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25-935 United States v. Kevin LaMarcus Mitchell Fifth Circuit 2026-02-06 Pending constitutional-challenge controlled-substance criminal-conviction federal-statute firearm-possession second-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1) prohibiting firearm possession by persons with certain criminal convictions violates the Second Amendment as applied to de…
25-6732 Daniel Delgado v. United States Second Circuit 2026-02-05 Pending IFP as-applied-challenge bruen-standard constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-prohibition second-amendment Whether Section 922(g)(1)'s lifetime firearm prohibition for individuals convicted of crimes punishable by imprisonment exceeding one year violates th…
25A879 Anton Soloshenko, Luis A. Torres Gonzalez, and Dominic C. Haymond, II v. United States Armed Forces 2026-02-04 Application constitutional-rights court-martial criminal-conviction military-justice sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict Question not identified.
25A848 Mohamed Ahmed Hassan v. United States Ninth Circuit 2026-01-23 Application case-load criminal-conviction federal-defenders ninth-circuit sentencing-review writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
25-877 Jeffrey Steven Clay v. United States Tenth Circuit 2026-01-22 Pending Response Waived appellate-review circuit-court criminal-conviction judicial-error legal-review tenth-circuit Whether the Tenth Circuit erred when they affirmed Clay's conviction
25-6648 Nathan Bermea v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-01-22 Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction federal-law firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment for individuals with prior non-violent criminal convictions
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 Whether the Tenth Circuit correctly applied federal criminal procedural standards in affirming the underlying criminal judgment against the defendant
25-6509 Charles Bocock v. Illinois Illinois 2026-01-07 Pending Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction digital-evidence due-process forensic-attribution fourteenth-amendment substantive-proof Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause permits affirmance of a conviction for knowing and voluntary possession of digital contraband wh…
25-6438 Frankie Acosta v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-12-29 Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-conviction firearms-possession founding-era-precedent second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment for individuals with prior convictions that did not result in disarmament during the Found…
25-6427 Devin Joe Smith v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-12-23 Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession non-violent-offense second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been convicted of 'a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exce…
25A731 Michael Thomas McCowan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-12-22 Application 922(g)(1) constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment supervised-release Whether a conviction for a § 922(g)(1) offense that bars firearm possession for individuals with prior criminal records violates the Second Amendment …
25A727 Gregory W. Pheasant v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-12-19 Application criminal-conviction legal-test merits-briefing standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence supreme-court-review Whether the standard of review for a criminal conviction's sufficiency of evidence requires overturning a lower court's ruling when applying a stricte…
25A697 Tra'ven Boyer-Letlow v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-12-15 Application counsel-of-record criminal-conviction federal-appeal indigent-defendant petition-for-certiorari sixth-circuit Whether the district court's criminal conviction of Boyer-Letlow was procedurally sound given counsel's medical incapacitation and request for extensi…
25A692 Eliel Nunez Sanchez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-12-12 Application criminal-conviction direct-appeal federal-appellate ninth-circuit standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Ninth Circuit applied the correct standard of review in affirming a criminal conviction on direct appeal
25-691 Lonnie Joseph Parker v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-12-12 Denied Response Waived controlled-substances criminal-conviction federal-regulation medical-prescription prescribing-authority standard-of-care Whether a doctor can be convicted of unlawfully prescribing controlled substances under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a) (1) and 21 C.F.R. § 1306.04(a) based on a d…
25-6313 Owen Zachary Simonson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which permanently prohibits possession of a firearm by a person who has been convicted of a crime punishable by impriso…
25-6285 Rudy Altamirano v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-12-04 Pending IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession nonviolent-offense second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been convicted of 'a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exce…
25A641 Robert Keith Ray v. Colorado Colorado 2025-12-02 Application colorado-supreme-court criminal-conviction due-process supreme-court-rules time-extension writ-of-certiorari Whether the Colorado Supreme Court's affirmance of a criminal conviction violates the defendant's constitutional rights to due process or a fair trial
25-6267 Alphonso Lataurean James v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-02 Pending IFP application-note constitutional-review criminal-conviction firearms-regulation second-amendment statutory-interpretation Is Application Note 14(b) an unreasonable interpretation of § 2K2.1(b)(6)(B), and is 922(g)(1) unconstitutional as applied to Mr. James under the Seco…
25-6186 Rashawn Lesley Grant v. North Carolina North Carolina 2025-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-conviction due-process evidence-sufficiency eyewitness-testimony trial-record Whether the State of North Carolina's conviction of Petitioner Grant for murder and the resulting life sentence violated the Due Process Clause of the…
25-6153 Marco Antonio Sanchez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-11-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process firearms-regulation second-amendment statutory-interpretation Does § 922(g)(1) violate the Second Amendment facially or as applied to individuals with non-violent prior convictions?
25-6135 Sonya Fuller v. Georgia Georgia 2025-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting criminal-conviction due-process felony-murder jackson-standard sufficiency-of-evidence Whether a conviction for felony murder is permissible under Jackson where the prosecution presented no evidence that the defendant planned, knew about…
25-574 Ron K. Elfenbein v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-11-13 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived criminal-conviction false-representation health-care-fraud medical-billing statutory-interpretation upcoding When an allegedly false statement is premised on an ambiguous rule open to multiple reasonable interpretations, can the government secure a defendant'…
25A521 Thelonious Wayne Kirby v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-05 Application criminal-appeal criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction sentencing-guidelines writ-of-certiorari Whether the Eleventh Circuit correctly applied federal sentencing guidelines or constitutional standards in affirming Mr. Kirby's criminal conviction
25-5925 Tracy Jenkins v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction federal-law firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-ban Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a crime punishable by more than one year v…
25A445 Thomas Steven Sanders v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-10-17 Application criminal-conviction death-penalty double-jeopardy executive-clemency federal-prosecution fifth-amendment Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment precludes a defendant from being convicted of two separate offenses arising from the same cr…
25-461 Edward Mangano v. United States Second Circuit 2025-10-15 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived criminal-conviction fiduciary-duty government-official honest-services-fraud official-action political-influence Whether an official in one government may be convicted of honest services fraud when his only alleged 'official action' was using his 'tremendous poli…
25-5878 Detrayous D. Curry v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substance criminal-conviction drug-offense federal-schedule sentencing-guidelines state-law Whether the definition of a 'Controlled Substance Offense' for purposes of U.S.S.G. §4B1.2 includes a prior state law conviction for a cocaine offense…
25-422 Deshawn M. Dawson v. United States Armed Forces 2025-10-08 Denied Response Waived court-martial criminal-conviction due-process-clause military-justice sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict Does the Constitution preclude a court-martial panel of lay members from convicting a defendant of a criminal offense by a non-unanimous vote?
25-5772 Rudy Mario Flores v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession nonviolent-offense second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been convicted of 'a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exce…
25-5748 She Ler Yer Lee v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-09-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession precedential-review second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether Mr. Lee's conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment in light of New York State Rifle & Pistol Asso…
25-5747 Sidney Donnell Kimble v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-09-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction federal-law firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment for individuals with nonviolent criminal convictions
25-5732 Jeremy Baum v. Missouri Missouri 2025-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-conviction due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial legal-precedent Whether affirming a criminal conviction on a different theory than what was presented to the jury conflicts with Supreme Court precedent and violates …
25-5740 Gregory Tucker v. Noah Nagy, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-09-25 Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-conviction dna-evidence evidence-sufficiency jackson-rule moveable-object reasonable-doubt Whether any rational trier of fact could return a guilty verdict where the only evidence was a DNA hit of unknown type and quantity found on an easily…
25-356 Steven P. Mancuso v. New York New York 2025-09-24 Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment self-defense Whether New York's firearm possession laws prohibiting ownership for persons with prior non-violent criminal convictions are facially unconstitutional…
25-5707 Reginald Robinson, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-09-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP as-applied-challenge circuit-split criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which permanently prohibits possession of a firearm by a person who has been convicted of a crime punishable by impriso…
25-325 Robert L. Fooks v. Maryland Maryland 2025-09-18 Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession maryland-law second-amendment supreme-court-precedent Does Maryland Code, Public Safety Article, § 5-133(b)(2) violate the Second Amendment on its face and as applied, in light of recent Supreme Court pre…
25A302 Sonya Fuller v. Georgia Georgia 2025-09-16 Presumed Complete constitutional-review criminal-conviction felony-murder jackson-standard reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the standard for reviewing the sufficiency of evidence under Jackson v. Virginia permits a conviction to be upheld when the evidence is acknow…
25-269 Selim Zherka v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General Second Circuit 2025-09-09 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) constitutional-rights criminal-conviction disarmament firearms-possession non-violent-offense second-amendment Whether the Second Amendment permits the government to disarm an American citizen because he has been convicted of a non-violent fraud offense
25-5535 Jason Daniel Carbajal v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-09-03 Denied Relisted (4)IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process firearms-regulation second-amendment statutory-interpretation Does § 922(g)(1) violate the Second Amendment facially or as applied to individuals with non-violent prior convictions?
25-5540 Brayan Alexander Contreras-Avalos v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP cooperator-testimony criminal-conviction evidentiary-standard prosecutorial-burden sufficiency-of-evidence witness-credibility Whether the Government's reliance solely on cooperator testimony without physical or forensic evidence was sufficient to convict Mr. Contreras-Avalos …
25A253 Patrick Miller Webb, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-09-02 Presumed Complete controlled-substance criminal-conviction federal-sentencing fifth-amendment pro-se sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments permit a criminal conviction and sentence when the petitioner claims inadequate legal representation and limite…
25A238 Glenn Allen Brooks v. United States District of Columbia 2025-08-29 Presumed Complete collateral-consequences criminal-conviction january-6 mootness-doctrine presidential-pardon supreme-court-review Whether a criminal defendant may constitutionally reject a presidential pardon and whether such rejection affects the mootness doctrine for conviction…
25-5477 Cornell Thomas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-08-27 Denied Relisted (4)IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession nonviolent-offense second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been convicted of 'a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exce…
25-5485 Taylor Dan Truex v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-08-27 Denied Relisted (4)IFP constitutional-interpretation criminal-conviction firearm-prohibition historical-tradition second-amendment statutory-analysis Does § 922(g)(1) violate the Second Amendment facially, and must courts examine historical traditions of disarmament when assessing its constitutional…
25-5421 Jose Antonio Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-08-21 Denied Relisted (5)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-conviction federal-law firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment for individuals with prior non-violent criminal convictions
25-174 Bart Wade Reagor v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-08-13 Denied Response Waived bank-fraud criminal-conviction false-statement loan-application material-misrepresentation statutory-interpretation Whether the decision of the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit is in direct conflict with this Court's recent holding in Thompson v. United States…
25-5331 Maurice Farris v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-08-12 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-conviction gun-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether Mr. Farris's conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment in light of New York State Rifle & Pistol A…
25-130 Francis McLain v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-08-04 Denied Response Waived criminal-conviction indictment-elements jurisdictional-defect jury-instructions rule-60b4 trust-fund-penalty Whether a district court can deny a Rule 60(b)(4) motion to vacate a criminal conviction based on jurisdictional defects or incomplete indictment/jury…
25-5259 Antonio Marshall v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-08-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6)IFP as-applied-challenge circuit-split criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which permanently prohibits possession of a firearm by a person who has been convicted of a crime punishable by impriso…
25-5223 Burte Gucci Rhodes v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction interstate-commerce jury-instruction legal-sufficiency murder-for-hire procedural-error Whether a conviction for murder-for-hire can properly be affirmed when the jury was instructed that it need not conclude an interstate facility was us…
25-5224 Kelechi Collins Umeh v. United States First Circuit 2025-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction defendant-rights jury-trial structural-error trial-court waiver Is it structural error for a trial court to enter a conviction against a defendant who did not expressly waive his right to a jury trial?
25A121 James Taric Byrd v. United States Third Circuit 2025-07-29 Presumed Complete criminal-conviction criminal-sentencing district-court life-imprisonment notice-of-appeal third-circuit Whether the district court's imposition of a life sentence for the charged criminal offenses was legally appropriate given the circumstances of the ca…
25-5124 Jacob Graves v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether Mr. Graves' conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment in light of New York State Rifle & Pistol As…
25-5017 Brant Davis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause criminal-conviction due-process firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment Whether the government may deprive citizens of their Second Amendment rights based on a non-violent prior conviction and whether such prosecution viol…
25-5003 Eric Richard Garza v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-conviction de-novo-resentencing fifth-circuit-interpretation mandate-rule sentencing-discretion Did the Fifth Circuit misapply its restrictive interpretation of the mandate rule which does not permit de novo resentencing, but limits to resentenci…
24-7422 In Re Jerome Eric Bivens 2025-06-13 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-conviction due-process judicial-error jury-selection trial-procedure Does an illegally empaneled jury void a criminal conviction and/or mandate a new trial
24-7400 Brandon Lee Mayfield v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-06-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6)IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction federal-firearms-law second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether Mr. Mayfield's conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment in light of New York State Rifle & Pistol…
24-7289 Fidel Saldana Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-conviction evidence-sufficiency inference-standard reasonable-doubt Whether evidence that requires a series of inferences to reach an element of an offense, rather than showing the element directly or after a single in…
24-7275 Jacob Thomas Mireles v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-conviction federal-law firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been convicted of 'a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exce…
24-7260 Dawon Hennings v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-conviction firearm-possession gun-control second-amendment statutory-interpretation Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a crime punishable by more than one year v…
24A1120 Anita Louise Jackson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-05-20 Presumed Complete criminal-charges criminal-conviction first-impression fourth-circuit medical-instrument physician-liability Whether a physician can be criminally convicted for adulteration of a medical instrument under circumstances presenting a novel legal issue
24-7150 Oscar Williams, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography criminal-conviction extortion federal-statute u.s.c.-section-2251 u.s.c.-section-875 Whether the production of child pornography by the alleged victims supports a conviction under Title 18 U.S.C. Section 2251(a) and whether Oscar Willi…
24-7045 Margaret Ann Sutton v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction drug-trafficking due-process evidence-sufficiency firearm-possession sentencing-guidelines Whether the evidence is legally sufficient to sustain multiple drug and firearm-related convictions and whether the imposed sentence violates due proc…
24-6974 Michael Mejia v. Brittany Greene, Warden Seventh Circuit 2025-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP accountability-law appellate-review constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process mere-presence Whether the Illinois state accountability law at the time of petitioner's conviction, which omitted 'mere presence' as insufficient to convict, was un…
24-6892 Johnathan Anton Williams v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-31 GVR IFP commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-conviction firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment and exceeds Congress's Commerce Clause authority
24-6737 Carlsel Alexander v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process firearms-ban second-amendment sentencing-guidelines Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by persons previously convicted of a crime punishable by more than a year of imprisonment, codified at 1…
24-6666 Marcus Jerell Anderson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-02-27 Denied IFP as-applied-challenge circuit-split criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which permanently prohibits possession of a firearm by a person who has been convicted of a crime punishable by impriso…
24-6625 Ronnie Diaz, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-02-24 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction federal-law firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment for individuals with nonviolent criminal convictions
24-6517 Edell Jackson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-02-10 Denied IFP as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 92 2(g)(1) is susceptible to an as-applied constitutional challenge and violates the Second Amendment
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's domestic abuse assault conviction is valid when he was present with the victim at the victim's home after being previously acqui…
24A766 Aghee William Smith, II v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-02-06 Presumed Complete conspiracy criminal-conviction fourth-circuit mail-fraud sufficiency-of-evidence wire-fraud Whether the Fourth Circuit correctly applied the standard for reviewing the sufficiency of evidence in a federal wire fraud and mail fraud conspiracy …
24-6452 Philip Lamar Nordvold v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-02-03 Denied IFP as-applied-challenge circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), prohibiting firearm possession and acquisition by those convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exce…
24-6430 Maurice Fleming v. Georgia Georgia 2025-01-30 Denied IFP accomplice-testimony criminal-conviction due-process jury-instruction legal-principles statutory-interpretation Whether the trial court's failure to provide a requested jury instruction on an accomplice's testimony requires reversal of a criminal conviction when…
24-798 Kay E. Anderson v. Nebraska Nebraska 2025-01-27 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-conviction evidence-suppression fraudulent-misrepresentation search-warrant state-statute Whether a party can be convicted of a crime based upon evidence obtained under a search warrant that was declared invalid because it was procured by f…
24-6328 Donald East v. Marty Jackley, Attorney General of South Dakota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-01-16 Denied IFP actual-innocence criminal-conviction exculpatory-evidence guilty-plea habeas-relief ineffective-assistance Whether a factual basis supporting a criminal conviction can be verifiably false and still result in a valid conviction; whether an attorney accepting…
24-6299 Anthony Fisher v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction deferred-judgment felon-in-possession firearms-restriction mens-rea statutory-interpretation Whether the Panel's decision conflicted with Rehaif v. United States by affirming a conviction without evidence that the defendant knew a deferred jud…
24-6290 Brent Howard v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-conviction due-process firearms-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment and Due Process Clause by prohibiting firearm possession for individuals with prior convic…
24-6264 Suresh Munshani v. United States Second Circuit 2025-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy criminal-conviction due-process merger-doctrine money-laundering wire-fraud Whether the merger of a money laundering conspiracy conviction with a wire fraud conspiracy conviction requires dismissal of the money laundering char…
24A631 Robert Andrew Wolter v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-12-27 Presumed Complete certiorari criminal-conviction eighth-circuit petition-deadline supreme-court-rules writ-of-certiorari Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the petitioner's criminal conviction despite counsel's limited ability to prepare a com…
24A614 Wanda L. Edwards v. South Dakota South Dakota 2024-12-20 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights criminal-conviction due-process sentencing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Whether a state supreme court's criminal conviction and sentencing decision violates a defendant's constitutional due process rights
24A611 Ronnie Diaz, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-12-19 Presumed Complete constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearms-possession fundamental-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment when applied to individuals with non-violent criminal convictions
24A591 Fernando Lopez-Armenta v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-12-17 Presumed Complete criminal-conviction drug-statute federal-statute jury-instructions ninth-circuit sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals correctly applied the legal standard for reviewing criminal convictions under federal drug and firearms sta…
24A596 William Stenger v. United States Second Circuit 2024-12-17 Presumed Complete appellate-review criminal-conviction second-circuit supreme-court-rules time-extension writ-of-certiorari Whether the Second Circuit correctly applied legal standards in reviewing the criminal conviction of William Stenger
24A574 Colton Bagola v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-12-12 Presumed Complete criminal-conviction eighth-circuit federal-judiciary legal-procedure petition-for-certiorari time-extension Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the petitioner's criminal conviction despite potential procedural or substantive defect…
24A572 Robert Lewis Dear, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-12-11 Presumed Complete criminal-conviction federal-appeal procedural-due-process supreme-court-review tenth-circuit writ-of-certiorari Whether the Tenth Circuit correctly applied legal standards in affirming the criminal convictions of a defendant who sought to challenge the procedura…
24-6102 Cleate Wilson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-10 Denied IFP commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) prohibiting firearm possession by persons with prior criminal convictions violates the Second Amendment and exceeds Cong…
24A559 Alexander Nicholaus Sweet v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-12-09 Presumed Complete criminal-conviction federal-appeal petition-for-rehearing supreme-court-procedure tenth-circuit writ-of-certiorari Whether the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals correctly applied legal standards in affirming the criminal convictions of the petitioner
24-6063 Benjamin Tyree Townsel v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) prohibiting firearm possession by persons with prior criminal convictions violates the Second Amendment and exceeds Cong…
24-6020 Justin Rivera v. United States Second Circuit 2024-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-conviction federal-statute sentencing-guidelines sex-trafficking Whether the Second Circuit erred in affirming a sex trafficking conviction based on a sentencing guidelines interpretation that conflicts with the Nin…
24-5999 Juan Manuel Cruzado Laureano v. United States Attorney's Office, District of Puerto Rico First Circuit 2024-11-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights-complaint criminal-conviction doj-waiver federal-procedure solicitor-general-resignation supreme-court-review Whether a criminal conviction can be invalidated when the Solicitor General resigns and the Department of Justice waives its right to defend the convi…
24A482 James Timothy Norman v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-11-14 Presumed Complete criminal-conviction eighth-circuit legal-standard procedural-review sufficiency-of-evidence writ-of-certiorari Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals correctly applied the legal standard for reviewing a criminal conviction involving alleged evidentiary err…
24A459 Raymond Anthony Lewis v. Brian D. Phillips, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-11-07 Presumed Complete criminal-conviction federal-review habeas-corpus ninth-circuit state-court time-extension Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision improperly applied federal habeas corpus standards in reviewing a state court criminal conviction
24A460 Donald E. Deardorff v. Terry Raybon, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-07 Presumed Complete criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit federal-review habeas-corpus standard-of-review writ-of-certiorari Whether the Eleventh Circuit applied the correct standard for reviewing a federal habeas corpus petition challenging a state criminal conviction
24-5909 Bay Travon Wilson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-conviction firearms-possession gun-control second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment as applied to a person convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for more than one y…
24A429 Earl Francis Hart v. Charles Daniels, Warden Fifth Circuit 2024-10-31 Presumed Complete actual-innocence criminal-conviction federal-prisoner habeas-corpus savings-clause section-2241 Whether a federal prisoner can collaterally challenge his criminal convictions under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 by invoking the savings clause of § 2255(e) base…
24-5786 Mark Allen Craig, II v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-10-18 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which prohibits firearm possession by anyone convicted of 'a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one …
24A371 Benjamin Tyree Townsel v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-18 Presumed Complete criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit federal-appeal jurisdiction sentencing standard-of-review Whether the Eleventh Circuit correctly applied the standard of review in affirming a criminal conviction and sentence
24-374 Richard P. Homrighausen v. Ohio Ohio 2024-10-02 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-conviction due-process jury-trial logical-inconsistency verdict-review Whether a criminal defendant is denied due process when convicted of two crimes where a guilty verdict on one count logically excludes a finding of gu…
24A310 Rafael Antonio Bracero-Navas v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-01 Presumed Complete appellate-review criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit federal-criminal-law standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether the Eleventh Circuit correctly applied the standard of review in affirming a criminal conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 3742
24-5664 Christian Pabon v. United States Second Circuit 2024-09-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction due-process enterprise-membership legal-sufficiency murder-in-aid racketeering-conspiracy Whether the evidence was legally insufficient to establish enterprise membership and whether a rational fact finder could have found the petitioner gu…
24-5655 Juan M. Cruzado Laureano v. Popular Democratic Party and Its Governing Board Puerto Rico 2024-09-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure certiorari criminal-conviction department-of-justice supreme-court-rule waiver Whether a waiver by the US Department of Justice under Supreme Court Rule 15 constitutes an admission of the illegality of a criminal conviction
24A257 Jonathan High v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-12 Presumed Complete appellate-review criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit jurisdiction standard-of-review writ-of-certiorari Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals applied the correct standard of review in affirming the petitioner's criminal conviction
24-5506 Rustam Yusupov v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction second-amendment statutory-interpretation unlawful-possession Whether Rustam Yusupov's conviction for unlawful possession of ammunition under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(8) violates the Second Amendment and whether his ap…
24-5488 Brandon Lee Mayfield v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-09-09 GVR IFP criminal-conviction gun-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent tenth-circuit Whether Mr. Mayfield's conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment in light of New York State Rifle & Pistol…
24-5494 Brian Scott Witham v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-09-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence criminal-conviction habeas-corpus plea-bargaining procedural-default section-2255 Whether a § 2255 petitioner who pleaded guilty to a charged offense based on conduct that is not a crime and who later seeks to rely on actual innocen…
24-5406 Michael Hoeft v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-08-28 GVR IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction federal-law firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) and (9) prohibiting firearm possession by certain convicted persons are facially unconstitutional under the Second Amend…
24-5414 Cleveland J. Enmon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit jury-instructions medical-prescription ruan-standard standard-of-review Whether the Eleventh Circuit erroneously applied an objective standard in jury instructions for a physician's prescription case in light of the Ruan v…
24-200 Hamett Diaz v. Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2024-08-22 Denied criminal-conviction due-process hearsay-testimony ineffective-assistance trial-counsel witness-testimony Whether the Third Circuit erred in failing to find that trial counsel provided ineffective assistance by not objecting to inadmissible hearsay testimo…
24-5368 Joseph Roach v. Amy Robey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP accomplice-liability criminal-conviction due-process jackson-v-virginia jury-unanimity sixth-circuit Whether a defendant was denied due process and a unanimous jury verdict when convicted under alternative theories of culpability and affirmed by the S…
24-5293 Anthony Douglas Elonis v. United States Third Circuit 2024-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction cyberstalking emotional-distress first-amendment intent-standard true-threat Whether the Third Circuit's decision affirming Petitioner's cyberstalking conviction is erroneous due to insufficient evidence of intent to cause emot…
24-5252 Vaughn Alexander Cropper v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction extraordinary-review fundamental-error habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default Whether a procedurally defaulted habeas petition challenging a criminal conviction raises a fundamental miscarriage of justice that warrants extraordi…
24-5219 Bobbie Ray Edwards v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-U.S.C.-2254 armed-career-criminal-act civil-procedure criminal-conviction due-process federal-review habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief pro-se-petition sentencing statutory-limitation Whether the district court's denial of petitioner's timely filed 2255(h) motion was erroneous and deprived petitioner of due process of law and an opp…
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…
24A71 Travis Adam Brown v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-22 Presumed Complete ammunition-charge criminal-conviction felon-in-possession fifth-circuit plea-agreement sentencing Whether a felon's guilty plea to possessing ammunition precludes subsequent constitutional challenges to the underlying conviction or sentence
23A1170 Bryant D. Aron v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-07-01 Presumed Complete criminal-conviction criminal-justice-act federal-case sentencing seventh-circuit writ-of-certiorari Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's criminal conviction and sentence under federal law
23A1174 Kevin Deane Jones v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-01 Presumed Complete appellate-review criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction sentencing-standard statutory-interpretation Whether the federal appellate court correctly applied the standard of review in affirming a criminal conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 3742
23-1351 Torrey Lynne Henderson, Amara Jana Ridge, and Justin Royce Thompson v. Texas Texas 2024-06-27 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived criminal-conviction first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech obstruction-of-passageway obstruction-statute peaceful-assembly peaceful-protest public-forum public-sidewalks Do the First and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit the government from convicting individuals for obstructing a passageway based solely on their particip…
23A1127 Sheldon Hannibal v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2024-06-20 Presumed Complete capital-case criminal-conviction federal-review habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals improperly denied a federal habeas corpus petition challenging a criminal conviction or sentence
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 Question not identified.
23A1117 Kevin Fahrni v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2024-06-17 Presumed Complete criminal-conviction due-process habeas-corpus mandamus section-2254 sufficiency-of-evidence Whether a state prisoner can obtain federal habeas relief when state and federal courts allegedly failed to address the merits of a potentially merito…
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 Can a defendant's conviction be sustained based on uncorroborated statements made during interrogation?
23-7620 Donald Kie, Jr. v. Garrett, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-06-03 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-conviction due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit plea-bargaining sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence sufficient-evidence Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying a Certificate of Appealability
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 Did the Defendant have the Right to Appeal his Conviction 48 years Ago as a Right?
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.…
23A1014 Noel Bender v. Iowa Department of Corrections, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-05-15 Presumed Complete criminal-conviction due-process federal-habeas habitual-offender ineffective-assistance sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Due Process Clause requires reversal of a criminal conviction where the state court's adjudication was allegedly contrary to or involved a…
23-7451 Hector Patricio Galvan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment congressional-power criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process enumerated-powers firearm firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violate the Second Amendment?
23-7412 John Thomas Rooney v. Georgia Georgia 2024-05-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment compulsory-testimony constitutional-violation criminal-conviction due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief privilege-against-self-incrimination self-incrimination state-court-review Does Cronaias' testimony violate the 5th Amendment's privilege against self-incrimination?
23-7382 In Re Arthur Jones 2024-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federalism judicial-discretion judicial-overreach jurisdiction mandamus subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the district court abused its discretion in failing to issue the writ of mandamus
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
23A957 Benjamin Galecki and Burton Ritchie v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-04-25 Presumed Complete constitutional-violation criminal-conviction federal-appeal ninth-circuit panel-decision writ-of-certiorari Whether the Ninth Circuit correctly applied the standard for reviewing a federal criminal conviction in light of alleged constitutional violations
23-1145 Ojin Kim v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-04-22 Denied Response Waived case-or-controversy criminal-conviction deportation deportation-consequences federal-jurisdiction habeas immigration-consequences ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment standing strickland-standard Whether the real threat of deportation as a result of a federal criminal conviction establishes standing and a real case in controversy for federal co…
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 Whether the trial Court Committed reversible error in denying the defendant's request for jury instructions on self-defense and necessity, even though…
23-7190 Trivansky Swington v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-conviction criminal-sentencing decontrolled-substances eighth-circuit federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-enhancement Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem…
23A893 Maurice Farris v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-04-08 Presumed Complete certiorari-extension criminal-conviction felon-in-possession firearm-prohibition second-amendment supreme-court-review Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutionally overbroad or violates a defendant's Second Amendment rights in its prohibition of firearm possessi…
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 Whether the state court erred in not allowing the petitioner to prove that the alleged charges are not crimes
23A830 Shawn Thomas Borne v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-03-11 Presumed Complete certiorari-petition criminal-conviction felon-in-possession firearm-statute supreme-court-review tenth-circuit Whether a conviction for felon in possession of a firearm under 18 U.S.C. § 922(c)(1) is constitutionally valid or requires further judicial review
23-925 Michael Shane McCormick, Sr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-02-27 Denied circuit-split consultation-duty criminal-appeal criminal-conviction defendant-consultation defense-counsel flores-ortega lower-court-confusion reasonable-effort sixth-amendment Whether, to adequately 'consult' regarding an appeal when the defendant says he will decide after sentencing or is obviously dissatisfied with his sen…
23-934 Areli Escobar v. Texas Texas 2024-02-27 Denied Amici (4)Relisted (4) capital-murder capital-punishment criminal-conviction dna-evidence due-process false-evidence habeas-corpus jury-verdict misleading-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct unreliable-evidence Whether due process requires reversal of a capital conviction infected with errors the State no longer defends
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 …
23-6704 Joshua P. Lindsey v. Sarah Evans Barker, Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana Seventh Circuit 2024-02-08 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-standards criminal-conviction due-process free-speech ninth-circuit prosecutorial-misconduct standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments
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 Whether the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals correctly applied state law in affirming a criminal conviction that may raise potential federal consti…
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…
23A704 Ethel Oyekunle-Bubu v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-01-31 Presumed Complete circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-conviction prescription-law ruan-precedent standard-of-review Whether the Supreme Court's precedent in Ruan v. United States requires a different standard of review for criminal convictions involving controlled s…
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…
23-6601 Quentin John Fishburne v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-conviction due-process exclusionary-rule firearm-possession fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-checkpoint traffic-stop Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in failing to reverse the trial court's order denying the Petitioner's Motion to Suppress the discov…
23A692 Montel Westley v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-01-26 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights criminal-conviction federal-appeal in-forma-pauperis sixth-circuit writ-of-certiorari Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming a criminal conviction where the defendant claims a violation of his constitutional right…
23-6560 Cole A. Wolak v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography criminal-conviction district-court-error double-jeopardy possession procedural-reasonableness receipt-and-distribution sentencing Whether the district court erred in convicting petitioner for both possession of child pornography and for receipt and distribution of child pornograp…
23-6531 Terrance Brown v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP borden-v-united-states career-offender crime-of-violence criminal-conviction criminal-sentencing district-court judicial-review mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether the district court erred in finding that Brown is a career offender under U.S.S.G. §§4B1.1 and 4B1.2, where one of Brown's predicate convictio…
23-6470 Richard L. Gathercole v. United States, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-motion jurisdiction section-2255 sentencing unconstitutional Whether the South Circuit Court of Appeals and the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia have jurisdiction to hear and decide the Petiti…
23A626 Robert Shawn Ingram v. Warden, Holman Correctional Facility Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-08 Presumed Complete criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit federal-court habeas-corpus petition-review supreme-court-jurisdiction Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals improperly denied a federal habeas corpus petition challenging a criminal conviction or sentence
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-to-convict-a-criminal-defendant-without-finding-the-defendant-is-guilty
23-6211 Bernard Antoine Hardrick v. Michigan Michigan 2023-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP adjudication civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-enterprise due-process evidence-sufficiency exclusion jury-instructions prosecutorial-burden prosecutorial-misconduct self-representation trial-court-error Whether the trial court violated petitioner's right to be present, right to counsel, and right to self-representation when it improperly excluded peti…
23-6170 Edell Jackson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-12-06 GVR Relisted (2)IFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process federal-law firearms-possession second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment
23-6077 Royal Douglas Robinson v. Texas Texas 2023-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 9th-amendment constitutional-challenge conviction criminal-conviction due-process false-evidence forensic-misconduct medical-examiner scientific-evidence Does a conviction based on unreliable scientific evidence violate due-process
23A462 Zachary S. Spiegel v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-21 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit judicial-review sentencing writ-of-certiorari Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals correctly applied legal standards in affirming the petitioner's criminal conviction and sentence
23-5902 Kaleb J. Cole v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-10-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-conviction due-process first-amendment free-speech retaliation speech-protection worldview-perception worldviews Whether the First Amendment, Post Counterman v. Colorado permits a criminal conviction for retaliatory speech which is inherently threatening not on t…
23-5871 Darryl Smith v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio Sixth Circuit 2023-10-24 Denied IFP appeals criminal-conviction due-process habeas-corpus judicial-sanction pro-se pro-se-prisoner vexatious-litigator Whether judges and magistrates can collectively craft orders to impose a vexatious litigator tag on a pro se prisoner and ban his filings to appeal hi…
23-388 Richard W. Como v. Pennsylvania Public School Employees' Retirement Board Pennsylvania 2023-10-12 Denied Response Waived civil-rights criminal-conviction due-process excessive-fines excessive-punishment fourteenth-amendment pension pension-forfeiture public-employee retirement-law Did the Commonwealth Court and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court err in forfeiting Mr. Como's entire pension due to criminal convictions as Superintenden…
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 Was there prosecuter misconduct?
23-307 Kyran Javon Vaughn v. Louisiana Louisiana 2023-09-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) criminal-conviction criminal-defendants direct-review due-process griffith griffith-precedent non-unanimous-jury ramos ramos-decision retroactive-application retroactivity Whether the rights afforded criminal defendants in Ramos apply retroactively to a case on direct review of the sentence only, given Griffith's holding
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 Whether Virginia's standard of review for appellate claims of insufficient evidence of a criminal conviction violates the Due Process Clause as interp…
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 Whether as a matter of procedural law, Appellant's motion under Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b) to reopen a § 2241 case was timely
23-5426 Christopher Robertson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP attempted-robbery constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-law federal-criminal-procedure hobbs-act jury-instructions misstatement-of-law residual-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court Whether a defendant can be convicted of a 924(c) offense if the defendant was convicted of attempted Hobbs Act robbery
23-130 Saad Sakkal v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-08-10 Denied Relisted (2) agency-regulation authorization controlled-substances-act criminal-conviction drug-dealer drug-dealing jury-instruction physician physician-prescription statutory-interpretation statutory-requirement Whether a jury instruction under the Controlled Substances Act may replace the statutory requirement that a physician be convicted as a drug dealer on…
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 Did the trial courts abuse its discretion by denying VeSendant and Repellant repeated request for new counsel
23-5266 Mantell Alabi Stevens v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-conviction criminal-law drug-distribution due-process jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement sufficiency-of-evidence Can a court send a case to the jury when the evidence is only sufficient to give them a choice between probabilities instead of being sufficient to pr…
23-5201 Andrew Valenzuela v. Roberto A. Arias, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process duress-defense habeas-corpus judicial-proceedings jury-instructions Did the Ninth Circuit's clearly erroneous finding so depart from the accepted course of judicial proceedings as to justify summary reversal?
23A5 Darryl Smith v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio Sixth Circuit 2023-07-03 Presumed Complete access-to-courts criminal-conviction filing-restrictions habeas-corpus mandamus prisoner-rights Whether a district court violates a prisoner's constitutional right of access to courts by enforcing filing restrictions that prevent him from appeali…
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, …
22-7850 In Re James C. Winding 2023-06-22 Dismissed IFP 14th-amendment attorney-general civil-rights criminal-conviction due-process federal-court habeas-corpus judicial-review mississippi-court procedural-challenge standing state-court Whether the U.S. Supreme Court should review the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the South…
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 Does McNeill require courts to define 'controlled substance offenses' under Section 4B1.2(b) to include convictions under laws encompassing substances…
22-1175 Xiulu Ruan and John Patrick Couch v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-05 Denied Amici (3) agency-rulemaking controlled-substances-act criminal-conviction federal-agency felony-offense jury-instruction jury-instructions medical-practice prescription-authority statutory-interpretation Whether 21 C.F.R. § 13806.04(a) may replace the 'except as authorized' requirement in a Controlled Substances Act jury instruction, thereby permitting…
22-7654 Juan L. Caballero v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-05-26 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-conviction due-process habeas-corpus insufficient-evidence newly-discovered-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct state-court-review sufficiency-of-evidence Can the lower court courts indiscriminately deny (timely) filed Federal habeas corpus (2261) of newly discovered evidence wherein the newly discovered…
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 Whether the jury needs to be unanimous, to decide on elements that are the causation of deprivation under 18 USC 2412, and whether specifically instru…
22-7277 Genard Alonzo Toney v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-04-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-conviction discovery due-process essential-element ineffective-assistance judicial-review plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing-hearing trial-integrity Whether defendant received ineffective assistance of counsel
22-7137 Eric Deangelo Griggs v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP burrage-v-united-states criminal-conviction cross-examination drug-distribution due-process heroin-distribution jury-instruction perjured-testimony strict-liability Whether a person can be convicted for distribution of heroin causing death using a jury instruction that makes the offense a strict liability crime
22-7129 Thomas P. Thayer v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach criminal-conviction federal-law minor minor-protection prior-conviction registration-requirement sex-offender-registration sex-offense statutory-interpretation Whether a categorical approach applies to determining if a prior conviction is a federal 'sex offense'
22-6980 In Re Michael Blodgett 2023-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP amg-v-ftc coram-nobis criminal-conviction due-process frap-rule-21 judicial-error mandamus mandamus-relief restitution stare-decisis vertical-stare-decisis Where the record reveals uncontested facts that the Eighth Circuit committed more than seventeen structural errors over thirty years in three related …
22-6978 Dechaun Toliver v. Jay Forshey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-03-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction due-process enterprise ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel plea-bargaining plea-colloquy plea-negotiation rico rico-laws Can a RICO conviction stand without an 'Enterprise' or corrupt acts meeting a monetary threshold?
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 whether courts can summarily enforce an appellate waiver to bar motions to vacate unconstitutional convictions
22-6926 Jesse Davenport, aka Draco John Flama v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy criminal-conviction due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury multi-count-indictment petit-jury Whether a court violates a defendant's Fifth Amendment Grand Jury rights
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
22-6790 Alexis Jaimez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process gang-membership guilt-by-association money-laundering Whether the Ninth Circuit's holding that a defendant is guilty of money laundering conspiracy because he was a 'foot soldier' in a gang and therefore …
22-6697 Ervin Harris v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence aggravated-assault borden-precedent borden-v-united-states criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process forcible-assault sentencing-review supreme-court Whether Petitioner is actually innocent of his aggravated and forcible assault offense, in light of Borden v. United States, 141 S. Ct. 1817 (2021)?
22-6424 Trevis Thompson v. Illinois Illinois 2022-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction criminal-defendant deliberation-misconduct external-information federal-rule-of-evidence-606(b) harmless-error jury-bias post-conviction-proceeding sixth-amendment unbiased-jury Where deliberating jurors receive external information that a criminal defendant had committed prior bad acts, does the dissemination of such informat…
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…
22-6230 Derrick A. Edwards v. K. King, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights compelling-interest constitutional-rights criminal-conviction evidence-challenge free-exercise judicial-review least-restrictive-means procedural-limitations RLUIPA substantial-burden substantive-due-process Whether RLUIPA requires the respondent to show that it lacks other means of achieving its desired goal without imposing a substantial burden on the pe…
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 Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred in dismissing the petitioner's meritorious appeal of his conviction of securit…
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 Sufficiency-of-evidence
22-413 Robert M. Atwell v. Tennessee Tennessee 2022-11-02 Denied Response Waived constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process ex-post-facto public-school school-premises-restriction sex-offender-registration tennessee-law Was the Petitioner's arrest and conviction under the TSORA a violation of the Ex Post Facto Clause of the U.S. CONST., art. 1, sec. 10, cl. 1?
22-376 Louisville-Jefferson County, Kentucky Metropolitan Government, et al. v. Johnetta Carr Sixth Circuit 2022-10-21 Denied Amici (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-action conviction criminal-conviction due-process habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey pardon section-1983 May a convicted offender, subsequently pardoned, bring a § 1983 action where the pardon fails to expunge the underlying criminal conviction or call it…
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
22-5777 In Re Adib Eddie Ramez Makdessi 2022-10-06 Dismissed IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-conviction due-process equal-protection evidence-tampering jury-instructions jury-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct racial-bias Whether the trial court erred in denying the defendant's Rule 60(b) motion to vacate the conviction based on evidence of prosecutorial misconduct, rac…
22-5754 Jamal Laurent v. United States Second Circuit 2022-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-conviction district-court insufficient-evidence joint-trial joint-trials missing-witness missing-witness-instruction rico-act rico-statute unavailable-witness warrantless-seizure witness-statement Whether RICO is a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. §924(c)
22-5719 Shannon Dewayne Reece v. Texas Texas 2022-09-29 Denied IFP aggravated-robbery criminal-conviction double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct state-court-precedent witness-testimony Can a person be convicted of an offense even after the victim testifies that the defendant is not the person that assaulted or robbed them?
22-5693 Rosa Isela Acuna v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-conviction criminal-law drug-importation due-process mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant can be convicted and subjected to enhanced punishment for drug type and quantity without proof of knowledge
22-5568 Douglas Gordon v. United States First Circuit 2022-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP copyright-infringement criminal-conviction criminal-law evidence fair-use first-circuit jury-instructions orphan-works sufficiency-of-evidence willful-conduct Whether the sufficiency of the evidence supported the jury's finding that Mr. Gordon acted willfully
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 Where there has never been any conviction
22-5413 Roderick Taylor v. Mississippi Mississippi 2022-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-conviction due-process federal-treaties ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief procedural-bar strickland-v-washington Whether Miss. Code Ann. 99-39-21 was unreasonably used to bar petitioner's fundamental issues of severe importance revolving around federal treaties
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 Whether the district court erred in denying Kogera's motion for judgment of acquittal on the basis of insufficient evidence to support the jury's verd…
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
22-5168 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
22-5152 In Re Jerry N. Alfred 2022-07-22 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-conviction due-process equal-protection false-evidence fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is violated when a state knowingly uses false evidence to…
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 Whether a guilty plea obtained in direct contravention of the express provisions of an applicable statute renders the sentence illegal, and consequent…
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 Whether the Supreme Court has overturned Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307 (1979), and if there is sufficient evidence to justify a conviction
22-17 Vaxima, Inc., et al. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-07-06 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2461 breach-of-contract criminal-conviction criminal-forfeiture honeycutt-decision honeycutt-v-united-states indictment statutory-interpretation Whether a criminal forfeiture judgment against Petitioners is permitted under Honeycutt
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…
21-8140 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 Should Petitioner's convictions be vacated due to insufficient evidence?
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 Whether the right recognized in Class v. United States extends to collateral review
21-7972 Demajio Jerome Ellis v. Indiana Indiana 2022-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-claims criminal-conviction due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review post-conviction post-conviction-relief standing supreme-court-appeal Whether the Indiana Court of Appeals erred in affirming the post-conviction court's denial of my post-conviction petition for relief
21-7819 Kevin Ray Smith v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion article-iii-standing collateral-attack constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process federal-criminal-law habeas-corpus jurisdictional-defect Whether Petitioner has Article III standing to challenge conduct not within the precise subject matter of nationwide Federal police power enforcement
21-1411 James Milton Dailey v. Florida Florida 2022-05-03 Denied Amici (2) brady-v-maryland capital-murder criminal-conviction due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review materiality materiality-standard perjured-testimony perjury prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the State's knowing use of perjury is relevant to determining whether the perjured testimony was material to the verdict
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?
21-7677 Kyle Maurice Parks v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-violation criminal-conviction due-process fabricated-evidence fourth-amendment human-trafficking illegal-search probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant Whether the petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights were violated by an illegal search and seizure without a warrant and probable cause affidavit
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 Did the appellate court err in failing to find that the evidence was insufficient to support the conviction and death sentence?
21-7643 Daniel Trejo v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2022-04-18 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process duress fourth-district-court jury-instructions penal-code statutory-interpretation Whether the statutory definition of duress under Penal Code Sections 26 and 288 is analogous
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…
21-1305 Melchor Munoz v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-29 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 citizenship-revocation criminal-conviction due-diligence government-notice plea-bargaining plea-proceeding section-2255 statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Whether the 28 U.S.C. § 2255 'date on which the facts supporting the claim presented could have been discovered through the exercise of due diligence'…
21-7405 Joshua Guity-Nunez v. United States Third Circuit 2022-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-section-1594 appeal base-offense-level criminal-conviction criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-sentencing human-trafficking sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether Petitioner, who was convicted of 18 U.S.C. § 1594(c), is subject to a Base Offense Level of 34 or 14?
21-7338 Chandler Saxton v. Georgia Georgia 2022-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-conviction cumulative-error due-process fair-trial judicial-review medical-issues procedural-error trial-court Whether the cumulative errors in the lower court proceedings, including the failure to properly consider medical issues, resulted in a denial of the p…
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 Whether a certificate of appealability can be issued despite controlling circuit authority to the contrary
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 Did the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland err in ruling that the evidence adduced at trial was sufficient to sustain a conviction?
21-7264 Samuel Lee Gore v. Gus J. Skropas, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-03 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process equal-protection federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure standing state-law-interpretation Does the United States Constitution guarantee a United States citizen due process and equal protection under the law?
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 Does a defendant have a United States Constitutional 14th Amendment right under due process to attack his undisturbed conviction after being resentenc…
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 a firearm should be reversed
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 Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming Dontrell Wise's conviction which was not supported by sufficient evidence to prove his …
21-6851 Joel Quiles v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2022-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquittal constitutional-rights criminal-conviction double-jeopardy due-process felony-murder fifth-amendment first-degree-murder trial-procedure Did the defendant's conviction for first degree felony murder violate his constitutional right against double jeopardy?
21-6740 Teddy Chiquito v. United States, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-12-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights criminal-conviction due-process equal-protection indian-civil-rights-act restitution-damages self-defense tribal-bill-of-rights tribal-law Whether the Government and a Tribal Law Enforcement Employer can arbitrarily convict a Tribal Police Officer
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
21-6646 Pedro Alvarado v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-111 18-usc-924 borden-v-united-states consent-search criminal-conviction criminal-law fourth-amendment ruse-search statutory-interpretation violent-crime Whether Alvarado's conviction qualifies as a violent crime
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 Whether MeGict v. Dklchema 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020) applies retroactively to convictions that were final when MeGict was announced
21-6576 Nicholas G. Peacock v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-conviction due-process exhaustion-doctrine federal-review free-speech habeas-corpus marriage state-court statutory-law underage Do minors have a right to entice an individual for the purposes of marriage if similarly aged individuals are allowed to and being married in their re…
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 Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma applies retroactively to final convictions
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 Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma applies retroactively to final convictions
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, 1408. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced
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, 14058. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced
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, 1408. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced
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, 1408. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced
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, 1408. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced
21-6383 Harinder Singh v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-23 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-split concealment criminal-conviction drug-proceeds federal-statute insufficient-evidence money-laundering regalado-cuellar statutory-interpretation Where the evidence at trial was insufficient was insufficient to prove that the design or purpose of the cash transmittals was to 'conceal or disguise…
21-6355 Everett Earl Parker v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction criminal-sentencing federal-jurisdiction johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement serious-violent-felony statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent violent-felony Whether Mr. Parker's life sentence for count 1 should be vacated due to lack of two prior qualifying 'serious violent felony' convictions
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…
21-6115 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 …
21-6043 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 Whether the information provided to the defendant was so vague, indistinct, and indefinite that it resulted in a due process violation, a Brady v. Mar…
21-5890 Christopher W. Terrell v. Arkansas Arkansas 2021-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction due-process fair-trial impartiality jury-impartiality jury-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-fairness Is a criminal conviction unconstitutional and in violation of Due Process when a jury does not remain impartial on the question of guilt for the crime…
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 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 Sta…
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
21-5746 In Re Conghau Huu To 2021-09-22 Denied IFP criminal-conviction cruel-and-unusual-punishment district-court-procedure due-process federal-review gatekeeping habeas-corpus judicial-integrity newly-discovered-evidence sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether the district court and the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals violated the petitioner's constitutional rights by making misstatements of facts …
21-5656 Omar Cebrero v. Rosemary Ndoh, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction due-process felony-murder jackson-v-virginia jury-finding major-participant special-circumstance sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the state court's determination that there was sufficient evidence to support the jury's special circumstance finding that Petitioner was a 'm…
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 Can a mentally incompetent defendant challenge his conviction under the Fourteenth Amendment despite procedural rules?
21-349 Kent Eric LeBere v. Travis Trani, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-09-03 Denied Response Waived brady-claim brady-violation certificate-of-appealability criminal-conviction due-process false-testimony habeas-corpus perjury prosecutorial-misconduct wrongful-conviction Whether the lower courts should fully decide whether the state knew or should have known that the testimony about Mr. LeBere's 'confession' was false
21-269 Anthony Carter v. Texas Texas 2021-08-24 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) controlled-substances criminal-conviction drug-possession jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia molecular-structure statutory-interpretation sufficiency-analysis technical-elements Whether a reviewing court may uphold a conviction where the offense is defined by technical elements beyond the understanding of an ordinary factfinde…
21-5307 Millard Jerome Strickland, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-08-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (4)IFP career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-conviction federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law Whether a prior conviction involving a substance that is not a controlled substance for the purposes of federal law can render a federal defendant a '…
21-5219 Bryan James Collins v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process evidence federal-statute fifth-circuit sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the Fifth Circuit wrongly affirmed Collins's conviction
21-5151 Kenan Ivery v. Ohio Ohio 2021-07-21 Denied IFP aggravated-murder criminal-conviction due-process essential-elements insufficient-evidence jury-removal murder reasonable-doubt trial-procedure Is a petitioner denied due process of law when he is convicted for offenses of which there was insufficient evidence presented at trial to have 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…
21-60 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 Whether constitutional double jeopardy principles prohibit a conviction on a greater offense when the jury found the defendant not guilty of a lesser …
21-5120 Kent Taylor v. Steven Otero California 2021-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-conviction due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default standing state-court-interpretation statute-of-limitations takings Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
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 as facto elauee is nic hed ae Ee eit 2 '5 obviously plain, does this error, reguire a reversal of Seog! criminal Conv aha
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 Whether a person convicted while suffering from severe mental impairment can invoke the Sixth Amendment right to know the nature and cause of the acti…
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…
20-7903 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 …
20-7857 Benjamin Ayala v. New York New York 2021-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP burglary constitutional-interpretation criminal-conviction double-jeopardy dwelling-entry fifth-amendment multiple-convictions single-entry state-court-conflict uniform-decision Whether petitioner's Fifth Amendment right against double jeopardy was violated
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 Whether a court should consider evidence of the defendant's actual innocence of the charged offenses in evaluating error under Yates v. United States
20-1410 Xiulu Ruan v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-07 Judgment Issued Amici (8)Relisted (5) controlled-substances criminal-conviction criminal-liability good-faith-defense medical-ethics medical-prescribing prescription professional-practice statutory-interpretation Whether a physician alleged to have prescribed controlled substances outside the usual course of professional practice may be convicted under Section …
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 Whether the State presented sufficient evidence to convict under Jackson v. Virginia
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…
20-7620 Andrew Guy Moret v. Patrick Garrett, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction habeas-corpus judicial-review mootness post-conviction pre-trial-claims pretrial procedural-bar successive-petition successive-writ Does a criminal conviction halt or moot a pending pretrial habeas corpus action?
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 Is Petitioner convicted by a non-unanimous verdict, whose case is not yet final, entitled to the benefit of the holding in Ramos?
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 Whether the 'same evidence' standard for double jeopardy under the Fifth Amendment is unconstitutional as applied to the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Pr…
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 the police had reasonable suspicion for an investigative stop
20-7314 Willard Lee Moss, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-03-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-conviction criminal-law domestic-violence due-process firearm-possession firearms fourth-circuit legal-error mens-rea rehaif rehaif-error Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in affirming Moss's conviction for possession of a firearm by a domestic-violence-offender, where the evidence indica…
20-7322 Kelsey Videl Coffee v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence aiding-and-abetting conspiracy criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process hobbs-act jury-instructions Whether Petitioner Is Actually Innocent Of Counts 4-8, Based On Conspiracy To Hobbs Act Robbery And Aiding And Abetting Hobbs Act Robbery
20-1134 John Myers v. Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison Seventh Circuit 2021-02-19 Denied Response Waived appellate-review circuit-split criminal-conviction criminal-defense ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis standard-of-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Seventh Circuit erred by holding, in conflict with at least four other courts of appeals, that to establish prejudice under Strickland v. …
20-1131 James C. Dimora v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-02-17 Denied Response Waived bribery conviction criminal-conviction due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions lawful-conduct legal-error official-act statutory-interpretation Whether a McDonnell error can invalidate convictions on additional counts that do not have an 'official act' element but depend on the jury's assessme…
20-7113 Troy X. Kelley v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure contract-rights contractual-obligation criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process imprisonment-for-debt property-rights stolen-property Whether a contractual right to payment constitutes ownership of money
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 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 has …
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 Was the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland correct in dismissing my habeas corpus petition?
20-6835 Otha S. Hamilton v. Dennis Reagle, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-01-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-conviction expert-witness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence medical-evidence physical-impossibility priapism-surgery witness-testimony Whether the Seventh Circuit erred in finding no substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right, when trial counsel failed to investigate …
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
20-6460 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 Whether courts of appeals may rely on information not proven to the jury to affirm a conviction on plain-error review
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 Whether the trial court's instructions on continuous sexual abuse were prejudicial
20-6428 Ronald Herron v. United States Second Circuit 2020-11-24 Denied IFP 18-usc-924c advance-knowledge aiding-and-abetting criminal-conviction due-process firearm-conduct firearm-related-conduct jury-instruction residual-clause section-924c unconstitutional Did the second circuit err by affirming petitioner's 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) convictions
20-711 City of Fairbanks, Alaska, et al. v. Marvin Roberts, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-11-23 Denied Relisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights conviction-vacatur criminal-conviction due-process favorable-termination habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey section-1983 Whether vacatur of a conviction by settlement qualifies as a favorable termination under Heck v. Humphrey when the vacatur was merely the ministerial …
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 …
20-6123 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 possession of an item that is one or more transactions removed from an alleged theft constitutes possession of stolen property
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…
20-5725 Rheashad Lamar Lott v. E. Oseguera, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-conviction due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure post-conviction-relief standing state-supreme-court statutory-interpretation Was PeTL {tower's 42 U.S.C. 31493 COMPLATY ENTITLED To REVEFIT OF EQUITARE Tota
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.…
20-5646 Sean Justin Owens v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-10 Denied Relisted (3)IFP appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act commerce-clause criminal-conviction firearm-possession jury prior-conviction prior-convictions rehaif-v-united-states sentencing serious-drug-offense Whether courts of appeals may affirm a defendant's conviction by relying on facts about the defendant's prior convictions that were not proven to the …
20-292 John Pinder v. Scott Crowther, Warden Tenth Circuit 2020-09-04 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights conviction criminal-conviction due-process false-testimony federal-courts judicial-review prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct state-courts Whether Due Process is violated when a prosecutor relies on false testimony to secure a conviction but did not know that the testimony was false until…
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 when the record is devoid of evidence proving the defendant committed an elemen…
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…
20-163 Brett C. Lillemoe v. United States Second Circuit 2020-08-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-split criminal-conviction due-process economic-harm federal-fraud fraud materiality money-property-fraud second-circuit statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant may be convicted of federal 'money or property' fraud when his alleged deceit was incapable of affecting any economic decisions by…
20-5342 Rigoberto Avila, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2020-08-13 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-standard conviction criminal-conviction due-process false-testimony innocence post-trial-developments post-trial-review scientific-evidence Does a conviction violate the Due Process Clause if a key part of the prosecution's case was scientific evidence that later developments have proven f…
20-5252 Garry Grace v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-922 18-usc-924 criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process firearm-offense knowingly-element mens-rea rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states status-elements statutory-interpretation Whether Mr. Grace was illegally charged with, and unknowingly convicted of, a crime that was not an offense against the United States
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 Whether the State sufficiently proved Petitioner's guilt when no contemporaneous identity evidence existed to link Petitioner as the perpetrator?
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 Whether the State of Texas caused a fundamental miscarriage of justice by refusing to overturn a criminal sentence despite evidence of lack of mental …
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 Whether Virginia's standard of review for appellate claims of insufficient evidence in criminal convictions violates the Due Process Clause as interpr…
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 Is it lawfully permissible for a State to convict a person twice for a single crime?
19-8733 Petrona Gaspar-Miguel v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-06-17 Denied IFP border-crossing criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process immigration-law law-enforcement-surveillance official-restraint statutory-interpretation Whether constant surveillance by a law enforcement agent is 'official restraint' that prevents an 'entry' and thus a conviction for 'entry without ins…
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?
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 two state courts arrive at different conclusions using different governing legal principles on the same case, should the petitioner be given a re…
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…
19-8338 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?
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 Whether the United States Court of Appeals properly applied the 'substantial evidence' test in concluding there was sufficient evidence to affirm Peti…
19-1213 Buck Leon Hammers v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-04-14 Denied Response Waived conspiracy conspiracy-conviction-inferences-executive-positio criminal-conviction evidence evidence-standard exculpatory-evidence executive-position hearsay hearsay-exculpatory-evidence-chambers-v-mississipp inference judicial-review tenth-circuit Whether the Tenth Circuit improperly found sufficient evidence for Mr. Hammers to be convicted of conspiracy based solely upon inferences from his exe…
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 Whether the evidence was insufficient to support Browdy's conviction and his motion for judgment of acquittal should have been granted
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 Whether there can be a finality of judgement of conviction rendered against a criminal defendant, where the criminal court lacked subject-matter-juris…
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 Whether defendant is not guilty due to lack of rape and murder cover-up, resulting in an irrational conviction from due process violations and an unfa…
19-8133 Jorge A. Martinez v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-03-31 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP but-for-causation causation constitutional-rights conviction-notice criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process health-care-fraud judicial-notice statutory-interpretation Whether the 'but-for' test of general causation is synonymous to the statutorial element of actual causation
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 Whether the conviction for a crime without proof of an essential element of that crime violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
19-8106 Salvador Arteaga Aragon v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review conspiracy court-of-appeals criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency judicial-review petitioner standard-of-review Whether the court of appeals erred in finding sufficient evidence to sustain petitioner's conspiracy conviction
19-8086 Randy Dale Jackson v. Tommy Taylor, Interim Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections Fifth Circuit 2020-03-24 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment access-to-courts appellate-sanctions civil-rights constitutional-rights conviction-challenges criminal-conviction due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment Whether Petitioner's First, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights are violated by the imposition of monetary sanctions and threat restr…
19-8048 Collyer Goodman v. United States Second Circuit 2020-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof circuit-court circuit-court-split conspiracy criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process narcotics narcotics-conspiracy sentencing shared-objective supreme-court Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred by affirming the judgment of conviction and sentence pronounced by the United …
19-8044 Brian Vidrine v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-03-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 924(c) career-offender criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states mandatory-enhancement section-924c sentencing sentencing-guidelines Are Vidrine's § 924(c) convictions invalid in light of this Court's decision in Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), and its progeny?
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 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 kno…
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 Whether the evidence was insufficient to support Aguedo's conviction and his motions for judgment of acquittal should have been granted
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 Whether reasonable jurists would determine that Walter Rosario-Colon acted in self-defense when he struck Antonio Aguado, or whether there was insuffi…
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
19-7777 John Henry Hoyle v. West Virginia West Virginia 2020-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction question-not-identified sexual-offender-registration standing statutory-interpretation takings telephone-disclosure void-for-vagueness 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
19-7750 Russell Patrick Brown v. Kenneth D. Hutchison, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-degree-murder constitutional-due-process constitutional-violation conviction criminal-conviction due-process insufficient-evidence jackson-v-virginia jury-instruction premeditation self-defense supreme-court-precedent Whether it's a U.S. constituion Due Process violation proscribed by this court in Jackson v. Virginia, for Mr. Brown's 1st degree murder conviction to…
19-7670 Hooman Ashkan Panah v. Ron Broomfield, Warden California 2020-02-13 Denied Amici (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-conviction due-process federal-law habeas invalidated-evidence judicial-review post-conviction scientific-evidence trial What is the test to determine when due process is violated based on scientific evidence presented at trial which is later shown to be invalid?
19-953 Charles Farrar v. Dean Williams, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-01-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-conviction due-process judicial-review material-evidence perjured-testimony perjury post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the Due Process Clause is violated when the prosecution relies on material, perjured testimony to secure a conviction but did not know the tes…
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 Whether the Circumstances regarding the Fourth Amendment Exclusionary Rule § 2010F not evolved around the obtaining, holding and exclusion of evidence…
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…
19-7278 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 Mr. Cobb's right to due-process was violated by the Florida courts in denying him post-conviction-relief based on newly-discovered-evidence
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 Whether the petitioner received constitutionally effective assistance of counsel at trial
19-7285 In Re Lawone Wilkinson 2020-01-14 Denied IFP auto-repair-laws business-dispute-criminal-case constitutional-conflict criminal-conviction deceptive-testimony diligence-and-cause habeas-corpus mandated-compliance new-evidence possession-property-interests pro-se-prisoner robbery robbery-elements state-federal-laws unconstitutional-error Under Habeas Corpus, can this Court take NOTICE of a previous UNconstitutional ERROR having a Substantial INjurious EFFECT
19-7150 Michael J. Walton v. Jack Kowalski, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-01-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure appellate-review child-witness criminal-conviction direct-appeal due-process false-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-appellate-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct witness-coaching Whether counsel was ineffective for failing to reveal indisputably false testimony and coaching to the 4-year-old child who gave the false testimony
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 automatically ends an immigrant's imposed supervised release?
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…
19-664 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 Whether Petitioner is innocent of the charges resulting from a complete miscarriage of justice
19-620 Christian K. Narkiewicz-Laine v. Kevin C. Doyle, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-11-14 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure common-law copyright criminal-conviction damages prejudice prejudicial-evidence prior-criminal-conviction state-common-law statutory-damages visual-artists-rights-act Is a plaintiff prevented from collecting statutory damages under the Visual Artists Rights Act as well as under state common-law for damages to the sa…
19-6543 Peter Gakuba v. Michelle Neese Seventh Circuit 2019-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-conviction due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing structural-error structural-errors Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the state court's denial of habeas corpus relief, involving issues of due-process, equ…
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 Whether a writ of error coram nobis petition can be barred under the two-prong test of the laches defense that challenges the constitutionality of a c…
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 its statutory law committed by its lower appellate court, that has affirmed a con…
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 Whether the appellant was improperly convicted of RICO participation and obstruction of justice
19-6250 Father v. Maternal Grandparents Ohio 2019-10-10 Denied IFP adoption adoption-consent civil-rights criminal-conviction due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment incarceration parental-rights statutory-interpretation statutory-law Whether incarcerated parents have a due-process right to consent to adoption of their children under the Fourteenth Amendment
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…
19-6076 Tamela M. Lee v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-09-26 Denied IFP constituent-contacts constitutional-limits criminal-conviction federal-officials government-contact hobbs-act honest-services mcdonnell-v-united-states municipal-officials official-act Can a county official be convicted of Honest Services and Hobbs Act violations for contacting federal and municipal officials on behalf of constituent…
19-5919 Marlon Romaine Carter v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constructive-possession criminal-conviction due-process felon-in-possession fourteenth-amendment jackson-v-virginia sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the State of Louisiana misapplied Jackson v. Virginia sufficiency of evidence test
19-5793 Anton Jevon Alexander v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c bank-robbery constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process federal-statute residual-clause statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness supreme-court-precedent underlying-crime vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether Alexander's 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) conviction must be vacated in light of United States v. Davis, 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019)
19-213 Charles Fischer v. Texas Texas 2019-08-19 Denied Response Waived appellate-review character-evidence constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process propensity-evidence propensity-inference statutory-interpretation texas-court-of-appeals texas-statute Whether the Due Process Clause is offended by a statute that authorizes criminal convictions on the basis of character conformity and propensity
19-5491 Shed T. Woods v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-08-07 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-conviction divisibility drug-offense indiana-code-35-48-4-1 indiana-statute serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation Whether a conviction for dealing in cocaine or narcotic drug under Indiana Code § 35-48-4-1 is improperly considered a 'serious drug offense' under th…
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 Did the panel err by holding that the 'law of the case' governed its decision in holding that the evidence was legally sufficient to sustain the petit…
19-5424 Terry James Sullivan v. City of Missoula, Montana Montana 2019-08-01 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-conviction disorderly-conduct due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech Does Petitioner's conviction for disorderly conduct by allegedly uttering the word 'effing' violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments?
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…
19-5330 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)
19-5346 Jose Martinez v. United States Second Circuit 2019-07-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP acquitted-conduct burden-of-proof buyer-seller-defense criminal-conviction cross-examination drug-conspiracy due-process jury-instructions jury-trial sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether this Court's decisions to allow district courts to use acquitted conduct in imposing sentence violate the Constitution
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
19-5263 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…
19-5231 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?
19-62 Michelle Carter v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2019-07-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitrary-enforcement assisted-suicide common-law criminal-conviction due-process first-amendment free-speech involuntary-manslaughter suicide-encouragement Whether Carter's conviction for involuntary manslaughter, based on words alone, violated the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment
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…
19-5007 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…
19-5025 Isaac Thomas v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-01 GVR IFP commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process federal-statute firearm-possession firearms rehaif rehaif-v-united-states remand statutory-interpretation united-states-v-lopez Whether the Court should grant the petition, vacate the judgment, and remand for further proceedings on Petitioner's 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) conviction …
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?
18-9817 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…
18A1357 Anthony Ray Welch v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-25 Presumed Complete certiorari counsel-mistake criminal-conviction extension-of-time fifth-circuit procedural-error Whether the Fifth Circuit's judgment affirming a criminal conviction should be reviewed due to counsel's inadvertent failure to timely file a petition…
18-9744 Landon Quinn v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Louisiana 2019-06-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-conviction due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel non-unanimous-verdict nonunanimous-verdict prejudice prejudice-prong sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the fact that a criminal conviction was returned by a non-unanimous verdict is relevant to a court's consideration of the prejudice prong of S…
18A1329 Travis Wade Matthews v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-06-18 Presumed Complete criminal-conviction due-process pro-se-petition racial-identification reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the evidence was constitutionally sufficient to support a criminal conviction when the victim did not directly identify the defendant and the …
18A1307 James Destry Hamm v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-06-13 Presumed Complete criminal-conviction due-process equal-protection jury-instructions stalking-statute sua-sponte Whether a trial court's failure to provide complete jury instructions constitutes a due process violation that warrants reversal of a criminal convict…
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…
18-9636 Donald Furtys v. Florida Florida 2019-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment artificial-intelligence automated-technology criminal-conviction double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment video-voyeurism Whether the Fifth Amendment Double Jeopardy Clause bars multiple convictions of video voyeurism stemming from a camera that has new automated technolo…
18-9639 Dustin E. Ash v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-06-12 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP circuit-split crimes-of-violence criminal-conviction criminal-law-sentencing criminal-sentencing due-process federal-firearms-law federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines reckless-crime reckless-crimes sentencing-guidelines ussg-4b1.2 violent-crimes Whether reckless crimes, like Mr. Ash's Kansas reckless aggravated battery conviction, qualify as crimes of violence under USSG § 4B1.2
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
18-9445 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…
18-9447 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…
18A1203 Azibo Aquart v. United States Second Circuit 2019-05-21 Presumed Complete certiorari criminal-conviction direct-appeal federal-death-row second-circuit supreme-court-review Whether a federal death-row inmate may challenge the constitutionality of his federal convictions through a direct appeal to the Supreme Court
18A1199 Gregory Waddell Hayes v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-05-20 Presumed Complete constitutional-protection criminal-conviction double-jeopardy federal-statute fifth-amendment supervised-release Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits revoking supervised release based on conduct for which a defendant has already been criminally convicted …
18-9319 Robert Gray v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied IFP appeal certificate-of-appealability criminal-conviction due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-vacate sentencing standard-of-review Whether the trial and appellate court erred in denying Petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability?
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…
18-9091 Antwayne Tremayne Lowry v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-conviction due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-vacate sentencing standard-of-review Whether the trial and appellate court erred in denying Petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability
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
18-8987 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
18-8897 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…
18-8681 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?
18-1254 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…
18-8576 Yusef Allen v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2019-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-requirements brady-violation constitutional-rights conviction conviction-integrity criminal-conviction criminal-justice-system due-process integrity integrity-of-justice judicial-review prosecutorial-ethics prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the gross actions of prosecutorial misconduct were so egregious as to render the defendant's conviction unconstitutional
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…
18-8460 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?
18-8428 Samuel V. Martinez v. Travis Trani, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-conviction due-process federal-precedent habeas-corpus legal-ethics professional-conduct right-to-counsel standing state-court-review Should the United States District Court of Colorado have granted the Petitioner Counsel after he informed them that he had an ongoing Complaint agains…
18-8373 Jose J. Galiany-Cruz v. United States First Circuit 2019-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-officer-fraud criminal-conviction fraud fraud-by-officer-of-court hazel-atlas hazel-atlas-motion officer-of-the-court puerto-rico-territory second-or-successive-2255-petition second-or-successive-petition statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Could a Hazel-Atlas motion be used to attack a criminal conviction?
18-8244 Justin Keith Cornell v. Virginia Virginia 2019-03-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actus-reus appellate-review cause-of-death circumstantial-evidence criminal-agency criminal-conviction due-process jury-standard mens-rea reasonable-doubt second-degree-murder sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Supreme Court of Virginia erred in applying the criteria of excluding all reasonable hypotheses of appellant's innocence, rather than the …
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…
18-8100 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
18-1079 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
18-7820 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?
18-7620 Emmanuel Adeyinka v. Harris County Jail, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-01-31 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights competency criminal-conviction cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment eleventh-amendment immunity mental-illness monetary-damages personal-involvement rational-understanding section-1983 standing Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of a prisoner who has a severe mental illness that …
18-7674 Michael S. Gorbey v. Michael McCall, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-rights criminal-conviction due-process extradition federal-jurisdiction federal-prisoner habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief prisoner-rights standing state-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Can a state habeas corpus be removed from state court to federal court?
18-7526 In Re Robert Heffernan 2019-01-23 Dismissed IFP criminal-conviction due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus insufficient-evidence reasonable-doubt winship-doctrine Whether it violates the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment for a state trier of fact to convict petitioners where the evidence cannot fair…
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…
18-7371 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…
18-7113 Dewey Hylor v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act attempted-offense circuit-conflict criminal-conviction elements-clause florida-robbery mens-rea reckless-mens-rea violent-felony Whether petitioner's prior conviction for Florida robbery is not a 'violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Act's elements clause
18-6911 Adrian Pineda-Orozco v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility affirmative-defense criminal-conviction criminal-law criminal-law-procedure duress-defense family-member fifth-circuit miscarriage-of-justice sentencing Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals opinion permitting Pineda-Orasco's conviction to stand resulted in a miscarriage of justice given the longs…
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 …
18-6816 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
18-6772 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 …
18-6464 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, …
18-6341 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?
18-6253 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…
18-6216 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. …
18-417 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 …
18-6180 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
18-5997 Francisco Burciaga v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction criminal-law drug-classification drug-policy due-process heroin-hydrochloride innocence legal-ambiguity pharmaceutical-industry prosecutorial-discretion sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness What is the legal status of heroin hydrochloride?
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?
18-5701 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?
18-5519 Mark Templeton v. Brigitte Amsberry, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence cause-and-prejudice civil-procedure criminal-conviction due-process equitable-tolling federal-habeas habeas-corpus parole procedural-default section-2254 standing Whether extraordinary circumstances exist that should afford Mr. Templeton equitable tolling of any time limit within which he had to file the underly…
18-5480 Bjorn Christian Luster v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP burglary burglary-enhancement criminal-conviction criminal-history due-process evidence-interpretation fifth-amendment-due-process juvenile-offenses points-scoring prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment-effective-assistance-of-counsel ussg-2k2.1(b)(3) ussg-4a1.1 victim-testimony Whether the court erred in applying a sentencing enhancement for a prior crime of violence conviction when the prior conviction was for Iowa third-deg…
18-5287 Luis Salas v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-conviction due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-vacate sentencing standard-of-review Whether the trial and appellate court erred in denying Petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability?
18-5274 Manuel Vega v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP california-health-and-safety-code-11378 categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-conviction divisible-statute drug-offense federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guideline mathis-v-united-states modified-categorical-approach sentencing-enhancement state-court-decision Whether a court fulfills the mandate of Mathis v. United States if it looks only to whether a state defendant can be punished more than once for posse…
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…
18-5191 Jose Paniagua-Paniagua v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-07-10 Denied IFP circuit-split collateral-review criminal-conviction criminal-convictions due-process fundamental-fairness immigration-law removal-order removal-proceedings retroactivity statutory-interpretation Whether a court reviewing the fundamental fairness of a prior removal order under 8 U.S.C. § 1326(d) can consider the current understanding of the nat…
18-5146 Adam Darrick Toghill v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation conviction criminal-conviction criminal-statute due-process equal-protection lawrence-v-texas sodomy-statute substantive-due-process unequal-penal-consequences unequal-treatment Whether Virginia's anti-sodomy statute violates due-process, equal-protection
18-5153 Arthur Wayne Kniffley v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP ball-v-united-states blockburger-test child-pornography criminal-conviction double-jeopardy double-jeopardy,child-pornography,fifth-amendment, double-jeopardy,fifth-amendment,child-pornography, fifth-amendment mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-sentencing sentencing-discretion Whether a conviction for producing child pornography violates the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment because the defendant was previously c…
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?
24A419 Cynthia Davis, Warden v. David M. Smith Sixth Circuit Presumed Complete criminal-conviction federal-review habeas-corpus mandate sixth-circuit state-court Whether the Sixth Circuit improperly interpreted federal habeas corpus standards for reviewing state court criminal convictions