criminal-defendants

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-5462 Deandre Wilson v. United States Second Circuit 2025-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-courts constitutional-rights criminal-defendants due-process evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence Are the divided federal appellate courts applying too stringent a standard when evaluating the admissibility of evidence under Federal Rule of Evidenc…
24-6720 Leroy Harold White, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-defendants deportation extraneous-offenses fifth-amendment sixth-amendment Do the Fifth and Sixth Amendments afford criminal defendants the same burden of proof for extraneous offenses as convicted aliens receive at deportati…
23-5835 Sean Christopher Finnell v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-defendants first-amendment internet-access packingham-v-north-carolina sex-offenders sixth-amendment supervised-release Whether the First Amendment right to access the internet recognized in Packingham applies to criminal defendants who are on supervised release
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
22-7823 Weston Ray Kubbe v. Utah Utah 2023-06-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment criminal-defendants criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause Equal protection in sentencing for criminal defendants
22-5985 Islam Yaser-Abdel Said v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-challenge criminal-defendants criminal-procedure facial-attacks facial-vagueness first-amendment johnson-v-united-states sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness-review unconstitutionally-vague Whether criminal defendants challenging a statute as unconstitutionally vague may raise facial attacks in cases not involving the First Amendment?
21-6252 Ryder Shane Altman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure collateral-appeal collateral-review criminal-defendants criminal-procedure fact-finding ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se Whether federal criminal defendants presenting substantial claims of ineffective assistance of counsel should receive the benefit of additional fact-f…
20-7968 Charles Ahumada v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-05-10 Denied IFP appellate-procedure circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-defendants direct-appeal en-banc-review panel-rehearing petition-for-writ-of-certiorari right-to-counsel statutory-provisions Should the constitutional right to counsel exist for petitions for panel rehearing and rehearing en banc in a Circuit Court, after an adverse opinion …
20-6057 David Lee Emmert, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography criminal-defendants criminal-enhancement due-process equal-protection immigration liberty-interest sentencing-disparity sexual-abuse-minor statutory-interpretation Whether equal protection of the liberty interest is offended when two classes of criminal defendants (Immigration and Child Pornography) are given dis…
19-1214 Marty Friend v. Indiana Indiana 2020-04-14 Denied Amici (1) criminal-defendants criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence medical-records privilege privileged-records psychotherapist-patient psychotherapist-privilege sixth-amendment witness-testimony Whether, and under what circumstances, criminal defendants' Sixth Amendment and Due Process rights entitle them to obtain witnesses' privileged treatm…
18-9559 Aracelis N. Ayala v. United States Third Circuit 2019-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii-judges civil-rights criminal-defendants criminal-procedure district-court due-process fifth-amendment individualized-determination judicial-tenure presumption revised-organic-act shackling shackling-policy virgin-islands-court whether a blanket policy of shackling criminal defendants without an individualized determination of need violates due process?