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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A609 Aita Gurung v. Vermont Vermont 2025-11-24 Application certiorari constitutional-review criminal-case judicial-review state-court supreme-court Whether a state supreme court's decision in a criminal case warrants review by the U.S. Supreme Court under principles of federal constitutional revie…
25-6112 Luke Masood Arabzadegan v. Texas Fifth Circuit 2025-11-14 Denied IFP administrative-law circuit-court-discretion criminal-case filing-fee judicial-procedure prison-litigation-reform-act 1. HAS THE 05TH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ALLEGEDLY ABUSED THEIR DISCRETION, BY DEMANDING PETITIONER PAY THE PRISON LITIGATION REFORM ACT'S FILING FEE,…
25A441 Eric Tyrell Johnson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-10-20 Application certiorari constitutional-error criminal-case fourth-circuit legal-standard supreme-court-review Whether the Fourth Circuit's ruling in a criminal case warrants Supreme Court review for potential constitutional error or misapplication of law
24A555 Gerardo Gamez-Reyes v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-12-06 Presumed Complete criminal-case extension-of-time federal-public-defender supreme-court-rule tenth-circuit writ-of-certiorari Whether the Tenth Circuit's judgment in a criminal case warrants Supreme Court review based on potential legal errors in the underlying proceedings
23A1018 Luis Marin v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-05-16 Presumed Complete criminal-case legal-standard ninth-circuit procedural-error time-extension writ-of-certiorari Whether the Ninth Circuit correctly applied the standard for granting or denying a writ of certiorari in a criminal case involving procedural or subst…
23-5999 Anson Chi v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-11-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-appeal criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process extension-of-time petition-for-rehearing petition-for-rehearing-en-banc restitution Did the 5th Circuit Court violate Chi's due-process-right
23-121 Patrick Shin v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-08-08 Denied Response Waived coram-nobis criminal-case criminal-procedure defendant-decision-making ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining post-hoc-assertion prejudice strickland-standard strickland-v-washington writ-of-error Whether a district court may require an additional showing of prejudice to grant a writ of coram-nobis
22-1205 Brian D. Skattum v. Devan Collomy Maine 2023-06-13 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment child-custody civil-rights criminal-case criminal-procedure divorce-proceeding due-process family-law fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment self-incrimination Can a parent be penalized in a divorce/custody case for exercising 5th/14th Amendment rights in a related criminal case?
22-7457 Bruce Allen Buckner v. Daniel Porter, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-05-04 Denied IFP brady-violation civil-procedure civil-rights civil-stay constitutional-rights criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process judicial-bias obstruction-of-justice stay Does a stay in one civil proceeding pending the outcome of a criminal case extend to all other civil proceedings stemming from the same criminal case?
22-6712 Ramone L. Wright v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP ambiguous-sentence correction-of-record court-transcript criminal-case due-process judicial-confidence judicial-discretion miscarriage-of-justice oral-sentence rule-36-correction sentencing sentencing-ambiguity Whether the district court erred in imposing an ambiguous oral sentence that is contrary to the written judgment
22-6466 Derrick Anthony Stewart v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-case criminal-case eighth-circuit-appeal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-precedent predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supervisory-power Whether trial counsel's failure to utilize existing precedent to challenge the application of a sentencing enhancement pursuant to 21 U.S.C. § 851 con…
22-5389 Antonio Molina-Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit legal-review precedent recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-8058 Alejandro Pascual-Miguel v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review legal-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-252 Oklahoma v. Shannon James Kepler Oklahoma 2021-08-20 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) court-of-criminal-appeals criminal-case criminal-law federal-indian-law legal-precedent mcgirt-precedent native-american-law oklahoma-jurisdiction stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-sovereignty Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled
20-8218 George Verkler, aka Kenneth P. Goff, aka Neal T. Pearson, aka Neil T. Pearson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-case double-jeopardy plea-bargain presumption-of-innocence right-to-counsel unconstitutional-decision Does the presumption of innocence require a judge to rule in favor of the defendant if the judge will not read everything the defendant submits?
20-867 Shalini Ahmed v. United States First Circuit 2020-12-30 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction bond-forfeiture civil-procedure civil-proceeding civil-rights cohen-doctrine criminal-case criminal-law due-process surety-intervention Is a bond forfeiture proceeding sufficiently civil in nature such that it falls under certain rules governing civil actions and should be treated as a…
19-8588 Robert Donelson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-02 Denied IFP 404(b) circuit-split criminal-case criminal-procedure defendant-rights evidence-rule federal-rules federal-rules-of-evidence prior-act-evidence propensity-evidence propensity-free-link Whether Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b)'s prohibition against prior act evidence requires the government to demonstrate a propensity-free link between…
19-8576 Franklin Mackensie Robinson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-record court-of-appeals criminal-case criminal-procedure federal-grand-jury federal-jurisdiction grand-jury jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge statutory-compliance title-40-usc-s-255 Is the Petitioner entitled to review the Administrative Record?
19-5054 Jason Hendershott v. Kelly Strong, Warden, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appeal civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process federal-circuit-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review mental-illness post-conviction Whether Hendershott was improperly denied time-credit for turning in his 2854 year old prison authorities to mail months before his deadline
18-9451 Denzel Pittman v. Illinois Illinois 2019-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process illinois-law judicial-mandate juvenile-justice mental-health petition-for-leave-to-appeal second-amendment self-regulation standing supreme-court takings Whether the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution protects an individual's right to possess firearms for self-defense outside the home
18A1226 Thomas Lewis, Kurt J. Myrie, and Derrick Young v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-05-29 Presumed Complete criminal-case federal-public-defender final-order ninth-circuit supreme-court-rule writ-of-certiorari Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in its final orders regarding the petitioners' criminal case
18-9154 Jeffrey William Smith v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure-criminal constitutional-rights criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jury-instructions life-imprisonment life-sentence mitigating-factors sentencing sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation Whether the circuit court erred in failing to correct a defective jury instruction
18-7575 Alexis Valdes Gonzalez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9)IFP criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit judicial-process mandatory-form panel-decision preclusive-effect prior-panel-precedent strict-deadline writ-of-certiorari Whether the Due Process Clause permits the Eleventh Circuit to afford preclusive effect in a criminal case to a prior panel decision
18-226 Eric G. Zahnd v. Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel, Supreme Court of Missouri Missouri 2018-08-22 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived attorney-discipline attorney-ethics criminal-case due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech government-transparency professional-conduct prosecutorial-speech public-record public-records Whether an attorney may be disciplined for telling the truth about information in the public record in a news release after a criminal case has been a…