| 24-5173 |
Sir Mario Owens v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2024-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-justice-system driving-while-black equal-protection juror-bias jury-selection peremptory-strike peremptory-strikes race-neutral race-neutral-justification racial-discrimination |
Whether expressly linking a black juror's remark in a jury questionnaire indicating that he had an 'unpleasant experience' with police (namely, 'drivi… |
| 23-6384 |
Monterial Wesley v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-12-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-conflict criminal-justice-system due-process extraordinary-reasons prosecutorial-misconduct sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a combination of 'extraordinary and compelling reasons' that may warrant a discretionary sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A) ca… |
| 23-5568 |
Boaz Pleasant-Bey v. Jason Clendenion, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-delay constitutional-rights criminal-justice-system due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus sixth-circuit speedy-appeal standing |
Whether the 6th Circuit's order departed from Houston v. Lack and Evitts v. Lucy |
| 22-6811 |
A. B. v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
2023-02-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2254 conflict-of-interest criminal-justice-system cuyler-standard cuyler-v-sullivan ineffective-assistance prejudice-standard strickland-test strickland-v-washington successive-conflict successive-representation |
Where a defendant's lawyer owed conflicting duties to her and a former client, should she receive a new trial if the actual conflict adversely affecte… |
| 22-5519 |
Kareem J. Stansbury v. Michael Courley, Acting Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Camp Hill, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-09-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-justice-system fair-trial federal-constitutional-rights habeas-corpus pro-se-defendant procedural-default sixth-amendment speedy-trial |
Whether and to what extent the criminal justice system tolerates criminal convictions based off cumulative violations of a pro se defendant's federal … |
| 21-7523 |
Martin Robinson v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2022-04-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals constitutional-claims criminal-justice-system criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias judicial-review post-conviction-relief pro-se-litigants |
Whether the criminal justice system lacks common sense in the treatment of pro se litigants |
| 21-6945 |
Johnnie W. Byrd, III v. David W. Gray, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-01-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof certificate-of-appealability criminal-justice-system criminal-procedure due-process federal-due-process-protections federal-judicial-system food-stamps judicial-review ohio-law sixth-circuit |
Can the citizens of the United States have confidence in the fairness of our criminal-justice-system and its reforms if our system tolerates the total… |
| 21-6594 |
James A. Hald, et al. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-12-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
compassionate-release criminal-justice-system criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process extraordinary-reasons federal-prisoner-rights federal-prisons sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether, under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A), a district court must first determine whether 'extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons' warrant such a reductio… |
| 20-7647 |
Gerti Muho v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compulsory-process criminal-justice-system evidentiary-admissibility fair-trial fifth-amendment financial-disability pro-se-defendant sixth-amendment witness-subpoena |
Whether the deprivation of essential, singular witness testimony supporting an indigent defendant's theory of defense violates the right to compulsory… |
| 20-5717 |
William Bradner v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-justice-system due-process government-breach plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-level sixth-circuit |
Whether the government breaches the bargain of a plea agreement by requesting a minimum sentencing level fifteen years longer than what it had explici… |
| 19-7420 |
In Re Adrean Francis |
|
2020-01-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-justice-reform criminal-justice-system drug-crime due-process equal-protection full-faith-and-credit habeas-corpus second-amendment sentencing-enhancement state-sovereignty statutory-interpretation youthful-offender |
Whether the continued application of a vacated New York 'Youthful Offender' conviction constitutes an illegal sentence and creates separate classes of… |
| 19-7015 |
In Re Michael F. Harris |
|
2019-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-justice-system due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial judicial-misconduct malicious-prosecution presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-jury state-actors witness-tampering |
Whether malicious and vindictive prosecution threatens the criminal justice system |
| 19-6378 |
Raymond Gentile v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-841 21-usc-846 criminal-justice-system due-process equal-protection federal-statute geographic-classification geographic-disparity geographic-location marijuana-legalization marijuana-offenses prima-facie prima-facie-claim prosecutorial-discretion selective-prosecution |
Is geographic location an arbitrary classification in the application of prosecutorial decisions for marijuana-related offenses under 21 U.S.C §§ 841 … |
| 19-5377 |
Fairly W. Earls v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split circuit-splits civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-justice-system criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b6 |
Whether the Criminal Justice System allows Federal Rules of Civil Procedure in Habeas Corpus Cases |
| 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 |
| 18-8218 |
Nathaniel Hoskins v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-03-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation confidential-informant criminal-justice-system criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression materiality prosecutorial-misconduct rico-conspiracy suppression |
Whether the prosecution's pretrial evidentiary suppression of various law enforcement reports, interviews and statements favorable to the Petitioner v… |
| 18-5360 |
Curtis L. Clinton v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2018-07-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-justice-system criminal-procedure eighth-amendment equal-protection fair-trial fourteenth-amendment racial-stereotype racial-stereotypes racial-stereotyping sixth-amendment |
Whether a defendant's rights to the effective assistance of counsel, a fair and impartial jury, to be free from cruel and unusual punishment, and to t… |
| 18-5167 |
Levar Brown v. California |
California |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights criminal-justice-system criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearm-regulations second-amendment self-defense statutory-interpretation |
Whether the petitioner's conviction for possession of a firearm by a felon under 18 U.S.C. 922(g) violates the Second Amendment and due process rights |