| 24-5847 |
Albert Anderson v. Winston Salem Police Department, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-10-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-standard case-precedent court-decision judicial-discretion legal-reasoning procedural-review |
Whether the lower court abused its discretion in rendering an unreasoned decision that fails to adequately address multiple legal precedents |
| 23-7654 |
Tildren Sherron Hunter v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-standard criminal-evidence criminal-law drug-crimes evidence fourth-circuit-review intent intent-to-distribute jury-verdict methamphetamine-possession standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the Fourth Circuit improperly upheld Mr. Hunter's conviction of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine |
| 23-6106 |
Damion Edward Cruz-Benavente v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-standard constitutional-error criminal-procedure criminal-trial cumulative-error cumulative-errors due-process harmless-error judicial-review procedural-fairness standard-of-review verdict-influence |
Whether a court should review the cumulative effect of preserved and forfeited errors to determine if they had a substantial influence on the verdict |
| 23-5276 |
German Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court of appeals to reweigh the sentencing factors? |
| 22-7262 |
Alfred Coppage v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2023-04-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review appellate-standard civil-procedure constitutional-review due-process harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion standing |
Whether trial court abused discretion by hearing motion for substitution of judge |
| 22-6807 |
Antonio McGhee v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2023-02-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-standard civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance juvenile-justice post-conviction prejudicial-error retroactivity sentencing |
Whether the post-conviction court erred in concluding that the petitioners were not entitled to relief under the Court's opinion in Miller v. Alabama |
| 22-6782 |
Richard Leon Wilbern v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-02-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
5th-amendment appellate-standard constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment standard-of-review witness-identification wrongful-convictions |
Whether courts of appeals should review de novo a district court's determination that an identification is constitutionally reliable |
| 22-6659 |
Armando Lopez-Rivera v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-standard concurrent-sentence gall-precedent gall-v-united-states individualized-assessment intellectual-disability judicial-explanation sentencing-courts sentencing-explanation sentencing-review |
Whether a sentencing court must provide a reasonable explanation, on the record, as to why it is not considering a sentencing factor advanced by a def… |
| 21-7097 |
Sinmyah Amera Ceasar v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-02-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3553(a) appellate-standard circuit-split criminal-sentencing gall-v-united-states sentencing-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness terrorism terrorism-cases |
Does the application of a stricter standard of review in assessing the substantive reasonableness of terrorism sentences contravene Gall and 18 U.S.C.… |
| 20-6053 |
Dieter Riechmann v. Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 appellate-standard circuit-split evidence evidence-review federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus standard-of-review state-court-determination statutory-interpretation |
Is a state court's conclusion that evidence not presented at trial was cumulative of other evidence before the jury a 'determination of the facts' tha… |
| 20-5007 |
Anthony Ray Foley v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-standard booker-standard circuit-split due-process federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review supervised-release |
Is the 'reasonableness' standard or the 'plainly unreasonable' standard the proper standard for appellate review of a sentence imposed upon revocation… |
| 19-7470 |
Agustin Martinez-Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a appellate-review appellate-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing criminal-sentencing,appellate-review,18-usc-3553(a federal-sentencing gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-review statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness |
Can appellate courts reweigh the sentencing factors in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) |
| 19-7391 |
Larry David Davis v. Larry Tegley, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-01-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law appellate-standard civil-procedure civil-rights due-process insufficient-evidence judicial-review legal-sufficiency patent record-review standing takings trial-court |
Whether the PEMCE [5 in. (em) 12 support the petitioner's claims |
| 19-6758 |
Michael Tryance Anderson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment appellate-standard booker-standard circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-sentencing sentencing-review standing substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of their civil rights and due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendm… |
| 19-6210 |
Marcus Jackson v. Noah Nagy, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-standard case-by-case case-by-case-analysis circuit-split civil-procedure factual-circumstances federal-procedure judicial-review reasonable-time rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b6 |
Whether the appropriate application of Rule 60(b)(6) requires a full case-by-case analysis of the factual circumstances, or whether a less stringent r… |
| 18-9329 |
Sean M. Barnhill v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-standard certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus judicial-procedure pro-se-petition section-2255 sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-review standard-of-review |
Did the Sixth Circuit err by exceeding the scope of the COA analysis |
| 18-7655 |
Michael R. Spengler v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment appellate-standard civil-rights coercion constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process miranda-warnings police-lineup undercover-operations witness-identification |
Whether the widespread policy of the L.A. Superior Court and the L.A. Sheriff's Department, known as the Perkins Operation, which allows undercover ag… |
| 18-6524 |
Brian Thomas, aka O'Brian A. Thomas, aka Thomas A. O'Brian v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-standard berger-standard berger-v-united-states berger-v-us due-process fair-trial fifth-circuit harmless-error judicial-review jury-bias jury-misconduct procedural-violation prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review |
Whether the Fifth Circuit courts violated Berger v US after it conceded that the violations had occurred but deciding that it was 'implausible that it… |
| 18-6459 |
Cliserio Balmes-Cruz v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-consideration non-frivolous-arguments procedural-reasonableness rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review |
Whether a sentencing judge must provide some express treatment to a defendant's non-frivolous arguments |
| 18-6271 |
Sonny Scott v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-standard booker-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure plain-error plain-error-review reasonableness-challenge reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness united-states-v-booker |
When—if at all—must a defendant object to the reasonableness of a sentence to preserve that argument for appellate review? |
| 18-144 |
Keith Byron Baranski v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-07-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-standard brady-giglio coram-nobis due-process materiality prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-suppression second-or-successive-motions second-successive-motions sentencing-reduction suppressed-evidence suppression-of-evidence witness-credibility |
Whether, without briefing, a Court of Appeals may substitute the 28 U.S.C. §2255 standard for second or successive' motions by prisoners in custody fo… |