criminal-code

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-6744 Tia Lyn Nicole Sulu-Kerr v. Arizona Arizona 2025-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-code enumerated-rights legislative-restriction second-amendment self-defense Whether a state legislature may completely eliminate the enumerated right to self-defense by limiting that justification to crimes within a specific c…
23-6464 Michael Edward Aguilar v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-interpretation criminal-appeal criminal-code due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment state-law statutory-ambiguity timeliness Whether the dismissal of a criminal appeal as untimely violates the Due Process Clause and the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counse…
23-5998 Gilberto Arreola Chavez v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability civil-rights criminal-code dangerous-weapon due-process innocence sentencing-enhancement violent-felony weapons-statute Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in denying the petitioner a certificate of appealability when the petitioner showed that reasonable jurists could deb…
19-8054 Nathan Richard Vineyard v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-code eleventh-circuit federal-criminal-law federal-registration-requirements notification-requirements sex-offender-registration sex-offender-registration-and-notification-act sexual-contact statutory-interpretation united-states-v-vineyard Whether SORNA extends to anything meeting the dictionary definitions of 'sexual' and 'contact' or is instead limited to the intentional touching of ce…
19-667 Michael Baker v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied circuit-split common-law-definition criminal-code criminal-law fraud fraud-statutes honeycutt-v-united-states obtain-property property-rights sekhar-v-united-states statutory-interpretation Whether the statutory phrase 'obtain property' has the same meaning in the federal fraud statutes as it does in other federal criminal statutes
18-8197 Tommy Earl Boone, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2019-02-28 Dismissed IFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-code criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ex-parte-review habeas-corpus incarceration incarceration-period parole sentencing sentencing-statute texas-criminal-procedure texas-law Whether Texas Penal Code, Art. 42.082 is unconstitutional as interpreted by the Texas Court in Ex Parte Kuester, 24 SW3d 247 (2000)?