beyond-reasonable-doubt

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24A1227 Victor Everette Silvers v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-06-12 Presumed Complete beyond-reasonable-doubt criminal-jurisdiction judicial-notice jury-trial sixth-amendment special-maritime-jurisdiction Whether a court may conclusively determine through judicial notice that the government has satisfied its burden to prove an essential jurisdictional e…
21-6669 Robert Walter Scully v. California California 2021-12-21 Denied IFP aggravating-circumstances beyond-reasonable-doubt constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process jury-determination jury-trial mitigating-circumstances statutory-maximum Does the mandatory weighing of aggravating and mitigating circumstances under the California death penalty statute—a factfinding determination that se…
21-6670 Eric Beverly v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP administration-of-justice bank-robbery beyond-reasonable-doubt criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit jury-conviction standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the appeals court conducted an adequate review of facts and evidence upon which the jury reached its decision to convict
21-6433 Jaimian Rashaad Sims v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP administration-of-justice beyond-reasonable-doubt criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-cases fifth-circuit-review jury-conviction sex-trafficking standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the appeals court conducted an adequate review of the district court's denial of a judgment of acquittal and the jury's decision to convict ba…
21-5553 F. Daly v. Maine Maine 2021-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP beyond-reasonable-doubt boyde-v-california burden-of-proof constitutional-standard criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions standard-of-proof sullivan-v-louisiana witness-testimony Whether the jury instruction misdescribes the standard of proof, resulting in a reasonable likelihood of unconstitutional application
18-7442 Kevin Underwood v. Mike Carpenter, Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied IFP aggravating-circumstances apprendi-v-new-jersey beyond-reasonable-doubt capital-punishment capital-punishment-scheme capital-sentencing death-penalty due-process jury-findings jury-instructions mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt supreme-court-precedent tenth-circuit Whether the Tenth Circuit's decision conflicts with Apprendi v. New Jersey and Ring v. Arizona