co-conspirator
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-747 | Matthew Cline v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-12-23 | Pending | Amici (1)Response Waived | co-conspirator criminal-law forfeiture property-transfer statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit | Whether under 18 U.S.C. § 981(a)(1)(C) a defendant may be ordered to forfeit property to the government that he transferred to a co-conspirator merely… |
| 25A509 | Matthew Cline v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-11-04 | Application | circuit-split co-conspirator criminal-proceeds forfeiture honeycutt-standard wire-fraud | Whether a defendant can be ordered to forfeit criminal proceeds that were briefly under his control but immediately transferred to a co-conspirator | |
| 25-6028 | Elizabeth Mora Leyva v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-11-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | co-conspirator criminal-law fifth-amendment firearm-enhancement sentencing-guidelines substantive-due-process | Whether the District Court denied the Petitioner's constitutional right to substantive due process under the Fifth Amendment by adding an enhancement … |
| 24-571 | Elizabeth Peters Young v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-11-21 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | co-conspirator criminal-law forfeiture honeycutt-precedent property-transfer statutory-interpretation | Under Honeycutt, can a defendant be ordered to forfeit property that was intended for and ultimately acquired by her co-conspirator, merely because th… |
| 23-6588 | Aaron Ramirez Espinoza v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-01-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | co-conspirator conspiracy criminal-evidence criminal-law due-process evidence government-informant sufficiency-of-evidence testimony witness-testimony | Whether a government informant and co-conspirators testimony of another's involvement in the conspiracy is sufficient evidence to sustain a conviction… |
| 23-232 | BASF Metals Limited, et al. v. KPFF Investment, Inc., et al. | Second Circuit | 2023-09-13 | Denied | Amici (3) | civil-procedure co-conspirator conspiracy due-process forum-contacts jurisdictional-requirements personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction | Whether due process permits a court to exercise specific personal jurisdiction over a defendant based on the forum contacts of an alleged co-conspirat… |
| 22-6564 | Sohiel Omar Kabir v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-01-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split co-conspirator control-over-co-participants criminal-enhancement leader-organizer-enhancement leader-role ninth-circuit second-fourth-sixth-eleventh-dc-circuits sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines | Does the aggravating role enhancement for 'leader[s]' or 'organizer[s]' of concerted criminal activity in section 3B1.1(c) of the United States Senten… |
| 22-5596 | Roberta Ronique Bell v. Warden, FCI Dublin | Ninth Circuit | 2022-09-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | §-2241-relief actual-innocence co-conspirator due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus procedural-due-process separate-proceedings | WHETHER THE DENIAL OF AN EVIDENTIARY HEARING IN SUPPORT OF § 2241 RELIEF CAN BE BASED EXCLUSIVELY ON THE RECORD DEVELOPED BY AN ALLEGED CO-CONSPIRATOR… |
| 21-1503 | Lloyds Banking Group plc, et al. v. The Berkshire Bank, et al. | Second Circuit | 2022-06-01 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-procedure co-conspirator conspiracy defendant-actions due-process forum jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction | Whether a court may exercise personal jurisdiction over a defendant merely because the defendant's alleged co-conspirator took foreseeable actions in … |
| 21-1237 | Lloyds Banking Group PLC, et al. v. Schwab Short-Term Bond Market Fund, et al. | Second Circuit | 2022-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (6) | civil-procedure co-conspirator conspiracy defendant due-process forum forum-contacts jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction | Whether a court may exercise personal jurisdiction over a defendant merely because the defendant's alleged co-conspirator took foreseeable actions in … |
| 21-6601 | Austin Woods v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-12-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c co-conspirator conspiracy crime-of-violence pinkerton-liability statutory-interpretation substantive-offense | Whether the Pinkerton theory of liability can be used to establish the 'crime of violence' element of an 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) offense |
| 21-6089 | Edward N. Daniels v. Bobbi Jo Salamon, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-10-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bruton-precedent bruton-v-united-states co-conspirator co-defendant confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence-admissibility precedent | Did the lower court err when they refused to apply this court's precedent in Bruton v. United States, 391 U.S. 123 (1968) when the co-conspirator / co… |
| 19-7261 | Gibron Lopez v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-01-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | co-conspirator criminal-procedure criminal-relationship criminal-relationship-development evidence evidence-admissibility evidence-rule-404(b) hobbs-act inextricably-intertwined-evidence intimate-relationship narcotics-sales relationship rule-404(b) rule-404b sexual-relationship trust trust-relationship | Where evidence of prior narcotics sales was introduced at trial to establish both a relationship of trust among co-conspirators, as well as how their … |
| 18-9202 | Edilberto Maso Diaz v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | co-conspirator co-conspirator-testimony confrontation-clause conspiracy criminal-conviction criminal-procedure cumulative-error due-process evidence evidentiary-sufficiency fifth-circuit-review hearsay hearsay-evidence hearsay-statements jury-instructions standard-of-review trial-procedure | Did the Fifth Circuit err by affirming the district court admission of hearsay statements made by an unindicted co-conspirator over the objection of A… |
| 18-8894 | Robert L. Mayfield v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-04-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | admissibility co-conspirator co-conspirator-statements co-conspirators confrontation-clause criminal-procedure evidence evidence-rule hearsay hearsay-exception out-of-court-statements rule-801 rule-801(d)(2)(e) | Whether admission of out-of-court statements made by Robert Mayfield's alleged co-conspirators violated the hearsay exception of Rule 801(d)(2)(E) |
| 18-5916 | Juan Flores v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-09-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | admissibility casual-conversation co-conspirator co-conspirator-statement co-conspirator-statements conspiracy conspiracy-evidence criminal-procedure evidence evidentiary-standard federal-rule-of-evidence federal-rules-of-evidence furtherance-of-conspiracy hearsay-exception | Whether the District Court and Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in ruling that a statement made during a casual conversation between co-conspirat… |
| 18-5242 | Kenneth Martin, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof co-conspirator co-conspirator-testimony corroboration corroboration-requirement criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standard fifth-circuit-law plea-bargain sentencing testimony witness-credibility | Whether the Fifth Circuit's law that allows a conviction based solely on the uncorroborated testimony of a co-conspirator should be abandoned, or at l… |