Prosecution

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
22-7328 Carroll Wayne Haynes v. Louisiana Louisiana 2023-04-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights consent-decree department-of-justice due-process federal-court prosecution Whether the U.S. Department of Justice and the federal court violated the Consent Decree by taking further steps in the prosecution under Art. 5(b), S…
22-6749 Robert L. Harrington v. James Corrigan, Warden Michigan 2023-02-10 Denied IFP arbitrary-prosecution civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction prosecution standing trial-judgment Whether the district court lacked subject matter jurisdiction to bindover any charge against the petitioner, depriving the petitioner of due process r…
22-721 Damian McElrath v. Georgia Georgia 2023-02-02 Judgment Issued Amici (5)Relisted (7) acquittal criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy fifth-amendment jury-verdict prosecution repugnant-verdict repugnant-verdicts Does the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibit a second prosecution for a crime of which a defendant was previously acquitted?
21-1297 Clare Therese Grady, Carmen Trotta, and Martha Hennessy v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-25 Denied circuit-split criminal-prosecution free-exercise government-burden government-burden-of-proof least-restrictive-means prosecution religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act rfra sincerely-held-beliefs Whether the Religious Freedom Restoration Act imposes a burden on the government to demonstrate that it has actually considered and rejected the effic…
21-6759 Darla Ray Jones v. D. K. Johnson, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest criminal-defendant criminal-threats drug-possession due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel forgery habeas-corpus prosecution prosecutorial-misconduct Is a criminal defendant deprived of the effective assistance of counsel due to her lawyer's conflict of interest?
21-5162 Andrew Cox v. United States District Court for the District of New Jersey Third Circuit 2021-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP abandonment civil-procedure communications due-process prosecution standing Does 2% USC 155) masite Aisquelification of a , disthet yes Sor Wnitieting walkie sectet, ex poste
20-8212 Dany L. Brandao v. United States First Circuit 2021-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fourth-amendment home home-search narcotics narcotics-prosecution probable-cause prosecution search search-and-seizure vehicle Should the Fourth Amendment prohibit a search of a person's home when all drug sales occurred elsewhere?
20-6348 William J. O'Brien, III v. United States Third Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process free-speech law-enforcement procedural-error prosecution standing takings Whether the government's prosecution for a speech act violated the First Amendment's free speech protections
20-6154 Roderick Perez-Gonzalez v. United States First Circuit 2020-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process plea-bargaining prosecution united-states-constitution Whether Subsequent Prosecution of Conspiracies Violate the Double Jeopardy Clause of the United States Constitution when Both Conspiracies Operate Und…
20-5999 Sonya Porter v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP continuous-crime criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment plea-bargaining prosecution welfare-fraud Where a state criminal rule allows for dismissal of a case on the merits rather than via conviction or acquittal, is this sufficient to trigger protec…
20-5519 Richard Wanke v. Illinois Illinois 2020-08-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP arrest arrest-initiation conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process prosecution prosecutorial-delay public-defender speedy-trial When does an arrest initiate prosecution for speedy trial purposes?
19-7917 Isaac Feldman v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP antisemitic-reference antisemitism appellate-review conspiracy conspiracy-prosecution criminal-procedure double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause jury-verdict prosecution prosecutorial-misconduct Where a jury returns a final verdict on a charge of conspiracy, finding a defendant guilty of only one of multiple charged offense objects, is the gov…
19-7403 Theodore C. Shove v. Ron Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-01-24 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP capital-case constitutional-rights criminal-violations due-process federal-constitution habeas-corpus judicial-oath law-enforcement prosecution state-constitution state-court-judgment state-exhaustion statutory-demand us-constitution Whether a criminal judgment obtained through violations of state and federal constitutions and laws by law enforcement and prosecution qualifies for h…
19-6709 Adam L. Acosta v. Colorado Colorado 2019-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-35 disclosure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-for-new-trial new-trial prosecution rule-16 rule-16-disclosure rule-33 rule-33-motion-for-new-trial rule-35 Whether the Court of Appeals misconstrued Rule 35(c)(3)(VID, Colorado Rules of Criminal Procedure
19-6484 In Re John Harry Steele 2019-11-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment arrest constitutional-violation conviction-review criminal-statute due-process procedural-fairness prosecution unfairness Was the petitioner denied due process of law in violation of the 14th Amendment?
19-5146 Isiah Edward Gilliam v. Michigan Michigan 2019-07-11 Denied IFP discovery discovery-violation due-process fair-trial habitual-offender ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions mistrial prior-convictions prosecution prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense Was Mr. Gilliam denied due process and a fair trial
18-9119 Kirby Gardner v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-05-03 Dismissed IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure custody-control double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause evidence full-faith-and-credit-clause full-faith-credit judicial-review liberty-interest parole prosecution re-imprisonment retrospective-forfeiture statutory-interpretation Whether the Full Faith & Credit Clause, Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits the State of Texas from re-prosecuting & re-imprisoning petitioner for an exp…
18-8456 Roberto Miramontes Roman v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-03-19 Denied IFP 18-USC-924(c)(1)(A) acquittal conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy Double-Jeopardy-Clause drug-trafficking due-process federal-prosecution Firearm-Possession firearm-statute Prosecution state-court-acquittal state-federal-prosecution statutory-interpretation Did it violate the Double Jeopardy Clause for the United States to prosecute Mr. Roman for the same offense and conduct for which he was acquitted in …
18-7824 John C. Killingbeck v. United States Second Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights computer-search digital-privacy due-process first-amendment free-speech government-search internet-forums internet-speech interstate-commerce prosecution search-and-seizure standing title-28-usc Whether the government can investigate and search a private citizen's computer and storage devices for allegedly illegal speech content obtained throu…
18-5966 Joseph Faulkner v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy fifth-amendment law-of-case-doctrine law-of-the-case prosecution sentencing sentencing-enhancement uncharged-conduct witte-v-united-states Whether the use of uncharged conduct to increase a sentence means the conduct was used to punish, and a subsequent prosecution for the same conduct sh…