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25A282 Jeremiah S. Farmer v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-09-11 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability collateral-attack due-diligence habeas-corpus innocence-claim successive-petition Whether a federal prisoner may file a successive habeas petition challenging a criminal conviction without presenting new and decisive proof of innoce…
24-6595 Martin Guadalupe Cardiel-Ruiz v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-appeal collateral-attack due-process immigration-law judicial-review removal-proceedings Whether a defendant satisfies 8 U.S.C. § 1326(d)(1)-(2) when their removal order appeal waiver was not considered and intelligent
24-5487 Michael Ravy v. Louisiana Louisiana 2024-09-09 Denied IFP collateral-attack constitutional-right criminal-proceeding critical-stage due-process sixth-amendment Whether an evidentiary hearing following a collateral attack on a conviction constitutes a critical stage of a criminal proceeding requiring counsel u…
23-6972 Jeremy Lynn Kerr v. Keith Lenz, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-03-13 Denied IFP civil-procedure collateral-attack due-process federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction res-judicata rooker-feldman standing state-court-judgment subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether Rooker-Feldman bars a collateral attack on a void ab initio state court judgment
23-6851 Praxedis Saul Portillo-Gonzalez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-remedies collateral-attack due-process exhaustion-of-remedies immigration immigration-law judicial-review removal-order Does the court of appeals' holding conflict with Mendoza-Lopez?
23-6621 Adrian Ayala-Garcia, et al. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-01-30 Denied IFP attorney-client-communications collateral-attack guilty-plea pre-plea-claims prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing tollett-preclusion tollett-v-henderson Does Tollett v. Henderson preclude a defendant from collaterally attacking a conviction based on grounds other than ineffective assistance of counsel …
23-6266 Jeremy Lynn Kerr v. Robert Pollex, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-rights collateral-attack due-process federal-review rooker-feldman subject-matter-jurisdiction void-ab-initio Whether the Rooker-Feldman Doctrine bars a collateral attack on a void ab initio state court judgment rendered without subject matter jurisdiction
23-6250 Matthew C. Spaeth v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-12-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-client-confidentiality collateral-attack plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sixth-amendment tollett-precedent Does Tollett v. Henderson preclude a defendant from collaterally attacking a conviction based on pre-plea prosecutorial misconduct?
23-6067 Michael A. Lajeunesse v. Kris Karberg, Warden Eighth Circuit 2023-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-attack constitutional-protection constitutional-rights direct-review due-process gideon-v-wainright habeas-corpus issue-preclusion res-judicata If legal claims preserved by a state court during direct review share the same constitutional protections as the right to an appeal from a final judgm…
22-7393 Allen W. Thompson v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2023-04-28 Denied IFP affidavit-requirement collateral-attack credibility-of-witnesses criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standards habeas-corpus habeas-petition ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-litigation standard-of-review Circumstances-for-pro-se-habeas-petitions
22-7242 In Re Henry Jones 2023-04-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights collateral-attack constitutional-violations constructive-amendment denial-of-counsel due-process extraordinary-writ fraud jurisdiction sentencing trial-record-falsification Whether Jones' sentence and conviction were unconstitutionally imposed due to numerous constitutional violations by the district court
22-6878 Roger Keith Lunsford v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-attack constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court double-jeopardy due-process federal-prosecution habeas-corpus hearing-requirement legal-relief Could the theft of a defendant's substantive and procedural right to due process be so egregious that it would bar a future federal prosecution?
22-6657 Alex Anderson v. Donald J. Trump Eleventh Circuit 2023-01-30 Denied IFP civil-procedure collateral-attack due-process eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction final-judgment fraud-on-court judicial-review res-judicata rule-60 standing Whether the U.S. District Court erred in dismissing Appellant's claims based on the Rooker-Feldman doctrine
22-5874 Dustin Nguyen v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-attack constitutional-interpretation double-jeopardy due-process final-order judicial-jurisdiction rules-of-construction void-judgment Did the panel err, violate statute or the public trust, when they failed to State their reasoning for deciding they had no jurisdiction?
22-5844 Benjee Nicolas v. Florida Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-14 Denied Relisted (2)IFP case-review civil-procedure collateral-attack constitutional-provisions court-jurisdiction due-process judgment judgment-vulnerability legal-procedure procedural-defect statutory-provisions Whether the allegations, if procedure had been followed, would have rendered the judgment vulnerable to collateral attack?
21-7819 Kevin Ray Smith v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion article-iii-standing collateral-attack constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process federal-criminal-law habeas-corpus jurisdictional-defect Whether Petitioner has Article III standing to challenge conduct not within the precise subject matter of nationwide Federal police power enforcement
21-1185 Rufino Valdez-Lopez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-02-28 Denied circuit-split collateral-attack criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judicial-vindictiveness sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment Whether the Pearce presumption of judicial vindictiveness applies when a second (new) sentencer imposes a harsher sentence following a successful coll…
21-7173 Herman J. Snell, II v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-02-22 Denied IFP collateral-attack criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice fundamental-rights jurisdictional-challenge miscarriage-of-justice state-conviction subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the United States Supreme Court enter a new procedural rule of law that overrules subject matter jurisdiction?
21-6293 Roy Bolinger v. Texas Texas 2021-11-16 Denied IFP collateral-attack cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel victim-allocution Did the court of appeals violate Bolinger's right to due process by forcing him to raise his claim on collateral attack without the benefit of counsel…
21-5858 Enrique E. Quintana v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence collateral-attack commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure indictment indictment-deficiency plea-agreement waiver actual-innocence,plea-agreement,waiver,indictment,collateral-attack,commerce-clause,gonzales-v-raich
21-345 Manpreet Singh v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-02 Denied Response Waived collateral-attack counsel due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-remedy restitution writ-of-error-coram-nobis Is there no avenue for a collateral attack on a restitution award that was the result of ineffective assistance of counsel?
21-5477 Clifford Senter v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act collateral-attack criminal-law due-process federal-procedure federal-sentencing non-existent-offense sentencing-enhancement state-conviction state-law Where state law holds that a particular offense is non-existent, but a defendant has a conviction for the non-existent offense, and a federal sentenci…
20-8402 Daniel Chica-Gutierrez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP affirmative-defense collateral-attack criminal-procedure custis-rule federal-statutory-provision sentencing sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines state-court-conviction statutory-interpretation Whether a federal court is permitted to consider an argument that a prior state-court conviction does not satisfy a relevant federal statutory provisi…
20-8232 Barbara A. Stuart Robinson v. Greater Lakes Recovery Center Ninth Circuit 2021-06-04 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-attack constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review legal-precedent lower-court-ruling procedural-due-process res-judicata standing statutory-interpretation Whether the district court erred in applying claim preclusion
20-8195 Calvin James Reid v. Michigan Michigan 2021-06-02 Denied IFP collateral-attack constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdictional-defect legal-remedy retroactivity state-court-conviction statute-of-limitations time-limitation Whether a 30-year-old jurisdictional defect in state court conviction should stand uncorrected because the violation occurred over 30 years ago?
20-8158 In Re Larry E. Starks 2021-05-27 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 collateral-attack collateral-review constitutional-law due-process habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge jurisdictional-challenges subject-matter-jurisdiction suspension-clause Whether the denial of review on jurisdictional claims under 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e) is an unconstitutional suspension of the writ of habeas corpus
20-1462 Eni USA Gas Marketing LLC v. Gulf LNG Energy, LLC, et al. Delaware 2021-04-19 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) arbitrability arbitration-agreement civil-procedure collateral-attack federal-arbitration-act judicial-review prior-arbitration-award prior-award Whether the Federal Arbitration Act permits a court to refuse to enforce an arbitration agreement delegating all questions, including questions of arb…
20-1352 Alexander Christian Miles v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response Waived appellate-waiver collateral-attack collateral-attack-waiver contract-interpretation contract-law judicial-interpretation plea-agreement plea-colloquy Whether oral pronouncements by the court or the government at a plea colloquy which clarify the extent of an appellate and collateral attack waiver in…
20-7501 Alfredo Arroyo-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-attack due-process illegal-reentry immigration-law immigration-removal jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Did the immigration court lack authority to remove Mr. Arroyo-Hernandez because he was not served a notice to appear that had a hearing time?
20-967 Pedro Rodriguez-Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-15 Denied Response Waived collateral-attack due-process illegal-reentry immigration-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear removal-order removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Did the immigration court lack authority to remove Mr. Rodriguez-Garcia because he was served a Notice to Appear that did not comply with federal law …
20-6635 Daion J. Williams v. Michele Wilhelm, Warden, et al. Nebraska 2020-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-attack constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-error jurisdiction statutory-interpretation unconstitutional writ-of-review Did the district court judge error in denying the petitioner's habeas corpus petition?
20-6464 Benito Moreno-Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-attack due-process illegal-reentry immigration-court immigration-law jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear removal-order removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Did the immigration court lack authority to remove Mr. Moreno because he was not served a notice to appear that had a hearing time?
20-6462 Anastacio Castruita-Escobedo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-attack due-process illegal-reentry immigration-court immigration-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear removal-order removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Whether the immigration court lacked authority to remove Mr. Castruita-Escobedo because he was not served a notice to appear with a hearing time
20-6136 Owen W. Barnaby v. Bret Witkowski, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-10-27 Denied IFP 14th-amendment collateral-attack due-process fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court rule-60b subject-matter-jurisdiction unauthorized-practice-of-law void-ab-initio void-judgment Validity of void judgment and order
20-5995 Edwin Virgilio Gomez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-attack due-process illegal-reentry immigration-court immigration-law jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear removal-order removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Did the immigration court lack authority to remove Mr. Gomez because he was not served a notice to appear that had a hearing time?
20-309 John E. Reardon v. New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2020-09-09 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-attack common-law-mandates due-process judicial-immunity jurisdictional-challenge prosecutorial-immunity prosecutorial-misconduct standing void-proceedings Whether Judges, Prosecutors and other officials can be held liable for either Equity and/or Legal relief
20-5268 Luis Fernando Ramirez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-attack due-process illegal-reentry immigration-law immigration-removal jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Did the immigration court lack authority to remove Ramirez because he was not served a notice to appear that had a hearing time?
19-1330 Michigan v. Juan T. Walker Michigan 2020-06-01 Denied alford-plea collateral-attack criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper perjury plea-bargaining retroactivity Whether Lafler v. Cooper announced a new rule not dictated by prior precedent, and whether its 'reasonable possibility' standard applies where a defen…
19-8501 Jimmy L. Livingston v. Nebraska Nebraska 2020-05-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights collateral-attack due-process jurisdiction standing void-or-voidable Whether the Nebraska Supreme Court abused its discretion or committed reversible error in denying further review of the Nebraska Court of Appeals' dec…
19-8431 Ciro Cruz-Lopez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-attack due-process illegal-reentry immigration-court immigration-law jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear removal-order removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Did the immigration court lack authority to remove Mr. Cruz because he was not served a notice to appear that had a hearing time?
19-8199 Dwight Bullard v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-04-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 advisory-guidelines career-offender collateral-attack collateral-review criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing section-2255 sentencing-guidelines Whether a defendant erroneously sentenced as a career offender under the advisory Guidelines can collaterally attack his enhanced sentence under 28 U.…
19-8080 Julio Solorzano v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence-exception civil-rights collateral-attack criminal-procedure davis-ruling due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus sentencing sentencing-challenge waiver-doctrine Whether a defendant who previously waived collateral attack may seek relief under Davis v. United States
19-7996 Milton Mayorga v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-16 Denied IFP collateral-attack due-process illegal-reentry immigration-court-authority immigration-law immigration-removal jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Did the immigration court lack authority to remove Mr. Mayorga because he was not served a notice to appear that had a hearing time?
19-7753 Juan Ramon Pineda-Fernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-02-24 Denied IFP collateral-attack due-process illegal-reentry immigration-law immigration-removal jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Whether the immigration court lacked authority to remove Mr. Pineda because he was not served a notice to appear that had a hearing time
19-7410 Victor Manuel Mora-Galindo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-24 Denied IFP collateral-attack due-process illegal-reentry immigration-court-jurisdiction immigration-law immigration-removal jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear procedural-due-process removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Whether the immigration court lacked authority to remove the petitioner because he was not served a notice to appear that had a hearing time
19-7052 Jose Alexander Callejas Rivera v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-23 Denied IFP collateral-attack due-process illegal-reentry immigration-court-jurisdiction immigration-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge pereira-v-sessions removal-order removal-orders separation-of-powers Whether the immigration court lacked jurisdiction to issue orders of removal, violating separation-of-powers and due-process
19-722 Larry J. Hudack v. La Cresta Property Owners Association California 2019-12-06 Denied Response Waived anti-slapp anti-SLAPP-statute civil-procedure collateral-attack due-process federal-statute first-amendment jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect right-to-petition standing state-statute void-judgment void-judgments Is a collateral attack on void judgments, on its face, an assault on the constitutional Right to Petition under any state or federal statute?
19-6639 Anthony Andrews v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-11-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 civil-procedure collateral-attack due-process habeas-corpus new-judgment one-year-time-period statute-of-limitations successive-motions Under 28 USC 2255(h), does the denial of a second or successive motion constitute a 'new judgment' restarting the one-year time period for filing 2255…
19-6588 Carlos Javier Pedroza-Rocha v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-12 Denied IFP administrative-remedies collateral-attack due-process hearing-time illegal-reentry immigration-court immigration-court-authority immigration-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear removal-order removal-proceedings Did the immigration court lack authority to remove Mr. Pedroza because he was not served a notice to appear that had a hearing time?
19-555 R. Ray Fulmer, II v. Fifth Third Equipment Finance Company, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-10-30 Denied Response Waived asset-valuation bankruptcy-auction bankruptcy-code-section-363 bankruptcy-sale chapter-7 collateral-attack creditor-rights fiduciary-duties fiduciary-duty jurisdictional-error non-jurisdictional-error priority-distribution priority-violation priority-violations Whether a final 11 U.S.C. §363 sale order that distributes assets in violation of priority is unenforceable due to jurisdictional error
19-6402 Omar Villarreal Silva v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-prejudice collateral-attack criminal-procedure customs-and-border-protection deportation due-process immigration immigration-law prejudice removal-proceedings Must a defendant show actual prejudice to collaterally attack a removal order?
19-528 John Wayne Scantlebury, et al. v. United States District of Columbia 2019-10-22 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction article-iii collateral-attack criminal-procedure cross-border-tort due-process federal-officer-liability final-judgment minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction Whether criminal appeals from dismissals without prejudice are 'final' under 28 U.S.C. §1291
19-6115 Jose Manuel Aguirre-Ganceda v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence collateral-attack criminal-justice criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-conviction due-process federal-law federal-state-comity mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-minimum prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-court-reduction state-law Whether a defendant is actually innocent of a mandatory life sentence once a prior state drug conviction relied upon by the District Court is set asid…
19-5995 Jason L. Clark v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-09-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights collateral-attack constitutional-challenge constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea judicial-review plea-bargaining statute-of-conviction Does a guilty plea bar a criminal defendant from later collateral attack on his conviction on the ground that the statute of conviction violates the c…
19-5754 Charmar Brown v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines collateral-attack constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure cross-reference double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus magwood magwood-precedent sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether Magwood extended to challenges to the original undisturbed conviction, following a new judgment?
19-266 Seantrey Morris v. Joseph Mekdessie, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-08-29 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-attack due-process heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey judicial-estoppel pretrial-diversion section-1983 Whether Heck v. Humphrey bars a § 1983 claim when criminal charges were dismissed through a pretrial diversion program
19-162 Michael Richards v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-08-05 Denied Response Waived collateral-attack collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation pena-rodriguez pena-rodriguez-v-colorado racial-bias retroactivity supreme-court-precedent Should this Court's decision in Pena-Rodriquez v. Colorado, 187 8, Ct. 855 (2017) be applied retroactively to Petitioner's collateral attack?
19-104 Flavio Tamez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appeal-waiver appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability collateral-attack constitutional-effectiveness criminal-defendant-waiver due-process immigration-consequences ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jae-lee-v-united-states sentencing-consequences waiver-of-rights Whether a criminal defendant's generic waiver of right to appeal or collateral attack can waive ineffective assistance of counsel claim
19-5118 Jason Paul Mathison v. Washington Washington 2019-07-09 Denied IFP collateral-attack constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process involuntary-plea judicial-procedure plea-agreement plea-bargaining probation sentencing sentencing-conditions time-limits treatment-program vagueness Are constitutional rights of due process violated when a court imposes a condition that requires a defendant to 'successfully complete' a treatment pr…
18-8865 Marvin Lopez-Aguilar v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-conflict collateral-attack collateral-challenge conviction criminal-procedure district-court forfeiture government-enforcement government-forfeiture habeas-corpus waiver Does the government forfeit its right to enforce a defendant's waiver of a collateral challenge to his conviction by failing to raise the waiver issue…
18-1290 Reed Kirk McDonald v. Arapahoe County, Colorado Tenth Circuit 2019-04-11 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-attack colorado-law colorado-rule-120 due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction non-judicial-proceeding non-judicial-proceedings preclusion res-judicata rooker-feldman-doctrine rule-120 standing Whether a party who was not, and has never been named as an underlying party to any court proceedings for/against petitioner can invoke Rooker-Feldman…
18-988 RPD Holdings, L.L.C. v. Tech Pharmacy Services, dba Advanced Pharmacy Services Fifth Circuit 2019-01-29 Denied Response Waived asset-assumption asset-valuation assumption-and-assignment assumption-assignment bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-sale bankruptcy-trustees collateral-attack executory-contract finality-of-bankruptcy-sales patent-law patent-license What happens to an undisclosed executory contract under the Bankruptcy Code?
18-7405 Gary Lee Beason v. Indiana Indiana 2019-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel-ineffectiveness appellate-review child-molestation collateral-attack criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-bias state-action trial-counsel trial-counsel-ineffectiveness Was Beason denied basic Due Process when a biased judge presided over his trial, and can the states preclude the issue from review on collateral attac…
18-7362 Roy O. Daniels v. Florida Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP focusing on the core legal dispute I cannot identify a clear legal issue being raise I cannot provide a meaningful set of key terms. M in order to receive a more helpful response. As p making it difficult to extract a concise statemen the 'Question(s) Presented' section does not prov civil-rights collateral-attack due-process finality jurisdiction plea-bargain Whether the principles of finality still apply, especially in a case where the foundational terms of a specifically negotiated and agreed upon plea ba…
18-7287 Lamont LaPrade v. United States Third Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c appeal collateral-attack crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process firearm-offense predicate-offense sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the government must show a connection between the predicate offense and the crime of violence for a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)
18-6837 Robert L. Swinton, Jr. v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-27 Denied IFP anders-brief appellate-review collateral-attack due-process extraordinary-writ federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-defendant sixth-amendment state-court-review If the merits of an appeal exist and are not evaluated by a State or Federal Court of review, should a Federal court address Ineffective Assistance of…
18-6807 Larry M. Slusser v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied IFP circuit-split collateral-attack criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement sentencing statutory-maximum waiver-of-rights Whether a defendant's waiver of the right to collateral attack in a plea agreement bars a claim that the sentence exceeds the statutory maximum for th…
18-620 Jamahl Harim Simmons v. Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2018-11-14 Denied 14th-amendment civil-rights collateral-attack constitutional-challenge due-process foreign-state jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunities sovereign-immunities-act subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the state trial court lacks subject matter and personal jurisdiction
18-6030 Jason M. Smith v. United States Second Circuit 2018-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appellate-waiver collateral-attack constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement public-policy sentencing Whether a plea agreement in which a defendant agrees to waive his right to appeal and collaterally attack any legal sentence imposed violates due proc…
18-5961 Vincent Michael Marino v. Barbara Rickard, Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights collateral-attack constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure criminal-trial double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jury-jeopardy supreme-court-precedent Whether the District Court, Appeals Court for the Second Circuit, and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals sitting En Banc committed reversible legal e…
18-202 Haynes Timberland, Inc. v. United States First Circuit 2018-08-15 Denied Response Waived appeal-waiver collateral-attack criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining pre-sentence-waiver sentencing waiver waiver-of-rights Whether a defendant who waives the right to a direct appeal of his conviction and sentence can implicitly waive his right to collaterally attack his c…
18-5418 Kenneth Green v. Colorado Colorado 2018-07-31 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure collateral-attack due-process federal-questions fourth-amendment indigent-defendant march-7-2014 motion plea-bargaining right-to-appeal transcript written-motion Whether the state has constitutional authority to prosecute and accept a guilty plea without a probable cause determination and a voluntary, knowing, …
18-5325 Lena Lasher v. United States Second Circuit 2018-07-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP but no text was provided for analysis. Without th I cannot generate a question presented or identif please provide the full text of the petition. civil-rights collateral-attack criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus racial-discrimination school-desegregation sentencing voting-rights Whether a district court must grant an evidentiary hearing on a prisoner's collateral attack claims
18-5100 Ras Rahim v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1651 28-usc-2255 all-writs-act armed-career-criminal-act collateral-attack consecutive-sentencing coram-nobis due-process elements-clause postconviction-remedy residual-clause sentencing-scheme Whether the writ of coram nobis is the proper avenue for a federal inmate to challenge a portion of a consecutive sentencing scheme when the federal p…