accomplice-liability
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 24-6047 | Rodney Tyrone Henry v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-11-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553a accomplice-liability circuit-court-review criminal-procedure premeditation sentencing | Whether the Eighth Circuit misapplied precedent regarding premeditation and accomplice liability in sentencing a defendant under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) |
| 24-5388 | John Joseph Douglas v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-08-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | accomplice-liability armed-career-criminal-act criminal-liability criminal-procedure separate-offenses statutory-interpretation | Whether a person can be held criminally liable under an accomplice liability statute for a separate offense under the Armed Career Criminal Act when t… |
| 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… |
| 23-7459 | Alan Troy Houser v. Stephen Buzas, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene, et al. | Third Circuit | 2024-05-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 42-usc-1983 accomplice-liability civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-law criminal-liability criminal-procedure due-process failure-to-intervene standing | Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims for conspiracy to violate civil rights and failure to intervene under 42 U.S.C.… |
| 23-7128 | Harvey Windsor v. Steven T. Marshall, Attorney General of Alabama, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-04-02 | Denied | IFP | accomplice-liability capital-murder certificate-of-appealability death-penalty discovery-limitation habeas-corpus head-injury ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction-relief | Whether a habeas petitioner is entitled to a certificate of appealability when the state trial court and federal district court agree that the petitio… |
| 22-5226 | Oyeyemi Olatunji Owagboriaye, aka Prince v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-07-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1343 accomplice-liability circuit-split criminal-law federal-criminal-law procedural-history scheme-to-defraud statutory-interpretation wire-fraud | Whether a wire transfer merely distributing funds amongst alleged accomplices is 'for the purpose of executing' a fraudulent scheme, as contemplated b… |
| 21-7207 | Robert Brewer v. New York | New York | 2022-02-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | accomplice-liability constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-unanimity precedent state-courts supreme-court-precedent | Whether Saad v Arizona continues to apply following Ramos v. Louisiana and Edwards v Vannoy |
| 21-6073 | John Ray Falk, Jr. v. Texas | Texas | 2021-10-27 | Denied | IFP | accomplice-liability capital-murder capital-punishment criminal-liability due-process guilty-plea law-of-parties notice plea-bargaining pro-se pro-se-defendant | Whether a pro se defendant must be informed of the prosecution's theory of his own criminal liability when pleading guilty to a death-eligible homicid… |
| 21-579 | Kenneth Eugene Smith v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-10-20 | Denied | accomplice-liability burden-of-proof capital-sentencing constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions jury-trial sixth-amendment specific-intent | Under Waddington v. Sarausad, does a general jury instruction on accomplice liability relieve the State of its burden to prove specific intent beyond … | |
| 21-5891 | Archie Ned Williams v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-10-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | accomplice-liability crime-of-violence criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process hobbs-act-robbery physical-force pinkerton-liability section-924c statutory-interpretation | Must the use of physical force required to establish a predicate crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) be personal to the defendant convict… |
| 21-5013 | Arnold Council v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-07-06 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) accomplice-liability crime-of-violence criminal-law direct-liability elements-clause hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under the elements clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) as to either direct or accomplice l… |
| 20-7849 | Ismael Lopez v. United States, et al. | Second Circuit | 2021-04-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-amendment accomplice-liability constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process factor-based-analysis mandatory-sentencing mens-rea nexus proportionality-test sentencing | Whether mandatory sentences are constitutional |
| 20-988 | Barry Smith, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Houtzdale, et al. v. Aaron Edmunds Tyson | Third Circuit | 2021-01-25 | Denied | accomplice-liability aedpa aedpa-review benefit-of-the-doubt cullen-v-pinholster due-process habeas-corpus jury-instructions standard-of-review | Whether the review required under AEDPA § 2254 and Cullen v. Pinholster, 563 U.S. 170 (2011) is violated by reliance upon a 'some ambiguity' standard … | |
| 20-6311 | Russell Davis v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | accomplice-liability co-conspirator-liability controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-distribution due-process enhanced-penalty pinkerton-liability sentencing | Whether the government must satisfy the evidentiary requirements for accomplice liability under 18 U.S.C. §2 or co-conspirator liability under Pinkert… |
| 20-5759 | Charles C. Williamson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-09-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | accomplice-liability criminal-procedure drug-quantity drug-weight judicial-interpretation relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review statutory-interpretation | Whether the district court and circuit court misinterpreted and misapplied the 'relevant conduct' provisions of United States Sentencing Commission, G… |
| 19-7027 | Patrick T. Hughes v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2019-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | accomplice-liability confrontation-clause criminal-conspiracy criminal-homicide due-process eighth-amendment evidence reasonable-doubt | Whether the evidence was sufficient to sustain a conviction of criminal homicide, criminal conspiracy to commit homicide |
| 18A1344 | Saquawn Harris v. United States | District of Columbia | 2019-06-20 | Presumed Complete | accomplice-liability aiding-and-abetting appellate-review criminal-law jury-instructions mens-rea | Whether an appellate court may affirm a criminal conviction based on a novel theory of accomplice liability not presented to the jury or argued by the… | |
| 18-1131 | United States v. Eric Quinn Franklin | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-28 | Dismissed | accomplice-liability armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substances-act mens-rea serious-drug-offense state-drug-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether a state drug offense must categorically match the elements of a generic analogue offense, including with respect to the mens rea for any poten… | |
| 18-7642 | Kirk Lassend v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-01-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acca accomplice-liability armed-robbery circuit-split non-dangerous-weapons sentencing strict-liability violent-felony | Whether a crime which does not require the actual use of violent force can qualify as a 'violent felony' under the ACCA |
| 18-6670 | Richard Allen Barker v. California | California | 2018-11-13 | Denied | IFP | accomplice-liability constitutional-law constitutional-proportionate-punishment criminal-procedure eighth-amendment enmund-v-florida in-re-butler in-re-rodriguez individual-culpability proportionate-punishment | Whether forcing the petitioner to serve an excessive punishment of 45 years incarceration for his individual culpability as an accomplice, when the ac… |
| 18-6342 | Jaime Rene Lopez-Vaal v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | accomplice-liability aggravated-felony criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law ninth-circuit-review sentencing statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness | Whether Section 1326(b) is unconstitutionally vague |