attempted-murder
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-621 | Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Department of Justice, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-12-01 | Denied | Response Waived | attempted-kidnapping attempted-murder fbi-liability federal-government human-rights terrorist-act | Can the Federal Government's get away with attempt kidnaping, multiple attempted murder, terrorist act and Human Rights violations on an American Citi… |
| 25-329 | Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Department of Justice, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-09-18 | Denied | attempted-murder court-influence fbi-liability federal-government human-rights terrorist-acts | Can the Federal Government get away with attempted murder, terrorist acts, and Human Rights violations on an American Citizen and use the Federal Gove… | |
| 25-5414 | Anthony Tyrone Campbell, Sr. v. Andre Gonzales, Acting Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2025-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempted-murder constitutional-errors due-process habeas-corpus liberty-rights ninth-circuit | 1. With having consideration for the meaningful importance involved, notwithstanding Rule 10 of this Court, could this Supreme Court of the United Sta… |
| 25-5157 | Juan T. Tyler v. Luis Martinez, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2025-07-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempted-murder due-process ineffective-assistance jury-instructions premeditation prosecutorial-misconduct | I. Did the Prosecution Proved Beyond a Reasonable Doubt that the Shooter Premeditated and Deliberated an Attempted Murder? II. Did the Trial Court De… |
| 25-40 | Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Department of Justice, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-07-10 | Denied | Response Waived | attempted-murder fbi-liability federal-government human-rights-violations judicial-immunity terrorism | Can the Federal Government's Judicial influence and the Courts' interference protect the Federal Bureau of Investigation from liability for a Terroris… |
| 24-5141 | Marcus Jay Davis v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-25 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924c attempted-murder attempted-murder-virginia-law categorical-approach crime-of-violence fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-court-of-appeals section-924(c) united-states-v-taylor | Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in deciding that attempted murder under Virginia law is a crime of violence under the categorical ap… |
| 23-7680 | Charles R. Murse, Jr. v. Mary L. Murse | Third Circuit | 2024-06-11 | Denied | IFP | 42-usc-407 ada-rights ada-violations attempted-murder civil-rights constitutional-violations court-misconduct disability-rights due-process judicial-misconduct ssdi-protections | civil-rights-violations |
| 23-6615 | Jason James Veal v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-01-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) attempted-murder crime-of-violence elements-clause hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-v-taylor | Whether attempted murder with the same elements as attempted Hobbs Act robbery is not a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) |
| 23-6037 | Stephanie N. Torres v. Molly Hill, Acting Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2023-11-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2254 aedpa attempted-murder habeas-corpus state-court-record sufficiency-of-evidence | When may a federal court bypass a state court's factual findings and rely on the state court record to adjudicate a habeas petitioner's claims? |
| 23A428 | Charles States v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-11-13 | Presumed Complete | attempted-murder categorical-approach crime-of-violence sentencing-guidelines substantive-offense united-states-v-taylor | Whether the categorical approach for determining a crime of violence requires a nuanced analysis of the specific elements of an attempt crime in light… | |
| 23-5362 | Jerry Lee Beale, Jr. v. Mississippi | Mississippi | 2023-08-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempted-murder civil-rights criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process hearsay hearsay-testimony intent jury-instructions officer-testimony trial-procedure | Whether the indictment was defective for failure to allege what act Beale committed in furtherance of his attempt to kill the officers |
| 22-7826 | Ronell Watson v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-06-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment 6th-amendment attempted-murder constitutional-rights fifth-amendment jury-instructions premeditation sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-maximum | Is premeditation an element of attempted murder under the federal system? |
| 22-7344 | Oscar Jesus Salais v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2023-04-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempted-murder evidence-sufficiency habeas habeas-corpus jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia judicial-review ninth-circuit sufficiency-of-evidence summary-reversal | Whether the Ninth Circuit's reliance on nonexistent testimony so departed from the accepted course of judicial proceedings as to justify summary rever… |
| 22-6756 | Wissam Taysir Hammoud v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-02-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempted-murder civil-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process ninth-circuit-interpretation physical-force sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court united-states-v-taylor | Whether, in light of this Court's recent decision in United States v. Taylor, 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A)'s 'crime of violence' definition excludes attem… |
| 22-5260 | David Perez v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-08-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempted-murder federal-sentencing racketeering-activity rico rico-sentencing sentencing state-law state-law-maximum statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum | Whether a sentencing court is bound by the state statutory maximum exposure for RICO violations based on state racketeering activities |
| 21-6888 | Ryan Kenneth Richmond, aka Rich v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-01-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver appellate-review attempted-murder criminal-defendant criminal-procedure plea-agreement relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines | Does a criminal defendant's waiver of his right to appeal a within guideline's sentence bar appellate review where the district court used a cross ref… |
| 21-5765 | Tyrus D. Coleman v. Ron Neal, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2021-09-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempted-murder constitutional-review double-jeopardy habeas-corpus judicial-procedure murder retrial self-defense state-court-review | Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause precludes retrial for attempted murder after acquittal for murder in self-defense |
| 21-5382 | Nickie Nathanial Rico v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-08-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempted-murder criminal-enhancement criminal-procedure defendant-objection district-court enhancement objection presentence-report sentencing | Whether the District Court erred in overruling Defendant's Objection to the Attempted Murder Enhancement in the Presentence Report |
| 21-45 | Peter C. Benedith v. Cuyahoga County, Ohio, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-07-13 | Denied | Response Waived | attempted-murder civil-rights due-process electronic-harassment free-speech legal-system-integrity pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation right-to-life | Question presented to the court |
| 20-6843 | Cedryck Davis v. Illinois | Illinois | 2021-01-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempted-murder criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial identity identity-evidence other-crimes-evidence reasonable-doubt witness-testimony | Whether Cedryck Davis's convictions for the attempt murder of Naja Harrington and Shawn Harrington should be reversed |
| 20-6811 | Jesus Eder Moreno Ornelas v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-01-08 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | attempted-murder due-process felon-in-possession firearms jury plain-error-review rehaif-standard sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | Whether a sentence may be enhanced for an offense tried to but not found by the jury |
| 19-7637 | Pedro Anthony Romero Cruz v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-02-11 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | which can be committed through mere omission 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) attempted-murder circuit-split civil-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-statute omission-liability statutory-interpretation use-of-force virginia-law | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)'s definition of a 'crime of violence,' under which an offense must have 'as an element the use, attempted use, or thr… |
| 18-9810 | Erik Ward v. California | California | 2019-06-27 | Denied | IFP | attempted-murder civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions lesser-included-offense physical-evidence premeditation standard-of-proof sufficiency-of-evidence trial-counsel | Whether trial counsel failed to provide effective assistance of counsel by not properly performing procedural and due process requirements, and not in… |
| 18-7802 | Michael Hopson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aid-of-racketeering attempted-murder constitutional-claims criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-circuit insufficient-evidence murder pattern-of-racketeering racketeering-conspiracy | Whether the evidence was insufficient to convict the petitioner of racketeering conspiracy and murder/attempted murder in aid of racketeering |
| 18-7192 | Lavell Phillips v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act attempted-first-degree-murder attempted-murder attempted-use-of-force criminal-statute elements-clause first-degree-murder physical-force procedural-background sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Where a completed offense satisfies the ACCA's elements clause, does the attempted commission of that offense necessarily do so as well? |
| 18-6513 | Byron Christopher Chinchilla v. Greg Lewis, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-31 | Denied | IFP | appeal criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment attempted-murder criminal-gang due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability mental-health sentencing sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated when trial counsel failed to investigate and present evidence of the… |
| 18-6389 | Anthony Lomax v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2018-10-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempted-murder buyer-seller career-offender conspiracy crime-of-violence criminal-history drug-quantity heroin-attribution relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether the district court properly attributed 16.8 kilograms of heroin to Anthony Lomax during sentencing despite the dismissal of his conspiracy cha… |
| 18-6352 | Joseph Kelvin Aberant v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempted-murder cross-reference firearm firearm-offense fourth-circuit imperfect-self-defense indictment self-defense sentencing-guidelines | Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in finding that the cross reference under Section 2K2.1(c)(1) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines was applicab… |
| 18-5620 | Mario Zuniga v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2018-08-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2244(b) 28-usc-2255(h) attempted-murder criminal-law habeas-corpus mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states second-or-successive-2255-motion second-or-successive-motion section-2255 section-924e sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding that attempted murder in Illinois is categorically a violent crime under 18 U.S.C. §924(… |
| 18-5048 | John W. Taylor v. Richard Brown, Superintendent, Wabash Valley Correctional Facility | Seventh Circuit | 2018-06-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-battery attempted-murder criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance jury-instructions lesser-included-offense lesser-included-offenses sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington | Whether Taylor was denied his right to effective assistance of trial counsel guaranteed by the 6th Amendment |