
20-1692 Henry Evans v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-06-07 Denied Response Waived administrative-law criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution expert-testimony health-care-fraud healthcare-fraud medicaid medicare medicare-regulations statutory-interpretation 1.) Are the Medicare rules, regulations, and policies "controlling" in a criminal prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 1347; i.e. is evidence of compliance o…
20-1693 Erick Allen Osby v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-06-07 Denied Amici (4)Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy fifth-amendment jury-acquittal sentencing sixth-amendment Whether basing a criminal defendant's sentence on charges of which the jury acquitted him violates the Fifth or Sixth Amendments.
20-8236 Brady Lee Ray v. Kentucky Kentucky 2021-06-07 Denied IFP criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process first-degree-robbery fourteenth-amendment kentucky-supreme-court sentencing-errors supreme-court-rule uscs-supreme-court-rule-10 wanton-endangerment Did Kentucky Supreme Court Violate Section C of USC S of Supreme Ct. R. 10 and therefore the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution w…
20-8241 John Doe v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-06-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process sentencing statutory-interpretation supervised-release 139 S.ct.2369 (2019) Abrogate crcnit precedest 1n U.5. v. Ward, 770 F.3d 1069 (4+h (i2.2014) Gupy +54 Supercised Belease under 18 USC Bevocation Procc…
20-8226 In Re Francis Boyd 2021-06-04 Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus judicial-error jury-instruction jury-instructions miscarriage-of-justice murder murder-degrees third-degree-murder trial-procedure 1). CAN A TRIAL JUDGE INSTRUCT A JURY DURING A JURY CHARGE , THAT THEY CANNOT FIND PETITIONER GUILTY OF A CERTAIN DEGREE OF MURDER AFTER ENTERTAINING …
20-8227 Trevor Anderson v. Lynn Lilley, Superintendent, Eastern Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2021-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-trial implicit-bias prosecutorial-misconduct summation visual-presentation 1. Can a prosecutor's display of a visual presentation during summation activate implicit biases, and if so, does the activation of those biases depri…
20-8228 John Campbell v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal armed-bank-robbery bank-robbery count-severance criminal-procedure evidence evidence-suppression firearm-possession jury-instructions sentencing sentencing-enhancement 1. Did the district court incorrectly decline to charge the jury on a key element of armed bank robbery? 2. Did the district court err in denying sup…
20-8230 Jorge De Los Santos v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process liberty-interest liberty-restriction rehabilitation sentencing-conditions sex-offender substantive-reasonableness supervised-release For a low-level sex offender (like a mere possessor of child pornography with no prior criminal history), is a supervised-release condition prohibitin…
20-8234 Arian Lamont Brown v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-criminal-guideline criminal-procedure en-banc en-banc-review judicial-discretion mandate mandate-recall precedent sentence-enhancement sentencing sixth-circuit Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit abuse its discretion and err by denying the Motion to Recall the Mandate, when The United…
20-1686 Bobby Lee Hampton v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Louisiana 2021-06-04 Denied collateral-review constitutional-rule criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance mccoy-v-louisiana retroactivity right-to-counsel teague-v-lane In 2018, this Court held in McCoy v. Louisiana, 138 S. Ct. 1500, that "a defendant has the right to insist that counsel refrain from admitting guilt e…
20-8199 Isiah Lamonte Brown v. California California 2021-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-remedy counsel-ineffectiveness counsel-violation criminal-procedure fundamental-autonomy prejudice prejudice-analysis right-to-testify standard-of-review waiver waiver-standard 1. What standard of prejudice, if any, must be satisfied to reverse a conviction because trial counsel violated the defendant's fundamental autonomous…
20-8200 Brandon Dante Brooks-Davis v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court criminal-procedure fairness-integrity-public-reputation intervening-supreme-court-decision judicial-review plain-error-review substantial-rights supreme-court-decision trial-record Whether when applying plain-error review based upon an intervening United States Supreme Court decision, a circuit court of appeals may review matters…
20-8211 Christian M. Allmendinger v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judicial-fact-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment witte-v-united-states 1. Alleyne v. United States, 570 U.S. 99, 133 S. Ct. 2151 (2013), expressly overruled Harris v. United States, 536 U.S. 545 (2002), and at least impli…
20-8212 Dany L. Brandao v. United States First Circuit 2021-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fourth-amendment home home-search narcotics narcotics-prosecution probable-cause prosecution search search-and-seizure vehicle 1. Should certiorari be granted where the police violated the Fourth Amendment to the United States constitution when, in a narcotics prosecution, the…
20-8222 In Re Marshall DeWayne Williams 2021-06-03 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
20-8189 Heather Dawn Griffith v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-procedure drug-distribution federal-rule federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether, in a prosecution under 21 U.S.C. § 846, Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(b)(3) requires a statement sufficient to show an agreement to d…
20-8192 Jorge Ramon Newball-May v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure jurisdiction jury-trial maritime-drug-law maritime-law pre-trial-hearing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act, 46 U.S.C. 70501 et. seq., is unconstitutional on its face and in violation of the Sixth Amendment right…
20-8195 Calvin James Reid v. Michigan Michigan 2021-06-02 Denied IFP collateral-attack constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdictional-defect legal-remedy retroactivity state-court-conviction statute-of-limitations time-limitation WHETHER A 30 YEAR OLD JURISDICTIONAL DEFECT IN STATE COURT CONVICTION SHOULD STAND UNCORRECTED BECAUSE THE VIOLATION OCCURRED OVER 30 YEARS AGO?
20-8196 William Severs v. Andrew J. Bruck, Acting Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2021-06-02 Denied IFP appeals appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-error right-to-counsel supreme-court-precedent third-circuit-court 1) Whether the Decisions of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and the District Court for the District of New Jersey were contrary to the United State…
20-8197 Samuel Earl Smith v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure defendant-role fifth-circuit leader-organizer leadership-enhancement sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guidelines The Fifth Circuit's holding in finding that Mr. Smith was a leader or organizer under the United States Sentencing Guidelines evidences a circuit spli…
20-8204 Severiano Martinez-Rojas v. United States Second Circuit 2021-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-review plea-bargaining restitution restitution-calculation sentencing sentencing-procedure vulnerable-victim-enhancement I. Whether the Second Circuit failed to follow Supreme Court precedent in Rosales-Mireles v. United States, 138 S. Ct. 1897, 1900 (2018) when it enfor…
20-8206 Prentiss Morris v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-06-02 Denied IFP 8th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-review legal-procedure mental-health sentencing statutory-interpretation Can Convicted of alleged Crime be petiticrer mentianed) from retarded (persan) mental a testmany Cbsence of a alane, in the ealuation Detenmine, If al…
20-8207 Bernier Gerard Jackson v. Florida Florida 2021-06-02 Denied IFP best-interest constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-offer professional-responsibility right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel requires counsel to advise his client to accept a plea offer which is clearly…
20-1671 Chi Ping Patrick Ho v. United States Second Circuit 2021-06-02 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure federal-courts foreign-corrupt-practices-act indictment money-laundering prosecution-exemption reference-canon statutory-interpretation 1. Whether a federal court may decline to apply the reference canon, recently reaffirmed by this Court in Jam v. Int Fin. Corp., --- U.S. ---, 139 S. …
20-1677 Angel Lee Rankin v. Texas Texas 2021-06-02 Denied 5th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure custody custody-determination due-process evidence-suppression miranda-warnings motion-to-suppress sudden-passion Whether the Court of Appeals Erred in Affirming the Trial Court's Denial of Ms. Rankin's Motion to Suppress Because She was in Law Enforcement's Custo…
20-8181 Linwood Earl Stephens v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-jurisdiction clearly-erroneous-fact criminal-procedure due-process fact-finding fourth-circuit judicial-review jurisdiction sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals below erred in holding it did not have jurisdiction to review a decision to deny a departure under the Uni…
20-8160 Tamaran Edward Bontemps v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-stop reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio Does a sweatshirt bulge alone give an objectively reasonable and particularized suspicion to stop Bontemps?
20-8161 Lisa Marie Belyew v. Mike Pallares, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-05-28 Denied IFP appellate-procedure bail constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process evidence-standard federal-law judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure statutory-interpretation peleai^ on OkM A^feadLsaJA/V proper eAj{d-€AAce O^A'tJC U5C §a^b6io)j (tiod UOkfiAkrfwr V(L CaofK Of red \vi d&yu^i HIajl moIIq^v
20-8172 Jorge Antonio Perez, aka Steven Mark Hamm v. Gavin Newsom, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-05-28 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-due-process constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-court federal-sentencing free-speech judicial-interpretation prior-conviction-doctrine standing state-secrets-doctrine Is the Circuit Court wrong in applying the "State Decisis Doctrine" and also is the Circuit Court wrong by stating in writing that the murders of litt…
20-1660 In Re Garvester Bracken 2021-05-28 Denied article-iii criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure jurisdiction probable-cause right-to-be-present right-to-counsel trial-jurisdiction DID THE TRIAL COURT HAVE JURISDICTION TO PROCEED AND ENTER JUDGMENT AS A MATTER OF LAW? WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT HAD POSSESSED JURIDICTION IN ABSENCE …
20-1663 Matthew D. Norwood v. United States Armed Forces 2021-05-28 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure evidence evidence-rule forensic-interview hearsay hearsay-exception jury-deliberation prior-consistent-statement repetition trial-procedure truth-effect witness-testimony Whether admission of a recorded hearsay statement as a physical exhibit, permitted to be reviewed during deliberations, is a fair application of the e…
20-1656 Carmen Johnson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-05-27 Denied Response Waived asset-forfeiture civil-rights coram-nobis criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance restitution supervised-release May an individual challenge non-custodial aspects of a criminal judgment through a petition for writ of error coram nobis?
20-8152 Miguel Martinez-Figueroa v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
20-8168 Ross Colby v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial juror-sympathy jury-bias jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Whether the statements of a prosecutor invoking juror sympathy and telling the jury that it has a duty to convict violate the defendant's Sixth Amendm…
20-8171 Terry L. Ogle v. Mike Parris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP arrest-warrant civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus plea-bargaining statute-of-limitations 1. Whether fraud, false and misleading statements in arrest & extradition warrant affidavit - irrespective of the subsequent indictment in this case -…
20-8174 Esad Lemo v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2021-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process intellectual-disability language-access language-interpretation mental-capacity police-interrogation right-to-interpretation sixth-amendment Is the Constitution violated where a defendant who speaks only Bosnian and has an IQ of 57 receives no interpretation during the suppression hearing t…
20-8149 Quinn Palacios Cruz, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-05-26 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure cuyler-test habeas-corpus individual-representation ineffective-assistance methodology-of-review multiple-representation supreme-court-review trial-counsel I. Whether the Cuyler test for ineffective assistance of counsel due to conflict of interest applies to individual cases of representation and not onl…
20-8151 Marcus D. Williams v. California California 2021-05-26 Denied IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility forensic-evidence forensic-testing hearsay hearsay-evidence testimonial-statement testimonial-statements 1. What degree of formality is necessary before hearsay statements contained within a forensic testing report which connect an accused to the testing …
20-1644 Devon Archer v. United States Second Circuit 2021-05-26 Denied Amici (1) appellate-review criminal-procedure evidence-weighing federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure jury-discretion jury-verdict miscarriage-of-justice new-trial new-trial-motion second-circuit Does Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 33(a) afford district courts discretion to reweigh the evidence when evaluating a new trial motion, as eleven …
20-1645 Don Wilburn Collins v. Texas Texas 2021-05-26 Denied Response Waived capital-murder constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto juvenile-jurisdiction juvenile-justice retroactive-application retroactive-jurisdiction Did the Texas appel late courts fail to realize that the retroactive expansion of juris diction over a previous ly exempt juvenile for capital murder …
20-1646 Steven K. Stanley v. Angel Quiros, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction Connecticut 2021-05-26 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment criminal-procedure evidence fourth-amendment habeas-corpus phone-number-obfuscation privacy privacy-expectation res-judicata search-and-seizure 1. Does the intentional use of the *67 feature to obfuscate one's phone number create a justifiable, reasonable, or a legitimate expectation of privac…
20-1650 Carlos Concepcion v. United States First Circuit 2021-05-26 Judgment Issued Amici (10) circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-resentencing factual-developments first-step-act legal-developments resentencing sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether, when deciding if it should "impose a reduced sentence" on an individual under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, 21 U.S.C. § 841 n…
20-8116 Carlos Bayon v. United States Second Circuit 2021-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility federal-rule-of-evidence-404(b) federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-discretion legal-interpretation rule-of-exclusion rule-of-inclusion Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b) permits the admission of evidence of any other crime, wrong or act to prove a criminal defendant's motive, opportunity…
20-8119 Peter Anthony Ciraulo v. Oregon Oregon 2021-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure harmless-error jury-trial nonunanimous-verdict sixth-amendment structural-error unanimous-verdict Whether a trial court commits structural error for purposes of the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, when the trial court instructs a…
20-8121 Andy Kejadi Onwuka v. California California 2021-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process probation self-incrimination sentencing I. Whether the Trial Court Violated petitioner's 5th & Fourteenth Amendment Maximum Sentence Exposure while presenting and basing he him lenient Guilt…
20-8122 Andi Mustafa v. Michigan Michigan 2021-05-25 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process factual-basis ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel no-contest-plea plea-bargaining plea-colloquy plea-withdrawal search-and-seizure search-warrant Is Plaintiff entitled to withdraw his no contest plea when he was not interrogated by the judge to determine the factual basis for his plea and the Ju…
20-8124 Lance Mitchell Owens v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Arkansas 2021-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment plea-agreement plea-agreements sentencing sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation 1. Are courts violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution by excluding defendants who enter pl…
20-8126 Charles Wesley Kincheloe v. Oregon Oregon 2021-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial nonunanimous-verdict sixth-amendment structural-error unanimous-verdict Does a trial court commit structural error for purposes of the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, when the trial court instructs a jur…
20-8128 Teddy Ogle v. Mike Parris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP arrest-warrant civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus plea-bargaining statute-of-limitations 1. Whether fraud, false and misleading statements in arrest & extradition warrant affidavit - irrespective of the subsequent indictment in this case -…
20-8132 George Verkler v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining presumption-of-innocence right-to-appeal right-to-counsel Does the presumption of innocence and due process mean that if a judge will not read everything Mr. Verkler, the Defendant in a criminal case submits …
20-8134 Erik Jimenez v. Texas Texas 2021-05-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 404(b)-exception abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility evidentiary-ruling later-date texas-rule-of-evidence-404(b) texas-rules-of-evidence trial-court trial-procedure 1) Whether the trial court admissability of evidence of a later date and not for what defendant was on trial was an abuse of discretion under Texas ru…
20-8135 Gregg McNamara v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California Ninth Circuit 2021-05-25 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP coerced-confession constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus mental-competency mental-impairment sixth-amendment 1) Under the Sixth Amendment right to know the nature and the cause of the action against a person, can a person convicted while suffering from sever…
20-8109 Walter Crayton v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2021-05-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment assigned-counsel child-pornography civil-rights criminal-appeals criminal-procedure due-process free-speech legal-representation post-conviction search-and-seizure trial-court Question not identified.
20-8110 Lawrence Edward Jackson, Jr. v. Maryland Maryland 2021-05-24 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection excessive-fines fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure takings wrongful-conviction Prosecution at the time of trial of a criminal defendant has a constitutional trial under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment by overseeing mandatory f…
20-8097 Brandon Marquis Jennings, aka Mustafa Beezy Bey v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-fairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction professional-misconduct Question not identified.
20-8102 Adam Rosen v. Bernadette Mason, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy, et al. Third Circuit 2021-05-21 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief precedent self-incrimination state-court-review Question not identified.
20-8106 Roy Taylor v. Cynthia Brann, Commissioner, New York Department of Corrections New York 2021-05-21 Denied IFP bail-modification bail-reform constitutional-procedure court-discretion criminal-procedure discretion due-process excessive-bail misdemeanor misdemeanor-charges WHETHER NEW YORK STATE COURTS "ERRORED" NOT ADDRESSING THE MERITS OF: 1. WHETHER THE NEW YORK COUNTY SUPREME COURT ERRED EXONERATING BAIL ($125,000) …
20-8108 Roy Lee Dykes v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure bail bond bond-motion criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard motion-denial I. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by failing to find that the District Court erred in denying Mr. Dykes' Motion for Release on Bond pending appeal?
20-8080 Jason C. Johnson v. Illinois Illinois 2021-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standing Should Jason C. Johnson be held as Culpably negligent in the untimely Filing of his Petition For Dae to Appeal in the Illinois Supreme Court, given th…
20-8081 Melvin Roshard Alfred v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence intrinsic-evidence misconduct-evidence rule-404(b) rule-404b social-media uncharged-misconduct Whether uncharged misconduct evidence that does not directly prove the charged crime may be deemed "intrinsic evidence" and admitted without the admis…
20-8087 William Edward Erickson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review coercion conditional-plea constitutional-claims criminal-procedure evidence extraneous-statements ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel involuntary-plea pretrial-motions sixth-amendment A) Is petitioner entitled to a constitutional review and his court on his presented claims at the appeal level regarding his Effective Assistance of C…
20-8091 Steven Zapata v. Kentucky Kentucky 2021-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency constructive-denial-of-counsel criminal-procedure cronic-standard cronic-v-united-states guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-colloquy strickland-standard strickland-v-washington I. Does the constructive denial of counsel standard under Cronic v. United States or the ineffective assistance of counsel standard under Strickland v…
20-8060 Julia Ann Poff v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-05-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2254 appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus standing trial-errors A. Did the inattention and errors on the court violate Art. 1, Section 9, also known as the "Suspension Clause," of the United States Constitution? B…
20-8071 Delson Marc v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-19 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearms mens-rea rehaif-standard statutory-interpretation In Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191, 2194 (2019), this Court held that 18 U.S.C. Sections 922(g) and 924(a)(2) require that the government prov…
20-8075 Damantae Graham v. Ohio Ohio 2021-05-19 Denied IFP appellate-review capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-error constitutional-law criminal-procedure harmless-error trial-procedure victim-impact victim-impact-testimony This Court ruled that, before a federal constitutional error can be deemed harmless, the prosecution must establish by proof beyond a reasonable doubt…
20-8076 Tyrone Price v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights community-impact criminal-procedure due-process public-safety sentencing Ded Ha dati wach ond appeals Court abuse (ts diseredven | iM velyrity on Vefertant's Stule puventlhe wruretidas when sf | boncluded! that Beterwlint…
20-1614 John D. Leontaritis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-05-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fact-determination jury-finding jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-discretion standard-of-proof This criminal case's questions concern the impact of jury findings on sentencing. Both recur frequently, especially in cases about drugs. Both are the…
20-1608 North Carolina v. Norfolk Junior Best North Carolina 2021-05-18 Denied alternate-suspects appellate-review bloody-fingerprint brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process materiality materiality-analysis post-conviction post-conviction-review Does an appellate court violate the core princ ipals of Brady in post -conviction review where in its materiality analysis it disregards both evidence…
20-8051 Lucas Kenneth Sabatino v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-05-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-capacity prejudicial-error sixth-amendment trial-strategy Whether defense counsel committed prejudicial ineffective assistance of counsel by failing to raise issues relating to defendant's mental capacity at …
20-8062 Erold Martin Panopio v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-justice criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing sentencing sentencing-reform supervised-release youthful-offender youthful-offenders I. WHETHER A NEAR TWENTY YEAR PRISON SENTENCE FOLLOWED BY A FIFTEEN YEAR TERM OF SUPERVISED RELEASE FOR A YOUTHFUL OFFENDER SUCH AS PANOPIO VIOLATES T…
20-8065 Arthur Greaves v. United States Third Circuit 2021-05-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment miranda-doctrine miranda-warning new-york-v-quarles private-property public-safety-exception search-and-seizure Does the public safety exception to the Miranda doctrine as set forth in New York v. Quarles, apply to private property, simply based on allegations t…
20-8036 Antonio Kevin McKoy v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP continuing-criminal-enterprise criminal-procedure drug-penalties fourth-circuit-review jury-instructions plain-error sentencing-enhancements special-verdict WHETHER THE JURY SHOULD BE REQUIRED TO RETURN A SPECIAL VERDICT FORM ADDRESSING ALL ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF CONTINUING CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE (CCE), IN THA…
20-8046 Shawn Bishop v. Chad Wakefield, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Smithfield, et al. Third Circuit 2021-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP codefendant-confession confrontation-clause criminal-procedure curative-instruction due-process ineffective-assistance scant-evidence witness-testimony 1. Does a curative instruction remedy a Confrontation Clause violation where the evidence used to convict is scant and the codefendant's alleged confe…
20-1595 Naum Morgovsky and Irina Morgovsky v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-05-17 Denied appellate-waiver arms-export-control-act class-v-united-states constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-statute executive-authority intelligible-principle rule-12(b)(3) separation-of-powers 1. Whether the Executive had the authority to issue the regulations under which the Morgovskys were convicted; if so, whether those regulations and th…
20-1581 Malia Arciero v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-05-14 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper plea-bargaining sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether this Court holding in Lafler v. Cooper, 566 U.S. 156 (2012), is still good law, and if so, whether Arciero is entitled to relief due to defens…
20-1586 Artavis Desmond McGowan v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-14 Denied Response Waived conspiracy constructive-amendment criminal-procedure drug-conviction evidence first-step-act mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-relief wiretap wiretap-evidence I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERR IN DENYING McGOWAN'S MOTION FOR NEW TRIAL BASED ON CONSTRUCTIVE AMENDMENT OF THE INDICTMENT WHEN IT ALLOWED THE GOVE…
20-8027 Anthony G. Bryant v. Executive Office for United States Attorneys Fourth Circuit 2021-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure fourth-amendment search-and-seizure standing Did the Executive Office for United States Attorneys violate petitioners' constitutional rights involved under First, Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth A…
20-8030 Reginald Tremaine Wilson v. North Carolina North Carolina 2021-05-14 Denied IFP civil-asset-forfeiture civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-amendment property-rights seizure sentencing standing CCuf\ 4fW- (jO li'StiVnr'ScoW\^ \*> Qo^-eJbz uocAa -fa cmJ cUV^TOV/U CoC-^ •C \J&% i v<eyvess <3^y\ Cx/\ ofifar 4o 4^ -&l<zJ■Ad°V'vc1 U<^3■0 i-s \-\- …
20-8031 Major Hudson, III v. Rick Whitten, Warden Tenth Circuit 2021-05-14 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lesser-included-offense procedural-default rule-60 1. WHETHER REASONABLE JURIST COULD FIND IT DEBATABLE THAT THERES AN EXTAORDINARY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A MISDEMEANOR VS. A FELONY, AND WHETHER A PERSON W…
20-8033 Ivan Ignacio Minjarez-Molina v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-8013 Jesus Manuel Anchondo-Quezada v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei…
20-8016 Rico Blackwell v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-13 Denied IFP actual-innocence collateral-attack-waiver criminal-procedure davis-challenge federal-sentencing habeas-corpus plea-bargaining procedural-default residual-clause section-924c statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum Mr. Blackwell is serving a long federal prison sentence for the paired crimes of conspiracy to commit bank robbery and use of a firearm during and rel…
20-8021 Jason Scott Pedro v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-sentencing guidelines harmless-error procedural-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review statutory-maximum Can a significant procedural error be deemed harmless when the sentencing judge uses the statutory maximum as the baseline for imposition of sentence?
20-7980 Takiese Naceer Bethea v. West Virginia West Virginia 2021-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP co-defendants criminal-procedure equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-fairness prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination sentencing Does it violate the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when the African-American co-defendants in a case receive vastly less favorabl…
20-7994 In Re Lee Robert Scott 2021-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP agency-authorization civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction government-misconduct judicial-misconduct legal-immunity procedural-protection standing state-prosecution Question not identified.
20-8000 Natalie Marie Keepers v. Virginia Virginia 2021-05-12 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial impartial-jury interrogation-tactics jury-selection miranda-warnings peremptory-challenges sixth-amendment 1. Whether a trial court's refusal to remove a potential juror who admits she cannot be certain she can be fair violates the Sixth Amendment guarantee…
20-8007 Alfred E. Caraffa v. Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process government-overreach habeas-corpus standing the privilege of AN writof Habeas Corpus Shall Not bE Suspended. the right to the gOVerNMENN NO4120 f0ssu3 y GRIEVENCES the united states No CitizeN …
20-1568 Teresa Miller v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-05-12 Denied Response Waived appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty death-sentence due-process judicial-procedure judicial-review Why did the court feel it necessary to order the defendant with a death sentence, so that they would not have their conduct or actions reviewed; why n…
20-1571 Andrew Raymond and Brian Requena v. United States Second Circuit 2021-05-12 Denied Response Waived analogue-act analogue-enforcement-act controlled-substances criminal-procedure due-process jury-unanimity sixth-amendment vagueness-doctrine 1. Whether the Controlled Substances Analogue Enforcement Act of 1986 is void for vagueness. 2. Whether the Controlled Substances Analogue Enforcemen…
20-1565 Michael Ryan Mitchan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-05-11 Denied Response Waived confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines 1. Should defendants in criminal cases be permitted to confront witnesses against them at sentencing when their uncorroborated hearsay statements are …
20-7986 Kevin Dunbar v. Arizona Arizona 2021-05-11 Denied IFP attempted-first-degree-murder consecutive-sentences constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence-weighing kidnapping self-representation supreme-court-precedent Was the petitioner's aggravated sentences was in violation of due process and conflicts with the United states Supreme Court holdings in Apprendi V. N…
20-7991 Bulmaro Contreras-Figueroa, aka Israel Contreras v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment conspiracy controlled-substances criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury sentencing statutory-interpretation Is the Fifth Amendment right to a grand jury violated when a defendant enters a guilty plea to an indictment that alleges a conspiracy to commit an of…
20-7992 Noah Drake Primeaux v. Louisiana Louisiana 2021-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions non-unanimous-jury prosecutorial-misconduct ramos-v-louisiana sixth-amendment 1. Reasonable jurists would determine that the holding in Ramos v. Louisiana would apply to persons on Direct Appeal concerning the non-unanlmous jury…
20-7967 Nikolay Vladimirov Sloboda v. Mike Obenland, Superintendent, Monroe Correctional Complex Ninth Circuit 2021-05-11 Denied IFP appeals constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process evidence jurisdiction racial-bias sentencing statutory-provisions writ Question not identified.
20-7971 Derek A. Rivera v. Connie Horton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure directed-verdict due-process expert-testimony fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions murder-conviction sufficiency-of-evidence RIVERA WAS DENIED A FAIR TRIAL BY OTHER-ACTS EVIDENCE THAT HAD NO PROPER PURPOSE AND THUS ENCOURAGED THE JURY TO CONVICT HIM ON AN IMPROPER CHARACTER-…
20-7983 Thomas Lam v. Robert C. Tanner, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-05-11 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-plea criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus henderson-v-morgan judicial-error jury-instructions plea-bargaining standard-of-review voir-dire The trial judge relied on a discussion with the jury, during voir dire as satisfaction to a constitutional guilty plea that he informed Petitioner of …
20-7963 Lugene L. Scott v. Neil Turner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-05-10 Denied IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process felonious-assault fifth-amendment manslaughter sentencing time-served Is the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution violated when a defendant is denied credit for time served when…
20-7965 Jeffrey Ray Sundwall v. Florida Florida 2021-05-10 Denied IFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining plea-negotiations post-conviction-relief Question not identified.
20-7977 Bobby Carl Terrick v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto sentence-enhancement sentencing CAN PLEADINGS FROM UNDISTURBED CONVICTION BE CHALLENGED POST ID TIME WITH "NEW JUDGMENT"? CAN A TRIBUNAL DECISION MAKING TO RETROACTIVELY APPLY A STA…
20-1556 Dawn Herndon v. Judy R. Upton, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-05-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) criminal-procedure equitable-considerations habeas-corpus mootness prison-release sentencing supervised-release A defendant in a federal criminal case receives a paradigmatic sentence -- a term of imprisonment, to be followed by a term of supervised release. Whi…
20-7956 Bryan Montalvo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines appellate-jurisdiction criminal-procedure downward-departure federal-courts judicial-discretion motion-for-departure sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation I. Whether a circuit court of appeals has jurisdiction to review the denial of a motion for downward departure?
20-7959 Thomas J. Connerton v. United States Second Circuit 2021-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process judicial-inquiry juror-discharge jury jury-selection reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment 1. Should certiorari be granted where the District Court discharged a juror, without "good cause" under rule 23(b)(3) of the Federal Rules of Criminal…
20-7961 Antonio Olmeda v. United States Second Circuit 2021-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP consecutive-sentences consecutive-sentencing criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process firearm-possession jury-determination jury-trial multiplicitous-conviction sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether a Judgment and Conviction oh two counts, § 2K2.1.(a)., for unlawful "receipt", of a firearm and "Possession" of that firearm is multiplicitou…
20-7945 Troy Arnaud v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Louisiana 2021-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment non-unanimous-jury ramos-retroactivity ramos-v-louisiana retroactivity sixth-amendment teague-framework teague-v-lane watershed-rule 1. Whether this Court's decision in Ramos v. Louisiana, 140 S.Ct. 1390 (2020), applies to cases on State collateral review, where the State follows th…
20-7946 Lisa Biron v. United States First Circuit 2021-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure equitable-exceptions federal-appellate-jurisdiction habeas-corpus post-conviction-proceeding statutory-interpretation time-bar time-limits The First Circuit held that Fed. R. App P. 4la) is jurisdictronal under Bowles v.Russell, 551 4.s. 205, 214(2007), and dismissed Ms. Birons 2255-proce…
20-7934 John Patrick Couch v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-05 GVR Relisted (6)IFP affirmative-defense controlled-substances criminal-procedure jury-instructions medical-practice standard-of-care Did the trial court error by conflating the Valid defense of a crime as an element of that crime in its instruction to the jury regarding a physician …
20-7936 Jose Oribel Ponce-Ulloa v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-courts federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines temporal-connection ussg-2d1.1 weapon-possession The question presented which has divided federal courts of appeal is whether a sentencing court can add two offense levels for possession of a weapon …
20-7941 Kiandrick Onick v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process parole sentencing sixth-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
20-1543 Adam P. McNiece v. Town of Yankeetown, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-05 Denied Response Waived bill-of-attainder constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial first-amendment municipal-law notice redress-of-grievances self-representation statutory-reference 1. Can a violation of law or code be charged and tried without any statutory reference of code chapter and section indicated? 2. Will a trial be fa…
20-7912 Jorge Gomez-Gomez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-05-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness Whether the court of appeals erred by concluding that Petitioner's 99-month sentence was substantively reasonable.
20-7926 Sadat El-Amin v. Louisiana Louisiana 2021-05-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review criminal-procedure Fourteenth-Amendment non-unanimous-jury ramos-retroactivity Ramos-v-Louisiana retroactivity Sixth-Amendment teague-framework Teague-v-Lane 1. Whether this Court's decision in Ramos v. Louisiana, 140 S.Ct. 1390 (2020), applies to cases on State collateral review, where the State follows th…
20-7915 Larry Marcel Vaughn v. Texas Texas 2021-05-03 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel right-to-appeal sixth-amendment WHETHER THE FAILURE OF APPOINTED COUNSEL TO ADVISE PETITIONER OF HIS RIGHT TO APPEAL AND/OR THE ASSESSED PUNISHMENT IN THIS CASE DENIED PETITIONER HIS…
20-1528 Lawrence Doby Wilson, aka Amin A. Rashid v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-05-03 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence appeals coram-nobis criminal-procedure due-process equitable-tolling fifth-amendment 1. Whether The Court Of Appeals In A Coram Nobis Proceeding Denies A Criminal Defendant Due Process Under The Fifth Amendment To The United States Con…
20-1522 United States v. Malik Nasir Third Circuit 2021-04-30 GVR Response RequestedRelisted (2) appellate-review circuit-precedent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearm-possession plain-error-review statutory-interpretation Whether a court of appeals may, on plain-error review, affirm a conviction following a trial for possessing a firearm as a felon, in violation of 18 U…
20-7899 Christopher Middleton v. Georgia Georgia 2021-04-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process essential-elements harmless-error indictment-sufficiency jury-disbelief self-defense standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether a finding of guilt can be predicated on the jury's disbelief of a defendant's statements where the defendant does not testify and the State fa…
20-7900 Monique A. Lozoya v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-04-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aircraft-crime airspace aviation constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution trial-procedure venue venue-statute 1. Is the airspace above a State part of that State, and thus the federal district or districts including that State, for purposes of the Constitution…
20-7901 Chalin Merrihew v. Florida Florida 2021-04-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief sentencing statutory-interpretation "fiuip cOV'£- vv \a&* €^eryBvv^ Ivovaj kfS wC+Mr^w- 1 akes 4WW Av ,-eUW A® '^ v3 cWr^-fW kfs \(A4k ' " v— X ^7' y~cuc w\ S^zUACe^ 4® t>£> XuC)Aern'eA …
20-7902 John Laponte v. California California 2021-04-30 Denied IFP constitutional-rights contract-law criminal-procedure due-process excessive-punishment incarceration plea-agreement plea-bargaining punishment sentencing Is petitioner entitled to enforce the terms of his plea agreement; 1 . Is indefinite incarceration constitutional; 2 . What constitutes excessive pu…
20-7903 Jerry W. Green, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy-objective criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency jury-finding jury-findings predicate-acts RICO-conspiracy Whether sufficient evidence exists to sustain a RICO conspiracy conviction when the Government charges specific predicate acts in the indictment, the …
20-7882 Taurean Potter v. United States Third Circuit 2021-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-tampering fair-trial false-testimony fourteenth-amendment government-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the Government's use of and failure to correct the false and misleading testimony of one of their witnesses violated Petitioner's Constitution…
20-7884 Roel Gilberto Melendez-Davila v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-7886 Shirl A. Stephen v. United States District of Columbia 2021-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment sentencing witness-impeachment D.C. Code § 14-305 establishes the method upon which a witness may be impeached by a criminal "conviction," which the District's case law defines as a…
20-7893 Anthony Edward Bridget v. California California 2021-04-29 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-a-fair-trial right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-strategy D.N.A EVidENCE; is it fAiR ANEWly DISCOVEREd fOR thE diStRit AtHORNEY's D-N.A ExpERT (WhO hAPPEN tO WORK fOR thE ORANgE CONTy CRIME LAb) to conduct A …
20-7894 Winston A. McKenzie v. Texas Texas 2021-04-29 Denied IFP brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process evidence-tampering material-exculpatory-evidence post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing-proceeding standing Whether Petitioners Conviction is infirmed when evidence not legally sufficient to sustain a conviction violated his Fourteenth Amendment right to Due…
20-7864 James E. Mason, Jr. v. Louisiana Louisiana 2021-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment non-unanimous-jury ramos-retroactivity retroactivity sixth-amendment teague-framework teague-v-lane watershed-rule 1. Whether this Court's decision in Ramos v. Louisiana, 140 S.Ct. 1390 (2020), applies to cases on state collateral review, where the state follows th…
20-7870 Scott Raymond Tignor v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-04-28 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process elements-of-offense guilty-plea plea-voluntariness rehaif-v-united-states standard-of-review united-states-v-gary When a defendant argues for the first time on appeal that his guilty plea was not knowing and voluntary because he was not informed of the elements of…
20-7872 Jeremy Darnell Morton v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appeal attempt-offense career-offender controlled-substance criminal-procedure guideline-range harmless-error search-and-seizure sentencing I. Did the court of appeals err in using the harmless error rule to resolve the illegal search and seizure of $8,300? II. Was the career offender gui…
20-7873 Kenneth McBride v. Dushan Zatecky, Superintendent, Pendleton Correctional Facility Seventh Circuit 2021-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights contract-duress criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process pro-se-representation right-to-counsel WHETHER A STATE CAN FORCE A U.S. CITIZEN TO FACE CRIMNINAL CHARGES, WITHOUT THE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL AFTER THE U.S. CITIZEN KEPT TELLING STATE COURTS…
20-7876 Darrell Tillery v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Louisiana 2021-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment non-unanimous-jury Ramos-v-Louisiana retroactivity Sixth-Amendment Teague-v-Lane 1. Whether this Court's decision in Ramos v. Louisiana, 140 S.Ct. 1390 (2020), applies to cases on State collateral review, where the State follows th…
20-7879 Vincent Gino Chavez v. Brian Cates, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-case capital-cases circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions lesser-included-offense lesser-included-offenses noncapital-cases In Beck v. Alabama, 477 U.S. 625, 638 (1980), this Court held that a criminal defendant is entitled to jury instructions on lesser included offenses i…
20-7881 Steven Lynn Oppel v. Minnesota Minnesota 2021-04-28 Denied IFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-misconduct judicial-reputation wrongful-conviction Are Minnesota courts more interested in protecting a judge's reputation then the constitutional rights of the people? Did the trial judge have the ri…
20-1512 Gregory C. Dacanay v. Illinois Illinois 2021-04-28 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury impartiality jury-selection law-enforcement sixth-amendment structural-error Whether law enforcement officers, despite their answers to voir dire questions, can be fair and impartial jury members in a criminal trial in order to…
20-1514 Robert John Dodd v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2021-04-28 Denied child-sexual-abuse criminal-indictment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process indictment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-proceeding statute-of-limitations trial-counsel Dodd was indicted on nine counts for the sexual abuse of a child more than fifteen years ago. Each count of the indictment was an identical carbon cop…
20-1498 Kory Alexander v. Alex Jones, Acting Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-04-27 Denied Response Waived alleyne-precedent appellate-review criminal-elements criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process firearm-discharge first-degree-murder jury-instructions lesser-included-offense sentencing sentencing-factor Kory Alexander was charged by indictment with first degree murder with the specific allegation that he personally discharged a firearm during the comm…
20-7853 Craig Allen Morgenstern v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-instructions sixth-amendment statutory-elements statutory-interpretation supervised-release But for the errors of the trial court which allowed modified jury instructions that impermissibly deleted statutory elements, defendant would not have…
20-7858 Michael Armendariz v. Leon Martinez, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief right-to-a-fair-trial Does your State have AT Ze ypre Serve Trial Avidenca WA teh The alter Ze ly hows Sy tir work in asf ConrvieTian Afoeee ten s Sy witevce Lolly wh feet,…
20-7861 Razhden Shulaya v. United States Second Circuit 2021-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP allen-charge civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jury-coercion jury-deliberation jury-deliberations jury-instructions right-to-counsel sixth-amendment 1. Should certiorari be granted to find that, when a jury bullies a holdout juror, the District Court should issue an Allen charge, in which it instru…
20-7840 Thomas Robert Lane v. Alabama Alabama 2021-04-26 Denied IFP capital-case constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment expert-testimony fair-trial reliable-conviction reliable-sentence In a capital case, does the admission of expert testimony from a witness regarding a subject outside his area of expertise violate a defendant's Fifth…
20-7843 Timothy Howard Johnson v. Renee Baker, Warden Nevada 2021-04-26 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence-exclusion retroactivity right-to-counsel right-to-defense right-to-jury-trial trial-court-discretion waiver witness-testimony Question not identified.
20-7845 Oscar Minaya v. United States Second Circuit 2021-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 924(c) actual-innocence court-of-appeals criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence section-924c statutory-interpretation yates-precedent yates-v-united-states 1. In considering error under Yates v. United States , 354 U.S. 298 (1957) should a court consider evidence of the defendant's actual innocence of the…
20-7849 Ismael Lopez v. United States, et al. Second Circuit 2021-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment accomplice-liability constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process factor-based-analysis mandatory-sentencing mens-rea nexus proportionality-test sentencing Whether mandatory sentences, as a whole or in part, are constitutional and should be replaced with factor-based analysis under §3553, in conjunction w…
20-7851 Luis Noel Cruz, aka Noel v. United States Second Circuit 2021-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment contemporary-standards-of-decency criminal-procedure due-process individualized-sentencing juvenile-sentencing legislative-trends life-sentence mandatory-minimum miller-rule sentencing-discretion Should the protections of Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460, 132 S. Ct. 2455, 183 L. Ed. 2d 407 (2012), which prohibits mandatory life sentences and req…
20-7852 John Elmer v. Louisiana Louisiana 2021-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process in-re-winship jackson-v-virginia sufficiency-of-evidence 1. Reasonable jurists would determine that the State failed to meet the stringent burden of proof as established by Jackson v. Virginia and In re: Win…
20-7829 Edmundo Bustamante-Muniz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment fifth-circuit precedent-overturning sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-7837 Sam Bradford v. Mississippi Mississippi 2021-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process life-sentence miss-code-ann-47-314 murder plain-error sentencing trial-court WheTher PeTiTionER's (Sam Bradford), Due Process of Law when plain error CommiTTed by The Trial CourT in was imposing SenTence for The naToral life a …
20-7838 Edward M. Vargas, Sr. v. Craig Koenig, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy conspiracy-charge criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process fair-notice indictment jury-conviction jury-instructions ninth-circuit Whether the Ninth Circuit misapplied this Court's precedents in ruling that Petitioner was not denied fair notice of the charges against him despite t…
20-7839 Taquarius Kaream Ford v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process hearsay presentence-report rule-32 sentencing When the defendant personally objects at sentencing to a hearsay accusation in a presentence report that he raped a woman, even though his attorney ne…
20-7818 Stephon Lindsay v. Alabama Alabama 2021-04-22 Denied IFP and its progeny capital-trial consistent with Miranda v. Arizona expand the narrow public-safety-exception to Mira fifth-amendment involuntary-confession miranda-rights public-safety-exception criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation fifth-amendment miranda-warnings public-safety-exception self-incrimination Can a court, consistent with Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966), and its progeny, expand the narrow public safety exception to Miranda set forth …
20-7820 Michael J. Little v. United States Second Circuit 2021-04-22 Denied IFP constructive-amendment criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process foreign-accounts green-card-holder indictment second-circuit stirone-v-united-states tax-reporting willful-violation Whether the indictment was constructively amended to add additional undeclared "overseas" accounts not among those specifically identified on the grou…
20-7822 Trevon Wiley v. Louisiana Louisiana 2021-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection non-unanimous-verdict ramos-precedent retroactivity sixth-amendment state-criminal-procedure teague-standard unanimous-verdict Does the Court's decision in Ramos v. Louisiana, 140 S.Ct. 1390 (2020) applies to cases on state collateral review, where the State follows the retroa…
20-7823 Alan Trowbridge v. Jeffrey Woods, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review counsel-deficiency criminal-procedure federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-precedent prejudice sixth-amendment sixth-circuit strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals decide an important question of federal law in a way that conflicts with this Court's holding in Strickland v. …
20-7824 Amin Ricker v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony notice rebuttal trial 1) Does Due Process require an expert's findings and conclusions be provided to Defendant with sufficient notice before trial to effectively rebut the…
20-7832 Chadwick Marvin Thompson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 compassionate-release criminal-procedure extraordinary-circumstances federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation What qualifies as 'extraordinary and compelling circumstances under a Motion for Compassionate release, 18 U.S.C. 3582(c)(1)(A)? (2) Does the lower c…
20-7834 Steven Cooper v. Florida Florida 2021-04-22 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP adverse-possession constitutional-rights criminal-mischief criminal-procedure due-process grand-theft mandamus pro-se-representation self-representation trespass • Whether it is unconstitutional for a defendants ' pro per Motion to Discharge Counsel and Waiver of Right to Counsel to be dismissed for the only r…
20-7835 Steven Cooper v. Florida Florida 2021-04-22 Denied IFP adverse-possession circuit-court constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process mandamus right-to-counsel trespass 1. Whether it is appropriate for a capias to be issued after a defendant makes the required written waiver of presence as allowed for by the Florida …
20-7812 Clive Patrick Bowen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP continuance criminal-procedure due-process right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment 1. Does a district court violate the Sixth Amendment or otherwise err when it grants a defendant's motion to represent himself shortly before trial bu…
20-7811 Danny R. Pennebaker v. Randee Rewerts, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-04-20 Denied IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process public-trial standing I. SHOULD PETITIONER BE ALLOWED RETROACTIVELY TO REJECT A PLEA OFFER WHEN HE REFUSED TO ADMIT GUILT TO ONE SINGLE COUNT OF FELONIOUS ASSAULT BY EJECTI…
20-1464 Rahul Ramesh Joshi v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-04-20 Denied Response Waived constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process government-breach government-misconduct judicial-review plea-agreement resentencing sentencing WHETHER THE GOVERNMENT'S BREACH OF THE PLEA AGREEMENT CONSTITUTED A DUE PROCESS VIOLATION, WHICH REQUIRED REMAND FOR A DE NOVO RESENTENCING?
20-1470 Thomas A. Jeffrey v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2021-04-20 Denied Response Waived confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process emergency-medical-treatment evidence-collection sexual-assault testimonial-evidence Whether statements made by a suspected sexual assault victim at the emergency room to hospital personnel during the sexual assault evidence collection…
20-1474 Joseph Colone v. Superior Court of California, San Francisco County, et al. California 2021-04-20 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split criminal-procedure discovery-rules evidentiary-privilege judicial-subpoena judicial-truth-seeking non-governmental-litigant stored-communications-act subpoena truth-seeking 1. Whether federal statutes must contain express privilege language before courts may decide that Congress intended the statute to create an evidentia…
20-7792 Ralph Stephen Gambina v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-04-19 Denied IFP career-offender criminal-procedure habeas-corpus johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause section-2255 statutory-interpretation timeliness timeliness-provision 1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker …
20-7795 Antwan Lamar Hutchinson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-04-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure competency competency-hearing criminal-procedure drope-standard due-process mental-health procedural-review sixth-circuit standard-of-review 1) Should the Court reverse the Sixth Circuit's modified version of the three-factor legal test in Drope v. Missouri, because it adds a fourth factor,…
20-7796 Maurice Atkinson v. United States Third Circuit 2021-04-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP body-armor criminal-procedure due-process false-testimony obstruction-of-justice public-trial sixth-amendment I. Whether Maurice Atkinson was denied his Sixth Amendment right to a public trial when the courtroom was completely closed to the public pursuant to …
20-7797 Jorge Luis Rosa-Hernandez v. United States Third Circuit 2021-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-decision due-process equal-protection sentencing sentencing-guidelines third-circuit unrelated-misconduct Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's Decision in allowing the Government to use unrelated, uncharged mis…
20-7800 Jacqueline Moore v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-04-19 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure fairness-standard federal-criminal-law indictment mens-rea plain-error-review rehaif-v-united-states supreme-court-decision trial-record I. When applying plain error review based on an intervening United States Supreme Court decision, may an appellate court consider information outside …
20-7801 Cody Lee Herman v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP and sentencing stages plea constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining plea-stage plea-stages pro-se-objections right-to-counsel sentence sentencing sentencing-stage A. Whether Petitioner's Right to the Effective Assistance of Counsel Was Violated During the Pretrial and Plea Stages of this Case Requiring That Peti…
20-7802 Michael Green v. Illinois Illinois 2021-04-19 Denied IFP 6th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-doctrine precedent public-policy standing statutory-interpretation Whether there exist a Fivadde mee fe ( Misterstas 2 0 f Seshee bere the dst/onen's Conviction Rested On Pan Jig bye of the New Ss Cio biti ca his . St…
20-7803 Jonathan S. Hall v. Delaware Delaware 2021-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines standing supreme-court-review takings All Federal and State laws are predicated on the Constitution. If laws are unconstitutional or illegal they are void. If sentenced under said law is s…
20-7772 Tanelle M. Jefferson v. Ohio Sixth Circuit 2021-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process hearsay reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence Whether or not the State of Ohio proved the petitioner's guilt "Beyond a Reasonable Doubt"? (1) All elements the offenses must be proved to the jury w…
20-7774 Kevin Johnson v. Texas Texas 2021-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure double-standard due-process evidentiary-standard expert-testimony forensic-evidence ineffective-assistance post-conviction Did the trial an%or appeal court err by allowing the testisying "erperts" to use statements of unadijucated witnesses as bisis for their opinion and p…
20-7793 Edgar Ivan Lira Estrada v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe…
20-1460 Rolando Cruz, Jr. v. United States Third Circuit 2021-04-16 Dismissed Response Waived appellate-review conspiracy criminal-procedure evidence evidence-standard indictment indictment-variance rico-conspiracy third-circuit united-states-v-rowe I. WHETHER IT WAS ERROR FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT TO JUSTIFY AFFIRMANCE OF THE RICO CONSPIRACY CONVICTIONS ON THE BASIS OF EVIDENCE PROVING SOMETHING QUIT…
20-1445 Nathan Ray Foreman v. Texas Texas 2021-04-15 Denied Response Waived affidavit computer-evidence criminal-procedure evidence-seizure fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure surveillance-equipment warrant-application Whether the decision of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals constitutes an unreasonable application of this Court's clearly established precedent, by …
20-7768 Byron L. Hagans v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-04-15 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment Does it violate a defendant's Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment constitutional rights to be present at trial when he is not informed of the consti…
20-7784 Bryan Keith Goins v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process filing-deadline ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-interpretation legal-timeliness procedural-requirements sentencing writ-of-certiorari (1) Do my Prior Georgia Code ANN 3 16-3-30 lb Possessis with inent to Dis Tribute methamphetanine 4 or my TeNNeSSEe Code ANN. 339r 174 lsE PossEsSiON …
20-7785 Kevino Graham v. United States Third Circuit 2021-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel human-trafficking sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation vagueness (A.) "WHETHER PETITIONER GRAHAM WAS DENIED HIS SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL WHEN COUNSEL FAILED TO CHALLENGE; "WHETHER 18 …
20-7737 Marjuan Shondell Fleming v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-rights crack-cocaine criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure first-step-act post-conviction right-to-counsel sentence-enhancement sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether the term "Covered offense" in the First Step Act of 2018, includes violations of Title 18 USC 924(c), involving crack cocaine, to which ACCA t…
20-7738 Elmer W. Grant, Jr. v. United States District of Columbia 2021-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment-14th-amendment constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury grand-jury-selection judicial-precedent jurisdiction precedent subject-matter-jurisdiction I.') IS THE PRECEDENT SET IN GAITHER V. UNITED STATES, 413 F.2d 1061 (D.C Cir. 1969), WHEN IT WAS MADE CLEAR AFTER THAT ANY INDICTMENT WITH JUST THE…
20-7740 Jason Robert Vickers v. Kenneth Diggs, Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process evidence-fabrication exculpatory-evidence guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct wrongful-conviction Whether a Criminal defendant is indicted in order to charge and/or convict with a harsher Crime, if a Criminal defendant is indicted with a particular…
20-7744 Millard Price v. Delaware Delaware 2021-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure disciplinary-actions due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel parole sentencing state-court Question not identified.
20-7754 Robert Roland Yerton, Jr. v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-04-14 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction mandamus mandamus-relief post-conviction standing state-court state-courts Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals (OCCA) ruled correctly on the Petition for Writ of Mandamus, MA-2020-930, to the correct Petition in th…
20-7757 James L. Toliver v. Florida Florida 2021-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection harmless-error jury-instructions standard-of-review The question(s) presented in this case is whether similarly situated criminal defendants should be treated equally in pipeline cases where erroneous j…
20-7759 Roderick Williams v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit 2021-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-relief I. Does The Failure of The State To Turn Over Evidence Prior To Trial Automatically Result In A Brady Violation Warranting The Grant Of Habeas Relief?…
20-7761 Andrew Indelicato Peterson v. S. Butler, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-04-14 Denied IFP conviction-challenge criminal-procedure due-process essential-elements evidence-admissibility felon-in-possession knowledge-of-status plea-agreement prior-conviction prior-misconduct sentencing statutory-interpretation Can the distriet Court Use Post offenic conduct for crimes that a defendant never Served Overa Year in Prison to assume ai defendant knew his status P…
20-7764 Jamil Stefon Carter v. O'Bell T. Winn, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection motion-to-suppress plea-withdrawal right-to-appeal Ground Ona: DUE PROCESS REQUIRES PLEA WITHDRAWAL WHERE PETITIONER DID NOT KNOW HIS GUILTY PLEA WAIVED HIS RIGHT TO APPEAL THE DENIAL OF THE PRE-TRIAL…
20-7765 Jared Andrew Martin v. California California 2021-04-14 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure criminal-statute culpability due-process evidence jury mens-rea standing statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
20-7677 Juan Manuel Fuentes-Morales v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-04-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-speech constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-doubt victor-v-nebraska Whether the Fourth Circuit's reasonable doubt charge conflicts with Victor v. Nebraska; and whether circuits can prohibit counsel from discussing reas…
20-7713 Anthony Keenan Sharp v. Lawrence Long, Judge, Second Judicial Circuit Court of South Dakota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-04-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection exculpatory-evidence fair-trial freedom-of-speech prosecutorial-misconduct unlawful-search-and-seizure ntain within PlaInTiFE Request Fon Admission ano H qIntIFE FiNST REGUEST FOR PRodUCtIOn OF Documents LocedUReS aS FoUnd UndeR SDCLS3 19-19-4O/ET SEG.G…
20-7727 Hasan Shareef v. Brian Palko, et al. Third Circuit 2021-04-13 Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment case-statement civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jury-selection legal-reasoning public-trial statutory-provisions writ Question not identified.
20-7728 Keith Smeaton v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-04-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel learning-disability plea-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct standing 1 - Would a reasonable Jurist find the Appellant Constitutional Rights under e.g. The 1st, 5th, 6ths and 14th Amendments had been denied? 2 - Was the…
20-7707 Charles Michael Ledford v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY DISMISSING MR. LEDFORD'S MERITORIOUS ARGUMENTS DUE TO THE APPELLATE WAIVER LANGUAGE OF THE PLEA A…
20-7711 Scott Dwayne Chatman v. Iowa Iowa 2021-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process incompetency incompetent-defendant iowa-court-of-appeals iowa-courts judicial-review mental-competency I. DID THE IOWA COURT OF APPEALS DENY AN INCOMPETENT DEFENDANT DUE PROCESS? II. DID THE IOWA COURT OF APPEALS AND IOWA SUPREME COURT CONVICT AN I…
20-7716 Milton Mosley v. United States Third Circuit 2021-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio The finding of the lower courts, where suspicion of criminal activity was clearly not "specific, individualized, and reasonable," is contrary to the S…
20-7720 Corey Denard Thomas v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation procedural-rules sentencing standing state-court-procedure ARE FEDERAL COURTS ALLOWED TO INTERFERE WITH PENDING STATE COURT PROCEEDINGS? DOES CONVICTION AND SENTENCES ON ALL COUNTS BECOME THE FINAL JUDGMENT O…
20-7723 Dangelo Davis v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-endeavor criminal-procedure double-jeopardy drug-amount drug-charges due-process RICO sentencing sixth-circuit I. DID THE DECISION OF THE COURTS APPEALS THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERR WHEN CONCLUDING THAT DAVIS NOWAK'S GOAL OF FURTHERING OR FACILITATING THE CRIMINAL ENT…
20-7726 James Ray Davis v. Gary Musselwhite, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure discovery due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-procedure motion-to-dismiss sentencing statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
20-7697 Matthew Berckmann v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence-rule evidence-rule-404(b) evidentiary-standard federal-rules-of-evidence motive-opportunity-intent propensity-evidence rule-404b same-victim victim-testimony Whether other act evidence under Rule 404(b) that involves the same "victim" (alcoholic husband and wife who fight after drinking too much) is automat…
20-7699 DeAngelo Horn v. Florida Florida 2021-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP admissibility banks-v-dretke brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence federal-habeas pretrial-discovery prosecutorial-misconduct This Court first announced the due process requirement that the State disclose favorable exculpatory or impeachment evidence in Brady v. Maryland, 373…
20-7700 Robert Ibarra v. W. L. Montgomery, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP co-defendant-statements co-perpetrator-statements confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence-exclusion first-degree-murder hearsay right-to-defense right-to-present-defense Does the exclusion of statements by a co-perpetrator that he was solely responsible for the charged murder and the defendant was innocent, including t…
20-7702 Covia Dzell Smith v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-errors fair-trial fourth-circuit-review ineffective-assistance right-to-present-defense sentencing sentencing-guidelines I. Whether trial counsel's ineffective assistance deprived Mr. Smith of the right to offer evidence in his defense. II. Whether the district court's …
20-7689 Herve Wilmore, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-claim constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel misconstruction 1). Does the court's misconstruction of the habeas corpus claim violate due process of law? 2). Does the court's failure to adjudicate the merits of …
20-7691 Ernest Donald Washington v. Tammy Williams, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-04-08 Denied IFP appeal civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jurisdiction ninth-circuit procedural-default Mr. Washington (Petitioner) alleged that the CCL Court lack subject matter jurisdiction to try him. Petitioner was convicted, in large part upon Plain…
20-7692 Donald Violett v. John R. Grise Kentucky 2021-04-08 Denied IFP actual-innocence attorney-client-privilege civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process government-misconduct habeas-corpus state-court-review void-judgment Based on new discovered evidence, can a State court convict and prison incarcerate Petitioner on dismissed and fabricated charges? Can the State cour…
20-7672 James Michael Garcia v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-04-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP assault child-abuse criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process guilty-plea plea-bargaining sentencing serious-bodily-injury WHETHER, AFTER A DEFENDANT PLEADS GUILTY TO FELONY CHILD ABUSE, THE GOVERNMENT MAY STILL PURSUE A CHARGE OF ASSAULT RESULTING IN SERIOUS BODILY INJURY…
20-7673 Atticus Sliter-Matias v. United States Third Circuit 2021-04-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence-law fifth-amendment plain-error self-incrimination Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's judgment of conviction and sentence by failing to find that the dis…
20-7674 Kuantau Reeder v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-04-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process giglio-v-united-states impeachment-evidence materiality materiality-standard prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility In a murder prosecution in which the Orleans Parish District Attorney's Office presented no scientific evidence, no video evidence, no motive evidence…
20-7675 John G. Stroming v. United States Second Circuit 2021-04-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP age-gender-differences child-molestation criminal-procedure criminal-propensity evidence evidence-admissibility evidentiary-rules federal-law prior-convictions propensity victim-characteristics Whether prior convictions for crimes of child molestation can be admitted into evidence where – because of differences in the age and gender of the vi…
20-7676 Aaron Orlando Richards v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-04-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP circumstantial-evidence criminal-conviction criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jackson-v-virginia motion-for-bill-of-particulars motion-to-suppress reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence This is a principal to second degree robbery case based, almost exclusively, on questionable circumstantial evidence that ended in a life sentence for…
20-7680 Jonathan Beasley v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-04-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-statute federal-prosecution felon-in-possession firearm-possession mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation Whether, in a federal prosecution for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 922(g)(1) that occurred after the dec…
20-7686 Lonnie Alonzo Howard v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-04-07 Denied IFP appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act circuit-court criminal-procedure evidence-sufficiency felon-in-possession plain-error sufficiency-of-evidence trial-record 1. Whether this case should be held pending this Court's decision in Greer v. United States, No. 19-8709, which will determine if a circuit court of a…
20-7671 Ronald E. Johnson v. Derek Schmidt, Attorney General of Kansas, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process kansas-supreme-court mandatory-minimums mandatory-sentencing sentencing sentencing-modification sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation sua-sponte Was Astorga v. Kansas remanded back to the Kansas Supreme Court for the purpose of correcting with the Mandatory Sentence modification of Hard 40/50 p…
20-7655 Lisa Bershan v. United States Second Circuit 2021-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure downward-departure judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines variances Should this Court should grant certiorari in order to resolve the following conflict among the circuits: Is a sentencing judge required specifically t…
20-7658 Johnny Rice v. Frank Vanihel, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-04-05 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process franks-v-delaware ineffective-assistance standing Was trial counsel ineffective when he failed to suppress the affidavit due to the insufficiency of Count I and A, Rape, and when counsel failed to see…
20-7628 Daryl Fitzgerald Johnson v. Mississippi Mississippi 2021-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction legal-procedure standing supreme-court trial-court writ-of-certiorari JZT. X)rd tee Supreme cooRt. OV tAteissvG HAVE; Ouw^I c-Uqao So Hear a tereei- fM'Pte OH -tvie Coorh . or p»ppeo\ totere. te-ere are -tux> tete Wetet…
20-7630 Scott Paul Madlock v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-04-02 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment interrogation right-to-counsel self-incrimination sixth-amendment Whetner Strongly believes that the United States Court of Appeals for The Fifth Circuit's decision sanctioned such a departure from accepted and usual…
20-7626 Robert Frank Miller v. United States District of Columbia 2021-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review appellate-standards criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion probable-cause waiver I. Whether certiorari should be granted to clarify that probable cause must be based on actual facts, rather than mere assumptions interposed by the c…
20-7633 Sam Sterling Alford v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253c certificate-of-appealability consolidation consolidation-risks counsel-performance criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel informed-consent right-to-counsel Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. §2253(c) on his claim that his counsel re…
20-7635 Lisa Biron v. United States First Circuit 2021-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP conviction-review criminal-procedure federal-criminal-statute federal-habeas fundamental-defect gonzalez-v-crosby intent-element procedural-default rule-60(b) rule-60b section-2255 state-prisoner When the Warden Court's understanding of the mental intent element of a federal criminal statute becomes apparent in a Conclusion feed date in its den…
20-7640 Nicholas Corey Garner v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure email-search ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presentence-report restitution search-and-seizure sentencing sixth-circuit Was Counsel constitutionally ineffective when he failed to challenge the search of Petitioner's vehicle in violation of Petitioner's Fourth Amendment …
20-7641 Brian Hawkins v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights credibility-analysis criminal-procedure due-process lovasco-standard pre-indictment-delay prosecutorial-discretion trial-court-error united-states-v-lovasco Has the trial court erred by adding a credibility analysis to an unjustifiable pre-indictment delay test of Due Process prescribed by United States v.…
20-7644 Skip Hansen v. Kentucky Kentucky 2021-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-exclusion fourteenth-amendment right-to-defense right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment witness-testimony Did the Kentucky Court of Appeals allow Mr. Hansen 's right to present a full and complete defense, which is protected by the Sixth and Fourteenth Ame…
20-7604 Christopher Johnson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-03-31 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea indictment mens-rea plain-error rehaif I. When an indictment fails to allege an essential mens rea element, may the appellate court assume the indictment still alleges a federal offense and…
20-7612 Michael D. Johnson v. Indiana Indiana 2021-03-31 Denied Amici (2)Response WaivedIFP actual-suspicion circuit-split criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement objective-standard reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-frisk terry-stop To uphold a Terry frisk as constitutional, the First and Ninth Circuits require the frisking officer to have actually suspected that the detainee may …
20-7615 Duane Eugene Owen v. Florida Florida 2021-03-31 Denied IFP capital-case constitutional-claims criminal-procedure death-penalty equal-protection florida-supreme-court fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus penalty-phase procedural-history retroactivity supreme-court-review Whether Petitioner was denied equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution when the Florida Supreme Court decline…
20-7623 Michael Eric Drake v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2021-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-bad-acts sixth-amendment trial-counsel Did the Pennsylvania Superior Court ignore the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments when it found no issue with trial counsel's failure to protect his clie…
20-1369 Mohammed Jabateh v. United States Third Circuit 2021-03-31 Denied appellate-review conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure federal-criminal-rule federal-criminal-rule-52(b) plain-error plain-error-rule sentencing statutory-construction Does the plain error rule permit affirmance of a federal criminal conviction and sentence based on conduct that concededly does not violate the charge…
20-1371 Bart Posey, Sr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-03-31 Denied Response Waived appeal appellate-counsel constitutional-right criminal-procedure due-process duty-to-consult habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel 1. Whether the duty to consult about an appeal requires the effective assistance of counsel.
20-7600 Antonio Navarro v. California California 2021-03-30 Denied IFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment translation-evidence witness-testimony Question not identified.
20-7611 Jamar Garrison v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-03-30 Denied IFP brady-rule brady-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery-obligations due-process harmless-error rule-16 sixth-circuit I. Should a Writ of Certiorari Issue to Revi ew the Brady and Rule 1 6 Due Process Viol ations in Defendant's Case Because the Sixth Ci rcuit Found No…
20-7590 Billy Earl Parker v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-03-29 Denied IFP burden-of-proof civil-liberties constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure statutory-interpretation I. IS AN pro-sELitiaANT eNtitIEb to relcive CourT procecdinqs NO NO INDONNNUbND OO 21 violatetheeiqth AmevomeNt 3 ON A ACTUAL FALTWALINNOCENCE CLAIM 4…
20-7591 Herminio Perales-Perez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei…
20-7594 Rashawn Donnell Williams v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal conviction criminal-procedure due-process sentencing statutory-interpretation mcorrecmu 954^ &f\d despiVe ■btac hbldtr^S Aft liy, \f. Do^lS ySci HS5 (_5* tirca^^ -^cd - u)trt aP-Pirm-ed by lid. v. T)a>/is . 1SS S. C4-53^
20-7597 In Re Gary Peel 2021-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-delay mandamus seventh-circuit subject-matter-jurisdiction writ-of-mandamus Whether a Writ of Mandamus should issue directing the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit to issue a dispositive decision upon Gary…
20-7579 Donald Phillips v. Texas Texas 2021-03-29 Denied IFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct juror-misconduct jury prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-procedure 1. Is it proper or a violation of the 6th Amendment due process law for a defense attorney to discover that during testimony in trial one of the juror…
20-7571 Hilliard A. Fulgham v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2021-03-26 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interstate-agreement-on-detainers interstate-detainer judicial-discretion trial-fairness waiver 1. Is an objection required before a court would have understanding that a detainee did not want to be tried after the time-line set in his involuntar…
20-7572 Jim Bass Holden v. Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment appellate-review circuit-split conflict-of-laws constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion procedural-default right-to-counsel ao\ <x v/\oWo on S»)^VvI.tOWAbec cr dLrnortV c\^aV \o Cocuis^A c^s Acf » ^>y fW^SkAn £>CCceA u^W ia AW SWc tfsdc We,Amen ^U^sVYvwet'TV /'havwc Ac i ct…
20-7573 Merrickio D. Harris v. Nebraska Nebraska 2021-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings due-process fundamental-fairness judicial-review self-representation structural-error 1) Whether the Nebraska State Courts committed structural error and violated the Petitioner's Federal Constitutional Rights to Self Representation and…
20-7576 Humberto Rodriguez, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2021-03-26 Denied IFP criminal-procedure jurisdictional-determination rir-nabisco-v-european-cmty rjr-nahisco state-courts state-criminal-cases subject-matter-jurisdiction tribunal-power two-step-test Does the Supreme Court's Two-Step Test to determine [extra]territoriallity it created in, RJR Nahisco V. European Cmty, 136 S.Ct. 2090, also apply to …
20-7580 Trinidad Jesus Garcia v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing individualized-circumstances judicial-discretion plain-error reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines whether Formal objection after pronouncement of Sentence is necessary to invoke appellate review of Sentence (Ground Four) and Sentence Prejudice the …
20-7582 Lonzell Green v. California California 2021-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial federal-review fourteenth-amendment procedural-challenge standing state-court writ-of-certiorari (1) pzp iTt<r-ST&rg C.omii _t^s) VX£'la-tit PfTOXoMT«- Due - f>flj>t£ss Pro)recrreo (Lz&tt-TCi.) Lt LjVpwUy'6LV PlTnj'u/LLT) Tcir^bjv'v ( de Ur gjJ/u-…
20-7585 Charles D. Bowser v. Kansas Kansas 2021-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP bias criminal-procedure due-process judicial-bias north-carolina-v-pearce plea-bargain prejudice sentencing Whether this Court should grant certiorari to resolve the issue if the Due Process Clause and North Carolina v. Pearce , 395 U.S. 711, 89 S. Ct. 2072,…
20-7547 Saloman Martinez v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-discretion kentucky-law sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment standard-of-proof supreme-court-precedent "VVvc G?ccoA * DecetuVi-er 11, Z02 -0 •\Vv£. uvu-V^A sAaFtS C^sAcnIcA' GoOfAr Qa^ senA-e/vc-e\A} WArWfC q^aOoa. roVi»Mj -\ o cx^<^■c \W, £ajz>\rec<\ O…
20-7556 Terrence A. McKnight v. R. Johnson, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 9th-circuit appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus harmless-error hearsay-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct standards-of-review 1. Under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) (1)& (2), did the California Court of Appeal unreasonably determine that the established prosecutorial misconduct in rely…
20-7567 Brent Douglas Cole v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process exigent-circumstances grand-jury habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-rights search-and-seizure standing California instituted prosecution against the Petitioner January d6, 2014 during a warrant/ess search and seizure without probable couse for a "welfar…
20-1347 Selvin Eduardo Zecena-Valdez v. Nevada Nevada 2021-03-25 Denied confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility fair-trial prior-bad-acts reverse-404(b) sexual-assault Whether the Supreme Court of Nevada's interpretation and application of Nevada Revised Statute ("NRS") 48.045(2) deprived Mr. Zecena of his right to a…
20-1356 Eduardo Lopez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied appellate-rights conflict-of-interest counsel-disqualification criminal-procedure disqualification guilty-plea sixth-amendment structural-defect wheat-v-united-states 1. Following Class v. United States, 138 S. Ct. 798 (2018), does a criminal defendant's guilty plea result in the automatic waiver of his right to app…
20-7543 Victor Real-Alomar, aka Toston v. United States First Circuit 2021-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure first-amendment ninth-amendment plea-agreement plea-bargaining pretrial-detainee waiver A. Whether a criminal defendant must raise the issue of nonapplicability of a waiver of appeal in his opening brief or whether it falls upon the gover…
20-7549 Shane Arnold v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-03-24 Denied IFP criminal-procedure defense district-court due-process evidence evidence-introduction knowledge-of-status plain-error rehaif-standard Rehaif-v-United-States trial-error Whether a defendant satisfies the final two prongs of plain error review for a Rehaif v. United States, __ U.S. __, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), trial erro…
20-7551 Dennis Roger Bolze v. Warden, FCI Coleman Sixth Circuit 2021-03-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP counsel-deprivation criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction miscarriage-of-justice right-to-counsel state-law subject-matter-jurisdiction QUESTION ONE: When a State intentionally abandons State law and deprives an individual of counsel during a critical stage in the criminal proceedings…
20-7554 Eron Jordan v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction speedy-trial Question not identified.
20-7521 Lionel Lewis v. New York New York 2021-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights courtroom-closure criminal-procedure due-process public-trial sixth-amendment undercover-officer Does an undercover officer's interest in potentially continuing undercover work in the general area where a defendant's family members reside categori…
20-7535 Gilberto Medina-Jasso v. Georgia Georgia 2021-03-23 Denied IFP child-molestation constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process lesser-included-offense sexual-battery trial-court Whether the trial court's failure to charge sexual battery as a lesser included offense of child molestation deprived Petitioner of a due process righ…
20-7538 Frankie Lewis Jones v. Georgia Georgia 2021-03-23 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment interstate-agreement personal-detention probable-cause search-and-seizure sentencing statute-of-limitations warrantless-search Question not identified.
20-7542 Calvin Lewis Carter, III v. Illinois Illinois 2021-03-23 Denied IFP court-procedure criminal-procedure defendant-rights evidentiary-rulings fourth-amendment judicial-interpretation legal-challenge privacy procedural-rules search seizure standing Question not identified.
20-7515 Samuel Woody v. New Jersey New Jersey 2021-03-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process false-allegations ineffective-assistance vindictive-behavior witness-testimony While the PCR court did not address the conflict of interest issue in it's decision, is counsel deemed ineffective for failing to investigate and call…
20-7516 Josue Portillo v. United States Second Circuit 2021-03-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment incorrigibility juvenile-justice juvenile-offenders miller-rule miller-v-alabama proportionality sentencing Absent proof of incorrigibility, can a district court sentence a defendant to fifty-five years imprisonment without parole for participating in a exec…
20-7523 Joseph M. Bryant v. Louisiana Louisiana 2021-03-22 GVR Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure direct-review due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus non-unanimous-jury ramos-v-louisiana retroactivity supreme-court-precedent This Court held in Ramos v. Louisiana, that Louisiana's non-unanimous jury scheme was unconstitutional. Pretermitting the question raised in Edwards v…
20-7524 Mathew Ryan Byrd v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing fourth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-review parolee probationer search-and-seizure Question not identified.
20-7528 Jonathan Figueroa-Serrano v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-03-22 Denied IFP appellate-review conditional-plea criminal-procedure federal-courts federal-rules harmless-error plea-bargaining sentencing Under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(a)(2), a defendant may enter a guilty plea conditioned on the right to appeal an adverse pretrial ruling. …
20-7502 Vaughn Alexander Cropper v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-19 Denied IFP 2nd-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction firearms-regulation Second-Amendment standing statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
20-7503 Mark Randall Jones v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation gut-feeling mail-chute post-office warrantless-search warrantless-seizure A. Whether the Warrantless Seizure of Packages from the Mail Chute at the U.S. Post Office Based on Nothing More than a "Gut Feeling" Violates the Fou…
20-7509 Erik Santiago Leon Del Angel v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP continuance criminal-procedure defendant-rights district-court-discretion due-process immigration immigration-proceedings judicial-error jurisdiction procedural-fairness sentencing sentencing-continuance Did the District Court prejudicially err by denying petitioner's request to continue his sentencing so he may first appear in Immigration Court?
20-7512 Forrest R. Cox, III v. Nebraska Nebraska 2021-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure federal-statute fourth-amendment good-faith-doctrine immutable-evidence independent-source-doctrine search-warrant I. IN A FIRST DEGREE FELONY MURDER CASE REQUIRING LIFE IMPRISONMENT, DID THE NEBRASKA SUPREME COURT ERROR IN APPLYING THE GOOD FAITH DOCTRINE TO A SEA…
20-7486 Carlos Guzman-Merced v. United States First Circuit 2021-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2106 appellate-remedy appellate-review criminal-procedure indictment indictment-dismissal judicial-discretion plain-error plain-error-review remedial-authority statutory-interpretation Whether a Court of Appeals can, and should, order an indictment that omits an element of the crime dismissed as part of the appellate remedy given the…
20-7488 William Douglas Hampton v. Mark Williams, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-waiver civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process electronic-fraud free-speech plea-agreement standing statutory-interpretation 1) DOES 28 UNITED STATES CODE SERUICE $2LHI's. SPECIFIC WORDING PERMIT THE JUDICIAL SUBMISSION AND CONSIDERATION OFA HABEAS CORPUS IFTHE STATUTE'S SUB…
20-7489 Michael Formica v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2021-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fabricated-evidence fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-standards standing I, WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT RELIED ON CONTROLS TO DENY PETITIONER'S PETITION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS AS LAWFUL EVIDENCE. 2. WHETHER THE FOURTH CI…
20-7491 Esmervi Carone Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bad-faith circuit-court circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-procedure evidence-spoliation jury-instructions legal-force pattern-instructions spoliation-of-evidence I. Whether pattern jury instructions approved by the circuit courts carry any independent legal force? II. Whether federal criminal defendants may re…
20-7492 Justice Towan Roundtree v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP alternative-sentence appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court-discretion guidelines harmless-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether a Guidelines error is harmless when the district judge issues an alternative sentence by stating that she would impose the same sentence even …
20-7500 Christopher Nathaniel Brown v. Florida Florida 2021-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process extrinsic-evidence self-defense state-courts victim-history Does Florida state courts deny defendants their Due Process Rights when the courts exclude extrinsic evidence which would corroborate defendant's know…
20-7461 David Kendrick v. United States Third Circuit 2021-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggregation alleyne-precedent alleyne-v-united-states criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-quantity mandatory-sentence mandatory-sentencing rowe-interpretation threshold-quantity united-states-v-rowe In applying a mandatory sentence in a drug conspiracy case, does Alleyne v. United States, 570 U.S. 99, 133 S.Ct. 2151 186 L.Ed.2d 314 (2013), when re…
20-7464 Stephen D. Long v. Ohio Ohio 2021-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment anonymous-informant criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant standing totality-of-the-circumstances 1. Can a search warrant issue for a private residence based solely on the uncorroborated statement of an anonymous citizen informant? 2. Is an irrebu…
20-7467 Timothy Wayne Carver v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sixth-amendment Where plea counsel erroneously convinces a defendant to believe that he is guilty of an offense, may the guilty-pleading defendant obtain relief from …
20-7471 Christian Joseph Perez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-review standing statutory-interpretation -Can the Court of Appeals deny Petitioner's application for Certificate of Appedlability ("coA") withoct any analysis of whether the District Courts d…
20-7476 Jose Armondo Ramos Cabrera v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-appeal criminal-procedure defendant-objection due-process firearm-possession firearms fourth-circuit sentencing sentencing-enhancement standard-of-review two-level-enhancement Whether the court erred when it denied defendant's objection to the two level enhancement for possession of a firearm
20-1295 United States v. Timothy Zachary Green Fourth Circuit 2021-03-17 GVR Relisted (2) circuit-precedent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession felony-conviction firearm-possession plain-error-review prejudice-standard statutory-interpretation Whether a court of appeals may, on plain-error review, affirm a conviction for possessing a firearm following a felony conviction, in violation of 18 …
20-7459 Herman Rosario v. United States Third Circuit 2021-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule good-faith-exception independent-determination motion-to-suppress physical-evidence probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-application 1. Whether the district court err ed in denying defendant's motion to suppress physical evidence seized at1611 S. 28th Street, Philadelphia, where t…
20-7468 Aaron Feazell v. United States District of Columbia 2021-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-protection-order constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fundamental-fairness notice variance variance-doctrine Question (i). The information charges the defendant with violating a civil protection order (CPO) by being within a hundred (100) yards of the complai…
20-7448 Shuntario Johnson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP chambers-v-mississippi confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process hearsay jury-instructions right-to-confront-witnesses right-to-present-defense right-to-present-evidence sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Circuit's decision to affirm the hearsay objection was contrary to Chambers v. Mississippi, 410 U.S. 284, 302 (1973) and its progeny…
20-7451 David K. Jenner v. Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Colorado 2021-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP colorado-revised-statute colorado-statute constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment johnson-v-us unconstitutional In light of this Court's decision in Johnson v. U.S., 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015), is Colorado Revised Statute § 17-22.5403(2)-(3.5) unconstitutional in tha…
20-7453 Douglas D. Jackson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process sentencing statutory-interpretation venue Question not identified.
20-7455 Jeromey Glenn Jones v. Montana Montana 2021-03-15 Denied IFP constitutional-assistance court-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-protection procedural-due-process right-to-counsel right-to-participate sixth-amendment statutory-provisions Question not identified.
20-7456 Rafael Ayala-Solorio v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe…
20-1277 Richard Meyer v. Kentucky Kentucky 2021-03-15 Denied civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process excessive-fines forfeitability forfeiture kentucky kentucky-statutes timbs-precedent timbs-v-indiana I. DOES THE KENTUCKY COURT OF APPEALS DECISION IN THIS CASE STAND IN DIRECT CONTRADICTION TO THIS COURT'S DECISION IN TIMBS V. INDIANA, 139 S.Ct. 682 …
20-1281 Byron Dredd v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-03-15 Denied Response Waived 18-usc-1001 18-usc-1519 18-usc-241 acquittal civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy false-statements religious-communication trial-evidence 1. Whether petitioner's acquittals on two counts - conspiracy against civil rights, 18 U.S.C. section 241 and providing false statements, 18 U.S.C. se…
20-7438 Christopher Stegawski v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP addiction chronic-pain chronic-pain-treatment criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-enforcement due-process federal-prosecution medical-licensing medical-practice-standard medical-prescribing opioid-prescribing # 1 - When pain of more than three months duration becomes chronic pain (Ohio definition) and dependence (ie. addiction) forms after three months of o…
20-7439 Michael Luis Suarez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924(c) actual-innocence categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process plea-bargaining predicate-offense procedural-default sentencing-guidelines statutory-enhancement Whether a defendant may be enhanced under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) where he entered a plea of guilty to an offense that no longer qualifies as a predicate o…
20-7446 Juan Luis Rivera Arreola v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split co-defendant-liability criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-offense federal-sentencing-guidelines firearm-enhancement reasonable-foreseeability sentencing-guidelines tools-of-the-trade U.S.S.G.-2D1.1(b)(1) In order to warra nt a two-level enhance ment for possession of a fir earm, pursuant to U.S .S.G. § 2D1.1 (b)(1), is it suffic ient to simply label fi…
20-7408 Trystan Keun Napper v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-courts judicial-discretion legal-interpretation plain-error standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52(b) permits courts of appeals to grant appellate relief in the absence of error shown by binding preceden…
20-7409 Eduardo Pena-Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure deference federal-courts judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors?
20-7410 Edward McCain v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP case-remand certiorari concurrent-sentences criminal-procedure eighth-amendment fourth-circuit-judgment jones-v-mississippi judicial-review juvenile-offenders plain-error sentencing supreme-court-procedure I. Whether an invalid conviction affects a criminal defendant's substantial rights and must be vacated on plain error review, irrespective of whether …
20-7418 Javon Joshua Jennings v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process government-witness obstruction-of-justice witness-tampering hJofy^rb &oho /W" )/ybU) T)oes /$S%a)hffh Jha-f-kz 6JaiT aryy? an i Can J%£ ££&'zCknt&JfJi dvz/j&d' a)/% /a&y)&7kf & Cvoyesrisn&Ct h),
20-7419 Kamil Johnson v. W. E. Mackelburg, Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8-usc-2254 constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance iowa-supreme-court juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama post-conviction-relief Is whether the Iowa Court of Appeals abused its discretion in denying the habeas corpus petition based upon ineffective assistance of counsel under th…
20-7422 Antuan V. Little v. Dan Cromwell Seventh Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standards legal-reliability witness-testimony Why Lrmé's TREM Counsel INEFFECmyg DN UES Frhuwee To Ch Marctner UC. Fol US TEsTOMOoNy ON THE "PRmR LUnrlomeul HUEGATIOS CE GEvErAL ASSMulT. pois LtiT…
20-7425 Cornelius Kenyatta Craig v. Andre Matevousian, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment reasonable-doubt sixth-circuit 1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit pronouncement on the some evidence standard has departed from accepted and usual c…
20-7429 William Davis v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-examination mental-health post-conviction-relief Whether a reasonable jurist could debate whether Petitioner made a substantial claim where: i) Counsel failed to move for mental examination for plead…
20-7432 Kevin Leon Lucien v. Texas Texas 2021-03-11 Denied IFP 14th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility federal-law federal-preemption prosecutorial-discretion state-law Whether a state's own articles of law can supercede federal law to further prosecute a defendant in regards to admissable and inadmissable evidence th…
20-7433 Randy Philip Chaudron v. Texas Texas 2021-03-11 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence identification law-enforcement-misconduct photo-lineup police-conduct witness-identification I. To THE DUE PROCESS CLAUSE VIOLATED WHEN TEAL COURT ALLOWED EVIDENCE, KNOWING THAT LAW ENFORCEMENT BROKE PROCEDURE OF ART. 3020 CP PHOTO LINEUP IDEN…
20-7436 Frederick Dale Knight v. Florida Florida 2021-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-expectation-privacy search-and-seizure traffic-stop Within what narrow istah does a roto- cwwx rau tragic stop arap* the subsequent observation through the- window of stopped veryca£. ftt'jeal' * irg* a…
20-7374 Demitrius Wayne Alexander v. Joseph Headley, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel search-and-seizure whether both state and Federal Courts rulings were in error when evidence search and seizure was used against Petitioner Demitrins wayne Alexander dur…
20-7401 Ronald Brandon v. Jay Forshey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights contemporaneous-objection criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction standing state-court-procedure natal Ligon the handling of the handling of Yhe Old, faction roll ebow) me Tne Abba, Lo filid. Pde i owing Adduony/gusitiona deft. tis Wonatalile, Co…
20-7414 James Innocent v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-10 Denied IFP circuit-court criminal-procedure greer-v-united-states judicial-review plain-error rehaif-v-united-states substantial-rights supreme-court-decision trial-record Whether when applying plan-error review based upon an intervening United States Supreme Court decision, a circuit court of appeals may review matters …
20-1256 Malcolm A. French v. United States First Circuit 2021-03-10 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure impartial-jury juror-bias juror-mendacity mcdonongh-test right-to-jury standard-of-review structural-error The first time this case was before the First Circuit, it remanded for further proceedings on French's motion for a new trial made after information s…
20-1240 Francisco Javier Palillero v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) criminal-procedure discovery-sanctions dna-evidence expert-testimony right-to-defense right-to-present-defense rule-16 sixth-amendment Whether precluding a criminal defendant's DNA rebuttal expert testimony as a Rule 16(d)(2) sanction for a non-willful violation is compatible with the…
20-1245 Pedro Vasquez v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2021-03-09 Denied Response Waived appellate-counsel contract-obligations contracts-clause criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fee-advancement impairment indigent-defense sixth-amendment 1. Whether the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court impaired the obligation of a contract in contravention of Article I, sec. 10, cl. 1 of the U.S. Co…
20-7357 Raymond Eugene Johnson v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-03-09 Denied IFP collateral-review criminal-defense criminal-procedure defendant-autonomy retroactivity right-of-autonomy sixth-amendment teague-rule teague-v-lane In McCoy v. Louisiana , 138 S. Ct. 1500 (2018), this Court held the Sixth Amendment grants a right of autonomy that precludes criminal defendants' law…
20-7372 Terry Lee Ockert, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied Amici (2)Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure good-cause plain-error rule-12 rule-52 suppression-motion Whether, under current Rule 12, after a defendant has made a timely motion to suppress evidence that did not include a particular argument, should the…
20-7378 Israel Ernesto Palacios v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied IFP case-law-interpretation circuit-split constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-foreshadowing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington This case presents a question on which the circuit courts are split: to what extent must a claim to be "sufficiently foreshadowed in existing case law…
20-7379 Miguel Angel Corujo Mercado v. Florida Florida 2021-03-09 Denied IFP conspiracy constitutional-protection continuous-act criminal-conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment multiple-charges CAN A CRIMINAL DEFENDANT BE CHARGED AND CONVICTED WITH MULTIPLE CONSPIRACIES FOR A SINGLE CONTINUOUS CONSPIRACY ACT WITHOUT VIOLATING RIGHT TO BE FREE…
20-7386 Andrew Chapnick v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline criminal-procedure federal-habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing statutory-interpretation timeliness-provision 1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker …
20-7388 Alejandro De La Torre v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure discretionary-review downward-departure due-process sentencing Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit")–which affirmed the District Court's denial of Mr. D…
20-7392 James Jermaine Woodfork v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-03-09 Denied IFP 6th-amendment actual-innocence appeals constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-claim oklahoma Did the Oklahoma Appeals Court violate Petitioner's 14th Amendment rule in a manner contrary to clearly established Court law by refusing to acknowled…
20-7397 William Randolph King v. Thomas Winn, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied IFP 8th-amendment brady-violation criminal-procedure dna-evidence dna-testing due-process eighth-amendment evidence-suppression prosecutorial-disclosure prosecutorial-misconduct Could reasonable jurists debate whether the prosecution committed a Brady violation when it failed to disclose the prior victim's pubic hair found dur…
20-7352 In Re Henry Lee Rudolph 2021-03-08 Denied IFP collateral-estoppel constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fraud-on-the-court judicial-discretion post-conviction-relief predicate-offense prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court-discretion Did the Utah Supreme Court commit fraud by stating The Framers rights were desired by and Rodelph requested, and by stating Three Tiered banner Violat…
20-7355 Cleophus Reed, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-03-08 Denied IFP criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure Question not identified.
20-7362 Charles Braye v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-of-appeals criminal-procedure district-court due-process first-step-act opportunity-to-be-heard remand sentence-reduction Whether Mr. Braye's due process rights were violated when the court of appeals determined that Mr. Braye was eligible for a sentence reduction under t…
20-7363 Lerone Bernard Butler v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy controlled-substances criminal-procedure drug-offenses due-process law-enforcement-misconduct possession-with-intent sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence WHETHER THE VERDICT OF GUILT WAS SUPPORTED BY SUFFCIENT EVIDENCE TO SUSTAIN A CONVICTION, AND THE EVIDENCE, VIEWED IN A LIGHT MOST FAVORABLE TO THE GO…
20-7364 James Baldwin v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2021-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-counsel equal-protection ineffective-assistance mental-disability sixth-amendment 1. Whether Appellant was denied rights under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution to effective trial counsel and w…
20-7369 Antonia Janai Hickmon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-fact-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing I. Whether facts that affect the minimum or maximum reasonable federal sentence must be proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt?
20-7325 Eric Todd v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure cross-examination disclosure due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial fifth-amendment government-misconduct witness-testimony Did the timing and method of the Government's disclosure violate Todd's Fifth Amendment to right to a fair trial, by preventing Todd from finding and …
20-7329 Justin L. Knight v. Nebraska Nebraska 2021-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure evidence-suppression fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment investigative-stop reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop Whether, under the totality-of-the circumstances test, the police officers in this case had reasonable suspicion that justified an investigative stop …
20-7330 James Marcus Lloyd, III v. J. Hutchinson, Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied IFP 922(g) actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury ineffective-assistance rehaif right-to-trial structural-error 1. Whether petitioners constitutional right to due process and his constitutional right to, "decide to proceed to trial or, plead guilty " was "denied…
20-7335 Raymond E. Carr v. Ed Gonzalez, Sheriff, Harris County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process free-speech government-action habeas-corpus retaliation standing Question not identified.
20-7336 Donovan Jonathan Tillman v. Florida Florida 2021-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights courtroom-access criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing pretrial-hearing public-trial-clause sixth-amendment state-court-decision witness-exclusion Did the state court, contrary to rulings of this Court and of the supreme and intermediate appellate courts of other states, violate the Public Trial …
20-7340 Christopher Welshans v. United States Third Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process federal-prosecution oath-of-office positive-law standing 01.) Show cause that in light of the facts presented by Congressman of Ohio James Traficant to the joint session of congress on March 17, 1993, as re…
20-7341 James Coddington v. Jim Farris, Warden Tenth Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied Amici (1)IFP capital-punishment criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus harmless-error material-evidence mens-rea right-to-defense right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment On direct appeal, the state court found that constitutional error marred the trial, which ended with a death sentence for petitioner. The error—barrin…
20-7343 Justin David Williams v. Utah Utah 2021-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence hearsay sixth-amendment standard-of-review witness-testimony Why was I denied the right to cross-examine my accused attacker, thereby violating my Sixth Amendment right "the accused shall enjoy the right to be c…
20-7306 Agustin Madrid, aka Augustin Madrid v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure case-preservation circuit-split criminal-procedure holguin-hernandez-v-united-states judicial-interpretation legal-objection preservation-of-error procedural-unreasonableness sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review 1. Whether Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, __U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), is relevant to the objections necessary to preserve claims of procedura…
20-7308 Michael N. Kelsey v. New York New York 2021-03-03 Denied IFP appellate-procedure criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance post-conviction-motion right-to-appeal sentencing-judge-advisement Are New York State's criminal appellate procedures deficient, and/or prejudicial to a criminal defendant's due process, equal protection and/or state-…
20-7312 Raevon Terrell Parker v. John Pickens, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-03-03 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process probable-cause search-and-seizure The queestruo presented is was there probable cause Subject the apellant to cred and unusucl punishment b arresting the appellent when the charo ws on…
20-7313 Leonard Glen Overmyer, III v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-03-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel judicial-discretion post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-error supervised-release Whether a Defendant should be allowed to seek a reduction of, or discharge from, an imposed supervised release after being improperly sentenced, and r…
20-1218 Demetrius William Edwards, et al. v. Sherry Burt, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-03-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) is entitled to habeas relief thereby giving rise to a presumption of prejudice counsel-deprivation criminal-procedure critical-stage habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice-presumption presumption-of-prejudice right-to-counsel sixth-amendment During an overnight recess in Demetrius Edwards's and Bryant Royster's bench trial, the judge made an independent, nighttime visit to the crime scene,…
20-1209 In Re Raymond L. Rogers 2021-03-02 Denied Response Waived all-writs-act appeals appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge sentencing statutory-authority statutory-interpretation Your Petitioner is [requesting] and [praying] for this United States Supreme Court to exercise its supervisory appellate powers pursuant-to 28 U.S.C. …
20-7290 Michael Scott Hanuman v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure emergency-aid emergency-aid-doctrine fourth-amendment law-enforcement protective-sweep reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure This Court has held that when law enforcement officers are lawfully present within a private home to make an arrest, the Fourth Amendment permits a pr…
20-7291 John L. Harris v. Illinois Illinois 2021-03-02 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea non-consensual-reinstatement plea-bargaining plea-opportunity presumption-of-innocence sentencing trial-court Whether a trial court's non-consensual reinstatement of a defendant's guilty plea, without admonishments or the opportunity to plead anew, violates th…
20-7294 James Peter Sabatino v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit appeal appellate-procedure civil-rights communication-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process mootness statutory-interpretation WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN DISMISSING PETITIONER'S APPEAL AS MOOT, IN THAT THE DISTRICT COURT'S SUBSEQUENT RULING REAUTHOR…
20-7300 Robbull Bryant v. United States Second Circuit 2021-03-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 2nd-amendment constitutional-challenge conviction criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea plain-error rehaif rehaif-error second-circuit standing Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred, in violation of U.S. Const. V and VI and this Court's decision in Rehaif when it denied Bryant's co…
20-7307 In Re Wayne M. Beaton 2021-03-02 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure custody-interrogation due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus miranda-rights Has the state appellate Court decided an important constitutional-federal Miranda rights question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decision(s…
20-7276 Russell Lawayne Montague v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substance criminal-procedure due-process protective-order sentencing-disparities sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review supervised-release 1) Whether the district court ordered an unreasonably long 114-month prison sentence. 2) Whether the district court erred by finding Mr. Montague gui…
20-7282 Earl Malloy v. United States Second Circuit 2021-03-01 Denied IFP 18-usc-922g criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearms-offense guilty-plea rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether this petition should be held pending the decision in United States v. Gary, No. 20-444, given that both this petition and Gary present the sam…
20-7284 Tyrell Donte Curry v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-01 Denied Amici (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-procedure mens-rea serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation Whether the drug conduct in the Armed Career Criminal Act's "serious drug offense" definition in 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii) requires knowledge of th…
20-7286 Kashus Davis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-01 Denied IFP 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance criminal-law criminal-procedure mens-rea serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation Whether the drug conduct in the Armed Career Criminal Act's "serious drug offense" definition in 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii) requires knowledge of th…
20-7288 Nazari Vasilich Cam v. Oregon Oregon 2021-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment halbert-v-michigan indigent-defendant right-to-counsel sua-sponte-appointment swenson-v-bosler Whether a state appellate court must appoint counsel sua sponte for an indigent criminal defendant who represents himself at trial, files a notice of …
20-1196 Benjamin McClellan v. Ohio Ohio 2021-03-01 Denied 5th-amendment confession-suppression constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility involuntary-confession motion-to-suppress police-interrogation standard-of-review Whether the denial of petitioner's Motion to Suppress his confession was proper.
20-7250 Eunice Husband v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias plain-error supervised-release united-states-constitution The fortcommitted Federal hule of Criminal Procedure 52 (b) Plain Error I. Bias and Abandonment of judicial role by Distict Judge Appellate Court fa…
20-7259 Juan Garcia v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability compulsory-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel section-2255 sixth-amendment 1. Was petitioner denied his Constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel during his trial, that is guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment of th…
20-7261 Randell Joseph Redmond v. United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Fifth Circuit 2021-02-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection free-speech just-compensation property-rights standing takings-clause tax-foreclosure .'HIT /Ae fythumify rare £45*$ iditrt a £}//>titiOr? /£ #£A/t*2>* t£> *~r7 (jJ%> A*?#/ A 3Ad tip /r?t>A*'7 /r7/3jA4r#e£As'/Z-&A eA<5ss?/^5 rtj?) 4 0^…
20-7268 Jason P. Briscoe v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure fourth-amendment police-discretion pretextual-stop pretextual-stops probable-cause traffic-violation whren-v-united-states Whether this Court's decision in Whren v. United States, 517 U.S. 806 (1996), which permits pretextual traffic stops so long as the police have probab…
20-7270 Keith D. Barmore v. Sonja Nicklaus, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial first-degree-murder ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-manslaughter jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct Whether Petitioner was deprived of his due-process of law, and a fair trial, where the trial court never orally read the jury instructions to the jury…
20-7272 Tyslen J. Baker v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP arrest-warrant civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure Does a police officer violate a defendant's Fourth Amendment rights by executing an arrest warrant consisting of bare bones allegations lacking in pro…
20-7273 Patrick Roger Brigaudin v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment iOhLtbtr flu pr&seci&.t'ofa thctcjfd to cl, dtftndanf that- he lO&tL'ld. rectrVe. h'-ft 5-cofence (f ht d:d not accept cl p{tQ_ tf-f fer cLto (td. h<…
20-7274 Michael Diabolis Griffis, Sr. v. Les Parish, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process faretta-standard federal-courts pro-se pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment I. WHETHER THE SIXTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS DECISION CONFLICTS WITH CLEARLY ESTABLISHED LAW IN FARETTA V. CALIFORNIA AND CONFLICTS WITH THE DECISION…
20-7275 Alvin Herron v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process hearsay ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation prior-record sixth-amendment Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his claim that his counsel r…
20-7228 Leroy Pooler v. Florida Florida 2021-02-25 Denied IFP criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-state state-v-poole statutory-construction substantive-law 1. Does the Florida Supreme Court's statutory construction in Hurst v. State constitute substantive law and, if so, does the Due Process Clause of the…
20-7247 Walter Eugene Powell v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-procedure search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
20-7248 Jonathan Lee Page v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-25 Denied IFP constitutional-law court-limitation criminal-procedure independent-act ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-objection primary-offense primary-offenses trial-procedure 1. Whether counsel was ineffective when he failed to timely object to the lower court expressly limiting the independent act jury instruction to the p…
20-7251 Eric Lyle Williams v. Texas Texas 2021-02-25 Denied Amici (1)IFP criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process fair-trial prosecutor-bias prosecutorial-misconduct recusal structural-error (1) Does the participation of a conflicted and recused prosecutor in a death penalty trial violate due process? (2) Does the undisclosed participatio…
20-7253 Nancy Cole v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-02-25 Denied IFP constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-statutes due-process fifth-amendment mandatory-minimum mens-rea sentencing statutory-interpretation strict-liability 1. Whether the knowingly mens rea in the federal drug statutes, 21 U.S.C. §§ 841, 960, applies to the elements of drug type and quantity that establis…
20-7254 Juan Valenzuela v. L. Small, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 9th-circuit brady-violation criminal-justice-act criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis ninth-circuit-review police-misconduct writ-of-certiorari Whether, in affirming a district court's denial of federal habeas relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d), the Ninth Circuit unreasonably applied this Court'…
20-7255 Samuel Zubia-Olivas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial precedent sentencing Supreme-Court writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-7256 James Timothy Cobb v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court fourth-circuit motion-to-suppress pretrial-motion search-and-seizure standard-of-review Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Appellant's pretrial motion to…
20-7257 Tito Knox v. Elizabeth G. Magera, U.S. Probation Officer, Individually and in Her Official Capacity, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jurisdiction standing Lindly T Court as:kc the to Gorahan OFF review st PP Tym and the boverment make b An Story For no reason the Court put Lopy OF I 0 Brder File Jhae-21-…
20-1186 Dynasty Group, Inc. v. Stephen Smith, Trustee for Bankruptcy Estate of Heritage Real Estate Investment Corporation Alabama 2021-02-25 Denied criminal-procedure jury-selection prejudicial-statements reversible-error trial-judge voir-dire Whether the Trial Judge The Trial Judge Committed Reversible Error When He Refused to Strike the Jury Venire Due to the Taint of Prejudicial Statement…
20-1187 Leon Carmichael, Sr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-25 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights contemporaneous-evidence criminal-procedure due-process hill-v-lockhart ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prejudice-test sentencing-guidelines Question One: What additional objective and evidentiary evidence is required to satisfy "the prejudice test" that this Court articulated in "Missouri …
20-7216 Antwan Seawood v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing dismissed-charges fifth-amendment sentencing sentencing-discretion sixth-amendment Did the District Court abuse its discretion and violate Appellant's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights by sentencing him to a term of 240 months based u…
20-7225 Derek Michael Rigsby v. Colorado Colorado 2021-02-24 Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial double-jeopardy due-process jury-instructions jury-verdict legal-remedy mutually-exclusive-verdicts sixth-amendment Whether the Due Process Clause and the Sixth Amendment require that a defendant receive a new trial where a jury returns mutually exclusive guilty ver…
20-7231 Troy Baker v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-02-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP background-evidence circuit-split confrontation-clause criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility investigative-context jury-instructions out-of-court-statements prejudice Should the Court Grant the Petition to Resolve a Conflict Among the Circuit Courts Over the Propriety of Admitting Out-of-Court Statements That a Defe…
20-7232 Raul Almanza-Portillo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
20-7195 Javan Fredrick Mays, aka Von Frederick Mayes v. Scott Lewis, Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review brady-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process post-conviction-relief procedural-barriers prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel subject-matter-jurisdiction suppressed-evidence vaAV\ e.W\ £f +Vi<£ peVt-fvo \ne.c^ £-ovw{ '£,-V-tov r\ s (fi '^r\v€. SY<3i\r£ fouVeA fo pfovi A-€ VuvYvAVte. ViM-i fYi^s vY\eAi£-d\ 'CeCof As uik'« …
20-7197 Roberto Elias Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court due-process maximum-term plain-error plea-bargaining plea-colloquy sentencing statutory-maximum Whether plain error resulted from the district court erroneously advising the client during plea colloquy that the maximum term of imprisonment was 10…
20-7213 Nathan Ray Dent v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-02-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP armed-bank-robbery armed-robbery circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing habeas-corpus predicate-offense statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis I. The government concedes that one of the possible predicate offenses used to convict Petitioners under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) —conspiracy—is not a § 924…
20-7220 Antonio Diaz-Agurcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe…
20-7221 William David Cannon v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2021-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggregate-prejudice criminal-procedure cumulative-effect due-process fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Fourth Circuit's judicial precedence of not reviewing multiple ineffective assistance of counsel claims for the cumulative effect and aggr…
20-7194 Lamar Johnson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-02-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error-review rehaif-v-united-states substantial-rights supreme-court-decision trial-record "Whether when applying plain-error review based upon an intervening United States Supreme Court decision, a circuit court of appeals may review matter…
20-7189 Bernard Thomas v. United States Second Circuit 2021-02-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP brief-filing counsel-assignment criminal-justice-act criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule federal-defenders fourth-amendment harmless-error local-rule search-and-seizure standing Question not identified.
20-7190 Erik Sanchez v. Terry Jacques, Warden Tenth Circuit 2021-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause consecutive-sentences constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-review judicial-discretion plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-guidelines IN ORCDER FOR THE SENTENCING COURT TO DEPART FROM THE CONCURCENT SENTENCES REQUIREMENT IN .R.S. S18-1-HOB(3) DOES COOVECNMENT MUST ENTER FACTUAL BASIS…
20-7192 Phillip Vance Smith, II v. Josh Stein, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactivity sixth-amendment teague-doctrine Whether the rule announced in McCoy v. Louisiana, 138 U.S. 1500 (2018) applies retroactively to cases on collateral review.
20-7200 Michael Burciaga v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa criminal-procedure due-process gang-evidence habeas-corpus jackson-v-virginia ninth-circuit premeditation standard-of-review Under California law, premeditation requires more than just intent to kill; it requires "careful thought," as a "deliberate judgment or plan," carried…
20-7202 Deon Anthony Romell Bailey v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel ninth-circuit plea-bargaining post-conviction sentencing sixth-amendment Did the Eighth Circuit improperly deny Petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel by failing to remand to the district cour…
20-7206 Pedro Gonzalez-Mendoza v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2015-amendment criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion extraneous-factors mitigating-role sentencing-adjustment sentencing-guidelines u-s-sentencing-commission unrelated-cases DID THE DISTRICT COURT ERR BY FINDING THAT MR. GONZALEZ-MENDOZA WAS NOT ELIGIBLE FOR A MITIGATING ROLE ADJUSTMENT PURSUANT TO U.S.S.G. §3B1.2? DID TH…
20-7207 Manuel de Jesus Gordillo-Escandon v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-02-22 Denied IFP criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process interstate-agreement-detainers interstate-agreement-on-detainers-act judicial-procedure jurisdiction speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation trial-timing 1. Did the district court err when it failed to dismiss the indictment under the Speedy Trial Act ("STA"), 18 U.S.C. §§ 3161-3174, when the trial did …
20-7168 Loren Joel McReynolds v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review base-offense-level criminal-procedure firearms-offense reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review ussg-2k2.1 I. Whether The Court's Calculation Of McReynolds' Base Offense Level Was Erroneous? II. Whether The Court Erred In Denying A Reduction In The Offense…
20-7170 In Re Abhijit Prasad 2021-02-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review mandamus pro-se standing supervised-release Question not identified.
20-7177 Sandra Doyle v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure due-process post-arrest-interview prosecutorial-discretion relevant-conduct safety-valve sentencing witness-testimony 1. Is it a denial of due process to sentence petitioner to additional imprisonment based on a finding that she lied or minimized in her safety-valve i…
20-7178 Nolan C. Turner, III v. Louisiana Louisiana 2021-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief retroactivity right-to-counsel second-degree-murder trial-counsel Over Turner's objection, trial counsel told the jury the offense committed in this case was a general intent second degree murder and not the charged …
20-7181 Quincy O'Neill Taylor v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924(c) criminal-procedure drug-trafficking firearm firearm-possession government-burden-of-proof ineffective-assistance-of-counsel statutory-interpretation united-states-v-dye united-states-v-frady The Statute 18 U.S.C.924 (c)(1)(A) which states: Except to the extent that'a -greater minimumsentence is otherwise provided by this subsection or by…
20-7183 Shameke Walker v. United States Second Circuit 2021-02-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924c armed-career-criminal-act crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery identification-evidence jury-instruction plain-error violent-crime 1. Should the Court grant certiorari to review whether Hobbs Act robbery, 18 U.S.C. § 1951(b), categorically fails to constitute "a crime of violence"…
20-7186 Brian Dale Lee v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5k2.1-motion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court fourth-circuit judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the Fourth Circuit court erred in finding that the district court's consideration of conduct raised in a 5k2.1 motion was appropriate?
20-1132 DeMichael Tyrone Moore and Derrick Darnell Moore v. Tennessee Tennessee 2021-02-19 Denied confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination effective-cross-examination federal-law hearsay-exception memory-loss prior-recorded-statement witness-testimony Whether the Confrontation Clause is violated by admitting a prior recorded statement of a witness who testifies he has no memory of making the stateme…
20-1124 Michael Don Leatherwood v. Jeorld Braggs, Jr., Warden Tenth Circuit 2021-02-17 Denied affidavit criminal-procedure due-process fair-warning ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion probation probation-conditions statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Was Petitioner subject to the release conditions of probation while he was in prison? Does the statute which defines probation as "a procedure by whi…
20-1125 Antonio Devoe Jones v. Alabama Alabama 2021-02-17 Denied 6th-amendment alabama-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process ineffective-assistance mitigation-evidence mitigation-investigation 1. Was Petitioner deprived of his constitutional right to effective counsel after his defense lawyers misunderstood controlling Alabama law and mistak…
20-1127 Joseph Louis Paduano v. Virginia Virginia 2021-02-17 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-jury incorporation state-courts state-criminal-proceedings A. Should Hurtado v. California be overruled? B. Does the right to a grand jury indictment conferred by the Fifth Amendment to the United States Cons…
20-1129 Scott Phillip Flynn v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-02-17 Denied Amici (1) constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea irs jury-trial klein-conspiracy restitution seventh-amendment sixth-amendment L. Whether the due process clause of the United States Constitution, as discussed in McCarthy v. United States, 394 U.S. 459 (1969) and more recent de…
20-7166 Charles J. Jordan v. United States District of Columbia 2021-02-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection grand-jury grand-jury-selection judicial-review jurisdiction 1. Whether the D.C. Court of Appeals is interpreting D.C. Code § 1-204 right when it is allowing the D.C. Superior Court to modify Federal Rules and i…
20-7171 Luis Javier Correa-Figueroa, aka Barney, aka Gordo v. United States First Circuit 2021-02-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-intent criminal-procedure district-court-ruling evidence evidence-exclusion federal-property intent motion-for-acquittal procedural-error self-defense use-of-force (A) WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT COMMITTED A PROCEDURAL ERROR WHEN IT EXCLUDED EVIDENCE THAT PETITIONER WAS SHOT 11 TIMES, AND AS HE WAS TRYING TO EVADE…
20-7172 Dakota Manucy Constantin v. Florida Florida 2021-02-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment uncharged-conduct WAS CONSTANTIN DENIED DUE PROCESS WHEN THE SENTENCING COURT RELIED UPON UNCHARGED CONDUCT IN IMPOSING A SENTENCE IN EXCESS OF THAT RECOMMENDED BY THE …
20-7174 Antonio Lopez v. Texas Texas 2021-02-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP coerced-confession confession-voluntariness criminal-procedure due-process family-coercion family-member interrogation police-interrogation probable-cause truthful-statements 1. Whether a threat to arrest, or a promise not to arrest, a member of a suspect's family, depending only on his willingness to confess to a crime, re…
20-7148 Benjamin W. Fawley v. David Jablonski, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-02-16 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-violations contracts-clause criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus pro-se procedural-errors sentencing standing takings Question not identified.
20-7150 Creadell Hubbard v. Charles Ratledge, Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction sentencing statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
20-7151 Hamid Michael Hejazi v. Clifton Harrold, Sheriff, Lane County, Oregon Ninth Circuit 2021-02-16 Denied IFP bail civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel speedy-trial state-court-review Did the V.S. Coust of Appeals for the Ninth Grcuit err when it denied the certificate of appealibility whereas there were in-set before the istrict co…
20-7152 Brian Hook v. Indiana Indiana 2021-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea habitual-offender ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Indiana Courts erred denying Petitioner was deprived of effective assistance of counsel in violation of the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth A…
20-7156 Faizal Sabar, aka Brian Pimentel v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure discretionary-review evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea supervisory-powers united-states-court-of-appeals Whether the decision of the United State s Cour t of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit")–whi ch affirmed the District Cour t's denial of M…
20-7158 Raymond J. Ramirez v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review certificate-of-appeal criminal-procedure due-process florida-rules habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge standing WHETHER A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY SHOULD HAVE BEEN GRANTED ? WHETHER RULE 3.I9I (J), FLORIDA RULES OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE, IS TRULY JURISDICTIONA…
20-7160 Emmett Garrison, IV v. Louisiana Louisiana 2021-02-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole presumption sentencing sentencing-discretion If the Eighth Amendment forbids automatic life without parole sentences for juvenile offenders, does a sentencing court have the discretion to impose …
20-7164 Marcelino Hernandez-Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals criminal-procedure drug-offenses due-process sentencing supervisory-powers Whether the decision of the United State s Cour t of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit")–whi ch affirmed the significant increase of the b…
20-1122 Edward B. Fleury v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2021-02-16 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 2nd-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process law-enforcement second-amendment statutory-interpretation vagueness 1. Whether Massachusetts gun storage law M.G.L. c. 140, § 131L, providing enhanced penalties for different types of firearms, is unconstitutionally va…
20-1116 Anthony Seward v. United States First Circuit 2021-02-12 Denied criminal-procedure criminal-venue due-process federal-criminal-law federalism interstate-registration sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation venue venue-jurisdiction A registered sex offender who changes residence from one state to another must register in the new state within three business days of arrival. 34 U.S…
20-7128 Teodoro Reynosa-Denova v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-procedure sentencing stare-decisis supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-7133 Anthony Reed v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2021-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment grand-jury habeas-corpus prosecutorial-discretion structural-defects 1. Authority to File The Arkansas Constitutional Amendment No. 21 States: Section 1. Prosecution by indictment or Information - all offenses heretofo…
20-7137 Jerald Dean Godwin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 appellate-review bank-robbery crime-of-violence crimes-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus meaningful-review section-2255 I. Does the Eleventh Circuit's practice of applying published panel orders —issued in the context of an application for leave to file a second or succ…
20-7138 Patrick Begay v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 aggravated-assault criminal-procedure federal-sentencing guidelines judicial-discretion native-american native-american-defendants sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission In carrying out the mandate of 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) to impose a sentence that is "sufficient but not greater than necessary on a defendant," may a dist…
20-7139 Chayce Aaron Anderson v. Colorado Colorado 2021-02-12 Denied IFP burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel substitute-counsel 1. Whether the Appellate Court abused its discretion in denying Mr. Anderson's request for the appointment of substitute Counsel since defense Counsel…
20-7140 Cesar Raul Aceves v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-procedure immigration immigration-law mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states status-elements statutory-interpretation united-states-v-rehaif unlawful-reentry 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) prohibits individuals falling into particular status categories from possessing firearms or ammunition. Rehaif v. United States, 58…
20-7141 Curtis Jerome Brown, Sr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-02-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-ruling federal-review fraud habeas-corpus judicial-procedure standing state-court Can this Court fund pro tunc Release me under libers ouFt orderFr Discharge From SAil JAn3!,1997 Strete Should the Federal Courtshould have let the S…
20-7142 Lewis R. Fox v. David W. Gray, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process felonious-assault habeas-corpus insufficient-evidence merits-review sixth-circuit Lewis Fox's federal habeas corpus petition case (Insufficient Evidence Claim) raises a pressing issue of national importance: Did the United States Co…
20-7145 Rasheik Amond Harris v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-02-12 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearm-offense jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error Whether a defendant who was found guilty after a jury trial to possessing a firearm as a felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 922(g), is automatically ent…
20-7147 Joe Angel Acosta, III v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-02-12 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions post-conviction-relief procedural-default sufficiency-of-evidence Does this Court's holding in Cole v. Arkansas 68 S.Ct 514 constitute "Actual Innocence" or "Miscarriage of Justice" to excuse procedural default?
20-7111 Carlos Lopez-Vanegas v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2021-02-11 Denied IFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process evidence-presentation judicial-interpretation jurisdiction jury-trial state-court Should be purved n apped process totlly regerded to Direct Appea be properly-conpetent exected Whers the mess rea and actus rea have wotbees presested…
20-7112 Hector Miguel Martinez-Carrillo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-7114 Aesha Johnson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP co-defendant confrontation-clause constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidence invited-error plea-agreement I. Does the admission into evidence of a non-testifying co-defendant's plea agreement which includes a statement implicating the defendant on trial as…
20-7118 Terry Allen Miles v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment Did the trial court violate the 5th and 6th Amendments to the Constitution of the United States in overruling Petitioner's objection to the inclusion …
20-7124 George Skylar Cloud v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court-discretion evidence evidence-admission federal-charges federal-criminal-law firearm-discharge guilty-plea sentencing separation-of-powers Did the district court error when it allowed the government to introduce into evidence the Petitioner's guilty plea, in a separate pending matter, to …
20-7125 Rashan Williams v. Louisiana Louisiana 2021-02-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP collateral-review criminal-procedure Fourteenth-Amendment non-unanimous-jury retroactivity Sixth-Amendment Teague-v-Lane 1. Whether this Court's decision in Ramos v. Louisiana, 140 S.Ct. 1390 (2020), applies to cases on State collateral review, where the State follows th…
20-7129 Tyreek Torrence v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2021-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment Question not identified.
20-7132 Roy Lee Dykes v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure bail bond bond-motion criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard motion-denial Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by failing to find that the District Court erred in denying Mr. Dykes' Motion for Release on Bond pending appeal?
20-7096 Brian Edward Reynolds v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit exclusionary-rule federal-court mandate search-and-seizure standing Question not identified.
20-7097 Alree B. Sweat, III v. City of Las Cruces, New Mexico, et al. New Mexico 2021-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-law fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress post-conviction-relief property-rights search-and-seizure takings Question not identified.
20-7098 Herminio Nicolas Reyes v. Georgia Georgia 2021-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule inevitable-discovery police-misconduct search-and-seizure Whether, in conflict with the holdings of the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second, Fifth, Eighth, Eleventh and D.C. Circuits and several State court…
20-7100 Ryan Detrell Robinson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure district-court-judgment due-process equal-protection sentencing sentencing-variance Whether the Circuit Court Erred Failing To Reverse District Court's Imposition of an "Alternate Variance Sentence" Which Was Designed To Insulate The …
20-7107 Jimmy Richard Husband v. J. Ray Ormond, Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-defect retroactive-effect retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation substantive-rule 1. Whether NELSON V. COLORADO 137 S. Ct. 1249 (2018), announced a new substantive rule, narrowing the language and scope of 18 USC Sect. 3661, that ha…
20-7109 Raul Flores-Villalvaso v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process illegal-reentry mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines specific-intent Whether the 8 U.S.C. § 1326 Attempted Illegal Reentry mens rea element of "specific intent" can be restated as simply "a conscious desire" with no ref…
20-7110 David Falcon v. Neil McDowell, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa alibi-defense criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance miranda-hearing miranda-rights police-misconduct police-testimony right-to-counsel strickland-standard David Falcon was convicted of murder based on an incident where two men approached and shot a stranger in a public park. Falcon's counsel raised an al…
20-1095 Darius Wayne Haws v. Idaho Idaho 2021-02-10 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appeal-waiver appellate-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea plea-agreement Whether a criminal defendant's purported waiver of the right to appeal in a plea agreement is knowing, intelligent, and voluntary—as required by the D…
20-1098 Tod Houthoofd v. Les Parish, Warden Michigan 2021-02-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-error trial-jurisdiction venue venue-challenge Does Petitioner's convictions violate the U.S. Constitution and prior decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court? (See page 2)
20-7074 Jimmy Lee Nave, Jr. v. Frank Vanihel, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-02-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probable-cause warrantless-arrest witness-identification I. Mr. Nave was arrested without a warrant and without probable cause. Mr. Nave alleged that his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to object t…
20-7076 Michael Javier Ottogalli v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-02-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process enhanced-sentence factual-contestation government-sentencing-memorandum ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presentence-report sentencing sentencing-enhancement Is d ueprocess Violat&J dut ~h> i'neffe:f iVe assistance of Counsel when defendant aWofney did oof qivc defendant opportunity to review Peesenfence …
20-7070 Jeremy S. v. West Virginia West Virginia 2021-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-inquiry jury-polling jury-trial trial-court-procedure verdict-review 1. Does the new syllabus point issued by the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia permitting a trial court judge to make further inquiry of a ju…
20-7078 Brandon Cordell Bennett v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment judicial-review material-omission materiality probable-cause search-warrant WHETHER OMITTED INFORMATION FROM A SEARCH WARRANT APPLICATION MUST NEGATE OR CONTRADICT ALLEGED FACTS SUPPORTING PROBABLE CAUSE IN ORDER TO BE MATERIA…
20-7079 Lorenzo Liwayne Barnes v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-rights criminal-appeal criminal-procedure drug-crimes due-process fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel narcotics-distribution perjury sentencing sentencing-factors Whether the United States Court of Appeal 4th Circuit violated the United States V McCarthy Rule. Whether the United States Court of Appeal 4th Circu…
20-7080 Jimmy Lloyd Alexander v. California California 2021-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-seizure fair-trial judicial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct Question not identified.
20-7083 Jeremy Brown v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-02-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment burden-of-proof collateral-review criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process presumption-of-innocence rehau-v-united-states retroactive-application Whether A Criminal Defendant Substantial Rights To DUE ProcESS Under ThE Fifth Amendment OF ThE UnitEd States Constitution Denied In Light oF Rehaif v…
20-7085 Thomas Hoey, Jr. v. United States Second Circuit 2021-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-privilege conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process harsher-punishment plain-text precedents sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines 1-Should lower courts be permitted to interpret the plain text and meaning of sentencing commission's provisions to inflict harsher punishment upon pe…
20-7087 Brian James Holland v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2241 conviction criminal-law criminal-procedure evidence evidence-sufficiency force-definition statutory-interpretation witness-credibility i) What is the definition of the term force Under Statute 18. USCS. 2241? What is the proper Criminal law and procedure used to determine sufficient e…
20-7039 Thomas Patrick Keelan v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-rule brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process giglio-impeachment giglio-rule homosexuality jencks-act new-evidence perjured-testimony 1. Does an overview of facts collected at trial/ sentencing/ restitution/ direct and collateral review/ (and from startling new evidence)/ which expo…
20-7050 Mustafa Muhammad v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-right criminal-procedure due-process indiana-courts ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment Question not identified.
20-7052 Joshua Wright v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion mitigating-factors procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing substantive-reasonableness Where the court failed to address Petitioner's mitigating arguments and failed to justify its sentence, whether the 151-month sentence is procedurally…
20-7056 Faramarz Mehdipour v. Heather Coyle, Judge, et al. Oklahoma 2021-02-05 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-challenges frivolous habeas-corpus malicious procedural-deficiencies sentencing-disparities standing The Oklahoma Supreme Court's October 26, 2020 ORDER denying his petition for writ of habeas Corpus is based upon the bare allegation that Petitioner h…
20-7059 Glen Thomas Dotson v. Dewayne Hendrix, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment grand-jury prosecutorial-misconduct right-against-self-incrimination witness-testimony Was the petitioner deprived of a fair trial when the only Government witness to incriminate him lied to the jury that the defendant appeared before th…
20-7062 Alfred L. Cross v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP bank-fraud constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea indictment-defect intent intent-to-defraud jurisdiction materiality materiality-element plea-bargaining Whether the Decision below squarely conflicts with McCarthy v. United States and Neder v. United States, where Mr. Cross Held a Constitutional Right t…
20-7068 Jerry Davis v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conspiracy criminal-procedure discretionary-sentencing drug-convictions drug-crimes due-process first-step-act sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether the 4thCircuit Court of Appeals created a Cirauit split by affiomingthe District Courts reuson to ceny his motion for a sentence reduction und…
20-1071 West Virginia, ex rel. June Yurish, et al. v. Laura V. Faircloth, Judge, Circuit Court of West Virginia, 23rd Judicial Circuit, et al. West Virginia 2021-02-05 Denied 6th-amendment conflict-of-interest counsel-of-choice criminal-procedure due-process joint-representation sixth-amendment standing supremacy-clause Whether a state precedent which uses a state rule of procedure to disregard its own test for balancing the Constitutional interests implicated by a pr…
20-1065 Christopher Hudler v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2021-02-04 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process extradition fourteenth-amendment in-absentia in-absentia-trial sixth-amendment Whether petitioner's judgment of conviction was rendered in violation of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, where …
20-7025 Derrick Michael Allen, Jr. v. Orlando Hudson, Jr. Fourth Circuit 2021-02-04 Dismissed IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus immunity monetary-relief post-conviction-relief procedural-default standing state-court-review WHETHER THE U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT ORDER IN DISMISSING PETITIONER'S COMPLAINT PURSUANT TO …
20-7034 Kelli Renee Bullard v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing defendant-rehabilitation district-court-discretion due-process judicial-review rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-reasonableness statutory-maximum Did the district court impose a substantively unreasonable sentence of 60 months imprisonment —the statutory maximum—when it did so with a blind eye t…
20-7035 Rondell Slaughter v. Tammy Ferguson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix, et al. Third Circuit 2021-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel criminal-procedure error exhaustion ineffective-assistance legal-concession oral-argument procedural-exhaustion state-court state-court-pleading I. Whether a claim of ineffective assistance of appellate counsel is exhausted when the state-court pleading asserted that appellate counsel rendered …
20-7037 Elias Junior Rodriguez v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5K1.1-motion appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing downward-variance government-motion judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines U.S.S.G.-5K1.1 1. DOES A COURT VIOLATE THIS COURT'S HOLDING IN GALL v. UNITED STATES, 552 U.S. 38 (2007) BY FAILING TO ADEQUATELY EXPLAIN TO WHAT EXTENT THE COURT'S …
20-7041 Bruce Kintrell Green v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment parole sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
20-7048 Roman Gabriel Gonzales v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process plea-bargain sentencing supervisory-powers Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit")–which affirmed the significant increase of the base…
20-7018 Lawrence Westbrook, III v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-02-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion enhancement firearm-enhancement firearms sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guidelines I. Whether the district court erred by applying a six-level enhancement pursuant to USSG § 2K2.1(b)(1)(C). II. Whether the district court erred by ap…
20-7019 Kourtney Williams v. United States First Circuit 2021-02-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury jury-finding mens-rea petit-jury plain-error Does Fed. R. Crim. P. 52(b) grant an appellate court discretion to independently find an essential element of an offense for which the defendant was n…
20-7030 Devaron Antoine Love v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-03 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence criminal-procedure federal-habeas habeas-corpus judicial-review new-decision procedural-default section-2255 unlawful-conduct Whether a movant under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 can show actual innocence to overcome a procedural default where he can show, based on a new decision from thi…
20-7032 Salvador Delrio v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-02-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP courier courier-status criminal-procedure due-process mitigating-role sentencing sentencing-guidelines speculative-inference speculative-inferences u.s.s.g.-3b1.2 1. What weight should a court give to a defendant's essential role as a mere courier when determining a mitigating-role adjustment? 2. Does a distric…
20-1056 Justin Wolfe v. Virginia Virginia 2021-02-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-rights constitutional-authority criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas forfeiture-rule plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct vindictive-prosecution After petitioner Justin Wolfe obtained federal habeas relief because of "abhorrent" prosecutorial misconduct, the Commonwealth of Virginia vindictivel…
20-7010 Israel Santiago-Lugo v. United States First Circuit 2021-02-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP ambiguity amendment-782 criminal-procedure federal-rules forfeiture molina-martinez-v-us peugh-v-us rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines 1) WHETHER THE SENTENCE WAS IMPOSED UNDER U.S.S.G. §2Dl.l(c) TO ESTABLISH THE BASE OFFENSE, THE GUIDELINES ARE IN REAL SENSE THE BASIC FOR THE SENTEN…
20-7017 Dennis Martin Beyer, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2021-02-02 Denied IFP constitutional-requirement continuous-sexual-abuse criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process jury-conviction jury-unanimity sixth-amendment texas-court-of-criminal-appeals Does the constitutional requirement of jury unanimity require a jury to be unanimous as to specific acts of sexual abuse in order to convict a defenda…
20-6991 Edwin Jurado-Nazario v. United States First Circuit 2021-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process first-circuit judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-review sentencing Whether The Sentence Imposed is Unreasonable.
20-6992 Bobbie Lewis Mayes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP booker criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process johnson johnson-precedent mandatory-guidelines pre-booker pre-booker-era sentencing-challenge sentencing-guidelines Whether a defendant has a right under Johnson to challenge a sentence ordered pre-Booker, when applying the Sentencing Guidelines was mandatory.
20-6995 Floyd Clark v. United States District of Columbia 2021-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process final-judgment johnson-precedent motion-for-new-trial newly-discovered-evidence recanting-affidavit residual-clause 1. Whether there was a sufficient final determination by the trial court such that the Circuit Court could have reached a determination of the substan…
20-7003 Justin Anthony Kudla v. Minnesota Minnesota 2021-02-01 Denied IFP 4th-amendment criminal-activity criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-intrusion reasonable-suspicion terry-stop terry-v-ohio traffic-stop Did the district court error by denying the suppression motion where a police officer violated a rule announced in Terry v. Ohio, under the Fourth Ame…
20-1042 Pedro Hernandez v. New York New York 2021-01-29 Denied Response Waived constitutional-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-rules-of-evidence holmes-precedent holmes-v-south-carolina relevance-standard third-party-guilt This Court has long held that a criminal defendant has a constitutional right to introduce evidence suggesting that someone else committed the crime c…
20-6958 Luis C. Paulino v. Thomas Griffin, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection justification-defense self-defense standing takings WHETHER A DEFENDANT IN CERTAIN SITUATIONS MAY BE UPON PRESUMPTION OF VINDICTIVENESS FOR EXERCISING RIGHT TO TRIAL WHETHER PRO-SE PLEADINGS IN THE UNI…
20-6966 Charles Eloys Johnson, aka Adam White v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c appellate-review conspiracy crime-of-violence criminal-procedure hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error substantial-rights Charles Johnson was convicted of two counts of possessing a firearm during a crime of violence. 18 U.S.C. § 924(c). The district court instructed the …
20-6971 Jason Alfred Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure plain-reasonableness revocation-of-supervised-release revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness I. Did the court of appeals err when it reviewed the district court's sentence for plain reasonableness? II. Did the district court impose a plainly …
20-6973 Tommy Demond Fannin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP assault criminal-procedure cross-reference district-court due-process fifth-circuit firearm-possession sentencing-guidelines I. Did the district court err when it imposed a cross-reference under U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Manual § 2K2.1(c)(1) without a connection between the…
20-6974 Freddie Lee Wilson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 404(b) background-evidence circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-trial drug-evidence evidence-rule federal-rules-of-evidence jury-testimony res-gestae At Wilson's jury trial the district court allowed testimony that Wilson sold drugs the day before the charged offenses as background evidence that was…
20-6975 Cortez Maurice Crumble v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-court-conflict criminal-law criminal-procedure mens-rea outside-trial-record plain-error-review rehaif-v-united-states substantial-rights trial-error When evaluating Rehaif-derived trial errors under Rule 52(b) plain-error review, should prejudice under the "substantial rights" prong be presumed? 2…
20-6976 Timothy Tijwan Doctor v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure different-occasions federal-court non-elemental-facts plea-colloquy prior-offenses sentencing sentencing-enhancement 1. Whether a federal court may increase a defendant's sentence under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) by relying on its own finding about non-elem…
20-6977 Joshua Ryan Dorman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
20-6983 Demarcus Cole v. Kevin Myers, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP cellular-phone-evidence certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure fourth-amendment habeas-corpus illegal-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress trial-counsel Did the Court of Appeals err in denying a Certificate of Appealability on trial counsel was ineffective, when counsel failed to file a pre-trial Motio…
20-6984 Ralph Frank Esposito, Jr. v. Arizona Arizona 2021-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment brady-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery-violation due-process evidence-suppression structural-error witness-testimony Question not identified.
20-6954 Brenda Yadira Gamez-Castaneda v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP alien-smuggling criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judge-found-facts judicial-fact-finding jury-trial jury-trial-rights sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Petitioner pleaded guilty to conspiracy to transport aliens within the United States and being found in the United States after a previous deportation…
20-6959 Mason Somers v. Jay Forshey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-privilege constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process ineffective-assistance jail-recordings pre-trial-discovery right-to-counsel trial-counsel 1. Once trial counsel learns facts of a criminal case prior to receiving discovery from the government, provides that discoverable information to his …
20-6914 Ryan Clark Petersen v. Alabama Alabama 2021-01-26 Denied IFP buchanan-v-kentucky capital-trial criminal-procedure due-process estelle-v-smith expert-testimony fifth-amendment mental-health-evaluation psychological-evaluation self-incrimination Where a court-appointed mental health expert assures a criminal defendant that the evidence gathered in his psychological evaluation will not be used …
20-6921 Elier Isai Marquez-Gonzalez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure empirical-basis fifth-circuit illegal-reentry presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines Whether a presumption of reasonableness on appeal does not apply to a sentence produced by the illegal reentry guideline, §2L1.2, because that guideli…
20-6930 Marco Antonio Lopez-Sanchez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure legal-precedent recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-6931 Christopher Shawn Landreneau v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether a district court may, consistent with the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment and Rule 32 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, re…
20-6932 Jorge Armando Jamaica-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
20-6933 Seledonio Martinez v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-standard totality-of-the-circumstances Where the totality of the circumstances of this case do not support a top-of-the-Guidelines sentence, whether the 46-month sentence is reasonable.
20-6936 Scott Tucker v. United States Second Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-instructions mens-rea racketeering 1. Whether the Court of Appeals has endorsed an inflexible rule that limits evidence of legal advice rendered to the defendant to the very inception o…
20-6937 Darris Altony Newsome v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mistrial parole 1 Did a Courts erred in the opinion that petitioners writ of habeas corpus was dismissed as unauthorized and successive federal relief? 2 The Double …
20-6939 Thomas Nevius v. Gurbir S. Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law brady-violation civil-procedure civil-rights co-defendant-confession confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-admissibility judicial-discretion standing DID THE DISTRICT COURT ERR WHEN IT DECIDED THAT CO-DEFENDANT (WILLIAM BOSTON) MINIMIZED HIS INVOLVEMENT IN THE HOMICIDE, THEREFORE MAKING HIS CONFESSI…
20-6946 Barry Cashin v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process procedural-reasonableness sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness Does 18 U.S.C. § 3742(a) restrict appellate courts' authority to review the procedural and substantive reasonableness of a denial of a motion for a se…
20-6951 Julio Torres Palomo v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency expert-testimony hearsay hearsay-objection indictment indictment-insufficiency jury-instructions sexual-abuse sufficiency-of-evidence FORMAL REQUISITE OF AN INDICTMENT: THE INDICTMENT FAILED TO PROPERLY ALLEGE THE OFFENSE,AS WRITTEN IN THE TEXAS PENAL CODE ANN. § 21.02. INSUFFICIEN…
20-6952 In Re Russell Adam Pelletier 2021-01-26 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-fraud prosecutorial-misconduct standing 1) Does the exceptional circumstances within ihis Writ reach the level required tor Court to use Its discretionary powers ? 2) Does ignorance of the …
20-991 Stevie L. England v. DeEdra Hart, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure davis-v-united-states fifth-amendment interrogation interrogation-standard miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona objective-inquiry right-to-counsel subjective-factors Whether the "objective inquiry" required by Davis may be based on subjective factors.
20-993 Jeremy Mickens v. Arkansas Arkansas 2021-01-26 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure dog-sniff due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop Whether a police officer may, in the absence of reasonable suspicion, extend an otherwise completed traffic stop, justified only by a police officer o…
20-995 Anthony Vetri v. United States Third Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment aiding-and-abetting cellphone-data cellphone-privacy criminal-procedure digital-privacy evidence-search fourth-amendment particularity probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirements 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment requires more stringent privacy considerations in authorizing a warrant for the seizure of a cellphone and the manner …
20-6913 Terry Smith v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review severance speedy-trial standing state-constitution .ofJla^Js'th^ -hm-Ameferemuff bedecided. bmreA^ .. _ QM~m&pmc€5Sjj#hts _ . _ vblai/m , 'i _ (^Qo^SJkdbiOMcL 'ho^eUSJConsfArAXX ' (flkaS'-PebWon^r suff…
20-6922 Melvin Bonnell v. Ohio Ohio 2021-01-25 Denied IFP brady-vs-maryland capital-punishment criminal-procedure due-process evidence prosecutorial-misconduct When a capital ly sentenced defendant credibly demonstrates that (1) state actors have cont inually exhibited bad faith throughout the history of a …
20-6924 Auturo Beltran v. Craig Koenig, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas habeas-corpus plea-agreement sentencing trial-court During a colloquy on a plea agreement to a 24-year sentence, petitioner said that he did not understand all of the rights and consequences of the plea…
20-6925 Leonidas Iraheta and Eduardo Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judge-found-facts judicial-discretion jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit severe increases to the sentences of criminal defendants using judge-found facts rejected by the jury.
20-6926 Nestor Alegria Hernandez v. California California 2021-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment intoxicated-driving involuntary-manslaughter jury-instructions lesser-included-offense I. CALIFORNIA LAW VIOLATES THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT'S EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE BY REQUIRING ITS COURTS TO INSTRUCT ON INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER AS A LES…
20-6927 Anthony Freeney v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553a audio-recordings criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency jail-phone-calls jury-instructions jury-verdict sentencing standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence GUILTY VERDICT? DID THE DISTRICT COURT ERR IN ADMITTING AUDIO RECORDINGS OF MR. FREENEY'S JAIL PHONE CALLS? DID THE SENTENCE IMPOSED BY THE DISTRICT…
20-978 Poppi Metaxas v. United States Second Circuit 2021-01-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining reasonable-probability trial 1. Whether the petitioner was denied effective assistance of counsel with respect to the plea process by counsel's failure to discuss with and inform …
20-973 Ricky Haywood-Watson v. Texas Texas 2021-01-15 Denied apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-guarantee continuous-sexual-abuse criminal-procedure jury-unanimity ramos-v-louisiana richardson-v-united-states schad-v-arizona sexual-abuse texas-penal-code In light of Ramos v. Louisiana, does Section 21.02(d) of the Texas Penal Code violate the constitutional guarantee of jury unanimity by not requiring …
20-6889 Gregory Bartunek v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus internet-protocol overbreadth search-warrant standing vagueness I. WHETHER THE FEDERAL RULES OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ARE UNCONSTITUTIONALLY OVERBROAD AND VAGUE II. WHETHER WARRANTS BASED ON INTERNET PROTOCOL ADDRESS…
20-6895 Raheem Jefferson Brennerman v. United States Second Circuit 2021-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-review liberty second-circuit trial-court Whether the abuse of discretion standard imposed by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit is Constitutionally impermissible - wher…
20-6896 Phillip A. Benjamin v. Florida Florida 2021-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-selection sixth-amendment witness-testimony 1. Did the Trial Court err when limiting the testimonies of the defense witness from testifying of vital information, therefore, hindering the Defenda…
20-6901 Antonio Sierra v. Jack Daneri, et al. Pennsylvania 2021-01-15 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus rules-of-court standing state-court-error unreasonable-seizure Whether petitioner sufficiently asserted federal rights in the case being heard by state courts who defeated by rules of court, in error, petitioner's…
20-6910 El-Asad Alsaedi v. Florida Florida 2021-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum sentencing-authority sentencing-guidelines standing statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
20-6911 Dimas Alfaro-Granados v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama rico-enterprise sentencing sixth-amendment vicar [1]- 1st Question Presented on Request and Application for COA Did the appellate court err in denying a certificate of appealability on whether the di…
20-6875 Jason Pierce v. Nathan Brooks, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure death-penalty faretta-protocol habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-defect structural-defect Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit err in filing to issue a Certificate of Appealability from the denial of the Petition …
20-6880 Victor Esquivel, aka Youngster v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP anders-brief constructive-denial criminal-procedure direct-appeal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel no-merit-brief preserved-objections right-to-counsel right-to-effective-assistance-of-counsel A. Whether Esquivel's Right to Counsel Was Constructively Denied When, in the District Court, Esquivel Moved for a New Trial and Requested New Counsel…
20-6884 Luis Alberto Andrade-Salas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
20-6888 Christina Elizabeth Pandey v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
20-6890 Chong Leng Lee v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2021-01-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-rights brady-violation court-reporter-act criminal-procedure dismissal due-process evidence-destruction fair-trial transcripts 1. IS DISMISSAL AVAILABLE TO REMEDY A BRADY VIOLATION AND ALSO DID CHONG ESTABLISH A BRADY VIOLATION THAT WARRANTS DISMISSAL? 2. DOES A YOUNGBLOOD VI…
20-6892 Vashaun Williams v. Illinois Illinois 2021-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment compelled-testimony constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions self-incrimination sixth-amendment 4he U^e^lc'i^erAfeasor 4o Calf D^Pe^SC. a [/lo/aJ't'ojO o\ b&fh A" Q/^A /VA^ejuAbeAs Pcl coi-f-yjsSS Cr -jP23) |a)\\hoiA XoooL/Ap -Me u)eplAby -fhe. …
20-6894 Macho Joe Williams v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-interpretation criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines DiD The Trial court Abuse Its Disctetion when He Denied Apellant's Motions To Sever a. Dig The Trial couwst commit Reversible Ervor when He faile To …
20-6851 Jeffrey Lee Atwater v. Florida Florida 2021-01-13 Denied IFP burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mccoy-v-louisiana right-to-counsel sixth-amendment 1. Did Mr. Atwater show a violation of the right to determine the objective of his defense and his right to hold the State to its burden of proof of e…
20-6864 Brian David Hill v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial preponderance-of-evidence reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment supervised-release trial-by-jury Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred in failing to find that the district court erred in sentencing Petitioner by d…
20-6866 Kevin Sutherby v. Sherman Campbell, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct warrantless-arrest Whether, Mr. Sutherby is entitled to a new trial, based on Newly Discovered Evidence, Ineffective Assistance of Counsel at trial, and appeals, and the…
20-6867 Noel Romero-Espinal v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP continuing-offense criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute illegal-reentry immigration immigration-law sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-code Whether illegally reentering the United States in violation of 8 U.S.C. §1326 is a continuing offense.
20-6871 Angnem Green v. New York New York 2021-01-13 Denied IFP closing-argument constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial prosecutorial-misconduct racial-bias racial-discrimination Petitioner an African-American man, was tried for the crime of Criminal Sale of a Controlled Substance, namely cocaine. During the prosecutor's closin…
20-937 Robert Andrews v. New Jersey New Jersey 2021-01-13 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution evidence-discovery fifth-amendment foregone-conclusion passcode-disclosure password-disclosure self-incrimination state-supreme-court testimonial-compulsion Does the Self-Incrimination Clause of the Fifth Amendment protect an individual from being compelled to recall and truthfully disclose a memorized pas…
20-6837 Jacob Ray Owens v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure drug-crimes fact-finding judicial-fact-finding methamphetamine-distribution plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Petitioner pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine. He admitted to the district court only to possession of …
20-6843 Cedryck Davis v. Illinois Illinois 2021-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP attempted-murder criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial identity identity-evidence other-crimes-evidence reasonable-doubt witness-testimony Whether Cedryck Davis's convictions for the attempt murder of Naja and Shawn Harringon should be reversed because the prosecution failed to sustain it…
20-6845 Tony Tran v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2021-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal confrontation-clause credibility criminal-procedure due-process evidence 1. whether the circuit coust erred wher the court ruled that Tran Could not elicit evidence to attack the credibility of Tran's accuser.
20-6848 Dana Sylvester Whitley v. R. Graham, Jr., Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review merger-of-sentences ohio-court-of-appeals post-conviction-relief second-degree-murder sentencing VfcLS \\\L IhsrfricA C-cuifrf Fc>r OhiAnd OF MoualjUni e_(MTe.£rf \n T3.5^ ?e.Vrf\on W uarrf erf ha.beaS V\w\£. VsClt r-e_d , lv r\A tx .ft CjlS Corpu…
20-6822 Rodney Berryman, Sr. v. Ron Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-01-11 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 criminal-procedure federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-illness mitigation-evidence neuro-psychiatric-testing 1. Was the state court's denial of Petitioner's claims in a written opinion and subsequent summary denial of the same claims in a habeas petition, all…
20-6823 Robert Buttery v. Ohio Ohio 2021-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial jury-trial-rights juvenile-adjudication sex-offender-registration Whether an adult felony conviction under Ohio's failure to register statute, Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2950.04, violates a defendant's due process and jur…
20-6831 David Garcia v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court constitutional-rights criminal-procedure direct-appeal duty-to-adjudicate existing-record ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits sixth-amendment Whether a circuit court of appeals has a duty to adjudicate the merits of a Sixth Amendment ineffective assistance of counsel claim raised by a defend…
20-6836 Julian P. Gutierrez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-01-11 Denied IFP appellate-counsel appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel Whether the Petitioner received Effective Assistance of Counsel as guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, viz.: a. Whet…
20-929 Neil J. Gillespie v. Florida Florida 2021-01-11 Denied Response Waived 6th-amendment constitutional-right criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process faretta-v-california forced-counsel habeas-corpus right-to-self-representation self-representation state-proceedings Can a writ of habeas corpus free a criminal defendant in state criminal proceedings from being restrained by forced appointment of counsel prohibited …
20-916 Nathaniel K. Hooker v. Illinois Illinois 2021-01-08 Dismissed adversarial-proceeding criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance probable-cause right-to-bear-arms right-to-counsel right-to-effective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment This case presents an important issue concerning the proper application of Illinois Criminal Procedures and the Sixth Amendment Right to Effective Cou…
20-919 Richard Spinnenweber, et al. v. Dan Williams Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response Waived arrest civil-rights criminal-arrest criminal-procedure district-court due-process fourth-amendment judicial-determination law-enforcement legal-standard probable-cause Whether the district court erred in holding that there was probable cause to believe the plaintiffs had committed the crime for which they were arrest…
20-6789 Lilia Abril Olmedo-Perez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP administration-of-justice appellate-review criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-law fifth-circuit minor-role sentencing-guidelines Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law when it conducted a cursory review of the facts related to a warranted two-level adjustment under U.S.S…
20-6792 Edgar Rene Mier-Garces v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split conspiracy conspiracy-prosecution constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process tenth-circuit The Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits successive conspiracy prosecutions when the conspiracy underpinning a subsequent prosecution is part of the same …
20-6793 Curtis Parks v. Willis Chapman, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus post-conviction procedural-default structural-error (1) After Weaver, can a petitioner in post-conviction proceedings asserting a procedurally defaulted structural error demonstrate prejudice by showing…
20-6799 Kosoul Chanthakoummane v. Texas Texas 2021-01-08 Denied IFP bitemark-identification criminal-procedure dna-analysis dna-evidence due-process expert-testimony eyewitness-identification eyewitness-testimony forensic-evidence scientific-evidence trial-fairness Is Petitioner's conviction the product of a fundamentally unfair trial that was prejudiced by the admissibility of flawed forensic scientific evidence…
20-6800 Harry Miller v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-rule brady-v-maryland constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence favorable-evidence materiality prosecutorial-disclosure prosecutorial-misconduct trial-fairness How does a court determine whether evidence that the prosecution did not share with the defense before trial is "favorable" under the standard announc…
20-6802 Noel Jones v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP automatic-reversal constitutional-defect criminal-liability criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-quantity due-process guilty-plea sentencing-enhancement structural-error (1) If a criminal defendant pleading guilty to a drug conspiracy is required to admit to an enhancing drug quantity as part of his guilty plea but has…
20-6803 Dominic Lindsey v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-conflict certiorari court-order criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-precedent legal-compliance precedent supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Whether the opinion below conflicts with this Court's decisions in Witte v. United States, 515 U.S. 389 (1995), and Davis v. United States, __U.S.__, …
20-6805 Michael M. Williams v. Josh Stein, Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment actual-innocence constitutional-violation criminal-procedure exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief state-law-relief trial-counsel Question not identified.
20-6810 Michael Lanier Watkins v. Georgia Georgia 2021-01-08 Denied IFP criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion lesser-included-offense sixth-amendment trial-counsel Did Petitioner receive ineffective assistance of counsel when his trial counsel, against Petitioner's instruction, asked the trial court to return a c…
20-6796 Simon A. Sanchez v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure deadly-weapon due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions Whether Trial Counsel failure to object a factual withholding with Guilty modifications in two (Pharenteticals) of Jury instructions, prevented Juror'…
20-6771 Oristel Soto-Peguero v. United States First Circuit 2021-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree good-faith-exception illegal-search independent-source-doctrine search-and-seizure warrant-application Whether the court erred when it denied Petitioner's motion to suppress evidence discovered during an illegal search of Petitioner's residence on the b…
20-6775 Dantazias Raines v. Georgia Georgia 2021-01-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure eighth-amendment jury-trial juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole montgomery-v-louisiana permanent-incorrigibility sixth-amendment Dantazias Raines was sentenced to life without parole for a botched robbery that ended in a death when he was seventeen years old. After the Supreme C…
20-6777 James Baxton v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy criminal-evidence criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidence fourth-circuit rico rico-conspiracy sentencing sentencing-guidelines I. Whether the Government produced sufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the Petitioner's actions were part of a Rico Conspiracy…
20-6778 Richard Anderson v. United States Second Circuit 2021-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof courtroom-closure criminal-procedure family-member-exclusion public-trial sixth-amendment triviality-exception waller-v-georgia On October 4, 2013, and again on December 4, 2013, Kevin Felton, a friend of Mr. Anderson, tried to attend Mr. Anderson's trial. On both occasions, wi…
20-6781 Bernard Moore v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession felon-status jury-instructions rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states sentencing substantial-rights In Rehaif v. United States, this Court held that 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g) and 924(a)(2) require the government to prove that "the defendant knew he possess…
20-6755 Alejandro Tovar-Regalado v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-rule almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi-rule constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation precedent-interpretation sentencing supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
20-6757 Phillip Jazir Thompson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fugitive fugitive-status probation-law sentencing sentencing-conditions supervised-release tolling tolling-period Whether a term of supervised release is tolled during the time in which the person on supervised release is a fugitive.
20-6759 Bernard Weiters, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 3582(c)(2) criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing first-step-act resentencing section-404(b) sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-mandatory-minimum statutory-maximum Whether the Court Committed error by declining to resentence the petitioner under Section 3582 of the First Step Act, when the Court earlier reduced t…
20-6760 Adam Lee Thomas v. Texas Texas 2021-01-04 Denied IFP civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process evidence extraneous-offenses innocence-phase judicial-interpretation legal-error state-court texas-rules texas-rules-of-evidence Question not identified.
20-6761 Wayne Wells, Jr. v. Terrie Wallace, Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP age-of-consent civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence-rules sentencing statutory-interpretation trial-procedure witness-testimony Does Module Code Ann. § 16-3-1055 (B)(c) has a constitutional requirement that a trial court must rule on the defendant's motion to suppress evidence …
20-6764 James Ray Davis v. Christopher Morledge, Judge, Circuit Court of Arkansas, St. Francis County, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-01-04 Denied IFP appeals criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing nfed pnt 227 on8-21n 2th2017 was entence on new charge's that was not pors, Cr-17-240 cr.17-243 2r-17-244 r 17-241 cr-17-242 did I see a motin to disc…
20-6767 Marlon Thomas v. Illinois Illinois 2021-01-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process mental-competence pre-trial-evaluation right-to-counsel sentencing Question not identified.
20-6770 Lelis Ezequiel Treminio-Tobar v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment affirmative-defense criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-instruction jury-instructions trial-court Whether the Fifth Amendment Due Process right to present a defense requires the trial court to instruct the jury that it has a duty to acquit any defe…
20-6730 Jose Lupe Corrall v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-distribution due-process federal-scheduling guilty-plea knowledge-standard mens-rea plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation 1. Under McFadden v. United States, ---U.S.---, 135 S.Ct. 2298 (2015), when a defendant pleads guilty to "knowingly" distributing a controlled substan…
20-6734 John S. Mobasseri v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2259 child-pornography criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process restitution retroactive-application statutory-amendment Whether it violates due process to retroactively apply the 2018 amendments to 18 U.S.C. § 2259 to offense conduct occurring prior to the effective dat…
20-6737 Christian Alejandro Perez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process knowingly-and-voluntarily plea-bargain right-of-appeal waiver-of-appeal Was a dismissal of the appeal improper considering the court of appeals' reliance on a waiver of appeal pursuant to a plea bargain in which Mr. Perez …
20-6743 Neil Dussard v. United States Second Circuit 2020-12-31 Denied IFP circuit-split constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction plain-error sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis Whether the Supreme Court should correct the Second Circuit's split from other Circuit Courts in addressing the recurring question of the validity of …
20-6745 Demetrius Elishakim Jefferson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-12-31 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3742 404b-evidence attempt-offenses auer-deference circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-procedure expert-testimony sentencing-guidelines 1. Whether this Court should resolve a Split among the Circuit s and find a District Court's use of Application note 1 to U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2, which purp…
20-6748 Edward David v. Eloy Ituarte, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence witness Question not identified.
20-6720 Terek Harper v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP consideration contract-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-law plea-agreement plea-bargaining void-agreement void-for-lack-of-consideration Whether A Federal Criminal Plea Agreement is Void and Unenforceable When it Lacks Consideration.
20-6724 Kaseem Alexander v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment abuse-of-discretion civil-rights criminal-procedure downward-variance due-process gun-range property-rights search-and-seizure sentencing-guidelines standing target-shooting Issue 1: Whether the appellate court erred in affirming the District Court's abuse of discretion in overruling petitioner's objection to the Presenten…
20-6726 Jamie Betances v. United States First Circuit 2020-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure factual-objections guilty-plea legal-arguments plea-agreement sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines Did the lower court err in denying Jamie Betances acceptance of responsibility, under U.S.S.G. § 3E1.1, after Mr. Betances pleaded guilty, accepted th…
20-6727 Sergio Avalos v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-and-just-reasons guilty-plea impeachment-evidence impeachment-information plea-agreement post-hoc-disclosure withdrawal Whether being misled about the terms of the plea agreement and the government's post-hoc disclosure of impeachment information constituted "fair and j…
20-6728 Jarvis O'Neil Adams v. Georgia Office of the Governor, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment arrest civil-rights criminal-procedure law-enforcement narcotics officer-opinion probable-cause search-and-seizure seizure 1. Whether probable cause pursuant to the 4th Amendment can be established solely upon an officer's opinion of smelling narcotics. 2. Whether seizure…
20-6731 Kevin Francis v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2020-12-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP case-screening court-procedure criminal-procedure indigent-defendants judicial-error legal-waiver precedent public-defender sixth-amendment waiver Whether the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court erred when it held that a public defender case screener who did not represent the defendant waived th…
20-6732 Adams Joel Forty-Febres v. United States First Circuit 2020-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence-insufficiency first-circuit judicial-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence Whether Evidence was Totally Insufficient for the Conviction to Fairly Stand.
20-860 Ryan Randall Gilbertson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-12-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-restitution due-process jury jury-determination procedural-due-process reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment prohibits a court from imposing criminal restitution on a defendant based on facts not found by the jury beyond a reasonab…
20-6715 Michael Adair Mankin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
20-6718 Jason J. Johnson v. California California 2020-12-29 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-rule judicial-discretion legal-standard newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction post-conviction-relief standards-of-review trial-procedure 1. Under the "newly discovered evidence rule" does not evidence discovered after conviction, such as evidence the movant could not have possibly disc…
20-6688 Arthur Tyrone Lee, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-12-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure plain-error rehaif-v-united-states sufficiency-of-evidence Whether, on plain error review and following this Court's decision in Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), a defendant's stipulation at tr…
20-6698 Richard H. Morrison v. Florida Florida 2020-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-burden habeas-corpus legal-burden procedural-standard state-courts state-jurisdiction DO THE STATE HAVE THE BURDEN, AND THEN THAT BURDEN SHIFT BACK TO THE DEFENDANT TO CHALLENGE?
20-6699 Juan David Pineda-Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-procedure sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-6701 Benjamin Pedraza, III v. Ohio Ohio 2020-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-data constitutional-rights criminal-procedure eighth-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure privacy-expectation search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether or not a third party, Appellant, has an expectation of privacy, in terms of cell-phone data that a police officer or detective obtains, howeve…
20-6706 Roberto Degollado v. Texas Texas 2020-12-23 Denied IFP and whether due process requires affirmative show 14th-amendment criminal-plea criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea intentional-conduct memory memory-defense murder plea-bargaining 1. Is a defendant's open plea of guilty to engaging in the knowing or intentional conduct required to prove a murder charge valid when the plea colloq…
20-6691 Cesar Armenta Lopez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment procedural-fairness sixth-amendment supervised-release united-states-v-haymond In light of the decision in United States v. Haymond , 139 S.Ct. 2369 (2019), recognizing fundamental Fifth and Sixth Amendment limits on the impositi…
20-6692 Juan Manuel Lopez-Canales v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-6694 Gerardo Flores-Riojas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-838 Kim Blandino v. Nevada, et al. Nevada 2020-12-22 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise impartial-judge judicial-impartiality structural-error (1) Whether this Court's decision in Rippo v. Baker, 137 S. Ct. 905 (2017) which concerns a structural error of the Constitutional denial of an impart…
20-830 Washington v. Said Omer Ali Washington 2020-12-21 Denied Amici (3) 8th-amendment criminal-procedure eighth-amendment graham-v-florida individual-proportionality juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama proportionality-determination sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent Whether Graham and Miller require an individual proportionality determination before imposing any sentence on a juvenile offender convicted in adult c…
20-831 Washington v. Endy Domingo-Cornelio Washington 2020-12-21 Denied Amici (3) 8th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment graham-v-florida individual-proportionality juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama proportionality-review sentencing-guidelines Whether Graham and Miller require an individual proportionality determination before imposing any sentence on a juvenile offender convicted in adult c…
20-833 William Todd Coontz v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-12-21 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure criminal-tax-prosecution expert-testimony expert-witness-exclusion foundation sentencing-guidelines state-of-mind tax-knowledge tax-prosecution willfulness willfulness-standard witness-testimony Was it reversable error for the trial court to exclude the Petitioner's/ Coontz's key witness – the CPA expert – from testifying in a criminal tax pro…
20-6668 Christopher Zamarripa v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-21 Denied IFP ambiguity appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-interpretation plea-bargaining plea-colloquy procedural-ambiguity Does a district court's mischaracterization, during the plea colloquy, of an appeal waiver create an ambiguity that must be construed against the gove…
20-6674 Tony Chevallier v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-acts criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process judicial-discretion jury-conviction sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines statutory-range uncharged-conduct I. When are trial judges prohibited from considering as sentencing factors criminal acts that a defendant was neither charged nor convicted of? And in…
20-6675 Augustine L. Cavitte v. Nebraska Nebraska 2020-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility law-enforcement-conduct miranda-rights prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense self-incrimination voluntariness 1) Did the lower courts err in finding Ms. Cavitte's statements admissible contrary to present Miranda standards? a. Did the Nebraska Court of Appeals…
20-6677 In Re William Harold Wright, Jr. 2020-12-21 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process probable-cause search-and-seizure standing Question not identified.
20-6679 Larry Dortley v. Florida Florida 2020-12-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP civil-rights competency criminal-procedure drope-v-missouri due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mental-competency trial-rights Petitioner, Larry Dortley, was declared incompetent to proceed to trial by the Third Judicial Circuit Court, Columbia County, Florida, and was involun…
20-6680 Darryl Taylor v. Timothy E. Buchanan, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jackson-v-virginia standard-of-review standing sufficiency-of-evidence Question not identified.
20-6683 Reynaldo Diaz-Guzman v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression judicial-discretion jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether The court of Appeals erred and abused its discretion For Forfeiting The challenge The indictment and argue For dismissal For lack of subject m…
20-6656 Jose Armando Bazan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure davis-v-united-states fifth-circuit plain-error role-adjustment sentencing Whether the Fifth Circuit properly applied the plain error standard of review in determining that petitioner failed to establish plain error regarding…
20-6657 Ezer Rosembel Barrientos-Osorio v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutes plain error affecting substantial rig for a defendant likely to be deported criminal-procedure deportation plain-error sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights supervised-release Where a district court commits plain error by failing to follow Section 5D1.1(c) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines by imposing, without expla…
20-6659 Eddie Ashley v. California, et al. California 2020-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP california-law california-supreme-court constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements Does Petitioner had a Federal Due Process Right to the Prohibition of the Imposition of Two Different Sentencing Enhancements, per the California Supr…
20-6660 Shusta Traverse Gumbs v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure deadly-weapon intent jury-instruction jury-instructions lesser-included-offense united-states-v-feola I. Whether the district court erred in giving only the first sentence of Mr. Gumbs' request to charge on use of a deadly weapon in light of the Circui…
20-6661 Brian Keith Figge v. Scott Frauenheim, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-12-18 Denied IFP criminal-defendant criminal-procedure deliberation-process due-process judicial-misconduct juror-dismissal jury-deliberations jury-selection jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-by-jury Does a trial court violate a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment right to trial by jury when it dismisses a defense holdout juror on the third day of…
20-6662 Ian D. Goolsby v. United States Second Circuit 2020-12-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP specifically allowing review beyond the trial rec circuit-conflict criminal-procedure due-process element-of-offense jury-instruction plain-error-review presentence-report rehaif-v-united-states scope-of-review supreme-court-decision In Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191, 2194 (2019), this Court held that 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g) and 924(a)(2) require the government to prove not o…
20-6663 Benjamin Justin Brownlee v. New York New York 2020-12-18 Denied IFP brady-violation criminal-discovery criminal-procedure discovery due-process late-disclosure medical-evidence medical-records prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure Did the prosecution violate its duties under Brady v Maryland (373 US 83 [1963]) and its progeny by withholding the complainant's medical records unti…
20-6643 Adrian McCray v. Scott Lewis, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-12-17 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection prosecutorial-misconduct standing Question not identified.
20-6647 Douglas Charles Knicely v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court fourth-circuit motion-to-suppress pretrial-motion search-and-seizure standard-of-review Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Appellants' pretrial motion to…
20-6638 Raheem Jefferson Brennerman, aka Jefferson R. Brennerman, aka Ayodeji Soetan v. United States Second Circuit 2020-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-review liberty second-circuit trial-court Whether the abuse of discretion standard imposed by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit is Constitutionally impermissible - wher…
20-6625 Shane Q. Whipple v. Michael Johnson, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance standing state-court statute-of-limitations CAN U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE MARCIA MORALES HOWARD WITHDRAW THE FORMA PAUPERIS ON THE HABEAS CORPUS FILED IN JURISDICTION APPEAL NO. 20-104215 AFTER PLAINT…
20-6628 Rodane Lamb v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy-charges criminal-procedure dea-testimony due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions jury-selection trial-errors 1) Was Counsel Ineffective For Not Challenging Petitioner's Stated Cumulative Errors in Argument One? 2) Was Counsel Ineffective For Not Challenging…
20-6619 Pedro Carrasco, Jr., aka Pedro Carrasco v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-12-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-rights criminal-procedure dispositive-pretrial-motion effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining pretrial-motion right-to-appeal sixth-amendment Is a criminal defendant deprived effective assistance of counsel as guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment when counsel knowingly withholds from the trial …
20-6620 Michael R. Spengler v. Los Angeles County District Attorney Ninth Circuit 2020-12-14 Denied IFP civil-procedure collateral-estoppel criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process exhaustion-doctrine federal-review habeas-corpus jurisdiction state-remedies XM F* F) P-ec'-erpyi Hcdagcxs Corpus For criMtNPd os^ej^cftNfS irJ c-hevieNQiNc. tVie V€-GrR-'-\FY OF ThOT CONiFlNx2»Ae.MF WeFoce -fir^r st^TS *fTfA…
20-6621 Shauna Smith v. Brooks Benton, Warden Georgia 2020-12-14 Denied IFP appellate-review cell-phone-records criminal-procedure evidence-suppression habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel phone-records trial-procedure 1) Ms. Smith alleged that her appellete course! was ineHectue — Tor Failing 40 raise: on appeal that hertrial counsel wos deficient For not moving to …
20-6608 Zachary Michael Patten v. Michigan Michigan 2020-12-11 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insanity-defense investigation medication mental-health search-and-seizure I. Pettioner was denied his constititonal right to the effective assistance of counsel, where in spite of pettoners eftensive mentd health history and…
20-6610 Luis Sanabria-Robreno v. United States Third Circuit 2020-12-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-922g constitutional-validity criminal-procedure due-process essential-elements firearm-possession guilty-plea plea-bargaining rehaif-v-united-states When defendant s plead guilty, this Court's precedent —consistent with due process —require s that they understand the offense's essential elements. I…
20-6615 Cornell McHenry v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-12-11 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review witness-testimony Did the Fifth Circuit err in deferring to the State trial Counsel's conflict of Interest and failure to Call a witness who would have impeached the st…
20-793 Samir Rafic Khoury v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-11 Denied Response Waived appellate-review criminal-defendant criminal-procedure indictment-dismissal mandamus mandamus-relief post-indictment-delay post-judgment-review prejudice speedy-trial Whether a Court of Appeals may review, on petition for a writ of mandamus, the denial of a criminal defendant's motion to dismiss the indictment on sp…
20-6592 Edgar Gomez v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-12-10 Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-proceeding due-process faretta-right habeas-corpus right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment timeliness (1) Was Petitioner's denied his right to self-representation pursuant to Faretta v. California, 422 U.S. 806 (1975) when the trial court denied the re…
20-6598 Stephen Frederick Baker, Jr. v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2020-12-10 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equitable-tolling guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the petitioner is entitled to step through the gateway of equitible tolling? 1. Whether state courts determinations of trial counsels effecti…
20-6599 Randy Dominguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-10 Denied IFP appeal circuit-split criminal-procedure good-faith in-forma-pauperis retained-counsel If a criminal defendant was represented by retained counsel in the district court, must he show that his appeal is taken in good faith to proceed in f…
20-6601 Savannah Sifuentes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure elements-of-offense essential-element forfeiture guilty-plea indictment indictment-challenge statutory-interpretation waiver 1. Whether a defendant who unsuccessfully moves to dismiss an indictment for failure to allege an essential element of the crime waives or forfeits th…
20-6572 Deshawn Legrier v. United States Second Circuit 2020-12-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure evidence-consideration felon-in-possession judicial-proceedings jury-instructions plain-error-review rehaif-error rehaif-v-united-states sufficiency-of-evidence trial-record In Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (2019), this Court held that knowledge-of-status was an element of the crime set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 922(g…
20-6575 Ronald Jermaine Jackson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech government-accountability indigenous-rights jurisdiction land-management standing tribal-sovereignty . \ w kV/vle-^ c>E i \\ Af foies, \T S fw^'t'rtd-t+w ^ Tr\€, So pee V_a^ 0p La»^L ?| J5 4-V^ CbwsVA-Vi VUOA *2~' Is S\A\>W^ AcVolisW^ f>. H . (_^a A…
20-6580 Joseph W. Peeples, III v. United States Second Circuit 2020-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP arrest civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure detention due-process evidence-admissibility fourth-amendment search-and-seizure travel warrantless-search Does the long standing commitment on U.S. Constitution Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment to right with Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure 3, 5, 5.1, 7,…
20-6583 Edgar Espinoza v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-12-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-defect criminal-indictment criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment guilty-plea indictment jurisdiction mens-rea sixth-amendment 1. Circuit courts are split on whether federal courts have jurisdiction over a criminal matter when the charging document omits an essential mens rea …
20-6584 Richard Olive v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining prejudice right-to-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington 1. What do Missouri v. Frye, 566 U.S. 134 (2012), and Lafler v. Cooper, 566 U.S. 156 (2012), require of a defendant to demonstrate prejudice resulting…
20-6585 Bernard Moore v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-09 Dismissed IFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession fifth-amendment jury-instructions rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states substantial-rights One and Two In Rehaif v. United States, this Court held that 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g) and 924(a)(2) require the government to prove that "the defendant kn…
20-6589 John Xavier Portillo, aka John Portillo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure critical-stage initial-appearance magistrate magistrate-hearing right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the initial appearance before a Magistrate after the right to counsel has attached is a critical stage of the proceeding under the Sixth Amend…
20-6590 Jimmy Pike v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review clear-error conspiracy criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy methamphetamine mitigating-role sentencing-guidelines A district court's guidelines calculatio ns are reviewed for clear error. Did the court of appeals err in holding that the district court's guidelines…
20-6548 Tamral Guzman v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief Question not identified.
20-6558 Sonya Bamberg v. Georgia Georgia 2020-12-08 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression habeas-corpus judicial-procedure post-conviction-proceedings right-to-appeal right-to-counsel Sonya Bamberg was denied due process because she was denied a full and complete record to review for appeal. Bamberg was denied meaningful review of h…
20-6559 Jesus Villarreal-Ramirez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei…
20-6565 Simon Quinn v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-intent criminal-investigation criminal-procedure homicide-investigation obstruction-of-justice reasonable-doubt specific-intent statutory-interpretation underlying-conviction Reasonable jurist would debate that the State failed to meet its burden of proof of beyond a reasonable doubt that Mr. Quinn is guilty of the offense …
20-6566 Anilou Beltran Del Rio v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
20-6567 Kedrio Lekeis Summerville v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-withdrawal post-conviction-relief The counsel conceded dtiring sentencing that "it was his fault that Mr. Summerville was faced with the increased penalty because he failed to investi…
20-6568 Francisco Javier Gonzalez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-circuit court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process legal-review procedural-question remand standard-of-review supreme-court united-states-v-penn Whether this Court should remand to the court below in light of United States v. Penn, 969 F.3d 450 (5th Cir. August 5, 2020)?
20-6526 Kendesia Juinize May v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP buy-sell-defense buy-sell-transactions conspiracy conspiracy-law criminal-procedure judgment-of-acquittal jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error rule-29 1. Whether the trial court committed plain error in refusing to grant a "buy-sell" defense jury instruction when the government's evidence of a conspi…
20-6545 Michael Meadows v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure cumulative-error-doctrine drug-enforcement drug-profile-testimony due-process evidence expert-testimony judicial-procedure legal-admissibility trial-evidence trial-practice I. Does drug profile testimony have any legitimate use as trial evidence? II. Does the cumulative error doctrine exist and, if so, can errors to whic…
20-6551 Andy Williams v. United States Second Circuit 2020-12-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure fourth-amendment inventory-search probable-cause reasonable-suspicion rehaif-v-united-states warrantless-search Question One: Was the second warrantless search of the car - which followed the completed inventory search and was prompted by an officer's later-deve…
20-6554 Jeffrey Fay Pike v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial impartial-jury jury-anonymity jury-selection presumption-of-innocence sixth-amendment (1) whether cloaking jurors in anonymity impermissibly impairs the presumption of innocence and the right of the accused to an impartial jury and (2) …
20-775 Clifford Williams v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-12-07 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment right-to-present-defense self-defense sixth-amendment Clifford Williams was convicted of murder in New Orleans, Louisiana, after the trial court denied him the right to introduce evidence showing he was r…
20-776 Gregory Williams v. Leonta Jackson, Warden Seventh Circuit 2020-12-07 Denied Response Waived criminal-defendant criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing-exposure strickland-standard strickland-test 1. When a criminal defendant is considering whether to accept a plea offer, is defense counsel's failure to advise the defendant of his or her sentenc…
20-6517 Elvis Basic v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure drug-quantity federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review 1. Whether a federal district court must use the "err on the side of caution" principle when approximating the drug quantity?
20-6511 Jose Antonio Lugo-Guerrero, aka Antonio Moraima, aka Fernando Rivera-Rodriguez, aka Alex v. United States First Circuit 2020-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment guilty-plea judicial-review plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment 1. Whether This Court Should Grant This Petition Because The First Circuit's Judgment Affirming The District Court's Judgment Violates Mr. Lugo-Guerre…
20-6512 Davey Lewis v. Florida Florida 2020-12-03 Denied IFP confession-suppression confessions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule interrogation-tactics law-enforcement miranda-rights police-interrogation Can the State doubts allow the Voitee by use promises, inducements, threats and for taken obtaining a Confession and then also Suppress the Confession…
20-6516 Eric Dynell McGadney v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit judicial-discretion molina-martinez per-se-rule prejudice prejudicial-error sentencing-error sentencing-framework sentencing-guidelines Whether a sentencing court's statement that it would have imposed the same sentence regardless of the Guidelines creates a per se rule that a miscalcu…
20-6519 Julian Mondragon-Hernandez, aka David Rojas, et al. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP alternative-elements conviction criminal-procedure factual-findings judicial-fact-finding judicial-review jury-instructions jury-verdict mandatory-minimum-sentences mandatory-minimums sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence When a jury verdict allows for alternative elements of conviction, may courts review the evidence and make factual findings to uphold the conviction a…
20-6521 Hector Valdez v. United States First Circuit 2020-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appellate-review criminal-procedure first-step-act retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation waiver-of-rights If a defendant waives the right to appeal a sentence and the waiver takes place before the passage of the First Step Act and the defendant is sentence…
20-6524 Joshua D. Myers v. Georgia Georgia 2020-12-03 Denied IFP burden-of-proof consent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions lesser-included-offense sexual-assault sexual-battery standard-of-proof trial-court-discretion trial-procedure Whether the State proved the essential element of "without the consent" beyond a reasonable doubt. Whether the trial court's refusal to charge the le…
20-6527 Byron Brown v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review bivens civil-rights criminal-procedure damages due-process federal-government legal-interpretation seventh-circuit writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
20-6529 Wesley Wayne Wakeford v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2d1.1(b)(5) circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense drug-offenses methamphetamine-importation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation This Court should grant this petition to interpret Sentencing Guide-lines section 2D1.1(b)(5). What an "offense that involved the importa-tion" of met…
20-6496 Michael Alford v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing expert-services expert-witness forensic-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-assistance motion-of-innocence pro-se-litigant right-to-counsel Wheth The Court erred in Refusing To Order legal assistance and forensic Software expert assist. To Obtain and Subrit factual evidence of The Microsof…
20-6483 Adrien John Matuck v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-12-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-proportionality criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole sentencing-discretion speedy-trial statute-of-limitations Question not identified.
20-6487 Andrew Johnston v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-12-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdictional-challenge sentencing suppression-of-evidence Question not identified.
20-6492 Calvin James v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-01 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction firearms government-power interstate-commerce sentencing statutory-interpretation i,) i-ld'iA/ rr£ &6\/£gMrtE.iJT :TrAJhrc %bFo&£ r^sr /}pP£ A £Ahic£ di. f%& -,Td*ZUs»h Wt A :m& ?/ Auo Ntjlsc Fo/c o£ Pea,*, of,,* T7 &j%/ -A ^ ? $>)…
20-6494 Jose Andres Vera-Gutierrez v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-error harmless-error witness-credibility WHETHER ERRONEOUSLY ADMITTED EVIDENCE CRITICAL TO PROVING AN ELEMENT OF THE CHARGED OFFENSE CAN BE DEEMED HARMLESS BASED ON THE APPELLATE COURT'S DETE…
20-752 Gavin B. Davis v. California California 2020-12-01 Denied Relisted (2) appeal appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing totality-of-circumstances (1) Did the 4th Dist., Div. 1, Court of Appeal, California, err in its (a) inquiry and (b) application of Boykin / Tahl 1 analysis under its (c) "tota…
20-6468 Kinzey Shaw v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure drug-quantity evidence sentencing standard-of-review 1. Whether there was sufficient foundation to support the District Court's drug quantity approximation? 2. Whether the Eighth Circuit's decision to a…
20-6474 Pedro Fermin Barajas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors?
20-6479 Genaro Garcia v. Indiana Indiana 2020-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-petition prosecutorial-misconduct I. Is State Appellate Court's unexplained to allow a petitioner to file a successive petition for Post-Conviction reliet under Rule I(zz) and Post-Con…
20-6459 David Lee Garrett v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-27 GVR Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924(e) civil-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure sentencing-enhancement simple-robbery statutory-interpretation texas-criminal-code texas-offense violent-felony I. Whether the Texas offense of simple robbery constitutes a "violent felony" under 18 U.S.C. §924(e)? II. Whether the Texas offense of burglary cons…
20-6460 Reginald Hollie v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act commerce-clause conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure drug-offense interstate-commerce jury-trial plain-error-review rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement 1. Whether, in cases charged and tried to a jury before this Court decided Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), courts of appeals may rely…
20-6463 Alex Murillo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-6465 Damontaze Montrell Tillery v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP convicted-felon criminal-evidence criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process firearm-possession motion-for-acquittal sentencing sentencing-guidelines sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's decision to overrule Petitioner's motion for acquittal when the evidence at trial…
20-6466 Louis Anthony Jackson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-11-27 Denied IFP 924(c) 924(c)-sentence certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-procedure davis-decision due-process hobbs-act-robbery residual-clause sentencing [1] WHETHER A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY SHOULD HAVE BEEN GRANTED, WHERE MR. JACKSON ARGUED THAT IN LIGHT OF THIS COURT'S DECISION IN UNITED STATES …
20-736 Adam Frasch v. Florida Florida 2020-11-27 Denied Response Waived appeals brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-defendant criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence evidence-disclosure evidentiary-hearing prosecutorial-misconduct Whether a criminal defendant is entitled to an evidenti ary hearing to determi ne if a violation has occur red pursuant to Brady v. Maryland , 373 U.S…
20-719 Don Arthur Webster, Jr. v. United States District Court for the District of Alaska Ninth Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process international-treaty judicial-bias marginalized-communities marginalized-populations racial-discrimination treaty-interpretation (1) Does RACIAL BIAS DISPROPORTIONALLY AFFECT THE FEDERAL COURTS TREATMENT OF MARGINALIZED PEOPLE OF COLOR, WHEN ADDRESSING THE INTERNATIONAL TREATY A…
20-6433 Byron Jones v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP assault-with-dangerous-weapon criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy evidence-admission fifth-circuit-court jury-instructions murder-in-aid-of-racketeering pattern-of-racketeering rico-conspiracy rico-enterprise witness-intimidation 1. Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err when it found that Byron Jones was guilty of a RICO conspiracy? 2. Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appea…
20-6435 Christopher Jones v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggregate-sentencing constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-appeals federal-courts judicial-precedent north-carolina-pearce north-carolina-v-pearce sentencing-doctrine Whether the aggregate sentencing doctrine adopted by various Federal Courts of Appeal violates the rule set forth in North Carolina v. Pearce?
20-6452 Michael Deshawn Homer v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu case-remand certiorari constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond I. Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Ha…
20-6453 Marcos Alejandro Gonzalez Flores v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process fourth-amendment search-and-seizure suppression-hearing suppression-motion witness-testimony The lower courts are in conflict about whether the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause, the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause, or some other aut…
20-6457 Phillip Watkins v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process hybrid-representation pro-se right-to-counsel sixth-circuit standing supplemental-brief 1. Whether Petitioner, after presenting trial court motion in an alternative court action in an amended (Amend.) black letter brief presented Pro Se b…
20-6409 Hugo Humberto Perez Rangel v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-24 Denied IFP advisory-opinions appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-sentencing guideline-error harmless-error incentive-to-object judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines Whether Guideline error is necessarily harmless if the district court is presented with the Guideline range later vindicated on appeal and disclaims a…
20-6411 Miguel A. Ramirez v. California California 2020-11-24 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure cumulative-error defendant-rights due-process evidence-admissibility jury-instructions prejudicial-error sexual-abuse 1. whetheR a juRy InstRuction in corractly Stating That Continous Sexual abuse of a child is a general intent cRime was PRejudiciael? 2. Whothek the …
20-6412 Robert St. Hilaire v. United States Second Circuit 2020-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing firearm-possession sentencing-guidelines serial-number serial-number-alteration statutory-interpretation Whether the Second Circuit, which noted it was deepening a split over the meaning of U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(b)(4)(B), properly construed that Guideline's 4-…
20-6426 Jose Farias-Valdovinos v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver criminal-procedure factual-basis mens-rea plea-bargaining plea-colloquy rule-11 specific-intent specific-intent-crime Whether the district court's omission of an independent inquiry into a defendant's mens rea during the Rule 11 plea colloquy for a specific intent cri…
20-714 Stephen A. Saccoccia v. United States, et al. First Circuit 2020-11-24 Denied Response Waived appellate-review criminal-forfeiture criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture-law gross-disproportionality joint-and-several-liability joint-liability statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether the courts of appeal may create exceptions to this Court's finding in Honeycutt v. United States that there exists no statutory authority for …
20-715 Jibriil A. Hersi v. Ed Sheldon, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-11-24 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-authorization jury-trial police-conduct police-misconduct prosecutorial-discretion right-to-counsel trial-records 1) Whether I am entitled to get the missing records from my trial in Medina County, Ohio for statements made by the judge outside the hearing of the j…
20-718 Mario Nelson Reyes-Romero v. United States Third Circuit 2020-11-24 Denied attorney-fees civil-rights criminal-procedure eaja equal-access-to-justice-act government-misconduct hyde-amendment standing united-states-position The Hyde Amendment authorizes a district court to award attorney's fees and costs to a prevailing criminal defendant "where the court finds that the p…
20-6404 Henry T. Liggins v. Bob Vashaw, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-11-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-standing statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
20-6405 Joshua Cato v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-distribution due-process federal-scheduling guilty-plea knowledge-standard mens-rea plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation 1. Under McFadden v. United States, --U.S.---, 135 S.Ct. 2298 (2015), when a defendant pleads guilty to "knowingly" distributing a controlled substanc…
20-6408 Jose Hilario Fernandez-Vargas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe…
20-6401 In Re Gregory Richardson 2020-11-20 Dismissed IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-appeal criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-procedure lower-court-decision standing supreme-court-review Question not identified.
20-6394 Michael A. Hagar v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-judicial-power criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process jurisdiction protective-order sixth-amendment speedy-trial-act venue venue-limitations Do the Article 3, Section 2, Clause 3 provision, the "trial shall be held in the State where the said Crime shall have been committed" and the Sixth A…
20-6396 Michael John Bever v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2020-11-20 Denied IFP consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-review jury-finding juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing sentencing sixth-amendment 1. Whether a judge's decision to sentence a juvenile offender to consecutive terms is exempt from Eighth Amendment review. 2. Whether a judge's decis…
20-6397 Douglas Cornejo v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-disclosure brady-evidence confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process preliminary-hearing prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-present-defense witness-testimony 1. Should a COA Have Been Granted to Decide If the Prosecutor's Failure to Disclose Brady Evidence Deprived Cornejo of His Right to Confront and Cross…
20-6380 China Hester v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari counsel criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-proceeding remand reversal-and-remand right-to-counsel standards-of-review Whether Ms. Hester may have received ineffective assistance of counsel such that certiorari should be granted, and this matter reversed and remanded.
20-6381 Domenico Anastasio v. United States Second Circuit 2020-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure district-court indictment rico-conspiracy second-circuit standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred by affirming the judgment of conviction and sentence pronounced by the United …
20-6382 Randall Allen Eplion, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-practice plea-agreement sentencing standing waiver Whether a provision in a plea agreement which bars the defendant from appealing "the right to seek appellate review of . . . any sentence of imprisonm…
20-6384 Owen McCants v. Steven Silva First Circuit 2020-11-19 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion appeals criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency federal-law-violation ineffective-counsel judicial-discretion judicial-review pretrial-procedure prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review #1 : WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT, APPEALS COURT, AND SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT ABUSED THEIR DISCRETION? #2: WHETHER THE EXCLUSION OF THE DEFENDANT FROM TH…
20-6385 Jason D. Devers v. Nebraska Nebraska 2020-11-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-claims conviction-of-sole-participant criminal-procedure due-process felony-murder habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pinkerton-doctrine post-conviction-relief state-court-review sufficiency-of-evidence trial-attorney-affidavit 2) Did the State of Nebraska commit error when it convicted the Defendant of Felony Murder, using the aiding and abetting theory when there is no prin…
20-6387 Darrin B. Woodard v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-11-19 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (7)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process government-justification pre-indictment-delay preindictment-delay prejudice prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct tenth-circuit-standard Whether, as many courts have held, allowing a prosecution to continue after lengthy and demonstrably prejudicial delay in filing criminal charges offe…
20-6388 Joel Latrent Fletcher v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure plain-error rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation I. Whether this Court should grant review to resolve a split between the circuits courts' determination of whether error under Rehaif v. United States…
20-6389 Tomas Martinez-Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe…
20-6366 James W. Riley v. Delaware Delaware 2020-11-18 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel right-to-self-representation Question not identified.
20-6367 Kissinger St. Fleur v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-18 Denied IFP appellate-review buyer-seller-transaction cocaine-distribution conspiracy criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure drug-crimes due-process fair-trial judicial-discretion jury-instruction jury-instructions Did the district court and the Eleventh Circuit deny Mr. St. Fleur a fair trial when it failed to give buyer-seller instructions to the jury?
20-6373 Cordarrius Bonds v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-11-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure felon-in-possession firearm-possession knowledge-of-status plain-error plea-bargaining sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-precedent structural-error I. When a defendant pled guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), and the plea was neither knowing no…
20-6330 Benjamin Macias v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-defense criminal-procedure defendant-autonomy due-process mccoy-v-louisiana reckless-endangerment sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment speedy-trial 1. In McCoy v. Louisiana , 138 S.Ct. 1500, 1511, 200 L.Ed. 821 (2018) the court held that the Sixth Amendment guarantees a criminal defendant the righ…
20-6346 Demarcus D. Morris v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substances criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy drug-conspiracy due-process fifth-amendment indictment-vagueness rico rico-statute sentencing 1) Count One (RICO) of the Indictment is unconstitutionally vague. 2) Count Two (Conspiracy to Distribute Controlled Substances) of the Indictment is…
20-6347 Christopher Mikelinich v. United States Second Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felony-possession knowing-plea mens-rea plain-error plea-agreement plea-bargaining rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-elements Where a defendant claims his plea was not knowing and intelligent because he was unaware of all the elements of the offense, does it matter whether he…
20-6348 William J. O'Brien, III v. United States Third Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process free-speech law-enforcement procedural-error prosecution standing takings (1) LE tA Gasirvpvte Violv bord ok Dut Paces f, , tke govenneobs TPosecu fot AS pgeok, va LIE non A veo d yor, MATA BUIQEN CE Kartwed 4h perjoredy & o…
20-6352 G. N. W. v. New Jersey New Jersey 2020-11-17 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel speedy-trial Question not identified.
20-6356 Ryan Dennis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied IFP acca criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus physical-force reckless-injury residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Whether an offense that can be committed by recklessly causing serious injury has "the use of physical force against the person of another" as an e…
20-6361 Robert L. Davis v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-negotiations post-conviction-review standing weight-of-evidence We EK Pino po ted ns oe United StotesCourt_of AP Peal ancl Micelle Dis tira to Sok Elena has oleseteal So Fixe Reale the accebhed andl use| course _of…
20-6326 Adam Donald Bennett v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2251 child-exposure criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing deferred-adjudication prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement sexual-abuse statutory-interpretation texas-law I. Is a Texas deferred adjudication a "prior conviction" for purposes of the sentencing enhancement in 18 U.S.C. § 2251(e)? II. Does the Texas crime …
20-6327 Terry Charles Carroll v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fifth-circuit plea-bargaining standard-of-review supervisory-powers supreme-court Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit")–which held plain error would be the standard of rev…
20-6332 Cecil Salyers v. Kentucky Kentucky 2020-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP concurrent-sentences consecutive-sentences constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice sentencing-prejudice sixth-amendment strickland strickland-standard Did the Kentucky Court of Appeals correctly interpret the Sixth Amendment in holding Petitioner "cannot demonstrate prejudice under Strickland", when …
20-6336 Eric Troy Snell v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-11-16 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing fourth-circuit gall-standard gall-v-united-states harmless-error harmlessness-standard sentencing-guidelines 1. Does the Fourth Circuit's practice of not addressing erroneous Sentencing Guidelines calculations but affirming a sentence under "assumed error har…
20-6341 Jason Harriman v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP adequate-inquiry appointed-counsel appointment-of-counsel civil-rights court-inquiry criminal-procedure due-process indigent-defendant legal-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment 1. Whether a defendant's 6th Amendment right to counsel of choice extends to an indigent defendant who has appointed counsel. 2. The extent of the ad…
20-6342 Pedro Gutierrez v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment general-verdict judgment-of-acquittal rico rico-case special-verdict I. Whether a RICO "Gang" Case Certified as Complex Should Require the Use of a Special Verdict Form Rather Than a General Verdict Form. II. Whether G…
20-6343 Ashley Fernandes v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2020-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure digital-devices digital-search-warrant electronic-evidence evidence fourth-amendment general-warrants probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant May a search warrant authorize an unlimited search of all of a suspect's digital devices based on an affidavit describing the type of crime being inve…
20-6301 Alfornia Jason Wall, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-law federal-state-interaction recidivism sentencing-enhancement state-law Question not identified.
20-6304 Muhanad Mahmoud Al-Farekh v. United States Second Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP classified-information classified-information-procedures-act criminal-procedure discovery discovery-rights due-process ex-parte ex-parte-motion national-security right-to-present-defense security-clearances 1. Where the plain text of 18 U.S.C. app. 3 §4 of the Classified Information Procedures Act (CIPA) does not require that any motion be determined ex p…
20-6305 Roosevelt Leon Cooper v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearm-statute guilty-plea plain-error sentencing sentencing-error Whether a defendant who pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1) and 924(a), is automatically entitle…
20-6309 Emilio Urena-Villa v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claim constitutional-law counsel-performance criminal-procedure fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel kimmelman-v-morrison motion-to-suppress strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. WHETHER APPOINTED COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE, FOR FAILURE TO FILE VIABLE MOTION TO SUPPRESS PURSUANT TO FOURTH AMENDMENT CLAIM UNDER: KIMMELMAN v. M…
20-6313 Kevin Merritt v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review presentence-report procedural-objection sentencing sentencing-unreasonableness 1. Whether Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, __U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), is relevant to the objections necessary to preserve claims of procedura…
20-6315 Darris Altony Newsome v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied IFP criminal-charges criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fair-trial fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probable-cause sixth-amendment victim-testimony witness-testimony 1. Did the Courts erred in the opinion that petitioners DELEON WAS dismissed Muary unauthorized And successive, And denied relief oof ACEGABAL qpeuids…
20-6323 Lamont Andre Thomas v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction prosecutorial-discretion sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-code Does the Fifth Circuit have constitutional authority under Article III, Section 2, Clause 2 of the United States Constitution, to bring Criminal Charg…
20-659 Larry Thompson v. Pagiel Clark, et al. Second Circuit 2020-11-13 Judgment Issued Amici (17)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process exigent-circumstances favorable-termination fourth-amendment section-1983 standing warrantless-entry I. Whether the rule that a plaintiff must await favorable termination before bringing a Section 1983 action alleging unreasonable seizure pursuant to …
20-646 Michael Tyler Baggott v. Florida Florida 2020-11-12 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prejudice sex-offender-registration I. Whether the reasoning of Lee v. United States, 137 S. Ct. 1958 (2017) extends to defendants facing lifelong sex offender registration conditions fr…
20-6281 Kevin Lamar Ratliff v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment-782 career-offender criminal-law criminal-procedure discretion federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines guideline-amendment judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines Lower Courts have discretion to reduce Whether the Petitioner's sentence under U.S.S. Guideline Amendment 782, regardless of Petitioner's career offen…
20-6282 Darius Tirrell Thomas v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation u.s.-code Whether, the Trial Court Erred in Finding the Defendant to Be a "Career Offender" and Sentencing Him Accordingly?
20-6283 Robert Brownlee v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette Third Circuit 2020-11-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation I. WHETHER TRIAL COUNSEL WAS CONSTITUTIONALLY INEFFECTIVE FOR FAILING TO RESEARCH THE ELEMENTS OF A VIOLATION OF 18 PACSA 6301(a)(1)(@i) (THE STATUTE"…
20-6285 Brittany Shanice Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
20-6288 Allen Snyder v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-procedure criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-error legal-review post-conviction-relief pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation victim-identification In denying Snyder's application for post conviction relief, the trial court said Snyder was challenging his conviction and sentence for the second deg…
20-6291 Christopher Stacy v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-law criminal-procedure felon-in-possession firearm-statute guilty-plea mens-rea plain-error plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether a defendant who pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1) and 924(a), is automatically entitle…
20-6292 Alonte Deshavion Richey v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
20-6293 Raymond Alan Griffin v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-law findings-of-fact motion-to-suppress threshold-determination MAY A DISTRICT COURT MAKE FINDINGS OF FACT RESOLVING CONTESTED ISSUES IN DETERMINING THAT THE THRESHOLD FOR HOLDING AN EVIDENTIARY HEARING ON A DEFEND…
20-6298 Carlton Butler v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus sentencing Does Fed.R. Crim. P. Rule 35(c)(4) provide the District Court with authority to increase a defendant's otherwise lawful sentence previously imposed on…
20-6262 Daniel Twian Brown v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-counsel warrantless-arrest 1.) Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals Erred in Denying Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability on His Claim that Warrantless Arrest was not…
20-6267 In Re Graham Schiff 2020-11-10 Denied IFP bad-faith civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-violations criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process federal-intervention post-conviction-relief state-criminal-proceedings state-officials Question not identified.
20-630 Benjamin Scott Brewer v. Tennessee Tennessee 2020-11-10 Denied Response Waived brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-tampering exculpatory-evidence forensic-evidence material-evidence state-misconduct Whether this Court's ruling in Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) and its progeny entitle a defendant to the knowledge, before trial, that a state …
20-633 Byron David Smith v. Jeff Titus, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) aedpa antiterrorism-act criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process habeas-corpus public-trial sixth-amendment The question presented by this petition is whether the Sixth Amendment's public trial guarantee, within the review apparatus imposed by the Antiterror…
20-637 Darrell Hemphill v. New York New York 2020-11-10 Judgment Issued Amici (14)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidence evidence-law hearsay-exception right-to-confrontation testimonial-hearsay trial-strategy A litigant's argumentation or introduction of evidence at trial is often deemed to "open the door" to the admission of responsive evidence that would …
20-6253 Sealed Appellant v. Sealed Appellee Fifth Circuit 2020-11-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-4142 civil-rights criminal-procedure custody due-process federal-detention judicial-order mental-competency statutory-custody Whether this Court should grant certiorari to determine whether continued custody under 18 U.S.C. § 4142 for almost four months beyond the expiration …
20-6254 Roberto Yoquigua Lopez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-11-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment confidentiality criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process duress-defense fair-trial fifth-amendment pre-trial-disclosure sixth-amendment testimonial-confidentiality Whether and to what extent the Fifth and Sixth Amendments permit a defendant to keep all of the details of his duress confidential before trial, or wh…
20-6255 John Dubor v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-review loss-calculation medicare-fraud restitution restitution-award sentencing-guidelines Did the Fifth Circuit's cursory review of the district court's record lead to an illegal, unreasonable sentence. Because the application of the senten…
20-6257 Finnis Davis, II v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-11-09 Denied IFP appeal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-records murder-evidence Mr Davis was convicted with a penalcade 19.03(a)(7)(A) Aempted Lapital Murder. Mr. Davis was convicted on testimony evidence only of shooting two peop…
20-6259 Angela de Jesus-Concepcion v. United States Third Circuit 2020-11-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure district-court evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel misrepresentation sentencing sixth-amendment 1. Whether Petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel impermissibly violated, when the district court erred in failing …
20-6243 Okeiba Sadio v. United States Second Circuit 2020-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights covered-offense criminal-procedure drug-distribution due-process first-step-act sentencing sentencing-reduction sixth-amendment statutory-penalties (1) Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals Wrongly dismiss Mr Sadio's Appeal with out no Briefs being filed or hearing any arguments, violating m…
20-6250 Kyle A. Box v. New York New York 2020-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection exculpatory-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct According to Grady Vs. Mee 379 U.S. 109 (1964), any evidence in possession of the prosecution that can be favorable for the defense, must be made over…
20-6251 Timothy Tyrone Byers, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-review judicial-power standing state-court-jurisdiction supreme-court-jurisdiction territorial-jurisdiction united-states ©WfidW oft 4V pftowixHo^ must fcW^s f>aov«, W'W<x\ jutfbdwttoN WiR o, CAlm- iw oftM 4* & toiMefrw? WU^** ^ Wdw is oa/ &\$dt£tiot\! IX IA*£. 6*^1 '7ift…
20-6212 Carlos Miguel Perez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924 circuit-split criminal-procedure felon-in-possession plain-error-review rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation Whether This Court Should Grant the Petition to Resolve a Circuit Split Regarding Whether Under Plain Error Review, a Defendant's Conviction for Felon…
20-6213 J. Santos Mondragon-Benitez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-authority imprisonment-revocation plain-error reasonableness reasonableness-standard revocation sentencing-review standard-of-review supervised-release Whether sentences of imprisonment following the revocation of supervised release should be reviewed for reasonableness or plain unreasonableness?
20-6214 John J. Powers v. Warden, Allenwood USP Third Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1-usc-109 18-usc-3624b criminal-procedure first-step-act general-savings-statute good-time-credits sentencing-law statutory-interpretation Does the General Savings Statute, 1 U.S.C. §109, apply to the First Step Act's amendment to 18 U.S.C. §3624(b) so that penalties of the loss of good t…
20-6218 Terance Valentine v. Florida Florida 2020-11-05 Denied IFP constitutional-waiver criminal-procedure death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-fact-finding jury-unanimity ring-v-arizona Whether a waiver to an advisory, non-unanimous jury verdict lacking in any fact finding requirement under a death penalty scheme later determined to b…
20-6226 Carlos Maez v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure judicial-proceedings jury-instructions jury-verdict olano-standard plain-error plain-error-test sixth-amendment standard-of-review The Sixth Amendment requires that no person be convicted of a felony except on a finding by a jury that the government has proved its case beyond a re…
20-6227 Cameron Battiste v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury plain-error-review sixth-amendment 1. If a grand jury indicts a defendant for violating 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), but omits the statute's knowledge-of-status element, has the defective ind…
20-6230 Ulis Howard Alexander v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP corpus-delicti criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-procedure fifth-circuit legal-error punishment-phase sentencing Did the Fi fth Ci rcuit err i n hol ding that the concept of corpus del icti shoul d not apply in the puni shment phase?
20-6231 Mark Zavala v. Kim Holland, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment gang-enhancement sentence-enhancement street-terrorism-act unitary-proceeding Does the trial of a sentence enhancement allegation under California's Street Terrorism Enforcement and Prevention Act in a unitary proceeding with th…
20-6232 Brian Dwight Peterson v. Randee Rewerts, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-enforcement prosecutorial-misconduct right-against-self-incrimination right-to-counsel trial-procedure Question not identified.
20-6215 Abrahan Garcia-Morales, aka Abraham Garcia-Morales v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-11-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process evidence-law fifth-amendment right-to-silence self-incrimination When a defendant declines to answer some—but not all—of the questions posed to him during a custodial interrogation, does the prosecutor's use of this…
20-6216 Michael E. Torres v. United States Third Circuit 2020-11-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act arrest criminal-procedure drug-conviction fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-seizure investigative-detention probable-cause reasonable-suspicion 1. The Fourth Amendment requires that police have probable cause before subjecting an individual to an arrest. Police surrounded Appellant, ordered hi…
20-6185 Bryan Lamar Brown v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruton bruton-rule co-defendant-statement confrontation-clause constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence harmless-error A suspect in a burglary and homicide called a detective to cooperate. The detective asked him which vehicle he and the others had taken to commit the …
20-6196 Mark Xavier Wallace v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-evidence criminal-procedure district-court-procedure due-process evidence fourth-circuit-review hearsay hearsay-testimony standard-of-review 1. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in affirming that the District Court did not err by admitting inadmissible and highly prejudicial hearsay testimon…
20-6198 Agustin Chavez v. Florida Florida 2020-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process identity identity-verification post-conviction-information postconviction-information prior-record-exception sentencing sixth-amendment 1. Whether courts, including those in Florida, have been incorrectly applying a "prior record" exception to the rule from Apprendi v. New Jersey 530 U…
20-6202 Jimmy Don Wooten v. Arkansas Arkansas 2020-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3005 capital-murder criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process error-coram-nobis statutory-interpretation Did United States Code Annotated 18 U.S.C.A. 3005 apply to Petitioner in 1994 when he was charged with Capital Murder and the Death Penalty was sought…
20-6206 Travis Johnson v. Illinois Illinois 2020-11-03 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing eighth-amendment proportionality proportionate-penalties sentencing solem-v-helm state-courts supreme-court-precedent 1. IS Solem v. Helm, 463 U.S. 277 (1983) binding Case Law? 2. Must Illinois Appellant Courts be required to Follow the United States Supreme Court's …
20-584 Michael Wood, et ux. v. United States Third Circuit 2020-11-03 Denied Response Waived conspiracy-charges conspiracy-to-commit-immigration-offenses constructive-amendment criminal-procedure first-amendment immigration-law prejudicial-variance statute-of-limitations yates-v-united-states 1. Whether Defendants' conviction for conspiracy to commit immigration offenses is legally invalid pursuant to Yates v. United States, 354 U.S. 298 (1…
20-586 James T. Gersky v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-11-03 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment court-precedent criminal-procedure defendant-testimony due-process estelle-v-smith judicial-guidance mitchell-v-united-states sentencing I. Should this Court provide guidance to district courts regarding the forced testimony of defendants at sentencing, in accordance with this Court's p…
20-6180 Naquan Reyes v. United States Second Circuit 2020-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 court-of-appeals criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court federal-sentencing procedural-reasonableness procedural-unreasonableness sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court I. Whether the Court of Appeals erred in rejecting Reyes's contention that the sentence was procedurally unreasonable based on the district court's fa…
20-6183 Timothy N. Hatton v. Mark R. Sevier, Superintendent, New Castle Correctional Facility Seventh Circuit 2020-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment standing Did the State violate Hatton's U.S. Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel and speedy trial? Did the state violate Hatton's U.S. Fi…
20-6190 Bradley R. Freeman v. New Mexico New Mexico 2020-11-02 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP affirmative-defense brady-v-maryland constitutional-requirement criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-disclosure prosecutorial-misconduct 1. Does the Constitution require, before entering into a binding plea agreement with a criminal defendant, that the prosecution disclose favorable, ma…
20-6191 Daniel Johnson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-sexual-abuse criminal-procedure due-process evidence-standard harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions ninth-circuit sexual-abuse victim-age 1. The Ninth Circuit held that for a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 2241(c) (aggravated sexual abuse), the government must prove, and the jury must be i…
20-6192 Jamal Aikeem Hutchinson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearms guilty-plea henderson-v-morgan plain-error plain-error-review statutory-interpretation In Rehaif v. United States, this Court held that "in a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) and § 924(a)(2), the Government must prove both that the d…
20-6193 Martin L. Harrell v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure diligence-standard due-process habeas-corpus material-fact mcquiggin mcquiggin-standard new-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct summary-denial Whether Evidence Not Presented as the Result of Prosecutorial Misconduct Should Be Considered New Evidence under McQuiggin? Whether a District Court …
20-6169 Tykei Garner v. United States Third Circuit 2020-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial drug-conviction due-process evidence interstate-commerce interstate-transportation prejudice third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's Decision in allowing the Government to use a decade old New York Ci…
20-6175 Rico Walker v. Vance Laughlin, Warden Georgia 2020-10-30 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment indictment-sufficiency ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge notice-of-charges void-conviction Can petitioner be convicted of a crime Where the Indictment fail to allege the essential elements of the crime charged. Does the trial court have Jur…
20-577 Moaze Ibrahim v. United States Second Circuit 2020-10-30 Denied Response Waived appeal civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction sentencing Question not identified.
20-6161 Joey Lamont Brunson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-10-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment legal-insufficiency statutory-interpretation suppression-of-evidence surveillance-law wiretap-order wiretapping Is a wiretap order, which fails to specify the name of the person who authorized the application for such order, insufficient on its face thereby requ…
20-6162 Frank Trujillo v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-10-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process elements-of-offense federal-courts guilty-plea plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness rehaif-v-united-states standard-of-review When a defendant argues for the first time on appeal that his guilty plea was not knowing and voluntary because he was not informed of the elements of…
20-6165 James Edward Sandford, III v. United States Second Circuit 2020-10-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure felon-in-possession fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance plain-error-rule rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states second-circuit sixth-amendment 1. Should the Court grant certiorari to resolve the Circuit split regarding the plain error rule between the Second and Fourth Circuits as it applies …
20-6170 Justin David Brown v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-action constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing sixth-amendment standing statutory-interpretation substantial-assistance Did the defendants Sixth Distnet Court violate the Amendment right Special Agent Nicole allowing ba Bailey Hecring the defendants Sentancing 4s2 24 at…
20-6147 Shane Anthony Roberts v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-right waiver Whether the Court of Appeals improperly denied Mr. Roberts of the statutory right to appeal his 70-month sentence by summarily granting a government m…
20-6154 Roderick Perez-Gonzalez v. United States First Circuit 2020-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process plea-bargaining prosecution united-states-constitution Whether Subsequent Prosecution of Conspiracies Violate the Double Jeopardy Clause of the United States Constitution when Both Conspiracies Operate Und…
20-6157 Pedro Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process motion-to-dismiss prejudicial-error sixth-amendment Did the district court prejudicially err denying petitioner's motion to dismiss based on Sixth Amendment violations?
20-6138 Jerry Walker v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Arkansas 2020-10-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure declaratory-judgment due-process evidence procedural-error sixth-amendment DECLARATON® FOUOGEMNZNT THAT HE UIAS DEAITED DVE PROCESS ses HES CRIMTMAL etal. whtsI FAE CoORT ADIN TZTED THE pring restimouy oF al vsavartliadee ulr…
20-546 Michigan v. Laricca Seminta Mathews Michigan 2020-10-26 Denied constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment miranda-rights right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Should this Court grant certiorari to resolve the split in the United States Courts of Appeals and the state appellate courts regarding whether Mirand…
20-549 John Farrow, et al. v. Contra Costa County, California Ninth Circuit 2020-10-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bail circuit-split counsel-appointment criminal-procedure critical-stage due-process equal-protection indigent-defense right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Is a detainee's first appearance in court a "critical stage" of the proceedings, when bail is set and statutory liberty interests are adjudicated, as …
20-6097 Francisco J. Martinez v. Adolfo Gonzalez, Chief Probation Officer, San Diego, California Ninth Circuit 2020-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP commodities-fraud criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions scienter reasonable doubt in this commodities fraud prosecution.
20-6123 Dale C. Holcombe v. Florida Florida 2020-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment racketeering stolen-property Whether – in a case involving a racketeering charge based on predicate incidents for "dealing in stolen property" – possession of an item that is one …
20-6124 Jose Maria Loaiza-Gaspar v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process guideline-sentence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-withdraw reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines My Sentence of LIFE imprisonment was imposed without the trial court addressing my non-frivolous argument for a lower sentence. On appeal, the Court o…
20-6094 Sean Alonzo Bush v. Florida Florida 2020-10-22 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency florida-supreme-court legal-precedent precedent standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence WHETHER THE FLORIDA SUPREME COURT DENIED THE PETITIONER DUE PROCESS WHEN IT ABANDONED A CENTURY OF PRECEDENT AND APPLIED A NEW AND LESS STRICT STANDAR…
20-6096 Dieuseul Brown v. Sonja Nicklaus, Warden Seventh Circuit 2020-10-22 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-murder independent-and-adequate-state-grounds jury-finding jury-instructions procedural-default second-degree-murder state-grounds Whether the Petitioner's claim is Procedurally Defaulted under the Independent and Adequate State grounds Doctrine. Whether the lower courts erred in …
20-6109 Rashawn D. Watson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-10-22 Denied Relisted (3)IFP criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearm-possession guilty-plea indictment indictment-sufficiency knowledge-element mens-rea plea-bargaining rehaif-decision rehaif-v-united-states A. Whether the decision in Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019) requires that Petitioner's guilty plea and conviction be vacated when (1) t…
20-535 Drew Samuel Bates v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-10-22 Denied circuit-split criminal-procedure first-step-act judicial-discretion resentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether a district court that chooses to conduct a resentencing under § 404 of the First Step Act is prohibited from considering a defendant's current…
20-531 Derek Hutter v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-21 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2253 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-hearing Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his claim(s) that his counse…
20-6090 Reginald Ferguson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-10-21 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights consensual-encounter consent criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion testimony 1. Can a court determine that an encounter was initially consensual when the officer testified that he did not remember how it was initiated, nor is i…
20-6098 Lamont Owens v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-10-21 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure fairness-integrity-public-reputation intervening-supreme-court-decision judicial-review jury-instructions plain-error plain-error-review substantial-rights supreme-court-decision trial-record Whether plain-error review for failure to instruct on an element of the offense, base upon an intervening U.S. Supreme Court decision, allows courts t…
20-6099 Malcolm Moore v. United States Third Circuit 2020-10-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-law criminal-procedure direct-review due-process first-step-act judicial-discretion retroactivity sentencing sentencing-retroactivity statutory-interpretation Whether Section 403 of the First Step Act of 2018, which is expressly titled a "clarification" of the penalty provisions of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(C), …
20-6100 Carlos Meza-Cruz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial sentencing Supreme-Court Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-6101 Rachel Mae Skidmore v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sixth-amendment statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g)(1) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
20-6103 Curtis Lee Dale v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery document-discovery due-process pro-se-defendant search-warrant search-warrants sentencing standing - Is a prose litigant due a merits determination or adjudication on every claim he presents in his 28usc.f22ssMotion? -Is a defendant to be provided …
20-6106 Rafael Cruz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights coerced-confession criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance mental-disability plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment voluntariness When the District Court denied to issue a Certificate of Appealability, then a jury picked Court abused its discretion when the Defendant was forced t…
20-6066 Rodolfo Segura-Virgen v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-10-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP aggravated-felony civil-rights criminal-procedure deportation-order due-process fifth-amendment illegal-reentry immigration judicial-review pro-se-waiver removal-order I. Four terms ago, in Esquivel-Quintana v. Sessions , 137 S.Ct. 1562 (2017), this Court held that a conviction under California Penal Code § 261.5(c) …
20-6074 Timothy Jarred Paige v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights criminal-charge criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines standing statutory-interpretation WHEN CHARGED WITH VIOLATING 18.U.S.C § 922(9)(1) COUPLED WITH § 924(a)(2) DOES THE DISTRICT COURT RETAIN JURISDICTION TO CHARGE AN OFFENSE THAT ISN'T …
20-6079 In Re Dale McKenzie 2020-10-20 Denied IFP constitutional-violation conviction-challenge criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice-standard sentencing sentencing-error trial-court-discretion unconstitutional-law void-conviction GROUND ONE 1. Has prejudice been shown where the trial court overruled the defendant's motion for continuance to show that his prior Georgia convict…
20-6088 Miguel Angel Baez-Castillo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-rights criminal-procedure indictment prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment I. Can a court, consistent with the Sixth Amendment, impose a statutorily enhanced sentence based on the fact of a prior conviction never alleged in t…
20-526 Jason M. Blackburn v. United States Armed Forces 2020-10-20 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment child-pornography criminal-procedure digital-evidence fourth-amendment good-faith-exception military-justice probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant Whether the Court of Appeals erred in holding the good faith exception applied to the search and seizure of Petitioner's computer?
20-6070 James Dee Gilmore, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-10-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility interrogation-techniques miranda-rights sixth-amendment voluntary waiver 1. In failing to require the government to meet its heavy burden to show that defendant's post–invocation waiver of his Miranda rights, including his …
20-6073 Desmond Littlejohn v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-10-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c certiorari-review civil-rights crimes-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-law fourth-amendment ninth-circuit sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether Hobbs Act robbery is a crime of violence for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c).
20-511 Chris George v. Territory of the Virgin Islands Virgin Islands 2020-10-19 Denied administrative-court administrative-law civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process government-authority motor-vehicle personal-liberty property-rights right-to-travel standing 1. (a) What legal authority or standing does the V.I. Government have to take me a private individual into its administrative/ commercial court (Magis…
20-6042 Barry Lynn Bailey v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit haymond-precedent sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond I. Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Ha…
20-6043 Robin Lee Archer v. Florida Florida 2020-10-16 Denied IFP criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-role retroactivity statutory-construction substantive-criminal-law substantive-law 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's statutory construction in Hurst v. State constitutes substantive law, and if so, whether the Due Process Clause…
20-6044 Luidgi Benjamin v. United States Second Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP character-evidence character-testimony criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process enticement evidentiary-admission judicial-discretion jury-instructions venue venue-challenge 1. Should certiorari be granted where venue was laid in the Southern District of New York, even though no elements of the crime occurred there, includ…
20-6047 Ramada Tajedeen Shabazz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit haymond-precedent remand sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Haymo…
20-6049 Isidoro Gonzalez-Ferretiz v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP aggravated-felony criminal-procedure deportation-order due-process fifth-amendment immigration judicial-review mendoza-lopez pro-se-alien waiver waiver-of-appeal In Mendoza-Lopez, 481 U.S. 828, 840 (1987), this Court held that the Fifth Amendment prevents the government from using a deportation order to satisfy…
20-6051 Jonathan Ortiz-Torres v. United States First Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance plea-agreement sentencing sixth-amendment voluntariness Should a writ of certiorari should be granted to determine if trial counsel renders ineffective assistance when he fails to advise his client that the…
20-6054 Alex Cori Tribue v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process notice notice-requirement prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement Whether, on collateral review, the government may maintain a sentencing enhancement under the ACCA by substituting a different conviction that it did …
20-6058 Lacey Renee Baxter Moore, aka Lacey Kittrell v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process liberty-deprivation probation probation-condition sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-purposes supervised-release 1) Is a standard condition of supervised release which requires a person to "permit a probation officer to visit [her] at any time athome or elsewhere…
20-6061 Whittier Buchanan v. California California 2020-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP assistant-counsel constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-appeal right-to-counsel self-representation standby-counsel trial-transcripts witness-testimony I wish foR thE couat to decide clearly Whether My Soblic Defordon is lloived to assist the D.A. aftor the judge Relioved hen from her doties of sPRese…
20-6017 Tracey Godfrey v. Lynn Guyer, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing DS BOUBLE JCOPHROY 0 A MISCARDIAGE &f JUSTZCS JUST s SENTONCES FOR THE VIOLAION Of 46-18-502 MCA IS 2 SEPERATE DOUBLE JEOPARDY 2 LOVOAH SONTONCE WAS …
20-6018 Win Min Htut v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights counsel-performance criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-procedure plea-agreement plea-bargaining 1. Can a guilty plea which contains impossible and illegal clauses be entered into intelligently, knowing ly, and voluntarily? 2. Is the Due Process …
20-6020 Nasser Mohamad Bazzi v. Michigan Michigan 2020-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interpreter-rights interpreters sixth-amendment structural-error 1. WAS THE ARABIC-SPEAKING APPELLANT DENIED EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL DURING CRITICAL STAGES OF THE PROCEEDINGS, FOR WHICH PREJUDICE IS PRESUMED…
20-6030 Byron A. Wyatt v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure evidentiary-sufficiency interest-of-justice interests-of-justice material-evidence newly-discovered-evidence rule-33 standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence trial-standard Whether F.R.Crim.P. Rule 33's standard for granting a new trial based on newly discovered evidence "if the interest of justice so requires" cannot be …
20-6036 Torrey Washington v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct evidence never prove goilt Beyond a Reasonable doubt? Atornery when She vouched that her experts Was telling the troth and did this deny the Petihoer…
20-6040 Charlie Bell Bullock v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied IFP capital-punishment confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence professional-norms sentencing-phase sixth-amendment standard-of-review victim-rights 1 -Do ^c, +W CW5t^ VV\Oy4^ CKV/CAl" 1 <\\y £ 0 ^ AV 5 Oy'b yv\v +'h-e<\ <k WcK > S Co^ Viclm Cross ■eAa^v\«ivo\N \ 4 6-C va.m\S.-€.| i Vs. -t. -e_<_-V…
20-6041 Raymond Lewis Perry v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection first-stage-proceeding robbery sentencing sentencing-hearing statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
20-491 Sandy Perez Hernandez v. Texas Texas 2020-10-15 Denied capital-murder criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel manslaughter texas-law 1. Does the Fifth Amendment's double jeopardy clause bar conviction for intentional injury to a child following acquittal for capital murder, but conv…
20-6003 Alvin Celius Andre v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-conflict criminal-procedure entrapment government-intervention jacobson-v-united-states jury-instruction predisposition ready-willingness I. Whether the Eleventh Circuit's Entrapment Jury Instruction is in Conflict With Jacobson v. United States, 503 U.S. 540 (1992) and the Majority of t…
20-6004 Jconcepcion Alonso-Tobar v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-6006 Terrance Leon Washington v. Crystal Willett, Superintendent, Meherrin River Regional Jail Fourth Circuit 2020-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process entrapment ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct state-court-conviction \ow jmftrcxmxaA °u S&oSch ay\^ ^^ iXnL Wl^ fraud\xUrJ- S*arck Wo^on^and ^jC-d l(j 6 jo bu/lXcP xnW/n^s an (Kras ^ ^ W'W *U>'^W prcUkk ^rxXw^raX Jdv4w …
20-6007 William Harold Wright, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process indictment judicial-review prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence venue Did the Delaware Court Erect to Denie doaht's Modton bo t SINS Che Naictineit?
20-5981 Javier Garza v. Illinois Illinois 2020-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-characteristics constitutional-provisions court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure de-facto-life-sentence eighth-amendment judicial-review juvenile-sentencing legal-interpretation miller-v-louisiana statutory-provisions youth-characteristics 1: MkN^ATo^ M facto ixFe seo/reMcas tfmuxtt T>eF&VWTS-AS Jn VFTXT io/oe/I'sCAST AfcbxSflbMTtortfiw 4a® MXbLAre Tm Sxahth /IMmm &jt, vuiess thf TfixaL…
20-5983 Omar Sierre Folk v. United States Third Circuit 2020-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines career-offender criminal-procedure guidelines habeas-corpus pre-beckles section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines statute-of-limitations third-circuit 1. Whether the Third Circuit's erred in not addressing Erroneous Career Offender Designation under the 5, 2016.
20-5994 Mongkhon Leekomon v. Georgia Georgia 2020-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-procedure georgia-court-of-appeals indictment legal-procedure statute-of-limitation statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation tolling tolling-exception Whether the Georgia Court of Appeals erred in concluding that the indictment alleged a statutory tolling exception to extend the seven-year statute of…
20-5996 Jamaal Howard v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-10-13 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mental-health-evaluation miranda-rights sixth-amendment 1. Did the Fifth Circuit err in considering the totality of three different trials , and excusing the District Court' s erroneous conclusion regardin …
20-5999 Sonya Porter v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP continuous-crime criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment plea-bargaining prosecution welfare-fraud Where a state criminal rule allows for dismissal of a case on the merits rather than via conviction or acquittal, is this sufficient to trigger protec…
20-6000 Sara G. Kielly v. New York New York 2020-10-13 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-conditions conviction-challenge criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus plea-agreement plea-bargaining prison-treatment sentencing 1.5 a defendant required, in light of well-established facts, to explicitly state a plea agreement's constitutional conditions, and treatment in priso…
20-6001 Antranette Canady v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 3583(d)(2) civil-rights criminal-procedure liberty-deprivation probation probation-condition sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-purposes supervised-release 1) Is a standard condition of supervised release which requires a person to "permit a probation officer to visit [her] at any time athome or elsewhere…
20-6002 Curtis Lee Dale v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts adverse-decision appeals case-seizure criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-law-enforcement pro-se procedural-due-process warrant-search Does petitioner, a pro-se, a procedural due process right to "fair trial, Court and Code, at trial tactics" in the appeals court rejected by the distr…
20-5978 Yoder Austin Blalock v. Alaska Alaska 2020-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection self-incrimination unreasonable-search 1) The decision of the State of Alaska, and the Alaska Court of Appeals are inconsistent with the United States Fifth Amendment rights providing that …
20-5985 Derrick Kennedy Crumpton v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP bad-faith-review circuit-court-split criminal-procedure government-discretion government-motion judicial-review plea-agreement proffer-agreement sentencing sentencing-guidelines What is the scope of judicial review when the defendant and the government have entered in a Plea Agreement and/or a Proffer Agreement in which the go…
20-5972 John Garrett Smith v. Ronald Hayes, Superintendent, Stafford Creek Correctional Center Ninth Circuit 2020-10-09 Dismissed IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-procedure search-and-seizure standing suppression-of-evidence WrXsJkditou <*ver 3 enW«a/1) Po^ a coof^ a^ns- ^ . . cUa^e ujluLix ^Zu>_ aroSn^-'*^ 'jv2'^*" 2 sr'(fu,'^l <^e, <^.0OOlujuZir (ok. video looMr^ cMi^^ P…
20-5974 Quordalis V. Sanders v. Brian Foster, Warden Seventh Circuit 2020-10-09 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence sentencing ory trial and aepeal ? kgally found not ilty of br a our ? + plicity of the dharges in thefilins of tue oviminal informetidn ? Did both Hhx Wiscousin …
20-464 James J. Rosemond v. United States Second Circuit 2020-10-09 Denied actus-reus capital-cases concession-of-guilt criminal-defendant criminal-procedure right-to-autonomy sixth-amendment trial-counsel In McCoy v. Louisiana, 138 S. Ct. 1500 (2018), this Court held that the Sixth Amendment grants criminal defendants a right to "autonomy" that permits …
20-5947 Craig Martin Shults v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-115 criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process evidence-admissibility federal-judge federal-rules-of-evidence federal-statute federal-threat subsequent-act-evidence Whether, in an 18 U.S.C. § 115(a)(1)(B) prosecution for threatening a federal judge, subsequent act evidence of additional threats made months after t…
20-5951 Joshua Scott Richards v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness u.s.-sentencing-commission u.s.s.g.-§-2g2.2 Whether a sentence imposed pursuant to the United States Sentencing Guidelines covering the crimes of accessing or possessing child pornography, U.S.S…
20-5954 Meryl S. McDonald v. Florida Florida 2020-10-08 Denied IFP criminal-procedure death-penalty death-sentence due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment post-conviction postconviction-counsel pro-se-filing right-to-counsel The question presented in this case is whether rule 3.851(b)(6)&(i) found in the Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure is unconstitutional and violates …
20-5957 Darius Taurean Caldwell v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence sentencing Question not identified.
20-5959 Clinton Devone Hicks v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-08 Denied Relisted (3)IFP circuit-split commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-procedure plain-error rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation I. Whether this Court should grant review to resolve a split between the circuits courts' determination of whether error under Rehaif v. United States…
20-5961 Lemar Gant v. Brian Williams, Sr., et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-duty criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prejudice state-court-review strickland-v-washington witness-investigation Whether the Ninth Circuit erroneously concluded Gant could not establish ineffective assistance of counsel where counsel failed to conduct an independ…
20-5966 Keven A. Morgan v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2020-10-08 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment attorney-general authorization-order criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial law-enforcement wire-tapping wiretapping LAW ENFORCEMENT AND DISTRICT ATTORNEY FAIL TO ATTACHED THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY GENERAL SPECIAL DESIGNATED AUTHORIZATION ORDER AND AUTHORIZATION M…
20-5933 Junior Griffin v. United States Second Circuit 2020-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP complete-defense constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process hearsay hearsay-exclusion impeachment-evidence right-to-present-evidence supervisory-power wiretap-evidence wiretapping When Mr. Griffin was denied his right to present critical exculpatory and impeachment evidence through the unpresented remainder of the government's s…
20-5935 Frank Allen Levi Holland v. Michigan Michigan 2020-10-07 Denied IFP burden-of-proof compulsory-violations confrontational-violations constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admission ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct Is leaving allowance for a defendant's Sixth and Federal Constitutional right to due process of law to be violated by denying erroneous instructions a…
20-5939 Kadeem Burden v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-07 Denied Relisted (4)IFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment firearm-possession jury-instructions plain-error-review rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states sixth-amendment In a conviction for violation of 18 U.S.C. Section 922(g), after a jury trial held prior to this Court's ruling in Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. …
20-5940 Sabrina Alexander Weightman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond writ-of-certiorari I. Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Ha…
20-5942 John Tran v. United States First Circuit 2020-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule federal-criminal-procedure good-faith-exception judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction procedural-error rule-41 search-and-seizure void-ab-initio warrant-validity 1. Whether the First Circuit erroneously applied the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule where the government violated Fed. R. Crim. P. 41 i…
20-5943 Lamar A. Williams v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights complaint-filing constitutional-rights criminal-charges criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment legal-procedure retaliation standing Whether or not the criminal charges were retaliatory in response to my May 8, 2018 complaint, the follow up complaint on May 24, 2018 and a 200-page s…
20-5944 In Re Gerald M. Calmese 2020-10-07 Denied IFP constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process effective-counsel evidence fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus identity-theft jurisdiction sixth-amendment 1. Was the Eidere tresrs toblishThe "Anoter Person. in RDiRn Ent of Pantiff which The LAS COnUCED of Lakno thie I 2 2. Ds the cot betore which the Pe…
20-5945 Shelby Clarmont v. Willis Chapman, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process people-v-lockridge people-v-milbourn proportionality resentencing sentencing-guidelines Is The Imposing Of A Sentence Which Was Based On Incorrectly Scored Sentencing Guidelines And Was A Departure From Applicable Advisory Guidelines Wher…
20-444 United States v. Michael Andrew Gary Fourth Circuit 2020-10-07 Judgment Issued Amici (5)Relisted (2) criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearm-possession mens-rea plain-error plain-error-rule plea-bargaining plea-colloquy substantial-rights Whether a defendant who pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1) and 924(a), is automatically entitled t…
20-5917 Eric Malmstrom v. United States First Circuit 2020-10-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure competency criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process embassy-communication judicial-discretion mental-competency mental-disease mental-disease-or-defect standing sua-sponte Whether the district court abused its discretion when it failed to sua sponte order a competency evaluation. The facts of Petitioner's crime, standing…
20-5929 Tommy Lee Jones v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-10-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2g2.2(b)(5) burden-of-proof criminal-procedure offense-conduct police-report restitution sentencing-guidelines shepard-standard shepard-v-united-states unreliable-evidence Can the government utilize an unreliable nearly thirty (30) year old police report to satisfy its burden the sentencing guideline five (5) level enhan…
20-5930 Diego Palacios-Villalon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure culpability drug-trafficking judicial-discretion mitigating-role sentencing-guidelines "does a defendant have the sole obligation in the establishment of these elements or does the trial judge have a duty to inquire into them".
20-5902 Larry Burt Sexton v. Tennessee Tennessee 2020-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment hearsay hearsay-evidence parole-consideration sentencing Error by the trial court in admitting hearsay evidence at the sentencing hearing and by finding that the petitioner was a career offender and sentenci…
20-5905 Travon Jarvel Jackson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-10-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence rule-412 rule-608b sex-trafficking sixth-amendment witness-impeachment A. Whether evidence of prior prostitution activity that is inadmissible under Rule 412 of the Federal Rules of Evidence to rebut a claim of sex traffi…
20-5908 Mikel Clotaire v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit-precedent fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mug-shot-admission presumption-of-innocence sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-precedent Whether the Eleventh Circuit's decision to admit a mug shot in a criminal trial absent a need for the evidence splits with well-established Sixth Circ…
20-5909 David Conerly v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-10-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court evidence evidence-review judicial-review ninth-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Did the Ninth Circuit err by mining the district record to uphold an upward adjustment to petitioner's offense level under the Sentencing Guidelines? …
20-5910 Robert Coleman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation 1. What Conateude celevank Conduck 2° Ad. \Nhen does teledant Conduck become Celevant Conduct do dhe inslant S¥Sense oF conuicheon Yo be used to enha…
20-5913 Bradley M. Cox v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP bail-reform-act constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standards factors-for-detention presumption-of-innocence pretrial-detention release-conditions witness-testimony 1. When the rebuttable presumption of detention exists how much or what quality of evidence is sufficient to rebut it? 2. Is the presumption of innoc…
20-5915 Perry Cortese v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals-court criminal-procedure district-court enhancement federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing /. ~J)rd tkp&r$frFc^PocjrT^zr\d fp P/e/^17^ &ru/?~^Kjs p) vt'OU'fif' <p Loss copP^^o/ La1 /Pep / A ?
20-5920 Richard Cortez v. Iowa Iowa 2020-10-05 Denied IFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure disclosure due-process sixth-amendment witness-testimony Whether a defendant's due process rights are violated when the State's eyewitness primary to the offense testifies under a false name a disclosure to …
20-5921 Joseph J. Craig v. Kansas Kansas 2020-10-05 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial jury-instruction kansas-supreme-court voluntary-intoxication Did the Kansas Supreme Court deny the defendants rights to a fair trial under the Due Process Clause when it should have ruled the defendant was entit…
20-430 Justin Marques Henning v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-10-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) appellate-review circuit-split criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process equipoise-rule evidence mere-presence Whether a criminal defendant may be convicted based solely on evidence of his mere presence near the scene of the crime, without any evidence that the…
20-5871 Derrick Lenard Smith v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924 attempt bodily-injury borden-v-united-states criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute federal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(3)(A) includes all offenses that require an attempt to inflict bodily injury?
20-5872 Jesus Sanchez-Chacon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei…
20-5889 In Re Jesus Anaya 2020-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP adversarial-testing certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights constructive-denial-of-counsel criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel slack-standard standard-of-review WHETHER TRIAL AND APPELLATE COUNSEL(S)' S INADEQUATE REPRESENTATION OF JESUS ANAYA CONSTITUTED, AT BEST, CONSTRUCTIVE DENIAL OF COUNSEL, WHERE TRIAL C…
20-5890 Willie R. Benton, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy due-process mistake-of-fact relevant-conduct sentencing sixth-circuit Is a criminal defendant denied Due Process of Law when the sentencing Court in a drug conspiracy case determines that a quantity of a substance should…
20-5897 Demetrice Williams v. Sandy McCain, Warden, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-10-02 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability COA criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution denial effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection federal-district-court fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment A. WHETHER THE FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT SHOULD NOT HAVE DENIED COA BASED ON THE SUBSTANTIAL SHOWING OF THE DENIAL OF THE SIXTH AMENDMENT GUARANTEES OF T…
20-5848 Richard Bridgeman Gustafson v. Oregon Oregon 2020-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity ramos-v-louisiana sixth-amendment state-trial-procedure If a criminal trial in the State of Oregon did not guarantee a unanimous verdict, leading defendant to choose a bench trial, was this unconstitutional…
20-5857 Alimamy Barrie v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-USC-3582 criminal-procedure discretion federal-sentencing guidelines judicial-discretion retroactivity sentencing sentencing-amendment statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
20-5866 Shawn Kristi Dicken v. Shawn Brewer, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-material brady-v-maryland constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence expert-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct I. WAS PETITIONER DENIED DISCOVERY PURSUANT TO BRADY v. MARYLAND 373 U.S. 83 VIOLATING HER V, VI AND XIV CONST. AMENDS.? II. WAS IMPROPER EXPERT OPI…
20-5868 Manuel Acosta-Lopez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP in a run-of-the-mill drug smuggling case between is a participant who had a managerial role in the criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-smuggling drug-trafficking managerial-role mexico-united-states-border mexico-us-relations minor-role participant-classification role-adjustment role-in-offense sentencing-guidelines Whether, in a run-of-the-mill drug smuggling case between Mexico and the United States, is a participant who had a managerial role in the offense excl…
20-5870 Demarcus Clark v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-analysis due-process evidence expert-testimony sixth-amendment (1) Did the State's admission of the Wood/E Vestim/iy and O/M dpotE of a Su/dOaaEe Da/A adalysi l/L lieuoP+hg achial VA/A aflalysT and O/i/Aj'tpof'E .…
20-5875 Terrence D. Marsh v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c 6th-amendment criminal-procedure defense-right evidence firearm-prosecution firearms rosemond-precedent rosemond-v-united-states section-924c sixth-amendment statements-against-interest Whether the Court violated Rosemond v. United States, 572 U.S. 65 (2014), when finding Marsh had advance knowledge of the presence of a firearm in his…
20-5877 Demetrius Cherilus Morancy v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3013 criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-statute legal-procedure offenses-against-the-united-states sentencing special-assessment statutory-interpretation Whether the special assessment required by 18 U.S.C. Section 3013 for "an offense against the United States" is required to be imposed for all offense…
20-5879 Michael Matthew Phillips v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment constructive-possession criminal-law criminal-procedure evidence felon-in-possession firearm-evidence rule-404b rules-of-evidence witness-testimony 1. Whether evidence that a defendant walked with a person to a public place where the other person retrieved a firearm is sufficient to show that the …
20-5880 Deepak Deshpande v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction meaningful-access statutory-interpretation transcript 1. an statutorily On instad they acquind bypothetinal jurisdiction. 2. convictien have @right to control dfense and right to Casist in Ocon dleeose 9…
20-5881 Jose Vincente Lira-Ramirez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process immigration immigration-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect noncitizen-rights notice removal removal-proceedings unlawful-reentry Does the Due Process Clause permit a noncitizen to be convicted under 8 U.S.C. § 1326 for unlawful reentry into the United States if the noncitizen wa…
20-5882 Omero Nino-Guerrero v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe…
20-5883 Kyle Patrick Comrie v. California California 2020-10-01 Denied IFP burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony-murder jury-findings jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sandstrom sufficiency-of-evidence Petitioner's first degree murder conviction was invalid under People v, Chiu as there was no basis to find that the iurv did not rely on aiding and a…
20-5884 Charles Chad Giese v. California California 2020-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process miranda-rights prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel right-to-defense self-defense self-incrimination I. Did Police Violated Giese's Miranda Rights by Interrogating Him While He was in Custody? II. By Excluding Evidence of the Decedent's Drug Use, Was…
20-5850 Aaron Keith Avery v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitrary-questioning border-patrol civil-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment immigration-checkpoint martinez-fuerte programmatic-purpose united-states-v-martinez-fuerte Does the Border Patrol's unfettered and arbitrary questioning of those stopped at an immigration checkpoint to ferret out crime go beyond the limited …
20-5851 John Christopher Badgett v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness united-states-v-haymond I. Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Ha…
20-5852 Robert Louis Brandon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-30 Denied Relisted (3)IFP appellate-review automatic-reversal circuit-split criminal-procedure guilty-plea prejudice-inquiry rehaif-error rehaif-v-united-states structural-error 1. Is a district court's error under Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), a structural error that warrants automatic reversal of a guilty …
20-5853 Ubaldo Gabriel Acosta-Leyva v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-guidelines drug-offense due-process empirical-basis fifth-circuit presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines Whether a sentence produced by the drug guideline, §2D1.1, is not entitled to a presumption of reasonableness on appeal.
20-5854 Trumaine Muller v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense drug-offenses intervening-act jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error proximate-cause I. THE TRIAL COURT COMMITTED PLAIN ERROR IN FAILING TO INSTRUCT THE JURY THAT THE GOVERNMENT HAD TO PROVE MENS REA AS TO EACH DRUG OFFENSE AND THE RES…
20-5860 Miguel Antonio Wooten v. Warren L. Montgomery, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-09-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP county-of-riverside-v-mclaughlin criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment habeas-corpus probable-cause sixth-amendment 1. On habeas corpus revi ew of a state-court judgment under 28 U.S.C . § 2254, di d the Di strict Court fai l to uphol d peti tioner's Si xth Amendmen…
20-5862 Markey Antonio Goldston v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-09-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appellate-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process government-overreach plea-agreement plea-bargaining 1. IS A DEFEDANT'S RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS OF LAW VIOLATED WHEN THE GOVERNMENT REQUIRES AN APPEAL WAIVER AS PART OF A PLEA AGREEMENT?
20-5834 Jose Rufino Garcia-Chicol v. Arkansas Arkansas 2020-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial foreign-national language-rights standing translation-services i) Should the Second plus Guarantees Protections of 1 Foreign Civilized Under the Freches, Constituted, and States of the United States of America in …
20-5840 James Robert Miller v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-09-29 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process ethical-violations federal-jurisdiction indictment-dismissal prosecutorial-misconduct recusal Should this Court grant the petition for writ of certiorari to resolve the important federal question of whether a prosecutor's initiation of an inves…
20-400 James Avery, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) armed-career-criminal-act burglary-statute circuit-split criminal-procedure divisibility divisible-statute sentence-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether a state burglary statute that disjunctively lists places that may be burgled under the statute is divisible for purposes of a sentence enhance…
20-401 Devan Pierson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-09-28 Denied circuit-split constructive-amendment criminal-procedure fifth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-clause plain-error prejudice rule-52b substantial-rights 1. What test, if any, should be used to determine whether a constructive amendment impacted a defendant's substantial rights under Rule 52(b)? 2. Wha…
20-5768 RaySean D. Barber v. Todd Wasmer, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-09-28 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel factual-basis information motor-vehicle-operation plea-colloquy proximate-cause Was Appellant denied Due Process of Law and Effective Assistance of Counsel where the charging document (information) did not include within the state…
20-5803 Raymond Brown v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federalism fourteenth-amendment petition-for-review standing state-court supreme-court-rules Did the State Courts of Pennsylvania violate petitioner's due process under the United States Constitution where they quash Petitioner's appeal?
20-5805 Ian Resnick v. United States Third Circuit 2020-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process fraud-loss overview-testimony sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment testimonial-statements 1) Whether the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment permits, under the guise of "overview testimony", the admission against a criminal defenda…
20-5821 Calvin Simpson v. Illinois Illinois 2020-09-28 Denied IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sexual-assault due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sexual-assault Question not identified.
20-5824 Trenard Caldwell v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-28 Denied Relisted (3)IFP criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit fourth-circuit guilty-plea plea-withdrawal rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation structural-error Where a defendant pled guilty to a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) prior to Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (2029), and it is undisputed that …
20-5825 Larry Lamar Nance v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review central-thesis circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion mitigation mitigation-arguments sentencing sentencing-review Whether it is sufficient for a sentencing court to address the "central thesis" of a defendant's arguments in mitigation or whether, as a majority of …
20-5827 Michael R. Spengler v. Alex Villanueva Ninth Circuit 2020-09-28 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custody-claims due-process extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus legal-abuse petition-review standing Federal Habeas book oN the lexIs Nexis touckcreen Here At the JAil (by MAtthew BeNdeR) 28usC 2241-autharizes "other specIAl ciranstances CrEAHING A su…
20-5812 Jason Andrew Dunlap v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure defendant-responsibility federal-sentencing guilty-plea offense-level plea-bargaining sentencing-guidelines Do the sentencing Guidelines limit the maximum offense level to 43, so that, from that highest level, there is a reduction when a defendant accepts re…
20-5813 Glenn Young v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-09-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment jury-conviction jury-trial non-unanimous-verdict sixth-amendment Is the State's evidence sufficient to sustain Young's non-unanimous conviction? Was Young entitled to a unanimous jury verdict under the Sixth and Fo…
20-5814 Anthony Kinta Webb v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-09-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment jury-selection probable-cause public-trial search-and-seizure Question not identified.
20-5815 In Re Seth John Wilcox 2020-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process federalism fundamental-rights grand-jury hurtado-v-california supremacy-clause I. CAN A STATE CREATE AND ENFORCE CONTRARY LAW, THAT DEPRIVES ITS CITIZENS OF THEIR FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS, GUARANTEED BY THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION? …
20-5816 Jose Antonio Acevedo-Lemus v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure good-cause plain-error probable-cause search-warrant suppression-motion waiver 1. When a defendant raises a new theory on appeal in support of a suppression motion filed in district court—in this case, a lack of probable cause fo…
20-390 Brandan A. Mack v. Florida Florida 2020-09-25 Denied Response Waived child-pornography civil-rights criminal-offense criminal-procedure due-process felony-penalty juvenile-offender sex-offender-registration Where a state enacts long-term sex offender registration requirements which are enforced under threat of felony criminal offense, may the state subjec…
20-5773 William C. McGee v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-09-24 Denied Relisted (4)IFP armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure essential-element judicial-determination jury-instructions jury-trial sixth-amendment structural-error I. Whether omitting an essential element of the crime in both the indictment and jury instructions may be reviewed for harmlessness as held by the Eig…
20-5781 Abdur-Rashid Muhammad v. Nebraska Nebraska 2020-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel jurisdiction plea-agreement subject-matter-jurisdiction void-conviction 1. DID THE DISTRICT COURT JUDGE ROBERT R. OTTE ERROR, In denying th 'eePetitioner ' s Petition For Writ Of Habeas Corpus & Emergency Ex Parte Motion F…
20-5783 Chia Jean Lee v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review chapman-v-california circuit-split constitutional-standard criminal-procedure deliberate-indifference harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions standard-of-review The government requested and received a deliberate indifference instruction in the criminal jury charge, over Lee's objection. The Fifth Circuit Court…
20-5788 Edward James Wilkins v. Washington Washington 2020-09-24 Denied IFP 6th-amendment capital-punishment civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief Question not identified.
20-5794 Scott T. Wilbert v. United States Second Circuit 2020-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure fourth-amendment franks-hearing probable-cause search-and-seizure second-circuit suppression-motion 1. Should certiorari be granted because the Second Circuit Court of Appeals improperly affirmed the denial of Petitioner's Fourth Amendment suppressio…
20-5797 Jeffrey Murray v. Rhode Island Rhode Island 2020-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-determination probable-cause probation-violation standing warrantless-arrest Whether a summons must issue prior to the issuance of a bench warrant, to effect the arrest of a suspected technical probation violator? Whether a su…
20-5799 Lorenzo Davis v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether a criminal defendant's sentence should be based upon acquitted conduct.
20-5765 Daniel F. Borden, Sr. v. Gary Swarthout, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-09-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP brady-v-maryland civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct Was a Candy Mealy to Police Officers, when The Are Excalpatoay Matecial Evid m exon eanke, A Persens? ial, Evidence That Wo a @ Caw the People Tusk Di…
20-5775 Natalie Angeles v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure harm-analysis judicial-coercion presentence-report sentencing structural-error Does a district court coerce the Defendant to withdraw her objections to findings in the Presentence Report where the court informs the Defendant that…
20-5776 Joel Thomas Augard v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-09-23 Denied IFP 4th-amendment affidavit criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule good-faith good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant warrant-execution (1) Whether the good-faith analysis prohibits consideration of facts not included in the search-warrant affidavit? (2) Whether the good-faith excepti…
20-5778 David Davalos, Sr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rules district-court-jurisdiction federal-rules forfeiture forfeiture-order jurisdiction money-judgment notice-of-appeal time-limits 1. Whether a district court exceeds its jurisdiction by entering a preliminary order of forfeiture and an order of money judgment beyond the time limi…
20-5780 D. W. v. California California 2020-09-23 Denied IFP amendment criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment juvenile-court notice petition-amendment prosecutorial-discretion trial-procedure Did The Juvenile Court Violate A Minor's Right To Due Process Under The Fourteenth Amendment When It Granted The Prosecutor's Request To Amend A Petit…
20-5751 Pedro Fernandez-de Campa v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law certiorari-petition criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-reconsideration precedent precedent-review sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), should be overruled.
20-5752 Christopher Aundre Faulkner, aka Christopher A. Faulkner v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure discovery discovery-obligations due-process fifth-amendment government-diligence government-misconduct pretrial-detention Whether a prolonged length of pretrial detention violates the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment because the government has failed to exercise …
20-5750 Chester Alan Staples v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-09-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review Did the UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT err in denying my motion (Staples) for a Certificate of Appealability?
20-5759 Charles C. Williamson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP accomplice-liability criminal-procedure drug-quantity drug-weight judicial-interpretation relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review statutory-interpretation WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT AND CIRCUIT COURT MISINTERPRETED AND MISAPPLIED THE "RELEVANT CONDUCT" PROVISIONS OF UNITED STATES SENTENCING COMMISSION, G…
20-5730 Jimmie Butler v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review career-offender criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing-enhancement standard-of-review I. The district court improperly designated Mr. Butler as a career offender, and this was not harmless error. The district court made a rote, less tha…
20-5734 Alfred Flores, III v. California California 2020-09-17 Denied IFP capital-punishment constitutional-requirements criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process jury-findings jury-trial reasonable-doubt ring-v-arizona sentencing Whether California's death penalty scheme violates the constitutional requirement that any fact that increases the penalty for a crime must be found b…
20-5735 Michael Dean Perry v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-09-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP antiterrorism-act civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus standing state-court-review Question not identified.
20-5737 Jesse Lewis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process juror-misconduct jury-impartiality jury-selection religious-bias sex-trafficking sixth-amendment Whether, at petitioner's trial for sex trafficking—in which the government's case rested on evidence of the defendant's conduct as a procurer of prost…
20-5738 Willie Hugh Washington v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu 139-S-Ct-2369 certiorari constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit sentence-vacatur sentencing united-states-v-haymond L. Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Ha…
20-5740 Edward Mahan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-USC-3553a appeal criminal-procedure downward-adjustment drug-offense due-process government-misconduct plea-agreement safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines DID THE DISTRICT COURT ERR BY ALLOWING THE GOVERNMENT TO VIOLATE THE PLEA AGREEMENT? DID THE DISTRICT COURT ERR BY DENYING MR. MAHAN'S OBJECTION TO T…
20-5741 Juan Gabriel Sanchez-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial recidivism sentencing Sixth-Amendment Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States , 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-5742 David Tachay Heard v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-09-17 Denied Relisted (3)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure cross-racial-identification due-process eyewitness-identification federal-standard jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error standard-of-review 1. Should federal district courts be required to give a cautionary jury instruction, upon a defendant's request, to guide the jury's evaluation of eye…
20-5746 Brandon Thomas Finnesy v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-09-17 Denied IFP 28-usc-636 consent-jurisdiction criminal-procedure federal-courts federal-criminal-procedure guilty-plea judicial-consent magistrate-judge statutory-interpretation Whether 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(3) authorizes a federal magistrate judge to accept a guilty plea with the parties' consent?
20-5747 Ryan Nicholas Haynes v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-09-17 Denied Relisted (4)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process law-enforcement passenger-rights passenger-search plain-error-review search-and-seizure traffic-stop (1) Whether a traffic stop of a bus for a minor traffic violation allows law enforcement to order all passengers off the bus to be searched? (2) Whet…
20-5706 Mark Berg v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence evidence-review legal-determination standard-of-review suppression-hearing suppression-ruling I. When reviewing a suppression ruling on appeal, should the appellate court view the evidence in the light most favorable to the prevailing party (as…
20-5711 David Smith-Garcia, fka David Garwood Atwood, II v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure fifth-circuit plain-error-review sentencing supervised-release 1. Whether the district court erred by ordering two terms of imprisonment to run consecutive in the subject third supervised release revocation procee…
20-5712 Marcus Vernell Coleman v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance new-trial prejudice right-of-confrontation strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. Did the federal Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal "apply " the correct legal standard in accordance to Strickland's prejudicial prong when petitioners)…
20-5715 Martin Rogelio Longoria v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP at sentencing may withhold a motion for a third-level reduction acceptance-of-responsibility circuit-split criminal-procedure government-discretion motion-to-suppress plea-bargaining sentencing-guidelines Whether the government, at sentencing, may withhold a motion for a third-level reduction for acceptance of responsibility under USSG § 3E1.1(b) on the…
20-5720 Martin Garcia-Moreno v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process elements-of-offense immigration-law jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing-factors sixth-amendment In Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), the Court held that in a prosecution for 8 U.S.C. § 1326, the fact of a prior conviction n…
20-5722 Stanley J. Carter v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest speedy-trial state-law 1. Does a Criminal defendant have a Fourteenth Amendment Constitutional Protection against the arbitrary deprivation by a state of one's State created…
20-5727 Martez LaJuan Edwards v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression fourth-amendment jury probable-cause search-and-seizure standing Question not identified.
20-5728 Derrick A. Dotson v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-09-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP batson-challenge collateral-review criminal-procedure equal-protection jury-selection jury-trial ramos-retroactivity retroactivity sixth-amendment teague-standard Whether this Court's decision in Ramos v. Louisiana, 140 S. Ct. 1390 (2020) applies to cases on state collateral review, where the State follows the r…
20-354 In Re Lorcan Kilroy 2020-09-16 Denied civil-rights criminal-obstruction criminal-procedure due-process federal-investigation judicial-review kamala-harris ninth-circuit political-bias standing Whether or not democrat political bias to protect Sen. Kamala Harris from exposure to criminal prosecution existed in USCA9 No. 19-55357, enough to wa…
20-348 Gregory Shawn Mercer v. E. A. Vega Fourth Circuit 2020-09-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process guarantee-clause jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation summary-judgment supreme-clause SCOTUS Rule 10(a) - Whether or not a Circuit Split has arisen between the Fourth Circuit and other Circuits over the interpretation of whether crimes …
20-5700 Antonio Moss v. Florida Florida 2020-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-regulations civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-interpretation judicial-review sentencing statutory-construction Question not identified.
20-5704 Leonard Borden v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof co-conspirator-testimony criminal-procedure due-process factual-statements guideline-application preponderance-of-evidence presentence-report sentencing-guidelines sentencing-hearing does a defendant have an obligation to prove the facts in the PSR are inaccurate or untrue after the defendant objects to the factual statements and t…
20-5708 Fagbemi Miranda v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2020-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-defense criminal-procedure defendant-rights fundamental-decision fundamental-decisions legal-representation right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment trial-strategy Does the defendant's Sixth Amendment right to make fundamental decisions about his case include the right to choose which defense to present at trial?
20-5709 Rickey Cole v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP and proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt? placed in the indictment burden-of-proof constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing grand-jury indictment jury-trial sentencing sentencing-guidelines I. Whether facts that affect the minimum or maximum reasonable federal sentence must be found by a grand jury, placed in the indictment, and proven to…
20-5710 Jaime E. Coca-Ortiz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
20-5691 In Re Freeman Berry 2020-09-14 Denied IFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea indictment jurisdiction jurisdictional-authority plea-agreement the inherent right to bind this Petitioner and other Defendants to a guilty plea contract it drafted. Does the United States Government retain contain…
20-5692 Johnathon Nico Wise v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure error-preservation federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-circuit judgment-of-acquittal legal-motion preservation-of-error rule-29 standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether specific grounds must be identified in a Rule 29 motion for judgment of acquittal to preserve error?
20-5655 Casye Necole Richardson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors?
20-5658 Martin Racioppi v. United States Third Circuit 2020-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-procedure divisibility divisible-statute mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states robbery-statute state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit's approach, in United States v. McCants, 952 F.3d 416 (3d Cir. 2020), to determining that New Jersey's second-degree robbery…
20-5663 Anthony Thomas Buonaiuto, III v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-09-11 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto jurisdictional-exception post-conviction-relief retroactive-applicability retroactivity sexual-offender-registration state-collateral-review substantive-rules Whether, Federal Law Renders the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in Legal Error, where the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Committed Legal Error by failin…
20-5665 Nathaniel Marcus Gann v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2020-09-11 Denied IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility habeas-corpus testimonial-statements 1) IS THE ADMISSION OF IRRELEVANT OR OVERTLY PREJUDICIAL EVIDENCE A DUE PROCESS VIOLATION? (AND IS SUCH A VIOLATION SUFFICIENT TO ISSUE A WRIT OF HABE…
20-5666 Cristian Mendoza v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility advisory-sentencing criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-range 1. A defendant who enters a guilty plea pursuant to a plea agreement that includes a purported inducement that he will receive an acceptance of respon…
20-5674 In Re James Ward 2020-09-11 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance missouri-v-frye plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Consistent with the holding in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), which held that to prove prejudice on a claim of ineffective assistance …
20-5676 Leon Venegas, Jr. v. Randee Rewerts, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-right criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel exculpatory-evidence faretta-inquiry ineffective-assistance jury-selection self-representation timely-request I. DOES A STATE TRIAL COURT DEPRIVE A CRIMINAL DEFENDANT OF HIS/HER CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO SELF REPRESENTION WHEN THEY DENY THE DEFENDANTS UNEQUIVOCA…
20-326 Mitchell J. Stein v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-11 Denied Amici (2) constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence false-testimony government-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the Due Process Clause excuses the government's knowing use of false testimony in a criminal prosecution so long as the government divulged ev…
20-317 Dakai Chavis v. Delaware Delaware 2020-09-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) confrontation-clause criminal-procedure dna-evidence evidence-admissibility multi-analyst-testing out-of-court-statements testimonial-statements Whether the Confrontation Clause permits DNA evidence obtained as the result of a multi-analyst testing process to be introduced against the defendant…
20-5636 Miguel Figueroa v. United States Second Circuit 2020-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction gun-statute plea-bargaining plea-colloquy predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant's statement during a plea colloquy admitting conduct that could serve as a predicate for a conviction for use of a gun under 18 U.…
20-5650 Carlos Cruz-Rivera v. United States First Circuit 2020-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-procedure firearms firearms-conviction first-step-act judicial-review retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(C), which as clarified and as amended by the First Step Act of 2018, precludes aggravated punishment for second firearms…
20-5651 Christopher R. Gish v. Randall Hepp, Warden Seventh Circuit 2020-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure hill-v-lockhart immigration immigration-consequences ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lee-v-united-states plea-bargaining prejudice-standard In Lee v. United States , __ U.S. __, 137 S. Ct. 1958, 1965 (2017), this Court held that in assessing whether a defense attorney's deficient advice th…
20-5652 Daniel L. Lopez v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states motion-to-vacate sentencing statute-of-limitations Whether Lopez's 28 USC Section 2255(a) Motion was timely filed under Johnson v United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) as there is a split between the 8…
20-5653 Hermenegildo Margarito Espinoza Espinoza v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum 1) Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eith…
20-5656 Priscilla Ann Ellis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure district-prosecution due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge overt-act venue venue-requirement In a criminal conspiracy case, does proof of venue require that at least one defendant charged in the case have participated in an overt act in furthe…
20-5620 Ivan Soto-Barraza and Jesus Lionel Sanchez-Meza v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP consent conspiracy constructive-amendment criminal-procedure extortion hobbs-act jury-instructions robbery The Hobbs Act defines extortion, in relevant part, as requiring the wrongful use of violence or fear in order to induce a person to consent to part wi…
20-5622 Larry E. Starks, Jr. v. United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois Seventh Circuit 2020-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fifth-amendment judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation tenth-amendment A. WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT ERRED AND ABUSED ITS DISCRETION BY TERMINATING THE INQUIRY AS TO WHETHER THE PETITIONER MET TH…
20-5623 Maksim Stefanyuk v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-09-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP brady-rule criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-destruction exculpatory-evidence government-misconduct spoliation trial-rights When a defendant in Federal Criminal Court proceedings requests to review, prior to trial, the evidence that is in the government's possession that is…
20-5626 Monte Whitehead v. New Mexico New Mexico 2020-09-09 Denied IFP bill-of-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining state-vs-federal-law New Mexice's anti-waiver statute void? If so! 2. I's the decision by the New Mexico District Court contory te New Mexico's anti-wai ver statute and t…
20-5631 Riggin Valley v. Texas Texas 2020-09-09 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct Question not identified.
20-5632 Rick Shawn v. Eighth Judicial District Court of Nevada, Clark County Nevada 2020-09-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief right-to-a-fair-trial 1. When lawenfoccement ar state presecutors violate guaranteed rights afa criminal defendant and a couct when the staite moves to withdraw the case -w…
20-5639 TJ Cain, aka Thomas J. Cain v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-09-09 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure involuntary-confession miranda-rights plain-error pretrial-motion suppression-of-evidence When a criminal defendant does not timely file a pretrial motion raising a claim covered by Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 12(b)(8), is his claim …
20-5642 Christopher Wooten v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-09-09 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony plea-bargaining sentencing Review Imilotel useof PRIA FHLaN To APPOINT COUNSE AND DEFENDANT W9 YerTEMED To JHL.49.09 DWI ENHMNT. TEKAh. "ON-CONSTITOTIONA/ 7h UTATE of GTRTuT, Pe…
20-302 Steven Dotson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-09-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review predicate-convictions sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation substitute-predicate-convictions If a defendant successfully challenges on collateral review one or more of the predicate convictions that the district court relied on to impose a sen…
20-306 Robert Olan and Theodore Huber v. United States Second Circuit 2020-09-09 GVR Amici (2) conversion criminal-procedure dirks-v-sec fraud fraud-statute government-regulation insider-trading personal-benefit property-rights securities-law 1. Whether information about a proposed government regulation is "property" or a "thing of value" belonging to a federal, state, or local regulator su…
20-294 Lamont Kortez Gaines v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-09-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process equipoise evidence evidence-standard hobbs-act motion-for-acquittal standard-of-review statutory-interpretation 1. Whether a trial court must grant a motion for acquittal when, in viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, the evidence …
20-5605 In Re Eric Wallace Koehl 2020-09-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights compulsory-process criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel public-trial racial-bias sixth-amendment # 1.2) Does Not A CRIMiNAl defend any have A Const TvTien AL RIGHT 9 A Poblic RAR VRAL UNDER GTR AMEND MONT To THe Wwiten STaTes Constitvhen % # Q) a…
20-5606 Keith A. Brown v. Alberto Ramirez Ninth Circuit 2020-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment incompetent-defendant motion-to-suppress suppression-of-evidence During a hearingr.ori: a Motion to Suppress Evidence, when the State fails to carry it's burden of proof, is the remedy suppression of the evidence?…
20-5607 In Re Billie J. Allen 2020-09-08 Denied IFP criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief 1. Whether it is unconstitutional for defense counsel to admit an accused's guilt to the jury over the accused's express objection?
20-5610 Eric J. Brown v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-09-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure direct-appeal jury-unanimity juvenile-offenders retroactivity sentencing Under Griffith v. Kentucky, new rules apply to all defendants whose cases are "pending on direct review or not yet final." Petitioner was convicted in…
20-5612 Anthony Roy Brown v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment charging-instrument criminal-procedure due-process felony-sentencing intervening-arrest prior-sentences same-charging-instrument sentencing-guidelines Is the Court prohibited from calculating a sentences which were imposed on the same day or in the same charging instrument as separate sentences in ac…
20-5616 Zachary Knotts v. West Virginia West Virginia 2020-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP bench-trial competency-hearing constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process indictment-disposition mental-competency proof-standard trial-jurisdiction If a defendant is indicted and found not competent to stand trial, is the court obligated to write a final order disposing of the case when the court …
20-5603 Michael A. Glover v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment amendment-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-sufficiency reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence I. DID THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COURTS VIOLATE THE PETITIONER'S 5TH & 14TH AMENDMENT OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION WHEN THEY FOUND THE PETITIONER …
20-5604 Atorbe Aaron Isibor v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure federal-rules forfeiture olano venue venue-insufficiency waiver waiver-doctrine Under this Court's decision in United States v. Olano, 507 U.S. 725 (1993), does a defendant who argues for the first time on appeal that the governme…
20-5598 Gary Richardson v. Colorado Colorado 2020-09-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process family-member impartial-jury jury-selection sixth-amendment structural-error Whether a trial judge commits structural error violating a defendant's Sixth Amendment and due process rights to an impartial and independent jury by …
20-5560 Briand Daniel Fechner v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit evidence evidentiary-rules propensity-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure sixth-circuit (1) Whether the prosecution may introduce child pornography videos at trial that were not found on the defendant's devices, but found in an outside in…
20-5568 Alex Alberto Castro v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure evidence-law exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence wiretap-suppression wiretaps Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's Order denying the defense motion to suppress wiretaps.
20-5569 Carlos Garcia-Toro v. Ohio Ohio 2020-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest criminal-defense criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment homicide ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Does the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment of the federal Constitution guarantee the right to conflict free counsel if defense counsel represents multipl…
20-5580 Kyle Phillips v. Florida Florida 2020-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process due-process-clause evidence-law evidentiary-rules fourteenth-amendment prior-act-evidence sexual-battery Whether it is a violation of the due process guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment for irrelevant prior-act evidence to be received in a criminal tri…
20-5586 Jose Zamudio-Silva v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-sentencing sentencing-departures sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness When considering guidelines rulings, should appellate courts review the decision to depart from the guideline range in the same way as other guideline…
20-5571 Angel C. Pacheco v. Maine Maine 2020-09-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP any-persons-present collective-searches criminal-procedure drug-trafficking fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant warrant-standard (1) Whether, to obtain a search warrant authorizing the search of "any," "all" or "unknown" persons likely to be found at a residence believed to be u…
20-5577 Malik Timbers v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea minor-role-reduction plea-bargaining sentence-appeal-waiver sentencing sentencing-guidelines violence-enhancement weapon-enhancement I. WHETHER CERTIORARI REVIEW SHOULD BE GRANTED WHERE THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN FINDING THAT TIMBERS' GUILTY PLEA WAS VOLUNTARY AND THE SENTENCE-AP…
20-5578 Steven Gerard Walker v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-09-02 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure federal-state-courts felon-in-possession mens-rea preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-enhancement violent-felony 1) Whether a sentencing judge can find facts in the first instance about whether a defendant committed offenses on different occasions by a prepondera…
20-5579 Israel Torres v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-09-02 Denied Amici (1)IFP as-applied-challenge constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process felon-in-possession firearm-possession second-amendment standing May an individual charged with violating a law barring the possession of firearms by felons bring an as-applied Second Amendment challenge to his pros…
20-272 Maryland, et al. v. Jimmie Rogers Maryland 2020-09-02 Denied Response Waived constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment sentencing sex-offender-registration sixth-amendment Did the Court of Appeals of Maryland depart from this Court's decisions in Smith v. Doe and Apprendi v. New Jersey in holding, contrary to the decisio…
20-251 Willie Gipson v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-09-01 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-rule criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent Ramos-retroactivity Ramos-v-Louisiana retroactivity state-collateral-review Teague-framework Teague-v-Lane Whether this Court's decision in Ramos v. Louisiana, 140 S. Ct. 1390 (2020), applies to cases on state collateral review, where the State follows the …
20-254 Kuang-Bao Ou-Young v. John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice, Supreme Court of the United States, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-09-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) civil-rights competence-restoration criminal-action criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-tort-claims-act habeas-corpus judicial-procedure standing 1. Should a three-judge court instead of a single judge at the North Carolina district court adjudge the FTCA case? 2. Does denial of certiorari just…
20-256 Zavian Munize Jordan v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-09-01 Denied Amici (2) 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-statute drug-trafficking firearm-possession predicate-crime statutory-interpretation violent-crime Under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1), "any person who, during and in relation to any crime of violence or drug trafficking crime * ** uses or carries a firearm…
20-5543 Javier Galindo-Caballero v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-precedent sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-5551 Ohio, ex rel. Jeremy Kerr v. Robert Pollex, et al. Ohio 2020-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-sufficiency jurisdiction state-court state-court-judgment subject-matter-jurisdiction sufficiency-of-evidence Does a state court's judgment of conviction violate the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution when the record of the case is wholly devoid …
20-5555 Franklin C. Edwards v. Illinois Illinois 2020-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment investigatory-stop kansas-v-glover law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop vehicle-search Duri ng the early morni ng hours, a shooti ng took place in a parking lot of an apartment compl ex. The crime scene was large. There were a lot of she…
20-5458 Fidel Alain Martin-Sosa v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review clear-error criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-conspiracy methamphetamine mitigating-role role-adjustment sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review A district court's guidelines calculations are reviewed for clear error. Did the court of appeals err in holding that the district court's guidelines …
20-5463 Rowmoto Rogers v. Gregory Skipper, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP closing-arguments constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure witness-credibility WHETHER THE PROSECUTOR WAS IMPROPERLY ALLOWED TO VOUCH FOR THE CREDIBILITY OF HIS STAR WITNESS DURING CLOSING ARGUMENTS, DENYING VARIOUS CONSTITUTIONA…
20-5497 Marcus Simpson v. Court of Common Pleas of Ohio, Hamilton County, et al. Ohio 2020-08-26 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-usurpation mandamus perjury wrongful-conviction Whether perjury has amounted to and causes one or both. The judicial usurpation of power or abuse of discretion by the trial court, therefore mandamus…
20-5498 John Silvia, Jr. v. United States First Circuit 2020-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-performance client-representation criminal-procedure discovery evidence-preservation exculpatory-evidence expert-consultation expert-witness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel subpoena witness-interview This case raises the question of whether an attorney can be found to have rendered effective assistance of counsel where he failed to review a signifi…
20-5499 Savannah Rolle v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-26 Denied Relisted (3)IFP criminal-procedure due-process essential-elements guilty-plea plea-bargaining rehaif-precedent rehaif-v-united-states vacatur Whether a defendant's guilty plea entered before Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2020), in which the defendant was not advised of the essent…
20-5505 Keith O. Johnson v. Florida Florida 2020-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency competency-hearing constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fundamental-error mental-health CAN, a Defendant pursuant to Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure § 3.210 be proceeded against in a criminal proceeding where a question of Defendant '…
20-5506 Rodolfo Lopez, Jr. v. Indiana Indiana 2020-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP bill-of-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process indiana-criminal-rule-4 indiana-law sixth-amendment speedy-trial I. DID THE TRIAL COURT VIOLATE M. LOPEZ'S RIGHT TO A SPEEDY TRIAL UNDER U.S. CONSTITUTION SIXTH AMENDMENT BILL OF RIGHTS RECOGNIZED BY THE STATE OF IN…
20-5507 Laci Landers v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure discretionary-review drug-offense guidelines judicial-review reasonableness reasonableness-standard revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines totality-of-circumstances Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit") has so far departed from the accepted and usual cou…
20-5519 Richard Wanke v. Illinois Illinois 2020-08-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP arrest arrest-initiation conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process prosecution prosecutorial-delay public-defender speedy-trial APPELLATE DISTRICT COURTS IN ILLINOIS ARE SPLIT ON HOW AN ARREST INITIATES PROSECUTION OR WHETHER IT DOES AT ALL. ARE THERE CIRCUMSTANCES WHERE A PERS…
20-5465 In Re Francisco Felix 2020-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-3231 actual-innocence cause-and-prejudice constitutional-violations criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions procedural-default subject-matter-jurisdiction (1) WHETHER THE GOVERNMENT'S UNAVAILING DEFENSE OF THE INDEFENSIBLE, WITH RESPECT TO THE INDICTMENT, INADEQUATE JURY INSTRUCTIONS, AND THE CONSTRUCTI…
20-5477 Elvis Henry Idada v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-justice constitutional-deprivation criminal-procedure defendants-rights discovery discovery-restrictions due-process government-limitations government-misconduct judicial-review sixth-amendment Should This Court Address the Sixth Amendment Deprivations Created by the Government's Pervasive Restrictions on Defendants' Access to Discovery?
20-5478 Fernando Hernandez v. United States First Circuit 2020-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure discretion domestic-violence drug-trafficking due-process sentencing sentencing-discretion Was Hernandez ' due process rights violated when the district court abused its discretion in relying on Hernandez ' domestic violence past in sentenc…
20-5479 Santos Mondragon Benitez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-indictment criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe…
20-5490 William James Payton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 3583(d)(2) criminal-procedure home-visit home-visits liberty-deprivation probation-officer statutory-interpretation statutory-purposes supervised-release 1) Is a standard condition of supervised release which requires a person to "permit a probation officer to visit [him] at any time athome or elsewhere…
20-5494 Ernest Ray Snow v. Indiana Indiana 2020-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception search-warrant standard-of-review Does United State v. Leon, 468 U.S. 897 (1984), permit an appellate standard of review that requires an appellant to raise and rebut the applicability…
20-5395 Marcus Tyler Sheffield v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-08-24 Denied IFP 5th-amendment criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process miranda-rights police-questioning reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard self-incrimination Whether the police detective's assurance to Sheffield that he is free to leave on the condition that he make a truthful statement would lead a reasona…
20-5453 Jose Luis Sanchez-Rosado v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-24 Denied Relisted (3)IFP appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-error criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit harmless-error involuntary-plea plea-bargaining plea-colloquy standard-of-review Whether an unconstitutional conviction based on a plea colloquy that omitted an element of the offense must be reversed where the defendant objected t…
20-5454 Mark Shields v. R. C. Smith, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-08-24 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto judicial-individualization parole parole-considerations sentencing sentencing-rights stage-1-calculation standing takings F Whhe specifeS.7-1steE Reveinnane Consider a actuall produ of a Mandted litial Individulized Parle Considerdon heingo R ab a ubsuenb ProlCnsloheaing…
20-5468 Corey Manning v. Michigan Michigan 2020-08-24 Denied IFP competency-hearing competency-to-stand-trial constitutional-rights criminal-procedure critical-stages due-process fair-trial judicial-procedure right-to-be-present supreme-court-precedent trial-presence 1.) WHETHER DEFENDANT-APPELLANT WAS DENIED HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO BE PRESENT AT ALL CRITICAL STAGES OF TRIAL WHERE HE WAS INTENTIONALLY NOT SUMMO…
20-5472 Henry Dailey v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-authority criminal-procedure due-process federal-law jurisdictional-challenge restitution sentencing state-law statutory-interpretation The State of Missouri has a Statute that criminalizes the transfer of dee. Custody or @acontcol of ANY Corin +o aNatrer, or ko another place, when the…
20-5473 Andres Chavez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing I. WHETHER CHAVEZ WAS DENIED DUE PROCESS WHEN HE WAS MISLEAD INTO ENTERING A GUILTY PLEA; BECAUSE COUNSEL FAILED TO REVIEW THE PSR WITH HIM AND FAILED…
20-5439 Jesse Santibanez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP ABUSE-OF-DISCRETION CONFRONTATION-CLAUSE confrontation-right CRIMINAL-PROCEDURE CROSS-EXAMINATION district-court-discretion SIXTH-AMENDMENT WITNESS-CREDIBILITY witness-testimony Question not identified.
20-5440 Jose Tejada v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2020-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ethnic-bias fourteenth-amendment jury-selection sixth-amendment 1. Whether the right to a fair trial by an impartial jury under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments requires a trial judge, during jury selection and …
20-5445 Jelani Walker v. Ed Sheldon, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure merits-ruling procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct sanctions state-court state-courts defense cause prejudice } due to inadequate nofice? If so, is it bad favth -for a conscious prosecutor to seeK this outcome? Does a Federal Court's,…
20-5447 John David Wilson, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2020-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process government-misconduct speedy-trial DOES A PROPEPL FUEO DE MAND SPEEDY FOr TRAL AOPUIES TO A STATE PRISON,HEUD WITHOUT BAIL IN A UNTH JAIL , APPUES TO E STATE STATE PRIsoMee.
20-5405 Jaroderick Hardy v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fourth-amendment high-crime-area investigative-stop law-enforcement probable-cause proximity reasonable-suspicion terry-stop Pursuant to Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1, 22 (1968) and its progeny, law enforcement officers may conduct a brief, investigative stop when, under the tot…
20-5425 Rasheen J. Gamble v. New York New York 2020-08-20 Denied IFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cumulative-error dna-evidence due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct I. WAS DEFENSE COUNSEL INEFFECTIVE FOR CONSENTING TO THE PROSECUTOR'S EXTREMELY UNTIMELY REQUEST FOR A DNA SAMPLE —A MOVE THAT THE APPELLATE DIVISI…
20-5426 David Moss v. Texas Texas 2020-08-20 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance retroactive-application retroactivity strickland-standard strickland-v-washington texas-code-of-criminal-procedure AState Court of last resort decided an- important question of law in a way that conflicts with relevant decisions of this court. This court decided L…
20-5427 Josiah Daniel Porter v. Illinois Illinois 2020-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-cure plea-bargaining plea-stage sixth-amendment Whether a but-for causal relationship between the defendant's guilty plea and his counsel's deficiency is nullified by judicial plea admonitions addre…
20-5428 Jose Ricardo Morales-Mercado v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres apprendi criminal-procedure due-process sentencing supreme-court Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998) , in light of the reasoning of …
20-5429 Derrick T. Neville, Jr. v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne apprendi criminal-procedure jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment approacl does not apply to the texn "serious drvg sffense pursuant to 92yle)(2lA)i). Tne tevm "requires an ly that the state offsuse inuolue thecondu…
20-5432 Michael James Barnes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court fifth-circuit habeas-corpus johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states plea-agreement plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief post-conviction-waiver section-2255-petition sentencing Whether the district court and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by finding that the post-conviction waiver in Mr. Barnes' Plea Agreement bars …
20-5436 Christy Santiago v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process jury-trial sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Does the Sixth Amendment's right to a jury trial prohibit courts from using acquitted conduct to vary significantly upward from a Sentencing Guideline…
20-5437 Wendell Taylor v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court fifth-circuit habeas-corpus johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states plea-agreement plea-bargaining post-conviction-waiver section-2255-petition sentencing Whether the district court and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by finding that the post-conviction waiver in Mr. Taylor's Plea Agreement bars…
20-5403 Dimarzio Swade Sanchez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-murder jury-instruction jury-instructions mandatory-life-imprisonment sixth-amendment The government convicted Dimarzio Swade Sanchez of aiding and abetting in first degree murder, and he was sentenced to a mandatory life imprisonment. …
20-5404 Jermaine Isaac Ross v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-19 Denied Relisted (3)IFP armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea non-elemental-facts prior-offenses rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense 1. Whether a federal court may increase a defendant's sentence under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) by relying on its own finding about non-elem…
20-5407 Dominique Mack v. United States Second Circuit 2020-08-19 Denied Relisted (4)IFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process evidence jailhouse-informant mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentencing plain-error sentencing statements-against-interest 1. Should the Court should grant certiorari in order to consider whether this Court's jurisprudence concerning the admission of statements against int…
20-5408 Robert Richard Jodoin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process eighth-amendment federal-sentencing military-veteran non-violent-offense reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines veteran-status WHETHER A ONE HUNDRED THIRTY MONTH PRISON SENTENCE FOR A NON-VIOLENT, DRUG DEALING, FIFTY (50) YEAR OLD, MILITARY VETERAN IS UNREASONABLE.
20-5413 Josiah English v. Jo Lynn Gentry, Judge, Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County, et al. Arizona 2020-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-court federal-courts judicial-discretion standing state-courts Did the Arizona Supreme Court err by denying Petition For Review and Request For A Stay of Proceedings in disregard of the fact that ongoing parallel …
20-5415 Gillman Roddy Long, aka Dave Gillman Long v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment appeal-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment habeas-corpus self-incrimination sixth-amendment 1. Does an objection to the governments arguement that a defendant."had not denied the accusations against him." violate the fifth Amendment? 2. Does…
20-5417 Rasheed Lamar Robinson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment federal-habeas-corpus felony-convictions national-importance retroactive-sentencing Whether Petitioner's enhanced sentence based on a retroactively erased felony violates Due Process of Law, and the denial of a Certificate of Appealab…
20-5418 Danny Veloz, aka Maestro, aka Joil Rivera v. United States First Circuit 2020-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-review franks-hearing franks-v-delaware judicial-discretion probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant Whose evidence is a trial judge allowed to consider in making the threshold determination that a defendant has made a substantial preliminary Franks s…
20-5419 Michael D. Dyer v. Aimee Smith, Warden, et al. Georgia 2020-08-19 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel Question not identified.
20-5421 Doved Ben Downer v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP charging-document criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy drug-possession due-process information-charging legal-sufficiency racketeering statutory-interpretation 1. IS SIMPLE POSSESSION UNDER F.S. 893.13(6)(A). A LEGALLY PERMISSIBLE RACKETEERING PREDICATE INCIDENT UNDER F.S. § 895.02(l)(a), § 895.02(l)(b)? 2. …
20-5386 Leon Hawkins v. Donnie Morgan, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-08-18 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion merger ohio-law sentencing sentencing-merger Does Ohio violate petitioner's constitutional right to be sentenced for sentences that merged (yet) the court sentenced separate sentences for the sam…
20-5392 Jermaine Tyrone Jones v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP completed-misdemeanor criminal-procedure fourth-amendment investigatory-stop misdemeanor reasonable-suspicion vehicle-stop Is reasonable suspicion of a completed misdemeanor sufficient under the Fourth Amendment to justify an investigatory stop of a vehicle when there is n…
20-5393 Timothy McCullough v. Jeff Dennison, Warden Seventh Circuit 2020-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction sentencing void-for-vagueness 1. Does the sentencing courthave Jurisdictionto Sentence a defen dant to a statute void of judgment,un-enforceable undar the Constitution? charging, s…
20-5399 Anthony Leon Latimer, aka Gerrald Smith v. Ben Jones, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-08-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 911-caller civil-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process emergency-provision false-imprisonment good-samaritan good-samaritan-law law-enforcement-immunity M>id tbcpefcthfler can pri 7na Mental State* of mbnre 'A? During the TAA/ESTI&ATIO/V PHASE 5 did d&fertdart-ffsgt. Bet1 Jones) Violate the petitioner…
20-5376 Alfredo Estrada-Eugenio, aka Alfredo Erasto Estrada-Eugenio, aka Juan Eugenio Medina, aka Alfredo Estarada, aka Alfredo Eugenio-Estrada, aka Alfredo Estrada, aka Gerardo Amezquita v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-5379 Keith Adair Davis v. Washington Washington 2020-08-17 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP adversarial-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial defense-counsel due-process pro-se-defendant right-to-counsel sixth-amendment unsettled-law Where a pro se defendant is absent from a criminal trial, whether due to misconduct or voluntary choice, is the trial court constitutionally required …
20-5380 Antonio Deshawn Pitt v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP bank-robbery criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-discretion mental-health proportionality proportionality-principle sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether a district court's statutory obligation to consider the "history and circumstances" of a criminal defendant and to refrain from imposing a sen…
20-171 Isaac L. Hobbs v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-08-17 Denied Relisted (3) 18-usc-922 constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea knowledge-of-status statutory-interpretation structural-error Does a constitutionally invalid guilty plea resulting from the government's failure to inform a defendant of the knowledge-of-status element of 18 U.S…
20-5354 Johnnie Lee Jordan, Jr. v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2254-petition brady-violation certificate-of-appealability civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process giglio-violation habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence pro-se-litigant standing Whether pro se litigants can be sentenced to a natural life sentence because of Giglio and Brady violations, and insufficient evidence plain on the fa…
20-5355 Eddie David Cox v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-08-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP appeal circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process resentencing sentencing Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause bars resentencing on counts for sentences a defendant has already served?
20-5356 Jabarr Ryeheine Rudolph v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-08-14 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility appeal cocaine-base criminal-appeal criminal-procedure drug-weight due-process obstruction-of-justice sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review I. WHETHER THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN THE ASSESSMENT OF A TWO POINT ENHANCEMENT AGAINST THE APPELLANT JABARR RUDOLPH FOR OBSTRUCTION OF JUS…
20-5358 David Fuentes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-remand criminal-procedure davis-precedent davis-v-united-states habeas-corpus judicial-reconsideration legal-standard reasonable-probability reconsideration standard-of-review supreme-court-review Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light of…
20-5363 Reginald Jones v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-08-14 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony-conviction firearm jury-trial jury-unanimity obstruction-of-justice ramos-precedent ramos-v-louisiana In light of this court's recent decision in Ramos v. Louisiana, 140 S.Ct. 1390 (2020), finding nonunanimous jury verdicts in serious criminal cases un…
20-5344 Christopher Taylor v. Illinois Illinois 2020-08-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP 6th-amendment autopsy-report cause-of-death confrontation-clause criminal-procedure knowing-murder lesser-included-offense murder-charge sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence Whether a defendant is denied his Sixth Amendment right to be confronted with the witnesses against him where a court admits into evidence a certified…
20-5346 Jerry Lee Thompson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing substance-abuse-treatment supervised-release I. Does a district court commit reversible plain error when, in a sentence revoking supervised release, it imposes a condition of supervised release r…
20-5328 Jeffrey Paul Giblin v. Washington Washington 2020-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-rules eyewitness-testimony intent intent-standard lay-opinion-testimony A h FourteenAmenden Contittinauarnts of "Due Proces ofLaw and"equal protection of the laws" duly satistied for a Defendant accused of a crime involvin…
20-5335 Dustin Johnson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment methamphetamine methamphetamine-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Issue I Whether the District Court erred in sentencing the Defendant based on ice ("actual" methamphetamine) rather than a mixture and substance cont…
20-5337 David Enrique Meza v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure investigatory-proceeding marinello-v-united-states mens-rea miranda-rights miranda-waiver obstruction obstruction-of-justice 1. In Marinello v. United States, 138 S. Ct. 1101, 1109-10 (2018), the Court held that, to prove obstruction, the government must show that the defend…
20-143 Michael Harrison Lowman, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-08-12 Denied Response Waived appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure disparate-treatment due-process judicial-discretion sentencing unreliable-facts SHOULD AN APPEAL WAIVER THAT DID NOT EXPRESSLY WAIVE A DUE PROCESS CHALLENGE BE ENFORCED WHERE THE SENTENCING COURT BASED ITS SENTENCE ON UNRELIABLE F…
20-5317 Jeremiah Rodgers v. Florida Florida 2020-08-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure diagnostic-uncertainty due-process gender-dysphoria medical-evidence mental-health plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness post-conviction-relief procedural-bar 1. Whether the newly discovered evidence of a criminal defendant's medical condition, including gender dysphoria, may implicate the voluntariness of a…
20-5322 Patrick H. Torrence v. Alaska Alaska 2020-08-11 Denied IFP compulsory-process constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection search-and-seizure self-incrimination unreasonable-searches-and-seizures 1) The decision of the State of Alaska, and the Alaska Court of Appeals are inconsistent with the United States Fourteenth Amendment rights to fair an…
20-5323 Alfred Domenick Wright v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-08-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fair-sentencing-act government-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review sentencing-reduction sibron-v-new-york statutory-interpretation substantial-assistance united-states-v-gall 1.) Should the Government correct error committed when applying 'The Fair Sentencing Act ' (Nov. 2014)? And if an applicant 's reduction for Substan…
20-5324 In Re Jeremiah Ybarra 2020-08-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial false-evidence false-statements false-testimony law-enforcement warrant-validity IS PETITIONER'S INNOCENCE OF THE MILLED OFFENSE? WAS THE CRIMINAL PROCESS ABUSED, WHEN FALSE STATEMENTS WERE HELD TO APPLY FOR MURDER WARRANT? Was f…
20-5307 Rebecca H. Gallogly v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP agency-responsibility civil-rights community-supervision constitutional-deprivation criminal-procedure due-process expungement probation property-rights 1. Is it a Constitutional deprivation to put a person found not guilty on community supervision or probation for the charge! or, to permit states to a…
20-5300 Victor Santana-Gonzalez v. United States First Circuit 2020-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-error plain-error sentencing sentencing-procedure Does plain error apply to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure Rule 32(i)(4)(a)(ii) when the error is caused by the sentencing court
20-5297 Demarius Bridges v. Illinois Illinois 2020-08-07 Denied IFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process hearsay hearsay-testimony right-to-confrontation sixth-amendment standing testimonial-hearsay unavailable-witness 2. Can unconfronted testimonial hearsay be used to secure the admission at trial of other unconfronted testimonial hearsay? 3. Did the state fail to …
20-5299 Antonio Benson v. Tennessee Tennessee 2020-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-instruction jury-instructions self-defense I. Whether the ruling of the Tennessee Supreme Court, which reversed the opinion of the Tennessee intermediate appellate court, that the Petitioner wa…
20-5301 David L. Shanks, Jr. v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-court fifth-amendment judicial-procedure sixth-amendment trial-commencement trial-in-absentia Whether Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 43 and a criminal defendant's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights are violated when a Federal Judge appears at…
20-129 Muhanad Elfatih M. A. Badawi v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-08-07 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence foreign-terrorist-organization material-support old-chief old-chief-precedent rule-403 terrorism-evidence Whether graphic evidence of terrorism, admitted without the balancing test required by Fed. R. Evid. 403 and Old Chief v. United States, 519 U.S. 172,…
20-5283 Mauricio Lemus v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence revocation-hearing sentencing supervised-release Whether at a supervised-release revocation hearing the government must prove by a preponderance of the evidence its contention that a defendant's cond…
20-5285 Melvin Lee Jones v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-08-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment circuit-court-split criminal-procedure drug-enforcement fourth-amendment locked-containers marijuana-odor probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant Does probable cause to believe that a small, personal-use amount of drugs is present in a home automatically also provide probable cause to search the…
20-5287 In Re Eddie Allen Jackson 2020-08-06 Denied IFP constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury indictment indictment-modification judicial-error Whether the district court constructively amended the indictment in petitioner's case and if so does it rise to a Fifth Amendment violation?
20-5289 Justin W. Sanderson v. Keith J. Foley, Warden Ohio 2020-08-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process finality-of-judgment habeas-corpus judicial-review mandamus subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment writ-of-mandamus 1. Whether this present petition should be liberally construed by this court as a petition for Writ of Mandamus to the court with directions, or as …
20-5292 Ashvinbhai Chaudhari v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-plea criminal-procedure downward-departure fifth-circuit involuntary-plea judicial-procedure plea-bargain plea-bargaining restitution supervisory-powers Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Cireuit")-which held Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Criminal…
20-5261 Michael Fred Houston v. Texas Texas 2020-08-05 Denied IFP court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification identification-testimony motion-to-suppress reliability-standard suggestive-identification suggestive-procedure totality-of-circumstances witness-reliability 1) Does under the totality of the circumstance, is the in-court identification reliable even though the confrontation procedure was suggestive? 2) Di…
20-5265 Hazhar A. Sayed v. Colorado Colorado 2020-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency competency-evaluation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions post-arrest-silence right-to-remain-silent self-defense Whether the trial court violated Sayed's constitutional right to remain silent and reversibly erred when it allowed the government to question a DOC i…
20-5269 Amadeo Valls v. Florida Florida 2020-08-05 Denied IFP acquittal burglary criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions mens-rea structural-error (1) WHETHER Due process prohibits Florida from excluding Hews rea .instruction from Burglary CHARGES or WHETHER IT IS STRUCTURAL ERROR For Trial court…
20-5273 Andrew Hargett, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP arrest civil-rights criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure I. Whether the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule required suppression of evidence obtained as a result of Mr. Hargett's arrest.
20-5279 William Dale Wooden v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-08-05 Judgment Issued Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure standing warrantless-entry warrantless-search DID THE WARRANTLESS ENTRY AND SEARCH OF PETITIONER'S HOME VIOLATE HIS FOURTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO BE FREE FROM ILLEGAL SEARCH AND SEIZURE? DID THE SIXT…
20-5280 Rahim Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure cross-reference district-court error federal-jurisdiction homicide sentencing-guidelines u-s-sentencing-commission u.s.s.g.-§-2k2.1(c)(1)(b) Whether the district court erred by applying the Sentencing Guidelines cross reference under U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(c)(1)(B).
20-5248 Robert Bernal, Jr. v. United States Third Circuit 2020-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver criminal-procedure plea-agreement restitution restitution-order sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-limits unlawful-sentence Whether a defendant's waiver of the right to appeal which explicitly permits appeal of a sentence that "exceeds the applicable statutory limits set fo…
20-5253 Douglas Farrar, Sr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process false-testimony findings judicial-findings obstruction-of-justice perjury presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the generic adoption of a Presentence Report is sufficient to discharge the court's duties to make express and independent findings for an obs…
20-5254 Quintin I. Brown v. Virginia Virginia 2020-08-04 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence-law felony jury-trial misdemeanor DID the COMMONWEALTH of VIRGINIA IWA l court i)£MV MR.13ROWU H'S COMSTltTUTIbWAL RIGHT TO JURY TRIAL ON Ttffc MVSOEIAEAMOR CHARGES OP ReCJ&WtWC STOLEN…
20-5257 Jimmy McLain Moore v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourth-amendment law-enforcement right-to-confrontation sixth-amendment witness-communication 1. Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals failed to decide an important Federal Question regarding the right of a Defendant to confront witnesses …
20-119 Louis Ruggiero v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-04 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing federal-charges ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining prejudice prejudice-standard section-2255 Should the court of appeals have granted a certificate of appealability on whether a district court may deny a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 evidentiary hearing on…
20-120 Alfredo Juarez v. Colorado Colorado 2020-08-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) criminal-procedure deportation effective-assistance-of-counsel guilty-plea immigration immigration-consequences padilla-standard padilla-v-kentucky sixth-amendment When there is no dispute that a guilty plea will trigger mandatory deportation pursuant to federal law, must defense counsel advise a noncitizen-defen…
20-101 Lloyd Harris v. Maryland Maryland 2020-08-03 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (14) actual-prejudice balancing-test constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial preindictment-delay prejudice-analysis prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-motive Where preindictment delay has caused actual prejudice to the accused's ability to defend himself, does the Due Process Clause require (1) the defendan…
20-5237 Kenneth Lee Manhard v. Florida Florida 2020-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal collision-liability criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection license-suspension miranda-rights sentencing vehicular-manslaughter (1) Was he denied equal protection of the law ?
20-5244 David Lopez v. United States First Circuit 2020-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP application-note base-offense-level criminal-procedure judicial-discretion leadership-enhancement rico rico-violation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Did the district court and the First Circuit err by declining to apply Application Note One as written?
20-5246 Jerry Luke v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights conviction-review court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process jurisdictional-challenge search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
20-5193 Mollee M. McWhorter v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-07-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment free-speech juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole standing takings I WISH THE US SUPREME COURT TO REVIEW THE UNCONSTITUATIONALITY OF CANNABIS LAWS AS IT RELATES TO MY FEDERAL CASE AND HOW IT IS APPLICABLE TO MILLIONS …
20-5196 David McConnell v. Florida Florida 2020-07-31 Denied IFP cooperation-with-state criminal-investigation criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel murder murder-prosecution prosecutorial-conflict sixth-amendment 1. Does counsel under the Fourteenth and Sixth Amendment have an obligation to effectively assist a defendants cooperation with the State in a murder…
20-5232 Iris Lamarr Anderson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus standing state-courts 1. WAS PETITIDNER DENIED "FUNDAMENTAL FAIRNESS" BY STATE AND FEDBRAL LOURTS RESOLUTION OF HIS CLAIMS DN AN ERRONEOUS INDEPENDANT AND ADEQUATE STATE LA…
20-5233 Michael R. Burns v. United States First Circuit 2020-07-31 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence dna-fabrication due-process evidence fingerprint-fabrication habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief 1. Appoint Counsel And Recall A Mandate 2. When Appeals Court Have Jurisdiction Summary Cases, Where A Rule 33 Is Filed Under US v. CRONIC?
20-5235 Michael D. Bikundi, Sr. v. United States District of Columbia 2020-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure discovery district-court due-process federal-rule-criminal-procedure harmless-error legal-obligation material-violation prejudice prejudicial-error sanction sanctions Whether a district court has an obligation to impose a meaningful sanction for a material and highly prejudicial violation of Federal Rule of Criminal…
20-5238 Wilbert Hayes v. United States Second Circuit 2020-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court circuit-court-of-appeals criminal-procedure extra-record-material extrarecord-material olano-analysis olano-standard plain-error post-rehaif Whether, on a post-Rehaif claim, the Circuit Court of Appeals should not consider extrarecord material in its assessment of the fourth prong of the Ol…
20-5239 Junior Griffin v. United States Second Circuit 2020-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP bad-faith criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure government-misconduct joinder severance 1. Whether courts must consider allegations of "bad faith" by the government when deciding motions to join counts pursuant to Fed. R. Crim. P. 8(a), o…
20-5240 Cynthia Gilmore v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP ambiguity ambiguous-verdict conspiracy criminal-procedure jury-instructions jury-verdict predicate-acts reasonable-doubt sentencing Whether the sentencing court is required to use the reasonable doubt standard to determine the predicate acts where the jury's verdict was purposefull…
20-106 Alberto Vilar, et al. v. United States Second Circuit 2020-07-31 Denied Response Waived appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel massaro-v-united-states procedural-review In 2013, the Second Circuit affirmed convictions of Petitioners Gary Tanaka and Alberto Vilar for securities law-related offenses, but vacated the sen…
20-5216 Brent Anderson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-30 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure davis-v-united-states fact-review federal-rule-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure gvr judicial-procedure plain-error questions-of-fact standard-of-review Are questions of fact cognizable on plain error review under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52(b)? [Petitioner requests GVR in light of Davis v. U…
20-5218 Daniel Page v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-condition ninth-circuit plea-bargaining pre-sentence-motion trial-counsel 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit erred by denying a certificate of appealability on the question of whether the trial court should have granted Mr. Page's…
20-5219 Binh Nguyen v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review remand sentence-vacatur sentencing united-states-v-haymond L. Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Ha…
20-5221 Arthur James Martin v. Florida Florida 2020-07-30 Denied IFP brady-violation capital-trial criminal-procedure cumulative-error cumulative-error-analysis giglio-violation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief strickland-test trial-counsel 1. Whether trial counsel's failure to investigate and present evidence that significantly undermines the State's case is deficient performance that re…
20-5222 Travon Nikeith Johnson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-remand court-review criminal-procedure exceptions Holguin-Hernandez judicial-interpretation legal-precedent procedural-analysis remand reversal sentencing supreme-court-citation Whether the court below overlooked or disregarded Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, __U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), meriting remand or reversal?
20-5223 Jorge Madrid-Uriarte v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-precedent court-decision criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-review legal-standard precedent reasonable-probability reconsideration remand sentencing standard-of-review I. Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light…
20-5226 Jose Flores-Dominguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei…
20-5190 Christian Rodriguez v. United States District Court for the District of Nevada, Reno, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-29 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule miranda-rights search-and-seizure Question not identified.
20-5208 William Monterial Jones v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-07-29 Denied IFP burden-of-proof civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence identity identity-evidence procedural-default state-prosecution PORSUANT TO THE PRECEDENT ESTARLISHED EN UNITED STATES V BONNER, 6H8 F.2d 2O9 (4MCIR 2O11), DID THE STATE SUFFICIENTLY PROVE IT'S BURDEN OF PROOF OF G…
20-90 Eugene Slone v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-07-29 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement sixth-amendment strickland-standard subject-matter-jurisdiction Did Slone sufficiently meet his burden under Strickland such that the District and Circuit courts should have granted his petition for a Certificate o…
20-5188 Adelso Barnes v. Janet Dowling, Warden Tenth Circuit 2020-07-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence aedpa-exception criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus legal-consultation miscarriage-of-justice plea-change right-to-counsel 1. Whether an affirmative statement that Mr. Barnes wished to remain in the county jail for the critical ten-day period entitles Mr. Barnes to the con…
20-5191 Joshua Edwards v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process elements-of-crime elements-of-offense fifth-circuit jury-instructions trial-defense Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit err when it held that the district court's failure to instruct the jury on the elements o…
20-5161 Roberto Gonzalez-Gatica v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
20-5179 Alberto Guillen v. Patrick McTighe, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-involuntariness witness-investigation 1) Is the complete failure to investigate potentially corroborating witness (the victim Roberto Guillen) be considered and accepted tactical decision,…
20-5184 Richard Brian Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act criminal-charging criminal-procedure indictment indictment-error prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-provision statutory-interpretation 1) Whether sentencing Mr. Williams under the ACCA was error because the prosecutor specifically charged the sentencing provision of 18 U.S.C. § 924(a)…
20-5157 Denard Stokeling v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-24 Denied Relisted (3)IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process plea-bargaining plea-validity rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement violent-felony 1. Where a defendant pled guilty to a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) prior to Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (2029), and it is undisputed th…
20-5163 Lonnie Kade Welsh v. Texas Texas 2020-07-24 Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-commitment criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment insanity-defense mens-rea mental-capacity 1. Would the State of Texas cause a fundamental miscarriage of justice violating the United States Fourteenth Amendment by refusing to overturn the cr…
20-5164 Lonnie Kade Welsh v. Texas Texas 2020-07-24 Denied IFP civil-commitment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment insanity-defense mens-rea mental-capacity 1. Would the State of Texas cause a fundamental miscarriage of justice violating the United States Fourteenth Amendment by refusing to overturn the cr…
20-5165 Lonnie Kade Welsh v. Texas Texas 2020-07-24 Denied IFP civil-commitment criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment insanity-defense mens-rea mental-capacity sanity 1. Would the State of Texas cause a fundamental miscarriage of justice violating the United States Fourteenth Amendment by refusing to overturn the cr…
20-5170 William Russell Williams v. Michigan Michigan 2020-07-24 Denied IFP actus-reus criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance jury-instructions mens-rea mitigation mitigation-instruction prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-present-defense sentencing-guidelines I. Was William Williams denied his right to due process, to present a defense, and to a properly instructed jury where the trial court refused to prov…
20-5173 Juan Domingo Velazquez v. Texas Texas 2020-07-24 Denied IFP court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process ineffective-assistance jury-trial plea-of-not-guilty right-to-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error Was it "structural error" that violated Petitioner's Sixth Amendment autonomy rights when Petitioner's court appointed counsel conceeded his client's …
20-5175 John David Wilson, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2020-07-24 Denied IFP collateral-estoppel criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jurisdiction *THe FUA^A/v S0%6 m£ Qmsf HftJ, Gmmf'TtfP &&QQ it f/niso -fc m m&vrs of; 15 A DOOfibe r&ft&j Com AfX/o^WiS j67 k fLA, &> C^ aA> ft ftiNM- S.^x) t«0. …
20-5177 Rolando Felix-Carrazco v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency holdout-juror judicial-inquiry judicial-interference juror-dismissal jury-deliberation jury-deliberations scotus-guidance trial-court-discretion Whether this Court should decide that the repeated questioning of jurors who have complained about one juror (who is obviously a holdout) is tantamoun…
20-71 Stephen P. Brown v. United States Second Circuit 2020-07-24 Denied Response Waived appeal-waiver certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance section-2255 sentencing sentencing-review sixth-amendment Should this Court vacate and remand the Februar y 12, 2020 Order of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denying a certificate of appealab…
20-5137 Antoine Dewayne Myles v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial impartial-tribunal judicial-bias pre-sentencing pro-se-representation self-representation suppression suppression-of-evidence wire-tap-interception 1. Whether the district court violated the defendants Due Process right to a fair in an impartial, tribunal where the district court presentenced defe…
20-5152 Joel Arredondo-Moreno v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process sentencing sixth-amendment stare-decisis supreme-court Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-5156 Manuel Contreras Saucedo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fact-finding federal-sentencing jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing I. Whether facts that affect the minimum or maximum reasonable federal sentence must be proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt?
20-61 Joan Orie Melvin v. Stephen D. Zappala, et al. Third Circuit 2020-07-23 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment state-crimes workplace-rule workplace-rules The question presented is whether a defendant's rights under the Fifth Amendment as incorporated by the Fourteenth Amendment are violated when she is …
20-5135 James Bowell v. State Bar of California California 2020-07-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy habeas ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel parole-revocation parolee sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum 1. Would it be considered a 6th Amendment deprivation violation ineffective assistance of counsel for a court appointed attorney refusing to present f…
20-5139 Algere Jones v. United States Second Circuit 2020-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule federal-district-court fourth-amendment search-and-seizure standing supervised-release The Fourth Amendment prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures, the petitioner's underlying state court case was dismissed by the trial court apply…
20-5145 In Re Charles Talbert 2020-07-22 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion post-conviction-review prosecutorial-misconduct Question not identified.
20-5148 Robert James Ossawa Wood v. California California 2020-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process false-testimony no-contest-plea plea-withdrawal standing unlawful-evidence unlawfully-obtained-evidence I WAS PETITIONER HELD TO ANSWER FOR TRIAL BASED ON FALSE TESTIMONY AND UNLAWFULLY OBTAINED EVIDENCE ? II WAS PETITIONER PROVIDENTLY ADVISED FEDERA…
20-5149 Marcel Malachowski v. United States Second Circuit 2020-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-misconduct judicial-review legal-claim objective-standard standing 1. Did The Second Circuit Court of Appeals Commit an Abuse of Discretion By: (a) Exceeding the Scope of Review Defined By 28 USC. § 1355) (b) Failure …
20-5150 Ernest R. Jenkins v. Daniel Clarke, Warden Seventh Circuit 2020-07-22 Denied IFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-right habeas-corpus harmless-error judicial-review jurisdiction standing state-prosecution 1. Was the Circuit Court's denial of the petitioner's request for a certificate of apealability (COA) erroneous? 2. Does the petitioner have a fundam…
20-5112 David Wayne Robinson v. Jared Polis, Governor of Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-07-21 Denied IFP 14th-amendment booking-fees civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection excessive-fines takings-clause Did Dist ct. ERR tw dismissing / And Appeals a ANowing Legal Skills? TS The AcTiox/ of Sep aaliont of Fouiets To Authorize The Take Twas of monies fo…
20-5115 Gerson Serrano-Ramirez v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence evidence-rules federal-procedure gang-affiliation jury-instructions motion-to-sever sufficiency-of-evidence venue Mr. Gerson Serrano-Ramirez was tried and convicted on in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. Prior to and during tr…
20-5120 Giovanni Cotto, aka Monte v. United States Second Circuit 2020-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution federal-statute mens-rea official-proceeding statutory-interpretation witness-retaliation Whether, in a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 1513(b)(1), the Government must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant knew the witness agains…
20-5121 Brayan Gutierrez-Diaz v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appointed-counsel criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment interrogation miranda-warning right-to-counsel self-incrimination Whether and to what extent a mistranslated Miranda warning, which does not reasonably convey the right to appointed counsel during interrogation, fail…
20-5123 Cardell A. Hayes v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-07-21 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal-pipeline criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment non-unanimous-verdict pipeline ramos-relief ramos-v-louisiana retroactivity sixth-amendment Because Cardell Hayes's non-unanimous verdict is unconstitutional, Ramos v. Louisiana, — S.Ct. —, 2020 WL 1906545 (2020), is he entitled to the relief…
20-5124 Allen Fitzgerald Calton v. Texas Texas 2020-07-21 Dismissed IFP appellate-review brady-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion materiality petition-review (1) whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals as the ultimate factfinder in Texas habeas corpus proceedings abused its discretion and erred wher it …
20-5128 Vernon Chapman v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing-consequences Considered Copate if a attorney did not follo Is a investigation the advice of "Several experts advisig him on hou to get 1 definitive a deterination…
20-5130 Antonio Lozano Solis v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-court access-to-courts appeal-review civil-rights constitutional-right criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel 1. Was petitioner denied meaningful access to the court? 2. Does Petitioners INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL claim require a Certificate of Appeal?…
20-48 Stacey Eugene Johnson v. Arkansas Arkansas 2020-07-20 Denied Relisted (5) access-to-courts actual-innocence criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment post-conviction-relief post-conviction-remedies Does the Arkansas DNA testing statute, as construed by the Arkansas Supreme Court, prevent Petitioner from meaningfully accessing the State's post-con…
20-5037 Bruce Zachary Pugh v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-07-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP criminal-procedure fairness-integrity judicial-review jury-instructions plain-error public-reputation substantial-rights supreme-court-precedent trial-record (1) Whether plain-error review for failure to instruct on an element of the offense, based upon an intervening U.S. Supreme Court decision, allows cou…
20-5108 Salvador Ojeda-Amarillas v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure firearms-enhancement leadership-role necessity necessity-requirement sentencing-enhancement sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines waiver wiretap wiretap-application 1. Whether the Court of Appeals erred in finding the July 2006 wiretap application met the necessity requirements and whether it erred in holding Mr. …
20-5109 Ganaa Otgoo v. Illinois Illinois 2020-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-between-state-court-decisions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial federal-constitutional-rights legal-review reasonable-doubt state-court state-court-actions wrongful-conviction 1) Grant Certiorari to decide legal questions whether State Court actions denied Petitioner's Rights under Federal Law, denied Petitioner "Fair and Im…
20-5070 Joaquin Shadow Rams v. Virginia Virginia 2020-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-interpretation criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia sufficiency-of-evidence virginia In Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307 (1979), this Court held that the Due Process Clause requires the following standard of review for appellate claim…
20-5097 Robert Earnest Wilkerson v. Texas Texas 2020-07-17 Denied IFP appeals criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel Appellant has a sincere religious belief in his use of psilocin mushrooms for religious ceremonies. The Texas Courts erred in finding that error was n…
20-5099 Lantrel DeKeith Wilson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 6th-circuit consent-search consent-to-search criminal-procedure inevitable-discovery motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure sixth-circuit supreme-court-precedent terry-stop I. Whether the decision of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in affirming the District Court's denial of Lantrel Wilson's Motion to Suppress conflict…
20-30 Nigel Christopher Paul Martin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-16 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure immigration immigration-consequences ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-deportation padilla-claim padilla-v-kentucky plea-agreement plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief Is a defendant categorically prohibited from establishing an ineffective assistance of counsel claim under Padilla v. Kentucky, 559 U.S. 356 (2010), w…
20-34 Anthony Thomas Grimes v. Kentucky Kentucky 2020-07-16 Denied Response Waived criminal-defense criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel parole-eligibility plea-bargaining plea-negotiation prejudice-standard sentencing sentencing-information sexual-offender-registration sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington Whether the Kentucky Court of Appeals has diminished and violated the federal constitutional guarantee of effective assistance of counsel in the pretr…
20-5085 Joe Edward Johnson v. California California 2020-07-16 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (5)IFP batson-challenge criminal-procedure due-process faretta-motion faretta-v-california jury-selection legal-timeliness self-representation timeliness totality-of-circumstances 1. Whether, as the overwhelming majority of jurisdictions hold, a request for self-representation under Faretta v. California, 422 U.S. 806 (1975), is…
20-5091 Phillip Shawn Horton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-16 GVR IFP vacate the judgement and remand for reconsiderati 4th-amendment case-reconsideration certiorari criminal-procedure Davis-remand davis-v-united-states judicial-remand precedent-application remand search-and-seizure Supreme-Court-review I. Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgement and remand for reconsideration in light of Davis v. United States, 140 S. Ct. 1060…
20-5062 Paul Byrd v. Florida Florida 2020-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement ruse-checkpoint search-and-seizure Whether a "ruse checkpoint" that focuses on those who attempt to avoid the checkpoint violates the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution.
20-5080 Christopher George Wiggin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP with no evidence of defendants' conduct causing s criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-law felon-in-possession firearms-possession interstate-commerce mens-rea statutory-interpretation 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g ) authoriz es conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there i…
20-5056 George Cortez, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu certiorari constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit haymond-precedent remand sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Haymo…
20-5058 Randy Estevez v. United States Second Circuit 2020-07-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process felony-enhancement firearm-possession jury-instructions jury-unanimity sentencing sentencing-reasonableness u-s-sentencing-guidelines unanimity 1. Whether the district court erred in not instructing the jury that it should be unanimous on the date and location of his alleged possession of the …
20-5025 Eddie Matthew Amos v. Tommy Bowen Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP convicted-felon criminal-defense criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial felon-in-possession firearm-possession ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions self-defense (Ground One): Is a criminal defendant, who is also a previously convicted felon, denied a fair trial and the effective assistance of counsel when de…
20-5039 Antwoyn Terrell Spencer v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit fifth-amendment grand-jury-indictment habeas-corpus personal-liberty 1. Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals Erred Denying Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability? 2. Whether Petitioner is Deprived of his Pers…
20-5042 Julian Silva-Aguilar v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process factual-basis guilty-plea ninth-circuit plea-agreement plea-bargaining supreme-court-precedent In deciding that the defendant's guilty plea was supported by an adequate factual basis, and was therefore knowing and intelligent and subject to the …
20-5048 Josh L. Bowman v. Bert Boyd, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-07-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment batson-challenge confession confession-suppression constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-selection police-misconduct police-threats suppression 1. Whether Mr. Bowman's confession should have been suppressed due to treats by police? 2. Whether Mr. Bowman's federal constitutional rights under B…
20-5051 Andre Patrick Staggers v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-841(b) criminal-procedure drug-offense first-step-act retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-law statutory-minimums Does the First Step Act provision lowering the enhanced statutory minimums of 21 U.S.C. § 841(b) apply to persons who were sentenced before the provis…
20-5003 Richard B. Woods v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-07-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-error constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial non-unanimous-verdict remand sixth-amendment Whether petitioner's conviction based upon a non-unanimous verdict violated the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution? Wh…
20-5005 Archie Lee Williams v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error plea-withdrawal substantial-rights Did the Eleventh Circuit err in affirming the district court's denial of the Petitioner's motion to withdraw his plea and was it was it an abuse of di…
20-5013 Rafeal D. Newson v. Superior Court of California, Pima County, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-07-09 Denied IFP breach-of-contract civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process extradition extradition-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus interstate-detainers-act probable-cause (A) The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit relied on HECK v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477, the usual part of malicious prosecution and its favora…
20-5014 Darwin Josue Peralta v. North Carolina North Carolina 2020-07-09 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence jury-instructions legal-standards right-to-present-defense standard-of-review Whether the trial Court Violated Mr.Peralta Statutory and Constitutional Rights by Relying on Dr. Beth Hers sexual Abuse Finding because she based Her…
20-5015 James Latron Sumter v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment first-step-act guilty-plea mandatory-minimum plea-bargaining sentencing 1. WHETHER THE APPELLATE COURT ERRED IN AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S RULING NOT ALLOWING SUMTER TO WITHDRAW HIS GUILTY PLEA? 2. WHETHER THE APPELLA…
20-5018 Roy Howard Middleton v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-09 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-court-interpretation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-law-application habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-precedent stare-decisis supreme-court-precedent I. Petitioner asks did the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and the District Court for the Northern District of Florida apply f…
20-1 Nicholas E. Davis v. United States Armed Forces 2020-07-09 Denied Response Waived appellate-review court-martial criminal-procedure jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error supreme-court-precedent waiver Whether the failure to object to a pattern jury instruction erroneously describing the elements of the offense constitutes affirmative waiver such tha…
19-8909 Grant Ruffin Haze v. Katy Poole, Administrator, Scotland Correctional Institution Fourth Circuit 2020-07-08 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-presentation exculpatory-evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-counsel witness-tampering I. Didhe prosctiinteninalandepead oa wie ah ht mail cnaattonio o tialta tn t e I. Didcunses filuto prsentvidenc Petitner's milliondoll I-Phone case …
19-8915 Robert Eugene Glassgow v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 acquittal aedpa court-of-appeals criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief presumption-of-innocence sentencing Whether prose defendants since file under 18 U.S.C. § 2255 and are paid back costs by the Court Judge if in be the onus ce oy tt permission of the app…
19-8916 Adam Lee Hamilton v. Eileen Ramey, Warden Missouri 2020-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP arizona-v-youngblood brady-v-maryland constitutional-authority criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence first-degree-assault impeachment-evidence missouri-prosecution napue-v-illinois The Question(s) Presented are, does the State Of Missour have the authority to deprive petitioner of his libertyunder The Constitution Of The United S…
19-8918 Donovan G. Davis, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court civil-procedure criminal-procedure executive-branch judicial-branch judicial-interpretation property-return rule-41g standing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure 41(g) provides for the return of person's property once it no longera serves a government purpose in the prosecu…
19-8919 Scott Clevenger v. Shawn Phillips, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation evidence-suppression miranda-rights right-to-counsel self-incrimination suppression-of-evidence Whether Petitioner's self-incriminating statements that was given while he was in custodial interigation without him first being notified of his Miran…
19-8920 Deshawn Colbert v. Sherry L. Burt, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel new-trial pre-arrest-silence prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment THE APPELANT'S RIGHT TO CONFRONTATION PURSUANT TO THE SIXTH AMENDMENT OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION WAS VIOLATED AS A RESULT OF INEFFECTIVE ASSIST…
19-8922 Amber Renee Craker v. Texas Texas 2020-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-proceedings agency-discretion capital-punishment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review statutory-interpretation Was there sufficient evidence to support her capital murder conviction? Did the Court of Appeals Err in holding Craker's mistaken belief that she kil…
19-8923 Bryant Okeff Leggett v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure drug-activity drug-house evidence judicial-discretion sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines trial-court-error I. The district court applied a two-level enhancement for maintaining a drug house. This was applied despite no evidence being presented that Mr. Legg…
19-8927 Alfred Brian Mitchell v. Tommy Sharp, Warden Tenth Circuit 2020-07-08 Denied IFP age-of-culpability cognitive-science constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment sentencing-aggravator standing statutory-interpretation 1. Given this Court's prior ruling that the text of Oklahoma's "heinous, atrocious, or cruel" death-penalty aggravator is unconstitutionally vague, is…
19-8928 Oscar Campos-Lagunas, aka Jose Lopez-Lomali, aka Carlos Ortiz, aka Orbelin Lagunas Campos, aka Carlos Laguna Campos, aka Oscar Laguan Campos, aka Norbelio Campos-Lagunas, aka Carlo Garcia, aka Orbelin Campos v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-rule constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment judicial-interpretation precedent-review sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
19-8930 Reginald L. Dunahue v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-07-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review prison-conditions qualified-immunity standing Th C Ab Petitioner Appointment Of Caunsel? n il Co y iA gi Wendy kelley Mashall Red Jy Andw icials he CAy Cancurring withhe . istrict Court' misl? …
19-1474 Tyler Herndon v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-07-08 Denied Response Waived collateral-order-doctrine criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-relief hearsay-evidence right-to-counsel sixth-amendment A. Whether the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's refusal to review the Trial Court's Denial Order on a Petition for Habeas Corpus Relief, in a case where a…
19-1465 Robert Marcelis v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-07-07 Denied Response Waived criminal-defendant criminal-procedure increased-sentence jury-finding jury-trial prior-convictions reasonable-doubt sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Does the sixth amendment require a jury finding beyond a reasonable doubt that a criminal defendant has one or more prior convictions before an increa…
19-8847 Michael D. Nixon v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-07-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-USC-3006A constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process expert-witness funding-denial geo-location indigent-defendant sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether Michael D. Nixon's constitutional rights were violated when the District Court failed to grant him, an indigent defendant, funding for a geo-l…
19-8906 Nathan Matthew Kinard v. Michael Hoffman, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-07 Denied IFP abuse civil-rights commitment-procedures constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custody due-process habeas-corpus individual-liberty mental-health Were the witness statements and emails considered? How many others were tortured into taking a plea while in Escambia County Jails protective custody…
19-8910 Trinity Rolando Cabezas-Montano v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-07 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment miranda-rights post-arrest-statement pre-miranda-statement self-incrimination Whether the prosecution violates the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution when they use a Defendant's pre-Miranda, post-arrest statements…
19-8911 Lee Montez Thompson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari criminal-procedure davis-v-united-states district-court due-process habeas-corpus plain-error pleading-defendant reasonable-probability rehaif-v-united-states sentencing I. Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light…
19-8912 Giezi Arce-Calderon v. United States First Circuit 2020-07-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process guideline-range guideline-sentence judicial-discretion plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness A. Whether the sentence imposed on Mr. Arce is substantively unreasonable, despite being a guideline sentence of six months, where the parties agreed …
19-8898 Angelo Peter Efthimiatos v. United States Second Circuit 2020-07-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-circuit-split calendar criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion jury-selection presentation-of-evidence speedy-trial-act trial-delay uniformity Whether the Speedy Trial Act permits district courts to conduct jury selection within the time limits of the speedy trial clock but delay presentation…
19-8900 Jeffrey Chleo Brown v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-06 Denied IFP appellate-preservation circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court-procedure factual-dispute factual-objection legal-sufficiency preservation-of-appeal procedural-error sentencing sentencing-objection standard-of-review Is a factual objection at sentencing sufficient to preserve for appeal the district court's failure to resolve the ensuing dispute?
19-8902 Rafael Antonio Patino-Villalobos v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP acknowledgement criminal-procedure defense-counsel district-court federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure invited-error legal-doctrine procedural-waiver rule-52(b) sentencing Whether defense counsel's acknowledgement of the district court's statement during sentencing constitutes an affirmative, intentional, deliberate, and…
19-8896 Melodio Reyes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection sentencing statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
19-8895 Dario M. Rodriguez v. Alan Lawson, Justice, Supreme Court of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-03 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts indigent-appeal pro-se procedural-restrictions standing 1) I F it Confuses my litagation under Distr ict court rute 636. jurisdiction , powers and temporany assigwment 5b). a judge has power to desigrate a …
19-8842 Angel Prado v. United States Third Circuit 2020-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-provisions constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction search-and-seizure sentencing-standards speedy-trial The ticket was Printed 9:56 the WArNiNg An sva CCourt Distriet The Middle recorded stop 9:58AM. Was MHX agree Lindsay D Trooper IN for ISoue the Momen…
19-8846 David Nowakowski v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-07-02 Denied IFP criminal-network criminal-organizations criminal-procedure district-attorney inchoate-crimes organized-crime prosecutorial-discretion racketeering Where a private criminal plaintiff is ignored by a local District Attorney's Office, in the presence of criminality from racketeering, inchoate crimes…
19-8883 Nathan E. Gundy v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial judicial-discretion standing trial-rights 1. Whether The 6X Amendment of The United States Constitution Bids are Guaranteed TO O Farr Thlah TA alk erimwale ProsecahAs or Gust wheal a Sudge dee…
19-8887 Maria Pena-Rivera v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court evidence-admissibility evidence-admission evidentiary-standard federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-error rule-403 rule-404(b) Is it error by the district court to fail to enumerate the specific basis for allowing evidence pursuant for Federal Rule of Evidence section 404(b) s…
19-1453 Michigan v. Gerald Raynard Fuller Michigan 2020-07-02 Denied acquittal acquittal-consideration acquitted-conduct conflict-of-authority criminal-procedure due-process federal-circuits judicial-discretion preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-standards state-courts The federal circuit courts have uniformly held that a sentencing judge may consider conduct for which the defendant has been acquitted, and this Court…
19-1447 Yehudi Manzano v. United States Second Circuit 2020-07-01 Denied Amici (1) 18-usc-3731 circuit-split criminal-appeals-act criminal-procedure interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction jurisdictional-basis jury-nullification mandamus writ-of-mandamus 1. Whether the United States may seek a writ of mandamus in a criminal case to bring an interlocutory appeal that is not permitted by 18 U.S.C. § 3731…
19-8871 Joshua Adam Schulte v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. Second Circuit 2020-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus probable-cause search-and-seizure standing Does an aggrieved party have no right to appellate review of a Closed 28 U.S.C. §2241 pretrial habeas corpus civil action Challenging Pretrial Conditi…
19-8873 Efrain Diaz, Jr. and Justin Smith v. Kentucky Kentucky 2020-07-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP criminal-defendant criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment justiciability party-presentation procedural-due-process standing-doctrine 1. Does the requirement in Lujan v. Defs. of Wildlife , 504 U.S. 555, 560 (1992), that a litigant have suffered an "actual or imminent" injury apply t…
19-8875 David Gerard Jones v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-07-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial non-unanimous-verdict remand sixth-amendment Whether petitioner's conviction based upon a non-unanimous verdict violated the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution? Wh…
19-8876 Solomon Jalloh v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi apprendi-rule common-law common-law-tradition criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing jury-findings loss-calculation restitution sentencing Whether under Apprendi, the maximum restitution that can be imposed without additional jury findings as to any amount of loss is zero, consistent with…
19-8877 Patrick D. Lomas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure discretion fair-sentencing-act first-step-act judicial-discretion section-404 sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation i. Did the District Court abuse it's Discretion when it denied Petitioner's Motion seeking a reduction of Sentence under Section 404(b) of the First S…
19-8879 Gurminder Sekhon v. California California 2020-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines judicial-process standing trial-transcript DiD THE TRIAL COURT VIOUATE PETITIONER'S RIGHT TO PRESENT A DEFENSE UNDER BOTH STATE ANJ FEDERAL CONSTiTUTIONS? IN LIGHT OF JACKSON v. VIRGINA, WAS T…
19-8885 Juan Leonardo Cadenas-Urena v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substance criminal-procedure drug-manufacturing due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency jury-verdict premises-liability sentencing-guidelines sufficiency-of-evidence 1) DID THE PANEL ERR BY HOLDING THAT THE EVIDENCE IS SUFFICIENT TO SUSTAIN THE JURY'S GUILTY VERDICT? 2) DID THE PANEL ERR BY UPHOLDING THE APPLICATI…
19-8886 Jon Edward Erickson v. Thomas E. Collins, Judge, Superior Court of Arizona, Cochise County, et al. Arizona 2020-07-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appeal appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process trial-record trial-records Question One Did the trial court error in violating the petitioner's 5th and 14th Amendment rights to appeal the petitioner's first conviction, by fai…
19-8861 Fikri Aptiliasimov v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-06-30 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal recusal WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT JUDGE"S, A FORMER PROSECUTOR OF APPELLANT'S PRIOR CRIMINAL TRIAL, REFUSAL TO RECUSE HIMSELF AND HIS SUBSEQUENT JUDICIAL PART…
19-8868 Rodrecas Tims v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing judicial-discretion prison-sentence reasonableness-review sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-range sentencing-reasonableness Whether the district court ordered an unreasonable 108-month prison sentence under the facts of this case, and under the recommended Sentencing Guidel…
19-8859 Brian A. Maus v. Scott Eckstein, Warden Seventh Circuit 2020-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure attorney-withdrawal client-rights counsel-withdrawal criminal-procedure criminal-rights due-process evidence-suppression ineffective-assistance no-merit-brief 1. Can appellant counsel withdraw off of the petitioners case, because the petitioner wouldn't agree to allow appellate counsel to file a no-merit bri…
19-1432 Charles Rainer Sinek v. United States Second Circuit 2020-06-29 Denied Response Waived appeal criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure jury-instructions prejudice rule-30 summation When a district court violates Fed. R. Crim. P. 30 and delivers a jury instruction different than what the parties were told to expect, must a defenda…
19-1424 Kevin LeBeau v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-06-26 Denied Response Waived bank-fraud criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions materiality restitution seventh-circuit strickland strickland-claim strickland-v-washington 1. Was the omission of the concept of materiality from the bank fraud elements instruction error requiring a new trial? 2. Did the Seventh Circuit er…
19-1429 David Pena, III v. Texas Texas 2020-06-26 Denied 4th-amendment automobile-exception criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-4th-amendment-search-and-seizur exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fruit-of-poisonous-tree fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree miranda-rights probable-cause search-and-seizure 1. Whether Texas' Third Court of Appeals Erred by Finding that the Items Found in the Trunk of Petitioner's Car Did Not Constitute Fruit of the Poison…
19-8822 Eddie Montero v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment search-and-seizure WHETHER A NEW INTERVENING JUDGMENT AND SENTENCE RESTARTS THE ONE YEAR STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS FOR HABEAS CORPUS PETITIONS FILED BY STATE PRISONERS? WH…
19-8823 Alex Joseph Pedrin, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct stash-house-sting Was Mr. Pedrin prejudiced by both the individual and cumulative impact of 1.) multiple deficiencies or errors by counsel during the pretrial, plea, tr…
19-8825 Edgardo Navarro v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres apprendi criminal-procedure indictment notice-clause prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment I. Can a sentencing court, consistent with the Sixth Amendment's Notice Clause, impose a statutorily enhanced sentence based on the fact of a prior co…
19-8829 Anastasia Purnell v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation pro-se rule-of-law standing SHOULDENT A COURT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR ITS ABUSE OF DESCRETION WHEN IT FAILS TO FOLLOW THE RULE OF LAW AS IT IS WRITTEN??? SHOULDENT A RULE OF LA…
19-8830 Justin Michael Oxendine v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion legal-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines upward-variance Whether the district court abused its discretion by varying upward when an applicable guideline provision addressed conduct that formed part of the ra…
19-8832 Stefan Van Der End v. United States Second Circuit 2020-06-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial maritime-law nationality sixth-amendment 1. Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments are violated by the provision of the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act, 46 U.S.C. § 70504(a), precluding jur…
19-8833 Christopher Mann v. Maryland Maryland 2020-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-review criminal-appeal criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel maryland-court-of-appeals prejudice strickland-prejudice strickland-test weaver-precedent weaver-v-massachusetts Has the Maryland Court of Appeals abused its discretion by applying Weaver v. Massachusetts(, 137 S. Ct. 1899 (2017)) to mandate looking at the streng…
19-8837 Donnie Wayne Nipper v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal criminal-procedure double-jeopardy ex-post-facto jurisdictional-waiver sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution Should Mr. Nipper be resentenced without an armed career criminal enhancement to his guideline range where the government failed to allege prior convi…
19-8839 Clayton D. Morrow v. Florida Florida 2020-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-material brady-v-maryland criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel missouri-v-frye newly-discovered-evidence plea-bargaining plea-offer public-records-request Does a public records request meet the criteria to establish a newly discovered evidence claim as Brady v. Maryland 1, does; especially when the infor…
19-8800 Justice Jerrell Knight v. Alabama Alabama 2020-06-25 Denied IFP capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-prejudice prejudicial-evidence racial-bias sentencing In a capital case in which the defendant's jury observes him in shackles and jail clothing, and multiple members of the jury expressed the belief that…
19-8812 Alfonso Pineda-Hernandez v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-question constitutional-rights court-interpretation criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process fair-trial interpretation translation translation-rights Under what circumstances does a live, in-court translation violate a criminal defendant's due process rights?
19-8815 Jose Armando Nunez-Lopez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8-usc-1326 almendarez-torres apprendi criminal-procedure due-process sentencing 1. Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of…
19-8817 Barry Lalane Harrell v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP above-range criminal-procedure district-court justification policy-statement sentencing I. Whether the district court erred when it sentenced Petitioner significantly above the policy statement range without adequate justification?
19-1421 Michael Wilford LaFlamme v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-06-25 Denied Relisted (2) 6th-amendment bias constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission expert-testimony judicial-discretion jury-selection jury-selection-bias law-enforcement law-enforcement-bias trial-procedure voir-dire 1. ) Was Petitioner prejudiced When Several Prospective furors Withheld Crucial Information Pertaining To Employment As Law Enforcement When Asked D…
19-8798 Rafeeq Salahuddin v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections Arizona 2020-06-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal-rights batson-rule civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-selection legal-procedure retroactivity whether a state count of last resort has power to destroy a dependant's constitutional vight to trial by jury whosemember's are selected by non-discri…
19-8803 Bennie Adams v. Ohio Ohio 2020-06-24 Denied IFP autopsy-report confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure evidence-law sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence Is an autopsy report testimonial evidence that demands confrontation under Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004), and the Sixth Amendment to the …
19-8772 Mario Torres v. Mike Hansen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-06-23 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 brady-violations civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment discovery discovery-deprivation due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial Whether Contra Costa County California's blanket policy of depriving a criminal defendant, the facts and the evidence (exculpatory or otherwise), surr…
19-8788 Travis Job v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-rule constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-review prior-conviction prior-criminal-conduct sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum statutory-minimum Whether the Court should overrule the holding of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), which provides an exception to the rule of A…
19-8790 Christina Ann Whichard v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit haymond-precedent sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Haymo…
19-8791 Jose Angel Vasquez-Soto v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe…
19-8794 Casey Rafael Tyler v. Erik A. Hooks, Warden Fourth Circuit 2020-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-possession criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdictional-requirements restitution territorial-jurisdiction HAVE NORTH CAROLINA COURTS REAAOVED THE BURDEN OF PROOF Altogether in criminal Possession cases ? What decides A criminal court 's territorial Jurisd…
19-8769 Daryll Shumake v. Virginia Fourth Circuit 2020-06-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigative-report jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct trial-court Question not identified.
19-8771 Michael A. Risenhoover v. William Muniz, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-06-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-years-to-life criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-murder first-time-offender judicial-discretion murder prior-criminal-history proportionality public-message sentencing sentencing-guidelines 1) Does SENTENCING A FIRST TIME OFFENDER WITHOUT HAS NO PRIOR CRIMINAL HISTORY TO 28 YEARS TO LIFE SEND A DANGEROUS MESSAGE TO THE PUBLIC AND FUTURE O…
19-8773 Quincy Harrison v. Vance Laughlin, Warden Georgia 2020-06-22 Denied IFP armed-robbery constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process firearm jurisdiction vehicle-theft Vx^W+W -fk* fi-f+K A/vi&mdimior op reunited S^Tcte S Constitv^t)'Double ^Jeopardy (LlauSe, I 5 V l^lcrte^i VJh'eve peWf/oner charged O-nd Con \Jicied…
19-8777 In Re Garvester Bracken 2020-06-22 Dismissed IFP article-iii article-iii-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process judicial-determination jurisdiction probable-cause removal standing trial-court-jurisdiction WHETHER IN ABSENCE OF DEFENDANT AND DEFENSE COUNSEL HAVING NOT BEEN PERSONALLY PRESENT DURING ANY STAGE OF THE TRIAL PROCEEDINGS DID THE TRIAL COURT H…
19-8751 Paramjit Singh Basra v. Washington Washington 2020-06-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-authority appellate-remedy criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-abuse state-judiciary statutory-duty 1.) Is it lawfully permissible for a State to convict a person twice for a single crime? 2.) Is it lawfully permissible for a State's Judiciary to ab…
19-8755 Levi West v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-06-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-doctrine armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-interpretation conviction-records criminal-procedure jury jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment The Armed Career Criminal Act enhances the statutory penalty for a firearms offense when the offender has three predicate convictions for crimes that …
19-8757 George W. Gibbs v. Robert LeGrand, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-06-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP charge-severance child-sex-assault clearly-erroneous counsel-error criminal-procedure drug-counts ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit-review prejudice prejudicial-joinder severance Whether the Ninth Circuit's rejection of Gibbs's ineffective assistance of counsel claim was clearly erroneous when the court mistakenly concluded Gib…
19-8759 Terry Dale Ray v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-06-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule interrogation-rights mental-health miranda-rights miranda-warning When a suspect with a history of mental health illness known to law enforcement makes incriminating statements in violation of Miranda, does the Const…
19-8760 Stefan Stewart v. Florida Florida 2020-06-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-court-discretion witness witness-representation A) When the defense attorney previously represented the states key witness who now has conflicting interests with the defendant, does this amount to a…
19-8765 Tizazu F. Arega v. Lisa L. Sadler, Judge, et al. Ohio 2020-06-19 Denied IFP 14th-amendment conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-review jury-instructions jury-misconduct legal-sufficiency sexual-intercourse trial-procedure verdict-validity PFrTTrSSp^t™ nl intercourse and the jury returned verdict findingSS 1KHSMafaSy 0™88 SS-HH 1™ THE JUHY HAD MOT BHM
19-8696 Frank DiTomasso v. United States Second Circuit 2020-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial free-speech ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing standing ,and there is not even an attempt to sked for,e.g.pictures or video, 2 get any picturer or videos? .There is a bold lie Tald to the grand jury in firs…
19-8697 Shiron Deshane Davis v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2020-06-18 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure evidence exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment judicial-review legal-jurisdiction search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
19-8740 Anthony J. Williams v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-06-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial non-unanimous-verdict sixth-amendment Whether petitioner's conviction based upon a non-unanimous verdict violated the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution? Wh…
19-8743 Jeremiah Lee Guerra v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-precedent court-decision criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-instruction legal-review precedent reasonable-probability reconsideration remand sentencing standard-of-review Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light of…
19-8747 Robert Neil Coronado v. Amanda Stinson, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression fourth-amendment judicial-integrity search-and-seizure standing statutory-provisions I. Was a proceduval vialation due process Committed by the Cout of Appeals in failing to quant Certificate of Appealability or a an Evidentiary Hearin…
19-8723 Shane P. Irish v. Ohio Ohio 2020-06-17 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process incarceration indictment sixth-amendment speedy-trial waiver Whether the speedy trial guarantee of the Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution applies to an accused serving a prison sentence on a prior offense?…
19-8727 Felton Ladell Humphries, Jr. v. S. Sherman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-murder jury-instruction self-defense voluntary-manslaughter DOES HUMPHRIES HAVE A FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT GUARANTEED BY THE FIFTH, SIXTH, AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS TO A PROPERLY INSTRUCTED JURY DETERMINING THAT ALL E…
19-8731 Edson Gelin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP buyer-seller criminal-law criminal-procedure evidence-law fair-trial judicial-discretion jury-instruction jury-instructions theory-of-defense WHETHER THE DEFENSE IS ENTITLED TO A BUYER-SELLER JURY INSTRUCTION WHEN THE INSTRUCTION IS PART OF THE THEORY OF DEFENSE AND OTHERWISE NECESSARY FOR A…
19-8732 Efrain Leyva Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion accurate-information criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion ninth-circuit record sentencing speculative-inference speculative-inferences Does a district court violate a defendant's due process right to be sentenced based on accurate information and abuse its discretion when it imposes a…
19-8736 Linda Renae Clark v. Washington Washington 2020-06-17 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP adversarial-testing constitutional-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct prosecutorial-evidence public-defender recusal sixth-amendment 1. Whether a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment rights are violated when a public defender fails to independently investigate the criminal charges a…
19-8716 Eric Martin Pepke v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-06-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review standing Did the Eastern District of North Carolina err in summarily dismissing Pepke's motion under Rule 12(b)(6) to challenge the constitutionality of 18 U.S…
19-8719 Brown Laster, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-conflict circuit-split court-of-appeals criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-precedent kotteakos-standard kotteakos-v-united-states sentencing uniformity 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit entered a decision that conflicts with this Court's precedent in Kotteakos v. United States, 328 U.S. 750, 66 S.Ct. 12…
19-8722 Margaret Morris-Calderon v. The James Randi Educational Foundation California 2020-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment search-and-seizure Question not identified.
19-8702 Billy Edward Sedberry v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-06-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP base-offense-level criminal-procedure drug-quantity judicial-fact-finding jury-trial methamphetamine sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment 1. Whether the district court procedurally erred in miscalculating Sedberry's drug quantity base offense level. 2. Alternatively, whether the distric…
19-8703 David Sosa-Baladron, et ux. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-06-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-instructions obstruction-of-justice sentencing-guidelines I. Did a fatal variance occur when the charge was of one conspiracy but the proofs were of two, one of which there was no evidence of Petitioners' inv…
19-8705 Barry Arkim, aka Edward Mason v. Joseph Noeth, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility New York 2020-06-15 Denied IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process right-to-counsel teVrtA f.W«iS^r^\i oner's tAcVi©A $ciX hho*\o re\\ef 1 ^ AnS^eV* TVie ^uesViorx v^as nc^ ^jAYeSS^ Ae\6b5<eery
19-8706 Lester Thomas Butcher v. Texas Texas 2020-06-15 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admission harmless-error prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-fair-trial texas trial-fairness Question 1. WILL THIS SUPREME COURT PERMIT TEXAS PROSECUTORS ' CLAIMS OF "MISTAKE AND INADVERTENCE ", MADE BY PROSECUTORS BENEFITING FROM SUCH CLAIMS,…
19-8709 Gregory Greer v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-15 Judgment Issued Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP circuit-court-of-appeals circuit-court-review criminal-procedure fairness-integrity-public-reputation judicial-fairness plain-error-review rehaif-v-united-states substantial-rights supreme-court-decision trial-record Last year, this Court held in Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), that, in a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g) and 924(a)(2), the gov…
19-8711 Willie Dunn v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-06-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment state-courts Whether petitioner's conviction based upon a non-unanimous verdict violated the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution? Wh…
19-8649 Angelo Johnson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure due-process guidelines guilty-plea plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines u-s-sentencing-commission Should a defendant be denied a three-level reduction for acceptance of responsibility under U.S.S.G. § 3E1.1 when the defendant enters a timely guilty…
19-8678 Robert Michael Fall v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment multiplicitous-counts reasonable-doubt search-and-seizure standing 1. Did the District Court and Court of Appeals rely on inapplicable exceptions to the exclusionary rule, violating Mr. Fall's Fourth Amendment rights?…
19-8682 Charles Ray Fulmer v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review plea-agreement prosecutor prosecutorial-discretion sentencing upward-departure variance Whether due process requires remand for specific performance of a plea agreement or, in the alternative, remand for determination of the full terms of…
19-8690 Jimmy Lee Wheeler v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2020-06-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection judicial-review sentencing statutory-interpretation structural-error The OCR text is too degraded and illegible to accurately extract the "Question(s) Presented" section verbatim. While a "QUESTION(S) PRESENTED" header …
19-8691 Jardiel Infante-Caballero v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process sentencing supervised-release 1. Whether imposing a supervised release term —which authorizes a court to send Petitioner to prison for an additional prison term beyond the custodia…
19-8692 Robert Lee Shields v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP buyer-seller buyer-seller-relationship conspiracy criminal-procedure drug-distribution jury-instructions narcotics-law pinkerton-liability substantive-drug-charges I. When the evidence in a drug distribution case demonstrates only two sales, what additional factors support an inference of a drug distribution cons…
19-8693 Nathan Thomas Trujillo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-procedure judicial-discretion kimbrough-v-united-states kimbrough-variance policy-grounds sentencing sentencing-guidelines variance A. WHETHER THE COURT ERRED IN HOLDING THE DISTRICT COURT DID NOT ABUSE ITS DISCRETION WITH ITS SENTENCE? B. WHETHER THE COURT ERRED IN HOLDING THE DI…
19-8655 Milton Barrios-Alvarado v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial overrule petition sentencing supreme-court writ Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
19-8670 Rosalio Ramos Tapia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-precedent court-decision criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-review legal-standard precedent reasonable-probability reconsideration remand sentencing standard-of-review I. Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light…
19-8672 Terry Bridges v. Illinois Illinois 2020-06-11 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-rules murder-evidence prejudice prejudicial-testimony rehabilitation sentencing trial-court-discretion uncharged-crime whether the trial court erred in permitting the state to introduce excessive evidence relating to the murder of keith Slugg, of which Terry Bridges wa…
19-8679 Dan Reed v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states status-knowledge statutory-interpretation substantial-rights united-states-v-reed In Rehaif v. United States, this Court held that 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g) and 924(a)(2) require the government to prove that "the defendant knew he possess…
19-1357 Robert Angel Perez v. Colorado Colorado 2020-06-11 Denied Amici (2) criminal-defendant criminal-procedure discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment mental-health-records privilege sixth-amendment state-privilege Whether, and to what extent, the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee a criminal defendant the right to discover potentially exculpatory mental h…
19-1358 Michigan v. William Larenzo Shoulders Michigan 2020-06-11 Denied Response Waived alleyne-v-us criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing indeterminate-sentencing jury-determination jury-trial michigan-law michigan-supreme-court parole parole-eligibility sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment In Michigan's "indeterminate" sentencing scheme, judgments of sentence contain two numbers: the minimum number of years the defendant will have to ser…
19-1362 Jason Laut v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-06-11 Denied circuit-split constructive-amendment criminal-procedure fifth-amendment grand-jury-clause plain-error prejudice rule-52b substantial-rights The Grand Jury Clause of the Fifth Amendment demands "that a court cannot permit a defendant to be tried on charges that are not made in the indictmen…
19-8653 Jose Heriberto Ramirez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-standards criminal-procedure due-process independent-review judicial-review legal-principles sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Petitioner is challenging all Drugs Minus-Two pursuant to Title 18 U.S.C. § 3582 (c)(2). Reduction of Sentence, Petitioner is eligible to receive the …
19-8658 Garian King v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP __U.S.__ 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020). court-reconsideration criminal-procedure harmless-error holguin-hernandez judicial-review lower-court-decision precedent reasonable-probability reconsideration remand sentencing standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent I. Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light…
19-8659 Steven Adam Segovia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fact-finding federal-sentencing jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing I. Whether facts that affect the minimum or maximum reasonable federal sentence must be proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt?
19-8662 Jason Paris Scott v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-firearms-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element mens-rea statutory-interpretation 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g ) authoriz es conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there i…
19-8665 Anthony Jackson v. Supreme Court of Illinois Illinois 2020-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-continuance constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure due-process ends-of-justice judicial-supervisory-authority speedy-trial speedy-trial-rights supervisory-authority trial-tolling unconstitutional void-ab-initio 1. Whether a court's supervisory authority empowers the court to toll the speedy trial terms in cases not before the court? a. Whether such supervisor…
19-8623 Joshua Charles Lovell Moseley v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-06-09 Denied IFP burglary criminal-conviction criminal-procedure dominion-control double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection federalism grand-larceny reasonable-doubt standard-of-review totality-principle When Vhe Vwo SVaVe CoorVs arrive aV diVYemanV Conclusions in Vhe same case, should Vhe PeViVioner be given a new Vrial and legal principled o&ln Ola V…
19-8642 Christopher Davis v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency false-evidence grand-jury police-misconduct robbery-identification standing suppression-hearing 1) Why was denied the Right to subpoeng Indianapalis Metro Dectective's to trfal thart falsified my criminal recond to the Grand Jury: Stating thart I…
19-8643 Wallace Eugene Evatt, Jr. v. Michael Stephan, Warden Fourth Circuit 2020-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence judicial-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony 1. Why was the Judge, Jury, and myself not told of Karen Rojas svicidal tendencies and many failed suicide attempts? 2. Is it not a Brady violation t…
19-8646 Leonard Griffin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-assault armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure due-process johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states resentencing section-2255 sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony Whether, under the law established by this Court in Johnson v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015), Mr. Griffin should be resentenced without applyin…
19-8650 Sebastian Albert Campbell v. Maryland Maryland 2020-06-09 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-tools due-process fair-trial legal-standard right-to-counsel self-representation trial-fairness Did the state of Maryland err by utilizing an improper legal standard in its determination that compelling Petitioner to relinquish his right to self-…
19-8635 Kenneth Brown v. Kentucky Kentucky 2020-06-08 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington 1. Should a court be allowed to deny the withdrawl of a defendant's guilty plea,- when it is clear that the plea was not entered voluntarily, and wi…
19-8637 Robert Reeves v. Cathleen Stoddard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-06-08 Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment legislative-override punishment-limitation statutory-interpretation Whether the Court should overrule the " legislative override " exception to the Double Jeopardy Clause.
19-8608 Kison Robertson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP alternative-evidence appeals appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-ruling judicial-misconduct standing trial-procedure 1. How does the uis, court of Apperls upholds The District Count Decision to Letin Evidence thatwas not proven to have occurred in the trial Record? E…
19-8618 Kareem Daniels v. Georgia Georgia 2020-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process false-evidence false-testimony fourteenth-amendment misleading-testimony perjury prosecutorial-misconduct Under the Fourteenth Amendment, prosecutors may not knowingly secure convictions using false or misleading evidence. This Court has never limited the …
19-8625 Dedric Davis v. Florida Florida 2020-06-05 Denied IFP appeal criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judgment-of-acquittal legal-standard motion petitioner standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence trial-court WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT ERRED IN NOT GRANTING PETITIONER'S MOTION FOR JUDGMENT OF ACQUITTAL
19-8627 Isaac Cardenas v. Texas Texas 2020-06-05 Denied IFP burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence consciousness-of-guilt criminal-procedure due-process evidence inference inference-vs-speculation speculation WHETHER THE STATE COURT VIOLATED THE FEDERAL DUE PROCESS CLAUSE WHEN IT VENTURED INTO THE REALM OF MERE SPECULATION WHEN DECIDING AN INSUFFICIENCY OF …
19-8604 Dontarius Marquis Hall v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure drug-sentencing due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing A. WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY DENYING MR. HALL'S MERITORIOUS ARGUMENT THAT THE DISTRICT COURT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION IN DENYI…
19-1338 Briley W. Piper v. Darrin Young, Warden South Dakota 2020-06-04 Denied criminal-procedure cumulative-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial jury-trial-waiver plea-bargaining pre-plea-advisory prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-jury-trial waiver-of-jury-sentencing waiver-of-jury-trial The South Dakota Supreme Court has ruled that Briley did not knowingly and intelligently waive his right to a jury trial. But the South Dakota Supreme…
19-8592 Maria Soly Almonte, aka Soly Almonte, aka Soly La Fuerte, aka SoSo, aka SoSo Wavy, aka Soly Montana v. United States Second Circuit 2020-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP age-of-consent appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process obstruction-of-justice procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness 1. Whether Almonte's sentence was procedurally unreasonable because the district court failed to determine whether she obstructed justice under Guidel…
19-8593 Damon Christopher Crim v. Ohio Ohio 2020-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea ineffective-assistance misunderstanding plea-bargain sixth-amendment I. When the record reveals that a criminal defendant misunderstands a key element of a plea bargain is his guilty plea void? II. When defense counsel…
19-8580 Lary James Plumlee v. Isidro Baca, Warden Nevada 2020-06-02 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process retroactivity statutory-interpretation substantive-rule supreme-court-precedent teague-doctrine welch-v-united-states Under the new constitutional rule of retroactivity established in Montgomery v. Louisiana and clarified in Welch v. United States, is a state court re…
19-8588 Robert Donelson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-02 Denied IFP 404(b) circuit-split criminal-case criminal-procedure defendant-rights evidence-rule federal-rules federal-rules-of-evidence prior-act-evidence propensity-evidence propensity-free-link Whether Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b)'s prohibition against prior act evidence requires the government to demonstrate a propensity-free link between…
19-8589 Ramon Enrique Acosta v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review plea-bargaining sixth-amendment trial-counsel Whether reasonable jurists could debate the district court's determination that trial counsel was not constitutionally ineffective with respect to the…
19-8576 Franklin Mackensie Robinson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-record court-of-appeals criminal-case criminal-procedure federal-grand-jury federal-jurisdiction grand-jury jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge statutory-compliance title-40-usc-s-255 Is the Petitioner, Mr. Franklin Robinson, entitled to review The Administrative Record in his criminal case used by The United States of America in or…
19-8579 Jonathan Frank Davis v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment guilty-plea plea-bargaining voluntary-plea Does an appeal waiver clause bar a criminal defendant from later appealing their conviction on the ground that the guilty plea was not knowing and vol…
19-1328 Department of Justice v. House Committee on the Judiciary District of Columbia 2020-06-01 Judgment Issued Amici (1)Relisted (2) criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure grand-jury impeachment impeachment-trial judicial-proceeding legislative-body rule-6(e) rule-interpretation Whether an impeachment trial before a legislative body is a "judicial proceeding" under Rule 6(e)(3)(E)(i) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure.
19-1330 Michigan v. Juan T. Walker Michigan 2020-06-01 Denied alford-plea collateral-attack criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper perjury plea-bargaining retroactivity Respondent maintained his innocence before trial, and testified at the evidentiary hearing ordered by the Michigan Supreme Court on his collateral att…
19-8573 David Konepachit v. California California 2020-05-30 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement DOES THE SENATE BILL 1393 INHERENTLY DEPRIVE THE PETITIONER FROM EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAWS BECAUSE OF THE AMELIORATIVE STATUTE THAT 1893 AMENDS, LA…
19-8561 Jesus Julian Corona-Perez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-05-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP crime-of-violence criminal-procedure indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei…
19-8562 Alexander Rosenblatt v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court paroline-analysis plain-error restitution total-loss victim-loss Does a district court's failure to determine the total loss to the victims and its failure to conduct a Paroline analysis before entering an order of …
19-8566 John Charles Thompson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggregate-imprisonment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process imprisonment plain-error revocation sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release Was it plain err for the Western District of North Carolina to not aggregate Mr. Thompson's multiple revocation active imprisonment sentences then red…
19-8567 Thintinus Noseth Taylor v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-922 2nd-amendment burden-of-proof constructive-possession criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process firearm-prohibition second-amendment standard-of-proof Whether the Ninth Circuit's low burden of proof for possession of a firearm in cohabitation cases extends the scope of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) beyond its p…
19-8569 Brandon S. Wilson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process procedural-error sentencing sentencing-reasonableness supervised-release 1. Is Mr. Wilson's sentence procedurally and substantively infirm because the district court failed to consider the factors under 18 USC §3553(a) or o…
19-8553 Devian Phillips v. Ohio Ohio 2020-05-28 Denied IFP constitutional-rights constitutional-validity contract-law criminal-procedure due-process government-misconduct guilty-plea plea-bargaining plea-inducement prosecutorial-promise Whether guilty plea is voluntarily and intelligently made, which rests on a promise or agreement of the prosecutor, which can be said to be part of th…
19-8555 James Troiano v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-appellate-procedure habeas-corpus harmless-error rehaif-error rehaif-v-united-states structural-error The Fourth Circuit has held that error under Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (2019), is structural; the Ninth Circuit and other courts routine…
19-8557 Kallen E. Dorsett, Jr. v. United States Third Circuit 2020-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing strickland-standard 1. Does a prosecutor's threat to prosecute a defendant if he withdraws from his guilty plea invalidate the knowing, voluntary and intelligent clause u…
19-8558 David Hardman v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion Anders-review appeal-waiver breach-of-plea-agreement criminal-procedure jurisdiction DID THE CIRCUIT COURT ERR IN REFUSING TO MAKE A DETERMINATION OF THE VALIDITY OF THE APPEAL WAIVER DURING A REVIEW OF THE RECORD, PURSUANT TO ANDERS v…
19-8560 Ricardo Noble v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-05-28 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure court-order criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion legal-appeal motion-correction self-representation sentencing transcript transcript-error DID COURT ERR AND ABUSE DISCRETION BY ERRONEOUSLY QUASHING AS UNTIMELY PETITIONER'S OWN MOTION (POCKETED OWN MOTION) APPEAL OF TRIAL COURT'S 08/8/2°/8…
19-8542 Brian Lamar Brown v. Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP closing-arguments criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process fair-trial harmless-error jury-instructions legal-prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the prosecutor committed prejudicial misconduct during closing arguments?
19-8543 Carl L. Burdick v. United States Second Circuit 2020-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 advisory-guidelines criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plea-agreement rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-range united-states-v-booker Whether the District Court, contrary to precedents of this Court and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, accorded the advisory …
19-8544 Hubert Carter v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure judicial-determination jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Does the judicial determination of crimes "committed on occasions different from one another" at sentencing under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.…
19-8545 Duane Blake v. Florida Florida 2020-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-witness jury post-conviction-relief procedural-default P/D Pf/L 'S'Tfifg. /2o/£/£/<* l/foiATTZ fi((s>ti'T ^ pftdC&SS pf A LLo^Ji AJ& AAJ SPIRIT/of) 7s /(~i&~ csfi-csj of/ Appz '/t'pp7/£-P /i/)an s£/\ti(p…
19-8546 Annamalai Annamalai and Parvathi Sivanadiyan v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP bank-fraud constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency federal-jurisdiction judicial-error new-trial procedural-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct A. whether the Eleventh circui+ court of Appeals has so Far departed from the accepted and usual course of Judicial pvoceedings and/ox sanctioned Such…
19-8548 Shawndell Lee Harrison v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure federal-sentencing habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states retroactive-rule retroactivity sentencing A second or successive motion to vacate, set aside, or correct a federal sentence may be filed if it "contain[s] . . . a new rule of constitutional la…
19-8536 In Re Robert P. Russell 2020-05-26 Dismissed IFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-constitutional-right federal-crime federal-habeas habeas-corpus liberty-interest liberty-interests murder-conviction retroactive-application statutory-interpretation successive-motions Whether Petitioner Robert Peter Russell ("Russell"), convicted of first degree murder under 18 U.S.C. Section 1, retains a federal constitutional righ…
19-8537 Susan Xiao-Ping Su v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-05-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction legal-remedy procedural-error sentencing A. whether the Ninth Ciruit should sue sponte vacate or grant Conviction/sentence becanse ind: ctment alleged certificuateont of statnte scope aleordi…
19-8540 Antwoyn Spencer and Derrick Jerome Spencer v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-05-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment first-step-act resentencing statutory-interpretation Whether Petitioners are being deprived of their right to due process of law against law (without due process of law) in violation of the Fifth Amendme…
19-8535 Courtney Rashon Johnson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit federal-review grand-jury habeas-corpus plea-bargaining standing 1.) THE 11+CnCUIT conCEDES thAT JOhUSON SObSTANtiAl RinTS WERE NOT 3tAtOS ElEMENT ANd dENiEd JOHnSON RELEf. BUt ON thE othER hANd thE 4+ CIRCUt COnCED…
19-8524 Gregory Preston Coker, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process standing statutory-interpretation i) Uirrht* -rle ^ m^pUr? sf o\ JnO rt+ Ctefr/io'iMeo +£? s'c CAacca ^vi U.S M-si'iis Di^ ibie + a Q*,UFal*'*i 6F(oJ0&- Pnwiok 7
19-8527 Rodney Douglas Eaves v. Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment affidavit constitutional-rights court-procedure criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment probable-cause waiver 1.) Whether the Fifth Amendment is violated when an unverified Complaint and Information is used in lieu of a probable cause hearing. 2.) Whether a …
19-8529 Darryl Cain v. Randee Rewerts, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance judicial-review procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility ftlMWS ckifij MfyCuloi Opim&if) $ VwVmj -for M Woj UirWw todibili^ m \m\4 mpws/VVnWbd fip^ 1mtm mm ■«4iwfie OounSe 'ivauiYi^t. 3* WWW 4W personal Dpmi…
19-8530 Sacorey L. Clark v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process government-duty government-liability judicial-remand legal-claims rehaif rehaif-precedent remand sentencing sentencing-review Whether CLARK's Affirmed Sentence & Judgment Must be Vacated in light of REHAIF, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (2019), Then Remanded, Where it is Warranted that CLAR…
19-8514 Farid Popal v. New York New York 2020-05-21 Denied IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process post-conviction-hearing post-conviction-proceedings right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment video-testimony witness-coaching WHETHER TWO-WAY VIDEO TESTIMONY VIOLATES A CRIMINAL DEFENDANT'S CONFRONTATION AND RIGHT TO PRESENT A COMPLETE DEFENSE UNDER SIXTH AMENDMENT TO THE U.S…
19-8516 Craig Mrazek v. Illinois Illinois 2020-05-21 Denied Relisted (2)IFP automatic-reversal brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-assistance sixth-amendment A. WHETHER COURT'S DISREGARD OF PETITIONER'S ASSERTION A BRADY CLAIM, SPECIFICALLY PER SE CONFLICT WHERE PROSECUTOR AS CURRENTLY IS A STATE PROSECUTOR…
19-8502 David Beverly v. Illinois Illinois 2020-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP admissibility criminal-procedure facebook facebook-evidence fair-trial other-crimes-evidence plain-error plain-error-doctrine prior-bad-acts prior-conviction rap-lyrics 1. To determine whether petitioner was denied a fair trial when the State presented irrelevant evidence that he posted on Facebook violent rap lyrics…
19-8503 Darieus Malik Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP administration-of-justice criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court fact-intensive-inquiry federal-criminal-cases fifth-circuit prostitution-enhancement review-standard sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review On Appeal DARIEUS MALIK WILLIAMS challenged the district court's finding that he unduly influenced a minor to engage in prohibited sexual conduct such…
19-8504 Jose Antonio Garcia v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP admission-of-guilt constitutional-law criminal-procedure disposition-agreement due-process judicial-discretion plea-bargaining sentencing supervised-release Whether Mr. Garcia's admission to a violation of supervised release in this matter violated due process where the district court failed to clearly inf…
19-8508 Javier Villar v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule managerial-role motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure sentencing-enhancement standing u-s-sentencing-guidelines (1) Whether the District Court and the Court of Appeals erred in denying the Defendant's motion to suppress evidence located in the Appellant's reside…
19-1303 Earnest Cassell Woods, II v. California California 2020-05-20 Denied criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process mens-rea murder-conviction natural-probable-consequences resentencing retroactive retroactivity self-defense senate-bill-1437 sentencing statutory-interpretation 1. DOES SENATE BILL 1437 ADDED SECTION 1170.95, WHICH PERMITS PERSONS CONVICTED OF MURDER UNDER THE NATURAL AND PROBABLE CONSEQUENCES THEORY TO PETITI…
19-1307 Edward Thomas, Warden v. William Leroy Barnes Fourth Circuit 2020-05-20 Denied actual-prejudice brecht-v-abrahamson criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas-review fourth-circuit habeas-corpus juror-misconduct jury jury-contact precedent-interpretation substantial-effect Did the Fourth Circuit misapply this Court's precedents by granting habeas relief where there was no evidence that a juror's contact with a third part…
19-8494 Michael Lustig v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fruit-of-poisonous-tree fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree illegal-search search-and-seizure standing Question not identified.
19-8485 Melvin T. Bell v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-05-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process final-judgment judicial-review jurisdiction legal-remedy statutory-interpretation WHEN A PETITIONER HAS REALIZED, TWO YEARS LATER, AND UNCONSTITUTIONALLY RETRIED FOR THE SAME STATUTORY OFFENSE TO IN THE SAME PROCEEDING, WHICH HAS LE…
19-8487 Jerrell Berger v. Robert Adams, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2020-05-18 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection multiple-charges murder-charge sentencing sentencing-decision sixth-amendment trial-court My Leegal Counsel Wy7s wet tecl: ve tor mae z& MAKE COE Awe of Lwo chur ses ak he hzen/ Severed! iw My CHASE ana grated by rial unas, his case Ase in…
19-8490 Timmy Stevens v. Emma Collins, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-05-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus Question not identified.
19-8472 Wyte Young, Jr. v. Arizona Arizona 2020-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claims constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus post-conviction-review procedural-default sentencing state-court-procedure 1. Did the tral Count vio late petitroverts 5thybthiand i4th arendnvent rights, When it made a Judieial chetermunation,as tothe dangerous nature eleme…
19-8474 Brittany Dawn Thomas v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553(e) 18-USC-3553e criminal-procedure district-court judicial-authority mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-discretion separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation i. DOES A DISTRICT COURTS INABILITY TO DEPART BELOW A MANDATORY MINIMUM UNDER 18 U.S.C. § 3553(e), FOR ANY FACTOR OTHER THAN DEFENDANT'S SUBSTANTIAL A…
19-8475 In Re Tarvares James Watson 2020-05-15 Dismissed IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process false-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction-relief WHETHER PETITIONER'S CONVICTIONS RESULTED IN THE CONVICTION OF ONE WHO IS ACTUALLY INNOCENT ? 2) WHETHER PETITIONER'S TRIAL COUNSEL RENDEREO INEFFECT…
19-8476 Robert R. Yerton, Jr. v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2020-05-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-procedure criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction oklahoma-court post-conviction-relief Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals erred in their Original 1-3-2020 and subsequent 3-B-2020 decision to refuse jurisdiction of his appeal …
19-8477 Timothy Martin Kendrick v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech judicial-interpretation sixth-amendment standing Question not identified.
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…
19-8479 Bernard J. Fleming v. United States District of Columbia 2020-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP closing-arguments criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial personal-opinion prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-vouching vouching witness-credibility When do comments by a prosecutor in her final and rebuttal arguments to the jury in a criminal case that affirm the veracity of the government's chief…
19-1293 Michael Ludwikowski v. United States Third Circuit 2020-05-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury-acquittal sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from increasing a criminal defendant's sentence for conduct underlying a count on whic…
19-8469 Viengxay Chantharath v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-851 career-offender collateral-review criminal-procedure drug-convictions first-step-act mandatory-minimum retroactive-application sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether the First Step Act (FSA-2018) "altered "the statutes: 21 U.S.C.§ 841(a) (1)(b)(1) (A)-(B) also (C) for the prior drugI. con victions that qua…
19-8453 John Christopher Dobbs v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure cross-reference district-court federal-rules firearm-possession judicial-findings presentence-report rule-32 sentencing-guidelines When a defendant disputes that he has committed a Cross Reference crime, does Rule 32(i)(3)(B) require the district court to make specific findings ab…
19-1286 In Re Nina Shahin 2020-05-13 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing takings criminal-procedure fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-application fourth-amendment-interpretation search-and-seizure unreasonable-search 1. How "narrow " Statute of Removal should be interpreted, especially in situations like the Petitioner 's? 2. Does, the Petitioner 's situation mee…
19-1278 Hunter Fussell v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-05-12 Denied Response Waived automatic-transfer child-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process juvenile-justice juvenile-transfer liberty-interest state-statute 1. Whether the Due Process Clause requires that a child receive an individualized hearing before being placed in criminal court to be tried as an adul…
19-1282 Avery Terry v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-05-12 Denied Response Waived 18-usc-924c appeal-waiver constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal-waiver due-process force-clause hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery residual-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-vagueness vagueness-doctrine violent-crime WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN DISMISSING THE APPEAL PURSUANT TO AN INVALID APPEAL WAIVER, AFTER MAKING ERRONEOUS FINDINGS, OVERLOOKING AND MIS…
19-8420 Charles Wilson v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2020-05-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-ruling ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions jury-selection prosecutorial-discretion trial-court-discretion witness-testimony 1. Whether it is Unconstitutinal for defense Counsel to admit an accueds Suilt to the jury over the accused's objection? And also adMit and accused's …
19-8439 Marijan Cvjeticanin v. United States Third Circuit 2020-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation catch-me-if-you-can criminal-procedure due-process kyles-standard kyles-v-whitley materiality-standard new-trial-motion perjury rule-33 trial-perjury 1) BRADY VIOLATIONS - "CATCH ME IF YOU CAN" - When, in direct violation of the district court's specific discovery order, the Government fails to turn…
19-8442 Erica J. Walker v. Florida Florida 2020-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-proceeding fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance insanity mental-health mental-health-evaluation I. Was the Petitioner's right to a fair proceeding, effective assistance of counsel and Due Process of law violated when trial counsel LeRonnie Mason …
19-8444 Clarence Zacke v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2020-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-court-decisions judicial-precedent legal-exemption plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing-guidelines state-courts WHETHER THE INTEGRITY OF THE COURT REQUIRES ENFORCEMENT OF RULE 3.171(A) FLA. R. CRIMINAL P. WHERE THE STATE HAS KNOWINGLY AND INTENTIONALLY VIOLATED …
19-8445 Freddie Lee Curry, aka King of da Hood, aka Rat v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-841 alleyne alleyne-ruling criminal-procedure drug-quantity fair-sentencing-act first-step-act mandatory-minimum sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation Did the District Court abused its discretion when it failed to to apply Alleyne to Appellant's sentence reduction under Section 404(b) of the First St…
19-8429 Tariq Maqbool v. Marcus O. Hicks, Commissioner, New Jersey Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2020-05-11 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance miranda-rights sixth-amendment 1. Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, the District Court, and the New Jersey state courts' ruling, denying Petitioner's ineffective assistanc…
19-8430 Valery LaTouche v. New York New York 2020-05-11 Denied IFP criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process equal-protection post-conviction-relief statutory-interpretation WHETHER THE TRIAL COURTS INVOCATION OF STATUE 440.10(3)(C) DENIED PETITIONER HIS INTEREST, DUE PROCESS RIGHTS, AND EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAW. WHETH…
19-8426 Shawn M. Twitty v. Indiana Indiana 2020-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP amelioration-doctrine criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing doctrine-of-amelioration due-process fundamental-fairness res-judicata sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether a sentence is manifestly erroneous because the Doctrine of Amelioration allows for that sentence to be controlled by a newly amended version o…
19-8428 Marc Wyatt v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-05-08 Denied IFP appointment-of-counsel constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-market-value fifth-circuit legal-counsel replacement-cost right-to-self-representation self-representation QUESTION ONE: IF THE RECORD IS VOID OF MARC TRACE WYATT BEING LEGALLY APPOINTED COUNSEL, DID THE FIFTH CIRCUIT ERR IN DETERMINING THAT HIS CODE OF C…
19-8409 Thanksnieky Phuong v. Rick Hill, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-05-07 Denied IFP asportation criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence factual-innocence insufficient-evidence kidnapping robbery WHETHER THE PEOPLE SUBMITTED INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE THAT PETITIONER COMMITTED A KIDNAPPING FOR ROBBERY, AND SINCE THE CONVICT - HERE VIOLATES PETITIONE…
19-8410 Johnathan Pinney v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2020-05-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-limitations criminal-procedure due-process exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-rights standing statutory-interpretation The Constitation's Direct anthorty that the wi't of Habens Corpus Shall ot be suspended" superceeds the requirement suspendig shch wight perding the S…
19-8412 Lenroy McLean v. United States Second Circuit 2020-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure discretion discretionary-review forfeiture plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights QUESTION I Should the Second Circuit Court of Appeals exercise it's discretion to correct the forfeited error of Petitioner's miscalculated guideline…
19-8415 Arthur Stanley v. United States Second Circuit 2020-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence-relevance federal-rules-of-evidence gang-related-crime relevant-evidence rico-statute rule-401 standing statutory-interpretation 1. Where the Government introduced a cache of weapons found four years before the alleged crime, simply because gang graffiti was found nearby, should…
19-8407 Mauro Ramirez v. Florida Florida 2020-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process equal-protection evidence fair-trial forensic-evidence scientific-reliability I. Whether the State must establish the reliability and accuracy of the ki liastruwtffefiirn used for electrophoresis and ether preliminocry pN/A anal…
19-8411 Charles Burton v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-amendment harmless-error sixth-amendment structural-error 1. Whether mailing a verdict to a criminal defendant through his counsel in violation of the Fifth Amendment, Sixth Amendment and Federal Criminal Rul…
19-8397 Domenico Alexander Lockhart v. North Carolina North Carolina 2020-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights cole-v-arkansas constitutional-law criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure drug-narcotic-offenses due-process judicial-review overt-act procedural-and-substantive-rights statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
19-8400 Roy Allen Nichols v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process factfinding fifth-amendment sentencing sentencing-enhancement 1. Whether a Court of Appeals violates a criminal defendant's right to Due Process, guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitutio…
19-8403 Juan Miguel Lopez v. Stuart Sherman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-05-05 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-review criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection judicial-oversight jurisdictional-challenge retroactivity sentencing-review How can the Court be impelled to use its' all encompassing jurisdiction to redress the imposition of time added to a primary base term, as an aggravat…
19-8393 Joshua Tucker v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-05-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause probation probation-rights search-and-seizure warrantless-searches Whether a probationer has a right to be free from warrantless searches and seizures conducted by law enforcement officials without reason or purpose p…
19-8385 Enrique Lopez Quintero v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure hughes-v-united-states plea-agreement sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines type-c-agreement l.Is a sentence imposed pursuant to a Type-C agreement, Fed. R. Crim. P. 11(c)(1)(C), is based on the defendant's United States Sentencing Guidelines …
19-8386 David L. Culverhouse v. Texas Texas 2020-05-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel judicial-discretion standing May the Court of Appeals of Texas circumvent attorney of any actually innocent Petitioner error motion before to file original Application for writ of…
19-8389 Edward Yarbrough, Jr. v. J. Sullivan, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP bill-of-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-error federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure plain-error prosecutorial-misconduct remarks-authentication reversible-error trial-court 1. Whether a prosecutor's uninvited inflammatory remarks made in summation, absent a timely/explicit curative instruction, so infected the trial with …
19-8390 Do Kyun Kim v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors?
19-8391 Joseph M. Coffman v. Illinois Illinois 2020-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process involuntary-confession miranda-rights motion-to-suppress I. Whether the trial court erred in denying your petitioner's Motion to Suppress Statements? II. Whether the trial court erred in denying your petiti…
19-8379 Herbert Burgess v. Illinois Illinois 2020-04-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-exclusion fair-trial judicial-bias judicial-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct trial-bias witness-credibility I. WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT DENIED HERBERT BURGESS HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO PRESENT A COMPLETE DEFENSE. TRIAL IN VIOLATION OF ILLINOIS SUPREME COURT…
19-8382 Christopher Ewing, aka Alex Christopher Ewing v. Nevada Nevada 2020-04-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process extradition extradition-hearing fourteenth-amendment indigent-defendant right-to-counsel sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether the Uniform Criminal Extradition Act's guarantee that defendants have the right to "demand and procure counsel" requires state courts to appoi…
19-1255 Renee Baker, Warden, et al. v. Jeff N. Rose Ninth Circuit 2020-04-30 Denied aedpa credibility criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-evidence-admissibility due-process evidence evidentiary-ruling habeas-corpus impeachment nevada-v-jackson ninth-circuit prior-acquittals state-court-review Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision violates AEDPA, given that this Court reversed the Ninth Circuit under materially similar circumstances in Nevada…
19-1256 Jennifer Mae Levin v. Florida Florida 2020-04-30 Denied Response Waived cause-of-death confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process dui-manslaughter expert-testimony medical-records sixth-amendment 1. Whether – in a case involving the charge of DUI manslaughter – the prosecution can meets its burden of proving "cause of death" through the testimo…
19-8373 Frank Silva Roque v. Arizona Arizona 2020-04-29 Denied IFP appeals appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-rules federal-law habeas-corpus standing Did ARIZONA COURT UOTE TW COURTS DETSION A) TONs adv. Mississipei By ENTELUNG QUDENCE oF A 1483. PRAGL CORVICNOI TAT. WAS SEF-ASIDE, DISMISSED. LAs Th…
19-8380 Samory Azikiwe Monds v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-04-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP admissibility circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-procedure evidence evidence-rule federal-rule prior-bad-acts propensity-evidence Whether Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b) should be construed, contrary to its purpose and history, as a rule of inclusion resulting in certain admissib…
19-8370 Cynthia Fisher v. Walgreen Co. Fourth Circuit 2020-04-28 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure fourth-amendment search-and-seizure standing Why did the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals refuse the grant a rehearing or rehearing en banc? Why did the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals and the State Di…
19-8376 Carlos M. Guerrero-Castro v. United States First Circuit 2020-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy criminal-enterprise criminal-procedure enterprise essential-element judicial-procedure jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error RICO rico-conspiracy Whether a district court commits plain error by refusing to properly instruct the jury that the existence of an actual enterprise is always an essenti…
19-8364 Adam C. Vance v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-device-fraud aggravated-identity-theft criminal-procedure identity-theft internet-transactions interstate-commerce reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence united-states-v-alexander united-states-v-vance Was Vance Entitled To Acquittal for Online Internet -based Aggravated Identity Theft where it was not shown this Internet transaction in Count 3 was d…
19-8365 Arthur Lopez v. California California 2020-04-27 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment free-speech habeas-corpus judicial-review standing Question not identified.
19-8366 Andres Fernando Cabezas v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction forfeiture property-recovery property-rights rule-41g subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. The Eleventh Circuit holds that a notice of appeal is a per se divestiture of a district court's jurisdiction over a motion for return of property …
19-8358 Anthony L. Meads v. Illinois Illinois 2020-04-26 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction sixth-amendment speedy-trial Idas Speedy -frifal Wd/WW ?
19-8360 Juan C. Parra-Interian v. Mike Obenland Ninth Circuit 2020-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence harmless-error joinder-of-charges probable-cause standing witness witness-testimony Is it lawful to have a witness testify in a case where they have NO Direct knowledge of the facts? Can a State Court Joinder of Dissimilar charges, w…
19-8361 Tyrone Price v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process firearms ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief racketeering sentencing sentencing-phase Does sy2uce) conretron smpport assault uith a dungerons weapon in aid of racketeering under 18 U.S.C19saca)c3).? Does the elements clause ofa 39luce) …
19-8362 Henry M. Mitchell, Jr. v. California California 2020-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP bad-faith constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence-destruction police-misconduct WHETHER THE POLICE MAY RELY OF UNSUBSTANTIATED EVIDENCE TO ABSOLVE THEM OF BAD FAITH INTENTIONAL DESTRUCTION OF POTENTIALLY USEFUL EVIDENCE? WHETHE…
19-8353 Curtis Stokes v. Indiana Indiana 2020-04-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-equal-protection criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief strickland-standard sufficiency-of-evidence I. Stokes and his codefendants were charged with multifarious felonies. On appeal, Stokes ' codefendant had the most serious charge dismissed for insu…
19-8341 Richard Knight v. Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-23 Denied IFP capital-punishment criminal-procedure florida-sentencing hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-precedent ring-v-arizona teague-standard teague-v-lane 1. Pursuant to the test of Teague v. Lane, is Hurst v. Florida retroactive to Petitioner, whose Florida capital sentence became final after the issuan…
19-8342 Dearieus Duheart v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit the use of acquitted conduct to enhance a defendant's sentence?
19-8346 Naeem Jones v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2020-04-23 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-prisoner strickland-standard Does a freestanding claim of actual innocence stand a basis of relief for a state prisoner in the context of a federal habeas proceeding? 2. Does the…
19-8331 Jose A. Rodriguez v. Thomas Griffin, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2020-04-22 Denied IFP constitutional-error constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process felony-offense grand-jury indictment ineffective-assistance penal-law right-to-counsel 1. Whether the State Court constructively amended the indictment which charged petitioner on September 1, 2009 through September 1, 2010, before the N…
19-8333 Nekhent Supreme Ali, aka William Sean Perry, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-841 criminal-procedure criminal-statute currency-conversion drug-proceeds drug-weight due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether in the conversion of currency drug proceeds into drug weight for purposes of sentencing criminal violations of 21 U.S.C. § 841, federal courts…
19-8334 James Butler v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure custody due-process fifth-amendment miranda-rights miranda-warning police-interrogation totality-of-circumstances If the totality of the circumstances establish that a defendant is under police control and not free to leave until police questioning is finished, do…
19-8336 Igancio Reyes-Yanez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-testimony due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions presumption-of-innocence 1. Should a writ of certiorari be granted to address whether the Government can tell a jury that, "when [a defendant] testifies, there's no presumptio…
19-8338 Charles P. Mayeux, Jr. v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-04-22 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-amendments criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jackson-v-virginia jury-trial non-unanimous-verdict sixth-amendment Whether a conviction based upon a non-unanimous verdict violates the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution? Whethe…
19-8339 Juan M. Santiago v. United States First Circuit 2020-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver booker booker-error criminal-procedure federal-sentencing mandatory-guidelines miscarriage-of-justice sentencing sentencing-guidelines waiver WHETHER AN ESTABLISHED BOOKER ERROR (MANDATORY APPLICATION OF THE USSG) CAN BE CONSIDERED PER SE A MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE EXCEPTION THAT IS NOT WAIVED…
19-8314 Reginald Ward v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2020-04-21 Denied IFP actual-innocence circumstantial-evidence constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process forensic-evidence jurisdiction self-defense statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
19-8318 William Whiteley v. John Willis, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP automobile-exception certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure evidence-law exculpatory-evidence eyewitness fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether petitioner is entitled to a certificate of appealability on his claim that the warrantless search of his automobile's glove compartment violat…
19-8319 Tarvares James Watson v. Florida Florida 2020-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-claim constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard procedural-challenge wrongful-conviction WHETHER PETITIONER'S CONVICTION RESULTED IN THE CONVICTION OF ONE WHO IS ACTUALLY INNOCENT?
19-8323 William George Coodey v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2020-04-21 Denied IFP consent criminal-procedure dna-evidence dna-testing due-process factual-innocence jackson-v-virginia rape sixth-amendment 1. Whether DNA testing that would undermine an alleged rape victim's testimony denying consent to sexual intercourse would create sufficient uncertain…
19-8324 James William Hornsby v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-04-21 Denied IFP adversarial-process brain-injury constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington (1) Whether the district courts denial of relief and determination of whether a breakdown in the adversarial process was created by the trial courts …
19-8325 Qais Hussein v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines Is it reasonably debatable that Qais Hussein was deprived the effective assistance of counsel where his defense attorney failed to object to any insin…
19-8309 Cynthia Fisher v. Frontline National Fourth Circuit 2020-04-20 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure fourth-amendment search-and-seizure standing Why did the NC Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit state that I was late filing, after the appeals' court accepted my extension request? That is why …
19-8312 Lazaro Candelaria v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure first-step-act ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement shepard-documentation 1) Whether the First Step Act of U.S. in his Title 21 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(1) motion. 2) Whether CounselSenate Bill 756, applies to the Petitioner, ineff…
19-8304 Timothy J. McVay v. Illinois Illinois 2020-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP actus-reus burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-murder mens-rea presumption-of-innocence Whether a bench trial conviction of first degree murder by H.U.M Matrix(Homicide by Unspecified Means) can be upheld without benefit of: an eyewitness…
19-8305 Kinsley Ononuju v. Virginia Virginia 2020-04-19 Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP appeal appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection indigence indigent-defendant transcript transcript-cost On Equal Protection Clause; Whether Supreme Court of Virginia erred in refusing to find any unconstitutionality in VA Code § 19.2-165 that only mandat…
19-8294 Roscoe Johnson v. Mississippi Mississippi 2020-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-allegations criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions motion-in-limine position-of-trust Whether Johnson's Trial Counsel provided Constitutionally ineffective assistance of Trial Counsel when he failed to file a Motion in limine to prevent…
19-8298 David M. Kissi v. United States District Court for the District of Maryland Fourth Circuit 2020-04-18 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fbi fbi-warrant fourth-amendment hearsay hearsay-evidence miranda-rights search-and-seizure Whether the trial court overlooked evidence that the FBI had Petitioner arrested and searched his home with writs that were inadmissible because they …
19-8277 Abraham A. Augustin v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP ancillary-jurisdiction bivens-action civil-procedure constructive-possession criminal-investigation criminal-procedure fed-r-crim-p-16 fed-r-crim-p-41 jurisdiction property-seizure 1. Whether the district court had ancillary jurisdiction over property seized during the criminal investigation of an offense prosecuted in said dis…
19-8286 Edward Tiger v. Florida Florida 2020-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency criminal-competency criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction jurisdictional-prerequisite Whether a finding that a criminal defendant is presently competent to proceed is a jurisdictional prerequisite to a court's authority to deprive an ac…
19-8273 Deonday Evans v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-922 18-usc-924 commerce-clause commerce-nexus criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule federalism federalism-principles fourth-amendment search-warrant sentencing-guidelines standing 1. Whether federalism principles require reinterpretation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) and 18 U.S.C. § 924 to require a more meaningful commerce nexus! 2. W…
19-8274 Tracy Anthony Scott v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea mens-rea plea-bargaining rehaif-v-united-states sixth-amendment Does the Constitution require that the accused know the elements of a crime in order to validly plead guilty? Is Florida § 893.13 categorically a qu…
19-8280 Jesus Jaime Jimenez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-04-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus jurisdiction lack-of-jurisdiction statutory-window 1. Did the Fifth Circuit err in not allowing Petitioner his rights to bring his complaint of 'Lack of Jurisdiction', under a §2254 Writ of Habeas Corp…
19-1218 Marcus Lee Robinson v. Colorado Colorado 2020-04-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial jury-bias jury-trial plain-error prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct racial-bias racial-discrimination racial-prejudice Petitioner is an African-American man who was tried for sexually assaulting a white woman. During the prosecutor's opening statement, she gratuitously…
19-8260 Alvin Fulton v. New York New York 2020-04-15 Denied IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto fundamental-miscarriage judicial-discretion post-release-supervision sentencing sentencing-error sex-offenses 1. the usages and principles of law Whether the State of New York Court of Appeals has decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts w…
19-8261 Sean Ath v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-sufficiency judicial-standard standard-of-review substantial-evidence sufficiency-of-evidence united-states-v-rahseparian I. Whether the United States Court of Appeals properly applied the "substantial evidence" test in concluding there was sufficient evidence to affirm P…
19-8263 Larry Wesley Brown v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-possession drug-trafficking felony-enhancement guidelines gun-possession sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit")-which held Mr. Brown was involved with drug traffic…
19-8266 James Heard v. Illinois Illinois 2020-04-15 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-court-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion pro-se-representation right-to-counsel self-representation trial-court 1. Whether the trial court erred in denying James Heard's pre-trial motion to proceed pro Se? 2. Whether the appellate court unreosonably applied the…
19-8253 Rudolph Churchill v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-04-14 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence hypothetical-question ineffective-assistance jury-instruction jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-counsel SIXTH AMENDMENT TO THE U.S. CONSTITUTION INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL (TRIAL COUNSEL) *FAILING TO REQUEST THAT THE JURY BE CHARGED WITH RESPECT …
19-8255 Emilio Medina-Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
19-8256 Jerry Browdy v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit insufficient-evidence judicial-review motion-for-acquittal sentencing-errors sufficiency-of-evidence I. CERTIORARI REVIEW SHOULD BE GRANTED WHERE THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT AFFIRMED BROWDY'S CONVICTIONS WHERE THE EVIDENCE WAS INSUFFICIENT TO SUPPORT BROWDY'…
19-1214 Marty Friend v. Indiana Indiana 2020-04-14 Denied Amici (1) criminal-defendants criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence medical-records privilege privileged-records psychotherapist-patient psychotherapist-privilege sixth-amendment witness-testimony Whether, and under what circumstances, criminal defendants' Sixth Amendment and Due Process rights entitle them to obtain witnesses' privileged treatm…
19-8247 John Wilson v. Florida Florida 2020-04-13 Denied IFP competency-hearing criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process judicial-procedure mental-competency self-representation sixth-amendment trial-court trial-court-discretion WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT WAS OBLIGATED TO DETERMINE THE MENTAL COMPETENCY OF A DEFENDANT BEFORE GRANTING HIM THE RIGHT TO REPRESENT HIMSELF AT TRIAL IF…
19-8251 Kevin Duane Talkington v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-04-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juror-bias jury-instructions jury-selection Counsel Palledtoistrike a juror coho saidhe couldht hesPaiP; investigate, 4 Plied t-aghe, an oro j ipatory eu/dence . the.and present verbaiin reading…
19-8237 Fernando Romero-Salgado v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure fifth-amendment jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error plain-error-review sixth-amendment substantial-rights Does Rehaif error per se affect a defendant's substantial rights under the third prong of plain-error review?
19-8228 Kirk Russell Marsh v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP claims-processing criminal-procedure direct-appeal equitable-tolling federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-procedure mandatory-claims-processing-rule procedural-error unique-circumstances Whether a trial court's violation of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 32(j)(1) is subject to redress on direct appeal. II. Whether an untimely crim…
19-8231 Juvenile Male v. United States Second Circuit 2020-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence juvenile-justice juvenile-transfer prosecutorial-discretion rehabilitation sentencing transfer-hearing Whether the refusal of the United States Attorney to detail the defendants role in weighing his potential for rehabilitation in the interest of justic…
19-8234 Eric J. Davis v. LaShann Eppinger, Warden Ohio 2020-04-09 Denied IFP conviction court-jurisdiction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction legal-finality petition-construction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment (1) Whether there can be a finality of judgement of conviction rendered against a criminal defendant, where the criminal court lacked Subject Matter j…
19-8215 Victor Rivera-Munoz v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing manager-enhancement sanctions sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines subordinate-authority subordinates supervisor-enhancement supervisor-role 1. In the a bsence of a definiti on of the terms, can a defendant receive a mana ger, or sup ervisor enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 3B1. 1 when t he evi…
19-8220 Jorge Macli v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-trial sixth-amendment trial-choice 1. Whether the Petitioner was denied his Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel where the record was clearly established that defens…
19-8222 Steven Mason v. United States District of Columbia 2020-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady brady-violation criminal-procedure disclosure due-process exculpatory exculpatory-evidence impeachment jury-prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct severance trial-severance I. Whether this Court should grant certiorari to determine whether the lower courts erred in finding that the Government's very late disclosure of ext…
19-8209 Delgen Foye v. North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2020-04-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule federal-trial speedy-trial standing takings Question not identified.
19-8197 Fred Furnish v. Kentucky Kentucky 2020-04-07 Denied IFP criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus hearing-impairment impartial-jury juror-bias juror-impartiality jury-selection right-to-fair-trial When a juror realizes that he has been in an identical situation vis-à-vis the defendant as the victims of the defendant's crimes, is that juror unqua…
19-8201 James R. Householder v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-04-07 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure 1. Why did the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Western District, Docket No. 474 WAL 2018, not answer any of my questions? 2. Because of the accusers'…
19-8204 Arnold Eugene Fox, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-04-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-tampering fourth-amendment free-speech ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct search-warrant standing statutory-interpretation 1. Does federal statute 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) have an unconstitutionally vague residual clause, and has the government, District Court, or the Sixth Ci…
19-8205 In Re Jonathan E. Brunson 2020-04-07 Denied IFP brady-v-maryland civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence post-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct trial-review WHETHER MR. BRUNSON'S RIGHT TO DISCOVER EXCULPATORY EVIDENCE IS STILL ENFORCEABLE (Id. AT 41)? WHETHER THE STATE GOVERNMENT STILL HAS THE OBLIGATION …
19-8208 Jerald Harris v. Richard Jennings, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-04-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process identification identification-evidence police-misconduct reliability reliability-standard suggestive-circumstances When a witness in a criminal case identifies a suspect out-of-court, under suggestive circumstances which give rise to a substantial likelihood of lat…
19-8184 William Francis Walsh, IV v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-04-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-2252 criminal-procedure evidence-presentation federal-rules-of-evidence ninth-circuit-interpretation old-chief-precedent old-chief-v-united-states prejudicial-material rule-403 stipulation Did the Ninth Circuit's disposition of Petitioner's Rule 403 claim, based on the district court's having abused its discretion by rejecting his proffe…
19-8186 Leroy Staton v. Superintendent, Lee Correctional Institution Fourth Circuit 2020-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence bill-of-attainder criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel sexual-assault I, WHETHER DEFENDANT IS NOT GUILTY AS THERE WAS NO RAPE AND THEREFORE NO MURDER TO COVER-UP A NON-RAPE, RESULTING IN A CONVICTION WHICH NO RATIONAL JU…
19-8191 Benjamin Velasquez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-04-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP career-offender career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness timeliness-standard 1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre- Booker…
19-8193 John Purifoy v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review booker booker-decision criminal-procedure downward-departure jurisdiction sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-assistance The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has held that an appellate court does not have the jurisdiction to review the denial of a dow…
19-8181 Arkeem Hakim Jordan v. North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2020-04-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-disclosure particularity probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure speedy-trial scrition As to whnat property to seize. Any Emerbency our homes Doors . wrtnout thcre being constrtutION Issue Fouk.wus the sturch warrant ane Affiduv…
19-8182 Edward Paul Moss v. Arizona Arizona 2020-04-03 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights conviction-review criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury judicial-discretion sentencing statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
19-1195 Adalberto Frickson Palacios-Solis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-03 Denied case-in-chief criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-of-guilt fifth-amendment miranda miranda-rights pre-miranda-silence self-incrimination Whether the prosecution violates the Fifth Amendment's Self-Incrimination Clause when it uses a criminal defendant's post-arrest, pre-Miranda silence …
19-8160 Eddie Vincent Rutledge v. Florida Florida 2020-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment issue-preclusion solicitation DID THE FLORIDA TRIAL COURT VIOLATE THE FIFTH AMENDMENT'S GUARANTEE AGAINST DOUBLE JEOPARDY WHEN IT REFUSED TO APPLY THE DOCTRINE OF ISSUE PRECLUSION …
19-8170 Joe Robert Reynolds v. North Carolina North Carolina 2020-04-02 Denied IFP appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief sentencing Question not identified.
19-8172 Adam Carson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction perjury statutory-interpretation witness-credibility witness-tampering Can a conviction for witness tampering be upheld when a Defendant did not ask a witness to lie for him? and; can a Court of Appeals change the interpr…
19-8173 Ervin L. St. Claire v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus standing Circumventing the two step ineuivey mandated by 759, Buck U. Davis 137 .S.ct, (2017), based upon Tollins Provisions, 7I Erved in Ciscuit WHETHER the E…
19-8176 Homer Lawrence Lane v. Alabama Alabama 2020-04-02 Denied IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-claim constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas legal-preclusion procedural-bar state-law state-rule structural-error WHETHER THE STATE OF ALABAMA MAY IMPOSE A STATE PROCEDRURAL BAR RULE TO PRECLUDE A STRUCTURAL ERROR CLAIM.
19-8177 Christopher Kyle Keys v. Florida Florida 2020-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment cellular-phone-data character-evidence collateral-crimes criminal-procedure due-process evidence sixth-amendment trial-court-discretion warrantless-search The State Trial Court denied a timely motion for severance of the charges from separate incidents. And the Trial Court allowed the State Attorney to p…
19-8151 Michael John Alcocer Roa v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights counsel-denial criminal-procedure critical-stage due-process interlocutory-appeal right-to-counsel sixth-amendment united-states-v-cronic Does an interlocutory appeal is a critical stage? If yes, does a denial of counsel during an interlocutory appeal constitutes a violation of Sixth Ame…
19-8154 Jody Stamp v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure disabilities-act disability-accommodations due-process mental-health post-traumatic-stress sentencing sentencing-mitigation The question presented is should the District Coust Judge forcloser of a down word variance be based or the Judges Personal interpcatation of the Defe…
19-8155 Omar Saunders v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2020-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure denial due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review saunders third-circuit 1. Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit err in affirming Mr. Saunders' Denial of Habeas Corpus?
19-1191 Ohio v. Shawn Ford Ohio 2020-04-01 Denied Amici (2) atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability standing state-standards supreme-court-jurisdiction supreme-court-precedent What is the test for determining whether someone is "intellectually disabled" for purposes of the Eighth Amendment?
19-8149 Nathaniel Lambert v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-03-31 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP barker-test barker-v-wingo betterman-v-montana civil-procedure constitutional-provision constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing-delay Whether, as reserved for decision in Betterment v. Montana, 136 S. Ct. 1609, 1617-18 (2016), the test of Barker v. Wingo, 407 U.S. 514, 530-33 (1972),…
19-8137 Rafael Posadas-Gonzalez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing procedural-reasonableness sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness upward-departure Whether the District Court and Court of Appeals misapplied the law under U.S.S.G § 4A1.3 and 18 U.S.C. § 3553 (a) sentencing factors in granting an up…
19-8139 Douglas Duran Cerritos v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-03-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing mandatory-life-sentence miller-v-alabama psychiatric-evaluation section-2255-motion Did the Fourth Circuit commit errror by not granting Mr. 1. Cerritos a COA under 28 tKS.C... §2253 (c)(2), after the denial of his 28 U.S.C. §2255 mot…
19-8147 Romulo Murillo-Morales v. United States Second Circuit 2020-03-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Whether PETITIONER'S conviction is constitutional, where the search and seizure of the petitioner was without a warrant and probable cause in violatio…
19-8112 Mustafa Ali v. Derek Oberlander, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Forest, et al. Third Circuit 2020-03-27 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability coerced-confession coerced-statement criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction-challenge pretextual-arrest right-to-counsel unwanted-counsel 1. Whether the Court of Appeals denying Application for Certificate of Appealability and Petition for Rehearing/Rehearing en Banc is contrary to this …
19-8119 Walter E. Williams v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2020-03-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process essential-element felony-murder judicial-review jury-instruction standing can a trial court acquit and convict for same crime without violating the prohibitions of the fiFTH Amendment involving double jeopardy in this case? …
19-8125 Wendell Ray Thomas v. California California 2020-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief right-to-a-fair-trial sixth-amendment trial-fairness I Whether Defense Counsel Craig Wormley's Mental Health Issues Had An Adverse Effect & Influence on the Outcome of the Trial Where the Principle Iss…
19-8129 Charles Ben Bounds v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal bounds-case court-of-appeals criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jurisdiction legal-review sentence-enhancement sentencing statutory-interpretation (1) Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the application of Obstruction-of-Justice Sentence Enhancement in United States of A…
19-8104 Juan Gonzalez-Arias v. United States First Circuit 2020-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure drug-trafficking fourth-amendment home-search nexus probable-cause right-to-counsel search-warrant sixth-amendment 1. Was there sufficient evidence of probable cause to establish a nexus between Mr. Gonzalez-Arias's drug trafficking activity and his home to justify…
19-8099 Brandon Perry Smith v. Utah Utah 2020-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment heightened-clarity miranda-rights sixth-amendment state-courts suspect-comprehension waiver-standard Have the Utah courts adopted a rule of law which, in applying the "heightened clarity" standard as expanded by Berghuis v. Thompkins, 560 U.S. 370 (20…
19-8100 Jorge Rodriguez-Luca v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness I. Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidel…
19-8055 Corey Jones v. United States Second Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-review sentencing supervisory-power Petitioner was sentenced to 15 years in prison for biting a finger. The Court of Appeals found that "highly unjust, and little short of absurd," and t…
19-8056 Brian Alan Matalka v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP administration-of-justice criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure federal-statutes fifth-circuit-review indigency indigent-status plain-error plain-error-review special-assessment standard-of-review Did the Fifth Circuit's cursory review of the district court record reached the wrong conclusion that Matalka was not indigent under the standard pros…
19-8058 Maurice Brack, aka Maurice Barrack, aka Maurice Black, aka Maurice L. Brack, aka Socca Bopum, aka Socka Bopa v. New Jersey New Jersey 2020-03-23 Denied IFP 8th-amendment adolescent-development constitutional-retroactivity criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment family-court juvenile-justice juvenile-waiver retroactivity Whether, due to the overwhelingly objective indicis of national consensus that surrounds the advaned research on adblescent brain developmont wholly d…
19-8062 Troy Anthony LeBouef v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict Was LeBouef entitled to a unanimous jury verdict under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution?
19-8066 Silvestre Lara-Cervantes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-remand criminal-procedure harmless-error holguin-hernandez judicial-review precedent reasonable-probability reconsideration remand sentencing standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light of…
19-8077 Arnold Anderson v. Gilberto Valenzuela, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied IFP criminal-procedure digital-privacy forensic-evidence fourth-amendment property-rights search-and-seizure IS fT 'tei -ter cv o tetecrr te OJ c^OTcuv'i~ ">\rrV\^c(.e uj c VVi OcjV ol o^~V (Xv^-^vvci vvui^ V- VIv#5 _ W ^ ~VWrr^ a -for o>iVou->rV wzurt- 7
19-8080 Julio Solorzano v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence-exception civil-rights collateral-attack criminal-procedure davis-ruling due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus sentencing sentencing-challenge waiver-doctrine May a person who is actually innocent of a firearms offense under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) after United States v. Davis, 1389 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), seek habea…
19-8082 Altius Willix v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP concurrent-sentence concurrent-sentence-doctrine criminal-procedure double-jeopardy duplicitous-indictment fifth-amendment multiplicious-charges sixth-amendment structural-error Is an indictment considered duplicitous or multiplicious when it charges 2 counts occurring out of the same sequence or events that led to one episode…
19-1159 Michael Bouchard v. United States Second Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Response Waived 6th-amendment brady-giglio-jencks brady-violation certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ex-post-facto false-statements false-statements-statute ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mortgage-lending retroactivity sixth-amendment I. Under the "false statements statute", 18 U.S.C. §1014, it is a crime to knowingly make "any false statement or report ... for the purpose of influe…
19-1163 Bernard Rottschaefer v. United States Third Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Response Waived appeals collateral-estoppel court-of-appeals criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy drug-distribution due-process judicial-deference judicial-review jurisdiction medical-professional precedent standard-of-review substantial-question On March 3rd, 2006, the Court of Appeals for the 3rd District ruled that sex-for-drugs played no part in Dr. Rottschaefer's convictions and that Dr. R…
19-1153 Russell A. Suzuki, et al. v. Christopher Deedy Ninth Circuit 2020-03-20 Denied 28-usc-1257 appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure double-jeopardy exxon-mobil-v-saudi-basic federal-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction lesser-included-offense lesser-included-offenses standing state-court-judgment state-court-judgments This case presents two straightforward questions: 1) the limits the Constitution and Congress impose on the jurisdiction of lower federal courts; and …
19-8049 Kenneth Marquise Ruff v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1962d 5th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment rico rico-conspiracy sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether the Fifth Amendment's guarantee of procedural due process is violated where the Petitioner receives a sentencing enhancement in a Racketeer In…
19-8050 Cuwan Merritt v. United States First Circuit 2020-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment canine-sniff criminal-procedure de-facto-arrest law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-articulable-suspicion reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure Whether the level of corroboration and investigation required for reasonable articulable suspicion gives rise to a de facto arrest, which requires pro…
19-8051 Jack Benjamin Hessiani v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury indictment indictment-defect jurisdictional-challenge mens-rea sixth-amendment 1. The Circuits are divided over whether federal courts have jurisdiction over a criminal matter when the charging document omits an essential element…
19-8052 Mohamed A. Almahmmody v. Tennessee Tennessee 2020-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP the legal issue being raised appears to be: appeal court-appointed-counsel criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process in-forma-pauperis indigency indigent-defendant pro-bono-representation right-to-counsel transcript trial-transcript Question not identified.
19-8040 Jerry Meas v. Osvaldo Vidal, Superintendent, Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, et al. First Circuit 2020-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation confrontation-clause credibility criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence habeas-corpus judicial-discretion sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-confrontation witness-credibility 1. Whether it is permissible under a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment right of confrontation for a trial judge to curtail materially relevant cros…
19-8047 Richard E. Daniel v. Timothy C. Ward, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-19 Denied IFP coercion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination right-to-trial (1) Is 1T LAWFUL FOR A DEFENDANT WNOH HAS WAIVED ARRAIGNMENT IN WRITING WITH A PLEA OF NOT GUILTY T% BE BROUGHT BEFORE A TAIAL SUDGE OVER THE SOURSE O…
19-8015 Gabriel Cruz v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruton-rule co-defendant-statement codefendant-statement confrontation-clause criminal-appeal criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit non-testimonial non-testimonial-statement severance Whether the United States Court of Appeal Eleventh Circuit erred in finding that the Bruton rule, does not mandate a severance when a non-testifying c…
19-8016 Jaime Vega, aka Jimmy Johnson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeals criminal-procedure district-court due-process revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervised-release To what extent does 18 U.S.C. § 3553 require a district court to specifically state the reasons for imposing a revocation sentence above the guideline…
19-8025 Kwasi McKinney v. Arkansas Arkansas 2020-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression harmless-error involuntary-statement miranda-rights search-and-seizure search-warrant IF ectojal Mukwons te Soppiess Stabe ment aud Sean wocrant for | untimely, The Arkousas Courk of Mppoale cevecsed and cewmanded We clecuct Couct order…
19-8027 Javier Gomez-Carrasquillo v. United States First Circuit 2020-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553(a) circuit-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing individualized-assessment plea-agreement procedural-reasonableness puerto-rico-crime sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness Question not identified.
19-8033 In Re Jonathan A. Hampton 2020-03-18 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus harmless-error jury-instructions lesser-included-offense prosecutorial-appeal state-law structural-error CAN I, JONATHAN ANDREW HAMPTON, AN INDIGENT PRISONER, SIGSI(A) PETITIONER ANA 42 USCS SI983 CIVIL RIGHTS PIAINTIFF, APPEARING IN PROPRIA PERSONA BEFOR…
19-1140 In Re Wesley Perkins 2020-03-18 Denied abuse-of-discretion access-to-courts appellate-jurisdiction recusal statutory-construction access-to-courts appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process probation-revocation standing statutory-construction texas-code-of-criminal-procedure 1.a (NeW) Is TEX. CODE CRIM. PROC. art. 42A.755(e) unconstitutional, as applied? 1.b (New) Are TEX.RS.APP.P. 25.2(a)(2), (d) unconstitutional, facial…
19-8009 Hooman Ashkan Panah v. Ron Broomfield, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-03-17 Denied Amici (1)IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process evidence-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure juror-contact juror-misconduct remmer sixth-amendment third-party-influence Question 1: During deliberations, a juror contacted her preacher, who gave her an eye-for-an-eye Biblical passage, which made her "at peace" with voti…
19-8013 Keith Alexander v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-03-17 Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns criminal-sentencing due-process federal-appellate-review firearms ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-interpretation mandatory-minimum mental-capacity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction Question not identified.
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…
19-8020 Walter Freeman Jordan, III v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting criminal-procedure evidence-admission federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence fifth-circuit harmless-error hearsay hearsay-evidence standard-of-review I. On Appeal WALTER JORDAN argued that the erroneous admission of hearsay evidence that he was the brother of one of the co-defendants caught leaving …
19-7985 Charles Ray Hooper v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-v-united-states brady-violation certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts government-misconduct guilty-plea plea-bargaining procedural-bar prosecutorial-misconduct 1. Must a defendant who has been granted a Certificate of Appealability by the Court of Appeals continue to challenge a procedural bar ruling by the d…
19-7986 Wesley Scott Hamm v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP bodily-injury conspiracy cooperation criminal-law-bodily-injury criminal-law-conspiracy criminal-law-cooperation criminal-law-sentencing criminal-law-withdrawal criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-acquittal drug-distribution due-process evidence judgment-of-acquittal law-enforcement-cooperation sentencing withdrawal Question I . Shouldn't a judgment of acquittal have been granted where the government failed to prove that Hamm, arrested on August 25, 2016, in jail…
19-7987 Ashley R. Hambright v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure driving-while-intoxicated due-process dui evidence evidence-sufficiency federal-appeals intoxication magistrate-review military-jurisdiction stare-decisis sufficiency-of-evidence Petitioner, ASHLEYR. HAMBRIGHT, appealed her twelve months of supervised probation for driving while intoxicated ("DWI") on the grounds of a military …
19-7991 Oscar Garcia v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-03-16 Denied IFP article-iii-judge constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-magistrates-act guilty-plea magistrate-judge rule-11 Whether or not a magistrate judge can fully and finally accept a felony guilty plea with the defendant's consent such that it cannot be withdrawn for …
19-7994 David Armondo Butler v. Florida Florida 2020-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP adversarial-conflict Confrontation-Clause criminal-procedure Due-Process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence-preservation Evidentiary-Issues Fourteenth-Amendment ineffective-assistance prior-acts-of-violence prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel strategic-decision video-footage Did court-appointed counsel deprive Petitioner of the Sixth Amendment guarantee obtain the video footage were being made create an adversarial conflic…
19-7998 Paul Anthony Montanez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines I. Did the district court impose a plainly unreasonable sentence upon Mr. Montanez?
19-8000 James Robert Peterson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-03-16 Denied IFP courts-of-appeals-split criminal-procedure detainer-act federal-state-courts interstate-agreement interstate-agreement-on-detainers-act motion-tolling speedy-trial-act time-to-trial tolling Does a pending motion automatically toll the IADA's time-to-trial clock, to the same extent as under the STA?
19-8005 Harrison Garcia v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing direct-appeal edwards-v-arizona first-step-act mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-retroactivity statutory-interpretation Whether Section 403 of the First Step Act of 2018, enacted while Petitioner's case was pending on direct appellate review, apply where his sentence is…
19-7980 Maechel Shawn Patterson v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2020-03-13 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection retroactive-application statutory-interpretation victim-rights victims-rights IF PETITIONER ORDERS BEFORE OFFERING IS OCT. 10, 1998 AND THE N.C.G.S. THE-501 CONTINUE VICTIM RIGHTS ACTIONS ESTABLISHED FOR CRIMES THAT WERE COMMITT…
19-7982 Alex Penland v. Ohio Ohio 2020-03-13 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence false-testimony habeas-corpus judicial-fraud legal-remedy post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct trial-court-discretion 1. Does the trial court abuse its discretion when it failed to entertain Penland's claim that his conviction was tainted by fraud when the prosecutor …
19-7988 Junior Jean Baptiste v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence harmless-error hearsay hearsay-standard standard-of-review Where hearsay, consisting of an inculpatory, out-of-court statement made other than to law enforcement, is erroneously introduced to the defendant's p…
19-7957 Damar D. Ruffin v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence evidence-law jury-instruction jury-trial reversible-error sentencing standard-of-review 1. Sheer le Sul, Circle Cocer oF Aopeals Tiling \s \n direct Contes cartlkwothe Laws othe Svupreme CoURT™ Rex er ding . Pleas Eaor tor Kel cation OF —…
19-7958 Anthony Quinones v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness timeliness-standard vagueness 1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre- Booker…
19-7968 Akube Wuromoni Ndoromo v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. District of Columbia 2020-03-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment jury-trial seventh-amendment standing takings Does Fourth (VI) Amendment protect the right of the people to be secure therein? Does the Fifth Amendment (V) can't allowed accuser to defend himself…
19-7971 William L. Lewis v. Illinois Illinois 2020-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP bias burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process judicial-error prejudice prior-convictions reasonable-doubt robbery sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence 1. Did the trial Code And The Appellate Court error within entering a finding of quilt On a Single count Robbery when the government Cid net Prove pet…
19-7973 Quincy Chisolm v. Maryland Maryland 2020-03-12 Denied IFP appeal civil-rights conspiracy conviction criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-murder judicial-discretion mitigating-circumstances murder sentencing trial-court-error in s4/'6'cx-f -fAc_ -fhoAaf £&n 5p*ro-ci>j -fo nouirMr ^ 6>/n/nf4- murder ir\ */Ae fiirs^ deyrc-e, ' cm^Un -b •lUyJ WWe./* -/-Ac- dnio.1 ^oo>rt err //…
19-7974 Jesse Moreno v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness-standard 1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre- Booker…
19-7976 Lonnie Victor Fleming v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness timeliness-standard 1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker …
19-7977 Robert Morris Hoff v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness timeliness-standard vagueness 1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre- Booker…
19-7978 Ramon Delgado, aka Ramon Delgado-Pina v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law affection-influence civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process foreign-nationals foreign-relations security-clearance sentencing uncharged-conduct vagueness First, was it unconstitutionally vague to ask Petitioner in a security clearance questionnaire to name the foreign nationals with whom Petitioner had …
19-7979 Leo Chadwick v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP animal-fighting animal-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-bias pre-sentence-report recusal sentencing I. Whether A Judge' Statements Demonstrating Extreme Bias Against Pit Bull Owners as a Class And Advocating the Elimination of Anyone Involved in Dogf…
19-7981 Marcos Robert Castaneda v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender career-offender-guideline criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 johnson-v-united-states mandatory-sentencing-guidelines ninth-circuit residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines timeliness void-for-vagueness 1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre Booker …
19-1118 Jeffrey Todd Palumbo v. Connecticut Connecticut 2020-03-12 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure criminal-testimony doyle-v-ohio due-process exculpatory-evidence first-time-account impeachment miranda-rights Miranda-warnings prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination trial-procedure uncharged-misconduct When a criminal defendant has been advised prior to trial of his rights under Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 346 (1966), and then testifies at trial to …
19-7906 Angello A. D. Osborne v. Peter Georgiades Fourth Circuit 2020-03-11 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fabricated-evidence fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution police-misconduct stet unlawful-seizure Where a police officer has fabricated evidence against a wrongfully accused criminal defendant, does the entry of a "STET" in the criminal prosecution…
19-7945 Zacharias Abab Aguedo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit insufficient-evidence judgment-of-acquittal sentencing sentencing-errors sufficiency-of-evidence I. CERTIORARI REVIEW SHOULD BE GRANTED WHERE THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT AFFIRMED AGUEDO'S CONVICTIONS WHERE THE EVIDENCE WAS INSUFFICIENT TO SUPPORT AGUEDO'…
19-7954 Steven M. Leonhart v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-03-11 Denied IFP competent-counsel constitutional-rights counsel-performance criminal-procedure due-process effective-counsel ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain plea-bargaining sixth-amendment strategic-benefit Is defense counsel who makes a plea bargain that fails to give his client a substantial strategic benefit acting as competent and effective counsel as…
19-7960 Reginald Edward Green v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment prejudicial-evidence prison-garb shackles Is displaying a picture of a defendant shackled, handcuffed, in prison garb and being held by prison staff, over objection, still more prejudicial tha…
19-7962 Rodney Jerome Womack v. James Robertson, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-03-11 Denied IFP criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-convictions representation-by-counsel right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-enhancement APPEALA c CO Ai ) PfcTLTtkrLlER S£ERTtfl.Ci\T£ OfRested ££>uari _V o/u q me puE«>Tio iu ; UUAS PETITIOMER REPRESENTED 6s? EQUNSEL X IVi 1*182. PRIOR…
19-7963 Yehowshua Yisrael v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2020-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process florida-constitution jurisdiction manifest-injustice miscarriage-of-justice procedural-due-process prosecutorial-misconduct substantive-due-process 1. Did the trial Court and State of Florida Prosecutor invoked a miscarriage of Justice and manifest Injustice as to wair their conduct did not compor…
19-7964 Varis R. Aizupitis v. Delaware Delaware 2020-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-privilege confidential-materials constitutional-authority criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-defect criminal-process defense-counsel due-process federal-judiciary federal-jurisdiction ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strategic-intentions structural-defect structural-error I. Whether the release of confidential materials by defense counsel creates a structural defect in a criminal process where the release is contrary to…
19-7914 Lucas James Moss v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-10 Dismissed IFP vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit haymond-precedent remand sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond I. Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Ha…
19-7916 Mark Gelazela v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3282 continuing-offense criminal-indictment criminal-procedure federal-prosecution lulling statute-of-limitations time-barred wire-fraud Whether after-the-fact "lulling" allegations extend the statute of limitations for wire fraud beyond the five-year period authorized by 18 U.S.C. § 32…
19-7917 Isaac Feldman v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP antisemitic-reference antisemitism appellate-review conspiracy conspiracy-prosecution criminal-procedure double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause jury-verdict prosecution prosecutorial-misconduct 1. Where a jury returns a final verdict on a charge of conspiracy, finding a defendant guilty of only one of multiple charged offense objects, is the …
19-7925 Ronald O'Rourke v. Jacqueline Lashbrook, Warden Seventh Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied IFP 6th-amendment confrontation-clause constitutional-rights counsel criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-conduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment suppressed-evidence trial-court-discretion WHETHER THE Trial Court Abused Discretion in allowing a Rage, Hansa h tlie Oe 2 a, MLN ae AoUurs. is a samt ot OSs stylte of Coupse/ Sok ALling to GQ …
19-7932 Enrique Auch v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2020-03-10 Denied IFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination evidence-law feigning memory-loss out-of-court-statements sixth-amendment testimonial-statements witness-testimony Whether the Confrontation Clause permits the prosecution to introduce out-of-court testimonial statements from a witness who is feigning memory loss a…
19-7939 Robert James Pope, Jr. v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2020-03-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal appellate-rights constitutional-right constitutional-rights criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel forfeiture ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presumption-of-prejudice pro-se pro-se-appeal right-to-appeal sixth-amendment trial-counsel Where trial counsel's ineffectiveness in failing to initiate an appeal results in a defendant's loss of appellate rights, can the constitutional right…
19-7940 Luis Fernandez Morales v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 28-usc-1915 appeals appellate-procedure criminal-appeal criminal-procedure federal-courts in-forma-pauperis merits-determination sentence-modification sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether defendant in a federal criminal case is entitled to appeal the district court's judgment denying motion to modify sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 3…
19-7942 Daniel Dale Parsons v. R. Blades, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP adverse-witness co-defendant-guilty-plea co-defendant-statement compulsory-process compulsory-process-clause confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination harmless-error plain-error waiver I. Has the accused's right of confrontation been converted from the prosecutor's duty under Confrontation Clause into the accused's privilege under th…
19-7948 Omar N. Davis v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment trial-counsel The main question in this petition is whether a petitioner's due process rights were violated because he had ineffective assistance of counsel. Here, …
19-7950 Daejerron L. Valentine v. Nebraska Nebraska 2020-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment ambiguity automobile-exception conjunctive consistency criminal-procedure Did the removal of 'or' create ambiguity? disjunctive fourth-amendment Is a defendant entitled to consistent jury instruc jury-instructions jury-trial legislative-history possession probable-cause reasonableness reasonableness-standard scope-of-search search search-and-seizure search-scope statutory-interpretation warrant-requirement warrantless-search 1) Did the warrantless search of an automobile pursuant to the automobile exception become unreasonable when police officers expanded the search beyon…
19-7830 Pablo Antonio Pantaleon-Aviles v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure deportation deportation-warrant evidence illegal-reentry immigration immigration-law sixth-amendment Whether a warrant of deportation admitted to prove an essential element of the offense of illegal reentry is subject to confrontation under the Sixth …
19-7903 Alfred Brown v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-09 Dismissed IFP vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit haymond-precedent remand sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond I. Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Ha…
19-7904 Jason Bonds v. United States Second Circuit 2020-03-09 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment minnesota-v-murphy polygraph Polygraph-Examination Right-to-Remain-Silent right-to-silence self-incrimination supervised-release Whether a condition of supervised release requiring a defendant to participate in sex offender treatment that may include polygraph examinations viola…
19-7911 Thomas William Cornelius, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-03-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion 28-usc-2255 appeal criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process habeas-corpus physical-presence right-to-be-present sentencing With respect to a defendant who does not waive his right to be physically present during a re-sentencing hearing, held pursuant to a stipulated resolu…
19-7889 Walter Rosario-Colon v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence insufficient-evidence jury-instructions reasonable-jurist second-degree-murder self-defense 1. Reasonable jurists would determine that Walter Rosario-Colon acted in self-defense when he struck Antonio Aguado. In the alternative, there was Ins…
19-7890 Kevin Michael-Ferdinand Richards v. Michigan Michigan 2020-03-06 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion coercion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance effective-assistance-of-counsel plea-coercion plea-understanding plea-withdrawal trial-court-discretion I. Did The TriAl Court Abuse It's Discretion When It Denied Pla WithdrAwal Under MCR 6.3IOcB); Mr. RicHaRds HAs A Due Process Right To PleA Withdrawal…
19-7900 Tanino Emon Miller v. Michigan Michigan 2020-03-06 Denied IFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure sentencing standing statutory-interpretation It T&s £vz:t>svcF tki^^FF tctb /^t T Fxr/ub TUB Ftncr-^soe/z £vTtTi T>T( cv1> A- Bter ]>oo>SF FofZ /4-~&rtuc-r~ k/^T7/ t+jTevT To d?£&rr /3o^ f fi'U&…
19-7902 In Re Darnell W. Moon 2020-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct qualified-immunity standing takings Question not identified.
19-7881 Tavares L. Farrington v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-behavior criminal-procedure first-hand-witness fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure second-hand-information terry-stop Under the Fourth Amendment, a Terry stop and frisk must be supported by reasonable suspicion that a crime has been or will soon be committed. Here, po…
19-7882 Brandy V. Harris v. Britney May, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-03-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech public-disorder resisting-arrest standing trespassing wrongful-conviction Question not identified.
19-7831 Jose Antonio Cortez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-03-04 Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction standing statute-of-limitations Question not identified.
19-7866 Farid Popal v. Stephen Brown Second Circuit 2020-03-04 Dismissed IFP civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus witness-tampering WHETHER THE U.S. CONSTITUTION PROTECTS WITNESSES FROM BEING TAMPERED WITH WHEN DETECTIVE WAS WHISPERING INTO HIS EARS DURING LIVE SKYPE TESTIMONY IN…
19-7868 Steven B. Turner v. Mike Kemna Eighth Circuit 2020-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-negotiations post-conviction-relief right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment trial-fairness In Missouri, it is an ensuing plea of guilty that implicates the constitution. A criminal defendant cannot succeed on a post-conviction claim of ineff…
19-7873 Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof case-dismissal civil-procedure civil-rights court-procedure criminal-procedure due-process firearms judicial-review jurisdiction legal-error mens-rea standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-jurisdiction Mr. Alexis appeal asked Justices Gorsuch and Kagan to overturn Defendant's knowledge of his two prior felony convictions under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g). Aff…
19-7876 Aaron Richardson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection judicial-bias judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines I. Did an unconstitutional "objective risk of bias," Williams v. Pennsylvania, 136 S. Ct. 1899, 1905 (2016), or "probability of actual bias on the par…
19-7836 Tajuddin Salahuddin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-forfeiture criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute property property-rights property-seizure restitution restitution-lien seizure third-party third-party-rights 1) When the United States of America seizes innocent third-party property and cash; applies 21 U.S.C 853 to forfeit the property but applies a separat…
19-7838 Anthony Shockey v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP addiction-treatment criminal-justice criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-addiction drug-test due-process parole probation sentencing-guidelines supervised-release violation-classification 1.When an addict on supervised release fails a drug test should the failure be treated as crime, a grade B violation under Sentencing Guideline § 7B1.…
19-7839 Christopher Sanchez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure deterrence due-process imprisonment plain-error-review policy-statement policy-statement-range sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines I. Is a single-sentence explanation of "I believe this addresses the issues of adequate deterrence and protection of the public" procedurally reasonab…
19-7851 Lenin Martinez-Alvarado v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 concurrent-sentences criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court downward-departure eleventh-circuit jurisdiction substantive-reasonableness u.s.s.g-§4a1.3 I. WHETHER CERTIORARI REVIEW SHOULD BE GRANTED WHERE THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT HELD THAT IT DID NOT HAVE JURISDICTION TO REVIEW THE DISTRICT COURT'S DENIAL…
19-7853 Jaime Monzon-Silva v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-ruling fugitive judicial-discretion jury-evidence jury-instructions legal-standard trial-procedure Did the district court abuse its discretion by permitting a jury to hear evidence that Petitioner believed he was a "wanted fugitive," evidence that d…
19-7854 Howronda Overstreet v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-procedure Did Ms. Overstreet's waiver of appeal unenforceabl Did the district court commit plain error when it due-process guidelines guidelines-calculation plain-error plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines waiver QUESTION 1: DID MS. OVERSTREET PRESERVE HER RIGHT TO APPEAL THE DISTRICT COURT'S INAPPLICABLE GUIDELINES CALCULATION ? QUESTION 2: WAS MS. OVERSTR…
19-7855 Jeremy T. Walker v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari criminal-procedure district-court-discretion federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession material-facts obstruction offense-level-enhancement sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines serial-number serial-number-obliteration Whether the district court erred at sentencing by increasing Mr. Walker's Sentencing Guidelines offense level for possessing a gun with an obliterated…
19-7856 Richard Kenneth Djerf v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections Ninth Circuit 2020-03-03 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver-of-counsel In a state capital murder case, the state prosecutor and trial court recognized on the record that trial counsel were not properly investigating and p…
19-7864 Derek Crosby v. Illinois Illinois 2020-03-03 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process indictment jury jury-determination legislative-power sentencing separation-of-powers statutory-maximum Whether The Legislature Can Remove The Facts From The Jury That Increase The Statutory Maximum ? Whether Defendant Was Properly Found Death Eligible …
19-7826 Marlon R. Miller v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure document-sealing due-process first-amendment judicial-transparency law-enforcement-misconduct public-access public-access-to-courts right-to-fair-trial sealed-records Whether the district court correctly sealed an entire category of information from public access, including preventing Mr. Miller from having meaningf…
19-7833 Inocente Rodriguez-Juarez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei…
19-7834 Travis Soto v. Ohio Ohio 2020-03-02 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure federal-courts fifth-amendment finality plea-bargaining constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy federal-courts fifth-amendment finality jury-trial plea-agreement plea-bargaining This Court has yet to resolve the question lying at the core of this appeal, which has produced a split amongst this country's federal and state judic…
19-7840 Victor Dewayne Jones v. Joe Errington Fifth Circuit 2020-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights competency-hearing criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance judicial-review mental-competency mental-evaluation post-conviction psychiatric-evaluation public-defender sentencing sentencing-petition trial-counsel whather Petitioner was denied his right to bue Process of Law where the pike counts Circuit court convicted Petitioner with out a Mental Evaluation an…
19-7843 Tony Buck v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP bureau-of-prisons constitutional-law constitutional-rights conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review punishment punishment-clause sentencing Whether the Judgment of Conviction should be vacated as a violation of the Double Jeopardy Clause because the Judgment punishes Mr. Buck for the exact…
19-7844 Buck Otto White, aka Timothy Joseph Hoffman v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus sentencing Was it an abuse of discretion to sentence Buck White when the Statutory Maximum is 10 years or 120 months? Did the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals abuse…
19-7847 Lee D. Watts v. Tennessee Tennessee 2020-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP confession confession-suppression criminal-interrogation criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance police-interrogation police-questioning right-to-counsel sixth-amendment suppression voluntariness Question #1: Whether petitioner's Original trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance of counsel in violation of U.S. Const. Amn. 6 when counsel fa…
19-7848 Barton Joseph Adams v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP binding-plea-agreement criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-11-c-1-c criminal-procedure-rule-32-2-e-1-a district-court-misconduct due-process forfeiture plea-agreement property-forfeiture property-rights protective-order rule-11 rule-32.2 sealed-court-order sealing-orders sentencing sentencing-procedure Whether the lower court violated the mandatory requirements of Rule 32.2(e)(1)(A) and breached the Rule 11(c)(1)(C) binding sentence, when the distric…
19-1072 Scott Rothstein v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-02 Denied Response Waived cooperation cooperation-credit criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing government-withdrawal plea-agreement rule-35 rule-35-motion A. Whether the Government's right to withdraw a previously earned and filed Rule 35 Motion, where the plea agreement fails to warn the defendant of th…
19-1071 Gerald Claude Carlson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-02-28 Denied Response Waived circuit-split counsel-of-choice criminal-procedure delay due-process inconvenience judicial-discretion motion-to-terminate right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standard-of-review supervisory-powers 1. Whether the Carlson Court's Memorandum Opinion conflicts with other Ninth Circuit opinions holding that a finding of substantial or undue delay is …
19-1065 Teresa Ann Johnson v. Alaska Alaska 2020-02-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) confrontation-clause criminal-procedure expert-testimony forensic-evidence lab-report sixth-amendment surrogate-expert testimonial-evidence 1. Whether the Confrontation Clause prohibits the prosecution from introducing into evidence at trial a certified lab report reflecting statements of …
19-1068 Keith Inchierchiere v. Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-28 Denied Response Waived attorney-misconduct criminal-procedure guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel public-defender retained-attorney sentencing-exposure seventy-year-term trial-rights 1. Does a defendant receive ineffective assistance of counsel where his retained attorney fails to appear on the first day of trial, and, after receiv…
19-1070 Jeffrey Alan Olson v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-02-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment Birchfield-v-North-Dakota blood-draw constitutional-rights criminal-penalties criminal-procedure due-process retroactivity substantive-law supreme-court-precedent warrantless-blood-draw warrantless-search Whether this Court's holding that states may not impose criminal penalties on the refusal to submit to a warrantless blood draw, Birchfield v. North D…
19-7812 Lajbar Lajaward Khan v. United States Second Circuit 2020-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP clearly-erroneous criminal-procedure declaration district-court drug-quantity drug-weight fatico-hearing objections probation-office role-enhancement sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether the District Court's findings as to drug weight and role were clearly erroneous.
19-7817 Maria de Lourdes Acosta v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court judicial-procedure plain-error pre-sentence-report prejudice procedural-error sentencing When the district court fails to either order a Pre-Sentence Report or make explicit on-the-record findings as to why a Pre-Sentence Report is unneces…
19-7819 Shamsuddin Dost v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP anonymous-testimony confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process fair-trial sixth-amendment undercover-agents Is it a violation of the Sixth Amendment to U.S. Constitution, which affords an accused the right to confront his or her accusers, for a court to allo…
19-7820 Marcus Derby v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split conspiracy conspiracy-involvement criminal-procedure drug-trafficking essential-participant minor-participant minor-role reduction sentencing-guidelines supplier In 2015, the United States Sentencing Guidelines were amended to clarify that defendants are entitled to the "minor role" reduction, even if they are …
19-7824 Dexter Fisher v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 924(c) categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-procedure firearm-brandishing hobbs-act section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether Mr. Fisher's § 924(c) convictions for brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence must be vacated because the Hobbs Act robbery offenses …
19-7804 Ramon F. Flores v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 appeal criminal-procedure drug-quantity guideline-range guidelines procedural-bar sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-amendment In a sentence reduction application matter pursuant to 1 8 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) under Amendment 782,to the Sentencing Guidelines, if a defendant object…
19-7808 Richard Wayne Taylor v. Texas Texas 2020-02-27 Denied IFP 14th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-validity conviction criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure jurisdiction oath-of-office sentencing WHETHER THE TRIAL JUDGE'S FAILURE TO RETAKE AND REFILE A VALID OATH OF OFFICE BEFORE PRONOUNCING SENTENCE, RENDERS A JUDGEMENT, CONVICTION AND SENTENC…
19-7768 Jibriil A. Hersi v. Harold May, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts coercion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency judicial-misconduct jury-trial police-misconduct prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-appeal transcript trial-irregularities 1) Whether I am entitled to get the missing records from my trial in Medina County, Ohio for statements made by the judge outside the hearing of the j…
19-7775 Rande Brian Isabella v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-review circumstantial-evidence conflict-among-circuits criminal-liability criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-18-usc-2251a due-process evidence evidence-standard jackson-v-virginia judicial-procedure sexting statutory-interpretation substantial-step Whether if was prejudicial error for the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals to depart from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings by disreg…
19-7794 Jeremy Shane Fogleman v. Mississippi Mississippi 2020-02-27 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment 1) Does the SUPREME COURT of the STATE of MISSISSIPPI'S DECISION REVERSING the COURT Of APPEALS of the STATE Of MISSISSIPPI'S, 9-0 UNANIMOUS DECISION …
19-7797 Lonnie W. Hubbard v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process medical-necessity medical-practice medical-purpose prescription-dispensing prescription-drugs professional-practice statutory-interpretation WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY HOLDING A JURY COULD RATIONALLY CONCLUDE THAT DEFENDANT PHARMACIST ABDICATED HIS DUTY UNDER §§ 1306.04(a) & 841(…
19-7799 Desmond Baker v. Florida Florida 2020-02-27 Denied IFP criminal-procedure eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-sentence life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing parole sentencing-review Do the Eighth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment to the United States juvenile homicide offender, who has certain nonhomicide felony convictions, to s…
19-7767 Octavio Torres Ortega v. Florida Attorney General, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing factual-record ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review new-trial reversible-errors standing trial-counsel trial-errors QUESTION ONE SHOULD ANY OF THE REVIEWING COURT 'S HAVE REVERSED FOR AN EVIDENTIARY HEARING TO DEVELOP AN ACCURATE FACTUAL RECORD QUESTION TWO WAS C…
19-7771 Christopher Benjamin Blanton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit haymond-precedent sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Haymo…
19-7773 James Curtis Denton v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavits business-records confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission hearsay-exception sixth-amendment Whether the introduction of unconfronted affidavits establishing the foundation for admission of business records violates the Confrontation Clause of…
19-7779 Freddy Garcia v. Texas Texas 2020-02-26 Denied IFP constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process due-process,criminal-procedure,constitutional-erro harmless-error indictment indictment-variance jury-conviction jury-trial standard-of-review A jury convicted Freddy Garcia for a felony arising from a different incident than the one for which he was indicted. The State gave no pretrial notic…
19-7780 Frank Harper v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-02-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-USC-924(c) 18-usc-924c carjacking-by-intimidation collateral-review consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure dean-v-united-states ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Predicate-Offense retroactivity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation I. A. Should certiorari be granted to determine whether Harper was denied the effective assistance of counsel for the failure to challenge on appeal a…
19-7782 Stephen Mayer v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP absolute-immunity contempt-of-court-18-usc-401 contempt-proceedings criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-42-a-2 federal-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction-28-usc-1331 federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure government-misconduct immunity judicial-immunity statutory-interpretation I. WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT'S OPINION DECLINING JURISDICTION OVER CONTEMPT PROCEEDINGS UNDER 18 U.S.C. §401, VIOLATES FEDERAL RULES OF CRIMINAL P…
19-7789 Steven Klein v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-26 Denied IFP burden-of-proof cage-v-louisiana criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions reasonable-doubt structural-error sullivan-v-louisiana Whether the trial court erred by overruling Klein's objection to prosecution's misstated of the burden of proof during closing arguments when he instr…
19-7791 Jermaine Michael Jackson v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP alibi-defense civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presumption-of-prejudice right-to-counsel sixth-amendment 1. DID THE SUPERIOR COURT FAIL TO ANALYSIS PETITIONER CLAIM UNDER THE PRESUMPTION OF PREJUDICE STANDARD UNDER CRONIC? 2. WAS TRIAL COUNSEL ABANDONMEN…
19-1060 Victor Thomas v. New York New York 2020-02-26 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived appeal appellate-jurisdiction criminal-defendant criminal-procedure garza-v-idaho jurisdiction right-to-counsel sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent waiver waiver-of-appeal Whether a provision in a waiver of appeal that forbids a criminal defendant from filing a notice of appeal, and in so doing also strips superior court…
19-1055 Dustin Moss v. United States First Circuit 2020-02-25 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-procedure criminal-procedure evidence-suppression fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation illegal-search package package-description particularity-requirement probable-cause search-warrant tracking-number Where a search warrant particularly described a package to be searched, was the search of a completely different package illegal where that package wa…
19-7765 William Reyes v. Robert Ercole, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2020-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2254 conviction criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus perjury prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-likelihood section-2254 witness-testimony Is a defendant deprived of his right to due process of law when he would not have been convicted had perjury not been introduced at his trial? The qu…
19-7769 Demetrius Antwon Wilson v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-25 Denied IFP 6th-amendment competency competency-to-stand-trial constitutional-rights criminal-investigation criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation law-enforcement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct self-representation If yourrepresenting yourself do you think I'm Competent to Stand trial or Sign a plea If you had Fecent Surgery of having Part of your Intestine remov…
19-7776 Mickel L. Marzouk v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 924(c) crime-of-violence criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process elements-clause fair-sentencing-act fourth-circuit hobbs-act rule-of-lenity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Petitioner Mickel L. Marzouk presents two questions for this Court's review: 1. Whether Petitioner's sentence on the second § 924(c) conviction and t…
19-7739 H. K. V. v. Florida Department of Children and Families, et al. Florida 2020-02-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion jurisdiction legal-interpretation standing Question not identified.
19-7743 Robert Paul Langley, Jr. v. Oregon Oregon 2020-02-24 Denied IFP appointment-of-counsel attorney criminal-procedure marion-county-circuit-court oregon-supreme-court state-court-procedure breakdown-in-communication criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel indigent-defendant right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Question not identified.
19-7747 Christopher Robert Sueiro v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1291 appellate-jurisdiction collateral-order-doctrine criminal-procedure due-process final-judgment interlocutory-appeal self-representation sixth-amendment 1. Whether, under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and the collateral order doctrine, a criminal defendant may appeal an interlocutory order denying the defendant's r…
19-7752 Daniel Ochoa v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation custody due-process eleventh-circuit fifth-amendment miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona pre-miranda-questioning public-safety-exception self-incrimination Whether Mr. Ochoa's Fifth Amendment rights were violated when the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals found that the public-safety-exception to this Cou…
19-7757 Babatunde Popoola v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP bank-fraud consent criminal-law criminal-procedure financial-crimes identity-theft money-laundering predicate-crime statutory-interpretation WHETHER A PERSON WHO WITH THE CONSENT OF A BANK ACCOUNT HOLDER PROVIDES IDENTIFYING INFORMATION TO A THIRD PARTY TO DEPOSIT FUNDS INTO THE ACCOUNT W…
19-7758 Lin Ouyang v. Achem Industry America, Inc. California 2020-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment appeal civil-procedure civil-rights court-appointed-counsel criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause fourth-amendment indigent-defendant indigent-rights misdemeanor-conviction right-to-counsel Whether the state court's dismissal of the appeal from misdemeanor conviction, despite the lack of assistance of counsel on appeal, violates the Equal…
19-1045 Raminder Kaur v. Maryland Maryland 2020-02-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) attorney-client-privilege constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure defense-counsel privileged-communications prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel work-product work-product-doctrine Whether the Sixth Amendment prohibits trial of a criminal defendant by prosecutors with extensive knowledge of both her privileged communications with…
19-1050 Kyle Brooks v. Colorado Colorado 2020-02-24 Denied Response Waived allocution criminal-procedure due-process essential-element guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-error plea-bargaining voluntary-plea Due process requires that a guilty plea be voluntary, knowing, and intelligent. Here, the charging document omitted an essential element of the crime.…
19-1052 Andre G. Dewberry v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-02-24 Denied appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure guilty-plea self-representation sixth-amendment waiver Whether a guilty plea waives a challenge on appeal to the denial of a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to represent himself.
19-7734 Andre Dennis v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2020-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation miranda-rights sixth-amendment suppression-of-evidence Did counsel render ineffective assistance by failing to seek suppression of Mr. Dennis' statements to police because he was not re-Mirandized followin…
19-7662 Juan Orellana v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-02-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 5th-amendment-violation admissibility-of-statement criminal-procedure criminal-trial custodial-interrogation due-process evidence-admission fifth-amendment obstruction right-to-counsel unambiguous-request Whether Orellana's Fifth Amendment right to counsel was violated when, in the course of custodial interrogation, the detective obstructed Orellana's u…
19-7663 Ryan Douglas LaSalle v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-02-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review categorical-analysis congressional-definition criminal-procedure federal-regulations guidelines guidelines-miscalculation plain-error regulatory-definition sentencing statutory-interpretation taylor-categorical-analysis taylor-v-united-states Can a court of appeals successfully avoid undertaking plain error review of a Guidelines miscalculation by relying on a federal regulatory definition …
19-7713 Ronelle Lamar Oudems v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-02-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split confrontation-clause confrontation-right criminal-procedure due-process presentence-report sentencing Whether (as the D.C., Second, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuits hold, see United States U. Price, 409 F.3d 436, 444 (D.C. Cir. 2005; United …
19-7719 Adam Christopher Sheafe v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-02-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP circumvent-obligations circumvention criminal-procedure detainer federal-government federal-state-relations federal-transfer habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-ad-prosequendum interstate-agreement-on-detainers judicial-discretion purpose-of-iad state-filed-detainer violate-purpose writ-of-habeas-corpus-ad-prosequendum 1. Whether the Interstate Agreement on Detainers applies when the State, in which the federal district sits, filed a detainer and the federal governme…
19-7723 James William Brammer v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-02-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari circuit-split criminal-procedure critical-stage motion-for-new-trial new-trial right-to-counsel sixth-amendment writ-of-certiorari HI. DOES THE SIXTH AMENDMENT'S RIGHT TO COUNSEL, INCLUDE APPOINTMENT OF COUNSEL FOR PROSECUTION OF MOTION FOR A NEW TRIAL? 112. IS A MOTION FOR A NEW…
19-7724 Byron R. Barker v. Texas Texas 2020-02-20 Denied IFP burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-rule-403 extraneous-offenses fair-trial texas-code-of-criminal-procedure texas-criminal-procedure texas-rules-of-evidence Does the introduction of extranseous offenses, pursuant to Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Article 38.37 violate the right to a fair trial and shift …
19-7709 John A. Toth v. Peter Antonacci, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit equal-protection federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance qualified-immunity treaty Question not identified.
19-7711 John Patrick Vescuso v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravating-factor apprendi apprendi-error circuit-split criminal-procedure indictment prejudice sentencing When assessing if a defendant was prejudiced by a district court's imposing a sentence greater than the maximum authorized by the charge in the indict…
19-1037 Sok Bun v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied circuit-split criminal-procedure detainers due-process interstate-agreement interstate-agreement-on-detainers legal-interpretation motion motions standing trial trial-court trial-motion Whether a defendant is "unable to stand trial" within the meaning of the Interstate Agreement on Detainers, 18 U.S.C. App. 2, § 2, art. VI(a), when he…
19-7682 Eric Beverly v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-02-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-site-location-information criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant warrant-application Whether Petitioner's rights under the Fourth Amendment were violated when the government used misleading information to seek a warrant for evidence it…
19-7685 Dominic Lindsey v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-02-18 GVR IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure factual-determination factual-errors federal-rule-criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-error plain-error plain-error-review precedent sentencing standard-of-review Does plain-error review under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52(b) include factual errors?
19-7687 Miguel Palacios Plata v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-02-18 Denied IFP civil-rights court-of-criminal-appeals criminal-procedure discovery dna-evidence due-process evidence habeas-corpus innocence newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief statutory-interpretation Whether Favorcdle Eurdence KnocnAt The Time Of Trral But Excluded And Jury Rrevented FromSeeingOr Hearing, Can This Evidence Now Be Conesrderede As Ne…
19-7695 Arturo Delacruz v. United States Third Circuit 2020-02-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP brandishing criminal-procedure group-one-robbery ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel otherwise-used plea-negotiation robbery-offense sentencing-guidelines weapon-enhancement Because Petitioner did not explicitly admit to facts that would support an "otherwise used" weapon enhancement, as opposed to a "brandishing" weapon e…
19-7696 In Re Nicholas Todd Sutton 2020-02-18 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment capital-sentencing constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus physical-restraints visible-jury In Deck v. Missouri, 544 U.S. 622, 629 (2005), this Court held that "the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit the use of physical restraints visib…
19-7698 Martin Calderon-Ortalejo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-02-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure extensive-scope extensive-scope-planning fifth-circuit-review judicial-abuse-of-discretion offense-level-enhancement plea-agreement sentencing-discretion substantial-interference substantial-interference-with-justice total-offense-level Did the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Lubbock Division, abuse its discretion by imposing two consecutive sentences …
19-7674 Kyle K. Clark v. Kevin Lindsay, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-02-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP competency-hearing criminal-procedure criminal-responsibility cronic-standard right-to-counsel sixth-amendment state-action united-states-v-cronic DID THE SIXTH CIRCUIT DEPART FROM THIS COURT'S PRIOR DECISIONS AND CREATE A CONFLICT WITH ITS OWN PRECEDENT AND A SPLIT WITH OTHER CIRCUITS REQUIRING …
19-7679 Jonathan Brownlee v. Keith Hearns, et al. Third Circuit 2020-02-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process probation-officer restitution sentencing supervised-release 1th KNowINGLy fobricating and f/ing a FAKE Supervrsed Release violatron charge against he Petthoner, which caused the Petitrorer's ijuries of loss of …
19-7680 Samuel Howard v. Nevada Nevada 2020-02-14 Denied IFP appellate-review capital-punishment constitutional-law criminal-procedure death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process hurst-v-florida judicial-precedent retroactivity sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment 1. Whether appellate reweighing is constitutional after Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016). 2. Whether Hurst is retroactive.
19-7624 Jerome Shaw v. United States Second Circuit 2020-02-12 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP acceptance-of-responsibility burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-fines-clause fatico-hearing sentencing Whether the District Court violated Petitioner's Due Process Rights when it erroneously found that the Government had sustained its burden of proof …
19-7625 Robert L. Swinton, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2020-02-12 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-errors sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment structural-error (1) Is it structural error when sentencing errors were corrected by appeals court on direct appeal without defense counsel, and a constitutional denia…
19-7633 Anthony Allen v. Illinois Illinois 2020-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment intent-element jury-instruction jury-instructions presumption-of-intent reasonable-doubt I. In an action in which the sole claim is whether,in a case in which intent is an element of the crime convicted of,the jury instruction, "the law …
19-7648 Otis Renaldo Harris v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-justice criminal-procedure discretion discretionary-power district-court due-process equal-protection judicial-review sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION WHEN IT FOUND THAT PETITIONER HARRIS WAS NOT ELIGIBLE FOR A SENTENCE REDUCTION UNDER SECTION 404?
19-7651 Craig Keyon White v. Robert Fox, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process eyewitness-identification ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment (1) Whether the unduly suggestive pretrial identification procedure and resulting unreliable identifications admitted against White at his criminal tr…
19-7653 Roosevelt Bigbee, Jr. v. Jonathan Lebo, Warden Tennessee 2020-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment constructive-amendment conviction criminal-attempt criminal-procedure due-process felony-murder indictment plea-agreement robbery statute testimony Whether the admission of the plea agreement test mony evidence, of felony murder in the Perpetration of a robbery Included Tenn 3a-12-101 Criminal att…
19-7630 Paris Hollingshed v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fairness-integrity judicial-review jury-instructions plain-error public-reputation substantial-rights supreme-court-precedent trial-record (1) Whether plain-error review for failure to instruct on an element of the offense, based upon an intervening U.S. Supreme Court decision, allows cou…
19-7632 Joshua Allen Bolen v. Erik A. Hooks, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety Fourth Circuit 2020-02-11 Denied IFP 2nd-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-interpretation sentencing standing statute-of-limitations takings can a person really sign away the U.S. constitution's guaranteed rights, and amendment 14 the U.S. cnstition, that in ladder part is a right, as well …
19-7635 Timothy Courtney v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review 1. Whether the holding in Almendarez-Torres creating an exception for not having to prove the existence of prior convictions when used to enhance a de…
19-7638 Rodrigo Cruz Perez v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing fifth-amendment sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment split-among-circuits Under the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, a defendant who accepts responsibility for an offense receives a two-point reduction on the offense level. U.S.S…
19-7601 Craig K. Garrett v. Joseph Madder, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-10 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure digital-privacy due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-enforcement probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct public-defender right-to-counsel search-and-seizure state-attorney Question not identified.
19-7603 Mark D. Jensen v. William Pollard Seventh Circuit 2020-02-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause confrontation-right constitutional-error constitutional-violation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus judicial-remedy retrial trial-rights The federal courts found that his wife's voice-from-the-grave letter violated Jensen's confrontation right and granted his habeas petition, ordering t…
19-7611 D'Marlo Levonne Faulk Johnson v. North Carolina North Carolina 2020-02-10 Denied IFP 6th-amendment appeal-process appellate-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal post-conviction right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Does the Sixth Amendment Right To Counsel extend to the Appellate process? Whether the effective assistance of Counsel when Petitioner are to they re…
19-7614 Jason Perry v. Richard Brown Seventh Circuit 2020-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-rule civil-procedure civil-procedure-rules constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus judicial-review standing state-court 1. Whether the Courts violated Rule 2/a) Governing Section 2254 Cases? 2. Whether withholding an officer's statement until the habeas Corpus stage is…
19-7615 William E. Vukich v. Unified Judicial System of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2020-02-10 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection incarceration judicial-interpretation mistrial probation sentencing Question not identified.
19-7617 Donato Amaya-Rivas v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining right-against-self-incrimination right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-enhancement I. Whether a defendant who raises for the first time on appeal that his plea is unconstitutional because it was entered unknowingly and involuntarily …
19-7620 Bradley Campbell v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standard federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce judgment-of-acquittal kidnapping motion-for-acquittal motion-to-dismiss Where there was no evidence that Petitioner used an instrumentality of interstate commerce in furtherance of a kidnapping, whether Petitioner's motion…
19-7621 Allanah Benton v. Shawn Brewer, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-02-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-counsel appellate-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel DID THE STATE AND FEDERAL COURTS VIOLATE MS. BENTON'S RIGHT TO EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF TRIAL AND APPELLATE COUNSELS IN VIOLATION OF U.S. CONSTITUTIONA…
19-7622 Samuel Elliott v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment appellate-review child-pornography criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness substantive-unreasonableness Whether a sentence imposed pursuant to the United States Sentencing Guidelines covering child pornography offenses, U.S.S.G. §S 2G2.1 and 2G2.2, is su…
19-999 Lewis Alan Dugan v. Wyoming Wyoming 2020-02-10 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process first-amendment free-speech jury-instruction obscenity overbreadth speech-conduct stalking-statute 1. Whether, in a prosecution for writing obscene letters, a trial court should instruct a jury regarding the legal definition of the term "obscene" as…
19-991 Samson Primm v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-02-07 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment forfeiture forfeiture-case fourth-amendment search-and-seizure standing suppression-hearing I. WHETHER ONE WHO HAS THE REQUISITE STANDING TO MOVE TO SUPPRESS BASED ON CONTENTIONS, WHICH IF VALIDATED SHOW HIS FOURTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS WERE VIOLA…
19-992 Greg Skipper, Warden v. Curtis Jerome Byrd Sixth Circuit 2020-02-07 Denied Amici (1) constitutional-rights criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial hypothetical-plea-offer lafler-v-cooper plea-bargaining sixth-amendment trial-rights Does the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel include the right to a plea offer that was never made?
19-7583 Tiffany R. Byrd v. Frederick Boutte, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-02-07 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-preservation exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-search juror-bias jury-misconduct law-enforcement procedural-violations search-and-seizure Where I, Tiffany R. Byrd, was denied to receive an alternative evidentiary hearing on my claims of Illegal Search and Seizure. Where I was denied an e…
19-7590 David K. Howell v. Shawn Hatton, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability closing-argument criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intoxication methamphetamine methamphetamine-intoxication sixth-amendment This Court has repeatedly held that to receive a certificate of appealability ("COA"), a habeas petitioner need only show that "'jurists of reason cou…
19-7593 Young Yi v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure document-production due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct restitution standard-of-review I. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in affirming the District Court's denial of Ms. Yi's Motion for a New Trial, given the Government's substantial vi…
19-7594 Felix Lopez-Cabrera v. United States Second Circuit 2020-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment age-of-culpability age-of-majority criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-sentence life-sentences national-consensus neuroscience Whether Supreme Court jurisprudence finding mandatory life sentences for juveniles cruel and unusual under the Eight Amendment, and non-mandatory life…
19-7597 Robert William Wazney v. Kenneth Nelson, Warden Fourth Circuit 2020-02-07 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP asset-forfeiture asset-freezing constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-process pre-trial-restraint state-corrective-process IS PETITIONER, ROBERT WILLIAM WAZNEY, IMPRISONED IN VIOLATION OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES?
19-7608 Juan Perez-Roman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe…
19-7609 Juan Mauricio Castillo v. Isidro Baca, Warden Nevada 2020-02-07 Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process montgomery-louisiana montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity state-courts statutory-interpretation substantive-rule welch-united-states welch-v-united-states Under the new constitutional rule of retroactivity established in Montgomery v. Louisiana and clarified in Welch v. United States, is a state court re…
19-7564 In Re Michael Dewayne Seibert 2020-02-06 Denied IFP criminal-procedure death-penalty-case due-process fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge pro-se-representation resentencing resentencing-hearing void-judgment When a defendant is represented by counsel, who refuses to raise a substantial meritorious claim of fraud on the court, and therefore defendant's conv…
19-7578 Ray Edward Barry v. Patrick Warren, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion binding-over brady-violation circuit-court criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel lost-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct quash-information Did The District Court Abused Its Discretion In Binding Over To Circuit Court And The Circuit Court Erred In Refusing To Quash The Information? Did T…
19-7585 Jerry Ellis, aka Jerry Leonard Ellis v. Noel Barlow-Hurst, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-standard post-conviction standard-of-review standing trial-procedure OTD THE UNITEO STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUZTEARORBYDEJIEING THE APDELANT MR(EUIS) A CERTIFICATE OF APDEAUABICZTY 2. OID THE UNTITEO S…
19-7561 Ramiro D. Ramirez, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP application-note-3(c) application-note-3c court-of-appeals criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing criminal-sentencing district-court federal-sentencing-guidelines mitigating-role mitigating-role-adjustment paid-tasks proprietary-interest sentencing-guidelines supervisory-authority united-states-sentencing-guidelines ussg-3b1.2 Whether the Court of Appeals inappropriately affirmed the district court's denial of a mitigating role adjustment which contravened the factors and th…
19-7566 Javed Asefi v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights commerce-clause criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce predicate-acts racketeering rico rico-prosecution substantial-effect Whether federal jurisdiction exists in a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 1962(d) where neither the activities of the alleged enterprise nor the individu…
19-7571 Richard Williams v. Tony Mays, Warden Tennessee 2020-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-law constitutional-standard criminal-procedure due-process evidence murder murder-investigation presumption statutory-interpretation statutory-presumption venue Whether, as applied to the facts of this case, the statutory presumption if a body of a murder victim found within the state, the death is presumed to…
19-7575 Rashaun Scott Carter v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review appellate-waiver controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining presentence-investigation sentencing Does an appellate waiver bar an appeal based upon a flawed, prejudicial presentence investigation report performed between the trial court's acceptanc…
19-7536 James Henry Simpson v. Martesha Bishop, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure criminal-liability criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution federal-rules immunity judicial-docketing prisoner-filing standing statutory-interpretation 1. Should a U.S. District Court docket a Criminal Complaint filed pursuant to Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure as a civil action and subjected to t…
19-7539 Shamir Kane v. United States Third Circuit 2020-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-indictment criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-joinder federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence hobbs-act joinder severance witness-tampering 1. Did the Court of Appeals err in upholding the District Court's joinder, under Fed. R. Crim. P. 8, of counts in an indictment related to one Hobbs A…
19-7547 Phillip Boyd Cashion v. Texas Texas 2020-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment jury-bias jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination trial-procedure Should the Petitioner's trial structure have been free from the fundamental unfairness of having the prosecutor tell the jury on two occasions that "y…
19-7548 Rudy Orlando Cabrera v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8-usc-1326 Apprendi-v-New-Jersey criminal-procedure due-process indictment prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement 1. Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of…
19-7549 Gerard Cliston Ellis v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit fifth-circuit lowest-level-conduct lowest-level-of-conduct state-law (1) Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the "lowest level of conduct" as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach…
19-7513 Omar Smith v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2020-02-03 Denied IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel preliminary-hearing severance suppression-of-evidence trial-procedure trial-severance virginia-supreme-court witness-testimony Did the Virginia Supreme Court err in deciding that counsel's failure to file a motion for a Bill of Particulars so that Petitioner could clearly unde…
19-7525 Gregory Joel Sitzmann v. United States District of Columbia 2020-02-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-laws conflict-with-other-courts-of-appeals conflict-with-supreme-court court-of-appeals criminal-procedure drug-smuggling evidence federal-sentencing foreign-drug-smuggling ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction jurisdiction-over-evidence pro-se-petition prosecutorial-misconduct 1) WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT LACKED "JURISDICTION" OVER EVIDENCE OF FOREIGN DRUG SMUGGLING: AND WHETHER THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DI…
19-7526 Gregorio Segura-Resendiz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-02-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent overrule precedent sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
19-7528 David Lee Smith v. Rick Jackson Fourth Circuit 2020-02-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus incarceration innocence-claim legal-release parole recidivism rehabilitation sentencing IS APPELLANT ENITITLED TO RELEASE ON HISWN RECOGNANICES,AFTER DEMDNISTRATING NI.C.G.S.I4-7.I IS PATENTLY UNCANLSTITUTI ONAL COLORABLY SHAINIING HIS IN…
19-7500 William Sim Spencer v. Michigan Michigan 2020-01-31 Denied IFP constitutional-protections criminal-procedure due-process finality-rule fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sex-offender-registration sixth-amendment DOES THE OMISSION OF AN EXCEPTION TO THE FINALITY RULE IN MICHIGAN'S SEX OFFENDER REGISTRATION ACT ("SORA") ALLOW THE PROSECUTION TO BUILD ITS CASE AG…
19-7512 Jose Luis Urias-Marquez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure discretionary-review federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation rule-11 supervisory-powers united-states-court-of-appeals united-states-v-lee Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Cireuit")-which held Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Criminal…
19-7514 Ekanem Kurfreobon Essien v. Suzanne M. Peery, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-street-gang due-process habeas-corpus ninth-circuit-review reasonable-doubt sentencing-enhancement street-terrorism-enforcement-and-prevention-act sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Ninth Circuit erred when it denied petitioner Ekanem Kufreobon Essien's 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas petition based on its conclusion that his …
19-7515 Andy Nguyen v. California California 2020-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey consecutive-sentences consecutive-sentencing criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing judicial-fact-finding preponderance-of-evidence sentencing stare-decisis Should the Court reconsider its majority opinion in Oregon v. Ice, 555 U.S. 160, 167-168, 173-177, 129 S.Ct. 711, 172 L.Ed.2d 517 (2009) (Ice) which p…
19-7516 Mary Mosley v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct alleyne-v-united-states criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-acquitted-conduct double-jeopardy due-process fifth-circuit jury-verdict nelson-v-colorado sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines 1) DID THE PANEL ERR BY UPHOLDING THE APPLICATION OF AN ENHANCEMENT FOR BRANDISHING OR POSSESSING A FIREARM WHEN MISS MOSLEY WAS ACQUITTED BY A JURY O…
19-7517 Mario Palacios-Cordero v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent sentencing supreme-court Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
19-7518 Baltazar Reyes Garcia, Angel Serrano Carreno, and Hector Contreras Ibarra v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-procedure criminal-procedure defendant-rights district-court-discretion due-process juror-bias juror-inquiry juror-safety jury-bias jury-inquiry ninth-circuit-precedent standing Whether a district court must hold a requested jury inquiry after a juror makes statements indicating the juror has a potential source of bias because…
19-7519 Ericka Hernandez-Nunez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP crime-detection criminal-procedure exculpatory-evidence fourth-amendment holistic-analysis inculpatory-evidence law-enforcement motion-to-suppress reasonable-inference reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure Whether the Fourth Amendment requirement of reasonableness requires that a determination of reasonable suspicion be based upon an explicit identificat…
19-7522 Dedrick Matthews v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP and whether the admission of blood test results w birchfield-precedent birchfield-v-north-dakota causation causation-analysis criminal-procedure fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicular-homicide vehicular-negligence (1) Was defendant's conduct a substantial factor in causing the victim's death or serious bodily injury, when the accident would have occurred without…
19-7490 Omar Ernesto Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appeal conclusory-statements criminal-procedure fourth-amendment human-smuggling investigatory-stop law-enforcement law-enforcement-database reasonable-suspicion Whether, in determining that there was reasonable suspicion for an investigatory stop, the district court and Ninth Circuit erred by relying on factua…
19-7498 James Earvin Sanders v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights counsel-ineffectiveness criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdictional-challenge mitigating-evidence procedural-due-process psychiatric-mitigating-evidence time-bar-exception united-states-v-fessel Where counsel lies about the existence of psychiatric mitigating evidence and deries the accused the use of 18 U.S.C. § 3ooloAle) in United States v. …
19-952 Michael David Goodwin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-30 Denied Response Waived attorney-client-relationship change-of-plea criminal-defendant criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance local-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether an attorney's presence as local counsel, for a criminal defendant's re-arraignment and change of plea, yet having no attorney-client relations…
19-7450 George Maurice Steele v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation confrontation-clause confrontation-right criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment revocation-hearing sentencing supervised-release witness-testimony Whether the district court erred by allowing testimony at the revocation hearing that violated Mr. Steele's Fifth Amendment due process right to confr…
19-7467 Frankie Beqiraj v. United States Second Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-presence due-process jury-selection peremptory-challenges right-to-be-present waiver 1. Whether a defendant has a constitutional right to be present during a conference at which the parties exercise their peremptory challenges to strik…
19-7470 Agustin Martinez-Lopez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553a appellate-review appellate-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing criminal-sentencing,appellate-review,18-usc-3553(a federal-sentencing gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-review statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness L When conducting their substantive-reasonableness review of sentences, can appellate courts reweigh the sentencing factors in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a), as…
19-7476 Timothy Wayne Kemp v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied Amici (1)IFP brady-rule brady-violation criminal-procedure death-penalty discovery due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation mitigation-investigation procedural-default professional-standards Must a court consider prevailing professional norms when determining whether a life history investigation was "thorough"? Was an appeal warranted on …
19-7477 Raul Mejia v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony fair-trial fourth-amendment franks-hearing search-and-seizure trial-fairness warrant warrant-validity Was petitioner's truck illegally searched due to an invalid warrant? Was petitioner improperly denied a Franks hearing? Did Officer Carbajal testify a…
19-7479 Brian Price v. United States First Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied IFP acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-courts federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether a defendant's constitutional rights are abridged when a district court bases its sentence solely on acquitted conduct. Whether a criminal con…
19-7484 Jose Candelario Perez-Cruz v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-dispute jury-trial maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law mdlea pretrial-hearing stateless-vessel trial-procedure Whether the Court of Appeals clearly erred in upholding the District Court's conclusion that jurisdiction in a stateless vessel case under the MDLEA i…
19-7488 Donnie Cleveland Lance v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Georgia 2020-01-29 Denied IFP capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-selection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Was petitioner denied his rights under the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments when he was sentenced to death following his indictment by a non-r…
19-7489 Paul Edward Duran v. Ralph Diaz, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-provisions criminal-conviction criminal-procedure empirical-evidence evidence evidence-standard exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment illinois-v-krull judicial-review search-and-seizure standing statutory-provisions united-states-v-leon 1) Whether the Circumstances regarding the Founth Amendment Exslusionary Rule 20.08, thatis revolved around the obtaining, holding and exclusion of ev…
19-7427 Rodolfo Perez-Jimenez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure deference due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors?
19-7445 Maechel Shawn Patterson v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2020-01-28 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure deportation due-process habeas-corpus law-enforcement pro-se probable-cause search-and-seizure standing warrantless-search ARE All StAtE PRiSONERS bEINg UN/Awfolly Held, If the eVideNCe UsED TO CONVICT THEM INVOlUED SheRiff DepaRrtment offciAls from ONE CoontyI SEARCHiNg S…
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…
19-7457 Rogelio Villarreal-Estebis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP complete-defense criminal-conviction criminal-procedure drug-trafficking evidence-exclusion federal-rule-of-evidence-403 right-to-defense rule-403 sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-rights vehicle-ownership Whether the Fifth Circuit's decision to affirm the trial court's refusal to admit the evidence was contrary to, or involved an unreasonable applicatio…
19-7461 Derrick Lamar Cheeks v. Alford Joyner Fourth Circuit 2020-01-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process habeas habeas-review jurisdictional-conflict procedural-default state-court supreme-court supreme-court-precedent 1) Has the Supreme Court of the United States overturned its own precedent in Harris v. Reed, 489 U.S. 255 109 S.Ct. 1038 103 L.Ed. 2d (1989); Caldwel…
19-7406 Bartholomew Antonio Guzman v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-01-27 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-court federal-jurisdiction first-amendment freedom-of-information government-transparency habeas-corpus public-records standing state-court state-court-interpretation state-court-proceedings Question/Issue No.l: Isthe juckgment of the because the habeas petitiower's State hebeas proceralie Question/Issue No.2: Did the United Stctes Distri…
19-7418 Jody Gifford v. Florida Florida 2020-01-27 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-sentence parole proportionality resentencing Whether the courts below decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decisions of this Honorable Court when they d…
19-7419 Timothy Shayne Hardin, Jr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-01-27 Denied IFP appeals arrest charge civil-rights community-supervision constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-due-process dismissal due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment probable-cause probation revocation search-and-seizure sentencing Question not identified.
19-7422 Andre Antonio Fairley v. Mississippi Mississippi 2020-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights colloquy constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction record self-incrimination sentencing waiver Whether trial court committed reversible structural error, by failing to conduct a mandated on-the-record colloquy into a waiver of counsel, before al…
19-7431 Brandon J. Lofland v. Connie Horton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus identification-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jackson-v-virginia jury-trial miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default state-procedural-rules sufficiency-of-evidence Did the Court of Appeals decide an important federal question -- whether a "mere modicum" of evidence is sufficient to sustain the conviction -- in a …
19-7437 Tony Sparks v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process fifth-circuit juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-rule miller-v-alabama montgomery-retroactivity montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity sentencing Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in concluding that the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460 (2012), which was made retroac…
19-7438 Javion Scott v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure fourth-amendment griffin-v-wisconsin law-enforcement-action parole post-release-supervision probation probation-supervision search-and-seizure special-needs-search united-states-v-knights warrantless-search In March 2017, a United States Marshal Service search of probationers and supervisees known as "Operation Spring Sweep" involved nearly 200 local, sta…
19-7442 Andrew Lee Williams v. Texas Texas 2020-01-27 Denied IFP confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-article-38.41 due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment indefiniteness sixth-amendment vagueness 1. Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' recent holdings in ANDREW LEE WILLIAMS v. STATE, No. PD-1199-17 (Tx.Crim.App.- October 9, 2019), regar…
19-7446 Enrique A. Echeverria-Benitez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-circuit illegal-reentry plain-error retribution sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release On direct appeal, Mr. Echeverria-Benitez argued his twenty-seven month sentence for illegal reentry after removal was unreasonable. Mr. Echeverria-Ben…
19-7388 Aaron Perez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-24 Denied IFP actual-prosecution categorical-match categorical-overbreadth circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence-sufficiency federal-sentencing felon-in-possession insufficient-evidence prior-conviction prior-felony-conviction rehaif I. Whether a defendant who seeks to demonstrate that a prior conviction is not a categorical match for federal sentencing purposes must point to an ac…
19-7396 Julio Mario Haro-Verdugo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP cronic due-process fifth-amendment sixth-amendment strickland conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process federal-law fifth-amendment habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strickland-standard Whether the District Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit's rejection of Petitioner's ineffective assistance of counsel claim(s) …
19-7400 Christopher R. Glenn v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights counsel-misconduct criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing fraud habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct judicial-proceedings pro-se-petition standing supervisory-power Did the Eleventh Circuit so far depart from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings as to call for an exercise of this Court's superviso…
19-7404 Joseph James Roe v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process enhancement-factors essential-factor guideline-interpretation guidelines judicial-discretion leadership-role lower-court-guidance sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-3b1.1(a) Whether a district court may impose a sentence enhancement under USSG § 3B1.1(a) for leadership role based on a factor not mentioned in the Sentencing…
19-7408 Daniel Jay Bowman v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment government-prosecution parallel-construction standing Whether the Government's use of "Parallel Construction" to prosecute citizens violates their 4th and 5th Amendment rights.
19-7414 Latray Whitley v. Texas Texas 2020-01-24 Denied IFP brady-disclosure-obligations brady-rule cooperation-agreement criminal-procedure due-process federal-inmates giglio-disclosure giglio-rule giglio-v-united-states impeachment-evidence materiality prosecutorial-misconduct state-prosecutors witness-testimony Whether the state district court's determination that 1. written, 5K1 and Rule 35-based cooperation addenda between two federal inmates who testified …
19-7416 James P. Griffin v. United States Second Circuit 2020-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion calculation-error civil-procedure continuance criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment financial-penalties forfeiture medical-hardship medical-issues restitution restitution-calculation sentencing sixth-amendment trial-continuance trial-court trial-court-discretion Whether the amount of restitution and forfeiture w I. Whether the trial court abused its discretion in arbitrarily denying a continuance of trial requested due to Petitioner's documented medical proble…
19-7365 Tyrone Terrance Roberts v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure post-conviction-relief standard-of-review HAS THE LOWER TRIBUNAL COURT IN INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, THE FOURTH DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA AND THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APP…
19-7364 Ernest William Singleton v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation controlled-substances criminal-procedure drug-distribution drug-schedules drug-scheduling general-verdict ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-pain-clinic money-laundering surveillance-footage I WHEN A JURY FOUND SINGLETON GUILTY OF COUNT 10 OF THE IMDICTMENT, WHICH ALLEGED THAT HE DISTRIBUTED "ULTRAM "; HOW CAN IT BE DETERMINED THAT THE J…
19-7371 Larry Bentley, Jr. v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment narcotics-detection prejudice retroactive-application retroactivity search search-and-seizure First, this court has held that the use of a detection device by law enforcement on a citizens person, places, or things without a warrant, which reve…
19-7377 Gerald Adger v. New York New York 2020-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment appeal appellate-counsel conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-argument procedural-error right-to-counsel trial-counsel weight-of-evidence 1. WAS THE APPELLATE ATTORNEY DAVID R. JUERGENS INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL FOR NOT RAISING ANY LEGAL ARGUMENT AGAINST THE WEIGHT OF EVIDENCE? …
19-7385 Arthur Lee Kimbel v. Texas Texas 2020-01-23 Denied IFP anders-brief appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-requirement criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-procedure pro-se pro-se-claims right-to-counsel When an Appellant files an Appellate Brief raising Pro Se claims after appointed counsel submits an Anders Brief, is the reviewing appellate court con…
19-7390 Marshall Henry Ellis v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2020-01-23 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exculpatory-material fifth-amendment lesser-included-offense newly-discovered-evidence procedural-bar sentencing sixth-amendment 1. Is a defendant serving Life for Murder I entitled to newly discovered exculpatory material when that material would make it more likely that the …
19-7392 Demetrius Darrell Davis, aka Meatman v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-search-and-seizure abandonment abandonment-doctrine criminal-procedure disclaimer-of-ownership fourth-amendment incriminating-statement incriminating-statements police-questioning property-rights reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure Whether a mere disclaimer of ownership in an effort to avoid making an incriminating statement in response to police questioning should not alone be d…
19-7395 Jean Crump v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection false-arrest grand-jury-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct racial-bias racial-discrimination 1. This is my second trial. At least five federal attorneys advised my new new attorney Dana Cephas, that Judge William Keller was a racist and he esp…
19-920 Boulder Young, aka Boulder Daniel McManigal v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-01-23 Denied Response Waived appeal appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error judicial-discretion plea-bargaining plea-hearing sentencing waiver Whether the waiver of a right to appeal a judgment of conviction is controlled by the defendant's written waiver or the oral pronouncement of the cour…
19-906 Philip N. Antico v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied allen-charge circuit-court-conflict constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-due-process fundamental-rights jury-instruction jury-instructions retrial-cost retrial-costs Is a criminal defendant's fundamental constitutional rights violated by an Allen charge that instructs a deadlocked jury to consider the expense of a …
19-7355 Herman L. Gaines v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-collusion judicial-misconduct post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington Question not identified.
19-7356 James H. Griffin v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claim criminal-procedure downward-departure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review law-enforcement procedural-due-process sentencing sentencing-manipulation Did the lower federal courts deny Appellant's Brady Petition without affording a full and fair hearing concerning the claim that his counsel was ineff…
19-7359 Danny Guzman-Correa v. United States First Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-consultant lafler-v-cooper missouri-v-frye prejudice public-trial public-trial-violation 1. Whether reasonable jurist could find it debatable that Petitioner's public-trial violation warranted .. reversal at the minimum for an evidentiar…
19-7370 Mario Alberto Buenrostro-Lopez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment anonymous-tip border-patrol border-security civil-rights criminal-activity criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment investigatory-stop reasonable-suspicion vehicle-stop Whether an individual's telephone call to law enforcement, in which he stated that a person was picked up by vehicle in an area known for alien smug g…
19-7376 Alice C. Trappler v. New York New York 2020-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof confrontation-clause conspiracy criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture hearsay hearsay-exception legal-insufficiency sixth-amendment waiver 1. Upon trial counsel's failure to move to dismiss on legal insufficiency grounds at trail, is the uninformed automatic waiver and silently imposed pe…
19-7379 Lee Samuel Capers v. California California 2020-01-22 Denied IFP constitutional-requirement criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-maximum Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact other than a prior con…
19-7322 Gerardo Sanchez-Miranda v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-21 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
19-7347 Broderick Marshall v. Texas Texas 2020-01-21 Denied IFP appeals civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-appeal right-to-counsel right-to-jury-trial standing Question not identified.
19-7348 Raymond Alston, aka Raymond Austin v. New York New York 2020-01-21 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure constitutional-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process grand-jury indictment judicial-discretion malicious-prosecution sentencing-standards standing WAS APPELLANT DENIED DUE PROCESS BY THE COURTS SUA SPONTE DECISION, PURSUANT TO CPL DIVISION TO CONSIDER THE ERROR INCLUDED CHARGE OF BURGLARY IN THE …
19-7350 Billy Battenfield v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2020-01-21 Denied IFP aedpa appeal-waiver criminal-procedure critical-stage garza-v-idaho ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining post-sentencing retroactivity statute-of-limitations 1. Whether Garza v. Idaho, — U.S. 139 S.Ct. 738, 203 L.Ed.2d 77 (2019) adopts a new watershed rule of procedure that applies retroactively on state co…
19-7352 Alfredo Godoy-Machuca v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver collateral-consequences criminal-procedure defense-counsel ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining voluntary-and-knowing voluntary-plea A. Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in, at least implicitly, concluding that material affirmative misdavice given by defense counsel t…
19-7354 Lawrence Martin v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit 2020-01-21 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-court capital-murder constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process hearing jurisdiction perjury prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct standing (1). WHETHER FINAL JUDGMENT DENYING PETITIONER'S PETITION FOR WRIT OF ERROR CORAM NOBIS WAS APPEALABLE (2). WHETHER ORDER DENYING APPOINTMENT OF COUN…
19-900 Jessica Vennie v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-01-21 Denied Response Waived conspiracy criminal-joinder criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure joinder legal-enterprise racketeering rico rico-act Whether charging two defendants with participating in the conduct of a single legal enterprise that has many legal purposes is sufficient to permit jo…
19-7327 Antonio Macli v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability claim-by-claim claim-determination constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-court federal-courts habeas-corpus reasonable-jurists Does a federal habeas court have to determine the need for an evidentiary hearing on a claim by claim basis? When one court grants a certificate of a…
19-7330 Michael P. Haldorson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-844h2 constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury indictment statutory-interpretation stirone-v-united-states Where a grand jury charges a defendant with violating 18 U.S.C. § 844(h)(2) based on the carrying of an "explosive, namely, smokeless powder," may he …
19-7331 Lavorice Dondrell Cunningham v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion legal-standard pending-resolution remand sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness 1. What is the appropriate standard for the determination of substantive reasonableness claim? SUB SIDIARY QUESTI ON: Whether the Court should hold t…
19-7332 Brian Dean King, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-production burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-objection due-process evidence government-burden pre-sentence-report sentencing I. Does the defendant bear the burden of production to rebut information found in a pre-sentence report after objecting to that information, or in ste…
19-7333 Eduardo Luis Martinez-Paz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-17 Denied IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei…
19-7336 Francisco Pena, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-judge fifth-amendment judicial-discretion preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence sentencing sixth-amendment uncharged-conduct imposing a sentence, based on a defendant's uncharged conduct found by the judge by a preponderance of the evidence, higher than the sentence the judg…
19-7338 David P. Moran v. Florida Florida 2020-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP concurrent-sentences consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-interpretation prosecutorial-charging same-conduct same-victim sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines 1. Should two charges for the same episode of conduct and the same victim with no temporal break whatsoever be sentenced to consecutive prison terms e…
19-7340 Junior Vazquez-Suarez v. Florida Florida 2020-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure disclosure due-process fourteenth-amendment impeachment-evidence ineffective-assistance police-misconduct Whether police officer's failure to disclose impeachment evidence to the defense prior to trial violated the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause u…
19-7278 Terrance Cobb v. Florida Florida 2020-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP confession criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief Whether, the Florida Courts have violated Mr. Cobb's right to Due Process, under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, in denying him post-conviction r…
19-7305 William James Springer v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-possession constructive-possession criminal-procedure drug-trafficking firearm-possession foreseeability jointly-undertaken-activity sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines Whether a defendant's sentence can be enhanced under U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1(b)(1) for possession of a firearm in connection with a drug trafficking offense …
19-7315 Andrew Wright v. United States Second Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-U.S.C-2255(f)(4) civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal retained-counsel standing statutory-interpretation 1. Does equitable tolling automatically apply under 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(4) where a defendant relies, to his detriment, on an oral order of a United St…
19-7324 Lonnie Greer, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-procedure different-occasions generic-burglary recklessness sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-judge sixth-amendment sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-precedent statutory-interpretation 1) Whether Sixth Circuit precedent that counts Tennessee aggravated burglary as "generic burglary" for purposes of the Armed Career Criminal Act is in…
19-7325 Hope K. Kantete v. United States Third Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-process post-conviction-relief right-to-trial section-2255 sentencing trial-strategy 1.) Whether the lower courts erred by foiling to rule or even consider on the record whether Ms Kantete was advised of her "risk factors " in proceedi…
19-7272 Kenyatta Quinn Mitchell v. Ralph Diaz, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment compulsory-process constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-trial reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment trial-fairness 1. Did the petitioner receive Constitutional effective assistance of trial Court counsel at trial Court answers? YES Appellant answers: NO 2. Did the…
19-7273 Pablo Rodriguez-Palomino v. Illinois Illinois 2020-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-sexual-assault due-process essential-elements fourteenth-amendment jackson-v-virginia rational-trier-of-fact reasonable-doubt standard-of-review state-evidence sufficiency-of-evidence Whether evidence that is insufficient to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a defendant is guilty of crimes, and inadequate when judged under the st…
19-7287 Joey Banks v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-procedure Whether Banks was denied his constitutional right to the effective assistance of counsel. Whether Banks's trial was adversely affected in violation o…
19-7289 Willis Shane Gordon v. Sam Cline, Warden Tenth Circuit 2020-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-v-new-jersey apprendi-violation brady-evidence Brady-Violation burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy doyle-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial kansas-sentencing-guidelines post-arrest-silence prior-convictions procedural-bar prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing-guidelines Whether the Kansas courts violated petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel, his Fifth Amendment right against self-incri…
19-7290 Tamarkqua Garland v. New York New York 2020-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights coerced-confession constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment speedy-trial 1. Defendant challenge and "impugned the integrity," of the denial of his CPL § 30.30 speedy trial consitutional rights, which includes 409 days in ex…
19-7291 Jose Abraham Guzman v. Kelly Santoro, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intoxication jury-instructions voluntary-intoxication Question not identified.
19-7292 Jerry Franks v. Emma Collins, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure habeas-corpus montgomery-v-louisiana post-conviction-review retroactivity retroactivity-of-new-rules statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause supreme-court-retroactivity trevino-v-thaler First Question : Did Montgomery v. Louisiana also announce a new watershed rule of criminal procedure that applies retroactively when ruling the Supre…
19-7297 Christopher J. Burton v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2020-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-commitment collateral-consequences criminal-justice criminal-procedure deportation due-process professional-assistance sexually-violent-predator strickland-v-washington voluntary-plea 1) IN THIS CASE OF FIRST IMPRESSION, I ASK THIS COURT TO FINALLY DECIDE WHETHER THE NATURE OF CIVIL COMMITMENT, ITS PROCEDURAL SIMILARITY TO DEPORTATI…
19-7298 James Lee Bell v. Florida Florida 2020-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-precedent blakely-rule criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jury jury-trial mandatory-minimum recidivism recidivist-treatment sentencing sentencing-enhancement Q 1: Was the limitation of Almendarez-Torres and the dictates of Apprendi and Blakely violated? Florida in deciding whether Petitioner qualified for r…
19-7299 John Joseph Barrera v. Noah Nagy, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process false-information fourteenth-amendment habeas habeas-corpus sentencing sentencing-accuracy sixth-amendment townsend-v-burke WHERE A STATE CRIMINAL DEFENDANT HAS BEEN SENTENCED ON THE BASIS OF INACCURATE/FALSE INFORMATION USED BY THE SENTENCER TO INCREASE HIS PUNISHMENT, FOL…
19-7300 Billy J. Booker v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-01-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction sentencing standing statutory-provisions DOES A MNLLY HALDULELT MANLNACULED IDITMENT COLPEL CREMIHAL JURISDICTIDLL BL A STAE MIAL CUAT. (Q)OOES A COUICTIOLUUDER A FAUDLLELTT LUDICTMEITT BINI…
19-7310 Michael Charles Smith v. Florida Florida 2020-01-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP confession-voluntariness criminal-procedure due-process involuntary-confession medication-effects medication-impairment mental-capacity narcotic-medication physical-condition psychological-coercion voluntariness At the time the critical statements were made the mind of the accused was insuffientlr clear and hampered by the combination of his Phrsical condition…
19-7312 In Re Mo Savoy Hicks 2020-01-15 Denied IFP actual-innocence criminal-procedure discarded-evidence due-process evidentiary-standard exculpatory-evidence forensic-fraud fundamental-injustice habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review perjured-testimony post-conviction-relief state-court-proceedings New evidence establishes Petitioner's actual innocence and his continued incarceration is fundamentally unjust.
19-874 William Alan Pesnell, et al. v. Jill Sessions, et al. Louisiana 2020-01-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-access criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights public-access public-records sixth-amendment trial-recording 1. Whether La. R.S. 44:4(47) and the local rule of the 26th Judicial District Court in and for Bossier Parish can bar public access to the digital rec…
19-7268 Acharayya Rupak v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP continuance criminal-procedure due-process plain-error-review plea-bargaining retained-counsel right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment standard-of-review 1. This Court has held that the right to the retained counsel of one's choice is the "root meaning" of the Sixth Amendment guarantee. Here, the distri…
19-7269 James Patton Robertson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP coram-nobis criminal-procedure due-process federal-law frivolous frivolous-claim judicial-review statute-of-limitations summary-disposition transactional-immunity 1. A petition for the ancient writ of Coram nobis calls for an adjudication of the facts as well as the law. The District court dismissed the action a…
19-7275 Cecil Boyett v. New Mexico New Mexico 2020-01-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-rights discovery-rules due-process exculpatory-evidence expert-witness fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment state-court state-prosecution xnHbthet l PeTiTfotjGk Bol^btt S CoHsjimTONAL PH&hts \siezjg v/W)7£-o /3y THE tHiHteeht H Judicial b<37&CT Cjduat orN&n./Dexivd und&l the Dub Proces…
19-7282 John Anthony Arnold v. Virginia Virginia 2020-01-14 Denied IFP 4th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment law-enforcement motion-to-suppress ninth-circuit search-warrant standing warrantless-arrest Question not identified.
19-7254 John Garrett Smith v. Washington Washington 2020-01-13 Dismissed IFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury indictment jury-trial martial-law military-justice sixth-amendment (1) Is it lawfully permissible for a State to knowingly breach three core Amendment V of the U.S. Constitution (ratified 12.15.1791) provisions by ind…
19-7255 Fernando Duran v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP acknowledgment criminal-procedure drug-possession due-process evidence evidence-standard jury narcotics-law reasonable-doubt This case raises a fundamental question about the government's burden to prove a defendant's guilt beyond all reasonable doubt. The jury here convicte…
19-7258 Jamal Marquise Collins v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure holguin-hernandez judicial-review legal-standard objections remand sentencing timeliness timely-objection 1. Whether parties to a criminal proceeding must make timely objections to the unreasonableness of a sentence? Subsidiary question: whether the case …
19-7261 Gibron Lopez v. United States Second Circuit 2020-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP co-conspirator criminal-procedure criminal-relationship criminal-relationship-development evidence evidence-admissibility evidence-rule-404(b) hobbs-act inextricably-intertwined-evidence intimate-relationship narcotics-sales relationship rule-404(b) rule-404b sexual-relationship trust trust-relationship 1. Where evidence of prior narcotics sales was introduced at trial to establish both a relationship of trust among co-conspirators, as well as how the…
19-7264 Lazaro Zapata v. Illinois Illinois 2020-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment. 5th-amendment civil-procedure due-process standing takings appeals appellate-review case-review civil-rights court-decision criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure legal-interpretation Whether Lazar tpata was denied his Right to a Fair Trial where the trial court refused to instruct the jery on second fisal to provide essential jury …
19-7265 Joseph Totoro, II v. United States Third Circuit 2020-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining rule-11 scienter scienter-requirement sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-access-to-courts speedy-trial 1. Did the Court, the United States Attorney, and the former attorneys violate DQJ policy and Due Process by allowing him to give up all his rights, …
19-7223 Erik Bilal Khan v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP arraignment counsel-duty criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance lesser-crimes plea-bargaining prejudice prejudice-standard reasonable-probability right-to-counsel Does the right of a defendant to the effective assistance of counsel at every critical stage of a criminal proceeding, including arraignment, encompas…
19-7238 Jerry Reginald Burkes v. Tennessee Tennessee 2020-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure dismissal due-process harmless-error harmless-error-analysis indictment-dismissal mandatory-language money-laundering speedy-trial speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation tennessee-local-rule-10.03 tennessee-rules-of-criminal-procedure tennessee-rules-of-evidence trial-rights 1. WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT'S DENIAL OF A MOTION TO DISMISS AN INDICTMENT FOR A VIOLATION OF THE SPEEDY TRIAL ACT'S 70 DAY TIME LIMIT FOR BRINGING A DE…
19-7243 Joshua Wolf v. Cindy Griffith, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment juvenile-offenders mandatory-life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing resentencing sentencing-procedures sixth-amendment Joshua Wolf has been serving an unconstitutional sentence since he was sentenced to mandatory life without parole for a homicide offense committed whe…
19-7244 David Anson Alandt v. Arkansas Arkansas 2020-01-10 Denied IFP actual-innocence actual-innocence-claims constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-withholding executive-clemency habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-appeal According to Arkansas State Supreme Court Justice, Josephine L. Hart, There is no remedy in the Arkansas criminal court system which permits prisoners…
19-7249 Herbert Evans v. J. Hollingsworth, Warden Third Circuit 2020-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction parole revocation sentencing statutory-interpretation supervised-release Illegal Sentence After Revocati Of supervised Release-Extended past Originol Sentence Expiration Date.
19-7251 William McNeal v. Florida Florida 2020-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP Apprendi apprendi-standard apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-law criminal-procedure degree-classification due-process essential-element essential-elements jury-trial reclassification sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether, when determining if a defendant's offense can be reclassified to the next highest degree, Florida's interpretation of "essential element" as …
19-7253 Fabrizio DeFrancisci v. United States Second Circuit 2020-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-60(b)(6) due-process post-conviction-relief rule-60b-motion second-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg I. WAS THE DISTRICT COURT AND APPEALS COURT WRONG TO DENY THE RULE 60(b) MOTION AND CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY, REPSECTIVELY, WHEN THIS COURT HAS …
19-7220 Francisco Guerrero-Saucedo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-09 Denied IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe…
19-7228 Jerry Carter v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-01-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP chain-of-custody confidential-informant confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-8th-amendment-confrontation-cla criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns eighth-circuit evidence harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel napue-violation strickland-standard Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in rejecting the Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by "We also find no abuse of discretion in entering the decision the admission, with a limiting ins…
19-7237 Christopher L. Croom v. Illinois Illinois 2020-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP admonishment conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant judicial-admonishment jury-bias right-to-counsel trial-court trial-court-admonishment waiver Does a defendant knowingly waive the right to conflict free counsel when the trial court merely admonishes the defendant that a conflict exists, witho…
19-860 Nikolai Bosyk v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-01-09 Denied Response Waived child-pornography circuit-split criminal-procedure fourth-amendment ip-address probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant Whether the single click of a URL link to child pornography by someone using an individual's IP address can provide probable cause to support a search…
19-7188 John Jay Powers v. M. L. Stancil Tenth Circuit 2020-01-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3584 18-usc-3584a administrative-deference administrative-law bureau-of-prisons criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing deference federal-bureau-of-prisons federal-courts federal-sentencing sentencing-interpretation statutory-ambiguity statutory-interpretation FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ANY OF THE CIRCUITS, THE TENTH CIRCUIT HELD THE LANGUAGE OF 18 U.S.C. 3584(a)'S PHRASE "AT THE SAME TIME" TO BE AMBIGUOUS. THE T…
19-7206 Robert W. Johnson v. Law Offices of Jennifer S. Adams, et al. Second Circuit 2020-01-08 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-fine-improvement-act criminal-liability criminal-procedure due-process insurance-fraud second-circuit sentencing standing statutory-interpretation white-collar-crime Question not identified.
19-7209 Jurother Lee Alston, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-4th-amendment-exclusionary-rule evidence-law exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery nix-v-williams search-and-seizure What is the scope of the Inevitable Discovery doctrine originally set out in Nix v. Williams, 467 U.S. 431, 444 (1984)?
19-7213 Rodney Banks v. California California 2020-01-08 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment arrest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-amendment law-enforcement miranda-rights probable-cause search-and-seizure I AM ReQUesTinG FoR ReVIeW THAT -ARRESTING OFFICER DId NOT ReAd ME my MIRAnDA RIGHTS. AUd THE JURY GOT THE WRonG eviden ce foR DelibeRATiON.
19-7215 Jerry Jabbari Rhodes v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-01-08 Denied IFP acquittal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-sentencing jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment watts-decision Is it reasonable and constitutional to sentence a defendant on facts for which a jury found the same defendant not guilty?
19-7216 Daniel A. Ramet v. Robert LeGrande, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-defense criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper legal-malpractice plea-bargaining sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington If a defense attorney advises a client to reject a favorable plea offer based on a grave miscalculation about the viability of a legal defense, has th…
19-7219 Jonathan Canales v. Florida Florida 2020-01-08 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation appeal civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Question not identified.
19-7190 Ernesto Benavides Jr. v. Texas Texas 2020-01-07 Denied IFP appeal collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pretrial-motion right-to-appeal sixth-amendment suppression-of-evidence 1. Have davied viaht +a moaninaful appeal of his mation to Suppress owidenck, under Dackson v. Denne 378 U8. 208 (1904), that oceuved prior trial ? 2…
19-7197 Darryl William Young v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP bank-robbery colloquy constitutional-law constitutional-question-of-procedural-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-11 criminal-procedure-rule-20 direct-appeal district-court-jurisdiction due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-question-of-statutory-law federal-rules-criminal-procedure jurisdictional-venue overbroad-interpretation plea-agreement plea-validity procedural-requirements sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-law venue waiver 1. The United States Supreme Court is asked to resolve a federal question of jurisdictional law, whether the district court for the Eastern District o…
19-7198 B. T. D. v. Alabama Alabama 2020-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection juvenile-justice juvenile-transfer serious-physical-injury standing vagueness I. Does a child have due process rights to a judicial determination of whether his/her case should remain in juvenile court or should be transferred t…
19-7201 Casey Lee Jones v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure rule-11 supervisory-powers Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Cireuit")-which held Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Criminal…
19-850 Mark Joseph Derrico v. Georgia Georgia 2020-01-07 Denied Response Waived arbitrary-enforcement civil-rights criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process equal-protection prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness Does the void-for-vagueness doctrine extend to cases such as Derrico's where courts have rested on the authority of judges and juries to ratify arbitr…
19-845 Charles Huggins v. United States Second Circuit 2020-01-06 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance insufficient-evidence perjury section-2255 sixth-amendment 1. Whether Petitioner was deprived of due process by his continuing imprisonment who was convicted on insufficient evidence without being granted an e…
19-7138 Michael Blankenship v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP clean-water-act criminal-procedure environmental-law evidence evidence-admissibility eyewitness-testimony fecal-coliform intent prejudice rule-404(b) rule-404b witness-testimony 1. Whether in a prosecution for illegally dumping waste into a creek, where a major part of the Government's case was based on eyewitness testimony ab…
19-7164 Dominic Howard v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fifth-circuit fourth-amendment in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review pro-se probable-cause search-and-seizure sentencing standing writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
19-7171 Samuel Turner v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP arrest civil-rights conviction-and-sentence criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-4th-amendment-search-and-seizur drug-possession due-process exculpatory-evidence fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure investigative-reports police-conduct probable-cause search-and-seizure subpoena-duces-tecum supervisory-power 1.) Whether, the lower courts erred by upholding the arrest of Mr. Turner? 2.) Whether the lower courts erred in denying and upholding the denial of …
19-7173 Kenneth Rose v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-01-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP address-discrepancy affidavit criminal-procedure fourth-amendment good-faith-exception ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel material-fact plain-error search-warrant suppression 1) Reasonable jurists would debate that appellate counsel was ineffective for failing to raise a plain error of fact material to Leon's third exceptio…
19-7180 Rafael Leonhard Wolfga Beier v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure mental-impairment motion-for-new-trial newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief rule-33 standard-of-review standards-for-new-trial trial-standard 1. Does a criminal defendant's discovery of a recognized mental impairment after conviction at trial constitute newly discovered evidence under Federa…
19-7182 Cirilo Mancilla Lopez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-06 Denied IFP appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process legal-objection preservation-of-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-unreasonableness 1. Whether claims of substantive unreasonableness must be preserved by specific objection? SUB SIDIARY QUESTI ON: Whether the Court should hold the c…
19-7183 Malcolm William v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP causation criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-arrest-of-judgment due-process elements-of-crime evidence evidence-sufficiency hearsay insufficient-evidence malice motion-in-limine murder murder-charge new-trial sixth-amendment third-degree 1. Whether Appellant should be awarded an arrest of judgement on the charge of Murder in the Third Degree, as *there is insufficient evidence to sust…
19-7141 Fernando Oliveros v. Illinois Illinois 2020-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-guarantee criminal-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto free-speech legislative-intent lenity standing statutory-ambiguity statutory-construction When the legislature has met spoken in law eluent that is clear and definite and has at fixed the punishment for a offense duly and without ambiguity,…
19-7151 Erick David Lopez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence evidence-admission fifth-amendment free-speech ninth-circuit prejudice rap-poem sixth-amendment Whether the Ninth Circuit's sanctioning of the admission of a vile and obscenity-laced rap poem found inside the purse of a 16-year-old girl and not w…
19-7161 Aaron Michael Murray v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-protections criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea guilty-plea-withdrawal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-withdraw plea-bargaining plea-colloquy sentencing withdrawal-of-plea Whether third-party affidavits filed with a motion to withdraw a guilty plea before sentencing, claiming ineffective assistance of counsel, overcomes …
19-7165 Omar Macias-Macias v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-ripeness circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process finality jurisdiction justiciability legal-challenge standing supervised-release Does the doctrine of prudential ripeness allow the Court of Appeals to dismiss a defendant's timely direct appeal challenging a supervised release con…
19-7167 Harshadkumar Nanjibhai Jadav v. Virginia Virginia 2020-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circumstantial-evidence criminal-procedure evidence-sufficiency first-degree-murder identity-of-defendant identity-of-perpetrator jury-instructions possession-of-weapon premeditation sufficiency-of-evidence I. Contrary to precedent set in Yeager v. Commonwealth , 16 Va. 433 S.E.2d 248 (1993) and rule 3A:16 of the Rules of App. 761 Supreme Court of Virgini…
19-7146 David Rapoport v. Robert Gilmore, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene, et al. Third Circuit 2020-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns death-penalty due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance life-without-parole plea-bargaining sentencing waiver-of-appeal-rights 1. Was the petitioner's counsel ineffective in pre-trial stages? 2. Was the petitioner's counsel ineffective during the plea-bargaining process? 3. …
19-7093 Oscar Ibarra v. Nick Ludwick, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance murder right-to-counsel sixth-amendment I. Does the Sixth Amendment permit an office to represent an indigent defendant in a First Degree Murder case if the office previously represented bot…
19-7112 Gabriel Galindo-Serrano v. United States First Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied IFP confession confession-suppression court-of-appeals criminal-procedure delay magistrate-judge motion-to-suppress plain-error standard-of-review waiver Whether the standard of review on appeal of an untimely motion to suppress a confession, based upon the failure to bring the defendant before a magist…
19-7116 Eddie Estuardo Galindo-Mendez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process factual-error harmless-error judicial-review plain-error plain-error-review standard-of-review Whether factual error is categorically immune from plain error review?
19-7117 Vance Edward Ingram, III v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appellate-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process government-power plea-agreement plea-bargaining waiver IS A DEFEDANT'S RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS OF LAW VIOLATED WHEN THE GOVERNMENT REQUIRES AN APPEAL WAIVER AS PART OF A PLEA AGREEMENT?
19-7118 Calvin Buffington v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process judicial-fact-finding section-3582 section-3582(c)(2) sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-3582(c)(2) statutory-interpretation 1. Whether the district court's failure to find a drug quantity when adopting PSR in its entirety authorized it to select a new quantity as a basis f…
19-7120 Gilbert Sanchez v. Texas Texas 2019-12-31 Denied IFP apprendi-v-new-jersey blakely-v-washington criminal-appeals criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus in-re-winship jury-trial right-to-trial-by-jury sixth-amendment texas-constitution 1. Is the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution violated when the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals denies an Applicant habeas relief b…
19-7122 Vinodh Raghubir v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2019-12-31 Dismissed IFP access-to-courts attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief standing takings Question not identified.
19-7124 Derwin Lee Butler v. California California 2019-12-31 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions post-trial-hearing right-to-call-witnesses stipulation trial-court-error trial-error trial-procedure witness-testimony 1. Does' a criminal defendant become deprived of his constitutional rights when the trial court fails to read an agreed upon stipulation and instructi…
19-7130 Fabio Morel v. United States Second Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review case-law circuit-court-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing judicial-precedent plea-agreement plea-bargaining precedent retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent I. WHETHER THE LOWER COURT'S DECISION IS IN CONFLICT WITH FREEMAN V. UNITED STATES, 564 U.S. 522 (2011); AND HUGHES V. UNITED STATES, 138 S. Ct. 1765 …
19-7132 Ric Thomason, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure defendant-presence defendant-rights district-court-discretion due-process judicial-procedure modified-sentence resentencing sentencing WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION IN FAILING TO HOLD A RESENTENCING HEARING, WITH THE DEFENDANT, PRESENT PRIOR TO IMPOSING A MODIFIED S…
19-7136 Karen Lynn McClaflin v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit appeal appellate-procedure cja-appointment counsel-appointment criminal-justice-act criminal-justice-act-1964 criminal-procedure due-process fee-waiver in-forma-pauperis prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing standing writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
19-822 Laurie A. White, Judge, Section A of the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court, et al. v. Alana Cain, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Response Waived conflict-of-interest constitutional-conflict criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction fines-and-fees judicial-disqualification judicial-impartiality state-court-funding state-court-jurisdiction Does the federal court have jurisdiction to disqualify state criminal court judges from adjudicating matters, over which they have exclusive jurisdict…
19-828 Charles Garske, et al. v. United States First Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Response Waived constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy government-misconduct manifest-necessity mistrial oregon-v-kennedy retrial united-states-v-perez For purposes of determining whether the Double Jeopardy Clause bars a second prosecution, does the test enunciated in Oregon v. Kennedy, 456 U.S. 667 …
19-7083 Leroy L. Perdue v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 851-enhancement criminal-procedure due-process enhancement federal-statute notice role-adjustment sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-compliance statutory-interpretation 1. Whether the sentence should be vacated for failure comply with the requirements of 21 U.S.C. § 851(b). 2. Whether the court erred in assessing a f…
19-7084 Andrew Haley Morcombe v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP affirmative-defense criminal-procedure domestic-violence due-process fair-trial international-kidnapping international-parental-kidnapping jury-instructions state-law state-law-definitions statutory-interpretation Whether the failure of 18 U.S.C. § 1204, the International Parental Kidnapping statute, to define the term "domestic violence" for purposes of an affi…
19-7086 Walter Daniel Prezioso v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-12-30 Denied IFP acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment Whether reliance on acquitted conduct in imposing sentence violates the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
19-7088 Marcos Cortez-Rogel v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-30 Denied IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei…
19-7089 Jonathan Cruz-Ramirez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-12-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission fifth-amendment first-amendment juvenile-evidence prejudice prejudicial-error sixth-amendment Whether the Ninth Circuit's sanctioning of the admission of a vile and obscenity-laced rap poem found inside the purse of a 16-year-old girl and not w…
19-7094 Ernest Lawrence v. Gurbir Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment constitutional-review criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona police-interrogation prior-bad-acts prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-standard Mr. Lawrence seek leave to appeal the following issues: 1. Whether The Lower Court's Decisions Were Contrary To Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (196…
19-7095 David Lee Smith v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2019-12-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-relief criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-standards pro-se sentencing standing statutory-interpretation ib PKQ-SE. permPMCA. eaititlek Ta this c-ounrk eecx — c>i Aia ft tAlR.IT Fftm TD h&dLARE Al.d. S.SQF ENTIRE. ArtATTER. iM £aMT£OVSGSV B'/XSSCtlMe ap…
19-7096 David Lee Smith v. Rick Jackson Fourth Circuit 2019-12-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standard fingerprint fingerprint-analysis jury jury-confusion probable-cause standing wrongful-conviction ARE 92954 PETITLONER(S\ ENTITLLEA TO REAAAND, INILTH INSTRUCTIONS FOR AISTRICT COURT TQ ORDER CASE ATSMISSED AITTH PREAUDICERECAUSE OF PROSEC.UTIPS ON…
19-7097 Juan Sanchez v. California California 2019-12-30 Denied IFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process out-of-court-statements prior-testimony testimonial-statements trial-evidence witness-memory witness-testimony Whether a defendant in a criminal case is denied the opportunity for full and effective cross-examination in violation of the Confrontation Clause by …
19-7098 Antonio Shaw v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-counsel due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel objective-standard sixth-amendment standard-of-review witness-testimony (1) Whether defense Counsel's performance in failing to inform client of important witness against him fell below an objectively reasonable Standard o…
19-7101 David Nowakowski v. E.E. Austin and Son, Inc., et al. Pennsylvania 2019-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-organizations criminal-procedure criminal-racketeering due-process inchoate-crimes legal-remedies legislative-interpretation organized-crime pro-se pro-se-litigation racketeering standing statutory-construction Where a plaintiffs position falls within the scope of an open Legislative statement such as PA Code Title 18 Section 911 (a) (6); "in order to success…
19-7102 Ruben Mendez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-30 Denied IFP case-review constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-precedent legal-procedure precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
19-7104 Julio Cesar Pacheco-Astrudillo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-30 Denied IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe…
19-7070 Gary R. Tomey, II v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment indictment jury-instructions material-variance self-incrimination sentencing sentencing-hearing 1. Whether a constructive amendment and/or material variance of the indictment occurs when a court instructs the jury for the first time — during its …
19-7071 Joseph A. Williams v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-12-27 Denied IFP appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act certification criminal-law criminal-procedure judicial-certification sentencing serious-drug-offense state-convictions statutory-interpretation I. Whether the Armed Career Criminal Act's "serious drug offense" definition is limited to only those state convictions that are the same or narrower …
19-7078 Braun Nathan Thompson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924 aggravated-robbery armed-robbery-statute criminal-law criminal-procedure elements-clause federal-sentencing firearms-offense minnesota-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-felony Whether aggravated robbery under Minnesota law is a violent felony within the scope of the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. §924(e)(2)(b)(i).
19-7080 Stanley Jaboin v. Florida Florida 2019-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process due-process,criminal-procedure,federal-law,supreme failure-to-render-aid federal-law florida-statute-316.193 judgment-of-acquittal motion-for-acquittal standard-of-proof statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent I. Petitioner ask did the First District Courts of Appeals apply federal law issued by the United States Supreme Court in a way that frustrates and un…
19-7082 Mark J. Lipski v. Maine Maine 2019-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-protection conviction-consequences criminal-procedure due-process economic-disadvantage indigent-defense ineffective-assistance judicial-oath legal-ethics legal-representation liberty-interests right-to-counsel state-prosecution 1)Was this case criminal in nature? 2)Was the right to counsel waived? 3)Would an impoverished layman have the needed skills and ability to defend h…
19-7059 John Kenneth Schiefer v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-12-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion legal-reasoning plain-error procedural-error respect-for-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure Did the district court plainly procedurally err when it selected and imposed sentence based on its desire to promote the defendant's respect for the l…
19-7055 In Re Charlene Rosa 2019-12-23 Denied IFP brady-v-maryland civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-and-seizure strickland-v-washington 1. Whether mewly Discovened Evidence From the American socity % crime Laboratory Advise to the sate scuntficand the oNA Evidence dunng tnal, thatwas S…
19-7056 Robert Keith Kinsey v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court judicial-objection objection preservation-of-error procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-procedure I. Must challenges to the procedural reasonableness of a sentence be preserved by a separate "reasonableness" objection in district court?
19-7047 In Re Antwoyn Spencer 2019-12-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process pro-se sentencing Whether Appellant was deprived of his civil right of personal liberty against law contrary to the Constitution and Laws of the United States.
19-7049 In Re Antwoyn Spencer 2019-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance personal-liberty pro-se-petition punishment standing strickland-standard undue-delay 1. Whether Appellant is being deprived of his civil right of personal liberty against law contrary to the Constitution and Laws of the United States.
19-7050 In Re Charlene Rosa 2019-12-23 Denied IFP appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review sanctions statutory-interpretation witness-testimony Wter the Foh ct con pel bue i 1. discretion in sanction the petitioner Whether the Founth OcH Erceed it Authonty in sancion The petitioner. A Disco…
19-7051 Adan Reyes-Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure fifth-circuit plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing waiver waiver-of-rights Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by ruling that Mr. Reyes-Martinez waived the right to appeal his sentence because of the Waiver of Appeal provision in…
19-7054 Philip Rogers v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure drug-use evidence foreseeability ineffective-assistance reasonable-doubt trial-strategy vehicular-homicide Philip Rogers was driving after several drinks. Ahead of him a woman was jaywalking, possibly obscured by two bicyclists also crossing. When he saw th…
19-7035 Michael B. Lowry v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment attenuation-doctrine burden-of-proof criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence After the police violate an individual's Fourth Amendment rights by conducting an illegal search or seizure, does the government bear the burden of pr…
19-7038 Angela Maxine Lee v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 18-usc-922 18-usc-924 3553-a-factors 3553a-factors appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether the above-Guidelines 84-month sentence ordered by the district court is substantively unreasonable under the § 3553(a) factors.
19-7040 Dalia A. Dippolito v. Florida Florida 2019-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-defense criminal-law criminal-liability criminal-procedure due-process entrapment factual-disputes jury-trial objective-entrapment state-law trial-by-jury trial-court-proceedings Where state law recognizes objective entrapment as a complete defense to criminal liability, and that defense turns on disputed issues of fact, does r…
19-7041 Pedro L. Ramirez-Rivera v. United States First Circuit 2019-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process exculpatory-evidence post-conviction post-conviction-relief post-conviction-review prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-appeal Whether the United States Attorneys are obliged to disclose exculpatory evidence known to exist after the defendant has been convicted by trial by jur…
19-7043 John A. Toth v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment abuse-of-discretion attenuation civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining police-conduct post-conviction-relief Question not identified.
19-7044 Darmarcus Fisher v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-assault appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fifth-circuit procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether the district court imposed a substantively unreasonable sentence and erred by imposing a 4-level enhancement for aggravated assault.
19-6972 Tarsis Guillermo Sanchez-Mora v. United States First Circuit 2019-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-procedure jury-instruction jury-instructions miscarriage-of-justice plain-error rico-conspiracy statutory-interpretation The lower court's ruling fail ed to correct a miscarriage of justice by allowing a conviction to stand, where the trial court's jury instruction on th…
19-7008 Abraham Hernandez-Zavala v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP coram-nobis Criminal-Conviction criminal-procedure custody custody-status deportation deportation-supervised-release due-process Habeas-Corpus immigration immigration-law supervised-release writ-of-error-coram-nobis WHETHER DEPORTATION AUTHOMATICALLY ENDS AN IMMIGRANTS IMPOSED SUPERVISED RELEASE? IF COURT WAIVES COURT SUPERVISION UPON DEPORATION IS ALIEN "IN CU…
19-7011 Carl Golden v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-19 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea intent knowledge-of-elements mens-rea plea-bargaining rehaif-v-united-states Does the Constitution require that the accused know the elements of a crime in order to validly plead guilty? Is Florida § 893.13 categorically a ser…
19-7013 Kenneth M. Gray v. Paul S. Kemper, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights confession criminal-procedure due-process false-confession false-promises ineffective-assistance interrogation no-merit-report parent-attorney post-conviction-counsel sentencing sentencing-error waiver waiver-petition Whether post-conviction counsel failed to file a "no-merit" report. Whether detectives made false promises to illicit a confession during the interro…
19-7018 Scott Ray Bishop v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-12-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony personal-knowledge structural-error technical-element testimony 1. Whether the exclusion of a defendant's testimony based on first-hand, personal knowledge of a technical element of the offense charged is structura…
19-7020 Nahach Garay v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment affidavit criminal-procedure fourth-amendment inventory-search law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure training-and-experience warrant warrantless-search 1. Whether, a purported inventory search that produces no inventory, can justify the warrantless search of automobile after its occupants have been re…
19-7021 Otis Hunter and Deshawn Evans v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-12-19 Denied IFP bias confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination jury-instructions jury-nullification mandatory-minimum nullification sentencing sixth-amendment witness-cooperation Whether the Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause is violated when a court bars a defendant from eliciting the mandatory minimum sentence a prosecution…
19-7022 Jesus D. Cruz v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-12-19 Denied IFP 4th-amendment constitutional-violation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rehaif-v-united-states search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing toxicology-report 1. Whether Counsel was ineffective for not showing the Petitioner and or verifying to the Petitioner producted a valid search warrant, once they broke…
19-7024 Germira Lamar Carter v. Michigan Michigan 2019-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-test WHERE THE STATE COURTS OF MICHIGAN HAS CONVICTED A CRIMINAL DEFENDANT IN VIOLATION OF HIS SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL, IS…
19-786 Willie Kipyego Butia v. Virginia Virginia 2019-12-19 Denied Response Waived constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial judicial-discretion jury jury-instructions statutory-interpretation Is due process violated where the trial judge instructs the jury using words not found in the statute and in such a way that clearly expands the statu…
19-6969 Leviticus A. Swift v. Georgia Georgia 2019-12-18 Denied IFP 4th-amendment arrest-warrant civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment indictment probable-cause search-and-seizure RESENTED TO THE MAGISTRATE INSUFFICIENT TO PROVE PETITIONER SNE PTI HH 1ILLIVN IS THE INDIOTMENT IN THIS CASE VALID WHEN IT WAS NOT RETARNED YA GRANd …
19-6978 Isaac Naranjo v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurists-of-reason merits notice-of-charges post-conviction-review procedural-default (1) WHETHER TO MAKE A SUBSTANTIAL SHOWING OF THE DENIAL OF A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT A HABEAS APPLICANT FOR A C.O.A. NEED NOT SHOW THAT HE WILL PREVAIL O…
19-6990 King Bush v. Kannika Say Michigan 2019-12-18 Denied IFP benefits civil-rights confidential-informant criminal-procedure due-process false-documents fourth-amendment fraud green-card immigration immigration-fraud law-enforcement marriage money-laundering probable-cause search-and-seizure I want to void marrdige based on immig vation fraud? Kannika say shewas married to heruncle during the time she was living withme 8127/2oob, wasmy mar…
19-6995 Richard Alan King v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process faretta-v-california fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice magistrate pro-se-pleading procedural-default remand reversal standard-of-review standing supreme-court-precedent Was The Presiding Magistrate's Analysis So Flawed As To Warrent This Court To Reverse And Remand So That A Correct Legal Standard May Be Applied ? pg7…
19-7001 Haji Bagcho, aka Haji Bagh Chagul, aka Haji Bagchagul v. United States District of Columbia 2019-12-18 Denied IFP acquittal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-selection jury-selection-and-service-act racial-bias racial-discrimination sixth-amendment I. Whether pursuant to the Jury Selection and Service Act a criminal defendant who observes a racially skewed venire can be denied time to inspect jur…
19-7004 Mario Torres v. Shawn Hatton, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP blanket-policy brady-violations criminal-defendant-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence-withholding exculpatory-evidence federal-law ineffective-assistance plea-agreement policy right-to-counsel unreasonable-application Whether Contra Costa County California's blanket policy of depriving a criminal defendant, the facts and the evidence (exculpatory or otherwise), surr…
19-776 James Wesley Amonett, Jr. v. Virginia Virginia 2019-12-18 Denied Response Waived contract-enforcement contract-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-contract-enforcement due-process jury-trial law-enforcement plea-bargaining police-authority police-promises right-to-jury-trial sixth-amendment Issue 1. There is an important, recurring issue on which the Federal circuits and the states' highest courts are split, i.e. whether the police can pr…
19-780 Willie Newton v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-12-17 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure custis-v-united-states drug-offense due-process federal-sentencing habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states post-conviction-relief prior-conviction proposition-47 sentence-enhancement sentencing state-law state-sentencing In Johnson v. United States, 544 U.S. 295 (2005), and Custis v. United States, 511 U.S. 485 (1994), this Court held that a defendant who "successfully…
19-6949 James R. Royal v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2019-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process mccoy-v-louisiana retroactivity sixth-amendment watershed-rule 1. Is McCoy v. Louisiana, 138 S.Ct.1500 (2018) a watershed rule of criminal procedure which must be applied retroactively on collateral review?
19-6950 Christopher Brian Rogers v. Tammatha Soss, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure darden-v-wainwright due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct Is federal habeas review barred under Martinez v. Ryan, 566 U.S. 1 (2012) and a claim procedurally defaulted when a petitioner fails to bring an indep…
19-6963 Roland A. Prenatt v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment attorney-accountability civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment mental-health probable-cause search-and-seizure sixth-amendment-speedy-trial,due-process,right-to- speedy-trial If the sixth amendment of the us, consfitotion quarantees the accused, the right to a speedy trial, then why does the Judge and Attorney feel they hav…
19-6964 David Russell Posey v. Scott Middlebrooks, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency ineffective-assistance-of-counsel kidnapping-statute standing trial-rights Does "PUBLIC INTEREST" AND "JUSTICE SO REQUIRE" IMPANELING OF A "SPECIAL GRAND JURY", WHEN TRIAL PROSECUTORS COMMIT "MULTIFARIOUS FRAUD" ON THE JURORS…
19-6975 Jason Lee Bennett v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2251 constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation substantive-due-process Whether the District Court denied the Petitioner's constitutional right to a substantive due process under the Fifth Amendment by the lower court's co…
19-6945 Kevin Dameron v. Illinois Illinois 2019-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence eyewitness-identification judicial-review legal-error neil-v-biggers standing state-court-interpretation state-court-review supreme-court-precedent WHETHER THE ILLINOIS STATE COURT ERRED IN ITS APPLICATION OF WELL ESTABLISHED UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT PRECEDENT DECLARED IN NEIL v. BIGGERS, 409 U…
19-6947 Reinaldo Rodriguez-Martinez v. United States First Circuit 2019-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process jackson-v-virginia jury-instructions rico rico-conspiracy-statute rico-enterprise sufficiency-of-evidence united-states-v-turkette 1. In United States v. Turkette , 452 U.S. 576 (1981) , this Court first held , in a RICO conspiracy case, 18 U SC §1962 (d), that the statute applies…
19-6948 Michael Eugene Spry v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-USC-3553 criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness supervised-release I. WHETHER THE APPELLANT MICHAEL EUGENE SPRY'S SENTENCE WAS UNREASONABLE AS IT WAS GREATER THAN NECESSARY AND AS SUCH, FAILS TO COMPLY WITH TITLE 18, …
19-6953 Donovan G. Davis, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-proceeding critical-stage direct-appeal new-trial new-trial-motion right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure The Constitution guarantees the assistance and choice of counsel for a critical-stage in a criminal proceeding. Ancient statute guarantees every indiv…
19-6956 Thomas H. Outland v. New Jersey New Jersey 2019-12-16 Denied IFP confrontation-clause credibility criminal-defendant criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-impeachment due-process evidence evidence-rules fair-trial impeachment jury-instructions prior-convictions right-to-present-a-defense 1. DID THE NEW JERSEY STATE COURT ENDORSE THE USE OF N.J.R.E. 806 AS A VEHICLE FOR IMPEACHING NON-TESTIFYING CRIMINAL DEFENDANTS WITH THEIR PRIOR CONV…
19-772 Albert Diaz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-16 Denied Response Waived criminal-investigation criminal-procedure due-process formal-charges grand-jury pre-indictment prosecutorial-discretion right-to-counsel sixth-amendment target target-designation Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals correctly held that the Sixth Amendment right to counsel does not attach once the United States has focused…
19-6922 Charles Edward Bates v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-12-13 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-punishment forfeiture sentencing 1) Did the lower courts err in their interpretation even as Chuck Bates' offense did not result in substantial forfeiture? Courts interpretation Cond …
19-6932 Dustin Larmon McDonald v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-13 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP appellate-review certiorari criminal-procedure district-court due-process fifth-circuit leniency-arguments preservation-of-error procedural-objection reasonableness sentencing-procedure sentencing-reasonableness united-states-v-haymond I. Must challenges to the procedural reasonableness of a sentence be preserved by a separate "reasonableness" objection in district court? II. Whethe…
19-6935 Rickie James King v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certiorari criminal-procedure district-court due-process fifth-circuit leniency-arguments preservation-of-error procedural-reasonableness reasonableness remand sentencing sentencing-procedure united-states-v-haymond I. Must challenges to the procedural reasonableness of a sentence be preserved by a separate "reasonableness" objection in district court? II. Whethe…
19-6942 Savon Germain Carter v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-12-13 Denied IFP buyer-seller-rule circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy due-process end-user jury-instruction jury-instructions methamphetamine-distribution A federal jury convicted Savon Carter and Christina Eichler of the sole count charged against them, conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of a mi…
19-6912 David Abara v. Jack Palmer, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal competency competency-exam criminal-procedure faretta-canvass irreconcilable-conflict right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment trial-court SHOULD THIS COURT ADDRESS, IN QUESTION OF FIRST-IMPRESSION, WHETHER IT VIOLATES THE SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO COUNSEL FOR A TRIAL COURT TO FORCE A DEFE…
19-6913 Neal Benjamin v. Jennifer Saad, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review booker-error constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error judicial-review lower-court-error sentencing sixth-amendment standard-of-review 1) Does the Petitioner have a Sixth Amendment Booker error? 2) Does the Petitioner have a Harmless Error ground? 3) Did the Lower Court overlook the…
19-6920 Courtney Omar Boyd v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act judicial-discretion motion-denial sentencing statutory-interpretation I. WHETHER THE LOWER COURT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION AND VIOLATED MR. BOYD'S CONSTITUTIONAL DUE PROCESS RIGHTS WHEN IT DENIED BOYD'S FIRST STEP ACT MOTION…
19-6921 Brian H. Jones, Sr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process inherent-power legal-definition prosecution-standards same-transaction sovereignty sovereignty-doctrine tribal-sovereignty vagueness 1. Is the term "same transaction" unconstitutionally vague? 2. How would two incidents separated by four months constitute the "same transaction"? 3…
19-6924 William D. Thomas v. Mark McCullick, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP bail civil-procedure confrontation confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification identification indictment officer-activity police-conduct preliminary-hearing warrant-inquiry whether a state's failure to meet the reciprocal r a one on one Confrontation during a preliminary hearng tanted by prior police activity is Sufficient to warrant a Caurt's reliability inquiry. II. Wh…
19-6926 Roger William Campbell, II, aka Roger William Campbell v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-12-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP concurrent-sentences consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure federal-sentencing revocation sentence-revocation sentencing-guidelines supervised-release united-states-sentencing-commission Is the "stacking" of multiple consecutive sentences, upon revocation of multiple concurrent terms of supervised release, consistent with the United St…
19-6927 Tony Egbuna Ford v. Texas Texas 2019-12-12 Denied IFP arbitrary-state-action criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus merits-consideration state-action state-created-right state-created-rights statutory-criteria subsequent-application subsequent-habeas-application Whether the Tex as Court of Criminal Appeals' unex plained dismissal of claims raised in a subsequent application for writ of habeas corpus, where the…
19-6928 Lee Dale Lofton, Jr. v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit 2019-12-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-error sixth-amendment standing 1. By the exception of Martinez V. Ryan (32 S.Ct. 1309 (2012), Petitioner's inability to meet the one year time limitation under CAEDPA in Habeas corp…
19-749 William S. Ritter v. John R. Tuttle, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-12 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process full-faith-and-credit interstate-judicial-recognition new-york pennsylvania res-judicata sealed-documents Does the Full Faith and Credit Clause of the United States Constitution (Article IV, Section l) attach to an order of a New York Appellate Court that …
19-742 James Bailey-Snyder v. United States Third Circuit 2019-12-11 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived arrest-definition civil-rights criminal-investigation criminal-procedure due-process liberty-restriction prisoner-rights prosecutorial-discretion solitary-confinement speedy-trial wilkinson-v-austin Does imposing solitary confinement on a prisoner while police and prosecutors investigate and consider new criminal charges amount to an "arrest" givi…
19-746 Oliver Ray Carbutt v. Colorado Colorado 2019-12-11 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea plea-bargaining presentence-investigation self-incrimination sentencing sex-offense sex-offenses I. When a court is in the process of accepting a guilty plea for a sex offense that will require an intrusive presentence investigation including ques…
19-6905 John Alan Conroy v. Cliff Harris, Sheriff, Pecos County, Texas, et al. Texas 2019-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-court-consideration-of-evidence appointment-of-counsel brady-v-maryland brady-violation continuing-duty-of-federal-government criminal-procedure discovery discovery-rules dismissal-with-prejudice due-process evidence-withholding federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure in-camera-review michael-morton-act plea-agreement plea-bargaining rule-16-federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure state-law-enforcement state-law-enforcement-compliance (1) After a. criminal defendant's plea of guilty, if it is later found that the government did not live up to the requirements - of discovery, is the…
19-6906 Datanya Damon Alexander v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-11 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-review indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether this Court should hold the instant petition in light of Shular v. United States, 15-1498, __U.S.__, 139 S.Ct. 2773 (June 28, 2019)? Whether t…
19-6907 Robert Hendricks v. United States Second Circuit 2019-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-error constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error criminal-trial due-process equal-protection evidence evidence-admission harmless-error racial-bias structural-error The Court of Appeals agreed that the District Court erred when at petitioner's trial for credit union robbery it permitted over objection one of the c…
19-6909 Efrain J. Rosa v. R. L. Rhodes, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-12-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation conviction-reversal criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression exculpatory-evidence fifth-amendment government-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct When the Government affirms that all the requisite documents under the rule of Brady v. Maryland, 373 US 83 (1963) will be provided, but then suppress…
19-6915 Andrew Lee Thompson, II v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process ex-post-facto plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing Ulvi is IL feneivj vita IL SMe* lre<J\ if" cuJ jioSC Lre^cLs Jirecilj eJS®!' fL. PU Ar^rieoy <fyvd |>n>c€S^S€A3eo6e, ^■ffcTSTW^e/N U Sb-W j^seJ Qrs c,…
19-6896 Jeffrey Antonio v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP congressional-action criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction jurisdictional-element jury-determination land-claims preliminary-finding pueblo-lands pueblo-lands-act statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-the-evidence I. Whether, when Congress relinquished all federal claims and extinguished all interest of the Pueblo of Sandia in privately held lands within pueblo …
19-6898 Demicko Billie Thomas v. Maggie Miller-Stout, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment musacchio-precedent musacchio-v-united-states ninth-circuit reasonable-doubt supreme-court-review washington-state-supreme-court WHETHER THE WASHINGTON STATE SUPREME COURT'S DISAPPROVING OF THIS COURT'S DECISION IN MUSACCHIO V. UNITED STATES, 136 S.Ct. 709 (2016), IS BINDING ON …
19-6899 Jose Luis Meza-Lopez v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP concealment constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure cuellar-v-united-states due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel money-laundering transportation Does the Court's holding in Cuellar v. United States, Require more than a finding of concealing something for transportation to show money laundering;…
19-6901 Alonso Barrera-Montes v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-10 Denied IFP appellate-review confrontation-clause criminal-procedure department-of-state due-process evidence evidence-admission hearsay hearsay-rule jurisdiction jury-trial I. THE COURT OF APPEALS CLEARLY ERRED IN UPHOLDING THE DISTRICT COURT'S RULING ADMITTING EVIDENCE AT DEFENDANT'S TRIAL WHICH VIOLATED BOTH THE HEARSAY…
19-6876 Mauricio Aguirre, aka Mauricio Aguirre-Orcutt, aka Peter Holston-Aguirre, aka Peter Holston, aka Miller Aguirre v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment indictment jury-trial sentencing sentencing-modification sixth-amendment supervised-release Whether a federal defendant may suffer additional imprisonment on the basis of facts that have never been placed in an indictment, nor proven to a jur…
19-6877 Christopher Rudolph Brown v. Florida Florida 2019-12-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-error criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief res-judicata standing trial-counsel Under the Laws and Rules of Res Judicata, ole if an issue was been litigated on and decided by the Court, would the Wish Court be departing from the e…
19-6885 Antonio Escobar v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-v-united-states criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offenses drug-statute due-process flores-figueroa-v-united-states fourth-amendment mens-rea statutory-interpretation traffic-stop 1. Whether, in light of Flores-Figueroa v. United States, 556 U.S. 646 (2009), Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), and Alleyne v. United …
19-6887 In Re Brad K. Edmonds 2019-12-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment 4th-circuit carpenter-v-united-states civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment gps-tracking probable-cause retroactivity search search-and-seizure suppression warrantless-search 1. Did the government installation of a GPS device on a vehicle and its use of that device to monitor the car constitute a search? 2. Did trial couns…
19-723 Oliver Lee White v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-12-09 Denied Relisted (2) civil-commitment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment incompetence incompetency liberty-interest sexually-dangerous sexually-violent-conduct Whether the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause forbids the civil-commitment trial of an incompetent person whose prior conduct is disputed.
19-719 Dami Hospitality, LLC v. Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, Division of Workers' Compensation Colorado 2019-12-06 Denied ability-to-pay civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-fines criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-fines-clause proportionality sentencing How is an offender's ability to pay relevant in determining whether a fine is unconstitutional under Excessive Fines Clause of the Eighth Amendment?
19-720 United States v. Riley Briones, Jr. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-06 GVR Relisted (2) constitutional-law criminal-procedure discretionary-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment life-without-parole parole sentencing sentencing-discretion Whether Miller v. Alabama, which "h[e]ld that the Eighth Amendment forbids a sentencing scheme that mandates life in prison without possibility of par…
19-6880 Gregory Bartunek v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-relief constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exceptional-circumstances habeas-corpus prejudice prejudice-standard speedy-trial IS AN AFFIRMATIVE DEMONSTRATION OF PREJUDICE TO THE ACCUSED'S ABILITY TO DEFEND HIMSELF ESSENTIAL TO PROVE THE DENIAL OF HIS RIGHT TO A SPEEDY TRIAL? …
19-6881 April Torres v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion parole probation reasonableness revocation sentencing supervised-release I. Did the district court impose a plainly unreasonable revocation sentence upon Ms. Torres?
19-6882 Zackary Ikaika Bryton Thompson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure deference due-process judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors?
19-6845 David Steward v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-12-05 Denied IFP collateral-review constitutional-right constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process mccoy-v-louisiana retroactivity sixth-amendment substantive-decision supreme-court-precedent Whether the newly established constitutional right announced in McCoy v. Louisiana, 138 S.Ct. 1500(2018), created a substantive decision, that applies…
19-6846 James W. Riley v. Dana Metzger, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal-as-of-right constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-precedent right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standing state-court statutory-analysis third-circuit-court Where the tril judge failed to revew evidence of trial coursel's gross misconduct of Fraud identical to the issues addressed in this Court's decision …
19-6856 James W. Riley v. Delaware Delaware 2019-12-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP capital-punishment conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-considerations fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct judicial-review right-to-counsel right-to-fair-trial sentencing sentencing-discretion Should this court extend Its Hurst v. Florida ruling to the pre-trial and trial stages of capital murder case where it is shown that the Judge's sente…
19-6861 Tony L. Henderson v. Arkansas Arkansas 2019-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process equal-protection jury-selection race-conscious venire Does a discretionary, race-conscious selection process for the venire called in a particular criminal trial violate the 6th and 148 Amendments to the …
19-6864 Cedis R. Martin v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach categorical-review crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process offense-of-violence sentencing-guidelines sentencing-predicate state-court-conviction statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-§4a1.1(e) vagueness vagueness-analysis vagueness-doctrine Does a state court conviction qualify as an "offense of violence" for the purpose of the sentencing predicate pursuant to U.S.S.G.§4A1.1(e), if the st…
19-6869 Michael Anthony Jefferson v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP barker-v-wingo blackledge-v-perry civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process motion-to-suppress prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-vindictiveness speedy-trial vindictiveness A. Do prosecutors create the appearance and presumption of vindictiveness requiring dismissal of a case and violate the rule in Blackledge v. Perry wh…
19-714 Pennsylvania v.William R. Landis, Jr. Pennsylvania 2019-12-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) blueford-v-arkansas criminal-procedure diminished-capacity double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause lesser-included-offense mens-rea murder murder-charges poland-v-arizona precedent retrial Did the Superior Court of Pennsylvania err in finding that the reinstatement of Murder in the Third Degree upon the award of a new trial violated the …
19-6823 Michael Dean Gonzales v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP brain-dysfunction certificate-of-appealability competency-to-stand-trial criminal-procedure drope-v-missouri due-process habeas-corpus mental-competency mental-illness pate-v-robinson procedural-bar state-waiver Petitioner was sentenced to death at a trial at which he did not cooperate with counsel in preparing his defense, repeatedly disrupted proceedings, to…
19-6825 Jorge Guerrero v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure good-cause plain-error pretrial-motions rule-12 rule-52 suppression-motion Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 12(c)(3) provides that certain pretrial motions are "untimely" if not raised by the deadline set by the district co…
19-6834 Lee Hope v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-922g3 constitutional-vagueness controlled-substance criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-due-process-rehaif-v-united-sta due-process federal-statute judgment-of-acquittal rehaif-v-united-states unlawful-user vagueness 1.) Whether the Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding that defendant's motion for judgment of acquittal was properly denied by the District Court …
19-6836 Therian Wimbush v. Willie Sue Mickens, Warden Georgia 2019-12-04 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal civil-rights court-appeal-procedure criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge speedy-trial standing Question not identified.
19-6837 Anzara Brown v. Dana Metzger, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland chain-of-custody civil-rights confidential-informant constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-disclosure exculpatory-evidence forensic-evidence medical-examiners witness-testimony I. WHETHER THE STATE OF DELAWARE CAN WITHOLD EXCUIPATORY EVIDENCE RELATING TO THE STATES OFFICE OF MEDICAL EXATMINERS OFFICIALS i STEALING DRUG EVIDEN…
19-6841 Adam Scott v. United States Third Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure delayed-sealing evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment sealing statutory-compliance suppression surveillance-law title-iii title-iii-intercept unforeseen-emergency wiretap wiretap-procedure wiretap-suppression 1. Should a wiretap that was not sealed until 30days after inter ception ended, and 21days after the order expired, be suppressed where that delay w…
19-6848 Robert Matthew Wittal v. Montana Montana 2019-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP co-defendant-testimony credibility criminal-procedure criminal-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-objection sixth-amendment witness-credibility The states key witnesses at a homicide trial were three charged co-defendants. Petitioner's defense rested upon undermining the credibility of the c…
19-6854 In Re Alexander Palomarez 2019-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights coercive-interrogation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus miranda-rights prisoner-rights standing state-court-review suppression-of-evidence 1. Can the "Prison Mailbox Rule" announced in Houston v. Lack, 487 U.S. 266, 101 L. Ed. 2d 245, 108 S.Ct. 2379 (1988), be applied to this case to excu…
19-6858 David Lamont Liddell v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aggravated-assault armed-career-criminal-act armed-robbery constitutional-law criminal-procedure johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states mississippi-state-law prior-conviction resentencing section-2255 sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony Whether, under the law established by this Court in Johnson v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015), Mr. Liddell should be resentenced without applyin…
19-6859 Michael A. Green v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment abandoned-vehicle community-caretaking criminal-procedure fourth-amendment inventory-search investigatory-motive law-enforcement-motive pretext search-and-seizure tow-policy vehicle-impoundment vehicle-search This case involves the impoundment and inventory search of a disabled vehicle by a law enforcement officer with an explicitly stated investigatory mot…
19-6797 Hal Mark Kreitman v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP business-expenses business-services criminal-activity criminal-liability criminal-offense criminal-procedure employee-liability employee-services employment federal-jurisdiction legal-culpability money-laundering payment-structure Does an employee's facilitation of a criminal offense, by providing services to a business engaged in criminal activity, make the employee guilty not …
19-6798 Corey Eugene Gill v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender criminal-procedure habeas-corpus mathis-v-united-states retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
19-6799 Aamir A. Hafiz-Thompson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP acca appeal certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel precedent sentencing supreme-court-precedent 1. Nationally, where counsel admittingly is inaccurate, misinforms and fails, to. make specific inquiry regarding Petitioner's prior predicates (ACCA)…
19-6801 Marcos Palomar v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment miranda-rights police-advisement police-interrogation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether a Miranda v. Arizona 384 U.S. 436 (1966), rights advisal is invalid if police indicate the right to appointed counsel prior to questioning is …
19-6802 Gary Jackson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process identification identification-process judicial-circuit jurisdiction precedent sentencing standing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent 1) Did the State of Florida within the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit Court in and Broward County, Florida and the Fourth District Court of Appeal as we…
19-6805 Hajes Rabaia v. Gubir Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied IFP brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-review sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent Under the fifth, sixth, and fourteenth amendment, Does the holding of Brady v. Maryland apply to the petitioner? 1. 2. Were the decisions rendered b…
19-6806 Anthony J. Stokes v. Florida Florida 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy due-process felony jurisdictional-conflict military-law predicate-felony sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation trial-modification I. WHETHER A CONVICTION ON A CHARGE CONTAINING AN ESSENTIAL ELEMENT NOT CHARGED IN THE INFORMATION IS A "DUE PROCESS" VIOLATION. II. WHETHER THE DOUB…
19-6809 Jason Michael Strubberg v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process entrapment jury-instructions sentencing sixth-amendment undercover-operations 1. Whether the Sixth Amendment and Due Process Clause allow a court to instruct the jury, over objection, that "Undercover agents may properly make us…
19-6814 Issac Efren Jimenez v. California California 2019-12-03 Denied IFP attorney-client-privilege attorney-ethics attorney-representation conflict-of-interest criminal-law criminal-procedure ethics former-client legal-ethics leniency prosecutorial-discretion witness-testimony Whether an attorney in a criminal case may subsequently represent a client who seeks leniency in exchange for testimony in a pending case against that…
19-6818 John D. Ward v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied IFP criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness Johnson v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015), applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidelines, USSG § 4B1.2(a)(2)? II. Whethe…
19-6819 Frankie Ovies v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-evidence cell-phones circuit-split criminal-procedure digital-evidence digital-forensics expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence forensic-technology lay-testimony 1. Whether using Cellebrite technology to download forensic digital evidence from a cell phone requires specialized or technical knowledge so that the…
19-6820 Rafael Leoner-Aguirre v. United States First Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court civil-procedure criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction first-circuit jury-instructions predicate-acts racketeering rico rico-conspiracy salinas-v-united-states statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions supreme-court united-states-code In Salinas v. United States, 522 U.S. 52 (1997), this Court held that the RICO conspiracy does not require proof that a defendant himself committed or…
19-6831 In Re Fredrick Wroten 2019-12-03 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial first-amendment judicial-obligation petition petition-for-redress redress unilateral-contract When the State and Federal appellate courts ignore and/ or refuse to respond to a denial of a fair trial claim/ does it violate and/ or abridge the Ap…
19-6795 Abraham Conde-Herrera v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-02 Denied IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei…
19-6796 Valentin Castanon-Renteria v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-02 Denied IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe…
19-6741 Jose Joaquin Ramirez v. Jeffrey C. Bloom, et al. Second Circuit 2019-11-27 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction incompetence incompetency incompetency-determination judicial-discretion mental-health section-1983 standing state-action title-42-usc-1983 1 - Is a Governmental Paid - Governmental Mandated Lawyer that is forced upon an individual against will without consent acting as a Governmental Agen…
19-6773 Edgar Ortega-Limones v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-27 Denied IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei…
19-6774 Albert Allen, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal due-process fair-sentencing-act ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum mens-rea prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the Court of Appeals Erred in Denying Petitioner's Application for a Certificate of Appealability to Appeal the District Court's Denial of His…
19-6776 William Dawson v. Bryan K. Wells Fourth Circuit 2019-11-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process excessive-force good-faith habeas-corpus jurisdiction police-misconduct qualified-immunity sentencing voluntary-manslaughter writ IF XKWESTX&AT OF^ XMTEMTXQMRLLV X MV ES TX & ft TBS, LO^AUUhl T/\1HERE. FLElEiM& VX&TXAA XLQLLAPAt/SSS ft klh &ZB£ AS dRSMBL SEEM EL - XAlST EA b QF…
19-6778 Michael Daemon Blackburn v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-waiver criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment interrogation-rights miranda-rights self-incrimination waiver Is a written-only advisement of Miranda rights - without time or silence to read it - a sufficient advisal allowing a knowing, intelligent and volunta…
19-6786 Carol Johnene Morris v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-27 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process government-action habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review property sentencing standing takings Whether the Western District of Texas' District Courts lawfully uses Carol Johnene Morris, C# 57931, 1988 for conviction to try granted home confineme…
19-6788 Eber Roblero v. Florida Florida 2019-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process extradition jurisdiction standing takings Question not identified.
19-6739 Marshon Simon v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act armed-career-criminal-act,violent-felony,elements- attempted-offense canine-search criminal-procedure Does an attempted offense meet the requirements of florida-v-harris fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-protections fourth-amendment,narcotics-detection,canine-search narcotics-detection residual-odor 1. Does Florida v. Harris stand for the proposition that narcotics sniffing canines may be trained to alert to residual odor, i.e. the absence of narc…
19-6755 Frederick Garcia-Cruz v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure debatable-among-jurists-of-reason due-process habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason mandatory-sentencing ninth-circuit residual-clause sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit misapplied this Court's "debatable among jurists of reason" standard for a certificate of appealability. 2. Whether the …
19-6759 James A. Lackey v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-deference jurists-of-reason mandatory-sentencing-guidelines ninth-circuit residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review vagueness void-for-vagueness 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit misapplied this Court's "debatable among jurists of reason" standard for a certificate of appealability. 2. Whether the …
19-6760 Ijaz Khan v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure-act constructive-amendment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fifth-amendment indictment indictment-modification polygamy polygamy-charge THE INDICTMENT, AND WHETHER THIS CONSTITUTES A DOUBLE JEOPARDY VIOLATION N AS THE GOVERNMENT CAN LATER BRING A NEW CHARGE FOR POLYGAMY.
19-6763 Anthony D. White v. Florida Florida 2019-11-26 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-procedure criminal-procedure due-process hearsay judicial-misconduct judicial-obstruction open-courts pro-se-litigation prosecutorial-misconduct standing state-officials 1) It is constitutionally lawful to deny a pro se, obstructed by: State Officials, within the judicial structure and a party to the courts, such as De…
19-6767 Douglas D. True v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness standard-of-review 1) Was the Eighth Circuit's summary denial of Mr. True's application for a certificate of appealability based upon an adjudication of the underlying m…
19-6769 Steven Hicks v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure debatable-among-jurists-of-reason johnson-v-united-states jurists-of-reason mandatory-guidelines mandatory-sentencing ninth-circuit sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g.-4b1.2(a)(2) vagueness void-for-vagueness Whether the Ninth Circuit misapplied this Court's "debatable among jurists of reason" standard for a certificate of appealability. Whether the residu…
19-678 United States, ex rel. Laurence Schneider v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, et al. District of Columbia 2019-11-26 Denied administrative-law appeal circuit-split civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process false-claims-act false-claims-act-fca-qui-tam-government-deference- government-dismissal habeas-corpus Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-deference qui-tam sentencing standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether the Government is entitled to absolute deference regarding its decision to dismiss an FCA action under section 3730(c)(2)(A), or whether the q…
19-6742 Jorge Prieto v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Florida 2019-11-25 Denied IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process finality judicial-discretion jurisdiction sentencing subject-matter-jurisdiction trial-court 1. Did the state trial court have jurisdiction to vacate petitioner's (20) Twenty year sentence, and then re-impose a sentence of life imprisonment, s…
19-6743 Kenneth Dewayne Nelson v. Texas Texas 2019-11-25 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-selection plea-change right-to-jury right-to-trial sixth-amendment texas-code-of-criminal-procedure texas-constitution trial-by-jury venire-panel ISSUE 1: THE VENIRE PANEL WAS INFORMED THAT MELLON HAD PLEAD GUILTY TO ALL FIVE CHARGES. WHEN NELSON CHANGED THOSE PLEAS BEFORE THE TRIAL ON THE MERIT…
19-6747 Josue Emmanuel Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-25 Denied IFP allocution allocution-error appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal due-process harmless-error judicial-review plain-error plain-error-review procedural-default sentencing 1. Whether allocution error is subject to plain error review in the absence of objection?
19-665 John Doe v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3553a criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure rule-35 rule-35b sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-factors substantial-assistance 1. May a district court deny a government's Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 35(b) motion for reduction of sentence based on substantial assistance …
19-664 Eugene H. Williams, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence coram-nobis criminal-conviction criminal-procedure destructive-devices firearms firearms-violations ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mens-rea statutory-interpretation writ-of-coram-nobis 1. Whether Petitioner is innocent of the charges resulting from a complete miscarriage of justice based upon the facts herein and is therefore qualifi…
19-6717 Jess Lee Green v. Mississippi Mississippi 2019-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-right constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-rights guilty-plea plea-bargaining plea-proceedings trial trial-procedure trial-rights I. Is the right to due process at trial and/or during guilty plea process a fundamental constitutional right ?
19-6718 James Douglas Pridgen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP bank-robbery carjacking certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence crimes-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states ninth-circuit section-924(c) section-924c unanimous-jury 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit wrongly denied the request for a certificate of appealability where the Section 924(c) conviction was charged as to two d…
19-6719 Mauro Castaneda Palacio v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-supervised-release sentencing standing supervised-release vagueness whether the U.S. Fifth Circuit supports the conflicting whether the U.S. Fifth Circuit supports some unconstitutional and vague special conditions un…
19-6720 James Dwayne Myers v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied IFP criminal-law criminal-procedure divisibility divisibility-analysis eighth-circuit jury-unanimity mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation May a court properly apply the divisibility analysis prescribed in Mathis v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 2243 (2016), without considering the question o…
19-6725 Richard A. Wellbeloved-Stone v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 19-usc-1509 agency-authority agency-procedure civil-procedure criminal-procedure criminal-proceeding customs-summons exclusionary-rule federal-law federal-policy ice non-customs-information Whether information having nothing to do with customs, obtained by an agency pursuant to a customs summons under 19 U.S.C. § 1509, should be suppresse…
19-6726 In Re Billie Byrd 2019-11-22 Denied IFP aedpa-filing-limitations aedpa-limitations constitutional-law criminal-procedure federal-indian-law habeas-corpus indian-treaties subject-matter-jurisdiction supremacy-clause treaties-with-indians treaty-supremacy-clause (1) Whether the filing limitations AEDPA apply to claims that state courts lacked of subject matter jurisdiction in criminal cases due to provisions i…
19-6727 Tyrone Marvin Andrews v. Noah Nagy, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP alibi-defense civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum-sentence plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-review strickland-v-washington trial-counsel DID THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT SANCTION DECISIONS OF THE MICHIGAN COURT OF APPEALS AND FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT THAT CONFL…
19-6729 Cedric Gray v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion legal-standard mental-competency miranda-rights procedural-error sentencing suppression-hearing trial-rights 1. Did the District Court violate my Fifth Amendment rights to remain silent? 2. Could the District Court use my 19% year old priors as proof of show…
19-6730 Cameron A. Harinarain v. Kevin Kauffman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. Third Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied IFP administrative-law appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus standing Question not identified.
19-6731 Travell Henry v. Patrick Warren, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigation right-to-counsel self-incrimination sixth-amendment trial-strategy witness witness-testimony I. WAS MR. HENRY 'S TRIAL COUNSEL, PATRICK NYENHUS, FAILED TO PROVIDE CONSTITUTIONALLY EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL? A). Counsel was ineffective w…
19-6737 Leonard L. Little, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2019-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review carpenter-v-united-states constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-law fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure jurisdiction legal-standards privacy search-and-seizure sixth-amendment-confrontation-clause standing supreme-court-precedent I. Petitioner asks did the Second District Court of Appeal apply federal law issued by the United States Supreme Court in a way that frustrates and u…
19-6709 Adam L. Acosta v. Colorado Colorado 2019-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-35 disclosure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-for-new-trial new-trial prosecution rule-16 rule-16-disclosure rule-33 rule-33-motion-for-new-trial rule-35 Whether the Court of Appeals misconstrued Rule 35(c)(3)(VII), Colorado Rules of Criminal Procedure, in declining to consider a claim of ineffective as…
19-6712 Adam Scott Caward v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-waiver circuit-split civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion legal-interpretation miscarriage-of-justice sentencing standing Whether the Court should adopt the rule espoused in the First, Third, Fourth, Tenth, and D.C. Circuits, which hold that an appellate court can decline…
19-6638 Yannier Arias v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-enhancement trial-counsel 1. Whether conflicting affidavits require an evidentiary hearing for ineffective assistance of counsel. 2. Counsel was ineffective for not objecting …
19-6659 In Re Arturo Rodriguez Ornalez 2019-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-negotiations rule-11 sentencing structural-error WHETHER CONSTITUTION AND STATUTORY PROVISIONS AND RULE 11 VIOLATIONS MAY HAVE RENDERED ARTURO RODRIGUEZ ORNALEZ'S SENTENCE AND CONVICTION CONSTITUTION…
19-6693 Chris Rayvon Starks v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-11-20 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure judge-finding jury jury-decision jury-determination predicate-offense predicate-offenses prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-penalty The fact that the defendant committed three predicate offenses "on occasions different from one another" an element of the ACCA for the jury to decide…
19-6696 Barbara Myers-McNeil v. North Carolina North Carolina 2019-11-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection indigent-defense language-access right-to-counsel transcript Question not identified.
19-6699 Andrew McWhorter v. Indiana Indiana 2019-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquittal amended-charges charging-information criminal-procedure deadly-weapon double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment barred the State of Indiana from "retrying" Petitioner for the 1) knowing 2) killing 3) of A…
19-6703 Shondor Janell Arceneaux v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2113(a) 924(c) aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting bank-robbery civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-offense generic-crime-definition generic-definition remand sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation I. If §924(c) applies to predicate crimes, 1 whose Elements are no Broader than a Federal Generic Definition of that crime , is... remand required i…
19-6682 Zhaopeng Chen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP circumstantial-evidence criminal-law criminal-procedure deliberate-ignorance due-process evidence farmer-v-brennan jury-instructions knowledge-element legal-standard mens-rea Whether the rule of Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825 (1994), should be extended to criminal cases, in which the defendant's knowledge of a certain fact…
19-6684 Rakeem Asaad Davis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-19 GVR IFP 18-usc-922g 6th-amendment 6th-amendment-right-to-jury-trial charged-theories-of-prosecution criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy due-process felon-in-possession jury-unanimity knowledge-element rehaif-v-united-states richardson-standard richardson-v-united-states sixth-amendment unanimous-jury-verdict uncharged-theories-of-prosecution Petitioner was charged with possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g). The indictment charged po…
19-645 Arizona v. Hector Sebastion Nunez-Diaz Arizona 2019-11-19 Denied Amici (1) criminal-procedure deportation immigration immigration-law lee-v-united-states legal-prejudice padilla-claim padilla-v-kentucky prejudice strickland-standard strickland-v-washington unauthorized-alien 1. Whether Respondent is categorically barred from establishing Strickland prejudice for a Padilla/Lee claim because, as an unauthorized alien, he is …
19-6674 Margarita Mora v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure rule-11 supervisory-powers Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Cireuit")-which held Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Criminal…
19-6676 Christopher G. Waguespack v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography computer-evidence computer-forensics confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination evidence law-enforcement sixth-amendment software-reliability I. Whether failing to call the law enforcement agent responsible for generating a computer report in the Government's case-in-chief implicates the Six…
19-6679 Horatio Johnson v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-11-19 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial nonunanimous-verdict sixth-amendment state-court state-criminal-procedure Does the right to a jury trial guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment, as applied to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment, allow a state-court crimi…
19-6655 Terrence Leonard Mathis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-18 Denied IFP certiorari criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rights detention due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus interrogation rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states remand right-to-counsel 1. Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States, 189 S. Ct…
19-6656 Fernando Quintela-Galindo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review chapter-7-policy chapter-7-policy-statements criminal-procedure due-process presumption-of-reasonableness revocation-sentence sentencing-guidelines Whether a presumption of reasonableness should be applied to a revocation sentence produced by Chapter 7 policy statements.
19-6662 Shane E. Jones v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-18 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure judicial-determination jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right statutory-interpretation Does the judicial determination of crimes committed on occasions different from one another" at sentencing under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S…
19-6665 Wesley Harlan Kingsbury v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-coercion section-2255 voluntariness The petitioner entered a guilty plea to health care fraud after his jury trial on the charges had commenced. He later filed a motion seeking to vacate…
19-6643 John Forrest v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure descamps-v-united-states mathis-v-united-states retroactive-precedent retroactivity sentencing sentencing-correction sentencing-review successive-motion supreme-court A successive motion to correct a sentence under 28 U.S.C. §2255(h)(2) must contain a "new rule of constitutional law, made retroactive to cases on col…
19-6644 Darrell Freeze v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-sentencing fifth-amendment judicial-fact-finding sentencing sixth-amendment substantive-reasonableness Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments permit judges to find the facts necessary to support an otherwise substantively unreasonable federal sentence.
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…
19-6648 Ralph Loren Barenz II v. Alaska Alaska 2019-11-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP community-condemnation criminal-procedure due-process false-testimony miranda-rights prosecutorial-misconduct protective-order Has hate and "community condemnation" of sex crimes deprived the petitioner of due process as seen in the following presented issues: WAS THE VIOLATI…
19-6650 Fidel Rios, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553a 8th-circuit criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court downward-variance guidelines judicial-discretion life-circumstances sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines u-s-code Whether the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals and District Court for the Southern District of Iowa failed to adequately consider the sentencing factors set…
19-6651 Shawn A. Thompson v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township Third Circuit 2019-11-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attempted-robbery constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions sixth-amendment standard-of-review third-degree-murder I. Appellant alleged that Trial Court gave a defective/deficient Third Degree Murder instruction to the jury, by failing to provide the jury with inst…
19-6652 Douglas Akira Hirano v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-15 Denied IFP booker-decision circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure johnson-doctrine johnson-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-booker vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness The Seventh Circuit holds that the void-for-vagueness doctrine and Johnson v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015), apply to the mandatory, pre-United…
19-622 Thomas S. Bell v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-11-15 Denied Response Waived blood-test criminal-procedure driving-under-influence driving-under-the-influence due-process evidence evidence-of-guilt fourth-amendment implied-consent search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether a motorist's assertion of his Fourth Amendment right to refuse consent to a warrantless blood test may be used as evidence of guilt for the of…
19-617 Nekebwe Superville v. United States Second Circuit 2019-11-14 Denied Response Waived aggravated-felony attorney-misadvice deportation Padilla-v-Kentucky plea-agreement will equivocal-warnings 28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure deportation-consequences immigration ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-warning plea-agreement plea-bargaining strickland-standard strickland-v-washington When conducting an analysis under 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f) and Strickland v. Washington, will equivocal warnings given by a judge pursuant to Fed. R. Crim.…
19-6632 Samier Patrick Clark v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP adam-walsh-act civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing-guidelines Was petitioner subjective to violations of his Constitutional rights throughout the course of his criminal prosecution? Was petitioner subjective to …
19-6634 Kathryn Woodin Markle v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-production burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process evidence government-burden pre-sentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-objection Does the defendant bear the burden of production to rebut information found in a pre-sentence report after objecting to that information, or instead, …
19-6637 Gregory Cooper v. Katy Poole, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process effective-counsel judicial-discretion right-to-counsel self-incrimination sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction takings Can a defendant be stoped from Confronting his accusers and witnesses with o ther testimony when the sth Amendment to the li.s. Const. Provides for Du…
19-6641 Michael Anthony Clayton v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation fifth-amendment miranda-rights miranda-warning right-to-counsel self-incrimination sixth-amendment Must an Officer Tell a Criminal Suspect in Custody That He Has the Right to Have an Attorney Present During the Interview, in Order to Use the Suspect…
19-6645 In Re Morgan Allen Armstrong 2019-11-14 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process fabrication-of-evidence fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment standing Question not identified.
19-6579 David Lee Smith v. North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights copyright criminal-procedure due-process habitual-felon habitual-offenders in-forma-pauperis legal-publication punitive-law standing statutory-law Are PRO. SE PETITIONERS ENTITLED TO U.S. SUPREME COURT LEAVE TO PROCEED AS PAUPER IN ISSUING COMPLAINT, WHEN CIRCUIT COURT ENTER DKILY FX) FRIVOLOUS I…
19-6589 Alicia Norman, Kendra Brantley, and Deenvaughn Rowe v. United States District of Columbia 2019-11-13 Denied IFP attorney-client-relationship criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-11 due-process federal-rules judicial-interference plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review KENDRA BRANTLEY: I. Was the D.C. Circuit's affirmance of Petitioner Brantley's convictions erroneous and in conflict with other federal jurisdictions …
19-6592 Monir George v. Dana Metzger, Warden Third Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-a-fair-trial right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Crtifhed Mentil I Defendanis e o ONE: whither a wive is Right Fo Jy Tral Tw who Cn Ao Fo The ert I nt To T Reqes Tr he Dee I THeir pleas. T Constttn…
19-6601 Kevin Battle v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-prosecution categorical-approach categorical-match circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-law federal-sentencing prior-conviction realistic-probability sentencing state-conviction state-court state-crime Whether a defendant who seeks to demonstrate that a prior conviction is not a categorical match for federal sentencing purposes must point to an actua…
19-6602 Carey Ackies, aka Boyd v. United States First Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-tracking criminal-procedure direct-review drug-offense first-step-act law-enforcement-surveillance location-tracking search-and-seizure sentencing-thresholds surveillance I. Whether a cell phone, when used by law enforcement to obtain "precise location information," is a "tracking device" under 18 U.S.C. § 3117(b). II.…
19-6606 Ryan T. Root v. United States Second Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure cumulative-errors double-prosecution due-process ineffective-counsel law-and-fact merger-doctrine miscarriage-of-justice money-laundering plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review I. WHETHER CUMULATIVE ERRORS OF LAW AND FACT LED TO A MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE AND A CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATION? II. WHETHER A DEFENDANT MAY BE CONVICTED…
19-6610 Mario Alberto Rubi v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-of-appeals criminal-procedure door-doctrine evidence expert-testimony fingerprint-evidence fingerprints open-door-doctrine open-the-door precedent standard-of-review unknowing-courier Whether the court of appeals erred in finding Mr. Rubi opened the door to expert testimony regarding unknowing couriers based on a few isolated questi…
19-6614 Jerome Marshall v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health miranda-rights miranda-warnings post-conviction-relief procedural-default witness-credibility Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred by denying Petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability after Petitioner made a substantia…
19-6619 Genesis Lee Whitted v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP base-offense-level criminal-procedure drug-quantity drug-weight fourth-circuit indictment relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-1b1.3 time-interval WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT IMPROPERLY EXPANDED GUIDELINE § 1B1.3 BY INCLUDING DRUG AMOUNTS ASSOCIATED WITH CONDUCT OCCURRING SIGNIFICANTLY OUTSIDE THE…
19-6620 John Kevin Waldrip v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-procedure federal-law federal-sentencing-guidelines federal-statute fifth-circuit judicial-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines special-assessments statutory-interpretation supervised-release I. In a consolidated Appeal JOHN KEVIN WALDRIP argued that the district court erroneously applied 18 U.S.C. § 3014 when it imposed a total of $15,000 …
19-6624 Andre D. Lee v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process hearing right-to-counsel sentence state-trial-court void waiver 1. Did the petitioner's right to counsel violated by the state trial court, thereby making the conviction and sentence completely void? 2. Did the st…
19-611 Rene A. Boucher v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appeal below-guideline-sentence criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-appeal waiver waiver-of-rights 1. Did the government waive its right to appeal the defendant's sentence when it expressly agreed that the defendant would be free to argue for a belo…
19-612 Hassan Abpikar v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response Waived circuit-court-conflict circuit-split conflict-with-other-circuits criminal-complaint criminal-procedure due-process original-indictment sentence-increase sentencing sentencing-enhancement speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation superseding-indictment 1. Whether the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Ruling on petitioner's claim to his Rights under the Speedy Trial Act is IN CONFLICT WITH OTHER CIRCUITS, …
19-6570 Ray Jefferson Cromartie v. Bradfield Shealy, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-12 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process habeas-corpus procedural-history section-1983 standing state-statute stay-of-execution In Skinner v. Switzer, 562 U.S. 521 (2011), this Court held that a prisoner who has been denied access to DNA testing under a state statute may bring …
19-6575 Dorothy Williams Elliott v. Florida Florida 2019-11-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights court-proceedings criminal-procedure due-process expungement ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining probation sentencing 1. On March 11, 2010, at the Felony Sounding Hearings The State of Florida was ready, and made the "Ore R." Why wasn't Attorney Robert L White, prepar…
19-6578 John Garrett Smith v. Washington Washington 2019-11-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction probable-cause standing A. Is it legally permissible for a State Superior Court to acknowledge that State's witness is openly committing multiple counts of "perjury worthy of…
19-6581 Javier Leon v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance material-variance methamphetamine-charge search-and-seizure WHETHER COUNSEL'S FAILURE TO SUBJECT THE GOVERNMENT'S CASE TO STRICT ADVERSARIAL TESTING, BY REASON OF A FICKLE, BARE-BONES 'MERE PRESENCE' THEORY OF …
19-6582 Roberto Carlos Martinez-Mendoza v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-12 Denied IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
19-6583 Patrick Killen, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment eleventh-circuit graham-v-florida gross-disproportionality proportionality sentencing statutory-limits I. What is the proper analysis to determine whether there is a threshold showing of an inference of gross disproportionality on an Eighth Amendment cl…
19-6587 Jose Joel Helguera-Del Rio v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure evidence evidence-law fourth-amendment plain-view-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop 1. Petitioner was the passenger in a vehicle stopped for a driving infraction. When Petitioner opened the glove compartment to retrieve the vehicle's …
19-6591 In Re Kenneth Uncapher 2019-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury jury-bias jury-misconduct mistrial newly-discovered-evidence victim I. Was the Petitioner denied a fair trial where a member of the jury told the judge he was accosted outside of the courtroom by members of the victim'…
19-6547 Kevin Sterling v. United States Second Circuit 2019-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP affirmance appeal appointed-counsel cja-18-usc-3006 criminal-justice-act criminal-procedure due-process fed-r-crim-p-44 federal-rules-criminal-procedure gideon-v-wainwright inability-to-pay legal-representation right-to-counsel writ-of-certiorari Whether defendant should have been appointed counsel too assist him in filing a writ of Certiorari, pursuant to the CJA 18 U,S.C, § 3006.. . and FED,…
19-6560 Matthew Joseph Lucio v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP consideration contract-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment guilty-plea habeas-corpus plea-agreement united-states-court-of-appeals Whether Mr. Lucio's plea agreement which extracted his guilty plea lacks consideration, and if so, whether his guilty plea violates the Fifth Amendmen…
19-6566 Alexander Kates v. New York New York 2019-11-08 Denied IFP 2nd-amendment actual-innocence civil-rights criminal-possession-of-a-weapon criminal-possession-of-weapon criminal-procedure due-process home-exception ineffective-assistance-of-counsel loaded-firearm penal-law penal-law-265.15(4) standing void-for-vagueness 1. tether New York State residents are always actually innocent of felony and attsipted felony criminal possession of a weapon offenses if they posses…
19-6511 Roberto Trinidad Del Carpio Frescas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fifth-circuit mandatory-victims-restitution-act preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence reliable-evidence restitution restitution-standard sentencing Whether this Court should clarify what "reliable evidence" means for establishing, by a preponderance of the evidence, the amount of restitution under…
19-6522 William Smith v. Texas Texas 2019-11-07 Denied IFP blood-draw constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-interpretation mandatory-blood-draw missouri-v-mcneely probable-cause public-safety search-and-seizure texas-transportation-code warrantless-search 1.Is Texas Transportation Code Sect. 724.012 (b.) (3.)(B). (Texas'mandatory blood draw statute) Constitutional as applied, under the Fourth Amendment …
19-6538 Levi Jermaine Griffin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof child-pornography criminal-indictment criminal-knowledge criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-instructions mens-rea possession-of-child-pornography reasonable-doubt statutory-elements WHETHER THE EVIDENCE WAS INSUFFICIENT TO SATISFY THE GOVERNMENT'S BURDEN TO PROVE THE ELEMENT OF KNOWLEDGE AS TO THE POSSESSION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY C…
19-6539 Dwayne Dumont Haizlip v. Joseph Valliere Fourth Circuit 2019-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process fourteenth-amendment habitual-felon-law habitual-offender mandatory-sentencing sentencing I. The Federal Court, Question Presented is whether a Sentential Mandatory Sentence + Drug Trafficking Conviction; Sentence Versus N.C. Gen. Stat. 90-…
19-6540 Howard Grant v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 appellate-procedure civil-procedure clay-v-united-states criminal-procedure extraordinary-circumstances final-judgment-rule forgery habeas-corpus indictment standing QUESTION ONE: Is a 28 USC SEC. 2255 MOTION premature if filed less than 90 days after the appellate court enters its judgment in accordance with the …
19-6551 Neil Timothy Aho v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure discovery guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel obstruction-of-justice plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing-guidelines withdrawal-of-plea Issue 1: Whether the appellate court erred in not finding that the district court abused its discretion by denying Petitioner's motion to withdraw his…
19-6554 Brandon Gregory Leal v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP apportionment criminal-procedure judicial-procedure paroline-analysis paroline-v-united-states plain-error proximate-cause restitution victim-compensation Whether failure to conduct a proximate cause and apportionment analysis as required by this Court's decision in Paroline v. United States, 572 U.S. 43…
19-6555 Courtney Johnson v. United States Third Circuit 2019-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP ability-to-pay appointed-counsel criminal-procedure due-process fine-imposition fines indigent-defendant judicial-discretion sentencing statutory-interpretation WHETHER A DISTRICT COURT ERRS BY IMPOSING A FINE UPON AN INDIGENT DEFENDANT, REPRESENTED BY APPOINTED COUNSEL, WITHOUT MAKING ANY INQUIRY INTO THE DEF…
19-6556 In Re Therian Wimbush, et vir 2019-11-07 Denied IFP access-to-courts appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus joint-petition judicial-review petition-denial procedural-barriers standing 1. Can co-convicted, co-freed, co-convicted and sentenced, even if by the same, codefendant husband and wife file a joint federal §2254 habeas corpus …
19-6497 David Morillo-Cruz v. United States Third Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the sentence imposed by the Court was reasonable?
19-6501 Alvin Felicianosoto v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review autonomy constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-autonomy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel McCoy-challenge mccoy-v-louisiana remand right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel 1) Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred on direct review in failing to remand the case to the district court when a challenge under McCoy…
19-6502 Cory Dale Fields v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-district-court federal-sentencing grand-jury no-bill prior-conduct reliability reliability-of-evidence reliability-standard sentencing sentencing-considerations uncharged-conduct Is alleged prior uncharged conduct that had been no-billed by a Grand Jury sufficiently reliable for a federal district court to consider at sentencin…
19-6515 Andre Verlin Anderson v. Vicki Janssen, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-due-process-eyewitness-identifi criminal-procedure-habeas-corpus-certificate-of-ap Did the district court commit reversible error whe Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Eig due-process eyewitness-identification habeas-corpus motion-to-suppress photographic-lineup reversible-error QUESTION ONE: Did the district court commit reversible error by denying Petitioner's motion to suppress the unduly suggestive photographic lineup? QU…
19-6518 Eric Burgie v. Arkansas Arkansas 2019-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-robbery civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process jurisdiction mental-fitness mental-health parole parole-eligibility sentencing sentencing-scheme Mr. Bugie filed a section lugo-ill ca petition to corfense and ane appled Miller to an 18-year old. Mr. Burgse sk this court to anwer whether or not t…
19-6524 Franklin Elliott Benson v. Aimee Smith, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP actus-reus civil-rights constitutional-rights corpus-delicti criminal-murder criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions standing venue venue-challenge Whether, for the element of "causing the death" an essential element of malice murder in Georgia O.C.G.A. 16-5-1(a), the indictment which accused the …
19-6525 Sean Trent Barnes v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion competency competency-hearing criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea plain-error-review plea-bargaining pro-se-representation self-representation sentencing sentencing-enhancement The issue subsuming all other issues in this appeal is whether I. or not, Mr. Sean Trent Barnes, while incarcerated in pre-trial cus tody as a federal…
19-6526 In Re David Paul Worthington 2019-11-06 Denied IFP 18-usc-1151-1153 aedpa aedpa-limitations article-1 article-6 criminal-procedure indian-law indian-treaties state-court-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction supremacy-clause treaties treaties-with-indians (1) Whether the filing limitations AEDPA apply to claims that state courts lacked of subject matter jurisdiction in criminal cases due to provisions …
19-6528 Royce C. Gouveia v. Nolan Espinda, Director, Hawaii Department of Public Safety, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied IFP acquittal constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy double-jeopardy,criminal-procedure,jury,verdict,ac jury jury-verdict retrial verdict Does a jury's execution of a verdict form acquitting the defendant, and announcement that it has reached a verdict, suffice to erect a double jeopardy…
19-6530 Vincent Williams v. United States Third Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924 18-usc-924c 18-usc-924j concurrent-sentence-doctrine criminal-procedure davis davis-ruling davis-v-united-states habeas-corpus life-sentence life-sentences post-conviction post-conviction-relief section-2255 third-circuit whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred by not applying the Davis ruling to Mr Williams firearm habeas corpus petition towards his firearm co…
19-594 Mahmoud Thiam v. United States Second Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied Response Waived american-constitutional-limitations american-court constitutional-limitations criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process foreign-statute official-act predicate-offense predicate-prosecution vagueness-doctrine 1. Where a foreign statute is used as a predicate to prosecution in a United States court, including but not limited to the vagueness doctrine, are th…
19-587 Jimmie Eugene White, II v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-11-05 Denied continuance criminal-procedure district-court-discretion ends-of-justice on-the-record-findings speedy-trial speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation stipulation time-exclusion Whether, notwithstanding the plain language of § 3161(h)(7) of the Speedy Trial Act and this Court's decision in Zedner, a district court may exclude …
19-6483 Carl Robinson v. Bernadette Mason, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Retreat Third Circuit 2019-11-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure clearly-erroneous-standard clearly-erroneous'-rule-52(a),exhaustion-of-remedi conviction court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process exhaustion-of-remedies judicial-independence judicial-procedure legal-remedy procedural-due-process standard-of-review statute supplemental-response timeliness unfairness Was the Petitioner denied due process of law,in vi 1 This case presents the question when there's no authority in the Federal Court's that countenances the preparation of the opinion by the attorney fo…
19-6485 Ryan Van Stevenson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-waiver criminal-procedure discretion due-process due-process,appellate-waiver,abuse-of-discretion,s evidence-standard extrinsic-evidence judicial-discretion preponderance-of-the-evidence sentencing-enhancement Did the Court abuse it's discretion when it enforced an appellate waiver on an issue that was outside the scope of the appellate waiver's provisions? …
19-6491 Matthew Shaffer v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-4th-amendment-search-and-seizur drug-conspiracy due-process evidence-suppression evidentiary-hearing exclusionary-rule firearms-expert-testimony-drug-activity law-enforcement-testimony multiple-conspiracies-sentencing-enhancements rule-29-motion-sufficiency-of-evidence search-warrant sentencing-enhancement standing 1. THE TRIAL COURT ERRED IN FAILING TO CONDUCT AN EVIDENTIARY HEARING CONCERNING THE AFFIDAVIT RELIED UPON IN OBTAINING THE SEARCH WARRANT AND FURTHER…
19-6493 Theresa Gail Scanlan v. Washington Washington 2019-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP accuser confrontation-clause criminal-procedure medical-evidence medical-personnel police-interrogation police-involvement prosecutorial-purpose prosecutorial-use sixth-amendment testimonial testimonial-statements When police officers repeatedly inform an accuser that his statements to medical personnel will be given to the police and prosecuting authorities for…
19-6495 Brent Curtis Schwertz v. Richard Jennings, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-11-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP accidental-discharge americans-with-disabilities-act brady-disclosure brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process expert-witness firearms-examination ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mistrial right-to-counsel strickland-standard Consistent with the holding in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), which held that to prove prejudice on a claim of ineffective assistance …
19-6496 David Elijah Smith v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-11-05 GVR IFP apprendi-v-new-jersey blakely-v-washington criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearm-statute haymond-v-united-states mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum (1) DID THE PETITIONER'S SENTENCE FOR 18 U.S.C. 922(g) VIOLATE THE STATUTORY MAXIMUM IN VIOLATION OF BLAKELY V. WASHINGTON, 542 U.S. 296, 304; APPREND…
19-6500 Horacio Dominguez-Villalobos v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-05 Denied IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe…
19-6506 Joshua Jake White v. Mark Nooth, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2019-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP credibility credibility-contest criminal-procedure expert-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief prevailing-professional-norm professional-norm sixth-amendment Counsel failed to object to prejudicial testimony. Specifically, the State's expert's testimony vouched for the alleged victim's allegations of abuse …
19-585 Robert Leigh Stoltz v. Virginia Virginia 2019-11-04 Denied Response Waived age-of-consent criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions mens-rea reasonable-belief statutory-interpretation undercover-operations Is due process violated where the judge instructs the jury such that even if the jury finds that the defendant knew the alleged victim (an undercover …
19-6461 Vernon Allen Collins v. Maryland Maryland 2019-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-jury-instructions civil-rights collateral-challenges coram-nobis criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus hearsay-rule jury-instructions laches laches-defense structural-errors (0). TO DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT A WRIT OF ERROR CORAM NOBIS PETITION CAN BE BARRED UNDER THE TWO PRONG TEST UNDER THE DOCTRINE OF A LACHES DEFENSE TH…
19-6471 Diego Alonso Lozano-Perez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-determination constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plea-bargaining rule-11 standing voluntariness voluntary-plea Whether the Court made the Constitutionally required determination that the guilty plea was truly voluntary, whereas it failed to comply with the rigi…
19-6472 Arthur Lopez v. California California 2019-11-01 Denied IFP child-custody civil-rights criminal-procedure criminal-protective-orders due-process equal-protection family-law latino-fathers parental-rights Latino (nexiem teritae). thould Mabe Fathers, ineledi Q he Protection Catholia-Chistian plovided qual lnde Law guaranteed Due Prozess and a Itates Co…
19-6473 Gelu Topa v. Teofilo Melendez, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conciseness criminal-procedure due-process exigent-circumstances facts fourth-amendment police-report relevance scotus-petition warrantless-search writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
19-6474 Christopher Andrew Tank v. Michigan Michigan 2019-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause confrontation-clause-violation constitutional-rights constitutional-rights-violation criminal-procedure due-process dying-declaration prejudicial-effect sixth-amendment testimonial-dying-declarations testimonial-evidence I. WHETHER TESTIMONIAL DYING DECLARATIONS VIOLATE THE CONFRONTATION CLAUSE OF THE SIXTH AMENDMENT; AND, WHETHER PETITIONER'S CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS WER…
19-6478 Abdul King Garba, et al. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-standard apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure evidence expert-testimony jackson-v-virginia kumho-tire ninth-circuit restitution sufficiency-of-evidence sufficient-evidence supreme-court-precedent weight-vs-admissibility 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit Memorandum conflicted with this Court's decisions (e.g., Kumho Tire) regarding whether unreliability of an expert's testi…
19-6427 Ray A. Smith v. John Chapdelaine, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-10-31 Denied Relisted (2)IFP charging-document criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions professional-responsibility prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence 1. As representatives of the Office of Public Defender, did lawyers Willie Rios and Eric Zale, fufill their professional responsibilities and obligati…
19-6437 Lee E. Peyton v. California California 2019-10-31 Denied IFP confrontation-clause courtroom-protocol criminal-procedure due-process due-process-clause farretta-v-california fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-representation sixth-amendment This Petition presents an issue of fundamental importance to all defendants facing criminal prosecution in California: whether the Sixth and Fourteent…
19-6452 David P. Moran v. Florida Florida 2019-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure discovery mandamus pro-se pro-se-litigant records standing subpoena subpoena-enforcement trial-court writ-of-court 1. Should a writ of mandamus compelling the Court to issue a subpoena be automatically granted when the defendant has adequately shown an entity viola…
19-6458 Torrence E. Davis v. Arizona Arizona 2019-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP conditional-demand constitutional-rights criminal-procedure equivocal-invocation equivocal-request faretta-right faretta-v-california judicial-discretion new-counsel pro-per right-to-counsel self-representation self-representation-right trial-court-advisement waiver-of-counsel In Faretta v. California, this Court held that criminal defendants have the right to represent themselves in criminal prosecutions. Faretta v. Califor…
19-6459 Kenneth K. DuVall v. Carlos Hernandez, Superintendent, Avery Mitchell Correctional Institution Fourth Circuit 2019-10-31 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 1st-amendment 5th-amendment access-to-courts constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-standards judicial-relief judicial-review state-imprisonment 1. Did Judge Whitney's failure to rule on Petitioner's newly discovered evidence of Double Jeopardy issues deny Petitioner his 1st and 14th Amendment …
19-6469 Kenneth N. McFall v. Indiana Indiana 2019-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP and sole defense witness to testify at trial for appeal evidence sixth-amendment state-court-decision testimony abuse-of-discretion accomplice-testimony constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-seizure fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment sixth-amendment state-bypass-sixth-amendment Whether trial courts abuse of discretion in not allowing an alleged accomplice, and sole defense witness to testify at trial for the defense violated …
19-6444 Jermaine D. Harris v. Stephen T. Moyer, Secretary, Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-10-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aiding-and-abetting appeal cell-phone-technology cell-tower-testimony criminal-procedure cumulative-effect due-process fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-privilege habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legally-inconsistent-verdicts sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington 1) Did the Court of Appeals err in denying a certificate of appealability on Petitioner 's claim that his trial counsel was constitutionally ineffec…
19-6446 William L. Edwards v. Texas Texas 2019-10-30 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Why was William Edwards never allowed to present the 911 evidence that exonerates him to a jury. Why was William Edwards scheduled for four trials dur…
19-6448 Garrett Dean Door, Sr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment. civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing takings 14th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence liberty WHETHER THE NINTH CIR'S CASE LAW NOW CONFLICTS WITH THIS COURT'S PRECEDENT WHERE A DEFENDANT, WHO EXERCISES HIS RIGHT TO PRE-TRIAL DEFENSE, HAS PREJUD…
19-6453 James E. Lang v. Florida Florida 2019-10-30 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fiore-v-white judicial-review pipeline-law precedent-interpretation retroactivity statutory-interpretation When a state's highest court corrects an erroneous interpretation of it's statutory law committed by it's lower appellate Court, that has affirmed a c…
19-6454 Corey Morris v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2019-10-30 Denied IFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel extended-sentences federal-review multiple-indictments plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether defendants have a Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of Counsel when Contemplating Plea offers. Morris was charged at multiple indi…
19-566 Devan Pierson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-10-30 GVR 922(g)-felon-in-possession criminal-procedure direct-appeal firearm-possession first-step-act first-step-act-2018 rehaif rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states sentencing status-based-possession statutory-interpretation 1. Section 401(c) of the First Step Act of 2018, Pub. L. No. 115-394, provides: "This section, and the amendments made by this section, shall apply to…
19-556 Lucas Allen Newnam v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-10-29 Denied bad-faith-inquiry bright-line-test continuance continuance-request counsel-of-choice criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-delay In every jurisdiction in the United States- both federal and state- there is a balancing test for deciding whether a court's decision to deny a contin…
19-564 Michigan v. Eric Lamontee Beck Michigan 2019-10-29 Denied acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-circuit-courts preponderance-of-evidence presumption-of-innocence sentencing Whether, when imposing a sentence within the statutory range for the offense of conviction, due process permits a sentencing court to consider conduct…
19-6403 Davin D. Crenshaw, aka Davon D. Crenshaw v. Texas Texas 2019-10-29 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony hearsay mental-health sexual-assault victim-impact Is it reasonably pertinent to diagnosisd or treat(mend)" when the stade ments made are clearly beyond the Scope of a SANE examination& Would this be h…
19-6404 Donald Lee Curtis v. Erik A. Hooks, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety Fourth Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-robbery constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process kidnapping statutory-conduct whether second-degree kidnapping and Armed Robbery the Constitutional right of double Jeopardy upon Violate Convictions and Punishment for both offens…
19-6415 Jose Eleuterio Nava v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure deference district-court due-process judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors?
19-6418 Wayne Neville Morris v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constructive-amendment criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error due-process fatal-variance fifth-amendment modified-categorical-approach rule-of-lenity sixth-amendment 1. Whether, a conviction based on an erroneous legal theory, interpretation or a mistake about the law, can continue to be sustained, once the petitio…
19-6423 Halisi Uhuru v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-investigation federal-jurisdiction incarceration legal-proceeding mens-rea obstruction-of-justice rico rico-organization 1. The Appellant was improperly convicted of participating in a RICO organization, 18 U.S.C. §1962(d), because he was incarcerated during the vast maj…
19-6424 Anthony Darnell Stokes v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review conviction court-of-appeals criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-statute obstruction-of-justice sentencing statutory-interpretation WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS MISAPPLIED 18 U.S.C.S. § 1512(c)(1) (LAWYERS EDITION 2008) WHEN IT AFFIRMED STOKES'S CONVICTIONS FOR OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTI…
19-6431 Jose Armando Bazan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-29 GVR Relisted (4)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure fact-question guidelines plain-error role-adjustment sentencing sentencing-guidelines Petitioner, JOSE ARMANDO BAZAN, was charged with and pleaded guilty to a single count of possession with intent to distribute cocaine. The District Co…
19-6433 Edward Anthony Torres v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-jurisdiction district-court due-process federal-courts indian-status jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue magistrate-court native-american native-american-law ninth-circuit pretrial-decision standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a district court may, pretrial, decide an Indian status jurisdictional question in light of conflicting Ninth Circuit law that results in a fe…
19-6438 Jose Luis Tapia-Fierro v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-diligence due-process evidence-removal federal-jurisdiction innocence-claim procedural-limitations removal standing statute-of-limitations Whether the State of Arizona's statute of limitations found in the Arizona Revised Statute ("A.R.S." 812-542) applies to a federal action in a distric…
19-6406 Clifford L. Rush v. Nebraska Nebraska 2019-10-28 Denied IFP conflicts-of-interest constitutional-rights counsel-of-choice criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion nebraska-supreme-court pro-se pro-se-representation right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment withdrawal-of-counsel I. WHETHER OR NOT THE NEBRASKA SUPREME COURT OPINION IN AFFIRMING THE NEBRASKA LOWER COURT'S JUDGMENT DENYING PETITIONER THE SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO …
19-6407 Derran Smiley v. California California 2019-10-28 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance penal-code post-conviction retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing state-court-ruling 1) APPELLANT OFFENSES WERE COMMITTED IN 2004, BUT, IN 2006 PENAL CODE § 667.6(d) WAS AMENDED AND INCREASED THE PUNISHMENT WHILE CHANGING THE VIOLATING…
19-6409 Sean Reilly v. Florida Florida 2019-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-duty contract-law criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel misunderstanding plea-bargaining sixth-amendment written-plea-offers Whether counsel for the accused has a constitutional duty under the Sixth Amendment to document and present the client plea offers (contracts) in writ…
19-6411 Tyler Joseph Barefield v. Arkansas Arkansas 2019-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP alternative-perpetrator alternative-perpetrator-evidence constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence right-to-defense right-to-present-defense state-evidentiary-requirements state-evidentiary-rules To what extent— consistent with the right to present a defense — may a State restrict the ability of a defendant to present evidence tending to establ…
19-6413 Ricky Langley v. Howard Prince, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-10-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP acquittal ashe-v-swenson collateral-estoppel constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus jury-verdict Whether it is clearly established that a jury's failure to return a verdict, which is tantamount to an acquittal for double jeopardy purposes, will ha…
19-6417 Doran Wilburn Walker v. Texas Texas 2019-10-28 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing cumulative-sentences double-jeopardy due-process oral-pronouncement-of-sentence presence-of-defendant sentencing statutory-authority trial-court-authority written-judgment 1. If a trial court wishes to cumulate sentences, must it so order at the time and place that sentence is orally pronounced? See Grays v State, 291 S.…
19-6362 Fernando Nunez v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-doctrine brady-v-maryland constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-diligence due-process evidence evidence-disclosure exculpatory-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct ARE CRIMINAL DEFENDANTS' REQUIRED TO PLEAD AND PROVE THEIR DUE DILIGENCE AS AN ADDITIONAL ELEMENT UNDER BRADY v. MARYLAND, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), AND ITS…
19-6383 Nelli Kesoyan v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-appeals federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure legal-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Did the Court of Appeals adopt an erroneous interpretation of U.S.S.G. § 2J1.3(b)(3)?
19-6392 Jeffrey F. Evers v. Brian Foster, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts first-amendment free-exercise habeas-corpus merits-based-decision new-trial procedural-default public-accommodation religious-freedom same-sex-marriage standing state-licensing me issues responding to a no-merit repart that doesint sion with respect of allclaims raised by Evers' ere was never a weapon pruduce. the Sixth Amend…
19-6402 Omar Villarreal Silva v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-prejudice collateral-attack criminal-procedure customs-and-border-protection deportation due-process immigration immigration-law prejudice removal-proceedings A defendant charged with illegally reentering the United States after deportation or removal has a right under United States v. Mendoza-Lopez, 481 U.S…
19-6360 George C. Pugh v. Florida Florida 2019-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process felony florida-law habitual-felony-offender habitual-offender precedent release-date sentencing statutory-interpretation time-calculation Is it lawfol for the Petittioner For be decmed an Habitual fetorry offe whereas the Petitioner was one day outside of the B years of dor of conviction…
19-6344 Spencer Altschuler v. Florida Florida 2019-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process negligence reckless-driving vehicular-homicide Whether – in a case involving the charge of vehicular homicide – the Due Process Clause of the United States Constitution requires the prosecution to …
19-540 Andre Jenkins v. City of Cleveland, Ohio Ohio 2019-10-24 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights concurrent-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture forfeiture-procedure in-rem-jurisdiction property-rights seizure standing warrantless-seizure I. The questions presented here centralize issues related to whether the warrantless seizure here of money for forfeiture (by local police) can be jus…
19-541 Michael Lambert v. Estate of Kevin Brown, by its Successor in Interest Rebecca Brown, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-24 Denied cold-case criminal-investigation criminal-procedure dna-evidence exigent-circumstances false-statements fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violations murder-case probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant third-party 1. Did the Ninth Circuit err by failing to address whether a reasonable officer in Detective Lambert's position would have objectively believed his co…
19-6361 Gregory Alan McKown v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights commitment competency-evaluation criminal-procedure due-process involuntary-commitment liberty liberty-interest mathews-factors mathews-v-eldridge mental-health procedural-safeguards substantive-due-process I. Does mandatory, involuntary commitment of an incompetent defendant to the Bureau of Prisons for the sole purpose of evaluating whether he can attai…
19-6365 Deontae Travohn Davis v. Duncan MacLaren, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-10-24 Denied IFP civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process expert-witness handwriting-expert perjury preliminary-examination CAN THIS COURT EXTEND EXPERT WITNESS NEEDED BEYOND PSYCHIATRIST SPECIALIST BECAUSE COURTS REFUSED OFFER HANDWRITING EXPERT TO ASSIST PETITIONER DEFENS…
19-6366 Spencer Kerry Curtiss v. North Dakota North Dakota 2019-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel standing statutory-interpretation As Truth is fundamental: Can a state's duty to provide guarantee of counsel in a criminal action be duly fulfilled when supplied representation is in …
19-6376 Josue Osvaldo Solis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal construction criminal-procedure due-process fairness fairness-doctrine plea-agreement sentence-appeal sentencing waiver waiver-of-rights 1. Whether, consistent with the Due Process Clause, a defendant can knowingly waive the right to appeal his sentence when his purported waiver occurs …
19-6377 Jerome Gaskin v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP consecutive-sentencing criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial trial-rights DOES A DEFENDANT'S RIGHT TO THE EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL DURING PLEA BARGAINING INCLUDE BEING ACCURATELY ADVISED BY COUNSEL OF THE POTENTIAL FO…
19-6380 Emerson L. Beverly v. Sherry L. Burt, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial fair-trial-14th-amendment fair-trial-6th-amendment fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct red-herring sentencing-review sixth-amendment I. DID THE PROSECUTOR 'S REPEATED REFERENCE TO PETITIONER 'S DEFENSE AS A "RED HEARING " CONSTITUTE MISCONDUCT THEREBY DENYING PETITIONER A FAIR TRI…
19-6393 Jean-Paul Gamarra v. United States District of Columbia 2019-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights competency criminal-competency criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony involuntary-medication involuntary-treatment mental-health psychiatric-testimony trial-fairness In Sell v. United States, 539 U.S. 166, 179 (2003), this Court held that "the Constitution permits the Government involuntarily to administer antipsyc…
19-6367 James Eugene Keiser v. Ricky Foxwell, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment standing trial-errors 1. Whether the 4th Circuit exceeded the limited scope of the COA analysis which was an error, albeit Petitioner met the requirement showing of denia…
19-6332 Walter Glenn v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment consent-to-search criminal-procedure fourth-amendment leadership-role obstruction-of-justice rental-vehicle search-and-seizure sentencing-guidelines standing standing-civil-procedure standing-doctrine traffic-stop 1. In September 2014, did a relief driver of a rental vehicle, driving with permission of the lessee, although contractually unauthorized, have standi…
19-6343 Antoine Richmond v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-10-23 Denied IFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure felon-in-possession fourth-amendment home-entry home-privacy probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure warrantless-search Police officers were patrolling a residential neighborhood when they saw Petitioner walking on the sidewalk. They saw that he had something in his fro…
19-6350 Maurice Antoine-Hake Dobson-El v. Michigan Michigan 2019-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction sentencing speedy-trial standing Was Petitioner's constitutional right to a speedy trial violated?
19-6351 Geoffrey Elkington v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2019-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-standard state-court-deference trial-counsel Did the Third Circuit err in deferring to the State Court finding that Petitioner was not prejudiced by Petitioner's trial attorney failing to enter i…
19-6357 James Alton Turner, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 acca-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process,criminal-procedure,sentencing,acca,joh elements-clause habeas-relief johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing-court sentencing-guidelines violent-felonies (1) Whether, where the record is unclear, a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petitioner residual clause to determine that his prior offenses were violent felonies, be…
19-6315 John David Stahlman v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-law fifth-amendment sentencing statutory-interpretation title-18-usc-2422(b) 1.) DID THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA, AND SUBSEQUENTLY THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT, VIOLATE T…
19-6321 Michael J. Prance v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel plea-withdrawal right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether there is a Sixth Amendment right to counsel during plea withdrawal proceedings?
19-6322 Kelvin Miles v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne alleyne-vs-united-states apprendi confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-destruction fair-trial hearsay sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-factors 1. DID THE PRE-TRIAL DESTRUCTION OF EVIDENCE BY THE STATE DENY THE PETITIONER HIS RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS AND A FAIR TRIAL, THUS DENYING HIM THE ONLY EV…
19-6328 Antonio Leonard Brown v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection federalism habeas-corpus jurisdictional-issue jury-selection mandatory-minimum state-criminal-procedure Does A State Constitutional violation Rise to the same severity As A United States Constitutional violation? If a majority of en banc Justices in A s…
19-6333 Juan Gabriel Angulo-Cabrera v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP codefendant criminal-procedure due-process effective-attorney evidence evidentiary-hearing false-accusations ineffective-assistance phone-records right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial trial-counsel 1). Whether the District and Appellate Courts erred in denying Defendant an evidentiary hearing on his claim of ineffective assistance of trial couns…
19-6340 Jonathon William-Durand Neuhard v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP comity criminal-procedure due-process evidence federalism integrity-of-state-proceedings statutory-construction statutory-construction-federal-question-due-proces statutory-interpretation Whether the federal court of appeals below correctly found that the determination of whether a state adjudication qualifies as a prior conviction unde…
19-6341 Charles Raymond Stagner v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-intent criminal-procedure drug-crimes due-process evidence-admissibility fifth-amendment intent methamphetamine-possession sentencing sentencing-reduction sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Fifth Amendment Guarantees the Petitioner the Right to a Judgment of Acquittal If the Government Fails to Prove the Petitioner Intended to…
19-6345 William N. Lucy v. Mary Cooks Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review bankruptcy-proceedings certiorari-petition civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process eviction habeas-corpus judicial-error post-conviction-relief property-rights standing trial-court-discretion 1. DID MOBILE COUNTY CIRCUT COURT JUDGE ROBERT SMITH ABUSE HIS DIBCRETION BY GRANTING EVICTION ORDER IN CIVIL CASE# CVI-O852 WHILE PETITIONER WERE IN …
19-525 Steve Cooley, et al. v. National Abortion Federation Ninth Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights contempt contempt-sanction criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel effective-counsel preliminary-injunction sanctions sixth-amendment younger-abstention How can a state court criminal defendant enjoy his Sixth Amendment right to effective counsel when his state court criminal counsel have been held in …
19-528 John Wayne Scantlebury, et al. v. United States District of Columbia 2019-10-22 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction article-iii collateral-attack criminal-procedure cross-border-tort due-process federal-officer-liability final-judgment minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction (1) Whether criminal appeals from dismissals without prejudice are "final" under 28 U.S.C. §1291. (2) Whether personal jurisdiction's minimum contact…
19-530 James Kerr Schlosser v. United States Third Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-denial judicial-misconduct mens-rea reasonableness religious-beliefs restitution right-to-a-complete-defense state-of-mind statutory-authority willfulness 1. Whether the lower courts erred regarding the denied evidence, violating the defendant's constitutional right to a complete defense, if the evidence…
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…
19-6327 Lorenzo Lorta v. Stuart Sherman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-10-21 Denied IFP amendments california-penal-code circumstances civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent modification-of-sentence parole sentencing statutory-interpretation Refexto All attachmentoregarding questions of Las V E an Modification of Sentence and Re-sentence Lnder 5 Y6 positibn 57 Also, Under ColiForriaPenal C…
19-6305 Ilma Alexandra Soriano Nunez v. United States Third Circuit 2019-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP bail-bond bail-release civil-rights criminal-procedure custody due-process immigration immigration-detention immigration-orders non-citizen release statutory-period unsecured-bail Whether a non-citizen defendant, granted unsecured bail, whom immigration officials have failed to take into custody during the statutory 10-day perio…
19-6306 Jonathan Mota v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-18 Denied IFP circuit-split commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process hobbs-act interstate-commerce ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit incorrectly held—in conflict with the decisions of several other circuits—that to violate the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1951…
19-498 Raymond L. Rogers v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-10-18 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2253 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution fifth-amendment habeas-corpus immediate-release sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether or not the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals [erred], when denying (1). your Petitioner, a certificate of appealability (COA) pursuant to 28 U.S.…
19-499 Henry Posada v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-10-18 Denied Response Waived appeals-court-error appellate-review clear-error criminal-procedure district-court-error evidence government-evidence government-surveillance healthcare-billing loss-amount loss-calculation medical-fraud patient-records sentencing standard-of-review Whether the court of appeals erred in determining that the district court did not clearly err in accepting the government's assertion that Mr. Posada …
19-491 Nilesh Bharatkumar Kumar v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure hill-v-lockhart immigration-law ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-resident plea-agreement plea-bargaining prejudice-analysis strickland-standard strickland-v-washington To establish prejudice under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), a defendant who has pleaded guilty based on deficient advice from his atto…
19-6280 Jose Soto v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-criminal-procedure harmless-error prosecutorial-misconduct Should the government bear the burden of establishing the harmlessness of a properly preserved claim of prosecutorial misconduct in a federal criminal…
19-6283 Daryl Scott v. United States District of Columbia 2019-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process fair-trial government-misconduct judicial-integrity mesarosh-v-united-states military-justice post-conviction-relief post-trial-discovery witness-credibility Is the widespread fabrication and destruction of false DNA evidence by a government chemist for use at trial against U.S. servicemembers, and the fail…
19-6288 Ron Christopher Whitley v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-case drug-offense drug-offenses judicial-discretion proportionality-review sentencing-departure sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines Whether the 156-month sentence is greater than necessary to comply with the purposes of sentencing under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) where the district court …
19-6289 Brian Thomas Mohr v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied IFP appellate-procedure case-review circuit-court-case criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-reconsideration jury-instructions legal-probability rehaif-v-united-states remand standard-of-review statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether there is a reasonable probability of different result if the court below is directed to reconsider its judgment in light of Rehaif v. Unite…
19-6290 Servando Pineda-Castellanos v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe…
19-6294 Alexander Mattei v. Sean Medeiros, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk First Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process evidence expert-testimony hearsay sixth-amendment surrogate-analyst testimonial-evidence testimonial-hearsay trial-procedure Whether there is ability to cross-examine a surrogate analyst at a jury trial who had used another's certified and testimonial DNA results ipse dixit,…
19-6297 Aleisha O. Gray v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP alien-transportation conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure evidence immigration immigration-law obstruction-of-justice sentencing-guidelines sufficiency-of-evidence I. Is there insufficient evidence to warrant a finding of guilty for conspiracy to transport undocumented aliens and for transporting undocumented ali…
19-6299 Victor Lopez v. Sterling Correctional Facility, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 10th-circuit appeals case-enhancement criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus imprisonment ineffective-assistance innocence judicial-review sentencing-enhancement substantial-innocence Whether Mr Lopez should be in prison on a case that the 1OTH Circuit found substantial Innocence on and the Trial Court Dismis sing 3 cases that were …
19-6301 Jerry W. Jenkins v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment due-process presumed-innocent sentencing testimony trial 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-proceeding due-process evidence-admission ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presumption-of-innocence sixth-amendment 2# WhetheR MR.JenKiNS RighTs to ThE uNited StAZE CONSTituTION WEeE ViOlAted When The GoveRMent INFRiNged uPon His Rights to BE PRiOR CrimiNAL HiStORy …
19-6265 Alex Knight v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-16 Denied IFP acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and/or Sixth Amendments are violated when a district court increases a criminal defendant's sentence based upon conduct for which a …
19-6271 Gary Patrick Lewis v. Michigan Michigan 2019-10-16 Denied IFP affidavit-of-indigency appointed-counsel arson-conviction criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process in-forma-pauperis indigency indigent-defendant michigan-court right-to-counsel state-appellate-defender state-court-appeal Question not identified.
19-6276 Robert Wayne Wilson, Jr. v. California California 2019-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-sexual-abuse constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process false-allegations jury-trial presumption-of-innocence trial-by-jury In a prosecution for child sexual abuse, does testimony that only four percent of child sexual abuse allegations are false violate the defendant's rig…
19-6234 Kelvin Melton v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appeal civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process self-representation Whether an appellant has the right to self-representation under the Sixth Amendment or the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment.
19-489 Lawrence G. Hutchins, III v. United States Armed Forces 2019-10-15 Denied Response Waived acquittal collateral-estoppel conspiracy criminal-charge criminal-charges criminal-procedure double-jeopardy issue-preclusion military-justice retrial Whether the right under the Double Jeopardy Clause to the issue preclusive effect of an acquittal applies where precluded and un-precluded facts are a…
19-6246 Shafia M. Jones v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2019-10-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP alford-plea bank-robbery criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption state-jurisdiction supremacy-clause 1. Whether state law that interferes with and conflicts with the Federal Bank Robbery Act and Federal Stat18 USCS § 2113, that was intended to ue comp…
19-6252 Edinson Herrera Ramirez v. Maryland Maryland 2019-10-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review biased-jury criminal-procedure discretion ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion jury-selection legal-standard maryland-court-of-appeals peremptory-challenge peremptory-strike prejudice WHETHER THE MARYLAND COURT OF APPEALS ERRED AND ABUSED ITS DISCRETION IN HOLDING THAT PETITIONER HAD RECEIVED INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL BY COU…
19-6253 Adam Strege v. United States First Circuit 2019-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure delegation-of-authority due-process judicial-discretion law-enforcement-discretion mental-competence mental-disease mental-health reasonable-cause sentencing standing vagueness vagueness-doctrine Question Presented is 18 USCS 4246 4248 4241(d) Unconstitutionally Vague lacking definitive standards by failing to aprise;persons of Ordinary intelli…
19-6264 Orane Nelson v. United States Second Circuit 2019-10-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-law criminal-procedure direct-appeal first-step-act retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Petitioner was convicted of three 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) offenses in a single proceeding and was sentenced to enhanced minimum penalties under § 924(c)(1)…
19-6266 Willie Jones, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-among-courts constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure dilatory-conduct dilatory-purpose dilatory-purposes faretta-right faretta-v-california federal-courts self-representation sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-self-representation state-courts Did the Ninth Circuit's disposition of Petitioner's Faretta claim, which permitted the district court to deny it after determining that Petitioner had…
19-6201 Ronn Darnell Sterling v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal bank-robbery constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admission evidentiary-issues false-evidence improper-cross-examination ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-conviction-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct Could reasonable jurists disagree whether the District Court's refusal of 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion before pre-trial trial, and Appellant counsel was co…
19-6202 Manuel Rodriguez-Santana v. United States First Circuit 2019-10-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP affidavit constitutional-procedure criminal-complaint criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-amendment fourth-amendment magistrate magistrate-review probable-cause No. 1 Whether the District Court Violated the Fourth and Fifth Amendment; Federal jlule Criminal Procedure(Rules 3-4) When it Accepjted; an Accusation…
19-6228 Anson Chi v. Andrew Stover, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-10-10 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP attorney-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process government-misconduct habeas-corpus judicial-review medical-records post-conviction-review procedural-default torture 1. Was the US. Court of Appeals unfair for intentionally delaying the mailing of its December 19, 2013, opinion/memorandum, then mailing it 20 days be…
19-6240 John Lee Norris v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 10th-amendment 5th-amendment 9th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-jurisdiction judicial-standing plea-agreement standing subject-matter-jurisdiction supremacy-clause Whether the United States Court's for the Eighth circuit has failed to to adhere to the accepted and usual course of Judicial proceedings established …
19-6243 Jackie Ray Patrick v. Mississippi Mississippi 2019-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-defects due-process indictment indictment-validity jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue mississippi-law standing state-law void-for-failure-to-state-offense void-for-vagueness WHETHER PATRICK'S CONVICTION AND SENTENCE DERIVED FROM A DEFECTIVE INDICTMENT WHEREAS THERE IS NO EVIDENCE THAT THE INDICTMENT OR CHARGE(S) WHICH PATR…
19-6199 Emeterio Espino Ramirez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-09 Denied IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei…
19-6200 Michael Scott Smith v. Florida Florida 2019-10-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence constitutional-claims criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process florida-statutes habeas-corpus indictment jurisdiction lesser-included-offenses post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-court statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Can a State Court indict an accused on one of the tried crime merely being in the quise a theory of crime of the Florida Statutes. and each are comple…
19-6205 Ruben Navarrete-Felix v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-policy recidivism sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors Is it an abuse of discretion to sentence a recidivist pursuant to a blanket policy of always imposing a longer sentence than the defendant previously …
19-6216 Maxcium Herring v. L. S. McEwen, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-10-09 Denied IFP appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admission jury-instructions jury-misconduct sentencing standard-of-review trial-errors waiver If a self represenTed defendanT Taks THE wiTNss sTNd in hiso heR detense whether oNe continves To represent her or himself or whethr The Trial COT mU …
19-6218 Timothy Milton Boone v. Maryland Maryland 2019-10-09 Denied IFP 14th-amendment assault burden-of-proof burglary constitutional-requirements criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process elements-of-crime first-degree-assault first-degree-burglary maryland-code maryland-criminal-code reasonable-doubt 1 DID THE LOWER COURT ERROR BY FAILING TO PROVE THE FIRST DEGREE ASSAULT ELEMENT S WITH INTENT TWO COMIT CRIME OF VIOLENCE P 2 DID THE LOWER COURT ER…
19-6221 George E. Brown, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard procedural-requirements standing WHEN A DEFENDANT MEETS THE REQUIREMENTS FOR ISSUANCE OF A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY (COA) IS HE THEN ENTITLED TO CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY? ISS…
19-6223 Kermit B. Harris v. Charmaine Bracy, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-10-09 Denied IFP 14th-amendment charging-offense constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custody-without-charge due-process equal-protection finality finality-of-sentence fourteenth-amendment police-officer police-shooting 1.CAN A STATE TRIAL COURT DISREGARD A DEFENDANT'S CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS OF LAW UNDER THE lAthuAMENDMENT OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTIO…
19-6230 Claudius L. Fincher v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-10-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process factual-question jury-determination jury-trial mandatory-minimum safety-valve safetyvalve-statute sentencing sixth-amendment Does the district court's resolution of a contested factual question under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f) (safety-valve statute) for the purpose of determining w…
19-6232 Jason James Neiheisel v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-conviction criminal-procedure demeanor due-process jury-verdict prosecutorial-questioning reversible-error substantive-evidence sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Eleventh Circuit, on review for sufficiency of evidence, can affirm a conviction citing the verdict itself; on the supposition the jury co…
19-6233 Alshaqah Tariq Powell v. United States Third Circuit 2019-10-09 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-procedure consent consent-search consent-to-search constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process expectation-of-privacy fourth-amendment involuntary-consent traffic-stop vague-consent-form vagueness The questions important to this case are: I. Whether Petitioner had the Fourth Amendment rights as a United States Citizen to be advised of his right…
19-468 Keesha Elayne Frye v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-10-09 Denied Response Waived appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment indictment-redaction jury jury-deliberation jury-instructions meaningful-review redaction standard-of-review What is the correct standard to determine whether a criminal defendant is denied meaningful appellate review when the district court destroys the only…
19-456 John Buncich v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-10-07 Denied Response Waived appellate-review chapman-error credibility credibility-assessment criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standard harmless-error judicial-discretion rule-404(b) Where there is a finding of Chapman error, does the appellate court err by relying on its own assessment of the credibility of the defendant's testimo…
19-6166 Sean Lee Strandberg v. Carmen Denise Palmer, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure defense-mechanism due-process evidence evidence-conflict judicial-proceedings polygraph polygraph-evidence presumed-land sixth-amendment sixth-circuit state-lien strickland-v-washington united-states-supreme-court washington-v-hovey Whether the executive system lien has able to come the decision of the presume and mittence as polygraph evidence conflict with or departs from accept…
19-6175 K. S. v. Contra Costa County Children & Family Services Bureau California 2019-10-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP california-welfare-and-institution-code civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federalism fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment santosky-v-kramer sixth-amendment standing supreme-court-precedent welfare-code Whether the application of California Welfare and Institution Code, in this case, violated petitioner's constitutional rights under the Fifth, Sixth a…
19-6178 Jose Bryan Gonzalez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-firearms-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element mens-rea statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(n) authorizes conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there is no …
19-6179 Jesus Felix-Heras v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP computer-forensics confrontation-clause criminal-procedure database-search evidence-admissibility expert-testimony fingerprint-analysis forensic-evidence search-algorithm sixth-amendment Whether admission of the results of a search of computer fingerprint database, which the record shows to be identical to fingerprint analysis done by …
19-6183 Reginald Chatman v. Florida Florida 2019-10-07 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights contract-law criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process equal-protection florida-law plea-bargain plea-bargaining sentencing state-prosecution 1. The Defend aat Reginald chatman entered into a negotiated agrerment uith the Florida State Attorneys office Ast Nathan Prince. for a ten Year D.oc.…
19-6192 Lagenza Junious v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-10-07 Denied IFP criminal-procedure diminished-capacity ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-intoxication involuntary-plea mens-rea plea-bargaining sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. PETITIONER, LAGENZA JUNIOUS, ALLEGED THAT HIS TRIAL COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE FOR FAILING TO RAISE A DIMINISHED CAPACITY DEFENSE TO FIRST DEGREE MURD…
19-6195 Alejandro Martinez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-07 Denied IFP 18-usc-924c3b civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure equal-protection federal-appeals pro-se-petition retroactive-application retroactivity supreme-court-review unconstitutionally-vague united-states-courts united-states-v-davis vagueness (1) DOES THIS COURTS DECISION IN UNITED STATES V. DAVIS 588 U.S. 139 S.Ct.2319 (2019) HOLDING THAT 18.U.S.C S 924()(3)(B) IS ALSO UNCONSTITUTIONALLY V…
19-6196 Frank D. Monsegue, Sr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals appointment-of-counsel civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-appeal right-to-be-informed standing a warrantless arrest, without search or warrant to enter a home without exigent circumstances is a constitutional violation under the 4TH Amendment?. …
19-6154 Joanthony Deaundre Johnson v. Missouri Missouri 2019-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone criminal-procedure digital-evidence fifth-amendment fourth-amendment particularity-requirement search-and-seizure self-incrimination warrant-particularity 1. Whether a warrant authorizing the search of a cell phone and describing the things to be seized as "all data/software" pertaining to the crimes is …
19-6165 Ricky G. Davis v. Virginia Virginia 2019-10-04 Denied IFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure due-process pro-se pro-se-representation probation right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment standing CAN VIRGINIA CONSTITUTIONALLY HALE A PERSON INTO ITS CRIMINAL COURTS AND THERE FORCE A LAWYER UPON HIM, EVEN WHEN HE INSIST THAT HE WANTS TO CONDUCT H…
19-6169 In Re Anthony Brawner 2019-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federalism jurisdiction mandamus maryland-jurisdiction sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction trial-rights venue 1. Does the District of columbia superior cour+ nave subject -Matterjurisdict ion _over crimes that happen in nthe Stateof_Maryland. 2. Does the peti…
19-6171 Jorge Sanchez-Rodriguez v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-10-04 Denied IFP appeal appellate-review child-interview criminal-procedure due-process evidence insufficient-evidence judicial-error standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence trial-court-error witness-testimony 1. DID THE STATE APPELLATE COURT AND THE LOUISIANA SUPREME COURT ERR IN DENYING PETITIONER 'S APPEAL BECAUSE THE EVIDENCE PRESENTED AT TRIAL WAS INSUF…
19-6174 David Anthony Lee v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-law fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-rights state-court-proceedings 1. Whether Mr. Lee's conviction was obtained in violation of his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights of the United States Constitution. 2. Whether …
19-449 In Re Arthur Edward Ezor 2019-10-04 Denied Response Waived constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment writ-of-mandate 1. Was it was a denial of procedural and substantive due process for the lower Court to not order dismissal of the subject criminal case with prejudic…
19-6132 Christian Joseph Chavez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement sentencing The Fifth Circui t Court of Appe als has held that to determine whether an appea l of a sente nce is barred by an appe al wai ver pro vision in a plea…
19-6133 Jeremy S. Cochran v. Maryland Maryland 2019-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights conviction convictions criminal-procedure due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing PiV court oC Apymic 0f ^acyia»j- er \ Sfyycsfy ; on Appeal, P< J phe coupt- cf (Auph aC Appeals C6y)V\ c)~\or)*1 n special Appeal ah(4 error | „ p…
19-6141 Donnie Ray Jose v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure discovery-violation discovery-violations due-process judicial-discretion plea-negotiations prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct sanctions trial-strategy When a federal prosecutor concedes a serious discovery violation shortly before trial, should the district court's response take into account, among o…
19-6145 Anthony Mark Smith, Jr. v. Virginia Virginia 2019-10-03 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility fair-trial hearsay precedent standard-of-proof victim-testimony In light of the decisions in Jackson v Virginia, 443 U.S. 307 (1979), whether the trial court erred in finding the petitioner guilty beyond a reasonab…
19-6149 Desmond Williams v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting civil-procedure civil-rights commentary conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction legal-analysis legal-citation legal-issues legal-research legal-terminology legal-writing sentencing-commission standing Whether the Sentencing Commission violated the separation-of-powers doctrine when it added the offenses of conspiring, aiding and abetting, and attemp…
19-6150 Chad M. Cutler v. Illinois Illinois 2019-10-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-rules expert-testimony hearsay hearsay-statements prosecutorial-misconduct standards-of-review supreme-court-conflict 1. WILL THIS COURT ADDRESS THE CONFLICT BETWEEN THE ILLINOIS APPELLATE COURT AND BOTH THE ILLINOIS SUPREME COURT AND APPELLATE COURT OVER ILLINOIS RUL…
19-6151 Ahmed Ali v. Tammy Foss, Acting Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-03 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rights due-process habeas-corpus jury-instruction jury-instructions third-party-culpability trial-court Whether the Court of Appeals erred in denying a Certificate of Appealability on his claim that he was denied his right to present a defense by the tri…
19-6152 Marian Papacsi Owens v. Sue Mickens, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-defense criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion mental-illness right-to-counsel right-to-testify trial-counsel trial-judge trial-procedure 1. Did the Court of Appeals err below in denying Ms. Owens a COA as to whether Ms. Owens received effective assistance of counsel when the trial judge…
19-6125 Francis G. Hernandez v. Ronald Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied IFP appellate-review child-abuse criminal-procedure diminished-capacity habeas-corpus head-injuries ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-illness ninth-circuit prejudice-analysis strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. Counsel admitted that he did not know that his chosen defense, diminished capacity, could be based upon mental illness. As a result, counsel never …
19-6135 Kelvin Townsend v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process freedom-of-information government-transparency grand-jury indictment judicial-oversight sealed-records standing IS THE EOVERNMENT REQUIRED TD DBTAIN A COURT BRDER FROM THE COURT TO UNSEAL A "SEALED CRiMiNAL INDICTMENT
19-6137 William Trampas Widmyer v. David Ballard, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit-court ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-rights police-interview right-to-counsel self-incrimination Were the Petitioner's Constitutional Amendment Rights violated when Petitioner's Police interview was used in trial although Petitioner requested Coun…
19-6139 Jermaine Stevenson v. Connie Horton, Warden Michigan 2019-10-02 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process juvenile-court juvenile-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction state-court-procedure transfer void-ab-initio waiver-hearing Has Due Process of law been violated, where a child within the permanent custody and jurisdiction of the state Juvenile court is charged as an adult i…
19-6103 Farid John Popal v. New York New York 2019-10-01 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence government-misconduct jurisdiction law-enforcement skype-testimony witness witness-coaching witness-testimony WHETHER LAW ENFORCEMENT'S COACHING THE WITNESS'AS HOW TO ANSWER QUESTIONS, WHILE GOVERNMENT WITNESS WAS TESTIFYING AGAINST THE PETITIONER FROM FLORI…
19-6110 Abimael Ayala-Gonzalez v. New York New York 2019-10-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review brady-violation constitutional-duty criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification federal-claim ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel meaningful-representation-standard performance-prejudice-test prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment state-appellate-court strickland-standard strickland-v-washington During voir dire, my trial counsel repeatedly referred to me as a drug dealer, supplying the prosecution with a motive that would never have survived …
19-6113 Jose Armando Bazan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-01 GVR Relisted (4)IFP appellate-procedure appellate-review cocaine-conspiracy criminal-appeal criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing downward-adjustment fact-question guidelines plain-error plain-error-review role-adjustment sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Petitioner, JOSE ARMANDO BAZAN, was charged with and pleaded guilty to conspiring to possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine. T…
19-6115 Jose Manuel Aguirre-Ganceda v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence collateral-attack criminal-justice criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-conviction due-process federal-law federal-state-comity mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-minimum prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-court-reduction state-law Whether a defendant is actually innocent of a mandatory life sentence once a prior state drug conviction relied upon by the District Court is set asid…
19-6117 Jaime Ignacio Estrada v. Martin Biter, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-offer preponderance-of-evidence right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standard-of-review trial-counsel voluntary-manslaughter 1. Whether petitioner established by a preponderance of evidence trial counsel's violation of the Sixth Amendment: failure to communicate a favorable …
19-6120 Raul Rodriguez v. United States Third Circuit 2019-10-01 Denied IFP 18-usc-924(c) categorical-approach circuit-precedent crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process gvr sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-ruling third-circuit vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether this petition should be granted, the judgment of the Third Circuit vacated, and the case remanded (GVR) to the court of appeals for a determin…
19-6096 Jerry Simmons v. Darryl Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-09-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP biased-judge constructive-denial constructive-denial-of-assistance-of-counsel criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance judicial-bias right-to-counsel right-to-present-defense right-to-self-representation self-representation sixth-amendment structural-error structural-error-doctrine Whether the decision by the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals contrary to, or involve an unreasonable application of, clearly established F…
19-6085 Frank Amodeo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii civil-procedure civil-procedure-standing constitutional-standing criminal-forfeiture criminal-procedure due-process federal-court-procedure federal-courts jurisdiction jurisdictional-hierarchy non-merits-questions standing standing-requirement 1. This Court's jurisdictional-sequencing decisions establish that a federal court may resolve a case on any non-merits question. This Court holds tha…
19-6086 Luis Alberto Torres v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-09-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof circuit-conflict criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure harmless-error sentencing sentencing-error standard-of-review In recent years, the Court has granted certiorari to clarify how the plain-error standard of review applies to unpreserved claims of sentencing error.…
19-6087 Atif Babar Malik v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-09-27 Denied IFP appellate-procedure charged-statute circuit-split cotton-precedent criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge scope-of-statute statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction united-states-v-cotton DO COURTS LACK SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION WHEN THE SCOPE OF THE ALLEGED CONDUCT FALLS OUTSIDE CHARGED STATUTE?
19-6088 Julian Madero-Diaz v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP citizenship citizenship-classification citizenship-laws constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection illegal-reentry immigration morales-santana morales-santana-precedent severability standing statutory-interpretation Whether the decision below conflicts with the Court's instruction in Sessions v. Morales-Santana, 137 S. Ct. 1678, 1699 n.24 (2017), that a defendant …
19-6089 Joseph Signore v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure criminal-procedure declaration department-of-justice due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel penalty-of-perjury sentencing service-of-process solicitor-general Question not identified.
19-6094 Andres Herrera-Segovia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-27 Denied IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe…
19-419 Antonio L. Saulsberry v. Randy Lee, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-09-27 Denied Response Waived constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus jury-trial precedent retrial sixth-amendment verdict Whether this Court's precedent clearly establishes that the Double Jeopardy Clause bars retrial of a defendant on a charge that was submitted to a jur…
19-407 Alexander Christian Miles v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-09-26 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-the-writ abuse-of-writ aedpa contract-law criminal-charges criminal-procedure plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief 1. Whether the abuse of the writ doctrine or the AEDPA precludes a successive petition for post conviction relief when the government, years after a d…
19-6069 Kevin Dewitt Skaggs v. Ron Baker, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-09-26 Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sixth-amendment cumulative-analysis evidence expert-consultation expert-witness ineffective-assistance-of-counsel overwhelming-evidence pre-trial-investigation sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-strategy Whether defense counsel performs unreasonably under the Sixth Amendment if their pre-trial and trial investigations and strategies are based on their …
19-6070 Malcom McClenon v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-26 Denied IFP appeals appellate-review batson-challenge constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-circuit habeas-corpus harmless-error judicial-review sufficiency-of-evidence 1. IS RELIEF DUE. TO AN CONVICTION I DEVOIN OF THE RUDIMENTARY DEMANDS OF FAIR PROCEDURE ? 2. DOES BATSON" DEFY A HARMLESS-ERROR ANALYSIS? BJ DOES A…
19-6071 Demetrius Desean Morgan v. Michigan Michigan 2019-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-association impartial-jury ineffective-assistance insufficient-evidence physical-characteristics reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment surveillance-video video-surveillance 1. Was the evidence of Petitioner's identity as the shooter sufficient to sustain the first-degree murder conviction where that evidence consisted of …
19-6077 Ruben Moreno Herrera v. Ralph Diaz, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2019-09-26 Denied IFP civil-rights compulsory-process conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process evidence-exclusion evidentiary-exclusion fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Fs c on my be half, as the relevant testimont of my First EYewitness of the facts of my case,Ruhen Machado R. x of te BNA R wasSu RTN S R Ma SAN 884…
19-6078 Terreall McDaniel v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-09-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924c appeal armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure first-step-act retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation I. Does Section 403 of the First Step Act , which dramatically clarifies the applicable penalties for which a defendant may be sentenced for gun rela…
19-6079 Guillermo Vega-Botello v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-procedure limited-remand plain-error remand sentencing statutory-maximum substantial-rights Whether a court of appeals that finds a plain error in the district court's selection of a statutory maximum should ordinarily order a limited remand …
19-6080 Marcus H. v. Connecticut Connecticut 2019-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection indigent indigent-defense right-to-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error trial-court-discretion Was the indigent petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to have appointed counsel represent him at his criminal jury trial violated when the trial court f…
19-6042 Gerardo Tajonar Cortes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe…
19-6043 Larry Craig Cash v. Vance Laughlin, Warden Georgia 2019-09-25 Denied IFP 14th-amendment constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process effective-assistance fourteenth-amendment jury-selection murder-trial racial-discrimination standing state-action trial-duty 1. Were The Rights Of A Defendant Under The Due Process Clause Of The Fourteenth Amendment Of The United States Constitution Properly Observed When Th…
19-6048 Franklin Pillier v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2019-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rights due-process government-intrusion motion-to-withdraw-plea plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal probation probation-condition probation-conditions strict-scrutiny withdrawal-of-plea I. WHETHER, WHEN THE COURT ASKS A DEFENDANT IF HE IS GUILTY THIRTY-FIVE TIMES BEFORE INFORMING HIM OF THE RIGHTS HE IS FORFEITING AND THE CONSEQUENCES…
19-6053 Diosme Fernandez Hano v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit evidentiary-rulings indictment judicial-precedent jury-instructions statute-of-limitations united-states-code witness-testimony 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in holding that the indictment was returned within the limitation period under 18 U.S.C. § 3297. 2. Whether the…
19-6055 Edwin Ricardo Flores v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aggravated-felony chevron-deference circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure ex-post-facto immigration immigration-law separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation theft-offense I. Does a "theft offense (including receipt of stolen property)" under § 1101(a)(43)(G) require a taking of property without consent? II. May courts …
19-6058 Guy Philippe v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP case-analysis civil-procedure-standing constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process extradition international-law judicial-interpretation legal-precedent res-judicata standing 1. Whether This Court's Conclusions in United States v. Rauscher, 119 U.S. 407 (1886), in Conjunction with W.S. Kirkpatrick & Co., Inc. v. Environment…
19-6060 Vincent Scott Mathews v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fourth-amendment gps-monitoring parole parole-conditions reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-expectation-privacy search-and-seizure warrant warrant-requirement warrantless-search (1) Does U.S. v. Knights, 534 u.s.1 12,122 s. ct.587,151 L. ed. 2d. 497 (2001) and Griffin v. Wisconsin, 483 u.s. 868,873,107 s. ct. 3164, 971, ed. 2d…
19-6063 William Alexander v. New York New York 2019-09-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP chambers-v-mississippi confrontation-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility eyewitness-testimony misidentification photographic-evidence Whether Chambers v. Mississippi, 410 U.S. 284 (1973), and its progeny require the admission of reliable photographic evidence of what an accused was w…
19-6064 Tommy Cole v. R. J. Rackley, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel kelly-hearing sixth-amendment videographic-evidence 1. ) THE COURT ERRED, A kelly hearing was required to test the reliability of the process used to create the videotape of still photographs originall…
19-6068 Michael S. Sites v. West Virginia West Virginia 2019-09-25 Denied IFP constitutional-rights court-procedure criminal-procedure critical-proceedings due-process harmless-error jury-deliberations right-to-be-present Did the West Virginia Supreme Court violate the Petitioner's Constitutional Rights to be Present at ALL Critical proceedings, including the answering …
19-6073 Glen T. Jones, Jr. v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus harmless-error judicial-interpretation plain-error structural-error 1) SUpEme COuRt ViEWS As to hAMlESSnES of ChAm ERRoR in stAtEcRimiNAl tal .foR puRpOSE of SubSEQuENt+ hAbEAS CORpUS REVEW UNd BeEChT v.AbRAhAMSON 507U…
19-6024 Kenneth Allen Rogers v. California California 2019-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-relationship civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fiduciary-duty legal-representation pre-trial-motion property-rights retainer-fee sixth-amendment The State of California denial of legal representation at a pre-trial motion of the People requiring a hearing that if retained legal counsel did not …
19-6026 Roland Michael Simon v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-jurisdiction federal-law-enforcement standing united-nations The Question(s) H like would Innocent by the way 8410 Direct Evidence, & 11l5 Evidence by clear and Convincing Proof, or by Proof Beyond a reasonable …
19-6035 Luis R. Espinal-Rivera v. United States First Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review bail bail-hearing criminal-procedure detention-review due-process federal-jurisdiction presumption-of-innocence pretrial-detention rebuttal statutory-presumption statutory-presumptions Whether Bail Should Have Been Granted in this Case as the Petitioner Rebutted the Statutory Presumptions.
19-6036 Arturo Eduardo Dominguez-Calderon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review courts-of-appeals criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process holguin-hernandez-v-united-states judicial-discretion remand sentencing-factors sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review requires or permits the courts of appeals to "reweigh the sentencing factors"? SUBSIDIARY QUESTION: Whether…
19-6045 Scott H. Summerhays v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-counsel change-of-plea criminal-procedure critical-stage effective-assistance-of-counsel faretta faretta-waiver ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver 1. Does a criminal defendant have a right under the Sixth Amendment to reassert his right to counsel at a critical stage (a change of plea hearing) af…
19-6050 Jose Vizcarrondo-Casanova v. United States First Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 924(c)(3)(a) categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure davis-precedent plain-error puerto-rico-law sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis 1) Whether' murder under Puerto Rico law categorical approach fails to qualify as a "crime of violence" under remaining force clause of 924(C)(3)(A)…
19-6051 Hezekiah Whitfield v. Deanna Brookhart, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP corroborative-evidence criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence evidence-restriction fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment Whether Peririoner Made A Substantial Showing Of The Denial Of His Sixth And Fourteenth Amendmenr Due Process Rights Where Pericioner Was Restricted F…
19-392 Martin A. Armstrong v. Securities and Exchange Commission, et al. Second Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) asset-forfeiture asset-freezing civil-enforcement constitutional-right-to-counsel counsel-of-choice criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process parallel-civil-enforcement parallel-proceedings personal-property property-rights right-to-counsel 1. Whether the constitutional right to counsel of choice extends to cases where a criminal defendant's assets are frozen as part of a parallel civil e…
19-394 Sergio Mejia-Duarte v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure due-process extradition-treaty fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence fre-403 fre-404(b) hearsay-evidence international-extradition international-law treaty unrelated-murder I. WHETHER A CRUCIAL MANDATE OF THE INTERNATIONAL EXTRADITION TREATY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND HONDURAS WAS VIOLATED WHEN THE PROSECUTION AT TRIAL…
19-6021 Ricardo Valles De La Rosa v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP braxton-precedent braxton-v-united-states criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit nelson-v-colorado plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing WHETHER THE FIFTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS' AFFIRMANCE OF THE PETITIONER'S GUILTY-PLEA SENTENCE VIOLATED PETITIONER'S DUE PROCESS RIGHTS UNDER, AND TH…
19-6027 Jordan Combs v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment child-pornography constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment possession sentencing WHETHER JORDAN COMBS' DUE PROCESS RIGHTS UNDER THE FIFTH AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION WERE VIOLATED WHEN THE DISTRICT COURT SENTENCED J…
19-6029 Frank Jeffs v. Michael Overmyer, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Forest, et al. Pennsylvania 2019-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-murder habeas-corpus jurisdiction premeditated-murder prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense sentencing sentencing-order 1. Is not the Pennsylvania Supreme Court required in its Per Curiam conclusions of law with respect thereto. If the court finds that...[2] the sentenc…
19-6015 Roque Arias-De Jesus v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP alleyne appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
19-6016 Devon Chance v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-20 GVR IFP 18-usc-924(c)(3) 18-usc-924c3 abrogation appellate-review case-law-abrogation circuit-court-decision criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ovalles-v-united-states section-2255-motion statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review united-states-v-davis Whether, in light of this Court's most recent decision, in United States v. Davis, 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), which abrogated the Eleventh Circuit Court …
19-6019 Marco Antonio Murillo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-defendants indictment indictment-right mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentencing sentencing sentencing-enhancement united-states-v-haymond 1. Whether federal defendants enjoy the right to indictment as to some facts that alter the likely sentence within a mandatory range of punishment? Su…
19-6000 Kevin Kelley v. Illinois Illinois 2019-09-20 Denied IFP compulsory-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-rules propensity-evidence sixth-amendment trial-court-error witness-testimony Whether the state trial court erred in admitting the testimony of two witnesses for the purpose of showing the defendant's propensity to commit the ch…
19-5973 Wilfred Warren Sheppard v. Texas Texas 2019-09-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-trial sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent united-states-constitution (1.) Whether the Texas Criminal Court of Appeals has ruled in a manner which conflicts with the Fifth and Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. (…
19-5998 Eric Matthew Frein v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-09-19 Denied IFP criminal-procedure harmless-error police-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error trial-integrity When the Sixth Amendment right to counsel has attached, do efforts by police and prosecutors -- the victims of one or more of the defendant's charges …
19-6006 Nicholas Wilkerson v. Alabama Alabama 2019-09-19 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP 8th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-hearing The Eighth Amendment prohibits life-without-parole sentences for all but the rarest juvenile s who exhibit a lack of rehabilitative potential due thei…
19-364 Dwayne Lamar Williams, Sr. v. Virginia Virginia 2019-09-19 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-jury incorporation jurisdiction state-criminal-procedure state-indictment A. Does the right to a grand jury indictment conferred by the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution apply to state indictments via the Fou…
19-361 Renado Smith and Richard Delancy v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-18 Denied Amici (3) confrontation-clause criminal-evidence criminal-procedure custody-release deposition-testimony due-process good-faith-effort investigative-steps prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-procedure sixth-amendment testimonial-statement unavailability witness-unavailability The Confrontation Clause permits prosecutors to introduce the out-of-court testimonial statements of an absent witness only if the witness is "unavail…
19-5983 Alejandro Llamas-Delgado v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof conspiracy controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-trafficking due-process statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence supreme-court-precedent Whether the lower court's decision conflicts with Supreme Court and other circuit precedent concerning the government's burden to prove the evidence w…
19-5985 Leeroy Cesar Carballo v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-18 Denied IFP appeal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-circuit-review fundamental-rights ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-testify sentencing sentencing-phase During Petitioner's sentencing hearing, Petitioner took the stand, maintaining his innocence, and expressed his desire to tell the jury his side of th…
19-5993 Mabon Demetric James v. Marcus Pollard, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment insufficient-evidence robbery standing takings Was Mabon James convicted of the robbery of Marta Parfeta in violation of his Fourteenth Amendment due process rights despite constitutionally insuffi…
19-5994 Benjamin Justin Brownlee v. California California 2019-09-18 Denied IFP civil-procedure criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-code-section-352 jury-instructions prior-acts-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-fair-trial robbery-charges sixth-amendment standing True the felony had to be independest of the illing,was Prejudicial and sequses Reversal of The Special. C'rcunstance Finding Code Section 1los stad …
19-5995 Jason L. Clark v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-09-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights collateral-attack constitutional-challenge constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea judicial-review plea-bargaining statute-of-conviction DOES A GUILTY PLEA BAR A CRIMINAL DEFENDANT FROM LATER COLLATERAL ATTACK ON HIS CONVICTION ON THE GROUND THAT THE STATUTE OF CONVICTION VIOLATES THE C…
19-5996 Michael J. W. Potter v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment life-imprisonment mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentencing sentencing Whether entry of a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment violated Appellant's rights under the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
19-5946 Anthony Carl Spence v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process extraterritorial-application extraterritorial-jurisdiction extraterritoriality federal-sentencing foreign-conduct guidelines offense-level sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether, absent a clear indication of extraterritoriality, a federal sentencing court is permitted to enhance a defendant's offense level under the se…
19-5964 In Re Dwight Carter, Sr. 2019-09-17 Denied IFP 18-usc-924c 2255-motion constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-2255-habeas-corpus davis-rule due-process habeas-corpus hobbs-act-robbery merits-analysis prima-facie-standard retroactivity second-or-successive-motion sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis 1.) Because Petitioner's 18 U.S.C.j924(c) conviction identified conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act Robbery, 18 U.S.C. 1951, predicate to support his 924(c…
19-5965 Robert Jessie Hill v. Washington Washington 2019-09-17 Denied IFP civil-rights collateral-consequences constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lesser-included-offense plea-bargaining plea-negotiations sentencing (A). When a defendant pleads guilty to a charge, in addition to the "direct" and "collateral" consequences of the party does the Fourteenth Amendment …
19-5969 Tawoine Aquil Frank Banks v. United States Second Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP consecutive-sentences consecutive-sentencing court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process revocation revocation-sentence section-3624e sentencing supervised-release Did the Court of Appeals err in affirming of a supervised revocation sentence that ran consecutively to other supervised release revocation sentence?
19-5970 Murad Razzaq v. Kansas Kansas 2019-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-evidence criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process due-process-clause evidence evidentiary-rules prior-bad-acts prior-crimes propensity-evidence state-prosecution state-supreme-courts unrelated-crimes Does a state violate a defendant's due process rights by admitting evidence of a prior, unrelated crime?
19-5974 Duane L. O'Malley v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals circuit-operating-rule civil-procedure civil-procedure-rules criminal-procedure criminal-rule-33 direct-appeal due-process judicial-assignment motion-appeal newly-discovered-evidence panel-reassignment recharacterization standing DID THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS (CA7 ) VIOLATE CIRCUIT OPERATING RULE 6(b) WHEN FAILING TO REASSIGN THE "SUCCESSIVE MOTION APPEAL" PANEL ("C"…
19-5975 Juan Jose Tull-Abreu v. United States First Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-identity-theft compulsory-process confrontation-clause conspiracy controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment health-care-fraud identity-theft sixth-amendment 1. Whether the petitioner participated in a conspiracy to commit health care fraud , in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1349 . Count One of the Indictment. …
19-5982 Alcadio Caballero De La Torre v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing data-analysis due-process judicial-discretion reasonableness-review sentencing-commission sentencing-data sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness statistical-analysis This Court should grant this petition to address when, if ever, Sentencing Commission statistical data may be used to evaluate the reasonableness of a…
19-5929 Abisai Ramirez-Anguiano v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-16 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense drug-offenses mens-rea methamphetamine scienter sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Section 2D1.1(b)(5) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines provides that "[i]f (A) the offense involved the importation of ... methamphetamine or …
19-5944 Jerry D. Scott v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment 8th-circuit appeal certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-justice criminal-procedure domestic-assault due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus legal-standard missouri-robbery sentencing violent-crime WHETHER THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN NOT. GRANTING A "CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY" WHEN EVEN AFTER UNITED STATES v. SWOPES , 892 F.…
19-5947 Michael Patrick Kennedy v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-16 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-enforcement perception-of-guilt substantial-guilt trial-defense witness-tampering If defense counsel omits the necessary trial defense and thereby sustains a perception of substantial guilt so that the substantial guilt mas dependen…
19-5949 Marcelino Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-16 Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-11 district-court federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plain-error plea-bargaining plea-negotiations rule-11 substantial-rights 1) When a district court violates Rule 11(c)(1) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure by interfering in plea negotiations, can a defendant ordina…
19-5954 Ricardo Irive v. Jo Gentry, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-negligence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining sixth-amendment DOES IT CONSTITUTE INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL TO ALLOW A PLEA AGREEMENT THE DEFENDANT WISHED TO TAKE LAPSE DUE TO MISTAKE OR NEGLIGENCE?
19-5926 Refugio Quintanar v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-13 Denied IFP burden-of-proof confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process presentence-report procedural-unreasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines timely-objection 1. Whether the defendant has the burden to deny and discredit the factual allegations of a Presentence Report that increase his or her sentence? 2. W…
19-5928 Marcos Santiago v. United States Third Circuit 2019-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-841 civil-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process first-step-act retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether Congress decision to not make its recent clarification of 924(c) fully retroactive, creates a significant risk that thousands of prisoners sta…
19-5932 Chavez Myers v. United States District of Columbia 2019-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights comprehensive-youth-justice-amendment-act criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana standing youth-reform-act Question not identified.
19-5936 Cesar Rosario Lopez-Ramos v. Minnesota Minnesota 2019-09-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination foreign-language-interpreter police-interrogation sixth-amendment testimonial-statements translation-evidence Whether the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause permits the prosecution to introduce testimonial statements in the form of an unidentified foreign …
19-5937 Raymond Johnson v. Credit One Bank, et al. Maryland 2019-09-13 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-admissibility free-speech judicial-discretion patent standing takings trial-procedure Did the trial court wrongfully deny Johnson's Fourth Amendment rights when the trial court failed to allow Johnson to present his motions to enforce S…
19-5938 Jason Bo-Alan Beckman v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP asset-forfeiture asset-freezing civil-procedure civil-proceeding civil-rights criminal-counsel criminal-procedure due-process errors-and-omissions errors-and-omissions-policy forfeiture-rights luis-v-united-states right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Can the Government circumvent Luis v United States , 578 U.S. ___, 136 S. Ct. 1083 (2016) protections by using a civil proceeding to freeze untainted…
19-5940 Scott Peters v. Young Sun Kim Seventh Circuit 2019-09-13 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure damages due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit post-conviction standing state-court Petitioner Questions whether Discrimination of Equal Opportunity Because of Social Economic To Defend Petitioner Right to Appeal. Petitioner Question…
19-5941 Roger Cha v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process interrogation law-enforcement miranda-rights miranda-waiver self-incrimination waiver Is a Miranda waiver invalidated when the law enforcement officer providing the advisal involves himself in the waiver process by asking the subject of…
19-5902 Sharvelt Mister v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Arkansas 2019-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression judicial-hearing judicial-process jurisdiction procedural-fairness standing supremacy-clause D IF A pOLCEMAN ARRESt A SUSpECT, WiPhOUT A WARRANT, takES you off, put you in jail, wilhout A mitgistentE ApprouAl, thEN you're FOOKEN tO A PIEST APP…
19-5912 Jesus Oscar Meraz Leon v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence arizona-courts arizona-law civil-rights criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process equal-protection federal-review habeas-corpus post-conviction post-conviction-relief standing WHETHER THE STATE COURTS REFUSAL TO GRANT LEONS REQUEST FOR D.N.A, TESTiNG, BECAUSE DENIAL VIOLATES HISRIgHTTO DUE-PROCESS ANd EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE…
19-5913 Sammie Lee Smith, IV v. Florida Florida 2019-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-crime aggravated-offense alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-law criminal-charging criminal-procedure due-process jury-determination jury-trial mandatory-minimum sentencing sexual-felony Whether the facts triggering a mandatory minimum sentence under Florida's Dangerous Sexual Felony Offender Act, § 794.0115, Fla. Stat. (2016), togethe…
19-5920 Michael Don Pogue v. Texas Texas 2019-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Mr. Pogue alleged that his trial counsel, William G. Mason, was ineffective and presented 18 specific points of ineffective assistance of counsel to t…
19-5922 Pedro Munoz, aka Pedro Munoz Ruiz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure deference district-court federal-courts-of-appeals federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors?
19-5924 James Hennessee v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-09-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP apprendi-doctrine armed-career-criminal-act circuit-court constitutional-interpretation conviction-records criminal-procedure jury predicate-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment The Armed Career Criminal Act enhances the statutory penalty for a firearms offense when the offender has three predicate convictions for crimes that …
19-5861 Louise K. Saine v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-denial appeals career-offender court-of-appeal crime-of-violence criminal-procedure drug-law due-process federal-case federal-classification federal-court federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure prior-convictions rehabilitation-programs rule-35 sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act state-officer When can Rule 35 be used error? Can a state case be classified as a federal case if defendant has never been convicted of prior felonies? What is th…
19-5904 Travis Dennis v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review batson-challenge constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-due-process due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-verdict sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence Reasonable jurists could find that the Courts have abused their discretion in accepting the Jury's verdict even though the Record supports that Ronald…
19-5907 Luis Castaneda-Torres v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei…
19-5909 Blake Clinton Talman v. Florida Florida 2019-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP blood-draw criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation good-faith-exception ineffective-assistance warrantless-search Whether the "good faith" exception applies to a warrantless blood draw obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment.
19-5910 Benjamin Carpenter v. Georgia Georgia 2019-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights complicity constitutional-issue criminal-liability criminal-procedure due-process error-analysis indictment jury-instructions standing supreme-court-review unchorged-crime Can Criminal Liability for a charged offense be based upon the Defendant's complicity in an offense which is clearly distinct from any charged offense…
19-5878 Darries Leon Jackson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-reasonableness criminal-justice criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection grand-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel racial-bias racial-discrimination sentencing sentencing-guidelines 1. Whether sentences imposed upon Petitioner Constitutionally Unreasonable & greater than necessary to satisfy the ends of Justice? 2. Whether Petiti…
19-5880 Andrew Joseph Larson v. Michael Pacheco, Warden Wyoming 2019-09-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights constructive-denial-of-counsel criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction name-change personal-jurisdiction presumption-of-guilt presumption-of-innocence standing state-department subject-matter trial-jurisdiction Q1) What are the necessary components for the trial court to be complete and hold jurisdiction over a case and was Avitabile's trial court complete? …
19-5883 Richard Johnson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment franks-challenge franks-v-delaware gall-standard search-warrant search-warrant-challenge-standard sentencing-variance substantial-preliminary-showing substantive-reasonableness veracity I. Whether this Court Should Clarify the Quantum Necessary for a Finding of a "Substantial Preliminary Showing" That Entitles Defendants to a Hearing …
19-5888 David Tkhilaishvili v. United States First Circuit 2019-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-conflict criminal-procedure due-process extortion hobbs-act interstate-commerce legal-nexus property-rights property-transfer third-party 1. Whether the First Circuit erroneously held, in conflict with multiple decisions of this Court, that the government may sustain a Hobbs Act extorti…
19-5889 Jonathan Torres-Arroyo v. New Jersey New Jersey 2019-09-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP alleyne-precedent alleyne-v-united-states criminal-procedure judicial-findings jury-trial mandatory-minimum ring-v-arizona sentencing sentencing-court state-v-kiriakakis Did the New Jersey Courts make an invalid distinction from Alleyne v. United States, 570 U.S. 99 (2013), in holding that the defendant's right to a ju…
19-5890 Fernando Cabral-Varela v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2019-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights courtroom-access courtroom-closure criminal-procedure due-process public-trial sixth-amendment structural-error witness-intimidation Where there was no risk of witness intimidation for most, if not all, of the Commonwealth's witnesses for the final three days, did the judge deprive …
19-5891 Donte Island v. United States Third Circuit 2019-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process imprisonment release-conditions split-circuit statutory-interpretation supervised-release tolling Whether a term of supervised release may be tolled for periods of noncompliance with release conditions (as the Third Circuit, joining one side in a m…
19-5895 Lavar Eady v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2019-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP chemical-composition confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony forensic-evidence lab-testing substitute-analyst testimonial-hearsay truth-of-the-matter Whether the Confrontation Clause prohibits a substitute state analyst from testifying at trial as to the composition of a seized substance obtained as…
19-5900 David Earl Ison v. Richard Brown, Superintendent, Wabash Valley Correctional Facility Seventh Circuit 2019-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP boykin-v-alabama civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment plea-bargaining self-incrimination sentencing 1. Wasn't it a threat or promise by the State: Prosecutor wilhelm when he drafted up a document, gave the document to my Attorney him giving it to me …
19-5838 Glenn Ray Smith v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment fourth-amendment,supervised-release,probation,four home-search liberty liberty-interest probation probation-supervision search-and-seizure supervised-release whether-this-court-should-grant-certiorari-vacate- I. Whether this Court should grant review to consider whether a condition of supervision requiring the Petitioner to permit a probation officer to vis…
19-5865 Pablo Sauste Balderas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe…
19-5868 William Charles Burgess v. Chuck Bowers, Jr., et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-09-09 Denied IFP 4th-amendment circuit-court circuit-court-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-finding district-court-findings expectation-of-privacy legal-precedent precedent prior-decisions search-and-seizure sixth-circuit Whether the Sixth Circuit Court improperly reversed the District Court's finding that Petitioner had an expectation of privacy in and around his busin…
19-5869 Jaime Enriquez-Hernandez, aka Jaime Enriques-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
19-5870 Shakeem Heratio Crawford v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender civil-rights criminal-justice criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment ex-post-facto first-step-act parole retroactivity sentencing sentencing-retroactivity statutory-interpretation Did the Judge Abuse his Discrection under He sth Amendment Due procecc clause by Cotegorically Dening all career orfenders when he stated that career …
19-5872 Philip Hugh Wentzel v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal certificate-of-appealability collateral-review constitutional-rights conviction criminal-charge criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jurisdiction sentencing sentencing-error 1. Were petitioner's double jeopardy and due process rights violated by the sponte filing (at petitioner's sentencing) of an additional criminal charg…
19-5875 Alfredo Gonzalez-Terrazas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-analysis sentencing supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
19-5876 Joachim Dressler v. Circuit Court of Wisconsin, Racine County Wisconsin 2019-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP censorship civil-rights content-seizure criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence first-amendment free-speech freedman-v-maryland judicial-review prior-restraint procedural-safeguards southeastern-promotions-ltd-v-conrad Do this Court's First Amendment "prior restraint" holdings that command "strict procedural safeguards" designed to obviate the dangers of a freewheeli…
19-5834 Thomas David McWaters v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-06 Denied IFP appeal civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-review standing In PetitroweR's ReQuest to the Ninth Circunt Court No. Owe: FOR A CeRtWFCATe OF APPEAlAbUAy, WOUld A gURISt OF REASON FINd rt debatable whetheR he sta…
19-5840 Andre Kenneth Stuckey v. California California 2019-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP california-supreme-court civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel right-to-fair-trial sentencing supreme-court-review WHETHER MR. STUCKEY IS ENTITLED TO HABEAS CORPUS RELIEF WHEN ATTACKING HIS CONVICTION AND SENTENCING ON GROUNDS OF TITLE II A.D.A. AND A.D.A.A.A. VIOL…
19-5846 Joshua Eric Townley v. Texas Texas 2019-09-06 Denied IFP appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-principles criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion new-trial sua-sponte supremacy-clause trial-court trial-procedure Whether a trial judge violates the Supremacy and Double Jeopardy Clauses of the United States Constitution once he grants an Order on motion for New T…
19-5852 Roosevelt Leon Cooper v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-06 GVR IFP case-law certiorari criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review mens-rea rehaif-standard remand statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent vacatur Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2…
19-5853 Jambulat Tkhilaishvili v. United States First Circuit 2019-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process extortion judgment-of-acquittal physical-possession property-transfer scheidler sekhar statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent takings I. This Court has held in Sekhar and Scheidler that, to be guilty of extortion, the defendant must take physical possession of the victim's property. …
19-5855 Flenoid Greer v. Michigan Michigan 2019-09-06 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence evidence-suppression government-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct public-officials standing state-officials I. WHETHER MICHIGAN PUBLIC OFFICIALS FAILED TO PERFORM THERE DUTIES AND DEPRIVED PETITIONER OF DUE PROCES OF LAW? II. WHETHER DUE PROCESS IS DENIED WH…
19-5860 T'Challa Rhashaed Washington v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP conflict-among-circuits court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jackson-v-virginia jackson-virginia-standard judicial-review legal-standard standard-of-review strickland-washington-standard A: WHETHER THE DISTRICT STATE COURT OF APPEALS RENDERED A DECISION IN CONFLICT WITH DECISIONS OF THIS COURT AND OTHER COURTS OF APPEALS, WHEN UNREASON…
19-5810 Daniel Lopez DeJesus v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Ninth Circuit 2019-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error in-re-winship ineffective-assistance jury-instruction jury-instructions presumption winship Mr. Dejesus alleged that his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to object to a jury instruction that effectively aided the state to surpass the…
19-5811 Joe Edger v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP ambiguity conflict constitutional-rights contract-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure criminal-process due-process government-discretion plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct 1. Does the phrase "cited in the affense of conviction" mean "information used in a partriular count of an indictment or information that initiat the …
19-5815 Antonio Demetrius Parker v. Virginia Virginia 2019-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence false-imprisonment jurisdiction probable-cause search-and-seizure standing warrant-requirement #1 Did the Supreme court of Virginia err when it determined that the circuit court didn't have the jurisdiction to give the petitioner the relief so…
19-5821 Robert Earl Robinson v. Arizona, et al. Arizona 2019-09-05 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review brady-v-maryland civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure cross-examination discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment standing statutory-interpretation Should the verdict be reversed because the plea was not entered into knowingly intelligently and voluntarily? Did the prosecution violate Brady requi…
19-5827 James Michael Peluso v. Texas Texas 2019-09-05 Denied IFP civil-rights collateral-proceedings constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-claim procedural-bar right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standing raise a claim of ineffective assistance at trial? Whether a prisoner in Texas has a right to effective counsel in collateral proceedings which provid…
19-5829 Yoni Castro-Lopez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-maximum I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei…
19-5830 William H. Danielson v. New York New York 2019-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea judicial-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct regulatory-authority standing waiver-of-appeal 1) Should judicial misconduct survive a waiver of appeal and guilty plea? 2) Should prosecutorial misconduct survive a waiver of appeal and guilty pl…
19-5832 Daniel G. Durain v. Florida Florida 2019-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law criminal-procedure due-process endangered-species-act environmental-regulation evidence federal-agency-discretion habitat-conservation judicial-interpretation jury-instructions mens-rea premeditation reasonable-doubt In a First degree premeditated murder trial, can motive be used to establish premeditation? If so, is a defendant's conviction unconstitutional where…
19-5833 Wesley G. Copeland, Sr. v. Kansas Kansas 2019-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process due-process,criminal-procedure,constitutional-law, equal-protection harmless-error speedy-trial statutory-interpretation Question A: Did the Kansas Court of Appeals err in their analysis of the undisputed violation of a criminal defendant's Constitutional Due Process Ri…
19-300 Beth Lewis Maze, Circuit Judge v. Kentucky Judicial Conduct Commission Kentucky 2019-09-05 Denied administrative-hearing civil-proceeding civil-rights criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judicial-conduct self-incrimination stay Petitioner, a Kentucky Circuit Judge, has been charged by the Kentucky Judicial Conduct Commission in a civil proceeding that could result in removal …
19-303 Arthur Rodriguez Bautista v. Texas Texas 2019-09-05 Denied appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus impartial-judge ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct 1. Whether the trial judge's repeated improper comments throughout the trial demonstrated his bias in favor of the prosecution and denied Petitioner d…
19-288 Javier Sanchez, Gregory Casorso, and Michael Marr v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) antitrust antitrust-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-instructions per-se-rule presumption sherman-act sixth-amendment The question presented is whether the operation of the per se rule in criminal antitrust cases violates the constitutional prohibition —grounded in th…
19-298 Fernando Juarez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment de-facto-life-without-parole eighth-amendment ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama sentencing-hearing sentencing-law In the context of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d), which allows a n application for a writ of habeas corpus on behalf of a person in custody under a state -court …
19-5780 Marvin Robinson v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner's trial counsel was constitutionally ineffective under the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution? and Whether Petitione…
19-5801 Emory Chiles v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure district-court evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-circuit motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure standard-of-review Whether the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Chiles' motion to suppress evidence?
19-5802 Travis Wade Matthews v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof civil-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence dna-testing due-process identification jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia mccoy-v-louisiana victim-identification witness-identification I. In a case where the identity of the person who brandished a gun is central to the case, is the choice of whether to ask for DNA testing of the gun,…
19-5806 John Bradham v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confidential-informant confrontation-clause criminal-procedure drug-transaction due-process evidence evidence-admission sixth-amendment WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT'S ERRONEOUS ADMISSION OF A VIDEO OF AN ALLEGED DRUG AND FIREARM TRANSACTION BETWEEN THE CI AND THE DEFENDANT VIOLATED THE C…
19-5807 Thedrick Edwards v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-09-04 Judgment Issued Amici (20)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment state-law Whether Louisiana's non-unanimous jury requirement for crimes requiring life sentences violates the Sixth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment of the Un…
19-5817 Kendrick Taylor v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-09-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP apodaca-v-oregon criminal-procedure criminal-trial fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine johnson-v-louisiana jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent unanimous-verdict The issue presented is whether the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial requires an unanimous jury verdict and, if so, would that unanimity requireme…
19-5818 Joshua Wayne Riley v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights confession-reliability corroboration-requirement criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fifth-amendment miranda-rights parole-revocation supervised-release Hearings to revoke federal supervised release allow defendants to be sentenced to a new prison term based on findings of fact by only a preponderance …
19-5819 Arthur Rathburn v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence-standard evidentiary-issues fair-notice jury-instructions reasonable-doubt right-to-jury-trial right-to-present-defense sufficiency-of-evidence vagueness I. DID THE GOVERNMENT FAIL TO PRESENT SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE CONVICTIONS BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT? II. WAS PETITIONER RATHBURN DENIED HI…
19-5825 Mario Garcia-Zavala v. United States First Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment booking-exception booking-information-exception constitutional-law criminal-procedure evidence-of-identity fifth-amendment fourth-amendment immigration-crimes miranda-v-arizona miranda-warnings stop-and-identify 1. Does the booking information exception to the warnings required by Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966), apply to evidence of identity in prosec…
19-5775 Richard James Soldan v. Michigan Michigan 2019-09-03 Denied IFP anders-brief anders-procedure appellate-counsel appellate-review court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure due-process first-tier-review indigent-defendant michigan-court-of-appeals michigan-procedure plea-bargaining right-to-counsel MAY THE TRIAL COURT REFUSE TO APPFOINT SUSTITUTE APPELLATE COUNSEL TO AN INDIGENT DEFENDANT CONVICTED ON HIS PLEA WHO SEEKS ACCESS TO FIRST TIER REVIE…
19-5779 Eduardo Rodriguez-Lopez v. Florida Florida 2019-09-03 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-colloquy right-to-defense sixth-amendment strickland strickland-standard 1. Consistent with the Sixth Amendment, and this Court's decisions in Strickland may the State rely on the plea colloquy as to a prisoner acknowledgin…
19-5781 Yong S. Cha, aka Edward Cha v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP adversarial-testing criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-waiver federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence plea-bargaining proffer-statements prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment I. When the Government has agreed not to use a defendant's statements except to refute a defense at trial, may the Government only use those proffer s…
19-5782 Tyrone Dexter Christian v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-activity criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant totality-of-the-circumstances vague-affidavit vague-and-conclusory I. Whether the lower court erred in finding probable cause to search petitioner's home when the court viewed the search warrant affidavit as a whole a…
19-5785 Raul Zapata-Dominguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment home-search indictment jury-trial liberty-deprivation liberty-interest overbreadth probation probation-supervision statutory-maximum statutory-reasonableness supervised-release supervision vagueness I. Whether this Court should grant review to consider whether a condition of supervision requiring the Petitioner to permit a probation officer to vis…
19-5786 Joshua George Nowland v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-03 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction barker-v-wingo civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction prejudice pretrial-detention speedy-trial Is oppressive pretrial incarceration still an important part of the Barker balancing test for Speedy Trial? Of the Barker analysis when judging const…
19-5794 Dazzle Young v. Francisco J. Quintana, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-tampering fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sentencing evidence in violation of due process and violation of his Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments Rights. (2) Could Mr. Young be sentenced over the maximum 1…
19-5796 Alfredo Beltran Leyva v. United States District of Columbia 2019-09-03 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP circuit-split confrontation-clause constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review After pleading guilty to federal narcotics charges, Petitioner was sentenced to life imprisonment based entirely on unverified in-court testimony by a…
19-5744 Johnny Ellery Smith v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP assimilative-crimes-act criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution federal-jurisdiction indian-country indian-law major-crimes-act state-law tribal-sovereignty Did the federal government's prosecution of an Indian for violation of state law in Indian country violate federal statutes and tribal sovereignty ret…
19-5746 Howard Griffith v. New York New York 2019-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP cause-and-prejudice criminal-procedure due-process federal-review judicial-discretion miscarriage-of-justice post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-appellate-procedures state-appellate-review 1) Procedural Default is the failure to follow state appellate procedures which bars federal review of the case in the absence of showing cause for an…
19-5747 Jamall Gibson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights criminal-history criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment speedy-trial QUESTION # ONE: Whether Petitioner Gibson's counsel provided him with ineffective assistance of counsel by failing; to effectively investiga te his HY…
19-5762 Stevrick Tavah Jackson v. Florida Florida 2019-08-30 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment habeas-corpus life-sentence parole sentencing twenty-one Whether the courts below decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decisions of this Honorable Court when they d…
19-5767 Virgil Lee Bailey v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process factual-basis guilty-plea harmless-error judicial-standard plain-error plain-error-review plea-bargaining plea-sufficiency sullivan-v-louisiana I. Whether the sufficiency of a factual basis for a defendant's plea should be subject to plain error review, or whether, under Sullivan v. Louisiana,…
19-5768 Steven Villalona v. Florida Florida 2019-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP barker-v-wingo constitutional-law criminal-procedure detainer due-process prisoner-rights rehabilitative-programs sixth-amendment smith-v-hooey speedy-trial (1) What effect, if any, does the filing of a detainer have on a prisoner's right to a speedy trial under the Sixth Amendment? (2) To what degree ar…
19-5770 Danny Lee Banks v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment johnson-precedent residual-clause sentencing sixth-amendment unconstitutional unconstitutional-sentencing 1) DID THE APPEALS COURT AND DISTRICT COURT VIOLATE BANKAS FIFTH, SIXTH AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS BY UPHOLDING A SENTENCE THAT WAS BASED ON TH…
19-5738 Carlos Manuel Perez-Crisostomo v. United States First Circuit 2019-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure due-process identity name obstruction-of-justice plea-agreement puerto-rico sentencing sentencing-court sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g.-3c1.1 I.- Whether the Sentencing Court erred in founding Petitioner obstructed justice, pursuant to U.S.S.G. § 3C1.1, when Petitioner did not correct the …
19-5741 Jose Marin Saldana-Reyes v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-consideration non-frivolous-arguments procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-procedure sentencing-standard In contrast with the Ninth Circuit, at least seven other circuits apply a standard which requires a sentencing judge provide some express treatment to…
19-5742 Robert Gene Rand v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion factual-findings ninth-circuit plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-application sentencing-reductions standard-of-review Whether a circuit court errs by affirming a district court's decision regarding the applicability of the United States Sentencing Guidelines based on …
19-5751 Charles Massengill v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment interstate-compact parole parole-supervision parolee-rights reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure state-statute warrantless-search Whether reasonable suspicion is required for a law enforcement officer to conduct a warrantless search of a parolee or his residence in the absence of…
19-5753 Trayone Lefferio Bell v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1029 constitutional-rights criminal-intent criminal-law-mens-rea criminal-procedure due-process flores-figueroa-v-united-states intent jury-instructions knowingly knowledge mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation 1) To satisfy the "knowingly" and with "intent" in 18 U.S.C. § 1029(A)(3), Do Courts have to prove precise "mens rea" as set forth in Rehaif v. United…
19-5754 Charmar Brown v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines collateral-attack constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure cross-reference double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus magwood magwood-precedent sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether Magwood extended to challenges to the original undisturbed conviction, following a new judgment? Whether Murder Cross-reference U.S.S.G. 2D1.…
19-5756 In Re James Bryant 2019-08-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process felony-murder felony-murder-doctrine-retroactivity habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-jurisdiction jurisdiction retroactive-application retroactivity subject-matter-jurisdiction vagueness Whether the state trial court lacked subject-matter jurisdiction by convicting Petitioner in 1971 under a vague first-degree murder statute, MCL § 750…
19-5758 Peter J. Hanson v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2019-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence hearsay out-of-court-statements sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence Whether out-of-court statements offered for purposes "other than their truth" ever implicate the Sixth Amendment right to Confrontation?
19-5760 Aly Toure v. New York New York 2019-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure mental-health standing supreme-court-precedent waiver-of-rights 1. DID THE APPELMTE DIVISION VIOLATE CLEARLY ESTABLISHED FEDERAL SUPREME COURT RATIFIED LAW ? 2. DID THE LOWER COURT OVERLOOK DEFENDANTS SIGNIFICANT…
19-264 Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary v. Lydell Marcus White Oregon 2019-08-29 Dismissed Response RequestedRelisted (4) 8th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing mandatory-sentences miller-v-alabama non-mandatory-sentence non-mandatory-sentences Respondent received a 67-year non-mandatory sentence 25 years ago, when he was 15 years old, for the murder of an elderly couple. Does the Eighth Ame…
19-265 Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary v. Laycelle Tornee White Oregon 2019-08-29 Dismissed Response RequestedRelisted (4) 8th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing mandatory-sentences miller-v-alabama non-mandatory-sentence non-mandatory-sentences sentencing Respondent received a 67-year non-mandatory sentence 25 years ago, when he was 15 years old, for the murder of an elderly couple. Does the Eighth Ame…
19-5723 Melvin Bernard Thompson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-28 Denied IFP Almendarez-Torres Apprendi-v-New-Jersey criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment stare-decisis 1. Can a Florida Law permit a trial court to exercise judicial discretion to make new findings of fact of an escalating pattern of criminal conduct b…
19-5730 Lawrence Michael Lynde v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sex-offender-treatment sixth-circuit-appeal standing statutory-interpretation victim-restitution Question not identified.
19-5740 Jeffrey L. Miller v. Kathy Brittain, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Frackville, et al. Third Circuit 2019-08-28 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure deprivation-of-rights due-process false-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense wrongful-conviction Americans for conduct Not in violntioN of statute's, ANd is it Ok to knowingly bring frlse witnesses to A Americans justifiable conduct ? Post Oct, 19…
19-5743 Michael Dewayne Hegwood v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 binding-precedent career-offender criminal-procedure criminal-resentencing federal-jurisdiction first-step-act jurisdiction sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation 1. Does the First Step Act authorize a court to "impose" a reduced sentence in accordance with such statutes as 18 U.S.C. §§ 3553(a) and 3582(a), or d…
19-5716 Karl Heinz Dupuy v. Unknown Fourth Circuit 2019-08-27 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence expert-opinion fair-trial innocence medical-records mental-state post-conviction-discovery self-defense standing was the life of my Pregnant comfanion & being protected from imminent danger trom burg lary& Abducic with real threat by two YoUne men in their posses…
19-5718 Alexander Lee Salazar v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility appeal criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion mitigating-factors mitigating-role offense-level role-adjustment sentencing-guidelines L Did the district court err when it declined to grant Mr. Salazar a mitigating role adjustment under the Guidelines? I. Did the district court err w…
19-5665 Douglas Harold Doyle v. David Baughman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus parole retroactivity sentencing standing Parsuant to U.S. Sup. C. ruke 1H. 1(a). In 2o08, Pefitioner was convictedf ofa'misdemeanor' D.U.I.(V.C.823152). This was elevated to a felory ander P.…
19-5710 Chidi Ezeobi v. Jamal Jamison, Warden Third Circuit 2019-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP credit criminal-procedure due-process extradition foreign-incarceration incarceration international-law sentence-credit sentencing sentencing-court sentencing-credit statutory-interpretation 1. Is Mr. Ezeobi entitled to seven months of credit toward his sentence for the time he was incarcerated in England awaiting extradition to the United…
19-5711 Charles Fritsche v. Robert Legrand, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review post-conviction post-conviction-proceedings Whether this Court Should Grant this Petition, Vacate the Ninth Circuit's Certificate of Appealability Denial, and Remand the Matter for Further Recon…
19-246 Massood Jallali v. Florida Florida 2019-08-26 Denied Response Waived affirmative-defense brady-rule brady-violation-claim criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence theory-of-innocence WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT DEPARTED FROM THE ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS OF LAW IN DISCOVERY RULINGS THAT RESULTED IN A MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE AND DEPRIVATION…
19-250 Oklahoma v. Jesse Allen Johnson Oklahoma 2019-08-26 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment jury-factfinding jury-trial juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana sixth-amendment Does the Sixth Amendment require that the individualized sentencing proceeding necessary to impose a life-without-parole sentence upon a juvenile homi…
19-243 Richard M. Camacho v. United States Armed Forces 2019-08-23 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel military-justice presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-misconduct sexual-assault sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence I. Whether the Army's Sexual Harassment Assault Response and Prevention Program (SHARP) reversed the constitutional presumption of innocence, diluted …
19-5681 Raphael Person, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process federal-courts harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether, when a district court imposes a sentence based on several factors, one of which is improper, the court of appeals should affirm the sentence …
19-5684 In Re Kendall Dean Mitchell 2019-08-23 Pending Relisted (3)IFP aedpa aedpa-limitations anti-terrorism-effective-death-penalty-act criminal-procedure habeas-corpus indian-law subject-matter-jurisdiction supremacy-clause treaties treaty-jurisdiction treaty-with-indians (1) Whether the filing limitations AEDPA apply to claims that state courts lacked of subject matter jurisdiction in criminal cases due to provisions i…
19-5686 Ronnie L. Payne v. United States District of Columbia 2019-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-doubt WAS TRIAL COUNSEL'S PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVELY UNREASONABLE WHEN HE DID NOT OBJECT TO THE TRIAL JUDGE'S FAULTY REASONABLE-DOUBT INSTRUCTION DIRECTING THE…
19-5690 Seth DiSanto v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP campbell-v-state constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-withdrawal rule-3.172(g) strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred by ruling DiSanto's lawyer was not ineffective by failing to bring to the attention of the trial c…
19-5691 Roxanne Marie Carpenter v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-privilege conspiracy conspiracy-liability criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rules duress-defense ninth-circuit-rule pinkerton-instruction pinkerton-liability pre-trial-disclosure work-product work-product-doctrine work-product-privilege I. The Ninth Circuit has a "Vasquez-Landaver1" rule requiring a criminal defendant to lay out, in detail, her defense before the Government even calls…
19-5692 Larry Dean Cochrun v. Bob Dooley, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-violation court-flexibility criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection error-correction habeas-corpus innocence judicial-review miscarriage-of-justice standing statutory-authority wrongful-conviction Congress conshained orgivenflexibility Has U.S.ofA'S for U.S.A Judges or Courts to deny or delay a miscarriage of juicesurfd wtnts reac to be codanexa…
19-5693 Harlow Hutchinson v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-08-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict Whether Petitioner was constitutionally entitled to a unanimous jury under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constituti…
19-5697 Felipe Vinagre-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure detention detention-motion federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure indictment judicial-interpretation jurisdiction legal-timing pretrial-motion speedy-trial-act Whether a motion for detention filed before an indictment or information charging a person has been obtained is a pretrial motion within the meaning o…
19-5699 Robert Gray v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-firearms-law federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element mens-rea statutory-interpretation 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g ) authoriz es conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there i…
19-5606 Ndokley Peter Enow v. Ricky Foxwell, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment plea-bargaining probable-cause search-and-seizure sentencing standing Did the trial court erred by admitting into evidence of the illegally obtained wiretapped tape recording of the defendant's oral conversations with th…
19-5607 Felix Summers v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence right-to-counsel sixth-amendment DENIAL OF SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT OF CONFRONTATION. THE FEDERAL CONFRONTATION CLAUSE (6TH AMEND.)(was violated). DENIAL OF SIXTH AMENDMENT. RIGHT TO EFF…
19-5664 Curtis Lee Sheppard, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2019-08-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-motivation criminal-procedure Does the application of the 'enterprise profits' t double-jeopardy due-process federal-prosecution jurisdiction pecuniary-gain rico-enterprise standing standing-issue statutory-interpretation vcar-statute 1. IF THE TRIAL COURT LACKED JURTEDICTIOON DECTION TO SETTHE CONVECTION -JUDGMENT AEIDE AND DEEMISETHELAUSE. 2. THE TREAL COURT /THE COURT OF CREMONA…
19-5668 Jerry Ellis, aka Jerry Leonard Ellis v. Noel Barlow-Hust, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights-counsel continuance due-process ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment trial-preparation appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-procedures habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction post-conviction-relief standing (1.) DID THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT (ERRED) BY DENYING APPELLANT'S MOTION TO STAY (DOCKET ENTRY NO. 4) (2.) DID THE UNI…
19-5669 Matthew Davis v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy conspiracy-to-distribute constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions Petitioner is serving a 360-month sentence for a charge of Conspiracy to Distribute 1000 grams or more of heroin and same amount of cocaine, in violat…
19-5644 Keith Stuart Cumbee v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-08-21 Denied IFP criminal-procedure does-judicial-confession double-jeopardy due-process due-process-clause fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus indigent-defendant judicial-confession legal-assistance legal-assistance-clause sixth-amendment without-prior-appointment-of-counsel without-waiver Despite lower court COA denial, should this Court consider, or remand for consideration, habeas claims: a. Does judicial confession in this case, with…
19-5654 Shederro Lemarc Brooks v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-firearms-law federal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element mens-rea statutory-interpretation 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g ) authoriz es conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there i…
19-5655 Chadwick N. Barner v. Illinois Illinois 2019-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial illinois-supreme-court-rule-431(b) impartial-jury jury-selection post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment voir-dire 1) CAN A SPECIFIC TRIBUTE TO KILL BE INFERRED BASED ON THE ACT OF PUSHING A PERSONS HEAD UNDERWATER? 2) CAN THE STATES PRESENTATION OF NONCUMULATIVE …
19-5660 Alfonso Sanchez v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-08-21 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury-verdict mistrial oregon-v-kennedy prosecutorial-misconduct reversal-of-conviction Does the Double Jeopardy Clause bar retrial when a prosecutor's misconduct, committed for the purposes of diminishing a defendant's chance of acquitta…
19-227 Adnan Syed v. Maryland Maryland 2019-08-21 Denied Amici (3) constitutional-review criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review jury-disbelief jury-evaluation prejudice prejudice-analysis standard-of-review state-case-presentation state-prosecution strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether a court evaluating prejudice under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), must take the State's case as it was presented to the jury, …
19-230 Douglas Prade v. Ohio Ohio 2019-08-21 Denied burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence state-courts state-criminal-procedure trial-rights With a single exception, criminal defendants in the United States seeking a new trial based on newly discovered evidence are required to establish onl…
19-5630 Roosevelt Stolden v. California California 2019-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey consecutive-sentencing criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-fact-finding preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-guidelines stare-decisis Should the Court reconsider its majority opinion in Oregon v. Ice, 555 U.S. 160, 167-168, 173-177, 129 S.Ct. 711, 172 L.Ed.2d 517 (2009) (Ice) which p…
19-5633 James F. Johnson v. Richard S. Tischner, Director, Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2019-08-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custodial-authority due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review parole public-records sex-offender-registration standing 1. DID THE COURT BELOW WAIVE IT'S POLICY OF NOT TO REVIEW OR OVERTURN ANY DECISION RENDERED BY AND FROM THE APPEALS COURT OF DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA IN …
19-5634 Daniel Marquez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 9th-circuit appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing downward-adjustment minor-role ninth-circuit sentencing sentencing-adjustment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-rule-10 ussg-3b1.2 Petitioner contends that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit erred in affirming the lower Court decision deny minor role after failing to pr…
19-5642 John Emmett Brown, Jr., and Derrick Louis Carter v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-materiality brady-v-maryland criminal-procedure due-process duress-defense exculpatory-evidence government-disclosure materiality prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony In the context of a duress defense, is the government's untimely disclosure of exculpatory evidence that (1) corroborates the defendants' wellgrounded…
19-5645 Thomas Potts v. California California 2019-08-20 Denied IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions possession-of-stolen-property reasonable-doubt robbery robbery-murder theft Where a criminal defendant is charged with robbery (and thus death-eligible robbery-murder) and the jury must decide whether the prosecution proved ro…
19-5646 Brian Caputo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP cognitive-capacity cognitive-impairment competency criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-plea-bargaining due-process knowing-intelligent-waiver mental-capacity neurological-impairment neurology plea-agreement Does a defendant knowingly, voluntarily, and intelligently enter into a plea agreement where he is neurologically incapable of understanding the futur…
19-5631 Joe Fernandez v. United States Second Circuit 2019-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c aider-and-abettor aider-and-abettor-liability aiding-and-abetting criminal-liability criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error-analysis harmless-error jury-instruction rosemond-standard rosemond-v-united-states statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence 1. Whether the failure to give an instruction on aider and abetter liability for a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) that comported with this Court's de…
19-5638 Jeffrey E. Lee v. Florida Florida 2019-08-19 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP betterman-v-montana constitutional-rights criminal-procedure delay due-process indigent-defendant right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-delay standard I. IN THE WAKE OF THE QUESTION LEFT OPEN BY THE COURT IN BETTERMAN v. MONTANA . 136 S.CT. 1609 (2016), DOES THE DUE PROCESS CLAUSE CREATE AN ENTITL…
19-5639 Kirby D. Crawford v. Georgia Georgia 2019-08-19 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure deprivation-of-rights due-process evidence-of-proof evidentiary-standards fair-trial grand-jury indictment judicial-error legal-procedure petitioner standing trial-court Whether the trial Court erred to charge my he UE n__I sued__ wot aves sAessed Aaa SS! N. tac. 1__Of8 Ye by "the _gaches prior 4s _oe at tetal 2 cach _…
19-208 Mark A. Beckham v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-08-19 Denied appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-doubt standard-of-review Because only a jury, acting on proof beyond a reasonable doubt, may take a person's liberty, when, if ever, is it constitutionally permissible for a…
19-216 Harold Persaud v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-08-19 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure daubert-standard district-court-opinion district-court-review due-process expert-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judgment-of-conviction merits-review motion-to-vacate standard-of-review 1. Whether Reasonable Jurists Could Debate the Denial of Petitioner's Motion to Vacate and Set Aside his Judgment of Conviction where the District Cou…
19-203 David Greenberg v. United States Second Circuit 2019-08-16 Denied Response Waived appellate-review circuit-court-review cooperation-agreement criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing reasonableness reasonableness-of-sentence reasonableness-standard second-circuit sentence-disparity sentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines unwarranted-disparity Did the Second Circuit err in affirming Petitioner David Greenberg's sentence without addressing (1) the sentencing court's failure to consider the pr…
19-5613 Luis Samayoa-Castillo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-discretion federal-sentencing-guidelines gall-v-united-states harmless-error molina-martinez-v-united-states rosales-mireles-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-error When the district court expressly relies upon a clearly erroneous fact in selecting its sentence, is the error harmless if there are other factors in …
19-5614 Robert Ricks v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process criminal-procedure defense-witness due-process fifth-amendment immunity perjury perjury-threat prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment witness-immunity witness-intimidation Whether the grant of use and derivative use immunity to a defense witness, which specifically excluded any "prosecution for perjury, giving a false st…
19-5619 Leonardo R. German v. Jerry Goodwin, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-08-16 Denied IFP competency constitutional-rights consular-assistance consulate-assistance criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus mental-health miranda-rights sanity-hearing 1) Did Mr. German possess a Constitutional right to a SANITY COMMISSION HEARING, after his new lawyer raised issues as to his competency prior to the …
19-5620 Damien Hyde v. Illinois Illinois 2019-08-16 Denied IFP 5th-amendment civil-rights coerced-statements confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence non-defendant-witnesses substantive-evidence witness-testimony 1. Does the admission of Coerced Statements by Non-defendant Witnesses deprive a defendant of Due Process of law, when they are used during trial as s…
19-5623 Deshawn Legrier v. United States Second Circuit 2019-08-16 GVR IFP 18-usc-922 18-usc-924 criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction firearms firearms-possession indictment knowingly-element rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction In light of this Court's decision in Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (2019) -- which held that the elements of an offense under 18 U.S.C. § 92…
19-5624 Zachary William Hicks v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process hicks-factors ineffective-assistance judicial-review sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review sixth-amendment trial-court-discretion Whether the Trial Court Imposed an Unreasonable Sentence by Failing to Adequately Consider Hicks' Factors and Whether Trial Counsel Rendered Ineffecti…
19-5596 Eric T. Latham v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-08-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment arizona-v-gant civil-rights criminal-procedure evidence fourth-amendment minor-traffic-offense probable-cause search-incident-to-arrest traffic-offense vehicle-search Is whether this Court's ruling in Arizona v. Gant, 556 U.S. 332 (2009), permitted police officers to conduct a "search incident to arrest" for only "p…
19-5598 Wade Hampton Bigelow, aka Ray Ford Gore v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights competence-to-stand-trial competency constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discrimination due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insanity-defense judicial-discretion mental-competency mental-health mental-health-records psychiatric-evaluation 1. Whether the District Court Failed To Rule consistent with the Insanity Defense Reform Act (IDRA) (18 U.S.C. § 17) by failing to make a differentiat…
19-5602 Kirk Wayne McBride, Sr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-08-15 Denied IFP administrative-agency administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure declaratory-relief due-process exclusionary-rule exhaustion-of-remedies federal-jurisdiction fourth-amendment habeas-corpus probable-cause search-and-seizure standing Question No. 1: Did the court of appeale error by cenging a kertificate a BPR0 whether the cistrc Pehtover's fecleral hebees petton Ome uwclerTatle 2 …
19-5569 Gary L. Brown v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process judicial-review wrongful-conviction THIS IS AN EXCEPTIONAL CASE. THE PETITIONER WAS CONVICTED ON SEPTEMBER 30, 1998; (the jury found petitioner guilty 2 counts of murder in the first deg…
19-5588 Luis Ordonez-Vega v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-counsel civil-rights conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process inadequate-representation-of-counsel ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merit-review section-2255 waive waiver DID CONFLICT OF INTEREST ARISE WHEN APPELLATE COUNSEL'S FAILED TO RAISE NON-FRIVOLOUS MERIT(S) "INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL" ON DEFENDANT'S FIRS…
19-5589 Marlon Leroy Porch v. T. Watson, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fundamental-defect maximum-sentence saving-clause sentence-review sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum I. WHETHER A FUNDAMENTAL DEFECT IS SUFFICIENT TO SATISFY THE SAVING CLAUSE WHERE PETITIONER ERRONEOUS ENHANCE SENTENCE FELL BENEATH THE STATUTORY MAXI…
19-5552 Kevin Devon Sutton v. Nevada Nevada 2019-08-13 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection free-speech judicial-review legal-rights sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions WHETHER SUTTON IS ACTUALLY INNOCENT OF FIRST DEGREE MURDER? DOES THE COURT OF APPEALS' DECISION VIOLATE SUTTON'S RIGHTS TO EQUAL PROTECTION AND DUE P…
19-5562 Sekou Kouyate v. United States Customs and Border Protection Second Circuit 2019-08-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standing takings Hu n o a D down my Mneget me l IA, FBI, Mis Cutoms and Border protection USCIS SSA, MTA, all Vdated My fu Conio in their full. and ethers Righb…
19-5563 Ian Alexander Bowline v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-08-13 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plain-error plain-error-review pretrial-motions timeliness waiver Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 12 no longer provides that the consequence of not timely making a required, pretrial motion is a waiver. Can an app…
19-5575 Antwaine Enta Yarbrough v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus precedent sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions supreme-court supreme-court-review Whether this Court should hold the instant petition in light of Shular v. United States, 15-1498, U.S._, _S.Ct. —, 2019 WL 2649851 (June 28, 2019)?
19-5581 William Henry Stephens, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea judicial-discretion knowing-and-intelligent plea-bargaining right-to-counsel right-to-jury-trial voluntariness Whether a Court can Rightfully Accept a Defendant's Guilty Plea when Such Plea was Not Made Knowingly and Intelligently.
19-5536 Gabriel Vashon Seay v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel investigation legal-investigation plea-agreement plea-bargaining right-to-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Where Strickland v. Washington, serves as the current case law protecting an accused's right to fair and competent assistance of legal counsel, there …
19-5556 Regina Lewis v. United States Second Circuit 2019-08-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-magistrate federal-state-balance procedural-violation rule-of-lenity standing statutory-interpretation title-18-usc-115 Did United States Magistrate Gabriel Gorenstein violate the Fed. R. Civ. P. Rule 4 (b) Did my arrest and prosecution violate the narrow federal-state…
19-5558 Frank Stephon Johnson v. Correct Care Solutions, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment medical-care medical-conditions punishment was the defendonts conduct de\ therately ,Pucposely Knowing nd cbjecluely yu intera' in Respect to Vv ialating Johnson rcHottonal Vio S Fourteen 1 Ame…
19-5530 Leroy Lyons v. Thomas Winn, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus innocence judicial-review legal-interpretation procedural-rights statutory-construction wrongful-conviction Motion to shik Coeriosari on in Dieu of granting Coontisani Remand to the ixth Lovicil imstuwith chions to consider the amended Bile5 moerid sfer Rema…
19-5532 Timothy W. Sparrow v. Rusty Washburn, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-defective-indictment,double-jeo due-process evidentiary-rulings indictment-defect ineffective-assistance judicial-misconduct jury-representation jury-selection prosecutorial-misconduct sufficiency-of-evidence 1. The indictment was defective because it did not adequately inform the petitioner of the state's theory of attempted first degree murder. (Doc. No. …
19-5537 Benjamin Escobedo v. Texas Texas 2019-08-09 Denied IFP 6th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-defects-indictment due-process indictment jurisdiction motion-to-close motion-to-quash sixth-amendment trial-court 1. Did the Trial court err When it overruled Appellants Motion to Quash the Amended indictment ? Cih.3t.38. RRY.7). 2. Oid the court of Appeals err b…
19-5538 Timothy Jamaras Burns v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus plea-agreement plea-bargaining section-2255 waiver-of-appeal Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by ruling that Mr. Burns § 2255 claims are barred by the Waiver of Appeal provision in his Plea Agreement.
19-5539 Nicholas Gilbert Beattie v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-08-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP breach-of-contract contract-law criminal-procedure due-process ethics plea-agreement prosecutorial-conduct prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-recommendation Whether the prosecutor's conduct in speaking out of both sides of his mouth with respect to a sentencing recommendation they had agreed to make is a b…
19-5542 Robert Maloy v. New York New York 2019-08-09 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection legal-assistance post-release-supervision sentencing state-court unusual-punishment The OCR text provided is severely degraded and largely illegible in the "QUESTION(S) PRESENTED" section. While a section header labeled "QUESTION(S) P…
19-5544 Overille Denton Thompson, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2019-08-09 Denied IFP appellate-review barker-default constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process fundamental-right lower-courts presumption-against-waiver procedural-default speedy-trial texas-court-of-criminal-appeals 1. Did the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals err in refusing to grant Overtlle Denton Thompson's petition for discretionary review and thereby fail to a…
19-5547 Ronny Lee Williams v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-08-09 Denied IFP abandonment-of-claim abandonment-of-defense certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim counsel-statement-of-guilt counsel-statements criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel right-to-autonomy right-to-counsel Whether COA should have been granted based on petitioner's right tocautonomy uhen his cousel abandoned petitioner's claim of hot guilty uhen cousel …
19-5549 Anthony Dion Collins v. Francisco Lara, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-defect habeas-corpus judicial-review saving-clause sentencing sentencing-error statutory-maximum I. WHETHER A FUNDAMENTAL DEFECT IS SUFFICIENT TO SATISFY THE SAVING CLAUSE WHERE PETITIONER ERRONEOUS SENTENCE FELL BENEATH THE STATUTORY MAXIMUM?
19-184 United States v. Richard D. Collins Armed Forces 2019-08-09 Judgment Issued Amici (1)Relisted (2) armed-forces court-of-appeals-for-armed-forces criminal-procedure due-process military-justice precedent rape rape-prosecution statute-of-limitations uniform-code-of-military-justice Whether the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces erred in concluding —contrary to its own longstanding precedent —that the Uniform Code of Military J…
19-5497 John McGill v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-instructions pattern-jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment 1. When a district court issues erroneous jury instructions that include (a) to consider conviction with less than guilt beyond all reasonable doubt…
19-5504 In Re Joel Diaz-Hinirio 2019-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP adversarial-testing conviction-integrity criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus incarceration ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review right-to-counsel WHETHER DENIAL OF APPOINTMENT OF COUNSEL TO PETITIONER BY THE SUPREME COURT IN THIS INSTANT CASE, WOULD BE TANTAMOUNT TO PETITIONER JOEL DIAZ HINIRIO,…
19-5510 Maurice Patrick Fortune, III v. Virginia Fourth Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony-prosecution grand-jury indictment magistrate-warrant sentencing substantive-due-process (1) Mr. Fortune certifies the Commonwealth of Virginia err in deferring contents essential to the definition of a trial. A trial; as defined by Merria…
19-5513 Charles Head v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-appointed-attorney court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure defiance-of-request due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-remedy petition-filing petition-for-certiorari right-to-counsel statutory-right statutory-rights timely-filing writ-of-certiorari I what remedies is available for petitioner when Court appointed attorney failed to file timely petition for writ of certiorari in deference to the pe…
19-5516 Rayshawn Roshard Robertson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 burden-of-proof constitutional-law constitutional-provision criminal-defendant criminal-procedure criminal-relief federal-procedure retroactive-application retroactive-constitutional-decision section-2255 sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum I. Whether a criminal defendant moving for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, based on a retroactive constitutional decision invalidating a federal statut…
19-5522 Berson Marius v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process factual-proffer ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-conduct judicial-fact-finding plea-bargaining rule-11 WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT JUDGE CAN ELICITE ADDITIONAL FACTS DURING A FACTUAL PROFFER, AND WHETHER COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL W…
19-5455 Jesus Rios-Garza v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei…
19-5460 Jose Ortega v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-08-07 Denied IFP 18-usc-924c categorical-approach court-of-appeals criminal-law criminal-procedure grant-vacate-remand residual-clause section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis Whether the Court should grant, vacate, and remand Mr. Ortega's case in light of United States v. Davis, 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), after the Court of Ap…
19-5484 Geoff Edwin Murphy v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-08-07 Denied IFP attempted-homicide constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discrimination due-process federal-claims forfeiture jury-instructions legal-procedure state-court-rule state-trial-court 1. THE STATE TRIAL COURT DEPRIVED APPELLANT OF HIS RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS BY INSTRUCTING THE JURY ON JUSTIFIABLE ATTEMPTED HOMICIDE 2. THE STATE COURT …
19-5494 Sobhy Fahmy Amin Iskander v. Dean Borders, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-08-07 Denied IFP civil-rights collateral-challenge constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-rules-of-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-reconsideration newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief sentencing standing MR. ISKANDER WAS RELEASED FROM PRISON ON FEBRUARY 3, 2018 AFTER SERVING SIXTEEN YEARS (INCLUDING 2 CONCORDANT TO 6 CONCORDANT YEARS WITHOUT SUBSTRACTI…
19-5501 Mandrail Jamar Woodberry v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-08-07 GVR IFP appellate-procedure counsel-withdrawal criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit jurisdiction rehaif rehaif-decision rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review withdrawal-of-counsel Whether in light of the Court's opinion in Rehaif v. United States, No. 17-9560 issued on June 21, 2019 this Court should vacate the opinion of the U.…
19-5441 Louis Mercado v. Jacob Sorey, Warden, et al. Florida 2019-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-constitution habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief procedural-due-process property-rights standing state-statute takings 1. WERE THE FETITIDNER'S RIGHT TO THE UNITED STATES AND FLURIDA CONSTITUTIONS EGREGIOUSLY VIOLATED BY FLORIDA CIRCUIT ANS APPEUATE COURTS? 2. SHOULD …
19-5444 Andrew Blake Moorehead v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception jurisdiction jurisdiction-limitation network-investigative-technique void-ab-initio warrant warrant-validity 1. When a warrant is void ab initio, does the Good-Faith exception to the exclusionary rule apply? 2. Does a Network Investigative Technique (NIT) wa…
19-5449 Richard Shelley v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial jury-selection peremptory-strike sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-fair-trial WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN FINDING THAT SHELLEY FAILED TO OBJECT TO THE GOVERNMENT'S USE OF A PEREMPTORY STRIKE, THEREBY CAUSING AN 5th AMEND…
19-5450 Paul Suarez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c appeal conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure drug-trafficking firearm-offense jury-unanimity law-of-the-case legal-sufficiency manifest-injustice sufficiency-of-evidence 1) DID THE PANEL ERR BY HOL DING THAT THE "LAW OF THE CASE" GOVERNED ITS DECI SION IN HOLDING THAT THE EVIDENCE WAS LEGALLY SUFFICIENT TO SUSTAIN THE …
19-5453 Juan Pablo Revelo Salcedo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit appointment-of-counsel civil-procedure criminal-procedure declaration financial-disclosure in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance judicial-access motion motion-to-substitute-counsel poverty poverty-affidavit pro-se-litigation redress right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Question not identified.
19-5462 Wayne Pettaway v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion Third Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-prejudice magistrate-bias WAS THE DEFENSE COUNSEL'S INEFFECTIVE INFERENCE THE GOVERNMENT WAS WAS THERE GROUNDS FOR A OUTSTANDING WARRANT FOR MY ARREST WAS THERE HOSPITAL RECORD…
19-5468 Tara Glass v. United States Third Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process ex-parte-communication ex-parte-communications fair-trial judicial-complaint judicial-integrity judicial-misconduct liberty-interest liberty-interests right-to-marry supervised-release This case presents a fascinating issue of first impression at the intersection of constitutional due process and the confidential judicial complaint r…
19-5471 J. A. M. v. New Jersey New Jersey 2019-08-06 Denied IFP 5th-amendment ambiguous-request appellate-division appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment interrogation right-to-counsel 1. Did the Appellate Division err by ignoring the fact that petitioner-defendant was denied his Fifth Amendment right to have counsel present during i…
19-5473 Samuel Benzant v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied IFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment standard-of-review Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on the basis that the Petitione…
19-5479 Gregory Waddell Hayes v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federalism fifth-amendment precedent separate-sovereigns sovereign-immunity Whether this Court should overrule the separate sovereigns exception to Double Jeopardy
19-5481 Jomo Williams v. United States Second Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment confrontation-clause confrontation-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-rule-of-evidence fifth-amendment jury sixth-amendment Were Petitioner's Fifth and Sixth Amendment due process rights obliterated
19-5446 Michael Thomas Balint v. Kelly Santoro, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure critical-stage due-process habeas-corpus harmless-error jury-instructions ninth-circuit right-to-be-present right-to-counsel Did the Ninth Circuit incorrectly determine that California's Dixon rule procedurally barred Balint's claim that he was denied his constitutional righ…
19-5448 Antolin Torres Abonza v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing deference due-process federal-courts judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness-review Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors?
19-5457 Matthew G. Munksgard v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bank-fraud banking criminal-intent criminal-procedure document-forgery due-process evidence fdic-insurance financial-regulation presumption reasonable-doubt signature-fraud statutory-interpretation Whether it is proper to presume that a certificate of FDIC insurance issued 23 years earlier, combined with the statement of a bank officer that FDIC …
19-5458 Samantha Winter v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-08-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation evidence evidence-admission harmless-error miranda-warnings motion-to-suppress rule-404b search-and-seizure warrantless-search whether-miranda-rights-were-violated
19-5459 Edward Lee Carter v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-08-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial impartial-judge judicial-impartiality judicial-misconduct sixth-amendment Whether a criminal defendant is constitutionally entitled to a fair trial from an impartial judge who is not corrupt to preside and rule over his tria…
19-5465 Isela Alejandra Campos v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court district-court-error guideline-range guidelines molina-martinez plain-error plain-error-review prejudice prejudice-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the defendant may rely on the district court's error alone to show prejudice under plain error review
19-162 Michael Richards v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-08-05 Denied Response Waived collateral-attack collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation pena-rodriguez pena-rodriguez-v-colorado racial-bias retroactivity supreme-court-precedent Should this Court's decision in Pena-Rodriquez v. Colorado, 187 8, Ct. 855 (2017) be applied retroactively to Petitioner's collateral attack?
19-159 Carlos Tapia v. New York New York 2019-08-02 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence memory-loss sixth-amendment testimonial-statement Whether a witness's total memory loss prevents him from testifying about his prior out-of-court testimonial statement, and whether the witness's mere …
19-5434 Juan Fletcher Gordillo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-requirements constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit first-impression judicial-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether this Court should review the decision of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals to determine whether the decision in this case of apparent firs…
19-5435 Steven Eason v. Mississippi Mississippi 2019-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause due-process jurisdiction sexual-battery subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the defendant's constitutional rights against double jeopardy are violated when multiple identical sexual battery charges are brought based on…
19-5436 Martin Araiza-Jacobo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-02 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error deliberate-ignorance harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-sufficiency standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the standard for assessing the harmlessness of an erroneously submitted deliberate-ignorance instruction turns only on the legal sufficiency o…
19-5413 John Thomas Rooney v. Georgia Georgia 2019-08-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus jurisdiction plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-jurisdiction unconstitutional unconstitutional-conviction Can convictions and sentences imposed by a State Trial Court without Constitutional or Statutory subject-matter jurisdiction or due to an Unconstituti…
19-5423 Antonio Rashawne Carr v. Texas Texas 2019-08-01 Denied IFP appeal arraignment arraignment-hearing criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury grandjury-indictment indictment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sexual-assault ISSUE NUMBER ONE: Appeal Counsel only raised one point of error. It was a question regarding the Complainant. That she had been ISSUE NUMBER TWO: App…
19-5425 Damien Riley v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review career-offender criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process residual-clause sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness united-states-code united-states-v-booker Whether a sentence imposed under the Career Offender Guidelines is reasonable in light of the subsequent 798 Amendment to the Guidelines, in a case wh…
19-5428 Herron Kent Duckett v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-08-01 Denied IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure deadly-weapon deadly-weapon-finding evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judgment-of-conviction judicial-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the decision of the court is in conflict with Supreme Court ruling concerning ineffective assistance of counsel
19-5432 Kevin Michael-Dorman Beltowski v. Shawn Brewer, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP credibility-determinations criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error due-process evidence-sufficiency harmless-error instructional-error judicial-review jury-instructions newly-discovered-evidence right-to-defense right-to-present-defense sufficiency-of-evidence Whether instructional error occurred in a way that conflicts with the Supreme Court's clearly established harmless-error precedents
19-5383 Christopher Stacy v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-31 GVR IFP case-law certiorari criminal-law criminal-procedure judicial-review mens-rea rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states remand statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent vacatur Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2…
19-5403 Randy Charriez-Rolon v. United States First Circuit 2019-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-ineffectiveness criminal-procedure defendant-silence due-process due-process,self-incrimination,plain-error,ineffec first-circuit-review free-speech plain-error prosecutorial-commentary rule-29-motion silence Whether the First Circuit's op/order affirming Petitioner's sentence and conviction finding no plain error when the United States commented on Petitio…
19-5411 Kirk Patrick Keshler v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process factual-basis harmless-error judicial-review plain-error plea-bargaining plea-sufficiency standard-of-review sullivan-v-louisiana Whether the sufficiency of a factual basis for a defendant's plea should be subject to plain error review, or whether, under Sullivan v. Louisiana, 50…
19-5412 Jean Claude Phillip McKenzie v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a 6th-circuit appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court history-and-characteristics judicial-discretion nature-and-circumstances sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance Whether the district court's upward variance in sentencing was proper
19-5417 Travis Wayne Bentley v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2019-07-31 GVR Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP appeals civil-procedure criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction indian-law jurisdiction native-american-rights standing Whether the state court had jurisdiction to convict the petitioner under the Major Crimes Act
19-5420 Kendrick Terrell v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error prior-charges sentence-enhancement sentencing sentencing-calculation sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether the Petitioner's Sixth Amendment Rights were violated
19-5421 Charles Earl Davis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-31 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process factual-error harmless-error judicial-standard legal-interpretation plain-error plain-error-review procedural-review standard-of-review Whether factual error is categorically immune from plain error review?
19-5422 Michael A. Webb v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP adam-walsh-act adam-walsh-child-protection-and-safety-act constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy ineffective-assistance plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
19-5376 Alan Lewis Doering v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing takings confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence sixth-amendment sixth-circuit Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in its interpretation of the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment
19-5377 Fairly W. Earls v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split circuit-splits civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-justice-system criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b6 Whether the Criminal Justice System allows Federal Rules of Civil Procedure in Habeas Corpus Cases
19-5379 Michael Boyd Crowley v. Texas Texas 2019-07-30 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment miranda-warnings right-to-counsel self-incrimination self-incrimination,right-to-counsel,due-process,fi trial-procedure Was the information given by Dr. Dunham sufficient to warn the defendant of the danger of self incrimination?
19-5380 In Re Charles L. Cox 2019-07-30 Denied IFP community-supervision criminal-procedure deferred-adjudication due-process equal-protection jurisdiction separation-of-powers vagueness void-for-vagueness Is Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, Article 42.1285(a) deferred Adjudication Community Supervision void for vagueness?
19-5392 Kurt J. Myrie v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied IFP 18-usc-371 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-retroactivity due-process federal-conspiracy retroactivity violent-crime 1. Does this Court's ruling in United States v. Davis, 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), striking as unconstitutionally vague the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. §…
19-5396 Vincent Anzalone v. United States First Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure-41(b) federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure good-faith-exception government-policy judicial-authority jurisdiction procedural-violation warrant warrant-application Whether the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule is categorically applicable to a warrant issued in violation of Federal Rule of Criminal Pro…
19-5397 Charles Donelson v. Q. Tanner, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied IFP audit-standard circuit-split civil-rights class-action criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence fraud fraud-on-the-market free-speech securities-law standing supreme-court-precedent takings Whether The Seventh circuit prisoner lawsuit forms for District court create a fraudulent Execution or Information Whether the seventh circuit applic…
19-5407 Fabian Delgado v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP consideration contract contract-law criminal-procedure defendant-benefit due-process legal-principle plea-agreement sentencing 1. Whether principles of contract law require consideration (benefit to the defendant) to support a valid plea agreement.
19-141 Jeffrey Fairbanks v. Indiana Indiana 2019-07-30 Denied Response Waived criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-rules ex-post-facto judicial-construction jury jury-instructions propensity-evidence reasonable-doubt vague-statute vagueness Whether the judiciary violated the Ex Post Facto Clause when it created a new evidentiary holding to excuse the impermissible use of propensity eviden…
19-5371 In Re Mary Capri 2019-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice restitution supervised-release Can the District Court Deny to Abide with the Supreme Court rulings on Restitution?
19-5374 Benson Coriolant v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP abandoned-claims actual-appeal actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability criminal-justice-act criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure fifth-circuit pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-rules Whether the Fifth Circuit's holding that the pro se litigant has abandoned any claim(s) not raised in an application for a certificate of appealabilit…
19-5387 Shevaun E. Browne v. United States Third Circuit 2019-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP cautionary-instruction criminal-procedure evidence guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions plea-bargaining sixth-amendment third-circuit trial-counsel Whether certiorari review should be granted where the Third Circuit affirmed the district court's ruling that trial counsel was not ineffective for fa…
19-5388 Marquis Travell Edwards v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure discovery due-process government-misconduct habeas-corpus pre-indictment-delay preindictment-delay prosecutorial-misconduct tactical-advantage Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals should have granted a certificate of appealability (COA)
19-5302 Bryant Keith Williams v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2019-07-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment damages due-process free-speech habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct standing Whether the State of Florida can impose a life sentence on an individual despite a jury's recommendation of a lesser sentence
19-5309 William Dante Mitchell v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP certiorari-petition criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process firearms-violation habeas-corpus sentencing sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions supreme-court violent-felony Whether this Court should hold the instant petition in light of Shular v. United States
19-5330 Maurice Montrae Parks v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-07-26 GVR IFP burden-of-proof constitutional-validity criminal-conviction criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession firearms jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether a new trial is warranted where the District Court failed to instruct the jury on a crucial element of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)
19-5340 Carl Prostell v. David Zook, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury post-conviction-relief reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the evidence was sufficient to find guilt beyond a reasonable doubt?
19-5352 Hal Bernard Black v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland civil-rights,due-process,standing,civil-procedure, compulsory-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial government-liability notice-requirement procedural-fairness prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the lower courts erred in holding that there is no 'fair trial' at all when a defendant is denied the right to present a complete defense by t…
19-5358 Victor Manuel Collazo-Gonzalez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judicial-review precedent-analysis sentencing supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
19-5362 Kasine Deleston v. United States Second Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP and Ultimately Breached if it Contains an Unfulfi ambiguity breach-of-contract criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process government-breach government-misconduct plea-agreement plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing sentencing-stipulation withdrawal-of-plea Whether a Plea Can be Ambiguous, and Ultimately Breached if it Contains an Unfulfillable Sentencing Stipulation and the Government Fails to Offer the …
19-5363 Richard Curtis v. Lyneal Wainwright, Warden Ohio 2019-07-26 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-review merger sentencing void-for-vagueness Whether separately imposed sentences prior to merge, constitutes multiple sentences in violation of the Double Jeopardy clause
19-5300 Fremo Santana v. United States Third Circuit 2019-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination guideline-range ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-proceedings Whether defense counsel's performance was constitutionally ineffective for erroneously miscalculating petitioner's guideline range which was the decid…
19-5301 Aaron Orlando Richards v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-07-25 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection first-degree-murder jury-trial jury-unanimity jury-verdict legislative-amendment non-unanimous-verdict prosecutorial-discretion unanimous-verdict Did the appellate court err in its interpretation of Apodaca and Bertrand?
19-5308 Oscar Minaya v. United States Second Circuit 2019-07-25 GVR IFP 18-usc-924 18-usc-924c civil-rights conviction criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute residual-clause sentence sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis void-for-vagueness Whether the residual clause at 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is void for vagueness
19-5333 Charles York Walker, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-07-25 GVR IFP abuse-of-discretion case-specific-factors criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-11 discretion district-court district-court-discretion felon-in-possession grand-jury incorrect-assumptions opioid-crisis plea-agreement plea-bargaining policy-disagreement rehaif-standard rule-11 Whether a district court abuses its discretion in rejecting plea agreements based on policy disagreements
19-5334 Martel Valencia-Cortez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-25 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence eyewitness-identification jury-instruction jury-instructions reliability-factors standing trial-error trial-procedure witness-identification Whether a district court commits error in a federal criminal case by failing to provide a specific eyewitness identification instruction
19-5341 Roshard Whitehead v. Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process federal-rule-3 fifth-amendment fourth-amendment illegal-search-and-seizure search-and-seizure standing victim-rights Whether the courts overlooked federal law and the U.S. Constitution when they overlooked the 4th Amendment exclusionary rule, the 5th Amendment right …
19-5344 Felix Adriano Chujoy, aka Felix Chujoy Alvarado v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP corrupt-intent criminal-procedure false-testimony grand-jury human-trafficking immigration-violations intent plea-bargain plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation witness-tampering witness-tampering-18-usc-1512(b)(1) Witness-tampering
19-5345 Mustafa Kamel Mustafa v. United States Second Circuit 2019-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP classified-information constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure defense-investigation due-process first-amendment national-security overbreadth separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation vagueness Whether Section 5(a) of the Classified Information Procedures Act, 18 U.S.C. App. 3, is unconstitutionally vague or overbroad due to its potential to …
19-5296 Ozzie Davis v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2019-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruton-v-us criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial-rights jackson-v-virginia prosecutorial-misconduct state-trial sufficiency-of-evidence supreme-court-precedent third-degree-murder Whether the Pennsylvania Superior Court's denial of the challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence resulted in an unreasonable application of Suprem…
19-5297 Esterlin Appolon v. Arizona Arizona 2019-07-24 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-law judicial-review jurisdiction post-conviction second-amendment sentencing standard-of-review state-court sufficiency-of-evidence unreasonable-application Whether the Arizona Supreme Court abused its discretion by dismissing the Petition for Special Action and Motion for Stay?
19-5307 James D. Brigman v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-07-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-justice criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness Whether the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidelines
19-5316 Abelee Bronson v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-07-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing criminal-sentencing-guidelines-mandatory habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-guidelines sessions-v-dimaya void-for-vagueness Whether the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the analogous residual clause in the mandatory guidelines
19-5317 Alonzo Vernon v. United States Second Circuit 2019-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review chapman-v-california constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial harmless-error jones-v-stinson sixth-amendment Whether the Second Circuit's decision in the instant case created a conflict with the Court's decision in Chapman, supra?
19-5320 Romon Lamont Dobbins v. Joe M. Allbaugh, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2019-07-24 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence reasonable-doubt search-and-seizure Was Petitioner's Conviction Sustained With Insufficient Evidence Beyond A Reasonable Doubt?
19-5322 Ottis J. Cummings, Jr., aka Ottis Junior Cummings, aka Otis Cummings, aka Ottis J. Cummings, aka Otis J. Cummings v. Mississippi Mississippi 2019-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review legal-procedure right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standing Whether Counsel's Ineffective Assistance Deprived the Petitioner of Some Substantive or Procedural Right to which the Law Entitles Him?
19-5323 Edwardo De Juan v. Florida Florida 2019-07-24 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-jurisdiction new-trial post-conviction procedural-rights standing state-court statutory-provisions Whether the petitioner's due process and equal protection rights were violated when the state court denied his post-conviction motion for a new trial
19-5273 Wendolyn Lee v. Amy P. Weirich, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech patent sentencing standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its ruling on the legal issues involved in this case
19-5281 Ronald Wesley Jiles v. Michigan Michigan 2019-07-23 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility fair-trial fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-right jury-bias jury-instructions prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination Whether a defendant's right to exercise his Fifth Amendment right was prejudiced by the prosecution's comments on it during closing arguments
19-5283 Kyle Jason Korte v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment good-faith-exception illinois-v-krull improper-application judicial-precedent law-enforcement search-and-seizure statutory-interpretation valid-law Does the 'good faith exception' outlined in Illinois v. Krull extend to circumstances where the statute remains valid but was improperly applied?
19-5286 Adam Patton v. Arkansas Arkansas 2019-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver Whether a criminal defendant, who has not knowingly and intelligently waived his Sixth Amendment right to counsel and who clearly requests the assista…
19-5288 In Re Otis B. Brascom 2019-07-23 Dismissed IFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the false complaint and indictment in violation of Rule 12(b)(6) of the Federal Rules …
19-5289 Pharoah Brazell v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process evidence forged-guilty-plea guilty-plea habitual-offender miranda-rights plea-bargaining right-to-attorney-during-questioning right-to-counsel right-to-remain-silent sentence-enhancement sentencing Can the State use a forged Guilty Plea form from a Florida predicate offense and used it to enhance his sentence as a Habitual Offender?
19-5290 Ryan Keith Mason v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-07-23 Denied IFP appellate-review attorney-performance credibility credibility-determination criminal-procedure deference deference-standard deference-to-trial-court evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-sufficiency plea-bargaining plea-offer standard-of-review Whether a court of appeals erred in finding that deference to a trial court's factual finding on an attorney's provision of a favorable plea offer was…
19-5293 Frank Le'Dell Owens v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment compulsory-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance jury-instructions lesser-included-offense pardon-power plea-bargaining right-to-counsel Does pretrial counsel's failure to advise accused of favorable plea offer constitute denial of effective assistance of counsel?
19-5294 Abraham Asley Augustin v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 amendment criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-15a due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-notice federal-rules-civil-procedure fourth-amendment habeas-corpus motion-to-amend pleading responsive-pleading section-2255 standing Whether the Fed. R.. Crim. P. 15(a) Motion's right to amend as a-matter of course' a 28 U.S.C. Sec. 2255 before a Responsive pleading is filed can be …
19-5267 Michael St. Hubert v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-23 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6)IFP 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit first-step-act habeas-corpus pending-on-direct-review preclusion pro-se section-2255 successive-2255-motion successive-motion successive-petitions Is a criminal defendant's right to Due Process violated by the Eleventh Circuit's rule affording binding force and preclusive effect to a prior panel'…
19-5247 Charles Michael Hedlund v. Arizona Arizona 2019-07-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eddings-v-oklahoma habeas-corpus jury-trial sentencing Whether the correction of error under Eddings v. Oklahoma requires resentencing
19-5263 Miah Stroud v. Shawn Brewer, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-right-to-defense constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony expert-witness felonious-assault insufficient-evidence misidentification police-influence prosecutorial-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct second-degree-murder sufficiency-of-evidence witness-identification Did the courts erroneously deny Ms. Stroud's constitutional right to due process when she was convicted of second degree murder and three counts of fe…
19-5264 Joseph Hyungseop Shim v. Michael Sexton, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-07-22 Denied IFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus standing Whether Petitioner has made a substantial showing of a denial of a constitutional right to authorize the granting of a certificate of appealability un…
19-5269 Reginald Christopher Gilbert v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-22 Denied IFP appellate-procedure appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-review jurisdiction objection reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-review Whether a formal objection after pronouncement of sentence is necessary to invoke appellate reasonableness review of the length of a defendant's sente…
19-5270 Phyteaf Phequan McCormick v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-07-22 GVR IFP case-remand criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-law fourth-circuit judicial-interpretation sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review Whether the Fourth Circuit's judgment should be vacated and this case remanded for further review in light of this Court's recent opinion in Rehaif v.…
19-5275 Richard Michael Mathisen v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-hearing sixth-amendment Whether the district court and Fourth Circuit erred in denying Mr. Mathisen's 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion based on ineffective assistance of counsel
19-5276 Marvin F. Taylor v. Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison Seventh Circuit 2019-07-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection standing Question not identified
19-5279 Miguel Esparza-Salazar v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure illegal-entry prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-factors sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum Whether a criminal defendant charged with illegal entry under 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b)(1) and (2) is entitled to notice in the indictment of prior convictio…
19-5280 Charles D. Tuttoilmondo, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2019-07-22 Denied IFP 4th-amendment administrative-law administrative-search border-patrol checkpoint-search civil-rights commercial-vehicles constitutional-reasonableness criminal-procedure drug-interdiction fourth-amendment roving-patrol search-and-seizure special-needs-doctrine Does Texas' use of commercial motor vehicle inspectors combined with a roving drug interdiction task force unconstitutionally and unreasonably abuse t…
19-107 Vincent Asaro v. United States Second Circuit 2019-07-22 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 5th-amendment 6th-amendment acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial-right sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct underlying a charge for which t…
19-5215 Lowrell Neal v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion appellate-review circuit-court clearly-erroneous criminal-procedure habeas-corpus law-of-the-case manifest-injustice procedural-error sixth-circuit Did the Sixth Circuit err by holding the district court properly applied the law-of-the-case to an issue presented in 2255 motion when prior appellate…
19-5221 Richard Potts v. United States Third Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-claim constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jurisdiction sentencing standing statutory-interpretation Whether collateral review is available to obtain relief under 28 USC § 2255 in the circumstances presented
19-5223 Bobby Minnis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ex-parte-communication ex-parte-communications federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing-modification state-sentencing Whether a federal district judge can amend a final sentence years later to a defendant's detriment
19-5244 Larry David Davis v. Brian Daniel, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied IFP civil-rights confession-admissibility constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection evidence-tampering habeas-corpus sentencing standing trial-fairness Whether the petitioner's conviction and sentence violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment
19-5246 Jason Rosado v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied IFP 18-usc-1203 924(c) certificate-of-appealability constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals' denial of a Certificate of Appealability should be vacated in light of the Supreme Court's decision in …
19-5254 Jose Arroyo v. Illinois Illinois 2019-07-19 Denied IFP corpus-delicti counsel-appointment criminal-procedure discovery dna-evidence due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sexual-conduct witness-statement Did the State fail to prove the corpus delicti of charges alleging penetration and sexual conduct with Jose Arroyo's mouth where the only proof of tho…
19-5255 Frank Lobacz v. United States Second Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-error per-se-ineffectiveness procedural-default second-circuit section-2255 sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington trial-counsel Whether the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred in affirming the lower court's denial of Petitioner's 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petition alleging ine…
19-5256 Anthony J. Livingstone v. United States Armed Forces 2019-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause confrontation-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process military-justice military-rules-of-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment special-victims-counsel Was the 6th Amendment right to confront witnesses violated due to a misapplication of MRE 412?
19-5259 Edgar Armand Hernandez-Castillo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion jury-trial sentencing-determination sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-18-usc-3553 statutory-minimum Whether district courts may determine without the aid of a jury that a sentence above the statutory minimum is 'not greater than necessary' to achieve…
19-5260 Michael Levon Jackson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-19 GVR IFP 18-usc-922g acquittal constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process element-of-crime jury-instruction jury-instructions jury-unanimity reasonable-doubt sentencing Does an inaccurate jury instruction on an element of a crime violate due process of law?
19-5261 Jorge Baez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c certificate-of-appealability conviction criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process due-process,vagueness,18-usc-924(c),criminal-proce eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus statutory-vagueness united-states-v-davis vagueness Whether Petitioner is entitled to relief on his claim that 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague and therefore his conviction under 18 …
19-5204 Jesus Loya Quezada v. Rick Raemisch, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal citizenship civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence harmless-error paper-foundation standing state-court uncorroborated-evidence Was the evidence allowed at my trial by the State court proper?
19-5230 Stephen B. Wlodarz v. Shawn Phillips, Warden Tennessee 2019-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP alford-plea criminal-procedure due-process life-sentence parole plea-bargaining sentencing Whether Petitioner's Alford guilty plea resulting in a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole is legal?
19-5231 James D. Thomas, Jr., aka Wayne Thomas v. New York New York 2019-07-18 Denied IFP appeal burden-of-proof civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-rulings fair-trial jury-instructions prejudicial-error prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence trial-court Whether the People failed to establish beyond a reasonable doubt that Jones Thomas Knowingly Possessed the Cocaine?
19-5232 Ricky Ray Malone v. Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-07-18 Denied IFP chapman-standard chapman-v-california constitutional-violation criminal-procedure cumulative-error cumulative-error-analysis federal-law harmless-error harmlessness-review plain-error plain-error-review prejudice prejudice-component Where plain error review includes a built-in prejudice component, is subjecting an acknowledged plain error to a second round of harmlessness review p…
19-5242 Charles Clary v. Lynn Guyer, Warden Montana 2019-07-18 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection free-speech standing takings Whether the District Court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
19-91 Michele Buckner, Warden v. Robert W. Allen Missouri 2019-07-18 Denied consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment habeas-corpus habeas-relief juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole parole-eligibility Whether a State may sentence a juvenile offender convicted of multiple crimes to multiple consecutive terms of years in prison under which the offende…
19-95 Linda Bolton, et vir v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-18 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment government-misconduct grand-jury judicial-precedent perjured-testimony tax tax-prosecution Whether tax prosecutions can be authorized by the IRS Commissioner instead of the Department of Justice
19-5199 Billy John Roberson v. Rowlett Police Department, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-07-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 2nd-amendment 2nd-amendment-rights absence-from-crime-scene aggravated-assault-elements assault-elements burden-of-proof conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process insufficient-evidence penal-code second-amendment sentencing-issues standing texas texas-penal-code Whether the petitioner received a guilty verdict of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon despite not owning or having access to a firearm
19-5216 Nicholas Pagliuca v. United States Second Circuit 2019-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plain-error plea-bargaining rule-11 vonn-v-united-states Whether the plain error standard of Vonn/Dominguez Benitez applies in the context of violations of Fed.R.Crim.P. 11(b)(1)(N), where the defendant rais…
19-5226 Patrick Demon Caldwell, II v. Arizona Department of Public Safety, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP arizona-court-system civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-misconduct post-conviction-relief rule-of-law standing Whether the court erred in not recognizing the presented evidence
19-5169 Timothy Stratton v. Mississippi Mississippi 2019-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 107 325 U.S. 91 65 S.Ct. 1031 89 L.Ed. 1495 (1945) civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jury-instructions screws-v-united-states venue Whether the trial court failed to instruct the jury on the elements of the crime (venue) as according to Screws v. United States, 325 U.S. 91, 107, 65…
19-5197 Eric T. Roden v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal article-iii-judge criminal-defendant criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion ninth-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines waiver Whether a criminal defendant can ever waive a correctly calculated guidelines range for use at a federal sentencing hearing
19-5201 Kenneth Medenbach v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3561 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing criminal-sentencing-authority district-court-jurisdiction due-process jurisdiction probation probation-term sentencing-authority statutory-interpretation substantial-rights supervised-release Did the District Court err in finding that it has authority under 18 USC §3561(a)(3) to impose a sentence of six months imprisonment and a 5 year term…
19-78 John Doe, aka Cheyenne Moody Davis v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-07-16 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived appellate-review conflict-among-courts constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jury-instructions reasonable-doubt standard-of-proof trial-court Whether a trial court in criminal proceedings must, upon request from the jury, explain the meaning of the 'beyond a reasonable doubt' standard to the…
19-75 James Joseph Garner v. Colorado Colorado 2019-07-15 Denied Amici (2) criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification police-misconduct standing suggestive-identification suggestive-setting trial-procedure witness-testimony Whether the Due Process Clause imposes any check on an eyewitness's identification of a criminal defendant in the typically suggestive setting of tria…
19-5168 Stephenson Lamar Smith v. Ted Jackson, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct standing Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment protects an individual from being tried on different charges related to the same offense
19-5175 Gregory Green v. Alan Wilson, Attorney General of South Carolina Fourth Circuit 2019-07-15 Denied IFP appeal civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review standing Whether Couth Caralina Aye late Courd hile IYF Violates due fPOELS aad ogea / yrotedtisn ot Jad, by not entiblag Pethoner thE right th be heard on Gpp…
19-5176 Ernest L. Chambliss v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP confidential-informant criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process entrapment entrapment-defense evidence felon-in-possession firearm-possession jury-instructions standing Whether a defendant who has been charged with possessing a firearm as a convicted felon is entitled to an entrapment instruction when the evidence dem…
19-5177 James Alvin Chaney v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment impartial-jury inter-circuit-split juror-allegation juror-misconduct jury sixth-amendment trial-court trial-procedure Is a criminal defendant's Fifth Amendment right of due process and Sixth Amendment right to a trial by an impartial jury violated when the trial court…
19-5178 Howard Lester v. Ohio Ohio 2019-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure essential-element expert-testimony firearms-examination fourth-amendment prosecutor-summation report-admission seizure substitute-analyst summation witness-testimony Whether the admission of a non-testifying firearms examiner's report and substitute analyst testimony violated the Confrontation Clause
19-5183 Miguel Grado v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-procedure criminal-statute drug-trafficking due-process firearm-use firearms multiple-offenses sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) for using a firearm to further a crime of violence or drug-trafficking crime may rest on more than one u…
19-5184 Kristopher Courtney v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance-of-counsel poverty sentencing standing Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of Kristopher Courtney's motion to vacate his sentence under 28 U.S.C. § 2255
19-5189 Michael Tyler v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-07-15 Denied IFP appeal civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process exculpatory-evidence guidelines liberty post-conviction-relief procedural-barriers sentencing standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the Sentencing Court Erred in Calculating the Defendant's Sentencing Guidelines Range
19-5191 Kenneth Byron Davenport v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP age-determination criminal-procedure individualized-sentencing juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing mental-disability mental-health mental-health-and-mental-retardation-act mental-illness miller-v-alabama post-conviction-relief post-conviction-relief-act schizophrenia Does the legal 'right' recognized in Miller v. Alabama include all substantive components necessary to its creation, including the well-established ra…
19-5153 Christopher B. Ramirez v. Washington Washington 2019-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravating-circumstance criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification identification-procedure jury-instructions notice photographic-array police-misconduct sixth-amendment suggestive-circumstances suggestive-identification Whether the trial court should have excluded Carlton Hritsco's identification of Christopher Ramirez
19-5159 Quinetta Grant v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP should this Court vacate and remand for reconside was Ms Grant denied her rights under U.S.S.G. § 1 binding-authority criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-plain-error-sentencing-right-to criminal-procedure-supervisory-power-conviction-se due-process judicial-discretion mail-fraud plain-error right-to-be-present sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-relevant-conduct-scope-of-cr sentencing-procedure Where Ms Grant's sentence was enhanced by attribut Where multiple additional errors affected petition Whether the Court of Appeals erred in failing to consider binding authority on a defendant's right to be present at a material sentencing proceeding
19-5162 Frederick Johnson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure discretionary-review plain-error plainly-unreasonable post-revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-standard supervised-release What is the proper standard of appellate review for sentences imposed on defendants following revocation of supervised release?
19-5149 Luis Rojas-Marceleno v. Kansas Tenth Circuit 2019-07-11 Denied IFP 2nd-amendment case-statement civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus jurisdictional-issue legal-review sentencing standing statutory-provisions writ-of-certiorari Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioners' claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim
19-5150 Irvin Junior Phillips v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924e apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process indictment-requirements prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether the Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States
19-5132 Kenneth D. Sills v. Anne L. Precythe, Director, Missouri Department of Corrections Eighth Circuit 2019-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-v-kentucky constitutional-rights criminal-procedure flowers-v-mississippi ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection peremptory-challenges prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination sixth-amendment Whether certiorari should be granted where trial counsel was ineffective in failing to object to the prosecution's pretextual explanation for exercisi…
19-5136 Sha-Ron Haines v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rights cross-examination due-process evidence evidence-rule-412 rape-shield rape-shield-law right-to-privacy victim-privacy Can the Government invoke Federal Rule of Evidence 412, the rape shield, over the objection of the victim, when doing so infringes upon a defendant's …
19-5137 Albert Duval Gray v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-law fifth-amendment revocation-sentence sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the writ should issue so that this Court may decide whether Petitioner's revocation sentence violated the Fifth and Sixth Amendments
19-5138 Jesus Alonso Gonzalez Gonzalez, aka Jesus Gonzalez, aka Jesus Alonzo Gonzalez, aka Alonzo Gonzalez, aka Roberto Soto v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP allocution allocution-error appellate-review criminal-procedure defendant-objection defendant-rights due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-error plain-error procedural-review rule-51b sentencing Whether allocution error deprives the defendant of an opportunity to object to that error within the meaning of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 51(…
19-5141 William Wade v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 924c-sentencing circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process johnson-dimaya physically-restrained-enhancement residual-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court Whether the 10th Circuit's declaration that the 924(c) 'residual' clause is unconstitutional requires resentencing when the sentencing court failed to…
19-5105 Rudy Espudo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-conviction criminal-justice criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process firearm-statute firearms sentencing statutory-interpretation underlying-offense Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) for using a firearm to further a crime of violence or drug-trafficking crime may rest on more than one u…
19-5110 Barry Bays v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substance-analog controlled-substance-analogue controlled-substances criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto fifth-amendment fraud scienter scienter-requirement sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether a defendant's sentence for fraud offenses that applied 21 U.S.C. § 802(32), USSG § 2B1.1(b)(1), and USSG §2D1.1 and treated Bays as a 'control…
19-5118 Jason Paul Mathison v. Washington Washington 2019-07-09 Denied IFP collateral-attack constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process involuntary-plea judicial-procedure plea-agreement plea-bargaining probation sentencing sentencing-conditions time-limits treatment-program vagueness Are constitutional rights of due process violated when a court imposes a condition that requires a defendant to 'successfully complete' a treatment pr…
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 Is resentencing required when a sentencing judge relied on an assumption that both parties agree is without evidentiary support?
19-5125 Francisco Gallegos-Lopez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3553a 3553(a)-factors abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion preservation-of-error procedural-error sentencing sentencing-recommendation statutory-factors Does urging a sentencing recommendation lower than that ultimately imposed, and grounded in the statutory factors in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a), suffice to p…
19-5126 Jesus M. Garcia v. Tammy Ferguson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix, et al. Third Circuit 2019-07-09 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment trial-counsel wiretap wiretap-evidence Did the district court and appeals court err in denying appellant relief on ineffective assistance of trial counsel due to counsel's failing to object…
19-5095 Fox Joseph Salerno v. Arizona Arizona 2019-07-08 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining racial-discrimination retroactivity right-to-counsel school-desegregation supreme-court Whether Missouri v. Frye and Lafler v. Cooper apply retroactively
19-5101 Darryl Puderer v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process equitable-tolling evidence-standard forcible-rape jurisdiction second-degree-kidnapping standing statute-of-limitations tolling Did the Federal District Court err in denying the petitioner's statutory or equitable tolling request when adequate record evidence was presented in s…
19-39 Quintin Antonio Bell v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-07-05 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment categorical-match criminal-procedure custody due-process fifth-amendment interrogation miranda-interrogation miranda-v-arizona officer-subjective-test police-conduct sentencing-enhancement state-court-prosecution Whether the court of appeals correctly applied a subjective, officer-focused test to determine whether a suspect was interrogated for purposes of Mira…
19-5043 Justin Panus v. Texas Texas 2019-07-05 Denied IFP 14th-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-enhancement double-jeopardy due-process elemental-fact equal-protection offense-enhancement sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether it violates the 14th Amendment for the same elemental fact to be used as an element of an offense and also to enhance that offense to a greate…
19-5067 Jimmie Darnell Dixon v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-insanity-defense-due-process-si due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insanity-defense insufficient-evidence Whether the lower court erred denying COA on the claim of insufficient evidence where petitioner sufficiently proved by a preponderance of the evidenc…
19-5077 Carlton P. Cabot v. United States Second Circuit 2019-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review clear-error criminal-procedure factual-determination factual-findings olano plain-error rule-52(b) sentencing-variance standard-of-review Does plain error review apply to unobjected to factual determinations?
19-5082 Julisa Tolentino v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review certiorari circuit-court criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review pending-case published-opinion reconsideration remand standing united-states-v-leal vacate Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and the remand for reconsideration in the event that the defendant in the forth…
19-5085 Darren L. Lee v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure divisible-offense federal-sentencing full-faith-and-credit modified-categorical-approach physical-force plea-bargain sentencing shepard-documents united-states-v-horse-looking violent-felony Where a divisible offense may be committed two ways, one of which satisfies the 'violent felony' element of physical force, and one of which does not,…
19-35 Brandon Lee Mojica v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-review criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-statute habeas-corpus heightened-pleading post-conviction-relief sentencing standard-of-proof united-states-v-davis Whether the Court should grant, vacate, and remand this case to the Eleventh Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Davis
19-37 Matthew Freeman v. Texas Texas 2019-07-03 Denied acquittal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment judgment-of-acquittal successive-prosecution successive-prosecutions Whether placing the Petitioner in a position to be twice tried for the same offense after a judgment of acquittal violates Petitioner's constitutional…
19-5045 Donald Lee Hathorn v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 5th-circuit appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process electronic-devices fourth-amendment search-and-seizure supervised-release warrantless-search Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred by affirming the district court's requirement for Mr. Hathorn to submit his com…
19-5053 Brandon M. Hicks v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-conduct plea-bargaining sentencing separation-of-powers sixth-amendment Whether the judge's extra language in the judgment of conviction, in context with his conduct at sentencing, is a violation of the Separation of Power…
19-5054 Jason Hendershott v. Kelly Strong, Warden, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appeal civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process federal-circuit-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review mental-illness post-conviction Whether Hendershott was improperly denied time-credit for turning in his 2854 year old prison authorities to mail months before his deadline
19-5055 Isaac Decurtis Harris v. Michigan Michigan 2019-07-03 Denied IFP arraignment civil-rights constitutional-rights conviction court-rules criminal-procedure due-process liberty-interest state-court transcript warrantless-arrest Whether the State Court had caused a conflict within the State Court ignoring its controlling governed caselaw
19-5065 Chester Ray Crank v. Charmaine Bracy, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP alibi-defense confrontation confrontation-clause conviction criminal-procedure due-process illegal-recordings ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence intoxication police-misconduct prejudicial-evidence Is a petitioner provided due process of law when he is convicted on evidence insufficient to sustain a conviction when said evidence was wholly based …
19-5071 Erwin Burley v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion eleventh-circuit judicial-discretion sentencing-explanation sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines supervisory-power upward-variance Whether this Court should exercise its supervisory power and grant review because the Eleventh Circuit has permitted an upward variance sentence almos…
19-5034 Leland Dudley v. Illinois Illinois 2019-07-02 Denied IFP ' 'civil-rights" ' 'criminal-procedure" ' 'due-process" ' 'police-misconduct" ' 'post-conviction' ' 'sentencing" civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-review grand-jury judicial-review police-misconduct post-conviction-relief sentencing wrongful-conviction Was the petition (by) the state's attorney's office denied by the lower court, and did the lower court err in denying the petition to vacate the convi…
19-5036 Craig Alan Toaz v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP concurrent-sentences concurrent-sentencing criminal-conduct criminal-procedure federal-convictions habeas-corpus habeas-petition judicial-review procedural-grounds sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg-5g1.3 Whether the district and circuit courts erroneously dismissed petitioner's habeas petition under procedural grounds
19-5038 Donald Willems v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver constitutional-protections contract-law criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement right-to-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial Does an Appeal Waiver which is contained within a Plea Agreement toll the filing of a Notice to Appeal under the Sixth Amendments right to a speedy tr…
19-5046 James Gregory Armistead v. David Millis, Superintendent, Hyde Correctional Institution Fourth Circuit 2019-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-documents prosecutorial-misconduct standing trial-error Whether the circuit court judges erred when the petition was denied a certificate of appealability, for clear violations where petitioner presented le…
19-5048 Mark Anthony Dolph v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custody custody-determination due-process evidentiary-standard interrogation legal-procedure miranda-warnings officer-testimony video-evidence Why does Geasoned Opinions of _jprist Thou out the federal system demonstrate that freminded ytist can disagree AS +o Whether the use of handtudfs jtu…
19-5006 Peter J. Rosato v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights confrontation-clause confrontation-right constitutional-waiver criminal-procedure deposition deposition-testimony depositions due-process knowingly-intelligent-waiver right-to-be-present video-deposition waiver Does a waiver of a citizen's constitutional right have to appear on the record either written or orally in order to establish a knowing, intelligent, …
19-5007 Jonathan Paul Sikes v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-07-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence credibility-of-witnesses criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia juvenile-offender reasonable-doubt sexual-offenses standard-of-proof sufficiency-of-evidence testimony witness-credibility Does the Northern District Court's decision conflict with the holding in Jackson v. Virginia as the Northern District Court misapplied the standard in…
19-5018 Gettus Leroy Mintz v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-01 Denied IFP actual-innocence brady-violation certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review conviction-standard criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct procedural-default reasonable-doubt Whether the willful and serial denial of attempts to demonstrate actual innocence, by the courts and counsel, presents at a minimum the debatable qual…
19-5020 Khaleefa Lambert v. Darren Settles, Acting Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-07-01 Denied IFP criminal-procedure felony-murder ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel murder-conviction prejudice premeditated-murder reasonable-jury sixth-amendment standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence trial-counsel Did the Sixth Circuit err in denying Petitioner's claim that his trial counsel's performance was so deficient as to prejudice the outcome of the trial…
19-5022 Brian K. Banks v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 404(b)-evidence appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-error louisiana-supreme-court prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review Did the Louisiana Supreme Court err in allowing the Fifth Circuit to contradict its own prior rulings by overruling the District Court's decision to n…
19-5027 Eddie David Cox v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-07-01 GVR IFP criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rehaif-v-united-states,sentenci double-jeopardy eighth-circuit guidelines-calculation procedural-error rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states resentencing section-2241 sentencing sentencing-review Should the Court GVR the judgment of the Eighth Circuit so the appeals court may consider, whether Cox is entitled to relief from his conviction in li…
19-5030 Michael D. Mathew v. Ohio Ohio 2019-07-01 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment proportionality sentencing Whether the twenty-one year sentence imposed by the state trial court violated the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishments?
19-5032 Tyrone Felder v. United States Second Circuit 2019-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP adjudication adult-conviction adult-convictions career-offender criminal-history criminal-procedure federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation youthful-offender Whether New York youthful offender adjudications qualify as adult convictions for purposes of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines career offender provis…
19-5 Luis Arnaldo Baez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-06-28 Denied burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process extraneous-evidence jury-instruction jury-trial limiting-instruction propensity-evidence 1. Whether a jury instruction that permits conviction on proof of extraneous and propensity evidence, rather than on proof of all of the elements of a…
19-5003 Roberto Cruz-Olavarria v. United States First Circuit 2019-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process heightened-scrutiny judicial-discretion offense-seriousness sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review statutory-maximum supervised-release Whether there is a need for extensive justification and heightened scrutiny when imposing and reviewing sentences at the statutory maximum
19-5009 Keon Anthony Nixon v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP balancing-test barker-v-wingo constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process post-indictment-delay prejudice right-to-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial speedy-trial-right Whether a defendant's 'failure to invoke the right to a speedy trial would be weighed heavily against him,' despite 'his lack of representation,' and …
19-5010 Andrew Nelson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-28 Denied IFP 18-usc-924(c) appellate-review continuance criminal-procedure due-process fed-r-crim-p-52a federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-error prejudice right-to-counsel sentencing substantial-rights trial-continuance vagueness-doctrine Where the district court erroneously premises its denial of a meritorious, unopposed motion for continuance of the trial on a mistaken belief that the…
19-6 New York v. Jahmarley Jones New York 2019-06-28 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure gang-evidence police-investigation police-investigations sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence testimonial-statements Whether statements made by individuals during routine police investigations — prior to the commission of a specific crime, the identification of a sus…
18-9791 Luis David Moreno-Pena v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion leniency preservation-of-error sentencing-argument sentencing-reasonableness sentencing-review Whether challenges to the reasonableness of a sentence rooted in a court's failure to address arguments for leniency must be preserved by specific obj…
18-9803 Salvador Galvan v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553a appeal criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process guidelines procedural-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg-2b1.1 victim victim-definition victim-impact Whether the district court committed procedural error by considering every resident of the City of Compton as a victim for purposes of its 18 U.S.C. §…
18-9804 Michael Zachariah Gomez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-revocation plain-unreasonableness sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review Whether the standard of review in appeals of federal revocation sentences is limited to review for \'plain unreasonableness\'?
18-9810 Erik Ward v. California California 2019-06-27 Denied IFP attempted-murder civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions lesser-included-offense physical-evidence premeditation standard-of-proof sufficiency-of-evidence trial-counsel Whether trial counsel failed to provide effective assistance of counsel by not properly performing procedural and due process requirements, and not in…
18-9821 Robert Lee Heard, Jr. v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-06-27 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP Apodaca-v-Oregon criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial nonunanimous-jury-verdict nonunanimous-verdict sixth-amendment Does the right to a jury trial guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment allow a state-court criminal conviction to stand on a nonunanimous jury verdict?
18-9823 Freddie Lee Morris v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied IFP coerced-confession criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus informant involuntary-plea manifest-injustice paid-informant procedural-grounds right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the state of Florida violated petitioner's sixth amendment right to the assistance of counsel
18-9824 Steven G. Patten v. California California 2019-06-27 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection flight-instruction fourteenth-amendment harmless-error jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination self-defense Whether Petitioner can establish a prima facie case of discrimination under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
18-9829 Herve Wilmore, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal appellate-review constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury-clause judicial-review Did the Court of Appeals affirm a Constructive Amendment, which requires reversal per se?
18-9830 Michael Franklin Einfeldt v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-petition burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines violent-felonies violent-felony Whether a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petitioner should be required to affirmatively prove the sentencing court relied on the residual clause
18-9836 Dwight Brown v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP allen-charge coercion coercive-instruction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion jury-deliberation jury-deliberations mistrial verdict-review Whether the district court erred or abused its discretion in reversing or rescinding its grant of mistrial
18-9839 Robert E. King v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2019-06-27 Denied IFP appeal-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-justice post-conviction-relief racial-discrimination Did Oklahoma's Appellate Court deprive Robert E. King the right to equal protection
18-9843 Freddie Lee Fountain v. Texas Texas 2019-06-27 Denied IFP access-to-justice civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus indigent-defendant indigent-defense procedural-protections At what point does the absence of government protection breach the limits of constitutional boundary?
18-9845 Bradley Joseph Vanzant v. Keith Yordy, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct structural-error Did petitioner make an involuntarily unknown and unintelligent plea through ineffective assistance of counsel and violations of his 6th Amendment righ…
18-9846 Bradford Metcalf v. S. Kallis, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-06-27 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice wrongful-conviction Must the Petitioner who is actually innocent be given the same constitutional consideration as citizens who succeeded him?
18-1589 James Doyle Collins, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2019-06-27 Denied contraband contraband-possession criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-possession criminal-procedure destruction-of-evidence due-process evidence evidence-destruction intent intentional-possession mens-rea possession possession-law statutory-interpretation Whether the act of deleting or destroying contraband evidences a lack of knowing or intentional possession
18-9806 Karlynn Romeo Tones, Donta Lyvoid Blackmon, and Arvin Terrill Carmen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment indictment-specificity jury-instructions jury-unanimity trial-evidence unanimity Do federal criminal defendants have a constitutional right to a specific unanimity instruction requiring the jury to unanimously define the duration a…
18-9808 Manuel Reyes v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-26 Denied IFP 18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924(c)(3)(B) 18-usc-924c certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent conviction criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-statute statutory-vagueness vagueness Whether Petitioner is entitled to relief on his claim that 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague and his conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 9…
18-9809 Willie Strong v. New York New York 2019-06-26 Denied IFP automobile-presumption burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions possession reasonable-doubt statutory-interpretation statutory-presumption When is evidence sufficient to render the 'Automobile Presumption' N.Y. P.-L. §265.15 (3)(a) inapplicable?
18-9816 Kabil Anton Djenasevic, aka Anton Genase, aka Kabil Genase, aka Kabil Kraja v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conspiracy-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence false-testimony fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-notice sixth-amendment standing Whether petitioner was denied his Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights
18-9817 Deterryon Tyrell Kelly v. Texas Texas 2019-06-26 Denied IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-standard inference-stacking jackson-v-virginia legal-sufficiency speculative-evidence sufficiency sufficiency-of-evidence Can evidence meet the legal sufficiency standard of Jackson v. Virginia if the evidence relied upon for conviction is primarily speculative and infere…
18-9820 Jonathon Loyd Edick v. Michigan Michigan 2019-06-26 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias legal-prejudice prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct standing trial-procedure Is petitioner entitled to relief where his constitutional rights are/were violated by receiving ineffective assistance of counsel at the trial court l…
18A1363 Abimael Ayala-Gonzalez v. New York New York 2019-06-26 Presumed Complete burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence criminal-procedure due-process prosecutorial-misconduct racial-identification Whether a criminal defendant's due process rights are violated when a state court denies a requested racial identification charge and finds circumstan…
18-9776 Irineo Ponce-Recendiz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP allocution allocution-error appellate-review criminal-procedure defendant-objection defendant-rights due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-procedure legal-error plain-error preservation-of-error rule-51b sentencing Whether allocution error deprives the defendant of an opportunity to object to that error within the meaning of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 51(…
18-9780 Christopher Hannigan v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3551 component-parts criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judgment judgment-parsing judicial-discretion rule-32 sentencing sentencing-rules statutory-interpretation Does the language of Rule 32(k) and 18 U.S.C. §3551 allow for the court to parcel the judgment into component parts?
18-9781 Adam J. Winarske v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 acca-enhancement armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states preponderance-of-the-evidence preponderance-standard residual-clause section-2255 statutory-interpretation Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2255 requires a Johnson petitioner to show by a preponderance of the evidence that the residual clause provided the basis for his …
18-9783 Nasser Ghelichkhani v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-validity coram-nobis criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fundamental-error fundamental-rights guilty-plea immigration immigration-consequences plea-bargaining Whether a conviction, with tremendous adverse consequences, is constitutionally valid, when it is obtained through a plea (that does not waive appeali…
18-9785 Wayne A. Hussar, II v. James C. Reynolds, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-06-25 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure self-defense sentencing standing warrantless-search Whether the petitioner's due process and equal protection rights were violated when the state court dismissed his criminal case despite evidence of se…
18-9787 Jace Crehan v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-06-25 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-jury unanimous-verdict Whether Petitioner was constitutionally entitled to a unanimous jury under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constituti…
18-9789 Dan Pizarro v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-25 Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing direct-appeal drug-offenses drug-trafficking first-step-act prior-convictions prior-felony-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-minimum Whether Pizarro is entitled to the application of the First Step Act amendments to the statutory minimum sentences applicable to his drug trafficking …
18-9790 Alexander Monzoni v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-sentencing guideline-calculation guidelines judicial-review molina-martinez plain-error plain-error-review prejudice prejudice-prong sentencing sentencing-guidelines Should the Court address the division of circuit authority over application of the prejudice prong of plain-error review for Guideline error as set ou…
18-9794 Paul Vallejo v. Texas Texas 2019-06-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto fundamental-fairness state-action statute-of-limitations Does the ex post facto clause and 'fundamental fairness' prohibit the state from removing a potential statute of limitations defense?
18-9799 Benito Rivera v. United States First Circuit 2019-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-doubt standard-of-proof Should certiorari be granted to find that, while a district court need not define reasonable doubt, if it does so, it cannot employ a definition that …
18-1579 Ronnie Ricks, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2019-06-25 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation defendant-rights due-process evidence miranda right-to-counsel self-incrimination sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence video-evidence Whether showing a videotape containing testimonial actions is proper, after an accused has invoked his right to counsel?
18-9762 Kwame A. Insaidoo v. United States Second Circuit 2019-06-24 Denied IFP 18-usc-666 5th-amendment 6th-amendment circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process federal-benefit jury-determination jury-trial second-circuit statutory-interpretation Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred, in violation of U.S. Const. V and VI, when it held that the government need not prove to a jury the…
18-9763 Stirling Michael Heaton v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP concurrent-sentences concurrent-sentencing criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing discretion federal-guidelines federal-jurisdiction federal-plea-agreement judicial-discretion modification retroactive-amendment retroactive-guidelines-amendment sentence-concurrency sentencing-guidelines sentencing-modification sentencing-reform-act Whether a sentencing court has discretion to adjust a federal sentence to achieve concurrency with another criminal sentence in § 3582(c)(2) proceedin…
18-9765 Joseph Kinard v. United States District Court for the District of Columbia District of Columbia 2019-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP bar-membership civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence jurisdiction oath-of-office prosecutorial-misconduct state-court-review supreme-court-jurisdiction vagueness Whether a United States Attorney must be a member of the bar in the city or state to prosecute cases in the United States District Court and Superior …
18-9767 LaShawn Johnson v. Randy L. White, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment aggravating-factors constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-instruction jury-instructions Does submitting aggravating factors of a crime in a jury instruction that wasn't charged in the indictment violate Due Process
18-9768 Keith Talbert v. Illinois Illinois 2019-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-amendments due-process eminent-domain. standing takings civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment search-and-seizure standing Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures
18-9770 Lionel Toye v. Steven Racette, Superintendent, Great Meadows Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2019-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance lafler-v-cooper plea-bargaining plea-negotiations right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-exposure strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel Whether this court should revisit the claim of ineffective assistance of trial counsel during plea negotiations
18-9774 Hsiu Ying Lisa Tseng v. California California 2019-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process estelle-v-mcguire evidence federal-due-process fourteenth-amendment prior-act-evidence propensity-evidence state-trial Whether the admission of irrelevant prior act evidence in a state trial that amounts to propensity evidence violates Fourteenth Amendment due process
18-9775 Dustin Washington v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment affidavit criminal-procedure drug-weight forfeiture fourth-amendment fourth-circuit motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing-error standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in failing to find that the trial court erred in denying Mr. Washington's motion to suppress the search of the BMW
18-9740 Myron Gregory Jessie v. Michigan Michigan 2019-06-21 Denied IFP appeal appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission judicial-error life-imprisonment prior-misconduct resentencing sentencing Was the evidence insufficient to convict defendant of first-degree murder and also to support the sentence of life imprisonment, and did the resentenc…
18-9758 Lavell Conerly v. Willis Chapman, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-06-21 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process due-process,self-incrimination,miranda-warnings,cl inculpatory-statement ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-warnings right-to-counsel self-incrimination Was it reversible error to introduce defendant's inculpatory statement obtained without Miranda warnings?
18-9760 Andrew D. Dixon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP acca acca-sentence-enhancement acca-statute armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure elements-clause johnson-precedent post-johnson precedent predicate-prior residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement Did the court error denying claims that the residual clause didn't apply to defendant by using Post-Johnson precedent claims and raising elements clau…
18-9711 David Meyers v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2019-06-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights compulsory-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fail-to-strike-testimony fair-trial false-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intrinsic-fraud perjury post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct Did attorney Paul Roskins violate due-process, fail-to-strike-testimony, false-testimony, compulsory-process, ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
18-9736 Darius Kinney v. Ohio Ohio 2019-06-20 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP 4th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure sixth-amendment warrant warrantless-search Were Petitioner's Sixth Amendment rights violated?
18-9737 Laquan L. Kellam v. United States Third Circuit 2019-06-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-rights expert-witness-testimony fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-rights fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights procedural-error search-and-seizure sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-rights statutory-interpretation warrantless-arrest Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit abuse its discretionary, broadly-based authority of interpretation, thus, violating petit…
18-9738 Francisco Gonzalez Jose v. United States Third Circuit 2019-06-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP alternate-juror criminal-procedure deliberations due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation jury jury-deliberation jury-instructions mistrial third-circuit united-states-v-sotelo When a juror cannot continue deliberations and an alternate juror is empaneled, does the Third Circuit's decision in United States v. Sotelo conflict …
18-9739 Timothy Paul Malone v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility application-note application-note-2 chapter-5 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing judicial-interpretation offense-level sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court has misconstrued and misapplied U.S.S.G. Chapter 5, Part A, Application Note 2 by failing to limit the offense level to a leve…
18-9741 Quintin Irving Brown v. City of Richmond, Virginia Virginia 2019-06-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct misdemeanor-reduction probation-violation prosecutorial-misconduct speedy-trial void-judgment When a trial occurs over a defendant's expressed objections to a violation of that state's statutory right to speedy trial, when should the conviction…
18-9742 Mikle Anthony Butler v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-06-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-evaluation ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-discretion mental-health mental-illness sentencing sentencing-guidelines Issues being raised
18-9746 Marion Wilson, Jr. v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Georgia 2019-06-20 Denied IFP capital-case criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial intent jury-instructions prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct standing Are due process and the Eighth Amendment violated when a prosecutor knowingly argues falsehoods about the defendant's culpable acts in order to incite…
18-9748 George Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-06-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP confidential-informant criminal-procedure discovery due-process fair-trial guilty-plea informant plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing-disclosure withdrawal-of-plea Does the 'fair and just reason' standard for withdrawal of a guilty plea properly encompass the post-plea, pre-sentence acquisition of information abo…
18-9705 Leonard Moore v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-06-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment appellate-review certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §1959(a)(3) qualifies as a crime of violence for the purpose of §924(c)(3)(A) element clause
18-9716 Andrew J. Hunter, Jr. v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-06-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process confrontation-clause constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure defense-rights due-process fair-trial judicial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel subpoena-power Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the state court's favoritism toward the victim, denial of the defense's right to subpo…
18-9726 Lorenzo Hale v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-19 GVR IFP 2nd-amendment criminal-procedure criminal-statute felon-in-possession firearm-possession interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element mens-rea prior-occasion recent-past state-lines statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) authorizes conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there is no …
18-9729 Odell Lameche Overby v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-06-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 3553(c) appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-obligation due-process judicial-discretion judicial-reasoning nonfrivolous-arguments sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the district court fulfilled its obligation under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c) to announce the reasons for its sentencing decision
18-9731 Youval Geringer-Ganor v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-06-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-charges criminal-procedure due-process entrapment government-conduct judicial-review outrageous-government-conduct sting-operation sting-operations Whether government sting operations may constitute outrageous government conduct warranting dismissal of the charges?
18-9732 Bejan David Etemad v. North Dakota North Dakota 2019-06-19 Denied IFP appeals certiorari constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process due-process-clause federal-certiorari federal-jurisdiction jury-trial jury-verdict state-court state-courts state-supreme-court Can any State Court of last resort or specifically the North Dakota Supreme Court completely abrogate due process to the point that no process existed…
18-9734 Hector Dominguez-Gabriel, aka Kinko, aka John Richard Bellefleur v. United States Second Circuit 2019-06-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion compassionate-release criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-courts federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentence-modification sentencing-guidelines sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court(s) abused its discretion when it denied appellant Section 3582(c)(2) relief?
18A1333 Alfredo Beltran Leyva v. United States District of Columbia 2019-06-19 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure drug-trafficking evidence-sufficiency guilty-plea plea-withdrawal sentencing Whether a district court may deny a criminal defendant's motion to withdraw a guilty plea after the defendant seeks to proceed to trial and challenges…
18-1552 Henry P. Alfano and William Hird v. United States Third Circuit 2019-06-19 Denied Response Waived criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federalism mail-fraud property property-rights statutory-interpretation traffic-tickets unadjudicated-charges unadjudicated-tickets wire-fraud Whether unadjudicated traffic tickets constitute 'property' under the mail- and wire-fraud statutes
18-9700 Daniel Gatson v. United States Third Circuit 2019-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2518 aggrieved-person cell-phone-records criminal-procedure Does the District Court have the authority to sent electronic-interception electronic-surveillance expert-testimony expert-testimony-federal-rule-of-evidence-702-scie fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-cell-phone-records-probable-cause sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-upward-departure-district-co standing standing-aggrieved-person-electronic-interception- Whether acquiring a person's past movements throug Whether an expert's testimony that has never been Whether the 'target' of an electronic interception, whom voice was heard in intercepted conversations have 'standing' as an 'aggrieved person' under 1…
18-9701 Antoine Gause v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-error miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing supervised-release Whether the lower courts fundamentally erred through a miscarriage of justice, by unconstitutionally sentencing the Petitioner to a longer sentence an…
18-9703 Milton Terry Kelton v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP base-offense-level criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plain-error sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines Whether the Honorable Judge Brian C. Wimes and the U.S. Attorney James Bohling utilized two inapplicable statutory enhancements enacted after the offe…
18-9712 Noe Juarez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy conspiracy-law criminal-procedure deliberate-ignorance due-process evidence evidence-404(b) evidence-rule-404b jury-instructions new-trial propensity propensity-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct What is the proper framework for determining whether a prosecutor's improper propensity-based arguments related to 404(b) evidence warrant a new trial…
18-9715 Johnny Curtis Bedgood v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure critical-stage evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining pre-trial-counsel section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancements whether-the-us-district-court-abused-its-discretion
18A1320 Adnan Syed v. Maryland Maryland 2019-06-18 Presumed Complete alibi-evidence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment trial-counsel Whether a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated by trial counsel's failure to investigate and pre…
18-9655 Sylvester Ekwunife v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2019-06-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment affidavit affidavit-accuracy civil-rights constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure detective-misconduct fourth-amendment groh-v-ramirez probable-cause warrant warrant-preparation Whether the dictates of Groh v. Ramirez were violated when the Detective in this case did not have all the correct facts when preparing a probable cau…
18-9656 In Re Lexter K. Kossie 2019-06-17 Denied IFP character-evidence character-witness constitutional-performance criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence mitigation right-to-testify sentencing sentencing-phase Can a trial counsel render constitutionally performance and not prejudice the defense
18-9657 Joseph Howard Davis v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split confrontation-clause criminal-evidence criminal-procedure drug-dealer drug-distribution due-process evidence fourth-circuit hearsay informant methamphetamine-offense non-testifying-witness second-circuit Is an out-of-court statement by a non-testifying informant which identifies the defendant as a drug dealer hearsay?
18-9658 Eric Daniel Doyle v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing grouping guidelines judicial-discretion legal-calculation procedural-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum total-punishment Whether due process requires the correct calculation of Doyle's Guidelines sentencing range
18-9686 Bobby Bordelon v. Texas Texas 2019-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-conflict constitutional-issue criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment habeas-corpus manifest-necessity mistrial mistrial-standard texas-courts Whether the Fifth Amendment's double jeopardy clause bars a retrial on one pending count since manifest necessity was not shown for the grant of a mis…
18-9688 Emanuel Rivera-Martinez v. Illinois Illinois 2019-06-17 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment habeas-corpus standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the state's actions
18-9691 Dwayne Lee Stallings v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-32-violations criminal-rule false-statement false-statements federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure obstruction-of-justice plain-error plain-error-analysis sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure standard-of-review structural-error Whether the Court's plain error analysis is properly applied to violations of Fed. R. Crim. P. 32(i)(1)(A), and, if so, whether such violations are st…
18-9692 Jody Lanardo White v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-17 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error preservation-of-error reasonableness-of-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness standard-of-review Whether challenges to the reasonableness of a sentence must be preserved by specific objection?
18-9693 Kevin Sheppard v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-06-17 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict Whether Petitioner was constitutionally entitled to a unanimous jury under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constituti…
18-9673 George Djura Jakubec v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 924(c) bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split courts-of-appeals criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-bank-robbery hobbs-act legal-definition statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-the-evidence Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate…
18-9677 Martin Arreola Zavala v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility contested-cases criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process evidence evidence-determination federal-courts federal-sentencing legal-sufficiency quantity-determinations sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether this court should grant certiorari to address the proper application of law to fact relating to sufficiency of the evidence for quantity deter…
18-9678 Binika L. Hankton v. Frederick Boutte, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process due-process,criminal-procedure,evidence,jackson-v- evidence evidence-sufficiency fifth-amendment fourth-amendment jackson-v-virginia sixth-amendment standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Is a conviction constitutionally suspect when the evidence used to convict does not meet the standards of Jackson?
18-9681 Tracey Godfrey v. United States District Court for the District of Montana Ninth Circuit 2019-06-14 Denied IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment montana-supreme-court sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the Montana Supreme Court's imposition of a 10-year sentence pursuant to MCA § 46-18-502 violates the Double Jeopardy Clause
18-9616 Rocky Riojas-Ordaz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
18-9650 Shawn Pinson v. Texas Texas 2019-06-13 Denied IFP civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment standing testimony When be Bate Krouingt, used Se benany, a was, bogan be
18-9652 Cedric McDonald v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-selection racial-bias sixth-amendment trial-counsel voir-dire Whether trial counsel rendered ineffective counsel in failing to object to district court's use of a video in voir dire, which was designed to get jur…
18-9654 Carl Javan Ross v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process public-trial public-trial-rights self-incrimination speedy-trial Was the petitioner's 6th Amendment right to a speedy trial violated as well as public trial rights?
18-9660 William T. Windsor v. Delaware Delaware 2019-06-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence newly-discovered-evidence standing Did The DeLaroate Stnle Courts, Violate Windsor's Sthandjdth amendments and Duc Proaess Rughts, When *t Red to Consider newly ds dovered evidence onda…
18-9661 William Kostopoulos v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1512 criminal-procedure criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction federal-nexus law-enforcement mens-rea misdemeanor obstruction-of-justice statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant's general denial to state law enforcement officers that he committed a misdemeanor offense is sufficient to meet the federal nexus…
18-9665 Alejandro Hernandez-Delgado v. California California 2019-06-13 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence-code evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment juror-bias juror-misconduct jury-deliberations racial-bias racial-stereotypes sixth-amendment What fact-finding procedures are required by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments when a defendant makes a threshold showing that a juror relied on rac…
18-9634 Destyn David Frederick v. Bryan Collier, Executive Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-06-12 Denied IFP appeal certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-challenge right-to-counsel sentencing Whether the United States District court and the Fifth Circuit court of appeals have denied Petitioner his rights to challenge the Government convicti…
18-9638 Jose Luis Barboza, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2019-06-12 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence-tampering free-speech gang-membership patent prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing-guidelines standing trial-fairness Whether the defendant was improperly called a 'n****r lover' by the victim's attorney, resulting in a violation of due-process, free-speech, civil-rig…
18-9641 Clifford Brigham v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum substantive-reasonableness Whether imposition of the statutory maximum, 60-month term was substantively unreasonable
18-9642 Jeffrey Benton v. United States Second Circuit 2019-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal class-v-united-states criminal-procedure direct-appeal double-jeopardy face-of-the-record guilty-plea indictment united-states-v-broce waiver-of-rights Whether a defendant who enters an unconditional guilty plea and waives appeal can raise a double-jeopardy argument on direct appeal
18-9644 Jeffrey Castleberry v. Florida Florida 2019-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-discretion mental-disabilities mental-disability reasonable-accommodations retroactive-application sentencing state-courts Does the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) require State trial courts to make reasonable accommodations for persons with mental disabilities?
18-9598 James W. Guy v. Ohio Ohio 2019-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech jury-bias jury-selection prejudice religion religious-discrimination religious-freedom sixth-amendment Did the trial court violate a Muslim defendant's Constitutional Rights under the First, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitut…
18-9602 Colby L. Simmons v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP admissibility-of-evidence criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process evidence evidence-admission fifth-amendment miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona self-incrimination Did the district court violate petitioner's Fifth Amendment right as set forth in Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 86 S.Ct 1602, 16 L. Ed. 2d 694 (19…
18-9603 Michael Anthony Steel v. Arizona Arizona 2019-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment arizona-constitution civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process speedy-trial state-v-vasko state-vs-federal-law Whether the court abused its discretion in denying the appellant's motion for a speedy trial under the 6th Amendment and Article 2, Section 24 of the …
18-9604 Reitilly Fuentes Ramos v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substance criminal-procedure dangerous-weapon enhancement pellet-gun sentencing-guidelines ussg-2d1.1 Whether the District Court calculated Mr. Fuentes-Ramos's Sentencing Guidelines when it applied a two-level enhancement pursuant to USSG §2D1.1(b)(1) …
18-9605 Don Ferguson v. Florida Florida 2019-06-11 Denied IFP 7th-amendment compelled-speech content-neutrality criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial first-amendment free-speech government-regulation jury-instructions private-entities Whether the First Amendment prohibits the government from requiring private entities to host speech they disagree with
18-9606 Curtis Wayne Givens v. Virginia Virginia 2019-06-11 Denied IFP 4th-amendment Arrest criminal-procedure due-process evidence-seizure Fifth-Amendment Jury-Selection motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure standing Voir-Dire witness-examination Whether the trial court properly overruled the Petitioner's motion to suppress evidence seized without probable cause
18-9608 Trinidad Jesus Garcia v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process judicial-interpretation plain-error procedural-error sentencing standard-of-review Does the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals decision conflict with decisions of the Supreme Court and was the decision incorrect when it stated that Garc…
18-9612 Gregory Rayford v. Illinois Illinois 2019-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exclusionary-rule probable-cause search-and-seizure sentencing Whether the Illinois state court erred in denying the petitioner's motion to suppress evidence obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment
18-9627 Jeffrey Dean Tucker v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility jurisdiction standing witness-testimony Whether due process was violated in convicting a North Carolina state citizen pursuant to general jurisdiction?
18-9630 Michael Mancil Brown v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment 6th-amendment,effective-counsel,mistrial,closing-a closing-arguments constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process effective-counsel mistrial sixth-amendment trial trial-rights Was the Petitioner's 6th Amendment Rights to effective counsel violated when Petitioner's Attorney refused a mistrial offer by the Court without consu…
18A1297 Joshua Wayne Riley v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-06-11 Presumed Complete constitutional-protections criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule parole-revocation sixth-amendment supervised-release Whether supervised release revocation proceedings require full criminal procedural protections under the Sixth Amendment and the exclusionary rule
18-9594 Brian L. Davis v. 7-Eleven, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2019-06-10 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury jury-trial standing How can a jury not determine if a defendant is guilty of a crime and still deny due process?
18-9597 Jose Berrum, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure district-court fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington May This Court Grant Certificate Of Appealability Or Overturn Conviction Where The Fifth Circuit Court Of Appeals Sanctioned District Court's Misappli…
18-9600 Patricia Diane Smith Sledge v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidence-rules evidentiary-ruling federal-rules-of-evidence procedural-error sufficiency-of-evidence summary-evidence witness-tampering Did the district court prejudicially err when admitting Exhibit 1 as a summary pursuant to Fed Rules of Evidence, rule 1006?
18-9601 Lawrence J. Strickland v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment predicate-offenses prior-convictions sentencing sixth-amendment Does it violate the Fifth Amendment Due Process Clause and the Sixth Amendment for the district court to make a finding that two 'armed career crimina…
18-1528 Jake Paul Heiney v. Ohio Ohio 2019-06-10 Denied Response Waived criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error harmless-error-analysis jury-finding-of-guilt jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-doubt structural-error sullivan-v-louisiana winship Improper-jury-instruction-on-element-of-offense
18-9526 Jimcy McGirt v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2019-06-07 Judgment Issued Amici (13)Response RequestedRelisted (11)IFP criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus indian-country indian-major-crimes-act major-crimes-act state-jurisdiction state-law Whether Oklahoma courts can continue to unlawfully exercise criminal jurisdiction over Indians accused of major crimes in Indian Country
18-9578 James Jacob Parrish, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process firearm-enhancement ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-conviction procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-departure sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure sentencing-reasonableness sentencing-variance sixth-amendment substantive-reasonableness Whether Parrish's sentence was procedurally and substantively unreasonable
18-9581 Marcus Arenell Evans v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appellate-rights booker booker-remedy booker-v-us constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure guidelines-interpretation plea-agreement plea-bargaining public-policy sentence-appeal-waiver sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines-interpretation Does a sentence-appeal waiver frustrate the remedy fashioned by this Court in U.S. v. Booker, thereby rendering the waiver unconstitutional or void as…
18-9589 Nicholas Bradley Gilbert v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-07 GVR IFP appellate-review criminal-penalties criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion felon-possession interstate-commerce sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review requires or permits the courts of appeals to 'substantively second guess' the district court and/or to 'rewe…
18-9590 Stephen Mayer v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-33-b-1 criminal-procedure-33-b-2 federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure giglio giglio-violations napue napue-violations new-evidence post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct Whether evidence of Giglio/Napue violations can be utilized as new evidence under Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure 33(b)(1) or if it is limited to …
18-9591 Brandon Wayne Taylor v. Texas Texas 2019-06-07 Denied IFP brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure due-process evidence full-faith-and-credit full-faith-credit interstate-evidence standing state-law-conflict texas-law When evidence is illegally obtained in violation of California laws can Texas legally benefit from this illegal act by allowing this evidence in a Tex…
18-9515 Brandon Christopher Pierre v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-rights conviction-and-sentencing criminal-procedure due-process false-arrest false-imprisonment federal-jurisdiction malicious-prosecution probable-cause Under what circumstances can a federal court falsely and wrongfully indict, arrest, imprison, convict, and sentence an individual under the 'color of …
18-9562 Shawn Michael Simms v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2019-06-06 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process illegal-sentence pennsylvania-courts post-conviction-relief post-conviction-relief-act sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation void-ab-initio Did the Pennsylvania Courts err in denying the instant Post Conviction Relief Act Petition for failing to recognize that the P.C.R.A. statute, 42 Pa.C…
18-9563 Cody Shane Sorrels v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-sentencing judicial-discretion jury-trial sentencing sentencing-determination sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-18-usc-3553 statutory-interpretation statutory-minimum Whether district courts may determine without the aid of a jury that a sentence above the statutory minimum is 'not greater than necessary' to achieve…
18-9567 Daniel De Leon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process indictment jury-trial reasonable-doubt supervised-release Whether violations of supervised release require proof to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt
18-9571 Willie Carl Jones v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-06-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence false-testimony fourteenth-amendment juror-influence search-and-seizure Whether the denial of petitioner's motion to suppress bullets conflicts with relevant decisions of this Court in violation of petitioner's Fourteenth …
18-9572 William Paul Cox, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-922(g)(1) 18-usc-922g county-jail criminal-evidence criminal-procedure felon-in-possession guilty-plea jail-phone-calls stored-communications-act suppression-of-evidence suppression-of-phone-calls Whether petitioner had an enforceable claim under the Stored Communications Act
18-9573 Ernesto Betancourt-Carrillo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts - including the fact of a prior conviction - that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eit…
18-9575 In Re Phillip Love 2019-06-06 Denied IFP commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-power federalism interstate-commerce jurisdiction necessary-and-proper-clause statutory-interpretation Can the federal government punish felonious crimes under the constitutional Interstate Commerce Clause within the 50 compact states of the Union?
18-9513 Rhonda Reid v. Walter Donnelly, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection racial-discrimination sentencing standing Why did the trial judge, Meares, decide on my case under OCGA 16-11-37(b), why didn't he provide me a hearing, why did he fail to allow me to present …
18-9516 Starquineshia Palmer v. Florida Florida 2019-06-05 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 12-person-jury 6-person-jury constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process jury-size sixth-amendment trial-by-jury williams-v-florida Was Petitioner denied her right to a trial by jury as contemplated by the Sixth Amendment
18-9534 Femi Alexander Mewase v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553a confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-jury-selection due-process federal-rules-of-evidence jury-selection sentencing Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by affirming the improper removal of Juror 20
18-9557 Charles C. Brewington v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2019-06-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure custody due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-misconduct legal-standard sixth-amendment standing wrongful-conviction Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated by the state court proceedings
18-9558 Oladimeji Ayelotan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment jury-selection sentencing shackling Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred
18-9559 Aracelis N. Ayala v. United States Third Circuit 2019-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii-judges civil-rights criminal-defendants criminal-procedure district-court due-process fifth-amendment individualized-determination judicial-tenure presumption revised-organic-act shackling shackling-policy virgin-islands-court whether a blanket policy of shackling criminal defendants without an individualized determination of need violates due process?
18-9529 Anibal Del Valle-Hiraldo v. United States First Circuit 2019-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment aiding-and-abetting criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining rosemond-v-united-states sixth-amendment Whether an attorney's advice to a defendant to plead guilty to aiding and abetting the carry, use and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crim…
18-9536 Shawn J. Gieswein v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel resentencing second-amendment sentencing-guidelines upward-variance witness-tampering Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit erroneously denied Certificate of Appealability
18-9543 Lonnie Haney v. Shane Jackson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Lafler-v-Cooper plea-bargaining plea-offer right-to-counsel time-constraints Are the lower court rulings in direct conflict with the spirit of this Court's holding in Lafler v. Cooper?
18-9546 Everett Charles Wills, II v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-06-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP collateral-review criminal-justice criminal-procedure danforth-v-minnesota federal-law greene-v-fisher mccoy-v-louisiana montgomery-v-louisiana post-conviction-proceedings postconviction-review retroactive-application retroactivity retroactivity-of-new-rules teague-rule teague-v-lane watershed-rule Whether States must apply a 'watershed rule' under Teague v. Lane in post-conviction proceedings
18-9510 Rasaq Aderoju Raheem v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure conviction criminal-procedure defendant-conviction due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit jurisdiction legal-review standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by affirming Defendant's Raheem conviction
18-9517 Kenneth R. Isom v. Arkansas Arkansas 2019-06-03 Denied Relisted (7)IFP adversarial-history bias coram-nobis criminal-procedure due-process judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal prosecutorial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct recusal trial-procedure Whether Pope and Isom's significant adversarial history created an unconstitutional risk of bias under the due process clause when Pope later sat as t…
18-9519 Michael Wesley v. New York New York 2019-06-03 Denied IFP alvarez-v-united-states constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process due-process-clause equal-protection fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-witness-perjury griffin-v-united-states petitioner's right to have newly-discovered-eviden sixth-amendment united-states-v-biberfeld washington-v-texas witness witness-perjury Does a petitioner have a right to have a witness in their favor protected by the Due Process Clause and the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments?
18-9520 Alan Bartlett v. Susanna Pineda, Judge, Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County, et al. Arizona 2019-06-03 Dismissed IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure electronic-surveillance fourteenth-amendment-due-process fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure legislative-authority search-and-seizure state-constitution statutory-interpretation unlawful-search warrantless-search Whether in light of Bollinger v. New Hampshire, 390 U.S. 1020, the Arizona based conviction of petitioner violates his Fourth Amendment rights where t…
18-9527 Thomas Branagan v. Isidro Baca, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-victim civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-issues ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sexual-assault standing testimony-inconsistency witness-credibility witness-testimony Whether the defendant's constitutional rights were violated due to ineffective assistance of counsel and prosecutorial misconduct
18A1253 Niraj Prabhakar Patel v. Connecticut Connecticut 2019-06-03 Presumed Complete co-conspirator-statement confrontation-clause criminal-procedure hearsay sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence Whether the Confrontation Clause permits the admission of an out-of-court inculpatory statement made by a non-testifying co-conspirator in a prison re…
18-1506 Julian Martin v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-06-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) co-defendant-statement confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence fair-trial hearsay reliability-of-evidence right-to-confront-witnesses sixth-amendment Whether the District Court's express reliance on an out-of-court statement of a non-testifying co-defendant as a basis for finding the defendant guilt…
18-1494 Michael Steven Beeman v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-05-31 Denied Response Waived counsel-performance criminal-procedure fourth-amendment guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress plea-bargaining pre-trial-motion pre-trial-motions prejudice reasonable-counsel reasonable-performance Whether jurists of reason could debate that a district court must evaluate the merits of a potential motion to suppress where the defendant pled guilt…
18-9451 Denzel Pittman v. Illinois Illinois 2019-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process illinois-law judicial-mandate juvenile-justice mental-health petition-for-leave-to-appeal second-amendment self-regulation standing supreme-court takings Whether the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution protects an individual's right to possess firearms for self-defense outside the home
18-9493 Jose Santillan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether factual findings in a Presentence Report must be proven by the government or disproven by the defendant
18-9497 Lloyd E. Austin, IV v. Bridgitte Amsberry Ninth Circuit 2019-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-competency plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing Why would the petitioner accept a plea agreement to the worst case scenario without being of sound mind?
18-9502 Christian Vazquez Capistran v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
18-9504 Rahmat Jevon Barrett v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2019-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-protection criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel,due-process,sixt post-conviction-relief To what extent does the Constitution prohibit conviction and punishment of an accused whereby trial counsel failed to raise exculpatory evidence durin…
18-9505 Antonio Parra Perez v. Texas Texas 2019-05-31 Denied IFP character-evidence criminal-procedure due-process prior-bad-acts propensity-evidence sex-crimes unconstitutional-as-applied unfair-prejudice Is Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Article 38.37 §2 unconstitutional?
18-9506 Kenyon Raheen Gadsden v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-05-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 career-offender constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness Whether a motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 is timely under 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3) when it claims that Johnson v. United States invalidates the residual c…
18-9461 Antonio Tillmon v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-05-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP conviction criminal-evidence criminal-procedure drug-distribution due-process evidence fourth-amendment fourth-circuit-review insufficient-evidence judicial-review right-to-a-fair-trial sufficiency-of-evidence undercover-agent undercover-operations Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in affirming Mr. Tillmon's convictions on certain counts
18-9474 Irving Madden v. Michael Melvin, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-05-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions self-defense sixth-amendment strickland-standard Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals decision is consistent with Strickland v. Washington
18-9477 Arnold Roberts v. DuPage County Circuit Court Illinois 2019-05-30 Denied IFP 14th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment innocence state-attorney Was the Petitioner's Due Process Rights violated under the United States Constitutional 14th Amendment?
18-9478 David Rothenberg v. Florida Florida 2019-05-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process mens-rea plea-bargaining probable-cause probable-cause-affidavit probation prosecutorial-misconduct Is the use by the prosecutor of a 'probable cause affidavit' containing averments contradictory to the alleged victim's own sworn statement to charge …
18-9483 Brian Alford v. Dwight Neven, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-30 Denied IFP burglary burglary-allegation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felony-murder legal-sufficiency probable-cause prosecution-standard sufficiency-of-evidence Whether it is permissible for a state criminal court to predicate felony murder liability on an allegation of burglary that lacks sufficient bases in …
18-9484 Paris Taylor v. Illinois Illinois 2019-05-30 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment state-constitution trial-court Whether Petitioner was denied his constitutional rights to due process of law guaranteed by the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States C…
18-9487 Willie Lee Johnson v. Brad Cain, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2019-05-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-interpretation jury-selection legal-ethics oregon-state-bar presumption-of-innocence Whether the Oregon State Bar and the Oregon Supreme Court's Chief Justice's approved adoption of the American Bar Association's Model Rules of Profess…
18-9491 William A. Trudeau, Jr. v. United States Second Circuit 2019-05-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP acquitted-conduct article-iii constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process further-review procedural-default sentencing Whether petitioner raised substantial showing of denial of constitutional right
18A1243 Douglas Prade v. Ohio Ohio 2019-05-30 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure dna-evidence double-jeopardy ohio-supreme-court post-conviction retrial Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause bars retrial of a criminal defendant after a prior conviction was vacated based on newly discovered DNA evidence
18-9435 Steven Jacob Seibert v. Antoine Caldwell, Warden Georgia 2019-05-29 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel interstate-communication jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge restraining-order retroactivity. stalking-statute standing Whether the petitioner's conviction for aggravated stalking was unconstitutional due to lack of jurisdiction, ineffective assistance of counsel, and r…
18-9459 Trinidad Nanez-Rivera v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-common-law mitigating-circumstances sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness tenth-circuit within-guideline-sentences within-range-sentence Have the length of within-guideline sentences become effectively unreviewable in practice, and is Mr. Nanez-Rivera's sentence near the top of the rang…
18-9463 Michael Joseph Brooks, Jr. v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-05-29 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict Whether Petitioner was constitutionally entitled to a unanimous jury under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constituti…
18-9471 Joseph John Viola v. Arizona Arizona 2019-05-29 Denied IFP appellate-review collateral-review constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto jurisdiction retroactivity self-representation state-supreme-court Whether the order promulgating the 1992 amendments to Rule 32 constituted violations of guarantees against ex post facto law and due process under the…
18A1234 Jackie Duncan v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-05-29 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure evidence-rule fourth-amendment prior-bad-acts right-to-fair-trial sixth-amendment Whether the admission of prior bad act evidence of a shooting, over a defendant's Rule 404(b) objection, constituted reversible error that violated th…
18-1488 John S. Cammalleri v. Florida Florida 2019-05-29 Denied Response Waived confession confession-involuntariness criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment involuntary involuntary-confession law-enforcement leniency Whether a 'specific' and 'direct' promise of leniency by a law enforcement official renders a defendant's confession involuntary pursuant to the Fifth…
18-1491 Kaitlyn Nguyen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-05-29 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility evidence-admission fifth-amendment inflammatory-evidence medical-clinic patient-deaths prejudicial-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct Whether petitioner's right to due process of law under the 5th Amendment, U.S. Constitution was violated by the prosecution's introduction of highly i…
18-1476 Randy Lee Carney v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-05-28 Denied Response Waived alternative-sentence alternative-sentencing appellate-review career-offender circuit-split collateral-consequences criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion guidelines harmless-error judicial-discretion judicial-error legal-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-error united-states-v-vonn When sentencing defendants, some district courts announce that they would impose the same length of imprisonment even if their conclusions of law and …
18-9427 Willie Anthony Saxby, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution dual-sovereignty due-process fair-notice federal-jurisdiction federal-state-jurisdiction pending-charges state-jurisdiction supervised-release Did the Federal Government violate the 'Doctrines of Dual Sovergeinship' which exist between Federal and State jurisdictions for prosecuting an 'alleg…
18-9431 William Maurice Smith v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-05-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-retroactivity,sentencing-reform drug-distribution due-process first-step-act griffith-v-kentucky ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review resentencing retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation Does Griffith v. Kentucky, 479 U.S. 314, (1987) apply to First Step Act of 2018?
18-9437 In Re Steven Weste 2019-05-28 Denied IFP carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-location-information criminal-procedure exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-privacy government-subpoena privacy-rights subpoena warrant-requirement Does the government's use of a pretrial subpoena to obtain a defendant's historical cell-site location information (CSLI) from a wireless carrier viol…
18-9442 Donald Loston v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment counsel-of-choice criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-efficiency judicial-integrity reversible-error right-to-counsel sixth-amendment state-trial-court trial-court-discretion Whether a state trial court denial of counsel of choice is reversible error when no threat against the interest of judicial integrity and efficiency w…
18-9445 Volvick Vassor v. Florida Florida 2019-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP alternate-theories constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection griffin-v-united-states jury-instructions sufficiency-of-evidence yates-v-united-states Does the holding in Griffin v United States allow a conviction based on alternate theories of offense when only one theory is supported by the evidenc…
18-9446 Davon Kelly Bennett v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination custodial-interrogation daubert-standard due-process evidence expert-witness-testimony motion-to-suppress rule-404b sixth-amendment Whether the District Court deprived Petitioner of his right to confront witnesses
18-9447 QuintIn Irving Brown v. Virginia Virginia 2019-05-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process judicial-boundaries jurisdiction jurisdictional-overreach procedural-error reversal state-law territorial-jurisdiction venue When a conviction occurs in any state of the United States where a county's jurisdiction occurs over 2,200 yards beyond its 300-yard permissible juris…
18-9414 Donald Stewart Royce v. Florida Florida 2019-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence impeachment law-enforcement witness witness-testimony Whether a trial court abuses its discretion, within the confines of procedural due process in the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment, by limiting cros…
18-9422 Davaus L. McCown v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment controlled-buys criminal-pattern criminal-procedure drug-crimes drug-enterprise drug-sales fourth-amendment ongoing-activity ongoing-criminal-activity probable-cause probable-cause-search search-and-seizure search-warrant stale-information Whether two police-orchestrated, controlled buys demonstrate an ongoing pattern of drug sales sufficient to support probable cause for an otherwise-st…
18-9428 Robert L. Jenkins v. Pelicia E. Hall, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction bullcoming-v-new-mexico civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process evidence-law forensic-evidence judicial-review melendez-diaz-v-massachusetts testimonial-statements Whether the testimonial statements of witnesses about forensic testing may be admitted only where the declarant is unavailable, and only where the def…
18-9430 Bobby Ray Turner v. Texas Texas 2019-05-24 Denied IFP conviction criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-bias judicial-misconduct sentencing standards-of-review Whether a state judge's personal conviction from personal experience is legally sufficient to set aside a felony conviction
18-9385 Cargil Nicholson v. Rollin Cook, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction Connecticut 2019-05-23 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review certification-of-appeal criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel trial-counsel Whether the Connecticut Supreme Court erred by denying the petitioner certification to appeal from the Appellate Court?
18-9388 In Re Ramsey Randall 2019-05-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process federal-remedy free-speech habeas-corpus judicial-review standing statutory-provisions Whether the federal abstention doctrine restricts federal courts from providing relief to state criminal defendants who seek to challenge their convic…
18-9394 Ward T. Evans v. Delaware Delaware 2019-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge constitutionality-of-statute criminal-law criminal-offenses criminal-procedure criminal-statute double-jeopardy due-process in-forma-pauperis indictment indictment-counts statutory-interpretation three-strike-rule three-strikes-law Whether Delaware's 11 Del. Crim. C. sec. 773(2) defines three distinct criminal offenses
18-9397 Miguel Angel Barron v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression fair-trial fourth-amendment jury-instructions probable-cause relevance search-and-seizure self-defense warrantless-search Whether a state trial court's jury instruction that reduces the burden of proof or violates a principle of fairness contained in the due process claus…
18-9402 David Lester Jackson v. California California 2019-05-23 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probation probation-search search-and-seizure standing warrant-requirement warrantless-search Were-appellates Fourth Amend. rights violated
18-9403 In Re Christopher Johnson 2019-05-23 Denied IFP 2255-motion 28-usc-2241 922g-offense binding-precedent circuit-precedent commerce-clause criminal-procedure erroneous-precedent federal-prisoner foreclosed-arguments habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation Whether a federal prisoner may file a habeas-corpus petition under 28-usc-2241 to raise arguments foreclosed by binding-but-erroneous circuit-preceden…
18-9406 Ricky Carlos Grant v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony standard-of-review telephone-evidence witness-qualification Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred in failing to find that the United States District Court for Western District …
18-9408 Freddie J. Hennington v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure criminal-procedure dismissal due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion legal-review procedural-error sentencing standing Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Hennington's appeal without considering the merits of his arguments
18-9416 John O. Williams v. Florida Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-error constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus jury-instruction jury-instructions lesser-included-offense Whether the district court judge's order of denial, denying the petitioner's habeas petition and claim, was contrary to or involved an unreasonable ap…
18-9365 Jose Antonio Ramirez-Jaramillo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure federal-rule federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing sentencing-error statutory-interpretation statutory-range substantial-rights Whether an error in selecting the defendant's statutory range of imprisonment affects his or her substantial rights within the meaning of Federal Rule…
18-9375 Saleem Elamin v. Superior Court of the District of Columbia District of Columbia 2019-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment armed-robbery civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction sentencing statutory-interpretation Can the government charge the minimum sentence of 2 years for an agreed offense of carrying a firearm during a robbery?
18-9377 John Patrick Donohue v. Virginia Virginia 2019-05-22 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jurisdiction parole probation sentencing standing Whether the Conditional release of an individual violates due process
18-9382 Joshua Wofford v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review chapman-standard chapman-v-california constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-construction harmless-error prosecutorial-evidence standard-of-review Whether the federal court of appeals failed to effectively apply the Chapman v. California harmless-error standard
18-9361 Jordan Alexander Clemons v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-05-21 Denied IFP affidavit appellate-procedure civil-rights court-access criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-proportionality in-forma-pauperis indigence indigent-status juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing legal-representation life-imprisonment pro-bono Whether the Pennsylvania Supreme Court erred in rejecting petitioner's claim that his sentence of life imprisonment without parole for a crime committ…
18-9369 Wade Travis Webb v. County of Pima, Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-21 Denied Relisted (2)IFP citizen-rights civil-rights constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process government-accountability grand-jury grand-jury-system legal-accountability prosecutorial-misconduct standing Whether the grand jury system is inherently flawed by allowing the government to damage citizens without consequences for constitutional violations
18-9370 Mark A. Blankenship v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction criminal-procedure district-court district-court-determination fed-r-crim-p-35(b) federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-review reduced-sentence sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-factor sentencing-factors Does appellate jurisdiction lie from a district court's determination that a particular sentencing factor is relevant to the imposition of a reduced s…
18-9348 Willie Joe Williams v. Stephen Welch, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeals criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction sentencing Whether or not the Stote Court And Federol Courhis) error in sending Petitioner to prison after dismissing Crime (sd and Charge ls)
18-9339 Anthony Dajuan Yates v. California California 2019-05-20 Denied IFP batson batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-procedure disparate-impact equal-protection juror-selection jury-selection peremptory-challenge peremptory-challenges race-neutral-explanation racial-profiling Does a prosecutor's peremptory challenge of a prospective African-American juror based on the juror's perception of racial profiling by law enforcemen…
18-9347 Sherrick A Sims v. Kansas Kansas 2019-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-violation conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure jury limine limine-orders prejudicial-testimony violation Was Mc. Sims denied due process of law when the District Court and Kansas Supreme Court upheld a conviction obtained by the State's violation of Three…
18-9278 In Re Edmond McClinton 2019-05-17 Dismissed IFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lack-of-due-process lack-of-jurisdiction miscarriage-of-justice probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct There was no probable cause for arrest
18-9279 Regina M. Preetorius v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights counsel-performance criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted
18-9308 Clarence Scranage, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights counsel-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment pro-se pro-se-representation right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner waived his Fifth and Sixth Amendment Rights
18-9321 Jesus Cornelio Dolmo-Alvarez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure indictment jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts - including the fact of a prior conviction - that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eit…
18-9324 Robert Gordon Johnstone v. Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-retardation ninth-circuit post-conviction-relief retrial-proceedings standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's due process clause requires a new trial for a mentally retarded criminal defendant whose original trial counsel was…
18-9328 Diego Portocarrero Valencia v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confrontation-rights criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process high-seas-offense jurisdiction maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law safety-valve sentencing stateless-vessel Is the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act (MDLEA) unconstitutional because no minimum contacts between the accused and the United States are required t…
18-9333 Gustavo Gomez v. California Ninth Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied IFP appeal case-law constitutional-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction motion-to-amend sixth-amendment standing Were this Petitioner's Sixth Amendment rights according to the United States Constitution violated by the United States Court of Appeal for the Ninth …
18-9340 Anes Subasic v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred in denying my motion for a certificate of appealability and dismissing the appeal of my…
18-1443 Nicholas Young v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied civil-rights constitutional-activity constitutional-rights criminal-defendant-rights criminal-procedure due-process entrapment entrapment-defense free-speech material-support predisposition predisposition-evidence prior-activity similar-crime terrorist-organization thought-crime white-nationalism Whether evidence of a criminal defendant's prior, constitutionally protected activity may be admitted to prove the predisposition element of the entra…
18-1439 Shanker Patel v. California California 2019-05-16 Denied Response Waived accomplice-testimony cautionary-instruction circumstantial-evidence corroboration corroboration-requirement criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-rights Whether a trial court violates the jury trial guarantees of the Sixth Amendment and U.S. Const. art. III, § 2, cl. 3 by refusing to grant a defendant'…
18-9297 Jeremy Shane Hall v. John Myrick, Superintendent, Two Rivers Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2019-05-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance professional-norms reasonableness-of-counsel record-evidence sixth-amendment state-post-conviction Whether a court can disregard record evidence of the prevailing professional norms in assessing the reasonableness of counsel's action or inaction und…
18-9298 Anthony Barry and Brian Cahill v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2019-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence exculpatory-information fundamental-fairness jury-trial post-conviction-evidence witness-testimony Whether intentional pre-trial withholding of exculpatory information violates the Confrontation Clause
18-9300 Devon Waters, aka Devon Jones v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appellate-review career-offender crime-of-violence criminal-defendant-appeal-waiver criminal-procedure drug-distribution drug-distribution-offense sentencing sentencing-guidelines Does a criminal defendant's waiver of his right to appeal a within guidelines sentence bar appellate review where the district court improperly senten…
18-9303 Larry Ray Lincks v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver booker booker-remedy constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process guidelines-interpretation plea-agreement plea-bargaining public-policy sentence-appeal-waiver sentencing sentencing-guidelines sufficiency-of-evidence Does a sentence-appeal waiver that purportedly precludes a challenge to the sufficiency of enhancement evidence and the district court's interpretatio…
18-9304 Abel De Leon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure federal-rule federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea pre-acceptance right-to-withdraw rule-11 withdrawal Whether a formal motion to withdraw a guilty plea is required to invoke the protections of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(d)(1)
18-9306 Shawn Sayer v. United States First Circuit 2019-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process maximum-sentence probation-report procedural-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness upward-variance Whether the district court erred by imposing a sentence without adequate explanation pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c), and the length of which sentence…
18-9310 Roberto Nieto Cruz v. Texas Texas 2019-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process extraneous-evidence extraneous-offense-testimony fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard Whether the Court of Appeals erred in misapplying the Strickland standard and depriving the Appellant of his constitutional rights to due process and …
18-9314 Randall Pierce v. Stuart Sherman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-procedure clearly-established-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ninth-circuit pleadings pro-se pro-se-pleadings sentencing-information standing supreme-court Was the District Court Judge's liberal construction of the pro se pleadings a denial of access to the courts?
18-9315 Casey Peebles v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-circuit 8th-circuit circuit-conflict circuit-split codefendant-testimony criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence newly-discovered-evidence rule-33 Should a district court automatically exclude exculpatory testimony from a non-testifying codefendant as not newly discovered evidence or should that …
18-9281 Randy Burke v. Diane Prosper, Acting Warden, et al. Virgin Islands 2019-05-15 Denied IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination double-jeopardy due-process evidence evidence-law expert-testimony ineffective-assistance jury-instructions right-to-confrontation trial-counsel Whether the counsel's failure to cross-examine the main witness Beatrice Lawrence constituted ineffective assistance of counsel
18-9289 In Re Michael Leon Haley, Sr. 2019-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection false-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing third-strike Whether petitioner is actually innocent of being eligible for a third-strike sentence under 42 PA. C. S. §9714(g)
18-9295 Juan Aurelio Sanchez v. Arizona Arizona 2019-05-15 Denied IFP arizona-rules-evidence civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fraud-upon-court judicial-misconduct judicial-process prior-judgment-preclusion standing takings Can Arizona courts refuse to afford relief for fraud upon the court that is deeply embedded in the justice system?
18-1428 Gatehouse Media New York Holdings, Inc., et al. v. New York, et al. New York 2019-05-15 Denied criminal-procedure first-amendment press press-access press-rights public public-access public-right standing voir-dire Whether the failure of state criminal procedural rules to authorize standing for the press to assert the public's First Amendment right of access to v…
18-1433 Milton Balkany v. United States Second Circuit 2019-05-15 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default reasonable-doubt trevino-v-thaler Whether a lower court can apply a default rule or ignore precedent on actual innocence and ineffective assistance of counsel claims
18-9255 Santosh Ram v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-05-14 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-plea mental-competency mental-disease-defect plea-agreement plea-bargaining search-and-seizure sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether there was violation of due process of law by the failure of the trial court to order the mental competency evaluation and/or conduct mental co…
18-9257 Lonnie Rarden v. Ohio Ohio 2019-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus judgment merits mitigating-evidence opinion petition search-and-seizure sentencing state-court state-courts writ-of-certiorari Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated when the state court failed to consider mitigating evidence during sentencing
18-9259 Akunna Baiyina Ejiofor v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit criminal-procedure fourth-amendment good-faith-exception plain-language plain-meaning search-warrant search-warrant-affidavit standard-of-review suppression-motion tenth-circuit May a reviewing court uphold a search by reading a statement in a search-warrant affidavit contrary to its plain meaning?
18-9277 Melvin Scott Morman v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP §-2255-motion armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure enumerated-offenses-clause johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-enhancement violent-felony When the record is silent as to which enhancement clause applied, what showing is a § 2255 movant required to make to prove he is entitled to relief o…
18-9239 Dale Shoop v. Ralph Terry, Acting Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-05-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel preliminary-hearing right-to-testify sixth-amendment victim-testimony witness-impeachment witness-presence witness-testimony Was the Petitioner's Constitutional Sixth Amendment Right to Effective Assistance of Counsel violated
18-9240 Carlos Cordoba v. United States Second Circuit 2019-05-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-misconduct criminal-procedure discovery-of-new-facts due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel limitations-period rule-35 section-2255 statute-of-limitations Should the district court have conducted an evidentiary hearing in order that Mr. Cordoba could have presented proof of his reliance on his attorney's…
18-9241 Sealed Appellant v. Sealed Appellee Fifth Circuit 2019-05-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-client-privilege attorney-representation civil-rights conflict-of-interest criminal-investigation criminal-procedure cuyler-v-sullivan due-process prosecutorial-ethics right-to-counsel strickland-v-washington structural-error When a lawyer is named as a suspect in the same criminal investigation as his client, should lower courts review the conflict under Cuyler v. Sullivan…
18-9198 John Naasz v. Texas Texas 2019-05-10 Denied IFP 14th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sixth-amendment sudden-passion sudden-passion-defense Whether a Texas prisoner has a right to effective counsel in collateral review proceedings
18-9231 Matthew Leachman v. Texas Texas 2019-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation continuing-jeopardy criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process felony-conviction indictment indictment-strategy retrial retrial-rights Whether a State may break the original indictment into discrete pieces to obtain multiple trials in a retrial comprising 'continuing jeopardy' where t…
18-9233 Michael Perales v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-appeals criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process plain-error procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-explanation sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure Is a district court's gross failure to explain an above-range sentence or to respond to arguments for a lesser sentence reversible on plain error?
18-9235 Richard McMillan, III v. Florida Florida 2019-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process evidence inconsistent-evidence inconsistent-testimony judicial-discretion motion-for-acquittal motion-for-judgment-of-acquittal petitioner-defense state-evidence trial trial-court trial-court-evidence Can the Trial Court forbid Submission of Evidence at trial that supports Petitioner's Defense, when in fact, there's a dispute?
18-9236 Amy Gonzalez and David Thomas Matusiewicz v. United States Third Circuit 2019-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2261a,overbreadth,free-speech,first-amendme 6th-amendment 6th-amendment-unanimity,criminal-procedure,jury-in 6th-amendment,5th-amendment,sentencing,jury-trial, actus-reus criminal-procedure criminal-procedure,evidence,character-evidence,pre criminal-procedure,evidence,polygraph,crane-v-kent criminal-procedure,jury-instructions,causation,act criminal-verdict due-process jury-instruction jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2261A is unconstitutionally ov Whether a person can be convicted for stalking res Whether Crane v. Kentucky 476 U.S. 683 690 (1986 Whether sentencing courts may continue to violate Whether the admissibility of a civil judicial opin Whether juries must unanimously agree on the actus reus element of offenses
18-1413 Brandon D. Woodruff v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-05-10 Denied ' 'habeas-corpus" ' 'prosecutorial-misconduct" ' 'right-to-confrontation" ' 'right-to-counsel" ' 'sixth-amendment" ' 'standard-of-review' certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jail-telephone-calls prosecutorial-conduct prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the denial of a certificate of appealability by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals constituted reversible error, given the prosecutor's violat…
18-1408 John Washek v. Vermont Vermont 2019-05-09 Denied Response Waived complete-defense constitutional-rights criminal-behavior criminal-charge criminal-procedure due-process evidence-presentation fourth-amendment innocent-behavior probable-cause reasonable-suspicion right-to-defense terry-stop Whether Defendant/Petitioner John Washek's Fourth Amendment rights were violated because the police officer's Terry stop was based on observations muc…
18-9199 Peter Alfred Perez v. Michigan Michigan 2019-05-09 Denied IFP brady-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure crosby-hearing due-process impartial-jury ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel jury-impartiality mistrial resentencing Did the trial court abuse its discretion in denying relief from judgment based on a violation of the right to an impartial jury and ineffective assist…
18-9213 James Paine v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP conviction-analysis criminal-history criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation perceived-seriousness point-calculation sentencing-guidelines seriousness similar-offenses u.s.s.g.-§4a1.2(c) united-states-sentencing-guidelines Should the court analyze whether a conviction is similar to the offenses listed in U.S.S.G. §4A1.2(c) as a group or solely for perceived seriousness w…
18-9217 Kirk Lurton Grummitt, et al. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act career-offender-guidelines collateral-review criminal-procedure federal-habeas-corpus johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statute-of-limitations Whether the 'right' in Johnson, which invalidated the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act, triggers this statute of limitations for a pet…
18-9156 Joseph Vincent Sisneros v. Eric Arnold, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-05-08 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus jury-instructions sentencing state-court-review Was the State Court and District Courts rulings based upon an unreasonable application of U.S. Supreme Court precedence, or contrary to U.S. Supreme C…
18-9167 Michael J. Pendleton v. Melissa Hainsworth, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset Pennsylvania 2019-05-08 Denied IFP 14th-amendment amendment-violation constitutional-rights contract-clause conviction-resentencing criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process ex-post-facto non-existent-crime state-federal-government state-legislation state-legislature substantive-due-process Whether the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania violated the petitioner's substantive due process rights by convicting and resentencing him for a non-existen…
18-9189 Vernell Conley v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Arkansas 2019-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy drug-offense due-process evidence hicks-v-oklahoma jury jury-trial sentencing Did the refusal to order re-sentencing on the remaining conviction, limited to evidence supporting that conviction, violate Conley's right to due proc…
18-9194 Noah Espada v. Texas Texas 2019-05-08 Denied IFP brady-violation constitutional-law criminal-procedure death-penalty double-jeopardy due-process federal-law perjury reversal Whether a Brady violation, that results in the reversal of a death sentence because of perjury stemming from the Brady violation, implicates the Doubl…
18-9202 Edilberto Maso Diaz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP co-conspirator co-conspirator-testimony confrontation-clause conspiracy criminal-conviction criminal-procedure cumulative-error due-process evidence evidentiary-sufficiency fifth-circuit-review hearsay hearsay-evidence hearsay-statements jury-instructions standard-of-review trial-procedure Did the Fifth Circuit err by affirming the district court admission of hearsay statements made by an unindicted co-conspirator over the objection of A…
18-9205 Antonio Ballesteros v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause confrontation-clause-6th-amendment criminal-procedure importation machine-generated-data sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment strict-liability Whether GPS Data prepared specifically for an ongoing investigation and culled from several databases is machine-generated data that implicates the Si…
18-9206 Mitchell Felix Brooks v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plea-bargaining plea-compliance rule-11 sentencing supervisory-powers supervisory-powers-of-lower-courts Whether the District Court Judge abused its discretion in violation pursuant to Rule 11
18-9153 Albert Randolph v. Texas Texas 2019-05-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-appeals criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus legal-review prosecutorial-misconduct standing statutory-provisions supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Whether the Court of Criminal Appeals erred in denying Petitioner a new trial?
18-9154 Jeffrey William Smith v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure-criminal constitutional-rights criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jury-instructions life-imprisonment life-sentence mitigating-factors sentencing sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation Whether the circuit court erred in failing to correct a defective jury instruction
18-9177 Robert Murphy v. Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison Seventh Circuit 2019-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation cell-phones criminal-procedure digital-evidence due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-rights privacy search-and-seizure sixth-amendment Whether the government's warrantless search of a person's cell phone violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches and seiz…
18-9180 Cesar Arce-Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver criminal-justice-act criminal-procedure garza-v-idaho indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining pretrial-proceedings right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Does a Sixth Amendment claim of ineffectiveness of assistance of counsel during pretrial proceedings survive a general waiver of the right to appeal i…
18-1393 William T. Walters v. United States Second Circuit 2019-05-07 Denied criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing grand-jury-secrecy presumption-of-prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct rule-6(e) rule-6e-violation structural-error Whether systematic and pervasive government misconduct that violates Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 6(e) is structural error giving rise to a pres…
18-9146 Kenan Ivery v. Ohio Ohio 2019-05-06 Denied IFP criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection heat-of-passion homicide state-judiciary sudden-provocation Is a petitioner denied due process and equal protection when a state judiciary refuses to acknowledge that 'fear' is a passion that deprived the petit…
18-9147 Donald G. Flint v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-05-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment boykin-admonishments constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment guilty-plea judicial-precedent sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent Was the federal district court's finding and the Fifth Circuit Court's finding contrary to the precedent of the Supreme Court, as well as a violation …
18-9151 Blake Joseph Sandlain v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment appellate-counsel capital-punishment criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice successive-petition Does the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel require a showing of prejudice to establish a claim that appellate counsel was ineff…
18-9164 Antonio Muro, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-06 GVR Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction objection procedural-requirement reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing Whether a formal objection after pronouncement of sentence is necessary to invoke appellate reasonableness review of the length of a defendant's sente…
18-9067 Sharma Ross v. Christopher Miller, Superintendent, Great Meadow Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment standing Was petitioner denied his due process rights as enumerated under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments?
18-9070 Gabriel Urzua Sanchez v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure direct-appeal district-court fifth-amendment first-step-act mandatory-minimum privilege sentencing witness-testimony Whether the district court abused its discretion in failing to properly determine that Mr. Sanchez's proposed witnesses had a valid Fifth Amendment pr…
18-9100 Corry Mency v. Florida Florida 2019-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-v-new-jersey blakely-v-washington blakey-v-washington constitutional-due-process criminal-procedure due-process judicial-factfinding jury-trial jury-trial-right sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum trial-judge Whether the First District erred in deferring to the Circuit Court's finding that section 775.084 is not unconstitutional as applied to the facts of M…
18-9108 Milton Mitchell v. Glen Johnson, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process due-process-of-law equal-protection equal-protection-of-law grand-jury guilty-plea habeas-corpus indictments ineffective-assistance Whether the lower courts erred in failing to order the respondent to show cause and provide indictments, trial transcripts, habeas corpus, and all pro…
18-9119 Kirby Gardner v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-05-03 Dismissed IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure custody-control double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause evidence full-faith-and-credit-clause full-faith-credit judicial-review liberty-interest parole prosecution re-imprisonment retrospective-forfeiture statutory-interpretation Whether the Full Faith & Credit Clause, Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits the State of Texas from re-prosecuting & re-imprisoning petitioner for an exp…
18-9120 Russell Frey v. Illinois Illinois 2019-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sexual-assault cumulative-error due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-issues fair-trial harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial prejudice right-to-counsel Whether the defendant's constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel was violated due to counsel's overall health and performance
18-9121 Jerry L. Gater v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process faretta-v-california jury-trial-guarantee nelson-v-colorado presumption-of-innocence pro-se right-to-counsel sentencing-factors voir-dire Does a defendant have a right to participate in voir dire when proceeding pro se?
18-9124 Garland D. Miller v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP coram-nobis criminal-procedure federal-courts federal-criminal-procedure illegal-sentence judicial-jurisdiction restitution rule-35 sentencing sentencing-correction statutory-interpretation title-18 Does jurisdiction exist to correct an illegal sentence at any time?
18-9130 Shaun Allen Dick v. Oregon Oregon 2019-05-03 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment incorporation incorporation-doctrine jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-jury-verdict unanimous-verdict Does the Fourteenth Amendment fully incorporate the Sixth Amendment guarantee of a unanimous verdict?
18-9132 Earlie Dickerson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standard federal-rule-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure government-witness government-witnesses motion-for-new-trial newly-discovered-evidence perjury trial-motion witness-credibility witness-testimony Whether new evidence that Government witnesses provided untruthful statements during a trial can ever satisfy the requirements for a motion for new ba…
18-9133 Abdul Karim Bangura v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit-review guilty-plea guilty-plea-withdrawal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel obstruction-of-justice right-to-counsel sentencing-enhancement withdrawal Whether the district court erred in denying the defendant's motion to withdraw his guilty plea
18-9134 Joe Clopton v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP amending-indictment brady-violation burden-of-proof child-support cps-records criminal-procedure defense-strategy double-jeopardy due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel exculpatory-evidence false-allegations grand-jury ineffective-assistance lesser-included-offense medical-records nolo-contendere plain-error sixth-amendment social-worker-testimony Whether the medical records were improperly excluded from evidence
18-9135 Joseph Malcomb v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-05-03 Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing felony-classification judicial-discretion judicial-review legislative-amendment legislative-changes offense-gravity-score sentence-modification sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Was the Petitioner entitled to a sentence Modification / Reduction
18-1385 Ruben Delhorno v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied Response Waived coram-nobis criminal-procedure deportation-consequences habeas-corpus immigration immigration-consequences immigration-proceedings ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel padilla-v-kentucky padilla-waiver sixth-amendment writ-of-error-coram-nobis Whether a Padilla constitutional waiver may be inferred without an evidentiary hearing by mere passage of time where defendant sought neither a direct…
18-9084 Edward JoRodge Gladney v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure diminished-capacity due-process evidentiary-hearing expert-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-capacity plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness sentencing sentencing-mitigation Whether the district court erred or abused its discretion by failing to hold an evidentiary hearing after grant of COA on contested factual allegation…
18-9086 Roel Daniel Galvan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP carachuri-rosendo-v-holder criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process felon-in-possession felony firearm-possession hypothetical-facts misdemeanor misdemeanor-predicate predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-enhancement sixth-amendment united-states-sentencing-guidelines Whether the four-level enhancement for possessing a firearm in connection with another felony offense pursuant to U.S.S.G. §2K2.1(b)(6)(B) applies whe…
18-9092 Juan Lopez-Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-felony categorical-approach civil-rights crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process elements-of-state-statute immigration permanent-resident removal-order state-court-decisions statutory-interpretation Whether federal courts applying the categorical approach must rely on state court decisions that establish the elements of state court statute of conv…
18-9094 Marty J. Hebert v. Louisiana Fifth Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP autopsy-findings autopsy-testimony constitutional-error criminal-procedure discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence expert-witness fifth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct second-degree-murder sixth-amendment Has the State of Louisiana committed Constitutional Error in its refusal to Order production of Dr. Laga's grand jury testimony to petitioner?
18-9104 Kurt Zamor v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure common-carrier criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-16 evidence evidence-sufficiency expert-testimony firearms firearms-regulation mens-rea sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation Whether the Eleventh Circuit failed to properly apply Title 18 U.S.C. Section 922(e)
18-9109 Jose Christian Nunez-Belemontes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-order constitutional-violation criminal-procedure criminal-proceeding dea drug-enforcement-administration due-process notice opportunity-to-be-heard title-21 title-21-usc-841 title-21-usc-841a Is an administrative order conclusive and in violation of constitutional due process without the administrator providing notice and opportunity to be …
18-9110 Darius T. Murphy v. New Jersey New Jersey 2019-05-02 Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standard legal-claim misidentification totality-of-circumstances What spectrum of evidence is required to prove actual innocence claim?
18-9042 Kingy Ossarius Holden v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-counsel criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence search-and-seizure Whether the district court erred in denying the appellant's claims related to an unconstitutional search and seizure, ineffective assistance of trial …
18-9051 Quintonius B. Golston v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied IFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation circuit-conflict conflict criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression federal-question fifth-circuit important-question prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit has decided an important federal question that conflicts with this Court in Brady v. Maryland…
18-9055 Ronald Ray Horner v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-protections constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process extra-territorial-jurisdiction extraterritorial-jurisdiction fifth-amendment international-law sovereign-territory supreme-court-precedent Does the fact that the Appellant was arrested and questioned in Canada immunize the United States Attorney from following the Constitution of the Unit…
18-9062 Derek Ray King v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process indictment jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing supervised-release whether-violations-of-supervised-release-require-jury-proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt
18-9065 Charlene Terry-Ann Walker Rosa v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-rights ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel sixth-amendment strategic-decision strickland-v-washington Whether petitioner's claim of ineffective assistance of counsel is governed by the applicable test of Strickland v. Washington
18-9074 Aaron Francois v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights conviction-challenge criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel louisiana-constitution sufficiency-of-evidence trial-error Whether the evidence was sufficient to establish that the murder and underlying felony of armed robbery formed a continuous transaction without a sign…
18-9081 Scott Books v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP brooks-v-tennessee coerced-confession confession-suppression criminal-procedure due-process impeachment right-to-counsel self-incrimination self-incrimination-5th-amendment Under Brooks v. Tennessee, did the district court's ruling permitting impeachment with the coerced confession and its physical fruit impermissibly int…
18-1369 James Bradley Anderson v. Washington Washington 2019-05-01 Denied bill-of-particulars criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance jury-instructions pre-trial-notice prosecutorial-discretion Must the particulars of each count of an information be specified prior to trial, or can a prosecutor be allowed to match alleged acts to the counts i…
18-9032 Michael Slager v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-04-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights credibility-of-witness criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony legal-standard officer-involved-shooting police-misconduct police-use-of-force second-degree-murder use-of-force voluntary-manslaughter Did the district court deny Petitioner's right to due process when it found that the underlying conduct at issue here—Officer Michael Slager's shootin…
18-9034 Norman Lee Shillings v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-04-30 Denied IFP alias-name civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence fourteenth-amendment identity tampering-with-evidence Can the presentation of an (Alias) or Gender specific name used during arrest, booking, and bonding procedures be charged as Tampering with Evidence, …
18-9037 Rolander Brown v. Nebraska Nebraska 2019-04-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception search-and-seizure stored-communications-act Whether the 'good faith exception' to the exclusionary rule should apply to court orders obtained pursuant to the Federal Stored Communications Act
18-9043 Bryan Binkholder v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-04-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rights due-process plea-bargaining sentencing victim-rights victims-rights writ-of-mandamus Did the Crime Victims Rights Act, 18 USC 3771 (CVRA), and its 72 hour review requirement for a petition of Writ of Mandamus violate the Constitutional…
18-9045 Kevin Robinson v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison Third Circuit 2019-04-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial impartial-jury ineffective-assistance jury-impartiality self-incrimination sixth-amendment Are trial attorneys obligated to protect every fundamental right entitled to defendants under the United States Constitutional Amendments?
18-9048 Brian Boykins v. Robert Napel, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-04-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-court right-to-counsel standard-of-review standing trial-court-record Whether a federal court must grant an evidentiary hearing and findings, contrary to Townsend v. Sain, 372 U.S. 293 (1963)
18-9049 Jackie Madore v. United States First Circuit 2019-04-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-waivers contract-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-disparity Whether the Supreme Court should review appellate waivers in criminal cases under principles of contract law
18-9003 Ariel Brown v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP and whether false allegations in a Presentence In burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process government-burden presentence-report sentencing sentencing-enhancement weapons-enhancement weapons-possession When a defendant submits a sworn Declaration denying key elements of a weapons enhancement, can the defendant be enhanced without the Government meeti…
18-9004 Vaughn S. Archer v. Daniel Paramo, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP boykin-advisement criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-trial sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation statutory-reduction trial-court-advisement Whether Archer knowingly and voluntarily entered into a guilty plea where the trial court failed to advise him as to the potential application of a st…
18-9026 Arrez Meliton-Salto v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court guidelines-range molina-martinez-v-united-states plain-error prejudice record-silence sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the defendant may rely on the district court's error alone to show prejudice under plain error review when the record is silent as to what the…
18-9029 Tyron James v. Kansas Kansas 2019-04-29 Denied IFP appeal apprendi civil-rights constitutional-challenge conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment unconstitutional-error upward-departure Whether a conviction based on an unconstitutional sentencing enhancement can be overturned under this Court's decisions in Apprendi and Alleyne
18-1359 William Shannon Gresham v. Tennessee Tennessee 2019-04-29 Denied Response Waived acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence Whether a trial court may use acquitted conduct by a jury that rejected the State's proof on a particular issue in order to enhance a defendant's sent…
18-8987 Michael Wainaina Kariuki v. Washington Washington 2019-04-26 Denied IFP assault constitutional-law conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jury-instructions legal-relief procedural-error second-degree-assault sexual-assault standing victim Whether the defendant, Michael Kariuni, is entitled to reversal of the second-degree-assault conviction with instructions to dismiss
18-9006 Donald Ray Boles v. United States Second Circuit 2019-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-fact-finding judicial-precedent prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sixth-amendment Whether the holding of Almendarez-Torres v. United States should be reconsidered
18-9010 Joel Augutuk Mayokok v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-error re-sentencing sentence-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness unsupported-enhancement Did the District Court's decision at re-sentencing to re-impose the same 240-month sentence it initially imposed, where the Court had erred in its ini…
18-9011 Anthwaun Jordan v. Texas Texas 2019-04-26 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standing civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel Was the petitioner denied his right to the effective assistance of counsel
18-9015 Diego Rodrigo Perea v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause constructive-denial criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Was the State Court's rejection of the Petitioner's claim that he was constructively denied the assistance of counsel
18-9020 Michael Marshall v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-appeal federal-courts federal-jurisdiction fourth-circuit guilty-plea jurisdictional-grounds plea-bargaining sentencing Whether the writ should issue so that this Court may decide whether Petitioner's guilty plea was valid
18-8997 Troy Williams v. Florida Florida 2019-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation constitutional-error constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-procedure legal-standard post-conviction-relief Whether the Post Conviction Court erred when it failed to conduct an evidentiary hearing on Petitioner's Motion for Post Conviction Relief based upon …
18-8998 Juan Garcia v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure deportation due-process governmental-bad-faith governmental-misconduct harmless-error material-witness sixth-amendment witness-deportation Whether a defendant must prove governmental bad faith to establish a compulsory process clause violation?
18-8974 Stanley Bruce Roberson v. Texas Texas 2019-04-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence scientific-evidence scientific-reliability statistical-extrapolation statistical-sampling unvalidated-methods Does the unvalidated method of statistical extrapolation constitute scientifically reliable evidence?
18-8975 Derran Smiley v. William Muniz, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-04-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto kidnapping kidnapping-enhancement one-strike-statute penal-code retroactive-statute sentencing statutory-interpretation Did the California Supreme Court err in imposing the one strike statute of Penal Code section 667.61, when Souley was convicted of only one kidnapping…
18-8978 Rico Montell Reid v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-04-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-11 defendant-rights district-court due-process judicial-coercion judicial-discretion plea-agreement plea-bargaining presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines withdrawal-of-plea Whether Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11 prohibits a district court from discussing sentencing options with a defendant at the sentencing hearing
18-8980 Raheem D. Louis v. United States Third Circuit 2019-04-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process evidence identification witness-testimony Question not identified
18-8981 John Bowling v. Maryland Maryland 2019-04-24 Denied IFP appeal civil-procedure civil-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency free-speech jury-instructions standing Any ERRONEOUS INSTRUCTION on force WMS Ofer to the funy
18-8983 Patrick Edwards v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-04-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment prohibits the imposition of a sentence for a specific offense that is greater than the maxim…
18-8936 William Arthur McIntosh v. Texas Texas 2019-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland criminal-procedure exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan newly-available-evidence schlup-v-delo state-court-review successive-writ supreme-court-precedent texas-code-of-criminal-procedure texas-court-of-criminal-appeals trevino-v-thaler Did the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals rule adversely by denying Petitioners successive writ of habeas corpus when he presented newly available evide…
18-8944 Timmy W. Doucet v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-deliberation jury-deliberations louisiana-criminal-code reasonable-doubt reversible-error sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence Whether reasonable jurists determine that it was reversible error for the district court to permit the jury, over defense counsel's objections, to vie…
18-8946 Willie Peterson v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process duncan-v-louisiana illinois-v-allen lewis-v-united-states right-to-be-present third-circuit-court Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals Erred in Denying Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability on His Claim that the State Court Violated the U…
18-8951 Terrance Proctor v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Arkansas 2019-04-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure discretion due-process eighth-amendment graham-v-florida juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mitigation proportionality sentencing-mitigation Are consecutive, fixed term sentences for juveniles unconstitutional at the outset when they amount to the functional equivalent of life without parol…
18-8955 Gregory Butler v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-23 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions other-crimes-evidence sixth-amendment trial-fairness witness-confrontation Whether the district court and the third circuit erred in refusing to issue a certificate of appealability
18-8956 Jordan M. Jucutan v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-04-23 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-law fraud global-war-on-terror prosecution-tolling repose statute-of-limitations time-barred-offenses wartime-suspension wartime-suspension-of-limitations wartime-suspension-of-limitations-act Does the Wartime Suspension of Limitations Act permit a prosecution, otherwise time-barred, for offenses not involving fraud against the United States…
18-8957 Scott Matthew Goss v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process federal-courts sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines weapon-possession May a court accept a mere allegation of possession of a weapon as satisfaction of the Government's initial burden of proof requirement supporting the …
18-8964 Artemio Miranda-Manuel v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8-usc-1326 almendarez-torres apprendi criminal-procedure due-process immigration indictment prior-conviction sentencing Whether a prior conviction must be alleged in the indictment before a defendant is subjected to enhanced punishment under 8 U.S.C. §1326(b)
18-8965 Olusola Olla v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-knowledge criminal-law criminal-procedure deliberate-indifference federal-courts investigative-standard jury-instructions mens-rea prosecutorial-evidence statutory-interpretation willful-blindness Whether, in a criminal case where a statute requires proof of knowledge, the government may establish the requisite knowledge with evidence of a failu…
18-8969 Ronald Lunsford, Jr. v. Indiana Indiana 2019-04-23 Denied IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea indiana-constitution ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-dismiss sixth-amendment Whether the State of Indiana erred in denying Appellant was deprived of effective assistance of counsel in violation of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amend…
18-8970 John William King v. Texas Texas 2019-04-23 Denied IFP capital-punishment criminal-procedure death-penalty habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lesser-included-offense mccoy-v-louisiana retroactivity sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel teague-analysis teague-v-lane watershed-rule Whether McCoy applies when a defendant's attorneys concede, against his wishes, his guilt to a lesser-included offense during final argument, and is a…
18-8971 William T. Liepe v. New Jersey New Jersey 2019-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment blood-alcohol blood-alcohol-test case-review constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression judicial-interpretation legal-standard search-and-seizure statutory-provisions suppression warrantless-search Did the warrantless search of defendant's blood for the purpose of determining his blood alcohol level violate the established constitutional principl…
18-8889 Lavont Flanders, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-error counsel-deprivation criminal-procedure critical-stage due-process initial-appearance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment united-states-v-cronic Whether an initial appearance can be a critical stage
18-8911 Gerald Humbert v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-22 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 11th-circuit acca acca-serious-drug-offense armed-career-criminal-act certiorari criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense eleventh-circuit florida-statute florida-statute-893-13 mens-rea serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation united-states-v-smith Whether a Florida drug offense qualifies as a 'serious drug offense' under the ACCA without mens rea
18-8912 Cirilo Flores v. United States Third Circuit 2019-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-plea-bargaining due-process guilty-plea hill-v-lockhart ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement prejudice strickland-v-washington voluntary-and-intelligent-choice voluntary-plea Whether the guilty plea entered was legal when the petitioner did not fully understand, know or intelligently accept the voluntary guilty plea agreeme…
18-8929 In Re Lavont Flanders, Jr. 2019-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure critical-stage due-process habeas-corpus indictment-amendment mailbox-rule postal-service-error pro-se-filing pro-se-prisoner procedural-due-process right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the Petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to counsel was violated when the indictment was amended during a critical stage of the proceedings with…
18-8933 Zaamar Bersan Stevenson v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-22 Denied IFP appeal appeal-process certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rehabilitation-process right-to-counsel subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether Mr. Stevenson was entitled to relief on his claim of ineffective assistance of counsel
18-8940 Anson Chi v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prison-conditions retaliation standing Should pro se defendants be granted in forma pauperis status in criminal cases, given that the second copy of the record on appeal was intentionally l…
18-8943 David Raphael Concepcion v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment arrest arrest-incident constitutional-provision criminal-procedure home home-search law-enforcement maryland-v-buie police-powers protective-sweep search-and-seizure Whether the holding of Maryland v. Buie applies to protective sweeps incident to arrests made just outside a home
18-8913 Esteban Aguilera-Alvarez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
18-8915 Jonathan Zepeda v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3006a appellate-waiver criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal due-process fifth-amendment independent-counsel judicial-manipulation sentencing sixth-amendment standing waiver Whether an individual's challenge to the constitutionality of his sentence and case proceedings in a criminal prosecution on bases outside the limited…
18-8916 Steven Lawrence Wright v. California California 2019-04-19 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process fifth-amendment jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-standard motion-for-new-trial new-trial standard-of-review Did the trial court's erroneous jury instruction violate the Due Process Clause?
18-8920 Charles Franklin Glasscock v. Jeri Taylor Ninth Circuit 2019-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-counsel due-process effective-counsel habeas-corpus impartial-jury memorandum-decision ninth-circuit supreme-court Does the Ninth Circuit's memorandum decision, affirming the denial of habeas corpus relief, contravene this Court's commands regarding the vital guara…
18-8921 Hector Tellez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-04-19 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-time-period recent-precedence recent-precedent supremacy-clause supreme-court-precedent trial-counsel trial-outcome united-states-supreme-court What is a reasonable time period for trial counsel to be required to become aware of recent precedence before he/she may be deemed ineffective for fai…
18-8923 Ryan Watkins v. Norm Robinson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appeals-court criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts federal-law habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief re-sentencing sentencing sixth-amendment sixth-circuit successive-petition Whether Petitioner was entitled to present his claims after re-sentencing to the United States District Court of appeals
18-8925 Charles Reginald Cooks v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2019-04-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure damages due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief standing Whether the complaint named the defendant in their true names, with statements that are true
18-8885 Jose Roman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-activity criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-offense fifth-circuit-interpretation firearm-enhancement firearms foreseeability presumption presumption-of-use sentencing-guidelines tools-of-the-trade WHETHER THE GUIDELINES ARE MISAPPLIED UNER 2D1.1 (b)(1) BY MAKING A GENERAL PRESUMPTION THAT FIREARMS ARE 'TOOLS OF THE TRADE' AND THAT ALWAYS IS FORS…
18-8886 In Re James Rodgers, Jr. 2019-04-18 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jurisdiction statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness. aggravating-circumstances criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection facial-unconstitutionality gang-relation-element jurisdiction legislative-intent statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction void-for-vagueness Whether ACTR No. 92-601 is facially unconstitutional
18-8893 Mark M. Brown v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-review criminal-procedure impairment mental-capacity mental-impairment probable-cause standard-of-review suppression-motion trustworthiness warrant warrant-issuance witness witness-credibility witness-testimony Does probable cause to issue a warrant extend to situations where a witness to alleged criminal behavior was severely impaired?
18-8894 Robert L. Mayfield v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP admissibility co-conspirator co-conspirator-statements co-conspirators confrontation-clause criminal-procedure evidence evidence-rule hearsay hearsay-exception out-of-court-statements rule-801 rule-801(d)(2)(e) Whether admission of out-of-court statements made by Robert Mayfield's alleged co-conspirators violated the hearsay exception of Rule 801(d)(2)(E)
18-8895 Kevin Watkins v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2019-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel civil-rights conflicted-jurors conflicts-of-interest criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection open-trial Is a defendant's right to an open trial violated when an attorney observing the trial and was asked to assist with defendant's appeal, was barred from…
18-8897 Corlious C. Dyson, aka Corlious Corall Dyson v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-04-18 GVR Relisted (2)IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine jury-trial non-unanimous-verdict sixth-amendment Does the right to a jury trial guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment, as applied to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment, allow a criminal convicti…
18-8900 Juan Garcia Herrera v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-v-united-states almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process judicial-factfinding jury-trial mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether the enhanced-penalty provisions of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(b) and 851 that require judicial factfinding about a prior conviction to increase the mand…
18-8902 Gustav Kloszewski v. United States Second Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation Crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility precedent sixth-amendment testimonial-statements Did the lower court fail to follow this Court's precedent in Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004)?
18-8851 Lester James Smith v. Georgia Georgia 2019-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP attempt-to-elude criminal-procedure double-jeopardy double-punishment due-process equal-protection evidence-collection federalism investigative-techniques law-enforcement probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing single-incident single-jurisdiction Whether the State of Georgia erred in sentencing Mr. Smith to multiple punishments for a single criminal act of attempt to elude police
18-8863 Neville Turnbull v. Glen Johnson, Warden Georgia 2019-04-17 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-standard miscarriage-of-justice prosecutorial-misconduct standing trial-process Whether a State's highest court errs, and abuses discretion by refusing to remedy a prisoner's miscarriage of justice claim, critical to all parties i…
18-8865 Marvin Lopez-Aguilar v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-conflict collateral-attack collateral-challenge conviction criminal-procedure district-court forfeiture government-enforcement government-forfeiture habeas-corpus waiver Does the government forfeit its right to enforce a defendant's waiver of a collateral challenge to his conviction by failing to raise the waiver issue…
18-8868 Amilcar C. Butler v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP clerical-error commitment court-filing criminal-procedure fed-r-crim-p-36 federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judgment judgment-correction judicial-error procedural-rule record Is it error for the district court to file an order granting a petition to correct a clerical error in the judgment under Fed. R. Crim. P. 36, but fai…
18-8869 Jesse Davenport, aka Draco John Flama v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography confrontation-clause conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial plain-error shackling sufficiency-of-evidence Is shackling a defendant during his or her jury trial for no asserted or actual reason proper, and thus not even an 'error' under the plain error test…
18-8872 In Re Samuel Lewis Surles 2019-04-17 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation judicial-interpretation sixth-amendment Whether petitioner was denied his unwaivable constitutional right of due process of law when the Michigan Supreme Court failed to rule on the merits o…
18-8876 Nickie R. Logan v. District Attorney of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-a-fair-trial right-to-counsel Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel requires a court to appoint new counsel when a defendant expresses dissatisfactio…
18-8879 Olusola Arojojoye v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction jurisdiction restitution sentencing statutory-interpretation Does 18 USC §§3664(o) and USC §§3742 give the district court jurisdiction to review a sentence which the restitution was calculated in violation of th…
18-8880 M. A. Edwards, aka Michael Anthony Edwards v. Scott Semple, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction Second Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fabricated-testimony fraud government-misconduct impeachment standing testimonial-evidence testimonial-statement Can the government tell the triers of fact that defendant confessed to murder
18-8819 Jorge Rogelio Reveles-Santana v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts - including the fact of a prior conviction - that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eit…
18-8833 Shea Pascal Dease v. Virginia Virginia 2019-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process elements felon-in-possession jurisdiction notice second-amendment Can a State maintain a judgment of conviction for a crime that the defendant never served notice of the elements for?
18-8842 Michael Demon Nixon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause criminal-procedure due-process federal-firearms-law-922g firearm-possession interstate-commerce mens-rea plain-error-review plea-agreement statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence sullivan-v-louisiana Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) authorizes conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there is no …
18-8843 John Leroy Milne v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure drug-identity drug-quantity due-process evidence reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the evidence presented was sufficient to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Mr. Milne conspired to possess and knowingly possessed with inte…
18-8846 Silvio Lopez Cuellar v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-appeal sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation waiver-of-rights Does a defendant's plea agreement waiver of the statutory right of a sentencing appeal preclude appellate review of the sentence even where the distri…
18-8855 Eric A. Hicks v. United States District of Columbia 2019-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-error criminal-procedure guidelines molina-martinez molina-martinez-standard molina-martinez-v-united-states prejudice prejudice-standard procedural-default sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the court of appeals' decision conflicts with this Court's decision in Molina-Martinez v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 1338 (2016), in concluding…
18-8857 Jeffrey A. Weisheit v. Indiana Indiana 2019-04-16 Denied IFP aggravating-circumstances constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-circumstances penalty-phase strickland-standard strickland-v-washington williams-v-taylor Whether the Indiana Supreme Court contravened Strickland by acknowledging counsel made mistakes, but not finding them to be deficient performance even…
18-8858 Aspen Warren v. Texas Texas 2019-04-16 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency jury-unanimity manner-and-means murder murder-conviction state-criminal-law state-statutes statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence Whether there must be sufficient evidence to convict under each manner or means alleged in a murder case where under state statutes a jury need not be…
18-8859 LaShunda Borden v. Cheaha Regional Mental Health Center, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-16 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights corporate-perjury criminal-procedure due-process employment-law first-amendment fraud free-speech freedom-of-speech legal-ethics perjury standing Is it legal for a company to commit perjury to win a lawsuit?
18-8861 Allen Louis Dorsey, Sr. v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP charging-documents charging-information confidential-informant confidential-informants controlled-substances criminal-procedure discovery double-jeopardy due-process prosecutorial-discretion substance-sale Can a citizen be convicted of an uncharged crime?
18-8807 Francisco Quintero-Corral v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-v-new-jersey aprendi-rule criminal-procedure due-process illegal-reentry indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum Whether all facts- including the facts of a prior conviction- that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eith…
18-8815 Scott Randall Reich v. Mike Slagle, Correctional Administrator, Mountain View Correctional Institution Fourth Circuit 2019-04-15 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence evidence-suppression prosecutorial-misconduct speedy-trial standing witness-testimony Has rules of evidence precluded by Speedy Trial Act from being used to impeach witness testimony?
18-8824 Darren Gonzales v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process factual-basis money-laundering plea-bargaining plea-colloquy rule-11 sentencing Does a defendant who merely parrots the language of the concealment money laundering statute satisfy a district court's obligation under Rule 11 to es…
18-8825 Timeiki Hedspeth v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-history criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process evidentiary-rulings fair-trial federal-sentencing-guidelines offense-level reasonable-doubt restitution sentencing sentencing-guidelines Did the District Court use an incorrect criminal history category to sentence Ms. Hedspeth?
18-8826 Omar Christopher Miller v. United States Second Circuit 2019-04-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process impartial-jury juror-bias jury-impartiality law-enforcement sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury is violated
18-8827 David McShan v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP berger-standard berger-v-united-states criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-fabrication jury-bias nelson-v-colorado presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing trial-fairness Where the government's case against a defendant is extremely weak, does the prosecutor's persistent misconduct during trial by making improper insinua…
18-8828 Dante Overby v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel overreach plea-bargaining speedy-trial Does the guilty plea induced by an 'illusory promise' violate the 6th Amendment?
18-8831 Javier Contreras Vargas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver booker booker-remedy constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement public-policy sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines Does a sentence-appeal waiver frustrate the remedy fashioned by this Court in U.S. v. Booker, thereby rendering the waiver unconstitutional or void as…
18-8834 José Amaya-Vasquez v. United States Third Circuit 2019-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion prior-bad-acts reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-review Whether the Court erred by considering the prior bad acts in the determination of the appropriate sentence?
18-8810 Pedro Martinez-Negrete v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guideline-range clear-error criminal-defendant criminal-procedure defendant-appellant government-response plain-error-review sentencing-guidelines Where a criminal defendant shows that the district court made a clear legal error when applying the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, but the government res…
18-8811 Antonio Darset King, Sr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel search-and-seizure search-warrant sixth-amendment standing voir-dire Whether the United States Court of Appeals erred in failing to grant petitioner King relief as to the denial of his motion to suppress the search warr…
18-8814 Michael Perales v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-procedure district-court due-process objection preservation-of-error sentencing substantial-arguments Whether parties to a criminal action must lodge a separate objection to the failure of a district court to address substantial arguments for a differe…
18-8785 Temarco Sartorio Pope, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-04-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights concealed-carry criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-powers reasonable-suspicion terry-stop Whether law enforcement can presume any concealed carry of a firearm is unlawful and conduct a Terry stop when the state statute does not criminalize …
18-8792 Mario Devant Cheers v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-robbery career-offender constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-precedent mandatory-guidelines mandatory-minimum residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether the Fifth Circuit misapplied Beckles to Mr. Cheers's pre-Booker sentence in light of Supreme Court precedent
18-8794 Ricky Raymond Ball v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process judicial-explanation manifest-injustice plea-agreement plea-bargaining supervised-release Whether Mr. Ball can be held to his waiver under Fed. R. Crim. P. 11(b)(1)(N)
18-8802 Eli Vernon, III, aka Eli Mims v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-04-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP counsel-objection criminal-procedure due-process duren-analysis duren-v-missouri equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection peremptory-challenge peremptory-challenges strickland-standard strickland-v-washington systematic-exclusion Does the first prong in Duren v Missouri establish a systematic exclusion for counsel to object?
18-8767 Antonio Slaton v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP alford-plea criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence evidence-of-innocence federal-procedure federal-sentencing federal-supervised-release revocation-hearing supervised-release Whether a state conviction entered via an Alford plea creates an irrebuttable presumption such that a defendant in a federal supervised release revoca…
18-8773 Emmanuely Germain v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-10 Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error essential-elements harmless-error jurisdiction jury-instructions statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence uncharged-offense venue venue-error Is the omission of an essential element of an offense from jury instructions harmless if there is sufficient evidence to support a conviction of a rel…
18-8777 Salim Abdu Gould v. North Carolina North Carolina 2019-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP admissibility-of-evidence criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process indictment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel self-representation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the petitioner was denied due process and the right to self-representation before the appointment of counsel and during the motions entertaine…
18-8778 Fred Huffman v. Dana Metzger, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-justice ex-post-facto-law judicial-vindictiveness redress-of-grievance retroactive-sentencing time-bar Retroactive amendment of U.S. Constitution's ex-post facto law
18-8781 Kerri L. Kaley v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-law criminal-fines criminal-procedure criminal-restitution due-process jury-finding jury-findings jury-trial sentencing southern-union-co-v-united-states Should the rule of Apprendi apply to the imposition of criminal restitution?
18-8782 Cesar Lopez-Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
18-8732 Leonoris Miller v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-victim criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus jury jury-deliberations video-evidence video-interview Whether permitting the jury to review child victim's video interview during deliberations denied Petitioner his right to a fair trial and due process
18-8733 Russell T. McElvain v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-04-10 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection federalism self-incrimination statutory-interpretation Can a state enact a statute that combines the use of older, established statutes as the ways and means to commit the new statutes crime, merely erodin…
18-8755 Matthew Ryan Murdoch v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-restrictions due-process first-amendment freedom-of-speech liberty liberty-interest sentencing sex-offender statutory-interpretation Whether a lifetime prohibition on going to 'locations where any form of pornography, sexually stimulating performances, or sexually oriented material,…
18-8738 Noe Machado-Erazo and Jose Martinez-Amaya v. United States District of Columbia 2019-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-law-procedure criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-trial physical-force sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether an act of omission can constitute the 'use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force' under 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(8)(A)
18-8739 Armando Lopez v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2019-04-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ammunition burden-of-proof burden-shifting constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process firearm firearm-possession unauthorized-possession Does the Due Process Clause permit the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to shift the burden to criminal defendants charged with unauthorized possession o…
18-8743 Arturo Torres-Cabrera v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process immigration-offense indictment-requirements prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum Whether all facts - including the fact of a prior conviction ~ that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eit…
18-8747 Valentin Aguilar-Lopez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts - including the fact of a prior conviction - that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eit…
18-8749 Marvin Earl Blanks, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-reasoning sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the district court fulfilled its obligation under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c) to announce the reasons for its sentencing decision
18-8760 James Bernard Jones, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP acca career-offender career-offender-enhancement constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process florida-battery-on-law-enforcement habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states non-violent-felony sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya unconstitutional violent-felony Whether a sentence as a career offender (ACCA) is valid when a prior violent offense conviction (Florida battery on law enforcement), deemed unconstit…
18-1282 David Lee Sanders v. Alabama Alabama 2019-04-09 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process illegal-plea plea-agreement plea-bargaining probation reversal sentencing speedy-trial Whether a criminal defendant who pleads guilty pursuant to an illegal plea agreement is entitled to include the time from his original arrest until re…
18-8761 Arthur Jones v. California California 2019-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial sentencing Whether the California Penal Code §1192.7(c) that removes assessment of fact from the jury used to increase punishment is unconstitutional under the A…
18-8762 Jason Curtis Brown v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment indictment remand standing superceding-indictment superseding-indictment Whether Brown's Fifth Amendment right to double jeopardy, due process and the expressed terms of the 6th Cir. Court of Appeals limited remand order we…
18-8763 Terry Walker v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process judicial-fact-finding jury-finding jury-trial plea-agreement plea-bargaining recharaterization sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Can a sentencing court consistent with the Sixth Amendment recharacterize a defendant's conviction into conduct that was neither found by a jury or ju…
18-8690 Dagoberto Ontiveros v. Michael Pacheco, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP anders-appeal anders-v-california appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights direct-appeal due-process legal-ethics legal-frivolity right-to-counsel Whether a finding of frivolity is required when rejecting a criminal defendant's direct appeal under Anders v. California
18-8719 Ciaran Paul Redmond v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-04-08 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-conflict criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal federal-jurisdiction judicial-notice jurisdictional-element jury-instructions jury-trial sentencing standards-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether, after a jury trial, a federal court of appeals can take judicial notice of evidence submitted by the government for the first time on appeal …
18-8727 Corey Wiggins v. Stanley Payne, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-04-08 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure failure-to-investigate habeas-claim habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel second-degree-murder sixth-amendment voluntary-manslaughter Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in refusing to grant a certificate of appealability
18-8728 Joseph Christen Thoresen v. Minnesota Minnesota 2019-04-08 Denied IFP corroborating-testimony credibility credibility-of-witnesses criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-due-process-jury-instructions-d criminal-procedure-jury-instructions drug-addiction due-process forensic-evidence jury-instruction jury-instructions methamphetamine prejudicial-evidence prejudicial-information witness-credibility Whether the court below erroneously held, in conflict with the decisions of two circuits, that a special jury instruction was not warranted when consi…
18-8729 Alan Kenneth Thompson, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-claims constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction united-states-v-peter Whether the ambiguousness of the term 'material' within Title 18 USC 2252A(a)(2)(B) gives unintended breadth to District Courts to accept pleas of gui…
18-8675 Joshua Sedillo v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-precedent criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process gall-v-united-states judicial-review rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance variance Is the Tenth Circuit precedent allowing a district court to say nothing when a reasonable request for a variance is made at sentencing consistent with…
18-8714 Kenneth Whigham, Jr., aka Kenneth Pringle v. United States First Circuit 2019-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process jury-submission jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement supreme-court-precedent Whether this Court's decision in Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), which held that the allegation of a prior conviction need no…
18-8715 Quillie Merle Spray v. Kelly A. Ryan, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Shirley First Circuit 2019-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure effective-counsel fair-trial insanity-defense mental-evaluation sixth-amendment Whether the Court of Appeals correctly decided an important question of constitutional law: that the Petitioner was denied his right to effective coun…
18-8688 Frederick A. McShan v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-04-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fundamental-rights ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct judicial-review legal-interpretation procedural-rights record statutory-provisions Whether the District Court erred in denying the appellant's due process and fundamental fairness claims
18-8689 Joel Glaston Muir v. Tammy Ferguson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-04 Denied IFP clear-record constitutional-rights criminal-homicide criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel known-eyewitness legal-review lesser-degree-homicide postconviction-review right-to-counsel standard-of-review trial-counsel trial-strategy Whether initial-postconviction review counsel provided ineffective assistance
18-8698 Marcel A. Walton v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-04-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP clear-error clear-error-analysis criminal-procedure due-process false-and-misleading government-assertions material-facts non-record-facts sentencing Can a sentencing court rely upon government assertions concerning material, non-record facts?
18-8700 Dorian Givens v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-04-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing standard-of-review supervised-release What is the proper standard of appellate review for sentences imposed on defendants following revocation of supervised release?
18-8681 Jamal James Carmouche v. Jason Kent, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-04-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency fifth-circuit-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review malicious-prosecution standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence trial-counsel trial-record Whether there was sufficient evidence to convict Mr. Carmouche of a crime?
18-8676 Ronald Smith v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP counsel criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-remedy post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment Whether the district court violated Petitioner's Sixth Amendment rights by failing to return him to his original position absent the ineffective assis…
18-8677 Patrick Lloyd v. United States Second Circuit 2019-04-02 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea harmless-error plea-bargaining rule-11 standing united-states-v-dominguez-benitez Whether Dominguez Benitez's harmless error rule applies to Rule 11(b)(1)(G)'s requirement that before a guilty plea can be accepted the district court…
18-8642 DeJuan Leshae Hill v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-04-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924c 28-usc-2255 2nd-amendment 2nd-amendment-rights certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-offense habeas-corpus hobbs-act post-conviction-relief sentencing tenth-circuit unconstitutionality Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in failing to address the unconstitutionality of use and carry of a firearm under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) offenses, in rela…
18-8643 Joseph Lee Flores v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-04-01 Denied IFP bias criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juror-bias jury-selection sixth-amendment trial-counsel voir-dire WHETHER VENIREMAN WHO STATED DURING VOIR DIRE THAT HIS ABILITY TO BE FAIR WOULD BE AFFECTED BY PRIOR EXPERIENCE WITH CRIME EXPRESS BIAS; RENDERING COU…
18-8644 Emanuel L. Finch, Sr. v. Bradley Graham, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause confrontation-clause,compulsory-process,miranda-ri consent-to-search constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial materiality-of-false-testimony miranda-rights sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence weight-of-evidence Whether the conduct complained of is a question of law
18-8646 Norman Hampton v. Gregory McLaughlin, Warden Georgia 2019-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus sentencing state-courts Was the petitioner's sentence pronounced unlawfully?
18-8649 Bradley Cobbler, aka B-Rad v. United States District of Columbia 2019-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure district-court due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion motion-to-withdraw plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing withdrawal-of-plea Whether the District Court erred by partially denying Mr. Cobbler's Amended Motion to Withdraw Plea of Guilty?
18-8602 Enrico M. Ponzo v. United States First Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process evidence false-affidavit false-statements franks-doctrine franks-v-delaware judicial-review law-enforcement-misconduct probable-cause sanctions standing Whether Franks v. Delaware should be revisited to allow sanctions for false affiant declarations even if there remains probable cause in the absence o…
18-8619 In Re Derrell L. Gilchrist 2019-03-29 Denied IFP 18-usc-924 criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process first-step-act habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice section-2241 section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation Can petitioner seek relief pursuant to 28 U.S.C § 2241 to address clarification of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(C) in the First Step Act of 2018?
18-8621 Roummel Ingram v. John Prelesnik, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel public-trial sixth-amendment sixth-circuit Whether Mr. Ingram is entitled to a new trial due to ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
18-8623 Justin Cole Milam v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing standard-of-review Are appeal waivers in federal criminal plea agreements unconstitutional?
18-8626 Aaron Murray v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP arrest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-counsel due-process federal-criminal-procedure initial-appearance magistrate-judge plea-bargaining plea-hearing right-to-counsel Was Petitioner Aaron Murray Entitled to an initial appearance before a United States Magistrate Judge under Fed. R. Criminal P Rule 5?
18-8629 Rogelio Barajas v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure due-process equal-protection standing appeals civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process search-and-seizure sentencing Whether the district court erred in denying Petitioner's motion to suppress evidence obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment
18-8630 Joseph Christopher Birdtail v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus habeas-proceedings ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal section-2255 Is it error for a district court to deny either discovery proceedings or an evidentiary hearing under the Federal Rules Governing Section 2255 Proceed…
18-8636 Brian Hoskins v. United States Second Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied IFP criminal-procedure custis-v-united-states federal-guidelines federal-sentence federal-sentences federal-sentencing-guidelines habeas-corpus plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-conviction state-convictions Whether a defendant who succeeds in vacating a state conviction that enhanced a federal sentence may apply for resentencing under 28 U.S.C. § 2255
18-8638 Michael Bennefield v. Georgia Georgia 2019-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-safeguards criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial guilt-determination jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect plea-bargaining plea-proceedings procedural-validity standing structural-defects When Structural Jurisdictional defects prevent a fair proceeding, can any reliable determination of guilt or innocence be deemed fair?
18-1259 Brett Jones v. Mississippi Mississippi 2019-03-29 Judgment Issued Amici (14)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole permanent-incorrigibility sentencing-authority Whether the Eighth Amendment requires the sentencing authority to make a finding that a juvenile is permanently incorrigible before imposing a sentenc…
18-1254 Jeremiah L. King v. United States Armed Forces 2019-03-28 Denied Response Waived child-pornography criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-facts fifth-amendment permissive-inference search-terms sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Court of Appeals relied upon permissive inferences that violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment in finding Petitioner's con…
18-8591 Jose J. Salazar-Hernandez v. Texas Texas 2019-03-28 Denied IFP 14th-amendment child-sexual-assault confrontation-clause constitutional-violation criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct statute-of-limitations victim-testimony Whether the 'beyond a reasonable doubt' standard was reasonably and rationally applied when the alleged victim of child sexual assault testified they …
18-8604 Ivan Vazquez-Gonzalez v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-03-28 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 appeals criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel rule-35 sentence-modification sentencing statute-of-limitations Whether a district court's modification of sentence under Rule 35, Fed. R. Crim. P., resets the one-year clock under 28 U.S.C. §2255(f)(1) for a timel…
18-8611 Elicia Bailey v. Jeremy Gasaway Texas 2019-03-28 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-act criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process family-court family-law harsh-penalties subject-matter-jurisdiction Do family courts hold subject-matter jurisdiction to find guilt of a criminal act and subsequently impose harsh penalties without due process in a cri…
18-8616 Parley Drew Hardman v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP conclusion constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection felon-in-possession index second-amendment sentencing statutory-provisions table-of-contents Whether the petitioner's conviction and sentence for possession of a firearm by a felon under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment
18-8617 Kristen Patrick Doyle v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeals circuit-court-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction legal-motion-type mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err in its denial of Defendant - Appellant's Motion to be granted relief under the clari…
18-8584 Antwan Jones v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy constitutional-challenge criminal-conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-statute due-process federal-indictment federal-jurisdiction mens-rea statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness title-21-usc-846 vagueness Is Title 21 U.S.C. §846 ATTEMPT AND CONSPIRACY UNCONSTITUTIONALLY VAGUE BECAUSE IT FAILS TO PROVIDE THE REQUIRED ESSENTIAL ELEMENT THAT THE DEFENDANT …
18-8585 Zhordrack Bloodywone v. Joseph Bellnier, Superintendent, Marcy Correctional Facility, et al. Second Circuit 2019-03-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process privacy right-to-counsel 6th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-appeals judicial-review prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel trial-court Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated by the prosecution's misconduct and the trial court's denial of his request for appointment …
18-8586 Roderick Black v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-licensing constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standing Whether the petitioner's sentence should be vacated in light of his trial attorney not being duly licensed to practice law in violation of his Sixth A…
18-8589 Demetrius S. Rankin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP anders-brief appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-law court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance legal-ethics legal-standards procedural-review right-to-counsel Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals misapplied and ignored the procedural pronouncements made in Anders v. California
18-8590 Harlin Argelio Ramos v. Utah Utah 2019-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions prejudice self-defense Did the Utah appellate court err in holding that the erroneous jury instruction, which impermissibly shifted the burden of proof onto Petitioner/Defen…
18-8593 Dontae Callen v. Alabama Alabama 2019-03-27 Denied IFP affidavit appellate-review criminal-procedure death-penalty fourth-amendment jury-unanimity probable-cause search-warrant separate-affidavit Where an affidavit does not support a finding of probable cause for the issuance of a search warrant, can a reviewing court consider information from …
18-8544 Keith J. Myles v. Florida Florida 2019-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial impartial-jury jury standing Was the petitioner's constitutional rights violated?
18-8549 Keith D. Goodman v. I. D. Hamilton, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process facial-unconstitutionality fourth-circuit habeas habeas-corpus second-or-successive second-successive-petition standing statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-statute Whether a § 2254 (habeas) claim of a conviction under a facially unconstitutional statute is sufficient to overcome a statutory 'second or successive'…
18-8551 Ikemefula Charles Ibeabuchi v. Arizona Arizona 2019-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure-appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-standard motion-for-relief self-representation standing timeliness Whether or not the Court of Appeals, State of Arizona, correctly viewed Appellant's Motion To Dismiss this Appeal, submitted pursuant to Arizona Rules…
18-8557 Ignacio Ruiz v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-03-26 Denied IFP civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing Whether the court of appeals erred in denying petitioner's claim of ineffective assistance of counsel based on counsel's failure to object to the conf…
18-8558 Jorge Edwin Rivera v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guidelines judicial-discretion plain-error plain-error-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights supervised-release Whether a district court's imposition of a term of supervised release double the Guidelines range without first calculating the range or providing an …
18-8562 Joseph Charles Tice v. Rupert Markley Dennis, Jr. Fourth Circuit 2019-03-26 Denied IFP civil-rights conditional-freedom criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus parole standing Did Ruger' Mockdey Dennis Se Aepgerd Leow Woe accepted ana) Usual Course of Pre. \\udicral groceedinags ?
18-8566 John Bartholomew Lowe v. Mississippi Mississippi 2019-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence civil-procedure criminal-procedure direct-evidence evidence jury-instructions standard-of-review Whether multiple instances of circumstantial evidence can accumulate and become direct evidence?
18-8568 David Piper v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion compulsory-process criminal-procedure defense-witnesses due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure habeas-corpus sixth-amendment standard-of-review trial-rights witness-production Whether Petitioner was deprived of compulsory process under the Due Process Clause and Compulsory Process Clause
18-8574 William Burton v. Delaware Delaware 2019-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure evidence fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-of-not-guilty prosecutorial-evidence right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Did petitioner's attorney provide ineffective assistance of counsel?
18-8575 Jose Camargo-Alejo, aka Jessica Camargo-Alejo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process entrapment entrapment-defense jury-instruction jury-instructions law-enforcement-intent ninth-circuit-precedent objective-theory sorrells-v-united-states subjective-theory Whether a court may decline to instruct a jury on an entrapment defense because the government agents did not objectively intend to induce a crime
18-8578 DeMarius L. Williams v. Illinois Illinois 2019-03-26 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure sufficiency-of-evidence Whether petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights were violated when he was convicted of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance beyond a …
18-1247 Robert Alan Ries v. Oregon Oregon 2019-03-26 Denied Response Waived affidavit blood-sample constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment particularity-requirement probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-particularity Does a warrant commanding the police to seize a blood sample from a person with an entirely different name than the defendant violate the Fourth Amend…
18-1241 Demetrius Jackson v. Ohio Ohio 2019-03-25 Denied child-protective-services criminal-procedure fifth-amendment police-interrogation right-to-counsel self-incrimination sixth-amendment Whether interrogations by state-employed child protective services caseworkers violate the Fifth and Sixth Amendments, where the caseworkers are requi…
18-8540 Eric David Bennett v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3742 appellate-review booker booker-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review supervised-release united-states-v-booker Whether the appropriate standard of review for a sentence following the revocation of supervised release is the 'plainly unreasonable' standard or the…
18-8541 In Re Randy A. Jones 2019-03-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP cell-site-simulator civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment honeycutt-v-united-states legal-representation lis-pendens luis-v-united-states right-to-counsel takings warrantless-search Did the government violate this petitioner's rights, creating a flaw so grave that it rendered the proceedings unreliable?
18-8547 Zachary Joseph Biggs v. Washington Washington 2019-03-25 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-intent criminal-procedure diminished-capacity first-degree-rape ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mens-rea ninth-circuit prejudice Did the Washington State Appellate Court err in finding that Mr. Biggs was not prejudiced by his trial counsel's failure to raise the defense of dimin…
18-8487 Kevin Neysmith v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-03-22 Denied IFP 4th-amendment birchfield-precedent birchfield-v-north-dakota blood-alcohol blood-alcohol-content criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility fourth-amendment fruits-of-the-poisonous-tree o-connell-warnings o'connell-warnings search-warrant warrantless-search Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits State judicial systems from admitting evidence of blood alcohol content obtained without a search warrant
18-8489 Danny R. Moore v. Gene Beasley, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-precedent mathis-decision retroactivity saving-clause section-2255 sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether this Court's decision in Mathis v. United States,136 S. Ct. 2243 (2016) should apply
18-8496 Anthony Swatzie v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 constitutional-decision criminal-defendant criminal-procedure district-court-judgment due-process federal-statute federal-statutory-provision habeas-corpus retroactive-constitutional-decision retroactive-relief retroactivity section-2255 sentencing silent-record statutory-interpretation successive-motion Whether a criminal defendant is entitled to relief under a retroactive constitutional decision invalidating a federal statutory provision
18-8512 DaRen Kareem Gadsden v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-integrity judicial-proceedings multiplicitous-sentence plain-error remand rosales-mireles-standard sentencing sentencing-review substantial-rights Whether a multiplicitous sentence issue can be raised at any time
18-8514 Jonathan Leroy Homedew v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion co-defendant co-defendants criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion plea-arrangement plea-bargaining procedural-rights right-to-be-present speedy-trial waiver Whether Petitioner waived Speedy-Trial-Rights based on Co-defendants-Plea-arrangements
18-8519 Frederick H. Banks v. United States Third Circuit 2019-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process error-coram-nobis foreign-intelligence-surveillance-act jurisdiction revocation-proceeding standing Did the appeals court and/or district court err in denying the petition for a writ of error coram nobis to vacate the criminal conviction and affirmin…
18-8521 Angel Galan v. United States Second Circuit 2019-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearm-offense ineffective-assistance obstruction-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance substantive-reasonableness upward-variance Whether the sentencing court's upward variance from 71 months to 84 months for felon in possession of a firearm was substantively unreasonable
18-8522 Edwin Fernandez v. United States Third Circuit 2019-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP Arizona-v-Gant criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings critical-stages ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Montejo-v-Louisiana presentence-investigation presentence-investigation-report right-to-counsel search-and-seizure search-doctrine Strickland-v-Washington Should a writ of certiorari be granted to address the shortcomings of counsel in light of Strickland-and-Montejo?
18-8524 Tony Kalumba Tshiansi v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-03-22 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process factual-claims judicial-discretion objection presentence-report presumption-of-reliability reliability sentencing unjust-incarceration Whether the factual claims of a Presentence Report are presumed reliable in the face of objection?
18-8526 Marcel Henderson v. United States First Circuit 2019-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment circuit-court-split criminal-procedure dixon-standard due-process fifth-amendment imminent-threat justification-defense sixth-amendment Were the petitioner's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights violated by the ambiguity of the Dixon standard as applied regarding what constitutes a 'well-f…
18-8533 Lance Williams v. California California 2019-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility habeas-corpus ineffective-appellate-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficiency-of-evidence intent invalid-illegal-strike perjury police-report prejudicial-1101(b)-evidence pro-se prosecutor-coercion prosecutorial-misconduct uncharged-act witness-credibility witness-description Whether the state courts erred in denying appeal on prejudicial 1101(B) evidence on uncharged act used to prove intent where the police report differs…
18-8535 Daniel Arthur Heleva v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2019-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-representation due-process-violation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interlocutory-appeal judicial-waiver jurisdiction prosecutorial-effectiveness prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-overreach right-to-counsel trial-court-discretion waiver-of-constitutional-rights waiver-of-rights Whether state statutes provide pre-trial remedies for prosecutorial overreaching by interlocutory appeal, and whether defense counsel's failure to per…
18-8503 In Re Leroy Lamont Wells 2019-03-21 Denied IFP case-documentation circuit-court conviction correctional-institution criminal-conviction criminal-convictions criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus lane-county-circuit-court legal-status leroy-lamont-wells oregon-correctional-institution prison-records procedural-inquiry standing state-court Does Petitioner have three convictions in Lane County Circuit Court Case No.201404943, State of Oregon v. Leroy Lamont Wells, as of 12/12/2018, as pur…
18-8504 John Whaley v. United States Second Circuit 2019-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process imprisonment procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines supervised-release Whether the imposition of the same twenty-five year term of imprisonment and maximum term of supervised release was both procedurally and substantivel…
18-8506 Jose Jaime Lopez v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-846 7th-circuit 7th-circuit-precedent 851-colloquy abuse-of-statute appellate-review attempt-charge attempt-conviction civil-rights criminal-procedure drug-deal due-process indigent indigent-defendant indigent-status prior-conviction reasonable-doubt right-to-counsel seventh-circuit speculation standing substantial-step Whether petitioner was deprived of the right to counsel
18-8510 Travis Thaniel v. Maryland Maryland 2019-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process federal-law ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactivity right-to-be-present right-to-presence state-law trial-counsel weaver-retroactivity weaver-v-massachusetts Does the federal law of Weaver v. Massachusetts, 137 S.Ct. 1899 (2017) have retroactive application in the state of Maryland?
18-1230 Juan Zamudio v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-03-21 Denied 4th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process fourth-amendment nexus-requirement particularized-nexus probable-cause residence search-and-seizure search-warrant standing Whether a search warrant application that fails to provide any particularized nexus between an individual's alleged drug trafficking activity and the …
18-8474 John Henneberry v. County of Alameda, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment bench-warrant civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment mail-fraud qualified-immunity rico-statute service-of-process When can a court allow faulty and fabricated service-by-mail of a criminal summons instead of personal service-by-sworn-officer?
18-8476 Anthony Grandison v. Maryland Maryland 2019-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-sentencing collateral-consequences constitutional-due-process criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process harmless-error jury-instructions mitigating-factors sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-proof Whether the Maryland Court of Appeals erred in finding that Grandison failed to prove he suffered significant collateral consequences from his unconst…
18-8481 Ricky Thompson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy-evidence criminal-procedure discovery discovery-rules due-process government-disclosure government-investigation materiality sealed-affidavit sealed-records Did requiring the assertion of detail known only to the government to show 'materiality' impermissibly raise the threshold?
18-8482 Lourdes Margarita Garcia v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP brecht-standard constitutional-rights criminal-procedure critical-stage Cronic cronic-rule cronic-standard defense-counsel direct-appeal due-process eleventh-circuit hybrid-error prejudice structural-error trial-procedure Did the Eleventh Circuit err by holding this 'startling, intentional' violation of the defendant's constitutional and statutory rights did not constit…
18-8483 Rafael Agosto v. Christopher Miller, Superintendent, Great Meadow Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2019-03-20 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals had subject matter jurisdiction pursuant to the U.S. Const. Art. III, Sec. 2(a), to issue an order on December 19th …
18-8484 Gregory Donzell Bailey v. Ricky Foxwell, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-03-20 Denied IFP 6th-amendment caseload caseload-management civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance public-defender public-defenders right-to-counsel Whether the defendants' representation and resources should be limited due to public defenders in trial courts being overwhelmed with caseloads
18-8491 Ernest Marquis Flowers v. Laura Uriarte, et al. Florida 2019-03-20 Denied IFP appeal civil-rights civil-rights-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review malicious-prosecution prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sixth-amendment unlawful-detention Whether petitioner was unlawfully detained in the Florida Department of Corrections under 'fully completed' to verdicts contrary to Florida Supreme Co…
18-8492 Reginald Gibson v. James Haviland, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claims constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ohio-constitution post-conviction-relief procedural-default res-judicata state-law Whether a criminal defendant is denied due process of law if the state improperly invokes its res judicata rule
18-8498 Oryan Yazzie v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process guideline-range mental-health sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness supervised-release Is a supervised release revocation sentence of a length more than double the top of the advisory Guideline range substantively unreasonable if the dis…
18-8443 James F. Oliveira v. Patricia A. Coyne-Fague, et al. First Circuit 2019-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights criminal-justice criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process judicial-review jurisdiction speedy-trial statutory-interpretation trial-procedure Whether the defendant James F. Oliveira was denied his constitutional right to a speedy trial
18-8456 Roberto Miramontes Roman v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-03-19 Denied IFP 18-USC-924(c)(1)(A) acquittal conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy Double-Jeopardy-Clause drug-trafficking due-process federal-prosecution Firearm-Possession firearm-statute Prosecution state-court-acquittal state-federal-prosecution statutory-interpretation Did it violate the Double Jeopardy Clause for the United States to prosecute Mr. Roman for the same offense and conduct for which he was acquitted in …
18-8460 Antonio Avilez v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2019-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment kidnapping petitioner-rights Whether the Petitioner's conviction for kidnapping violated the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution?
18-8463 Douglas A. Dyer v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure civil-remedy criminal-procedure double-jeopardy kokesh-v-sec sec sec-disgorgement sixth-circuit supreme-court-interpretation Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in determining that the United States Supreme Court case of Kokesh v. SEC was n…
18-8468 Alfredo Mendez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure discretion district-court-authority due-process federal-courts judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors Whether a federal district court is permitted boundless discretion at sentencing to weigh established factors at sentencing
18-8470 Tommy Lee Jones v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission fair-trial judicial-conduct sentencing Has the District Court denied Mr. Jones a fair trial by allowing unsustained and unproven testimony into evidence
18-8472 James Allen Eapmon v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-03-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act life-imprisonment mandatory-minimum sentencing statutory-interpretation whether-the-petitioner-was-denied-due-process
18-8473 Eric Laquinne Brown, aka Eric L. Brown, aka Eric Brown v. Mississippi Mississippi 2019-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights competency competency-hearing constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea mental-competency mental-evaluation mental-health mississippi-uniform-rule-9.06 plea-bargaining procedural-bars procedural-due-process standing Did Brown have a Constitutional right to have a competency hearing before he plead guilty?
18-8442 Marc Dutch v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment apprendi criminal-procedure indictment jury prior-convictions sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Does 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(1)'s requirement that prior convictions be 'committed on occasions different from one another' require such facts to be allege…
18-8448 Edward Bishop v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure digital-evidence digital-files dna-evidence evidence fourth-amendment particularity-requirement probable-cause search-warrant Does a search warrant which described the place to be searched and the things to be seized fail the particularity requirement of the Fourth Amendment?
18-8450 Randall Alan Carder v. California California 2019-03-18 Denied IFP assault assault-with-deadly-weapon constitutional-rights counter-attack criminal-procedure deadly-weapon due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions self-defense Did the trial court violate petitioner's due process rights by failing to sua sponte instruct the jury on self-defense to a charge of assault with a d…
18-8451 Luciano Garcia v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process gall-v-united-states judicial-review rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance tenth-circuit variance Is the Tenth Circuit precedent allowing a district court to say nothing when a reasonable request for a variance is made at sentencing consistent with…
18-8404 Adrian Laroy Seymore v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process evidence evidentiary-standard government-evidence presentence-investigation-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether a District Court erred in applying a guideline enhancement based solely on allegations contained in the Presentence Investigation Report after…
18-8432 Kelly Foust v. Ohio Ohio 2019-03-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP capital-defendant capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure death-penalty hurst-precedent hurst-v-florida jury jury-waiver sixth-amendment Does Ohio's death penalty scheme violate the Sixth Amendment right to a jury as explained in Hurst v. Florida?
18-1202 Pedro Montalvo, Jr. v. Ohio Ohio 2019-03-15 Denied 6th-amendment child-pornography computer-age constitutional-rights criminal-procedure doyle-violation due-process massiah-doctrine obscenity right-to-defense scienter sixth-amendment strict-liability Whether Ohio's strict liability for inadvertent child pornography dissemination violates due process, whether defendant's right to mount a defense was…
18-1198 Westley A. Albright v. Tennessee Tennessee 2019-03-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) criminal-defendant criminal-procedure diversion due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment nolo-contendere plea-bargaining sentencing Whether the Supreme Court of Tennessee erred when it held, as a matter of first impression, that due process rights under the Fourth and Fourteenth Am…
18-1201 Keith Preston Gartenlaub v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied Response Waived computer-search criminal-procedure due-process evidence-use-restrictions fisa fisa-warrant fourth-amendment franks-hearing general-warrant general-warrants legal-traditions national-security use-restrictions Whether a secret FISA-authorized computer search violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on general warrants, whether the Fourth Amendment imposes…
18-8410 Marshall Ray Miller v. Joseph L. McFadden, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-enforcement-statements personal-jurisdiction plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals err in not issuing a Certificate of Appealability where Petitioner demonstrated a substantial showing of a con…
18-8411 Lecephrus Pierce v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP conviction criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent traffic-stop vehicle-search warrantless-search Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals abandoned established Supreme Court precedent in affirming the petitioner's conviction despite finding no …
18-8427 Malcolm Roy Evans v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rights criminal-trial due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion judicial-inquiry right-to-counsel right-to-testify self-representation Whether a trial court may summarily prohibit an accused from testifying in his own defense
18-8436 David Fehr Harder v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts - including the fact of a prior conviction - that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eit…
18-8437 Garceia Coleman v. Court of Appeals of Wisconsin, District I Wisconsin 2019-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights conviction-standards criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-review jurisdiction jury-verdict standing statutory-interpretation supervisory-writ Whether the Wisconsin Supreme Court's failure to grant a Wis. Stat. § 809.71 supervisory writ has jurisdiction to change the jurisdiction of cases
18-8392 Obinna Obiora v. United States First Circuit 2019-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law controlled-substance criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy due-process jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence When the evidence that links a defendant to a charged drug conspiracy is based on his participation in an isolated series of alleged transactions with…
18-8414 Dennis E. v. Matthew J. D'Emic, Administrative Judge, Supreme Court of New York, 2nd Judicial District, et al. New York 2019-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process equal-protection jackson-v-indiana standing state-law Whether the State may compel relief under Jackson v. Indiana over a defendant's objection
18-8419 Fabian Hernandez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-03-13 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-review reasoned-decision standard-of-review state-court-decision state-courts statutory-interpretation unreasonableness-test Whether, in the face of a reasoned state court decision, a federal habeas court applies the unreasonableness test of 28 USC §2254(d)(1) to the specifi…
18-1186 Anthony Johnson v. Edward Winstead, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-03-13 Denied Relisted (2) 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings due-process fifth-amendment heck-v-humphrey inculpatory-statement section-1983 statute-of-limitations unconstitutional-evidence unconstitutional-statement Whether the statute of limitations for a Section 1983 claim based on the use of an unconstitutional inculpatory statement begins to run when criminal …
18-1188 Jeffrey A. Jacobi v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2019-03-13 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-amendment intoxication intoxication-determination intoxication-inference law-enforcement law-enforcement-inference police-inference probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-accident traffic-stop vehicle-collision Whether it is reasonable for police to infer that a driver was intoxicated at the time of a collision based solely on the fact that the driver was fou…
18-8382 Guy Ennis Smith v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law coram-nobis criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment fourth-circuit free-speech military military-medals ninth-circuit speech-restrictions standing stolen-valor-act supreme-court-precedent Whether this Court's decision in United States v. Alvarez has any effect on the subsection that criminalized the unauthorized wearing of military meda…
18-8390 Jose Salvador Lantigua v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-U.S.C.-455(a) 28-usc-455 court-victim criminal-procedure due-process judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal sentencing sentencing-guidelines victim-of-crime Whether a sentencing judge should recuse himself when he expressly views his own court as a 'victim' of the offense in deciding to sentence a defendan…
18-8396 Mary Jo Weidrick v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States District of Columbia 2019-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 5th-amendment-right-to-counsel 6th-amendment 6th-amendment-right-to-counsel adversarial-process civil-rights constitutional-violation counsel criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment investigation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standing terrorism terrorism-investigation Whether Petitioner's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights to counsel are violated
18-8400 Travis Demond Johnson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure sentencing-reasonableness statutory-purposes-of-sentencing upward-departure Whether the district court erred in departing upward under the United States Sentencing Guidelines §4A1.3
18-8402 Jesse Allen Dauenhauer, aka Jesse A. Dauenhauer v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 4th-amendment,search-and-seizure,exclusionary-rule constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence washington-state-law Should the District Court have suppressed the evidence of firearms in the Defendant's car because the search and seizure was inadmissible under Washin…
18-8403 Sergio Caballero v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-exclusion fifth-amendment habeas-corpus third-party-culpability Whether the district court violated Petitioner's Fifth Amendment rights by failing to allow evidence of third-party culpability
18-8359 Jarrett Terrell Edwards v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review career-offender criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fourth-circuit guideline-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g-4b1.1 u.s.s.g.-4b1.1(a) Whether the United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals committed error by sentencing the Petitioner as a career offender pursuant to U.S.S.G. § 4B1…
18-8364 James D. Sullivan v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography criminal-procedure evidence-rule-414 evidentiary-hearing federal-rules-of-evidence grand-jury plea-agreement plea-withdrawal prosecutorial-discretion rule-104 rule-414 Whether the trial court must determine by a preponderance of evidence that the defendant engaged in child molestation conduct
18-8370 Lonnie Eugene Lillard v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-appeal criminal-procedure discretion due-process federal-procedure ninth-circuit self-representation What procedural safeguards are afforded to federal criminal defendants when an Appellate Court panel exercises its discretion in deciding whether or n…
18-8377 Walter D. Booker v. T. Johnson, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-03-11 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment investigative-detention probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion section-1983 seizure Whether the officers had reasonable suspicion to seize Mr. Booker Shabazzallah?
18-8378 Garron T. Briggs v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquittal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-proceeding plea-bargaining prejudice prejudice-prong reasonable-probability right-to-trial strickland-v-washington Whether the district court's ruling, which implies that when a petitioner successfully proves that his counsel was ineffective, that petitioner must t…
18-8338 Anthony T. Jackson v. Illinois Illinois 2019-03-08 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process due-process,standing,criminal-procedure,evidence,p evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction wrongful-conviction Whether the Illinois state courts' refusal to allow a petitioner an evidentiary hearing on post-conviction claims despite the record containing facts …
18-8340 Victor Roblero v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied IFP constitutes a violation of the Sixth Amendment ri specifically the failure to investigate and prese appeal capital-punishment criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability mental-health sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated when trial counsel failed to investigate and present evidence of the…
18-8346 Danilo Velasquez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure diminished-capacity due-process evidence expert-testimony fundamental-rights life-sentence ninth-circuit sentencing Did the Ninth Circuit fail to protect petitioner's fundamental due process right to present his complete defense?
18-8349 Daverne Michael Foy v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-proceedings plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights waiver Whether the trial court's consideration of non-charged offenses with significantly higher sentencing guidelines constitutes plain error affecting the …
18-8353 David A. Hicks v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-rule criminal-procedure due-process evidence-destruction exculpatory-evidence government-misconduct habeas-corpus spoliation-of-evidence witness-credibility Whether the Government can destroy evidence a defendant has sufficient reason to believe is necessary to prove innocence in an anticipated § 2241 Moti…
18-8355 Mario Chester Tabron v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP burglary burglary-element criminal-enhancement criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction fourth-amendment fourth-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Did the Fourth Circuit and the Middle district Of North Carolina (Greensboro) err in affirming the USSG 2K2.1(b)(6)(B) | 4-Level enhancement without p…
18-8356 In Re Steven Eason 2019-03-08 Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-limitations procedural-bars prosecutorial-misconduct state-law successive-habeas successive-petitions Whether the petitioner's fundamental constitutional right to due process was violated when the state prosecuted him on counts of his indictment becaus…
18-8357 Richard A. Wilford v. Bradley M. Trate, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-privilege criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-prisoner governmental-custodian habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge pro-se pro-se-petition standing unlawful-detention Whether the dismissal for lack of jurisdiction of a federal prisoner's pro se petition for the writ of habeas corpus against the governmental custodia…
18-1166 Colton W. Sievers v. Nebraska Nebraska 2019-03-08 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment-search-and-seizure constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-suspect fourth-amendment information-gathering police-investigative-stop police-powers police-stop reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop Whether Illinois v. Lidster allows the police to stop a criminal suspect without reasonable suspicion on the ground that the stop is merely 'informati…
18-8325 Amaury Villa v. United States Second Circuit 2019-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance sentencing sentencing-calculation sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment standard-of-review trial-procedure u-s-sentencing-guidelines Whether appellant received the effective assistance of counsel?
18-8328 Maritza Burgueno-Gonzalez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553(a) 18-USC-3553a criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion federal-sentencing sentencing-considerations sentencing-disparities smuggling smuggling-scheme unwarranted-sentences Whether the district court violated 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)'s rule that a district court must consider unwarranted sentencing disparities
18-8241 Andrew Guy Moret v. Pat Garrett Ninth Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-review lower-court-decision standing supreme-court-petition Does the seriousness of criminal charges obviate the states' governments' obligation to uphold the constitutional rights of the accused?
18-8268 Alandis D. Patterson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-history criminal-procedure drug-possession due-process presentence-investigation sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance sexual-abuse Did the trial court err in overruling the Petitioner's objection to the Application of a two-level increase pursuant to U.S.S.G. Section 2G1.1(c)(1), …
18-8269 Alejandro Casillas Prieto v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment-782 chapter-5-part-a criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process guideline-range guidelines life-imprisonment notice offense-level sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Does the sentencing judge's oral pronouncement of the offense level 43 control?
18-8273 Cecilio Cuero Payan v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied IFP conflict-free-attorney conflict-of-interest criminal-defendant criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver Whether, under the sixth amendment, a criminal defendant may waive his right to raise a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel as part of a plea-a…
18-8276 Derek Sample v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison Third Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process due-process,fair-trial,impartial-jury,lesser-inclu fair-trial impartial-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions lesser-included-offense right-to-be-present trial-rights Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals Erred in Denying Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability
18-8297 John Baccus v. Edgar L. Clements, III, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-03-06 Dismissed IFP 4th-amendment brady-v-maryland civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-power prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the Fourth Circuit Court's proceedings that led to petitioner's sentence violated his constitutional and statutory due process rights
18-8299 Walter Raynard Lingard v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP allocution-rights appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing downward-departure due-process judicial-discretion probation-revocation right-to-allocution sentencing-review Did the court of appeals err in its determination that the district court did not err in declining to vary downward based upon Lingard's state probati…
18-8306 Billy Gene Howard v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP acca acca-clause armed-career-criminal-act concurrent-sentencing criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus johnson-relief johnson-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines violent-felony Whether a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petitioner must affirmatively prove the sentencing court relied on the residual clause
18-8312 Dayomashell David Aguilar v. William Gittere, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting conspiracy criminal-procedure first-degree-murder jury-instructions mens-rea miscarriage-of-justice Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in denying a certificate of appealability on Aguilar's claim that the jury instructions relieved the State of the burd…
18-8314 Jose Nino-Carreon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion guidelines plain-error sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights Whether a court of appeals that finds a plain Guideline error should ordinarily find an effect on the defendant's substantial rights if the district c…
18-1158 Jarrod Taylor v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied Amici (1) appeals brady-violation certificate-of-appealability constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review jury-bias prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure Jarrod Taylor's habeas corpus claims challenging the State's concealment of evidence during his trial
18-8233 Calvin J. Reid v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP §2255-motion 18-usc-4241 certificate-of-appealability circuit-split competency-hearing criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal due-process ineffective-assistance mental-competency mental-illness right-to-counsel standards-of-review Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has misapplied the standards set forth in Miller-El v. Cockrell and Buck v. Davis
18-8267 Vincent Green v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP ACCA acca-offender armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-procedure enumerated-offense o.c.g.a.-16-7-1 sentencing sentencing-enhancement stare-decisis statutory-interpretation Whether the petitioner's sentence as an ACCA offender must be set aside, whereas O.C.G.A. § 16-7-1 is not a viable enumerated offense predicate, based…
18-8274 Avniel Awan Anthony v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue obstruction-of-justice probation-department reckless-endangerment sentencing sentencing-enhancement Sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines unproven-conduct Upward-variance Does the U.S. Probation Department have authority to apply enhancements for conduct alleged to have happened outside the jurisdiction of the United St…
18-8275 Brian Sawyers v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection implicit-bias jury-instruction jury-instructions jury-selection racial-bias racial-discrimination racial-prejudice sixth-amendment voir-dire Whether the federal district court should give an implicit-bias jury-instruction upon-request
18-8279 George Wayne Brooks v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-03-05 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP brady-law constitutional-standards criminal-procedure due-process evidence-determination federal-law fraud-on-the-court judicial-process newly-presented-evidence Whether the United States has a substantial interest in preventing the risk of injustice to defendant and an interest in the public's confidence in th…
18-8285 Miguel Martinez v. Texas Texas 2019-03-05 Denied IFP mistrial objective-facts oregon-v-kennedy prosecutorial-intent subjective-beliefs wheeler-factors criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process mistrial oregon-v-kennedy prosecutorial-intent wheeler-factors Whether Texas courts have replaced the manageable and effective 'objective facts and circumstances' test recognized in Oregon v. Kennedy with the so-c…
18-8291 Juanita Garcia v. Deborah Johnson, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure evidence habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-prong sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether a habeas petitioner must show that absent the attorney's deficient performance, no other evidence supported the verdict
18-8292 Julius Greer v. United States Third Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied IFP circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-procedure forfeiture judicial-review motion-to-dismiss plain-error-review speedy-trial-act standard-of-review waiver Speedy-Trial-Act-violation
18-8232 Jesus Rosales v. Texas Texas 2019-03-04 Denied IFP 6th-amendment allen-charge coercion criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jury-deliberation jury-instruction jury-instructions trial-procedure At what point should a court grant defense's request for an Allen charge, so that the lack of one, in itself, does not become coercive?
18-8235 Arthur Lopez v. California California 2019-03-04 Denied IFP 1st-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-bias racial-discrimination Whether the deprivation of Alo's civil rights under the United States Constitution Amendments 1 and 6 violates his constitutional rights to free speec…
18-8239 Negus Thomas v. United States Second Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure crosby-remand district-court intervening-change-in-law jacobson-remand law-of-the-case law-of-the-case-doctrine manifest-injustice new-evidence reasonableness reasonableness-review resentencing sentencing Whether the district court erred in declining to resentence the defendant-Petitioner on remand
18-8251 Zachariah Joel Peterson v. Jay Cassady, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit felony-murder habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence jury-instruction jury-instructions standard-of-review Whether the Eighth Circuit court of Appeals abused its discretion in denying petitioner a COA on his claim on insufficient evidence
18-8253 Jamie Kenmont Kerien Brown v. Georgia Georgia 2019-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection habeas-corpus intellectual-disability mental-health post-conviction-relief Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of a prisoner who was intellectually disabled at th…
18-8254 Eddie Earl Phillips v. Mississippi Mississippi 2019-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process habitual-offender indictment jury-instructions sentencing statement-of-the-case statutory-provisions Whether Phillips' Conviction and Sentence stems from a defective indictment, in violation of his due process rights?
18-8260 Kenton Deon Harrell v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidentiary-hearing free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant legal principles
18-8264 Guadalupe Avendano-Vasquez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure deportation due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release Whether an appeal waiver precludes review of the sentence of supervised release when the defendant has been deported
18-8184 Daryl Sharp v. Timothy Dolan District of Columbia 2019-03-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence free-speech jurisdiction jury-instructions standard-of-review standing Whether the evidence presented at trial was sufficient to support the conviction
18-8207 Wayland Lynn Dilts v. Michigan Michigan 2019-03-01 Denied IFP constitutional-rights courtroom-closure criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fundamental-fairness new-trial public-trial secret-trial sixth-amendment trial-fairness Whether Petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to a public trial was violated
18-8210 Mahogany Taquilla Alexander v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment amendment-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-discretion Did trial court abuse discretion by considering nolle prossed charge in sentencing, violating 5th and 14th Amendment rights
18-8218 Nathaniel Hoskins v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation confidential-informant criminal-justice-system criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression materiality prosecutorial-misconduct rico-conspiracy suppression Whether the prosecution's pretrial evidentiary suppression of various law enforcement reports, interviews and statements favorable to the Petitioner v…
18-8219 Jose J. Hernandez v. M. Eliot Spearman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied IFP appeal civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence felony-murder ineffective-assistance newly-presented standing Did appellate counsel render ineffective assistance
18-8222 Desi A. Lewis v. Virginia Virginia 2019-03-01 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction sentencing statutory-interpretation trial-court virginia-code Was the trial court in error in finding it lacked jurisdiction to resentence or modify the defendant's sentence based on due process rights?
18-8225 Barry Druilhet, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion obstruction-of-justice sentencing sentencing-enhancement witness-testimony Can a federal court consider enhance a defendant's sentence for obstruction of justice where the defendant was seeking out witnesses to testify on his…
18-8226 James Craig Bird v. Colorado Colorado 2019-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel parole plea-bargaining prejudice-prong strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the State improperly determined the prejudice prong underlying the test set-forth in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1964) as to erron…
18-8227 Bodey Cook v. Illinois Illinois 2019-03-01 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief Whether the Supreme Court erred in denying the petitioner's request for discretionary review under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (…
18-8231 Alvin Stanley Briggs, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-review counsel-claim court-of-appeals criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the court of appeals erred in affirming the district court's denial of petitioner's ineffective assistance of counsel claim
18-8171 Omar Alarcon Fuentes, aka Omar Fuentes Alarcon, aka Omar Ramales Quintero v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel false-testimony grand-jury grand-jury-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mistrial right-to-counsel uncorroborated-admission uncorroborated-extrajudicial-admission Whether petitioner's constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel was violated
18-8176 Anthony James Brightwell, Jr. v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-error sixth-amendment Was the petitioner's guilty plea knowingly and intelligently made?
18-8177 Julia Augusta Constan Macri v. Illinois Illinois 2019-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure deviation fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure illinois-v-caballes law-enforcement original-purpose reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop Whether under the Fourth Amendment the reasonable articulable suspicion necessary to extend a traffic stop must be formed before the officer's deviati…
18-8181 Feliciano Soto-Lugo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure defendant-leniency district-court-discretion due-process judicial-response preservation-of-error reasonableness reasonableness-objection sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review Must challenges to the district court's failure to respond to a defendant's non-frivolous grounds for leniency be preserved by a separate 'reasonablen…
18-8186 Kirby Gant v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment automobile-exception civil-rights criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit inevitable-discovery inventory-search plain-view-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred by finding that the automobile exception applied when the district court made no findings that the vehicle was read…
18-8188 Jermaine C. Williams v. Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law contract contract-clause criminal-procedure due-process judgment judicial-review lower-tribunal plea-agreement sentencing united-states-constitution Whether the plea agreement affirmed by the lower tribunal judgment violated the contract and due process clauses of the United States Constitution
18-8190 Edgar Alonso Pineda-Pineda v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8-usc-1326 almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process indictment prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether a prior conviction must be alleged in the indictment before a defendant is subjected to enhanced punishment under 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b)
18-8197 Tommy Earl Boone, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2019-02-28 Dismissed IFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-code criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ex-parte-review habeas-corpus incarceration incarceration-period parole sentencing sentencing-statute texas-criminal-procedure texas-law Whether Texas Penal Code, Art. 42.082 is unconstitutional as interpreted by the Texas Court in Ex Parte Kuester, 24 SW3d 247 (2000)?
18-8198 Brandon Lisi v. United States Second Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review appellate-waiver conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure curcio-hearing guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing sentencing-challenge whether-petitioner's-guilty-plea-was-involuntary
18-8199 Michael DeVaughn Johnson v. Arizona Arizona 2019-02-28 Denied IFP automatic-reversal constitutional-law constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure critical-stage critical-stages due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel Was the Arizona state courts' decision that the absence of the petitioner's trial counsel during two 'critical stages' of the trial did not require au…
18-8205 Elamin Bashir v. United States Third Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process individualized-jury-finding jury-finding jury-instructions mandatory-minimum sentencing Whether the mandatory minimum sentence was improperly imposed for drug-trafficking conspiracy, because individualized jury finding as to quantity of d…
18-8138 Joseph Hughes v. Dan Schnurr, Warden Kansas 2019-02-27 Denied IFP acquittal acquittal-implications civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process second-prosecution sex-offender-management sexual-offender sexual-offender-registration state-authority How can the State of Kansas manage me as a sexual offender when I was found acquitted of rape by a jury?
18-8155 Benjamin E. Smith v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-right constitutional-rights courts-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-habeas federal-habeas-corpus federal-prisoner habeas-corpus legal-scholars standing state-prisoner Does a state and/or federal prisoner have a constitutional right to raise a freestanding claim of actual innocence, in a federal habeas corpus proceed…
18-8160 Paul Wagner v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-conflict circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-procedure cuyler-v-sullivan ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-precedent mickens-v-taylor ninth-circuit sixth-amendment supreme-court-interpretation united-states-v-hanoum Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision conflicts with other circuit courts and Supreme Court precedent on the issue of actual conflict between a defenda…
18-8161 Kali Lord v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP above-guidelines-sentence appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion plain-error preservation-of-error procedural-error procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-arguments sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness Is a district court's gross failure to explain an above-range sentence or to respond to arguments for a lesser sentence reversible on plain error?
18-8165 Michael J. Galvan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure deference federal-courts judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors?
18-8118 Alvin Davis, Jr. v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-02-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct second-amendment witness-tampering Was the Petitioner, Alvin Davis, Jr. denied a fair trial
18-8119 Walter Douglas Jenkins v. Israel Hamilton, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel standing waiver Was the petitioner denied by the United States Court of Appeals a prima facie of Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment due process
18-8133 Daryl Mingo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-plea-bargaining drug-trafficking due-process firearm-offense firearms plea-bargaining plea-colloquy sentencing statutory-construction When Congress enacted and amended 18 U.S.C. Section 924(G)(1)
18-8134 Ramon Vasquez v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights collateral-consequences constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process false-conviction fundamental-rights liberty-interest substantive-rights Whether 42 Pa.C.S.A. § 9543 (a)(1)(i), as applied by the court violated Vasquez's Substantive Rights of Due Process by impinging collateral civil and …
18-8141 Brian Taylor v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-02-26 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion alibi-witness civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct trial trial-counsel Was trial counsel ineffective for not calling an alibi witness?
18-8143 Stephen Talbert v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process fraud fraudulent-misrepresentation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-trial voluntariness Can a defendant voluntarily and intelligently enter a plea where counsel fraudulently misrepresents a key fact
18-1109 James Erin McKinney v. Arizona Arizona 2019-02-26 Judgment Issued Amici (14)Relisted (2) aggravating-evidence arizona-supreme-court criminal-procedure death-penalty eddings-precedent eddings-v-oklahoma mitigating-evidence resentencing sentencing sentencing-review Whether the Arizona Supreme Court was required to apply current law when weighing mitigating and aggravating evidence to determine whether a death sen…
18-8120 Jerry Lynn Lofton v. Mississippi Mississippi 2019-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial defendant-rights due-process fifth-amendment jury-instruction jury-instructions prosecutorial-comment prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-silence self-incrimination testimonial-privilege Whether a prosecutor who this Court has held may not comment to a jury concerning a defendant's failure to testify in a criminal trial may submit his …
18-8121 Edward Harrison v. Thomas Griffin, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2019-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-allocution plea-consolidation statutory-time-limit statutory-violation time-enhancement Question not identified
18-8123 In Re Ronnie Lee Fagan 2019-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquittal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial defense-counsel double-jeopardy mistrial right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the trial court's exclusion of defense counsel denied the defendant an opportunity to be heard or object to the discharge of the jury, prejudi…
18-8124 Tony Gross v. John Havlin, Warden Ohio 2019-02-25 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment gideon-v-wainwright judicial-jurisdiction right-to-counsel rothgery-v-gillespie-county sixth-amendment state-jurisdiction zerbst-v-johnson Whether states are required to appoint counsel in death penalty cases for all hearings before a judicial officer to sustain a valid conviction
18-8126 Ronnie W. Wilson v. Michael Stephan, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP arrest-warrant civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process probable-cause search-and-seizure standing vawa Should the VAWA (Violence Against Women Act) charges against the petitioner be dismissed because the arrest warrants were not signed?
18-8129 Charles Russell v. Texas Texas 2019-02-25 Denied IFP 2nd-amendment burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission reasonable-doubt social-media social-media-evidence witness-testimony Did the Trial Court relieve the state of its burden to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt when it allowed the state to show the jury photos found o…
18-8130 Eduardo Segoviano-Briseno v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP consideration contract-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process federal-courts judicial-interpretation legal-consideration plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing Whether principles of contract law require consideration (benefit to the defendant) to support a valid plea agreement
18-8087 Joseph Michael Kurz v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof capital-trial criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-error standard-of-review statute-of-limitations time-limitations witness-testimony Whether the district court erred in allowing the State to prosecute the defendant for an allegation that the time limitations had expired
18-8074 Javonte T. Morgan v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP challenge-for-cause civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial judicial-proceedings jury-selection peremptory-challenges standard-of-review standing sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the lower court erred in denying the petitioner's challenge for cause and finding the evidence sufficient to support the conviction
18-8082 Elton Lee Baker, Sr. v. Florida Florida 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP attempt charging-information criminal-attempt criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process mens-rea strict-liability Can a citizen be convicted of an uncharged crime of attempt of the primary charges in the charging information without the attempt statute being inclu…
18-8083 Reshawn D'Arby Magnificent-El, aka Reshawn D'Arby Phillips v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion compliance criminal-procedure discretion district-court drug-testing due-process knowingly-used-drugs sentencing-conditions supervised-release supervised-release-conditions Whether a district court abuses its discretion in imposing a drug-testing condition on a defendant who never knowingly used drugs, and has otherwise b…
18-8090 Edward J. Zakrzewski, II v. Florida Florida 2019-02-22 Denied IFP capital-punishment criminal-procedure death-penalty eighth-amendment florida-supreme-court fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-state jury-unanimity retroactive-application retroactivity savings-clause substantive-law Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments require retroactive application of the Florida Supreme Court's decision in Hurst v. State to capital defe…
18-8093 John Ferreira v. Georgia Georgia 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP assault-definition civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection legislative-amendment legislative-deference statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Did the State of Georgia err and violate the Petitioner's constitutional rights by upholding a statute that lacks an essential element of the crime ch…
18-8095 Enrique Gamino-Perez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether a criminal defendant should receive retroactive application of sentencing guidelines under 18 USC 3582(c)
18-8097 Robert Herrera, Sr. v. Texas Texas 2019-02-22 Denied IFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction standard-of-review Was the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals denied Mr. Benton's appeal and the Texas Court of Appeals stated that his counsel's actions were below a reaso…
18-8099 In Re Henry Lee Bryant 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1654 appellate-procedure collateral-proceeding collateral-review criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion pro-se-representation right-to-counsel self-representation self-representation-right statutory-interpretation Did the Court of Appeals violate 28 U.S.C. § 1654 by refusing to allow Mr. Bryant to represent himself in the appeal of the collateral proceeding?
18-8100 Senica Matthew Franklin v. Mississippi Mississippi 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-challenge constitutional-provisions criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-reversal newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief reasons-for-granting-the-writ statement-of-the-case statutory-provisions Whether Senica Franklin's conviction and sentence should be reversed and set aside based upon newly discovered evidence
18-8102 Vivian Monroe Holman v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-process post-conviction-relief Whether the procedural protections required to challenge a conviction under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 were violated, including the right to an impartial trial …
18-8106 Benjamin Crump v. Delaware Delaware 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification false-testimony fourteenth-amendment wrongful-conviction Whether a conviction obtained through the use of false witness testimony that is unreliable to identify the defendant at trial must be vacated under t…
18-8109 Robert Blake Adams v. Texas Texas 2019-02-22 Denied IFP 4th-amendment blood-draw criminal-procedure due-process exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment retroactive-application retroactivity texas-transportation-code warrant-requirement warrantless-search Should this court's holding in Missouri v. McNeely, 133 S. Ct. 1552 (2013), be applied retroactively to state cases?
18-8113 Troy Arnaud v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client client-autonomy constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel right-to-testify self-representation sixth-amendment trial-counsel Whether Arnand was denied his constitutional right to the effective assistance of counsel
18-1102 Askia Cuff v. Virginia Virginia 2019-02-22 Denied Response Waived abandonment coercion counsel-withdrawal criminal-procedure plea-agreement plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sixth-amendment voluntariness voluntary voluntary-waiver withdrawal Was Appellant's waiver of his Sixth Amendment right to trial, pursuant to a plea agreement, freely and voluntarily made or the product of coercion — t…
18-1084 Minnesota v. Mark Jerome Johnson Minnesota 2019-02-21 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process dui fourth-amendment implied-consent retroactive-application retroactivity search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Retroactive application of Birchfield v. North Dakota rule on warrantless blood tests
18-8028 Ronald Reel v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions reasonable-doubt self-representation speedy-trial Whether petitioner was deprived of his 5th Amendment right to the Reasonable Doubts Clause
18-8041 Mark Johnson v. United States District of Columbia 2019-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP adolescent-culpability age-as-factor age-of-culpability brain-development criminal-procedure de-facto-life-sentence due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana roper-v-simmons Whether the Court's rulings regarding when age is a factor in determining culpability apply to those under the age of 25, or is the age lower, but not…
18-8044 Lois Brooks v. United States Second Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure government-rights judicial-integrity judicial-proceedings mandatory-minimum plain-error sentencing sentencing-error substantial-rights Does the government have 'substantial rights' such that actions taken in derogation of them may constitute 'plain error' under Fed. R. Crim. Pro. 52(b…
18-8047 Randy L. Pope v. Steve Franke Ninth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP conviction-nullification convictions criminal-procedure disposition due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-discretion nullification re-sentencing relief-standard sentencing state-law Whether the district court must grant relief by adhering to the relief dictated by state law when the state concedes in habeas corpus proceedings and …
18-8049 Ramon Montero v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-circuit harmless-error harmlessness-standard molina-martinez molina-martinez-precedent molina-martinez-v-united-states preserved-error preserved-errors rule-52a sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Is the Fifth Circuit correctly conducting its harmlessness inquiry when reviewing preserved Guidelines-calculation errors arising under Rule 52(a) of …
18-8051 Yeison Valencia Torres v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split conflict-of-laws criminal-procedure drug-enforcement drug-offense due-process equal-protection maritime-drug-law maritime-law safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation Whether the exclusion of the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act (46 U.S.C. § 70503) from eligibility for safety valve violates equal protection
18-8054 Michael Kenneth Young v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment crack-cocaine-seizure criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-joinder fair-trial firearm-seizure fourth-amendment joinder motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure severance traffic-stop Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals err in upholding the denial of Petitioner Michael Young's motion to sever his unrelated charges arising out of…
18-8055 Kevin Ventura v. United States Second Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924c apprendi apprendi-v-new-jersey apprendi-violation circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process jury-consideration jury-instructions jury-trial mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Is Mr. Ventura is serving two life sentences imposed in violation of Apprendi v. New Jersey?
18-8058 Joel Elias Sanchez v. Jeffrey A. Beard, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 9th-circuit aedpa constitutional-rights crane-v-kentucky criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process evidence-exclusion evidentiary-exclusion ninth-circuit-review right-to-present-defense self-defense Did excluding this evidence violate Sanchez's clearly established right under Crane?
18-8066 Roger E. Magana v. Ron Credio, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process effective-counsel habeas-corpus impartial-jury ninth-circuit sixth-amendment supreme-court-review Does the Ninth Circuit's memorandum decision contravene this Court's rulings affirming the guarantees of effective counsel and an impartial jury for a…
18-8067 Arthur Nop Lew v. California California 2019-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions jury-trial self-defense sufficiency-of-evidence sufficiency-of-the-evidence trial-by-jury Whether upholding a criminal conviction based on a jury instruction and legal standard that are more favorable to the prosecution than what was actual…
18-8070 Billie Wayne Coble v. Texas Texas 2019-02-21 Denied IFP counsel-objection criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mccoy-precedent objection right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-strategy Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals improperly narrowed McCoy
18-8072 John J. Wilson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2019-02-21 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 1st-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment access-to-courts appellate-counsel constitutional-violation criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process pro-se-representation sixth-amendment transcripts Can appellate counsel be denied, forcing a criminal defendant to represent himself in a direct appeal to the state district courts of appeal?
18-8073 Tony D. Thompson v. Georgia Georgia 2019-02-21 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel out-of-time-appeal procedural-default standing withdrawal-of-guilty-plea Whether the trial court and the Georgia Supreme Court abused their discretion by failing to reach the merits of petitioner's out-of-time appeal
18-8077 Donald Glenn Estes v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency-hearing criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment involuntary-confinement mental-competency mental-health-confinement prosecutorial-evidence right-to-remain-silent wainwright-v-greenfield Whether this Court's Decisions in Wainwright v. Greenfield, 474 U.S. 284 (1996), and Buchanan v. Kentucky, 483 U.S. 402 (1987), Allow a Prosecutor to …
18-8078 Elbert Walker v. Antoine Caldwell, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure habeas-corpus motion-to-vacate statutory-interpretation time-requirements trial-court-error void-judgment Whether the trial court erred in dismissing petitioner's motion to vacate the indictment on the premise that the motion did not qualify as a statutory…
18-8021 Charles R. Baker v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-20 Denied IFP anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act anti-terrorism-effective-death-penalty-act constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel first-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations Whether the newly discovered evidence presented to the lower Courts was sufficient to toll the one year Statute of Limitation set forth in the 48 U.S.…
18-8022 Leonicio Arias Coreas v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-02-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process fourteenth-amendment fraud ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Did counsel fail to conduct a proper pre-trial investigation
18-8032 Edgar Arellano v. California California 2019-02-20 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance pre-trial-investigation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Ineffective assistance of counsel
18-8033 Luis Alberto Montalvo Borgos v. Sean Medeiros, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk First Circuit 2019-02-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure drug-dealer due-process eyewitness-identification identification-procedure miscarriage-of-justice plain-error Prosecutor-elicited-testimony-about-witness-fear,c Prosecutor-stated-petitioner-was-known-drug-dealer prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony Was the identification of the petitioner unreasonably suggestive?
18-8038 James Patrick Burke v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP child-pornography criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment jurisdiction network-investigative-technique rule-41 rule-41(b) Should evidence be suppressed under the 'exclusionary rule' when obtained from Network Investigative Tecnique (NIT) warrants that violated Rule 41(b) …
18-8011 Kevin Kerr v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Eighth Circuit 2019-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1988 6th-amendment civil-rights competency criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech pardon pro-se-appearance psychological-evidence self-representation sixth-amendment standing Does 42 U.S.C. § 1988(a) confer jurisdiction on the respondent, the United States District Court, and the United States Court of Appeals conveying to …
18-8012 Tasha Michelle Blackburn v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP counsel-communication criminal-procedure due-process duty-to-advise ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-acceptance plea-bargaining plea-negotiations professional-responsibility sixth-amendment What constitutes communicating a plea, and does counsel have an obligation to recommend accepting a plea, or rejecting a plea and proceeding to trial?
18-8014 Wyley Tomas Baird v. Tammy Foss, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-02-19 Denied IFP burden-of-proof civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-court ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judgment jury-instructions opinion petition prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt sexual-assault supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Was Petitioner denied due process of law and the right to be convicted only upon proof beyond a reasonable doubt?
18-8015 In Re Michael Ojegba Agbonifo 2019-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal constitutional-rights criminal-detention criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings detention due-process indefinite-detention judicial-misconduct legal-representation not-guilty right-to-counsel right-to-trial trial Is it Constitutional for a District Court Judge to Hold an accused in an alleged criminal proceedings indefinitely in detention without TRIAL when the…
18-8024 Alex Rodriguez v. New Jersey New Jersey 2019-02-19 Denied Relisted (3)IFP constitutional-rights counsel-representation criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea new-jersey-constitution plea-bargaining pre-trial-preparation pretrial-preparation right-to-counsel sexual-offense sixth-amendment Was the defendant denied the right to effective assistance of trial counsel?
18-8025 Michael St. Hubert v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924 18-usc-924(c)(3)(B) constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation unconstitutionally-vague vagueness Is the definition of 'crime of violence' in the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) unconstitutionally vague?
18-8031 William Bolden v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum Was petitioner sentenced under a statute that violate due process of law under the United States Constitution by permitting a trial court to impose an…
18-1079 Javier Flores Gaytan v. Michael Hardee Fourth Circuit 2019-02-19 Denied actual-innocence constitutional-standard criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-confrontation right-to-fair-trial summary-witness wire-recording Whether a State may obtain a criminal conviction and 37-year prison sentence against a defendant where the primary evidence of guilt was a wire-record…
18-7969 Willie Ed Smith v. Mississippi Mississippi 2019-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus illegal-sentence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct legal-procedure prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-error Whether Smith's conviction and sentence derived from judicial misconduct
18-7987 Ikemefula Charles Ibeabuchi v. Paul Penzone, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law appeal civil-procedure civil-procedure-appeal conviction-expungement criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus revocation standing Whether the District Judge committed a reversible error by forestalling Appellant's relief pending the outcome of a revocation proceeding
18-7994 Daniel H. King v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP bureau-of-prisons civil-commitment civil-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure custody-transfer district-of-columbia due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether someone serving a sentence imposed by the District of Columbia whose physical custody was transferred to the Bureau of Prisons is 'in the cust…
18-7995 Rodney Martin v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion procedural-error reasonableness-of-sentence section-3553a sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines Did the trial court improperly sentence Mr. Martin and did the appellate court improperly affirm the trial court?
18-7997 Samuel Gregg Allen v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal civil-rights constitutional-provision criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit plea-agreement unconstitutional waiver waiver-of-appeal Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by enforcing the unconstitutional Waiver of Appeal provision in Petitioner Allen's Plea Agreement
18-8001 William Fykes v. West Virginia West Virginia 2019-02-15 Denied IFP 14th-amendment constitutional-rights credibility criminal-procedure due-process intent jury-instructions post-arrest-silence prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination Whether Petitioner's rights under the due process of law were violated where the trial Court committed reversible error by refusing to provide jurors …
18-8003 Anthony J. Dannolfo v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper north-carolina-v-alford plea-bargaining strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Did Dannolfo's protestation of innocence foreclose his ability of proving Strickland prejudice under Lafler v. Cooper, or did the courts fail to give …
18-8007 Kenneth R. Beagle v. Kevin Lindsey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-ruling Alleyne-v-United-States constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process Montgomery-v-Louisiana retroactivity retroactivity-doctrine supreme-court teague-doctrine Teague-v-Lane Did the court in Montgomery v. Louisiana identify, for the first time, a third criteria for determining which of its rulings may be applied retroactiv…
18-7895 Jerry Anderson, II v. Michigan Michigan 2019-02-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP coercion criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-trial sixth-amendment Was the defendant denied his state and federal constitutional rights to effective assistance of counsel when his attorney failed to prepare for trial …
18-7955 Antoine Deshawn Barnes v. David Baughman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-02-14 Denied IFP constitutional-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentences criminal-sentences-parole due-process early-release non-violent-offenders parole parole-considerations-hearings parole-eligibility parole-hearings sentencing statute violent-offenses Whether individuals who receive a determinate sentence do not need a parole consideration hearing to be released from prison at the end of their sente…
18-7958 John Lohmeier v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining statute-of-limitations strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Was Petitioner's plea of guilty knowingly and voluntarily entered?
18-7961 David Martinko v. New Hampshire New Hampshire 2019-02-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP absurdity-doctrine battery battery-continuous-course-of-conduct continuous-course-of-conduct criminal-offense criminal-offenses criminal-offenses-absurdity-doctrine-legislative-s criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-review legal-doctrine legislative-supremacy statutory-interpretation Should the 'Absurdity Doctrine' be limited or abandoned in criminal offenses altogether to protect legislative supremacy?
18-7967 James Dalton Smith v. Texas Texas 2019-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-defendant criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process facial-challenge penal-statute standing statutory-interpretation Whether a criminal defendant may raise for the first time on direct appeal the constitutionality of the statute creating and defining the crime for wh…
18-7968 Joseph Ragland v. North Carolina North Carolina 2019-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection postconviction-relief sentencing sixth-amendment state-statute Whether a state statute that limits the availability of postconviction relief violates the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth …
18-7972 Victor D. Vickers, Jr. v. Missouri Missouri 2019-02-14 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP alibi alibi-evidence criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-discovery-sanctions discovery discovery-violation due-process fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment taylor-v-illinois willful-violation Whether the exclusion of alibi evidence that could prove a defendant's innocence, as a sanction for an uncalculated discovery violation, is permitted …
18-7973 Jaime Villa v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP bank-robbery burden-of-proof crime-of-violence criminal-evidence criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment federal-rules-of-evidence jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence Whether there was insufficient evidence to prove Villa guilty beyond a reasonable doubt?
18-7974 Carlos Cruz-Rivera, aka Chiqui, aka Cano, aka Cano Llorens v. United States First Circuit 2019-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing direct-appeal federal-statute first-step-act pending-cases retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(C), as amended and clarified by the First Step Act of 2018, should apply to this case on direct review
18-7978 Raymond Amerson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP all-writs-act audita-querela clarification criminal-procedure jurisdictional-review relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-morgan Whether an All Writs Act petition pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1651 (Audita Querela) fills the gap where a defendant has no other appropriate vehicle to pu…
18-7979 Eric K. Watkins v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation vagueness Whether the subsection-specific definition of 'crime of violence' in 18 U.S:C. 924(c)(3) (B) is unconstitutionally vague
18-7980 Joseph Michael Ladeairous v. Department of Justice District of Columbia 2019-02-14 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure criminal-proceeding due-process foia-request foreign-intelligence-surveillance foreign-intelligence-surveillance-act freedom-of-information freedom-of-information-act national-security standing summary-judgment surveillance terrorist-designation Whether petitioner had a right to confront respondent under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
18-7984 James Scott Ervin v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit north-carolina statutory-interpretation violent-felony Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals violate the Petitioner's rights to due-process by not following this Court's prior holdings, when it determine…
18-7986 Maurin Chacon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 794 amendment-violation civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-law judicial-review plain-error plain-error-standard rosales-mireles rosales-mireles-v-united-states sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-olan Does a amendment violation of 794 warrant a plain error review under Rosales-Mireles
18-1066 Tracy Chang and Howard Hsu v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-14 Denied Response Waived criminal-defense criminal-procedure fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-defense good-faith-reliance jury-instructions search-warrant standing tax-fraud Whether a court must instruct the jury on a criminal defendant's good-faith reliance on professional tax advice as a defense, the scope of discretion …
18-1064 In Re Octavious DeMont Williams 2019-02-13 Denied 21-usc-841 burden-of-proof constitutional-due-process constitutional-rights controlled-substance criminal-procedure due-process elements-of-crime fifth-amendment judicial-misconduct jury jury-finding jury-trial Octavious Demont Williams petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus, arguing that his constitutional due process was violated when he was deprived of the…
18-7935 Kahri Smith v. Bonita J. Hoffner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari criminal-procedure felony jurisdiction michigan-law reasonable-jurists self-defense sixth-circuit Is certiorari appropriate where the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals decided the merits of petitioner's self-defense claim without jurisdiction and is i…
18-7936 Jaquan Henderson v. Greg Skipper, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP affirmative-defense constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure duress legal-justification murder statutory-interpretation WHETHER DURESS IS AN AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSE PRIOR TO AN OCCURRENCE OF MURDER?
18-7937 Jaques J. Sullivan v. Scott Lewis, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dementia due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-malpractice sixth-amendment standing Did the lower courts err in dismissing the petitioner's claim of actual conflict of interest due to trial counsel's dementia, which resulted in ineffe…
18-7941 Trevor Little v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause restitution sentencing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Did the lower courts' Fourth Circuit violate the Ex Post Facto Clause of the United States Constitution Article I, Section 9, Clause 3, when it still …
18-7944 Jerkeno Wallace v. United States Second Circuit 2019-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process evidence judicial-discretion non-testifying-defendant remorse remorse-consideration right-to-silence sentencing sentencing-error Was there an error by the court at sentencing when court considered observations of the non-testifying defendant as basis of proving no remorse
18-7945 Carl Allen Watts v. Michigan Michigan 2019-02-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal appeals appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-question criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection judicial-bias legal-standard michigan-court-of-appeals procedural-conflict standing Whether the Michigan Court of Appeals decision to reversed and remanded for a new trial in two similarly situated cases as petitioner's case, conflict…
18-7947 Tyrone Garden v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2019-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-right criminal-procedure dispositive-motion effective-assistance-of-counsel guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining pretrial-motion pretrial-motions sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Where trial counsel failed to update his research on a dispositive pretrial motion to dismiss before the defendant pleaded guilty, did Garden have the…
18-7948 Cesar Carapia Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
18-7949 In Re Reginald Watson 2019-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2241-motion career-offender civil-rights criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2241 jurisdiction sentencing standard-of-review standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether the District Court erred in dismissing Watson's 2241 motion for lack of jurisdiction?
18-7950 Marquette Walker v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment constructive-possession criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-law premises-liability search-and-seizure Does nonexclusive possession of a premises serve to establish constructive possession of items found within the premises?
18-7904 Spassky Alcequiecz v. Kelly A. Ryan, Warden First Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel manslaughter manslaughter-instruction sixth-amendment Whether the petitioner was denied his constitutional right to a fair trial, due to ineffective assistance of counsel
18-7905 Christopher A. Hall v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process indiana-v-edwards medical-condition medical-resuscitation medication mental-competency pro-se-representation self-representation Does a higher standard exist for measuring competency to represent oneself at trial, than for competency to stand trial
18-7918 Rutilio Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a 18-usc-924 abuse-of-discretion constitutional-law criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion sentence-reduction sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines statutory-directive statutory-interpretation substantive-error sufficient-but-not-greater-than-necessary Whether the District Court Committed substantive error when failed to impose a sentence that was sufficient but not greater than necessary to comply w…
18-7920 Harold A. Habeck, II v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure criminal-procedure,sentencing,mandatory-minimums,d criminal-sentencing discretion drug-offense drug-offenses firearms mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums predicate-crime sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation Whether the district court has discretion to consider less than the mandatory sixty month consecutive sentence for a predicate drug offense under 21 U…
18-7922 Thomas Isaac LaFleur v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit federal-registration firearm-definition national-firearms-act second-amendment staples-v-united-states statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction united-states-v-freed weapon-classification Did the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals error in denying the Petitioner's Subject-Matter Jurisdiction claim
18-7926 Hubert Babb v. Clara Smith, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied IFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution determinative-motive due-process equal-protection jury-selection racial-discrimination sentencing Whether indigent and/or pro se defendants in criminal prosecutions have constitutional protection from the presence of socioeconomic discrimination as…
18-7927 Tyrone Anderson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender career-offender-enhancement criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington townsend-v-burke Whether trial counsel provided ineffective assistance of counsel as required by the Sixth Amendment
18-7928 Gilbert Carrasco v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP abney-rule appeal bail bail-denial criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction notice-of-appeal Was U.S. District Court, (S.D. Cal.) divested of jurisdiction because of Abney-rule
18-7932 Dale Allen Hamer v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights court-record criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review plea-bargaining pre-trial-hearing sentencing transcript warrant-review Whether the lower courts erred in denying petitioner's request to review the court records, transcripts, and findings related to his conviction and se…
18-7934 Seaun Llwellyn Farthing v. Dara Watson, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-rules-of-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lesser-included-offense perjury prior-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-burglary witness-testimony Was trial counsel ineffective for failing to prevent prosecutorial misconduct?
18-1054 Jason Allen Jackson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied admissibility circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution drug-crimes drug-possession due-process evidence evidence-admissibility knowledge-intent prior-conviction prior-convictions Whether the mere fact of a prior drug possession conviction is admissible to show knowledge and intent in a subsequent drug distribution prosecution
18-1049 Peter M. Hoffman, et al. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-11 Denied Amici (3) criminal-law-fraud criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-acquittal criminal-procedure-burden-of-proof criminal-procedure-sufficiency-of-evidence due-process evidence evidentiary-standard jackson-v-virginia judgment-of-acquittal mail-fraud prosecutorial-burden regulatory-ambiguity standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence wire-fraud Whether a federal court must grant a motion for judgment of acquittal when, construing the evidence in the light most favorable to the government, evi…
18-1052 Zenaido Renteria, Jr. v. United States Third Circuit 2019-02-11 Denied article-iii circuit-split constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights continuing-offenses criminal-procedure criminal-venue due-process reasonable-foreseeability sixth-amendment Whether the Constitution limits venue in criminal trials to those places where the defendant could reasonably foresee that an overt act would occur
18-7873 Troy Sierra v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-11 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification fair-trial false-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel right-to-counsel rights-advisement sixth-amendment Why were Petitioner's Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights violated?
18-7877 Lester Roger Decker v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-performance constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Was defendant's attorney's role to fulfill his advisory position to his client ineffective, thus violating client's right to Due Process?
18-7879 Clayton D. Colkley v. Maryland Maryland 2019-02-11 Denied IFP 5th-amendment appeal appeals appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jurisdiction motion-to-dismiss trial-court trial-court-jurisdiction Did the court of special appeals of maryland err in affirming trial court's denial of defendant's motion to dismiss on the ground of double-jeopardy?
18-7880 Terrance Jerome Clarke v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias mental-health plea-bargaining right-to-counsel Were the charges filed at the same time and no other firearm was involved during the offense?
18-7884 Paula Villalva-Patricio v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pertinent-information right-to-testify sixth-amendment testify translation-of-proceedings Whether the Defendant received ineffective assistance of counsel when Appellant wished to testify or otherwise introduce pertinent information and her…
18-7885 Christopher VanGuilder v. Daniel Martuscello, Superintendent, Coxsackie Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2019-02-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process entrapment-defense grand-jury ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudicial-testimony right-to-counsel sixth-amendment supplemental-instructions supplemental-jury-instructions Whether United States District Second Circuit Court Of Appeals and or said Lower Court's Erred in Failing to grant Petitioner's Ineffective Assistance…
18-7886 Akeen Ocean v. United States First Circuit 2019-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment criminal-procedure deliberate-elicitation government-informant informant-testimony massiah-doctrine massiah-v-united-states post-indictment-rights right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Does 'deliberate elicitation' for purposes of Massiah v. United States occur only in cases where the government has expressly directed its informant t…
18-7888 Furn-Lee Salomon v. Patrick Nogan, Administrator, East Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2019-02-11 Denied IFP constitutional-safeguards criminal-procedure cumulative-error due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel passport-fraud pre-trial-investigation prejudicial-testimony pretrial-investigation strategic-decision strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel witness-testimony Was trial counsel ineffective?
18-7900 Jorge Ernesto Blanco-Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure direct-appeal guilty-plea immigration-consequences ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel non-citizen-defendant padilla-v-kentucky plea-bargaining plea-colloquy supervisory-power Whether a trial court commits error when it takes a guilty plea from a criminal defendant when the trial court is on specific notice that defense coun…
18-7822 Meryl S. McDonald v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2019-02-08 Denied IFP 14th-amendment criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-jurisdiction due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-fact postconviction-counsel pro-se-filing standing voir-dire Whether the voir dire examination oath provision of Rules 3.191 and 3.300(a) of the Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure is a jurisdictional fact
18-7855 Barry Glenn Thunder v. Douglas Weber, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence false-accusation ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standing Why was the petitioner arrested on a forensic charge when the videos clearly show the victim's right hand that is clearly seen in the videos to prove …
18-7857 Calvin Raymond Jones v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-concerns courts-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process retribution sentencing supervised-release Whether a district court commits reversible error by imposing a sentence for a supervised release violation for the purpose of retribution
18-7859 Frank D. Monsegue, Sr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-defects due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plea-agreement standing subpoena warrantless-arrest Whether defective summons/subpoena (without authorizing authority, name or signature) attached herein render the indictment defective?
18-7860 Timothy L. Barnes v. Michigan Michigan 2019-02-08 Denied IFP collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-finding mandatory-minimum retroactivity sixth-amendment substantive-rule watershed-rule Does the Alleyne rule apply retroactively on collateral review?
18-7861 Gary Don Boyd Graves v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3014 criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion future-earning-capacity future-earnings indigency mandatory-assessment mandatory-special-assessment non-indigent sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether district courts can consider future earning capacity in determining whether a person is 'non-indigent' for the purposes of assessing the $5000…
18-7862 Vincent Beatty, aka Jamaal Beatty, aka Vincent Daward Beatty, aka Mozzi v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion advisory-guidelines criminal-history criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing felon-in-possession reasonableness reasonableness-review sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance sua-sponte upward-variance Whether a sua sponte upward variance sentence is reasonable where the advisory Guideline range accurately reflected the defendant's conduct and prior …
18-7864 Prince Charles Cotton, Sr. v. Ghae Harris, Warden Ohio 2019-02-08 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus illegal-confinement imprisonment ohio-law parole sentencing sentencing-entry standing supreme-court-ruling Is it Lawful, For The State Of Ohio to Hold The Herein Petitioner In Illegal Confinement, 'Under' Statutes That: The ' United States Supreme Court Has…
18-7870 Jeremiah W. Balik v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 6th-amendment armed-forces-status civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process interlocutory-appeal judicial-bias judicial-review removal removal-jurisdiction sixth-amendment Whether harmful legal error occurred in the lower court proceedings
18-7875 Lionel Cannon, aka Cannon v. United States Third Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP carpenter-precedent carpenter-v-united-states criminal-procedure fourth-amendment franks-hearing law-enforcement search-and-seizure vehicle-search warrant-requirement warrantless-search wiretaps Was Cannon denied his Fourth Amendment rights?
18-7876 Jordie L. Callahan v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment competency-hearing criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings direct-appeal due-process effective-assistance-counsel effective-assistance-of-counsel mental-capacity mental-competency mental-evaluation sixth-amendment Whether a Mentally Deficient Defendant is Entitled to a Competency Hearing or Mental Evaluation
18-1043 Adam Clayton Zilm v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2019-02-08 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) burden-of-proof coerced-testimony criminal-procedure due-process false-testimony napue-standard napue-v-illinois recantation reliability-hearing witness-coercion Conviction of child sex abuse challenged on due process grounds for use of coerced testimony at trial
18-7770 Michael Paul Bradley v. Georgia Georgia 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals confrontation-clause constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the Petitioner's conviction should be overturned due to procedural errors in the trial court
18-7788 Sunny Robinson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the District Court and the Fifth Circuit erred in not granting relief under Title 18 U.S.C. § 3582
18-7802 Michael Hopson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP aid-of-racketeering attempted-murder constitutional-claims criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-circuit insufficient-evidence murder pattern-of-racketeering racketeering-conspiracy Whether the evidence was insufficient to convict the petitioner of racketeering conspiracy and murder/attempted murder in aid of racketeering
18-7804 Denandias Watson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether a § 2255 defendant may prove that his ACCA-enhanced or § 3559(c)-enhanced sentence was based on the now-unconstitutional residual clause throu…
18-7811 Ronald Bishop Thompson v. Noah Nagy, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-testimony cell-site-location cell-site-location-information criminal-procedure fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-and-seizure stored-communications-act warrant-requirement Did trial counsel perform ineffectively at Petitioner's second trial
18-7812 Raheem Wilcox v. New Jersey New Jersey 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP adverse-inference adverse-inference-charge civil-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-discovery-rule-3:13-3 discovery discovery-rule due-process evidence new-trial-factual-predicate new-trial-standard post-conviction-relief pre-indictment-destruction pre-indictment-destruction-of-evidence retroactive-application teague-v-lane Whether the New Jersey Supreme Court's decision in State v. W.B should be retroactively applied to the petitioner's case
18-7818 Marcos Castaneda v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-v-united-states criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process judicial-finding jury-trial mandatory-minimum preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether a district court commits procedural error by basing its sentencing guideline calculation on a discretionary judicial finding by a preponderanc…
18-7820 Kelly Winton Pierce v. Erik Hooks Fourth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process essential-element jury-instructions sex-offender sex-offender-registration Whether a criminal defendant's jury trial was fundamentally violated due to the trial judge's jury instructions that changed and expanded the definiti…
18-7821 Darryl Mixon v. Mississippi Mississippi 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-procedure criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment formal-complaint jurisdiction jurisdiction-over-persons jurisdiction-over-subject-matter procedural-defect sentencing standing subject-matter Whether the trial court lacked jurisdiction over the persons and the subject matter of this cause, in absence of a signed formal complaint?
18-7825 Trevonte Jenkins v. Ohio Ohio 2019-02-07 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial flawed-process identification in-court-identification state-witness witness-testimony Is a petitioner denied due process of law and a fair trial when identification was at issue at trial and there was a flawed process related to a first…
18-7826 Curtis R. Leachman v. Thomas Winn, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-determination jury-instruction jury-instructions michigan-self-defense-act psychological-expert self-defense self-defense-statute Was petitioner denied the right to compulsory process when the trial court failed to grant funds for a psychological expert to aide the jury in determ…
18-7828 Robert Largo v. New York New York 2019-02-07 Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-law-section-440.10 due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel penal-law-section-70.02 persistent-violent-felony sentencing void-for-vagueness Did the New York State Supreme Court err in holding that, as-applied, the part of Penal Law Section 70.02, Subdivision one (c) challenged as void-for-…
18-7831 Curt Lockett v. Florida Florida 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus mandamus sentencing standing Should a circuit court be legally bound to hear a petitioner's motion to correct an illegal sentence after the petitioner has been barred from that co…
18-7832 Jason Lee Harris v. Karen A. Mullins, Judge, Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied IFP access-to-courts appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process federal-law first-amendment in-forma-pauperis ninth-circuit sentencing-guidelines service-of-process standing Did the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit err in barring the grant of in forma paupe…
18-7834 Brent William Bogseth v. Michigan Michigan 2019-02-07 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment closing-argument constitutional-rights criminal-procedure deliberation due-process evidence fair-trial fifth-amendment murder premeditation prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination Whether the lack of evidence to show the defendant actually committed the offense of murder means premeditation and deliberation cannot exist, or if t…
18-7835 Iouri Mikhel v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied IFP burden-of-proof competency competency-hearing criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-judiciary hostage-taking judicial-discretion mental-health recusal standard-of-proof treaty-power trial-procedure Where significant evidence of competency is susceptible to conflicting inferences, what standard of proof is required for a competency hearing and wha…
18-7844 Malcolm Jarrel Hartley v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred in dismissing petitioner's claims challenging the constitutionality of the fed…
18-7847 Ronell Howlett v. Reed Richardson, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-court-review federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-28-usc-2254 procedural-bar rape-shield-law right-to-present-defense state-court state-court-review Is a federal court permitted/required to review a state court's reliance on a procedural bar, when a petitioner claims the application of the facts do…
18-7776 Miguel Angel Olvera-Cruz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8-usc-1326 apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts - including the fact of a prior conviction - that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eit…
18-7781 Juan Ramone Lopez v. Jeff Noble, Warden Ohio 2019-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP age-misrepresentation age-misrepresentation-at-arrest age-of-majority birth-certificate birth-date-verification civil-rights constitutional-privilege criminal-procedure due-process evidence foreign-national habeas-corpus juvenile-offender standing state-courts Whether a person's misrepresentation of his age at the time of arrest or the person's birth date in a court of law should be considered
18-7782 James E. Mason, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-02-06 Denied IFP batson-challenge batson-challenges burden-of-proof confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process impeached-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel insufficient-evidence jury-instructions jury-selection race-neutral-challenges Whether the State obtained Mr. Mason's conviction with insufficient evidence
18-7786 Roy Shotwell v. Kevin Genovese, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure critical-stage dna-analysis dna-evidence dna-testing due-process effective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-due-process prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment standing warrantless-seizure Whether the Tennessee courts abused their discretion in denying Petitioner's DNA and post-conviction relief
18-7795 Markus D. Lanieux v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP Blakely Blakely-v-Washington Booker Booker-v-United-States criminal-procedure due-process habitual-offender habitual-offender-law jury-trial mandatory-minimum-sentence reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether the sentencing scheme under Louisiana's Habitual Offender Law is subject to the jury requirements of the Sixth Amendment
18-7800 Rene Antonio Aguilar v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-criminal-justice procedural-obligations rita-standard rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-arguments Can a district court at sentencing fail to respond to a party's non-frivolous sentencing arguments?
18-7801 Calvin Fitzgerald Tannehill v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure habeas-corpus johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether the Eleventh Circuit misapplied this Court's precedents by denying a certificate of appealability on whether Mr. Tannehill's § 2255 claim reli…
18-7753 Joel Marvin Munt v. Minnesota Minnesota 2019-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-review rules-of-construction separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation Did MN Supreme Court violate Separation of Powers?
18-7764 Marcellus French v. Illinois Illinois 2019-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-error standard-of-review Did the appellate court abuse its discretion in finding that the evidence of prior acts was admissible and justified according to FRE 404(b), when the…
18-7766 Rishawn Lamar Reeder v. Cecelia Reynolds, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-02-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP alibi-witnesses criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-presentation eyewitness-testimony gunshot-residue impeachment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions self-defense surveillance-video trial-counsel witness witness-testimony Did the court err in finding trial counsel ineffective
18-7772 Antonio Franklin v. Ohio Ohio 2019-02-05 Denied IFP capital-punishment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-counsel execution-date habeas-corpus right-to-counsel Is the right to effective representation critical during which time the State moves for an execution date?
18-7773 Jose Jorge Espinoza-Mendoza v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP alien-smuggling appellate-review criminal-appeal criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-review guidelines-interpretation immigration risk-assessment sentencing-enhancement standard-of-review stare-decisis statutory-interpretation whether-the-sentencing-enhancement-under-u.s.s.g.-§-2l1.1(b)(6)-was-properly-applied
18-7777 In Re Jaron Brice 2019-02-05 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus standing Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred in denying habeas corpus relief to the petitioner
18-7778 Mikhail Zemlyansky v. United States Second Circuit 2019-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-estoppel criminal-procedure double-jeopardy evidence-reintroduction health-care-fraud jury-acquittal jury-trial prosecutorial-strategy RICO rico-conspiracy Whether the district court violated the collateral estoppel component of the double-jeopardy clause by allowing the government to reintroduce its enti…
18-1021 Travis Hawkins v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-05 Denied Response Waived appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-court federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review preservation-of-error public-trial state-court state-court-decision state-courts Whether an objection is required to preserve appellate review for an alleged public trial violation
18-1022 Julius Jerome Murphy v. Texas Texas 2019-02-05 Denied brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus witness-testimony Whether the State's failure to disclose threats and promises made to witnesses violated due process
18-1016 Lloyd Gene Beam v. Michigan Michigan 2019-02-04 Denied Response Waived collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-constitution judicial-impartiality judicial-impartiality-standard-retroactivity montgomery-v-louisiana retroactive-application state-collateral-review teague-retroactivity teague-v-lane watershed-rule watershed-rules Was the new standard from People v. Stevens a decision by the Michigan Supreme Court interpreting the federal Constitution?
18-7733 Tyrone Justin Cowan v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-02-04 Denied IFP appeals certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-rights ninth-circuit right-to-counsel Did the Court of Appeals err in denying a certificate of appealability and in evaluating petitioner's claims
18-7734 Joe Willie Cannon v. Iowa District Court, Des Moines County Iowa 2019-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment Did the State of Iowa violate the petitioner's 5th, 6th, & 14th Amendment confrontation and due process rights to be present during a critical stage o…
18-7737 Tyshawn Simmons v. United States Second Circuit 2019-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law controlled-substances-act criminal-procedure drug-crimes due-process federalism sentencing standing statutory-interpretation tenth-amendment Whether the Controlled Substances Act's prohibition on the distribution of marijuana violates the Due Process Clause and the Tenth Amendment
18-7739 Gonzalo Holguin-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-04 Judgment Issued Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction objection procedural-requirement reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing Whether a formal objection after pronouncement of sentence is necessary to invoke appellate reasonableness review of the length of a defendant's sente…
18-7746 Joseph Davis v. United States First Circuit 2019-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP thereby rendering the use of evidence uncovered d constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidence florida-v-wells fourth-amendment inventory-search probable-cause ruse search-and-seizure Whether errors in an inventory search report are indicative of a 'ruse' under Florida v. Wells, thereby rendering the use of evidence uncovered during…
18-7754 In Re Archie Cabello 2019-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law criminal-procedure judicial-discretion legal-procedure pleadings right-to-counsel right-to-self-representation rule-11 self-representation Does a trial judge have a duty to protect a defendant's right to counsel of choice?
18-7756 Roscoe Chambers v. Nicholas Sarcone Eighth Circuit 2019-02-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 2nd-amendment 6th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jury-selection public-trial standing Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial applies to a criminal defendant's exclusion from the courtroom during jury selection
18-7757 William Davenport v. James Falk, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-02-04 Denied IFP criminal-procedure dna dna-evidence dna-testing due-process evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel res-gestae witness-identification Whether trial court erred in admitting evidence of DNA testing from mixed samples
18-7710 Jose Garcia Mejia v. Shawn Hatton, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment administrative-processing aedpa constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus plea-bargaining procedural-error Were Petitioner's constitutional Rights violated during trial?
18-7715 Jose Flores v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court-discretion drug-quantity due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure minor-role minor-role-reduction plea-bargaining plea-colloquy rule-11 sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review ussg-3b1.2 Was the District Court's failure to determine a factual basis, and to insure that defendant understood the nature of the charges, in violation of Rule…
18-7716 Jesse Ingram, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 3553(a)-factors 5th-amendment appeal appellate-counsel constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactive-review retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Is it a Fifth Amendment violation when Petitioners are sentenced to a higher guideline sentence when 18 U.S.C. statute 3553(A) warrants a below guidel…
18-7717 Byrion Demeco Ferguson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1B1.3 amendment appellate-review constitutional criminal-procedure evidence judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing-guidelines u.s-sentencing-commission u.s.-sentencing-commission Whether the trial court committed plain error by admitting insufficient evidence applied by the pre-amendment 1B1.3 version of the U.S. Sentencing Gui…
18-7719 Cesar Gomez v. Texas Texas 2019-02-01 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment-rights standing texas-penal-code Whether Texas Penal Code § 21.02, is Constitutional under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution?
18-7721 Laron Darrell Carter, aka Birdd, aka Gardena Pimpin Birdd, aka Garr Birdd, aka Pi Birdd, aka Pi Pimpin Birdd v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy dual-sovereignty-doctrine federal-prosecution prejudice prejudice-showing rule-48(b) rule-48b separate-sovereign-doctrine separate-sovereign-exception state-prosecution What type of prejudice showing is required to obtain dismissal under Fed. R. Crim. P. 48(b) for delayed federal prosecution after state conviction?
18-7727 Gregory Hatt v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea heroin-distribution ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-causation plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment Whether failure to convey unbiased, complete, or correct information to a defendant during plea bargaining by defense counsel invalidates a guilty ple…
18-7730 Clark Derrick Frazier v. Randy Lee, Warden Tennessee 2019-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 35-usc-101 civil-procedure due-process patent standing takings civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection standing takings Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the state's actions
18-7616 Rodrigo Tovar Pupo v. United States District of Columbia 2019-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal constitutional-issue constitutional-issues criminal-appeal criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal district-court due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel offense-enhancement plea-bargaining sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines If Appeals Court erred by not considering the grounds raised by Appellant and denying his appeal disregarding the Constitutional issues raised by Appe…
18-1006 Michael Kevin Adams v. Texas Texas 2019-02-01 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights community-caretaking criminal-procedure fourth-amendment impoundment interrogation law-enforcement minor-offense probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-impoundment vehicle-search Michael-Kevin-Adams
18-7690 Thomas Phillip Bell v. Kiah Demarias Leigh, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-01-31 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-review mental-competency record-correction sentencing standing Whether the court should consider the petitioner's case as seriously as other cases involving civil rights or due process violations
18-7692 Byron Anthony Horn v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction indictment plea-bargaining pleading reasonable-doubt reasonable-sentence sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether facts that alter the range of 'reasonable' federal sentences must be pleaded in the indictment in federal cases?
18-7694 Raymond Crespo v. New York New York 2019-01-31 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process faretta-v-california judicial-discretion legal-timeliness pro-se-representation right-to-counsel right-to-self-representation self-representation timeliness How soon in the criminal proceeding must a defendant decide between proceeding by counsel or pro se?
18-7697 Duane Yates v. Iowa Iowa 2019-01-31 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment postconviction prison-discipline self-defense sixth-amendment whether-inmates-who-file-a-postconviction-under-io Whether inmates who file a postconviction under lowa Code 822 in the lowa District Court's are denied the equal protection of law under the Sixth and …
18-7698 Lawrence Andrew Ingram v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights contemporaneous-objection criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal-evidence-waiver-contempo definitive-ruling evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance trial-procedure waiver Does trial counsel waive a defendant's right to appellate review of an erroneous ruling on evidence if counsel chooses not to object to the ruling whe…
18-7699 Facundo Ruiz-Ruiz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process recidivism sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
18-7619 Michael Scott Morris v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment coercion consent criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment police-coercion probable-cause search-and-seizure voluntary-consent warrant-requirement Is consent to search a home freely and voluntarily given when police threaten arrest and jail if they are required to obtain a search warrant?
18-7641 Arturo Huerta v. Ron Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-instructions sentencing Whether the natural and probable consequences of a criminal act can support a conviction for second-degree murder under the 'natural and probable cons…
18-7655 Michael R. Spengler v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied IFP 6th-amendment appellate-standard civil-rights coercion constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process miranda-warnings police-lineup undercover-operations witness-identification Whether the widespread policy of the L.A. Superior Court and the L.A. Sheriff's Department, known as the Perkins Operation, which allows undercover ag…
18-7662 Nolan Lewis v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion competency competency-evaluation criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea judicial-discretion mental-competency ninth-circuit restitution restitution-hearing Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals applied the proper legal standard for determining whether the district court abused its discretion in faili…
18-7668 Patricio Paladin v. United States First Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-doctrine apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-element criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial jury-trial-guarantee prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements Whether the contested fact of prior conviction entering into the sentence to increase a defendant's penalty for the instant offense, must be treated a…
18-7669 Bertulio Moreno-Alvarez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment firearms second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(5) violates the Second and Fifth Amendments?
18-7678 Alfonso Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP client-attorney-relationship client-autonomy constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance motion-to-dismiss sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel sixth-circuit speedy-trial-act trial-counsel Can a defense lawyer, consistent with the Sixth Amendment, contravene his client's wishes to object to a violation of the Speedy Trial Act?
18-7679 Jeriton Lavar Curry v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924(c) appeal-waiver appellate-review constitutional-error criminal-procedure jurisdiction plain-error sentencing sentencing-jurisdiction unconstitutional-sentence Did the Appeals Court err by granting the Government's motion to enforce an invalid appeal waiver, after determining that Currys' issue was non-frivol…
18-7682 Stacie Demers v. United States Second Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review circuit-court counsel criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-claim sixth-amendment Whether the Circuit Court of Appeals should have decided Ms. Demers's claim of ineffective assistance of counsel
18-7683 Deandre Anderson v. Daniel Lesatz, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment miranda-rights new-evidence post-conviction-relief postconviction-relief probable-cause standing statute-of-limitations trial-errors wrongful-conviction Does the cases stated apply to this case?
18-7617 Talbert Hinton v. New Jersey New Jersey 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech sentencing standing takings Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
18-7625 Thomas Florence v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-01-29 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence jurisdiction sentencing standing Can the sites of the United States government maintain a valid conviction based on a DNA report that does not prove beyond a reasonable doubt to suppo…
18-7627 Tavis Labron Houpe v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence search-and-seizure standing Was the petitioner's Fourteenth(14th) Amendment ri Was the petitioner's Fourth(4th) Amendment rights violated due to a search and seizure?
18-7632 Abraham Grant v. Wendy Kelly, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Arkansas 2019-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process felony-conviction habeas-corpus prosecutorial-discretion speedy-trial standing state-court-decision Whether the state court's denial of a motion to dismiss a felony charge that was never prosecuted violates the petitioner's due process rights
18-7634 Lincoln E. Fox v. Neil Turner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-error fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel victim-testimony witness-testimony Whether the trial court's admission of a videotaped statement of the victim violated the defendant's right to a fair trial
18-7637 Fidencio Valdez v. Texas Texas 2019-01-29 Denied IFP capital-case capital-case-review-habeas-corpus-due-process-equa criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus mccoy-claim mccoy-v-louisiana standing texas-code-of-criminal-procedure texas-law Whether the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas misapplied this Court's decision in McCoy v. Louisiana
18-7644 Carlos Benitez v. James Key, Superintendent, Airway Heights Corrections Center Ninth Circuit 2019-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review conflict-of-interest constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process effective-counsel evidentiary-hearing habeas habeas-corpus legal-claim right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standard-of-appealability standard-of-review Did trial counsel have a conflict of interest by simultaneously representing Mr. Benitez and a defense witness?
18-7646 Jesse Sawyer v. United States Second Circuit 2019-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process federal-procedure judicial-mandate judicial-power mandate sentencing standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether the powers of federal appellate courts are diminished and whether a defendant is deprived of his fundamental right to appellate review
18-7651 Eric Steve Anderson v. California California 2019-01-29 Denied IFP antagonistic-defenses conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fair-trial jury jury-trial severance severance-motion Did this trial court's denial of petitioner's severance motion as to co-defendant and its subsequent acquittal of co-defendant on the conspiracy charg…
18-7652 Brian Anderson v. Colorado Colorado 2019-01-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights colorado-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction nelson-v-colorado presumption-of-innocence standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Does Colorado Revised Statutes 18-3-302 Supersede Nelson V. Colorado 137 S.CT. 1249 (2017)
18-989 United States v. Marvin Lewis Fifth Circuit 2019-01-29 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3) 18-usc-924 constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-prosecution federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution firearm-offense firearms statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether the subsection-specific definition of 'crime of violence' in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague
18-7593 Richard Michael Sanchez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-waiver consecutive-sentence criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process legal-interpretation plea-agreement sentencing Does a plea agreement's limited appellate waiver preclude a defendant's challenge of a decision to impose a consecutive sentence where the appellate w…
18-7598 Carol J. Morris v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-compensation patent standing statutory-construction takings Whether the petitioner's convictions should be vacated due to ineffective assistance of counsel and violations of due process
18-7599 Jesus E. Moreno Ornelas v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied IFP compulsory-process constitutional-right criminal-procedure defense-witness discovery discovery-order due-process exclusion non-disclosure sixth-amendment tactical-advantage willful-nondisclosure Whether the Compulsory Process Clause of the Sixth Amendment precludes exclusion of an undisclosed defense witness to enforce a discovery order if the…
18-7607 Bruce White v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP counsel-actions criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-plea-bargaining defendant-rights due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-withdrawal plea-agreement plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sentencing voluntary-plea withdrawal-of-plea Whether a plea was entered voluntarily, intelligently, and knowingly
18-7609 Merlin Alston v. United States Second Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c 18-usc-926b criminal-law-enforcement-officer-exemption criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process firearm-possession firearms law-enforcement sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Is the conviction of a local police officer, required to carry a service pistol when off duty, excluded from prosecution for violating 18 U.S.C. 924(c…
18-7611 Terrance E. Everett v. Delaware Delaware 2019-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-issues court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process evidence legal-interpretation officer-discretion police-misconduct public-policy standing suspect-authority Whether the lower Court and the Delaware Supreme Court erred, and abused their discretion, with regards to the lower Court's denial of a mistrial and …
18-7612 Nathaniel Bowens v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924(c)(1)(A) advance-knowledge aiding-and-abetting court-of-appeals crime-of-violence criminal-procedure drug-trafficking-crime firearm firearm-use mens-rea statutory-interpretation Whether the Court of Appeals' decision below contravenes this Court's holding in Rosemond v. United States
18-7615 Michael Alexander Bacon v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-split criminal-justice-process criminal-procedure evidentiary-inquiry fact-finding factual-dispute federal-rule-41 federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure-41(g) government-possession post-conviction-motion property-return property-seizure rule-41g seized-property What evidentiary inquiry is required when the government responds to a post-conviction motion under Rule 41(g) by asserting that it lacks physical pos…
18-7571 Gabriel Cervantes Valencia v. Dave Davey, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-01-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment brady-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence jurisdiction Whether the Civcurh, Districk and Strode Courts denials and akesmissals of Petihwners BRADY VIOLATION Claim violate pebbroners bye Process Rights Guav…
18-7575 Alexis Valdes Gonzalez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9)IFP criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit judicial-process mandatory-form panel-decision preclusive-effect prior-panel-precedent strict-deadline writ-of-certiorari Whether the Due Process Clause permits the Eleventh Circuit to afford preclusive effect in a criminal case to a prior panel decision
18-7582 Ralph Nicholas Canete v. Chuck Keeton, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-01-25 Denied IFP compulsory-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment material-evidence sixth-amendment Whether the destruction of material evidence by the government violates the right to due process
18-7585 Lemuel Gay v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-court appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court guideline-enhancement guidelines judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing-court sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Can the sentencing court's statement—that it would impose the same sentence irrespective of any error in its application of a guideline enhancement—ab…
18-7586 Zachary T. Frey v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof collateral-review criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation post-sentencing-case-law post-sentencing-law residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-enhancement Whether a defendant can prove his ACCA-enhanced sentence was based on the unconstitutional residual clause by relying on post-sentencing case law
18-7502 Edjuan Payne v. Illinois Illinois 2019-01-24 Denied IFP appeals appellate-review civil-rights competency criminal-procedure due-process mental-fitness mental-health right-to-a-fair-trial right-to-counsel sentencing trial-errors Whether the defendant's due process rights were violated by the trial court's failure to conduct a competency hearing despite evidence of the defendan…
18-7511 Edwin J. Ortiz-Fagot v. United States First Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-3582-c-2 criminal-statute due-process non-delegation retroactive-application sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation Whether the district court's modification of a sentence via 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) to include deciding whether to retroactively apply the plain language …
18-7553 Elmos D. Hopkins v. Robert Dooley, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied IFP civil-rights confession confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury jury-instructions right-to-counsel witness Whether a defendant can be convicted by a jury when two key witnesses (owners of the home) were not allowed to testify
18-7555 Doiakah Gray v. Stephanie Dorethy, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process federal-prisoners habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-precedent state-prisoners statute-of-limitations statutory-construction What is the limitations period for newly recognized rights for state prisoners?
18-7556 Michael James Horton v. Clark E. Ducart, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure critical-trial-stages due-process pro-se-representation right-to-be-present right-to-counsel self-representation standing statutory-interpretation trial-procedure Whether the unequivocal right to represent oneself or have counsel should be left ambiguous
18-7558 Brandon Lamar Hawkins v. Florida Florida 2019-01-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP competency-hearing criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-competency criminal-sentencing due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-procedure mental-competency mental-health resentencing sentencing trial-court trial-court-discretion Whether petitioner is entitled to discharge, new trial, and/or resentencing based on the trial court failing to conduct a competency hearing
18-7561 Juan Guzman v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process standing Whether the Constitution of the United States protects against arbitrary actions of government
18-7563 Lynce P. Foster v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment united-states-constitution Whether counsel were ineffective for not representing petitioner according to a counsel guaranteed to the petitioner by the Sixth Amendment of the Uni…
18-7564 Jovan Howard v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2019-01-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP amended-information burglary-dwelling constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus legal-remedy prosecutorial-misconduct unlawful-alteration unlawful-detention void-indictment Whether Habeas Corpus was the proper remedy for the petitioner unlawfully detained against his will
18-7565 Michael Fuller v. Lashann Eppinger, Warden Ohio 2019-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggregate-sentence civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus maximum-term sentencing statutory-interpretation unlawful-detention Whether Petitioner's maximum aggregate sentence has expired and he is being held unlawfully
18-7566 Pedro Goris, aka Pedro Goriz, aka Pedro Abreu v. United States Second Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appeals appellate-review constitutional-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion reasonableness sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness Whether Petitioner's sentence was both procedurally and substantively unreasonable
18-7567 Ron Collins v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment fair-sentencing-act ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the court of appeals erred in denying petitioner's application for a certificate of appealability
18-7525 Delexsia Harris v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure evidence evidence-suppression federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-discretion old-chief-v-united-states prejudicial-evidence prejudicial-information prior-bad-acts rule-403 Should the analysis utilized in Old Chief v. United States control in determining whether prejudicial information should have been excluded in the def…
18-7527 David Phillip Wilson v. Alabama Alabama 2019-01-23 Denied IFP brady-evidence brady-v-maryland brady-violation co-defendant-statement criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence-suppression ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel kaupp-v-texas probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct wong-sun-v-united-states Whether the prosecution's failure to provide Brady evidence is excused by trial counsel's lack of diligence in pursuing that evidence, and whether Mr.…
18-7532 Dale B. Green v. Florida Florida 2019-01-23 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure critical-stage due-process partial-denial presumption-of-unfair-trial pretrial-proceedings right-to-counsel Whether the presumption of an unfair trial applies to the petitioner on the ground that the petitioner suffered a partial denial of his right to couns…
18-7482 Edgar Baltazar Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3599 capital-case criminal-procedure due-process expert-expenses expert-fees global-cap investigative-fees legal-compensation reasonably-necessary statutory-interpretation Whether, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3599(f) and (g)(2), a global cap may be imposed on investigative and expert fees and expenses in a capital case in an…
18-7512 Ronald Jackson v. Illinois Illinois 2019-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights compulsory-process confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-ruling ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-a-fair-trial right-to-fair-trial sixth-amendment state-court subjective-intent Whether counsel provided ineffective assistance by failing to adequately investigate and present exculpatory evidence
18-7513 Nelson Cobas v. Kevin Lindsey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts free-speech sentencing standing state-courts statutory-interpretation Whether the petitioner's conviction under 18 U.S.C. sections 2545 and 2544 violates his constitutional rights
18-7488 Billy R. Lewis v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-01-18 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial nonunanimous-jury nonunanimous-verdict ramos-v-louisiana sixth-amendment Does the right to a jury trial guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment, as applied to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment, allow a criminal convicti…
18-7491 Scott Anthony Crow v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habitual-offender ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing Did the federal judges in the 8th Cir. Fail to review newly discovered claims
18-7504 Raphael R. Hamilton v. Joe M. Allbaugh, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied IFP circuit-court-discretion coercion competency criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process guilty-plea guilty-plea-withdrawal jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue right-to-withdraw standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by not reversing the trial court's order denying petitioner his right to withdrawal of the guilty ple…
18-7506 Jonathan Glen Turner v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure dilatory-conduct due-process manipulative-conduct obstreperous-conduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver Whether a defendant may waive his Sixth Amendment right to counsel by dilatory, obstreperous, or manipulative conduct, as opposed to express statement
18-7455 Josue Israel Sanchez v. California California 2019-01-17 Denied IFP burden-of-proof civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial government-misconduct presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-misconduct wrongful-conviction Whether the wrongful prosecution, conviction, and appeal of an innocent person is legally permissible despite the government's and society's unwilling…
18-7468 Robert Charles Jones v. Jack Palmer, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-advice criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus hill-v-lockhart ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel life-without-parole parole plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief sentencing sixth-amendment Whether Jones received ineffective assistance of counsel
18-7471 Mark Henry, aka Weida Zheng, aka Scott Russel, aka Bob Wilson, aka Joanna Zhong v. United States Second Circuit 2019-01-17 Denied IFP arms-export-control-act court-interpreters-act criminal-procedure mens-rea nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation Whether a 'willful' violation of the Arms Export Control Act requires proof of defendant's awareness of export licensing requirements
18-7473 William Dale Albright v. Kansas Kansas 2019-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne alleyne-decision alleyne-v-united-states apprendi apprendi-rule criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent Does this Court's decision in Alleyne v. United States, 570 US 99 (2013) announce a new rule or was it dictated by Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 US 466 …
18-7477 Ja'Juan Williams v. Dean Minor, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-01-17 Denied IFP actual-innocence conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief Was trial counsel ineffective for not raising issue of actual innocence?
18-7478 Lloyd Michael Blair v. Michigan Michigan 2019-01-17 Denied IFP constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect jury-trial post-conviction-relief relief resentencing sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment Are the sentencing proceedings that were found to be unconstitutional made to be invalid?
18-7479 Farrell Haycraft v. Indiana Indiana 2019-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion jury-deliberation jury-instructions mistrial trial-court-error verdict verdict-modification Did the Trial Court Err when it order the jurors to redeliberate after it reach a verdict of guilty and not guilty on all counts?
18-7480 Karreem Tislam Jabar Wiley v. Larry Cartledge, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment compulsory-process confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel Did Trial Defense Counsel violate the Petitioner's 6th Amendment rights?
18-7427 Abdirahman Yasin Daud v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error harmless-error-analysis jury-instruction jury-instructions jury-trial sixth-amendment specific-intent Whether the Court of Appeals' application of 'harmless error' analysis to an erroneous jury instruction violated the defendant's Sixth Amendment right…
18-7444 Chad Talada v. David V. Cole, Sheriff, Steuben County Jail Second Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence administrative-procedure binding-precedent collateral-review criminal-procedure district-court habeas-corpus inadequate-or-ineffective retroactivity saving-clause Whether § 2255(e)'s saving clause permits a criminal defendant to pursue a claim of actual innocence in the district where he is detained when binding…
18-7445 Lennis A. George v. Jason Kent, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP attempted-manslaughter constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence procedural-history standard-of-review Whether there was sufficient evidence to convict Lennis George of attempted manslaughter?
18-7446 Anthony Jujuan Hopkins v. Warden, Ventress Correctional Facility Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-challenge court-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction legal-proceeding ninth-circuit petition-for-review sentencing standing Whether the U.S. Appeals Court for the Eleventh Circuit erred in denying petitioners' COA, when petitioners raise jurisdictional issues that can be ra…
18-7447 Christopher E. Lemon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional constitutional-provision constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit plea-agreement waiver-of-appeal Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by enforcing the unconstitutional Waiver of Appeal provision in Petitioner Lemon's Plea Agreement
18-7451 Shane Cox v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP affirmative-defense criminal-procedure due-process due-process-right-to-present-defense federal-preemption federal-prosecution firearms-regulation kansas-law second-amendment short-barreled-rifles silencers state-rights Did the district court deny Mr. Cox his due process right to present a defense when it precluded Mr. Cox from arguing to the jury that his reliance on…
18-7452 Herminio Garcia-Carillo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process due-process,equal-protection,immigration,prejudice equal-protection fair-trial free-speech immigration immigration-bias impartiality jury-selection prejudice voir-dire Whether a judge must allow voir dire into prejudice against Mexican immigrants when a Mexican immigrant faces trial for illegal reentry after a presid…
18-7460 Clint Horvatt v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied IFP adversarial-testing appeal change-of-venue civil-procedure competency-hearing criminal-acts criminal-procedure disciplinary-history due-process independent-act-doctrine ineffective-assistance involuntary-intoxication record standing trial-counsel trial-court Did the trial court fail to attach portions of the record?
18-7464 Carlton E. Gary v. Florida Florida 2019-01-16 Denied IFP competency-hearing criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standard expert-testimony expert-witness fundamental-error judicial-error prejudice violation witness-credibility witness-influence Whether the expert witness's report was improperly influenced by the witness's actions, resulting in a violation of due process
18-7466 Glenn Bennett, Jr. v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions sixth-amendment Whether the erroneous jury instruction given in Mr. Bennett's case negated his only defense and relieved the State of the burden of proving all elemen…
18-922 Abraham M. Fisch v. Texas Texas 2019-01-16 Denied attorney-fees client-rights criminal-defense-attorney criminal-procedure due-process excessive-fines forfeiture sixth-amendment standard-of-review What is the appropriate standard of review for the forfeiture of attorney's fees?
18-7412 Keith Kennedy v. Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections Louisiana 2019-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing standing Why did the judge deny the defendant's motion to withdraw his guilty plea?
18-7418 Derrick T. Seals v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 851-enhancement ambiguous-plea contract criminal-procedure due-process enhancement government-breach ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines supervised-release Did government breach plea agreement/contract when defendant never agreed to enhancement?
18-7419 Fausto Becerra v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP accountability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure drug-offenses drug-quantity due-process maximum-punishment plea-agreement plea-bargain prosecutorial-discretion sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines Whether the district court erred in sentencing the petitioner beyond the maximum punishment for the conduct he was 'accountable' for under the plea ba…
18-7421 Torrence Allen v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-provision certificate-of-appealability constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure habeas-corpus johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines mandatory-sentencing-guidelines retroactivity retroactivity-of-supreme-court-decisions sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness Whether Johnson v. United States applies retroactively to a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion
18-7422 David Lee Williams v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Louisiana 2019-01-15 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction louisiana-supreme-court right-to-counsel standing statutory-interpretation Whether the defendant's due process rights were violated when the Louisiana Supreme Court upheld his conviction and sentence without a hearing or oral…
18-7423 Rodney Washington v. Gary A. Boughton, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights court-discretion criminal-procedure dna-evidence dna-profile double-standard due-process ex-post-facto legal-precedent perjury retroactive-application statute-of-limitations What constitutes a specific DNA profile for the purposes of tolling the statute of limitations?
18-7430 Mohamed Abdihamid Farah v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instructions specific-intent trial-by-jury witness-credibility Whether the failure to include in jury instructions the required element of specific intent is subject to harmless error analysis where the element is…
18-7385 Cheng Le v. United States Second Circuit 2019-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP biological-weapons biological-weapons-act commerce-clause constitutional-law-commerce-clause-treaty-power-bi criminal-law-biological-weapons-anti-terrorism-act criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-standard-of-review-plain-error- federalism plain-error standard-of-review treaty-power Whether federalism principles preclude holding Le Whether the Biological Weapons Act 18 U.S.C. §175 Whether a less demanding standard of review than plain error should be applied
18-7390 Martin R. Stancik v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver circuit-split constitutional-error constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process sentencing sixth-circuit waiver Whether a criminal defendant's waiver of his right to appeal a sentence includes a waiver of the right to appeal a later, unforeseen constitutional du…
18-7393 Rodrigo Roman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process firearm-enhancement firearm-possession guidelines-interpretation sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-enhancement stare-decisis Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's application of the firearm enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1(b)(1) without requirin…
18-7395 Wilfred H. v. West Virginia West Virginia 2019-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-materiality brady-v-maryland criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence-suppression exculpatory-evidence materiality-standard prosecutorial-misconduct suppressed-evidence Under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), does the materiality standard require that the suppressed evidence directly go to proving any count again…
18-7400 Damion Sleugh v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review co-defendant-testimony criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence fifth-amendment first-amendment impeachment impeachment-evidence witness-credibility Whether the need for sealing a co-defendant's subpoena applications ends once the co-defendant changes his plea and testifies for the Government at tr…
18-7402 Robert Shapiro v. United States Federal Circuit 2019-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment compulsory-process confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial public-trial right-to-counsel speedy-trial What is the meaning of the Sixth Amendment's guarantee of the right to a criminal prosecution, including the right to a speedy and public trial, by an…
18-7405 Gary Lee Beason v. Indiana Indiana 2019-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel-ineffectiveness appellate-review child-molestation collateral-attack criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-bias state-action trial-counsel trial-counsel-ineffectiveness Was Beason denied basic Due Process when a biased judge presided over his trial, and can the states preclude the issue from review on collateral attac…
18-7406 Benjamin James Boatman v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2019-01-14 Denied IFP criminal-procedure cumulative-error drug-induced-psychosis due-process heat-of-passion ineffective-assistance jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel Ineffective assistance of counsel
18-7329 Phillip Dale Selfa v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy dual-sovereignty due-process federal-state-jurisdiction presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-vindictiveness Does the prophylactic presumption of prosecutorial vindictiveness (North Carolina v. Pearce, 395 U.S. 711 (1982)) apply when two different sovereigns …
18-7371 Nicole Johnson v. California California 2019-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions presumption-of-innocence reasonable-doubt stolen-property Whether proof that the defendant possessed recently stolen property—any stolen property, as far as the instruction is concerned, even if the defendant…
18-7372 Santos Cuevas v. Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Prison Ninth Circuit 2019-01-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech grand-jury jurisdiction presumption-of-innocence standing Whether the district courts retained jurisdiction to entertain claims that the trial court directing a grand jury and judges to deliberate with statut…
18-7380 Ricardo Glover v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2019-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure deprivation-of-liberty due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge liberty prosecutorial-misconduct subject-matter-jurisdiction united-states-constitution Whether a person is deprived of their liberty when they are forcefully brought before a court in chains and shackles by the prosecution, the prosecuti…
18-7382 Jervon L. Herbin v. Virginia Virginia 2019-01-11 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sixth-amendment structural-defect Did the Lower Court(s) Err in refusing to grant retroactive application to Fishback v. Commonwealth?
18-7298 Nicole M. Moore v. Florida Florida 2019-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland civil-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process false-testimony incarceration prison-sentence prosecutorial-misconduct state-action wrongful-conviction Whether the Due Process Clause excuses the State of Florida's use of false testimony in the procurement of a conviction and 13-year prison sentence wh…
18-7348 Edgar Arnold Garcia v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 18-USC-3582c2 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing dillon-v-united-states district-court-discretion due-process legal-error sentence-modification sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-methodology statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum Whether Dillon v. United States requires reevaluation of original sentencing methodology in sentence modification proceedings under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c…
18-7351 Rahmad Lashad Geddes v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne appellate-review apprendi civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Can a court of appeals sanction a lower court's departure from this court's well-established precedents that effectively conflates the standard of rev…
18-7356 Jack Gossett v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial-procedure defendant-rights due-process expert-testimony government-agent-testimony jury-influence prejudice reasonable-doubt reversible-error substantial-rights untendered-expert-testimony Did the testimony of a government agent, not tendered as an expert, influence the jury's decision on guilt beyond a reasonable doubt?
18-7358 Aaron Ford v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255,ineffective-counsel ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error presentence-investigation-report section-2255-motion sentencing Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying to issue a certificate of appealability to review Petitioner's denied motion under 28 U…
18-7360 Peter Mathis, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process final-judgment grand-jury insufficient-evidence sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation Did Congress' enactment of 18 USC § 3742(a) allow for the review of an otherwise final sentence if a defendant could show a violation of law?
18-7365 Robert Allen DeVore v. Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Oregon 2019-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment consecutive-sentences constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus minimum-sentences sentencing Does the combined sentence totaling of 495 years with a 247% year minimum violate the Eighth Amendment against cruel and unusual punishment?
18-7367 Darwin Markeith Huggans v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review counsel-advice criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review lee-v-united-states legal-standard misinformation sixth-amendment Was the lower court required to address an evidentiary hearing when the evidence clearly showed that Huggins was misinformed based on counsel's advice…
18-7392 In Re James Rudnick 2019-01-10 Denied IFP 13th-amendment 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure custody due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus incarceration-authority mittimus thirteenth-amendment Whether the Respondent has valid authority to punish the Applicant and keep him incarcerated without a valid conviction
18-7305 William Hilts v. United States Second Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury hearsay hearsay-testimony indictment witness-testimony Whether a criminal defendant's right to be prosecuted on an indictment voted by a Grand Jury under the Fifth Amendment is violated when the Grand Jury…
18-7307 Yoni Rayo-Espinoza v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
18-7308 Ronnie Junior Rodriguez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony expert-witness federal-agent jury-instructions photographic-evidence pro-se-defense prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony Whether the defendant's due process rights were violated when the government presented unreliable expert testimony and improperly influenced the jury
18-7315 James Gregory Armistead v. Jennie Bowen, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights contracts-clause criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto fourth-amendment hearing-rights informal-hearing program-eligibility termination Whether the trial court and administrative agency denied petitioner due process and equal protection rights by terminating him from a program without …
18-7318 Jesus Gomez v. California California 2019-01-09 Denied IFP burglary criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment uncharged-burglaries Whether admission of evidence of uncharged burglaries violated petitioner's rights to a fair trial and due process
18-7322 Robert R. Yerton, Jr. v. Jason Bryant, Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal confrontation-clause criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process expert-witness federal-appeal indigent-defense sixth-amendment tenth-circuit Whether the Tenth Circuit Court erred in holding that the District Court of Tulsa County's refusal to permit a unique expert defense witness to presen…
18-7323 Robert Willis v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP acca armed-career-criminal-act career-offender criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum violent-felony Whether petitioner Willis's 'B&E Occupied' is a violent felony under ACCA?
18-7325 John Joseph Zinkand v. Carlos Hernandez, Superintendent, Avery-Mitchell Correctional Institution, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus imprisonment indictment state-law statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Did North Carolina State unlawfully imprison Petitioner upon an unconstitutional statute?
18-7330 Michael Anthony Garrett v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-theory due-process evidence fifth-amendment jury-instructions right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment trial-evidence Whether a defendant's constitutional right to present a defense encompasses the right to have the jury instructed on a theory of defense that constitu…
18-7245 Ronnie Junior Rodriguez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence false-declaration federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay legal-procedure perjury self-incrimination standing witness-testimony Whether the petitioner's Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination was violated when the government presented hearsay evidence against him at t…
18-7281 Olandio Ray Workman v. John Vandermosten, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence false-charges indigent-defense legal-mail medical-care prison prison-conditions right-to-counsel standing Did the District Court in Greenville, South Carolina deny me due process when they didn't finish school and let me know yet?
18-7282 Benjamin Edward Henry Bradley v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process factual-findings objection presentence-report sentencing sixth-circuit Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals err in affirming the district court's sentencing judgment where the district court adopted the Presentence Repo…
18-7284 Roger Leon Barlow v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-pa-c-s-a-9541 constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process illegal-sentence pennsylvania pennsylvania-courts post-conviction-relief post-conviction-relief-act re-sentencing sentencing void-ab-initio Did the Pennsylvania Courts err in denying the instant Post Conviction Relief Act Petition for failing to recognize that the P.C.R.A. statute, 42 Pa.C…
18-7289 Peter D. Bommerito v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment administrative-policy ballot-initiatives civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process public-policy state-legislation Should the people in the state of California be constitutionally protected under the Fourteenth Amendment in the presence of increasingly severe crimi…
18-7290 Muhamet Ajvazi v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied IFP constitutional-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process enhancement evidence judicial-review prior-conviction prior-convictions remand reversal sentencing Whether the court should reverse and remand due to the admission of evidence of prior conviction used as enhancement that was not fulfilled
18-7291 Dillon Wade Thompson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure deliberation digital-cameras due-process evidence evidence-admissibility judicial-discretion jury jury-deliberations lewd-exhibition prosecutorial-misconduct trial Is it a violation of a defendant's Due Process rights if, while deliberating, the fact-finder viewed evidence that was not shown at trial, even if sai…
18-7293 Neil Walker v. Alabama Alabama 2019-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conflict-of-laws criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process jurisdiction sentencing standing venue Where there is a conflict between the two state laws?
18-7302 Angel Bartlett v. Stephen Gorsalitz, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied IFP civil-rights court-misconduct criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process false-allegations hate-crime judicial-abuse peonage retaliation witness-tampering Was it illegal or wrongful for Stephen Gorsalitz and the Kalamazoo Courts to frame, Set up and destroy Angel Bartlett when she first had her kids?
18-7304 Juan Rodriguez-Mantos v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-law federal-sentencing-guidelines fifth-circuit judicial-review reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness supervisory-power Whether the imposition of an outside Guidelines sentence is reasonable
18-7312 Danny D. Tran v. Kansas Kansas 2019-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP coerced-confession criminal-procedure due-process in-re-gault ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-confession juvenile-rights postcard-denial strickland-standard williams-v-taylor Question not identified
18-7313 Lewis Templeton v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure drug-crimes firearms sentencing spatial-connection sufficiency-of-evidence u.s.s.g.-2k2.1(b)(6)(b) waiver Whether the Tenth Circuit correctly concluded that Mr. Templeton had waived his argument that the evidence was insufficient to support increasing Mr. …
18-7242 Dauntorian Lyndel Sanders v. Arizona Arizona 2019-01-07 Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment precedent sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent Whether Arizona follows the precedent of Simmons v. South Carolina, 512 U.S. 154 (1994), as set forth in Lynch v. Arizona, 136 S. Ct. 1818 (2016)
18-7243 Javier Rojas-Cisneros v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus notice-and-warning pro-se standing Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit failed to undertake the notice-and-warning requirement of a pro se filing as a 2255 motion as …
18-7248 Vertis Anthony v. Louis Boyd, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment judicial-bias jurisdiction probable-cause rules-of-civil-procedure standing subject-matter-jurisdiction warrantless-search Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erred in its rulings on the jurisdictional issues raised in the petition
18-7249 John Doe v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3582 circuit-court-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing dillon-v-united-states federal-criminal-procedure federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion resentencing sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation Whether the holding in Dillon v. United States, 560 U.S. 817 (2010) applies to 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(B) in the same manner it applies to 18 U.S.C. § …
18-7257 Amadou Diakite v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection personnel policy sentencing standing Whether the prosecution of the petitioner violated the petitioner's constitutional rights
18-7269 Larry Allison v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-review legal-procedure plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation Can one be sentenced for a crime to which no plea of guilty has been entered and no actual resulting conviction has been held?
18-7270 Antonio Bryant v. Illinois Illinois 2019-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process in-re-winship ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-confessions involuntary-statements people-v-bryant standard-of-proof sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Illinois Appellate Court's decision in People v. Bryant is contradictory to this Court's decisions in In re Winship, Jackson v. Denno, and…
18-7271 Richard Steven Johnson, Jr. v. Neil McDowell, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied IFP confrontation-clause coy-v-iowa criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process fundamental-rights maryland-v-craig witness-testimony Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals violated petitioner's fundamental rights by ruling that the California Courts reasonably applied this Court…
18-7272 Juan Pablo Arreola v. United States Second Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP cocaine-trafficking criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-evidence due-process evidence evidence-admission indictment-scope jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing standards-of-review Whether evidence of uncharged cocain trafficking was admitted erroneously
18-863 Tralvis Edmond v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment confidential-informant criminal-activity criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant temporal-evidence Whether a complaint for search warrant that is silent as to the date on which alleged criminal activity occurred and recounts only a single drug purch…
18-854 George Alvarez v. City of Brownsville, Texas Fifth Circuit 2019-01-04 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence monell-liability municipal-liability plea-agreement plea-bargaining united-states-v-ruiz Whether due process requires the government to disclose exculpatory evidence before entering a plea agreement with a criminal defendant
18-7228 Dashawn D. Brown v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency excited-utterance excited-utterances hearsay hearsay-evidence prior-identification residual-hearsay-exception sentencing sentencing-error supervised-release Whether the sentencing court erred in admitting hearsay statements as excited utterances
18-7230 Antwain D. Ashley v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel open-plea plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment Whether Ashley Was Denied His Sixth Amendment Right to Effective Assistance of Counsel
18-7231 Mark J. Avery v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial good-faith good-faith-defense money-laundering specific-intent trust trustee-liability wire-fraud Where the defendant, trustee of a private trust charged with wire fraud and money laundering based on his non-disclosure and misspending involving tru…
18-7240 Charles Jermaine King, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender constitutional-rights criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process guidelines habeas-corpus recidivism recidivist sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant was properly treated as a recidivist?
18-7209 Daniel Oberacker v. Jeff Noble, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-criminal-procedure-due-process-hab civil-proceeding criminal-charge criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus parallel-proceedings sex-offender-classification statutory-limitation Whether a parallel civil proceeding may be merged and transformed into a criminal charge/issue at the appellate level
18-7210 Gordon Prailow v. Maryland Maryland 2019-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP automatic-reversal collateral-review constitutional-deficiency criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jury-instructions jury-verdict reasonable-doubt retroactivity sixth-amendment watershed-rule Whether state collateral review courts must retroactively apply the watershed/bedrock procedural rule of automatic reversal to jury findings that are …
18-836 Phil Miranda Luna v. Florida Florida 2019-01-03 Denied Response Waived capital-sexual-battery criminal-procedure due-process entrapment internet-sting internet-sting-operation jury-instruction jury-instructions minor sexual-battery statutory-entrapment traveling-to-engage-sex-with-minor Whether due process is denied when a trial court refuses to instruct a jury on a statutory entrapment defense
18-839 Pablo Colon v. Illinois Illinois 2019-01-03 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment miranda miranda-rights police-procedure right-to-silence self-incrimination Whether the Fifth Amendment's Miranda guarantee requires police to inform a custodial suspect of his right to stop questioning at any time?
18-842 Gilbert Mendez v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-01-03 Denied assistant-us-attorney attorney-misconduct criminal-procedure due-process fraud government-negligence jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction us-attorney Whether the Court of Appeals erred by failing to recognize that a U.S. District Court lacks subject-matter jurisdiction over a criminal prosecution wh…
18-7206 Christopher Thomas Kegler v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process evidence legal-precedent miranda-rights search-and-seizure self-incrimination supreme-court-review Should this Court reconsider and reverse Schneckloth v. Bustamente
18-7215 Salih Zeki Uces v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment indictment-amendment international-kidnapping international-parental-kidnapping jury-instructions mens-rea parental-rights Whether the Eleventh Circuit violated Mr. Uces's rights under the Fifth Amendment
18-7217 C. G., a Minor v. New Jersey New Jersey 2019-01-02 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-trial juvenile-justice state-law Does a state law that completely bans jury trials for juveniles charged with crimes violate the federal constitutional rights to a jury trial, due pro…
18-7219 Jose Amador and Diana Mekaeil v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-01-02 Denied IFP appellate-review burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule invited-error judicial-procedure legal-burden standard-of-review warrantless-search Whether a finding of invited error requires a finding of deliberateness
18-7196 Edward Allen McElroy v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-12-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography criminal-procedure due-process faretta-hearing faretta-v-california pro-se-representation self-representation sentencing supervised-release waiver-of-counsel Where a defendant is charged in federal court with possession and production of child pornography, the maximum punishment for which carries a lifetime…
18-7198 Julio Cruz v. David Hallenbeck, Superintendent, Hale Creek Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2018-12-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment affidavit civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure declaration due-process excessive-fines habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis incorporation ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief poverty redress Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment
18-7199 Adelmo A. Fauntleroy v. Virginia Virginia 2018-12-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-counsel incarceration ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-doubt right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Did the Court have sufficient evidence beyond a reasonable doubt to convict the petitioner under the Sixth Amendment
18-821 David Keith Wills v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-28 Denied Relisted (2) constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy dual-sovereignty fifth-amendment gamble-v-united-states supreme-court Whether the Court should overrule the dual sovereignty exception to the Fifth Amendment Double Jeopardy Clause
18-7172 Tomas Marco Keen v. Washington Washington 2018-12-27 Denied IFP brady-v-maryland constitutional-rights criminal-procedure disclosure due-process exculpatory-evidence plea-bargaining plea-negotiations prosecutorial-disclosure prosecutorial-misconduct Does the prosecutor have a duty to disclose exculpatory information relating to threatened--but not filed--charges during plea negotiations?
18-7179 Trevelle J. Taylor v. Nebraska Nebraska 2018-12-27 Denied IFP 4th-amendment arrest-standards civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search witness-testimony Whether a person's mere proximity to others independently suspected of criminal activity, without more, gives rise to probable cause to search that pe…
18-7180 Miguel Antonio Urquia-Melendez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi case-law certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing supreme-court-precedent Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
18-7185 Santos Orlando Diaz-Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres-precedent constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-reconsideration recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review Whether the Court should overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998)
18-7143 Derian Eidson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-12-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1956 18-usc-1956-a-3 criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute federal-prosecution government-sting money-laundering proceeds-definition specified-unlawful-activity statutory-interpretation Whether the criminal prohibitions against money laundering contained in 18 U.S.C. § 1956(a)(1) based on financial transactions that 'in fact involvel]…
18-7167 Cornelius Tyrone Kirsh v. Louisiana Louisiana 2018-12-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-flight burden-of-proof criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habitual-offender insufficient-evidence involuntary-statements reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence Whether reasonable jurist would debate that the State failed to meet its burden of proof of beyond a reasonable doubt that Mr. Kirsh is guilt
18-7169 Steve L. Wright, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-12-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole meaningful-opportunity-for-release ongoing-offense retroactivity sentencing-mitigation term-of-years term-of-years-sentence Whether courts must consider juvenile conduct as a mitigating sentencing factor for an ongoing offense
18-7170 Jonathan Yancey v. Alabama Alabama 2018-12-26 Denied IFP civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection exculpatory-evidence first-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment standing takings Whether the petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated when his trial counsel failed to investigate and presen…
18-7139 James Castleman Gipson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review presentence-report sentencing Whether factual findings of a Presentence Report (PSR) that result in a higher sentence must be proven by the government in the face of objection
18-7141 Luis Rey Gonzalez v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-analysis constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent overruling precedent recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Should this Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998)?
18-7147 Abasi Akeem Smith v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-111 18-usc-1114 criminal-procedure federal-officer federal-task-force law-enforcement official-duties state-law-enforcement statutory-interpretation Whether a state law enforcement officer, who has also been made a member of a federal task force, qualifies as a federal agent when he is acting in th…
18-7165 Drakile Leroy Jones v. Michigan Michigan 2018-12-21 Denied IFP confrontation-clause crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process evidence michigan-supreme-court sixth-amendment standing state-court-appeal supervisory-power williamson-v-united-states Whether the decision of the Michigan Court of Appeals conflicts with Crawford v. Washington?
18-7133 Paul Burks v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-tax due-process elements federal-courts federal-prosecution indictment indictment-elements pretrial-motion statutory-interpretation substantive-law tax-law uncertainty Whether the substantial existence of uncertainty in the governing substantive tax law is irrelevant to the determination of a pretrial motion to dismi…
18-7134 Lindsey Brooke Lowe v. Tennessee Tennessee 2018-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP bouie-v-city-of-columbia criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto exclusionary-rule good-faith-exception judicial-decision-making retroactive-application rogers-v-tennessee Whether the limitations on ex post facto judicial decision-making that this Court recognized in Bouie v. City of Columbia and Rogers v. Tennessee, and…
18-7137 Jamie R. Madrigal v. Ohio Ohio 2018-12-20 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment brady-v-maryland brady-violation constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance res-judicata statutory-interpretation May withholding exculpatory and impeaching evidence be disregarded and/or used to obtain or sustain a conviction?
18-7138 Antonio Alvarez-Moreno v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process firearms law-enforcement-notification sentencing-guidelines supervised-release vagueness weapon-possession Are these conditions unconstitutionally vague?
18-7145 William Sadowski v. Randy Grounds, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process fair-trial impartial-jury jury-impartiality police-presence Whether the presence of uniformed police officers during a trial involving the death of a police officer violates a criminal defendant's right to due …
18-7150 Daniel Hostetler v. Kentucky Kentucky 2018-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation brady-violation-suppression circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence guilty-plea plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct suppression Whether material exculpatory evidence is unconstitutionally suppressed when the defense is made aware its existence and its content, but is later inco…
18-7152 Yosnel Bonet v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied IFP commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-power federal-prosecution firearm-possession firearms intrastate intrastate-commerce legal-authority possession second-amendment standing supreme-court-review Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is facially unconstitutional because it exceeds Congress's authority under the Commerce Clause, and is unconstitutional …
18-7154 John Visconti v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP boulware-precedent boulware-v-united-states corporate-fraud corporate-governance corporate-stock criminal-law criminal-procedure distribution-interpretation legal-classification return-of-capital securities-law shareholder-rights statutory-interpretation stock-distribution tax-evasion unlawful-diversion Whether an unlawful diversion may be deemed a 'distribution . . . with respect to [a corporation's] stock,' the question expressly left open in Boulwa…
18-7089 Esau Milliner v. Kathy Litteral, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver closing-argument confession constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-burglary ineffective-assistance-of-counsel initial-aggressor procedural-bar right-to-appeal right-to-testify self-defense trial-counsel Effective-assistance-of-counsel
18-7095 Miguel Robinson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment circumstances circumstantial-evidence criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-search rigid-legal-rules rule-of-law search search-and-seizure search-warrant Did the Court of Appeals violate the principle that rigid legal rules are ill-suited to an analysis of probable cause by relying on a rule to find a m…
18-7101 John Samuel Ghobrial v. California California 2018-12-19 Denied IFP capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-maximum Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact that serves to increa…
18-7104 Axel Irizarry-Rosario v. United States First Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process government-misconduct government-obligation government-obligations judicial-ethics plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion sentencing sentencing-argument statutory-interpretation Whether the government may avoid its obligation to scrupulously observe the terms of a plea agreement by including in its sentencing argument informat…
18-7106 Ramiro Plascencia-Orozco v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal breach breach-of-contract commerce-clause constitutional-violation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eleventh-amendment judicial-power plea-agreement sentencing Whether the District Court Erred When it Declared, Petitioner Breached His 2011 Plea Agreement and Thus Allowed the Government to go Forward on Charge…
18-7107 Naeem-Lateef Odums v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment-due-process,6th-amendment-right-to-c 5th-amendment-due-process,sentencing-discretion,me 6th-amendment attorney-client-privilege criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intentional-deception mental-health-evaluation sentencing sixth-amendment Does it violate the 6th Amendment right to effective-assistance-of-counsel when a defendant's lawyer intentionally-deception
18-7109 Tshombe Miller v. Ohio Ohio 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-charging criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process juror-consensus jury-consensus ohio-constitution rape-allegations united-states-constitution Is 'carbon copy' charging of multiple allegations of rape violative of due process and/or double jeopardy pursuant to the United States and Ohio Const…
18-7110 James M. Flinn v. Mike Parris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment indictment indictment-allegations insufficient-evidence jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Petitioner was convicted upon insufficient evidence in violation of the Due Process Clause
18-7119 Stanley Grigsby v. Louisiana Louisiana 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-justice criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process excessive-sentence judicial-error jurisdiction louisiana-law sentencing sentencing-review subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Louisiana Court's have erred in determining that the sentence was not excessive?
18-7123 Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-12-19 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP criminal-defendant criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearm-possession firearms legal-knowledge mens-rea second-amendment statutory-interpretation statutory-offense Whether 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g) and 924 require the government to prove a criminal defendant's mens rea as to each substantive element of the enumerated s…
18-7124 Ruben Geovanni Hernandez v. Texas Texas 2018-12-19 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fishing-expedition fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion scope-of-detention search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-search Does the Fourth Amendment protect against a 'fishing expedition' to develop 'reasonable suspicion' to exceed the scope of an initial stop in order to …
18-7130 Matthew G. Alden, Jr. v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2018-12-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof criminal-charges criminal-charges-text-messages criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance jury-instructions preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt reasonable-doubt right-to-acquittal structural-error text-message-evidence text-messages Whether the government's use of a preponderance-of-the-evidence standard to prove that the defendant sent text messages violates the defendant's right…
18-7074 Gennaro Mattiaccio v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the evidence was insufficient to sustain the convictions on Count 3
18-7075 Patrick Martinez v. Texas Texas 2018-12-18 Denied IFP criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Lafler-v-Cooper parole parole-eligibility plea-bargaining reasonable-probability sixth-amendment Whether the decision below is irreconcilable with Lafler v. Cooper and the reasonable probability standard for analyzing prejudice in ineffective assi…
18-7076 Evelyn Person v. United States Second Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process inconsistent-verdicts jury-instructions jury-verdict legal-conflict narcotics narcotics-conspiracy special-interrogatories Whether the Second Circuit's failure to vacate the verdict of guilt rendered against Petitioner in the narcotics conspiracy count based upon an irreco…
18-7078 Joseph O'Shaughnessy, aka Joseph D. O'Shaughnessy v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review appellate-waiver criminal-procedure due-process involuntary-plea judicial-review ninth-circuit-procedure plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness voluntariness waiver Whether the Ninth Circuit properly dismissed the appeal without articulating the factors it found to base its conclusion that the plea and waiver were…
18-7079 Franklyn Morillo v. United States First Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-waiver certiorari controlled-substances criminal-procedure district-court due-process first-impression first-impression' 'Should certiorari be granted i judicial-discretion knowing-intelligent-voluntary legal-standard plea-bargaining procedural-rights role-enhancement sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review' 'Should certiorari be granted Should certiorari be granted to decide whether a district court can only ask a Petitioner a single question about an appellate waiver, even though tha…
18-7080 Yusufu Danmola v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitution constitution-law constitutional-interpretation court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-enforcement separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation uniform-commercial-code Is the Court Allowed to Enforce a Law not in Pursuance with the Constitution?
18-7087 Daniel Lopez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-conflict circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review plain-error plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the District Court committed plain error by allowing the prosecutor to commit prosecutorial misconduct by breaching the plea agreement
18-772 Erasmo Aviles, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied compulsory-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence exculpatory-testimony government-interests immunity prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination witness-immunity Does due process require a court to compel the government, on pain of dismissal, to seek immunity for an essential defense witness if government's int…
18-7039 Alexander Ndaula v. United States First Circuit 2018-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 5th-amendment 6th-amendment burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing loss-amount sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether the 5th and 6th Amendments require an evidentiary hearing on disputed sentencing factors and an adequate explanation for an enhanced sentence …
18-7050 Javier Portillo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP border-crossing border-search criminal-evidence criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process evidence jury knowledge-standard mens-rea narcotics-possession ninth-circuit standard-of-proof sufficiency-of-evidence trial-sufficiency Whether the Ninth Circuit's analysis of the facts was inadequate
18-7058 Jose Joaquin Ramirez v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2018-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment bail-denial civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony flight-risk mental-health pretrial-detention Whether the denial of bail for over 15 months on an individual who has no documented history of felony, prior acts of violence, and no history of flig…
18-7065 Fabio Porfirio Lobo v. United States Second Circuit 2018-12-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process inaccurate-information judicial-discretion life-sentence sentencing Whether Petitioner's due process rights were violated when the United States District Court relied on inaccurate information sentencing him to a defac…
18-7069 John Ludovici v. Robert Marsh, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Benner Township, et al. Third Circuit 2018-12-17 Denied IFP 14th-amendment brady-violation constitutional-violation criminal-procedure discovery due-process material-evidence misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct Did the Commonwealth commit misconduct when it intentionally withheld various forms of material evidence in violation of the 14th Amendment?
18-7072 Kenneth Harper v. United States Second Circuit 2018-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea harmless-error judicial-error plea-bargaining plea-colloquy rule-11 sentencing-guidelines Has United States v. Vonn, 535 U.S. 55 (2005), and its progeny stripped the Courts of Appeal of the ability to meaningfully supervise the plea colloqu…
18-7035 Eminiano A. Reodica v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court evidentiary-hearing federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea motion-to-withdraw plea-withdrawal rule-11 Whether Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(d) governing motions to withdraw a guilty plea establishes a liberal standard which precludes the distri…
18-7038 William Owens v. Texas Texas 2018-12-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence material-evidence police-report prosecutorial-misconduct victim-credibility whether-state-withheld-material-evidence
18-7047 Anthony Casanova v. Michigan Michigan 2018-12-14 Denied IFP criminal-procedure custodial-confession custodial-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment interrogation involuntary-confession miranda-rights self-incrimination Did the trial court's admission of Anthony Casanova's custodial confession deprive him of his Fifth Amendment right against compelled self-incriminati…
18-7053 Kevin Scott Varner v. John Christiansen, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-12-14 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment habeas-corpus state-court state-court-litigation state-court-review stone-v-powell What constitutes an opportunity for full and fair litigation of a Fourth Amendment claim in state court?
18-7056 David Leonard Johnson v. California California 2018-12-14 Denied IFP california-law criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-lesser-included-offense descamps-standard due-process jury-instructions lesser-included-offense prejudicial-error prior-convictions receiving-stolen-property robbery Is the crime of receiving stolen property a lesser included offense of robbery, and if so, was the trial court's failure to instruct on receiving stol…
18-763 Chaka Fattah, Sr. v. United States Third Circuit 2018-12-14 Denied 6th-amendment circuit-split criminal-procedure deliberations due-process evidence judicial-discretion juror-removal jury-unanimity misconduct-standard standard-of-review Whether a district court must determine that there is no possibility that allegations of juror misconduct stem from the juror's view of the evidence t…
18-764 Oscar Henry Steinmetz v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-12-14 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-rights consent consent-search constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure Does the law regarding searches, seizures, and consent need clarification for proper guidance and application?
18-7028 Jameel Simpson v. James Erkerd, et al. Third Circuit 2018-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure effective-assistance effective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice sixth-amendment wrongful-conviction Petitioner was denied effective assistance of counsel due to conflict of interest
18-7029 Jorge Ruelas-Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
18-7001 In Re Michael Kennedy 2018-12-12 Dismissed IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction free-speech habeas-corpus pleadings standing Whether the lower federal courts erred in dismissing petitioner's claims without allowing him to file any pleadings
18-7004 Miguel Rodriguez-Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error remand sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum substantial-rights Whether a court of appeals that finds a plain error in the district court's selection of a statutory maximum should ordinarily order a limited remand …
18-7005 Denis Aviles Salguero v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review child-pornography constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment sentencing Whether Petitioner's convictions for receipt and possession of child pornography violated the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment
18-7009 Jimmy Davis v. United States Third Circuit 2018-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure notice notice-requirement procedural-due-process supervised-release third-circuit Whether Mr. Davis was denied procedural due process
18-6975 Roy Arlen Van Nortrick v. Louisiana Louisiana 2018-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process duress duress-inducements-promises involuntary-statements judicial-error jury-instructions reasonable-doubt Whether reasonable jurist would debate that the State failed to meet its burden of proof of beyond a reasonable doubt that Mr. Van Nortrick is guilty
18-6978 Ronald Fermin Mascarena v. Montana Montana 2018-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-rights right-to-speedy-trial speedy-trial state-rights Whether the Montana State Supreme Court violated the petitioner's federal right to a speedy trial
18-6980 Traveon Shaquille Martin v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility clear-error criminal-procedure district-court offense-level sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g-3e1.1 Whether the district court clearly erred in denying a three-level reduction in Petitioner's offense level for acceptance of responsibility under U.S.S…
18-6983 Sholam Weiss v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP and a Certificate of Appealability should have is where the government had committed itself to pros adversary-system adverse-positions certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury prosecutorial-commitment prosecutorial-discretion right-to-counsel Whether Mr. Weiss was denied his right to conflict-free counsel during grand jury proceedings
18-6986 Nathan Lynn Cloud v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment intergovernmental-agreements law-enforcement law-enforcement-agreements nevada-v-hicks service-of-process tribal-sovereignty Does the tribal criminal defendant have Fourth Amendment rights when state law enforcement violates an agreement with the tribe regarding criminal ser…
18-6991 Julius King Rambo, III v. Kansas Tenth Circuit 2018-12-11 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights corpus-delecti corpus-delicti criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence falsification-of-evidence perjury statutory-interpretation Whether it is legal, lawful, and constitutional for states to manipulate distinctly explained statutes in order to present charges
18-6995 Ashley Owens v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP co-defendant co-defendant-disparity criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection loss-calculation plea-agreement sentencing Did the Lower Courts violate the Due Process Clause when they sentenced Owens based on an unproven and inflated loss?
18-744 Mark Unger v. David Bergh, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-12-11 Denied criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel expert-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel junk-science sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment guarantee of effective assistance of counsel is violated when counsel fails to expose junk science that sends his client t…
18-6968 Alejandro Quinones Leyva v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina Fourth Circuit 2018-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel language-barriers notice-of-appeal plea-bargaining prejudice right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-rights sixth-amendment Whether the defendant received ineffective assistance of counsel due to counsel's failure to file a notice of appeal
18-6953 Jesus Jaime Jimenez v. Texas Texas 2018-12-10 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment actual-innocence criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect post-conviction-writ texas-constitution Whether the Trial Court, as well as, the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, abused their discretion (violating Applicants Constitutional Rights) by f…
18-6976 Joseph Lochuch Ewalan v. Washington Washington 2018-12-10 Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial double-jeopardy due-process evidentiary-basis jury-instruction jury-instructions lesser-included-offense standard-of-review state-court sufficiency-of-evidence united-states-v-dixon Whether the state trial court erred when it failed to instruct the jury on a lesser included offense when the evidence in the case supports an inferen…
18-6977 James Edward Mitchell v. California California 2018-12-10 Denied IFP california california-law constitution constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process inhabitance-standard jury-instruction jury-instructions residential-burglary statutory-interpretation Does the standard jury instruction for residential burglary in California violate the United States Constitution where it fails to convey that the 'di…
18-6938 Jarrod Phillips v. Rusty Washburn, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure boykin-precedent boykin-v-alabama civil-rights constitutional-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause
18-6941 John Leslie Chapman v. Robert Lampert, Director, Wyoming Department of Corrections, et al. Wyoming 2018-12-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion legal-advisement plea-bargaining sentencing void-judgment Whether the strictures of Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure Rule 11 and the Fourteenth Amendment due process were met concerning personal advisement…
18-6950 Jason Wayne McBride v. Texas Texas 2018-12-07 Denied IFP 5th-amendment amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-intent criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process indictment-amendment mens-rea speedy-trial statutory-interpretation texas-penal-code Did the state decide an important Constitutional Double Jeopardy violation that conflicted with another Court and the Supreme Court?
18-6951 Jamal Cooper v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2518 4th-amendment congressional-intent consent-requirements criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment franks-v-delaware necessity-requirement omnibus-crime-control-act probable-cause separate-application statutory-interpretation wiretap-application wiretap-necessity wiretap-statute Is 18 U.S.C. § 2518 (1) (ce) a statutory provision that reflects Congress' core concerns and does § 2518 (1)(c) require that each request for a wireta…
18-6954 Steven Scott Wells v. California California 2018-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standards expert-testimony fingerprint-analysis fingerprint-evidence forensic-evidence judicial-review scientific-methodology Does a fingerprint expert's testimony that two fingerprints 'match' have any evidentiary value if the expert provides no explanation for that conclusi…
18-6959 Glenn Lloyd Kingham v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied IFP 4th-amendment actual-prejudice assistance-of-counsel civil-rights competency constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction probable-cause procedural-rules search-and-seizure Whether arbitrary government intrusion violates the Fourth Amendment by means of unlawful search and seizure without probable cause
18-6960 Craig Mack v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by errors in his criminal trial and sentencing proceedings
18-6961 In Re Michael D. Johnson 2018-12-07 Denied IFP 6th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-reduction jury-selection right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Does the Sixth Amendment demand the assistance of counsel for a defendant during jury selection or jury reduction?
18-6962 In Re Walter E. Kostich 2018-12-07 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection jurisdiction magistrate-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation statutory-requirements Whether the State prosecution or Courts has the authority to prosecute a criminal case in the absence of a statutory required signed 'Bind-Over Order'…
18-6964 Henry L. Wallace v. United States District of Columbia 2018-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-defects double-jeopardy due-process indictment-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect jury-instruction jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct standing Whether a jurisdiction defective indictment can be procedurally or time bar adjudication
18-6967 Michael Danilovich, aka Sealed Defendant 2, aka Mike Daniels, aka Fat Mike, aka Mike D v. United States Second Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appointment-of-counsel civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process indigent-defendant legal-representation qualified-reappointment reappointment-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether an indigent defendant has a qualified right to reappointment of counsel
18-6920 Clyde Retiz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction indictment plea-bargaining reasonable-sentence sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether facts that alter the range of 'reasonable' federal sentences must be pleaded in the indictment in federal cases?
18-6927 In Re Jerry Urbina 2018-12-06 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-courts judicial-discretion plea-agreement plea-bargaining retroactivity rule-11 sentencing-amendment sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation Whether the lower courts abused their discretion by denying petitioner Urbina relief under the 782 Amendment due to his being the beneficiary of a Rul…
18-6934 Bobby Evans v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-treatment federal-procedure purposes-of-supervised-release revocation sentencing supervised-release Whether revoking the supervised release term of a defendant who is in need of drug treatment, after he initially failed in a drug treatment program, i…
18-6935 Joshua Donald Ewing v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-evidence criminal-procedure drug-transaction due-process electronic-device-evidence evidence jackson-v-virginia registration standard-of-proof user-identification Whether this Court's Opinion in Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307, 319 (1979) needs updating to address what constitutes sufficient evidence, in ident…
18-6940 Dalray Kwane Andrews v. Warren L. Montgomery, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-12-06 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure dilatory faretta-right faretta-v-california habeas-corpus self-representation sixth-amendment timeliness trial-court Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in holding that Faretta clearly established a requirement that a request for self-representation must be made at least…
18-6945 William Nathaniel Washington v. Scott Frauenheim, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-12-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process evidence-fabrication fabricated-evidence false-evidence law-enforcement law-enforcement-misconduct miranda-waiver If there exist authentic uncontradicted testimonial evidence in the record of a criminal proceedings that proves that a member of a law enforcement ag…
18-6946 Sergio Louis Trevino v. Texas Texas 2018-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process plea-bargaining presentencing-waiver right-to-appeal sentencing sentencing-procedure waiver waiver-of-appeal waiver-validity Can a presentencing waiver of appeal be knowingly and intelligently entered when potential errors cannot be anticipated and the consequences of the wa…
18-6948 William Gavidia v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights common-heritage crimes-of-violence criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process enterprise indictment pattern-of-activity pattern-of-racketeering racketeering racketeering-activity Whether those of common heritage constitute an enterprise that should be indicted and tried together and any crimes of violence they commit constitute…
18-6910 Elseddig Elmarioud Musa v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-sufficiency fraud-allegations judicial-discretion jury-instructions motion-for-acquittal prosecutorial-misconduct rule-29-motion sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the district court improperly denied Musa's Rule 29 motion
18-6917 Rodolfo Portela v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal competency-hearing conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing drug-conspiracy drug-trafficking evidence-suppression firearm-possession sentencing sentencing-guidelines sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the district court erred in finding sufficient evidence of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance
18-6894 David Crosby v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process evidence improper-vouching judicial-precedent legal-standard prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the Ninth Circuit's holding conflicts with the Seventh Circuit's and this Court's precedent as it concerns improper vouching
18-6897 Victor Solorzano Tavia v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP blakely-rule consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure double-jeopardy grade-c-violation illegal-reentry sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum supervised-release Whether sentence for illegal reentry and sentence for violation of supervised release should have run concurrent to avoid double jeopardy
18-6902 Scott Mansfield v. Florida Florida 2018-12-03 Denied IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure death-penalty death-sentence due-process fact-finding findings-of-fact jury-findings jury-instructions notice procedural-due-process sentencing unnoticed-defendant Whether a conviction and death sentence may stand where a jury made no specific findings of fact that subjected an unnoticed individual to conviction …
18-6905 Thomas Thadeus Szczerba v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-12-03 Denied IFP affidavit-incorporation criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception incorporation-of-affidavit search-and-seizure warrant-incorporation warrant-particularity warrant-particularization Does the Leon 'good-faith exception' to the exclusionary rule apply when a warrant fails to particularize the 'things to be seized' and fails to conta…
18-6884 Isaiah Glenndell Tryon v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2018-11-30 Denied IFP aggravating-factors appellate-review criminal-procedure death-penalty hurst-v-florida jury-trial mitigating-circumstances ring-v-arizona sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment prohibits a state appellate court from reweighing aggravating and mitigating circumstances and determining that death is t…
18-6885 Stephen Anthony Marquez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-11-30 Denied IFP business-records confrontation-clause constitutional-amendments crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-records sixth-amendment Does Due Process to cross-examine still apply in all criminal cases?
18-6889 Stephen Todd Booker v. Florida Florida 2018-11-30 Denied IFP apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-retroactivity montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity Does the partial retroactivity formula for Hurst v. Florida violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments?
18-708 Robert L. Bertram, Jr., Bryan S. Wood, Robin G. Peavler, James W. Bottom, and Brian C. Walters v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-11-30 Denied Response Waived common-sense criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process duty fraud insurance insurance-fraud materiality sixth-circuit Did the court unlawfully affirm convictions on a negligence theory?
18-6873 Angela Armenta v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment-6th-amendment burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment jury reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment Is the absence of evidence probative evidence of proof beyond a reasonable doubt?
18-6875 Kendall Thrift v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit circuit-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing false-statements franks-hearing franks-v-maryland magistrate-judge ninth-circuit omissions search-and-seizure substantial-showing warrant-challenge Whether the Court should grant certiorari because the Ninth Circuit's decision that defendant Kendall Thrift had not made a substantial preliminary sh…
18-6876 Pierre Donte Joshlin v. Dwight Neven, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-29 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure davis-v-ayala federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus harmless-error ninth-circuit supreme-court Whether the Ninth Circuit properly applied the federal habeas harmless error analysis in light of this Court's recent decision in Davis v. Ayala, 135 …
18-6840 John H. Rosky v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. Nevada 2018-11-28 Denied IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process economic-wipeout equal-protection fifth-amendment habeas-corpus property-rights standing takings-clause Whether the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment protects the petitioner's property rights against the government's actions that result in a complete…
18-6841 Robert K. Stewart v. North Carolina North Carolina 2018-11-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury indictment true-bill Whether the name of the defendant, the date of the sentences, and the time and county where the alleged offense was committed are material facts of an…
18-6851 Steven Gomez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-sentencing appeal-waiver constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing-guidelines Can an appeal waiver executed at the time of a defendant's plea waive the right to appeal constitutional error occurring at sentencing months after ex…
18-6853 Noe Garcia-Lima v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure-52(b) federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure molina-martinez molina-martinez-v-united-states plain-error-review sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights Whether an appellate court should presume that a district court's error in calculating the applicable Sentencing Guidelines range affected the defenda…
18-6855 Antonio DeJesus Perez-Martinez v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-challenge constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection indictment indictment-variance ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining proportionality sentencing sentencing-proportionality sentencing-reasonableness Whether appellate counsel was grossly ineffective by arguing a material variance instead of a constructive amendment
18-6862 John Thomas v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure johnson-standard johnson-v-united-states plain-error standard-of-review time-of-appeal time-of-law unsettled-law When the governing law is unsettled at the time of trial but settled-in defendant's favor by the time of appeals, should an appellate court reviewing …
18-6867 Alberto Jorge Silva-Ibarra v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
18-6871 Archie Cabello v. United States District Court for the District of Oregon Ninth Circuit 2018-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion right-to-counsel rule-11 self-representation Does a trial judge have a duty to protect a defendant's right to counsel of choice?
18-6789 Delroy McLean v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-115 brady-violation constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-judiciary government-official immigration-judge judicial-officer protected-person statutory-interpretation vagueness Whether an immigration judge is a protected person under 18 U.S.C.S. § 115(a)(1)(B)
18-6803 Anthony McNeil v. Mr. Grim, et al. Third Circuit 2018-11-27 Denied IFP civil-procedure-rules-12-b-6-motion-to-dismiss civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment-free-speech standing arrest-warrant civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process speedy-trial statute-of-limitations Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial applies to the period between the filing of a criminal complaint and the issuance of an arrest war…
18-6827 Eric Williams v. New York New York 2018-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP barber-v-page confrontation-clause criminal-procedure deportation good-faith-effort significant-public-benefit-parole sixth-amendment unavailability witness-testimony Whether prosecutors may dispense with the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment, and may be relieved of the obligation recognized in Barber v. P…
18-6828 Gregg Thomas v. Maryland Maryland 2018-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence trial-counsel Was the evidence sufficient to sustain Petitioner's convictions, and was Petitioner denied his Sixth Amendment Right under the United States Constitut…
18-6832 Keddron Rakee West v. Georgia Georgia 2018-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process indictment mens-rea mistake-of-fact statutory-interpretation statutory-rape Is due process violated by not allowing Petitioner to rely upon the statutory enacted mistake of fact defense as his sole defense to an indictment for…
18-6833 Jose Ramon Zuniga, aka Josue Ararel Zuniga-Zaragoza, aka Jose Ramon Zuniga-Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure discretion due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion offense-level residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-standards statutory-interpretation Whether a Guideline which incorporates by reference § 16(b)'s residual clause may serve as the basis for increasing the defendant's offense level unde…
18-6836 Carlos Dagoberto Rivas v. Sherman Spearman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment interrogation interrogation-waiver miranda miranda-rights self-incrimination waiver Does the State meet its burdens of showing that it clearly informed a criminal defendant of his Miranda rights and that a defendant validly waived the…
18-6842 Matthew Davis, aka Sealed Defendant 1, aka Matt v. United States Second Circuit 2018-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 3500-material brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence government-misconduct newly-discovered-evidence sentencing witness-testimony Whether the Government failed to properly discharge its obligations under Brady v. Maryland
18-6844 Christopher John Kerr v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2018-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule judicial-misconduct judicial-oversight search-and-seizure standing void-warrant warrant-validity Should a void ab initio warrant issued by a judge be treated as if it never existed and, consequently, should evidence obtained pursuant thereto not b…
18-6845 Edward Mitchell v. Lawrence Mahally, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Third Circuit 2018-11-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP clearly-established-law confrontation-clause constitutional-law crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process greene-v-fisher habeas habeas-corpus habeas-statute retroactivity Whether the habeas statute can be reinterpreted to allow application of a later Supreme Court decision to deny relief that would otherwise obtain base…
18-697 Tony Von Carruthers v. Tony Mays, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-11-27 Denied argersinger-v-hamlin capital-case capital-punishment criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process faretta-v-california pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver Does depriving a criminal defendant of trial counsel against his will, without at least the warnings and voluntary waiver required by Faretta, violate…
18-6804 Shane Roach v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-conflict confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process legal-objection preservation-of-error sixth-amendment standard-of-review Does a defendant preserve a confrontation issue for review by clearly articulating Confrontation Clause concerns as the basis for his objection withou…
18-6805 Jose Rodriguez v. Daniel Paramo, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-question first-degree-murder ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence jury-instructions penal-code-187a principal reasonable-doubt Whether the petitioner's conviction for first-degree murder lacked sufficient evidence to support the verdict
18-6806 Eliana Sarmiento v. United States Second Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-speedy-trial-act dismissal harmless-error indictment-dismissal judicial-discretion prejudice speedy-trial-act statute-interpretation statutory-interpretation Whether a district court's denial of a motion to dismiss an indictment for a violation of the Speedy Trial Act's 70 day time limit for bringing a defe…
18-6807 Larry M. Slusser v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied IFP circuit-split collateral-attack criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement sentencing statutory-maximum waiver-of-rights Whether a defendant's waiver of the right to collateral attack in a plea agreement bars a claim that the sentence exceeds the statutory maximum for th…
18-6808 Harlem Suarez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause commerce-clause-power criminal-procedure eighth-amendment first-time-offender hobbs-act interstate-commerce proportionality taylor-v-united-states united-states-v-lopez weapon-of-mass-destruction weapons-of-mass-destruction Whether the federal offense of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction, 18 U.S.C. § 2332a, only requires a de minimis effect on interstate comme…
18-6810 Timothy Hickman-Smith v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP colorado-v-bertine criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel inventory-search search-and-seizure south-dakota-v-opperman vehicle-search Did inventory search violate this Court's decisions in South Dakota v. Opperman and Colorado v. Bertine, as well as the Fourth Amendment to the Consti…
18-6811 Damaso Rivera Fonseca v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure custody due-process interrogation interrogation-limits miranda-rights rhode-island-v-innis right-to-counsel spontaneous-statement voluntariness Whether a spontaneous statement made by a suspect after invoking his right to counsel and seeing his girlfriend being transported to jail is voluntary…
18-6816 Vicente Garcia v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-battery constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in its holding that Garcia had failed to show a denial of his constitutional Sixth Amendment rights
18-6817 Michael Albert Focia v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process judge-vs-jury judicial-fact-finding jury-instructions jury-trial obstruction-of-justice pro-se sentence-enhancement sentencing separation-of-powers sixth-amendment Whether the court's instructions to the jury violated the Separation of Powers doctrine
18-6821 Michael Brandon Kelley v. Alabama Alabama 2018-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP alabama-law capital-murder constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-review sexual-abuse state-law Did the state court's failure to apply state-law double-jeopardy protections in Petitioner Kelley's case result in a violation of Kelley's constitutio…
18-6822 Mark Anthony Brown v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute lesser-included-offense notice-requirement prosecutorial-discretion sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Does § 851 allow the United States to be excused from the notice requirement when it receives an unexpected and disfavorable result after trial?
18-6824 Martavious Detrel Banks Keys v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 349 U.S. 81 (1955) on double-jeopardy bell-v-united-states congressional-intent criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment law-enforcement mens-rea multiple-punishments single-statute testimony Whether the Fifth Circuit violated this Court's holding in Bell v. United States, 349 U.S. 81 (1955), that there must be a showing of congressional in…
18-6829 Jimmy Walter Fuentes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error remand sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum substantial-rights Whether a court of appeals that finds a plain error in the district court's selection of a statutory maximum should ordinarily order a limited remand …
18-687 Auriel Devon Frett v. Territory of the Virgin Islands Virgin Islands 2018-11-26 Denied chambers-v-mississippi co-defendant-testimony confrontation confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination cumulative-error-doctrine due-process jury-instructions sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the instruction to not consider the specific length of sentence a testifying co-defendant faced absent cooperation violates a defendant's sixt…
18-6787 In Re William M. Bailey 2018-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure defense-preparation due-process formal-charges jurisdiction right-to-defense subject-matter void-judgment Was the circuit court deprived of jurisdiction over the subject matter, thereby rendering the judgment void, by failing to formally charge the petitio…
18-6788 Rhett Bean v. Israel Hamilton, Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-11-23 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice presumption-of-innocence Whether wrongly excluded evidence may be used to rebut the presumption of guilt for a criminal conviction under Schlup v. Delo, 513 U.S. 298, 113 S.Ct…
18-6791 Benjamin Bland v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination evidence evidence-admissibility government-evidence harmless-error hearsay sixth-amendment social-security-administration trial-procedure Whether petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to confront witnesses was violated
18-6793 Derrick Lamont Booth v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit 2018-11-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony fire-investigation ineffective-assistance-of-counsel nfpa-921 sixth-amendment standard-of-review standard-protocols trial-strategy Whether the state court violated Mr. Booth's 6th Amendment rights
18-6797 Stephanie Irene Greene v. South Carolina South Carolina 2018-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP but no text was provided for me to analyze. Witho I cannot generate a question presented or identif please provide the full text of the petition. conviction criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions mens-rea scientific-evidence standard-of-review Did the South Carolina Supreme Court apply the proper standard of review under Jackson v. Virginia when they affirmed the conviction of Stephanie Iren…
18-680 Erica Huss, Warden v. Loren Robinson Sixth Circuit 2018-11-23 Denied criminal-procedure due-process federal-law habeas habeas-corpus jury-right parole-eligibility sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment jury right applies to parole-eligibility dates
18-669 Shane M. Gates v. Walter Reed, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied Response Waived civil-rights conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process hobbs-act insurance-interference malicious-prosecution prosecutorial-misconduct substantive-due-process Whether a District Attorney violated the Hobbs Act and denied due process by prosecuting a misdemeanor case at the behest of a liability insurer
18-6746 Joseph Haymore, et al. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-precedent severance severance-motion waiver waiver-rule Whether failure to renew a severance motion at the close of evidence waives the issue, such that it precludes appellate review
18-6747 Gibran Richardo Figueroa-Beltran v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure divisibility-analysis divisibility-inquiry due-process federal-courts federal-divisibility-doctrine federalism mathis-doctrine mathis-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-court-certification state-courts state-statutes three-part-test When applying the federal divisibility doctrine to state statutes, may federal courts terminate the three-part test set forth in Mathis v. United Stat…
18-6770 David Nino-Flores v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
18-6772 Donovan Grant v. United States First Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied IFP appeals appeals-court appellate-review conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process financial-transaction guilty-plea money-laundering plain-error plain-error-doctrine specified-unlawful-activity trial-court Whether the plain-error doctrine permits an appeals court to affirm a conviction based on a potential crime that it identifies in the record that was …
18-6775 Edward Joseph Kehoe v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure fourth-amendment harmless-error impartial-judge judicial-error racial-bias racial-discrimination reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure structural-error warrantless-search Whether the clearly improper use of a person's race by a judge to support a finding of reasonable suspicion justifying a warrantless search and seizur…
18-6784 In Re Samuel Rivera 2018-11-21 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-amendments constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment habeas-corpus jurisdictional-rules standing whether-court-judges-uphold-constitution
18-6785 Christopher Scott v. Illinois Illinois 2018-11-21 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits multiple convictions and punishments for the same criminal conduct under the Blockburger test
18-650 Miguel Cabrera-Rangel v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-20 Denied Amici (5)Response Waived acquittal-impact acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment right to jury trial prohibits a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on a charge for which the jury a…
18-6744 Wesley Wayne Schaefer v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Criminal Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-11-20 Denied IFP consequences criminal-procedure de-novo-review double-jeopardy double-jeopardy,lesser-included-offense,state-law, due-process due-process,criminal-procedure,plea-bargaining,eff due-process,equal-protection,fourteenth-amendment, due-process,grand-jury,fifth-amendment,fourteenth- effective-assistance-of-counsel,plea-bargaining,du federal-courts,state-courts,de-novo-review,mixed-q grand-jury guilty-plea ineffective-assistance jury-unanimity plea-bargaining silent-record sixth-amendment,jury-trial,unanimous-verdict,due-p Whether a Court may assume, from a silent record, the defendant was sufficiently made aware of the consequences of his guilty plea?
18-6749 James Barnes v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-20 Denied IFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure faretta-right faretta-v-california mitigation mitigation-investigation presentencing-investigation pro-se-defendant sixth-amendment special-counsel Whether Florida's use of 'special counsel' to investigate and present mitigation and its requirement of a presentencing investigation report to provid…
18-6750 Rita Pultro v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2018-11-20 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP codefendant codefendant-confession confession confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission hearsay redaction sixth-amendment Should a court look beyond the four corners of a nontestitying codefendant's confession to determine if introduction of the confession violates the Co…
18-6752 David McGuire v. Ohio Ohio 2018-11-20 Denied IFP brady-violation brady-violations criminal-procedure discovery-violation discovery-violations due-process evidence-disclosure fair-trial fourteenth-amendment police-misconduct remedies When a discovery violation is discovered mid-trial, does a remedy that fails to order the disclosure of the withheld evidence violate the Due Process …
18-6754 Domonic McCarns v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constructive-amendment criminal-procedure harmless-error indictment plain-error-review speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation Whether Cryptic Letter, Number Codes are Sufficient to Satisfy the Speedy Trial Act Requirement that Reasons Justifying Delay of a Criminal Trial Must…
18-6760 David Junior Upshaw v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP acca-sentencing armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review criminal-procedure mandatory-guidelines post-sentencing-law pre-booker-mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness Whether a defendant can prove his ACCA-enhanced sentence was based on the residual clause through a process of elimination and rely on post-sentencing…
18-6762 Edward Louis Thomas v. Texas Texas 2018-11-20 Denied IFP criminal-procedure cumulative-error due-process habeas-corpus harrington-v-richter hinton-v-alabama ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice standard-of-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals applied the wrong standard of review in analyzing the claims of deficient performance and prejudice by tri…
18-6763 Luis Antonio Bonilla, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appeal-waivers brady-standard brady-v-united-states circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement plea-agreements sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-uniformity What standards should govern the enforcement of appeal waivers in plea agreements?
18-6764 Kenneth Ray Borders v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interlocutory-appeal presumption-of-prejudice roe-v-flores-ortega sixth-amendment trial-counsel Does the 'presumption of prejudice' recognized in Roe v. Flores-Ortega, 528 U.S. 470 (2000), apply where a criminal defendant instructs his trial coun…
18-6722 Craig Porter v. Texas Texas 2018-11-19 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction speedy-trial statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in affirming the applicant's conviction based on the prosecution's arguments with regards to the applicant's right to a …
18-6724 Roger Lee Ozier v. Shirlee Harry, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review armed-robbery bank-robbery confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination eyewitness-testimony fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence probable-cause sixth-amendment Was the evidence sufficient to sustain Mr. Ozier's conviction for armed robbery and bank robbery?
18-6728 Francisco R. Quintana v. Colorado Colorado 2018-11-19 Denied IFP constitutional-claims criminal-procedure defense-evidence due-process evidence exclusion-of-evidence fourteenth-amendment materiality-requirement right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment What showing must a defendant make to establish that the erroneous exclusion of defense evidence at trial violated the defendant's Sixth and Fourteent…
18-6729 Jesus Santiago v. United States Second Circuit 2018-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure district-court due-process guidelines-calculation guidelines-range judicial-discretion sentencing-determination sentencing-guidelines upward-variance Whether a circuit court can competently conclude that the Sentencing Guidelines were immaterial to a district court's sentencing determination
18-6737 Jose Lopez-Castillo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP booker booker-decision constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent title-21 Whether the mandatory-sentencing regime of Title 21 has been abrogated by United States v. Booker and its progeny
18-642 Morris E. Zukerman v. United States Second Circuit 2018-11-19 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) 18-usc-3742 appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion sentencing-explanation sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure sentencing-reasonableness sentencing-variance shocks-the-conscience substantive-reasonableness substantive-unreasonableness Whether a court of appeals that finds that a district court has failed adequately to explain a sentence can simply request further elaboration without…
18-6696 Octavio Torres Ortega v. Pam Bondi, Attorney General of Florida Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-16 Denied IFP appeal criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judgment-of-acquittal motion-to-suppress public-defender speedy-trial trial-counsel witness-credibility did-the-trial-court-err-in-denying-a-judgment-of-acquittal
18-6716 Jerry Walker, aka Jerry Richmond v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-11-16 Denied IFP appeal appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court conviction conviction-reversal conviction-vacatur criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-preclusion sentencing superseding-indictment Whether the Seventh Circuit erred in vacating the Petitioner's conviction and sentence pursuant to Count One of his Superseding Indictment
18-6720 Joseph Witchard v. Bryan M. Antonelli, Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights civil-rights-violations criminal-procedure due-process false-charges judicial-notice prosecutorial-misconduct standing Does the prosecutor's egregious misconduct of filing false court documents unlawfully cause petitioner's unlawful prosecution and conviction?
18-6721 Gavin Cullens v. Cindi Curtin, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions self-defense trial-counsel Did the trial court err when it gave out self-defense instruction for complainants who were not accused of any crimes to warrant a defense? Alternativ…
18-6725 Charles Wayne Bussell v. Kentucky Kentucky 2018-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process impeachment impeachment-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-hearing post-conviction-relief postconviction-hearing sixth-amendment tainted-testimony trial-strategy witness-testimony Was defense counsel ineffective in the re-trial when he failed to object to the introduction of the tainted testimony from the first trial and when he…
18-6726 Billy Brantley v. Indiana Indiana 2018-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment burden-of-proof charged-offense constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment jury jury-instructions reasonable-doubt Where the State must present 'some' evidence of a particular fact before a jury may find a defendant guilty of a charged offense, does the Due Process…
18-6685 Bruce Merryman v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-11-15 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice right-to-be-present standing statute-of-limitations trial-in-absentia trial-rights Whether an individual can overcome the one-year statute of limitations under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 by showing he w…
18-6713 Donald Anthony Grant v. Mike Carpenter, Interim Warden Tenth Circuit 2018-11-15 Denied IFP 8th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty eddings-precedent eddings-v-oklahoma eighth-amendment lockett-rule lockett-v-ohio mental-health mental-health-evidence mitigating-evidence moral-culpability Whether the Eighth Amendment requires a sentencer to consider mitigating evidence of a capital defendant's mental health and background when determini…
18-6666 Oscar Sosa v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process expert-testimony plain-error-review prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment witness-credibility Whether a federal agent's testimony about an out-of-court agent's report of drug trafficking by an unindicted coconspirator violates the Confrontation…
18-6691 Delilah McCurtis v. Maggie Burke, Warden Seventh Circuit 2018-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions prior-consistent-statements prior-inconsistent-statements witness-testimony Where petitioner was denied a fair trial due to the introduction of prior inconsistent statements
18-6693 Victor M. Mangual-Rosado v. United States First Circuit 2018-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split conclusions-of-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court findings-of-fact opportunity-to-object procedural-error role-behavior role-in-crime sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-error whether-the-district-court-erred-in-sentencing
18-6697 Kevin Marquette Bellinger v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-jurisdiction jury jury-instructions malice-aforethought mens-rea murder murder-conviction statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence Whether there was sufficient evidence presented to the jury in Bellinger's case to convict Bellinger of murder as alleged in Counts One and Two, where…
18-6699 James Tyrell Drane v. Michigan Michigan 2018-11-14 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sixth-amendment Whether petitioner has a due process right to plea withdrawal because his plea was unknowing and involuntary, and entered in violation of his Sixth Am…
18-6701 Roger Dale Epperson v. Kentucky Kentucky 2018-11-14 Denied IFP client-autonomy closing-argument concession-of-guilt criminal-procedure defense-strategy ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mccoy-v-louisiana right-to-control-defense right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Is a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to counsel, and the right to control the objective of the defense, violated, under the Court's recent decision …
18-6703 David Richard Trimble v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-rape Confrontation-Clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jackson-v-virginia sixth-amendment Statute-of-limitations sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the evidence was insufficient to find David Trimble guilty of four counts of Aggravated Rape beyond a reasonable doubt
18-6704 Aaron Jonathon Zemke v. Michigan Michigan 2018-11-14 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion bias criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance judicial-bias judicial-discretion motion-to-withdraw plea-bargain plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal prejudice prosecutorial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-court-discretion Whether Mr. Zemke received ineffective assistance of counsel under the Sixth Amendment
18-6651 Antonio Cobb v. Florida Florida 2018-11-13 Denied IFP criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness right-to-fair-trial statement-against-interest trial-procedure Whether the trial judge denied the petitioner a trial in accord with fundamental standards of due process under the Fourteenth Amendment by preventing…
18-6654 In Re Gary Ray Debolt 2018-11-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP brady-v-maryland civil-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct Is it in violation of the fifth Amendment and Brady v. Maryland to convict a person with the use of false and manipulated evidence?
18-6655 Andrew John Miller v. Duncan MacLaren, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-11-13 Denied IFP 6th-amendment confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence preliminary-examination right-to-counsel sixth-amendment witness-testimony Whether the admission of a Preliminary Examination transcript violated the Petitioner-Appellant's 6th Amendment right to confront the witness
18-6659 James Rodwell v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2018-11-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP agency-relationship criminal-informant criminal-procedure government-agent implicit-agreement jailhouse-informant massiah massiah-doctrine sentencing-benefits sixth-amendment Whether an in-custody criminal informant who has repeatedly benefited monetarily and received lesser sentences from previous cooperation with the gove…
18-6663 Esau Escobar v. Illinois Illinois 2018-11-13 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jury-instructions murder murder-conviction prior-acts provocation provocation-defense self-defense substantial-evidence Whether the Appellate Court erred in rejecting the Petitioner's claim of provocation instruction due to the Petitioner's testimony that he acted out o…
18-6667 Khaled Elbeblawy v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confession criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence impeachment impeachment-use-waiver medicare-fraud plea-agreement plea-bargaining rule-11 substantive-evidence united-states-v-mezzanatto Does the impeachment-use waiver doctrine established by the Court in United States v. Mezzanatto, 513 U.S. 196, permit the government to introduce in …
18-6670 Richard Allen Barker v. California California 2018-11-13 Denied IFP accomplice-liability constitutional-law constitutional-proportionate-punishment criminal-procedure eighth-amendment enmund-v-florida in-re-butler in-re-rodriguez individual-culpability proportionate-punishment Whether forcing the petitioner to serve an excessive punishment of 45 years incarceration for his individual culpability as an accomplice, when the ac…
18-6671 Jimmy David Malone v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-11-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP acca constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-court federalism generic-conviction state-courts state-statute statutory-interpretation Whether the Constitution permits a federal court to conclude that a prior conviction is 'generic' for ACCA purposes based on an independent interpreta…
18-6675 In Re Ryan Lee Zater 2018-11-13 Denied IFP categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus residual-clause section-2244 section-924c sentencing supervisory-powers vagueness Whether the Fourth Circuit's denial of Zater's §2244 application, which would have been granted in other circuits under divergent gatekeeping protocol…
18-6676 Herve Wilmore, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment grand-jury indictment wire-fraud Whether Mr. Wilmore's right to be tried on charges accepted by a grand jury, and Mr. Wilmore's right to effective assistance of counsel, were violated…
18-6678 Jermeal White v. Charmaine Bracy, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-courts habeas-corpus standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in denying petitioner's Certificate of Appealability under the law
18-6679 Donate Graham v. Illinois Illinois 2018-11-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause conspiracy-liability criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture forfeiture-by-wrongdoing forfeiture-doctrine giles-v-california intent witness-procurement Whether the forfeiture-by-wrongdoing exception to the Confrontation Clause encompasses acts of wrongful witness procurement done by alleged co-conspir…
18-616 Roger Nepal v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-13 Denied Response Waived criminal-law criminal-procedure de-novo-review direct-appeal Griffith-v-Kentucky plain-error retroactivity standard-of-review substantive-law Where the Supreme Court has changed the substantive law governing a criminal case that is on direct appeal, must Griffith v. Kentucky be applied to th…
18-609 Joseph David Robertson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-11-09 GVR Amici (6) appellate-review clean-water-act criminal-procedure motion-for-acquittal navigable-waters rapanos-v-united-states sackett-v-epa united-states-army-corps-of-engineers-v-hawkes-co void-for-vagueness Whether the Clean Water Act term 'navigable waters' is void for vagueness
18-614 In Re George Houston 2018-11-09 Denied alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey collateral-review conspiracy conspiracy-liability criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-quantity jurisdictional-error mandatory-minimum retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether the individualized drug quantity or the amount of drugs attributable to the conspiracy as a whole can trigger the mandatory minimum sentence f…
18-6623 Carlos Cosme v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-11-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-plea-bargaining effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-withdraw plea-agreement plea-bargaining sixth-amendment standard-of-review Did the District Court Commit Error in Applying the Standard of review for Motions to Withdraw a Plea Agreement as to an Issue of a Question of the Ef…
18-6653 Rolando Calderin v. Illinois Illinois 2018-11-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-court-error appellate-review constitutional-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process inculpatory-statements miranda-rights right-to-counsel self-incrimination suppression-of-evidence trial-court-error Whether Illinois Trial Court and Appellate Court erred when it failed to suppress Petitioner's inculpatory statements that were obtained after petitio…
18-6674 Octavious Lamar Rhymes v. Texas Texas 2018-11-09 Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy due-process judicial-vindictiveness jurisdiction prosecutorial-vindictiveness same-criminal-episode venue-transfer Where Rhymes' due process rights violated by prosecutorial and judicial vindictiveness
18-6610 Mark Johnson v. Illinois Illinois 2018-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence actual-perpetrator coerced-confession constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exclusion-of-evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct selective-prosecution successive-petition Whether the petitioner should be allowed to present newly discovered evidence of actual innocence in a successive post-conviction petition, despite th…
18-6616 Maria I. Sanutti-Spencer v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2018-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-motive criminal-procedure decedent's-drug-addiction decedent's-drug-dealing decedent's-motive decedent's-physical-abuse defendant's-health-issues due-process evidence evidence-exclusion lay-opinion-testimony right-to-complete-defense right-to-present-defense trial-procedure witness-testimony Does excluding evidence of another's motive, of the decedent's drug addiction, drug dealing, his physical abuse of the defendant and the defendant's s…
18-6618 Jessie Jesus Marquez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split constitutional-burden constitutional-law criminal-procedure drug-case evidence-sufficiency expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence government-proof recorded-phone-call Are statements made during a recorded phone call, standing alone, sufficient to sustain the Government's constitutional burden of proof in a drug case…
18-6619 Dominic C. Robinson v. Mississippi Mississippi 2018-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP but the text you've provided appears to be incomp comprehensible text of a SCOTUS petition garbled I cannot extract a meaningful question presented I will respond with: 'Question not identified." or unreadable. Without a clear appeal civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence jury-instructions miranda-rights standing Whether jury instruction 5/4A was improper?
18-6621 Aloeng Kelly Vang v. Tom Roy, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Corrections Eighth Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel effective-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prejudice-prong sixth-amendment state-law straight-plea straight-pleas trial-rights ultimate-authority Where offers of straight pleas to the district court is permitted under state law, does state criminal defendants receive their Sixth Amendment right …
18-6629 William Randolph Harloff v. Craig Koenig, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP chapman-harmless-error confrontation-clause constitutional-rights courtroom-presence criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error prejudice right-to-be-present witness-credibility witness-testimony Whether the state court applied Chapman v. California, 386 U.S. 18 (1967) in an objectively unreasonable manner or made an unreasonable determination …
18-6633 Keith Fremin v. Robert C. Tanner, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied IFP castration civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process good-time guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-district plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing Whether the 22 Judicial District Court failed to uphold the plea agreement in exchange
18-6635 Eddie Hampton v. California California 2018-11-08 Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error felony-murder first-degree-murder jury-instruction jury-instructions murder natural-and-probable-consequence natural-probable-consequence prejudice-standard premeditated-murder standard-of-prejudice Where she jury was erroneously instrycted on (a) Murder as a natural and presbable consequence per peopie vs chiu 39 cal 4th $35 172 cad Rotr 3d 438 3…
18-6639 Stuart Dizak v. Brandon Smith, Superintendent, Mid-State Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence conspiracy-charge criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jailhouse-informant judicial-misconduct jury-instructions jury-notes perjured-testimony perjury prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the state court failed to return the defendant to the courtroom upon receipt of two substantive jury notes, and whether the actual charge of c…
18-6641 Antonio Fahie v. Neil McDowell, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-sufficiency ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal-motion prosecutorial-misconduct rape-charges right-to-counsel sentencing Why didn't the judge let the defendant take back their plea when counsel told the court the defendant never admitted to the rape charges?
18-6646 John Edward Davis v. Florida Florida 2018-11-08 Denied IFP autopsy-photographs coercion constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-confession involuntary-statements juvenile-offender juvenile-offender-rights juvenile-rights motion-to-suppress right-to-testify self-incrimination Whether the Florida Court of Appeals unreasonably applied this Court's precedent
18-6592 Andres Pavon v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-07 Denied IFP 5th-amendment appeal appeals castro-v-united-states criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit fifth-amendment habeas-corpus lee-v-us padilla-v-kentucky sentencing standing Were this Petitioner's Fifth Amendment rights according to the United States Constitution violated by the United States Court of Appeal for the Eleven…
18-6593 Sigifredo Molina-Varela v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-for-severance prejudice prejudicial-error right-to-counsel severance sixth-amendment Did the defense counsel's failure to file a motion for severance create a significant prejudice against the petitioner thereby constituting ineffectiv…
18-6594 Willie Safford, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2018-11-07 Denied IFP aggravated-battery civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process perjury polygraph polygraph-test post-conviction-relief witness-testimony Whether the defendant should be allowed to return to the lower tribunal to challenge the testimony of Rodney Hartmyer, Jerry Gay, and Robert Schran
18-6565 Charles C. Gore v. Illinois Illinois 2018-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment adversarial-proceedings constitutional-rights courtroom-closure criminal-procedure critical-stage-of-trial defendant-rights jury-deliberations public-accountability public-trial right-to-public-trial Whether the right to a public trial is violated when the trial court closes the courtroom while addressing questions posed by the jury during delibera…
18-6566 Jara Meotta Ishon Flowers v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-11-06 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP bribery case-overturning civil-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process extortion judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-precedent precedent racketeering stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Should this Court overturn its prior decision in Evans?
18-6576 Susan Kevra-Shiner v. United States Third Circuit 2018-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fraud fraud-allegations indictment indictment-scope jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct verdict-slip Can a well written verdict slip cure the confusion created when the Government's Closing Argument and the Court's Jury Instructions constructively ame…
18-6580 Wiliiam Scott Fitts v. Barry Goodrich, Warden, et al. Georgia 2018-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment Fourteenth-Amendment-due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel normative-legal-issues plea-bargaining right-to-counsel right-to-effective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the accused's constitutional rights were violated when forced to choose between the Sixth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment in deciding wheth…
18-6581 Larry Hailey v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-enhancement crimes-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-appeal prior-convictions section-2255-motion sentencing sentencing-guidelines virginia-prior-convictions Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals Erred in Denying Petitioner's Appeal from Denial of His Motion Under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 Wherein Petitioner's…
18-6586 Bruce Wood v. Delaware Delaware 2018-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-standard federal-rules judicial-review new-evidence post-conviction post-conviction-relief privileges-and-immunities Does Delaware's Amended' Superior Court Criminal Rule 61 and/or Delaware State Courts' decisions violate Due Process Rights (14th Amendment)
18-6589 Liddon Young v. United States Second Circuit 2018-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court criminal-law criminal-procedure false-statement false-statements materiality obstruction-of-justice sentencing sentencing-enhancement stipulation When a defendant admits to all the elements of an offense/enhancement, does a prevarication on details not effecting the question of guilt render the …
18-6591 Leslie Chin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-diligence due-process equal-protection federal-courts new-trial newly-discovered-evidence standard-of-review trial-procedure Whether the Equal Protections Clause is violated when there is a conflict amongst the federal circuit courts of appeal dealing with what a defendant i…
18-596 Marie Neba v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion judicial-review presumption-of-reasonableness proportionality rita-v-united-states sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines Should the Court overrule or refine Rita v. United States (2007) 551 U.S. 338, such that an irregular and disproportionate within-Guidelines sentence …
18-6568 Harold Max Pompee v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-05 Denied IFP competence competency constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-competence Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in holding that a state prisoner's ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim alleging that counsel failed to raise hi…
18-6570 Timothy J. Kaprelian v. Lizzie Tegels, Warden Seventh Circuit 2018-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-defendant criminal-defendant-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel no-contest plea-agreement plea-bargaining Is a criminal defendant who pleads no contest entitled to exculpatory evidence that the state concealed and suppressed
18-6540 Maha Z. Rayan v. Georgia Georgia 2018-11-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP arrest contempt contempt-order criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-appointment municipal-court-jurisdiction municipal-courts probable-cause state-penal-law uniform-traffic-citation Whether the use of a municipal traffic citation as an initial accusation for a state penal law non-traffic offense is constitutional
18-6545 Frankie Calanche Lopez v. California California 2018-11-02 Denied IFP appeal criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process intent intent-element mens-rea opportunistic-crime robbery robbery-intent statutory-interpretation Whether the defendant's intent to commit robbery matters
18-6553 Michael Founier Dixon, aka Michael Fournier Dixon v. Texas Texas 2018-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sentencing Was Agpli canl's guilty pleac) involuwtaay duce 40 counsels wet echve deficient Assistance jw Tetality duaing all Stages of the caiminel process ?
18-6556 David McAlister, Sr. v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2018-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court credibility credibility-of-witness criminal-procedure cumulative-evidence due-process exculpatory-evidence legal-standard newly-discovered-evidence reasonable-probability recantation state-witness witness-credibility Whether the circuit court erroneously violated petitioner's right to due process when it applied an incorrect legal standard to newly discovered evide…
18-6557 Casey O'Dell v. United States Third Circuit 2018-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-11 due-process federal-rules-criminal-procedure plea-bargaining plea-colloquy structural-error united-states-v-gonzalez-lopez Whether the Fed.R.Crim.P. 11(b)(1)(N) rule was violated by the inadequacy of the change of plea colloquy?
18-6560 Wendell Weaver v. Walter Nicholson, Warden Seventh Circuit 2018-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP counsel-of-choice criminal-procedure disqualification eyewitness-testimony ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-alternatives right-to-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-court wheat-v-united-states Does Wheat v. United States clearly establish that trial courts must consider reasonable alternatives before disqualifying a criminal defendant's coun…
18-574 Joseph Rachal v. United States First Circuit 2018-11-02 Denied Response Waived 6th-amendment bifurcated-trial bifurcation criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility felon-in-possession felony-conviction firearm-possession jury-instructions jury-prejudice prejudice prejudicial-evidence Is it unduly prejudicial for a jury to be exposed to the toxic evidence that the defendant is a convicted felon before even determining whether the de…
18-6510 Frank Pruitt v. New York New York 2018-11-01 Denied IFP 1st-amendment 6th-amendment courtroom-access criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-inquiry public-trial removal-from-trial right-to-attend-trial right-to-observe sixth-amendment Was the right to a Public trial, and the right of the Public to attend trial, abrogated when the trial judge failed to conduct careful inquiry 'before…
18-6533 Anthony Lewallyn v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-01 Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-registration-requirements due-process federal-criminal-law interstate-travel nichols-precedent nichols-v-united-states registration sex-offender sex-offender-registration sorna statutory-interpretation Can a sex offender be prosecuted for failing to register or update his registration in the district where he began his interstate travel but in which …
18-6536 Lewis Waters v. Charles L. Lockett, Warden District of Columbia 2018-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-safeguard court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury habeas-corpus jurisdiction unindicted-crime Where the Fifth Amendment guarantees that no person shall be held to answer for a crime unless upon presentment of a Grand Jury's indictment, does the…
18-6538 Steven Bernard Sydnor v. Kevin Hampton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-11-01 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process fair-trial jackson-v-virginia miranda-rights miranda-warning sufficiency-of-evidence Whether defendant's Constitution 5th and 14th Amendment rights were violated
18-6546 Alexander Castellano-Benitez v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit evidence exculpatory-evidence Judicial-Precedent precedent Procedural-Review prosecutorial-misconduct Writ-of-Certiorari Should a writ of certiorari be granted to determine if the Eight Circuit and the lower court erred in failing to follow this court's prior precedent i…
18-6504 James D. Russian v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-defendant criminal-procedure federal-court habeas-corpus haines-v-kerner liberal-construction liberal-construction-rule pro-se pro-se-filings pro-se-pleadings right-to-counsel sixth-amendment substitution-of-counsel When a criminal defendant's pro se filings can be stated as a valid basis for substitution of counsel, must a federal court read those filings in such…
18-6514 In Re Melvin T. Bell 2018-10-31 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus imprisonment jurisdiction liberty-deprivation standing territorial-jurisdiction Whether the petitioner is illegally deprived of his liberty
18-6516 Linh Thi Minh Tran v. Happy Valley Municipal Court, Oregon Oregon 2018-10-31 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial judicial-error jurisdiction municipal-court sentencing zoning-violation Was the trial court's judgment unconstitutionally cruel and unusual?
18-6518 Gregory Crum v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure district-court-discretion drug-crimes drug-offense drug-offenses foreign-origin leadership-enhancement methamphetamine relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether the district court abused its discretion in determining relevant conduct
18-6519 Mariano Alvarez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion life-sentence mistrial plea-bargaining plea-negotiation recusal sentencing-guidelines Can doubts in granting a Certificate of Appealability (COA) be resolved in favor of the appellant when considering the severity of his life sentence?
18-564 Rosemary L. Decosimo v. Tennessee Tennessee 2018-10-31 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment forensic-science fourteenth-amendment impartiality law-enforcement sixth-amendment standing Whether the right to a fair trial and due process were violated by a Tennessee law awarding the state forensic lab $250 per conviction-related test
18-6493 Steven D. Burke v. Neil Turner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-10-30 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection standard-of-proof state-court Does changing the standard of proof in the state court deny a criminal defendant's due process and equal protection of law?
18-6497 Dexter Watson v. Raymond Byrd, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing factual-disputes intent reversible-error Did the court reasonably infer petitioner's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt?
18-6498 Gildardo Majalca-Aguilar v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 amendment-782 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion drug-conspiracy drug-quantity due-process equal-protection sentence-reduction sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines Whether the district court erred in denying the motion for sentence reduction under Amendment 782 §3582(c)(2) despite the minimal quantities of drugs …
18-6511 In Re Ken Ejimofor Ezeah 2018-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal-waiver-guilty-plea-unite guilty-plea inherent-equitable-authority tenth-circuit united-states-v-galloway united-states-v-hahn united-states-v-mccarthy Whether the court should expand the framework in United States v. Hahn on appeal waivers
18-6486 In Re Steve G. Hernandez 2018-10-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP brady-material brady-violation civil-rights criminal-procedure cumulative-error due-process evidence-suppression impeachment ineffective-assistance perjury witness-impeachment What is the constitutional violation of ineffective assistance of counsel
18-6468 Bernabe Lugo-Santiago v. United States First Circuit 2018-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-indictment criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearm firearm-regulation firearms indictment interstate-commerce jury-finding jury-instructions prosecutorial-burden Whether the Government must allege and prove a connection to interstate commerce for a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)
18-6472 James Gibson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres criminal-procedure drug-offenses jury-trial mandatory-minimum prior-convictions reasonable-doubt recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether the Petitioner's sentence violated his Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial
18-6473 Jeremy Bernard Harrison v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP allocution allocution-error appellate-review criminal-procedure defendant-objection defendant-rights due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-error plain-error preservation-of-error rule-51b sentencing Whether allocution error deprives the defendant of an opportunity to object to that error within the meaning of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 51(…
18-6475 Lewis Wright v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2018-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination cross-examination-rights due-process evidence-disclosure fourteenth-amendment parole perjury prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment witness-bias Whether the court of common pleas erred in limiting Mr. Stein's ability to establish witness Joseph Farley's bias
18-6479 In Re Evan P. Galvan 2018-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standing Whether the State Court failed to advise petitioner of his 6th Amendment right to counsel, inquire into petitioner's desire for counsel, and inquire i…
18-6483 Armando Chavez, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-sentencing indictment indictment-requirements judicial-discretion plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether facts that alter the range of reasonable' federal sentences must be pleaded in the indictment in federal cases?
18-6485 Richard Elliott Cain v. Washington Washington 2018-10-29 Denied IFP 6th-amendment character-evidence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-evidence due-process evidence fair-trial jury-instruction jury-instructions propensity-evidence search-warrant Whether the trial court erred in failing to give the jury a limiting instruction after permitting character and propensity evidence
18-6447 Eullis Monroe Goodwin v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance rule-11 sentencing sentencing-guidelines strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Did Counsel's Failure to properly develope and present Objections to Petitioner's designation as an career offender, render Ineffective Assistance und…
18-6448 In Re Michael Quattrocchi 2018-10-26 Denied IFP administrative-forfeiture administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-approval judicial-review procedural-violations property-rights statutory-interpretation trial-delay unborn-rights Whether the administrative forfeiture of Bond's property under case 04-12958 was judicially approved, where Bond was deprived of his property for over…
18-6457 Abel Puente v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights counsel-of-choice criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel indigent-defendant retained-attorney right-to-discharge-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel and to counsel of choice, which also provided the right to discharge counsel, wil…
18-6459 Cliserio Balmes-Cruz v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review appellate-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-consideration non-frivolous-arguments procedural-reasonableness rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review Whether a sentencing judge must provide some express treatment to a defendant's non-frivolous arguments
18-6462 Juan Carlos Mendez v. California California 2018-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Whether the prosecution's use of 'were they lying' questions and argument to secure a criminal conviction constitutes prosecutorial misconduct and vio…
18-6464 Frank Ralph LaPena v. George Grigas, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP contract-killing criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus highly-deferential-review ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-insufficiency legal-sufficiency nevada-supreme-court physical-evidence rational-juror reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence witness-testimony wrongful-conviction Whether the Nevada Supreme Court's decision rejecting the legal insufficiency claim was unreasonable because, even under a highly deferential review, …
18-6414 Marvin K. Locke v. Daniel Paramo, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP common-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process felony-murder habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-default second-successive-petition standing statutory-interpretation Whether the second-degree felony murder rule is based on statute
18-6415 Amalya Cherniavsky, aka Amalya Surenovna Yegiyan v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing standard-of-review sua-sponte sufficiency-of-evidence theory-of-defense trial-procedure Under what circumstances must a district court sua sponte instruct the jury on a theory of defense presented and relied upon at trial where the theory…
18-6434 Craig Martin Shults v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure ninth-circuit precedent rule-52(b) severance severance-motion waiver waiver-rule Whether failure to renew a severance motion at the close of evidence waives the issue, such that it precludes appellate review
18-6445 Tracy Lebron Vick v. Tennessee Tennessee 2018-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review plea-bargaining public-interest sentencing sentencing-procedure unconstitutional Whether the provisions of Rule 36.1 of the Tennessee Rules of Criminal Procedure, Tennessee Code Annotated § 29-21-101, and Tennessee law are unconsti…
18-542 John E. Hamilton v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2018-10-25 Denied Response Waived charging criminal-procedure defendant-standing due-process extradition extradition-treaty international-law punishment rule-of-specialty sentencing standing treaty treaty-interpretation Whether an individual defendant has standing to assert a rule of specialty violation
18-543 State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. v. Jerry Reeves Third Circuit 2018-10-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) actual-innocence criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel new-evidence new-evidence-requirement post-conviction-relief procedural-default sixth-amendment trial-review untimely-petition untimely-petitions Whether evidence that was available but not presented at trial satisfies the new evidence requirement of the actual innocence exception which permits …
18-6411 Ennis Reed v. California California 2018-10-24 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discrimination due-process equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-bias racial-discrimination voir-dire Has California again departed from the federal standards governing determinations of racial bias during jury voir dire?
18-6401 James Gabriel Smith v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review competency criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure informed-consent judicial-process plea-bargaining plea-colloquy rule-11-procedure Whether the district court followed the procedure mandated by FED. R. CRIM. P. 11 in accepting a guilty plea
18-6406 Daniel Tappen v. Florida Florida 2018-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-privilege attorney-client-relationship constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-enforcement right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether a defense attorney renders ineffective assistance of counsel
18-6395 Alex D. Ramos v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process firearm-offense sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Did the lower Court err, and concomitantly violate the United States Constitution, Amendments V and VI, where it determined that Petitioner's prior co…
18-6396 Guillermo Solorio, Jr. v. William Muniz, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244(b)(2) brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-defendant criminal-procedure evidence-suppression federal-statute habeas-corpus hidden-evidence second-or-successive-petition Whether a Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus based on Brady v. Maryland Evidence That Was Hidden from a Criminal Defendant — Until After Appeal and …
18-6377 Rashad Woodside v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-10-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights counsel-presence criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process limited-remand open-court resentencing right-to-be-present right-to-counsel sentencing Whether a defendant has the right to be present with counsel at a resentencing hearing
18-6391 Matthew Vaughn Hawks v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure mental-disability plain-error sentencing sentencing-disparity sentencing-reasonableness substantial-rights united-states-v-olano whether-the-eleventh-circuit-misapplied-fed-r-crim-p-52(b)-and-united-states-v-olano
18-6358 Alj Hilton v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP and Are Plain and Affect Petitioner's Substantial -and-Are-Plain-and-Affect-Petitioner's-Substantial 18-usc-3661 5th-amendment appeal-waiver appeal-waiver,sentencing-guidelines,criminal-histo criminal-history criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum plain-error sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights trial-court-error Whether the mandatory five-year minimum sentence u Whether Petitioner's Appeal Waiver Is Inapplicable to Issues of Trial Court Error in Applying Sentencing Guidelines' Enhancements or in Calculating Cr…
18-6371 Tyrell Henderson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP credibility criminal-procedure evidence jury-instructions mistrial prior-conviction Whether a mistrial should have been declared after the prosecutor improperly introduced evidence of the defendant's prior federal conviction where the…
18-6387 Spencer Bowens v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) 28 U.S.C. §2255(£)(3) 28 U.S.C. §2255(f)(3) extend to pre-Booker mandatory career-offender gu that has been newly recognized by the United Stat career-offender career-offender-guidelines collateral-review criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure,sentencing,retroactivity,collat Johnson-right johnson-v-united-states mandatory-sentencing retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines Supreme-Court-precedent Whether the right in Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) that has been newly recognized by the United States Supreme Court and made retro…
18-6353 Michael Joseph Bien v. Texas Texas 2018-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process legal-precedent prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court supreme-court-jurisprudence supreme-court-precedent texas-court-of-criminal-appeals Whether a prosecutor who violates the Double Jeopardy Clause should have exclusive power to determine which of his unconstitutionally obtained convict…
18-6355 Christian Dominique Scott v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence parole revocation sentencing supervised-release Whether supervised release revocation defendants enjoy a limited right of cross-examination
18-6362 Edwin Darrell Lett v. Mississippi Mississippi 2018-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights continuance counsel criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-counsel sixth-amendment state-procedure trial Whether the petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial was violated when the Mississippi Supreme Court failed to properly review the trial cou…
18-6364 Phap Buth v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2018-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP barnes-v-united-states burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment in-re-winship Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment allows reliance on an inference that is at best more likely than not, but not beyond a reas…
18-491 Cameron Heath Ray v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2018-10-17 Denied appellate-division circuit-split criminal-evidence criminal-procedure evidence fourth-amendment immediate-mobility law-enforcement mobility probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search vehicle-seizure Whether it violates the Fourth Amendment to characterize a criminal suspect's car as evidence of a crime when the car is not used in the crime at issu…
18-6327 Rolando Humphrey v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3553a criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing judicial-determination judicial-discretion jury-role jury-trial sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-18-usc-3553 statutory-minimum Whether district courts may determine without the aid of a jury that a sentence above the statutory minimum is 'not greater than necessary' to achieve…
18-6329 Adan Sandoval Dominguez v. M. Eliot Spearman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency competency-standard constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process factual-understanding judicial-standard major-depressive-disorder mental-competency mental-health rational-understanding standing trial-rights Did defendant meet the competency requirement to stand trial set forth in Godinez v. Moran, 509 U.S. 389 (1993)?
18-6331 Vernon Robinson v. Florida Florida 2018-10-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus sentencing standing statutory-interpretation Whether the District Court of Appeals erred in dismissing petitioner's claim
18-6334 Ahkeem Wiggins v. Robert C. Tanner, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process enhancement-penalty guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction plea-bargaining sentencing Whether the 1st Judicial District Court, Parish of Caddo, State of Louisiana had jurisdiction to accept a guilty plea to an enhancement penalty under …
18-6335 George Jenkins v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment drug-offense due-process first-time-offender non-violent-crime proportionality reasonableness-review sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines Whether the sentence imposed is unreasonable
18-6336 Chamontae Walker v. United States District of Columbia 2018-10-16 Denied IFP brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland constitutional-rights criminal-procedure disclosure due-diligence due-process evidence evidence-disclosure exculpatory-evidence prosecutorial-duty Is the government relieved of its Brady v. Maryland duty to disclose evidence favorable to the accused if the defense could obtain the evidence throug…
18-6337 Travis W. Williams v. Missouri Missouri 2018-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof child-sex-offense criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-evidence fourteenth-amendment mo-const-art-i-18c presumption-of-innocence propensity-evidence Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause prohibits evidence that the defendant has an unrelated remote prior child sex offense conviction…
18-6341 John William Lieba, II v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury legal-standard standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether sufficient evidence existed to convict Mr. Lieba?
18-6342 Jaime Rene Lopez-Vaal v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP accomplice-liability aggravated-felony criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law ninth-circuit-review sentencing statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness Whether Section 1326(b) is unconstitutionally vague
18-6344 Brandon Eugene Lacy v. Arkansas Arkansas 2018-10-16 Denied IFP criminal-procedure cumulative-error cumulative-error-analysis fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health neuropsychological-evaluation neuropsychological-testing Sixth-Amendment strickland-standard Strickland-v-Washington Whether the Arkansas Supreme Court misapplied Strickland v. Washington
18-6347 Adam Brake v. United States First Circuit 2018-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP burglary criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-counting firearm-enhancement firearm-theft guideline-enhancements guideline-range sentencing-considerations sentencing-guidelines stolen-firearm u.s.s.g-2k2.1 Whether the district court erred in applying impermissible double counting when calculating the guideline range
18-6349 Daniel Israel Palomino v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-review due-process guideline-commentary judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-interpretation sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation Whether a district court abuses its discretion in misapplying a sentencing guideline when it refuses to consider a factor expressly provided for in th…
18-6300 Cheryl Singleton v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP allocution criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure joint-stipulation presentence-investigation presentence-investigation-report sentencing Does the filing of joint stipulation(s) as to the presentence investigation report entitle the defendant to allocution on the modified terms, under Fe…
18-6301 Darrell Lynn Dancy v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals-court armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance criminal-procedure district-court factual-innocence predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement unlawful-distribution Whether the Appeals Court and District Court erred by failing to address Petitioner's factual innocence claim
18-6324 Akinlabi Coleman v. Colorado Colorado 2018-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP bench-trial constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habitual-criminal habitual-offender jury-trial sixth-amendment Were Mr. Coleman's Sixth Amendment rights to a jury determination of every element of an offense violated when he was only allowed a bench trial to de…
18-6302 Francisco Melgar-Cabrera v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law hobbs-act predicate-felony predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit Whether Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)
18-6304 Alex Lenard McCoy v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment article-iii confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment plea-agreement plea-bargaining rule-11 self-incrimination sixth-amendment speedy-trial Whether the Defendant's rights under Article III, Section 2, Fifth Amendment, Sixth Amendment were violated when the Defendant is induced to enter a p…
18-6305 Igor Polshyn v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence reversal right-to-testify structural-error testimony Whether preventing a defendant from testifying on the sole disputed element of an offense, his subjective intent, amounts to structural constitutional…
18-6307 Lorenzo Micquell Latimer v. Jeff Macomber, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-record due-process evidence evidence-code harmless-error ineffective-assistance plain-error prior-criminal-record When unacceptable insufficient evidence is portrayed upon the Defendant within a criminal case, by way of prior criminal record; does 'harmless error'…
18-6308 Edwin Hernandez v. United States Second Circuit 2018-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure due-process duress-defense jury-instructions second-circuit sentencing Did the Second Circuit err in finding that the district court's charge correctly stated the requirements for the duress defense?
18-6314 Vilaychith Khouanmany v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-10-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appointment-of-counsel career-offender civil-rights,due-process,criminal-procedure,senten criminal-procedure due-process excessive-sentences habeas-corpus pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process right-to-bail right-to-counsel sentence-enhancements sentencing speedy-trial Whether the denial of appealability of case no. 17-1243 was proper when the issues of career offender, enhancements of priors, and excessive sentences…
18-6279 Samuel Kwushue v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-11 elements-of-crime federal-regulation federal-regulations federal-rule-11 guilty-plea jurisdiction rule-11 statute-of-conviction statutory-elements wire-fraud Could a guilty plea, accepted in violation of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11, support a conviction, when the conduct to which a defendant admit…
18-6280 Thomas Gilmore Stewart v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP challenge criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion revocation state-conviction state-court-conviction supervised-release Whether a district court's decision to revoke a term of supervised release that is based upon a previous state court conviction which is being challen…
18-6293 Alfredo Martinez-Rey v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
18-6295 Steven Anthony Walcott, Jr. v. Louisiana Louisiana 2018-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-appeal right-to-counsel right-to-fair-trial Did the district court err in denying the accused's petition for writ of habeas corpus?
18-455 Aaron Joseph Emineth v. Oregon Oregon 2018-10-11 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment photo-radar standard-of-proof state-court-proceedings traffic-enforcement trial-court Did the state trial court violate Petitioner's constitutional right to Due Process under the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution by…
18-6265 Samuel Silva v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure criminal-statute evidence evidence-prejudice federal-firearms federal-rule-403 federal-rules-of-evidence felon-in-possession felon-possession firearm-possession jury-instruction jury-instructions prejudice prejudicial-evidence probative-value rule-403 Whether the practice of telling juries in a 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) prosecution that the defendant is a previously-convicted felon should be excluded un…
18-6267 Denise Robertson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure document-disclosure evidence-review in-camera-review jencks-act palermo-v-united-states reasonable-particularity threshold-showing united-states-v-palermo Whether a defendant must make a threshold showing with reasonable particularity that identified documents constitute 'statements' under the Jencks Act…
18-6270 Cornelius Lynch v. Ohio Ohio 2018-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-protection criminal-procedure defendant-rights double-jeopardy double-jeopardy,criminal-procedure,constitutional- due-process mistrial retrial trial-procedure May a state, consistent with the protections of the Double Jeopardy Clause, try a defendant a second time when the first trial ended in a mistrial whi…
18-6271 Sonny Scott v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review appellate-standard booker-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure plain-error plain-error-review reasonableness-challenge reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness united-states-v-booker When—if at all—must a defendant object to the reasonableness of a sentence to preserve that argument for appellate review?
18-6284 Alphonso Churchwell, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender collateral-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing eleventh-circuit mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness Whether U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(a)(2)'s residual clause is void for vagueness with respect to defendants sentenced under the pre-Booker mandatory Guidelines
18-6285 Mady Chan, aka Maddy, aka Mandy, aka Manny v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-right constitutional-rights counsel-advice criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel padilla-precedent padilla-v-kentucky sixth-amendment speedy-trial-act Should the holding in Padilla v. Kentucky extend to the attorney's failure to advise a client that under Speedy Trial Act a violation cannot be waived…
18-6236 Thomas Lee Swan v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction reasons-for-granting-writ statement-of-case statutory-provisions Whether the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals erred in deferring to the state court's conviction of the petitioner despite the petitioner's claims of due p…
18-6237 Jacob L. Smith v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3553 appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal due-process gall-v-united-states plain-error plain-error-review preservation-of-error sentencing sentencing-variance In order to preserve a § 3553(c) challenge to the adequacy of the district court's sentencing explanation, must a party, who is given no opportunity t…
18-6248 Antonio Mercedes-Rijo v. United States First Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP congressional-power criminal-procedure define-and-punish-clause drug-trafficking due-process federal-jurisdiction high-seas mitigating-role sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-3b1.2 statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission Whether the Petitioner's Mitigating Role Should of Been Adjusted In Accordance With The United States Sentencing Guidelines § 3B1.2
18-6251 Lonnie James Pebley v. Colorado Colorado 2018-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process mistrial oregon-v-kennedy prosecutorial-misconduct reprosecution supervisory-authority trial-court Whether the federal double jeopardy protection barring reprosecution as a result of prosecutorial misconduct intended to provoke a mistrial was not sh…
18-6253 Daniel R. Wesling v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2018-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process indictment indictment-sufficiency pennsylvania-law presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-standards vagueness victim-testimony Is the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's conviction of the Petitioner with uncorroborated victim statements coupled with an indictment so vague as to des…
18-6258 Steven Lazar v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aedpa aedpa-standard confession confession-voluntariness criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-adjudication reliability standard-of-review third-circuit-review voluntariness Did not the Pennsylvania state courts and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals convolute the difference between a confession's voluntariness and its rel…
18-6260 Jaime Traverso v. Maryland Maryland 2018-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-law constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence-withholding full-faith-and-credit full-faith-credit-clause judicial-discretion law-of-case perjury prosecutorial-misconduct standing withheld-evidence Did the Maryland court abuse its discretion by refusing to reopen the law of the case established by the testimony of a convicted perjurer, withheld f…
18-443 Bobby James Moore v. Texas Texas 2018-10-09 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (5) capital-punishment clinical-criteria clinical-standards criminal-procedure eighth-amendment intellectual-disability lay-stereotypes medical-standards moore-v-texas Whether the Eighth Amendment and this Court's decision in Moore v. Texas, 137 S. Ct. 1039 (2017) prohibit relying on non-clinical criteria and lay ste…
18-6216 Musonda Mulenga v. United States District of Columbia 2018-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP carpenter-v-united-states criminal-conviction criminal-procedure district-court-procedure district-of-columbia due-process fourth-amendment harmless-error judicial-precedent legal-conflict second-degree-murder superior-court supreme-court-review Whether the opinion from the District of Columbia Court of Appeals is in conflict with opinion of this Court in Carpenter v. United States, 136 S.Ct. …
18-6234 Scott Doyle Barrett v. Arizona Arizona 2018-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment burden-of-proof child-molestation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process sexual-motivation Does Arizona's statutory scheme, which excludes sexual motivation as an element of child molestation, unconstitutionally shift the burden of proof on …
18-6198 Carlos Rafael Acosta-Joaquin v. United States First Circuit 2018-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-408(a)(7)(B) criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process false-representation federal-criminal-law identity-theft social-security-fraud social-security-number statutory-interpretation Is a defendant guilty of social-security-fraud under 42-usc-408(a)(7)(B)
18-6200 Emmanuel Chukwuebuka Uzoechi v. David Wilson, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure discrimination due-process emotional-distress false-conviction intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress malicious-prosecution title-ix Did the State of Maryland intentionally inflict emotional distress on Emmanuel C Uzoechi, and was Emmanuel C Uzoechi Maliciously prosecuted?
18-6222 Donte Timothy Bacon v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP as-applied-challenges class-v-united-states commerce-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure de-novo district-of-colombia-v-heller federal-criminalization federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution firearm-regulation guilty-plea interstate-commerce intrastate-firearm-possession intrastate-firearm-sale plain-error second-amendment standard-of-review statutory-interpretation unconditional-guilty-plea united-states-v-lopez Whether as-applied constitutional challenges to statutes of conviction are waived by an unconditional guilty plea, and the standard of review
18-6168 Soon Young Kim v. California California 2018-10-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct standing What would You do against such jurists, tremendous crimes as the National matter!?
18-6169 Tracy L. Johnson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 924(c)-statute conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy drug-conspiracy drug-crimes due-process firearm-possession informant-testimony law-enforcement-conduct mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentencing sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether a defendant should be subject to a mandatory 25 year consecutive 924(c) sentence for the same drug Conspiracy
18-6188 Andrew Lucero v. Colorado Department of Corrections Colorado 2018-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP bill-of-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue liberty-interest procedural-default statutory-interpretation Whether the original Criminal Trial Court abused its discretion in its Procedural Defaults, ab initio, depriving petitioner of Constitutionally Secure…
18-6203 Larry Hayes v. Marvin Plumley, Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied IFP 5th-amendment confession-evidence criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process false-confession miranda-rights miranda-waiver miranda-warning police-conduct police-interrogation voluntariness What constitutes a promise of leniency that destroys the voluntariness of a subsequent confession?
18-6204 Jermaine Franklin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit plea-agreement plea-bargaining unconstitutional waiver-of-appeal Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by enforcing the unconstitutional Waiver of Appeal provision in Petitioner Franklin's Plea Agreement
18-6205 Eliseo Guevara-Guevara v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-rule alleyne-v-united-states almendarez-torres almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process enhanced-punishment immigration-law indictment judicial-precedent prior-conviction sentencing Whether a prior conviction must be alleged in the indictment before a defendant is subjected to enhanced punishment under 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b)
18-6206 Jason Randall Howard v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness variance-sentence Is Howard's 457% above-guideline variance sentence procedurally unreasonable because the District Court failed to consider the need to avoid unwarrant…
18-6207 Manuel Ernesto Paiz Guevara v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion capital-crime capital-punishment criminal-procedure death-penalty eighth-amendment fourth-circuit-split mandatory-sentencing miller-v-alabama right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in denying the defendant's request for two attorneys in a capital case
18-6208 Nicholas Ryan Hemsher v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 8th-circuit appellate-review circuit-split co-conspirators criminal-enhancement criminal-procedure sentencing-disparities sentencing-disparities-18-usc-3553-a-6 sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in finding that the statutory direction to avoid unwarranted disparities among defendants does not a…
18-6212 Thomas Burgess v. Nicole English, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255e amendment-782 criminal-procedure intervening-arrest mandatory-minimum miscarriage-of-justice precedent-change savings-clause sentencing sentencing-modification sentencing-relief-28-usc-2255e Whether a defendant can seek relief under the savings clause of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e) when the court of appeals changes its binding precedent to what th…
18-417 W. Scott Harkonen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived actual-innocence circuit-split coram-nobis criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fraud habeas-corpus new-evidence post-conviction-relief standard writ-of-error-coram-nobis Whether a writ of error coram nobis should issue for a petitioner who presents 'compelling' new evidence that establishes his actual innocence of the …
18-421 Jose Luis Cepeda-Cortes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response Waived co-defendant criminal-procedure extraneous-criminal-acts federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure joint-trial jury-reliability prejudice rule-14a severance spill-over-effect zafiro-v-united-states Does a fair and consistent application of Rule 14(a) require this Court to re-examine its decision in Zafiro and clarify the factors to be considered …
18-427 Masoud Bamdad v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) agency-policy controlled-substances court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure defective-indictment due-process fed.r.civ.p.-54(b) final-judgment habeas-corpus habeas-proceedings interstate-commerce jurisdiction medical-practice procedural-rules Whether a habeas court must adjudicate all claims of a habeas petitioner before making a final judgment and closing the case, or else the judgment is …
18-428 United States v. Clifford Raymond Salas Tenth Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Relisted (2) constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-offense firearms sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness Whether the subsection-specific definition of crime of violence' in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague
18-431 United States v. Maurice Lamont Davis and Andre Levon Glover Fifth Circuit 2018-10-03 Judgment Issued Amici (3)Relisted (2) armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-offense firearms hobbs-act statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness Whether the subsection-specific definition of crime of violence' in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague
18-410 Corey D. Yates v. United States District of Columbia 2018-10-02 Denied brady-doctrine brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure disclosure due-process evidence-suppression federal-state-courts-split materiality preserving-brady-doctrine prosecutorial-disclosure prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-diligence suppressed-evidence Whether a defendant must show he did not know of and could not have reasonably obtained the suppressed evidence to establish a Brady violation
18-411 Cindy Omidi v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-02 Denied Response Waived 31-usc-5317 31-usc-5324 civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture jurisdictional-basis money-judgment personal-money-judgment statutory-interpretation structuring Whether a district court has authority to enter a personal money judgment against a person who violated 31 U.S.C. § 5324(a)(3) (structuring) when the …
18-6161 Terrance Lombard v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review clear-error clear-error-standard criminal-procedure district-court due-process motion-to-suppress standard-of-review suppression-hearing Did the court of appeals misapply the clear error standard by considering facts adduced at trial, but not considered by the district court during the …
18-6165 Paul E. Rinehart v. Ohio Ohio 2018-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process judicial-fact-finding jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment trial-by-jury Can a trial court enhance a defendant's sentence(s) to more than the minimum sentence upon judicial fact finding from a judge rather than the findings…
18-6176 Michael Lucero v. California California 2018-10-02 Denied IFP 6th-amendment confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-evidence criminal-procedure domestic-violence due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment prior-acts propensity propensity-evidence Whether the admission of prior acts of domestic violence to establish the petitioner's propensity to commit such crimes violated his right to due proc…
18-6180 Brian Deronceler v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure district-court due-process eleventh-circuit insufficient-evidence judgment-of-acquittal motion-for-acquittal sentencing sentencing-errors sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the evidence was insufficient to support the defendant's conviction and the motion for judgment of acquittal should have been granted
18-6183 Reginald Lynch v. Hilton Hall, Jr., Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure davis-v-washington dying-declaration hearsay ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Does petitioner receive ineffective assistance of counsel when trial counsel fails to object to testimony from a witness repeating the statements of a…
18-6184 Robert Demetrius Barnes v. B. Masters, Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split concurrent-sentence criminal-procedure federal-appellate-courts federal-sentencing prior-undischarged-term prior-undischarged-term-of-imprisonment sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-manual-5g1.3(c) statutory-interpretation Whether the word concurrently' in Section 5G1.3(c) authorizes a sentencing court to run a sentence concurrently from the start of the pre-existing sen…
18-6185 Jason Beckman v. Florida Florida 2018-10-02 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP apprendi apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process fact-finding factfinding jury-factfinding juvenile-sentencing life-sentence miller-factors miller-v-alabama sentencing-factors sixth-amendment Whether section 921.1401, Florida Statutes, violates the Sixth Amendment by allowing a judge rather than a jury to conduct the factfinding necessary t…
18-6186 Alvin Gaitan Benitez, aka Pesadilla, aka Lil Pesadilla, aka Lil Tuner, aka Tooner, aka Lil Tunnel v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP antagonistic-defense antagonistic-defenses codefendant criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial interstate-commerce jurisdiction jurisdictional-element motion-for-severance severance Whether the circuit court erred in affirming the denial of a motion for severance
18-6150 Noel Aquino-Florenciani v. United States First Circuit 2018-10-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion child-pornography criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process internet-access internet-access-ban sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release Whether the court's imposition of a total ban of internet access as a condition of supervised release is an overly broad and restrictive and without a…
18-6152 M. E. D. v. New Jersey New Jersey 2018-10-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP child-endangerment criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-law fair-trial jury-instruction jury-instructions other-wrongs-evidence second-degree-child-endangerment victim-testimony witness-testimony Did the trial court violate petitioner's right under the due process clause to a fair trial when the court failed to instruct the jury properly on a k…
18-6155 Christian Lemus Cerna, aka Leopardo, aka Bago, aka Vago, aka Gatito, aka Christian Josue Lemus Alfaro v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-evidence-disclosure brady-violation brady-violations court-of-appeals criminal-procedure eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-sentencing evidence-admission false-testimony jury-instructions lesser-included-offenses mandatory-life-sentence severance-of-defendants uncharged-conduct-evidence uncharged-murder-evidence Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's decisions
18-6158 Makandi L. Terry v. Larry Abraham, Chief, Dillon County Detention Center Fourth Circuit 2018-10-01 Denied IFP brady-disclosure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction plea-bargaining standing Should Petitioner Feery's case be reversed and remanded based upon direct evidence of ineffective assistance of counsel in his failure to disclose any…
18-6159 Charlise Williams v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence loss-calculation sentencing sixth-amendment victim-count Was the Petitioners Sixth Amendment right, under the Confrontation Clause violated?
18-405 Shabnam Dastmalchian v. Department of Justice, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-01 Denied Response Waived asset-forfeiture civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-immunity government-overreach government-seizure innocent-third-party property-rights takings third-party-property Whether the interplay of the Constitution, Fed.R.Crim.P.7(c)(2), and 21 U.S.C. § 853 allow government employees to seize an innocent third party Calif…
18-407 Matthew John Stickle v. Virginia Virginia 2018-10-01 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-procedure curtilage due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment fourth-amendment,fourteenth-amendment,search-and-s ip-address search-and-seizure threshold warrantless-search Was the evidence in this case unlawfully obtained as a result of an unlawful search and seizure in violation of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments?
18-396 Brittan Holland, et al. v. Kelly Rosen, et al. Third Circuit 2018-09-28 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived bail bail-reform-act criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment fourth-amendment monetary-bail new-jersey pretrial-detention pretrial-liberty restrictive-conditions Whether New Jersey's law prohibiting courts from considering monetary bail unless no combination of non-monetary conditions will reasonably assure the…
18-404 The Colorado Independent v. District Court for the Eighteenth Judicial District of Colorado, et al. Colorado 2018-09-28 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) capital-murder court-records criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment first-amendment-access judicial-proceedings press-enterprise press-enterprise-co-v-superior-court press-enterprise-doctrine public-access qualified-right Does the public's qualified First Amendment right of access apply to the substantive motion papers, hearing transcripts and court orders filed in a ca…
18-6110 Mikal Mahdi v. South Carolina South Carolina 2018-09-28 Denied IFP appointment-of-counsel capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty death-sentence habeas-corpus indigent-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief procedural-history right-to-counsel sixth-amendment south-carolina-supreme-court state-court Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated when the state post-conviction court failed to appoint counsel for M…
18-6111 Thompson Christopher Kyle Mandrell v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3553a6 appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentence-disparity sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the federal sentencing court failed to properly consider and apply 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(6) regarding unwarranted sentence disparities
18-6112 Opherro G. Jones v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines beckles-v-united-states certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process misinformation sentencing sentencing-guidelines townsend-v-burke void-for-vagueness Due process-precludes-reliance-on-misinformation-at-sentencing
18-6124 Sherman Washington, aka Sherman Lance Washington v. Carmen Denise Palmer, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission fair-trial fair-trial-denial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mre-404b other-bad-acts other-bad-acts-testimony res-gestae sixth-amendment Whether petitioner was denied a fair trial by the admission of irrelevant other bad acts testimony
18-6132 Marlon Oliver v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2011 plea offer not requiring cooperation and def criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel missouri-v-frye plea-bargaining plea-offer right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether there is a reasonable probability that the court below would vacate petitioner's conviction, giving the opportunity to consider this Court's d…
18-6137 Steven Doyle Burton v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-09-28 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment probation probation-search probation-searches reasonable-suspicion search search-condition standing Whether the Fourth Amendment allows probation searches without reasonable suspicion
18-6141 Damian O'Neil Towne v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-waiver criminal-procedure government-objection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review notice-of-appeal sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-miscalculation untimely-notice-of-appeal Whether a gross miscalculation of the sentencing guideline range should be corrected where a defendant's appellate waiver does not preclude an appeal …
18-6113 Frank J. Ballesteros v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines criminal-procedure fairness fairness-doctrine integrity judicial-proceedings judicial-review post-conviction-relief pro-se-applicant public-reputation resentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines Should this Court grant review of the court of appeals' decision based on this Court's subsequent decision in Rosales-Mireles v. United States that re…
18-6120 Jose Ramon Pulido-Nolazco v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-justice criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-procedure prior-conviction sentencing sex-offender sex-offender-treatment supervised-release Whether the age of a prior sex offense conviction is a factor the court must consider when determining whether to impose sex offender treatment as a c…
18-6121 Benjamin Vega-Garcia, aka Carlos Moreno Molina v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari-standard constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent precedent precedent-overruling recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review Whether the Court should overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998)
18-391 Arizona v. Guy James Goodman Arizona 2018-09-27 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) adversarial-hearing bail-denial bail-restrictions clear-proof criminal-procedure due-process facial-unconstitutionality pretrial-detention salerno sexual-assault united-states-v-salerno Did the Arizona Supreme Court err in holding that United States v. Salerno, 481 U.S. 739 (1987), prohibits a State from denying bail to an arrestee wh…
18-6089 Marie Therese Assa'ad-Faltas v. City of Columbia, South Carolina South Carolina 2018-09-26 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-expenses due-process equal-protection indigent-criminal-defendant indigent-defense pro-se pro-se-defense sovereign-immunity takings Whether South Carolina's Defense of Indigents Act denies equal protection between criminal defendants who choose to proceed pro se and those with stat…
18-6092 Robert Dion Ables v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-09-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review criminal-appeals criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-plain-error-review empirical-analysis empirical-foundation-of-guidelines guideline-2g2.2 judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-policy substantive-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness-of-sentences Whether factual error is categorically immune from plain error review?
18-6103 Fernando Valdez-Cejas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process plea-bargaining prior-conviction sentencing statutory-enhancement statutory-maximum Whether all facts - including the fact of a prior conviction - that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eit…
18-6078 Carlton B. Springer v. Ohio Ohio 2018-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-right criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel outcome-determinative prejudice-prong sixth-amendment standing Do Ohio Courts err when they insist that the prejudice prong of an ineffective assistance of counsel claim requires proof that counsel's deficient per…
18-6090 Eric Williams v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2018-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence appellate-procedure criminal-procedure due-diligence due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief recantation recantation-evidence witness-recantation Did the Pennsylvania Superior Court and Common Pleas Court abuse their discretion by denying Williams an evidentiary hearing to review the merits of h…
18-6091 In Re Steven A. Walcott, Jr. 2018-09-25 Denied IFP bail civil-rights criminal-procedure detention due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pretrial-detention release speedy-trial Whether the State of Louisiana violated the petitioner's constitutional rights
18-6098 Joe Johnson, Jr. v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2018-09-25 GVR Response RequestedRelisted (5)IFP criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-subject-matter-jurisdiction indian-country indian-law major-crimes-act organic-act prospective-decisions seminole-country seminole-tribe state-waiver-rule subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Supreme Court clearly established the prospective decisions that Seminole Country written in Congress Organic Act invokes the Major Crimes…
18-6064 Robert L. Rose v. Leroy Kirkegard, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-09-24 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance lafler-v-cooper plea-negotiations remedies remedy sixth-amendment united-states-v-morrison What is the proper remedy when a defendant's lawyer fails to inform her client of, or offers deficient advice as to whether to accept, a favorable ple…
18-6065 In Re Eric M. Richardson 2018-09-24 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury habeas-corpus judicial-procedure pro-se-petition sentencing standing Whether the petitioner's conviction and sentence violated his Fifth Amendment right to be tried only on an offense made out in a presentment or indict…
18-6076 Wilton Eugene Sandifer, Sr. v. Florida Florida 2018-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-law mandamus standing state-court third-party-guilt trial-rights Whether the petitioner was denied due process and equal protection under the 14th Amendment by the state court's denial of his petition for a writ of …
18-6081 Manuel Enrique Camacho v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit 2018-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP cognitive-impairment competency criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-capacity mental-competency psychiatric-evaluation psychiatric-report Whether trial counsel was ineffective for failing to determine if Mr. Camacho was competent to enter a guilty plea
18-6083 Jesus Manuel Laureano-Perez v. United States First Circuit 2018-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process government-prosecution plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review uncharged-conduct Whether the district court erred in enhancing Laureano's sentence based on uncharged conduct
18-6084 Sharon Lee v. Florida Florida 2018-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel manifest-injustice mental-capacity plea-bargaining Was the petitioner's constitutional rights violated when the petitioner unknowingly and unintelligently accepted a plea to a second degree murder char…
18-6087 Samuel Raphael Johnson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP §2255-motion 28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction-relief procedural-default successive-petitions Does asking the district court to reopen the habeas proceeding to consider all issues presented constitute a second or successive §2255 motion?
18-6057 Omar Sosa-Gonzalez v. United States First Circuit 2018-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule first-circuit fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure sentencing standing statutory-interpretation Whether the First Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of petitioner's motion to suppress evidence obtained in violation of the Four…
18-6066 Melvin Noel Vasquez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure de-novo-review downward-adjustment due-process federal-sentencing fifth-circuit minimal-role mitigating-role sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-3b1.2 standard-of-review Whether the Fifth Circuit's cursory review rather than the proper de novo review resulted in a misapplication of the provision of U.S.S.G. § 3B1.2 den…
18-6067 Edward Lee Lewis v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act booker-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process overserved-sentence plainly-unreasonable reasonableness revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-standard standard-of-review supervised-release Whether the appropriate standard of review for a sentence following the revocation of supervised release is the plainly unreasonable' standard or the …
18-6069 Joel Cadena v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal case-holding circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus legal-deferral pending-litigation petition-for-writ sentencing statutory-interpretation stay supreme-court supreme-court-review Whether this Court should hold the instant Petition until the resolution of Stokeling v. United States
18-6072 Cristian Gamez Mendez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts - including the fact of a prior conviction - that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eit…
18-6035 Zachary Chambers v. United States Third Circuit 2018-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-exposure sixth-amendment trial-counsel Whether the lower court abused its discretion in ruling that trial counsel's erroneous advice about petitioner's sentencing exposure if he proceed to …
18-6047 Leo Llowlyn Seed v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-20 Denied IFP alibi appeal charging-information civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions trial-counsel verdict-form witness-investigation Whether trial counsel was ineffective for multiple reasons
18-6056 Harley Blevins, Sr. v. Florida Florida 2018-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-punishment-code due-process jury-trial jury-verdict prior-conviction sentence-enhancement sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether Florida's Prison Releasee Reoffender Act is unconstitutional and a violation of the Sixth Amendment in light of Hurst v. Florida, Alleyne v. U…
18-6063 Craig Alexander v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals criminal-history criminal-procedure disciplinary-infractions due-process judicial-discretion judicial-interpretation section-3582 sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the Supreme Court should resolve split decisions in the lower court as to how far a Judge must explain and/or elaborate on a decision to grant…
18-369 Fidencio Valdez v. Texas Texas 2018-09-20 Denied circumstantial-evidence constitutional-due-process criminal-procedure due-process false-evidence false-testimony perjury prosecutorial-misconduct tacit-agreement timely-objection trier-of-fact void-for-vagueness witness-testimony Whether a defendant must timely object to a prosecutor's use of false or perjured evidence
18-361 Lael J. Alleyne v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2018-09-19 Denied appeal appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process imperfect-self-defense jury-instructions manslaughter self-defense supreme-court-pennsylvania trial-court-error voluntary-manslaughter Whether the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania erred in denying a Petition for Allowance of Appeal despite the trial court's improper exclusion of voluntar…
18-6030 Jason M. Smith v. United States Second Circuit 2018-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appellate-waiver collateral-attack constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement public-policy sentencing Whether a plea agreement in which a defendant agrees to waive his right to appeal and collaterally attack any legal sentence imposed violates due proc…
18-6034 In Re Gregory Wayne Burwell 2018-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure federal-grand-jury federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-amendment firearm-offenses forged-indictment grand-jury indictment-validity non-existent-crimes non-existent-offenses sentencing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the District Court and Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal's had subject matter jurisdiction over the criminal case
18-6038 Carlos D. Villavicencio v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2018-09-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jurisdiction nolle-prosequi prosecutorial-misconduct speedy-trial statute-of-limitations Whether the prosecution (State of Florida) retained jurisdiction after the speedy trial period expired
18-6040 Daniel Lee Thornberry v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2018-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus sentencing standing Does the petition state a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right cognizable on 28 USC 2254 and under 28 USC 2255(2)?
18-6041 Robert Burse v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure cross-reference district-court error firearms-offense review sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g.-§-2k2.1(c)(1)(a) u.s.s.g.-2k2.1(c)(1)(a) Whether the district court erred by applying the Sentencing Guidelines cross reference under U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(c)(1)(A)
18-6042 Ronald Eric Ary v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing deferred-adjudication due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum Whether a Texas deferred adjudication qualifies as a prior conviction for sentencing enhancement
18-5978 John Robert Register, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender civil-rights criminal-procedure drug-possession due-process plain-error prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Did the court commit a plain error by applying a career offender enhancement to petitioner, even though his prior convictions neither of which had the…
18-5982 Todd F. Britton-Harr v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-09-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lee-v-united-states prejudice prejudice-standard reasonable-person sixth-amendment Does the Court's decision in Lee v. United States, 137 S.Ct. 1958 (2017) allow lower courts to require a showing that a 'reasonable person' would have…
18-5983 Louis Charlton v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process fair-opportunity fair-trial impartial-jury present-defense sixth-amendment trial-by-jury trial-rights Was Petitioner denied the Sixth Amendment guarantee of a trial by an impartial jury when he was not allowed a fair opportunity to present his defense …
18-6014 Javier Vega-Orozco v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne almendarez-torres apprendi Certiorari criminal-procedure due-process sentencing sixth-amendment Supreme-Court Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
18-6016 Fabian Sandoval-Ramos v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy controlled-substances criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-offense due-process enhancement-factor mandatory-minimum-sentence mandatory-minimum-sentences sentencing sentencing-enhancements statutory-interpretation In order to trigger a mandatory minimum sentence, must the government allege and prove that an enhancement factor was the object of the conspiracy, or…
18-6026 James Ray Booth v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendments appeals circuit-court-decision civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction ministerial-correction procedural-relief sentence-amendment sentencing Whether the Circuit Court's decision nullified amendments to Petitioners' sentences and deprived him of the ability to seek habeas corpus relief in th…
18-6028 Maurice Baum v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure drug-amount drug-crimes due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment Was Trial Counsel's failure to object to the District Court's determination and findings of the drug amount attributable to the Petitioner objectively…
18-6029 Debra Ann Aquilina v. Sarah Davis, Administrator, Edna Mahan Correctional Facility, et al. Third Circuit 2018-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP cause-of-death constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process expert-opinion expert-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-examiner right-to-counsel right-to-effective-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel trial-errors trial-proceedings Did the petitioner's trial counsel provide constitutionally ineffective assistance, violated petitioner's right to effective assistance of counsel, be…
18-352 South Carolina v. Raymond Lewis Young South Carolina 2018-09-18 Denied appellate-review batson-challenge batson-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure deference-to-trial-court discretionary-review equal-protection federal-question jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination trial-court-deference Whether the South Carolina Court of Appeals erred in reversing Respondent's conviction on grounds that the trial court failed to conduct a proper Bats…
18-6007 Valerie Louise Williams v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines appellate-review criminal-procedure downward-variance federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness Whether the Court Should Grant Certiorari to Provide Further Clarification as to the Presumption of Substantive Reasonableness for Downward Variances …
18-5984 Murad H. Beyah v. New Jersey New Jersey 2018-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process government-misconduct habeas-corpus self-representation standing Whether HASAN MURAD OSTRES AND BRYAN was unconstitutionally deprived of the right to self-representation
18-5985 Jeffery Dana Sparks v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Oregon 2018-09-14 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination death-penalty evidence-presentation expert-testimony expert-witnesses ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecution-experts prosecution-theory trial-strategy Whether defense counsel in a death penalty trial provided effective assistance
18-5993 Douglas Roy Burns v. Connie Horton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-instructions mens-rea specific-intent Whether a state court must constitutionally recognize and allow a defense in the form of testimony and/or other relevant evidence which disproves the …
18-5994 Ricky Wayne White v. Arkansas Arkansas 2018-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-error legal-relief maximum-sentence misdemeanor-enhancement sentencing sentencing-error state-court-jurisdiction state-courts Is an error of a lower State Court in exceeding the maximum sentence legally allowed, cognizable for relief at any time?
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 Whether the sentencing court erred in imposing an unreasonable sentence on the defendant in violation of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel a…
18-5999 Joe Litton Bailey v. Louisiana Louisiana 2018-09-14 Denied IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence habitual-offender jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing-enhancement sufficiency-of-evidence Was the evidence presented to the jury sufficient to convict Bailey beyond a reasonable doubt?
18-335 Nathaniel Teamer v. Scott Lewis, Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial judicial-bias jury-instructions south-carolina state-court supreme-court truth-seeking Does the South Carolina Supreme Court's acceptance of judges instructing the jury that its 'sole objective is to simply reach the truth of the matter'…
18-5960 Kenneth Gharib v. Thomas H. Casey Ninth Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-contempt coercive-confinement criminal-procedure due-process indefinite-confinement judicial-discretion recalcitrant-witness-statute witness-statute Whether the Recalcitrant Witness Statute's eighteen-month cap on coercive confinement, or a similarly objective measure, should inform the due process…
18-5961 Vincent Michael Marino v. Barbara Rickard, Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights collateral-attack constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure criminal-trial double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jury-jeopardy supreme-court-precedent Whether the District Court, Appeals Court for the Second Circuit, and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals sitting En Banc committed reversible legal e…
18-5973 Alvin Ramirez-De Jesus v. United States First Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553(a) booker-standard criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause probation-revocation procedural-reasonableness reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness supervised-release Whether the First Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of the petitioner's motion to suppress evidence obtained in violation of the …
18-5979 Malik Derry v. United States Third Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment brady-v-maryland brady-violation conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-amendment law-of-case right-to-be-present right-to-counsel sixth-amendment suppression-of-evidence Whether the Fifth or Sixth Amendments, or Rules 43 and 44 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, are violated
18-5926 Darnell Wilkins v. Jay Lane, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2018-09-12 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equitable-tolling guilty-plea habeas-corpus mental-health mental-incapacity pcra psychotropic-medications standing Did petitioner's mental incapacity not entitle him to equitable tolling?
18-5929 David T. Odom v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal conditional-plea conditional-plea-agreement criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-appeals-court fourth-circuit plea-agreement standard-of-review statute-of-limitations Whether a defendant can make a knowing and voluntary decision under a conditional plea agreement when, believing he is preserving his Motion to Dismis…
18-5944 Rafael Tanco-Pizarro v. United States First Circuit 2018-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3583 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing discovery due-process revocation revocation-hearing sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervised-release title-18-usc Whether the punishment factor of the federal sentencing statute, Title 18 U.S.C §3553(a)(2)(A), is a permissible or prohibited factor in sentencing a …
18-5954 Don Ray White v. Texas Texas 2018-09-12 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court had jurisdiction to entertain the petitioner's claim that the indictment was presented without jurisdiction
18-5956 James E. Whitney v. Arkansas Arkansas 2018-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence patent search-and-seizure standing takings Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the state court's denial of his motion to suppress evidence obtained in violation of t…
18-5957 Raul Arcila v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-841 criminal-procedure drug-statute due-process evidentiary-issues jury-evidence jury-instructions plain-error proximate-cause sentencing-factor unfair-prejudice Whether the District Court committed plain error by allowing the government to convert a sentencing factor into a proximate cause element
18-5924 Evangelisto Ramos v. Louisiana Louisiana 2018-09-11 Judgment Issued Amici (12)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9)IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment incorporation incorporation-doctrine racial-discrimination sixth-amendment stare-decisis unanimous-jury unanimous-verdict Whether the Fourteenth Amendment fully incorporates the Sixth Amendment guarantee of a unanimous verdict?
18-5928 Ricardo Limon-Urenda v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment ambiguous-answer criminal-procedure hearing impartial-jury impartiality ineffective-assistance juror-impartiality jury-selection prospective-juror right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance under the 6th Amendment
18-5932 Ronald Jones v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2018-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus medical-evidence section-2254 sixth-amendment state-conviction Whether Petitioner has shown clear and convincing evidence of a credible actual-innocence claim from his State conviction?
18-5934 Deborah M. Wagner v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal civil-procedure criminal-appeal criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process mandatory-victim-restitution-act mvra plea-agreement restitution restitution-order sentencing statutory-authority statutory-interpretation Whether the district court's restitution order was outside the statutory authority of the MVRA
18-5938 Mark David Bailey v. Noah Nagy, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-evidence habeas-corpus sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-review suppression-of-evidence Can a fairminded jurist exclude expert evidence indicating that someone else committed a murder based solely on the jurist's lay disagreement with the…
18-308 Anthony Rayshon Bethea v. North Carolina North Carolina 2018-09-11 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto punitive-restrictions retroactive-application sex-offender-registration smith-v-doe Whether the retroactive application of North Carolina's sex offender registration statute violates the Ex Post Facto Clause
18-313 Albon C. Diamond, III v. Florida Florida 2018-09-11 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel impeachment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-evidence medical-testimony sixth-amendment strategic-decisions strickland strickland-standard Whether the Sixth Amendment's guarantee of effective attorney representation requires a finding of ineffective assistance of counsel where the trial a…
18-5912 Robert Kimmell v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-defense criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-disclosure drug-offense due-process fair-trial informant informant-disclosure jury-instructions lesser-included-offense relevance verdict-form witness-disclosure Did Kimmell establish that disclosure of the informant was relevant and helpful to his defense, or essential to a fair determination of his cause?
18-5921 Jeffrey Allen Stevens v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights civil-unrest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment free-speech jury-trial law-enforcement-misconduct standing Are Predictions of Civil Unrest or Violent Revolt Protected Speech under the First Amendment?
18-5910 Curtis Dee Packard v. Barry Goodrich, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment assistance-of-counsel confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance pro-se-representation public-defender right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment trial-court withdrawal-of-counsel Whether both the trial court and the State's Public Defender''s Office invited error and erroneously denied the Petitioner his 6th Amendment rights to…
18-5913 Alfonso Escobedo Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure empirical-basis fifth-circuit judicial-review methamphetamine-sentencing presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-review second-circuit sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines Is a sentence imposed under the methamphetamine sentencing guideline entitled to a presumption of reasonableness?
18-5914 Jeffrey Scott Finney v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 acca acca-sentencing armed-career-criminal-act criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states post-conviction-relief sentencing violent-felony Whether the District Court erred in denying Jeffrey Finney's post-Johason motion for relief pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255
18-5916 Juan Flores v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP admissibility casual-conversation co-conspirator co-conspirator-statement co-conspirator-statements conspiracy conspiracy-evidence criminal-procedure evidence evidentiary-standard federal-rule-of-evidence federal-rules-of-evidence furtherance-of-conspiracy hearsay-exception Whether the District Court and Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in ruling that a statement made during a casual conversation between co-conspirat…
18-5917 John Doe v. United States Third Circuit 2018-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review connected-conduct criminal-procedure federal-offense nexus obstruction obstructive-act reckless-endangerment relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines Whether the Court of Appeals erred by affirming the judgment of the District Court, which incorrectly applied the Sentencing Guidelines
18-5918 Jose Guerrero Lozano, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2018-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure delay due-process florida-court ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-delay prejudice speedy-trial Whether the State of Florida Court or the Petitioner is more to blame for the delay. Whether, in due course, and petitioner asserted a claim of ineffe…
18-298 Michael Vernon Beaty, Jr. v. South Carolina South Carolina 2018-09-07 Denied Response Waived chapman-standard chapman-v-california constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process due-process,criminal-procedure,constitutional-law, due-process,criminal-procedure,harmless-error,chap harmless-error judicial-review right-to-respond standard-of-review supreme-court-standard Does the South Carolina Supreme Court's standard for determining harmless constitutional error depart from this Court's mandates in Chapman v. Califor…
18-5889 James Ronald Welch, Jr. v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appeals appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights court-procedure criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-review standing Whether the U.S. Circuit Court Judge Kevin C. Newson erred in denying Appellant's appeal
18-5904 Donavan Cross v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constructive-delivery constructive-possession controlled-substance-offense controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-delivery due-process intent sentencing sentencing-guidelines testimonial-evidence Whether a statute that criminalizes a constructive delivery of drugs without bona fide intent to transfer possession is a felony 'controlled substance…
18-5905 Cortez Moore v. Illinois Illinois 2018-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial judicial-bias officer-testimony opening-argument prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment testifying-officers witness-credibility Whether the State of Illinois deprived Cortez Moore of a fair trial where during opening argument it repeatedly characterized the testifying officers …
18-5896 Beverly Allen Baker v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-09-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights confrontation-clause conspiracy criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel multiple-conspiracies sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether the government committed a Kotteakos violation by using evidence of multiple conspiracies to support an indictment for a single conspiracy
18-5899 Rashod Lewis v. United States Second Circuit 2018-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment probation self-incrimination Whether a probationer can be ordered to truthfully answer questions posed by his probation officer without a caveat that he still has the right to inv…
18-5900 Juan Carlos Martinez-Barrientos v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne almendarez-torres apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-review sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
18-288 Philip A. Mearing v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-09-05 Denied Amici (3) appellate-review appellate-waiver criminal-appeal criminal-defendant-waiver criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining restitution restitution-order sentencing sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation Whether a criminal defendant's waiver of the right to appeal his 'sentence' covers an order of restitution
18-5885 Kenneth Kennedy Shannon v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-09-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process evidence heroin-quantity motion-for-acquittal motion-for-new-trial motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence title-iii-wiretap verdict-acquittal Did the trial court err in denying the Petitioner's Motion for Verdict of Acquittal and for New Trial, because the evidence taken in the light most fa…
18-5857 Jeffrey Latimore v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2018-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency competency-hearing constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus mental-competency plea-agreement plea-bargaining right-to-counsel state-attorney-office state-court state-courts trial-court WHETHER TRIAL COURT ABUSED THEIR AUTHORITY BY DENYING PETITIONER LATIMORE A COMPETENCY HEARING BEFORE A PLEA AGREEMENT
18-5864 Benjamin Patrick Lee v. Suzanne M. Peery, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-09-04 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection free-exercise habeas-corpus right-to-counsel state-laws Whether the California state court system completely violates the due process and equal protection clauses of the U.S. Constitution and the rights of …
18-5865 Gary L. Pennington v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Pennsylvania 2018-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-offense constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-murder fourteenth-amendment state-law substantive-due-process Whether petitioner's conviction of first degree murder violated the constitutionally protected state-created liberty interest guaranteed under the Fou…
18-5867 Harvey Preston v. Willie Smith, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-error criminal-procedure federal-review gateway gateway-claim habeas habeas-corpus mcquiggin-v-perkins perkins-v-mcquiggins standard-of-review Whether the Petitioner has presented a credible claim of actual innocence to warrant reversal of the offenses of carjacking, home-invasion-first-degre…
18-5872 Miguel Medina-Reyes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 3553(a) drug-trafficking federal-criminal-justice-system pre-sentence-report sentencing 3553(a) 3553(a)-factors 3553a-factors abuse-of-discretion amendment-782 criminal-procedure drug-amount drug-quantity-attribution drug-trafficking-conspiracy due-process pre-sentence-report sentencing sentencing-discretion threshold Whether Petitioner's due process rights were violated
18-5875 John Vivo, III v. Connecticut Connecticut 2018-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-provisions court-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction legal-procedure plain-error plain-error-doctrine state-court-review statement-of-the-case statutory-exception statutory-interpretation Whether the state court of last resort erred by declining to review the petitioner's request for review under the plain-error doctrine and the applica…
18-269 Alan Mapuatuli, et al. v. Matthew G. Whitaker, Acting Attorney General Ninth Circuit 2018-09-04 Denied attorney-client-privilege attorney-work-product civil-rights confidential-communication confidentiality criminal-procedure due-process federal-inmates prison-litigation-reform-act prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment work-product-doctrine Sixth Amendment right to counsel violated by interception of prison emails with counsel
18-5747 Javier Amador-Flores v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence evidence-law expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence law-enforcement lay-opinion lay-opinion-testimony lay-testimony specialized-knowledge witness-testimony When a law-enforcement agent expressly compares the events in a case to what is typical in other cases he has investigated, is his opinion based on 's…
18-5849 Jose Soza v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions sixth-amendment state-postconviction Whether state trial counsel rendered constitutionally ineffective assistance of counsel
18-5854 Joe Leonard Lambright v. Arizona Arizona 2018-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process incarceration-credit life-sentence parole sentencing statutory-interpretation When a defendant's death sentence is vacated and a life sentence with the possibility of parole after 25 years imposed in its place, is the Due Proces…
18-5837 David Lee Roberts v. Alabama Alabama 2018-08-30 Denied IFP capital-sentencing criminal-procedure death-penalty federal-law hurst-v-florida judicial-findings jury-sentencing jury-verdict retroactivity ring-v-arizona Did Hurst invalidate Alabama's capital sentencing scheme?
18-5846 Dustin Xavier Wilkins, aka Dxavier Wilkins, aka Xavier Wilkins, aka Chosen Wilkins v. United States District of Columbia 2018-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment appeal court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-hearing Whether the petitioner should be allowed to withdraw his guilty plea based on ineffective assistance of counsel
18-5847 Jaime Shakur Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari-petition chavez-meza circuit-split criminal-procedure en-banc en-banc-review plain-error reasonableness remand sentencing sentencing-reasonableness Should this Court hold this Petition until the court below renders its forthcoming en banc decision in United States v. Reyes-Contreras?
18-5806 Edwin David Corbett v. Washington Washington 2018-08-29 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus insufficient-evidence jackson-v-virginia post-conviction-relief statute-of-limitations sufficiency-of-evidence time-limitation Whether the one-year limitations period under Washington's Revised Code §10.73.100(4) bars a petitioner from relitigating a sufficiency of evidence cl…
18-5808 Rafael Angel Rondon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924c 6th-amendment constitutional-law crimes-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process federal-law jury-instructions residual-clause sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent violent-crime Whether the Eleventh Circuit's 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) pattern jury instruction violates the Sixth Amendment
18-5810 Laureano Chirino Rivera v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence government-error government-misconduct judicial-error sentencing sentencing-enhancement standing Violation of all constitutional rights, illegal sentence and detention
18-5811 Eusebio Escobar De Jesus v. United States First Circuit 2018-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appeals-court criminal-procedure district-court due-process gall-v-united-states guideline-range guidelines molina-martinez-v-united-states offense-level procedural-error rosales-mireles-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the Appeals Court erroneously concluded Petitioner failed to state a claim, reasoning for want of a substantial question
18-5812 In Re Richard DeCaro 2018-08-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure doctrinal-underpinnings double-jeopardy due-process gamble-v-united-states innocence original-meaning re-adjudication separate-sovereigns separate-sovereigns-exception Whether the Court should overrule the 'separate sovereigns' exception to the Double Jeopardy Clause
18-5815 Jose Francisco Puentes v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-29 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment arizona-statute civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standing Does the Arizona statute 13-1410 violate the petitioner's 14th Amendment rights?
18-5821 Thomas Lee Farmer v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-08-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 2255-relief collateral-review concurrent-sentence-doctrine constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states multiple-sentences retroactive-constitutional-rule retroactive-review retroactivity section-2255 sentencing sentencing-law Whether the concurrent sentence doctrine should be applied to deny § 2255 relief
18-5822 Charles O. Keene v. Illinois Illinois 2018-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure dna-exonerations due-process eyewitness-identification judicial-integrity scientific-evidence scientific-research state-court-rulings state-court-split Whether the Biggers test for determining the reliability of eyewitness identification evidence remains valid in light of scientific research demonstra…
18-5823 Alonzo D. Marshall v. United States District of Columbia 2018-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing innocence innocence-claim post-conviction-relief section-23-110 trial-court-discretion witness-credibility Whether the court of appeals erred in affirming the trial court's decision to deny the defendant's Section 23-110 motion following an evidentiary hear…
18-5824 James Eugene Larive, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure discovery due-process entrapment evidence fair-trial fourth-amendment parallel-construction search-and-seizure traffic-stop Whether the government's use of 'parallel construction' to conceal the true source of evidence violates the defendant's right to a fair trial
18-5826 John C. Carter v. Antoine Caldwell, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure civil-rights constructive-denial-of-counsel criminal-appeal criminal-procedure critical-stage-of-appeal due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel state-criminal-trial-court state-law-limitations Whether the right to have assistance of counsel extends to the appeal stage of the trial proceedings, where the petitioner was allegedly denied such a…
18-5828 Adolfo Lopez-Garcia v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a 18-usc-3582(c)(2) 3582c-motion amendment-782 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court procedural-reasonableness sentence-reduction sentencing-discretion sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines statutory-directive statutory-interpretation substantive-error substantive-reasonableness sufficient-but-not-greater-than-necessary Whether the District Court Committed substantive error when failed to impose a sentence that was sufficient but not greater than necessary to comply w…
18-5831 Willie Riley Curry v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 6th-circuit age-of-victim byrd-v-united-states carpenter-v-united-states criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment gvr plain-error scienter search-and-seizure sixth-circuit-review statutory-interpretation Does Carpenter and Byrd require a GVR in this case?
18-5770 John Denton Rouse, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP but no text of a SCOTUS petition was provided in I cannot generate a question presented or identif please include the full text of the petition. chapman-v-united-states criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process mandatory-minimum market-oriented-approach sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the government may commingle substances that pose an identifiable danger of misidentification to produce an aggregate mixture or substance con…
18-5771 Jim Walter Qualls, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-courts felony-case guilty-plea judicial-authority jurisdiction magistrate-judge magistrate-judges plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation Whether a United States Magistrate Judge has statutory authority to accept a guilty plea in a felony case and adjudge a defendant guilty
18-5783 Robert A. Cotton v. County of San Bernardino, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied IFP brady-evidence brady-v-maryland brady-violation civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process issue-preclusion judicial-immunity jury-trial manuel-v-city-of-joliet ninth-circuit preliminary-hearing qualified-immunity self-defense Was the Ninth Circuit's affirmance of the dismissal based on issue preclusion in violation of Manuel v. City of Joliet?
18-5789 John Thompson v. United States Second Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason motion-for-appeal procedural-default procedural-ruling second-circuit standard-of-review standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred in denying Thompson's Motion for Certificate of Appealability
18-5797 Carlos Gutierrez-Torres v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error preservation-of-error sentencing sentencing-review Whether a defendant must re-object to the district court's explanation of its sentencing rationale to preserve the arguments for appeal
18-5804 Abdoulaye Diallo v. United States Third Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence fraud indictment-delay insufficient-evidence loss-calculation motion-for-acquittal prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt sentencing snap-fraud statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the District Court failed to grant Petitioner's motion for acquittal due to insufficient evidence of knowledge of fraudulent SNAP transactions
18-255 George Briscoe v. Texas Texas 2018-08-28 Denied criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process fair-trial indictment indictment-amendment indictment-modification jury-selection prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation texas-criminal-procedure vagueness Can a defendant receive a fair trial when the plain language of a statute is ignored to allow the government to change the indictment after a jury has…
18-5748 Rory Allen Meeks v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-v-united-states appellate-review constructive-amendment criminal-procedure drug-offense drug-offenses jury-instructions mccoy-v-louisiana mens-rea sentencing sixth-amendment Whether reasonable jurists might debate the application of Alleyne and Apprendi to mens rea and constructive amendment
18-5767 Fox Joseph Salerno v. Jo Lynn Gentry, Judge, Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County, et al. Arizona 2018-08-27 Denied IFP bill-of-attainder constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining retroactive-application retroactivity Did the State Trial Court err by unconstitutionally using Federal case laws of Missouri v. Frye/Lafler v. Cooper and applying it retroactively thus vi…
18-5776 Carlos Placeres-Cruz v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP breach-of-contract circuit-split criminal-procedure duty-of-candor judicial-interpretation plea-agreement prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-discretion sentencing-recommendation Where some courts hold that a prosecutor commits an implicit breach of a plea agreement by proffering statements undermining the agreed, sentencing re…
18-5778 Jon Duke DePriest v. Pam Bondi, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus hearsay sixth-amendment testimonial-hearsay Whether petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to confront witnesses against him were violated
18-5779 Ray Cobia v. Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2004-conviction 2012-conviction civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing Whether the petitioner was afforded due process in the 2004 conviction and 2012 conviction, and why the conduct was prosecuted so harshly
18-5734 Robert Dennis Martin v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2018-08-24 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-waiver criminal-procedure due-process due-process,criminal-procedure,4th-amendment,stand fourth-amendment jury-verdict police-stop reasonable-doubt standing Can Oklahoma adopt a rule of law regarding the waiver of a fundamental constitutional right that does not meet the minimum criteria for such waivers s…
18-5739 Terril Kinchen v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP bank-fraud civil-procedure constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sentencing standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent Whether the federal bank fraud statute plainly covered the defendant's conduct
18-5745 Miguel Anthony Molina v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 841(a)(1) 922(g)(1) 924(e) criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Did the judge violate the defendant's Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial?
18-5750 Santos Cuevas v. Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Oregon 2018-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto free-speech sex-offender-registration standing Whether the United States Constitution's Ex Post Facto Clause prohibits a state from convicting a defendant for a statutory sexual offense based on pa…
18-5751 William Burke v. Georgia Georgia 2018-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP adversarial-process constitutional-fairness criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence evidence-review fair-trial judicial-review jury-instructions post-conviction-review prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct trial-strategy At what point does it become fundamentally unfair to 'adjust the charges to the evidence'?
18-5754 Ivan Rodrigo Campillo Restrepo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-precedent criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing habeas-corpus jurisdiction mandate-recall penal-term retroactivity sentencing statutory-maximum supreme-court-ruling writ-of-certiorari whether-recall-of-mandate-should-issue
18-5756 Shondolyn Rochelle Blevins v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion jury-instructions Did the District Court abuse its discretion when it denied the Petitioner's 28 U.S.C. 2255 motion without an evidentiary hearing?
18-5757 Michael L. Berry v. Walter Nicholson, Warden Seventh Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus jury-instructions sentencing standing Whether the petitioner's federal constitutional claims were properly presented and preserved for review by the lower courts
18-240 Kirk Tang Yuk v. United States Second Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied Response Waived co-conspirator-testimony criminal-procedure criminal-venue due-process government-overreach jurisdiction prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment telephone-call-evidence venue venue-manipulation witness-location Whether a prosecutor can manufacture venue in a particular district solely by bringing a cooperating witness to a favored district and having the witn…
18-237 Gary Thomas and Felix Parrilla v. United States Second Circuit 2018-08-23 Denied Response Waived 6th-amendment civil-procedure conspiracy-venue constitutional constitutional-venue cooperating-witness criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure government-witness manufactured-venue prosecutorial-discretion sixth-amendment venue venue-determination venue-manipulation venue-provisions witness-cooperation Whether it is permissible under the venue provisions of the U.S. Constitution Article III, § 2, cl. 3; the Sixth Amendment; and Federal Rules of Crimi…
18-238 South Carolina v. Lamont Antonio Samuel South Carolina 2018-08-23 Denied court-of-appeals criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process ethics faretta-v-california judicial-conduct judicial-discretion judicial-integrity self-representation sixth-amendment unethical-conduct Did the South Carolina Supreme Court err when it held — in conflict with many federal courts of appeals — that a trial court may not deny a criminal d…
18-5676 Ernest Morris v. Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2018-08-23 Denied IFP cell-phone-records cell-phone-tower-records constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy duress-defense fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standing suppression trial-counsel unqualified-counsel Did counsel provide ineffective assistance of counsel?
18-5705 George Easterly v. Florida Florida 2018-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure exculpatory-evidence impeachment-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-plea plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness postconviction-relief probable-cause probable-cause-affidavit search-and-seizure search-warrant voluntariness-of-plea Whether the Florida Court of Appeals unreasonably applied this Court's precedent
18-5714 Jose A. Rivera-Quinones v. Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2018-08-23 Denied IFP abuse-of-process confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment prejudicial-evidence sentencing sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a trial court can possess subject matter jurisdiction on a criminal offense not charged within the indictment/criminal information
18-5715 Thomas A. Sweeney v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure fourth-amendment griffin-v-wisconsin law-enforcement parole parole-search-and-seizure privacy-rights probation probation-supervision samson-v-california search-and-seizure stalking-horse Did this Court's decision in Samson v. California overturn the 'stalking horse' doctrine?
18-5717 Anousone Savanh v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-expert due-process expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence ninth-circuit-review right-to-present-defense May a court exclude a defense expert in a criminal case for failing to possess qualifications that Federal Rule of Evidence 702 does not require, the …
18-5718 James Willis Campbell, Sr. v. Virginia Virginia 2018-08-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment jurisdiction probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant standard-of-review Did the Supreme Court of Virginia err in reversing the Court of Appeals of Virginia's ruling and affirming the judgment of the trial court?
18-5719 Alan Bartlett v. Susanna C. Pineda, Judge, Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County, et al. Arizona 2018-08-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment arizona-constitution arizona-criminal-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process interstate-agreement-on-detainers mandamus speedy-trial standing Whether Respondent Judge denied Petitioner Bartlett's Motion to Dismiss the lack of speedy trial in violation of the 6th Amendment to the United State…
18-5720 Alan Bartlett v. Susanna C. Pineda, Judge, Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County, et al. Arizona 2018-08-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment appeal civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment Whether Respondent Judge Susanne C. Pineda abused discretion in denying Petitioner Bartlett's motion to dismiss for double jeopardy, in violation of h…
18-5726 Ruben Cazares v. Texas Texas 2018-08-23 Denied IFP accomplice-statements bruton-error bruton-evidence bruton-v-united-states confrontation-clause crawford crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility harmless-error prejudice prejudicial-evidence separate-trials special-prejudice trial-procedure Whether lower courts correctly evaluate the harmfulness of Bruton error without accounting for the devastating 'special prejudice' to the accused that…
18-5728 Wesley Brian Earnest v. Keith W. Davis, Warden, et al. Virginia 2018-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 1st-amendment civil-procedure due-process equal-protection standing civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus prisoner-rights standing Whether the Virginia Supreme Court erred in denying the petitioner's appeal for a writ of habeas corpus
18-5731 Heather Jo Cox v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-justice-reform-act criminal-procedure due-process equitable-tolling johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states second-successive-filing successive-filing successive-petitions vagueness vagueness-doctrine vagueness-standard Did the lower court err in denying relief where this court has recognized robbery/burglary as vague under Johnson?
18-5735 Harry Lonzo-Bolton Ervin v. Michigan Michigan 2018-08-23 Denied IFP apprendi-alleyne-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-rule criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing habeas-corpus montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity sentencing sentencing-range sixth-amendment teague-v-lane Whether the Apprendi-Alleyne rule should be applied retroactively
18-5675 David Pate v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process government-overreach plea-bargaining right-to-appeal Is a defendant's right to due process of law violated when the government requires an appeal waiver as part of a plea agreement?
18-5691 Darryl Jerome Baker v. R. C. Cheatham, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied IFP 2241-habeas 2241-motion 2255-motion 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment savings-clause state-priors title-28 unconstitutional-enhancement Whether the Petitioner's Fifth Amendment Rights are violated
18-5693 Arlow Antone Kay v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP making robust appellate review unnecessary appellate-review constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-booker Have the departure provisions of the United States Sentencing Guidelines been rendered 'obsolete' and 'superfluous' by this Court's opinion in United …
18-5697 James R. Reece v. L. Ray Whitley, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings critical-stage indigent-prisoner new-trial post-trial pre-appeal right-to-counsel sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a post-trial pre-appeal motion for new trial is a critical stage of state criminal proceedings protected by right-to-counsel
18-5700 Jerry Docaj v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied IFP criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-instructions manslaughter miranda-rights passion-provocation sixth-amendment Whether the jury instruction on passion/provocation manslaughter misstated the law
18-5701 Stephen Aguiar v. United States Second Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal coram-nobis criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process federal-court federal-courts fifth-amendment habeas-corpus second-circuit-dismissal sentence sentencing-appeal writ-of-error-coram-nobis Did the Second Circuit err by dismissing petitioner's appeal?
18-227 Justin Michael Wolfe v. Virginia Virginia 2018-08-22 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appeal appellate-review class-precedent class-v-united-states constitutional-authority constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-plea-bargaining double-jeopardy due-process guilty-plea plea-bargaining state-court state-court-appeals vindictive-prosecution Whether a guilty plea in state court waives the right to raise on appeal the constitutional authority of the State to prosecute based on a claim of vi…
18-221 Carl Mouton v. Arkansas Arkansas 2018-08-21 Denied Response Waived compulsory-process confrontation-clause constitutional-right-to-defense criminal-procedure due-process evidence rape-shield rape-shield-law rape-shield-rule right-to-present-defense sexual-conduct-evidence Whether application of the Arkansas rape shield rule and statute to prevent Mouton from presenting evidence of a sexual relationship between the accus…
18-5673 Eugene Smalls v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing lochner sentencing sentencing-commission-guidelines sixth-amendment state-federal-relations statutory-interpretation Does the 'heightened' Lochner standards of W.G. Abel v. Estelle, AHR, override the state and federal sentencing guidelines of the motion of the judge,…
18-5679 William J. O'Brien, III v. United States Third Circuit 2018-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment trial-court trial-procedure waiver waiver-of-counsel Was William O'Brien, III denied his Sixth Amendment right to counsel?
18-5680 Reginald McGee v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-assault armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act commerce-clause criminal-procedure indictment mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence plea-colloquy sentencing-enhancement violent-felony Whether the defendant's prior conviction for aggravated assault qualifies as a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act
18-5681 Dexter Leemon Johnson v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2018-08-21 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-error jury-instructions jury-trial jury-verdict reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-maximum trial-error Whether the petitioner was denied the right to a jury verdict of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt
18-5683 In Re Todd Britton-Harr 2018-08-21 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure federal-sentencing habeas-corpus judicial-review mortgage-fraud newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief section-2255 successive-motion successive-motions Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner's application seeking an order authorizing the district court to consider a second or su…
18-5640 Fredrick A. Laux v. Dushan Zatecky, Superintendent, Pendleton Correctional Facility Seventh Circuit 2018-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process dysfunctional-childhood ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence sentencing sixth-amendment strickland-standard Strickland-v-Washington Did the Indiana Court of Appeals, the United States Southern District Court and Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals unreasonably apply, or reach a decisi…
18-5645 Eric E. Johnson v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2018-08-20 Dismissed IFP appeals constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals, 11th Circuit, knowingly denied a petitioner's final appeal of a constitutional right to appeal his capital criminal…
18-5647 Jeremy R. Mares v. Illinois Illinois 2018-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review constitutional-representation conviction criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process felony-conviction ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel property-recovery right-to-counsel sentence summary-motion Whether counsel appointed in a direct appeal from a felony conviction provides constitutionally sufficient representation where he files an unopposed …
18-5649 Charles Richardson v. Jason Kent, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-08-20 Denied IFP criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection prosecutorial-misconduct recusal trial-counsel venue Whether the prosecutor's improper arguments resulted in an unfair trial and a guilty verdict of murder instead of a lesser charge thereto?
18-5650 Carl Javon Ross v. Maryland Maryland 2018-08-20 Denied IFP appeals civil-rights conviction-reversal criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process innocence standing Whether the evidence was sufficient to sustain the petitioner's convictions
18-5651 Samuel W. Swoopes v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal constitutional-law criminal-procedure defendant defendant-exclusion due-process ex-parte jury jury-question mid-deliberation sixth-amendment Does it violate Due Process and the Sixth Amendment to exclude a defendant from the court's consideration and answering of a jury question?
18-5657 Terence Passmore v. Dan O'Fallon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juror-bias jury-selection sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-fair-trial Whether the presence of a juror who has expressed a belief that the petitioner is guilty rendered his trial unfair and in violation of the Sixth Amend…
18-5658 Tracey L. Brown v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender commerce commerce-clause-jurisdiction,interstate-commerce,d criminal-procedure Did the Ninth Circuit err by finding that the pret Did the Ninth Circuit err when it sentenced Mr. Br due-process due-process,pretrial-identification,suggestive-ide predicate-crime sentencing sentencing,career-offender,predicate-offense,viole Did the Ninth Circuit err by finding sufficient evidence for interstate commerce when the underlying acts did not have a de minimus effect?
18-5660 Todd Jesse Garton v. California California 2018-08-20 Denied IFP 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial defendant-attire due-process guilt-determination meaningful-defense penalty-phase presumption-of-innocence right-to-fair-trial right-to-present-defense right-to-reliable-verdict right-to-wear-civilian-attire Whether refusing to permit an in-custody defendant charged with murdering his wife and unborn child to wear his wedding ring during trial violates his…
18-5662 Myrna Diaz v. New Jersey New Jersey 2018-08-20 Denied IFP constitutional-rights counsel-misconduct criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-representation right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment unauthorized-practice-of-law Did the staff of the 'Project Freedom Fund' who provided faulty legal advice to petitioner, and thus induced her to withdraw a guilty plea for which s…
18-5663 Curtis Lee Dale v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-precedent alleyne-v-united-states criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing,mandatory-minimum,ju drug-quantity due-process eighth-circuit-error fourth-amendment,search-and-seizure,drug-sniffing- fourth-amendment,search-and-seizure,reasonable-exp jury-findings jury-rejection mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-enhancement Did the U.S. Court of Appeals For The Eighth Circuit err when it increased the Defendant's mandatory minimum sentence on the basis of a drug quantity …
18-5665 Orestes Cabrera v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP all-writs-act anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-counsel effective-assistance-of-counsel immigration-consequences nolle-prosequi padilla-claim padilla-v-kentucky retroactivity Whether petitioner's rights under the due process clause and the effective assistance of counsel were violated
18-5667 Matthew Desmond Browne v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP anonymous-tip civil-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure location-prediction probable-cause reasonable-suspicion vehicle-identification vehicle-search warrantless-seizure Is the Fourth Amendment violated when a warrantless seizure is carried out based on an anonymous tip that correctly identifies a vehicle and a driver'…
18-5669 Peter Cruz v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2018-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process due-process,fifth-amendment,fourteenth-amendment,s fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment life-without-parole massachusetts-law sentencing Whether the petitioner can be punished with life without parole when not charged, tried, or convicted of first-degree murder
18-217 Randall Mathena, Warden v. Lee Boyd Malvo Fourth Circuit 2018-08-20 Granted Amici (13)Relisted (9) collateral-review constitutional-law constitutional-rule criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity substantive-rule supreme-court-precedent teague-v-lane Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in concluding that Montgomery v. Louisiana modified and expanded the rule announced in Miller v. Alabama
18-211 Steven Morris Hurd v. California California 2018-08-17 Denied Response Waived cell-phone cell-phone-search criminal-procedure digital-data fourth-amendment physical-objects riley-v-california robinson-precedent search-incident-to-arrest supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-robinson warrant-requirement Whether the search incident to arrest exception to the Fourth Amendment warrant requirement applied to digital data on a cell phone prior to Riley v. …
18-5614 Alexander Jesus Santiago v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission probable-cause probation prosecutorial-burden resentencing sentencing supervised-release supervised-release-revocation Did the district court improperly revoke Mr. Santiago's supervised release and resentence him despite a lack of evidence that he violated supervised r…
18-5618 Tae H. Chon v. Barack H. Obama, former President of the United States, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure fairness integrity judicial-proceedings plain-error preservation-of-error remand substantial-rights tenth-circuit Whether a plain error affects the petitioner's substantial rights and implicates the fairness, integrity, or public reputation of judicial proceedings…
18-5629 Jermaine Dewitt Chaney v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-appealibility civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-district-court fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel section-2254 standard-of-review standards Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err by reaching the merits of the case and denying certificate of appealability?
18-5632 Juan L. Leonor v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Nebraska 2018-08-17 Denied IFP collateral-review constitutional-law constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process final-conviction habeas-corpus procedural-rule retroactive-application retroactivity substantive-rule vagueness Whether a new substantive rule of constitutional law must be applied retroactively to final cases
18-5642 Miroslav Fejfar v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP animal-sci-prod-v-hebei-welcome-pharm asylum civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process extradition foreign-criminal-procedure foreign-law immigration statutory-interpretation withholding-of-removal Whether due process and the plain meaning of the statute on withholding of removal require that pending asylum issues be heard and resolved before ext…
18-5603 In Re Mark Kilmartin 2018-08-16 Denied IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct jury-trial sentencing structural-error Whether a criminal defendant can be convicted and sentenced to life for a separate, new and distinct crime without a jury trial
18-5607 Friday Ogunyemi James v. United States Third Circuit 2018-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure discretion due-process evidence fair-instruction jury-instructions restitution sentencing sentencing-discretion tax tax-offense theory-of-defense trial-exhibit willfulness Whether the Petitioner was entitled to a fair instruction to support the verdict in his favor on the theory of defense that has the basis in the evide…
18-5608 Andres Mata v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-16 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-appeals federal-appeals-court habeas-corpus judicial-determination procedural-review state-appeals state-court-review Whether a federal court of appeals' determination that a habeas petitioner failed to make a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional righ…
18-5609 Michael Alexander LaJeunesse v. Iowa Iowa 2018-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence medical-records prosecutorial-misconduct shower-curtain Whether the lower court erred in its analysis of the issues raised in the petition for writ of certiorari
18-5615 Joel Chavira-Nunez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 appellate-review brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-modification tenth-circuit-review Whether the District Court erred in ignoring undisputed facts establishing a Brady violation before allowing conflicted defense counsel to withdraw
18-5616 Robert Earl Clayborne, Jr. v. Nebraska Eighth Circuit 2018-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights competency competency-hearing criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel mental-disability mental-health prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the petitioner was denied due process and effective assistance of counsel when the state court refused to hold a competency hearing despite ev…
18-5624 Feliciano Villa-Sariana, aka Feliciano Villa v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process indictment plea-bargaining prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts - including the fact of a prior conviction - that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eit…
18-5586 William Knight v. Florida Florida 2018-08-15 Denied IFP abuse-of-authority appellate-procedure criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habitual-offender illegal-sentence judicial-abuse judicial-authority jurisdiction sentencing sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum Whether trial court abused their authority by allowing the state attorney office to impose a sentence contrary to the requirements of the law on doubl…
18-5592 Oscar Madrid v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-08-15 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process exhaustion exhaustion-of-remedies fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress state-court sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the court erred in finding claims 1-3 were not exhausted to the state's highest court
18-5599 Anson Chi v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus plea-bargaining pro-se sentencing standing Whether the defendant's guilty plea was involuntary due to an unconstitutional no-parole sentence
18-5604 Joe Fidel Flores v. W. L. Montgomery, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony gang-expert-testimony jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review reasonable-doubt standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Under the standard clearly established by this Court in Jackson v. Virginia, can a rational juror find an essential fact beyond a reasonable doubt bas…
18-5605 Robert S. Beyer, II v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP admissibility appellate-procedure bad-character-evidence character-evidence criminal-procedure de-novo-review due-process evidence-rules federal-rules-of-evidence presumption-of-admissibility rule-403 rule-404 sentencing-guidelines victim-vulnerability Do Fed R. Evid. Rules 403 and 404 create a presumption favoring admissibility of bad character evidence?
18-5606 Hagop Demirjian v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 amendment-782 circuit-split civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion section-3582 sentence-disparity sentencing sentencing-disparity statutory-interpretation Whether there is a statutory preclusion for successive §3582 motions
18-199 Ken Liang v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-15 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure doj-investigation due-process government-misconduct jury-trial jury-trial-waiver material-witness obstruction-of-justice prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct reverse-sting Whether an individual can be convicted of obstructing justice when the underlying alleged crime being investigated was not a crime, and the DOJ used o…
18-200 Michigan v. Charles Damon Jones Michigan 2018-08-15 Denied Response Waived appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process inconsistent-verdicts judicial-discretion jury-confusion jury-instructions jury-nullification jury-verdict jury-verdicts legal-standard new-trial sufficiency-of-evidence trial-procedure verdict-inconsistency Whether the Michigan Court of Appeals erred in granting a new trial based on an inconsistent jury verdict, even though irreconcilable jury verdicts ar…
18-201 Parviz Montazer v. Parvin R. Montazer California 2018-08-15 Denied appellate-counsel appellate-procedure civil-procedure conflict-of-interest constitutional-protections criminal-contempt criminal-procedure due-process indigent-defendant indigent-rights ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias right-to-counsel sixth-amendment transcript-costs Whether an indigent defendant in a criminal contempt proceeding has a right to appointed counsel and a free transcript on appeal
18-202 Haynes Timberland, Inc. v. United States First Circuit 2018-08-15 Denied Response Waived appeal-waiver collateral-attack criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining pre-sentence-waiver sentencing waiver waiver-of-rights Whether a defendant who waives the right to a direct appeal of his conviction and sentence can implicitly waive his right to collaterally attack his c…
18-203 Joey Montrell Chandler, aka Joey M. Chandler, aka Joey Chandler v. Mississippi Mississippi 2018-08-15 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 8th-amendment criminal-procedure eighth-amendment incorrigible juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole permanent-incorrigibility rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-discretion state-supreme-courts Whether the Eighth Amendment requires the sentencing authority to make a finding that a juvenile is permanently incorrigible before imposing a sentenc…
18-5540 Darnell Rush v. Randee Rewerts, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions motion-for-new-trial sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the defendant-appellant was entitled to a new trial where the trial court failed to answer the defendant's request, Did the trial court err in…
18-5566 David Librace v. Nancy A. Berryhill, Deputy Commissioner for Operations, Social Security Administration Eighth Circuit 2018-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence residency standing witness-protection Whether the lower court erred in excluding evidence that was relevant to the petitioner's case
18-5581 George Jenewicz v. New Jersey New Jersey 2018-08-14 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights compulsory-process confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process hearsay Was the petitioner denied the right of cross-examination and due process under the 6th and 14th amendments?
18-5582 Donald Lee Kissner v. Michigan Michigan 2018-08-14 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus introduction jurisdiction opinions-below standing state-court-review statement-of-the-case statutory-provisions Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated by the state court's failure to provide a reasoned decision on the merits of his claims
18-5587 Bobby Joe Rosa v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment confidential-informant criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fifth-amendment fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the denial of the motion to suppress evidence under the good faith exception despite the lack of probable…
18-5532 Galindo Jose Ruiz-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP alien-smuggling bodily-injury causation causation-standard criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process foreseeability immigration mens-rea reasonable-foreseeability sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the application of sentencing enhancements under U.S.S.G. § 2L1.1(b)(6) and § 2L1.1(b)(7) without requiri…
18-5533 Brandon Maurice Shannon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review certiorari-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit harmless-error judicial-remand plain-error post-conviction-relief retroactivity rosales-mireles sentencing sentencing-guidelines Should this Court grant certiorari, vacate the judgment, and remand in light of Rosales-Mireles v. United States
18-5553 Christopher Williams v. Texas Texas 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-murder corpus-delicti criminal-procedure due-process extrajudicial-confession fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment Did the trial court's failure to submit any instruction to the jury regarding Texas' corpus delicti rule and the subsequent endorsement of that failur…
18-5556 Joseph D. Barnes v. Jeff Landry, Attorney General of Louisiana Fifth Circuit 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP bad-acts bad-acts-evidence criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-evidence due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel other-crimes-evidence quadruple-offender speedy-trial state-court-discretion statute-of-limitations Whether reasonable jurists would have found that the district court denied Mr. Barnes a fair trial when it allowed other crimes evidence and/or bad ac…
18-5564 Travis Colby Curry v. Oregon Oregon 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP bad-faith civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-preservation fourteenth-amendment police-misconduct self-defense surveillance-video Whether the police act in bad faith in contravenes of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment if they fail to collect and preserve surveill…
18-5575 In Re Allah 2018-08-13 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP case-dismissal civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules judicial-misconduct judicial-procedure judicial-review malicious-prosecution mandamus standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the lower courts failed to properly dismiss the malicious prosecution against him, i…
18-5578 Antonio U. Akel v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process exceptional-injustice federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure ineffective-assistance judicial-error right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standing supervisory-authority Whether the undisputed and clear violation of a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to the assistance of counsel on direct appeal results in an exceptio…
18-5507 Mark Schwarzman v. David W. Gray, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-procedure critical-physical-evidence due-process genital-herpes habeas-corpus herpes-simplex-virus medical-evidence procedural-bar schlup schlup-standard standing Whether the highly infectious, extremely contagious, incurable sexually transmitted disease Herpes Simplex Virus HSV-2 (genital herpes) is sufficient …
18-5539 Derek W. Pelto v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof change-of-law insanity-defense right-to-testify burden-of-proof certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance insanity-defense right-to-counsel right-to-testify sixth-amendment Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his claim that his counsel r…
18-5542 Stephen Mayer v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture fraud judicial-procedure law-of-the-case prosecutorial-fraud prosecutorial-misconduct remand vacatur Whether the finding of fact prior to vacating the forfeiture order becomes 'Law-of-the-Case' upon remand
18-5543 In Re Andre David Leffebre 2018-08-10 Dismissed IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process entrapment government-misconduct habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel Should the government's use of a confidential informant to elicit incriminating statements from a defendant violate the defendant's Sixth Amendment ri…
18-5544 Van Le v. Debbie Aldridge, Warden Tenth Circuit 2018-08-10 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection language-access right-to-counsel state-funding translation translation-services Should Phys Agurt allow the jhe plectrye Jecrctande of trial deunse/ and 14 tata | Fru r, phe. den! dt164 o f IL _ pnn pcent yoman, for the Sike oft f…
18-5547 Jose Estrada-Corrales v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 appeal certiorari criminal-procedure due-process federal-appeals remand retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines supreme-court Should this Court grant certiorari, vacate the judgment, and remand in light of Chavez-Meza v. United States
18-188 Ivy T. Tucker v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-08-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split constitutional-deficiency constitutional-law criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum offense-of-conviction out-of-circuit-precedent procedural-default sentencing sentencing-guidelines trial-counsel Whether trial counsel's failure to make an argument that courts of appeals outside the circuit have accepted amounts to constitutionally deficient ass…
18-177 Kenneth Jerome Dawson v. Board of County Commissioners of Jefferson County, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied bond-release constitutional-rights criminal-procedure detention detention-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-liberty fundamental-right judicial-scrutiny liberty-interest reasonably-related strict-scrutiny substantive-due-process When does a criminal defendant's right to be released from jail after posting bond implicate a fundamental right of liberty?
18-5521 Miguel Antonio Ramos v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process fourth-amendment procedural-due-process sentencing sentencing-enhancement supervised-release Whether the petitioner was denied procedural due process by enhancements to his guidelines sentence without any proof to support those enhancements
18-5523 Chris Sanchez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence constitutional-error constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence false-evidence false-testimony miscarriage-of-justice new-evidence new-reliable-evidence Claim of actual innocence given that the state presented false evidence at trial, namely fraudulent testimony from law enforcement officers
18-5525 Jonathan E. Jouette v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach charging-instrument constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process enhanced-sentencing felon-in-possession fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sentencing-enhancement taylor-v-united-states Whether application of the Taylor rule bars consideration of materials beyond the charging instrument in determining a defendant's qualification for e…
18-5526 Michael P. Lough v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure standard-of-review warrant-requirement Whether the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Lough's motion to suppress evidence?
18-5527 Jesus Alejandro Chavez, aka Chuy v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation case-severance criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit-review joinder materiality materiality-standard new-trial prejudice severance substantial-defense Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in finding that the alleged Brady violation was not material
18-5538 Shawn J. Gieswein v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing guidelines molina-martinez-v-united-states peugh-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-errors sentencing-guidelines tenth-circuit volina-martinez-v-united-states Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit erroneously speculated that the District Court would have imposed the same sentence o…
18-5491 Glen Hughie Lovin, Jr. v. Joe M. Allbaugh, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2018-08-08 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-hearing fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudicial-evidence sentencing Whether the trial court erred in admitting prejudicial evidence of the defendant's prior criminal history, resulting in an unfair trial and requiring …
18-5504 William Lem Posey, II v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-08-08 Denied IFP career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing descamps-approach divisibility element-analysis element-based-approach grammar-based-approach mandatory-guidelines non-generic-offense sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether a non-generic offense is divisible under Descamps v. United States
18-5511 Michael John Tarvin v. Mississippi Mississippi 2018-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 civil-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process evidence false-imprisonment innocence-claim standing successive-petition Whether the Mississippi Supreme Court erred in dismissing the petitioner's application, when the U.S. Court of Appeals denied the petitioner's motion …
18-5513 My Van Tran v. Ed Sheldon, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence fair-trial interpreter jury language-access manifest-weight-of-evidence other-acts-evidence Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in failing to vacate the district court's judgment due to the state's failure to timely provide repla…
18-5474 Heriberto Garcia-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-maximum Whether all facts — including the fact of a prior conviction — that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eit…
18-5481 John K. D. Watson v. Virginia Fourth Circuit 2018-08-07 Denied IFP ' 'colloquy" ' 'due-process" ' 'evidentiary-review' ' 'guilty-plea" ' 'ineffective-assistance-of-counsel" ' 'learning-disability" civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process mental-competency plea-bargaining sentencing Whether a defendant with a learning disability can be accepted a guilty plea without proper allocation, assistance of counsel, and a thorough colloquy…
18-5449 In Re Michael D. Smith 2018-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 appeals civil-procedure confrontation criminal-procedure district-court-review double-jeopardy due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus indictment motion-to-vacate post-conviction-relief self-incrimination sentencing speedy-trial standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the district court and court of appeals denied his 28 U.S.C. § 2255 and § 2244 motio…
18-5466 Lawrence E. Wilson v. Ohio Ohio 2018-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment nunc-pro-tunc open-court right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-requirements sixth-amendment void Whether a trial court's failure to comply with statutory requirements when imposing a sentence renders the attempted sentence void
18-5467 Virginia Denise Wyche v. Florida Florida 2018-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP and whether jury instructions misstating self-def 5th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment homicide homicide-statute second-amendment self-defense statutory-interpretation Whether the First District's expansion of the scope of Florida's homicide statute could be used to affirm Wyche's conviction and sentence in light of …
18-5469 Chad Allen Dorton v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion obstruction-of-justice offense-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment standard-of-review Did the district court err in applying the sentencing guidelines offense enhancement for obstruction of justice?
18-5473 Justin Michael Credico v. United States Third Circuit 2018-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment free-speech jury-instructions sentencing subjective-intent" Whether the jury instructions on subjective intent for 18 USC § 875(c) were proper in light of the Elonis case
18-5456 Gary Allen Kachina v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation competence competency-hearing criminal-procedure discovery discovery-violation discovery-violations due-process exculpatory-evidence mental-health mental-health-evaluation necessity-defense subpoena Did the Trial Court error in denying petitioner's motions for Discovery violations under BRADY v. MARYLAND and for refusal to enforce petitioner's cou…
18-5457 Michael Allyn Kennedy v. Texas Texas 2018-08-03 Denied IFP appeal conviction criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus indictment jury-trial notice sixth-amendment trial Whether the trial court erred in imposing a conviction without a reading of the indictment, thereby depriving the petitioner of due process and notice…
18-5459 Zachary David Warnell v. Texas Texas 2018-08-03 Denied IFP appeal appeals appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure douglas-v-california due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection evitts-v-lucey ineffective-assistance pro-se-representation right-to-counsel Can a state deny a criminal defendant the constitutional right to appeal with the effective assistance of counsel?
18-5464 Jose Benitez, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP armed-bank-robbery closing-argument constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process firearm firearm-specification indictment indictment-variance jury-instructions prosecutorial-discretion variance Whether a constructive amendment occurred when the jury instructions and government's closing argument allowed conviction for armed bank robbery witho…
18-5426 Gabriel Rivero v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process export-controls federal-law mens-rea munitions munitions-export smuggling statutory-interpretation Whether the Government may obtain a conviction for smuggling goods from the United States in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 554 charged in conjunction with …
18-5427 Monclaire Saint Louis v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure curative-instruction curative-instructions due-process evidence jury-bias jury-instructions kidnapping prejudice prejudicial-error rape witness-testimony Whether witness testimony about a rape committed by someone other than the defendant during a kidnapping creates prejudice that cannot be overcome by …
18-5432 Ahmadou Sankara v. Liam O'Hara, et al. Second Circuit 2018-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process false-arrest false-imprisonment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel malicious-prosecution search-and-seizure unlawful-search-and-seizure Whether the petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights were violated by an unlawful search and seizure, false arrest, and false imprisonment without consent…
18-5436 Ralph Deon Taylor v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-circuit 3rd-circuit 9th-circuit criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process evidence-confrontation fifth-amendment incriminating-response interrogation miranda-rights miranda-warning police-interrogation police-questioning self-incrimination Does confronting a suspect with the mounting evidence against him constitute interrogation under Miranda?
18-5438 Ulriste Tulin v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence-reliability federal-rules-of-evidence kidnapping new-trial out-of-court-identification suggestive-procedure witness-identification Is an out-of-court identification of a defendant unduly suggestive and unreliable?
18-5439 Adam Longoria v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure descamps-v-united-states mathis-v-united-states non-elemental-facts occasions-different sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-jury-trial statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states violent-felony Whether the ACCA's 'occasions different from one another' clause requires a sentencing court to rely solely on elemental facts, or whether it can rely…
18-5440 Larenzo Lomax v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-08-02 Denied IFP arrest arrest-legality constitutional-rights criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule false-affidavit false-statements fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-and-seizure search-warrant sixth-amendment Whether Lomax was denied the effective assistance of counsel when his trial attorney failed to challenge the legality of Lomax's arrest
18-5441 Milford Wade Byrd v. Florida Florida 2018-08-02 Denied IFP capital-murder criminal-procedure death-penalty ex-post-facto hurst-v-state jury-unanimity retroactive-application retroactivity Whether a death sentence can remain intact when the jury did not unanimously find the elements of capital murder proven beyond a reasonable doubt
18-5405 Fortino Pimentel-Soto v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-maximum Whether all facts — including the fact of a prior conviction — that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eit…
18-5412 Robert Eugene Johnson, Jr. v. Virginia Virginia 2018-08-01 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure conviction criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Can a state's highest court uphold a criminal conviction after being made aware that there was absolutely no evidence presented at trial that the crim…
18-5413 Clarence D. Lewis v. Johnny Hedgemon, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-08-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus plea-bargain self-incrimination voluntary-plea Is a plea bargain voluntary or involuntary if a petitioner invokes his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination before the plea is induced?
18-5414 Keith William Deichert v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception jurisdiction objective-reasonableness rule-41 search-warrant void-ab-initio Does the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule apply to a search warrant that is issued by a judge without jurisdiction, rendering the warrant…
18-5428 Restituto D. Barraquias v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2018-08-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standing takings Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated when the court failed to consider his claim of ineffective assistance of counsel
18-5431 Melvin Andrew Morris v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure domestic-violence due-process residual-clause sentencing standing Whether Michigan's felony domestic violence conviction qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under the 'residual clause' of the U.S. Sentencing Guideline…
18-5391 Daniel Sexton v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-07-31 Denied IFP 18-usc-981 circuit-split criminal-forfeiture-liability criminal-procedure dismissed-charges due-process forfeiture-liability honeycutt-v-united-states joint-and-several-liability sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Does this Court's reasoning in Honeycutt v. United States, 137 S. Ct. 1626 (2017), limiting joint and several forfeiture liability to what a defendant…
18-5416 Ramal Hammond v. Ohio Ohio 2018-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP amnesia burden-of-proof competency criminal-procedure defendant-amnesia due-process dusky-standard dusky-v-united-states mental-capacity right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-competency When the evidence of guilt is far from overwhelming but cannot be rebutted without information that only the defendant would know, but due to amnesia …
18-5420 Tyler T. Heagy v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2018-07-31 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process filing-restrictions habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief procedural-due-process right-to-appeal right-to-counsel standing statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-as-applied Was 42 Pa.C.S.A. §9543 (a)(1)(i) unconstitutional as applied to Petitioners case?
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 Can acquitted conduct continue to be used at sentencing?
18-5394 Casey Peebles v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP coconspirator-statements confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-rule fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay hearsay-exception sixth-amendment Whether Inadi and Bourjaily adequately protect an accused's Fifth Amendment due process right to a fair trial and his Sixth Amendment right to confron…
18-5397 Alejandro Parra-Ramos v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure defendant-prejudice due-process government-misconduct judicial-discretion plain-error plea-agreement plea-agreement-breach prejudice prosecutorial-breach sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-recommendation sentencing-variance upward-variance whether a defendant suffers prejudice when the government breaches a plea agreement by calling its agreed-upon recommendation irrational, and the cour…
18-5398 Kenneth Floyd Prutting v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-30 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 2nd-amendment armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process johnson-claim johnson-v-united-states residual-clause samuel-johnson section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether a § 2255 movant raising a Samuel Johnson claim can satisfy his burden of proof by showing his ACCA sentence may have been based on the residua…
18-5399 Joseph Andrew Perez v. California California 2018-07-30 Denied IFP autopsy-report autopsy-reports confrontation-clause crawford-standard crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure homicide-investigation homicide-investigations sixth-amendment testimonial testimonial-evidence Whether an autopsy report created as part of a homicide investigation, and asserting that the death was caused by homicide, is 'testimonial' under the…
18-5361 Hazhar A. Sayed v. Travis Trani, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-estoppel constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-litigation pro-se-prisoner-litigant Whether the Fifth Amendment's Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits retrying a defendant on a higher level charge after being convicted of a lesser include…
18-5362 Omar Qazi v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment judicial-review miranda-warnings standing unpublished-decisions Whether the Ninth Circuit panel decision conflicts with established Supreme Court and Ninth Circuit precedents on Miranda warnings, and whether the pa…
18-5371 Michael Ellis v. Illinois Illinois 2018-07-27 Denied IFP appellate-review case-remand constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process,criminal-procedure,probable-cause,forf forfeiture forfeiture-doctrine people-v-gaines probable-cause probable-cause,forfeiture,unconstitutional-statute statutory-interpretation teague-v-lane unconstitutional-statute Did the State forfeit the claim, reliance or remedy of Michigan v. DeFillippo, 443 U.S. 1 and U.S. v Charles, 801 F.3d 855 (7th Cir.) of an unconstitu…
18-5373 Otis Sykes v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process guidelines guidelines-range harmless-error judicial-error molina-martinez-v-us rosales-mireles-v-us sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights Whether the defendant's substantial rights were affected by the district court's use of 'additional evidence' in imposing a guidelines sentence within…
18-5378 Alejandro Chavez-Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
18-5386 Allen Alexander, aka Karon Keenan v. New Jersey New Jersey 2018-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP assault constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions lesser-included-offense robbery state-criminal-law trial-error Can a state trial judge's failure to charge the jury on a lesser included offense violate the defendant's rights guaranteed by the Due Process Clause …
18-5360 Curtis L. Clinton v. Ohio Ohio 2018-07-26 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-justice-system criminal-procedure eighth-amendment equal-protection fair-trial fourteenth-amendment racial-stereotype racial-stereotypes racial-stereotyping sixth-amendment Whether a defendant's rights to the effective assistance of counsel, a fair and impartial jury, to be free from cruel and unusual punishment, and to t…
18-5364 Harry Austin v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment state-custody writ-of-certiorari Whether certiorari review should be granted where the Eleventh Circuit affirmed the denial of Austin's petition under 28 U.S.C. §2254 for writ of habe…
18-5366 Ronald David Martin v. Tony Trierweiler, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-07-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal confrontation-clause criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-introduce-evidence rape-shield-statute right-to-present-defense trial-court-discretion Whether petitioner was deprived of his right to confront witnesses, his right to present a defense, and his right to the effective assistance of couns…
18-5367 Edward David Jones, Jr. v. Arnold Schwarzenegger, former Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-07-26 Denied IFP 1st-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing takings civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-review free-speech habeas-corpus ninth-circuit patent standing state-court-conviction takings Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim
18-5368 Gabriel Werdene v. United States Third Circuit 2018-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP computer-search criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure-41(b) fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect law-enforcement-procedure search-warrant warrant warrant-validity Whether the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule applies when a warrant is void from the outset due to the issuing authority's lack of jurisd…
18-5355 Del Ray Sanders v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-07-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP accidental-death criminal-procedure criminally-negligent-homicide due-process homicide-charges jury-instructions lesser-included-offense lesser-included-offenses manslaughter standard-of-review texas-penal-code trial-court-discretion unreasonable-application-of-federal-law Whether the trial court erred in denying the defendant's request for jury instructions on the lesser-included offenses of manslaughter and criminally …
18-5357 Michael C. Redifer v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP congressional-legislation criminal-procedure due-process kastigar-doctrine law-of-the-case rules-enabling-act supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-precedents Does the Rules Enabling Act preclude a court from invoking the law of the case doctrine against a defendant in a criminal proceeding when the law of t…
18-5292 Armando Angeles v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-interpretation circuit-split criminal-procedure fourth-amendment lane-maintenance search-and-seizure state-court-interpretation state-federal-court-tension statutory-interpretation suppression-motion traffic-laws traffic-statute traffic-stop Whether the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in applying the Kansas Supreme Court's interpretation of a Kansas traffic statute governing the failu…
18-5322 Santiago Hum Rodriguez-Aparicio v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-25 Denied IFP criminal-procedure discretionary-relief due-process fundamental-fairness illegal-reentry immigration immigration-law mendoza-lopez removal-order removal-proceeding uniformity Whether the failure to inform an alien of his eligibility for discretionary relief in a removal proceeding is a due process violation that can make th…
18-5336 Ventron Vaneke Lott v. Patrick Warren, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion michigan-law sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether the trial court erred in sentencing the petitioner under the restrictions of OV-1 and OV-2 of the Michigan Sentencing Guidelines in violation …
18-5337 Shawn Johnson v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2018-07-25 Denied IFP actual-innocence brady-violations certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence prosecutorial-concession prosecutorial-misconduct recantation recanted-testimony self-defense witness-recantation Whether petitioner Shawn Johnson was denied due process and a fair trial due to newly discovered evidence of actual innocence and ineffective assistan…
18-5339 Tyron James v. Paul Snyder, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining retroactive-application sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington Whether the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the conviction and not applying the Santobello decision on counsel's performance retroact…
18-5343 Roger Wilson v. McKeesport Police Department, et al. Third Circuit 2018-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction standing takings Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the lower courts refused to consider evidence of his innocence and denied his reques…
18-5348 Gary Clack v. Kentucky Kentucky 2018-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP counsel-performance criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel kentucky-court-of-appeals post-conviction-relief prejudice prejudice-prong sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington witness-testimony Whether the Kentucky Court of Appeals properly applied the Strickland prejudice prong when it held that trial counsel provided ineffective assistance …
18-5350 Carroll Erman Crider v. Virginia Virginia 2018-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conviction-vacatur criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus indictment indictment-notice jurisdiction notice standing statutory-violation Whether Crider's convictions should be vacated due to lack of jurisdiction and inadequate indictment notice
18-5351 Payman Borhan v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability choice-of-counsel criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mccoy-v-louisiana right-to-choice-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the trial court's refusal to allow the defendant to retain his own counsel of choice deprived him of his Sixth Amendment right to choose the f…
18-106 John R. Turner v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-07-24 Denied Amici (6)Relisted (2) circuit-split criminal-procedure dual-sovereignty formal-charges plea-bargaining plea-negotiations pre-charge pre-indictment right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Sixth Amendment right to counsel attaches during pre-charge plea negotiations
18-5311 Jack Reid v. United States Second Circuit 2018-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure criminal-forfeiture criminal-procedure drug-forfeiture drug-offenses due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines property-rights property-seizure sentencing standing substantial-connection Whether property subject to forfeiture under 21 U.S.C. §853(a)(2) must have a substantial connection to the underlying criminal activity
18-5324 Anastasio N. Laoutaris v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1030 criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-due-process due-process evidence fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jackson-v-virginia judgment-of-acquittal malicious-code perjury perjury-standard reasonable-doubt sentencing strickland-standard sufficiency-of-evidence Whether a rational jury could have found each essential element of the offense of transmitting a malicious code, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(5…
18-5325 Lena Lasher v. United States Second Circuit 2018-07-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP but no text was provided for analysis. Without th I cannot generate a question presented or identif please provide the full text of the petition. civil-rights collateral-attack criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus racial-discrimination school-desegregation sentencing voting-rights Whether a district court must grant an evidentiary hearing on a prisoner's collateral attack claims
18-5327 Adib Eddie Ramez Makdessi v. Lieutenant Fields, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-07-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference deliberate-misconduct due-process evidence-suppression excessive-force federal-courts fourth-circuit judicial-conflict retaliation standing takings witness-tampering Whether the Fourth Circuit's conflicting rulings overlooked key evidence and were in conflict with Supreme Court precedent in Farmer v. Brennan
18-5332 Davon Merkiese Kemp v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure drug-crimes drug-trafficking evidence fourth-amendment home-search probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant unreasonable-search Whether a police officer's generalized opinion that drug dealers often keep drugs and other evidence of their trafficking activities in their homes is…
18-5299 Derek Antonio Smith v. North Carolina North Carolina 2018-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence sentencing standing transcripts Was LR found guilty at trial, when the transcripts of pre-trial clearly show she said nothing happened sexually?
18-5300 Gary Robinson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether a trial attorney can constitutionally stipulate elements of a charged crime over the expressed objections of the defendant under the Fifth, Si…
18-5317 Jose Villanueva-Cardenas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-conviction-enhancement sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts - including the fact of a prior conviction - that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eit…
18-98 Jerrard T. Cook, aka Jerrad T. Cook, aka Jerrard Cook aka Jerrard Tramaine Cook, aka J-Fat v. Mississippi Mississippi 2018-07-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-rights criminal-procedure eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-prohibits juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole montgomery-v-louisiana permanent-incorrigibility sentencing sentencing-authority Whether the Eighth Amendment requires the sentencing authority to make a finding that a juvenile is permanently incorrigible in order to impose a sent…
18-5280 Patrick Lanier v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal criminal-procedure eighth-amendment fifth-circuit judicial-proceedings judicial-review manifest-miscarriage plain-error plain-error-review restitution rule-52b sentencing sentencing-error Whether the plain error standard requires a 'manifest miscarriage of justice' to correct a forfeited error affecting substantial rights
18-5294 Herbert Pridgen v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP adjudication appeal appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court-error civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-judgment judicial-review jurisdiction legal-adjudication procedural-defect sentencing Did the Circuit Court err in its opinion when it failed to properly address the four issues raised on appeal for adjudication, giving an insufficient …
18-5297 Allen Jamel Robinson v. Darryl Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the petitioner was denied effective assistance of counsel in violation of the Sixth Amendment due to counsel's failure to properly investigate…
18-5301 Cahlan Clay v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process confrontation-clause criminal-defense criminal-procedure cross-examination defendant-rights defense-strategy due-process evidence fair-trial judicial-discretion jury-instructions jury-trial trial-procedure witness-examination Whether a court may dictate the manner by which a defendant presents his case to the jury by forcing defense counsel to rely exclusively on the cross-…
18-5305 Aubry Rae Johnson v. Paul Copenhaver, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-counting due-process federal-custody federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus habeas-petition jurisdiction primary-jurisdiction sentencing state-custody time-served Does 18 U.S.C. § 3585 prevent a federal sentence from commencing where federal authorities do not have primary jurisdiction of the inmate?
18-5307 Andrew Wayne Hulen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP compelled-admissions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment garrity-v-new-jersey minnesota-v-murphy penalty-situation self-incrimination self-incrimination-clause sex-offender-treatment supervised-release Whether the Ninth Circuit's failure to analyze Petitioner's argument under the classic penalty situation addressed by this Court in Minnesota v. Murph…
18-5256 Brandon Wade Moragne-El v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2018-07-19 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection guilty-plea judicial-precedent pennsylvania plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal precedent sentencing supreme-court Does the denial of the Petitioner's Motion to Withdraw his Guilty Plea contradict Precedent case law from the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, the Supr…
18-5259 Olin Ray Nowlin v. Joe Shannon, Jr., et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-07-19 Denied IFP 6th-amendment compulsory-process confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection legal-deprivation liberty-interest procedural-law state-jurisdiction Does the 6th Amendment guarantee the right to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation, to be confronted with the witnesses against him, …
18-5261 Vester L. Patterson v. California California 2018-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto statute-of-limitations May a defendant be tried and punished for offenses that were statutorily barred by the statute of limitation's?
18-5276 William Clark v. United States District of Columbia 2018-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP age-of-majority age-of-maturity brain-development criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection juvenile-justice montgomery-line sentencing sentencing-considerations Whether the Montgomery Line of decisions apply to those under 18-years-old?
18-5279 Jonathan Hayhoe v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception law-enforcement-conduct magistrate-powers qualified-immunity search-and-seizure suppression suppression-of-evidence void-ab-initio warrant-validity Whether conduct by law enforcement in securing a void in initio warrant was grossly negligent, thereby precluding application of good-faith exception
18-5281 Vincent Craig Mosley v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP co-defendant compulsory-process confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-trial drug-conspiracy due-process evidence evidence-admission plea-agreement plea-bargaining witness-testimony Whether a criminal defendant is entitled to see the plea agreements of non-testifying co-defendants and admit them into evidence
18-5247 James McCray v. S. L. Burt, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jury-trial minimum-sentence plea-bargaining reasonable-doubt sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Circuit decision is objectively unreasonable as a matter of due process, because McCray's sentencing guidelines offense variable(s) …
18-5258 Howell Miller v. United States Second Circuit 2018-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure criminal-procedure due-process en-banc-review judge-found-facts judicial-fact-finding sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment uniformity-of-decisions united-states-v-booker whether-a-drastically-increased-sentence-violates-the-sixth-amendment
18-5265 In Re Brandon Lee 2018-07-18 Denied IFP consent consent-requirements criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection indictment-procedure indictments indigent-defendants judicial-standard prosecutorial-discretion right-to-counsel right-to-effective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-jury-trial standard Whether the state can rely on true bill of indictments that meet the clearly erroneous standard without verbal and/or written consent of indigent defe…
18-5271 Roger W. Murray v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections Ninth Circuit 2018-07-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP batson batson-challenge Batson-v-Kentucky civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-selection mitigation-evidence ninth-circuit racial-discrimination voir-dire Whether the Arizona courts unreasonably applied Batson v. Kentucky and unreasonably determined the constitutionally significant facts, thus violating …
18-5273 Davian Wilson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP authentication criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sufficiency-of-evidence criminal-trial evidence-authentication federal-criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction guilty-verdict jury-verdict native-american reasonable-jury sentencing-disparities sentencing-disparity standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the district court erred in finding sufficient evidence for a guilty verdict against Mr. Wilson
18-5251 Sarjo Dambelly v. United States Second Circuit 2018-07-17 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure deliberate-avoidance global-tech intent jury-instructions knowledge-standard mens-rea second-circuit willful-blindness Whether, in light of Global-Tech, the Second Circuit errs by holding, contrary to at least six other circuits, that willful blindness in a criminal ca…
18-5253 Dennis DeCiancio v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure disclosure-duty due-process duty-to-disclose evidence evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence free-speech materiality prior-convictions rule-10b-5 securities securities-fraud Whether evidence of unrelated prior convictions is admissible in securities fraud cases as direct proof of a fraud under Rule 10b-5, even though there…
18-82 Tamara Cotman and Angela Williamson v. Georgia Georgia 2018-07-17 Denied Response Waived acquittal criminal-procedure double-jeopardy double-jeopardy,fifth-amendment,criminal-procedure fifth-amendment jury jury-trial nonunanimous-verdict sixth-amendment sixth-amendment,criminal-procedure,jury,due-proces unanimous-verdict Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Am Whether it is a Violation of the Sixth Amendment for a jury in a criminal case to return a nonunanimous verdict
18-5242 Kenneth Martin, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof co-conspirator co-conspirator-testimony corroboration corroboration-requirement criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standard fifth-circuit-law plea-bargain sentencing testimony witness-credibility Whether the Fifth Circuit's law that allows a conviction based solely on the uncorroborated testimony of a co-conspirator should be abandoned, or at l…
18-5243 Curumulathu Jacob v. Virginia Virginia 2018-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction notice-clause sixth-amendment stare-decisis void-ab-initio Can a state maintain a judgment which was entered absent jurisdiction under its own stare decisis ruling and which is a violation of the Sixth Amendme…
18-5226 Richard Lugo v. United States Second Circuit 2018-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether appellate counsel's ineffectiveness deprived petitioner of his right to direct appeal
18-5235 Antrone Arness Thomas v. David Chandran Fourth Circuit 2018-07-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-action civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights conviction-reversal criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial legal-remedy procedural-due-process standing state-criminal-conviction Ought I have right to a jury trial? Also a civil action due to my State criminal conviction being reversed?
18-5222 Corvain T. Cooper, aka CV v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-12 Denied IFP collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing federal-statute habeas-corpus invalidated-convictions life-without-parole resentencing sentencing state-convictions Whether a petitioner who was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole, which was enhanced by two later invalidated state convictions, may a…
18-5225 Junaidu Saljan Savage, aka James Kamara v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts-of-appeal in-camera-review pennsylvania-v-ritchie precedent prosecutorial-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct ritchie standing Whether, under Pennsylvania v. Ritchie, 480 U.S. 39 (1987), defendants requesting in camera review for potential required disclosures in accordance wi…
18-66 Regis Blake Ross v. Arizona Arizona 2018-07-12 Denied constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing federal-review-standards ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness post-conviction-relief standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent Did the Arizona courts err in failing to apply the proper federal standard of review for claims of ineffective assistance of counsel, involuntary plea…
18-60 Amira Olivia Gunn v. North Dakota North Dakota 2018-07-11 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech speech-protection Whether Gunn was convicted of speech protected by the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment, applicable to the States under the Due Process Clause…
18-5201 Henry Bryan Lowe v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-07-11 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment brady-v-maryland civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression expert-witness fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
18-5202 Samuel Knowles v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability consular-notification criminal-procedure due-process extradition extradition-process international-treaty jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect Question not identified
18-5204 Jose Luis Morales v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure due-process enhancement evidence fact-finding immigration immigration-law judicial-error sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation undocumented-aliens Whether the lower court erred in applying the enhancement under section 2L1.1(b)(2)(B) for transporting aliens
18-5212 Markentz Blanc v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-flight-instructions district-court due-process elements flight-instructions prejudice prior-decisions sufficiency-of-evidence wiretap wiretap-evidence Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in affirming the district court's rulings on the flight instructions, the necessity requirement for the wiretap, an…
18-5177 Herman Majors v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP concurrent-sentence criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-quantity due-process foreseeable-drug-quantity ineffective-assistance sentencing sentencing-prejudice sixth-amendment Whether a defendant in a drug conspiracy case suffers prejudice when his attorney fails to argue at sentencing that foreseeable drug quantity is limit…
18-5182 Carlton Butler v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-10 Denied IFP circuit-split count-of-conviction criminal-procedure district-court-authority federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure illegal-sentence reallocation reallocation-of-sentences rule-35 scope-of-judicial-power sentencing split-among-circuits Whether Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 35(a) grants a district court authority to reallocate the illegal portion of a term of imprisonment levied …
18-5184 Ahmad Sayed Hashimi v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-10 GVR IFP appeal criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel right-to-maintain-innocence sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent trial-strategy Whether the case of United States v. Anmad Hashimi should be remanded for review and decision by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in light of the U…
18-5189 Glenvert Green v. United States Third Circuit 2018-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process fifth-amendment hearsay hearsay-evidence sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment victim-impact-statement victim-impact-statements Whether the Sixth and Fifth Amendments provide a criminal defendant the right to cross-examine a government witness who testifies during a sentencing …
18-53 Lance Dillard, aka Double v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-07-10 Denied Response Waived constitutional-safeguards criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial internet-access internet-publicity judicial-controls juror-misconduct jury-instructions prejudicial-publicity sixth-amendment fair-trial
18-5168 Jose Palacios, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-09 Denied IFP appeal appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing de-novo-resentencing due-process remand remand-rule resentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines Should this Court resolve the conflict among the circuits concerning whether the remand rule should be interpreted restrictively, as held by three cir…
18-5171 Erick Rolando Lopez-Mendez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process empirical-basis federal-sentencing illegal-reentry immigration presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines Whether a sentence produced by the former illegal-reentry guideline, §2L1.2, is entitled to a presumption of reasonableness on appeal
18-5173 Wilberth Medina Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure deportation due-process evidence-law hearsay immigration immigration-law sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence testimonial-hearsay Whether an immigration officer's formalized statements relating the fact of an alien's removal constitute testimonial hearsay for the purposes of anal…
18-36 Gregory Brice v. United States District of Columbia 2018-07-06 Denied alternate-suspect brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence motive motive-evidence new-trial post-trial-confession suppressed-evidence Whether the government violated its obligations under Brady v. Maryland by suppressing evidence showing that the leading alternate suspect had a power…
18-5094 Jerry Wayne Sherry v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance motion-to-suppress preservation-of-error retroactive-precedent retroactivity Whether defense counsel has a duty to object to inadmissible evidence, and, or file a motion to suppress evidence under the Fourth Amendment to preser…
18-5112 Benjamin Fredrick Charles Robinson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP base-offense-level criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing dismissed-count due-process mandatory-minimum restitution sentencing-guidelines statutory-minimum upward-departure Whether a four-level upward departure for conduct underlying a dismissed count is reasonable when the conduct was already accounted for in the base of…
18-5129 Rodolfo Trejo v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-counting due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection immigration sentencing sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness Whether Petitioner's Sentence Constitutes Impermissible Double Counting
18-5139 Donald Keith Runnels v. Presley Bordelon, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus new-trial sentencing Whether the district court erred in denying petitioner's motion for a new trial and vacating his sentence, and whether the court violated the Double J…
18-5152 Rodney Howard v. United States Third Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-procedure equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes prima-facie prima-facie-case prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination Does a black defendant make a prima facie showing of discriminatory use of peremptory strikes under Batson's first step when he demonstrates that the …
18-5161 Marvin Waddleton, III v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP aedpa burden-of-proof constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process jackson-standard plain-error pro-se right-to-counsel state-court-review statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the state court's application of the Jackson standard of review in evaluating the sufficiency of the evidence violated clearly established fed…
18-5162 Ellord Wells v. Mary Potter, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process guilty-plea mandatory-sentence sixth-amendment trial-court appeal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-sentence sentencing sixth-amendment Whether appellate counsel rendered ineffective assistance by not arguing that the trial court failed to inform the appellant of the mandatory nature o…
18-5163 Kai Uwe Thier v. Florida Florida 2018-07-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP consular-relations consular-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus incriminating-statement international-treaties international-treaty law-enforcement miranda-rights vienna-convention vienna-convention-on-consular-relations Whether petitioner is entitled to discharge or a new trial based on a violation of international treaties as codified in the Vienna Convention on Cons…
18-5167 Levar Brown v. California California 2018-07-06 Denied IFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights criminal-justice-system criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearm-regulations second-amendment self-defense statutory-interpretation Whether the petitioner's conviction for possession of a firearm by a felon under 18 U.S.C. 922(g) violates the Second Amendment and due process rights
18-29 Shailendra Bhawnani, et al. v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, et al. Second Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied criminal-procedure criminal-restitution fraud judicial-discretion legal-scope mandatory-victims-restitution-act restitution statutory-interpretation victim-compensation victim-definition Whether the definition of 'victim' under the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act, 18 U.S.C. 3663A(a)(2), includes all victims directly and proximately h…
18-35 Pennsylvania v. Roderick Andre Johnson Pennsylvania 2018-07-05 Denied brady-analysis Brady-materiality confessions constitutional-procedure corroborating-evidence criminal-confession criminal-procedure due-process materiality prosecutorial-disclosure witness-impeachment Whether the prosecution's nondisclosure of arguably impeaching information relating to a witness who linked the defendant with two murders can be mate…
18-5114 Nigel L. Faison v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the district court erred in accepting the petitioner's guilty plea without a sufficient factual basis, in violation of due process
18-5117 Glendrict Frazier v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP anders-motion anders-v-california appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rule criminal-procedure direct-appeal direct-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance retroactivity Did the Appeals Court Follow the Ruling in Griffith v. Kentucky, 479 U.S. 314, 328, 107 S.Ct. 708 (1987) (holding that on direct review a new constitu…
18-5123 Eric Glenn Parker v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting conspiracy criminal-conviction criminal-procedure district-court jurisdiction murder murder-charge rico rico-conspiracy sixth-amendment venue venue-proof Was venue proven to convict Eric Glenn Parker of conspiracy to commit RICO and aiding and abetting murder in the Northern District of Mississippi?
18-5127 Martinez Orlando Black v. North Carolina North Carolina 2018-07-05 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process felony-classification habitual-offender ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-delinquency prior-conviction recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Did the failure of defense counsel to object to the increase in Petitioner's sentence into the 'aggravated range' at Felony Class C, by use of a prior…
18-5141 Taylor Don Frederiksen v. Texas Texas 2018-07-05 Denied IFP appeal appellate-procedure collateral-consequences court-standards criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-review legal-argument prejudice procedural-rules right-to-appeal right-to-counsel state-court-procedures state-court-rules Whether Mr. Frederiksen should continue to suffer prejudice and collateral legal consequences from his uncounseled conviction when the lower state cou…
18-5142 Robert Jay Heximer v. Michigan Michigan 2018-07-05 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-4th-amendment-exclusionary-rule due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment illegal-detention jurisdiction probable-cause standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the evidence acquired during Mr. Heximer's illegal detention is inadmissible under clearly-established law
18-5143 Robert Graham v. Melissa Hainsworth, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset, et al. Third Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied IFP admissibility batson-vs-kentucky criminal-procedure due-process fingerprinting fingerprinting-expert identification identification-testimony preliminary-hearing reliability trial-evidence witness-credibility Is an in-court identification of the defendant as the robber admissible at trial in the absence of a due process hearing to first determine the reliab…
18-5144 Julio Gutierrez-Jaramillo v. Warden, FCI Gilmer Fourth Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3585 bureau-of-prisons bureau-of-prisons-program-statement criminal-procedure due-process extradition federal-bureau-of-prisons foreign-detention judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-credit sentencing-guidelines time-credit time-served united-states-v-wilson Whether prior credit for time held in foreign detention can only be given by the Federal Bureau of Prisons and not by the district court at sentencing
18-20 Arkadiy Bangiyev v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-03 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability counsel-stipulation criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain plea-bargaining sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment writ-of-certiorari Did the court of appeals err in denying petitioner's motion for a certificate of appealability to review the denial of an evidentiary hearing on petit…
18-5075 Felix A. Okafor v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP beyond-reasonable-doubt-standard Blockburger-test blockburger-v-united-states Brady-v-Maryland concurrent-sentence criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process exculpatory-evidence glover-v-united-states in-re-winship kyles-v-whitley ray-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-determination sixth-amendment May a conviction that is admittedly a violation of the concurrent-sentence-doctrine be allowed to stand in light of Ray-v-United-States
18-5079 Michelle Lyn Michaud v. California California 2018-07-03 Denied IFP aiding-and-abetting burden-of-proof constitutional-error criminal-liability criminal-procedure due-process factfinding-function fifth-amendment jury-instructions jury-trial jury-trial-guarantees reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Whether the trial court's incorrect instruction on aiding and abetting liability violated the constitutional jury trial guarantees of the Fifth, Sixth…
18-5081 Alvin Leroy Morton v. Florida Florida 2018-07-03 Denied IFP binding-precedent capital-sentencing criminal-procedure death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing federal-constitutional-rights judicial-discretion jury-instructions jury-responsibility jury-role sentencing-procedure structural-error unanimous-verdict Whether structural error occurs when the jury fails to return a verdict as to multiple critical elements necessary to impose the death penalty
18-5102 Scooter L. Robinson v. Frank Shaw, Warden, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-07-03 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-and-seizure standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the state court's denial of his motion to suppress evidence obtained in violation of t…
18-5109 Reggie Rankins v. Illinois Illinois 2018-07-03 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence jurisdiction jury-trial sentencing sexual-assault statutory-interpretation Did the State of Illinois properly disrnim a conviction based upon the evidence of J.P. testimony, and in accordance with statute 720 ILCS 5/11-1.30(A…
18-5110 Abron Spraggins v. Rusty Washburn, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review cause-and-prejudice civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process federal-claim federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-decisions procedural-default state-appellate-court Is the decision of the court of appeals regarding the procedural default of petitioner's ineffective assistance of counsel claims in conflict with or …
18-16 Larone Frederick Elijah v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-02 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing-guidelines-harmless- district-court federal-sentencing harmless-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness variance-sentence When a criminal defendant argues that a district court made an error in calculating his United States Sentencing Guidelines range resulting in a sente…
18-5007 David Lemoe Tua v. California California 2018-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial gang-enhancement insufficient-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct severance sufficiency-of-evidence trial-severance Whether the state court's refusal to sever petitioner's trial from that of his codefendant and refusal to sever the gang enhancement allegations viola…
18-5044 Laurenano Angulo Riascos v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance section-2255 sixth-amendment Whether the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erred in denying petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability to review the district …
18-5064 In Re Kenneth Gaylord Stokes 2018-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-procedure criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus jurisdiction lower-court-decisions standing takings Is petitioner entitled to immediate relief, including mandamus, from this court for a claim of actual innocence with regard to double ex post facto vi…
18-5072 Jill M. Evans v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility burden-on-court-system criminal-procedure due-process efficient-punishment federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines guilty-plea plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines unrelated-offenses Should a defendant receive credit under the acceptance of responsibility guideline for entering a guilty plea, even if alleged to have committed unrel…
18-5073 Victor Armando Cruz-Colocho v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres apprendi apprendi-rule criminal-procedure due-process prior-conviction recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Should the Court consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Apprendi v.…
18-5083 Rahman Fulton v. United States Third Circuit 2018-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924 18-usc-924c bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process extortion force-clause mathis-v-united-states mens-rea residual-clause statutory-interpretation Whether the federal bank robbery statute requires a knowing or intentional mens rea, and whether the 'force' clause of 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(A) applies …
18-5085 Teon Jamell Williams v. North Carolina North Carolina 2018-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment cell-phone-privacy collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights criminal-procedure direct-appeal double-jeopardy effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-and-seizure sixth-amendment state-law warrantless-search Whether the petitioner's right to effective assistance of counsel in his first direct appeal of right was violated when counsel refused to brief his F…
18-5086 Brian Keith Uzzle v. Lesley Fleming, Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure custody custody-status double-jeopardy due-process nolle-prosequi nolle-prosequy prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct re-indictment reindictment speedy-trial Whether a state court may indefinitely postpone prosecution over the accused's objection by nolle-prosequi and re-indictment of the same charges, know…
18-5089 Kevin Khaaliq Beamon v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553(a) criminal-history criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines sentencing-upon-revocation sentencing-variance substance-addiction supervised-release upward-variance Whether a district court may impose a significant upward variance at sentencing upon revocation of supervised release on an individual who had never b…
18-5039 Guy Kevin Rowland v. Kevin Chappell, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied IFP aedpa criminal-procedure due-process federal-court federal-procedure good-faith habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition local-rules state-court statute-of-limitations Does the AEDPA apply where Petitioner's attorneys relied in good faith on the federal district court's local rules
18-5046 Giezi Magno Zamora v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process eleventh-circuit evidence habeas-corpus international-law judicial-review maritime-law sentencing sentencing-reasonableness writ-of-certiorari Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously denied a motion where the petitioner showed new evidence to warrant an immediate release due…
18-5048 John W. Taylor v. Richard Brown, Superintendent, Wabash Valley Correctional Facility Seventh Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-battery attempted-murder criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance jury-instructions lesser-included-offense lesser-included-offenses sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington Whether Taylor was denied his right to effective assistance of trial counsel guaranteed by the 6th Amendment
18-5053 Andres A. Lopez-Martinez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process confrontation-clause constitutional-right criminal-procedure defense-presentation due-process harmless-error judicial-review police-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-present-defense structural-error Whether the denial of a defendant's constitutional right to present a defense should be considered structural error that is not subject to harmless er…
18-8 Samuel Cohen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment standing Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of Samuel Cohen's motion to vacate his sentence under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 based …
18-5001 John Theodore Hancock v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP burrage-standard but-for-causation causation criminal-law criminal-procedure death-penalty death-resulting due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether a jury instruction that submits the question of whether a death was the result of the accused's offense by simply tracking the statutory langu…
18-5003 Rolando Mulet v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-06-28 Denied IFP 5th-amendment circuit-split constitutional-protection criminal-procedure fifth-amendment law-enforcement-questioning miranda miranda-rights pre-arrest pre-arrest-silence pre-miranda self-incrimination Whether the Fifth Amendment's Self-Incrimination Clause protects a defendant's pre-arrest, pre-Miranda silence from being used as evidence at trial
18-5021 Paul Alfred Brown v. Florida Florida 2018-06-28 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-retroactivity hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause supreme-court-review Does the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity formula for Hurst v. Florida violations violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments?
18-5022 Marcus Kalani Watson, aka Kiki Seui, and Rogussia Eddie Allen Danielson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act bank-robbery criminal-procedure federal-bank-robbery force-clause sentencing-enhancement slight-force statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states united-states Whether federal bank robbery that requires only slight force is covered by the force clause of 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(3)(A)
18-5027 Mark O. Wright v. Virginia Virginia 2018-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-defendant criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judgment-enforcement legal-procedure lesser-included-offense sentencing sixth-amendment state-supreme-court void-ab-initio void-judgment Can a state Supreme Court enforce a judgment against a criminal defendant for an offense that was never charged and which was not a lesser included of…
18-5028 Carolyn J. Edlind v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1512 corrupt-persuasion criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-administration-of-justice due-process obstruction-of-justice official-proceeding statutory-interpretation subversion-of-justice sufficiency-of-evidence testimony witness-tampering Did the court below err in ruling that there was sufficient evidence to convict the Appellant of using corrupt persuasion toward a witness with the in…
18-5031 Jabbar Wallace v. Kevin Kauffman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. Third Circuit 2018-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel murder-conviction self-defense self-defense-right sixth-amendment Whether the petitioner's conviction for third-degree murder should be overturned due to self-defense, violation of the Confrontation Clause, and ineff…
24A239 Gavin Blake Davis v. United States Fifth Circuit Presumed Complete bail-pending-appeal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit pro-se-petition Question not identified.