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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-935 | United States v. Kevin LaMarcus Mitchell | Fifth Circuit | 2026-02-06 | Pending | constitutional-challenge controlled-substance criminal-conviction federal-statute firearm-possession second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1) prohibiting firearm possession by persons with certain criminal convictions violates the Second Amendment as applied to de… | |
| 25-6732 | Daniel Delgado v. United States | Second Circuit | 2026-02-05 | Pending | IFP | as-applied-challenge bruen-standard constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-prohibition second-amendment | Whether Section 922(g)(1)'s lifetime firearm prohibition for individuals convicted of crimes punishable by imprisonment exceeding one year violates th… |
| 25A879 | Anton Soloshenko, Luis A. Torres Gonzalez, and Dominic C. Haymond, II v. United States | Armed Forces | 2026-02-04 | Application | constitutional-rights court-martial criminal-conviction military-justice sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict | Whether the Sixth Amendment requires unanimous jury verdicts in military court-martial proceedings to sustain a criminal conviction | |
| 25A848 | Mohamed Ahmed Hassan v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2026-01-23 | Application | case-load criminal-conviction federal-defenders ninth-circuit sentencing-review writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Ninth Circuit correctly applied legal standards in reviewing the criminal conviction or sentencing of Mohamed Ahmed Hassan | |
| 25-877 | Jeffrey Steven Clay v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2026-01-22 | Pending | Response Waived | appellate-review circuit-court criminal-conviction judicial-error legal-review tenth-circuit | Whether the Tenth Circuit erred when they affirmed Clay's conviction |
| 25-6648 | Nathan Bermea v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2026-01-22 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction federal-law firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment for individuals with prior non-violent criminal convictions |
| 25A812 | Jesus Herrera-Salazar v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2026-01-13 | Application | court-appointed-counsel criminal-conviction criminal-procedure federal-appeal tenth-circuit writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Tenth Circuit correctly applied federal criminal procedural standards in affirming the underlying criminal judgment against the defendant | |
| 25-6509 | Charles Bocock v. Illinois | Illinois | 2026-01-07 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conviction digital-evidence due-process forensic-attribution fourteenth-amendment substantive-proof | Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause permits affirmance of a conviction for knowing and voluntary possession of digital contraband wh… |
| 25-6438 | Frankie Acosta v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-12-29 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-conviction firearms-possession founding-era-precedent second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment for individuals with prior convictions that did not result in disarmament during the Found… |
| 25-6427 | Devin Joe Smith v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-12-23 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession non-violent-offense second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been convicted of 'a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exce… |
| 25A731 | Michael Thomas McCowan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-12-22 | Application | 922(g)(1) constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment supervised-release | Whether a conviction for a § 922(g)(1) offense that bars firearm possession for individuals with prior criminal records violates the Second Amendment … | |
| 25A727 | Gregory W. Pheasant v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-12-19 | Application | criminal-conviction legal-test merits-briefing standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence supreme-court-review | Whether the standard of review for a criminal conviction's sufficiency of evidence requires overturning a lower court's ruling when applying a stricte… | |
| 25A697 | Tra'ven Boyer-Letlow v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-12-15 | Application | counsel-of-record criminal-conviction federal-appeal indigent-defendant petition-for-certiorari sixth-circuit | Whether the district court's criminal conviction of Boyer-Letlow was procedurally sound given counsel's medical incapacitation and request for extensi… | |
| 25A692 | Eliel Nunez Sanchez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-12-12 | Application | criminal-conviction direct-appeal federal-appellate ninth-circuit standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether the Ninth Circuit applied the correct standard of review in affirming a criminal conviction on direct appeal | |
| 25-691 | Lonnie Joseph Parker v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-12-12 | Denied | Response Waived | controlled-substances criminal-conviction federal-regulation medical-prescription prescribing-authority standard-of-care | Whether a doctor can be convicted of unlawfully prescribing controlled substances under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a) (1) and 21 C.F.R. § 1306.04(a) based on a d… |
| 25-6313 | Owen Zachary Simonson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-12-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which permanently prohibits possession of a firearm by a person who has been convicted of a crime punishable by impriso… |
| 25-6285 | Rudy Altamirano v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-12-04 | Pending | IFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession nonviolent-offense second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been convicted of 'a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exce… |
| 25A641 | Robert Keith Ray v. Colorado | Colorado | 2025-12-02 | Application | colorado-supreme-court criminal-conviction due-process supreme-court-rules time-extension writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Colorado Supreme Court's affirmance of a criminal conviction violates the defendant's constitutional rights to due process or a fair trial | |
| 25-6267 | Alphonso Lataurean James v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-12-02 | Pending | IFP | application-note constitutional-review criminal-conviction firearms-regulation second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Is Application Note 14(b) an unreasonable interpretation of § 2K2.1(b)(6)(B), and is 922(g)(1) unconstitutional as applied to Mr. James under the Seco… |
| 25-6186 | Rashawn Lesley Grant v. North Carolina | North Carolina | 2025-11-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-conviction due-process evidence-sufficiency eyewitness-testimony trial-record | Whether the State of North Carolina's conviction of Petitioner Grant for murder and the resulting life sentence violated the Due Process Clause of the… |
| 25-6153 | Marco Antonio Sanchez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-11-18 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process firearms-regulation second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Does § 922(g)(1) violate the Second Amendment facially or as applied to individuals with non-violent prior convictions? |
| 25-6135 | Sonya Fuller v. Georgia | Georgia | 2025-11-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting criminal-conviction due-process felony-murder jackson-standard sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether a conviction for felony murder is permissible under Jackson where the prosecution presented no evidence that the defendant planned, knew about… |
| 25-574 | Ron K. Elfenbein v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-11-13 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | criminal-conviction false-representation health-care-fraud medical-billing statutory-interpretation upcoding | When an allegedly false statement is premised on an ambiguous rule open to multiple reasonable interpretations, can the government secure a defendant'… |
| 25A521 | Thelonious Wayne Kirby v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-11-05 | Application | criminal-appeal criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction sentencing-guidelines writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Eleventh Circuit correctly applied federal sentencing guidelines or constitutional standards in affirming Mr. Kirby's criminal conviction | |
| 25-5925 | Tracy Jenkins v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-10-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction federal-law firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-ban | Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a crime punishable by more than one year v… |
| 25A445 | Thomas Steven Sanders v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-17 | Application | criminal-conviction death-penalty double-jeopardy executive-clemency federal-prosecution fifth-amendment | Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment precludes a defendant from being convicted of two separate offenses arising from the same cr… | |
| 25-461 | Edward Mangano v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-10-15 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse Waived | criminal-conviction fiduciary-duty government-official honest-services-fraud official-action political-influence | Whether an official in one government may be convicted of honest services fraud when his only alleged 'official action' was using his 'tremendous poli… |
| 25-5878 | Detrayous D. Curry v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-10-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance criminal-conviction drug-offense federal-schedule sentencing-guidelines state-law | Whether the definition of a 'Controlled Substance Offense' for purposes of U.S.S.G. §4B1.2 includes a prior state law conviction for a cocaine offense… |
| 25-422 | Deshawn M. Dawson v. United States | Armed Forces | 2025-10-08 | Denied | Response Waived | court-martial criminal-conviction due-process-clause military-justice sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict | Does the Constitution preclude a court-martial panel of lay members from convicting a defendant of a criminal offense by a non-unanimous vote? |
| 25-5772 | Rudy Mario Flores v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession nonviolent-offense second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been convicted of 'a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exce… |
| 25-5748 | She Ler Yer Lee v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-09-29 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession precedential-review second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether Mr. Lee's conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment in light of New York State Rifle & Pistol Asso… |
| 25-5747 | Sidney Donnell Kimble v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-09-26 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction federal-law firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment for individuals with nonviolent criminal convictions |
| 25-5732 | Jeremy Baum v. Missouri | Missouri | 2025-09-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-conviction due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial legal-precedent | Whether affirming a criminal conviction on a different theory than what was presented to the jury conflicts with Supreme Court precedent and violates … |
| 25-5740 | Gregory Tucker v. Noah Nagy, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2025-09-25 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-conviction dna-evidence evidence-sufficiency jackson-rule moveable-object reasonable-doubt | Whether any rational trier of fact could return a guilty verdict where the only evidence was a DNA hit of unknown type and quantity found on an easily… |
| 25-356 | Steven P. Mancuso v. New York | New York | 2025-09-24 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment self-defense | Whether New York's firearm possession laws prohibiting ownership for persons with prior non-violent criminal convictions are facially unconstitutional… |
| 25-5707 | Reginald Robinson, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-09-23 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP | as-applied-challenge circuit-split criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which permanently prohibits possession of a firearm by a person who has been convicted of a crime punishable by impriso… |
| 25-325 | Robert L. Fooks v. Maryland | Maryland | 2025-09-18 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession maryland-law second-amendment supreme-court-precedent | Does Maryland Code, Public Safety Article, § 5-133(b)(2) violate the Second Amendment on its face and as applied, in light of recent Supreme Court pre… |
| 25A302 | Sonya Fuller v. Georgia | Georgia | 2025-09-16 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-review criminal-conviction felony-murder jackson-standard reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether the standard for reviewing the sufficiency of evidence under Jackson v. Virginia permits a conviction to be upheld when the evidence is acknow… | |
| 25-269 | Selim Zherka v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General | Second Circuit | 2025-09-09 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (3) | constitutional-rights criminal-conviction disarmament firearms-possession non-violent-offense second-amendment | Whether the Second Amendment permits the government to disarm an American citizen because he has been convicted of a non-violent fraud offense |
| 25-5535 | Jason Daniel Carbajal v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-09-03 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process firearms-regulation second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Does § 922(g)(1) violate the Second Amendment facially or as applied to individuals with non-violent prior convictions? |
| 25-5540 | Brayan Alexander Contreras-Avalos v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cooperator-testimony criminal-conviction evidentiary-standard prosecutorial-burden sufficiency-of-evidence witness-credibility | Whether the Government's reliance solely on cooperator testimony without physical or forensic evidence was sufficient to convict Mr. Contreras-Avalos … |
| 25A253 | Patrick Miller Webb, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-09-02 | Presumed Complete | controlled-substance criminal-conviction federal-sentencing fifth-amendment pro-se sixth-amendment | Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments permit a criminal conviction and sentence when the petitioner claims inadequate legal representation and limite… | |
| 25A238 | Glenn Allen Brooks v. United States | District of Columbia | 2025-08-29 | Presumed Complete | collateral-consequences criminal-conviction january-6 mootness-doctrine presidential-pardon supreme-court-review | Whether a criminal defendant may constitutionally reject a presidential pardon and whether such rejection affects the mootness doctrine for conviction… | |
| 25-5477 | Cornell Thomas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-08-27 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession nonviolent-offense second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been convicted of 'a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exce… |
| 25-5485 | Taylor Dan Truex v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-08-27 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | constitutional-interpretation criminal-conviction firearm-prohibition historical-tradition second-amendment statutory-analysis | Does § 922(g)(1) violate the Second Amendment facially, and must courts examine historical traditions of disarmament when assessing its constitutional… |
| 25-5421 | Jose Antonio Hernandez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-08-21 | Denied | Relisted (5)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-conviction federal-law firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment for individuals with prior non-violent criminal convictions |
| 25-174 | Bart Wade Reagor v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-08-13 | Denied | Response Waived | bank-fraud criminal-conviction false-statement loan-application material-misrepresentation statutory-interpretation | Whether the decision of the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit is in direct conflict with this Court's recent holding in Thompson v. United States… |
| 25-5331 | Maurice Farris v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-08-12 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-conviction gun-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | Whether Mr. Farris's conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment in light of New York State Rifle & Pistol A… |
| 25-130 | Francis McLain v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-08-04 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-conviction indictment-elements jurisdictional-defect jury-instructions rule-60b4 trust-fund-penalty | Whether a district court can deny a Rule 60(b)(4) motion to vacate a criminal conviction based on jurisdictional defects or incomplete indictment/jury… |
| 25-5259 | Antonio Marshall v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-08-01 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6)IFP | as-applied-challenge circuit-split criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which permanently prohibits possession of a firearm by a person who has been convicted of a crime punishable by impriso… |
| 25-5223 | Burte Gucci Rhodes v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-07-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conviction interstate-commerce jury-instruction legal-sufficiency murder-for-hire procedural-error | Whether a conviction for murder-for-hire can properly be affirmed when the jury was instructed that it need not conclude an interstate facility was us… |
| 25-5224 | Kelechi Collins Umeh v. United States | First Circuit | 2025-07-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conviction defendant-rights jury-trial structural-error trial-court waiver | Is it structural error for a trial court to enter a conviction against a defendant who did not expressly waive his right to a jury trial? |
| 25A121 | James Taric Byrd v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-07-29 | Presumed Complete | criminal-conviction criminal-sentencing district-court life-imprisonment notice-of-appeal third-circuit | Whether the district court's imposition of a life sentence for the charged criminal offenses was legally appropriate given the circumstances of the ca… | |
| 25-5124 | Jacob Graves v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-07-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | Whether Mr. Graves' conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment in light of New York State Rifle & Pistol As… |
| 25-5017 | Brant Davis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-07-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause criminal-conviction due-process firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment | Whether the government may deprive citizens of their Second Amendment rights based on a non-violent prior conviction and whether such prosecution viol… |
| 25-5003 | Eric Richard Garza v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-07-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-conviction de-novo-resentencing fifth-circuit-interpretation mandate-rule sentencing-discretion | Did the Fifth Circuit misapply its restrictive interpretation of the mandate rule which does not permit de novo resentencing, but limits to resentenci… |
| 24-7422 | In Re Jerome Eric Bivens | 2025-06-13 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-conviction due-process judicial-error jury-selection trial-procedure | Does an illegally empaneled jury void a criminal conviction and/or mandate a new trial | |
| 24-7400 | Brandon Lee Mayfield v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-06-11 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6)IFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction federal-firearms-law second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | Whether Mr. Mayfield's conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment in light of New York State Rifle & Pistol… |
| 24-7289 | Fidel Saldana Rodriguez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-05-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-conviction evidence-sufficiency inference-standard reasonable-doubt | Whether evidence that requires a series of inferences to reach an element of an offense, rather than showing the element directly or after a single in… |
| 24-7275 | Jacob Thomas Mireles v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-05-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-conviction federal-law firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been convicted of 'a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exce… |
| 24-7260 | Dawon Hennings v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-05-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-conviction firearm-possession gun-control second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a crime punishable by more than one year v… |
| 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 | |
| 24-7150 | Oscar Williams, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-05-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography criminal-conviction extortion federal-statute u.s.c.-section-2251 u.s.c.-section-875 | Whether the production of child pornography by the alleged victims supports a conviction under Title 18 U.S.C. Section 2251(a) and whether Oscar Willi… |
| 24-7045 | Margaret Ann Sutton v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-04-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conviction drug-trafficking due-process evidence-sufficiency firearm-possession sentencing-guidelines | Whether the evidence is legally sufficient to sustain multiple drug and firearm-related convictions and whether the imposed sentence violates due proc… |
| 24-6974 | Michael Mejia v. Brittany Greene, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2025-04-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | accountability-law appellate-review constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process mere-presence | Whether the Illinois state accountability law at the time of petitioner's conviction, which omitted 'mere presence' as insufficient to convict, was un… |
| 24-6892 | Johnathan Anton Williams v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-03-31 | GVR | IFP | commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-conviction firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment and exceeds Congress's Commerce Clause authority |
| 24-6737 | Carlsel Alexander v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process firearms-ban second-amendment sentencing-guidelines | Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by persons previously convicted of a crime punishable by more than a year of imprisonment, codified at 1… |
| 24-6666 | Marcus Jerell Anderson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-02-27 | Denied | IFP | as-applied-challenge circuit-split criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which permanently prohibits possession of a firearm by a person who has been convicted of a crime punishable by impriso… |
| 24-6625 | Ronnie Diaz, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-02-24 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction federal-law firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment for individuals with nonviolent criminal convictions |
| 24-6517 | Edell Jackson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-02-10 | Denied | IFP | as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 92 2(g)(1) is susceptible to an as-applied constitutional challenge and violates the Second Amendment |
| 24-6501 | In Re Noel J. Bender | 2025-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conviction criminal-procedure domestic-abuse due-process residential-judgment witness-testimony | Whether a defendant's domestic abuse assault conviction is valid when he was present with the victim at the victim's home after being previously acqui… | |
| 24A766 | Aghee William Smith, II v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-02-06 | Presumed Complete | conspiracy criminal-conviction fourth-circuit mail-fraud sufficiency-of-evidence wire-fraud | Whether the Fourth Circuit correctly applied the standard for reviewing the sufficiency of evidence in a federal wire fraud and mail fraud conspiracy … | |
| 24-6452 | Philip Lamar Nordvold v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-02-03 | Denied | IFP | as-applied-challenge circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), prohibiting firearm possession and acquisition by those convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exce… |
| 24-6430 | Maurice Fleming v. Georgia | Georgia | 2025-01-30 | Denied | IFP | accomplice-testimony criminal-conviction due-process jury-instruction legal-principles statutory-interpretation | Whether the trial court's failure to provide a requested jury instruction on an accomplice's testimony requires reversal of a criminal conviction when… |
| 24-798 | Kay E. Anderson v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2025-01-27 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-rights criminal-conviction evidence-suppression fraudulent-misrepresentation search-warrant state-statute | Whether a party can be convicted of a crime based upon evidence obtained under a search warrant that was declared invalid because it was procured by f… |
| 24-6328 | Donald East v. Marty Jackley, Attorney General of South Dakota, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2025-01-16 | Denied | IFP | actual-innocence criminal-conviction exculpatory-evidence guilty-plea habeas-relief ineffective-assistance | Whether a factual basis supporting a criminal conviction can be verifiably false and still result in a valid conviction; whether an attorney accepting… |
| 24-6299 | Anthony Fisher v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conviction deferred-judgment felon-in-possession firearms-restriction mens-rea statutory-interpretation | Whether the Panel's decision conflicted with Rehaif v. United States by affirming a conviction without evidence that the defendant knew a deferred jud… |
| 24-6290 | Brent Howard v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-01-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-conviction due-process firearms-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment and Due Process Clause by prohibiting firearm possession for individuals with prior convic… |
| 24-6264 | Suresh Munshani v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-conviction due-process merger-doctrine money-laundering wire-fraud | Whether the merger of a money laundering conspiracy conviction with a wire fraud conspiracy conviction requires dismissal of the money laundering char… |
| 24A631 | Robert Andrew Wolter v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-12-27 | Presumed Complete | certiorari criminal-conviction eighth-circuit petition-deadline supreme-court-rules writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the petitioner's criminal conviction despite counsel's limited ability to prepare a com… | |
| 24A614 | Wanda L. Edwards v. South Dakota | South Dakota | 2024-12-20 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-rights criminal-conviction due-process sentencing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari | Whether a state supreme court's criminal conviction and sentencing decision violates a defendant's constitutional due process rights | |
| 24A611 | Ronnie Diaz, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-12-19 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearms-possession fundamental-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment when applied to individuals with non-violent criminal convictions | |
| 24A591 | Fernando Lopez-Armenta v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-12-17 | Presumed Complete | criminal-conviction drug-statute federal-statute jury-instructions ninth-circuit sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals correctly applied the legal standard for reviewing criminal convictions under federal drug and firearms sta… | |
| 24A596 | William Stenger v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-12-17 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review criminal-conviction second-circuit supreme-court-rules time-extension writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Second Circuit correctly applied legal standards in reviewing the criminal conviction of William Stenger | |
| 24A574 | Colton Bagola v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-12-12 | Presumed Complete | criminal-conviction eighth-circuit federal-judiciary legal-procedure petition-for-certiorari time-extension | Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the petitioner's criminal conviction despite potential procedural or substantive defect… | |
| 24A572 | Robert Lewis Dear, Jr. v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-12-11 | Presumed Complete | criminal-conviction federal-appeal procedural-due-process supreme-court-review tenth-circuit writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Tenth Circuit correctly applied legal standards in affirming the criminal convictions of a defendant who sought to challenge the procedura… | |
| 24-6102 | Cleate Wilson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-12-10 | Denied | IFP | commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) prohibiting firearm possession by persons with prior criminal convictions violates the Second Amendment and exceeds Cong… |
| 24A559 | Alexander Nicholaus Sweet v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-12-09 | Presumed Complete | criminal-conviction federal-appeal petition-for-rehearing supreme-court-procedure tenth-circuit writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals correctly applied legal standards in affirming the criminal convictions of the petitioner | |
| 24-6063 | Benjamin Tyree Townsel v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) prohibiting firearm possession by persons with prior criminal convictions violates the Second Amendment and exceeds Cong… |
| 24-6020 | Justin Rivera v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-11-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-conviction federal-statute sentencing-guidelines sex-trafficking | Whether the Second Circuit erred in affirming a sex trafficking conviction based on a sentencing guidelines interpretation that conflicts with the Nin… |
| 24-5999 | Juan Manuel Cruzado Laureano v. United States Attorney's Office, District of Puerto Rico | First Circuit | 2024-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights-complaint criminal-conviction doj-waiver federal-procedure solicitor-general-resignation supreme-court-review | Whether a criminal conviction can be invalidated when the Solicitor General resigns and the Department of Justice waives its right to defend the convi… |
| 24A482 | James Timothy Norman v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-11-14 | Presumed Complete | criminal-conviction eighth-circuit legal-standard procedural-review sufficiency-of-evidence writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals correctly applied the legal standard for reviewing a criminal conviction involving alleged evidentiary err… | |
| 24A459 | Raymond Anthony Lewis v. Brian D. Phillips, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2024-11-07 | Presumed Complete | criminal-conviction federal-review habeas-corpus ninth-circuit state-court time-extension | Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision improperly applied federal habeas corpus standards in reviewing a state court criminal conviction | |
| 24A460 | Donald E. Deardorff v. Terry Raybon, Warden | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-11-07 | Presumed Complete | criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit federal-review habeas-corpus standard-of-review writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Eleventh Circuit applied the correct standard for reviewing a federal habeas corpus petition challenging a state criminal conviction | |
| 24-5909 | Bay Travon Wilson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-11-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-conviction firearms-possession gun-control second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment as applied to a person convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for more than one y… |
| 24A429 | Earl Francis Hart v. Charles Daniels, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2024-10-31 | Presumed Complete | actual-innocence criminal-conviction federal-prisoner habeas-corpus savings-clause section-2241 | Whether a federal prisoner can collaterally challenge his criminal convictions under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 by invoking the savings clause of § 2255(e) base… | |
| 24-5786 | Mark Allen Craig, II v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-10-18 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which prohibits firearm possession by anyone convicted of 'a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one … |
| 24A371 | Benjamin Tyree Townsel v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-10-18 | Presumed Complete | criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit federal-appeal jurisdiction sentencing standard-of-review | Whether the Eleventh Circuit correctly applied the standard of review in affirming a criminal conviction and sentence | |
| 24-374 | Richard P. Homrighausen v. Ohio | Ohio | 2024-10-02 | Denied | constitutional-rights criminal-conviction due-process jury-trial logical-inconsistency verdict-review | Whether a criminal defendant is denied due process when convicted of two crimes where a guilty verdict on one count logically excludes a finding of gu… | |
| 24A310 | Rafael Antonio Bracero-Navas v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-10-01 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit federal-criminal-law standard-of-review statutory-interpretation | Whether the Eleventh Circuit correctly applied the standard of review in affirming a criminal conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 3742 | |
| 24-5664 | Christian Pabon v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-09-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conviction due-process enterprise-membership legal-sufficiency murder-in-aid racketeering-conspiracy | Whether the evidence was legally insufficient to establish enterprise membership and whether a rational fact finder could have found the petitioner gu… |
| 24-5655 | Juan M. Cruzado Laureano v. Popular Democratic Party and Its Governing Board | Puerto Rico | 2024-09-27 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-procedure certiorari criminal-conviction department-of-justice supreme-court-rule waiver | Whether a waiver by the US Department of Justice under Supreme Court Rule 15 constitutes an admission of the illegality of a criminal conviction |
| 24A257 | Jonathan High v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-09-12 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit jurisdiction standard-of-review writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals applied the correct standard of review in affirming the petitioner's criminal conviction | |
| 24-5506 | Rustam Yusupov v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-09-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction second-amendment statutory-interpretation unlawful-possession | Whether Rustam Yusupov's conviction for unlawful possession of ammunition under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(8) violates the Second Amendment and whether his ap… |
| 24-5488 | Brandon Lee Mayfield v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-09-09 | GVR | IFP | criminal-conviction gun-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent tenth-circuit | Whether Mr. Mayfield's conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment in light of New York State Rifle & Pistol… |
| 24-5494 | Brian Scott Witham v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-09-09 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | actual-innocence criminal-conviction habeas-corpus plea-bargaining procedural-default section-2255 | Whether a § 2255 petitioner who pleaded guilty to a charged offense based on conduct that is not a crime and who later seeks to rely on actual innocen… |
| 24-5406 | Michael Hoeft v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-08-28 | GVR | IFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction federal-law firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) and (9) prohibiting firearm possession by certain convicted persons are facially unconstitutional under the Second Amend… |
| 24-5414 | Cleveland J. Enmon v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-08-28 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit jury-instructions medical-prescription ruan-standard standard-of-review | Whether the Eleventh Circuit erroneously applied an objective standard in jury instructions for a physician's prescription case in light of the Ruan v… |
| 24-200 | Hamett Diaz v. Pennsylvania, et al. | Third Circuit | 2024-08-22 | Denied | criminal-conviction due-process hearsay-testimony ineffective-assistance trial-counsel witness-testimony | Whether the Third Circuit erred in failing to find that trial counsel provided ineffective assistance by not objecting to inadmissible hearsay testimo… | |
| 24-5368 | Joseph Roach v. Amy Robey, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2024-08-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | accomplice-liability criminal-conviction due-process jackson-v-virginia jury-unanimity sixth-circuit | Whether a defendant was denied due process and a unanimous jury verdict when convicted under alternative theories of culpability and affirmed by the S… |
| 24-5293 | Anthony Douglas Elonis v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-08-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conviction cyberstalking emotional-distress first-amendment intent-standard true-threat | Whether the Third Circuit's decision affirming Petitioner's cyberstalking conviction is erroneous due to insufficient evidence of intent to cause emot… |
| 24-5252 | Vaughn Alexander Cropper v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-08-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conviction extraordinary-review fundamental-error habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default | Whether a procedurally defaulted habeas petition challenging a criminal conviction raises a fundamental miscarriage of justice that warrants extraordi… |
| 24-5219 | Bobbie Ray Edwards v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-08-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-U.S.C.-2254 armed-career-criminal-act civil-procedure criminal-conviction due-process federal-review habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief pro-se-petition sentencing statutory-limitation | Whether the district court's denial of petitioner's timely filed 2255(h) motion was erroneous and deprived petitioner of due process of law and an opp… |
| 24-5170 | Eric Lee Smith v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process false-testimony government-misconduct napue-violation prosecutorial-misconduct | Where the Assistant United States Attorney's representing the Government violates a standard announced in Napue v. Illinois by gaining a criminal conv… |
| 24A71 | Travis Adam Brown v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-22 | Presumed Complete | ammunition-charge criminal-conviction felon-in-possession fifth-circuit plea-agreement sentencing | Whether a felon's guilty plea to possessing ammunition precludes subsequent constitutional challenges to the underlying conviction or sentence | |
| 23A1170 | Bryant D. Aron v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-07-01 | Presumed Complete | criminal-conviction criminal-justice-act federal-case sentencing seventh-circuit writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's criminal conviction and sentence under federal law | |
| 23A1174 | Kevin Deane Jones v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-07-01 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction sentencing-standard statutory-interpretation | Whether the federal appellate court correctly applied the standard of review in affirming a criminal conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 3742 | |
| 23-1351 | Torrey Lynne Henderson, Amara Jana Ridge, and Justin Royce Thompson v. Texas | Texas | 2024-06-27 | Denied | Amici (2)Response Waived | criminal-conviction first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech obstruction-of-passageway obstruction-statute peaceful-assembly peaceful-protest public-forum public-sidewalks | Do the First and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit the government from convicting individuals for obstructing a passageway based solely on their particip… |
| 23A1127 | Sheldon Hannibal v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. | Third Circuit | 2024-06-20 | Presumed Complete | capital-case criminal-conviction federal-review habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief third-circuit | Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals improperly denied a federal habeas corpus petition challenging a criminal conviction or sentence | |
| 23-7744 | In Re William F. Laffoon | 2024-06-18 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jurisdiction mcgirt-ruling native-american native-american-rights reservation-law retroactivity tribal-jurisdiction | Question not identified. | |
| 23A1117 | Kevin Fahrni v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-17 | Presumed Complete | criminal-conviction due-process habeas-corpus mandamus section-2254 sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether a state prisoner can obtain federal habeas relief when state and federal courts allegedly failed to address the merits of a potentially merito… | |
| 23-7717 | Ledra A. Craig v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-06-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | compulsory-process confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rights cross-examination due-process right-to-counsel right-to-cross-examine | Can a defendant's conviction be sustained based on uncorroborated statements made during interrogation? |
| 23-7620 | Donald Kie, Jr. v. Garrett, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2024-06-03 | Denied | IFP | certificate-of-appealability criminal-conviction due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit plea-bargaining sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence sufficient-evidence | Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying a Certificate of Appealability |
| 23-7609 | Donald Washington, Sr. v. California | California | 2024-05-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief procedural-due-process right-to-appeal | Did the Defendant have the Right to Appeal his Conviction 48 years Ago as a Right? |
| 23-7568 | Malek Lassiter v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-05-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-conviction criminal-procedure federal-statute section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court united-states-v-taylor | Whether The Court Of Appeals Erred By Holding Lassiter's Convictions Under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) On Counts 25 And 28 Remain Lawful After United States v.… |
| 23A1014 | Noel Bender v. Iowa Department of Corrections, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2024-05-15 | Presumed Complete | criminal-conviction due-process federal-habeas habitual-offender ineffective-assistance sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether the Due Process Clause requires reversal of a criminal conviction where the state court's adjudication was allegedly contrary to or involved a… | |
| 23-7451 | Hector Patricio Galvan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment congressional-power criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process enumerated-powers firearm firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violate the Second Amendment? |
| 23-7412 | John Thomas Rooney v. Georgia | Georgia | 2024-05-08 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 5th-amendment compulsory-testimony constitutional-violation criminal-conviction due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief privilege-against-self-incrimination self-incrimination state-court-review | Does Cronaias' testimony violate the 5th Amendment's privilege against self-incrimination? |
| 23-7382 | In Re Arthur Jones | 2024-05-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federalism judicial-discretion judicial-overreach jurisdiction mandamus subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether the district court abused its discretion in failing to issue the writ of mandamus | |
| 23-7342 | Marlon Jermaine Johnson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-04-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process firearm-possession gun-ownership non-violent-felon second-amendment | Whether petitioner's conviction for being a non-violent felon in possession of a firearm violates the Second Amendment |
| 23A957 | Benjamin Galecki and Burton Ritchie v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-04-25 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-violation criminal-conviction federal-appeal ninth-circuit panel-decision writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Ninth Circuit correctly applied the standard for reviewing a federal criminal conviction in light of alleged constitutional violations | |
| 23-1145 | Ojin Kim v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-04-22 | Denied | Response Waived | case-or-controversy criminal-conviction deportation deportation-consequences federal-jurisdiction habeas immigration-consequences ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment standing strickland-standard | Whether the real threat of deportation as a result of a federal criminal conviction establishes standing and a real case in controversy for federal co… |
| 23-7207 | Dwayne K. Taylor v. Illinois | Illinois | 2024-04-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-defect criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus jury-instructions necessity self-defense sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Whether the trial Court Committed reversible error in denying the defendant's request for jury instructions on self-defense and necessity, even though… |
| 23-7190 | Trivansky Swington v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-04-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-conviction criminal-sentencing decontrolled-substances eighth-circuit federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-enhancement | Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem… |
| 23A893 | Maurice Farris v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-04-08 | Presumed Complete | certiorari-extension criminal-conviction felon-in-possession firearm-prohibition second-amendment supreme-court-review | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutionally overbroad or violates a defendant's Second Amendment rights in its prohibition of firearm possessi… | |
| 23-6986 | Raghvendra Singh v. California | California | 2024-03-14 | Denied | IFP | access-to-courts constitutional-rights conviction-for-non-crime criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fabricated-charges false-testimony judicial-misconduct standing | Whether the state court erred in not allowing the petitioner to prove that the alleged charges are not crimes |
| 23A830 | Shawn Thomas Borne v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-03-11 | Presumed Complete | certiorari-petition criminal-conviction felon-in-possession firearm-statute supreme-court-review tenth-circuit | Whether a conviction for felon in possession of a firearm under 18 U.S.C. § 922(c)(1) is constitutionally valid or requires further judicial review | |
| 23-925 | Michael Shane McCormick, Sr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-02-27 | Denied | circuit-split consultation-duty criminal-appeal criminal-conviction defendant-consultation defense-counsel flores-ortega lower-court-confusion reasonable-effort sixth-amendment | Whether, to adequately 'consult' regarding an appeal when the defendant says he will decide after sentencing or is obviously dissatisfied with his sen… | |
| 23-934 | Areli Escobar v. Texas | Texas | 2024-02-27 | Denied | Amici (4)Relisted (4) | capital-murder capital-punishment criminal-conviction dna-evidence due-process false-evidence habeas-corpus jury-verdict misleading-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct unreliable-evidence | Whether due process requires reversal of a capital conviction infected with errors the State no longer defends |
| 23-6788 | Terrance Fowler v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2024-02-20 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions maximum-penalty sentencing uncharged-crime | Can a State deny a defendant due process of law by convicting and sentencing him to the maximum penalty for a crime that he was not charged with, nor … |
| 23-6704 | Joshua P. Lindsey v. Sarah Evans Barker, Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana | Seventh Circuit | 2024-02-08 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-standards criminal-conviction due-process free-speech ninth-circuit prosecutorial-misconduct standing | Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 23A727 | Joel Michael Guy, Jr. v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2024-02-06 | Presumed Complete | 28-USC-1257 appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure state-court-review | Whether the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals correctly applied state law in affirming a criminal conviction that may raise potential federal consti… | |
| 23-6630 | Terry L. Terry v. Tim Hooper, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2024-01-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jackson-v-virginia molestation sexual-assault statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence victim-testimony | Did the state court unreasonably apply Jackson v. Virginia when it determined that evidence presented at trial was sufficient to sustain Terry's convi… |
| 23A704 | Ethel Oyekunle-Bubu v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-01-31 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-conviction prescription-law ruan-precedent standard-of-review | Whether the Supreme Court's precedent in Ruan v. United States requires a different standard of review for criminal convictions involving controlled s… | |
| 23-6599 | Devon Blevins v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-01-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1 appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure first-degree-murder insufficiency-of-evidence jackson-v-virginia standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether the court of appeals failed to correctly apply the standard of review for claims of insufficiency of evidence to support conviction of a crime… |
| 23-6601 | Quentin John Fishburne v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-01-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-conviction due-process exclusionary-rule firearm-possession fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-checkpoint traffic-stop | Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in failing to reverse the trial court's order denying the Petitioner's Motion to Suppress the discov… |
| 23A692 | Montel Westley v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-01-26 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-rights criminal-conviction federal-appeal in-forma-pauperis sixth-circuit writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming a criminal conviction where the defendant claims a violation of his constitutional right… | |
| 23-6560 | Cole A. Wolak v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography criminal-conviction district-court-error double-jeopardy possession procedural-reasonableness receipt-and-distribution sentencing | Whether the district court erred in convicting petitioner for both possession of child pornography and for receipt and distribution of child pornograp… |
| 23-6531 | Terrance Brown v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-01-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | borden-v-united-states career-offender crime-of-violence criminal-conviction criminal-sentencing district-court judicial-review mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | Whether the district court erred in finding that Brown is a career offender under U.S.S.G. §§4B1.1 and 4B1.2, where one of Brown's predicate convictio… |
| 23-6470 | Richard L. Gathercole v. United States, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-01-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-motion jurisdiction section-2255 sentencing unconstitutional | Whether the South Circuit Court of Appeals and the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia have jurisdiction to hear and decide the Petiti… |
| 23A626 | Robert Shawn Ingram v. Warden, Holman Correctional Facility | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-01-08 | Presumed Complete | criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit federal-court habeas-corpus petition-review supreme-court-jurisdiction | Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals improperly denied a federal habeas corpus petition challenging a criminal conviction or sentence | |
| 23-618 | Delano Marco Medina v. Colorado | Colorado | 2023-12-08 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | burden-of-proof constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process guilty-plea judicial-procedure judicial-review legal-standard | whether-it-is-consistent-with-due-process-to-convict-a-criminal-defendant-without-finding-the-defendant-is-guilty |
| 23-6211 | Bernard Antoine Hardrick v. Michigan | Michigan | 2023-12-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | adjudication civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-enterprise due-process evidence-sufficiency exclusion jury-instructions prosecutorial-burden prosecutorial-misconduct self-representation trial-court-error | Whether the trial court violated petitioner's right to be present, right to counsel, and right to self-representation when it improperly excluded peti… |
| 23-6170 | Edell Jackson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-12-06 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process federal-law firearms-possession second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment |
| 23-6077 | Royal Douglas Robinson v. Texas | Texas | 2023-11-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 9th-amendment constitutional-challenge conviction criminal-conviction due-process false-evidence forensic-misconduct medical-examiner scientific-evidence | Does a conviction based on unreliable scientific evidence violate due-process |
| 23A462 | Zachary S. Spiegel v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-11-21 | Presumed Complete | appellate-procedure criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit judicial-review sentencing writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals correctly applied legal standards in affirming the petitioner's criminal conviction and sentence | |
| 23-5902 | Kaleb J. Cole v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-10-27 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-conviction due-process first-amendment free-speech retaliation speech-protection worldview-perception worldviews | Whether the First Amendment, Post Counterman v. Colorado permits a criminal conviction for retaliatory speech which is inherently threatening not on t… |
| 23-5871 | Darryl Smith v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio | Sixth Circuit | 2023-10-24 | Denied | IFP | appeals criminal-conviction due-process habeas-corpus judicial-sanction pro-se pro-se-prisoner vexatious-litigator | Whether judges and magistrates can collectively craft orders to impose a vexatious litigator tag on a pro se prisoner and ban his filings to appeal hi… |
| 23-388 | Richard W. Como v. Pennsylvania Public School Employees' Retirement Board | Pennsylvania | 2023-10-12 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights criminal-conviction due-process excessive-fines excessive-punishment fourteenth-amendment pension pension-forfeiture public-employee retirement-law | Did the Commonwealth Court and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court err in forfeiting Mr. Como's entire pension due to criminal convictions as Superintenden… |
| 23-5707 | Edward James Steiner v. Washington | Washington | 2023-10-03 | Denied | IFP | case-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence-tampering insufficient-evidence judicial-process jury-instructions legal-procedure prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-fair-trial | Was there prosecuter misconduct? |
| 23-307 | Kyran Javon Vaughn v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2023-09-26 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | criminal-conviction criminal-defendants direct-review due-process griffith griffith-precedent non-unanimous-jury ramos ramos-decision retroactive-application retroactivity | Whether the rights afforded criminal defendants in Ramos apply retroactively to a case on direct review of the sentence only, given Griffith's holding |
| 23-5654 | Daquail Ramon Johnson v. Virginia | Virginia | 2023-09-26 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia rational-trier-of-fact reasonable-doubt standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence virginia | Whether Virginia's standard of review for appellate claims of insufficient evidence of a criminal conviction violates the Due Process Clause as interp… |
| 23-5527 | Brian Kerry O'Keefe v. Doug Gillespie, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-09-06 | Denied | IFP | circuit-court-review civil-procedure constitutional-violation criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy federal-habeas habeas-corpus jurisdiction post-conviction post-conviction-relief state-court-proceeding | Whether as a matter of procedural law, Appellant's motion under Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b) to reopen a § 2241 case was timely |
| 23-5426 | Christopher Robertson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-08-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempted-robbery constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-law federal-criminal-procedure hobbs-act jury-instructions misstatement-of-law residual-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court | Whether a defendant can be convicted of a 924(c) offense if the defendant was convicted of attempted Hobbs Act robbery |
| 23-130 | Saad Sakkal v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-08-10 | Denied | Relisted (2) | agency-regulation authorization controlled-substances-act criminal-conviction drug-dealer drug-dealing jury-instruction physician physician-prescription statutory-interpretation statutory-requirement | Whether a jury instruction under the Controlled Substances Act may replace the statutory requirement that a physician be convicted as a drug dealer on… |
| 23-5271 | Eric Villarreal v. California | California | 2023-08-03 | Denied | IFP | abuse-of-discretion court-of-appeals criminal-conviction criminal-procedure disability due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-standard legal-review mental-health psychological-disorder right-to-counsel | Did the trial courts abuse its discretion by denying VeSendant and Repellant repeated request for new counsel |
| 23-5266 | Mantell Alabi Stevens v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-08-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-conviction criminal-law drug-distribution due-process jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement sufficiency-of-evidence | Can a court send a case to the jury when the evidence is only sufficient to give them a choice between probabilities instead of being sufficient to pr… |
| 23-5201 | Andrew Valenzuela v. Roberto A. Arias, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2023-07-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process duress-defense habeas-corpus judicial-proceedings jury-instructions | Did the Ninth Circuit's clearly erroneous finding so depart from the accepted course of judicial proceedings as to justify summary reversal? |
| 23A5 | Darryl Smith v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio | Sixth Circuit | 2023-07-03 | Presumed Complete | access-to-courts criminal-conviction filing-restrictions habeas-corpus mandamus prisoner-rights | Whether a district court violates a prisoner's constitutional right of access to courts by enforcing filing restrictions that prevent him from appeali… | |
| 22-7847 | Colum Patrick Moran v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-06-22 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process insufficient-evidence judicial-precedent plain-error precedent standard-of-review statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether a conviction predicated on insufficient evidence can meet the plain error standard in the absence of explicit statutory language or on-point, … |
| 22-7850 | In Re James C. Winding | 2023-06-22 | Dismissed | IFP | 14th-amendment attorney-general civil-rights criminal-conviction due-process federal-court habeas-corpus judicial-review mississippi-court procedural-challenge standing state-court | Whether the U.S. Supreme Court should review the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the South… | |
| 22-7792 | Diante Turman v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-06-15 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act circuit-court-review circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-conviction criminal-procedure district-court-discretion drug-offense drug-schedule drug-schedules federal-sentencing federal-sentencing federal-sentencing 22-7791" mcneill-precedent mcneill-v-united-states safety-valve sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction Whether the district court erred at sentencing in | Does McNeill require courts to define 'controlled substance offenses' under Section 4B1.2(b) to include convictions under laws encompassing substances… |
| 22-1175 | Xiulu Ruan and John Patrick Couch v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-06-05 | Denied | Amici (3) | agency-rulemaking controlled-substances-act criminal-conviction federal-agency felony-offense jury-instruction jury-instructions medical-practice prescription-authority statutory-interpretation | Whether 21 C.F.R. § 13806.04(a) may replace the 'except as authorized' requirement in a Controlled Substances Act jury instruction, thereby permitting… |
| 22-7654 | Juan L. Caballero v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2023-05-26 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-conviction due-process habeas-corpus insufficient-evidence newly-discovered-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct state-court-review sufficiency-of-evidence | Can the lower court courts indiscriminately deny (timely) filed Federal habeas corpus (2261) of newly discovered evidence wherein the newly discovered… |
| 22-7512 | Eric Scott Kindley v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-05-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2412 causation civil-rights constitutional-error criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process false-evidence government-agents judicial-review jury-unanimity | Whether the jury needs to be unanimous, to decide on elements that are the causation of deprivation under 18 USC 2412, and whether specifically instru… |
| 22-7277 | Genard Alonzo Toney v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-04-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-conviction discovery due-process essential-element ineffective-assistance judicial-review plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing-hearing trial-integrity | Whether defendant received ineffective assistance of counsel |
| 22-7137 | Eric Deangelo Griggs v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-03-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burrage-v-united-states criminal-conviction cross-examination drug-distribution due-process heroin-distribution jury-instruction perjured-testimony strict-liability | Whether a person can be convicted for distribution of heroin causing death using a jury instruction that makes the offense a strict liability crime |
| 22-7129 | Thomas P. Thayer v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-03-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach criminal-conviction federal-law minor minor-protection prior-conviction registration-requirement sex-offender-registration sex-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether a categorical approach applies to determining if a prior conviction is a federal 'sex offense' |
| 22-6980 | In Re Michael Blodgett | 2023-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | amg-v-ftc coram-nobis criminal-conviction due-process frap-rule-21 judicial-error mandamus mandamus-relief restitution stare-decisis vertical-stare-decisis | Where the record reveals uncontested facts that the Eighth Circuit committed more than seventeen structural errors over thirty years in three related … | |
| 22-6978 | Dechaun Toliver v. Jay Forshey, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2023-03-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conviction due-process enterprise ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel plea-bargaining plea-colloquy plea-negotiation rico rico-laws | Can a RICO conviction stand without an 'Enterprise' or corrupt acts meeting a monetary threshold? |
| 22-6916 | Carlos Mejia-Quintanilla v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-03-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review appellate-waiver constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-claim plea-agreement plea-bargaining summary-enforcement | whether courts can summarily enforce an appellate waiver to bar motions to vacate unconstitutional convictions |
| 22-6926 | Jesse Davenport, aka Draco John Flama v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-03-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-conviction due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury multi-count-indictment petit-jury | Whether a court violates a defendant's Fifth Amendment Grand Jury rights |
| 22-6855 | Alvin Lee Johnson v. Mississippi | Mississippi | 2023-02-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process indictment-defect ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether Johnson's conviction and sentence derived from a defective indictment |
| 22-6790 | Alexis Jaimez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-02-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process gang-membership guilt-by-association money-laundering | Whether the Ninth Circuit's holding that a defendant is guilty of money laundering conspiracy because he was a 'foot soldier' in a gang and therefore … |
| 22-6697 | Ervin Harris v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-02-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence aggravated-assault borden-precedent borden-v-united-states criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process forcible-assault sentencing-review supreme-court | Whether Petitioner is actually innocent of his aggravated and forcible assault offense, in light of Borden v. United States, 141 S. Ct. 1817 (2021)? |
| 22-6424 | Trevis Thompson v. Illinois | Illinois | 2022-12-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conviction criminal-defendant deliberation-misconduct external-information federal-rule-of-evidence-606(b) harmless-error jury-bias post-conviction-proceeding sixth-amendment unbiased-jury | Where deliberating jurors receive external information that a criminal defendant had committed prior bad acts, does the dissemination of such informat… |
| 22-6359 | Leonid Gershman v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-12-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review collateral-consequence conspiracy-charges criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy merger plain-error sentencing sentencing-multiplicity | Isn't it plain error for a court to impose multiple punishments for multiple counts of conviction that for double jeopardy purposes amount to the same… |
| 22-6230 | Derrick A. Edwards v. K. King, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2022-12-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights compelling-interest constitutional-rights criminal-conviction evidence-challenge free-exercise judicial-review least-restrictive-means procedural-limitations RLUIPA substantial-burden substantive-due-process | Whether RLUIPA requires the respondent to show that it lacks other means of achieving its desired goal without imposing a substantial burden on the pe… |
| 22-6108 | Jose Luis Ramirez, Jr., aka Zachary Matthew Johnson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-11-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver criminal-conviction criminal-procedure fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel money-laundering plea-agreement plea-bargaining securities-fraud | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred in dismissing the petitioner's meritorious appeal of his conviction of securit… |
| 22-5992 | Andre Jenkins v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-11-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circumstantial-evidence criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process joint-defense motion-for-acquittal severance trial-procedure witness-credibility | Sufficiency-of-evidence |
| 22-413 | Robert M. Atwell v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2022-11-02 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process ex-post-facto public-school school-premises-restriction sex-offender-registration tennessee-law | Was the Petitioner's arrest and conviction under the TSORA a violation of the Ex Post Facto Clause of the U.S. CONST., art. 1, sec. 10, cl. 1? |
| 22-376 | Louisville-Jefferson County, Kentucky Metropolitan Government, et al. v. Johnetta Carr | Sixth Circuit | 2022-10-21 | Denied | Amici (2) | 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-action conviction criminal-conviction due-process habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey pardon section-1983 | May a convicted offender, subsequently pardoned, bring a § 1983 action where the pardon fails to expunge the underlying criminal conviction or call it… |
| 22-5865 | Charles Smith v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-10-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appellate-procedure criminal-conviction criminal-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect ninth-circuit plea-agreement sentencing waiver | Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in dismissing the appeal |
| 22-5777 | In Re Adib Eddie Ramez Makdessi | 2022-10-06 | Dismissed | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-conviction due-process equal-protection evidence-tampering jury-instructions jury-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct racial-bias | Whether the trial court erred in denying the defendant's Rule 60(b) motion to vacate the conviction based on evidence of prosecutorial misconduct, rac… | |
| 22-5754 | Jamal Laurent v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-10-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-conviction district-court insufficient-evidence joint-trial joint-trials missing-witness missing-witness-instruction rico-act rico-statute unavailable-witness warrantless-seizure witness-statement | Whether RICO is a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. §924(c) |
| 22-5719 | Shannon Dewayne Reece v. Texas | Texas | 2022-09-29 | Denied | IFP | aggravated-robbery criminal-conviction double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct state-court-precedent witness-testimony | Can a person be convicted of an offense even after the victim testifies that the defendant is not the person that assaulted or robbed them? |
| 22-5693 | Rosa Isela Acuna v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-09-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-conviction criminal-law drug-importation due-process mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether a defendant can be convicted and subjected to enhanced punishment for drug type and quantity without proof of knowledge |
| 22-5568 | Douglas Gordon v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-09-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | copyright-infringement criminal-conviction criminal-law evidence fair-use first-circuit jury-instructions orphan-works sufficiency-of-evidence willful-conduct | Whether the sufficiency of the evidence supported the jury's finding that Mr. Gordon acted willfully |
| 22-5492 | William Wallace v. Florida Commission on Offender Review | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-09-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-sufficiency judicial-review reasonable-doubt sentencing standing witness-testimony | Where there has never been any conviction |
| 22-5413 | Roderick Taylor v. Mississippi | Mississippi | 2022-08-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-conviction due-process federal-treaties ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief procedural-bar strickland-v-washington | Whether Miss. Code Ann. 99-39-21 was unreasonably used to bar petitioner's fundamental issues of severe importance revolving around federal treaties |
| 22-5305 | Aileen Kogera Njoroge v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-08-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conviction criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fraud identity-theft legal-appeal probation restitution sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence trial-court-discretion | Whether the district court erred in denying Kogera's motion for judgment of acquittal on the basis of insufficient evidence to support the jury's verd… |
| 22-5206 | Shain Duka v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-07-27 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 924(c) actual-innocence circuit-court-review concurrent-sentence-doctrine criminal-conviction criminal-procedure invalid-conviction judicial-procedure jury-instruction sentencing-error statutory-interpretation | Whether the Third Circuit Erred in Utilizing the Concurrent Sentence Doctrine to Uphold a Concededly Invalid 924(c) Conviction |
| 22-5168 | Rodney Mesquias v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-07-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-error jurisdiction legal-standard sentencing standard-of-review | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming Mesquias' convictions and sentences |
| 22-5152 | In Re Jerry N. Alfred | 2022-07-22 | Dismissed | Relisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-conviction due-process equal-protection false-evidence fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment | Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is violated when a state knowingly uses false evidence to… | |
| 22-5158 | Bernard J. Battle v. United States | District of Columbia | 2022-07-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance legal-nullity plea-bargaining procedural-default sentencing state-law statutory-interpretation | Whether a guilty plea obtained in direct contravention of the express provisions of an applicable statute renders the sentence illegal, and consequent… |
| 22-5110 | Onterio Dimitri Brown v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2022-07-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence jackson-v-virginia standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence supreme-court-precedent | Whether the Supreme Court has overturned Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307 (1979), and if there is sufficient evidence to justify a conviction |
| 22-17 | Vaxima, Inc., et al. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-07-06 | Denied | Response Waived | 28-usc-2461 breach-of-contract criminal-conviction criminal-forfeiture honeycutt-decision honeycutt-v-united-states indictment statutory-interpretation | Whether a criminal forfeiture judgment against Petitioners is permitted under Honeycutt |
| 21-8215 | Nathaniel Ausbie v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-06-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process government-theory jury-instructions legal-review sufficiency-of-evidence | When a defendant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence for his conviction, may a court of appeals affirm based on a theory different from the one… |
| 21-8140 | Richard Chippero v. Matthew J. Platkin, Acting Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. | Third Circuit | 2022-06-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process insufficient-evidence legal-sufficiency sufficiency-of-evidence | Should Petitioner's convictions be vacated due to insufficient evidence? |
| 21-7987 | Keith Rose v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-05-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights collateral-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review plea-agreement plea-bargaining standing | Whether the right recognized in Class v. United States extends to collateral review |
| 21-7972 | Demajio Jerome Ellis v. Indiana | Indiana | 2022-05-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure constitutional-claims criminal-conviction due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review post-conviction post-conviction-relief standing supreme-court-appeal | Whether the Indiana Court of Appeals erred in affirming the post-conviction court's denial of my post-conviction petition for relief |
| 21-7819 | Kevin Ray Smith v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-05-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion article-iii-standing collateral-attack constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process federal-criminal-law habeas-corpus jurisdictional-defect | Whether Petitioner has Article III standing to challenge conduct not within the precise subject matter of nationwide Federal police power enforcement |
| 21-1411 | James Milton Dailey v. Florida | Florida | 2022-05-03 | Denied | Amici (2) | brady-v-maryland capital-murder criminal-conviction due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review materiality materiality-standard perjured-testimony perjury prosecutorial-misconduct | Whether the State's knowing use of perjury is relevant to determining whether the perjured testimony was material to the verdict |
| 21-7675 | Jason Leon Cruse v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2022-04-21 | Denied | IFP | criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process federal-structure habeas-corpus mcgirt-retroactivity native-american-rights retroactivity tribal-jurisdiction | Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020) applies retroactively to convictions that were final when it was decided? |
| 21-7677 | Kyle Maurice Parks v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-04-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-violation criminal-conviction due-process fabricated-evidence fourth-amendment human-trafficking illegal-search probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant | Whether the petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights were violated by an illegal search and seizure without a warrant and probable cause affidavit |
| 21-7646 | Jason Delacerda v. Texas | Texas | 2022-04-19 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process future-dangerousness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel psychiatric-evidence psychiatric-testimony sufficiency-of-evidence | Did the appellate court err in failing to find that the evidence was insufficient to support the conviction and death sentence? |
| 21-7643 | Daniel Trejo v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation | Ninth Circuit | 2022-04-18 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process duress fourth-district-court jury-instructions penal-code statutory-interpretation | Whether the statutory definition of duress under Penal Code Sections 26 and 288 is analogous |
| 21-7589 | Mark A. Brown v. Bernadette Mason, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy, et al. | Third Circuit | 2022-04-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence reasonable-doubt | Whether the Court of Appeals finding that the state Courts conviction was based on a reasonable determination of the facts in light of the evidence pr… |
| 21-1305 | Melchor Munoz v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-03-29 | Denied | Response Waived | 28-usc-2255 citizenship-revocation criminal-conviction due-diligence government-notice plea-bargaining plea-proceeding section-2255 statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation | Whether the 28 U.S.C. § 2255 'date on which the facts supporting the claim presented could have been discovered through the exercise of due diligence'… |
| 21-7405 | Joshua Guity-Nunez v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-03-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-section-1594 appeal base-offense-level criminal-conviction criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-sentencing human-trafficking sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether Petitioner, who was convicted of 18 U.S.C. § 1594(c), is subject to a Base Offense Level of 34 or 14? |
| 21-7338 | Chandler Saxton v. Georgia | Georgia | 2022-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-conviction cumulative-error due-process fair-trial judicial-review medical-issues procedural-error trial-court | Whether the cumulative errors in the lower court proceedings, including the failure to properly consider medical issues, resulted in a denial of the p… |
| 21-7276 | Julio Rodriguez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-03-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus harmless-error residual-clause standing unconstitutional-vagueness | Whether a certificate of appealability can be issued despite controlling circuit authority to the contrary |
| 21-7280 | Sammie Carroll v. Maryland | Maryland | 2022-03-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review court-of-special-appeals criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency jail-call-evidence standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence | Did the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland err in ruling that the evidence adduced at trial was sufficient to sustain a conviction? |
| 21-7264 | Samuel Lee Gore v. Gus J. Skropas, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-03-03 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process equal-protection federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure standing state-law-interpretation | Does the United States Constitution guarantee a United States citizen due process and equal protection under the law? |
| 21-7152 | Jeremy Heath Barney v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2022-02-17 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 14th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process post-conviction-relief resentencing undisturbed-conviction | Does a defendant have a United States Constitutional 14th Amendment right under due process to attack his undisturbed conviction after being resentenc… |
| 21-7122 | Thomas Warner v. Illinois | Illinois | 2022-02-15 | Denied | IFP | aggravated-battery criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-sufficiency firearm-discharge jury-instructions sentencing state-testimony witness-credibility | Whether Thomas Warner's convictions for aggravated battery with a firearm should be reversed |
| 21-7072 | Dontrell R. Wise v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-02-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-conviction criminal-procedure drug-crimes drug-dealing due-process expert-testimony sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming Dontrell Wise's conviction which was not supported by sufficient evidence to prove his … |
| 21-6851 | Joel Quiles v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2022-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acquittal constitutional-rights criminal-conviction double-jeopardy due-process felony-murder fifth-amendment first-degree-murder trial-procedure | Did the defendant's conviction for first degree felony murder violate his constitutional right against double jeopardy? |
| 21-6740 | Teddy Chiquito v. United States, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2021-12-29 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights criminal-conviction due-process equal-protection indian-civil-rights-act restitution-damages self-defense tribal-bill-of-rights tribal-law | Whether the Government and a Tribal Law Enforcement Employer can arbitrarily convict a Tribal Police Officer |
| 21-923 | Delila Pacheco v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2021-12-22 | Denied | criminal-conviction criminal-procedure final-judgments habeas-corpus indian-law mcgirt-v-oklahoma oklahoma-law retroactivity supreme-court-precedent tribal-jurisdiction | Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced | |
| 21-6646 | Pedro Alvarado v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-12-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-111 18-usc-924 borden-v-united-states consent-search criminal-conviction criminal-law fourth-amendment ruse-search statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Whether Alvarado's conviction qualifies as a violent crime |
| 21-6610 | Cody Allen Bruner v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2021-12-14 | Denied | IFP | criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process final-judgment finality-of-judgments habeas-corpus mcgirt oklahoma retroactivity statutory-interpretation supreme-court tribal-jurisdiction | Whether MeGict v. Dklchema 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020) applies retroactively to convictions that were final when MeGict was announced |
| 21-6576 | Nicholas G. Peacock v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-12-10 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-conviction due-process exhaustion-doctrine federal-review free-speech habeas-corpus marriage state-court statutory-law underage | Do minors have a right to entice an individual for the purposes of marriage if similarly aged individuals are allowed to and being married in their re… |
| 21-6528 | Tushkahomma J. Leon v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2021-12-06 | Denied | IFP | criminal-conviction criminal-procedure juvenile-justice mcgirt-retroactivity miller-v-alabama retroactivity state-procedural-bar subject-matter-jurisdiction tribal-jurisdiction | Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma applies retroactively to final convictions |
| 21-6529 | Brandon Lamont Jenkins v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2021-12-06 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-procedure matloff-v-wallace mcgirt-retroactivity mcgirt-v-oklahoma retroactivity state-procedural-bar subject-matter-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty | Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma applies retroactively to final convictions |
| 21-6494 | Benjamin Robert Cole v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2021-12-02 | Denied | IFP | criminal-conviction criminal-procedure final-judgments habeas-corpus indian-law mcgirt-v-oklahoma oklahoma-law retroactivity supreme-court-precedent tribal-jurisdiction | Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 1408. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced |
| 21-6462 | Clarence Rozell Goode, Jr. v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2021-12-01 | Denied | IFP | criminal-conviction criminal-procedure final-judgment habeas-corpus indian-law mcgirt-v-oklahoma oklahoma-law retroactive-application retroactivity supreme-court-precedent tribal-jurisdiction | Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced |
| 21-6464 | John Fitzgerald Hanson v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2021-12-01 | Denied | IFP | convictions criminal-conviction criminal-procedure final-judgments habeas-corpus indian-law mcgirt-v-oklahoma oklahoma-law retroactivity supreme-court-precedent tribal-jurisdiction | Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 14058. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced |
| 21-6432 | James Chandler Ryder v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2021-11-29 | Denied | IFP | criminal-conviction criminal-procedure final-judgments habeas-corpus indian-law mcgirt-v-oklahoma oklahoma-law retroactivity supreme-court-precedent tribal-jurisdiction | Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 1408. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced |
| 21-6440 | Jemaine Monteil Cannon v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2021-11-29 | Dismissed | IFP | criminal-conviction criminal-procedure final-judgment final-judgments habeas-corpus indian-law judicial-interpretation McGirt-precedent mcgirt-v-oklahoma procedural-law retroactivity | Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 1408. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced |
| 21-6443 | Shaun Michael Bosse v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2021-11-29 | Denied | IFP | criminal-conviction criminal-procedure final-judgment final-judgments habeas-corpus indian-law judicial-interpretation McGirt-precedent mcgirt-v-oklahoma procedural-law retroactivity | Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 1408. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced |
| 21-6383 | Harinder Singh v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-11-23 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review circuit-split concealment criminal-conviction drug-proceeds federal-statute insufficient-evidence money-laundering regalado-cuellar statutory-interpretation | Where the evidence at trial was insufficient was insufficient to prove that the design or purpose of the cash transmittals was to 'conceal or disguise… |
| 21-6355 | Everett Earl Parker v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conviction criminal-sentencing federal-jurisdiction johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement serious-violent-felony statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent violent-felony | Whether Mr. Parker's life sentence for count 1 should be vacated due to lack of two prior qualifying 'serious violent felony' convictions |
| 21-6217 | Alberto Grajales v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-11-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process general-verdict harmless-error judicial-review residual-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation | Whether a general verdict that was obtained in reliance on the unconstitutionally vague residual clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(B) may be sustained b… |
| 21-6115 | Jaime Mayorga v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-10-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | chapman-v-california criminal-conviction criminal-procedure harmless-error intent-to-defraud jury-instruction jury-instructions ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation united-states-v-neder | Did the Ninth Circuit's disposition of Petitioner's instructional error claim, which did not examine evidence Petitioner proffered regarding his lack … |
| 21-6043 | Vedrick Lamonte Symonette v. Florida | Florida | 2021-10-25 | Denied | IFP | brady-v-maryland constitutional-violations criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-error fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice judicial-procedure jurisdiction miscarriage-of-justice vague-indistinct-indefinite | Whether the information provided to the defendant was so vague, indistinct, and indefinite that it resulted in a due process violation, a Brady v. Mar… |
| 21-5890 | Christopher W. Terrell v. Arkansas | Arkansas | 2021-10-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conviction due-process fair-trial impartiality jury-impartiality jury-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-fairness | Is a criminal conviction unconstitutional and in violation of Due Process when a jury does not remain impartial on the question of guilt for the crime… |
| 21-5829 | Amar Taylor v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-09-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c 2nd-amendment crime-of-violence criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process firearm-statute statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis | Whether Petitioner's conviction for using a firearm during a crime of violence in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) remains valid in light of United Sta… |
| 21-467 | Clifton Merrill Parish v. Oklahoma, et al. | Oklahoma | 2021-09-29 | Denied | Amici (1) | collateral-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus indian-law oklahoma-law retroactivity supreme-court-precedent tribal-jurisdiction | Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced |
| 21-5746 | In Re Conghau Huu To | 2021-09-22 | Denied | IFP | criminal-conviction cruel-and-unusual-punishment district-court-procedure due-process federal-review gatekeeping habeas-corpus judicial-integrity newly-discovered-evidence sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether the district court and the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals violated the petitioner's constitutional rights by making misstatements of facts … | |
| 21-5656 | Omar Cebrero v. Rosemary Ndoh, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2021-09-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conviction due-process felony-murder jackson-v-virginia jury-finding major-participant special-circumstance sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether the state court's determination that there was sufficient evidence to support the jury's special circumstance finding that Petitioner was a 'm… |
| 21-5645 | In Re Donald Mack | 2021-09-10 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus mental-incompetence pate-v-robinson procedural-rules | Can a mentally incompetent defendant challenge his conviction under the Fourteenth Amendment despite procedural rules? | |
| 21-349 | Kent Eric LeBere v. Travis Trani, Warden, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2021-09-03 | Denied | Response Waived | brady-claim brady-violation certificate-of-appealability criminal-conviction due-process false-testimony habeas-corpus perjury prosecutorial-misconduct wrongful-conviction | Whether the lower courts should fully decide whether the state knew or should have known that the testimony about Mr. LeBere's 'confession' was false |
| 21-269 | Anthony Carter v. Texas | Texas | 2021-08-24 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | controlled-substances criminal-conviction drug-possession jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia molecular-structure statutory-interpretation sufficiency-analysis technical-elements | Whether a reviewing court may uphold a conviction where the offense is defined by technical elements beyond the understanding of an ordinary factfinde… |
| 21-5307 | Millard Jerome Strickland, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-08-05 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (4)IFP | career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-conviction federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law | Whether a prior conviction involving a substance that is not a controlled substance for the purposes of federal law can render a federal defendant a '… |
| 21-5219 | Bryan James Collins v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-07-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process evidence federal-statute fifth-circuit sentencing statutory-interpretation | Whether the Fifth Circuit wrongly affirmed Collins's conviction |
| 21-5151 | Kenan Ivery v. Ohio | Ohio | 2021-07-21 | Denied | IFP | aggravated-murder criminal-conviction due-process essential-elements insufficient-evidence jury-removal murder reasonable-doubt trial-procedure | Is a petitioner denied due process of law when he is convicted for offenses of which there was insufficient evidence presented at trial to have found … |
| 21-5114 | Mario Daniels v. Florida | Florida | 2021-07-16 | Denied | IFP | aggravated-assault criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jury-determination separation-of-powers sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation substantive-rights | Whether the First District Court of Appeals unauthorized abrogation of an Essential Element of the statutory offense of Aggravated Assault deprived Da… |
| 21-60 | Logan Brooks Drinkard v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-07-16 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy greater-offense jury-verdict lesser-included-offense | Whether constitutional double jeopardy principles prohibit a conviction on a greater offense when the jury found the defendant not guilty of a lesser … |
| 21-5120 | Kent Taylor v. Steven Otero | California | 2021-07-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-conviction due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default standing state-court-interpretation statute-of-limitations takings | Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims |
| 21-5049 | Yancey J. Myers, aka Yam v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-07-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fatal-variance judicial-integrity plain-error reversible-error standard-of-review | When the as facto elauee is nic hed ae Ee eit 2 '5 obviously plain, does this error, reguire a reversal of Seog! criminal Conv aha |
| 20-8135 | Gregg McNamara v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California | Ninth Circuit | 2021-05-25 | Dismissed | Response WaivedIFP | coerced-confession constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus mental-competency mental-impairment sixth-amendment | Whether a person convicted while suffering from severe mental impairment can invoke the Sixth Amendment right to know the nature and cause of the acti… |
| 20-7963 | Lugene L. Scott v. Neil Turner, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2021-05-10 | Denied | IFP | criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process felonious-assault fifth-amendment manslaughter sentencing time-served | Is the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution violated when a defendant is denied credit for time served when… |
| 20-7903 | Jerry W. Green, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-04-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy-objective criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency jury-finding jury-findings predicate-acts RICO-conspiracy | Whether sufficient evidence exists to sustain a RICO conspiracy conviction when the Government charges specific predicate acts in the indictment, the … |
| 20-7857 | Benjamin Ayala v. New York | New York | 2021-04-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burglary constitutional-interpretation criminal-conviction double-jeopardy dwelling-entry fifth-amendment multiple-convictions single-entry state-court-conflict uniform-decision | Whether petitioner's Fifth Amendment right against double jeopardy was violated |
| 20-7845 | Oscar Minaya v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-04-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 924(c) actual-innocence court-of-appeals criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence section-924c statutory-interpretation yates-precedent yates-v-united-states | Whether a court should consider evidence of the defendant's actual innocence of the charged offenses in evaluating error under Yates v. United States |
| 20-1410 | Xiulu Ruan v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-04-07 | Judgment Issued | Amici (8)Relisted (5) | controlled-substances criminal-conviction criminal-liability good-faith-defense medical-ethics medical-prescribing prescription professional-practice statutory-interpretation | Whether a physician alleged to have prescribed controlled substances outside the usual course of professional practice may be convicted under Section … |
| 20-7676 | Aaron Orlando Richards v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2021-04-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circumstantial-evidence criminal-conviction criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jackson-v-virginia motion-for-bill-of-particulars motion-to-suppress reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether the State presented sufficient evidence to convict under Jackson v. Virginia |
| 20-1369 | Mohammed Jabateh v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-03-31 | Denied | appellate-review conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure federal-criminal-rule federal-criminal-rule-52(b) plain-error plain-error-rule sentencing statutory-construction | Does the plain error rule permit affirmance of a federal criminal conviction and sentence based on conduct that concededly does not violate the charge… | |
| 20-7620 | Andrew Guy Moret v. Patrick Garrett, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conviction habeas-corpus judicial-review mootness post-conviction pre-trial-claims pretrial procedural-bar successive-petition successive-writ | Does a criminal conviction halt or moot a pending pretrial habeas corpus action? |
| 20-7523 | Joseph M. Bryant v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2021-03-22 | GVR | Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure direct-review due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus non-unanimous-jury ramos-v-louisiana retroactivity supreme-court-precedent | Is Petitioner convicted by a non-unanimous verdict, whose case is not yet final, entitled to the benefit of the holding in Ramos? |
| 20-7425 | Cornelius Kenyatta Craig v. Andre Matevousian, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2021-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment reasonable-doubt sixth-circuit | Whether the 'same evidence' standard for double jeopardy under the Fifth Amendment is unconstitutional as applied to the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Pr… |
| 20-7329 | Justin L. Knight v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2021-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conviction criminal-procedure evidence-suppression fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment investigative-stop reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Whether the police had reasonable suspicion for an investigative stop |
| 20-7314 | Willard Lee Moss, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-03-03 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-conviction criminal-law domestic-violence due-process firearm-possession firearms fourth-circuit legal-error mens-rea rehaif rehaif-error | Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in affirming Moss's conviction for possession of a firearm by a domestic-violence-offender, where the evidence indica… |
| 20-7322 | Kelsey Videl Coffee v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-03-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence aiding-and-abetting conspiracy criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process hobbs-act jury-instructions | Whether Petitioner Is Actually Innocent Of Counts 4-8, Based On Conspiracy To Hobbs Act Robbery And Aiding And Abetting Hobbs Act Robbery |
| 20-1134 | John Myers v. Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison | Seventh Circuit | 2021-02-19 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-conviction criminal-defense ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis standard-of-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | Whether the Seventh Circuit erred by holding, in conflict with at least four other courts of appeals, that to establish prejudice under Strickland v. … |
| 20-1131 | James C. Dimora v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-02-17 | Denied | Response Waived | bribery conviction criminal-conviction due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions lawful-conduct legal-error official-act statutory-interpretation | Whether a McDonnell error can invalidate convictions on additional counts that do not have an 'official act' element but depend on the jury's assessme… |
| 20-7113 | Troy X. Kelley v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure contract-rights contractual-obligation criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process imprisonment-for-debt property-rights stolen-property | Whether a contractual right to payment constitutes ownership of money |
| 20-7107 | Jimmy Richard Husband v. J. Ray Ormond, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2021-02-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | collateral-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-defect retroactive-effect retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation substantive-rule | Whether NELSON V. COLORADO, 137 S. Ct. 1249 (2018), announced a new substantive rule, narrowing the language and scope of 18 USC Sect. 3661, that has … |
| 20-6848 | Dana Sylvester Whitley v. R. Graham, Jr., Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2021-01-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review merger-of-sentences ohio-court-of-appeals post-conviction-relief second-degree-murder sentencing | Was the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland correct in dismissing my habeas corpus petition? |
| 20-6835 | Otha S. Hamilton v. Dennis Reagle, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2021-01-11 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-conviction expert-witness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence medical-evidence physical-impossibility priapism-surgery witness-testimony | Whether the Seventh Circuit erred in finding no substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right, when trial counsel failed to investigate … |
| 20-6732 | Adams Joel Forty-Febres v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-12-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence-insufficiency first-circuit judicial-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether Evidence was Totally Insufficient for the Conviction to Fairly Stand |
| 20-6460 | Reginald Hollie v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-11-27 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act commerce-clause conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure drug-offense interstate-commerce jury-trial plain-error-review rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement | Whether courts of appeals may rely on information not proven to the jury to affirm a conviction on plain-error review |
| 20-6411 | Miguel A. Ramirez v. California | California | 2020-11-24 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure cumulative-error defendant-rights due-process evidence-admissibility jury-instructions prejudicial-error sexual-abuse | Whether the trial court's instructions on continuous sexual abuse were prejudicial |
| 20-6428 | Ronald Herron v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-11-24 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924c advance-knowledge aiding-and-abetting criminal-conviction due-process firearm-conduct firearm-related-conduct jury-instruction residual-clause section-924c unconstitutional | Did the second circuit err by affirming petitioner's 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) convictions |
| 20-711 | City of Fairbanks, Alaska, et al. v. Marvin Roberts, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-11-23 | Denied | Relisted (2) | 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights conviction-vacatur criminal-conviction due-process favorable-termination habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey section-1983 | Whether vacatur of a conviction by settlement qualifies as a favorable termination under Heck v. Humphrey when the vacatur was merely the ministerial … |
| 20-6381 | Domenico Anastasio v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure district-court indictment rico-conspiracy second-circuit standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred by affirming the judgment of conviction and sentence pronounced by the United … |
| 20-6123 | Dale C. Holcombe v. Florida | Florida | 2020-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment racketeering stolen-property | Whether possession of an item that is one or more transactions removed from an alleged theft constitutes possession of stolen property |
| 20-430 | Justin Marques Henning v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-10-05 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (3) | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process equipoise-rule evidence mere-presence | Whether a criminal defendant may be convicted based solely on evidence of his mere presence near the scene of the crime, without any evidence that the… |
| 20-5725 | Rheashad Lamar Lott v. E. Oseguera, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2020-09-16 | Denied | IFP | administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-conviction due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure post-conviction-relief standing state-supreme-court statutory-interpretation | Was PeTL {tower's 42 U.S.C. 31493 COMPLATY ENTITLED To REVEFIT OF EQUITARE Tota |
| 20-5636 | Miguel Figueroa v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-09-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction gun-statute plea-bargaining plea-colloquy predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether a defendant's statement during a plea colloquy admitting conduct that could serve as a predicate for a conviction for use of a gun under 18 U.… |
| 20-5646 | Sean Justin Owens v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-09-10 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act commerce-clause criminal-conviction firearm-possession jury prior-conviction prior-convictions rehaif-v-united-states sentencing serious-drug-offense | Whether courts of appeals may affirm a defendant's conviction by relying on facts about the defendant's prior convictions that were not proven to the … |
| 20-292 | John Pinder v. Scott Crowther, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2020-09-04 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-rights conviction criminal-conviction due-process false-testimony federal-courts judicial-review prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct state-courts | Whether Due Process is violated when a prosecutor relies on false testimony to secure a conviction but did not know that the testimony was false until… |
| 20-5551 | Ohio, ex rel. Jeremy Kerr v. Robert Pollex, et al. | Ohio | 2020-09-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-sufficiency jurisdiction state-court state-court-judgment subject-matter-jurisdiction sufficiency-of-evidence | Does a state court's judgment of conviction violate the 14th Amendment when the record is devoid of evidence proving the defendant committed an elemen… |
| 20-5453 | Jose Luis Sanchez-Rosado v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-08-24 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-error criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit harmless-error involuntary-plea plea-bargaining plea-colloquy standard-of-review | Whether an unconstitutional conviction based on a plea colloquy that omitted an element of the offense must be reversed where the defendant objected t… |
| 20-163 | Brett C. Lillemoe v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-08-14 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | circuit-split criminal-conviction due-process economic-harm federal-fraud fraud materiality money-property-fraud second-circuit statutory-interpretation | Whether a defendant may be convicted of federal 'money or property' fraud when his alleged deceit was incapable of affecting any economic decisions by… |
| 20-5342 | Rigoberto Avila, Jr. v. Texas | Texas | 2020-08-13 | Denied | IFP | actual-innocence constitutional-standard conviction criminal-conviction due-process false-testimony innocence post-trial-developments post-trial-review scientific-evidence | Does a conviction violate the Due Process Clause if a key part of the prosecution's case was scientific evidence that later developments have proven f… |
| 20-5252 | Garry Grace v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-08-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-922 18-usc-924 criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process firearm-offense knowingly-element mens-rea rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states status-elements statutory-interpretation | Whether Mr. Grace was illegally charged with, and unknowingly convicted of, a crime that was not an offense against the United States |
| 20-5208 | William Monterial Jones v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2020-07-29 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence identity identity-evidence procedural-default state-prosecution | Whether the State sufficiently proved Petitioner's guilt when no contemporaneous identity evidence existed to link Petitioner as the perpetrator? |
| 20-5165 | Lonnie Kade Welsh v. Texas | Texas | 2020-07-24 | Denied | IFP | civil-commitment criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment insanity-defense mens-rea mental-capacity sanity | Whether the State of Texas caused a fundamental miscarriage of justice by refusing to overturn a criminal sentence despite evidence of lack of mental … |
| 20-5070 | Joaquin Shadow Rams v. Virginia | Virginia | 2020-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review constitutional-interpretation criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia sufficiency-of-evidence virginia | Whether Virginia's standard of review for appellate claims of insufficient evidence in criminal convictions violates the Due Process Clause as interpr… |
| 19-8751 | Paramjit Singh Basra v. Washington | Washington | 2020-06-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-authority appellate-remedy criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-abuse state-judiciary statutory-duty | Is it lawfully permissible for a State to convict a person twice for a single crime? |
| 19-8733 | Petrona Gaspar-Miguel v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-06-17 | Denied | IFP | border-crossing criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process immigration-law law-enforcement-surveillance official-restraint statutory-interpretation | Whether constant surveillance by a law enforcement agent is 'official restraint' that prevents an 'entry' and thus a conviction for 'entry without ins… |
| 19-8711 | Willie Dunn v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2020-06-15 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment state-courts | Whether petitioner's conviction based upon a non-unanimous verdict violated the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution? |
| 19-8623 | Joshua Charles Lovell Moseley v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2020-06-09 | Denied | IFP | burglary criminal-conviction criminal-procedure dominion-control double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection federalism grand-larceny reasonable-doubt standard-of-review totality-principle | When two state courts arrive at different conclusions using different governing legal principles on the same case, should the petitioner be given a re… |
| 19-1307 | Edward Thomas, Warden v. William Leroy Barnes | Fourth Circuit | 2020-05-20 | Denied | actual-prejudice brecht-v-abrahamson criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas-review fourth-circuit habeas-corpus juror-misconduct jury jury-contact precedent-interpretation substantial-effect | Did the Fourth Circuit misapply this Court's precedents by granting habeas relief where there was no evidence that a juror's contact with a third part… | |
| 19-8338 | Charles P. Mayeux, Jr. v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2020-04-22 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-amendments criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jackson-v-virginia jury-trial non-unanimous-verdict sixth-amendment | Whether a conviction based upon a non-unanimous verdict violates the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution? |
| 19-8261 | Sean Ath v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-04-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-sufficiency judicial-standard standard-of-review substantial-evidence sufficiency-of-evidence united-states-v-rahseparian | Whether the United States Court of Appeals properly applied the 'substantial evidence' test in concluding there was sufficient evidence to affirm Peti… |
| 19-1213 | Buck Leon Hammers v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-04-14 | Denied | Response Waived | conspiracy conspiracy-conviction-inferences-executive-positio criminal-conviction evidence evidence-standard exculpatory-evidence executive-position hearsay hearsay-exculpatory-evidence-chambers-v-mississipp inference judicial-review tenth-circuit | Whether the Tenth Circuit improperly found sufficient evidence for Mr. Hammers to be convicted of conspiracy based solely upon inferences from his exe… |
| 19-8256 | Jerry Browdy v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-04-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit insufficient-evidence judicial-review motion-for-acquittal sentencing-errors sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether the evidence was insufficient to support Browdy's conviction and his motion for judgment of acquittal should have been granted |
| 19-8234 | Eric J. Davis v. LaShann Eppinger, Warden | Ohio | 2020-04-09 | Denied | IFP | conviction court-jurisdiction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction legal-finality petition-construction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment | Whether there can be a finality of judgement of conviction rendered against a criminal defendant, where the criminal court lacked subject-matter-juris… |
| 19-8186 | Leroy Staton v. Superintendent, Lee Correctional Institution | Fourth Circuit | 2020-04-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence bill-of-attainder criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel sexual-assault | Whether defendant is not guilty due to lack of rape and murder cover-up, resulting in an irrational conviction from due process violations and an unfa… |
| 19-8133 | Jorge A. Martinez v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-03-31 | Dismissed | Response WaivedIFP | but-for-causation causation constitutional-rights conviction-notice criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process health-care-fraud judicial-notice statutory-interpretation | Whether the 'but-for' test of general causation is synonymous to the statutorial element of actual causation |
| 19-8119 | Walter E. Williams v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Florida | 2020-03-27 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process essential-element felony-murder judicial-review jury-instruction standing | Whether the conviction for a crime without proof of an essential element of that crime violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 19-8106 | Salvador Arteaga Aragon v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-03-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review conspiracy court-of-appeals criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency judicial-review petitioner standard-of-review | Whether the court of appeals erred in finding sufficient evidence to sustain petitioner's conspiracy conviction |
| 19-8086 | Randy Dale Jackson v. Tommy Taylor, Interim Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections | Fifth Circuit | 2020-03-24 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment 8th-amendment access-to-courts appellate-sanctions civil-rights constitutional-rights conviction-challenges criminal-conviction due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment | Whether Petitioner's First, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights are violated by the imposition of monetary sanctions and threat restr… |
| 19-8048 | Collyer Goodman v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-03-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review burden-of-proof circuit-court circuit-court-split conspiracy criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process narcotics narcotics-conspiracy sentencing shared-objective supreme-court | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred by affirming the judgment of conviction and sentence pronounced by the United … |
| 19-8044 | Brian Vidrine v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-03-19 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | 924(c) career-offender criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states mandatory-enhancement section-924c sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Are Vidrine's § 924(c) convictions invalid in light of this Court's decision in Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), and its progeny? |
| 19-7982 | Alex Penland v. Ohio | Ohio | 2020-03-13 | Denied | IFP | abuse-of-discretion criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence false-testimony habeas-corpus judicial-fraud legal-remedy post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct trial-court-discretion | Does the trial court abuse its discretion when it failed to entertain Penland's claim that his conviction was tainted by fraud when the prosecutor kno… |
| 19-7945 | Zacharias Abab Aguedo v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit insufficient-evidence judgment-of-acquittal sentencing sentencing-errors sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether the evidence was insufficient to support Aguedo's conviction and his motions for judgment of acquittal should have been granted |
| 19-7889 | Walter Rosario-Colon v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2020-03-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conviction criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence insufficient-evidence jury-instructions reasonable-jurist second-degree-murder self-defense | Whether reasonable jurists would determine that Walter Rosario-Colon acted in self-defense when he struck Antonio Aguado, or whether there was insuffi… |
| 19-7843 | Tony Buck v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-03-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bureau-of-prisons constitutional-law constitutional-rights conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review punishment punishment-clause sentencing | Whether the Judgment of Conviction should be vacated as a violation of the Double Jeopardy Clause |
| 19-7777 | John Henry Hoyle v. West Virginia | West Virginia | 2020-02-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction question-not-identified sexual-offender-registration standing statutory-interpretation takings telephone-disclosure void-for-vagueness | Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted |
| 19-7750 | Russell Patrick Brown v. Kenneth D. Hutchison, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2020-02-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 1st-degree-murder constitutional-due-process constitutional-violation conviction criminal-conviction due-process insufficient-evidence jackson-v-virginia jury-instruction premeditation self-defense supreme-court-precedent | Whether it's a U.S. constituion Due Process violation proscribed by this court in Jackson v. Virginia, for Mr. Brown's 1st degree murder conviction to… |
| 19-7670 | Hooman Ashkan Panah v. Ron Broomfield, Warden | California | 2020-02-13 | Denied | Amici (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-conviction due-process federal-law habeas invalidated-evidence judicial-review post-conviction scientific-evidence trial | What is the test to determine when due process is violated based on scientific evidence presented at trial which is later shown to be invalid? |
| 19-953 | Charles Farrar v. Dean Williams, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2020-01-30 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-conviction due-process judicial-review material-evidence perjured-testimony perjury post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct | Whether the Due Process Clause is violated when the prosecution relies on material, perjured testimony to secure a conviction but did not know the tes… |
| 19-7489 | Paul Edward Duran v. Ralph Diaz, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-29 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-provisions criminal-conviction criminal-procedure empirical-evidence evidence evidence-standard exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment illinois-v-krull judicial-review search-and-seizure standing statutory-provisions united-states-v-leon | Whether the Circumstances regarding the Fourth Amendment Exclusionary Rule § 2010F not evolved around the obtaining, holding and exclusion of evidence… |
| 19-7457 | Rogelio Villarreal-Estebis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | complete-defense criminal-conviction criminal-procedure drug-trafficking evidence-exclusion federal-rule-of-evidence-403 right-to-defense rule-403 sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-rights vehicle-ownership | Whether the Fifth Circuit's decision to affirm the trial court's refusal to admit the evidence was contrary to, or involved an unreasonable applicatio… |
| 19-7278 | Terrance Cobb v. Florida | Florida | 2020-01-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confession criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief | Whether Mr. Cobb's right to due-process was violated by the Florida courts in denying him post-conviction-relief based on newly-discovered-evidence |
| 19-7272 | Kenyatta Quinn Mitchell v. Ralph Diaz, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment compulsory-process constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-trial reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment trial-fairness | Whether the petitioner received constitutionally effective assistance of counsel at trial |
| 19-7285 | In Re Lawone Wilkinson | 2020-01-14 | Denied | IFP | auto-repair-laws business-dispute-criminal-case constitutional-conflict criminal-conviction deceptive-testimony diligence-and-cause habeas-corpus mandated-compliance new-evidence possession-property-interests pro-se-prisoner robbery robbery-elements state-federal-laws unconstitutional-error | Under Habeas Corpus, can this Court take NOTICE of a previous UNconstitutional ERROR having a Substantial INjurious EFFECT | |
| 19-7150 | Michael J. Walton v. Jack Kowalski, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2020-01-02 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-procedure appellate-review child-witness criminal-conviction direct-appeal due-process false-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-appellate-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct witness-coaching | Whether counsel was ineffective for failing to reveal indisputably false testimony and coaching to the 4-year-old child who gave the false testimony |
| 19-7008 | Abraham Hernandez-Zavala v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-12-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | coram-nobis Criminal-Conviction criminal-procedure custody custody-status deportation deportation-supervised-release due-process Habeas-Corpus immigration immigration-law supervised-release writ-of-error-coram-nobis | Whether deportation automatically ends an immigrant's imposed supervised release? |
| 19-7024 | Germira Lamar Carter v. Michigan | Michigan | 2019-12-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-violation criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-test | Where the state courts of Michigan has convicted a criminal defendant in violation of his Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel, is… |
| 19-664 | Eugene H. Williams, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-11-22 | Denied | Response Waived | 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence coram-nobis criminal-conviction criminal-procedure destructive-devices firearms firearms-violations ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mens-rea statutory-interpretation writ-of-coram-nobis | Whether Petitioner is innocent of the charges resulting from a complete miscarriage of justice |
| 19-620 | Christian K. Narkiewicz-Laine v. Kevin C. Doyle, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2019-11-14 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure common-law copyright criminal-conviction damages prejudice prejudicial-evidence prior-criminal-conviction state-common-law statutory-damages visual-artists-rights-act | Is a plaintiff prevented from collecting statutory damages under the Visual Artists Rights Act as well as under state common-law for damages to the sa… |
| 19-6543 | Peter Gakuba v. Michelle Neese | Seventh Circuit | 2019-11-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-conviction due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing structural-error structural-errors | Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the state court's denial of habeas corpus relief, involving issues of due-process, equ… |
| 19-6461 | Vernon Allen Collins v. Maryland | Maryland | 2019-11-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-jury-instructions civil-rights collateral-challenges coram-nobis criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus hearsay-rule jury-instructions laches laches-defense structural-errors | Whether a writ of error coram nobis petition can be barred under the two-prong test of the laches defense that challenges the constitutionality of a c… |
| 19-6453 | James E. Lang v. Florida | Florida | 2019-10-30 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fiore-v-white judicial-review pipeline-law precedent-interpretation retroactivity statutory-interpretation | When a state's highest court corrects an erroneous interpretation of its statutory law committed by its lower appellate court, that has affirmed a con… |
| 19-6423 | Halisi Uhuru v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conviction criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-investigation federal-jurisdiction incarceration legal-proceeding mens-rea obstruction-of-justice rico rico-organization | Whether the appellant was improperly convicted of RICO participation and obstruction of justice |
| 19-6250 | Father v. Maternal Grandparents | Ohio | 2019-10-10 | Denied | IFP | adoption adoption-consent civil-rights criminal-conviction due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment incarceration parental-rights statutory-interpretation statutory-law | Whether incarcerated parents have a due-process right to consent to adoption of their children under the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 19-6232 | Jason James Neiheisel v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-10-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-conviction criminal-procedure demeanor due-process jury-verdict prosecutorial-questioning reversible-error substantive-evidence sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether the Eleventh Circuit, on review for sufficiency of evidence, can affirm a conviction citing the verdict itself; on the supposition the jury co… |
| 19-6076 | Tamela M. Lee v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-09-26 | Denied | IFP | constituent-contacts constitutional-limits criminal-conviction federal-officials government-contact hobbs-act honest-services mcdonnell-v-united-states municipal-officials official-act | Can a county official be convicted of Honest Services and Hobbs Act violations for contacting federal and municipal officials on behalf of constituent… |
| 19-5919 | Marlon Romaine Carter v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2019-09-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constructive-possession criminal-conviction due-process felon-in-possession fourteenth-amendment jackson-v-virginia sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether the State of Louisiana misapplied Jackson v. Virginia sufficiency of evidence test |
| 19-5793 | Anton Jevon Alexander v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-09-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c bank-robbery constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process federal-statute residual-clause statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness supreme-court-precedent underlying-crime vagueness vagueness-doctrine | Whether Alexander's 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) conviction must be vacated in light of United States v. Davis, 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019) |
| 19-213 | Charles Fischer v. Texas | Texas | 2019-08-19 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review character-evidence constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process propensity-evidence propensity-inference statutory-interpretation texas-court-of-appeals texas-statute | Whether the Due Process Clause is offended by a statute that authorizes criminal convictions on the basis of character conformity and propensity |
| 19-5491 | Shed T. Woods v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-08-07 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-conviction divisibility drug-offense indiana-code-35-48-4-1 indiana-statute serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether a conviction for dealing in cocaine or narcotic drug under Indiana Code § 35-48-4-1 is improperly considered a 'serious drug offense' under th… |
| 19-5450 | Paul Suarez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c appeal conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure drug-trafficking firearm-offense jury-unanimity law-of-the-case legal-sufficiency manifest-injustice sufficiency-of-evidence | Did the panel err by holding that the 'law of the case' governed its decision in holding that the evidence was legally sufficient to sustain the petit… |
| 19-5424 | Terry James Sullivan v. City of Missoula, Montana | Montana | 2019-08-01 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-conviction disorderly-conduct due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech | Does Petitioner's conviction for disorderly conduct by allegedly uttering the word 'effing' violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments? |
| 19-141 | Jeffrey Fairbanks v. Indiana | Indiana | 2019-07-30 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-rules ex-post-facto judicial-construction jury jury-instructions propensity-evidence reasonable-doubt vague-statute vagueness | Whether the judiciary violated the Ex Post Facto Clause when it created a new evidentiary holding to excuse the impermissible use of propensity eviden… |
| 19-5330 | Maurice Montrae Parks v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-07-26 | GVR | IFP | burden-of-proof constitutional-validity criminal-conviction criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession firearms jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether a new trial is warranted where the District Court failed to instruct the jury on a crucial element of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) |
| 19-5346 | Jose Martinez v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-07-25 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | acquitted-conduct burden-of-proof buyer-seller-defense criminal-conviction cross-examination drug-conspiracy due-process jury-instructions jury-trial sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | Whether this Court's decisions to allow district courts to use acquitted conduct in imposing sentence violate the Constitution |
| 19-5323 | Edwardo De Juan v. Florida | Florida | 2019-07-24 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-jurisdiction new-trial post-conviction procedural-rights standing state-court statutory-provisions | Whether the petitioner's due process and equal protection rights were violated when the state court denied his post-conviction motion for a new trial |
| 19-5263 | Miah Stroud v. Shawn Brewer, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-07-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-right-to-defense constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony expert-witness felonious-assault insufficient-evidence misidentification police-influence prosecutorial-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct second-degree-murder sufficiency-of-evidence witness-identification | Did the courts erroneously deny Ms. Stroud's constitutional right to due process when she was convicted of second degree murder and three counts of fe… |
| 19-5231 | James D. Thomas, Jr., aka Wayne Thomas v. New York | New York | 2019-07-18 | Denied | IFP | appeal burden-of-proof civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-rulings fair-trial jury-instructions prejudicial-error prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence trial-court | Whether the People failed to establish beyond a reasonable doubt that Jones Thomas Knowingly Possessed the Cocaine? |
| 19-62 | Michelle Carter v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2019-07-11 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | arbitrary-enforcement assisted-suicide common-law criminal-conviction due-process first-amendment free-speech involuntary-manslaughter suicide-encouragement | Whether Carter's conviction for involuntary manslaughter, based on words alone, violated the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment |
| 19-5105 | Rudy Espudo v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-conviction criminal-justice criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process firearm-statute firearms sentencing statutory-interpretation underlying-offense | Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) for using a firearm to further a crime of violence or drug-trafficking crime may rest on more than one u… |
| 19-5007 | Jonathan Paul Sikes v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-01 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | actual-innocence credibility-of-witnesses criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia juvenile-offender reasonable-doubt sexual-offenses standard-of-proof sufficiency-of-evidence testimony witness-credibility | Does the Northern District Court's decision conflict with the holding in Jackson v. Virginia as the Northern District Court misapplied the standard in… |
| 19-5025 | Isaac Thomas v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-01 | GVR | IFP | commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process federal-statute firearm-possession firearms rehaif rehaif-v-united-states remand statutory-interpretation united-states-v-lopez | Whether the Court should grant the petition, vacate the judgment, and remand for further proceedings on Petitioner's 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) conviction … |
| 18-9821 | Robert Lee Heard, Jr. v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2019-06-27 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | Apodaca-v-Oregon criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial nonunanimous-jury-verdict nonunanimous-verdict sixth-amendment | Does the right to a jury trial guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment allow a state-court criminal conviction to stand on a nonunanimous jury verdict? |
| 18-9817 | Deterryon Tyrell Kelly v. Texas | Texas | 2019-06-26 | Denied | IFP | criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-standard inference-stacking jackson-v-virginia legal-sufficiency speculative-evidence sufficiency sufficiency-of-evidence | Can evidence meet the legal sufficiency standard of Jackson v. Virginia if the evidence relied upon for conviction is primarily speculative and infere… |
| 18A1357 | Anthony Ray Welch v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-25 | Presumed Complete | certiorari counsel-mistake criminal-conviction extension-of-time fifth-circuit procedural-error | Whether the Fifth Circuit's judgment affirming a criminal conviction should be reviewed due to counsel's inadvertent failure to timely file a petition… | |
| 18-9744 | Landon Quinn v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden | Louisiana | 2019-06-20 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-conviction due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel non-unanimous-verdict nonunanimous-verdict prejudice prejudice-prong sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | Whether the fact that a criminal conviction was returned by a non-unanimous verdict is relevant to a court's consideration of the prejudice prong of S… |
| 18A1329 | Travis Wade Matthews v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2019-06-18 | Presumed Complete | criminal-conviction due-process pro-se-petition racial-identification reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether the evidence was constitutionally sufficient to support a criminal conviction when the victim did not directly identify the defendant and the … | |
| 18A1307 | James Destry Hamm v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-13 | Presumed Complete | criminal-conviction due-process equal-protection jury-instructions stalking-statute sua-sponte | Whether a trial court's failure to provide complete jury instructions constitutes a due process violation that warrants reversal of a criminal convict… | |
| 18-9634 | Destyn David Frederick v. Bryan Collier, Executive Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-12 | Denied | IFP | appeal certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-challenge right-to-counsel sentencing | Whether the United States District court and the Fifth Circuit court of appeals have denied Petitioner his rights to challenge the Government convicti… |
| 18-9636 | Donald Furtys v. Florida | Florida | 2019-06-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment artificial-intelligence automated-technology criminal-conviction double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment video-voyeurism | Whether the Fifth Amendment Double Jeopardy Clause bars multiple convictions of video voyeurism stemming from a camera that has new automated technolo… |
| 18-9639 | Dustin E. Ash v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-06-12 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP | circuit-split crimes-of-violence criminal-conviction criminal-law-sentencing criminal-sentencing due-process federal-firearms-law federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines reckless-crime reckless-crimes sentencing-guidelines ussg-4b1.2 violent-crimes | Whether reckless crimes, like Mr. Ash's Kansas reckless aggravated battery conviction, qualify as crimes of violence under USSG § 4B1.2 |
| 18-1528 | Jake Paul Heiney v. Ohio | Ohio | 2019-06-10 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error harmless-error-analysis jury-finding-of-guilt jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-doubt structural-error sullivan-v-louisiana winship | Improper-jury-instruction-on-element-of-offense |
| 18-9445 | Volvick Vassor v. Florida | Florida | 2019-05-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alternate-theories constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection griffin-v-united-states jury-instructions sufficiency-of-evidence yates-v-united-states | Does the holding in Griffin v United States allow a conviction based on alternate theories of offense when only one theory is supported by the evidenc… |
| 18-9447 | QuintIn Irving Brown v. Virginia | Virginia | 2019-05-28 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appeal conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process judicial-boundaries jurisdiction jurisdictional-overreach procedural-error reversal state-law territorial-jurisdiction venue | When a conviction occurs in any state of the United States where a county's jurisdiction occurs over 2,200 yards beyond its 300-yard permissible juris… |
| 18A1203 | Azibo Aquart v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-05-21 | Presumed Complete | certiorari criminal-conviction direct-appeal federal-death-row second-circuit supreme-court-review | Whether a federal death-row inmate may challenge the constitutionality of his federal convictions through a direct appeal to the Supreme Court | |
| 18A1199 | Gregory Waddell Hayes v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-05-20 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-protection criminal-conviction double-jeopardy federal-statute fifth-amendment supervised-release | Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits revoking supervised release based on conduct for which a defendant has already been criminally convicted … | |
| 18-9319 | Robert Gray v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-05-17 | Denied | IFP | appeal certificate-of-appealability criminal-conviction due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-vacate sentencing standard-of-review | Whether the trial and appellate court erred in denying Petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability? |
| 18-9202 | Edilberto Maso Diaz v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | co-conspirator co-conspirator-testimony confrontation-clause conspiracy criminal-conviction criminal-procedure cumulative-error due-process evidence evidentiary-sufficiency fifth-circuit-review hearsay hearsay-evidence hearsay-statements jury-instructions standard-of-review trial-procedure | Did the Fifth Circuit err by affirming the district court admission of hearsay statements made by an unindicted co-conspirator over the objection of A… |
| 18-9091 | Antwayne Tremayne Lowry v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-05-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-conviction due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-vacate sentencing standard-of-review | Whether the trial and appellate court erred in denying Petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability |
| 18-9029 | Tyron James v. Kansas | Kansas | 2019-04-29 | Denied | IFP | appeal apprendi civil-rights constitutional-challenge conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment unconstitutional-error upward-departure | Whether a conviction based on an unconstitutional sentencing enhancement can be overturned under this Court's decisions in Apprendi and Alleyne |
| 18-8987 | Michael Wainaina Kariuki v. Washington | Washington | 2019-04-26 | Denied | IFP | assault constitutional-law conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jury-instructions legal-relief procedural-error second-degree-assault sexual-assault standing victim | Whether the defendant, Michael Kariuni, is entitled to reversal of the second-degree-assault conviction with instructions to dismiss |
| 18-8897 | Corlious C. Dyson, aka Corlious Corall Dyson v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2019-04-18 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine jury-trial non-unanimous-verdict sixth-amendment | Does the right to a jury trial guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment, as applied to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment, allow a criminal convicti… |
| 18-8681 | Jamal James Carmouche v. Jason Kent, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2019-04-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency fifth-circuit-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review malicious-prosecution standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence trial-counsel trial-record | Whether there was sufficient evidence to convict Mr. Carmouche of a crime? |
| 18-1254 | Jeremiah L. King v. United States | Armed Forces | 2019-03-28 | Denied | Response Waived | child-pornography criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-facts fifth-amendment permissive-inference search-terms sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether the Court of Appeals relied upon permissive inferences that violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment in finding Petitioner's con… |
| 18-8576 | Yusef Allen v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. | Third Circuit | 2019-03-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-requirements brady-violation constitutional-rights conviction conviction-integrity criminal-conviction criminal-justice-system due-process integrity integrity-of-justice judicial-review prosecutorial-ethics prosecutorial-misconduct | Whether the gross actions of prosecutorial misconduct were so egregious as to render the defendant's conviction unconstitutional |
| 18-8503 | In Re Leroy Lamont Wells | 2019-03-21 | Denied | IFP | case-documentation circuit-court conviction correctional-institution criminal-conviction criminal-convictions criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus lane-county-circuit-court legal-status leroy-lamont-wells oregon-correctional-institution prison-records procedural-inquiry standing state-court | Does Petitioner have three convictions in Lane County Circuit Court Case No.201404943, State of Oregon v. Leroy Lamont Wells, as of 12/12/2018, as pur… | |
| 18-8460 | Antonio Avilez v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2019-03-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment kidnapping petitioner-rights | Whether the Petitioner's conviction for kidnapping violated the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution? |
| 18-8428 | Samuel V. Martinez v. Travis Trani, Warden, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2019-03-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-conviction due-process federal-precedent habeas-corpus legal-ethics professional-conduct right-to-counsel standing state-court-review | Should the United States District Court of Colorado have granted the Petitioner Counsel after he informed them that he had an ongoing Complaint agains… |
| 18-8373 | Jose J. Galiany-Cruz v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | court-officer-fraud criminal-conviction fraud fraud-by-officer-of-court hazel-atlas hazel-atlas-motion officer-of-the-court puerto-rico-territory second-or-successive-2255-petition second-or-successive-petition statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction | Could a Hazel-Atlas motion be used to attack a criminal conviction? |
| 18-8244 | Justin Keith Cornell v. Virginia | Virginia | 2019-03-04 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | actus-reus appellate-review cause-of-death circumstantial-evidence criminal-agency criminal-conviction due-process jury-standard mens-rea reasonable-doubt second-degree-murder sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether the Supreme Court of Virginia erred in applying the criteria of excluding all reasonable hypotheses of appellant's innocence, rather than the … |
| 18-8082 | Elton Lee Baker, Sr. v. Florida | Florida | 2019-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempt charging-information criminal-attempt criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process mens-rea strict-liability | Can a citizen be convicted of an uncharged crime of attempt of the primary charges in the charging information without the attempt statute being inclu… |
| 18-8100 | Senica Matthew Franklin v. Mississippi | Mississippi | 2019-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence constitutional-challenge constitutional-provisions criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-reversal newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief reasons-for-granting-the-writ statement-of-the-case statutory-provisions | Whether Senica Franklin's conviction and sentence should be reversed and set aside based upon newly discovered evidence |
| 18-1079 | Javier Flores Gaytan v. Michael Hardee | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-19 | Denied | actual-innocence constitutional-standard criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-confrontation right-to-fair-trial summary-witness wire-recording | Whether a State may obtain a criminal conviction and 37-year prison sentence against a defendant where the primary evidence of guilt was a wire-record… | |
| 18-7969 | Willie Ed Smith v. Mississippi | Mississippi | 2019-02-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus illegal-sentence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct legal-procedure prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-error | Whether Smith's conviction and sentence derived from judicial misconduct |
| 18-7820 | Kelly Winton Pierce v. Erik Hooks | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process essential-element jury-instructions sex-offender sex-offender-registration | Whether a criminal defendant's jury trial was fundamentally violated due to the trial judge's jury instructions that changed and expanded the definiti… |
| 18-7821 | Darryl Mixon v. Mississippi | Mississippi | 2019-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence civil-procedure criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment formal-complaint jurisdiction jurisdiction-over-persons jurisdiction-over-subject-matter procedural-defect sentencing standing subject-matter | Whether the trial court lacked jurisdiction over the persons and the subject matter of this cause, in absence of a signed formal complaint? |
| 18-7620 | Emmanuel Adeyinka v. Harris County Jail, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2019-01-31 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights competency criminal-conviction cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment eleventh-amendment immunity mental-illness monetary-damages personal-involvement rational-understanding section-1983 standing | Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of a prisoner who has a severe mental illness that … |
| 18-7674 | Michael S. Gorbey v. Michael McCall, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2019-01-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure civil-rights criminal-conviction due-process extradition federal-jurisdiction federal-prisoner habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief prisoner-rights standing state-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation | Can a state habeas corpus be removed from state court to federal court? |
| 18-7526 | In Re Robert Heffernan | 2019-01-23 | Dismissed | IFP | criminal-conviction due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus insufficient-evidence reasonable-doubt winship-doctrine | Whether it violates the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment for a state trier of fact to convict petitioners where the evidence cannot fair… | |
| 18-7488 | Billy R. Lewis v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2019-01-18 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial nonunanimous-jury nonunanimous-verdict ramos-v-louisiana sixth-amendment | Does the right to a jury trial guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment, as applied to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment, allow a criminal convicti… |
| 18-7371 | Nicole Johnson v. California | California | 2019-01-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions presumption-of-innocence reasonable-doubt stolen-property | Whether proof that the defendant possessed recently stolen property—any stolen property, as far as the instruction is concerned, even if the defendant… |
| 18-7113 | Dewey Hylor v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-19 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act attempted-offense circuit-conflict criminal-conviction elements-clause florida-robbery mens-rea reckless-mens-rea violent-felony | Whether petitioner's prior conviction for Florida robbery is not a 'violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Act's elements clause |
| 18-6911 | Adrian Pineda-Orozco v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-12-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acceptance-of-responsibility affirmative-defense criminal-conviction criminal-law criminal-law-procedure duress-defense family-member fifth-circuit miscarriage-of-justice sentencing | Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals opinion permitting Pineda-Orasco's conviction to stand resulted in a miscarriage of justice given the longs… |
| 18-6902 | Scott Mansfield v. Florida | Florida | 2018-12-03 | Denied | IFP | criminal-conviction criminal-procedure death-penalty death-sentence due-process fact-finding findings-of-fact jury-findings jury-instructions notice procedural-due-process sentencing unnoticed-defendant | Whether a conviction and death sentence may stand where a jury made no specific findings of fact that subjected an unnoticed individual to conviction … |
| 18-6816 | Vicente Garcia v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2018-11-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-battery constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in its holding that Garcia had failed to show a denial of his constitutional Sixth Amendment rights |
| 18-6772 | Donovan Grant v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-11-21 | Denied | IFP | appeals appeals-court appellate-review conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process financial-transaction guilty-plea money-laundering plain-error plain-error-doctrine specified-unlawful-activity trial-court | Whether the plain-error doctrine permits an appeals court to affirm a conviction based on a potential crime that it identifies in the record that was … |
| 18-6464 | Frank Ralph LaPena v. George Grigas, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | contract-killing criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus highly-deferential-review ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-insufficiency legal-sufficiency nevada-supreme-court physical-evidence rational-juror reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence witness-testimony wrongful-conviction | Whether the Nevada Supreme Court's decision rejecting the legal insufficiency claim was unreasonable because, even under a highly deferential review, … |
| 18-6341 | John William Lieba, II v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury legal-standard standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether sufficient evidence existed to convict Mr. Lieba? |
| 18-6253 | Daniel R. Wesling v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2018-10-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process indictment indictment-sufficiency pennsylvania-law presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-standards vagueness victim-testimony | Is the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's conviction of the Petitioner with uncorroborated victim statements coupled with an indictment so vague as to des… |
| 18-6216 | Musonda Mulenga v. United States | District of Columbia | 2018-10-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | carpenter-v-united-states criminal-conviction criminal-procedure district-court-procedure district-of-columbia due-process fourth-amendment harmless-error judicial-precedent legal-conflict second-degree-murder superior-court supreme-court-review | Whether the opinion from the District of Columbia Court of Appeals is in conflict with opinion of this Court in Carpenter v. United States, 136 S.Ct. … |
| 18-417 | W. Scott Harkonen v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-03 | Denied | Amici (2)Response Waived | actual-innocence circuit-split coram-nobis criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fraud habeas-corpus new-evidence post-conviction-relief standard writ-of-error-coram-nobis | Whether a writ of error coram nobis should issue for a petitioner who presents 'compelling' new evidence that establishes his actual innocence of the … |
| 18-6180 | Brian Deronceler v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure district-court due-process eleventh-circuit insufficient-evidence judgment-of-acquittal motion-for-acquittal sentencing sentencing-errors sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether the evidence was insufficient to support the defendant's conviction and the motion for judgment of acquittal should have been granted |
| 18-5997 | Francisco Burciaga v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-09-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conviction criminal-law drug-classification drug-policy due-process heroin-hydrochloride innocence legal-ambiguity pharmaceutical-industry prosecutorial-discretion sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness | What is the legal status of heroin hydrochloride? |
| 18-5999 | Joe Litton Bailey v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2018-09-14 | Denied | IFP | criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence habitual-offender jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing-enhancement sufficiency-of-evidence | Was the evidence presented to the jury sufficient to convict Bailey beyond a reasonable doubt? |
| 18-5701 | Stephen Aguiar v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-08-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal coram-nobis criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process federal-court federal-courts fifth-amendment habeas-corpus second-circuit-dismissal sentence sentencing-appeal writ-of-error-coram-nobis | Did the Second Circuit err by dismissing petitioner's appeal? |
| 18-5519 | Mark Templeton v. Brigitte Amsberry, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-08 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | actual-innocence cause-and-prejudice civil-procedure criminal-conviction due-process equitable-tolling federal-habeas habeas-corpus parole procedural-default section-2254 standing | Whether extraordinary circumstances exist that should afford Mr. Templeton equitable tolling of any time limit within which he had to file the underly… |
| 18-5480 | Bjorn Christian Luster v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-08-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burglary burglary-enhancement criminal-conviction criminal-history due-process evidence-interpretation fifth-amendment-due-process juvenile-offenses points-scoring prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment-effective-assistance-of-counsel ussg-2k2.1(b)(3) ussg-4a1.1 victim-testimony | Whether the court erred in applying a sentencing enhancement for a prior crime of violence conviction when the prior conviction was for Iowa third-deg… |
| 18-5287 | Luis Salas v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-07-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-conviction due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-vacate sentencing standard-of-review | Whether the trial and appellate court erred in denying Petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability? |
| 18-5274 | Manuel Vega v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | california-health-and-safety-code-11378 categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-conviction divisible-statute drug-offense federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guideline mathis-v-united-states modified-categorical-approach sentencing-enhancement state-court-decision | Whether a court fulfills the mandate of Mathis v. United States if it looks only to whether a state defendant can be punished more than once for posse… |
| 18-5242 | Kenneth Martin, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof co-conspirator co-conspirator-testimony corroboration corroboration-requirement criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standard fifth-circuit-law plea-bargain sentencing testimony witness-credibility | Whether the Fifth Circuit's law that allows a conviction based solely on the uncorroborated testimony of a co-conspirator should be abandoned, or at l… |
| 18-5191 | Jose Paniagua-Paniagua v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-07-10 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split collateral-review criminal-conviction criminal-convictions due-process fundamental-fairness immigration-law removal-order removal-proceedings retroactivity statutory-interpretation | Whether a court reviewing the fundamental fairness of a prior removal order under 8 U.S.C. § 1326(d) can consider the current understanding of the nat… |
| 18-5146 | Adam Darrick Toghill v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2018-07-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-interpretation conviction criminal-conviction criminal-statute due-process equal-protection lawrence-v-texas sodomy-statute substantive-due-process unequal-penal-consequences unequal-treatment | Whether Virginia's anti-sodomy statute violates due-process, equal-protection |
| 18-5153 | Arthur Wayne Kniffley v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-07-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | ball-v-united-states blockburger-test child-pornography criminal-conviction double-jeopardy double-jeopardy,child-pornography,fifth-amendment, double-jeopardy,fifth-amendment,child-pornography, fifth-amendment mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-sentencing sentencing-discretion | Whether a conviction for producing child pornography violates the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment because the defendant was previously c… |
| 18-5123 | Eric Glenn Parker v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting conspiracy criminal-conviction criminal-procedure district-court jurisdiction murder murder-charge rico rico-conspiracy sixth-amendment venue venue-proof | Was venue proven to convict Eric Glenn Parker of conspiracy to commit RICO and aiding and abetting murder in the Northern District of Mississippi? |
| 24A419 | Cynthia Davis, Warden v. David M. Smith | Sixth Circuit | Presumed Complete | criminal-conviction federal-review habeas-corpus mandate sixth-circuit state-court | Whether the Sixth Circuit improperly interpreted federal habeas corpus standards for reviewing state court criminal convictions |