criminal-charging
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-7220 | Barry Ray Knight v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-05-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-charging defendant-rights due-process plea-negotiations prosecutorial-discretion vindictive-prosecution | Can prosecutors evade vindictiveness claims any time they make a new charge against a defendant after the breakdown of plea negotiations, no matter th… |
| 23-959 | Colin Montague v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-03-04 | GVR | Amici (4) | circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-charging criminal-law drug-statute due-process federal-procedure indictment indictment-sufficiency statutory-interpretation | The question presented, over which there is an open split between the Second and Third Circuits, is whether an indictment charging a violation of 21 U… |
| 23-6263 | Freddy Abad v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-12-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 924(c) 924(j) criminal-charging criminal-procedure double-jeopardy federal-criminal-law lora-v-united-states robbery-conspiracy sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation unit-of-prosecution united-states-v-davis | 1). Whether the two §§ 924(C), 924(J) Counts Five and Six, were based on a single "unit of prosectution ," this court should hold that they were; un… |
| 23-6069 | Jeremie Saintvil v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-11-21 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | bank-fraud constitutional-law constitutional-permissibility criminal-charging criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process fundamental-constitutional-rights statutory-interpretation waiver-of-rights | 1. Whether the two bank fraud subsections of 18 U.S.C. § 1344 are separate and distinct offenses that require charging in separate counts? 2. Whether… |
| 23-5200 | Augustine Rincon Medina v. California | California | 2023-07-26 | Denied | IFP | birks-rule constitutional-law criminal-charging criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions lesser-included-offense lesser-offense prosecutorial-discretion | Should the Rule announced in People v. Birks (1998) 19 Cal.4th 108, which permits a Prosecutor to veto a Defendant's request for an instruction on a L… |
| 22-7500 | Safara Echo Shortman v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-05-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | continuing-offense controlled-substances-act criminal-charging distribution drug-distribution plain-error plea-bargaining possession-with-intent possession-with-intent-to-distribute statutory-interpretation | 1. Does 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) permit the Government to charge a continuing offense of possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance base… |
| 22-7012 | Lionel Jericho McCoy v. California | California | 2023-03-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | charging-document common-law common-law-pleading criminal-charging due-process first-degree-murder notice notice-requirements sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Does the 1883 rule set forth in People v. Soto, 63 Cal. 165 (1883) — that facts which expose a defendant to increased punishment need not be charged i… |
| 21-483 | David Klug v. Florida | Florida | 2021-10-01 | Denied | Response Waived | charging-document criminal-charging due-process fifth-amendment jury-unanimity lewd-and-lascivious-molestation sexual-offenses sixth-amendment | Whether a state prosecuting authority may bundle several single-act offenses concerning the lewd and lascivious molestation of a minor into the same s… |
| 20-5184 | Richard Brian Williams v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-07-27 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act criminal-charging criminal-procedure indictment indictment-error prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-provision statutory-interpretation | 1) Whether sentencing Mr. Williams under the ACCA was error because the prosecutor specifically charged the sentencing provision of 18 U.S.C. § 924(a)… |
| 19-5913 | Sammie Lee Smith, IV v. Florida | Florida | 2019-09-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-crime aggravated-offense alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-law criminal-charging criminal-procedure due-process jury-determination jury-trial mandatory-minimum sentencing sexual-felony | Whether the facts triggering a mandatory minimum sentence under Florida's Dangerous Sexual Felony Offender Act, § 794.0115, Fla. Stat. (2016), togethe… |
| 18-7109 | Tshombe Miller v. Ohio | Ohio | 2018-12-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-charging criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process juror-consensus jury-consensus ohio-constitution rape-allegations united-states-constitution | Is "carbon copy" charging of multiple allegations of rape violative of due process and/or double jeopardy pursuant to the United States and Ohio Const… |