| 25A843 |
Harold Edward Spencer, III v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2026-01-23 |
Application |
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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 |
Pending |
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 |
Does the Eleventh Circuit's opinion substantially conflict with Supreme Court precedent by failing to consider and weigh circumstantial evidence again… |
| 24-650 |
Robert Lee Webb v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2024-12-16 |
Denied |
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circumstantial-evidence fourteenth-amendment jury-instruction meaningful-defense sixth-amendment trial-court-error |
Whether the trial court's refusal to give a Virginia Model Jury Instruction on Circumstantial Evidence violated the appellant's Sixth and Fourteenth A… |
| 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 |
Whether district courts may make factual and credibility determinations, weigh the evidence, and refuse to credit circumstantial evidence of discrimin… |
| 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 |
Is the charge of possession or accessing child pornography under 18 U.S.C. § 2252(a)(4)(B) 'image specific'? |
| 23-1235 |
Florida Department of Juvenile Justice v. Lawanna Tynes |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-23 |
Denied |
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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 McDonnell-Douglas-Corp-v-Green-remains-the-correct-legal-test-in-proving-employment-… |
| 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 |
Did the ALJ, ARB and the 9th Circuit turn on its head AIR 21 law on burdens of proof? |
| 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 |
Should this Court grant Certiorari when Halfhill was convicted of killing a man with intent upon nothing more than being one 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 |
Sufficiency-of-evidence |
| 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 must apply the 'rule of equipoise' and grant a motion for judgment of acquittal when evidence of guilt and innocence is evenly… |
| 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 |
Whether the Supreme Court of the United States should review the issues presented |
| 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 |
Whether Petitioner's 6th and 14th Amendment rights to due process are being violated by denying claims based on assumption and not facts |
| 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 |
Sufficiency-of-the-evidence |
| 21-1254 |
Allen Bregman v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-03-16 |
Denied |
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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 |
Whether United States v. Gouveia departed from the two-tier test for determining a due-process violation |
| 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 |
Whether the new credible and compelling evidence of actual innocence, combined with the alibi, constitutes a 'truly persuasive showing of actual innoc… |
| 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 |
Whether the Second Amendment protects the right to keep and bear arms for self-defense in one's home in a desolate area far from law enforcement |
| 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 |
Whether the State presented sufficient evidence to convict under Jackson v. Virginia |
| 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 |
Whether a plaintiff must allege evidence of 'plus factors' in addition to parallel anticompetitive conduct to plead an antitrust conspiracy under Sect… |
| 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 |
Whether the Charlotte County Court of Florida erred in denying a Motion for Judgment of Acquittal when the State failed to prove the corpus delicti of… |
| 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 |
Whether a defendant is actually innocent when the socks clearly show he acted within his wants, and whether the defendant's exercise of his rights to … |
| 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 the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in disregarding review of essential elements at 18 U.S.C.§2251(a) and relying solely on circumstantia… |
| 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 |
Must my conviction for second degree intentional murder be vacated and a judgement of acquittal entered |
| 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 |
Whether the Court of Appeals of Virginia unreasonably affirmed the Petitioner's conviction on the charge of First-Degree Murder |
| 19-745 |
Khalil Williams v. Housing Opportunities for Persons with Exceptionalities |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-11 |
Denied |
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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 should be extended to criminal cases involving the defendant's knowledge as an element of the offense and the go… |
| 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 |
Whether the government violated Mr. Williams' constitutional right to a fair trial |
| 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 |
Whether the holding in Matsushita Electrical Industrial Co. v. Zenith Radio Corp. that 'ambiguous' circumstantial evidence does not support an inferen… |
| 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 |
Should this lack of clarity be resolved by this Court? |
| 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? |
| 18A1363 |
Abimael Ayala-Gonzalez v. New York |
New York |
2019-06-26 |
Presumed Complete |
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burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence criminal-procedure due-process prosecutorial-misconduct racial-identification |
Whether a criminal defendant's due process rights are violated when a state court denies a requested racial identification charge and finds circumstan… |
| 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 |
Whether a trial court violates the jury trial guarantees of the Sixth Amendment and U.S. Const. art. III, § 2, cl. 3 by refusing to grant a defendant'… |
| 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 circumstantial evidence can accumulate and become direct evidence? |
| 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 |
Whether the Due Process Standard of Jackson v. Virginia requires a court to consider all evidence, including evidence inconsistent with guilt, in deci… |
| 18-1148 |
Kimberly Franett-Fergus v. Omak School District 19, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
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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 |
Discrimination-based-on-perceived-race/religion/national-origin |
| 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 |
Whether the Supreme Court of Virginia erred in applying the criteria of excluding all reasonable hypotheses of appellant's innocence, rather than the … |
| 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 |
Whether the appellate court erred in not applying the Reeves standards in a case brought under the False Claims Act and the Defense Contractor Whistle… |
| 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 State offer sufficient evidence to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt? |
| 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 |
Whether proof that the defendant possessed recently stolen property—any stolen property, as far as the instruction is concerned, even if the defendant… |
| 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 |
Did the Court of Appeals violate the principle that rigid legal rules are ill-suited to an analysis of probable cause by relying on a rule to find a m… |
| 18-369 |
Fidencio Valdez v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-09-20 |
Denied |
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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 |
Whether a defendant must timely object to a prosecutor's use of false or perjured evidence |
| 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 |
whether-the-state-court-ruled-contrary-to-or-unreasonably-applied-batson |