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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-1149 | Michael J. Hymel v. United States | Armed Forces | 2026-04-03 | Pending | appellate-discretion court-martial guilty-plea military-law providence-inquiry standard-of-review | Did the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces abuse its discretion under 10 U.S.C. § 867 (a)(3) by failing to grant review "upon petition of the accus… | |
| 25-999 | Brandon Z. Miller v. United States | Armed Forces | 2026-02-23 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse Waived | court-martial military-rule-of-evidence-412 public-trial-clause sexual-assault sixth-amendment waller-v-georgia | Whether the Public Trial Clause of the Sixth Amendment requires case-specific determinations of necessity and narrow tailoring before an M.R.E. 412 he… |
| 25A879 | Anton Soloshenko, Luis A. Torres Gonzalez, and Dominic C. Haymond, II v. United States | Armed Forces | 2026-02-04 | Application | constitutional-rights court-martial criminal-conviction military-justice sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict | Question not identified. | |
| 25-913 | Keegan L. Lovell v. United States | Armed Forces | 2026-02-03 | Denied | Response Waived | court-martial criminal-solicitation criminal-statute military-justice statutory-interpretation ucmj-jurisdiction | The relevant federal criminal statute requires that "[a]ny person subject to the [Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ)] who solicits or advises ano… |
| 25-6668 | Matthew Evan Davis, Sr. v. Douglas Curtis, Commandant, United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth | Tenth Circuit | 2026-01-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | court-martial habeas-corpus judicial-bias jurisdictional-review military-justice suspensions-clause | WHETHER, IN THE UNIFORM CODE OF MILITARY JUSTICE, THE CLAIMS OF JUDICIAL BIAS AND IMPROPER REFERRAL OF CHARGES ARE JURISDICTIONAL IN NATURE. WHETHER … |
| 25A784 | William M. Hilton v. United States | Armed Forces | 2026-01-07 | Application | appellate-review constitutional-rights court-martial military-counsel military-justice speedy-trial | Question not identified. | |
| 25A721 | Adam J. Sherman v. United States | Armed Forces | 2025-12-18 | Application | appellate-review court-martial ineffective-assistance military-justice rape-of-a-child trial-defense-counsel | Question not identified. | |
| 25-695 | Maxwell A. Matthew v. United States | Armed Forces | 2025-12-15 | Denied | Response Waived | convening-authority court-martial criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment military-justice | Staff Sergeant (SSgt) Maxwell A. Matthew's Convening Authority ordered his court-martial conviction expunged. He then ordered SSgt Matthew to again fa… |
| 25-617 | Jakalien J. Cook v. United States | Armed Forces | 2025-11-26 | Denied | Response Waived | court-martial due-process military-justice punishment-calculation sentencing-range uniform-code-military-justice | For almost all non-capital offenses from the timeframe of Petitioner's convictions, criminal defendants in courts-martial are sentenced in accordance … |
| 25A610 | Keegan L. Lovell v. United States | Armed Forces | 2025-11-24 | Presumed Complete | child-pornography court-martial due-process guilty-plea military-justice uniform-code-of-military-justice | Question not identified. | |
| 25-599 | James P. Baumgartner v. United States | Armed Forces | 2025-11-21 | Denied | Response Waived | court-martial discretionary-review gender-discrimination panel-selection prima-facie race-discrimination | Since at least 1988, race- and gender-based discrimination was permissible when selecting court martial panel members, the functional equivalent of ju… |
| 25A596 | Eric W. Singleton v. United States | Armed Forces | 2025-11-20 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review constitutional-right court-martial criminal-procedure military-justice unanimous-verdict | Question not identified. | |
| 25A566 | Jakalien J. Cook v. United States | Armed Forces | 2025-11-14 | Presumed Complete | court-martial maximum-punishment military-justice sentencing-calculation uniform-code-military-justice waiver | Question not identified. | |
| 25A536 | Adrienne L. Clark v. United States | Armed Forces | 2025-11-07 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review child-pornography court-martial military-justice sexual-abuse ucmj | Question not identified. | |
| 25A426 | Mark A. Pulley v. United States | Armed Forces | 2025-10-14 | Presumed Complete | court-martial first-amendment free-speech indecent-conduct military-justice uniform-code-of-military-justice | Question not identified. | |
| 25A425 | Zhuo H. Zhong v. United States | Armed Forces | 2025-10-14 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review court-martial factual-sufficiency firearm-prohibition jurisdiction military-justice | Question not identified. | |
| 25-422 | Deshawn M. Dawson v. United States | Armed Forces | 2025-10-08 | Denied | Response Waived | court-martial criminal-conviction due-process-clause military-justice sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict | Does the Constitution preclude a court-martial panel of lay members from convicting a defendant of a criminal offense by a non-unanimous vote? |
| 25A388 | Dennis A. George, Jr. v. United States | Armed Forces | 2025-10-03 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review court-martial due-process military-justice sexual-assault uniform-code-military-justice | Question not identified. | |
| 25A387 | Robert D. Schneider, et al. v. United States | Armed Forces | 2025-10-03 | Presumed Complete | 18-usc-922 appellate-jurisdiction court-martial criminal-appeals firearm-prohibition military-justice | Question not identified. | |
| 25A340 | Jennesis V. Dominguez-Garcia v. United States | Armed Forces | 2025-09-24 | Presumed Complete | court-martial firearms-prohibition military-justice nonviolent-conviction right-to-bear-arms second-amendment | Question not identified. | |
| 25A339 | Devin W. Johnson v. United States | Armed Forces | 2025-09-24 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review constitutional-challenge court-martial general-verdict military-justice sexual-misconduct | Question not identified. | |
| 25A324 | Juston D. Beyer v. United States | Armed Forces | 2025-09-19 | Presumed Complete | court-martial due-process evidence-rule ineffective-assistance military-justice sexual-assault | Question not identified. | |
| 25A323 | Colin R. Covitz v. United States | Armed Forces | 2025-09-19 | Presumed Complete | court-martial due-process military-justice post-trial-delay sentencing-relief uniform-code-military-justice | Question not identified. | |
| 25A247 | Logan A. McLeod v. United States | Armed Forces | 2025-08-29 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review attempted-crimes court-martial factual-sufficiency military-justice ucmj | Question not identified. | |
| 25-137 | Jaden T. Floyd v. United States | Armed Forces | 2025-08-05 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review court-martial due-process military-justice pre-docketing-delay speedy-review | Whether, in evaluating a claim for a pre-docketing due process violation, a court can effectively require an appellant to assert the right to speedy a… |
| 24A780 | Thomas M. Adams v. United States | Armed Forces | 2025-02-11 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review court-martial jurisdictional-challenge military-justice service-member-rights supreme-court-procedure | Question not identified. | |
| 24-678 | Thomas L. Wheeler v. United States | Armed Forces | 2024-12-26 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | court-martial due-process fifth-amendment military-justice panel-trial servicemember-rights | Whether Congress violated the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause when it deprived servicemembers facing criminal prosecutions of the right to be tri… |
| 24A566 | Ladonies P. Strong v. United States | Armed Forces | 2024-12-11 | Presumed Complete | court-martial digital-search electronic-devices fourth-amendment military-justice probable-cause | Question not identified. | |
| 24A436 | Jonel H. Guihama v. United States | Armed Forces | 2024-11-01 | Presumed Complete | article-120 court-martial due-process military-justice sexual-abuse ucmj | Question not identified. | |
| 24-386 | B. M. v. United States, et al. | Armed Forces | 2024-10-07 | Denied | Amici (1)Response WaivedRelisted (3) | article-iii-standing congressional-power court-martial judicial-review military-privilege victim-rights | 1. Whether the CAAF may prudentially apply Article III limits on judicial power despite its obligation to review cases in accordance with a law enacte… |
| 24A288 | Matthew P. Leipart v. United States | Armed Forces | 2024-09-23 | Presumed Complete | burden-of-proof court-martial ineffective-assistance military-justice prosecutorial-misconduct uniform-code-of-military-justice | Question not identified. | |
| 24-5342 | In Re Richard J. Ramsey | 2024-08-20 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights court-martial due-process jury-trial sixth-amendment waiver-of-rights | WHETHER WAIVING JURY TRIAL IS CONSTITUIONAL UNDER THE 6™ AMENDMENT, WHEN THE 6™ AMENDMENT DID NOT SECURE TRIAL BY JURY AS A RIGHT, WHICH CONSEQUENTLY … | |
| 23A1043 | Nidal M. Hasan v. United States | Armed Forces | 2024-05-22 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review capital-case court-martial military-justice service-member-rights supreme-court-jurisdiction | Question not identified. | |
| 23-666 | James T. Cunningham v. United States | Armed Forces | 2023-12-20 | Denied | court-martial criminal-procedure due-process military-justice non-unanimous-verdict prejudice-test sentencing unanimous-verdict victim-impact-statement | I. Whether Senior Airman James T. Cunningham was entitled to a unanimous verdict in his court-martial when the Government convicted him of murder—a se… | |
| 23-5958 | David J. Rudometkin v. Kevin Payne, Commandant, United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2023-11-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | councilman-abstention court-martial due-process habeas-corpus military-courts military-discharge military-jurisdiction servicemember-status statutory-discharge | Whether the Councilman abstention applies to former servicemembers who were statutorily discharged prior to court-martial charges and proceedings |
| 23-437 | Anthony A. Anderson v. United States | Armed Forces | 2023-10-26 | Denied | constitutional-law court-martial criminal-prosecution due-process equal-protection liberty-interests property-interests sixth-amendment | Does the United States Constitution require that a general court-martial guilty verdict be unanimous? | |
| 23A178 | Andrew P. Witt v. United States | Armed Forces | 2023-08-25 | Presumed Complete | capital-sentencing court-martial death-penalty ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct uniform-code-of-military-justice | Question not identified. | |
| 22-1082 | Steven M. Larrabee v. Carlos Del Toro, Secretary of the Navy, et al. | District of Columbia | 2023-05-08 | Denied | Amici (1) | active-duty civilian-status constitutional-review court-martial due-process founding-era-practices military-jurisdiction retired-servicemembers ucmj | Whether the Constitution permits military retirees to be tried by court-martial for offenses committed after they have left active duty? |
| 22-636 | S. S. v. United States, et al. | Armed Forces | 2023-01-09 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | court-martial criminal-appeal evidentiary-review in-camera-review intervention-rights jaffee-v-redmond m.r.e.-513 military-evidence military-rule-of-evidence psychotherapist-patient-privilege psychotherapist-privilege upjohn-co-v-united-states | 1. Whether diagnoses and treatments are privileged under the military's psychotherapist-patient privilege; and 2. Whether a privilege holder has the … |
| 22-530 | Daniel A. Bench v. United States | Armed Forces | 2022-12-08 | Denied | Response Waived | child-witness confrontation confrontation-right court-martial plain-error prosecutorial-misconduct remote-testimony sixth-amendment | Does a prosecutor's in-court lie to secure a witness's testimony constitute misconduct that materially prejudices an accused's Sixth Amendment right t… |
| 21-7373 | Steven M. Chapman v. Warden, FCC Coleman - USP II | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-03-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | coram-nobis court-martial due-process legal-representation military-justice post-conviction post-conviction-relief standing writ-of-coram-nobis | 1. Whether or not Petitioner received full and fair consideration in the military justice system when his post-conviction efforts were summarily denie… |
| 21-430 | Luke T. West v. United States | Federal Circuit | 2021-09-21 | Denied | Response Waived | collateral-estoppel court-martial due-process federal-claims first-amendment judicial-review military-justice privacy-act statutory-construction united-states-constitution | 1) As a matter of statutory construction and application, is petitioner entitled to the exercise of the authority of the United States Federal Court o… |
| 21-335 | Stephen A. Begani v. United States | Armed Forces | 2021-09-02 | Denied | active-duty article-iii-courts civilian-crimes constitutional-limits court-martial due-process military-jurisdiction retired-servicemembers | When, if ever, does the Constitution permit the court-martial of retired servicemembers for offenses committed after their discharge from active duty? | |
| 21-5525 | Thomas Richardson v. Nevada | Nevada | 2021-08-31 | Denied | IFP | aggravating-circumstance court-martial death-penalty due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief rompilla-standard rompilla-v-beard | Whether the Nevada Supreme Court misapplied the law by failing to examine or analyze the failure of counsel to investigate readily available informati… |
| 20-6368 | In Re Richard J. Ramsey | 2020-11-18 | Denied | IFP | 6th-amendment civil-rights court-martial due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial military-justice plea-bargain separation-of-powers sixth-amendment ucmj | I. Whether military plea-bargains procedures are unconstitutional creating a lack of jurisdiction over petitioners court-martial therefore, making unl… | |
| 20-528 | Nicholas S. Baas v. United States | Armed Forces | 2020-10-20 | Denied | Response Waived | confrontation-clause court-martial daubert-standard due-process scientific-evidence sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict | 1. In light of this Court's decision in Ramos v. Louisiana, does it violate a military servicemember's Sixth Amendment and due process rights to allow… |
| 20-489 | Pedro M. Bess v. United States | Armed Forces | 2020-10-15 | Denied | convening-authority court-martial due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment military-justice racial-discrimination standing | 1. Whether 10 U.S.C. § 825, as applied in Petitioner's case, violates the Fifth Amendment. 2. Whether the lower court erred in declining to remand Pe… | |
| 20-301 | Timothy B. Hennis v. United States | Armed Forces | 2020-09-09 | Denied | Amici (1) | capital-punishment constitutional-provisions court-martial double-jeopardy due-process military-justice military-law state-court-acquittal state-jurisdiction | 1. Whether the offenses for which Petitioner was tried and acquitted in state court constituted offenses "for which [he] cannot be tried in the courts… |
| 20-1 | Nicholas E. Davis v. United States | Armed Forces | 2020-07-09 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review court-martial criminal-procedure jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error supreme-court-precedent waiver | Whether the failure to object to a pattern jury instruction erroneously describing the elements of the offense constitutes affirmative waiver such tha… |
| 19-1011 | Eric F. Kelly v. United States | Armed Forces | 2020-02-13 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review court-martial court-of-appeals-for-the-armed-forces court-of-criminal-appeals courts-martial criminal-appeals due-process judicial-procedure jurisdiction military-court military-courts remand | Whether a military Court of Criminal Appeals must review the results of a court-martial anew when the court previously reviewed the case but its judgm… |
| 19-557 | Cedric L. McDonald v. United States | Armed Forces | 2019-10-29 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | bodily-harm consent court-martial criminal-law due-process mens-rea military-justice sexual-assault | Whether Congress's omission of a mens rea for the offense of sexual assault by bodily harm means mere negligence as to the lack of consent suffices. |
| 18-1383 | James M. Hale v. United States | Armed Forces | 2019-05-03 | Denied | Response Waived | 10-usc-802 court-martial court-martial-jurisdiction general-verdict judicial-deference jurisdictional-defects jurisdictional-limits legal-sufficiency military-discipline military-discipline-jurisdiction military-law overt-acts plain-error rostker-v-goldberg sufficiency-of-evidence weiss-v-united-states | 1. Whether the Court of Appeals erred in relying on factual sufficiency of the evidence to resolve a question of plain error, where the alleged error … |
| 18-454 | Derek L. Dinger v. United States | Armed Forces | 2018-10-11 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | bouie-v-city-of-columbia court-martial due-process ex-post-facto military-justice precedent-overruling retired-personnel retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-rules | After petitioner's offenses, the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces overruled two precedents without fair warning and held that a court-martial can… |
| 18-306 | Steven M. Larrabee v. United States | Armed Forces | 2018-09-14 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | active-duty civil-rights civilian-status court-martial due-process military-jurisdiction retired-status separation-of-powers | 1. Whether the Constitution permits the court-martial of a retired military servicemember. 2. Whether, if so, the Constitution limits the jurisdictio… |