| 24A1120 |
Anita Louise Jackson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-05-20 |
Presumed Complete |
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criminal-charges criminal-conviction first-impression fourth-circuit medical-instrument physician-liability |
Whether a physician can be criminally convicted for adulteration of a medical instrument under circumstances presenting a novel legal issue |
| 24-6614 |
Benjamin Dale Marshall v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-charges defendant-rights due-process government-prosecution sentencing-prejudice timing-of-charges |
Does due process require the government to bring charges for crimes committed close in time so that the timing of the charges does not prejudice the d… |
| 24A759 |
Roman Storm v. United States District Court for the Southern District of New York |
Second Circuit |
2025-02-05 |
Presumed Complete |
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blockchain criminal-charges cryptocurrency digital-assets financial-regulation securities-law |
Whether the Supreme Court will review the legal basis for criminal charges related to cryptocurrency transactions and potential securities law violati… |
| 23-7585 |
Wilfred H. v. Josh Ward, Interim Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex |
West Virginia |
2024-05-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-charges criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process factual-allegations legal-procedure multiple-convictions multiple-counts |
Does a state violate due process or double jeopardy principles when it charges and convicts a defendant on multiple, identical counts, with none conne… |
| 23-6298 |
Chet Smith v. Cook County, Illinois |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-12-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-charges federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-amendment government-non-compliance grand-jury oath-requirement panel-defendant procedural-due-process rule-3 void-complaint void-indictment |
whether-the-return-of-an-indictment-without-a-vote-by-the-grand-jury-violates-the-fifth-amendment-guarantee-of-indictment-by-a-grand-jury |
| 23-5382 |
Julie A. Graham v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Third Circuit |
2023-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-charges due-process employee-suspension employment employment-law hearing-requirements |
Whether an employer's indefinite suspension of an employee without a pre-suspension hearing violates the employee's due process rights |
| 23-50 |
Jascha Chiaverini, et al. v. City of Napoleon, Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-07-20 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (9)Relisted (2) |
42-usc-1983 any-crime-rule charge-specific-rule circuit-split criminal-charges fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution probable-cause section-1983 |
Whether Fourth Amendment malicious prosecution claims are governed by the charge-specific rule or the any-crime rule |
| 22-953 |
Pablo Calderon v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-03-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-charges criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statute habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation substantive-law |
Does a federal district court have habeas corpus jurisdiction when a substantive element of the criminal charges was not found under the law mandated … |
| 22-6721 |
Jeffery T. Crystal v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-02-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-charges criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto jury-determination jury-trial sixth-amendment supremacy-clause trial-procedure verdict-form |
Did the verdict form agreed upon by the jury failure to specify 'GUILTY' as to Count 1 violate 6th Amendment right to a jury determination of Guilt? |
| 22-6691 |
Hugues-Denver Akassy v. Michael Kirkpatrick, Superintendent, Clinton Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2023-02-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-charges criminal-indictment due-process habeas-corpus indigent-defendant judicial-procedure rape-case standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Can a court with lack of subject matter jurisdiction permit an indigent defendant to stand trial on trumped-up criminal charges not made in indictment… |
| 22-5040 |
Priscilla Ann Ellis v. United States District Court for the District of Columbia |
District of Columbia |
2022-07-06 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
article-iii constitutional-rights criminal-charges criminal-procedure due-process extradition indictment right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Right-to-counsel |
| 21-973 |
John Colangelo, et al. v. Nicole Chase |
Second Circuit |
2022-01-06 |
Dismissed |
Response Requested |
civil-rights criminal-charges due-process false-statement malicious-prosecution police-investigation procedural-grounds qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Whether the officers were entitled to qualified immunity where the law was not clearly established that a charge of making a false statement could be … |
| 21-793 |
Pennsylvania v. William Henry Cosby, Jr. |
Pennsylvania |
2021-11-30 |
Denied |
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14th-amendment criminal-charges criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment immunity immunity-promise press-release prosecutorial-discretion |
Whether a public press release grants a defendant transactional immunity |
| 21-6277 |
Jordan Adonis Rawls v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2021-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-charges criminal-prosecution custodial-interrogation due-process miranda-warnings patterson-v-illinois police-disclosure sixth-amendment |
Whether police must do more than administer Miranda warnings when an individual is subject to custodial interrogation and police fail to disclose crim… |
| 21-211 |
Valueland Auto Sales, Inc., and Ron Benit v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-08-13 |
Denied |
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circuit-split criminal-charges criminal-procedure district-court expungement judicial-procedure jurisdiction record-expungement |
When the district court dismisses all criminal charges against a defendant, does that court have jurisdiction over a motion to expunge the records rel… |
| 20-6669 |
Brian Zellner v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2020-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment constitutional-provision criminal-charges criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy fifth-amendment first-offender-statute state-prosecution substantive-criminal-charges |
Double Jeopardy Clause |
| 20-6338 |
James H. Smith v. Brian Cook, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa-deference confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-charges deficient-performance federal-claim ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-court-misconstrue trial-court |
Can an attorney demonstrate deficient performance in representing a client while also facing serious criminal charges in the same court |
| 20-6315 |
Darris Altony Newsome v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-charges criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fair-trial fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probable-cause sixth-amendment victim-testimony witness-testimony |
Whether the petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated due to trial counsel's conduct involving dishonesty tha… |
| 20-5943 |
Lamar A. Williams v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights complaint-filing constitutional-rights criminal-charges criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment legal-procedure retaliation standing |
Whether the criminal charges were retaliatory in response to the petitioner's complaints |
| 19-6629 |
Jacqueline M. King v. District of Columbia, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-11-13 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-charges driver's-license drivers-license due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment notice notice-requirement parking-tickets suspension |
Whether the District of Columbia violated Petitioner's due process rights under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 19-489 |
Lawrence G. Hutchins, III v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2019-10-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
acquittal collateral-estoppel conspiracy criminal-charge criminal-charges criminal-procedure double-jeopardy issue-preclusion military-justice retrial |
Whether the right under the Double Jeopardy Clause to the issue preclusive effect of an acquittal applies where precluded and un-precluded facts are a… |
| 19-407 |
Alexander Christian Miles v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-09-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-the-writ abuse-of-writ aedpa contract-law criminal-charges criminal-procedure plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief |
Whether the abuse of the writ doctrine or the AEDPA precludes a successive petition for post-conviction relief |
| 18-9731 |
Youval Geringer-Ganor v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-charges criminal-procedure due-process entrapment government-conduct judicial-review outrageous-government-conduct sting-operation sting-operations |
Whether government sting operations may constitute outrageous government conduct warranting dismissal of the charges? |
| 18-7486 |
Frank Monte v. Cyrus R. Vance, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-challenge criminal-charges due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct standing state-actors |
Constitutionality-of-the-entire-docket-vanishing-from-the-public-records |
| 18-7130 |
Matthew G. Alden, Jr. v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-charges criminal-charges-text-messages criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance jury-instructions preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt reasonable-doubt right-to-acquittal structural-error text-message-evidence text-messages |
Whether the government's use of a preponderance-of-the-evidence standard to prove that the defendant sent text messages violates the defendant's right… |