criminal-conduct
29 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6697 | Adedayo Abioye v. Mojisola Braimoh | California | 2026-02-03 | Pending | IFP | criminal-conduct false-statement federal-statute fiduciary-duty mortgage-loan victim-damages | Federal statute of the United States Code - 18 U.S.C. § 1014, prohibits making a (misleading or) "false statement " for the purpose of influencing cer… |
| 25-5853 | Clarence Santiago v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-conduct federal-procedure sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | In assessing whether two defendants are similarly situated for purposes of § 3553(a)(6), are courts required to consider their actual offense conduct? |
| 24-6544 | Lemack Bellot v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-02-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting attempt-crime criminal-conduct ninth-circuit reverse-sting statutory-interpretation | Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision that 'aiding and abetting an attempt' and 'attempting to aid and abet' are equivalent permits wholly fictitious c… |
| 24-6518 | Martin Vera-Rivas v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-02-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | border-patrol border-proximity corpus-delicti criminal-conduct illegal-entry suspicion-of-crime | Does mere proximity to the border corroborate the criminal conduct at the core of illegal entry, thereby defeating a corpus delici defense? |
| 23-720 | Omar Ahmed Khadr v. United States | District of Columbia | 2024-01-04 | Denied | Amici (1) | appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-conduct direct-appeal judicial-decision plea-agreement statutory-interpretation | Whether a plea agreement that includes a general appellate waiver bars a direct appeal when a defendant has pled guilty to conduct that was not crimin… |
| 23-6331 | Hannibal Moore v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-12-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affirmative-defense burden-of-proof criminal-conduct criminal-law disqualifying-element imminent-threat justification-defense legal-alternative proximate-cause | Whether the courts should take a narrow view in considering the disqualifying element of the justification defense, and only disqualify the defendant … |
| 23-6297 | Kevin Hewlett v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-12-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2251 cellphone-evidence child-pornography commerce-clause criminal-conduct criminal-law criminal-procedure interstate-commerce jury-instruction mens-rea | Whether the use of a cellphone in criminal conduct is a sufficient nexus to interstate commerce |
| 23-6269 | Yavonne Hand v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-12-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-hearing administrative-law civil-rights criminal-conduct declaratory-judgment due-process ethics-violation government-misconduct public-officials standing | Right to a fair administrative hearing |
| 23-5601 | In Re Michael Kenny Carter | 2023-09-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | charging-statute circuit-split constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-conduct criminal-jurisdiction interstate-activity jurisdiction jurisdictional-scope sexual-activity statutory-interpretation | whether criminal-conduct-beyond-scope-of-charging-statute-is-jurisdictional-defect-or-plain-error | |
| 23-5310 | Joseph Tyshawn Darren Favorite v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-08-09 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | burden-of-proof confrontation-clause criminal-conduct criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standards judicial-discretion police-report sentencing-enhancement uncorroborated-accusation | Whether the Court may rely on an uncorroborated accusation of criminal conduct in a police report to enhance a defendant's sentence when the report is… |
| 23-5240 | Alden Brent Cooper v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-07-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-conduct criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment presentence-investigation presentence-investigation-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Does denial of credit for alleged criminal conduct the defendant refuses to admit and denies in good faith he committed violate the Due Process Clause… |
| 22-963 | John Doe v. Securities and Exchange Commission | Second Circuit | 2023-04-04 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-action criminal-conduct criminal-violation dodd-frank enforcement-action judicial-action pleaded-guilty sec-interpretation sentencing whistleblower whistleblower-award | Does Dodd-Frank's whistleblower award program exclude whistleblowers whose criminal conduct is only tangentially connected to the enforcement action (… |
| 22-6872 | Gustavo Guzman v. California | California | 2023-02-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conduct fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence government-informant home-surveillance reasonable-suspicion warrantless-entry | Whether the Fourth Amendment permits a government informant's warrantless entry into a home to monitor, transmit, or record statements without reasona… |
| 22-5820 | S. Patrick Mendel v. Liane Randolph, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as Commissioner, California Public Utilities Commission, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-10-12 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights congressional-preemption criminal-conduct due-process federal-courts federal-enforcement preemption pro-se-petition public-safety transportation transportation-law | Does this pro se case, alleging fatal systemic failures resulting in the continuing preventable murder of innocent citizens, where literally the lives… |
| 21-7600 | Christopher Hibshman v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-04-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-USC-3583 18-USC-3583(e) criminal-conduct criminal-sentencing reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-standards supervised-release | Whether the imposition of a 24-month sentence consecutive to a 2-year Indiana prison term for violation of supervised release is unreasonable and at o… |
| 21-1008 | Andres Mencia v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-01-20 | GVR | Relisted (2) | criminal-conduct criminal-intent criminal-liability due-process expert-testimony good-faith-defense medical-practice medical-standard-of-care mens-rea prosecutorial-discretion standard-of-care | Is the civil definition of standard of care sufficient to create criminal liability against physicians? |
| 21-6449 | Pizarro Thomas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-11-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-conduct criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement-conduct police-policy reasonable-suspicion terry-stop terry-v-ohio warrantless-seizure | Was there reasonable suspicion for Terry stop? |
| 21-6273 | Nathan R. Rollins, Jr. v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-11-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-sentencing-guidelines booker-standard criminal-conduct criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment united-states-v-booker | Whether the Tenth Circuit's holding perpetuates the error this Court sought to address in United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220 (2005) |
| 21-6034 | Clifton James Jackson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-10-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-conduct criminal-procedure discovery-violations federal-jurisdiction government-agencies indictment-defect mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states speedy-trial-act | Whether an indictment defect can strip federal courts of jurisdiction |
| 20-7586 | Phillip Blough v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-03-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-conduct due-process judicial-error jury jury-instructions legal-prejudice right-to-fair-trial trial-by-jury trial-procedure | Does the right to a trial by jury include the right to a jury informed of relevant and non-confusing jury instructions? |
| 20-589 | Reed Kirk McDonald v. Eagle County, Colorado, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2020-11-03 | Denied | Response Waived | attorney-fees case-conclusion civil-procedure criminal-conduct federal-jurisdiction federal-removal-law judicial-misconduct magistrate-jurisdiction removal state-court state-court-procedure | Did the Magistrate for the District of Colorado error in determining that the Bellco and Eagle cases had concluded? |
| 20-5122 | Maximo Flores-Lezama v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-07-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3583(e) criminal-conduct criminal-punishment due-process precedents punishment revocation sentencing statutory-interpretation supervised-release | Whether a supervised release revocation sentence may be imposed to punish a defendant for his underlying criminal conduct, or whether a punitive revoc… |
| 19-851 | Manuel Lopez-Castro v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-01-08 | Denied | Response Waived | actual-innocence constitutional-law criminal-conduct criminal-law habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-precedent precedent procedural-default | Does the actual innocence gateway to review of procedurally defaulted habeas claims apply only where new evidence shows the defendant did not commit t… |
| 19-7075 | Matthew Rouse v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-12-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | age-of-consent child-pornography criminal-conduct first-amendment privacy sexual-conduct | Whether the child pornography exception to the First Amendment applies to the private exchange of images depicting lawful, sexual conduct between indi… |
| 19-6721 | Christopher Ray Parrish v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-11-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-conduct double-jeopardy federal-court federal-government punishment sentencing supervised-release | Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits a federal court from revoking supervised release and sentencing someone based on criminal conduct for whi… |
| 19-6552 | Darrell Tykwan Atkinson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-11-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-conduct double-jeopardy federal-court federal-government punishment sentencing supervised-release | Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits a federal court from revoking supervised release and sentencing someone based on criminal conduct for whi… |
| 19-6269 | Eduardo Romero Martinez v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-10-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-conduct double-jeopardy federal-court federal-government punishment sentencing supervised-release | Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits a federal court from revoking supervised release and sentencing someone based on criminal conduct for whi… |
| 19-5036 | Craig Alan Toaz v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-07-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | concurrent-sentences concurrent-sentencing criminal-conduct criminal-procedure federal-convictions habeas-corpus habeas-petition judicial-review procedural-grounds sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg-5g1.3 | Whether the district and circuit courts erroneously dismissed petitioner's habeas petition under procedural grounds |
| 18-927 | Emmanuel I. Mekowulu v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-01-17 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-vagueness criminal-conduct criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process ex-post-facto expert-testimony procedural-default standard-of-care vagueness | Whether the government's expert's after-the-fact opinion of the applicable standard of care of Florida Pharmacists is an ex post facto interpretation … |