criminal-appeals

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6601 Melvon Adams v. United States Second Circuit 2026-01-16 Pending Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure criminal-appeals equitable-tolling government-motion jurisdictional-limits time-limitations Whether Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 4(b)'s time limitations for criminal appeals are subject to equitable tolling after government objection t…
25-685 Robert D. Schneider v. United States Armed Forces 2025-12-11 Denied Response Waived criminal-appeals entry-of-judgment firearms-ban military-courts second-amendment ucmj Whether military courts of criminal appeals have authority under 10 U.S.C. §§ 860c and 866(d)(2) to correct an unconstitutional firearms ban annotated…
25A676 Jimmy ONeal Spencer v. Alabama Alabama 2025-12-09 Application capital-case constitutional-rights criminal-appeals death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus Whether the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals violated Mr. Spencer's constitutional due process rights by improperly denying his appeals in a capital …
25-6050 David Wood v. Rachel Patton, Assistant Attorney General of Texas Fifth Circuit 2025-11-06 Denied IFP criminal-appeals dna-testing due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review state-court Does the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' fifteen-year, twenty-three case unbroken string of denying DNA testing appeals create a plausible claim that…
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 Whether military courts of criminal appeals have jurisdiction to correct errors related to post-conviction firearm prohibitions under 18 U.S.C. § 922
24-6117 Michael Eric Pennington v. Texas Texas 2024-12-11 Denied IFP constitutional-review criminal-appeals ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-interpretation legal-precedent trial-procedure Whether the Court of Criminal Appeals' decision was contrary to established Supreme Court precedent
24-5736 James Ray Pendergraft v. Texas Texas 2024-10-10 Denied IFP constitutional-review criminal-appeals ineffective-assistance lesser-included-offense procedural-error trial-record Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals improperly denied a lesser included offense instruction and found counsel not ineffective, and whether the…
23A1052 Richard E. Glossip v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-05-24 Presumed Complete certiorari criminal-appeals death-penalty eighth-amendment execution supreme-court Whether the Eighth Amendment permits the execution of a death row inmate who challenges the constitutionality of the state's method of execution
23-5584 Raymond L. Rogers v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-09-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-appeal criminal-appeals due-process grand-jury-indictment jurisdiction jurisdictional-review merits-determination standing subject-matter-jurisdiction tenth-circuit threshold-question Did the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals commit a reversible error when it resolved the merits of the petitioner's criminal direct appeals review withou…
22-7404 Tomas Jaramillo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-rights attorney-client-communication attorney-consultation consultation-duty criminal-appeals criminal-defendant criminal-procedure flores-ortega-standard ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-appeal sentencing Whether an attorney has failed to consult within the meaning of Roe v. Flores-Ortega
22-7339 Holly Harvey v. Georgia Georgia 2023-04-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-Amendment appellate-rights criminal-appeals criminal-procedure due-process georgia-courts habeas-corpus ocga-5-6-35 post-conviction-remedies Due-Process
22-6696 Rudy Garcia v. Texas Texas 2023-02-03 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-appeals due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-standards precedent prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court-precedent trial-counsel Does the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' dismissal of Petitioner's habeas claim conflict with their previous decision of a similar claim?
22-6142 Taj Collier v. Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aedpa constitutional-rights criminal-appeals criminal-appeals-reform-act fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strickland-standard Whether the Florida courts of appeals provide for evidentiary hearings to determine Strickland's mixed question of law and fact
22-5742 Reggie D. Caswell v. Steven Racetti Second Circuit 2022-10-03 Denied IFP actual-innocence criminal-appeals due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus pro-se pro-se-appeal sentencing-consequences trial-exhibits Whether a state that permits pro se criminal appeals must provide a complete and sufficient record for the appeal, as required by the Due Process and …
22-5702 Henry Clay Smith, III v. Alabama Alabama 2022-09-28 Denied IFP alabama-court-of-criminal-appeals circuit-court civil-rights criminal-appeals due-process executive-order judicial-review mandates standing Whether the record shows that the two (2) circuit court cases have been validated by an executive order from the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals, as…
20-8109 Walter Crayton v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2021-05-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment assigned-counsel child-pornography civil-rights criminal-appeals criminal-procedure due-process free-speech legal-representation post-conviction search-and-seizure trial-court Whether the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court erred in affirming the defendant's conviction for possession of child pornography, second offense, de…
20-7279 Ong Vue v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-03-01 Denied IFP actual-innocence criminal-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment laches procedural-bar state-criminal-appeals Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals application of a state procedural bar and laches to Petitioner's actual innocence claims is contrary to…
19-8300 Clark Milton Hyden v. Georgia Georgia 2020-04-20 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP barker-framework barker-v-wingo constitutional-rights criminal-appeal criminal-appeals due-process fairness-and-prejudice indigent-counsel indigent-defendant speedy-trial Did the delay in Petitioner's first appeal as of right from his criminal conviction violate the Due Process Clause?
19-7722 Audrel Jack Watson, Jr. v. Virginia Virginia 2020-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations criminal-appeals due-process federal-procedural-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure standing state-court-rules state-statutes statutory-interpretation supreme-court-error Did the Virginia Supreme Court err in denying Audrel Una Weston Jr.'s petition for writ of certiorari?
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…
19-7120 Gilbert Sanchez v. Texas Texas 2019-12-31 Denied IFP apprendi-v-new-jersey blakely-v-washington criminal-appeals criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus in-re-winship jury-trial right-to-trial-by-jury sixth-amendment texas-constitution Is the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution violated when the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals denies an Applicant habeas relief base…
19-5272 Pereneal Kizzee v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-appeals criminal-procedure-error-correction criminal-sentencing federal-appeals federal-law felony-offense fifth-circuit firearm-possession guidelines-enhancement judicial-discretion judicial-integrity plain-error plain-error-review sentencing-guidelines Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law when it refused to exercise its discretion to correct the forfeited error that seriously affected the f…
18-9233 Michael Perales v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-appeals criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process plain-error procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-explanation sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure Is a district court's gross failure to explain an above-range sentence or to respond to arguments for a lesser sentence reversible on plain error?
18-9153 Albert Randolph v. Texas Texas 2019-05-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-appeals criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus legal-review prosecutorial-misconduct standing statutory-provisions supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Whether the Court of Criminal Appeals erred in denying Petitioner a new trial?
18-8723 Miles Sterling Bench v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2019-04-08 Denied IFP 8th-amendment affidavit civil-rights competency costs criminal-appeals death-penalty declaration due-process filing-fees in-forma-pauperis indigent indigent-status mental-illness oklahoma-law supreme-court-procedure writ-of-certiorari Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of a person with severe mental illness
18-484 Melvin Charles Pettigrew v. Texas Texas 2018-10-16 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus post-conviction-review state-court substantive-review texas Whether the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas violated the Petitioner's right to due process of law as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the …
18-6092 Robert Dion Ables v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-09-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review criminal-appeals criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-plain-error-review empirical-analysis empirical-foundation-of-guidelines guideline-2g2.2 judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-policy substantive-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness-of-sentences Whether factual error is categorically immune from plain error review?
18-5848 Darrell Darcell Darby v. Texas Texas 2018-08-30 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional criminal-appeals cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process prison-conditions search-and-seizure sentencing standing takings Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights under the Fourth and Eighth Amendments were violated