circumstantial-evidence

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25A843 Harold Edward Spencer, III v. United States Fourth Circuit 2026-01-23 Application circumstantial-evidence conspiracy criminal-attempt firearm-possession hobbs-act substantial-step Question not identified.
25-857 Joshua Yarbrough, et al. v. SlashSupport, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-01-20 Denied Response Waived circumstantial-evidence civil-rights employment-discrimination judicial-doctrine stray-remarks summary-judgment Whether discriminatory remarks categorized as stray under a judicial doctrine may be excluded from the mix of circumstantial evidence of discriminatio…
25-5711 Jermal Williams v. Louisiana Louisiana 2025-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circumstantial-evidence constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment standard-of-proof Under the due process clause of the U.S. Constitution Amendment XIV, is La. R.S. 15:438 a higher standard of proof than Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. …
24-6194 Donald E. Deardorff v. Terry Raybon, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-26 Denied IFP capital-murder circumstantial-evidence confrontation-clause habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance strickland-standard Either Donald Deardorff or Millard Peacock committed capital murder by killing Ted Turner while robbing, burgling, and kidnapping him—the other was gu…
24-650 Robert Lee Webb v. Virginia Virginia 2024-12-16 Denied circumstantial-evidence fourteenth-amendment jury-instruction meaningful-defense sixth-amendment trial-court-error 1. The Trial Court's error in refusing to give the Virginia Model Jury Instruction on Circumstantial Evidence violated the Appellant's 6th and 14th …
24-112 Millia Promotional Services, et al. v. Arizona, Acting Through Arizona Department of Economic Security, Division of Employment and Rehabilitation Services Ninth Circuit 2024-08-01 Denied Response Waived circumstantial-evidence civil-rights contract-rights contractual-rights discrimination federal-law jury-trial racial-discrimination section-1981 statutory-interpretation summary-judgment Question not identified.
24-5109 Clinton Mark Lewis v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2252 child-pornography circuit-split circumstantial-evidence criminal-law evidence-standard federal-statute image-specific ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit 1. Is the charge of possession or accessing child pornography under 18 U.S.C. § 2252(a)(4)(B) "image specific" in that it requires proof that the defe…
23-1235 Florida Department of Juvenile Justice v. Lawanna Tynes Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-23 Denied circumstantial-evidence comparator-analysis convincing-mosaic employment-discrimination McDonnell-Douglas prima-facie-case title-vii Whether the prima facie case and comparator analysis set forth in this Court's decision in McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green, 411 U.S. 792 (1973) and i…
23-783 Darren Kossen v. Asia Pacific Airlines, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-18 Denied Response Waived administrative-hearing air-21-statute burden-of-proof burdens-of-proof circumstantial-evidence clear-and-convincing-evidence legal-standard prima-facie res-judicata whistleblower-protection 1. Did the ALJ, ARB and the 9th Circuit turn on its head AIR 21 law on burdens of proof by requiring a whistleblower to prove causation by a "preponde…
23-5343 Scott Lindsay Halfhill v. Washington Washington 2023-08-11 Denied IFP alternative-suspect circumstantial-evidence criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment (1) Should this Court grant Certiorari when Halfhill was convicted of killing a man with intent upon nothing more than being of many people in the vic…
22-7864 Tommy Lee Hubbard, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP circumstantial-evidence civil-rights controlled-substance controlled-substances due-process federal-courts hemp legal-interpretation marijuana marijuana-classification thc-threshold Can the federal courts rely exclusively upon circumstantial evidence to decide that a marijuana substance is illegal, when the circumstances surroundi…
22-649 Jacinta Downing v. Abbott Laboratories, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-01-12 Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence civil-rights discrimination employment employment-discrimination judicial-interpretation pretext seventh-circuit Whether the Seventh Circuit defeated the fundamental holding of this Court's decision in Costa when it affirmed the district court's refusal to allow …
22-6323 Luis R. Figueroa-Gonzalez v. United States First Circuit 2022-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP circumstantial-evidence criminal-law evidence firearm-alteration firearms knowledge-inference machine-gun mens-rea statutory-definition statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether the presence of a visible alteration in a seized firearm is sufficient to satisfy the government's burden to prove that the defendant knew of …
22-5992 Andre Jenkins v. United States Second Circuit 2022-11-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP circumstantial-evidence criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process joint-defense motion-for-acquittal severance trial-procedure witness-credibility 1. In a case where the proof against petitioner was wholly circumstantial and the eyewitnesses that were necessary to assign his conduct to those circ…
22-205 Demetrios Stavrakis, aka Dimitrios Stavrakis, aka Jimmy v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-09-07 Denied Response Waived circuit-split circumstantial-evidence criminal-procedure evidence-sufficiency federal-court judgment-of-acquittal motion-for-judgment-of-acquittal rule-of-equipoise sufficiency-of-evidence Whether a federal court, assessing the sufficiency of the evidence in a criminal case based wholly on circumstantial evidence, must apply the "rule of…
22-5475 Merlin Williams v. Burl Cain, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP circumstantial-evidence civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony wrongful-conviction Question not identified.
22-5071 Daniel Toney v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-12 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment circumstantial-evidence due-process evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment habitual-offender ineffective-assistance montgomery sixth-amendment Question One: If the record reflects similar if not more egregious ineffective assistance by trial counsel. The claim was not refuted at evidentiary h…
21-7957 Samuel Morales v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-crimes elements-of-crime reasonable-doubt Whether the government fails to prove the elements of a drug conspiracy beyond a reasonable doubt when it has only circumstantial evidence and that ev…
21-7384 Joseph Valchez Laue v. Louisiana Louisiana 2022-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP circumstantial-evidence constitutional-sufficiency criminal-evidence due-process jackson-v-virginia jury-verdict legal-standard lsa-r.s.-15-438 rational-trier-of-fact reasonable-doubt state-burden-of-proof trier-of-fact 1. Reasonable jurists would determine that the jury's verdict as to Count One should be reversed as the evidence against Mr. Lane was constitutionally…
21-1254 Allen Bregman v. Florida Florida 2022-03-16 Denied burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence due-process ex-post-facto fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment pre-indictment-delay sixth-amendment tactical-advantage united-states-v-lovasco 1. Whether United States v. Gouveia, 467 U.S. 180 (1984) departed from the two-tier test for determining a due process violation established by United…
21-5380 Luke Edward Fleming v. Florida Florida 2021-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circumstantial-evidence cold-case constitutional-law criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process evidence murder sexual-battery Whether the Petitioner's convictions for murder and sexual battery violate the Due Process Clause of the United States Constitution because the eviden…
20-8164 Michael Mosley v. John Rich, Superintendent, Elmira Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2021-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence circumstantial-evidence confrontation-clause due-process habeas-corpus herrera-v-collins ineffective-counsel schlup-v-delo sixth-amendment In this wholly circumstantial case where the Petitioner has alibi, and after trial presents: 1) substantial new exculpatory witnesses and evidence sho…
20-7897 Steve L. Stanaland, Jr. v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment circumstantial-evidence constitutional-rights due-process evidence-suppression exculpatory-evidence firearm-possession right-to-counsel second-amendment self-defense This may very well be in this case and across the Nation . the most important and the biggest question is. (Specifically) [If] y°u live in the middle …
20-7676 Aaron Orlando Richards v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-04-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP circumstantial-evidence criminal-conviction criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jackson-v-virginia motion-for-bill-of-particulars motion-to-suppress reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence This is a principal to second degree robbery case based, almost exclusively, on questionable circumstantial evidence that ended in a life sentence for…
20-1350 Go New York Tours, Inc. v. Gray Line New York Tours, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response Waived anticompetitive-conduct antitrust antitrust-conspiracy circumstantial-evidence civil-procedure parallel-conduct pleading-standards plus-factors section-1 sherman-act twombly 1. Whether a plaintiff must allege evidence of "plus factors" in addition to parallel anticompetitive conduct in order to plead an antitrust conspirac…
20-5270 Keith Allen Wilson v. Florida Florida 2020-08-05 Denied IFP circumstantial-evidence corpus-delicti delayed-prosecution due-process motion-for-judgment-of-acquittal witness-unavailability Can the Charlotte County Court of Florida deny a Motion for Judgment of Acquittal, when the State did "not" prove Corpus Delicit of 2"d Degree Murder …
19-8627 Isaac Cardenas v. Texas Texas 2020-06-05 Denied IFP burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence consciousness-of-guilt criminal-procedure due-process evidence inference inference-vs-speculation speculation WHETHER THE STATE COURT VIOLATED THE FEDERAL DUE PROCESS CLAUSE WHEN IT VENTURED INTO THE REALM OF MERE SPECULATION WHEN DECIDING AN INSUFFICIENCY OF …
19-8314 Reginald Ward v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2020-04-21 Denied IFP actual-innocence circumstantial-evidence constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process forensic-evidence jurisdiction self-defense statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
19-7775 Rande Brian Isabella v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-review circumstantial-evidence conflict-among-circuits criminal-liability criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-18-usc-2251a due-process evidence evidence-standard jackson-v-virginia judicial-procedure sexting statutory-interpretation substantial-step Whether if was prejudicial error for the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals to depart from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings by disreg…
19-7587 Lannon Lavar Burdunice v. Minnesota Minnesota 2020-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquittal batson bias character-evidence circumstantial-evidence constitutional-rights criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process evidence incomplete-jury-verdict insufficient-evidence intent-to-kill judicial-error judicial-misconduct jury-instructions jury-verdict prior-convictions prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-be-present right-to-present-defense second-degree-murder weight-of-evidence 1. MUST MV CONVICTION FOR SECOND DEGREE INTENTIONAL MURDER BE VACATED AND A JUDGEMENT OF ACQUITTAL ENTERED INSTEAD WHERE THE JURY'S GUILTY VERDICT GOE…
19-7167 Harshadkumar Nanjibhai Jadav v. Virginia Virginia 2020-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circumstantial-evidence criminal-procedure evidence-sufficiency first-degree-murder identity-of-defendant identity-of-perpetrator jury-instructions possession-of-weapon premeditation sufficiency-of-evidence I. Contrary to precedent set in Yeager v. Commonwealth , 16 Va. 433 S.E.2d 248 (1993) and rule 3A:16 of the Rules of App. 761 Supreme Court of Virgini…
19-745 Khalil Williams v. Housing Opportunities for Persons with Exceptionalities Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-11 Denied burden-of-proof burden-shifting circumstantial-evidence civil-rights comparator-evidence employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas prima-facie-case racial-discrimination summary-judgment title-vii What test should courts use in evaluating motions for summary judgment in discrimination cases when the evidence needed to establish a traditional McD…
19-6682 Zhaopeng Chen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP circumstantial-evidence criminal-law criminal-procedure deliberate-ignorance due-process evidence farmer-v-brennan jury-instructions knowledge-element legal-standard mens-rea Whether the rule of Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825 (1994), should be extended to criminal cases, in which the defendant's knowledge of a certain fact…
19-6636 Gregory Williams v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP circumstantial-evidence constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial jury-bias jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-reasonableness I. WHETHER THE GOVERNMENT VIOLATED MR. WILLIAMS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO A FAIR TRIAL, IN IT'S IMPROPER DIRECT QUESTIONING AND ILL-ADVISED POINTING OF …
19-533 River Birch, Incorporated, et al. v. Waste Management of Louisiana, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2019-10-23 Denied Response Waived antitrust burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence civil-procedure civil-rico evidence evidentiary-inference federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure matsushita-standard precedent rule-56 summary-judgment In Matsushita Electrical Industrial Co. U. Zenith Radio Corp., 475 U.S. 574, 588 (1986), this Court held that "ambiguous" circumstantial evidence—evid…
19-5774 Patrick O. Neiss v. Montana Montana 2019-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment holland-v-united-states jury-instruction jury-instructions net-worth-prosecution particularity presumption-of-innocence probable-cause reasonable-doubt search-and-seizure 1. In Holland v. United States, 348 U.S. 121, 125 (1954) this Court recognized the "inherent risk" of the use of circumstantial evidence, but held tha…
19-5130 Tammie McConico v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-courts circumstantial-evidence equal-protection federal-circuit-courts reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment standard-of-review Whether the Sixth Amendment requires proof beyond a reasonable doubt, even in a circumstantial case? And whether the Equal Protections Clause is viola…
18A1363 Abimael Ayala-Gonzalez v. New York New York 2019-06-26 Presumed Complete burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence criminal-procedure due-process prosecutorial-misconduct racial-identification Question not identified.
18-1439 Shanker Patel v. California California 2019-05-16 Denied Response Waived accomplice-testimony cautionary-instruction circumstantial-evidence corroboration corroboration-requirement criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-rights Where in sixteen States, including California, whence this present case arises, the law requires corroboration of an accomplice's testimony to sustain…
18-8566 John Bartholomew Lowe v. Mississippi Mississippi 2019-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence civil-procedure criminal-procedure direct-evidence evidence jury-instructions standard-of-review WHETHER MULTIPLE INSTANCES OF CIRCUMSTAINTZAL Question not identified.
18-8280 Darrell J. Williams v. Cecilia Reynolds, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP blakely-v-washington circumstantial-evidence due-process fifth-circuit jackson-v-virginia reasonable-doubt sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence Question not identified.
18-1148 Kimberly Franett-Fergus v. Omak School District 19, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence civil-rights diversity diversity-considerations employment employment-discrimination hiring-practices national-origin protected-classes race racial-bias religion summary-judgment 1. Whether a plaintiff may rely on ethnically distinct names in proving circumstantial evidence of how an employer regards the job candidates' race, r…
18-8244 Justin Keith Cornell v. Virginia Virginia 2019-03-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actus-reus appellate-review cause-of-death circumstantial-evidence criminal-agency criminal-conviction due-process jury-standard mens-rea reasonable-doubt second-degree-murder sufficiency-of-evidence As a result of state court proceedings, the Commonwealth of Virginia obtained a conviction before a jury for second-degree murder against Justin Corne…
18-1009 United States, ex rel. Muge Cody v. ManTech International Corporation Fourth Circuit 2019-02-04 Denied Response Waived appellate-review circumstantial-evidence defense-contractor-whistleblower-protection-act false-claims-act federal-rule-of-civil-procedure-50(b) judgment-as-a-matter-of-law judgment-as-matter-of-law jury-verdict reeves-v-sanderson reeves-v-sanderson-plumbing rule-50 whistleblower-protection The question presented is whether the appellate court erred in not applying the Reeves standards in a case brought under the False Claims Act and the …
18-7424 William Felix Vail v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence civil-code criminal-evidence doctrine-of-chances due-process forensic-evidence physical-proof presumption-of-innocence presumptive-evidence reasonable-doubt Did the Stale offer sufficient evidence to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt? Should the State have been allowed to offer evidence via the Doctri…
18-7371 Nicole Johnson v. California California 2019-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions presumption-of-innocence reasonable-doubt stolen-property Petitioner snatched a patron's purse at a McDonald's restaurant, and a jury convicted her of robbery and receiving stolen property (the getaway pickup…
18-7095 Miguel Robinson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment circumstances circumstantial-evidence criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-search rigid-legal-rules rule-of-law search search-and-seizure search-warrant Rigid legal rules are ill-suited'" to an analysis of probable cause. Illinois v. Gates, 462 U.S. 213, 232 (1986) (citation omitted). Did the Court of …
18-369 Fidencio Valdez v. Texas Texas 2018-09-20 Denied circumstantial-evidence constitutional-due-process criminal-procedure due-process false-evidence false-testimony perjury prosecutorial-misconduct tacit-agreement timely-objection trier-of-fact void-for-vagueness witness-testimony 1. When a defendant knows or should know that a prosecutor has used or introduced false or perjured evidence before the trier-of-fact, is there an obl…
18-5880 Virginia S. Caudill v. Janet Conover, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-09-05 Denied IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky circumstantial-evidence civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-selection peremptory-challenges prosecutorial-discrimination racial-discrimination sixth-amendment standing Virginia Caudill stands convicted of capital murder. The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky dismissed her Petition for Habeas Co…