criminal-charges

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24A1120 Anita Louise Jackson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-05-20 Presumed Complete 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 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 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 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…