beyond-reasonable-doubt
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-7085 | Christopher Adin Graham v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2026-03-23 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | 18-USC-1591 beyond-reasonable-doubt fifth-amendment mandatory-minimum-sentencing sex-trafficking sixth-amendment | Whether, in prosecutions involving adult victims under 18 U.S.C. § 1591, the Government must prove to the jury beyond a reasonable doubt that the "off… |
| 25-7072 | Tevin Abercrombie v. United States | First Circuit | 2026-03-19 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | beyond-reasonable-doubt constructive-possession criminal-conviction firearm-possession intent-element miscarriage-of-justice | Whether a miscarriage of justice occurred where Petitioner was convicted of unlawfully possessing a firearm, for which the government only established… |
| 25-7024 | Abraham Rico Vasquez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2026-03-12 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-doctrine beyond-reasonable-doubt indictment prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum | Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 25-6927 | Marquise Graham v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2026-03-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | beyond-reasonable-doubt fifth-amendment guilty-plea harmless-error-review sentencing-facts sixth-amendment | What is the test for reviewing for harmlessness a preserved error in the case of a guilty plea, where the error is the government's failure to charge … |
| 25-6897 | Jesse Fernando Perez v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2026-02-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | beyond-reasonable-doubt burden-of-proof federal-criminal-jurisdiction judicial-notice jurisdictional-element special-maritime-and-territorial-jurisdiction | Dozens of federal offenses require, as a jurisdictional element, that the offense be committed "within the special maritime and territorial jurisdicti… |
| 25-970 | Rami Ghanem v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2026-02-18 | Pending | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived | acquitted-conduct beyond-reasonable-doubt fifth-amendment judge-found-facts sentencing sixth-amendment | Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit federal courts from increasing a criminal defendant's authorized punishment based on conduct—including… |
| 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 | 1. This case presents an important question regarding a criminal defendant's right to a jury trial guaranteed by the Fifth and Sixth Amendments to the… | |
| 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 | I. On Appeal ERIC BEVERLY nged the sufficiency of the evidence for the following jury convictions: (1) four counts of aiding and abetting bank robbery… |
| 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 | I. On Appeal JAIMIAN RASHAAD SIMS challenged the following: (1) the sufficiency of the evidence for the jury conviction for conspiracy to sex traffic … |
| 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 | The testimony of a single witness is sufficient to prove any fact and would justify a verdict in accordance with such testimony even if a number of wi… |
| 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 – that the "beyond the reasonable doubt" standard does not apply to the critical and prerequisite finding by Okla… |